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New Delhi, Jan 10: Alok Verma was shunted out as the CBI chief after a marathon meeting of high-powered selection committee led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday, officials said. Verma, a 1979-batch AGMUT cadre IPS officer, has been removed from the high-profile post on the charges of corruption and dereliction of duty making him the first chief in the history of the agency to face such

Chennai, Jan 10: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Thursday the BJP is open to alliances and cherished its old friends, in a hint that it was looking to strengthen the NDA in Tamil Nadu ahead of the Lok Sabha elections 2019. In an interaction with party booth-level workers from five districts in Tamil Nadu through video conferencing, he recalled the "successful coalition politics" ushered in by

New Delhi, Jan 10: Indian Army is a conservative organisation that doesn't welcome adultery and the LGBT community, Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat said here on Thursday. Gen Rawat's comments come months after two historic verdicts from the Supreme Court that decriminalised homosexuality and ruled that what was happening between two adult individuals in their bedroom was not a matter for the State to

New Delhi, Jan 10: The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) has termed the move to provide 10 per cent reservation for upper castes (the unreserved category) with reference to their economic backwardness a political gimmick and eyewash by BJP with an eye on forthcoming Lok Sabha election. SDPI national president M K Faizy in a statement said that it is the need of the hour to save community

Jaipur/Agra, Jan 10: Congress president Rahul Gandhi Wednesday said the prime minister got a woman to defend him in Parliament as he couldn't do so himself, a remark that appeared to trigger a sharp retort from Narendra Modi who accused the opposition of insulting Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Calling Modi a prime minister who claimed to have a broad chest, Gandhi said, the prime minister

New Delhi, Jan 9: Civil services topper and IAS officer Shah Faesal on Wednesday resigned from civil services and is set to join politics. Faesal is likely to join the National Conference. “To protest the unabated killings in Kashmir and absence of any credible political initiative from Union government, I have decided to resign from IAS. Kashmiri lives matter,” Faesal tweeted. To protest the

New Delhi, Jan 9: CBI Director Alok Verma joined office on Wednesday, 77 days after he was sent on forced leave by the central government through a much-criticised late-night order on October 23, 2018, which was set aside by the Supreme Court. The October order sent Verma and his deputy Special Director Rakesh Asthana, booked by the agency on corruption charges, into exile in a first-of-its-kind

Mumbai, Jan 9: Days after BJP chief Amit Shah's remarks that his party will thrash former allies if a pre-poll alliance did not materialise ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, senior Shiv Sena leader Ramdas Kadam has threatened to "bury" the BJP. Kadam, whose party is currently an ally of the ruling BJP at the Centre and in Maharashtra, also noted that the Sena had won 63 seats, out of the total 288

United Nations, Jan 9: Fuelled by policy reforms and rebound in credit, India's economy is forecast to expand by 7.5 per cent during the 2019-20 fiscal year and retain its position as the fastest growing major economy in a world of slowing growth, according to the World Bank. The Bank`s Global Economic Prospects (GEP) report released on Tuesday kept the forecasts made for India in its June report

New Delhi, Jan 9: Congress president Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia had 'escaped' incomes of Rs 300 crore in 2011-12 and their tax liability is around Rs 100 crore, according to an income tax (IT) order passed after reassessing the Congress leaders' incomes relating to Associated Journals Ltd. Rahul Gandhi and Sonia had 'escaped' of Rs 155.41 crore and Rs 154.96 crore respectively, said the