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  India for regional security framework to resolve disputes: Manohar Parrikar

  June 04, 2016 14:48 IST

  India today called for a regional framework for security management to peacefully resolve disputes, threat and use of force in the Indo-Pacific region

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  Karnataka sting: JD(S) defends its MLAs, lashes out at media for targeting party; EC seeks report

  June 04, 2016 14:33 IST

  A day after two its MLAs were caught in a sting selling their Rajya Sabha votes in exchange of money, the Janata Dal (Secular) said that the legislators were aware that a sting was on and were only amusing themselves.

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  Eknath Khadse's resignation accepted by CM, retired HC judge to probe allegations

  June 04, 2016 22:10 IST

  Maharashtra Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse, who is in the eye of a storm over allegations of corruption, has resigned from the post, sources said.

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  Will release new education policy only after states’ approval: HRD Minister Smriti Irani

  June 04, 2016 9:36 IST

  Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani has said that the report on National Education Policy will be made public only after taking views from the states.

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  PM Modi kick starts his five-nation tour, first stop Afghanistan

  June 04, 2016 12:08 IST

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a five nation tour to Afghanistan, Qatar, Switzerland, United States and Mexico today. On the first leg of his visit, the Prime Minister will reach Herat in western part of Afghanistan in afternoon.

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  Sharad Yadav, Ram Jethmalani, Misa Bharti among five elected to Rajya Sabha from Bihar

  June 04, 2016 6:59 IST

  All five Rajya Sabha nominees, four from Grand Alliance and one from BJP, and seven Bihar Legislative Council candidates were on Friday declared elected unopposed in the biennial elections.

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  Have not received any directive from BJP central leadership: Khadse on CM’s meeting with PM, Amit Shah

  June 03, 2016 23:43 IST

  Pune: Facing a host of allegations including land grabbing, Maharashtra Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse on Friday said that he has not received any directive from the BJP central leadership on the charges against him.

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  This is not the way to show your love for people of Kashmir: Mehbooba Mufti to Pakistan on terror attack

  June 03, 2016 23:25 IST

  Jammu: Questioning Pakistan's stand on Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today asked whether the militant attack on the BSF convoy in Bijbehara was the way to show its love for the people.

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  Pathankot attack: No question of giving a clean chit to Pak official machinery, says Kiren Rijiju

  June 03, 2016 23:11 IST

  New Delhi: Refusing the anecdote of giving a clean chit to the Pakistani official establishment in connection with the terror attack on the Pathankot Indian Air Force base Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Friday said

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  Before Modi’s visit to US, Obama tells PM he is inviting only leaders close to him

  June 03, 2016 22:35 IST

  New Delhi: In the last year of his presidency, US President Barack Obama is inviting a very few world leaders with whom "he had a very close and productive working relationship", among them Indian Prime

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  PM Modi to embark on 5-nation trip tomorrow; blackmoney, NSG membership on top of the agenda

  June 03, 2016 22:16 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi sets off tomorrow on a five-nation visit to Afghanistan, Qatar, Switzerland, the US and Mexico during which the focus will be to broaden bilateral trade, energy and security cooperation

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  Piyush Goyal, P Chidambaram elected to Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra

  June 03, 2016 16:36 IST

  Mumbai: Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal and senior Congress leader and former finance minister P Chidambaram were today elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra. The deadline for withdrawal of nominations ended this afternoon.

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  Union Ministers Suresh Prabhu, Satyanarayana Chowdary elected to RS from Andhra Pradesh

  June 03, 2016 16:04 IST

  Vijayawada: Railway Minister Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Y Satyanarayana Chowdary have been elected unanimously to Rajya Sabha from Andhra Pradesh. Two other candidates T G Venkatesh and

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  24 deaths in 24hrs: Mathura BJP MP Hema Malini posts shooting pics on Twitter

  June 03, 2016 14:50 IST

  New Delhi: Even as her Lok Sabha constituency Mathura is witnessing worst violence in years,BJP MP Hema Malini did not shy away from weeting pictures of her shooting for a film and hoping for its

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  EC postpones Anantnag by-polling by 2 days

  June 03, 2016 12:03 IST

  Srinagar: After communications from the state government, the Election Commission of India has postponed voting for Anantnag assembly seat by-election to June 22. "Following requests by various political parties including the PDP, NC and the

