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New Delhi, Jun 7: A Delhi court today sentenced gangster Abu Salem to seven years rigorous imprisonment for demanding Rs 5 crore as protection money from a Delhi-based businessman in 2002. The court passed the order after hearing arguments on sentence by the prosecution and the defence lawyers. It had convicted Salem in the case on May 26. In the extortion case lodged in Delhi, it was alleged that

Mumbai, Jun 7: BJP president Amit Shah met Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray here on Wednesday. Mr. Shah, accompanied by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, met Mr. Thackeray at the latter’s residence Matoshree. The BJP said the meeting is in connection with its Sampark for Samarthan (contact for support) campaign being led by Mr. Shah in the run-up to next year’s Lok Sabha polls. However

New Delhi, Jun 7: After nearly a decade, Rashtrapati Bhavan will not host an iftar party this year with PresidentRam Nath Kovind stating that there should no religious observance at taxpayer's expense at the public building. "After the President took office in July 2017, he directed Rashtrapati Bhavan being a public building, there would be no religious observances at taxpayer expense. This is in

Kozhikode, Jun 6: Going beyond the call of duty, a doctor here performed the role of a pallbearer to conduct the last rites of some of those who lost their lives to the deadly Nipah virus. With close relatives staying away due to fear of contracting Nipah, Dr R S Gopakumar, Health Officer of Kozhikode corporation, took the responsibility of handling 12 bodies, whose final journey was supervised by

Mumbai, Jun 6: The Reserve Bank for the first time in four-and-half-years raised key interest rate today by 25 basis points to 6.25 percent on inflation concerns arising from surge in international oil prices. In the second bi-monthly monetary policy for the current fiscal, the central bank revised upwards the retail inflation range to 4.8-4.9 percent in the first half of 2018-19, and 4.7 percent

New Delhi, Jun 6: As the Bharatiya Janata Party’s strength in Lok Sabha reduced to alarming level after a string of bypoll defeats, a worried Amit Shah has initiated measures to strengthen the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) ahead of 2019 general polls. Shah on Wednesday headed to Mumbai to meet Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray in Mumbai on Wednesday and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Parkash

Ahmedabad, Jun 6: Former police officer D G Vanzara's lawyer told a special court that it appeared the CBI wanted to "implicate" the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his former cabinet colleague Amit Shah in the 2004 Ishrat Jahan encounter case. Arguing for his client's discharge plea filed in the court of special judge J K Pandya, Vanzara's lawyer V D Gajjar said going by the

New Delhi, Jun 5: Congress President Rahul Gandhi today hit out at the government for making "empty slogans" and accused it of asking soldiers to buy their own clothes and shoes. He used a media report, which also claimed the Army is seeking to cut 50 percent supply from state-run ordnance factories, to back his charge. "MAKE (empty slogans and useless acronyms) IN INDIA.... meanwhile, make our

New Delhi, Jun 5: The World Bank has asked Pakistan to accept an offer by India to appoint a neutral expert over the dispute over Kishanganga dam, which was inaugurated recently by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. According to Pakistan-based Dawn News, the World Bank has asked Pakistan to climb down from the demand of taking up the issue with the International Court of Arbitration (ICA). In May, a

New Delhi, Jun 5: A Delhi court today summoned Congress leader Shashi Tharoor as an accused in the case related to his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death and asked him to appear before it on July 7, saying there were sufficient grounds to proceed against him. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal took cognisance of the offences of alleged abetment of suicide and committing cruelty by