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US President Trump said that he thought that the former national security adviser Susan E. Rice may have committed a crime by seeking the identities of Trump associates who were swept up in the surveillance of foreign officials by American spy agencies and that other Obama administration...
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Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu today said China has no business telling India what to do with regard to the Dalai Lama's movement in the country.China has no business telling us what to do and what not to do (regarding the Dalai Lama's movement). It is not our next-door neighbour....
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The Congress is not inclined to move any amendments to the GST enabling bills in the Rajya Sabha before they are returned to the Lok Sabha but may support the amendments moved by other opposition parties.Sources said the party leaders will meet tomorrow to decide on whether to support the...
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JUST IN: Donald Trump strategist Steve Bannon dropped from National Security Council
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers have urged US President Donald Trump to raise the issue of human rights violations in China in particular those related to Tibet when he meets his Chinese counterpart this week.Simultaneously, influential US lawmakers have introduced legislations in both House of...
20:55
JUST IN: No meat, no liquor on April 9 in Haryana on Mahavir Jayanti
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Why can't you stop the war?Seven-year-old Syrian refugee Bana Alabed made this heartbreaking appeal to the world Wednesday morning: Stop the carnage that's dragged on for six years in Syria and killed hundreds of thousands of her countrymen, including children.I want (them) to stop the war, and I...
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A group of women's rights activists has demanded disbanding of 'anti-Romeo squads' in Uttar Pradesh and withdrawal of an FIR registered against lawyer-politician Prashant Bhushan over his remarks against Lord Krishna.Anti-Romeo Squads are operating outside the purview of law... which threatens...
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Nearly two weeks after he assaulted an airline manager during a fight over business class seats, earning a flying ban, politician Ravindra Gaikwad was allowed into a plane for the first time. He took a chartered flight to Delhi, where he is to attend the parliament session.The Shiv Sena...
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An 18-year-old Bangladeshi-American Muslim student has won a place at the prestigious Stanford University after writing '#BlackLivesMatter' a 100 times in the essay section of his application.Ziad Ahmed said he was stunned when his innovative approach to the application process, which he...
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According to an RTI activist, VK Sasikala is meeting a number of people who are coming to visit her in jail, even though the rule only allows two visitors a month -- which includes advocates, friends and family. Moreover, while visitors are allowed to meet prisoners only between 11 am to 5...
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Rain lashes parts of Delhi, bringing respite for residents from the scorching heat. Delhi, which on Thursday recorded the maximum temperature for March in the last seven years at 38.3 degrees Celsius, had a pleasant start to the day after showers overnight brought down the minimum...
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Asserting that the split in the Samajwadi Party was now complete, expelled leader Amar Singh today said he will never return to that party.The split in the Samajwadi Party is now complete... they have no political mechanism to save it, he said.He said he will never go back to the SP.Once I was...
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Shiv Sena members in Lok Sabha today warned of protests in Parliament if the issue of its MP Ravindra Gaikwad, who has been banned from flying by several airlines after he allegedly hit an Air India staffer, was not resolved soon. All major domestic airlines have imposed a flying ban...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made 56 foreign visits since assuming charge in May 2014, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. According to a list provided by Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh in reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, after first visiting Bhutan in June 2014,...
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Pakistan Is No Friend to America. Read
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A tussle of power is underway in Puducherry between Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi and the Congress Government headed by V. Narayanasamy over the transfer of a senior civil service official.Pondicherry being a union territory, the service matters are squarely within the domain of the...
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The Maharashtra government today told the Bombay High Court that it has mooted a proposal to hike the compensation to the victims of rape, sexual assault and acid attacks from Rs 3 lakh to Rs 10 lakh. Under the Manodhairya Yojana launched in October 2013, the state government had decided to give...
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Syed Zainul Abedin, the spiritual head of the Ajmer sufi shrine, was on Wednesday sacked' by his brother for the blasphemous' support to the ban on slaughter of bovines' and selling beef in the country and declared a non Muslim'.Syed Alaudin Alimi claimed he had the support of the family in...
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The National Green Tribunal has directed the Centre to pay Rs 5,000, which was imposed as costs for the delay in filing its reply, to a retired army officer who alleged dumping of human excreta by aircraft over residential areas near the IGI Airport in New Delhi. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson...
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Pope Francis today condemned a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria that left more than 70 dead in a rebel-held town as an unacceptable massacre. We watch horrified as the latest events in Syria unfold, Francis said at his midweek public audience in St Peter's square. I completely deplore...
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National Conference (NC) president and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday said that those who pelt stones are just fighting for the nation and have nothing to do with tourism.Our fight is against those people who want to divide us on the basis of religion. I want...
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China warned today that it will take necessary measures to defend its territorial sovereignty and interests after India obstinately allowed the Dalai Lama to visit the disputed parts of Arunachal Pradesh causing serious damage to the bilateral ties. China also lodged a protest with India's...
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National Conference (NC) president and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday said that those who pelt stones are just fighting for the nation and have nothing to do with tourism.Our fight is against those people who want to divide us on the basis of religion. I want...
