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Row as ’62 war report targeting Nehru is leaked

Sections of the top-secret classified Henderson Brooks Report have been leaked online by Australian journalist Neville Maxwell, sparking a huge furore as it purportedly blamed implementation of then...

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India supports: Putin calls PM

As Western powers raged against Russia on Tuesday as it announced Crimea’s “reunification” with it, India threw in its lot with Russian President Vladimir Putin while still attempting to walk the...

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Putin ignores West, Crimea back in Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin, defying Ukrainian protests and Western sanctions, signed a treaty on Tuesday making Crimea part of Russia but said he did not plan to seize any other regions of...

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2 AAP men drop out of poll race

Two AAP members on Tuesday withdrew their candidature for the Lok Sabha polls and embroiled former Delhi minister Rakhi Birla in yet another controversy. Mahender Singh, the AAP candidate for the...

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3rd Cong list: Azhar shifts to Tonk, Kalmadi left out

Sachin Pilot, Ashok Tanwar, Ajit Jogi and Mohammed Azharuddin are in the third list of Congress candidates for the Lok Sabha polls released here Tuesday. While the party fielded Youth Congress leader...

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Dissension growing in BJP over candidates

Even before tasting power, the BJP seems to be tasting dissension. Massive infighting and protests have erupted within the BJP over candidate selection in various states, particularly Chandigarh, and...

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BJP members stage a demonstration in front of the party headquarters over...

BJP members stage a demonstration in front of the party headquarters over nomination of candidates for the upcoming Lok SabhaBJP members stage a demonstration in front of the party headquarters over...

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RLD leader Amar Singh garlands a statue of Choudhury Charan Singh

RLD leader Amar Singh garlands a statue of Choudhury Charan Singh during an election roadshow in Fatepur Sikri on Wednesday.

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Maya to focus on Muslims now?

With BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi finally opting for Varanasi, the Bahujan Samaj Party has also quietly changed its poll strategy and will now go all out to woo Muslims in the state....

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EC will let RBI issue licences for new banks

The EC, in the midst of the ongoing electoral process, is understood to have allowed the Reserve Bank of India to go ahead with issuing new bank licences. The central bank earlier this month sought the...

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Indian Ocean search to widen

Malaysia on Wednesday further widened the search area and asked India to hunt for the missing Malaysian Airlines aircraft in the southern Indian Ocean 5,000 nautical miles south and south-west of...

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Khurshid in new row, says Modi like ‘nursery kid’

In yet another controversy-generating remark, external affairs minister Salman Khurshid, who recently called BJP PM candidate Narendra Modi “impotent” for not being able to stop the post-Godhra riots,...

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For `1,100, AAP will take you to Varanasi as rally volunteer

Pay `1,100 for a trip to Varanasi on March 25. Food is included. That is what an Aam Aadmi Party notice on the board at its Hanuman Road headquarters in central Delhi announces. The AAP has started...

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India backs Russia, no to sanctions

Having clearly supported Russia, its old ally, as it annexed Crimea from Ukraine, New Delhi declared it will not support “unilateral measures” like the sanctions being imposed by Western nations...

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Amarinder in Amritsar, Sharma for Varanasi?

Union minister Anand Sharma is willing to take on BJP PM candidate Narendra Modi in Varanasi while Capt. Amarinder Singh is likely to contest against BJP heavyweight and Leader of the Opposition in the...

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Vadodara 2nd Modi seat; Advani not shifted, sulks

The BJP on Wednesday rejected its sulking veteran leader L.K. Advani’s desire to shift from his home turf of Gandhinagar in Narendra Modi-ruled Gujarat to Bhopal in Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s Madhya...

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Crimean self-defence forces scuffle with Ukrainian servicemen outside the...

Crimean self-defence forces scuffle with Ukrainian servicemen outside the Ukrainian Crimean self-defence forces scuffle with Ukrainian servicemen outside the Ukrainian Navy headquarters in Sevastopol,...

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5 convicted in two cases of gangrape in Mumbai mills

A Mumbai sessions court on Thursday convicted all the five accused in two different Shakti Mill gangrape cases of 2013. The court, however, adjourned pronouncement of sentence till Friday on the...

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Karunanidhi’s wife gets ED summons

The Enforcement Directorate has issued fresh summons to DMK supremo M. Karunan-idhi’s wife Dayalu Ammal in the 2G spectrum allocation case, in which it is probing money-laundering allegations. Ms...

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Son, not PC, to contest; Aiyar, Azad in 4th list

Union finance minister P. Chidambaram will not be contesting the Lok Sabha elections this time. The Congress party, instead, fielded his son Karthi from Sivaganga seat in Tamil Nadu. Union minister...

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