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The Bahujan Samaj Party will organise public meetings in all 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh on January 15 to take stock of the preparations for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.The party also plans to launch the 'Behan Ji' app on the occasion of her birthday (January 15). The party intends to...
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Ahead of the Ram Temple consecration, Muslim organisation Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind on Saturday expressed concern over the government's active participation in temple-related events and urged the Centre to refrain from adopting biased policies. The Jamiat (Mahmood Madani faction) said that...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday said he rebelled against Uddhav Thackeray's leadership and split the Shiv Sena in June 2022 only to save the party. Launching the campaign of the Sena faction led by him for the Lok Sabha elections at Rajgurunagar in Pune...
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Aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), on Saturday directed domestic airlines to immediately carry out inspection of emergency exits of all Boeing 737-8 Max planes in their fleet. The directive comes in the wake of the Alaska Airlines incident involving...
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In an apparent swipe at Sandeep Reddy Vanga's Animal, veteran lyricist and writer Javed Akhtar has said that commercial success of films with problematic scenes is a dangerous trend. The 78-year-old screenwriter expressed his concerns about the current state of cinema at the Ajanta...
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Union minister Rajnath Singh Saturday said Lord Macaulay was sent to India to throttle the country's traditional system of education and enslave people mentally. He said the revival of 'gurukuls' was necessary to counter the effects of the Macaulay's system of education on Indian...
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A man who was declared dead four days ago because of a mistaken identity and found to be alive later, succumbed to his injuries on Saturday, officials of the hospital concerned said.With the death of Dilip Samantray, who was found to be under treatment in a private hospital on Friday, the toll in...
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Bharat Rashtra Samithi Working President K T Rama Rao on Saturday slammed the Congress government in Telangana over Formula E cancelling the Hyderabad E-Prix slated to be held on February 10. Rama Rao, who played a key role in bringing the race to Hyderabad as IT and Industries Minister...
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday said his party is taking out the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra as the government did not give it a chance to raise issues in Parliament. The Rahul Gandhi-led Manipur-to-Maharashtra yatra, which will begin on January 14, will cover 6,713 km and its...
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The Indian Space Research Organisation on Saturday performed the final manoeuvre to inject Aditya-L1 spacecraft -- the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun -- into its final destination orbit, some 1.5 million kilometres from the Earth.India creates yet another landmark,...
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Delhi Police on Saturday urged a court here to frame charges against BJP MP and former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in a case of alleged sexual harassment of women wrestlers. The police opposed the contention of the accused that since some of the alleged incidents took place...
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The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren's press adviser Abhishek Prasad and Sahibganj Deputy Commissioner Ram Niwas Yadav for questioning in a money laundering investigation linked to alleged illegal mining in the state, official sources said. Prasad...
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A Varanasi court on Saturday fixed January 24 for deciding whether to make public the sealed ASI report on the Gyanvapi mosque complex and provide copies to parties. The order to this effect was given by District Judge A K Vishvesh, Madan Mohan Yadav, counsel for the Hindu side,...
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Shiv Sena-UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray, who has so far not received an invitation for the Ayodhya Ram temple consecration ceremony on January 22, on Saturday said he and his party leaders will visit Kalaram temple in Nashik that day and perform a 'maha aarti' on the Godavari river...
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday said he will very soon take a decision on whether he will attend the Ram Temple consecration ceremony in Ayodhya on January 22.Kharge and former party chief Sonia Gandhi have been invited for the event and the Congress had earlier said that their...
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An anti-terrorist search operation along the Line of Control (LoC) in Mendhar sector of Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district entered the second day on Saturday, officials said. The operation was launched in nearly a dozen forward villages in the forest area of Mankote and Mendhar on Friday...
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Less than a fortnight after joining the ruling YSRCP in Andhra Pradesh in the presence of its chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, former India cricketer Ambati Rayudu announced his decision to quit the party on Saturday.Making the announcement, Rayudu said he wanted to stay out of politics 'for a little...
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Senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has arrived in Goa on a personal visit, a local party office-bearer said on Saturday. The former Congress president arrived in the coastal state on Friday, he said. Talking to PTI, Deputy Superintendent of Police Salim Sheikh said, Gandhi arrived at...
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An offence has been registered against a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA for allegedly slapping an on-duty police constable in Maharashtra's Pune city, police said on Saturday. A video of the incident that occurred on Friday surfaced on social media, in which Sunil Kamble, the legislator...
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The panel on 'One Nation, One Election' led by former president Ram Nath Kovind has invited suggestions from the public for making appropriate changes in the existing legal administrative framework to enable simultaneous elections in the country. In a public notice, the high-level committee...
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India has recorded a single-day rise of 774 COVID-19 cases while the number of active cases stands at 4,187, the Union health ministry said on Saturday.Two deaths -- one each from Tamil Nadu and Gujarat -- were reported in a span of 24 hours, according to the ministry's data updated at 8 am.The...
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Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Sharad Sharma on Friday said that the agitation for the Ram Temple in Ayodhya was bigger than the movement for the country's independence in 1947.The VHP leader said that lakhs of people sacrificed their lives for the movement and it took nearly 500 years to...
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A 32-year-old man from Thane district in Maharashtra was allegedly duped by two unidentified persons who took more than Rs 2 lakh from him on the pretext of giving a job of professor in Qatar University, police said on Saturday.The case was registered on Friday at the Ambernath police station,...
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The Uttar Pradesh Special Director General of Police (Law and Order), Prashant Kumar, on Friday said that an advisory has been issued for police personnel who will be deployed in Ayodhya for the consecration ceremony of the Ram Temple later this month.The police personnel engaged in the Ayodhya...
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Nationalist Congress Party-Sharad Pawar faction leader Jitendra Awhad has been booked at a police station in Mumbai over his controversial remarks on Lord Ram, police said on Friday.As per police, a case has been registered against Awhad at the MIDC police station in Mumbai under Section 295(A)...
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At least four people were killed and many injured after suspected arsonists set on fire a passenger train coming from the port town of Benapole, bordering India, in the country's national capital on Friday, two days ahead of Bangladesh's general elections that have been boycotted by the main...
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Enforcement Directorate officers are preparing two sets of reports on the attacks on their colleagues by a mob during a raid at the residence of a Trinamool Congress leader in West Bengal, a senior officer said on Friday. The officers said the reports will be sent to their New Delhi office...