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New Delhi, Jun 5: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, several of his Cabinet colleagues and Congress President Sonia Gandhi were prominent among those who took oath as members of the 16th Lok Sabha today. Attired in spotless white, the Prime Minister was the first to take oath amid thumping of desks. He took oath in Hindi in the name of God and was followed by BJP veteran L K Advani. Several Union

Lucknow, Jun 5: The postmortem report of the two Badaun cousins who were raped stated they were hanged from a tree while they were still alive, said Badaun SSP Alok Saxena on Wednesday. The barbaric nature of the sexual assault on the teens could be gauged from the fact that apart from innumerable abrasions, scratches and contusions on the arms, waist and upper abdominal area, the vital organs of

Mumbai/New Delhi, Jun 5: India could allow global online retailers such as Amazon.com Inc to sell their own products as early as next month, removing restrictions that have held back competition in one of the world's biggest, and most price-sensitive, retail markets. The decision, which is likely to be announced in or alongside the budget, is one of the first tangible signs of economic reform by

New Delhi, Jun 5: In what is probably the most significant foreign policy decision taken since he became Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has confirmed to US President Barack Obama that he will have a bilateral meeting with him in Washington in the last week of September this year. Obama had invited Modi to the US when he called up the PM to congratulate him. Significantly, the meeting won't happen

Parli, June 4: Tens of thousands of mourning supporters and distraught family members on Wednesday bid a tearful farewell to Gopinath Munde, Maharashtra BJP's tallest mass leader and architect of its impressive victory in the Lok Sabha elections, who was killed in a car crash on Tuesday. A sea of humanity converged at his home town to pay last respects to the towering leader from the backward

The Hague/Netherlands, Jun 4: Bogged down by two successive losses, an under-pressure Indian hockey team will be confronted by Spain's livewire strikers when the two teams clash in their preliminary league encounter of the World Cup at the Greenfields Stadium on Thursday. After conceding match-winners to Belgium and England in the closing stages of successive matches, the Indian defence will need

Washington, Jun 4: Narendra Modi led Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) stunning election victory had put behind the issue of US visa for him and it's unlikely to impact bilateral ties with the US, according to a noted Indian strategic expert. After his election victory, the new Indian prime minister had made it clear that how India engages with US bilaterally would not be impacted by how an

New Delhi, Jun 4: The first sitting of the newly elected 16th Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day Wednesday following the death of union minister Gopinath Munde. Pro tem speaker Kamal Nath adjourned the house till 11 a.m. June 5, a few minutes after it commenced the sitting. "The house is being adjourned till 11 a.m. tomorrow (Thursday) because of the sad demise of our colleague Gopinath Munde,"

New Delhi, Jun 4: The first session of the newly-elected 16th Lok Sabha commenced here Wednesday. Ahead of the first session, senior Congress leader Kamal Nath was sworn-in as the pro tem speaker by President Pranab Mukherjee. The house observed a two-minute silence in the memory of union minister Gopinath Munde, who died Tuesday following a car accident in the capital.

New Delhi, Jun 4: The monsoon is on schedule and is expected to hit Kerala in the next 48 hours, according to the Meteorological department."Conditions are favourable for the onset of southwest monsoon over Kerala and its further advance into some more parts of south Arabian sea, remaining parts of Maldives- Comorin area, some parts of Tamil Nadu and some more parts of Bay of Bengal during the