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Senior Congress leader from Madhya Pradesh Digvijaya Singh has broken his silence on Jyotiraditya Scindia's exit from the party. Reacting on his decision to rebel and join the rival BJP, Digvijaya Singh said that Jyotiraditya Scindia is like his son, My son has betrayed me.We had offered him...
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Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday said that he held talks with Jyotiraditya Scindia and told him that there was no need to leave the party.He said, I felt bad that he left Congress. Three days back I held talks with him and told him that there is no need to leave the party. He is...
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The new coronavirus outbreak can now be characterised as a pandemic, the head of the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday. COVID-19 can be characterised as a pandemic, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva.We have never before seen a pandemic sparked by a coronavirus.
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In a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus, India just announced that all existing visas, except diplomatic, official, UN/International Organisations, employment, project visas, stand suspended till April 15. The new directive comes into order from March 13 2020 at the port of departure.As of...
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The Civil Aviation Ministry has asked domestic airlines to consider providing flight cancellation option without any fee to customers who are seeking to cancel their journey plans amid coronavirus concerns, according to a DGCA official. All domestic airlines, including government-owned Air...
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On a day Jyotiraditya Scindia joined the BJP, Rajasthan Congress chief and Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot termed the development unfortunate, saying he wished things could have been fixed within the party collaboratively. Unfortunate to see @JM_Scindia parting ways with @INCIndia. I wish...
20:57
Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison Wednesday in a New York courtroom.Weinstein, 67, arrived to his sentencing hearing in a wheelchair and handcuffs. The former movie producer faced between five and 29 years for last month's convictions on first-degree criminal sexual act and...
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A 76-year-old man from the district headquarters town of Kalaburagi suspected to be infected with coronavirus died on Tuesday night, and the exact cause of his death is being ascertained, officials said. Karnataka Health Minister B Sriramulu on Wednesday said there is no confirmation that the...
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Two persons in Mumbai have tested positive for coronavirus, health officials said on Wednesday.With Mumbai recording its first cases, the number of persons in Maharashtra who have tested positive for coronavirus has gone up to seven, the officials said.-- PTI
19:29
Speaking on the Delhi violence, Home Minister Amit Shah said, Nobody will be spared those who are responsible for the riots. Two SIT team has been registered. Conspiracy case has been registered, 49 cases of Arms Act registered, more than a hundred arms recovered.Union Home Minister Amit Shah...
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After Jyotiraditya Scindia quit the Congress, around 10,000 of its office-bearers have resigned from the party in Madhya Pradesh and several more are likely to do so, a former leader of the grand old party claimed on Wednesday.The ruling Congress, however, refuted this claim and said the...
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After listening to all the MPs in Lok Sabha, Home Minister Amit Shah is now talking on the Delhi riots. He started off his speech by offering his condolences to the victims of the Delhi violence. I pay my tribute to all those who lost their lives in riots in Delhi and extend my condolences to...
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The Maharashtra cabinet has decided to allow upcoming Indian Premier League tournament matches in Mumbai without the audience to prevent spread of Coronavirus. The decision is part of the measures being taken to prevent the spread of the epidemic.On Tuesday, the state had confirmed its first five...
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The Lok Sabha is currently debating the Delhi violence. Asaduddin Owaisi, AIMIM MP in Lok Sabha, speaking on the issue said, To call it a communal riot will be a joke. It was a pogrom. This is not a question of Hindu or Muslim, this is about whether you (government) will rise up to your...
18:03
Mumbai court extends Yes Bank founder Rana Kapoor's ED custody till March 16.
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Shortly after joining the BJP in the presence of JP Nadda, Jyotiraditya Scindia has been named as the Rajya Sabha candidate from Madhya Pradesh.Ramdas Athawale has been nominated to Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra.The news comes after MP BJP chief Shivraj Singh Chouhan congratulated Jyotiraditya...
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Leh, the capital of the Union territory of Ladakh will be the venue for the main event for International Yoga Day on June 21 and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend it, AYUSH ministry officials said on Wednesday. Modi is expected to perform yoga asanas based on the Common Yoga Protocol. The...
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Madhya Pradesh: District Collectors of Guna, Gwalior, Neemuch, Vidisha and Harda have been transferred.
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Welcoming Jyotiraditya Scindia into the BJP, senior party leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday said he was the most popular Congress politician in Madhya Pradesh, which led the saffron outfit to coin a tagline targeting the erstwhile Gwalior royal in the 2018 state polls. In the run-up to...
