New Delhi: While expressing hopes for a solution to the Kashmir dispute, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday disclosed that the Central government was holding talks with separatists in Jammu and Kashmir. Speaking during the Question Hour in Rajya Sabha, Chidambaram said he and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had in the past offered to talk .. more »

Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Wednesday that no Cabinet minister was a supporter of Naxal violence, apparently dismissing charges that Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee was sympathising with Maoists. Replying to supplementaries during Question Hour in Rajya Sabha, he said a group of people from West Midnapore district in West Bengal formed a .. more »

"Problems in J&K are not over; there is still infiltration, but we have given more and more duties to the state police," the Home Minister said. He also spoke about violence in the Northeast, saying: "In the Northeast, our problems are in Assam and Manipur and both the states are being ruled by the Congress, I am not denying .. more »

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The World reacted sharply to the ban on the building of new Minarets in Switzerland. Minaret is a type of tower associated with Islamic mosques. Switzerland held a referendum on Sunday in which over 57 percent people voted to ban the building of Minarets in the country... more »

First, the house of former union minister Renuka Chowdhury was vandalised. Chowdhury was not at home when a group of men broke into the house. Soon after that incident, the office of Jalagam Venkat Rao, former Congress MLA and son of former chief minister J.Vengal Rao, was attacked in Khammam. (NDTV Photo).. more »

New Delhi, Dec.2 (ANI): After Congress leader Renuka Chowdhary's home was attacked on Tuesday night allegedly by Telengana Rashtriya Samiti (TRS) workers, she refused to be bogged down by such acts or hooligans. Speaking to Times Now on Wednesday, Renuka said that she did not expect such behaviour from the TRS who claim to safeguard the .. more »

But no one watched Obama's speech more closely than the people of Afghanistan and American troops stationed there. And as expected, there were mixed feelings. "Increasing the number of US troops could simply increase the Afghan people's anger against strangers in their country. Russia increased its troops here, but it did not work. .. more »

New Delhi: The Indian Air Force on Wednesday grounded its entire Sukhoi-30MKI fleet as a precautionary measure, following Monday’s crash of one of the jets at Jetha Ki Dhani near Pokhran firing ranges in Rajasthan. The IAF has decided to carry out precautionary checks on all the jets before letting them fly again. The Russian-origin .. more »

The attackers attempted to set afire the camp office, leaving the windows of the building partially burnt last night, police sources said on Wednesday. The suspected TRS activists left behind a letter in which they alleged that Chowdhury was anti-Telengana. "It is extremely unfortunate that the former minister's house has been attacked. This is not .. more »

Congress leader and former union minister Renuka Chowdhary's house has been vandalised. A handwritten letter was left behind with TRS written on it. Police will have to check the authenticity of the letter. .. more »

Suspected TRS activists attacked the camp office of former Union Minister and Congress leader Renuka Chowdhary in Khammam, accusing her of being against a separate state of Telengana. The attackers attempted to set afire the camp office, leaving the windows of the building partially burnt on Tuesday night, police sources said on Wednesday. The .. more »

Congress leader and former union minister Renuka Chowdhary's house has been vandalised. An unidentified group of men attacked her house in Khammam, Andhra Pradesh when Chowdhury wasn't at home. The General Secretary of the Congress party was seen mingling with the students, and answering their questions... more »

An angry Renuka Chowdhury, who was on way to New Delhi, later told reporters: "This is goondaism and political opportunism at the worst. I am not going to be intimidated by this sort of things." The activists of TRS allegedly tried to pour kerosene on the house and set it on fire but a police patrol vehicle spotted them and stopped the .. more »

Hyderabad: Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) activists on Wednesday set ablaze Congress party leader and former union minister Renuka Chowdhry's office in Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh. According to reports, the door and windows of the office were damaged when TRS workers torched the office after throwing petrol on it, police said. TRS wants .. more »