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Prithviraj Chavan (left), and Pragya Thakur NEW DELHI: Former Maharashtra chief minister and senior Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan on Thursday said he does not support the use of the term “saffron terror.” He said saffron is the colour of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj’s flag, the Warkari sect, as well as Sant Tukaram and Sant Dnyaneshwar.Chavan was…

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NEW DELHI: U S Awasthi, the longest serving CEO of a fertiliser company, who was among the most powerful names in the highly controlled industry, retired as Iffco managing director on Thursday, after an over three-decade stint as MD. K J Patel has been appointed as the new MD of the largest fertiliser cooperative and…

Rahul Gandhi (File photo) NEW DELHI: BJP on Thursday said Rahul Gandhi‘s latest tirade on the Indian economy by endorsing the “dead economy” jibe of US President Donald Trump has proved that the Congress leader is “delusional, ignorant of facts and deeply frustrated”.The party also took a swipe at Rahul, citing his affidavit from the…

Reliance Group chairman Anil Ambani NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday summoned industrialist Anil Ambani on August 5 in loan fraud case amid probe over bribery, unsecured loans allegations.Ambani, 66, has been asked to depose at the ED headquarters in Delhi as the case has been registered here, sources told news agency PTI.The agency…

India has taken note of reports that an Islamist group in Dhaka called the ‘Saltanat-e-Bangla’, backed by a Turkish NGO called the ‘Turkish Youth Federation’, has put out a map of the so-called ‘Greater Bangladesh’ that includes parts of India, said foreign minister S Jaishankar.The map was displayed in the Dhaka University. “The Government of…

Mumbai/Pune: It has been painful to endure accusations for 17 years, Lt Col Prasad Purohit told TOI after being acquitted in the Malegaon blast case on Thursday. Purohit, currently stationed at an Army unit in Mumbai, said, “I did not do anything against my country. There is nothing above the nation. How can a serving…

NEW DELHI: Deciding to call it “vote chori” for better political messaging, the opposition Thursday resolved to keep its collective focus on Special Intensive Review of electoral rolls during the remainder part of the monsoon session. After the discussion on the Pahalgam terror attack, it is set to demand one on SIR, a move that…

DHARMASTHALA: Partial skeletal remains, suspected to be of a man, were found on the third day of exhumations by the special investigation team (SIT) probing into alleged mass burials near Karnataka’s Dharmasthala town.The remains were found about 4ft deep at the sixth of 13 alleged burial sites identified by the complainant. Discovered in a forested…

NEW DELHI: Congress neta Rahul Gandhi Thursday said US President Donald Trump has stated a fact that India has a “dead economy”, asserting that the BJP govt is running the country to the ground because PM Narendra Modi “works for just one person, Adani”.Claiming there is “total confusion”, Rahul said the Modi govt has destroyed…