Actor-politician Kamal Haasan-floated Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) party on Tuesday demanded the dismissal of Tamil Nadu Minister for Milk and Dairy Development K.T. Rajenthra Bhalaji for saying that Haasan's tongue should be cut.


Sack TN Minister for saying Kamal's tongue must be cut: MNM


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In a latenight development, the Congress urged the Election Commission to book Goa Deputy Chief Minister Vijai Sardesai for sedition for urging youngsters to "weaponise" themselves to force the state government to fulfil their demands on norms for government jobs during a speech earlier this month.


Book Goa Deputy CM for sedition for 'weaponising youth' comment: Congress


US President Donald Trump said that he will have a face-to-face meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the G20 summit next month amid the latest escalation in trade tensions between the two countries.


Will meet Xi Jinping face-to-face at G20: Trump


US President Donald Trump said has that he is prepared to impose tariffs on virtually all Chinese imports to the US as the trade war between the world's two largest economies intensified.


Trump threatens to slap more tariffs on Chinese imports


The European Union (EU) and member states' foreign ministers told US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to exercise maximum restraint and avoid any escalation on the military side with Iran, the EU's top diplomat Federica Mogherini said.


Europe warns US not to escalate tensions with Iran


US President Donald Trump said that he would meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the summit of the Group of 20 (G20) next month.


Trump to meet Putin at G20 summit


Iran may quit the nuclear deal it clinched with major world powers in 2015 if the case is sent back to the UN Security Council, an Iranian official has said.


'Iran may quit nuclear deal if case sent to UNSC'


A minor girl, who in 2016 had accused Atanasio Monserrate, a Congress candidate for the May 19 Panaji assembly by-election, of rape is reported missing and the police have filed complaint of abduction, police said on Monday.


Minor who accused Goa Congress candidate of rape goes missing


China on Monday said it would raise tariffs on $60 billion of US goods from June 1, a tit-for-tat response to Washington increasing levies on Chinese products last week.


China retaliates, ups tariffs on $60 bn US goods (2nd Lead)


China on Monday announced that it will impose tariffs on $60 billion of US goods from June 1 in retaliation for Washington's decision to hike duties on Chinese goods.


China to hike tariffs on $60 bn of US goods


The Rajasthan government has courted controversy by proposing changes in freedom fighter and Hindutva proponent Vinayak Damodar Savarkar's profile in the school syllabus.


Row as Rajasthan proposes changes in Savarkar study


Probing further into the alleged financial irregularities involving GMR Group-led Delhi International Airport Pvt Ltd (DIAL), the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has asked the Civil Aviation Ministry to provide all the files related to airport firm at the 'earliest'.


CBI asks for DIAL papers in alleged scam


US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called off a trip to Russia and instead made an unscheduled visit to Brussels on Monday to hold talks with European Union officials on Iran amid renewed tensions in the Middle East, officials said.


Pompeo crashes Brussels meet of EU allies for Iran talks


An expelled All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) municipal corporator, Syed Mateen Sayed Rasheed, has been booked in a second rape case within four months, officials said on Monday.


Expelled AIMIM leader booked in second rape case


Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Monday said that the title 'Divider in-chief given to Prime Minister Narendra Modi by Times magazine was right and feels that the publisher was in fact kind to him.


'Divider in-chief' title to Modi is right: Kamal Nath (IANS Interview)


US President Donald Trump on Monday warned his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that his country would be "hurt very badly" if a deal to end the year-long trade war between Washington and Beijing is not reached.


Trump warns China against new tariffs


The BJP on Monday moved the Election Commission seeking a 5-day ban on renowned actor and MNM President Kamal Haasan for describing Nathuram Godse, who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi, as the first Hindu terrorist in independent India.


BJP moves EC for 5-day ban on Kamal Hassan


China on Monday strongly condemned the terror attack at a five-star hotel in Pakistan's port city Gwadar, which is being developed by the Chinese.


China slams terror attack in Pakistan


Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of playing politics on the Alwar gang-rape and using the issue as a political tool to draw mileage in the Lok Sabha elections.


Rajasthan CM says Modi playing politics on Alwar rape


Forty-seven security personnel were injured in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district when stone pelting mobs went on the rampage following the rape of a three-year-old in Bandipora. At least one officer was in critical condition.


47 security personnel injured in clashes in Baramulla


The Indian media is functioning freely and vigorously despite problem areas such as criminal defamation and sedition and aberrations such as paid news, veteran journalist N. Ravi, the publisher of The Hindu group of newspapers, has said, adding that few vocations can compare with the excitement of working in a newsroom.

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