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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Nepal counterpart Sher Bahadur Deuba met here on Saturday and jointly flagged off the inaugural run of the first broad-gauge passenger train between Jaynagar in Bihar and Nepal’s Kurtha. Deuba is on a three-day visit to India, his first visit to the country after becoming the Prime […]

NEW DELHI: The Congress party on Saturday upped its ante against Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Central government over the inflation, and said that the victory of the BJP in recently-held elections has become a licence for loot. The grand old party called the rising in inflation as BJP’s “new year gift” and frequent hikes in […]

JAIPUR: The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of Rajasthan Police has thwarted a plan to carry out serial blasts in Jaipur with the arrest of three suspected persons linked to Al Sufa terror group and the seizure of 10-kg of explosives and other materials used for making bombs. The accused have been identified as Zubair, Altmas and […]

NEW DELHI: Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana on Friday called upon the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and police to focus on reclaiming “social legitimacy and public trust” as he said that CBI’s credibility had come under “deep public scrutiny” in recent years. Addressing the 19th DP Kohli Memorial Lecture on ‘Democracy: Role […]

NEW DELHI: Hundreds of people on Friday joined a protest demonstration organised by several groups of Kashmiri Pandits at Jantar Mantar here and demanded the government of India recognise the genocide of Kashmiri Hindus, take measures to punish the perpetrators, and move away from tokenism. The demonstrators demanded the government to officially recognise that Kashmiri […]