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The West Bengal government has formed a five-member committee to look into the desecration of the bust of Vidyasagar during a Bharatiya Janata Party rally in Kolkata earlier this month, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Monday.The panel will be headed by newly-appointed Home Secretary Alapan...
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Describing May 23, when the Bharatiya Janata Party rode back to power with a massive mandate, as a 'historic' day, Yoga guru Ramdev Monday said it should be celebrated either as 'Modi Diwas or public welfare day'.The BJP won 303 of the 542 Lok Sabha seats that went to polls this time while the...
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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Monday asserted there is no threat to his five- month-old Congress government and expressed readiness to take the floor test to prove his majority in the assembly.Nath's statement came in the backdrop of Leader of Opposition Gopal Bhargava of the...
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pema Khandu will take oath as the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh on May 29.'Pema Khandu will be sworn in as the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh on May 29. Extend my gratitude to BJP MLAs for electing Khandu as the BJP legislature party leader,' BJP leader...
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Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba may be appointed as next Cabinet Secretary, replacing P K Sinha, whose four year tenure comes to an end on June 12, officials said on Monday.Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir, B V R Subrahmanyam, a 1987 batch IAS officer of Chhattisgarh cadre, seems to be the...
20:26
With the dissolution of the 16th Lok Sabha, the contentious Citizenship (amendment) Bill and the one on banning triple talaq have lapsed as they were not passed by Rajya Sabha.The two bils could not be passed by Rajya Sabha in the Budget session, the last Parliament session of the outgoing...
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Air Chief Marshal B S Dhanoa on Monday flew the 'missing man' formation in a MiG-21 aircraft to pay tributes to Squadran Leader Ajay Ahuja and other fallen heroes of the Kargil war.He was accompanied by Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) Western Air Command Air Marshal R Nambiar in the...
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UPDATE: The President of the Kyrgyz Republic, who is the current Chair of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, and the Prime Minister of Mauritius, who was the Chief Guest at this year's Pravasi Bhartiya Divas, have also been invited to PM Modi's swearing-in ceremony, the ministry of external...
19:08
JUST IN: Leaders of the BIMSTEC nations will attend swearing in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 30.BIMSTEC, or Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation, is a group of seven nations including India.Other members are Bangladesh, Bhutan....
18:30
A case has been registered against the editor of a Kannada daily and its editorial staff for publishing a report about trouble within JD-S chief and former prime minister H D Deve Gowda's family after the Lok Sabha election drubbing. According to the complaint filed by Janata...
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Air Chief Marshal B S Dhanoa on Monday flew the 'missing man' formation in a MiG-21 aircraft to pay tributes to Squadran Leader Ajay Ahuja and other fallen heroes of the Kargil war. He was accompanied by Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) Western Air Command Air Marshal R Nambiar in...
17:42
A police officer and two others were injured in a powerful blast claimed by the Islamic State in Bangladesh's capital.The explosives that lead to the blast in a police pick-up van in Dhaka's Malibagh on Sunday night might have been planted, Dhaka metropolitan P\police commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia...
17:37
Buoyed by the Bharatiya Janata Party's massive victory in the Lok Sabha elections, Rahstriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday hinted at stepping up efforts for construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya, saying 'Ram's work has to be done'.We have to do Ram's work and we will get it...
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After the debacle in the Lok Sabha polls and calls for accountability, the Congress on Monday urged everyone to respect the sanctity of its working committee meeting, while asking the media not to fall into the trap of 'conjectures, insinuations, gossip and rumour mongering'.Referring to the May...
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Former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah on Monday asserted that the JD-S-Congress government was a 'strong' one and ridiculed state BJP president B S Yeddyurappa for repeatedly claiming that the coalition will collapse. In a series of tweets, he also said the people's mandate was...
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Amid reports that Rahul Gandhi was insisting on his resignation, the Congress on Monday said that speculating and rumour mongering on the proceedings of the Congress Working Committee meet held on May 25 was uncalled for and unwarranted.The Congress party expects everyone including the media to...
15:25
Naveen Patnaik invites Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his swearing in ceremony on May 29.
15:14
Makkal Needhi Maiam president and veteran actor Kamal Haasan has been invited for the swearing in ceremony of PM Narendra Modi on May 30. Interestingly, superstar Rajinikanth has also been invited for the event. In the past, Haasan has been critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and...
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Former Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar skipped a meeting with the CBI officials on Monday despite being summoned by the agency for questioning in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam, officials said. Kumar, however, sent a letter to the Central Bureau of Investigation,...
14:45
Ajay Devgn's father Veeru Devgan, a popular stunt and action choreographer of Hindi film industry, passed away today. He was admitted to Surya Hospital, Santacruz, Mumbai. According to sources, his funeral will be held this evening.Veeru Devgan rarely attended events and parties. The action...
