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A helicopter carrying Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan disappeared for around fifteen minutes today, sending officials in a tizzy before it landed safely in Katni, an official said. Â The chopper carrying Chouhan, BJP state chief Nand Kumar Singh Chauhan and state Minister Gyan...
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JUST IN: Protesting veterans demanding complete implementation of 'One Rank One Pension' have suspended their 320-day-old agitation at Jantar Mantar.More details are awaited.
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On the eve of the fifth phase of assembly elections, several crude bombs were found from different parts of the city during random check by the Kolkata Police.Four persons have been detained in connection with therecoveries, a senior police officer said.While 14 crude bombs were seized from the...
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The Central Bureau of Investigation has summoned former Air Force Chief S P Tyagi in connection with its probe in the AgustaWestland VVIP choppers deal on Monday.Air Marshal J S Gujral(retd has also been summoned by the CBI tomorrow in connection with the case.Earlier, the Enforcement Directorate...
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The Kerala high court today dismissed an appeal filed by Central Board of Secondary Education challenging its single judge’s order granting permission to Muslim girls to wear the hijab (veil), a customary religious dress, while appearing for All India Pre Medical Test-2016.A division bench,...
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Fourteen soldiers lost their lives while serving in Siachen Glacier, the highest battlefield in the world, just in last four months, a number which is more than the deaths that occurred during each of the last three previous years.As per the data provided by the Army's Northern Command, nine...
20:25
Rajeev Shukla after IPL Governing Council meeting: Qualifier 2 and eliminator matches shifted from Kolkata to New Delhi.
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Visakhapatnam will be the joint venue for Mumbai and Pune Indian Premiere League teams, said IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla, after a Governing Council meeting on Friday.Earlier, the Supreme Court on Wednesday had rejected the pleas of Mumbai Cricket Association and Maharashtra Cricket Association...
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The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday began its investigation into the alleged sting operation in which former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat was purportedly seen talking to middlemen in a bid to strike a deal with dissident Congress MLAs.The CBI questioned a journalist as part...
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Congress leader Digvijaya Singh tweets: Today I lost my youngest daughter in her fight against Cancer. Thanks for sharing my grief. May her Soul rest in Peace. Congress leader Digvijaya Singh's daughter Karnika Singh died due to cancer in New Delhi today. Karnika (37) is the youngest among his...
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The Central Information Commissioner has directed universities of Delhi and Gujarat to respond to all RTI applications with regards to PM Narendra Modi's educational qualifications. The CIC also directed the PMO to make available specific details of the PM's degrees to Delhi University to...
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Just in: Haryana Cabinet decides to withdraw cabinet rank given to former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda: Sources
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Just in: The Enforcement Directorate summons former Air Chief SP Tyagi for questioning on the VVIP Chopper deal. The summons were issued under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.The former Air Force chief has been accused of swinging the Rs 3,600 crore VVIP chopper deal in favour of...
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Intensifying his attack, BJP President Amit Shah today targeted Congress chief Sonia Gandhi once again over the VVIP chopper scam asking her to explain a number of relaxations given to AgustaWestland which, he alleged, compromised India's interests.Posing questions to Gandhi before the media, he...
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After covering the Rolling Stones in the 1990s, Rich Cohen worked with Mick Jagger on what became the HBO series Vinyl. In an adaptation from his book on the Stones, he shares a close-up of the band, and the friendship behind it. Read
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DMK leader Kanimozhi has said her father and party president M Karunanidhi will fulfill all promises made in their manifesto for the May 16 Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu. Kalaignar (Karunanidhi) will implement all the promises made. He promised farm loan waiver earlier and had implemented it. This...
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Rajya Sabha adjourned for the day due to lack of quorum.And our MPs are likely to get a 100 per cent pay hike.
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As I was getting out of my car at Haji Ali some activists from the AIMIM charged towards me with lathis and knives. In order to protect us, the police took our car ahead of the dargah.But, says Trupti Desai, the woman who has changed the laws for women to enter temples, says her fight to open...
