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Former Congress leader Baba Siddiqui on Saturday joined the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party in Mumbai. Siddiqui was welcomed by deputy chief minister Pawar and top NCP leaders, including working president Praful Patel and state president Sunil Tarkare. Siddiqui quit the...
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Rashtriya Janata Dal national spokesman Manoj Jha on Saturday said all MLAs of the party will be putting up at the residence of Tejashwi Yadav in Patna until Monday when they will vote against the ruling National Democratic Alliance during the trust vote. Jha made the statement late in the...
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Veteran actor-turned-politician Mithun Chakraborty was admitted to a hospital in Kolkata on Saturday morning. Now the hospital has issued an official statement regarding the health of The Kashmir Files actor. Mithun has been diagnosed with an Ischemic Cerebrovascular...
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United Democratic Front MP NK Premachandran's lunch with Prime Minister Narendra Modi has triggered a political row in Kerala with the ruling CPI-M taking a dig at him pointing out his closeness with the PM. The Kollam MP was among the parliamentarians, selected from different parties, with...
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Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange on Saturday started an indefinite fast demanding that a special session of the state legislature be convened in two days to convert the draft notification on blood relatives of Kunbi Marathas into a law. Addressing a press conference at Antarwali Sarati...
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The Haryana government on Saturday ordered the suspension of mobile internet services and bulk SMS in seven districts ahead of farmers' proposed 'Delhi Chalo' march on February 13. According to an official order, the mobile internet services will remain suspended in Ambala, Kurukshetra,...
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Himachal Pradesh deputy Chief Minister Mukesh Agnihotri
Himachal Pradesh deputy Chief Minister Mukesh Agnihotri's wife Simmi Agnihotri died of a heart attack. She was 56.Her last rites were performed at a crematorium in Una district on Saturday afternoon.Simmi's daughter Aastha lit the pyre in the presence of ministers, leaders of various...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party does not believe in family planning in politics and always welcomes new allies, Union Home Minister Amit Shah asserted on Saturday and said that talks were on with the Shiromani Akali Dal. Speaking at an event, Shah also stressed that the Citizenship (Amendment)...
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The Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were adjourned sine die on Saturday, marking the conclusion of the Budget session of Parliament before the Lok Sabha elections later this year. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said the 17 Lok Sabha passed 222 bills in the last five years.On the last day of the...
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The Kerala government on Saturday announced Rs 10 lakh compensation and assured a job to one of the family members of the 42-year old man, who was trampled to death by a wild elephant on Saturday morning at Mananthavady near Wayanad. A major protest broke out at Mananthavady over the death,...
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Two luxury wrist watches priced at a whopping Rs 1.70 crore was seized from an air passenger, the Customs department said. Acting on specific inputs, the department sleuths intercepted him on his arrival from Hong Kong on February 5. On examination, the officials recovered the luxury...
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PM Narendra Modi speaks in the Lok Sabha during the Interim Budget Session of the Parliament on Saturday/ANI Photo
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the five years of the 17th Lok Sabha were a period of reform, perform and transform with the country moving towards big changes at a fast pace. In his address in the Lok Sabha on the last day of the Budget session, Modi said that during the last...
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The Border Security Force shot down another China-made drone near the India-Pakistan International Border in Punjab's Gurdaspur, the force said on Saturday. The quadcopter drone entering Indian territory from Pakistan was intercepted during its movement on the border near Rossey...
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A Janata Dal-United MP on Saturday asked the government to declare January 22 a public holiday to mark the consecration ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya. The pran pratishtha ceremony of the new idol of Ram Lalla at the sanctum sanctorum of the temple was held on January 22, 2023 and the...
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Renowned artist A Ramachandran died from prolonged illness at his residence here on Saturday. He was 89. He was sick for quite some time now and passed away at 9 this morning from medical complications, his son Rahul told PTI. Ramachandran will be cremated at Lodi Road crematorium...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will pay a two-day visit to the United Arab Emirates beginning Tuesday during which he will hold wide-ranging talks with President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and inaugurate the first Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi. It would be the prime minister's seventh...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday visited Sailani Avenue in Perth named after Indian-origin soldier Nain Singh Sailani, who sacrificed his life during World War I while serving the Australian Imperial Force. Jaishankar is here to attend the two-day Indian Ocean...
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The National Medical Commission has warned medical colleges and institutions against compelling post-graduate students to stay in the hostels offered by them and charging hefty amounts for the same. It said the medical colleges failing to follow the directive may have to face action, such as...
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Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal
Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said his party will announce candidates for 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab and one Chandigarh parliamentary seat as he sought peoples' blessing for the victory of his candidates. Kejriwal made the announcement addressing a gathering...
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Retirement fund body EPFO on Saturday fixed a three-year high interest rate of 8.25 percent on employees' provident fund deposits for 2023-24. In March 2023, the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation had increased the interest rate on EPF marginally to 8.15 percent for 2022-23 from 8.10...
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President Droupadi Murmu will arrive in Port Blair on February 19 on a five-day visit to Andaman and Nicobar Islands, an official said on Saturday. This will be Murmu's first visit to the archipelago after becoming the President of India in 2022. The president will arrive here around 1...