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More reactions on Jyotiraditya Scindia joining the BJP: Yashodhara Scindia, his aunt says: Family was divided into two as there were two different political parties. It's natural that if you have political differences it seeps into family too. This step has made all small issues of differences to...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on reports that Jyotiraditya Scindia tried to reach out to Sonia Gandhi and him before leaving the party but wasn't given time. He is the only chap in Congress who could walk into my house anytime. He was with me in college, Rahul said in his first reaction on Scindia...
17:03
Siddaramaiah and other Congress leaders congratulate DK Shivakumar after he was appointed the Karnataka Congress President.
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Former Bajrang Dal president, Bharatiya Janata Party MP and MLA Jaibhan Singh Pawaiya has been the principal opponent of the Congress branch of the Scindia family for over 20 years in Madhya Pradesh.Pawaiya fought his first election against Madhavrao Scindia in 1998.He lost, but reduced...
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The Delhi High Court on Wednesday modified its earlier order on disposal of unidentified bodies recovered after recent incidents of violence in northeast Delhi and allowed the authorities to dispose of unidentified bodies after two weeks from the date of the publication of the names.Earlier, the...
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The country's largest lender State Bank of India on Wednesday announced a reduction in its marginal cost of funds-based lending rate by 10 to 15 basis points across all tenors.The one-year MCLR comes down to 7.75 per cent per annum from 7.85 per cent with effect from March 10. This is the 10th...
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Amid the ongoing political crisis in Madhya Pradesh, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Wednesday stated that BJP tried to form government in Maharashtra as well but it failed and added that no such operation will be successful here.BJP tried to form government in Maharashtra as well but it failed....
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Vasundhara Raje tweets a welcome to her nephew Jyotiraditya Scindia who was inducted to the BJP a short while ago.@VasundharaBJP said, If Rajmata Sahab was here today, she would be elated to see you put the #NationFirst. I admire your strength of character and courage. It's good to be on the...
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BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia addresses the party after his induction. I would like to thank JP Naddaji, PM Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah that they invited me to their family and gave me a place in it. There have been two life changing events for me - one, the day I lost my father and...
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Jyotiraditya Scindia joins the Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of BJP President JP Nadda. Nadda invokes Scindia's grandmother Vijayaraje Scindia, one of the founders of the Jan Sangh, the precursor of the BJP. The Scindia's are family for the BJP, Nadda said. He invited Scindia to speak...
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Change of plans. Jyotiraditya Scindia will be inducted by party president JP Nadda at the party headquarters. Amit Shah will not be present for the induction. A hint of where exactly the BJP sees Scindia in the scheme of things, perhaps? Scindia has reached the BJP HQ. Greeted by Jay Panda, the...
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Soon-to-be BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia leaves from his residence in Delhi for the BJP headquarters. Several senior leaders Amit Shah will be present for the induction. Scindia will be inducted by the party's president JP Nadda. Reports say that he will be the BJP's Rajya Sabha MP from Madhya...
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The suspension of seven Congress Lok Sabha MPs has been revoked by Speaker Om Birla on Wednesday.They had been suspended on charges of gross misconduct in the House. The seven Congress MPs include Gaurav Gogoi, TN Prathapan, Dean Kuriakose, R Unnithan, Manickam Tagore, Benny Behnan and Gurjeet...
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In Madhya Pradesh, pictures of Jyotiraditya Scindia share space with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah in posters in Bhind.
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After 14 days of quarantine, the 112 evacuees from Wuhan including 36 foreign nationals, can now leave the ITBP Quarantine Facility in Chhawla. The sampling is being done for their final test by doctors even as reports are awaited. The last two temporary hospitals in Wuhan, the epicentre of the...
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India seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar hinted that they might limit the usage of saliva to shine the white ball during the first ODI against South Africa here on Thursday as a precautionary measure in the wake of the deadly Novel Coronavirus outbreak. Bhuvneshwar, however, said a decision on this will be...
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Amid the political crisis in Madhya Pradesh, a plane carrying 95 MLAs left for Jaipur on Wednesday after the ruling party decided to shift its legislators in a bid to keep its flock together, party sources said. Those on board the special aircraft which took off from the Bhopal airport include 92...
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A 76-year-old man suspected to be infected with coronavirus died in Karnataka's Kalaburagi, District Health and Family Welfare department said on Wednesday. An official note of the department in the district headquarters town identified him as Mohammed Hussain Siddiqui, who died in a...
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Former Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia will join the BJP at 2 pm. Mapping the time is the astrological charts that most politicians follow ahead of a momentous venture like being sworn-in. Scindia was supposed to have joined the BJP at 12:30 pm, but Rahu Kalam or the inauspicious time as...
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The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, says there are 10 news cases of COVID-19 of which eight cases are from Kerala and 1 each from Rajasthan and Delhi. This brings the total number of coronavirus cases in India to 60. ACK Nair, director of Cochin International Airport...