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Two men and a woman have been charged with terror offenses in Britain as part of an investigation launched after the attacks in Paris and Brussels, police said.Mohammed Ali Ahmed and Zakaria Boufassil, both 26, of Birminghan, England, were charged Thursday with supplying cash for the purposes of...
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A majority of the people in Delhi favour a permanent implementation of the Delhi government's odd-even traffic scheme aimed at battling pollution, a survey report said today. The survey of more than 1,000 people from the Delhi-National Capital Region by the PHD Chamber of Commerce and...
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Seven children with special needs, who were staying at a government-run home in Jamdoli near Jaipur have died over the last eight days in a hospital where they were admitted with septic shock after allegedly drinking contaminated water.The condition of three others is stated to be...
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The Bombay High Court has ordered the demolishing of the 31-floor Adarsh Housing Society building. The order to raze the building comes after the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF) passed an order to demolish the scam-hit society in 2011, following which its members approached the...
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JNU authorities have sent the Delhi Police the report of a five-member panel on the controversial February 9 event during which anti-national slogans were allegedly raised. The report was sought from the Chief Proctor's Office by Delhi Police's anti-terrorism unit, Special Cell, which is probing...
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Congress leader Digvijaya Singh's daughter Karnika Singh died due to cancer in New Delhi today. Karnika (37) is the youngest among his four daughters. She was admitted in Max Hospital, Saket, a few days ago and breathed her last at around 5 am. She had undergone treatment for the disease in the...
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To pre-empt chances of violence during fifth phase of polling in West Bengal tomorrow, a strong contingent of 90,000 personnel of central and state police forces have been deployed in three poll-bound districts of the state. Election Commission officials said they have deployed around 680...
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Revealed! The inside, insane account of Charlie Sheen's infamous meltdown.Read
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The US Supreme Court has approved a change in Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, so judges across the country now have the authority to issue warrants for remote electronic searches outside their district. That means that a judge can grant an FBI agent in, say, New York,...
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The Indian Olympic Association is finally getting its act together. India's lone individual Olympics gold medallist Abhinav Bindra has accepted the offer of being the IOA brand ambassador. Bindra says he is all set to accept the offer and felt humbled. After the flak the IOA faced with the...
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Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today visited External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj who was admitted at AIIMS in New Delhi after she complained of chest congestion. Gandhi spent some time in the Cardio-Neuro Centre of the hospital where Swaraj is undergoing treatment since April 25. Swaraj...
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Two secondary school students accused of carrying out a bomb attack on a Gurudwara in the German city of Essen nearly two weeks ago are radical Islamists and sympathisers of the Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda, authorities said. The two allegedly detonated a fire extinguisher filled with...
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Couple receive letter telling them to restrain Bella, who has been putting postman's 'fingers at risk of injury'. Read the adorable story here.
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The Gujarat government today declared a 10% reservation in government jobs and higher education institutions in the state for the economically-backward class from all non-reserved castes. The new quota will be in addition to the existing 49% reservation for Schedules Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes...
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Former Air Chief SP Tyagi, who has denied any role in the AgustaWestland chopper scam, met officials of the company in Italy while in office and also enjoyed an evening at the opera, an Italian court judgement has revealed.During one of those trips, Air Marshal Tyagi, referred to as Shashi Tyagi...
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This is one motion that will get 'ayes' across party lines in both Houses of Parliament. A 100 per cent salary hike for MPs. Our sources tell us that the parliamentary panel report recommending a pay hike for Members of Parliament was approved by Union finance minister Arun Jaitley yesterday and...
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Just in: The Gujarat govt announces 10 per cent reservation for the economically backward in general category which includes Patidars.
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The strange relationship between power and loneliness. Read
11:46
BJP MP Kirit Somaiya to raise the issue of the heckling film director Kabir Khan received at Karachi airport in the Lok Sabha during zero hour.
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Uproar in Rajya Sabha by Congress MPs as Subramanian Swamy stands to say he has given breach of privilege motion against Congress senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad. With Rajya Sabha being adjourned yesterday due to disruptions, the limelight is now on BJP leader Subramanian Swamy who challenged the...
