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Agra (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Aug.29 : Union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma has committed a faux pax by advising female tourists not to wear short skirts while roaming around Agra city in the evenings.However, after a journalist sought Sharma’s justifi…

Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Aug. 28 : Stating that she is disturbed by the events that have been transpiring in the state, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said the Kashmir issue can be resolved only by adopting former p…

Mumbai [India], Aug 28 : Haji Ali Dargaah chairman and managing trustee Abu Sultan Merchant on Sunday said as per Islam women are not allowed to go to graveyards and that is why a ban was imposed on the entry of women into the shrine’s inner sanctum as…

New Delhi [India], Aug 28 : Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will be on a three-day visit to his parliamentary constituency Amethi starting from August 31.Gandhi would stay at Munshigunj Guest House in Amethi and is scheduled to attend several poli…

Raipur [India], Aug. 28 : Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh, who returned to Raipur on Sunday after attending the Bharatiya Janata Party Chief Ministers’Conference in New Delhi, said he has received suggestions to improve the state’s sports polic…

New Delhi [India], Aug. 28 : As many as 100 former hockey players and former hockey federation members staged a protest at Jantar Mantar on Sunday, demanding Bharat Ratna for legendary hockey player Major Dhyan Chand.The people erected a sand sculpture…

Dingerheri, (Haryana) [India], Aug. 28 : Rewari Inspector General Police, South Range, Mamta Singh on Sunday said four men were arrested in connection with the murder of a couple and gang-rape of their two relatives, a woman and a minor girl, in Dinger…

New Delhi [India], Aug 28 : Union Sports Minister Vijay Goel suffered yet another foot-in-mouth moment on Sunday when he referred silver and bronze medallists P.V.Sindhu and Sakshi Malik, respectively, as “Gold Medallist” despite the fact that he staye…

Sirsa (Haryana) [India], Aug.28 : Haryana Sports Minister Anil Vij has decided to donate Rs. 50 lakh to the Dera Sacha Sauda organisation, headed by controversial Sikh leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, for promoting sports in Haryana.While attending the …

New Delhi [India], Aug. 28 : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday questioned the role of the Congress Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru over the situation of Kashmir after Congress targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s for using words like ‘insan…