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Newly-elected Aam Aadmi Party MLA Bhupat Bhayani on Sunday denied speculation he would join the BJP in Gujarat but said he was proud of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Bhayani won from the Visavadar constituency in the recently-held assembly polls by beating BJP's Harshad Ribadiya. The...
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Maharashtra minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Chandrakant Patil on Sunday said ink was thrown on him as part of a planned attack and claimed his statement on social reformers Babasaheb Ambedkar and Mahatma Phule was distorted by some people. The ink-throwing incident occurred at...
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As the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra is scheduled to reach Jammu and Kashmir next month, a senior police officer on Sunday reviewed the overall security situation in Kathua the gateway district to the Union Territory bordering Punjab -- an official said. Senior Superintendent of Police...
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The Congress will bring back the old pension scheme if elected to power in Madhya Pradesh in assembly polls scheduled for next year, state unit chief Kamal Nath said on Sunday. The old pension scheme was replaced with a new mechanism by the Union government in 2004, and MP too opted for the...
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A total of 151, or 83 per cent, of the 182 MLAs elected in the recent assembly polls in Gujarat are 'crorepatis' (worth over Rs 1 crore), up from 141 in the 2017 polls, as per a study conducted by the Association for Democratic Reforms and Gujarat Election Watch. The study showed the ruling...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated the first phase of the greenfield international airport at Mopa in North Goa. He said the airport would be named Manohar International Airport after former Goa chief minister (late) Manohar Parrikar, a BJP stalwart. He targeted the...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday congratulated Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu on taking oath as Himachal Pradesh chief minister and assured all possible cooperation from the Centre to further the development of the state. Sukhu, a four-time Congress MLA, was sworn in as the 15th chief minister...
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The Mumbai police arrested a 47-year-old man wanted in connection with a riot case of 1992, an official said on Sunday. Based on technical inputs, the police laid a trap and apprehended the accused from Dindoshi bus depot in the western suburb of Malad on Friday, the official said. The...
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Aimed at providing one touch service to Carnatic music lovers, a mobile application Ama Sarvamangala has been unveiled to access to a list of concerts held across the city, the company which developed the application said on Sunday. City-headquartered Ama Vedic Services promoted by VV...
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A tiger mauled a man to death and injured two others on Sunday, triggering a violent protest in which a veterinarian was injured and six government vehicles damaged at a village in Madhya Pradesh Seoni district, an official said. Veterinarian Akhilesh Mishra of Pench Tiger Reserve was rushed...
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Maoists triggered an improvised explosive device blast and started firing at security forces in Chhattisgarh's Narayan district on Sunday morning, officials said. However, no injury or casualty was reported in the incident which took place at 8 am, they said. ...
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The brother of the witness in the last year's Lakhimpur violence was allegedly attacked by a youth, the police said on Sunday. The incident that happened on Friday night had no connection with the 2021...
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader Bhupendra Patel will take oath as the chief minister of Gujarat for a second straight term in Gandhinagar on Monday in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other dignitaries, BJP leaders said on Sunday. Patel will be administered the oath as the 18th...
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Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation has issued 1,081 commercial pilot licenses in 2022, which is the highest for any year in the last one decade, according to official data. The record issuance of Commercial Pilot Licenses also comes at a time when the country's civil...
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Chief Justice of the Bombay high court Justice Dipankar Datta was on Sunday elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court. Once he takes oath, the number of judges in the top court will go up to 28....
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Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has granted sanction to prosecute the main accused in the 'Sulli Deals' case in which Muslim women were auctioned online. Aumkareshwar Thakur will be prosecuted under section 196 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which pertains to prosecution for offences...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur. Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Union ministers Nitin Gadkari and Raosaheb Danve were present on the...
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday accused the BJP of working against the Janata Dal-United in the 2020 assembly elections despite being in an alliance at that time. He reaffirmed that parties opposed to the BJP can win with a huge majority in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls if they agree...
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The Twitter Blue paid monthly subscription will be available starting next week, the social media platform has announced. In a Twitter thread, the company said a web subscription will cost $8 a month, while a subscription on iOS will cost $11 a month. The paid...
