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Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday demanded that Centre allowed the installation of gates on the dam so that water could reach farmers in the parched regions of the state.

Penal provisions for rape are often being misused by women as "weapon for vengeance and vendetta" to harass and blackmail their male friends by filing false cases to extort money and to force them get married, the Delhi High Court has said.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday said sports bodies should be administered by sportspersons and not by politicians.

Cautioning Centre against dilution of stakes in Neyveli Lignite Corporation, DMK president M Karunanidhi on Saturday warned that any such move would only earn the Manmohan government further opposition in Tamil Nadu.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has become a laughing stock for the country and comments on the active social media world are proof of it, a BJP leader said on Friday.

Marsh developed by industrial effluent in villages on the border of Jodhpur and Barmer districts of Rajasthan has turned into a trap for antelopes claiming lives of about a dozen endangered chinkaras in the past one week.

In a bid to allay India`s concerns over the controversial `Nitaqat` labour law, Saudi Arabia`s Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal on Saturday said "procedures" were being taken in the "best interest of Indian workers".

In a spectacular display of military might, Kharga Corps conducted swift mechanised manoeuvres encompassing all arms and services in a battlefield environment in the plains of Punjab.

Terming the Naxal attack on Congress leaders` convoy in Chhattisgarh as "an attack on the Indian political system", Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan expressed condolence over the killing of Mahendra Karma.