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Yashwant Sinha defies party line, attacks Centre over foreign policy

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The radical elements within the BJP and its ideological affiliates may be keeping mum after the RSS’s clear signal to join ranks behind the Prime Minister and his Pakistan policy, notwithstanding the Pathankot attack, but the veterans are not so easily silenced. ‘Talks not feasible’ Party veteran and former External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha on […]

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We will seriously examine plea to ban Santa-Banta jokes: SC

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With Delhi Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (DGPC) pitching for a ban on jokes ridiculing the Sikh community, the Supreme Court on Monday said it would examine with all seriousness the petitions that allege that such jokes were serious violation of human rights of the community members. The first petition in the nature of a public interest

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Call on India-Pakistan foreign secretary talks only after Pathankot operations over: Arun Jaitley

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India will decide on going ahead with the foreign secretary-level talks with Pakistan scheduled later this month only after operations to flush out terrorists from the IAF base at Pathankot is over, finance minister Arun Jaitley said on Monday. “I think let the operations get over and it is only then government takes a view

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Govt. to ensure access to social security: Jaitley

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Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley, said the government’s priority was to ensure access to health and social security benefits to three labour groups — organised, unorganised and those not employed or below the poverty line. Addressing labour unions and farmers’ associations in two separate meetings on Monday, Mr. Jaitley said, “To make health and social security

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All eyes on RBI as India’s manufacturing contracts in Dec for first time in over 2 years

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Indian manufacturing activity contracted in December for the first time in more than two years, hurt by softening domestic demand, adding pressure on the central bank to ease policy, a business survey showed on Monday. Nikkei’s Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index, compiled by Markit, fell to a 28-month low of 49.1 in December from November’s 50.3.

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Pathankot operations a national embarrassment, who will take the responsibility?

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The Pathankot terror attack is a huge national embarrassment. There can be no arguments over it. It has exposed the inefficiency and incompetence of our intelligence agencies, Punjab Police and the lack of coordination among the various agencies involved in taking on the terrorists and flushing them out. In a shocking incident, a Superintendent of

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Pathankot attack: Blue beacon atop SP’s hijacked SUV let terrorists speed past checkposts

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The blue beacon atop the Mahindra XUV of Superintendent of Police Salwinder Singh helped the terrorists, who hijacked the vehicle, get past several police checkposts on Friday. It is suspected that the same lot of terrorists entered the Pathankot airbase because the SUV was found abandoned a little over 500 metres away. SP Salwinder Singh,

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Pathankot attack: Himachal prepared to meet any threat, but can’t be complacent, says police

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After the terrorist attack on Punjab’s Pathankot air force base on Saturday, Himachal Pradesh promptly put its police and security agencies on high alert. Top police officials admit that two successive terrorists attacks in Punjab, such as Gurdaspur and Pathankot, are worrying signals for the ‘peaceful’ state. Biggest threat to Himachal Pradesh is from terrorists

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No link so far between arrested IAF official and Pathankot blast: Police

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Delhi Police sleuths interrogating a dismissed IAF official, who was arrested from Punjab’s Bhatinda, have so far not found any connection between the information he allegedly shared with a suspected ISI-backed operative and the terror attack in Pathankot today. A Delhi court today remanded the dismissed IAF official, Ranjith KK, arrested earlier this week for

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Pak condemns attack, Modi says soldiers ‘did not let enemies of humanity succeed’

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With the terror attack in Pathankot still unfolding, both India and Pakistan on Saturday afternoon issued statements that seemed intended to prevent the escalation of rhetoric. Pakistan condemned the attack, offering “heartfelt condolences”, and saying it was committed to “partner with India” to eliminate terrorism in the South Asian region. India, despite strong indications that

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