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Surat, May 25: Police have arrested the owner of the Surat coaching centre in which a massive fire had erupted on Friday claiming lives of 20 persons, mostly teenage students. Two builders of the commercial Takshashila Complex in Sarthana area, the site of the inferno, are on the run, Surat Police Commissioner Satish Sharma told reporters Saturday. "Police registered an FIR under various sections

Bhopal, May 25: After losing to the BJP's Pragya Singh Thakur in Bhopal Lok Sabha seat, Congress veteran Digvijay Singh said that ideology of the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi has triumphed in the country. Thakur, a Malegaon blast accused, had created a stir during the campaign when she called Nathuram Godse, Gandhi's assassin, a "patriot". Later she apologized for the remark. "According to the

New Delhi, May 24: The Congress can never die and the country needs it, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot asserted on Friday and said the party will again reach out to people to ascertain the reasons for its drubbing in the Lok Sabha polls. The senior Congress leader said the BJP played on emotions and sentiments of the people and never fought on real issues. During the election campaign, the

New Delhi, May 24: As many as 394 newly-elected members of the Lok Sabha have at least graduate-level education, according to a think-tank. In the soon-to-be-constituted 17th Lok Sabha, 27 per cent of the MPs have studied till class 12, while in the 16th Lok Sabha 20 per cent MPs had studied till class 12. Among the newly-elected MPs, 43 per cent are graduates, 25 per cent post graduates, and 4

Dehradun, May 24: Senior Congress leaders Harish Rawat and Pritam Singh who lost from Nainital and Tehri Lok Sabha seats, respectively were the two most high-profile disappointments for the party in Uttarakhand. The two, on whom the party had pinned all hopes of lifting its sagging fortunes after the rout of 2014 Lok Sabha election and 2017 assembly polls, could not hold out against the saffron

Kalaburagi, May 24: Senior Congress leader M Mallikarjuna Kharge today said that AICC Working Committee will meet in Delhi tomorrow to find the reasons for party's debacle in the Lok Sabha polls and find steps to build the party to bring back the past glory. Kharge, who suffered a humiliating defeat in his home constituency Kalaburagi yesterday, addressing a press conference here on Friday, said

New Delhi, May 24: After a humiliating defeat in the Lok Sabha polls, top Congress leaders will deliberate on party losses at a meeting of the working committee slated on Saturday where party chief Rahul Gandhi is likely to offer his resignation. According to sources, the party has convened a meeting of the Congress Working Committee, the highest decision making body of the party at 11 AM tomorrow

New Delhi, May 24: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday thanked world leaders and personalities as their congratulatory messages kept pouring in after he led his Bharatiya Janata Party to a super-sized victory for a second term in office. Thanking American vice president Mike Pence, who congratulated him saying he looked forward to working with India, Modi said it was a victory of democracy which

Gandhinagar, May 24: Not a single student from as many as 63 schools managed to clear the Secondary School Certificate examinations conducted by the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board, the results of which were declared here on Tuesday. The overall pass percentage was 66.97 per cent, slightly lower than 67.5 per cent of last year. The exams were held in March. In a press

New Delhi, May 24: Twitter India on Thursday said conversations around the 2019 Lok Sabha elections grew 600 per cent from 2014 to reach 396 million tweets between January 1 and May 23. During the course of the six weeks of the election from April 11 till May 19, national security emerged as the most talked about election-related topic on Twitter, followed by religion, jobs and employment