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Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Tuesday announced a 32-kilometre-long new rail line project connecting Puri and Konark with trains having Vistadome coaches. Vaishnaw made this announcement immediately after he was re-elected to the Rajya Sabha from Odisha with support of BJD. While...
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An NIA court in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday declared terrorist Ashiq Ahmed Nengroo, who managed to exfiltrate to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in 2018, a proclaimed offender. A resident of Hanjan Bala in the Rajpora area of the district, Nengroo, alias Molvi, was declared a...
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NCP founder Sharad Pawar
The Nationalist Congress Party led by Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Tuesday challenged in the Bombay high court the state assembly speaker's decision to not disqualify 10 MLAs from the Sharad Pawar camp. The petitions requested the high court to quash Speaker Rahul...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, while addressing a rally in Jammu, mentioned an upcoming movie about Article 370, emphasising the importance of dissemination of accurate information. I have heard that perhaps a film on Article 370 is going to be released this week. I think your Jai...
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In a tragic accident of roof collapse at a project site in Uzbekistan city Almalyk on Tuesday, three Indian workers lost their lives while 30 sustained injuries, the Indian Embassy in Uzbekistan informed. We express our sincere condolences to the families of the deceased and wish...
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Congress candidate P Puttanna on Tuesday won the by-election to the Karnataka legislative council from Bangalore Teachers' Constituency. He defeated his nearest opponent A P Ranganath, a joint candidate of the BJP-JD-S alliance by a margin of 1,507 votes. This defeat is seen as a...
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The government has ordered temporary blocking of around 177 social media accounts and web links that are linked to the farmers' protest, according to sources. The orders were issued by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on February 14 and 19 at the request of the ministry...
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Shashi Tharoor, a prolific author and a diplomat-turned-politician, was conferred France's highest civilian honour Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur at a ceremony in New Delhi on Tuesday. Author of several books and the Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram, Tharoor was conferred the...
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PM Narendra Modi virtually flags off the first electrified trains of the Kashmir valley/Courtesy PIB
The longest transportation tunnel of the country on the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link was opened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday as he flagged off the first electrified trains of the Kashmir valley. Prime Minister Modi was present in Jammu and he virtually flagged off two...
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Amidst financial turbulence at Byju's, a group of key investors at the edtech have called for an extraordinary general meeting on Friday to oust its founder CEO Byju Raveendran and his family members over mismanagement and failures at what was once India's hottest tech startups, sources...
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The suspense over Virat Kohli's absence from the Indian cricket team is over -- Anushka Sharma and he are proud parents of a boy, Akaay, their second child. In an announcement, Virushka, as they couple is known, said Vamika's little brother 'came into this world on February 15'. They...
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Vehicles are covered in a thick blanket of snow as the upper reaches of Himachal Pradesh receives heavy snowfall/ANI Photo
At least 263 roads, including four national highways, have been closed due to heavy snowfall in tribal areas and higher hills of Himachal Pradesh. According to the weather department, Rohtang Pass has received 135 cm of snow in the past 24 hours -- the highest in the region. Killar (Pangi)...
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Anil Masih (right) reaches Supreme Court
Returning officer of the Chandigarh mayoral polls Anil Masih on Tuesday faced the wrath of the Supreme Court which ordered his criminal prosecution for allegedly giving false statement before it and his misdemeanour during the counting of votes. The apex court, which declared defeated...
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The Samajwadi Party on Tuesday declared its third list of five candidates for the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh, fielding senior leader Shivpal Yadav from Budaun parliamentary constituency.Shivpal Yadav, the uncle of party chief Akhilesh Yadav, is an MLA from the Jaswantnagar assembly...
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Seeking to resolve the stand-off over the suspension of seven Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs, the Delhi high court on Tuesday asked them whether they were prepared to apologise to the lieutenant governor for repeatedly interrupting his address to the legislative assembly that prompted action against...
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Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray chief Uddhav Thackeray welcomed the Maratha Reservation Bill introduced and passed in the State Legislative Assembly on Tuesday and said that he would not question the Maharashtra government today as the bill pertains to education and jobs.Talking to the...
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Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday hailed the Supreme Court verdict on the Chandigarh mayoral poll, saying 'truth finally wins'.The top court overturned the result of the Chandigarh mayoral poll in which the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate had emerged an unlikely winner, and declared...
