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Sanjay Raut
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena leader Abhijit Panse on Thursday met Shiv Sena-UBT MP Sanjay Raut, leading to speculation about a possible alliance between the estranged Thackeray cousins Raj and Uddhav amid the changed political situation in Maharashtra. Panse, however, said he met Raut, the...
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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee arrives at SSKM hospital for a knee surgery, in Kolkata/ANI
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who suffered a ligament injury on her left knee while alighting from a helicopter last week, on Thursday underwent a minor surgery as part of the rehabilitation programme. Banerjee underwent orthopedic intervention at the state-run SSKM Hospital in...
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The Punjab Pollution Control Board has refused its consent to operate for an ethanol plant at village Mansurwala in Zira in Ferozepur. In January, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann ordered the immediate closure of the plant after a month-long agitation against the unit by...
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Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has sanctioned Rs 1 crore for Bahanaga Bazar in Odisha's Balasore district, where a recent train disaster left 293 people dead, officials said. Vaishnaw approved the amount based on the interaction he had with the locals last month, they said. Out of a...
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India on Thursday said it promotes engagement with Taiwan in several areas including trade and investment and Taipei's decision to open an economic and cultural centre in Mumbai should be seen in that context. The comments by external affairs ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi came a...
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A labour court has directed Deutsche Lufthansa AG to reinstate 17 cabin crew members whose services were terminated during the coronavirus pandemic. The services of these people were terminated in February 2021 and they were members of the Lufthansa Cabin Crew Association. In an order...
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With the prices of tomato touching the sky, it has become so precious that about 20 kg of the fruit was allegedly stolen from a shop in Mahabubabad district, the police said on Thursday. Tomatoes are being sold at Rs 100 to Rs 120 per kg in the retail market depending on the city. The...
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Rahul Gandhi
The Gujarat high court will on Friday deliver its verdict on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's plea seeking a stay on his conviction in a criminal defamation case over his Modi surname remark.As per the causelist issued by the HC on Thursday, the court of Justice Hemant Prachchhak will deliver the...
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The initial public offer of jewellery retail player Senco Gold was subscribed a whopping 73.35 times on the last day of subscription on Thursday, driven by heavy demand from institutional buyers. The Rs 405 crore IPO received bids for 69,08,57,089 shares against 94,18,603 shares on offer,...
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Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar asserted that his effectiveness remains unchanged regardless of whether he is 82 or 92 years old. I am still effective, whether I am 82 or 92, said Sharad Pawar after the party's national executive meeting in Delhi while...
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At least 17 people, including a one-year-old child, were killed and ten hospitalised following a toxic gas leak during an illegal gold extraction operation at an abandoned mine in South Africa, authorities said on Thursday.The incident occurred on Wednesday evening near Boksburg city, east of...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with Sachin Pilot (left) during a meeting with Rajasthan party leaders./ANI
Congress leader Sachin Pilot on Thursday expressed happiness that the AICC has taken cognisance of the issues raised by him about welfare of youth and corruption under the previous Vasundhara Raje government in Rajasthan, and asserted the party will contest assembly polls unitedly to secure a...
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader Keshav Upadhye on Thursday said the induction of some Nationalist Congress Party ministers in the Mahararshtra government did not mean the saffron party had compromised or given a clean chit to them in probes being carried out by agencies. Ajit Pawar and eight...
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Tamil Nadu Raj Bhavan on Thursday contested the claims of the DMK government on the matter of according sanction to prosecute former ministers in the previous AIADMK regime. An official Raj Bhavan release said: With respect to B.V.Ramanaa @ B Venkat Ramanaa and Dr C Vijaya Bhaskar, the cases...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday met Sharad Pawar at the Nationalist Congress Party president's residence in an apparent show of support to the veteran leader amid a rebellion in his party. Soon after Pawar addressed the media following his party's working committee meeting, Gandhi...
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Congress on Thursday appointed Congress leader Kanhaiya Kumar as the incharge of the National Students Union of India. Hon'ble Congress president has appointed Shri Kanhaiya Kumar as AICC in-charge of National Students Union of India, with immediate effect, the release read. Earlier in...
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Sharad Pawar
I am the president of NCP, veteran Sharad Pawar asserted on Thursday after a meeting of the party's working committee which approved the decision to expel Praful Patel, Sunil Tatkare and nine others who joined hands with NDA recently. Briefing the media here, party leader PC Chacko said...
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India's Chandrayaan-3 launch is scheduled for July 14, 2023, at 2.35 pm IST from SDSC, Sriharikota, ISRO announced on Thursday. Details soon.
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A masked man carrying a bomb barged into a private bank in Sikar and looted Rs 24 lakh cash after threatening its staff, the police said on Thursday. The incident took place in Yes Bank located in Harsawa village of this Rajasthan district. The man had threatened to detonate the bomb if...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde with NCP leader Ajit Pawar
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Thursday said nobody in Shiv Sena is unhappy over Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar's inclusion in the state ministry. Shinde described as rumours spread by opposition' reports that his chief ministerial chair may be in jeopardy after...
