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Seven Naxalites were killed and three jawans injured in an encounter in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district on Friday, police said.The gunfight took place at around 3pm in a forest near Gobel and Thulthuli villages in Orchha area, where a joint team of security personnel was out on an...
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Congratulating Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his historic election victory, Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Friday said he is looking forward to his companies doing 'exciting work' in India.'Congratulations @narendramodi on your victory in the world's largest democratic elections! Looking forward to my...
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Delhi Police has imposed prohibitory orders and declared the national capital no-flying zone as Narendra Modi will take oath as the prime minister for third term on June 9, according to an order issued by the Police Commissioner Sanjay Arora on Friday.The prohibitory orders will remain imposed...
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President Droupadi Murmu will administer oath to Narendra Modi and his council of ministers at 7.15 pm on June 9, the Rashtrapati Bhavan said on Friday evening.It also said that the Change of Guard Ceremony will not take place on June 8, 15 and 22, 2024 at Rashtrapati Bhavan due to the...
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Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi on Friday urged National Democratic Alliance MPs not to fall prey to hoaxes about ministries and portfolios and claimed the 'INDI Alliance' could also indulge in spreading 'fake news' about such issues.Addressing a meeting of the NDA Parliamentary Party,...
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Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday said his party did not reject Electronic Voting Machines and the party is for improvement of VVPAT and asserted that he has never blamed the EVMs.Answering a question at a press conference here, Chidambaram said that in the Congress party's manifesto...
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Telugu Desam Party Leader K Raghu Rama Krishna Raju informed that party chief Chandrababu Naidu will take oath as Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister on June 12 at 4.55 pm.Nara Chandrababu Naidu will take oath as Andhra Pradesh CM on 12th June at 4.55 pm... It's a very pleasant moment for the people of...
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Leader of the National Democratic Alliance Parliamentary Party Narendra Modi on Friday met President Droupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhavan and staked claim to form the government.Earlier in the day, Modi was chosen as the leader of the NDA parliamentary party, thus paving the way for him to...
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The future of Narendra Modi as Prime Minister is uncertain as one needs a large heart, open mind and inclusive approach to run a coalition government, Congress Lok Sabha MP Gaurav Gogoi said in New Delhi on Friday.These are the qualities that former prime ministers Manmohan Singh and late Atal...
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The Enforcement Directorate asserted before a Delhi court on Friday it has 'ample evidence' to link Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to 'grave' economic offences, as it opposed his application for regular bail in a money laundering case related to the alleged excise scam.The central probe...
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Shashi Tharoor celebrates his cliffhanger win
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday said if the next Lok Sabha polls take place five years down the line, he does not see himself contesting another election for the Lower House as he believes that one needs to know when to step aside for the younger blood to come in. In Kerala's...
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In a sharp response to China's protest over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reply to Taiwan President Lai Ching Te's congratulatory message, Taipei said on Friday that Beijing's actions are utterly unjustified. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan in its statement also said that the island...
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Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty climbed over 2 per cent to settle at record closing high levels on Friday after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) revised upwards the GDP growth projection to 7.2 per cent for 2024-25 from 7 per cent earlier. The 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 1,720.8 points,...
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Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited (APSEZ) on Friday said it has secured a five-year Operation and Maintenance (O&M) contract for the container facility at the Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port in Kolkata. With this, APSEZ has to deploy cargo handling equipment within seven months from the...
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Some farmer outfits on Friday threw their weight behind the CISF woman constable who allegedly slapped actor and BJP MP-elect Kangana Ranaut, saying the entire sequence leading to the incident needs to be properly investigated. Ranaut, in a video message, had on Thursday said she was hit in the...
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Jalgaon District Collector Ayush Prasad
Four Indian students from Jalgaon district in Maharashtra who were studying in a university in Russia drowned in the Volkhov river there, the external affairs ministry said on Friday, adding that a fifth student has been safely rescued. Our Consulate in St. Petersburg remains in contact with the...
