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Recalling Vajpayee’s legacy, AS Dulat says Narendra Modi government should talk to separatists as well as Pakistan. The vacuum, according to him, had arisen only in the last year and a half when Centre relied only on pellet guns and forgot to talk.

Shinzo Abe got a resounding victory in the snap polls held on Sunday, with his LDF-led coalition winning two-thirds majority in the lower house of Parliament.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, after talks with the Bangladeshi side as part of the fourth Joint Consultative Commission, said the two nations are determined to protect their societies from the threat of ideologies of hate, violence and terror.

"Mr. Modi, Cinema is a deep expression of Tamil culture and language. Don't try to demon-etise Tamil pride by interfering in Mersal (sic)," tweeted the soon-to-be party president.

Rex Tillerson will make Saudi Arabia his first stop on the week-long tour beginning on Friday.

Chandrasekhar studied at the Presidency College, Madras, and later at Cambridge University before moving to the US in 1936, where he joined as faculty at the University of Chicago, a position he retained until his death.

The child's father, Kashif, had requested Swaraj on Twitter to grant medical visa for treatment of Abdullah, saying he needed post-liver transplant evaluation in India.

Since the FIFA U-17 World Cup matches are being held in Kolkata, special attention was given to the schools around Salt Lake area where children were made to take an oath during morning assembly, to abide by the norms as regards noise pollution.

The SC on October 9 had reversed its earlier September 12 order and stated that in view of the alarming rise in levels of noise and air pollution, sale of firecrackers would be prohibited in Delhi-NCR till November 1.

Residents of a village in Pahalgam area of Anantnag district staged a protest after they caught an alleged braid chopper, a police official said.

A bench of justices Harish Tandon and Debangsu Basak, hearing the West Bengal government’s plea, ordered the home ministry not to move a single company of paramilitary forces out of Darjeeling till the next hearing on October 27.

These exchanges were documented in ‘The Lectures and Speeches at Mohammadan Anglo-Oriental College’ by Abul Abbas, who was the secretary to the AMU vice-chancellor in 1920.

According to data provided recently by four Centre-run hospitals, the H1N1 virus had claimed 47 lives, including 22 from Delhi this year till late August.

“The boy who died (Ravin Sisodia), his wife will get a job in a primary school within a month and a compensation of Rs 8 lakh, of which Rs 5 lakh will be a single payment and the rest will come from collections made at local level,” said BJP MLA Tejpal Si...

A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra issued a notice to the company and sought its reply within two weeks on a plea filed by Amrapali Silicon City Flat Owners Welfare Society.

The teenager, aided by an activist, trawled her husband's Facebook accounts until they found the smoking gun that proved their marriage occurred when she was underage.