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Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya
The mahant of Hanumangarhi temple in Ayodhya on Monday announced a bounty of Rs 21 lakh to anyone who beheads Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya, who has been in headlines since his comments on Hindu epic Ramcharitmanas. The mahant, Raju Das, said that burning of pages from the...
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An aircraft, which took off from Gannavaram Airport near here with Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and others onboard on Monday, had to return and land at the aerodrome after the pilot noticed a technical snag in mid-air. An official release said Jagan was to go to the...
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From jowar vegetable upma to ragi dosa, bajre ki tikki to bajra khichdi -- these food items made of millets will now be part of the menu of Parliament House canteens. As the government is promoting the use of millets, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has made arrangements for serving the dishes...
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African swine fever was confirmed at two private farms in Uzhavoor panchayat near Kottayam in Kerala, district officials said on Monday. The administration has begun culling of 66 pigs in one kilometer locality. District collector PK Jayasree said pigs in the farms were culled and the...
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Due to a proposed visit of the delegates of the G20 nations in Agra, the Taj Mahal and Agra Fort may be closed for four or more hours on February 12, officials said on Monday. Arrangements are being made in full swing to welcome delegates for a G20 meet proposed to be organised in Agra in...
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The Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco in India on Monday said the honorary consulate in Bengaluru has become operational and started its services. It also announced the appointment of Dr Pratap Madhukar Kamath as the honorary consul of the Kingdom of Morocco to Karnataka. The opening...
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The Indian Air Force has kick-started a mega exercise covering the Northeastern region to check its combat readiness amid a fresh spike in tension with China along the Line of Actual Control in Arunachal Pradesh. The IAF's frontline fighter jets including the Rafale and Su-30MKI aircraft,...
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The Bombay high court on Monday directed a trust to deposit Rs 1 lakh as a pre-condition to hear its public interest litigation seeking that signboards and banners with Devanagari text on par with the English language be put up at the city airport. The petition filed by the 'Gujarati Vichar...
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Hundreds of people on Monday joined education reformist Sonam Wangchuk on the final day of his five-day hunger strike here in support of the demand for various safeguards for Ladakh, including extension of the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution to the Union territory. Prominent among those...
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With a child marriage being reported from the district, the Child Welfare Committee in Idukki on Monday directed the police to rescue the minor girl and produce her before it. Idukki CWC chairperson Jayaseelan Paul said that Munnar Childline received a complaint last week that a child...
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Assistant sub-inspector Gopal Krishna Das, who allegedly killed Odisha health minister Naba Das on Sunday, has been dismissed from service on Monday, said Rahul Jain, superintendent of police Jharsuguda. The accused is under the police custody now and will be forwarded to the court for...
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With a new chapter on demonetisation and important events of the years that followed, the third edition of historian Ramachandra Guha's seminal work India After Gandhi released on Monday, said publishing house Pan Macmillan India. The book, first released in 2007, is touted to be a...
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Mughal Garden in Delhi University's North Campus has been renamed as 'Gautam Buddha Centenary' Garden, an official said on Monday. The garden does not have a Mughal design, was the rationale given by the university behind the rechristening, which was done on January 27. The Rashtrapati...
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Chinese smart device maker Xiaomi's global vice president and former head of its Indian arm Manu Kumar Jain announced his resignation on Monday after about nine years stint at the company. The development comes amidst the ongoing legal tussle between Enforcement Directorate and Xiaomi over...
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Indian women's cricket team captain Harmanpreet Kaur has been roped in by sports brand PUMA India as its latest brand ambassador. As part of the partnership terms, Harmanpreet will endorse the brand's footwear, apparel and accessories through multiple activities and campaigns throughout the...
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A court in Gujarat's Gandhinagar on Monday convicted self-styled godman Asaram Bapu in a woman disciple rape case registered against him in 2013. Sessions court judge DK Soni reserved its order on the quantum of sentence for Tuesday (January 31). The court acquitted six other accused,...
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Supreme Court judge Justice Surya Kant on Monday recused himself from hearing an appeal filed by the Punjab government against the high court order granting bail to former minister and Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia in a drug case. As soon as a bench of Justices Surya Kant...
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Amid allegations of unauthorized occupation against Nobel laureate Amartya Sen by Visva-Bharati, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday handed over land-related documents to him, asserting that no one can question him in future. Banerjee, who reached Bolpur in second half of...
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Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday hit out at those moving the Supreme Court challenging the Centre's decision to block a BBC documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots, saying this is how they waste precious time of the top court. Responding on Twitter to news reports that veteran journalist N...
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On Monday the 30-share Sensex recovered 169.51 points or 0.29 per cent to settle at 59,500.41. During the day, it rose by 313.34 points or 0.52 per cent to 59,644.24. The broader NSE Nifty gained 44.60 points or 0.25 per cent to end at 17,648.95...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will leave for a three-day tour of Birbhum, Malda and Purba Bardhaman districts on Monday to review the administrative works there, an official said. She will also speak to Trinamool Congress workers during her tour, he said. Banerjee will...
