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New Delhi, Jul 19: A day after Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan accepted Telugu Desam Party's (TDP) no-confidence motion against the Narendra Modi Government, MP JC Diwakar Reddy has decided not to attend the session as he is "fed up" of his party and the Centre. "I am not going to attend the Parliament session. You can say that I violated the party whip instructions. I am fed up with Centre and

Guwahati, Jul 18: Nineteen Assam government officers, including the daughter of BJP MP R P Sharma, were arrested today as their handwriting did not match with that in their answer sheets in the Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) examination held in 2016, police said. The Dibrugarh Police, which is probing the cash-for-job scam in the APSC, had summoned the 19 officers of the Assam Civil

New Delhi, Jul 18: The Supreme Court today said women have the constitutional right to enter Sabarimala temple in Kerala and pray like men without being discriminated against. A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, which is hearing a petition challenging the decision of the Devaswom board banning entry of women of age group 10-50 years, said that even if there was no

New Delhi, Jul 18: As many as 1,10,333 cases of rape were registered in the country between 2014-16, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju said today. Rijiju said in Rajya Sabha that 38,947 cases of rape were registered in 2016, 34,651 cases of rape were registered in 2015 and 36,735 cases of rape were registered in 2014. Altogether 3,38,954 cases of crime against women were registered in 2016, as many as 3

Shimla, Jul 18: A MiG-21 fighter jet crashed in a village in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday, killing the pilot. The fighter jet crashed in Mehra Palli village under the Jawali police station, Kangra Superintendent of Police (SP) Santosh Patial said. The SP said that he and other officials were on their way to the spot. The aircraft had taken off from the Pathankot air base in

New Delhi, Jul 18: In a jibe at the BJP over the assault on social activist Swami Agnivesh, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday posted a "pop quiz" on Twitter, asking, "I use hatred and fear to maintain the hierarchy of power, who am I". Agnivesh, a 79-year-old social activist known for his work against bonded labour, was slapped, kicked around and verbally abused in Jharkhand's Pakur town by

Noida, Jul 18: A six-storey under-construction building collapsed in Greater Noida, killing at least two persons and trapping several others under the debris, officials said today. At least 12 labourers were inside the building in Shah Beri village when the incident took place and all of them are feared trapped, Chief Fire Officer Arun Kumar Singh said. A National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF)

Jaipur, Jul 17: Over two lakh electronic voting machines (EVMs) would be used in the upcoming Rajasthan assembly elections, said Chief Election Officer Ashwani Bhagat today. The five-year-term of the state assembly is to end on January 20 next year and, accordingly, the state is expected to go to the polls by the year end. The machines to be used in the upcoming election are secure and do not have

New Delhi, Jul 17: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said he stands with the persecuted and seeks to erase “hatred and fear”, breaking his silence on the controversy following a reported remark on the Congress being a “party for Muslims”. The Congress has dismissed the report in an Urdu daily as a “rumour” and asserted that it was a party of 132 crore Indians. ”I stand with the last

New Delhi, Jul 17: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday sought the cooperation of all parties for the smooth functioning of the Monsoon Session of Parliament starting tomorrow. Addressing the leaders of various parties in the Parliament House, Modi asked them to raise their issues in the Houses as people expected them to do so. The government claimed that the opposition parties had assured it