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Farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher on Tuesday said the Centre should convene a daylong Parliament session to bring a legislation on the minimum support price (MSP) for crops, a key demand of protesting farmers. He also asked the Centre to accept the other main demands of the farmers,...
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AAP candidate for Chandigarh Mayor Election, Kuldeep Kumar, celebrates. The Supreme Court has ordered that he be declared to be the validly elected candidate for the post of Mayor of Chandigarh Municipal Corporation.
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The Supreme Court declares AAP councilor Kuldeep Kumar as winner and Mayor of union territory of Chandigarh.The court set aside the Chandigarh mayoral poll and said it is evident that the presiding officer made a deliberate attempt to deface eight ballot papers.The court also orders the...
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The Supreme Court has saved democracy in these difficult times, Delhi Chief Minister and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal said on Tuesday, thanking the court for its decision in the Chandigarh mayoral polls case. The top court has said it would direct recounting of votes polled in...
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Congress leader Sonia Gandhi was elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan on Tuesday, officials said. Bharatiya Janata Party's Chunnilal Garasiya and Madan Rathore were also elected unopposed to the Upper House from the state, Assembly Secretary Mahaveer Prasad Sharma said. Tuesday was the...
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The Sikh police officer said he was just doing his duty
A Sikh IPS officer, who was deputed at Dhamakhali to prevent senior West Bengal BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari from visiting restive Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district, got agitated after a group of activists of the saffron party allegedly hurled the 'Khalistani' jibe at him. BJP...
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AAP supporters scuffle with police over the polls
Chandigarh mayoral polls: Judicial officer appointed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court produces records including ballot papers in the mayoral polls row.We would like to see ballots which were invalidated, says the court. The court scrutinises the ballot papers and says eight votes cast...
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Manoj Jarange Patil, the activist who led the movement to provide caste-based reservations to Marathas and is on a hunger strike, welcomed the reservation bill introduced and passed in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, but contended that the reservation which has been proposed was...
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Maha CM with Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange Patil
Update: The Maharashtra legislative assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a bill providing 10 per cent reservation for the Maratha community in education and government jobs. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde tabled the Maharashtra State Socially and Educationally Backward Bill 2024 in the...
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Maharashtra assembly unanimously passes bill providing 10 per cent reservation for Marathas in government jobs and education. The Maharashtra government tabled the Bill in the state Assembly on Tuesday, intending to extend 10 per cent reservation to Marathas above the 50 per cent mark...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who launched several development projects in Jammu on Tuesday slammed the opposition, saying that the region, now a Union Territory, had to bear the brunt of dynastic politics for decades.Addressing a mass gathering in Jammu, PM Modi said that the political parties...
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The ban on export of onion will continue till its previously announced deadline of March 31 as the government is keen to keep prices under check and ensure domestic availability, a top official said on Tuesday. On December 8, 2023, the government had banned export of onion till March...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar reaffirmed India's stance on buying Russian oil despite sanctions on Moscow amid military conflict with Ukraine. He said that India and Russia have always shared stable and friendly ties and Moscow has never hurt the interests of New Delhi. In an...
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An illuminating conversation with Chandu Borde, 90, one of India's finest cricketers in the 1960s with Nikhil Lakshman/Rediff.com. Read the interview here.
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SP leader Swami Prasad Maurya
SP leader Swami Prasad Maurya resigns from party, also quits as member of state legislative council. Maurya, who resigned as the Samajwadi Partys national general secretary last week, is likely to announce a new party ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.The 70-year-old leader, whose recent...
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The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday told the Bombay High Court that it will extend till March 1 its previous statement that it would not arrest Sameer Wankhede, the former zonal director of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), in a money laundering case. A division bench of Justices...
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Shares of Paytm's parent firm One97 Communications rallied 5 per cent and touched upper circuit for the third straight session on Tuesday. According to reports, the Directorate of Enforcement (ED), which has been probing One97 Communications' arm Paytm Payments Bank Ltd (PPBL), has not found...
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Calcutta High Court allows BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari to visit Sandeshkhali on Tuesday. A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday allowed Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari to visit Sandeshkhali village, which has been witnessing protests over...
