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Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha
Bihar's new ruling coalition, Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance), on Wednesday brought a no-confidence motion against assembly Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha who is a BJP MLA, a senior JD-U leader said. A notice signed by several legislators of the Grand Alliance was submitted to the assembly...
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Ektaa R Kapoor's Yeh Dil Mannge More is all set to be broadcast on Doordarshan this Independence Day. It is a show around the 'heroes behind the heroes'. The Balaji Telefilms show pays tribute to our brave warriors protecting borders and their families that make personal sacrifices all...
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Sri Lanka has allowed Pakistan's Chinese-built frigate warship PNS Taimur to make a port call in Colombo while on its way to join the Pakistan Navy in Colombo on August 15 after the Bangladesh government denied it permission to dock at Chattogram port. The docking of the Chinese-made...
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Piyush Goyal, a 1994 batch IAS officer of Nagaland cadre, has been appointed as the new NATGRID CEO by the Union government as it issued an order on Wednesday for posting 26 other officers to the rank of additional secretary. Goyal is currently serving as an additional secretary in the...
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Alia Bhatt-starrer Darlings is set to be remade in Tamil and Telugu language, producer Red Chillies Entertainment announced on Wednesday The dark-comedy, directed by debutante Jasmeet K Reen, is receiving rave reviews from critics and audiences since its release on Netflix on last...
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Sushil Kumar Modi
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday said the BJP should have let its senior leader Sushil Kumar Modi occupy the top post after the 2020 assembly polls instead of insisting that he run for another term in office. The JD-U leader, who snapped ties with the BJP on Tuesday and joined...
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In an act with potential to fill some of the breach between the two communities, Hindus rescued a tajiya from fire during a Muharram procession which was being carried out barely a few metres from Kanhaiya Lal's shop in Udaipur. Lal, a tailor, was brutally murdered in a hate crime over a...
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Veteran actor Mukesh Khanna on Wednesday found himself at the centre of a row for his remarks comparing women who ask for sex to sex workers. Best known for playing Bhishma Pitamah in BR Chopra's Mahabharat and superhero Shaktimaan, Khanna said a girl belonging to a civilised society would...
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The Communist Party of India Marxist Leninist-Liberation on Wednesday said it is seeking a common minimum programme from the new Bihar government while promising outside support to it. The party which has a dozen MLAs in Bihar assembly and was a key player in the drama surrounding Nitish...
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Mumbai on Wednesday reported 852 COVID-19 cases, the highest daily rise after July 1, and a single fatality, taking the tally to 11,29,285 and the toll to 19,661, the city civic body said. On July 1, the metropolis reported 978 cases and two fatalities, before the daily number of cases...
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A child born out of rape has helped his mother get justice, 28 years after the crime. The police put one of the alleged rapists behind bars last week and the other on Wednesday. The police said a DNA reported nailed the criminals -- two brothers who had fled to Hyderabad once the...
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Comedian Raju Srivastava, who suffered a heart attack on Wednesday, underwent angioplasty at Delhi's All India Institutes of Medical Sciences. A source informed ANI that Raju is responding to the treatment. Reportedly, he was running on the treadmill when he complained of chest...
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Three persons have been arrested from Nalanda in Bihar for threatening to blow up the Birsa Munda airport in Ranchi, the police said on Wednesday. The accused were identified as Nirman Kumar alias Maruti, 24, Pappu Kumar alias Kudi, 23, and Radhe Kumar,29. The police recovered the SIM...
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Aam Aadmi Party convener and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday promised that if voted to power in Gujarat, his party will give a monthly allowance of Rs 1,000 to all women above the age of 18 years if they are willing to accept such a grant. This was the fifth guarantee Kejriwal...
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal-United on Wednesday asserted that it was not scared of ED and CBI following its break-up with the Bharatiya Janata Party, which rules the Centre and is often accused by the opposition of misusing investigating agencies. JD-U national president...
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China on Wednesday announced that it has successfully completed its high-voltage 10-day-long military drills around Taiwan in protest against the visit of United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taipei. The People's Liberation Army's Eastern Theatre Command said the joint military...
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Chief Justice of India N V Ramana Wednesday congratulated Justice Uday Umesh Lalit on being appointed his successor and 49th head of the Indian judiciary with effect from August 27. CJI Ramana, who took oath as 48th head of the judiciary on April 24 last year, would be demitting...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday lashed out at the Congress for wearing black dresses on August 5 in protest against price rise, saying those who believe in black magic will never be able to win the trust of people again. Dedicating the second-generation ethanol plant worth...
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Limits imposed on domestic airfares will be removed from August 31, after a span of approximately 27 months, the Union Aviation Ministry said on Wednesday. The decision to remove air fare caps has been taken after careful analysis of daily demand and prices of air turbine fuel (ATF)....
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Justice Uday Umesh Lalit was on Wednesday appointed as the 49th Chief Justice of India after President Droupadi Murmu signed his warrant of appointment. He will assume charge on August 27 after incumbent N V Ramana demits office the day before. In exercise of the powers conferred by...
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Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushil Kumar Modi on Wednesday alleged that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar wanted to become the vice president and he dumped the BJP after the party failed to accommodate his ambitions. The former deputy CM's charge was rebutted by Rajiv Ranjan Singh...
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BJP leader Sunil Bansal was on Wednesday appointed the party's national general secretary and will be in-charge for West Bengal, Odisha and Telangana. Bansal was general secretary (organisation) in Uttar Pradesh. He will be replaced by Dharampal in this position, a party statement...