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An Indian national has been arrested for allegedly murdering a fellow Indian at a restaurant here in Sri Lanka, the police said on Thursday. The accused, who is the manager of the restaurant at Galle Face in Colombo, attacked Ajay Kumar, who was employed at the same place as the head chef,...
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Former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray meets with former corporators from his faction. Uddhav Thackeray had invited these corporators to Matoshree.
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The Aurangzeb Lane in Lutyens' Delhi has been renamed as Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Lane. The rechristened lane connects the Abdul Kalam Road with Prithvi Raj Road in central Delhi. The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) workers unveiled a signboard bearing the name of India's 11th president in...
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BJP's Maharashtra unit chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Thursday said NCP founder Sharad Pawar should introspect about the recent developments in his party and look after his family as well as the outfit instead of criticising the BJP. It is Sharad Pawar himself and not the Bharatiya...
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Will Sachin Pilot get his way?
The Congress on Thursday said it can win the Rajasthan assembly elections provided there is complete unity as it warned of strict action against those not maintaining discipline and speaking outside the party forum. The party also said that it will decide its candidates for the polls...
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Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole
Sanjay Shirsat, MLA, in the Shiv Sena-Shinde faction says many Congress MLAs want to leave the party. I've heard that 16-17 MLAs wish to leave and that they are waiting to build a majority among themselves. They will take a decision soon, and Congress will also split, he says. Meanwhile,...
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A meeting of NCP leaders is underway at the residence of party president Sharad Pawar in Delhi. He has called the party's National Executive meeting in the national capital today. With the NCP witnessing the unravelling of the party, the Pawar family feud played out on stage on Wednesday as...
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Madras High Court declares 2019 election of expelled AIADMK member O P Ravindranath from Theni Lok Sabha constituency invalid.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday greeted the Dalai Lama on his 88th birthday. Modi tweeted, Spoke to His Holiness @DalaiLama and conveyed heartfelt greetings to him on his 88th birthday. Wishing him a long and healthy life. PTI
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Senior Maharashtra Congress leader Ashok Chavan on speculations of him extending support to BJP in the state: I was there in the (Congress) core committee meeting today and I don't know who is spreading rumours about me. I had some pre-scheduled meetings so I have left for those meetings, the...
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Artist's impression of the Gorakhpur railway station. Pic: ANI
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the ground-breaking ceremony for the redevelopment of Gorakhpur railway station on July 7. The station will be redeveloped at a whopping cost of around Rs 498 crore and will provide world-class passenger amenities.
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The inimitable Lalu Prasad Yadav gives his opinion on the PM candidate for the opposition. When asked about the PM face from the opposition and his earlier advice to Rahul Gandhi to get married, the RJD chief says, Whoever becomes the PM should not be without a wife. Staying at the PM...
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The Congress on Thursday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Centre's discontinuing the sale of foodgrains from its pool to state governments, calling it a revenge on Karnataka. The party said that the discontinuation was a political decision taken by...
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Nalini Sriharan, convicted in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and released from prison last year, on Thursday approached the Madras High Court seeking to direct authorities concerned to release her husband from a Special Camp in Tiruchirapalli, to enable him to live with her in...
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Twelve people were bound down for not standing up during the national anthem played at a function in Srinagar in June with Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha in attendance, police said on Thursday. Departmental action has also been initiated against the police...
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The first IIT campus outside India will come up in Tanzania's Zanzibar, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed for setting up of a campus of IIT Madras in Zanzibar, which is a Tanzanian archipelago off the...
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Is Eknath Shinde dispensable now?
Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Vinayak Raut on Thursday claimed MLAs from the Shiv Sena-led by Maharashtra Chief Eknath Shinde have started revolting after NCP leader Ajit Pawar along with eight other party MLAs joined the state government. Some MLAs (from Shinde bloc) have been sending messages that...
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Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi on Thursday met leaders from Rajasthan to assess preparations for assembly polls and bring greater cohesion in the state party unit amid differences between Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot. The meeting is being attended by...
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After meeting Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan, in Bhopal, Dashmat Rawat, says, I met the minister, it felt good. He called up my family and spoke to my family, I felt good. I am now going back after meeting him.Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday washed the...
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Union Minister of State for Social Justice Ramdas Athawale met Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar at the latter's residence here on Thursday and said Pawar's support to the NDA will further weaken the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA). Athawale, who heads the Republican...
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Security forces thwarted clashes in Manipur's Kangpokpi district where two armed groups gathered and fired a few rounds, sources said on Thursday. The incident happened around 3.40 pm on Wednesday near Phaileng village, they said. Armed groups from Mapao and Awang Sekmai areas gathered in...