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Narendra Modi meets veteran BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi at the latter's residence in Delhi.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi met L K Advani at the veteran BJP leader's residence in New Delhi on Friday, before staking claim to form the next government at the Centre for a third consecutive term. Modi visited Advani soon after being chosen as the leader of the NDA parliamentary party, leader...
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Narendra Modi bows before the Constitution
Prime Minister Narendra Modi of Friday took a dig at the opposition INDIA bloc and said that when the results were declared he was concerned if the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) are 'dead or alive' referring to the allegations of EVM rigging. He alleged that the opposition tried to blame the...
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Chandrababu Naidu has won 16 seats in the LS polls
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Friday said the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Janta Dal United (JDU), key to forming the next NDA government at the Centre, must insist on getting the Lok Sabha Speaker's post. In a post on 'X', Thackeray claimed that the minute the Bharatiya Janata...
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A pat on the back for Yogi Adityanath from Modi as MPs line up to felicitate the PM-in-waiting. A chunk of the BJP's lost seats came from Uttar Pradesh -- a state it has dominated since the 'Modi wave' of 2014. In 2019 the party won 62 seats and nearly 50 per cent of the votes, while its ally,...
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Days after Lok Sabha poll outcome, Janata Dal-United (JDU) Chief Nitish Kumar on Friday lashed out at the INDIA opposition bloc claiming that the latter never worked for the country. Addressing the parliamentary meeting of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) at the Parliament here in the...
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Chandrababu Naidu felicitates Modi at the NDA Parliamentary meet
After all alliance partners unanimously passed a resolution endorsing Narendra Modi, the leader of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance, the Prime Minister said the NDA government will provide good governance and thanked people for giving him the opportunity to serve them again. Modi was...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said he would strive to ensure unanimity in all decisions of his next government and asserted that the NDA is an organic alliance committed to the principle of 'nation first'. Chosen by BJP-led National Democratic Alliance as their leader to become prime...
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At the NDA Parliamentary Party meeting, Narendra Modi says: I express my heartfelt gratitude to all the leaders of the constituent parties present in this assembly hall, all the newly elected MPs and our Rajya Sabha MPs. It is a matter of happiness for me that I have had the opportunity to...
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More allies support the proposal. Apna Dal (S) president Anupriya Patel supports the proposal to name Narendra Modi as the Leader of NDA Parliamentary Party.
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Narendra Modi elected as the Leader of Lok Sabha, Leader of the BJP and Leader of NDA Parliamentary Party.
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Bihar CM- JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar says, ...'Agli baar jab aap aaiye toh kuch log jo idhar udhar jeet gaya hai, agli baar sab haarega. Humko poora bharosa hai'...
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Maharashtra Deputy CM and NCP chief Ajit Pawar supports the proposal of naming Narendra Modi as the NDA Parliamentary Party Leader.
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Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) National President Chirag Paswan supports the proposal of naming Narendra Modi as the leader of Lok Sabha, Leader of the BJP and NDA Parliamentary Party. Paswan also went up to Modi and gave him a hug. Modi, of course, reciprocated, as Rajnath, Naidu, Nadda look on...
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HAM(S) founder Jitan Ram Manjhi supports the proposal to name Narendra Modi as the Leader of NDA Parliamentary Party.
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At the NDA Parliamentary Party meeting, TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu, Narendra Modi has a vision and a zeal, his execution is very perfect. He is executing all his policies with a true spirit. Today, India is having the right leader -- that is Narendra Modi. This is a very good opportunity for...
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At the NDA Parliamentary Party meeting, Bihar CM- JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar supports the proposal of naming Narendra Modi as the leader of Lok Sabha, Leader of the BJP and NDA Parliamentary Party.He says, All the pending works of Bihar will be done. It is a very good thing that all of us have come...
