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Melbourne, July 26: Australia has issued a travel advisory asking its citizens to reconsider their travel plans to India's north eastern states of Assam, Manipur, Nagaland and Tripura. Issuing a new advisory yesterday, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) said, "We advise you to reconsider your need to travel to the north-eastern states of Assam, Nagaland, Tripura and Manipur because of

Pennsylvania, July 26: An Indian Forest Service officer has been arrested in the US for allegedly assaulting a hotel employee sexually. Surender Mahapatra was arrested in Pennsylvania yesterday. He was part of a batch of 34 officers who had gone to the US for a training workshop at Syracuse University in New York. Mr Mahapatra has denied the charges against him. While he has been arrested, others

Guwahati, July 26: Assam is on an edge. There have been fresh clashes and cases of arson and more people have died in ethnic violence. Shoot-at-sight orders are in place in four districts. The exodus of people from villages affected by the clashes continues; they are taking shelter at about 120 relief camps set up by the government. Here are the latest developments: 1. Six more people have died

Ahmedabad, July 26: "Hang me if I am guilty (Main gunehgaar hoon toh mujhe phaansi par latkaa do)." This is what chief minister Narendra Modi has said in his first ever interview to a leading Urdu weekly. The cover-page interview was conducted by Shahid Siddiqui, a former Rajya Sabha MP from odd quarters - the Samajwadi Party. It runs into six pages and covers post-Godhra riots, the state of

Thiruvananthapuram, July 25: With the Kerala assembly on Wednesday passing the Right to Service Bill, 2012, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has kept his promise of making available services to the people within a specified time. Thirteen specified government services come under the ambit of the new law. These are issue of certificates of birth and death; denomination of caste, income and domicile

New Delhi, July 25: Holding tricolours and raising anti-government slogans, supporters of Team Anna gathered at Jantar Mantar in the national capital Wednesday for an indefinite fast against corruption and in support of a stringent Jan Lokpal bill. As Pranab Mukherjee was sworn-in as the country's 13th president, hundreds of people, including school children and retired government officials

New Delhi, July 25: Pranab Mukherjee was on Wednesday sworn-in as the country’s 13th President at an impressive ceremony in the packed and historic Central Hall of Parliament. Chief Justice of India S H Kapadia administered the oath of office to Mr Mukherjee in the presence of Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi

New Delhi, July 25: President-elect Pranab Mukherjee today paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi and other great leaders of the nation at their memorials in New Delhi before heading to Rashtrapati Bhawan to take oath as the 13th President of India. Travelling in a Mercedes Benz S 600, Mr Mukherjee first visited Rajghat to pay homage to the Father of the Nation. After paying homage to Mahatma Gandhi, he

New Delhi, July 25: India has to be prepared militarily to deal with an "assertive" China even as it seeks to build bridges of cooperation with Beijing, the Naresh Chandra Task Force on national security has recommended. The committee's suggestions for the military — details of which have been accessed by TOI — also buries the proposal for a Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), the single point military

Kokrajhar (Assam), July 25: Fresh clashes between minority immigrants and Bodo tribals and cases of arson were today reported from lower Assam even as shoot-at-sight orders remained in force in Kokrajhar district which bore the brunt of the violence. Official sources said there were reports of stray clashes and arson in remote villages of Chirang district where night curfew continued. Night curfew