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One out of five members in the new Council of Ministers of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that was sworn in on Sunday evening is from the Rajya Sabha.The Council of Ministers in Modi 3.0 has 13 members from the Upper House of Parliament, while 57 are newly-elected MPs from the Lok Sabha.Two of the...
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With a 72-member Council of Ministers taking oath on Sunday in the third term of the Modi government, it is only nine short of the maximum permissible strength of 81 and six less than the maximum of 78 ministers the Modi government had between 2019 and 2024.The Modi government had touched the...
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Bharatiya Janata Party's National Democratic Alliance partners have got five cabinet ministerial berths in the third term of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as against none in the outgoing government, given the party's dependence on allies for a majority in the Lok Sabha.While the outgoing council...
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Aam Aadmi Party leader Somnath Bharti, who had earlier vowed to shave his head if Narendra Modi becomes prime minister again, on Sunday refused to make good on his promise.Bharti said Modi's third term was not solely his own but rather a result of consolidated efforts of allies part of the...
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The first meeting of Narendra Modi 3.0's cabinet is likely to be held on Monday evening at the Prime Minister's Lok Kalyan Marg residence, sources said. The newly inducted ministers would meet at Modi's residence at 5 pm. BJP president J P Nadda also hosted a dinner for those inducted...
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Seven women, including two in the Cabinet role, have been inducted into the new council of ministers in the 18th Lok Sabha.There were 10 women ministers in previous council of ministers, which dissolved on June 5.Those who were dropped include former Union Minister Smriti Irani, Minister of State...
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Pilibhit MP Jitin Prasada takes oath.The BJP replaced sitting Pilibhit MP Varun Gandhi with Prasada, a former Congress leader.
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Shehla Rashid, the one-time student leader who was a ferocious critic of the government and is now a vocal supporter of it, was there too. She put out a post on X saying, Honoured to join in, with prayers for the progress of the nation... #Modi3.0.
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Political veterans and debutants, business leaders and showbiz stars, almost everybody who is anybody in India, and many who are not... more than 8,000 people packed into the Rashtrapati Bhavan forecourt on Sunday as Narendra Modi was sworn in as prime minister for a third consecutive term.As the...
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Shivraj Singh Chouhan takes oath
Amit Shah, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Jyotiraditya Scindia, and CR Paatil are among the newly inducted Cabinet Ministers who figured in the list of top 10 leaders who won the Lok Sabha polls with a considerable margin.Former Madhya Pradesh CM and six-time Vidisha MP Chouhan won from his constituency...
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Suresh Gopi takes oath
He was trolled during the Lok Sabha poll campaign, but despite the tactics by his rivals, action hero Suresh Gopi rose to national stardom in cinema style on June 4, winning the Thrissur seat on a BJP ticket and scripting history for the saffron party in Kerala. In other words, the...
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The Adanis next to Akshay Kumar with Mukesh Ambani standing behind
Congratulating Prime Minister Narendra Modi for taking oath for the third time on Sunday, India Inc said it looks forward to bolder reforms and measures to foster economic development and lay the foundation for 'Viksit Bharat'. Narendra Modi was sworn in as Prime Minister at the...
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The foreign delegates at the Rashtrapati Bhavan forecourt
Top leaders from India's neighbourhood and the Indian Ocean region including Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu, Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' and Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Sunday graced the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Union...
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RLD Chief Jayant Singh Chaudhary sworn in.
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BJP leader Hardeep Singh Puri sworn in.Puri, 72, was a minister for housing and urban affairs and petroleum and natural gas in the outgoing Modi 2.0 government.
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BJP leader Dr Mansukh Mandaviya takes oath.The 51-year-old leader from Gujarat helmed the implementation of the world's largest COVID-19 vaccination programme in the country when he was health minister.
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LJP (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan sworn in. Notice the tricolour handkerchief in his jacket? A total of five LJP (Ram Vilas) MPs won the Lok Sabha elections in Bihar: Veena Devi, Arun Bharti, Shambhavi Choudhary and Rajesh Verma and Chirag Paswan.
