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Haryana Bharatiya Janata Party vice president G L Sharma joined the Congress on Sunday with more than 250 office bearers and several workers of the BJP and other organisations also taking membership of the Congress along with Sharma, the Congress said in a statement.Sharma was the chairman of the...
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Olympic wrestler Bajrang Punia, who joined the Congress, has received a threat message over WhatsApp warning him with dire consequences, police said on Sunday.Punia has filed a complaint at Bahalgarh police station in Sonipat.A police official said they received a complaint from Punia after which...
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Rejecting reports that he was travelling to the United States of America to meet some top leaders there, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Sunday clarified that it was purely a personal visit with the family.The DCM has also released to the media a letter that he wrote to AICC...
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Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former MLA Gopaldas Agrawal on Sunday said he was leaving the saffron party and joining the Congress on September 13.Addressing a press conference, the former MLA from Gondiya said he was leaving the BJP with a heavy heart as its policies were not...
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UPDATE: No final decision has been taken on the alliance with the Congress for the October 5 Haryana assembly polls yet, sources in Aam Aadmi Party said on Sunday.The last date to file nominations is September 12.The talks are underway but there is no final decision yet, said an AAP...
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Devotees read out the Preamble of the Constitution after aarti at a Ganesh pandal in Maharashtra's Jalna district, with one of the organisers on Sunday saying the novel move was aimed at fostering democratic principles and national unity as well as make people aware of their fundamental rights.By...
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The Joint Committee of Parliament meetings on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill have turned out to be a battleground for contesting claims, as several government bodies have accused Waqf boards in the country of laying ownership on properties belonging to them and drawn sharp counterclaims. Opposition...
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The Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party have finalised a seat-sharing arrangement for the October 5 Haryana assembly polls with the latter agreeing to contest on five seats, party sources said on Sunday. Sources in the Aam Aadmi Party said the alliance might be forged on Monday. Talks between...
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Wrestler and Congress candidate Vinesh Phogat on Sunday said she expects to win each battle with the blessings of people as kicks off her campaign for the upcoming assembly election. Phogat (30) has been fielded from the Julana assembly segment for the upcoming assembly poll. Polling in Haryana...
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A man who recently travelled from a country experiencing mpox transmission has been identified as a suspected case of the disease, the Union health ministry said on Sunday. The patient has been isolated at a designated hospital and is currently stable, it said, adding that there is no cause for...
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The BJP on Sunday released a list of 10 candidates for the Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls, fielding RS Pathania from Udhampur East and Naseer Ahmad Lone from Bandipora. The three-phase elections to the 90-member Jammu and Kashmir assembly will be held on September 18, September 25 and October...
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Senior RSS functionary Indresh Kumar on Sunday asserted there should be no man lynching and no cow lynching, in order to ensure that people from different faiths lived together in peace.Talking to reporters here, the national executive member also said the RSS stood by the views expressed by its...
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Actor Vikas Sethi, best known for TV shows such as Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, Kahiin To Hoga, and Sasural Simar Ka, died in Nashik on Saturday night in his sleep following a cardiac arrest. He was 48. According to his wife Jhanvi Sethi, they were in Nashik to attend a family function.After...
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday asked the residents of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) to come and join India as we consider you as our own unlike Pakistan which treats you as foreigners.Addressing an election rally in the Ramban assembly constituency in support of Bharatiya Janata Party...
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The coupling of Magadh Express from New Delhi to Islampur broke, splitting the train into two between Twiniganj and Raghunathpur railway stations in Bihar's Buxar district on Sunday, officials said.No one was injured in the incident which occurred at around 11.08 am between Twiniganj and...
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Manipur CM N Biren Singh met Governor L Acharya along with more than 20 MLAs on Sunday morning amid the fresh bout of violence in the state, officials said.Singh reached the Raj Bhavan along with the MLAs around 11 am, they said.The meeting lasted about an hour, after which they left Raj...
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Bollywood actors Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh welcome a baby girl on Sunday, as per media reports.The couple are yet to make an official announcement.Earlier, on Saturday, the actress was spotted at the H Reliance Hospital in the Girgaon area of Mumbai.
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Actor and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief Vijay announced on Sunday that the Election Commission of India has officially registered his party and granted it permission to participate in electoral politics.Vijay would be the president of the party, which he said would face the 2026 assembly...
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National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Sunday said the Bharatiya Janata Party top brass was focussing its election campaign on Jammu as they want to intimidate the Hindu voters of Jammu and Kashmir by creating false fears.He also accused the BJP of misleading the people by claiming that...
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The well-marked low-pressure area in the Bay of Bengal has turned into a depression, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Sunday.As per an IMD bulletin, the depression was located at a distance of about 310 km east of Kalingapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), 260 km east-southeast of Gopalpur...
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National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval will visit Russia this week for talks on achieving a peaceful resolution to the Russia-Ukraine war, according to several media reports.This comes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Russia and Ukraine in the past two months.Modi has been...
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The Northern Railway has initiated the process of accepting the resignation of wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia, with both players expected to be relieved as early as possible, railway sources said on Sunday.Both Punia and Phogat recently joined the Congress and the latter has been given...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi began his first visit abroad as the Leader of the Opposition Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, as he arrived in the US city of Dallas. Taking to Facebook social media platform, the senior Congress leader wrote, I am truly delighted by the warm welcome I've...
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A massive fire broke out at a garment factory in the Bakawala area of west Delhi on Sunday, a Delhi Fire Services official said. The official said there were no reports of any injuries.We received a call about the fire at 6:55 am. At least 26 fire tenders were rushed to the spot and attempts to...
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Noting that society doesn't like rifts in families, Nationalist Congress Party leader and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar said he had already admitted his mistake, an apparent reference to the electoral contest between his wife Sunetra and cousin Supriya Sule in recent Lok Sabha...
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India and China can play a role in finding a solution to the dragging conflict in Ukraine, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Saturday after holding talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The Italian prime minister's comments at northern Italy's Cernobbio city came two...
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The death toll in the building collapse in Lucknow climbed to eight with rescuers pulling out three more bodies from the debris, officials said on Sunday. Twenty-eight people were injured when the three-storey building housing godowns and a motor workshop collapsed in the Transport Nagar area in...
