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Thane, Oct 15: AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi has said Bharat is "not a Hindu Rashtra" and they will also not let it become so. His comments came after RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat last week said the Sangh is firm on its vision that "Bharat is a Hindu Rashtra". Addressing an election rally on Monday night in Kalyan town of Maharashtra's Thane district for party candidate Aiaz Moulavi, Owaisi said a

Oct 15: A 51-year-old man, who had Rs 90 lakh in the crisis-hit Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank, died of cardiac arrest on Monday within hours of taking part in a protest rally led by depositors against the strict restrictions on the withdrawal of money from the bank. A former Jet Airways staff, Sanjay Gulati, had already lost his job earlier this year following the grounding of the

Gurgaon, Oct 15: The abrogation of Article 370 provisions is a "decisive battle" waged by the Narendra Modi government to end years of proxy war and terrorism from Pakistan and the step will bring ever-lasting peace in Jammu and Kashmir, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday. Attending the 35th Raising Day celebrations of the counter-terror force NSG as the chief guest here, Shah said the

New York, Oct 15: Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, who jointly won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize with his wife Esther Duflo and Harvard's Michael Kremer, said on Monday that the Indian economy is "doing very badly" even as the government is increasingly recognising that there is a problem. "The economy is doing very badly in my view," he told a press conference at the Massachusetts Institute of

Bhiwandi, Oct 15: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi made a scathing attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and said when a ship sinks, the captain evacuates everyone safely but Gandhi is a captain who himself left on seeing Congress ship sink. Owaisi's remarks came during his campaign for a party candidate in Bhiwadi West where he addressed a large gathering. "When a ship sinks in the middle of a sea

Lucknow, Oct 14: With the hearing in the Ram Janmabhoomi - Babri Masjid land dispute case entering its final week, the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has imposed Section 144 in Ayodhya district till December 10. The district administration issued orders in this regard, late on Sunday night. Ayodhya District Magistrate Anuj Kumar Jha said that the decision was taken in view of the

Shahjahanpur, Oct 14: Two BJP leaders from Uttar Pradesh's Shajahanpur were now on the radar of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) which is probing sexual assault charges against former Union Minister Chinmayanand. The two leaders are believed to have been in close contact with Sanjay Singh, one of the three main accused in the extortion case. According to SIT sources, these leaders learnt of the

New Delhi, Oct 14: India is a "heaven" for minorities while Pakistan has proved to be a "hell" for them, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Monday. He also asserted that the government was working on a war-footing to provide quality education and employment-oriented skills to the needy including minorities. Speaking at the 25th Silver Jubilee function and annual conference of State

Lucknow, Oct 14: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP)-led seers on Monday demanded that they be allowed to light “thousands of lamps” and do puja at the disputed site in Ayodhya on October 27, Diwali. Divisional Commissioner (DC) Manoj Mishra has, however, reportedly denied them permission. A delegation of seers from Ayodhya and VHP spokesperson Sharad Sharma met the DC and handed him a memorandum

New Delhi, Oct 13: The protracted hearing in the politically sensitive Ram Janmbhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute at Ayodhya will enter into the crucial final leg on Monday when the Supreme Court resumes proceedings on the 38th day after the week-long Dussehra break. A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, which started the day-to-day proceedings on August 6