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The Congress in Bihar feels BJP's downfall in the state was just comeuppance for its attempts to oust the grand old party from national politics and engineering defections in Maharashtra. Lashing out at the saffron camp, Bihar Congress in-charge Bhakta Charan Das on Wednesday quipped that...
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Moments after Nitish Kumar was sworn in as Bihar Chief Minister on Wednesday after parting ways with the Bharatiya Janata Party and joining the Grand Alliance to form government in the state, he called for a united Opposition ahead of the General elections scheduled to be held in 2024.Those who...
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Popular comedian-actor Raju Srivastava on Wednesday was rushed to the AIIMS following a heart attack, said hospital sources.The 58-year-old stand-up comedian was brought to the AIIMS emergency at around 10:45 am.Srivastava had to be resuscitated twice and was rushed to catheterisation lab for...
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Wednesday took a dig at Lalu Prasad Yadav referring to the Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo's old remarks in which he had described Nitish Kumar as a 'snake' and said that now the same snake has entered Yadav's house. When Nitish Kumar...
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who was on Wednesday sworn in for the eighth time, asserted that the NDA government at the Centre led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi needs to worry about its prospects in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Talking to reporters shortly after he was administered the...
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Poll strategist Prashant Kishor on Wednesday said Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was not comfortable in the alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party and that is why he moved from one political formation to the other. Kishor, once considered a close confidant of Kumar, said the impact of...
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Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav takes oath as Deputy CM of Bihar. -- ANI
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Nitish Kumar takes oath as Bihar CM for the eighth time, after he announced a new 'grand alliance' with Tejashwi Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal and other opposition parties. -- ANI
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Nitish Kumar arrives at Raj Bhawan for the oath-taking ceremony.
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Tejashwi Yadav arrives at Raj Bhawan, likely to be sworn in as Bihar Deputy CM.
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Before taking oath as the chief minister of Bihar on Wednesday, JD-U leader Nitish Kumar called up RJD supremo Lalu Prasad. Prasad welcomed Kumar's decision and conveyed his wishes to him, the RJD chief's daughter and MP Misa Bharti said. Prasad is recovering from an illness and stays...
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Nitish Kumar to take oath as Bihar CM at Raj Bhawan in Patna, shortly.This is not the oath-taking ceremony of just two persons, but of Bihar. History has taken a new turn today, Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Manoj Kumar Jha said. -- ANI
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Sushil Kumar Modi, the BJP member of the Rajya Sabha and former deputy chief minister of Bihar to Nitish Kumar, has denied the accusation that his party was seeking to break up the Janata Dal-United. In an interview to ANI Modi said, The BJP has never betrayed anyone. We made Nitish Kumar...
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Aamir Khan has time and again trended on Twitter for his past controversial remarks. Recently, netizens brutally trolled him on the micro-blogging site once again and went one step ahead by making the hashtag #BoycottLaalSinghChaddha go viral. With Aamir's film Laal Singh Chaddha releasing...
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President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday paid homage to former President V V Giri on his birth anniversary by offering floral tributes to Giri's portrait at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted regular bail to activist and poet Dr P Varavara Rao, an accused in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence case, on medical grounds.The Supreme Court also ordered that Rao shall not leave the jurisdiction of the concerned trial court without the permission of the...
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Elon Musk, the world's richest man, has sold 7.92 million shares of Tesla Inc worth around $6.88 billion, as per a series of regulatory filings by the company. According to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Elon Musk, CEO, Tesla Inc, sold around 7.92 million shares of the company...
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The government has approved Biological E's Corbevax as a precaution dose for those above 18 years fully vaccinated with either Covishield or Covaxin, official sources said on Wednesday.This is for the first time that a booster dose that is different from the one used for primary vaccination...
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Mumbai and its suburbs witnessed moderate rains in the last one day and the India Meteorological Department has Mumbai has predicted more moderate showers with strong wind over the next 24 hours.The local trains and bus services of the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) were...
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Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday stated that there should be no hesitation in breaking such a law 'even 10 times' which comes in the way of the welfare of the poor, adding that this is what Mahatma Gandhi said.Gadkari's remarks came at an event in Maharashtra University of Health Sciences...
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Three Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists, including Lateef Rather who was involved in the killing of Kashmiri Pandit government employee Rahul Bhat in May, are trapped in an ongoing encounter with security forces in Budgam, police said Wednesday morning.Security forces launched a cordon and search...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's visit to Rajasthan's Alwar was cancelled after he suffered illness, the sources confirmed on Wednesday.He was scheduled to attend the party's 'Netratv Sankalp Shivir' there. Meanwhile, the party's general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra informed via a tweet that she...
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Janata Dal-United leader Nitish Kumar will take oath as Bihar's chief minister again on Wednesday afternoon after having announced a new 'Grand Alliance' which includes Tejashwi Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal and other Opposition parties.Tejashwi Yadav will also take oath as the deputy chief...
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Residents of Chumur, the remotest hamlet on Sino-Indian border in south-eastern Ladakh, took out a tricolour rally as part of the Har Ghar Tiranga campaign on Tuesday. People chanted slogans of Bharat Mata Ki Jai during the rally, officials said. Chumur, located 300 kilometers from Leh,...
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Nine people were killed in a colllision between an autorickshaw and bus in the Mallarpur police station area of Birbhum district in West Bengal on Tuesday. Following the incident Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed pain and announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each for the family members...
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A new type of animal-derived Henipavirus has so far infected people in Shandong and Henan provinces of China, official media in Beijing reported on Tuesday. The new type of Henipavirus (also named Langya henipavirus, was found in throat swab samples from febrile patients in eastern China,...
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