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Valletta, Oct 17: Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese investigative journalist who exposed her island nation’s links to offshore tax havens through the leaked Panama Papers was killed on Monday when a bomb exploded in her car, Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said. Ms. Galizia, 53, had just driven away from her home in Mosta, a town outside Malta’s capital of Valletta, when the bomb went off

Kolkata, Oct 17: Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee on Monday condemned the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sangeet Som's remarks on Taj Mahal, saying that it's BJP's agenda to destroy India's culture and heritage. "It's BJP's systematic political agenda to finish India's culture and heritage. It's condemnable" Mamta said. Taking a pot shot at Uttar Pradesh government for renaming

New Delhi, Oct 17: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has alleged that ninety percent of the IAS officers "do not work" and said at times he feels development was "stuck up at the Secretariat". On the bureaucrats' alleged "objection" to the regularisation of contractual workers, Kejriwal said if Delhi had full statehood, his government would regularise all the contractual employees within 24

New Delhi, Oct 16: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday called the Congress "an equal partner" in decisions about the Goods and Services Tax (GST). "I want to tell my friends that Congress is an equal partner in GST decisions. They should not spread lies on GST," he said in an address to BJP workers at his 'Gujarat Gaurav Mahasammelan' in the state capital, Gandhinagar. The PM assured the people

New Delhi, Oct 16: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday called the Congress "an equal partner" in decisions about the Goods and Services Tax (GST). "I want to tell my friends that Congress is an equal partner in GST decisions. They should not spread lies on GST," he said in an address to BJP workers at his 'Gujarat Gaurav Mahasammelan' in the state capital, Gandhinagar. The PM assured the people

New Delhi, Oct 16: The BJP today described the Muslim rule in India as "barbaric and a period of incomparable intolerance", while asserting that its members can hold any opinion they want on specific monuments. The BJP's reaction came after Sangeet Som, its MLA from Uttar Pradesh, questioned the Taj Mahal's place in history and said the presence of Mughals in India's history is "unfortunate"

New Delhi, Oct 16: The BJP today described the Muslim rule in India as "barbaric and a period of incomparable intolerance", while asserting that its members can hold any opinion they want on specific monuments. The BJP's reaction came after Sangeet Som, its MLA from Uttar Pradesh, questioned the Taj Mahal's place in history and said the presence of Mughals in India's history is "unfortunate"

Oct 16: Dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwarwalked out of the jail today after being cleared by the Allahabad High Court in the murder case of their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj and will be provided with security. Though the High Court had acquitted the Talwars on October 12, they had to stay back in prison as a certified copy of the order had not reached the jail before the weekend

New Delhi, Oct 16: Missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmed's mother and over 30 others, mostly students, were detained today by the Delhi Police while protesting outside the high court here, as the CBI faced flak from the judges inside for "complete lack of interest" in tracing him. Najeeb's mother Fatima Nafees and JNU students were protesting outside the high court and they were detained when they

Hyderabad, Oct 16: Responding to BJP's Uttar Pradesh legislator Sangeet Som's comments questioning Taj Mahal's place in history, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi today asked if the government would tell tourists not to visit the monument. Courting fresh controversy, Som yesterday questioned Taj Mahal's place in history, distorting historical facts to say that it was built by an emperor who had