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Senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh on Friday proposed Narendra Modi's name as the leader of the NDA Parliamentary Party and the proposal was seconded by his party colleagues Amit Shah and Nitin Gadkari as well as top NDA leaders. At a meeting of the NDA parliamentary party here at the central hall...
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The Karnataka government has banned the screening of the Hindi movie Hamare Baarah for at least two weeks after some Muslim organisations raised concerns. In an order, the government stalled the release of the film and its trailer in electronic media, social media, film theatres, private...
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At the NDA Parliamentary Party meeting, JD(S) MP-elect HD Kumaraswamy supports the proposal of naming Narendra Modi as the Leader of NDA Parliamentary Party.
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At the NDA Parliamentary Party meeting BJP MP Nitin Gadkari supports the proposal of naming Narendra Modi as the leader of Lok Sabha, Leader of the BJP and NDA Parliamentary Party.
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BJP MP Rajnath Singh says, We are fortunate that we are going to get a sensitive Prime Minister like Modi ji. I would like to make it clear that this alliance is not a compulsion for us but a commitment.
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At the NDA Parliamentary Party meeting, BJP national president JP Nadda says, I want to that NDA got a majority in the Lok Sabha Elections and we also formed out govt in Odisha. I am happy to inform you that the NDA govt was also formed in Andhra Pradesh. In Arunachal Pradesh too, we formed our...
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At the NDA Parliamentary Party meeting, BJP national president JP Nadda says, We extend heartiest congratulations to the Prime Minister, who spent every moment in the service of the nation. That is the reason that India is creating history today and NDA is forming a government for the third...
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MP-elect from Puri, BJP leader Sambit Patra says, Jai Jagannath as he comes to Parliament for the NDA Parliamentary Party meeting.
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Newly elected MPs, Chief Ministers and other leaders of the NDA chant 'Modi-Modi' during the NDA Parliamentary Party meeting at Samvidhan Sadan (Old Parliament). Narendra Modi meets TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu and Bihar CM- JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar. Modi respectfully touches the Constitution of...
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BJP leader Pema Khandu arrives in Parliament for the NDA Parliamentary Party meeting. The BJP swept the Arunachal Pradesh Assembly polls recently.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at the Parliament for the NDA Parliamentary Party meeting. Newly elected MPs of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance arrived at Parliament complex on Friday to elect Narendra Modi as their leader, paving the way for him to take oath as prime minister for a...
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Pilibhit BJP MP Jitin Prasad is greeted in Parliament. The former Congress MP was given a ticket from the constituency instead of sitting MP Varun Gandhi.
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No MLA of the NCP is in contact with Sharad Pawar's faction. All MLAs are with us, says Ajit Pawar at a press conference organised after the meeting of NCP MLAs. Five MLAs could not attend the meeting due to personal reasons.
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Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath arrived for the NDA meeting at the Parliament and was greeted by author-philanthropist and Rajya Sabha MP Sudha Murty.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, Madhya Pradesh CM Mohan Yadav and other NDA leaders at Samvidhan Sadan (Old Parliament). Meeting of the NDA MPs to begin shortly.Newly elected MPs of the BJP-led National Democratic...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday was granted bail by a special court here in connection with a case filed by the BJP's Karnataka unit for issuing defamatory advertisements in mainstream newspapers. The advertisement ahead of Assembly polls last year accused the then BJP government in the...
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'400 Plus' was the slogan of Narendra D Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.The reality is the BJP is nowhere near the ambitious numbers it had set. In fact, Modi doesn't have the majority to implement some of his party's not so popular plans.There is also another...
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The Gandhi statue at which protests are normally held by MPs
The Congress on Friday alleged that statues of Mahatma Gandhi, B R Ambedkar and Chhatrapati Shivaji among others have been relocated within Parliament premises to ensure that Opposition parties cannot hold democratic protests, and said such stunts cannot save Prime Minister Narendra Modi's...
