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New Delhi, Sep 15: Accusing Narendra Modi of being "desperate" to become Prime Minister, Congress on Sunday said it will remain a "pipe-dream" and the "divisive" leader's nomination will help the UPA to return to power for a third term. The party leaders even suggested that the BJP had committed "political suicide" by nominating Modi PM candidate after leaders like Atal Behari Vajpayee and LK

Rewari (Haryana), Sep 15: In his first public rally after being anointed BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi today made a strong pitch for “strong leadership” at the Centre and asked politicians to take lessons in true secularism from the Army. Modi, who has accused the UPA government of poor governance, said if the country has to be steered out of the present mess, it needs a “strong

Muzaffarnagar, Sep 15: Under attack from opposition parties and minority leaders over violence in Muzaffarnagar, UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday visited the riot-hit district where he was greeted with black flags and slogan shouting from villagers. Yadav first visited Kawal village, where three people were killed on August 27 over an eveteasing incident after which tension has been

Lucknow, Sep 15: Muzaffarnagar district was hit by fresh violence on Saturday in which two people suffered serious injuries even as tension simmered in rural areas of Saharanpur and Meerut districts after more bodies were recovered from Ganga canal. Armed men numbering about 50 opened fire at a group of people in a forested area in Phugana locality in the district on Saturday. Two persons

New Delhi, Sep 15: A 20-year-old NRI was allegedly beaten to death in south-east Delhi’s Kalkaji in the wee hours of Saturday. Four of his friends have been detained for questioning, police said. Anmol Sarna, who was raised at Nassau County in New York, was at his friend’s house in South Park Apartment in Kalkaji when the attack took place around 12.30 am. Police said he was attending a farewell

New Delhi, Sep 15: If you still have to wait for more than a month to get your passport despite the technology introduced by the Ministry of External Affairs, it is largely because of the slow pace at which local cops verify addresses and check records of passport applicants. While police are expected to complete the verification of residential addresses and track records of each passport

Patna, Sep 14: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday took a dig at BJP over naming Narendra Modi as prime ministerial candidate, saying the party was on a path of destruction and claimed JD(U)'s decision of severing ties with it three months back has been vindicated. "Vinash Kale vipreet buddhi (taking wrong decisions when on path of destruction)," Kumar told reporters here. Kumar, who was

New Delhi, Sep 14: BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj, Ananth Kumar and Balbir Punj today met a sulking L K Advani to discuss the elevation of Narendra Modi as Prime Ministerial candidate, a move the party patriarch is opposed to. Irked over Modi being made the Prime Ministerial candidate, Advani had written a scathing letter to BJP President Rajnath Singh expressing disappointment over his style of

Bhubaneswar, Sep 14: At least 14 Maoists were killed in a fierce gun battle with police in Odisha's Malkangiri district Saturday, an official said. The gun battle, which lasted for several minutes, took place in a forest close to the border with Chhattisgarh. A police team led by District Superintendent of Police Akhileswar Singh, which included personnel from the district voluntary force, raided

Lucknow, Sep 14: The brutality with which people were massacred in west UP clashes has shaken even the doctors at Muzaffarnagar district hospital who performed the postmortem of victims. The tales told by the doctors are horrific: a woman dismembered into two parts, charred bodies whose sex could not be ascertained and a ten-year-old kid whose head was smashed. A 12-member team of doctors has been