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A plea has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking a direction to the central government not to allow the Board of Control for Cricket in India to conduct the Indian Premier League matches from March 29 till May 24 due to coronavirus outbreak.The petition was filed by advocate G Alex Benziger...
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Congress MP Nakul Nath (son of Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath) says MLAs who have gone to Karnataka will soon return to the Congress fold. I am very confident the government will survive, he said.
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Madhya Pradesh: Congress MLAs leave for Bhopal airport. They will be flying to Jaipur shortly.
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Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh arrives at Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath's residence in Bhopal. Amid the prevailing political uncertainty in Madhya Pradesh, several Congress MLAs reached chief minister Kamal Nath's residence for a meeting on Wednesday. Most of these leaders...
11:34
Rahul Gandhi hits out at PM Narendra Modi for attempting to destabilise the Congress government in Madhya Pradesh. @RahulGandhi tweets: Hey @PMOIndia , while you were busy destabilising an elected Congress Govt, you may have missed noticing the 35% crash in global oil prices. Could you please...
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Congress strategy meeting for Lok Sabha, chaired by Rahul Gandhi, is underway in Parliament. As he walked in to Parliament House, Gandhi, expectedly refused to answer question on Jyotiraditya Scindia quitting the party. The Gandhis have maintained a studied silence on the issue that could see...
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The Lok Sabha is scheduled to hold a short duration discussion on last month's communal violence in parts of Delhi in which at least 53 people were killed and more than 200 people sustained serious injuries.Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and BJP's Meenakshi Lekhi have given a notice for...
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Bhopal: Independent MLA Surendra Singh Shera arrives at Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath's residence. Madhya Pradesh Home Minister, Bala Bachchan said the Congress is in a safe and strong position. Everybody is in touch with the Chief Minister, everything will be alright soon. We will...
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Following the resignation of Jyotiraditya Scindia and 22 party MLAs a day earlier, Congress MLA Arjun Singh on Wednesday said that the Kamal Nath-led state government will survive and people will get to see it on March 16.Arjun Singh was one of the MLAs who arrived at chief minister Kamal Nath's...
10:18
Italy on Tuesday confirmed that 8,514 people have tested positive for the coronavirus and 631 have died since the epidemic first emerged in the country's northern region last month.In addition, a total of 1,004 patients have recovered, said Civil Protection Department Chief Angelo Borrelli, who...
10:09
Equity benchmark Sensex rallied over 300 points in opening session on Wednesday led by gains in Reliance Industries, ICICI Bank and HDFC amid mixed cues from global markets. After surging 308 points in highly volatile trade, the 30-share index was up 72.14 points, or 0.20 per cent, at...
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Over 600 challans were issued for drunken driving in the national capital on Holi, the Delhi Police said on Wednesday. A total of 647 challans were issued for drunken driving, 181 for triple riding, 1,192 for not wearing helmets and 156 for dangerous driving on Tuesday, they said. According to...
09:59
Alleging that the violence in Delhi was a pre-planned conspiracy, former Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar started a drive to raise funds for those affected by the clashes. Urging people to help the riot survivors, Sarkar raised questions on the role of the administration to tackle the...
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A day after Jyotiraditya Scindia quit Congress claiming that he had been sidelined in the party, the Madhya Pradesh Congress on Wednesday hit out at him by highlighting the key positions, including a berth in the Union council of ministers, he held during his 18 years of association with the...
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A Bharatiya Janata Party MLA who had met Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath last week amid speculation of switching over to the ruling Congress said on Tuesday he was very much with the saffron party.Maihar MLA Narayan Tripathi had met Nath on March 5, and he had also gone against the BJP...
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At a time when uncertainty looms large over the fate of Kamal Nath government in Madhya Pradesh, Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi has tasked party's central leaders for resolving the crisis and take charge of the situation in Bhopal.The resignation of senior leader Jyotiraditya Scindia and...
08:43
Amid the rising cases of coronavirus affliction globally, India on Tuesday barred entry of the nationals of three more countries -- France, Germany and Spain -- suspending the regular as well as e-Visas granted to them till date. All regular (sticker) Visas/e-Visas granted to nationals of...
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Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Wednesday said that Jyotiraditya Scindia, who quit the party yesterday, was not at all sidelined.Taking to Twitter, Singh said that nothing in the Gwalior Chambal division moved without his consent in the last 16 months.No question he was not at all...
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Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs from Madhya Pradesh, who arrived at Delhi airport in the wee hours of Wednesday, moved to ITC Grand Bharat in Gurugram.The development came following the political uncertainty in the state after the resignation of senior leader Jyotiraditya Scindia and 22 Congress...
