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New Delhi, Jul 30: The UIDAI on Sunday asserted that the personal details of Trai chief RS Sharma being put out on Twitter are not from the Aadhaar database or its servers, and that "so called hacked information" is easily available with a simple search on Google and other sites, without using the 12-digit unique identity number. The UIDAI jumped into the debate following a full blown war of words

Chennai, Jul 29: A car in which a recently sacked AMMK functionary travelled caught fire outside the residence of party leader T T V Dhinakaran here today with his supporters claiming it to be a botched "petrol bomb attack." While police said it was suspected that expelled functionary 'Bullet' Parimalam himself set the car on fire on reaching Dhinakaran's house, the supporters of the AMMK leader

New Delhi, Jul 29: The Congress is raising real issues such as farmers plight, while the BJP is "seizing" on anything to promote its "polarisation agenda" as it has no achievements to show, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said on Sunday, asserting that the saffron party's 'achche din' promise remains unfulfilled. Claming that the government has "failed" on the foreign policy front, Tharoor

New Delhi, Jul 29: A mother at just 17, Seema* went back to her village in Jharkhand with her two-month-old baby last week, five years after she had been sold to a family in Gurgaon where she was raped by a co-domestic worker. As another World Day Against Trafficking in Persons comes around on Monday, Seema’s life story is a stark reminder of the millions of people who are trafficked each year

Thiruvananthapuram, Jul 29: The CBI has told the Supreme Court that Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who was discharged from all criminal and corruption charges in the SNC Lavalin case, "should face trial". In an affidavit filed in the court, the Central Bureau of Investigation questioned the discharge of Vijayan and two others, saying the Kerala High Court orders in this regard was "not

Kolkata, Jul 29: National Conference (NC) leader Omar Abdullah said the Congress has to be the "backbone" of the opposition unity with its chief Rahul Gandhiat the forefront of the campaign for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls to oust the BJP from power at the Centre. This, however, does not minimise the responsibility of regional leaders who are strong in their own states, Abdullah told news agency here

New Delhi, Jul 29: Former Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar has claimed that no incident of lynching occurred in the 25-year rule of the Left Front in the state and said such incidents happen when a government fails to deliver on its promises and wants to divert the attention of people pointing fingers at it. The Left leader, who was in Delhi recently to participate in a protest organised by the

Jul 29: The Indian government provides "unprecedented" religious accommodations to its religious minority population, says a report by a US-based Hindu advocacy group, according to which India is a force for stability in the region. As such, it is critical that the US continues to strengthen relations with India, in order to bring greater stability to the region and prevent the growth of radical

Mumbai, Jul 28: A bus, on its way to a hill station, fell into a gorge in Raigad district of Maharashtra this afternoon killing 33 passengers, senior officials said. The bus was carrying 34 staff members of an agriculture university in the Konkan region. It fell into a 500-feet deep gorge at Ambenali Ghat near Poladpur town, around 180 km from here, District Collector Vijay Suryawanshi told PTI

Srinagar, Jul 28: People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader Muzaffar Hussain Baig on Saturday warned of dire consequences if lynching of Muslims continues. "The killings of Muslims in the name of cows and buffaloes should be stopped otherwise the outcome will not be good. There has already been a partition in 1947 (Gai aur bhains ke naam par musalmano ka katal bandh karein warna naateje achhe nahi