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Kolkata, Sep 16: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said that the RSS, Bajrang Dal and VHP should not try to disturb peace in the state during the coming Durga Puja and warned that they should not play with fire. Stating that her government did not put any curb on celebration of Vijaya Dashami rituals, Banerjee said, "There is misinformation campaign by certain outfits that we are

Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 16: Union Minister Alphons Kannanthanam on Saturday said the Centre was mobilising resources for launching infrastructure projects and welfare measures for the poor and downtrodden in the country. The money collected as taxes, goes for implementing welfare schemes for the poor, he said, adding this was to enable them have a dignified life. “To make houses and toilets and to

New Delhi, Sep 16: Marshal Arjan Singh, who led the Indian Air Force during the 1965 India-Pakistan war, has died at 98. Arjan Singh was the only officer of the Air Force to be promoted to five-star rank. Ninety-eight-year-old Singh, the only officer of the IAF to be promoted to five-star rank, equal to a field marshal in the Army, was admitted to the Army's Research and Referral hospital this

London, Sept 16: British police said they arrested an 18-year-old man on Saturday at a Channel port in their investigation into the bombing of a London Underground train. "The 18-year-old man was arrested by Kent Police in the port area of Dover this morning, Saturday, 16 September, under section 41 of the Terrorism Act," police said in a statement that described the arrest as "significant".

Panchkula, Sept 16: Final arguments in the two murder cases naming jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh began in a special CBI court today with his former driver filing an application to record a fresh statement against him. The disgraced cult leader, who is lodged in Rohtak's Sunaria jail on charges of rape, appeared via video- conferencing. He has been named as the main

Chennai, Sept 16: Actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan, amid news that he is planning to launch his own party, has said he would be willing to join hands with superstar Rajinikanth if he takes the political plunge. "Rajini and I have been discussing professional matters. If he joins politics, it won't be difficult for us to discuss politics. I will join him provided he enters politics. We have been rivals

Seoul, Sept 16: North Korea leader Kim Jong Un said the country is nearing its goal of "equilibrium" in military force with the United States, as the United Nations Security Council strongly condemned the North's "highly provocative" ballistic missile test. The North's official Korean Central News Agency carried Kim's comments today a day after US and South Korean militaries detected the missile

New Delhi, Sep 15: Virender Sehwag today said he missed out on becoming the Indian cricket team's chief coach for the lack of patronage from the powers that be in the BCCI and will not apply for the position again. Sehwag lost out to Ravi Shastri, who was touted as the choice of skipper Virat Kohli -- an appointment that was not unanimous with former India captain Sourav Ganguly, a member of the

New Delhi, Sep 15: The Centre will soon start linking driving licence with Aadhaar, Electronics and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today. "It would be done soon to check the menace of multiple licensing," he said after inaugurating the Haryana Digital Summit-2017 here. "I have already had a word with Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari, in this regard and the process

Bengaluru, Sep 15: The CID will share the details of its probe into the killing of rationalist M M Kalburgi with the Special Investigation Team probing the Gauri Lankesh case, a top official said today. Gauri was shot dead outside her house by unidentified men who came on a motorcycle on September 5. The modus operandi bore a grim resemblance to the way rationalists Govind Pansare, Narendra