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BJP leader Annapurna Devi from Jharkhand sworn in as Union Minister in the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government
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Rijiju won the fourth term from the Arunachal West Lok Sabha seat.
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BJP leader Ashwini Vaishnaw takes oath. Bureaucrat-turned-politician Ashwini Vaishnaw, who was known for his efforts for the railway sector reforms and establishment of the public-private partnership model in infrastructure projects, was inducted into the Union Cabinet again.
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BJP leader Giriraj Singh sworn in. Narendra Modi's third term did not come with the massive mandate he and his party had been claiming, as the Congress and its allies in the INDIA bloc fought a doughty rearguard battle to shock the BJP in its strongholds such as Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.
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BJP leader Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia sworn in as Union Minister. His attire is all about symbolism -- the cap is nod to his mother, Madhavi Raje's roots; she hails from the royal family of Nepal, while the orange cravat is of course symbolic of the saffron party. ...
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Two-time chief minister and five-time MLA JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy has once again demonstrated his political acumen by bagging a seat in the union council of ministers, despite his party joining the BJP-led NDA just last year. Since the time of its founding in 1999, the JD(S) has...
20:09
BJP leader Dharmendra Pradhan sworn in as Union Minister.
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Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) founder Jitan Ram Manjhi takes oath as a Union Cabinet Minister
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Alliance partner JDU gets Rajiv Ranjan (Lalan) Singh into the Union Cabinet Minister.
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BJP leader Sarbananda Sonowal takes oath as a Union Cabinet Minister
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi was sworn in for a third consecutive term at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Sunday. Along with Modi, senior BJP leaders Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari and Amit Shah also took oath as cabinet ministers, while party president J P Nadda returned to the cabinet...
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BJP leader Piyush Vedprakash Goyal sworn in as Union Minister.
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BJP leaders Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Sarbananda Sonowal, Rajiv Ranjan (Lalan) Singh, JP Nadda, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Dharmendra Pradhan, Piyush Goyal, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat & Mansukh Mandaviya are present at the Forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan for...
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BJP leader Dr S Jaishankar takes oath as a Union Cabinet Minister.
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BJP leader Nirmala Sitharaman takes oath as Union Cabinet minister.
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BJP leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan sworn in as Union Minister.
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BJP leader Amit Shah takes oath as a Union Cabinet minister.
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BJP leader Nitin Gadkari takes oath as a Union Cabinet Minister.
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JP leader JP Nadda takes oath as a Union Cabinet minister in the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government at Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi
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Rajnath Singh takes oath as a Cabinet Minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet.
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That's an image of the mammoth gathering at the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan as Narendra Modi was sworn-in for the third term.Around 1,100 traffic police personnel of the Delhi Police have been deployed and an advisory has been issued to the public for the traffic movement route arrangements...
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The oath of office and secrecy was administered by President Droupadi Murmu to the Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi and his Cabinet.
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Narendra Modi takes oath for the third consecutive term as the Prime Minister of India.
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Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and his wife Sudesh Dhankhar arrive at the Forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan.
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Narendra Modi with Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah acknowledge the cheers that ring out.
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Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi arrives at the Forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhavan, to take oath for the third consecutive term.
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Nepali PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina, Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Mauritius PM Pravind Jugnauth and Vice President of Seychelles Ahmed Afif attend.
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Actors Shah Rukh Khan and Akshay Kumar greet each other.
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Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe is ushered in.
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Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth arrives at the Rashtrapati Bhavan with his family.
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Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani along with his son Anant Ambani. The Ambanis are just back from Anant's second pre-wedding bash in Europe.
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge at the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi as the prime minister. Behind him are the Ambanis and SRKAn invite was sent to Kharge and Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi for the ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. None of the Opposition...
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Sarbananda Sonowal with Amit Shah and Nitin Gadkari at the Forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
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Bhutan PM Tshering Tobgay arrives at Rashtrapati Bhavan for the oath ceremony.Top leaders from India's neighbourhood and the Indian Ocean region, including Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu, Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' and Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe,...
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Did the forecourt arrive for Rajinikanth or did the superstar just reach the Rashtrapati Bhavan?
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Actor Shahrukh Khan and Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani along with his son Anant Ambani (not in picture) at the ceremony.