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A militant was killed in an encounter with security forces in Kupwara in north Kashmir early today. The militant, who was holed up in a mosque since last night, was killed as he tried to escape, an army official said. Security forces had launched an operation in Kanthpora village of...
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Days after Union Minister Maneka Gandhi cited the example of Sonia Gandhi, her estranged sister-in-law, while suggesting a way of fighting corruption in her Uttar Pradesh constituency, her son can now be seen following her mother's footsteps by supporting cousin brother Rahul during a...
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Naming a chief ministerial candidate, early announcement of other candidates and handing over the charge of poll campaign in Uttar Pradesh to Priyanka Gandhi were some of the key suggestions that Congress workers made to election strategist Prashant Kishor's teams that camped for two days in...
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Liquor baron Vijay Mallya, wanted by the Indian law for money laundering and other cases, has said he remains an Indian patriot, but has no plans to leave the UK. In an interview to the Financial Times, he says he is ready to settle hundreds of millions of pounds owed to banks after the...
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The common man is no stranger to the tardy pace of work at government offices, but it seems the BMC doesn't spare even VIPs this frustration ' not even Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's niece. At a time when she was grieving over the loss of her mother-in-law, the BMC gave Ranjana Jaitley further...
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The Indian Olympic Association has written to Sachin Tendulkar, requesting him to be India's goodwill ambassador at the 2016 Rio Olympics.Salman Khan's appointment as India's goodwill ambassador to the Olympics has been a controversial one, and has divided the sporting community. Sportspersons...
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Chinese activist Lu Jinghua, who alleges that she was about to board a flight to New Delhi at New York's JFK airport on Monday when she was told that her visa had been cancelled, says India is the first country to deny her entry after China. I 100 per cent believe it's the Chinese government's...
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By January 2017 the BSF is planning to install the tallest national flag at the Attari-Wagah joint check post as part of their efforts to expand the visitors gallery at the landmark site. The record for tallest national flag currently is held by Jharkhand which stands 293 feet high. The BSF is...
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The Centre will release the next batch of 25 declassified files relating to freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in the national capital today. Last month, Minister of State for Tourism, Culture and Civil Avialtion, Mahesh Sharma, had released second batch of fifty declassified files...
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Security forces have gunned a militant in the Lolab area of Kupwara district in Jammu-Kashmir. A search operation is underway to ascertain if there are more militants. Security officials said that an AK47 was also recovered after the encounter. Â
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As the political battle in Parliament over the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland VVIP helicopter deal continues, details are now emerging on how, contrary to earlier reports, the entire down payment made by India towards the chopper deal has not been returned despite the government invoking the...
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Officials wound back an initial tsunami threat issued after a large earthquake struck off the coast of the South Pacific islands of Vanuatu on Sunday.The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said the danger had largely passed and canceled an earlier warning of a possible tsunami as a result of the...
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A former senator of Pakistan's Awami National Party has been named as one of the suspects involved in the assassination of prominent Sikh lawmaker Sardar Sooran Singh, who was gunned down by contract killers allegedly hired by his miffed Hindu rival after he failed to secure a ticket for...
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Pakistan today said the F-16 jets provide precision strike capability to its on-going campaign against terrorism, a day after top American lawmakers expressed concern over the decision to sell eight fighter jets to Pakistan, saying the aircraft could be used against India.F-16s provide precision...
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US Consul General in Kolkata Craig L Hall today said the US government is very clear that Arunachal Pradesh is an integral part of India.Craig said this during a meeting with Chief Minister Kalikho Pul while referring to the oft repeated claims of China over Arunachal Pradesh territory, an...
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At least 11 persons, including a woman and a child, were injured in a blast allegedly triggered by ULFA militants in Tinsukia town in upper Assam tonight, police said.A hand grenade kept in a dustbin exploded at Debipukhuri Pachali area in the centre of the town with a deafening sound at 7.30 PM,...
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Modi to address joint session of US Congress on June 8How India must respond to growing Chinese military mightWill the IPL verdict solve our drought problem?Kerala CM files defamation suit against Achutanandan Why did the EC axe Bengal's biased babus?Activist Trupti Desai fails to enter Haji Ali...