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Dinesh Sharma on Friday said that the entire opposition could not manage to win as many seats as the BJP did in the recent Lok Sabha polls and added that it is laughable that Congress which could not cross the 100 mark is celebrating.BJP is a cadre-based party,...
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An MP-MLA court in Sultanpur on Friday postponed the hearing in the 2018 defamation case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his alleged objectionable remarks targeting Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Gandhi's lawyer Kashi Prasad Shukla said due to the death of a lawyer, a condolence...
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World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus congratulated PM Narendra Modi on being re-elected as the prime minister after the Lok Sabha polls. Responding to his message, the prime minister thanked his friend Tulsi Bhai.Congratulations Prime Minister @narendramodi on your...
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Akhilesh Yadav at the INDIA block meet
After securing a big victory from Uttar Pradesh in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Samajwadi Party is now gearing up to cancel the membership of rebel MLAs who stood against the party in the Rajya Sabha elections and voted in favour of the BJP.According to sources in the Samajwadi Party, seven...
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Update: The Reserve Bank of India on Friday decided to keep the policy rate unchanged for the eighth time in a row, saying it will maintain a tight vigil on inflation. The rate increase cycle was paused in April last year after six consecutive rate hikes, aggregating to 250 basis points since May...
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RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das keeps the policy repo rate unchanged at 6.5%. This is the second monetary policy of this financial year, the first one after the high-stakes Lok Sabha election results. The RBI's rate-setting panel will observe the impact of global headwinds and climate shocks on...
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The NDA leaders
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the qualitative changes in India's education sector are reflected in the QS World University Ranking and his government will work on further boosting research and innovation in the third term. Over the last decade, we have focused on qualitative...
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Chandrababu Naidu and Nitish Kumar at the NDA meeting two days ago
JD(U) leaders begin arriving at the residence of Bihar CM and party leader Nitish Kumar for the party's Parliamentary Party meeting in New Delhi this morning. The party's newly elected MP from Bhagalpur Ajay Kumar Mandal says, I never think of becoming anything in the party. I am a soldier of the...
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The body of the watchman being carried out
A watchman died and more than 40 girl students were rescued after a fire broke out in a five-storey building that houses a hostel in Shanipar area of Maharashtra's Pune city in the wee hours of Friday, officials said. The incident occurred around 1.30 am, said Pune Municipal Corporation's chief...
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Newly elected MPs of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance will meet on Friday to elect Narendra Modi as their leader, paving the way for him to take oath as prime minister for a third term. The swearing-in is likely to be held on Sunday, sources said.After Modi is elected...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will appear before a special court in Bengaluru on Friday in connection with a defamation case filed by the Karnataka BJP for issuing allegedly defamatory advertisements in mainstream newspapers. The advertisement ahead of the assembly polls last year had accused...
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The owner of a construction firm and some others were booked on Thursday after a digital advertising board fell on a 62-year-old man in Malad area of north Mumbai, officials said. The incident happened around 8pm on Wednesday when the man and his son had gone to Liberty Garden, a Malad police...
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Saudi Arabia on Thursday announced the sighting of the crescent moon, marking the start of the month of Dhul Hijjah. This sighting confirms that the first day of Eid Al Adha will be on June 16. The Day of Arafah, the pinnacle of Hajj pilgrimage, will be observed on June 15. Arafat Day falls on...
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After the Congress leader Jairam Ramesh alleged that statues of Mahatma Gandhi, BR Ambedkar and Chhatrapati Shivaji were removed from their places of prominence in front of the Parliament, the Lok Sabha Secretariat said that the statues were respectfully moved to be installed in the grand...
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The father of teen Porsche driver in police custody/ANI Photo
The police booked the father and grandfather of the juvenile involved in the May 19 Porsche car crash in Pune, and three others, in a separate case related to abetment of suicide of a businessman's son in the city, an official said on Thursday. According to the police, a complaint in this regard...