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Congress leader Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu, a four-time MLA, was on Sunday sworn in as the 15th chief minister of Himachal Pradesh in a ceremony attended by senior party figures including Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Sukhu, 58, was administered the oath of office and secrecy by...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid tribute to poet Subramania Bharathi on his birth anniversary on Sunday. I bow to the great Subramania Bharathi on his Jayanti. 'Mahakavi Bharathiar' embodied remarkable courage and outstanding intellect, PM Modi tweeted. He had a grand vision...
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Days after Municipal Corporation of Delhi poll defeat, Delhi BJP chief Adesh Gupta has resigned on Sunday. The top brass of the Bharatiya Janata Party has accepted the resignation of Delhi BJP president from the post. Virendra Sachdeva, presently Delhi BJP vice president has been...
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Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Sunday attributed the defeat of the Samajwadi Party in the recent Rampur bypoll to planned low voting, wondering whether there was a collusion between the SP and the BJP. The BJP for the first time won from SP leader Azam Khan's bastion Rampur, which he...
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Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and the party's general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra have arrived at Sanjauli helipad on Sunday to attend the oath-taking ceremony of Himachal Pradesh CM-designate Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu. We had promised that we will get back Congress in Himachal Pradesh, says...
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The Allahabad high court has stayed the transfer of Uttar Pradesh police constable Manoj Kumar who had protested against the alleged substandard food being served at the mess at Firozabad police line. The order was passed by Justice Pankaj Bhatia on a petition filed by Kumar who was...
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A team of Central Bureau of Investigation sleuths arrived at the residence of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's daughter and BRS MLC K Kavitha in Hyderabad on Sunday, to question her in connection with the 'Delhi excise policy scam'. The CBI had last week informed...
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The minimum temperature in Delhi settled at 8.8 degrees Celsius, while air quality was recorded in the very poor category. The air quality index was measured at 329, according to the Central Pollution...
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Russia has for the second month in a row remained India's top oil supplier in November, surpassing traditional sellers Iraq and Saudi Arabia, according to data from energy cargo tracker Vortexa. Russia, which made up for just 0.2 per cent of all oil imported by India in the year to March...
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Leader of Congress Legislature Party Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu will take oath as the Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister at the historic Ridge here at 1.30 pm Sunday. Congress leader Mukesh Agnihotri will take oath as the Deputy Chief Minister. Senior leaders including party chief...
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The Aam Aadmi Party has divided Delhi into 12 zones and given the responsibility of three zones each to four senior leaders, who will coordinate with councillors of their zones, hold meetings and visit their areas to understand the problems faced by locals. The 12 zones are Civil Lines,...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday flagged off the Vande Bharat Express train in Nagpur connecting Nagpur to Bilaspur. The flagging off ceremony took place at the Nagpur railway station. During the event, PM Modi...
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India recorded 173 new coronavirus infections, while the active cases further declined to 3,913, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday. The total tally of Covid cases stands at 4.46 crore (4,46,74,822).The death toll climbed to 5,30,658 with four fatalities with...
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Police broke the indefinite fast of YSR Telangana Party president, Y S Sharmila in protest against alleged denial of permission to continue her statewide 'padayatra' and shifted her to a hospital here in the small hours of Sunday, after her health deteriorated. Sharmila had launched...
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Senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid on Saturday said that winning or losing elections is not important, what is important is the unity of the country. On the defeat of his party in the just concluded Gujarat assembly elections, Khurshid said Congress' vote went to the Aam Aadmi...
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National Conference president Farooq Abdullah Saturday said the idea of all round development of the people of Jammu and Kashmir will remain elusive till their basic democratic rights are not guaranteed and respected. Abdullah in his message on International Human Rights Day said...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi resumed his Bharat Jodo Yatra from Baldevpura in Rajasthan's Bundi district on Sunday morning and will cover a distance of 13 km before leaving for Shimla to attend the oath-taking ceremony of his party government in Himachal Pradesh. Gandhi will...
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A ten-month-old girl died after she was flung from a cab on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway in Maharashtra's Palghar district while her mother was allegedly molested on Saturday morning. The woman too was pushed out of the vehicle and sustained serious injuries, said a police...
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