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Dismissing suggestions that he had made a U-turn on Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s role in killing Mahatma Gandhi, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday insisted that he stood by ‘every single word’ said by him. ‘I will never stop fighting the hateful & divisive agenda of the RSS. I stand by every single word I said,’ he tweeted. His tweet came after media reports said that he took a U-turn on Wednesday when he told the Supreme Court that he did not ...

Verifiable ‘distress-sharing’ of available water may still be the way out of the Cauvery water row, says N Sathiya Moorthy. Image: Pro-Kannada activists protesting in Mysuru on Tuesday in the wake of the Supreme Court directive to the Karnataka state to release Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu. Photograph: PTI Photo. Independent of this week’s violence and the Supreme Court proceedings, before and after the attacks, ‘distress-sharing’ of available water on a seasonal ...

The West Bengal unit of Congress was on Saturday left red faced after a controversial comment made by Rajiv Gandhi following 1984 anti-Sikh riots was posted from its official Twitter handle on the former prime minister’s birth anniversary, but the party claimed its account was hacked. IMAGE: Following his mother's assassination, Rajiv Gandhi had said, 'When a big tree falls, the ground shakes'. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images The tweet on WBPCC Twitter handle said, “When a ...

‘Sorry I couldn't win a medal but will surely try to win next time’ IMAGE: India's Dipa Karmakar with her coach Bishweshwar Nandi. Photograph: PTI. Fresh from her historic feat at the Rio Olympics, gymnast Dipa Karmakar touched down in the country to a rousing welcome, in New Delhi, on Saturday, and candidly said she was oblivious to all the frenzy she had generated in the past few days, while promising a medal in the next Summer Games. Dipa's fourth-place finish in the individual ...

Here are some of the best photos of Mother Teresa’s illustrious life. Mother Teresa is seen smiling in this 1979 photo after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Photograph: Rediff Archives Mother Teresa's home for destitute in Kolkata. Photograph: Rediff Archives Mother Teresa with former prime minister Indira Gandhi in New Delhi. Photograph: Rediff Archives Prince Charles talking to Mother Teresa during his visit to her home for babies and children, Calcutta (now Kolkata) in ...

  Racism seems to have become a topic tearing the world apart and sadly it’s something that continues to exist in India as well.  A Manipuri woman alleged that she was subjected to racial harassment at the international airport in New Delhi following which an inquiry has been ordered into the incident. Monika Khangembam alleged that on Saturday an immigration official at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport hurled racist remarks at her when she was on her way ...

Ramdhari Singh Dinkar’s poems speak to every Indian, uniting them across political, social, religious and caste divides. They elevate; they inspire; they stir the soul and goose-bump the flesh. Archana Masih/Rediff.com stopped by at his native village in Simaria, Bihar and realised that Dinkar’s poems still lead the way, showing us where we need to go as a nation.   To find a ‘Rashtriya Kavi’ (national poet), one has to go down a narrow, patch-worked road that ...

‘Champions Trophy silver medal is on the backburner now’ ‘We have to look ahead and focus on the Olympics’ IMAGE: India's men's team poses for a group photograph on arrival at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on Tuesday, after the historic second place finish in the Champions Trophy in London. Photograph: PTI. Having achieved the goal of a podium finish at the recently-concluded Champions Trophy in London, the Indian men's hockey team's chief coach ...

The fund allocated for pulses buffer is more than 40% of entire farm ministry's 2016-17 budget. The Centre is all set to create a huge buffer stock of pulses of around 2 million tonnes, half of which would be realized through domestic procurement and rest via imports. This would play a crucial role in resolving the crisis in pulses that the country faces year after year, but a body to purchase, store and distribute them is required for any such success. This buffer – procurement for which ...