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Farmers in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra on Saturday claimed that fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi, prime accused in the alleged Rs 11,400 crore Punjab National Bank fraud, had acquired their lands at less than prevailingrates.A group of over 200 farmers, who arrived in bullock carts at the...
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The AAP's central leadership has called the party's Punjab leaders, including MLAs, for a meeting with its national convener Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi tomorrow, after a majority of its MLAs in the state yesterday discussed the option of splitting and forming a separate unit.Kejriwal's apology to...
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India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru's statue with its face blackened, was found in Katwa town of West Bengal today, the police said.The Congress has blamed the BJP for the incident, but the saffron party denied any involvement in it.The statue at Telephone Maidan at Katwa town in East...
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Fire broke out at a four-storey army building in south Mumbai's Colaba area this evening, a civic official said.An official of the Disaster Management Cell of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said the fire started at around 7 pm.Four vehicles of the fire brigade were rushed to the spot, he...
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Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama arrived in Jammu today to attend the first convocation of Central University Jammu slated to be held tomorrow. Minister for Cooperatives and Ladakh Affairs Chering Dorjay along with Advisor to the Chief Minister Amitabh Mattoo accorded a warm welcome...
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Bharatiya Janata Party MP Subramanian Swamy has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, suggesting his government to use ordinance route for getting the disputed land in Ayodhya for the construction of the Ram temple, news agency ANI has reported.Swamy in his letter said that the...
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Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh today asked farm leaders getting into politics not to just raise issues related to the farming community but also help the government in implementing its programmes. We are all farmers. Many farmers are getting into politics. I urge those...
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The Central Reserve Police Force has transferred the Commandant of its 212th battalion whose nine personnel were recently killed in a Naxal triggered IED blast in Chhattisgarh.Prashant Dhar, the Commanding Officer, has been transferred to the North East sector late last evening, pending inquiry,...
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The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh today supported the demand for deportation of illegal migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh, saying their presence in Jammu and Kashmir posed a security threat to the country. We do not consider them (Rohingyas and Bangladeshis) as refugees as they are...
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A special CBI court has deferred till March 19 the judgement against former Bihar chief ministers Lalu Prasad and Jagannath Mishra in the fourth fodder scam case pertaining to alleged withdrawal of Rs 3.13 crore from the Dumka treasury over two decades ago, a lawyer said today. This is the...
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Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said that the Bharatiya Janata Party had taken lessons from its defeat in Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha bypolls and would work to ensure that such a result is not repeated. Ho gaya, aage nahin hoga. Humein pata chala ki aisa bhi ho sakta hain (It has happened, it...
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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today said the state assembly elections will see a secularism versus communalism contest and the Congress will emerge victorious.He also said the poll results will work as a stepping stone for the 2019 general elections.The chief minister was speaking at the...
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Sonia Gandhi gets a hug from son Rahul Gandhi after completing her speech.
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Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi addresses the 84th party plenary session in New Delhi. Here are the highlights. - First of all, I congratulate Rahul Gandhi, he took up this responsibility (of party president) at a very challenging time - The party's victory will be the...
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In an administrative reshuffle, the Uttar Pradesh government has transferred 37 IAS officers including the Gorakhpur district magistrate, a spokesperson said today.Among the Indian Administrative Service officers transferred, as many as 16 are district magistrates.The transfers were ordered late...
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Pakistan's High Commissioner to India Sohail Mahmood is unlikely to return to New Delhi any time soon, an official of the Pakistan foreign office, was quoted, as saying by the Express Tribune, on condition of anonymity.The daily further quoted the unnamed official of the foreign office, as saying...
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Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi soon to seek a special package to tide over financial crisis in the state. Deb will also meet Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley with the same proposal, Transport Minister Pranajit Singha Roy told reporters in...
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Security forces have launched a search operation in south Kashmir's Shopian district today after suspected terrorists attacked a senior police officer's cavalcade.The terrorists fired at the cavalcade of senior superintendent of police of Shopian A S Dinkar in Harmain area of the district, a...
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Congress president Rahul Gandhi's Twitter followers today woke up to a surprise.The Gandhi scion has changed his Twitter handle from '@OfficeofRG' to '@RahulGandhi'. Not only the name, the account is now carrying a dimpled Rahul Gandhi as a profile photo.Rahul's updated Twitter look...
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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has called for giving more autonomy to the northeastern people and not adopting a one-size-fits-all approach as different areas of the region have different problems. Speaking at the launch of Avalok Langer's book on the Northeast, 'In Pursuit of Conflict', at...
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Congress president Rahul Gandhi targeted the Bharatiya Janata Party in his first address to the party plenary today, saying the saffron party uses anger to divide the country.Pitching the Congress as the only alternative to the Narendra Modi government, Rahul said The nation is tired and looking...
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Seeking to halt the Bharatiya Janata Party's juggernaut led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Congress is set to roll out a road map for reversing its downward electoral journey and restoring its past glory ahead of the 2019 general election.The 84th plenary of the Congress, its president...
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Latching on to a media report claiming that an FIR was filed against Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad despite Central Bureau of Investigation's legal wing saying there was no proof, the Congress accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of engaging in political vendetta against its opponents to...
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More than 100 Left-affiliated organisations will hold marches in all state capitals on May 23 to protest the Centre's policies.The 'Jan Ekta Jan Adhikar Andolan', an umbrella organisation consisting of trade unions, peasant organisations, agricultural workers, state and central government...
09:25
Chinese President Xi Jinping has been 're-elected' for a second five-year tenure today by China's rubber stamp parliament, the National People's Congress, days after scrapping two-term rule for the President paving the way for his lifelong tenure.He has also been elected as the head of the...
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Trade is one aspect of India-United States relationship that has the most friction, a senior White House official has said even as he underlined that the Trump Administration is looking for a 'free, fair and reciprocal' trade with India.The comment from White House came after President Donald...
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A SpiceJet aircraft SG 1238, arriving from Hyderabad, veered off the runway at Bengaluru Airport on Friday.The incident happened late in the evening, damaging four runway lights.During the course of the runway's closure, at least 10 flights were diverted from the airport.'During...
