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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal-United on Friday announced that it will observe a day-long fast here on Sunday to protest the inauguration of the new Parliament building by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.State JD-U president Umesh Singh Kushwaha said his party felt outraged over...
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Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' will embark on a four-day official visit to India from May 31 at the invitation of his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, foreign ministry sources said in Kathmandu on Friday.This will be Prachanda's first foreign visit after assuming the high...
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The expansion of the Maharashtra cabinet will take place soon, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Friday.He was replying to media queries on cabinet expansion of the state government, which took charge on June 30 with Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Fadnavis being sworn in.On August...
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A 'Vastra Samhita' or dress code was introduced at four temples in Nagpur city on Friday, an association of temples in Maharashtra said.The issue of dress code in places of worship was in news earlier this month when the famous Tulja Bhavani temple in the state tried to regulate how visiting...
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Two judges were on Friday elevated as chief justices of high courts with one of them due to retire on May 30.The Department of Justice in the Union Law Ministry issued separate notifications announcing the appointment of acting chief justice of the Bombay high court Justice Sanjay Vijaykumar...
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A clash erupted between All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen and Bharatiya Janata Party councillors of the Meerut Municipal Corporation at an oath-taking ceremony organised for them on Friday.The scuffle began following a disagreement over the singing of 'Vande Mataram' to commence the...
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Friday approached the Delhi high court seeking death penalty for separatist leader Yasin Malik, who was awarded life term by a trial court in New Delhi in a terror funding case.The plea by the agency has been listed for hearing on May 29 before a bench of...
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Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger turns 100 tomorrow, but the world is unlikely to mark the centenary of the former US secretary of state with grandeur. But for Rediff.com contributor Aseem Chhabra, it is a bitter-sweet occasion to remember the man. 'Before he became the evil Kissinger, he was the head...
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Team Shunya
Picture this: An independent house that will stand for half a century and pay for itself after the first 10 years. It generates more electricity than it consumes, reuses its own wastewater and is certified carbon-neutral. The well-lit interiors remain cool even after the AC is switched...
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Medical entrance exam NEET-UG which was postponed in Manipur in view of the law-and-order situation will now be conducted on any date between June 3 to 5, National Testing Agency (NTA) announced on Friday.CUET-UG will be conducted in the state from June 5 to 8 and the postgraduate entrance test...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the new Parliament building will make every Indian proud, and shared a video of the newly-constructed complex.Posting the video on Twitter, Modi also urged people to share the video with their voice-over, using the hashtag 'My Parliament My Pride'.'The...
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The Delhi high court on Friday asked the city police as to what action it has taken against a Twitter user for his alleged offensive tweet about fact-checking website Alt-News co-founder Mohammad Zubair.Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani asked the Delhi Police to file a status report on the action...
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Parts of Mumbai will face water cuts for more than 24 hours this weekend due to pipeline repair work, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said on Friday.The civic body in a release said the pipeline repair work in Dadar area in central Mumbai will affect water supply to G-South and...
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The police in Palghar in Maharashtra managed to rescue a woman who was being assaulted by a man during a domestic dispute in the early hours of Friday after she called the number of a local journalist who got in touch with the district police chief. The journalist from Vasai took to social...
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BJP MP and Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, accused of sexual harassment by seven women wrestlers, Friday said slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath are being raised in the protest against him. This...
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The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed petitions by Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra against the Income Tax department's decision to transfer their assessments to the Central Circle, which is mandated to check tax evasion, instead of an ordinary assessment...
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Around 73 per cent of women want companies to allow them to take menstrual leaves while 86.6 per cent are in favour of a menstrual-friendly workplace where hygiene methods and support infrastructure are available to women, according to a recent study. The Menstrual Hygiene Survey 2023,...
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India's 1st Prime Minister Pandit Nehru
Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri Friday hit out at the Congress and those objecting to the inauguration of the new Parliament building by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying the boycott gang is insulting the legacy of their own leaders and the freedom fighters. In a series of tweets,...
