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Rohit 'extremely honoured' to be nominated for Khel Ratna

Rohit hit an unprecedented five hundreds in a single edition of the World Cup last year and had a great run last year.

Cong leader booked for 'latka-jhatka' remark against Smriti Irani

Rai said that the terminology was part of the regional dialect and there was nothing obscene about it.

Ram Temple: Can Congress Surprise Modi?

Modi believes that the Congress leadership does not have the political sagacity to undertake a course correction because of its preoccupation about not losing its current gains in the voter base, observes Shekhar Iyer.

Father's death biggest learning experience: Rahul in Cambridge

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said that the assassination of his father and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was the "single biggest learning experience" of his life, asserting that he cannot get away from the fact that the event also made him learn things that he would have never learnt otherwise.

The Rahul, Sonia, Priyanka show

Mosque dispute: Clashes erupt in Shimla, cops among 10 hurt

Protestors demanding the demolition of an illegal structure in a mosque in Shimla's Sanjauli area were lathi-charged by security forces on Wednesday after they broke police barricades during a demonstration.

Cong protests in Parl over withdrawal of Gandhis' SPG cover

Chowdhury said the family faces threat to life and the cover by the elite security organisation should not have been withdrawn.

Defending self on Lalitgate, Sushma sucker punches the Gandhis

Swaraj tore into the Congress, saying it had helped Bofors accused Ottavio Quattrocchi and Bhopal gas leak accused Warren Anderson flee from India.

'Dronacharya award is a huge honour'

For the first time ever, three top sportspersons -- boxers M C Mary Kom and Vijender Singh and wrestler Sushil Kumar -- were on Wednesday selected for the country's highest sporting honour, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award.

Cops recover letter exposing 'Maoist plan' to assassinate PM

The letter says Maoists want to assassinate Modi the way former PM Rajiv Gandhi was killed, say Maharashtra CM and the state police.

When Narasimha Rao Agreed To A JPC

There is, between Rao's tenure as PM and the current Modi regime, a powerful resonance of how transition can be managed. Rao's tenure saw many scams -- one where he was supposedly approached by Harshad Mehta with a bribe for making the securities scam go away. The Opposition insisted on a JPC. Despite knowing a JPC report would undermine him politically, Rao agreed to one, saying he had 'nothing to hide'.