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Weeks after its procession came under attack and was stopped in Haryana's Nuh, the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Saturday said a shobha yatra would be taken out in the area on August 28 and asserted there was no need to obtain permission from the administration for such religious events.  The...
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Referring to the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) moon mission Chandrayaan-3, Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra on Saturday targetted the Bharatiya Janata Party and said that the saffron party will use the missions of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) as a tool for its...
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ISRO on Saturday said two of the three Chandrayaan-3 mission objectives have been achieved while the third -- in-situ scientific experiments -- is underway.The national space agency headquartered in Bengaluru also said all the payloads of Chandrayaan-3 mission are performing...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday claimed the previous MVA government had planned a calculated move to level false charges on BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis and jail him among others.Shinde was replying to a query of reporters on a Mumbai court accepting the CBI's closure report...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday urged the people of Delhi to help make the upcoming G20 Summit a success despite the inconvenience they might have to face due to the presence of several world leaders in New Delhi next month. The summit will be held in the national capital from...
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The Southern Railway on Saturday announced that a statutory inquiry will be held on August 27 regarding the fire in a railway coach in Madurai, which left nine people dead.A M Chowdhary, Commissioner of Railway Safety, Southern Circle, Bengaluru, will hold the inquiry on Sunday at the DRM's...
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Pakistan has tried to downplay the snub from the BRICS, saying it has not yet made a formal request to join it after the bloc ignored Islamabad when it announced its major expansion in years.On August 24, The leaders of the BRICS nations decided to admit Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi...
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Veteran screenwriter Javed Akhtar, actors Renuka Shahane and Prakash Raj have called for strict action against a teacher in Uttar Pradesh who allegedly asked her students to slap a boy from a minority community. A video showing the school teacher in Muzaffarnagar asking her students to slap the...
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India is the future, British energy major BP chief executive Bernard Looney said on Saturday as he lauded the country for becoming the first to land a spacecraft near the moon's south pole.  Speaking with reporters on the sidelines of B20 Summit India organised by CII, Looney said India is...
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Congress leader Sonia Gandhi on Saturday reached Srinagar on a personal visit even as her son Rahul Gandhi arrived in Srinagar from his week-long Ladakh tour the previous day. Upon her arrival at the airport on Sunday afternoon, Sonia was welcomed by senior leaders of her party, including...
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday alleged that the thrashing of a child in a school in Uttar Pradesh was the result of the Bharatiya Janata Party's hate-filled politics.    He said such incidents tarnish the country's image and call for strict punishment to the guilty so that...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the excitement generated by the success of Chandrayaan-3 has to be channelised to power scientific temper among youngsters to realise the dream of a developed India by 2047. Addressing a function organised at the airport here by the BJP to celebrate...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday demanded the resignation of Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot over a red diary which, he alleged, contained details of corruption and black deeds of the state government.  Addressing a Sahakar Kisan Sammelan in Gangapur City in the poll-bound...
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Muzaffarnagar Police on Saturday booked the teacher accused of making communal comments and ordering her students to slap a Muslim classmate for not doing his homework.  The action came a day after a video showing a teacher asking her students to slap a Class 2 boy at a school in Khubbapur...
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Veteran lyricist Dev Kohli, known for his work in films such as “Baazigar” and “Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!”, died here on Saturday morning due to age-related ailments, his spokesperson said. He was 81. Kohli was being treated for age-related issues at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani hospital and...
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A Delhi court has allowed Congress leader Karti Chidambaram, an accused in the alleged Aircel-Maxis and INX Media scams, to travel to France and the UK from September 15 to 27. Special Judge MK Nagpal granted the relief to Chidambaram in four cases related to the alleged scams. The cases are...
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Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday once again denied a split in his party, and said while it is true that some MLAs have left, legislators alone do not mean an entire political party.Talking to reporters in Kolhapur, Pawar asserted that he is the national president of...
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After the successful moon lander venture, ISRO is now gearing up for the launch of a solar mission in a week's time, likely on September 2, to study the Sun.       Aditya-L1 spacecraft is designed for providing remote observations of the solar corona and in situ observations of the...
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An alleged Pakistan spy, who is a resident of Bihar, was arrested from Kolkata and sensitive documents were seized from his possession, a senior police officer said on Saturday. Acting on a tip-off, Kolkata Police personnel nabbed the man from his residence in Howrah on Friday. He was found...
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The Haryana government on Saturday ordered suspension of mobile internet and the bulk SMS services in the communally charged Nuh till August 28 in view of the call for a 'Shobha Yatra'.    The government announced the decision apprehending spread of rumours through social media by...
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Pakistan, in a belated response, has termed the success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission as a great scientific achievement for which ISRO scientists deserved appreciation while the country's leading dailies heaped praises on India for achieving the feat on a lesser budget than rich nations. Foreign...
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Samajwadi Party on Saturday alleged that it was the 'politics of hate' of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh which had brought the country to such a pass where a teacher could ask her students to slap a boy from a minority community over his religion.The party's...
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Indian Space Research Organisation on Saturday tweeted its thanks to Prime Minister Narendra Modi who on Saturday morning visited the space agency's command centre in Bengaluru.Modi congratulated ISRO scientists who were involved in the Chandrayaan-3 project that culminated in the historic lunar...
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Security forces on Saturday launched a search operation in a forested area after detecting suspicious movement near the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, officials said.The search operation by the army and police was launched in Chamrer and Gangna Top in the Buflaiz...
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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday expanded his cabinet by inducting three Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs as ministers just months ahead of the state assembly polls to be held by the end of the year.With this, there are now 34 members in the Chouhan-led cabinet.State...
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At least 10 persons died in a fire that broke out inside a stationary train compartment in Madurai railway station in the wee hours of Saturday, with the Southern Railway saying an 'illegal gas cylinder' led to the blaze.The passengers of the 'private party coach' had arrived from Lucknow in...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi at ISRO headquarters in Bengaluru:Â - India will celebrate August 23 as 'National Space Day' to mark successful touch down of Chandrayaan-3 mission's lander.- You took 'Make in India' to the moon, he said in his address to the scientists.- You have awakened an entire...
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JUST IN: The spot where Chandrayaan-3's lander 'Vikram' landed, that point will be known as 'Shivshakti', announces Prime Minister Narendra Modi.He also announced that the place where Chandrayaan-2 left its footprint on the lunar surface in 2019 will be known as 'Tiranga Point'.Modi was accorded...
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A man was on Friday sentenced to 20 years in jail for raping a 6-year-old girl in Dhamtari district in Chhattisgarh, the judgement of the fast track court coming within 27 days of the offence being committed, a police official said. Kishore Sarathi (32) was convicted by the fast track special...
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A 29-year-old Indian-origin man has been arrested in the US state of California for allegedly shooting and killing a woman in a parking garage, a media report said on Friday. Simranjit Singh shot and killed the 34-year-old woman he was dating in a parking garage at a mall in Roseville,...
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The Bihar government directed its departments and the district administrations to become more proactive on social media, and increase the number of followers of their accounts, officials said on Friday. The Information and Public Relations Department has also decided to pull up several district...
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Chief Justice of the Allahabad high court Pritinker Diwakar will hear the Kashi Vishwanath-Gyanvapi Mosque dispute on August 28 regarding maintainability of a suit filed before a Varanasi court. Earlier, another bench of Justice Prakash Padia had reserved its verdict in the case and fixed August...