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Prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPC were imposed and internet services suspended in Sandeshkhali in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, where local women held protests demanding the arrest of absconding Trinamool Congress leader Sheikh Shajahan and his aides, the police said on...
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Shiv Sena-UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday demanded the dismissal of the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government, targeting it over the law and order situation in the state. Addressing a press conference in Mumbai, he also demanded that President's rule be imposed in the state and...
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India saw a single-day rise of 163 COVID-19 cases while the number of active cases of the infection was recorded at 874, the health ministry said on Friday. Two new deaths due to the viral disease -- one each from Karnataka and Maharashtra -- were reported in a span of 24 hours, according to...
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The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Congress leader Salman Khurshid's wife Louise Khurshid for questioning in a money-laundering investigation linked to alleged misuse of government funds in distribution of artificial limbs and equipment by a trust headed by her, sources said on...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said that the Citizenship Amendment Act, which was passed by the Parliament in December 2019, will be notified and implemented before the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. CAA is an Act of the country, it will be definitely be notified. It will be...
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Veteran actor Mithun Chakraborty was admitted to a private hospital in Kolkata on Saturday after he complained of severe chest pain, officials of the health facility where he is undergoing treatment said. The 73-year-old actor underwent an MRI and other tests are currently being conducted,...
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The National Investigation Agency conducted multiple raids in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday as part of its crackdown against elements allegedly involved in terror funding and radicalisation of youngsters, officials said. The raids are underway at different places, including Gujjar Nagar and...
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Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami interacts with cops and people who were injured in the Haldwani violence on Friday/ANI Photo
Authorities arrested five people and three FIRs were registered against 19 persons besides about 5,000 unidentified people, in the February 8 violence that broke out after an anti-encroachment drive in Haldwani's Banbhoolpura area of Uttarakhand. Six people died in the violence that...
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A 42-year-old man died after being attacked by a wild elephant that strayed into human settlement near Mananthavady here on Saturday morning, the police said. Aji died at Mananthavady medical college where he was admitted following the attack that occurred at around 7.30 am today, they...
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The National Investigation Agency sleuths on Saturday initiated searches in atleast 27 locations in Tamil Nadu related to the ISIS-inspired car bomb blast case in Coimbatore in which 15 people were arrested. The prime suspect identified as Jamesha Mubeen, whom the agency said was a suicide...
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Discussion on the construction of historic Shri Ram Temple and Pran Pratishtha of Shri Ramlala has begun in Lok Sabha on the last day of the budget session of Parliament.Senior BJP leader Satyapal Singh initiated the discussion.The budget session of Parliament, the last of the 17th Lok Sabha,...
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The Congress has issued a whip to its MPs in the Lok Sabha to ensure their presence in the House on Saturday.The Lok Sabha will have a discussion on the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya on Saturday, the last day of the budget session of Parliament.The parliamentary leaders of the...
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Janata Dal-United legislators in Bihar will go into huddles this weekend ahead of the crucial trust vote to be sought by the Nitish Kumar government, party leaders said on Saturday. They, however, insisted that a luncheon to be hosted by Shrawan Kumar on Saturday and high tea at Vijay Kumar...
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No clear victor has emerged from the divisive elections in Pakistan as the tardy vote-counting process neared completion on Saturday, indicating that the elusive political stability for the cash-strapped country may still be a distant dream.The general elections were held on Thursday and the...
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The Enforcement Directorate has registered a money laundering case against former Mumbai Narcotics Control Bureau zonal director Sameer Wankhede taking cognisance of a Central Bureua of Investigation FIR in an alleged Rs 25-crore bribe demand from superstar Shah Rukh Khan's family to spare his...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi had directed all cabinet ministers to not be involved in blame-game during the Covid pandemic even as opposition parties were indulging in politics over vaccine production, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Friday. Addressing questions...
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In yet another disturbing incident, a 41-year-old Indian-origin executive died in the US, days after he was assaulted during an altercation outside a restaurant in downtown Washington. According to investigators, officers responded to the 1100 block of 15th Street Northwest outside Shoto...
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A scuffle broke out late Friday night between RSS-affiliated ABVP and Left-backed groups at the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus during a meeting on holding students' union polls, with both sides claiming some of their members were injured. While the warring groups blamed the other side...
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The Centre on Friday made key appointments at joint secretary and equivalent level in its different departments. Madhukar Kumar Bhagat and Meera Srivastava, both Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax cadre) officers, have been appointed as joint secretaries in the department of health &...
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Enraged by the slap he received from his police officer father over car stunts in Gurugram in Haryana, a youth hit an ACP who caught him in the act on Dwarka Expressway with his SUV, the police said on Friday. The accused was arrested on Thursday, more than three weeks after the incident,...
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A fire was reported at the Sassoon General Hospital in Pune on Friday evening but there were no casualties and all patients were safe, officials said. The fire was reported on the tenth floor of the hospital at 8.10 pm, said a senior fire brigade official. Two fire tenders were rushed...
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To control digital frauds, the government has blocked 1.4 lakh mobile numbers so far that were involved in financial frauds, according to an official release. Financial services secretary Vivek Joshi on Friday chaired a meeting on cyber security in the financial services sector in which...
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