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Jamnagar, Apr 14: A month after Ravindra Jadeja's wife joined the BJP, the cricketer's father and sister joined the Congress in Gujarat on Sunday in the presence of party leader and Patidar quota spearhead Hardik Patel. Jadeja's father, Anirudhsinh, and sister, Nainaba, joined the Congress at an election rally in Kalavad city of Jamnagar district. Jadeja hails from Jamnagar. The Congress candidate

Mumbai, Apr 14: Around 1,100 pilots belonging to crisis-hit Jet Airways' pilots body National Aviator's Guild (NAG) have decided not to fly from 10 am Monday in protest against "non-payment of salary dues, a source said on Sunday. The pilots along with engineers and senior management have not received salaries since January. The debt-ridden carrier has also not paid March salary to employees of

Kathua, Apr 14: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday slammed the Abdullahs and Muftis, saying two families "ruined" three generations of Jammu and Kashmir and he will not allow them to "divide" India. The prime minister was referring to NC leader Omar Abdullah's demand for a separate prime minister for Jammu and Kashmir. The Abdullah and Mufti families have "ruined" three generations in the

New Delhi, Apr 14: The Election Commission has written to the Telugu Desam Party asking how a person with criminal antecedents could be a part of a delegation led by its chief N Chandrababu Naidu during his visit to the poll panel on April 13. The EC in its letter has said when Naidu visited, he was accompanied by one Hari Prasad who repeatedly raised various technical issues regarding functioning

New Delhi, Apr 14: The Congress may have declined any move to field her from Varanasi Lok Sabha seat but the idea of AICC General secretary for Uttar Pradesh East Priyanka Gandhi Vadra contesting for Lok Sabha polls seems to have tremendous support among the party workers who feel it could have a ‘morale boosting’ effect on the party cadres in the state, where the grand old party is fighting

Srinagar, Apr 14: Hitting out at BJP president Amit Shah for accusing Congress of doing 'Ilu Ilu' with terrorists, former J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti said Rahul Gandhi has paid the price for terrorism with his loved ones, so he out of all the people, doesn’t need 'your gangster style advice'. “You’d be forgiven for assuming this was said by a street ruffian & not a national party president

New Delhi, Apr 14: Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of 'beating his own trumpet', senior Congress leader and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Sunday wondered if the PM feared a loss of power. Mr Chidambaram said real achievements of PM Modi were demonetisation; destruction of MSMEs; Loss of 4.7 crore jobs; and… and Insecurity among women, Dalits, minorities, tribals, writers, artists

New Delhi, Apr 13: New Delhi: France waived taxes worth 143.7 million euros to a French-registered telecom subsidiary of Anil Ambani's Reliance Communications in 2015, months after India's announcement of buying 36 Rafale jets, a leading French newspaper Le Monde reported on Saturday. In its reaction, Reliance Communications rejected any wrongdoing and said the tax dispute was settled under a

New Delhi, Apr 13: The Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) has arrested former IL&FS Financial Services Managing Director and CEO Ramesh Bawa in connection with ongoing investigations into irregularities across various group entities, sources said on Saturday. On April 1, SFIO the investigative arm of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs had arrested former ILFS Chairman Hari Sankaran

New Delhi, Apr 13: India's retail inflation ticked up to 2.86 per cent in March as consumers spent more to buy food items and fuel, government data showed Friday. The consumer price index (CPI)-based retail inflation was at 2.57 per cent in February this year. On yearly basis, it was 4.28 per cent in March 2018. Retail inflation remains well within the RBI's comfort level of 4 per cent for about