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BJP leader Rajnath Singh attends the oath ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan
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A ponytailed Shahrukh Khan behind the Adanis at the forecourt.
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The MP-elect from Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, Kangana Ranaut arrives. Adani group chairman Gautam Adani, his wife greet Shahrukh Khan at the oath ceremony.
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And that's Amit Shah with his back to the camera greeting guests at the forecourt.
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And of course, that's Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath at the Forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
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Nitin Gadkari, the minister who has crisscrossed India with swanky highways, arrives.
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And that's actor Vikrant Massey and filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
18:37
Manipur CM & BJP leader N Biren Singh arrives at Rashtrapati Bhavan to attend the oath ceremony of the new government.
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PM Modi will take the oath of office at 7.15 pm today along with his council of ministers in a ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. As the VVIPs begin filling up the place, among the film fraternity who have arrive are: Anil Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, actor Vikrant Massey and film-maker Rajkumar...
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BJP leaders Nirmala Sitharaman, Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Ashwini Vaishnaw at Rashtrapati Bhavan for the oath ceremony of the new government
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BJP MP-elect Shivraj Singh Chouhan along with his wife arrives at Rashtrapati Bhavan for the oath ceremony of the new government
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BJP leader Hardeep Singh Puri arrives at the Rashtrapati Bhavan for the oath ceremony.
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On PM-designate Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony, actor Anil Kapoor says, I just want the country to prosper.
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Two guests at the oath ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhavan show a picture of PM-designate Narendra Modi with his mother Heeraben Modi printed on a piece of cloth. Several leaders and state heads in the neighbourhood and Indian Ocean region have been invited for PM Modi's swearing-in ceremony as...
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Guests have started to arrive to attend the oath-taking ceremony of PM-designate Narendra Modi at Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi in golf buggies.
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BJP leader Dr S Jaishankar at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. With him (left) is his wife, Kyoko.
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Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) founder Jitan Ram Manjhi on the stage at the oath-ceremony of PM-designate Narendra Modi at Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi.Modi will take the oath of office at 7.15 pm today along with his council of ministers in a ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
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Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina paid a courtesy call to Bharat Ratna and veteran BJP leader LK Advani at the latter's residence in New Delhi. Sheikh Hasina is here for the Modi 3.0 swearing-in ceremony.
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NCP leader Praful Patel said the party was offered a minister of state (independent charge) but turned it down since he has been a cabinet minister the Union government.I was earlier a Cabinet minister in the Union government, so this will be a demotion for me. We have informed the BJP leadership...
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Rewarding the BJP's coalition partners in the southern states, Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi is set to induct several MPs from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana into his Council of Ministers, sources said on Sunday.Modi will on Sunday take oath for a third consecutive term as prime minister,...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi hit out at Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi on Sunday over the NEET-UG medical entrance row, saying the alleged irregularities in the examination have devastated more than 24 lakh students even before he takes oath for a new term in office. Gandhi...
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The swearing-in ceremony for the first BJP government in Odisha has been rescheduled from June 10 to June 12, party leaders Jatin Mohanty and Vijaypal Singh Tomar confirmed here on Sunday. Mohanty explained that the postponement was due to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's...
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A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court, seeking directions to the Centre and the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to submit a detailed report into the stock market crash on the day of election results on June 4, when investors lost billions of rupees. The plea, filed by...
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About 50 people from the transgender community have been invited to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi and the new cabinet of ministers to them give blessings. Before the ceremony, BJP MP and former Social Justice and Empowerment minister...
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Former Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik's close aide VK Pandian on Sunday announced retirement from active politics after the Biju Janata Dal suffered an embarrassing defeat in both Lok Sabha and assembly elections.
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BJP leaders and former Union Minister Smriti Irani, Anurag Thakur, and Rajeev Chandrasekhar are likely to be omitted from the Modi 3.0 cabinet.Going by the visual of the meeting Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi held with his likely council of ministers, Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala...
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Sunday thanked Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi for including him in his Council of Ministers for the third consecutive time.Modi will on Sunday take oath for a third consecutive term as prime minister, along with members of his...
