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New Delhi, Jan 23: Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti must be sacked, BJP today said as pressure mounted on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for action against his controversial ministerial colleague. "...Somnath Bharti must be sacked. He has got no moral constitutional right to remain in office even for a moment," BJP leader Ravishankar Prasad said a day after an African woman identified him as

New Delhi, Jan 23: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today met Lt Governor Najeeb Jung and is believed to have discussed the controversy surrounding Law Minister Somnath Bharti, who is under attack for allegedly heading a group of assaulters in a midnight raid in south Delhi. The meeting came a day after various women rights activists and Delhi Commission for Women sought action against Bharti for

New Delhi, Jan 23: As Delhi police investigates death of Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor, she has left properties, investments, watches and antiques worth millions in India, UAE and Cananda. As per the declaration of assets filed by Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor to government of India, she owned 12 flats in Dubai worth around Rs93 crore and also a house in Ontario in Canada, which is also worth around Rs3.5

London, Jan 23: Former prime minister Indira Gandhi had asked her British counterpart Margaret Thatcher to stop helping Sri Lanka with military advice to crush the separatist Tamil Eelam movement in the 1980s, according to newly declassified documents. In a document released by the National Archives here under the 30-year declassification rule, a reference was apparently made to India’s suspicion

New Delhi, Jan 23: The mystery over Sunanda Pushkar's death deepened on Wednesday with the latest revelation hinting at a scuffle before her death. In the latest details emerging out of Sunanda's forensic report, a deep bite mark was found on her hand. Her upper extremity was dotted with over a dozen of injury marks on hand, an arm, chin, and neck and these were termed as 'scuffle marks', sources

Mumbai, Jan 22: Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde today stoked a potential controversy when he called Arvind Kejriwal a "Yeda Mukhyamantri" (mad chief minister), while recalling his own days in the police force. "When I was in Kherwadi police station in Mumbai's Bandra area, I did not get leave because there were Sena (led) riots. Similarly, yesterday (in Delhi), because of a 'veda

New Delhi, Jan 22: Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dr. M. Veerappa Moily, has approved the launch of portability of LPG connections from today onwards across oil marketing companies and distributors, covering 480 districts in the country. These districts cover all possible LPG markets which have multiple LPG distributors of various ratings. With this, an LPG consumer in these markets can now

Davos, Jan 22: As India prepares for elections, Finance Minister P Chidambaram today hit out at BJP terming its economic policies as retrograde and "blood-eyed" and asked why the Opposition Party's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi never fielded a Muslim candidate. He also expressed confidence that Rahul Gandhi would be Prime Minister if Congress comes back to power, saying the young

New Delhi, Jan 22: One of the African women assaulted in a midnight raid in south Delhi has accused Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti of having led the group that barged into her house and assaulted them. The Ugandan national had recorded her statement before a magistrate yesterday, saying that she would be able to identify the persons who had barged into her house on the intervening night of

Kochi, Jan 22: Aam Admi Party (AAP) Executive Member Kumar Vishwas, whose alleged derogatory remarks against Kerala nurses sparked a controversy, today tendered an apology, saying it was never his intention to hurt the feelings of any one. In a statement sent to the AAP's Kerala unit, he said he had never tried to 'intentionally hurt the sentiments of anyone'. "It has come to my knowledge that an