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Thiruvanathapuram, Dec 1: Kerala Police Department has given cash prizes to women police officials who arrested Hindu Aikya Vedi (HAV) state unit president KP Sasikala at Marakkoottam on November 16. Sasikala, who is over 50 years of age, was arrested for continuing protests along with her group and Sabarimala Karma Samithi against the entry of menstruating women into Lord Ayyappa’s shrine after

Chennai, Dec 1: Senior BJP leader and Union Minister Pon Radhakrishnan on Saturday said Karnataka's move to construct a new dam at Mekedatu across river Cauvery was not acceptable. Talking to newsmen at the Coimbatore airport, he said "no one will accept building of a new reservoir at Mekedatu". "Such a situation will not arise", he said, when asked about the Central Water Commission (CWC)

Mumbai, Dec 1: Fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi, a key accused in the USD 2 billion PNB fraud case, cannot return to India as he is afraid of "getting lynched" and is being compared to demon 'Ravan', his lawyer told a special court Saturday, but the ED dismissed the claim saying if he felt there were "security threats", he should have filed a police complaint. Nirav Modi's lawyer Vijay Agarwal

Buenos Aires, Dec 1: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (local time) presented a nine-point programme to take action against fugitive economic offenders during his address in the second session of the ongoing G20 Summit here. Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar took to his Twitter handle to share an image of the programme that the Prime Minister presented at the G20

Mumbai, Nov 30: India's economic growth slowed to 7.1 percent in the second quarter, official data showed on Friday, as its banks endure a liquidity crunch that is hampering investment in Asia's third-largest economy. GDP expansion missed the rate experts say India must consistently hit if Prime Minister Narendra Modi, up for re-election next year, is to fulfil his pledge of creating millions of

Bhubaneswar, Nov 30: Former Union Minister Dilip Ray on Friday resigned as an MLA from Rourkela constituency and quit the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), saying that he acknowledged his failure in living up to the expectations of the people. Ray, on grounds of "moral responsibility", also announced that he would not be contesting from the Rourkela seat in the next year's Lok Sabha elections

New Delhi, Nov 30: Demonetisation was a move against corrupt people and not against elite as has been indicated by former chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian, Niti Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar said on Friday. Subramanian in a soon to be published book, 'Of Counsel: The Challenges of the Modi-Jaitley Economy' has criticised demonetisation as a massive, draconian, monetary shock that

Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 30: Kerala, which suffered a loss of Rs 31,000 crore during the floods in August, Thursday wanted the Centre to expedite the promised assistance to enable it to rebuild the state. Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the state had received only Rs 2,683.18 Crore in its Distress Relief Fund and was finding it difficult to cobble resources for the ‘re-build Kerala

Hyderabad, Nov 30: Former Congress MP Mohammed Azharuddin was on Friday appointed working president of the party in Telangana days ahead of assembly elections in the southern state. Congress President Rahul Gandhi also cleared some fresh appointments in the Telangana Pradesh Congress, approving the names of two vice presidents - B M Vinod Kumar and Jaffer Javed, eight new general secretaries and

New Delhi, Nov 30: A Delhi court Friday held ex-coal secretary H C Gupta guilty of the offences of corruption and criminal conspiracy in a coal scam case relating to allotment of coal blocks in West Bengal. Besides Gupta, Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar also held guilty private firm Vikash Metals and Power Limited (VMPL), ex-joint secretary in the Ministry of Coal (MoC) KS Kropha, who is still