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Kampala, Jul 25: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday said that India is ready to walk an extra mile to balance trade with Uganda as win-win situation already exist. Addressing the media and other delegates at India-Uganda Business Forum in Kampala, Prime Minister Modi said, "President of Uganda is right in saying that there is a trade imbalance between India and Uganda. I have come here

Mehsana, Jul 25: A Gujarat court sentenced Patidar quota agitation leader Hardik Patel to two years imprisonment in a case of rioting and arson in Visnagar town here in 2015. Judge V.P. Agarwal, of the sessions court at Visnagar, held Hardik Patel and his two aides, Lalji Patel and A.K. Patel guilty under Indian Penal Code sections pertaining to rioting, arson, damage to property and unlawful

New Delhi, Jul 25: Parliament today passed a bill to amend the 1988 anti-graft law by seeking to punish bribe- givers for the first time along with the bribetakers, as the Lok Sabha gave its nod to it. Moving the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Bill for passage in the Lower House, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Jitendra Singh said its aim was to enhance transparency and

Mumbai, Jul 25: Protesters attacked public buses in Mumbai, and the neighbouring Thane and Navi Mumbai as the bandh called by Maratha outfits over their demand for reservation began on Wednesday morning. Two BEST buses were attacked by agitators in Kanjurmarg and Bhandup suburbs of Mumbai. In view of the stone-pelting on buses, the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) partially

Rampur/Uttar Pradesh, Jul 25: Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan on Tuesday requested Muslims to stay away from dairy business and cow trading for the safety of their upcoming generations. Khan’s remark came in the light of the increasing number of lynching incidents which have taken place over suspicions of cow smuggling. “My request to Muslims who are in dairy business and cow trading is to

Alwar, Jul 24: The post-mortem report of Akbar Khan, lynched in Rajasthan’s Alwar by self-proclaimed cow protectors linked to Sangh Parivar, has revealed that his bones were broken in the attack and he died of shock due to the injuries he suffered. Khan, 28, was severely assaulted on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday when he, along with his friend, was shepherding two cows and two

New Delhi, Jul 24: Indian deposits in Swiss banks fell by 34.5 per cent in 2017 and by 80 per cent since the Narendra Modi government came to power in 2014, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal said on Tuesday, citing data from the global body of central banks, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). He said this in Parliament rebutting reports last month, which quoted the Swiss National Bank, the

Ranchi, Jul 24: Fanning the raging debate over mob lynchings in the country, senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Indresh Kumar has said such incidents would automatically stop if people denounce eating beef. Speaking to journalists in Ranchi, Indresh Kumar asserted that none of religions across the world permits killing cows. "Not a single religion in the world approves killing of cows

Hyderabad, Jul 23: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader T. Raja Singh on Monday said that he did not say anything wrong in the video he had released in the wake of the Alwar lynching incident. In the video, Singh had stirred controversy when he said that incidents like the Alwar lynching happen in the name of protecting cows, adding that cow slaughter should be banned worldwide. Speaking to ANI

New Delhi, Jul 23: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi today said hatred had replaced humanity in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "brutal" 'New India' and cited a media report which claimed that policemen in Alwar took three hours to take a dying victim of a lynch mob to a hospital as they took a tea-break enroute. The 28-year-old victim was allegedly lynched in Rajasthan's Alwar district Friday night by a