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Chhagan Bhujbal
Senior Nationalist Congress Party leader Chhagan Bhujbal on Thursday said the recent developments in the party, culminating in Ajit Pawar taking oath as deputy CM, happened after legal experts were consulted to escape disqualification. Addressing a press conference in Mumbai, Bhujbal also...
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The unrest in Manipur is on for over two months
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain a plea by two Manipur residents against repeated internet shutdowns in the state rocked by ethnic violence and gave them the liberty to approach the high court on the matter. A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and...
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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan meets Dashmat Rawat and washes his feet at CM House in Bhopal. In a viral video from Sidhi, accused Pravesh Shukla was seen urinating on Rawat. CM tells him, ...I was pained to see that video. I apologise to you. People are like a God to me......
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Moderate to heavy rains lashed Mumbai overnight and the weather department has issued an 'orange' alert, predicting more heavy showers in the city on Thursday, as per the local civic body. An official from the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking said some of...
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The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a 'red' alert for Goa, forecasting heavy rains in parts of both the districts of the coastal state on Thursday. The weather department has predicted inundation of houses in low-lying areas, fall of weak trees and structures,...
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Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Thursday dubbed the political developments in Maharashtra as a tamasha, and said the law seems to allow it. He also said the political developments were about loaves of power and not people. The remarks by Sibal, a noted advocate, came after NCP leader Ajit...
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How can you steal from the poor? Clearly, a dog eat dog world here. A farmer in Karnataka says her tomato crop worth Rs 2.5 lakhs was stolen from her farm in the Hassan district on the night of July 4. The farmer, Dharani, who grew tomatoes on 2 acres of land said that they were planning to...
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TMC MP Mahua Moitra responds to Praful Patel's statement yesterday that he 'felt like laughing' at the Opposition meeting at Patna. Moitra, never one to mince her words, says, You felt like laughing did you? Well, we feel like laughing at you pathetic traitors who betray cause after ED...
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Last year Eknath Shinde with 40 MLAs split his party the Shiv Sena and became the chief minister of Maharashtra with the support of the Bharatiya Janata Party.Now Ajit Pawar has followed in Shinde's footsteps.On July 5 he got 35 MLAs on his side and split the Nationalist Congress Party which his...
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Former diplomat Nirupama Menon Rao tweets this image alongside, writing, 50 years ago today. New recruits to the #IndianForeignService. The batch of 1973. These 50 years taught us a great deal of life-lessons and gave us a ringside view of momentous global changes and challenges. Participatory...
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To be out of sync with the contemporary life anywhere at anytime becomes indeed a despairing situation. That was the tragic predicament of the Austrian writer of the inter-war period, Stefan Zweig, who once wrote, One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others --...
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Amid the NCP vs NCP crisis in Maharashtra, the Rashtrawadi Vidyarthi Congress puts up a poster based on a scene from the film 'Baahubali -- The Beginning', showing its character 'Kattappa' stabbing 'Amarendra Baahubali' in the back. The inference is of course, Ajit Pawar and Sharad...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party from 12 eastern states including Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, and West Bengal will hold a meeting in Guwahati on Thursday to hold a serious discussion about the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.Assam BJP president, Bhabesh Kalita, said, A meeting of 12 eastern states including...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has been working to assuage the concerns of Shiv Sena lawmakers after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar joined the coalition government and asserted there was nothing to worry, Sena legislators said. Shinde, who presided over a...
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Posters saying, In the fight of truth and lie, the entire country is with Sharad Pawar and India's history is such that it has never forgiven those who have betrayed come up outside NCP chief Sharad Pawar's residence in Delhi. He is arriving in Delhi today for the party's National Executive...
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Nana Patole
Maharashtra Congress calls a meeting of Congress Core Committee today in Mumbai. The meeting will be chaired by the party's state president Nana Patole. Discussions on Opposition Leader and the current political situation in the state are expected to be held in the meeting.
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No outsider was being allotted land in the Union Territory and there was no change in the law, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has said rebutting PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti allegation that the administration's move to provide houses to the homeless was a ruse to change the demography of the...
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NCP President Sharad Pawar leaves his residence in Mumbai for Delhi where the party's National Executive meeting is scheduled today. Amid the NCP vs NCP crisis in Maharashtra, two different meetings of the party were called by Sharad Pawar and Ajit Pawar yesterday in Mumbai. Later, the Election...
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Amid the ongoing Maharashtra NCP crisis, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar took a veiled dig at his uncle and Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar regarding his age that left the NCP Supremo's party members and loyalists fuming and resulted into a chain of reactions.On...
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A Mumbai local train brushed against the edge of a platform at the Mumbra station in neighbouring Thane district on its way to Titwala on Wednesday night, leading to disruption of services and bunching of trains for some time, officials said. This unusual occurrence happened when the train,...
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A Mumbai-based social activist has submitted a written complaint to the police against the makers of Hindi film 72 Hoorain, accusing them of hurting religious sentiments of a community and attempting to divide the country, an official said on Wednesday. According to the official, the...
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