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New Delhi, Dec 21: The Delhi High Court Friday dismissed the plea by Associated Journals Ltd (AJL), publisher of National Herald, challenging the Centre's order to vacate the premises in the national capital. Justice Sunil Gaur said AJL will have to vacate the premises at ITO here within two weeks after which proceedings under the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorized Occupants) Act, 1971

Lucknow, Dec 21: The debate over Lord Hanuman continued on Friday, with a Uttar Pradesh minister claiming that the Hindu deity belonged to the Jat community. "Jats are descendants of Lord Hanuman. Hanumanji was a Jat," Uttar Pradesh Religious Affairs Minister Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary told news agency. His remarks follow those of his party colleague and MLC Bukkal Nawab, who on Thursday said Lord

Mumbai, Dec 21: Following is the time-line in the alleged fake encounter case of gangster Sohrabuddin Shaikh, his wife Kausar Bi and associate Tulsi Prajapati, in which all the 22 accused, including 21 policemen, were acquitted by a special CBI court here Friday -- November 22, 2005 - Sohrabuddin, Kausar Bi and Prajapati are intercepted by a police team in a bus while returning to Sangli from

New Delhi, Dec 21: The recent directive of the Ministry of Home Affairs empowering select security and intelligence agencies with surveillance right, has invited collective ire of the Opposition. The move is “undemocratic, unconstitutional and unacceptable”, said leaders from different opposition parties including Congress, Samajwadi Party (SP), Trinamool Congress (TMC), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)

New Delhi, Dec 21: The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed a plea by former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar for additional 30 days time to surrender to serve sentence of jail term till the remainder of his life in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. A bench of Justices S Muralidhar and Vinod Goel declined to entertain the application filed by Kumar. After a brief hearing, the court rejected his request for

Lucknow, Dec 21: A BJP MLA Thursday criticised former bureaucrats who have sought Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's resignation over the Bulandshahr mob violence, saying they were concerned only with the death there of two men and not of "21 cows". MLA Sanjay Sharma, who represents Anupshahr assembly constituency in Bulandshahr, also said only the people have the power to remove a

Kozhikode, Dec 20: Even as the merchants, hotel owners, bus operators and cine exhibitors among others have decided to say no-to-hartals, a state-wide awareness-cum-declaration campaign is being organised by the Cochin-based Middle Path Organisation, on December 24 to highlight the need to "say no to hartal" and "overcome hartal fear". Being propagated through the social media, the campaign is

Hyderabad, Dec 20: Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily Thursday accused Indian Air Force chief B S Dhanoa of "lying" a day after the latter called the Rafale deal a "game changer" and the Supreme Court verdict on it a "very fine" judgement. He also demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi apologise for having sacrificed the security of the nation by entering into the deal. Moily said the IAF

New Delhi, Dec 20: Taking a dig at BJP chief Amit Shah over his claim of winning at least 23 Lok Sabha seats from Bengal in the 2019 elections, Trinamool Congress on Wednesday said the party should rather focus on retaining the two seats it has in the state. Reacting to the Shah's claims, Trinamool's Derek O' Brien said that the BJP chief and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were involved in only "big

New Delhi, Dec 19: Hamid Nihal Ansari, the software engineer who has returned home after spending six years in a Pakistani jail, met external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday and narrated his ordeal. An overwhelmed mother of Ansari, Fauzia hugged the external affairs minister expressing her gratitude over her son's return. "Mera Bharat mahaan, meri madam mahaan. Meri madam ne he kiya