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The Delhi CM met Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata as well
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will meet his Telangana counterpart K Chandrashekar Rao in Hyderabad on Saturday to seek the Bharat Rashtra Samithi's support to oppose the Centre's ordinance on control of services in the national capital. Kejriwal, who is also the national...
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Hard data from 2022-23 do not justify the gung-ho optimism of the talking heads in the media on the economy. While consumer good sales for the higher income groups are growing rapidly, at the lower end conditions are not much better than on the eve of the pandemic, indicating stretched...
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Karnataka Minister K H Muniyappa on Friday said the Cabinet expansion will take place on Saturday afternoon and the portfolios would also be allotted by evening. Muniyappa also said barring four or five ministerial posts, rest would be filled up in the same day. According to the...
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Budget airline Go First has cancelled all its flights till May 28, citing operational reasons. Earlier, the airlines had cancelled flights till May 26. In a note posted on Twitter on Friday, the airline said, We regret to inform that due to operational reasons, Go First flights scheduled...
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Eighty more Delhi Prisons officials of Delhi Prisons, including five deputy superintendents, have been transferred within three jail complexes, in a series of transfers issued after jailed gangster Tillu Tajpuriya was stabbed to death on the Tihar jail premises. The transfer order was...
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The Centre has set up an 11-member high-level steering committee to review and monitor the progress of the cheetah reintroduction programme and provide suggestions on the opening of the cheetah habitat for eco-tourism. The decision to form the committee, which will be headed by Rajesh...
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Congress asked why farmers incomes have not doubled as promised
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi completing nine years in office, the Congress on Friday asked him nine questions on issues such as rising prices, unemployment and farmers' income, and demanded an apology for the betrayal during his tenure. The Opposition party also said the...
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The country is likely to receive below normal rainfall in June, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said while forecasting normal monsoon for the entire season. IMD Environment Monitoring and Research Center (EMRC) chief D Sivananda Pai said, Below normal monthly (June) rainfall is...
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The withdrawal of Rs 2000 denomination banknotes from circulation was a currency management exercise and a matter of economic policy, the RBI informed the Delhi High Court on Friday. The court, which was hearing a public interest litigation challenging the RBI's decision to withdraw...
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A BJP worker was booked on Friday for allegedly picking up a quarrel with a hijab-clad woman doctor over not wearing the white coat at a primary health centre in Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu, police said. Police registered three cases against party functionary Bhuvaneswar Ram, who...
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Sengol will be installed in new Parliament
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday accused the Congress of reducing the ceremonial sceptre Sengol, which will be installed near the chair of the speaker in the new Parliament building, to a walking stick. Amid the war of words between the ruling and opposition parties over the...
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A Delhi court on Friday granted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi a no-objection certificate (NOC) for issuance of an ordinary passport for three years. Gandhi had moved the court after he surrendered his diplomatic passport upon his disqualification as an MP. I'm partly allowing your...
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Update: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a PIL seeking a direction to the Lok Sabha Secretariat for inauguration of the new Parliament building by President Droupadi Murmu. A bench of justices JK Maheshwari and PS Narasimha told petitioner in-person advocate Jaya Sukin that...
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Supreme Court declines the PIL seeking a direction that the new Parliament building should be inaugurated by President Droupadi Murmu on 28th May. A PIL was filed in Supreme Court on Thursday seeking a direction that the new Parliament building should be inaugurated by the President of...
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Unfazed after being placed on the no-fly list, Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan on Friday thanked the government for barring him from leaving the country, saying he has no plans to travel overseas as he neither owns properties nor has any businesses abroad. Khan, his wife...
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People died in bank lines during demo, said Congress
The Congress party on Friday said that nine years of the PM Narendra Modi-led Central government was filled with failure and misery for the country. It has alleged that the government did not fulfil its promises and people had to bear the brunt of unemployment and demonetisation of Goods and...
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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday met Congress parliamentary party (CPP) chairperson Sonia Gandhi and former party chief Rahul Gandhi at their residence in New Delhi. Siddaramaiah is in the national capital to discuss matters related to the expansion of his Cabinet and...