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A day after daring Union Home Minister Amit Shah to walk from Jammu to Srinagar's Lal Chowk, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday claimed that no Bharatiya Janata Party leader can take a walk on the streets of Kashmir not because the people would not allow them to do so, but because they are...
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A flight carrying Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis returned to Mumbai on Monday after it encountered bad weather, an official from the CM's office said.Shinde and Fadnavis were headed to Jamner in Jalgaon district to attend an event.The flight took off from...
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Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi
The government on Monday said that matters regarding Chinese intrusions can't be discussed in Parliament as it concerns the security of the country. According to the sources, in the all-party meeting held on Monday, the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party raised the issue of Chinese intrusions...
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A day after the death of Odisha's health minister Naba Kishore Das, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday allocated his portfolio to cabinet member Niranjan Pujari.With the approval of Governor Prof Ganeshi Lal, the CM asked Finance and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Niranjan Pujari to...
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A powerful suicide blast ripped through a mosque during afternoon prayers on Monday in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar, killing 17 people and wounding 95 others, mostly policemen, security and health officials said. The blast occurred near the Police Lines area around 1.40 pm when a...
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Innovator Sonam Wangchuk, whose life inspired a character in Bollywood blockbuster 3 Idiots, has claimed that he has been placed under house arrest at his institute in Leh, a charge denied by the police which said he was only prevented from observing a five-day-long fast at Khardung La...
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A fire broke out in a flat in a 19-storey residential building in Mumbai on Monday, a fire official said. There was no report of any casualty, he said. The fire brigade received a call at around 12.30 pm about the blaze in a flat on the seventh floor of Om Shiv Shakti housing...
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Amul pays tribute to tennis icon Sania Mirza in its inimitable way.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday narrated a story of four children he met during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, and said that they were beggars who did not wear sweaters and were shivering in the winter, which inspired him not to wear a sweater during the yatra. Gandhi's remarks came while...
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An all-party meeting called by the government ahead of the Budget session of Parliament commenced on Monday morning. Deputy Leader of the House, Rajnath Singh, Parliament Affairs minister, Pralhad Joshi, Leader of the House, Piyush Goyal, MoS, Parliamentary Affairs, Arjuna, Ram Meghwal, and...
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Shankar Mishra
A Delhi court on Monday reserved for January 31 its order on the bail application of Shankar Mishra, accused of urinating on a woman on board an Air India flight New York to New Delhi. The police have opposed the bail application, saying India has been defamed internationally because of the...
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday ruled out the possibility of a realignment with the BJP, asserting that he will rather die than join hands with his former ally. The Janata Dal-Uunited leader also reminded the saffron party that while in alliance it used to get votes of all his...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday hoisted the national flag at the 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' camp site in Srinagar and followed it with a fun snowball fight with his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.Donning a white T-shirt and a sleeveless jacket, the former Congress chief hoisted the flag at the camp...
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The wife of Gopal Das, the assistant sub-inpsector who shot Odisha Health Minister Naba Das, said that her husband suffered from mental disorder for the last eight years.She also said that her husband was on medication and was doing fine.The ASI's wife made the claims while speaking to the media...
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The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear pleas challenging the Centre's decision to block a BBC documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots. A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala took note of the submissions of lawyer M L Sharma and senior...
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Naba Kishore Das
The Odisha government said state honour would be accorded to Naba Kishore Das, the health and family welfare minister who died in hospital hours after being shot by a policeman.A government release said on Sunday evening there will be no official entertainment for three days from January 29-31...
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Shares of Adani group companies witnessed mixed trends in early trade on Monday, with flagship Adani Enterprises surging 10 per cent even as most of the group firms fell, a day after it released a 413-page response to allegations of wrongdoing brought by a United States-based short seller...
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A full emergency was declared briefly at the Cochin International Airport here Sunday evening as an Air India Express flight from Sharjah experienced suspected hydraulic failure during landing, a CIAL spokesperson said.All 183 passengers and six crew members onboard flight IX 412 were safe, an...
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Hindenburg Research has hit back at Adani group, saying 'fraud cannot be obfuscated by nationalism or bloated response that ignores every key allegation'.Hindenburg's statement comes in response to Gautam Adani's group likenening the damning allegations made by the short-seller to a 'calculated...
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Chandrakant Patil
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Chitra Wagh has compared Maharashtra cabinet minister and her senior party colleague Chandrakant Patil with social reformer Mahatma Jyotiba Phule.Wagh, who heads the state BJP women's wing, made the comments on Sunday at a programme organised in Pune...
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Gautam Adani's group on Sunday likened the damning allegations made by short seller Hindenburg Research to a 'calculated attack' on India, its institutions and growth story, saying the allegations are 'nothing but a lie'. In a 413-page response, Adani Group said the report was driven by 'an...
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