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A response to Nandan Nilekani on Aadhaar. Read
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Doctors are calling it a miracle. Central Reserve Police Force commandant Chetan Kumar Cheetah, who was admitted to the AIIMS trauma centre in New Delhi two months ago after being shot nine times during an encounter in North Kashmir's Bandipora, is being discharged today. Cheetah was critically...
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China on Dalai Lama's Arunachal Pradesh visit: Our ties with India seriously damaged.
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today said the state government will study the Uttar Pradesh model of farm loan waiver worth Rs 36,000 crore. Speaking in the Legislative Assembly here, where Shiv Sena and BJP members demanded that the state government announce a loan waiver for...
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EAM Sushma Swaraj also told Parliament today that Indian diplomats posted in conflict zones abroad are being provided additional security, depending on the assessment of the local security situation. Swaraj said in Lok Sabha that the additional security to Indian diplomats conflict zones was...
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At her last concert on March 26, she bowed down to the artistes and to the audience and said, 'Main chahti hoon ki baar baar koi na koi is stage mein bulayein aur main gaati rahoon'. But that was not to be.Shobha Deepak Singh, whose association with the legendary Kishori Amonkar spanned 35...
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External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj speaks in Parliament on the attacks on Africans in India. Denouncing the statement made by African envoys that India was xenophobic and racist, Swaraj said not all attacks are racial. The Kenyan woman had lied. You cannot call all attacks racist, she said....
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In J&K: Unidentified gunmen barged into and ransacked the house of a former sarpanch in Shopian district last night. The gunmen fled after the family raised an alarm.
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A surefire Republic Day bravery award winner. A six-year-old girl at a remote village in Kendrapara district displayed exemplary courage to save her playful mate from the claws of death following attack by a furious estuarine crocodile. The survivor Basanti Dalai, a class I student of a...
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Whoever handles the Mumbai police Whatsapp handle is doing a stellar job. This is a tweet on not using your mobile phone while driving. @CPMumbaiPolice Like your life enough to save it with care #SafetyFirst.
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The Dalai Lama in Bomdila, Arunachal Pradesh doesn't mince words. Speaking to the media, the revered religious leader said he was a messenger of secularism and ancient Indian values. I talk as the messenger of ancient Indian value; I follow Buddha Dharma. I am the messenger of ancient Indian...
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Rajasthan state home minister Gulab Chand Kataria defends the gau rakshaks who lynched to death one, and injured four cattle transporters in Rajasthan's Alwar district. The problem is from both the sides. People know cow-trafficking is illegal but they do it. Gau Bhakts try to stops those who are...
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Update: 20 children among 72 dead in suspected Syria chemical attack.A suspected chemical attack yesterday, in rebel-held northwestern Syria killed civilians including children and left many more sick and gasping, causing widespread outrage.The attack on the town of Khan Sheikhun killed at least...
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Tamil Nadu farmers continue their protests demanding drought relief fund at Jantar Mantar in Delhi.
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A day after the Yogi Adityanath government waived off farmers loan up to Rs 1 lakh, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi through a series of tweets termed the move as 'partial relief' for UP farmers.The Amethi MP said, A partial relief for UP farmers, but a step in the right direction. @INCIndia...
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Reuters: Suicide bomber hits army vehicle in the Pakistani city of Lahore, four killed, 18 wounded.
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One man has died and four others severely injured after a mob of cow vigilantes or gau rakshaks brutally beat them up for transporting cows in Rajasthan's Alwar. Pehlu Khan, 55, a resident of Haryana, succumbed to his injuries on Monday night, two days after the attack on Saturday. Khan's...
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India is using the Dalai Lama as a diplomatic leverage to challenge China's bottom line, Chinese state media said today, threatening that New Delhi may have underestimated Beijing's determination to protect its core interests. The Chinese reaction to the Dalai Lama's visit to Tawang in Arunachal...
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The BSE Sensex breached 30,000-mark and the NSE Nifty hit a lifetime high of 9,264.95 in opening trade today on sustained buying by retail investors amid increased foreign fund inflows and positive Asian cues.However, the benchmark failed to sustain the 30,000 level and slipped into negative...
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After Rajasthan, the Bengal government has reclassified 277.3km of state highways as arterial roads in a perceived attempt to help liquor shops and bars bypass a Supreme Court ban on alcohol sales within 500 metres of national and state highways. Officials said these stretches, formerly part...
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Samajwadi Party leader Shivpal Singh Yadav will meet Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today in Lucknow. This comes after former UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav snubbed Shivpal and named Ram Govid Chowdhury the Leader of the Opposition in the state assembly. Shivpal and...
09:25
Just In: Pakistan violates ceasefire in Degwar sector of Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir.
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Nuclear-armed North Korea fired a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan on Wednesday morning, a new provocation by Pyongyang ahead of talks between United States president Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.South Korea's defence ministry said the missile had flown some 60...
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The Goods and Services Tax supplementary bills will be tabled in Rajya Sabha today after it was cleared in Lok Sabha on March 29.The bills that will be tabled in Rajya Sabha include Central GST, Integrated GST, UT GST and GST Compensation.Among the four bills passed in Lok Sabha, the Central GST...