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Former AAP minister Satyendar Jain gets bail on medical grounds. Jain has been hospitalised after he fell in the bathroom at Delhi's Tihar Jail on Thursday. The Supreme Court asks the jailed former Delhi minister to refrain from talking to media during his interim bail period. The court...
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The Delhi CM and AAP ministers with Sharad Pawar yesterday
CM Kejriwal seeks time to meet Cong president Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi to get party's support in Delhi services ordinance issue. Kejriwal tweeted, Sought time this morning to meet Cong President Sh Kharge ji and Sh Rahul Gandhi ji to seek Cong support in Parl against undemocratic n...
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Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Friday claimed there is no documented evidence of Lord Mountbatten, C Rajagopalachari and Jawaharlal Nehru describing the 'Sengol' as a symbol of transfer of power by the British to India. He also alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his drum-beaters...
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... Then they entered the house in dignity, fanned by two boys with special fans of deer hair. One sannyasi carried a scepter of gold, five feet long, two inches thick. He sprinkled Nehru with holy water from Tanjore and drew a streak in sacred ash across Nehru's forehead. Then he wrapped...
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The Union government is unlikely to undertake any new public-sector undertaking divestment -- including privatisation of public-sector banks -- in 2023-24, said a senior official in the know. Any such stake sale might take place only after the general elections next year.There is little...
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Tax authorities will need to set up a mechanism to 'closely supervise' and ensure speedy closure of old cases under the amnesty scheme for traders, where they have defaulted on export obligations, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has said.Principal commissioners and...
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Ministry of Finance to launch a special Rs 75 coin to commemorate the inauguration of the new Parliament building on 28th May. The commemorative coin will also serve as a tribute to India celebrating 75 years of independence.One side of the coin will feature the Lion Capital of the Ashoka...
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As many as 300 passengers of a VietJet flight to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam were stranded at the city airport for around 10 hours due to a glitch in the aircraft, according to a passenger. The passenger, on the condition of anonymity, alleged that the airline did not provide hotel...
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The Indian economy is on track to surpass 7 per cent growth rate in Fiscal Year 2023 with manufacturing being the key driver, according to a report released by the State Bank of India.State Bank of India's research report, Ecowrap released on Friday said that India's growth in the fourth quarter...
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Ahead of the Parliament building's inauguration, Veteran Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh on Friday said that the new building should be inaugurated by President Droupadi Murmu. Digvijay's remarks came in the backdrop of the ongoing row over the inauguration of the new...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to visit violence-hit Manipur on May 29 to resolve the ongoing ethnic crisis. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said this at a press conference here on Thursday evening. Union Home Minister Amit Shah would stay for three days...
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The Chinese authorities are rushing to push out vaccines to combat an ongoing new wave of the coronavirus that is expected to peak in June and infect as many as 65 million people a week since the new XBB variants of the virus are evolving to overcome the immunity developed after China's abrupt...
08:58
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Lok Sabha Speaker, Om Birla will lead the inauguration ceremony of the new parliament building on Sunday, May 28, which will be dedicated to the nation.Even though the exact details of the inauguration have not been made public, ANI has learnt through reliable...
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After Aam Aadmi Party colleague Satyendar Jain was injured in Tihar Jail, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said God is watching all.The person who was working day and night to provide good treatment and good health to the public, today a dictator is bent on killing that good...
08:34
Wrestling Federation of India president and Bharatiya Janata Party MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who faces a case under the POCSO Act, on Thursday said the law is being misused and under the leadership of seers, we will force the government to change it.Singh was speaking to reporters at a...
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United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will travel to New Delhi next week to meet his Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh, the Pentagon has announced.The visit precedes Prime Minister Narendra Modi's official state visit to White House next month.Austin will visit New Delhi to meet with...
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Police have arrested a man from Kosikalan town in this Uttar Pradesh district and sent him to jail for allegedly sharing objectionable morphed pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on a social media platform.Superintendent of...
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