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  Karnataka sting fallout: JD(S) demands cancellation of Rajya Sabha polls, Congress plays safe

  June 03, 2016 14:25 IST

  Four Karnataka MLAs including two of former prime minister HD Deve Gowda’s party, Janata Dal (Secular), were allegedly caught in a sting operation by a news channel talking about exchange of money in lieu of their support in the upcoming Rajya Sabha

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  Arjuna awardee and former hockey captain Rajbir Kaur joins AAP in Punjab

  June 03, 2016 6:46 IST

  Chandigarh: Former Indian women hockey captain Rajbir Kaur on Thursday joined Aam Aadmi Party and alleged that the ruling Akalis are ignoring sportspersons. "I have seen that nothing has been done either for sportspersons or

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  Oram, Pradhan ask Patnaik govt to give account of performance

  June 02, 2016 23:17 IST

  Balasore (Odisha): Two Union ministers today asked the BJD dispensation in Odisha to give an account of its achievements during the 17-year-rule and accused Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik of “running the government though officers” instead

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  BJP, Shiv Sena trade barbs over Khadse's removal from cabinet

  June 02, 2016 23:23 IST

  Mumbai: Joining the chorus for Maharashtra Revenue minister Eknath Khadse's ouster over allegations of wrongdoings, Shiv Sena today reminded ally BJP of its promise of a corruption-free rule and demanded Chief Minster Devendra Fadnavis to

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  Anantnag assembly poll like to be postponed again

  June 02, 2016 20:30 IST

  New Delhi: The June 19 by-election to the Anantnag Assembly seat, where Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti is contesting, is likely to be postponed by a few days as the Jammu and Kashmir government apprehends law

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  PM Narendra Modi to inaugurate Afghan-India friendship dam on Saturday

  June 02, 2016 20:19 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Afghanistan on Saturday where he will hold talks with President Ashraf Ghani and inaugurate the Afghan-India Friendship Dam, earlier known as Salma Dam, in Herat province.

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  Rahul Gandhi effect? Ajit Jogi says Cong working like BJP’s B-team, hints at floating new party

  June 02, 2016 19:24 IST

  Congress leader and former chief minister of Chhattisgarh Ajit Jogi today came down hard on the functioning of the Congress party in the state and even went on to liken the party as the BJP’s B-team.

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  Government’s focus on economically backward eastern India: Modi

  June 02, 2016 16:03 IST

  Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said his government was emphasizing on the development of the economically backward eastern states to uproot poverty in the region. “We don’t want any state or any region

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  BJP make a beginning in Kerala, party’s first MLA O Rajagopal takes oath

  June 02, 2016 14:38 IST

  The 'lotus' finally bloomed on the floor of the Kerala assembly when 86-year-old veteran BJP leader O. Rajagopal took oath as a legislator on Thursday.

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  Khadse’s sacking imminent? Maha CM Fadnavis meets BJP chief Amit Shah

  June 02, 2016 18:56 IST

  Mumbai: Trouble seems to be mounting on Maharashtra Revenue minister Eknath Khadse, tackling twin charges of land grabbing and links with Underworld kingpin Dawood Ibrahim. As per latest information, BJP chief Amit Shah has sought

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  Rebels threaten Congress govt in Meghalaya, Sangma sends SOS to Sonia Gandhi

  June 02, 2016 14:26 IST

  Stung by defections in Uttarakhand and Arunachal Pradesh, leaders of the ruling Congress government in Meghalaya have sent a three-page SOS to party president Sonia Gandhi accusing the opposition BJP of trying to destabilise the three-year-old Meghal

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  BJP-ruled states ‘more developed’ than Bihar, West Bengal, Assam, Odisha: PM Modi

  June 02, 2016 14:11 IST

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that eastern India has remained economically backward and that his government has focussed its development plan to uproot poverty from the region.

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  Rahul Gandhi’s elevation as Congress president to bring ‘achche din’ for BJP: Smriti Irani

  June 02, 2016 12:14 IST

  New Delhi: Amidst renewed speculation about elevation of Rahul Gandhi as the Congress president, HRD Minister Smriti Irani has said that any such development will be the ‘achche din’ for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).