14:26
Rahul Gandhi has categorically told the Congress that they would have to find a new chief as he was not changing his mind about stepping down, sources said. The Congress chief, who informed the party about his decision to quit following the party's decimation in the Lok Sabha polls,...
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On May 17, 2019, while addressing a rally at Khargone, Madhya Pradesh, Mr Narendra Modi said, From Kashmir to Kanyakumari, from Kutch to Kamrup, the whole nation is saying Ab ki baar, 300 paar, phir ek baar, Modi Sarkar. He got his psephology right, but geography wrong. The final tally...
13:54
Punjab Congress Chief Sunil Jakhar offers to resign from his post after he lost elections from Gurdaspur. Actor and BJP candidate Sunny Deol on May 23 won his electoral debut by defeating Congress heavyweight and sitting MP Sunil Jakhar from the Gurdaspur constituency.Deol defeated Punjab...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today thanked the voters of Varanasi, his parliamentary constituency, for reposing faith in him by addressing them at the Pundit Deen Dayal Hastakala Academy. Earlier in the day he had performed rituals at the famous Kashi Vishwanath temple along with BJP chief Amit...
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AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday hit out at yoga guru Baba Ramdev over his comments that the country is not ready to deal with its population explosion and for suggesting measures like limiting voting rights to two children only. There is no law preventing people from saying...
12:45
Jharkhand Congress chief Ajoy Kumar resigned from his post on Monday taking moral responsibility for partys poor performance in the Lok Sabha elections in the state, days after the PM Modi-led NDA swept to power bagging 352 of 542 seats.PCC chief has taken moral responsibility of the partys...
12:23
The Delhi High Court on Monday sought Robert Vadra's response on an Enforcement Directorate plea seeking cancellation of his anticipatory bail in a money-laundering case.Justice Chander Shekhar issued notice to Vadra on ED's petition challenging trial court's April 1 order, which granted him...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday offered prayers at Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi, his parliamentary constituency from where he was re-elected by around five lakh votes in the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls.Modi, who entered the temple with his hands folded, was accompanied by Uttar...
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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to grant protection from arrest to newly elected Bahujan Samaj Party MP from Ghosi Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh, Atul Rai, accused of raping a college student from Varanasi.A vacation bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Aniruddha Bose...
11:28
Gautam Gambhir, former cricketer and East Delhi MP-elect from the Bharatiya Janata Party, on Monday termed the attack on a Muslim man in Gurgaon deplorable and demanded exemplary action against the culprits.Mohammad Barkat Aalam, 25, has alleged that he was attacked on his way home on Saturday...
11:14
PM Narendra Modi likely to visit Maldives on June 7-8. It will be his first bilateral visit after assuming office for the second term.
11:08
BJP leader Smriti Irani attended the funeral of her aide, a former village head and party worker who was shot dead in Amethi, and said she will move the Supreme Court, if needed, to seek death sentence for the killers. Amethi - a bastion of the Gandhi family for decades - voted out Congress...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi offers prayers at the Kashi Vishwanath temple during his Varanasi visit.
10:59
Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached his parliamentary constituency Varanasi to thank the people for reposing faith in him. He was received at the airport by BJP chief Amit Shah and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath among others. A large number of security, paramilitary and...
10:26
Sikkim Krantikari Morcha president Prem Singh Tamang, popularly known as PS Golay, takes oath as the new chief minister of Sikkim.The 51-year-old Golay was administered the oath of office by Governor Ganga Prasad at a function at Paljor Stadium.The SKM supremo, accompanied by the 17 newly-elected...
10:08
Prime Minister Narendra Modi being greeted by UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Modi will be visiting Varanasi today to thank voters for his electoral triumph.
09:22
Taking a potshot at the shameful defeat of the Congress in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, the Shiv Sena on Monday said Congress president Rahul Gandhi's personality does not attract people.The Congress party faced a more shameful defeat than 2014 this time, Shiv Sena said in its...
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A 25-year-old Muslim man was allegedly assaulted in Gurugram by four unidentified youths for wearing a traditional skull cap, an official said Sunday. The victim was identified as Mohamad Barker Alam, a Bihar native, living in the Jakob Pura area of Gurugram.In a complaint to the...
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The city of Varanasi is all decked up, ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to his constituency on Monday.The preparations for his welcome have been completed and the area has been decked up with BJP flags, ribbons and wall paintings of Buddha and other spiritual idols. Cleaning and...
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The first session of the 17th Lok Sabha may start from June 6 and last till June 15, sources said Sunday. The dates of the first Parliament session are expected to be finalised during the first meeting of the new Cabinet on May 31, a day after Narendra Modi takes oath as the Prime...
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