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New Delhi, Feb 14: Under criticism for withdrawing US scholar Wendy Doniger’s book, ‘The Hindus: An Alternative History’, from the country, Penguin Books India on Friday said it had an obligation to respect laws even if they were “intolerant and restrictive”. In its statement, released two days after the controversy broke, the publisher added that it has a moral responsibility to protect its

Firozabad (UP), Feb 14: A doctor suffering from cancer allegedly shot himself today after killing his six-years old daughter in Vibhav Nagar locality here, police said. Lakhan Singh, who is suffering from cancer shot his daughter this morning killing her on the spot and later shot himself too, said police. Singh was rushed to the hospital, where his condition was stated to be critical, they said

New Delhi, Feb 14: The Petroleum Minister Veerappa Moily said on Friday that there was no question of stalling gas price hike from April 1. He also said the Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's FIR against him and others was unconstitutional. Kejriwal had ordered registration of FIRs against Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani, Petroleum Minister M Veerappa Moily and

Kolkata, Feb 14: The candidates contesting the upcoming Lok Sabha polls will now be able to spend Rs 40 lakh , an increase of Rs 15 lakh from the last poll expenditure limit. Joint Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal Saibal Barman said the raise was effected in 2011 and came in force for Lok Sabha by-elections ever since. "But for the first time it will be effective in the general elections

New Delhi, Feb 13: Cracking the whip, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar today suspended 18 MPs from Andhra Pradesh for rest of the session after unprecedented pandemonium broke out in the House over the Telangana issue. Kumar announced the decision soon after the House met at 2 PM after being adjourned in the wake of the ruckus created at noon by pepper spraying and fisticuffs among members opposing

Hyderabad, Feb 13: Normal life was thrown out of gear in coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions of Andhra Pradesh due to a bandh called against the Centre's move to table the Telangana Bill in Parliament today. The TDP, YSRCP activists and other united Andhra supporters held rallies at several places in the two regions against the state's division. They squatted in front of the bus stations and

Patna, Feb 13: Former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad claimed Wednesday that he was the "real tea seller" and that BJP veteran Narendra Modi was junior to him in this business. "I used to sell tea at a shop in the veterinary college campus in Patna during my childhood," the Rashtriya Janata Dal leader told the media. He was responding to Modi's countrywide address to tea shop sellers Wednesday

Mumbai, Feb 12: The Maharashtra Police on Wednesday arrested Raj Thackeray along with a number of protesters for disrupting traffic at many places as the state-wide 'rasta roko' against toll plazas called by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief began today. Thackeray, who was scheduled to lead the stir at the Vashi toll plaza in adjoining Navi Mumbai, was arrested by the Mumbai Police in

Ahmedabad, Feb 12: The former IB Special Director, Rajinder Kumar, who has been charge-sheeted, along with three serving IB officers, by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the 2004 Ishrat Jahan ‘fake encounter’ case, has challenged the move, arguing that the investigating agency did not have the mandatory sanction to prosecute the four. The CBI’s supplementary charge sheet filed on February 6

New Delhi, Feb 12: Congress president Sonia Gandhi has been made the Chairperson of the party's 50-member Campaign Committee for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls in which Rahul Gandhi will be the co-chairman, the party announced on Tuesday night. The announcement came less than a month after the Congress had said that Rahul, the party vice president, will lead its campaign in the upcoming general