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Chintan Shivir: Cong leaders seek bigger role for Rahul JAIPUR: Amid talk that Rahul Gandhi will be given a larger responsibility, clamour for declaring the young leader as the Congress prime ministerial candidate grew louder at the party's Chintan Shivir on Saturday.
No rollback in diesel price hike: Moily JAIPUR: Ruling out
rollback of the “small” 45 paisa increase in diesel prices, Oil Minister M. Veerappa Moily on Saturday said bulk consumers like
the Railways will have to find their own budget to buy the fuel at market price.
US welcomes direct Indo-Pak talks Washington: The US today welcomed direct talks between India and Pakistan on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir. "We think the best way to work through the issues on the Line of Control is for India and Pakistan to work through this directly. They are in direct talks now, and that's something that we welcome," State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland told reporters. "We very much value the progress that the two countries have made on the economic side, on the visa side, on the trade side, and we would hate to see that jeopardized because it’s in the interest of India and Pakistan and all of us who care about that region," she said in response to a question. — PTI
Man kills wife in Noida hotel Noida: A 24-year-old woman was murdered allegedly by her husband in Radisson Hotel here, police said today. Akansha Khosla, a resident of Delhi, was found dead in the hotel located in Sector 18 last evening. SSP Praveen Kumar said the hotel staff found the woman dead round 6.30 pm. Initially, the police thought that Akansha had committed suicide as a note recovered from the site stated that the couple was facing some differences with parents beside financial problems. The note said she was committing suicide and the husband too would commit suicide by jumping from a tower in Sector 25. When a police team went to sector, 25 they could not trace her husband. However, her husband Ishan Khosla last night turned up at the police station and allegedly confessed to have killed his wife. Ishan told police that they got married in June 2011 but did not get along. Ishan said he smothered Akansha to death with a pillow and planned to commit suicide but could not do so.
Conductor stabbed for protesting against eve-teasers in Ambala Ambala: Over a month after the brutal gang-rape of a 23-year-old paramedical student in Delhi, another shocking incident here was reported in which the conductor of a moving bus was reportedly stabbed when he objected to the harassment of a woman by a group of men with no fellow passengers coming to his rescue. The incident took place when a state roadways conductor, Sultan Singh, was travelling in a bus when a group of people started harassing a woman passenger, as per an English news channel report. When Singh objected to the harassment, he was beaten and stabbed by them. Despite being assaulted, no other passenger travelling in the bus at that time came forward to help Singh. Singh was not on duty when he travelling in the bus at the time of incident.
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