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Tejashwi Yadav joins the Nyay Yatra
Former Bihar CM and RJD leader Rabri Devi on Tuesday took a dig at former ally and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar saying he had joined the RJD alliance on his own the last time and this time he had left on his own accord without any pressure. He (Nitish Kumar) joined us on his own last time, we...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was granted bail on Tuesday in a defamation case dating back to August 2018.The District Civil Court in Sultanpur had issued a summons to him 36 hours earlier to appear before it on a defamation case filed by a BJP leader in August 2018.This morning Rahul Gandhi will...
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Rahul Gandhi with coal carriers earlier this month
The defamation case was filed by Vijay Mishra on August 4, 2018 against Rahul Gandhi for allegedly making objectionable comments against Home Minister Amit Shah at a press conference in Bengaluru on May 8 that year during Karnataka elections. The complainant referred to Gandhi's comment that the...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi arrives at Sultanpur Court in connection with a 2018 defamation case. In response to the summons issued by the District Civil Court in Sultanpur to Rahul Gandhi to appear before the court in a defamation case, Jairam Ramesh, the Congress General Secretary...
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The elite St Stephen's College in Delhi
St Stephen's College has allegedly suspended around 100 first-year students for not attending morning assembly, a teacher claimed on Tuesday.The college has also threatened to debar the students if they do not call their parents.The students and teachers have written to Principal John Varghese,...
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Suvendu Adhikari was stopped 2 times earlier
The situation in Sandeshkhali in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district remained tense over protests against TMC-led atrocities and sexual harassment, even as police maintained a strong presence in the area on Tuesday. The Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu...
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Equity market opened on a lacklustre note on Tuesday, with Sensex declining nearly 80 points tracking muted trends in Asian stocks and fading expectations of early interest rate cuts globally. After gaining for five straight sessions, the 30-share Sensex dropped 0.11 per cent or 79.66...
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The returning officer who conducted the Chandigarh mayoral polls accepting the crime of rigging the elections shows how hungry the BJP is for power, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said on Monday after the Supreme Court came down heavily on the officer for allegedly defacing ballot papers....
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And while on the PM's image on ration bags, read this story: Centre withholds 7,000 Cr funds to West Bengal for not displaying PM photo at ration shops.
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When Right to Information activist Ajay Bose saw ration bags with pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on them being distributed to the poor on social media, he was intrigued.Never in the history of Independent India were images of any prime minister printed on ration bags, he...
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Sandeshkhali women speak to NCW chief
A 'peace home' has been opened at the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata from Monday to provide temporary refuge to the victims of Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district.Speaking to ANI, the Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Governor CV Ananda Bose, Sandip Rajput, said on Monday that the idea of opening...
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Senior Congress leader and former chief minister Bhupesh Baghel on Monday accused the ruling BJP of trying to poach his party's MLAs in Chhattisgarh by luring them with ministerial berths and tickets for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.Talking to reporters at the Swami Vivekananda Airport in...
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The body of a 25-year-old Border Security Force constable, who went missing three days back during training, was found floating in a well on the Indore-based campus of the paramilitary force's facility, the police said on Monday. The deceased constable, Subhash Sao was undergoing training at...
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West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose during his visit to Sandeshkhali./File image/ANI Photo
The West Bengal police on Monday arrested a journalist associated with a private news channel in Sandeshkhali. Journalist who has been arrested by the police is associated with Republic TV. Further details are awaited. West Bengal's Sandeshkhali area has been...
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The Badrinath temple/File image
Badrinath, Kedarnath and Hemkund Sahib received snowfall while the lower areas in Chamoli and Rudraprayag districts received rain, intensifying the cold across Uttarakhand. The sky remained overcast at various places in the plains, including Dehradun. Badrinath received light...
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A fire broke out in a flat in a 21-storey residential building in suburban Kandivali on Monday night, a fire brigade official said. No injuries were reported in the fire that started in the building, Orchid, in the Mahavir Nagar area of the western suburb at around 8.35 pm and was doused...
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A youth allegedly made a hoax threat call claiming to blow up the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi. The 20-year-old accused was arrested on Monday, police said. According to police, a PCR call was received at IGI Airport police station on Sunday where the caller allegedly...
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Four policemen were suspended and other personnel at a police station in Rajasthan's Khairthal-Tijara district shifted to the police lines for not taking action against people allegedly selling meat suspected to be beef, officials said on Monday. The action was taken after some people were...
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