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Ahead of the oath-taking ceremony of Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi and his council of ministers, the lone BJP MP from Kerala, Suresh Gopi, on Sunday left for New Delhi with his family.Reacting to queries from reporters while rushing to the Thiruvananthapuram international airport, Gopi...
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Odisha's outgoing chief minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik on Sunday congratulated TDP leader N Chandrababu Naidu for his party's success in the recently concluded elections.Taking to X, Patnaik said, Spoke with Shri N Chandrababu Naidu Ji (@ncbn) and congratulated him on his stupendous...
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Former Karnataka Chief Minister and Janata Dal-Secular leader H D Kumaraswamy is likely to take oath Sunday evening as a minister in the Union Cabinet, party sources said. While the portfolio allocation is yet to be confirmed, the JD-S, which has won two seats in the recent Lok Sabha...
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The mortal remains of media baron and Ramoji Group chairman Ramoji Rao, were consigned to flames near Hyderabad on Sunday.The funeral was held with full state honours at Ramoji Film City, with his son Kiron lighting the pyre.Ramoji Rao, who revolutionised the news and entertainment industry, died...
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The southwest monsoon reached Mumbai on Sunday, two days earlier than usual after making an early onset over Kerala and northeastern region on May 30, according to the India meteorological department (IMD). Last year, the primary rain-bearing system reached Delhi and Mumbai together on June...
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Congress president and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, received an invite to attend Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony on Sunday. Kharge will attend in his capacity as the Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha, the Congress...
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Just In: Bhutan PM Tshering Tobgay arrives in Delhi to attend swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi.
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Security has been beefed up in parts of New Delhi in view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony on Sunday, officials said. A multi-layer security arrangement involving five companies of paramilitary personnel, NSG commandoes and snipers have already been deployed around...
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Drug firm Lupin is recalling over 51,000 bottles of a generic antibiotic medication in the US market due to a defective container, according to the American health regulator. The US-based arm of the drug maker is recalling 51,006 bottles of Cefdinir for Oral Suspension (250 mg/5 mL) due to...
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The Joint Entrance Exam (JEE)-Advanced results were announced Sunday morning, with Ved Lahoti from IIT Delhi zone bagging the top rank by securing 355 out of 360 marks. A total of 48,248 candidates have qualified the exam for admission to IITs out of which 7,964 are female. According to...
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Actor Rajinikanth on Sunday left Chennai for Delhi to attend the swearing-in ceremony of PM-designate Narendra Modi. Narendra Modi will be sworn in as PM consecutively for the third time. This is a very big achievement. My wishes to him. People have also elected a strong opposition in this...
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Some newly elected MPs, who are likely to be sworn-in as Union ministers in the third NDA government on Sunday, have been called for a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence at 11.30 am. Sources said a top BJP functionary has called the BJP MPs for the meeting without...
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Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu arrived in Delhi on Sunday morning to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi. It is Muizzu's first visit to India after he became the island nation's president in November last year. The Maldivian president is among...
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Thane and Palghar districts of Maharashtra witnessed heavy rains overnight, leading to water-logging in some areas, officials said on Sunday. There were reports of tree branches falling in some areas of Thane city, they said. In the 24-hour period ending at 8.30 am on Sunday, Thane city...
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Telugu Desam Party's (TDP) two newly elected MPs are set to be part of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance, the N Chandrababu Naidu-led party confirmed on Sunday. Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, 36, son of TDP leader and former Union Minister Yerran Naidu, will become the youngest-ever Union...
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As stringent security measures come into play on the day of the swearing-in ceremony of the prime minister, the Delhi traffic police has advised the public to go through their advisory due to some diversions on the significant day. DCP Traffic Police Prashant Gautam said, Approximately 1100...
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Taiwan's ministry of national defence reported on Sunday morning a significant presence of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft and People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) vessels operating in close proximity to its territory. According to the ministry, as of 6 am today, a total of 9...
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Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi visited Rajghat, the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi, on Sunday, marking the beginning of the day of his swearing-in ceremony with tributes to the Father of the Nation. Modi is set to begin his third straight term as prime minister. President Droupadi...
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