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Lucknow, Jun 22: Gorakhpur terror funding mastermind Ramesh Shah has been arrested in a joint operation by the Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra Police, an official said on Thursday. The arrest was made from Pune on Tuesday and he is being brought to Lucknow on transit remand. Inspector General of ATS Aseem Arun said that soon after his arrival, Shah would be produced in an

New Delhi, Jun 21: The Centre has banned new offshoots of terror organisations al-Qaeda and ISIS under the stringent anti-terror law -- Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, according to an official order Both al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham-Khorasan (ISIS-K), an Afghanistan-based affiliate of ISIS, have been declared unlawful by the Union home

Thiruvananthapuram/Patna, Jun 21: As millions of yoga enthusiasts stretched and twisted their bodies today, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said yoga should not be seen as part of any religious practice while key BJP ally and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar skipped the International Yoga Day event yet again. Speaking at the state-level celebrations in Thiruvananthapuram, Vijayan, a CPI-M

Kolkata, Jun 21: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Thursday called the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a "militant organisation," engaged in dividing people along religious lines and dared it to attack her party. Banerjee, a known critic of the saffron party, also alleged that the BJP was manipulating EVMs to increase its vote share in the state and urged

New Delhi, Jun 21: India increased duties on a slew of farm products, steel and iron imported from the United States, a government notice said, joining the European Union and China in retaliatory action against President Donald Trump`s tariff hikes on steel and aluminum. India`s move came a day after the EU`s decision to charge higher import duties on a range of US products. In tariff rates issued

New Delhi, Jun 21: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today left for his maiden three-day visit to Mongolia, aimed at strengthening India's relation with the strategically important East Asian country that shares its boundaries with China and Russia. The minister in his pre-departure message said India wants to realise the huge potential of bilateral relations with Mongolia. "Leaving for

Lucknow, Jun 21: A woman in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow, who earlier alleged that she was harassed by an officer at a Lucknow Passport Office has now received her passport. The couple, Tanvi Seth and Mohammad Anas Siddiqui claimed that they were being harassed by an officer at a Lucknow Passport Office, as the former was married to a Muslim and had not changed her name. Seth claimed that she was being

Mumbai, Jun 21: In a vitriolic attack on the BJP, the Shiv Sena today charged that the saffron party opted out of power in Jammu and Kashmir after spreading anarchy, and said history will never forgive the party for its "greed". When the BJP failed to check terrorism and violence in the northern state it pinned blame on the People's Democratic Party (PDP), the Sena said comparing the move to the

Guwahati/Mumbai, Jun 21: Some passengers on an AirAsia India flight from Kolkata to Bagdogra got into an altercation with airline staff over deplaning them after the flight was delayed by over four hours, a passenger claimed. Indian Oil Corporation Executive Director (West Bengal) Dipankar Ray, who was also travelling in the same flight, complained of very "unprofessional and rude" behaviour from

Dehradun, Jun 21: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today performed Yoga with over 50,000 enthusiasts at the Forest Research Institute campus here, saying the ancient Indian discipline has emerged as the most powerful unifying force in a strife-torn world. Addressing the large gathering in the backdrop of the iconic British-era building of FRI, Modi said yoga has shown the world the way from "illness