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23:12   To counter Shiv Sena's vada-pav, BJP proposes 'Namo tea stall'
In a bid to counter the Shiv Sena which has promoted 'Shiv' vada-pav eateries across Mumbai, BJP, its partner in the ruling alliance at the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, wants 'Namo tea stalls' on city roads.

'Namo' refers to the name of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "The concept was proposed by our corporator Prakash Gangadhare and we discussed it in our party meeting and endorsed it," BJP group leader in the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, Manoj Kotak said.

"The proposal has been forwarded to the MCGM commissioner. MCGM is finalising the list and details of the illegal hawkers in the city at present. So I suggested a slight modification (to the concept) that there should be no illegality while allotting these NaMo tea stalls," he said.

The opposition parties, however, have slammed the proposal.
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22:02   From 'Cong Vs all to BJP Vs all' is Modi's magic: Raman Singh
Heaping praise on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh today said he has changed the phenomenon of "Congress versus all in the Indian politics to all versus BJP", with his good work.
"Earlier, it was Congress versus all...Today, it is BJP on one side and all others are trying hard together on the other side. Still, they are not able to win. That is the magic of Narendra Modi," he said, addressing a meeting here to mark the NDA government's second year in office.
Giving out statistics, he said the BJP has more MLAs than Congress in the country and it is in power in 15 states, compared to eight ruled by Congress and its allies.
"You will keep on searching for Congress on India's map, but you are not going to find Congress," he said. 
He said for the first time in the country a prime minister is giving an account of his work.
Observing that Chhattisgarh and Telangana have "many similarities", including the problem of Naxalism, Singh said he is trying to overcome it in his state.
"(Telangana) overcame Naxalism. I am gearing up. Hopefully that will also be corrected with God's blessings."
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21:35   Trust in Pak in fighting terror "completely shaken": Rajnath
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said his trust in Pakistan on the issue of fighting terrorism has been "completely shaken" as the kind of support which India expected from it was not coming.
     
As the Modi government completed two years in office, Singh also made it clear that not allowing an the National Investigation Agency team to probe the Pathankot terror strike will amount to "betrayal".
In interviews to a news channels, the home minister touched upon various issues including the 2017 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and threats from the dreaded terror outfit Islamic State.
     
"My trust has been completely shaken. The kind of support which we should be getting from them(Pakistan) on the issue of terrorism, that is not happening. I do not have any hesitation in saying this," he said.
On Pathankot, he said it was mutually agreed "informally" by the two countries that once Pakistan's Joint Intelligence Team would visit India, an NIA team would be allowed. "We are awaiting that NIA team is allowed to visit Pakistan," he said.
"It is unfortunate (no action on Pathankot terror case). Those connected with Pathankot terror case must be punished," he said.
"I will not have any hesitation in saying that if our NIA team does not get permission to visit Pakistan then it will be betrayal. They should be allowed," he said.
"This has been discussed at secretary level also and this is the proposal from this side also that your team has come, our NIA should also go. We are waiting for response from Pakistan. Let us see what is the response from Pakistan," he added.
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21:18   Attack on Nigerian student in Hyderabad: Swaraj seeks urgent report
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today sought an urgent report from the Telangana government over an attack on a 23-year-old Nigerian student in Hyderabad, an incident that took place amid outrage by African
envoys here over killing of a Congolese youth.
Nigerian student Ghazeem sustained head injuries after a man in his neighbourhood hit him with a rod following a dispute over car parking on Wednesday.
External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup said Swaraj has urgently sought a report from the Telangana government on the incident.
"I have also asked Shri Amar Sinha Secretary ER (Economic Relations) of my Ministry to speak to Chief Secretary Telangana and monitor this," Swaraj tweeted.
Envoys of African countries on Thursday had expressed shock over killing of Congolese national Masonda Ketada Oliver in New Delhi last week following which India assured them of safety of African nationals.
"On reports of a Nigerian student injured in Hyderabad: EAM @SushmaSwaraj has urgently sought report from State Govt, is monitoring the case," Swarup tweeted.
According to Hyderabad police, an argument broke out between the Nigerian student Ghazeem, studying in a city college, and Gafoor, a resident of Singadabasti locality in Banjara Hills area, over car parking.
When Ghazeem refused to remove his car from outside Gafoor's residence, a scuffle broke out. After sometime Gafoor took out a rod and hit Ghazeem on his head resulting in injuries, a senior police officer said. 
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21:04   Britain offers to develop Pune, Indore, Amravati as smart cities
Britain will be collaborating with the state governments and the municipal authorities to develop Pune (Maharashtra), Indore (MP) and Amravati (Andhra Pradesh) into smart cities, British High Commissioner to India
Dominic Anthony Gerard Asquith said today.
The high commissioner, who met Maharashtra Governor Vidyasagar Rao at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai, said a centre of excellence on automobile skills will be set up in Pune.
Maharashtra would welcome cooperation from Britain in areas such as cleaning of rivers and water bodies, sewage treatment and management of solid waste, a Raj Bhavan spokesperson said quoting Rao.
Deputy High Commissioner of Britain in Mumbai Kumar Iyer was also present at the meeting.
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JUST IN: World number 5 Rafael Nadal has pulled out of French Open due to wrist injury 
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20:15   Dramatic act created by Cong in Malegaon blast probe: Rijiju
Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju today termed the earlier investigation in the 2008 Malegaon blast case as a "dramatic kind of act created by the Congress" and a "game plan to create communal divide".
"It was dramatic kind of act created by the Congress party. We would not like to interfere in the investigation," Rijiju said while speaking to reporters. 
He was replying to a question about the clean chit given by the National Investigation Agency to Sadhvi Pragya Thakur in the case.
The Supreme Court had told the NIA that its duty is not only to prosecute the case but also to bring the correct facts before the people, said the minister.
"That is what exactly the NIA has done. They have brought the facts before the people of India," he said.
"This (earlier probe) is a complete Congress game plan to create communal divide in the country," Rijiju said.
In a U-turn from the earlier case of the prosecution, the NIA on May 13 dropped all charges against Thakur and five others in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, while charges under the stringent MCOCA were dropped against the other ten accused, including Lt Col Prasad Shrikant Purohit. 
     
Seven people were killed in the September 29, 2008 blast at Malegaon, a town in north Maharashtra. 
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19:35   Now ride in Jaguar, Merc, Audi with Ola
Country's largest taxi aggregator Ola, which recently launched a riding offer at as low as Rs 6/km, today introduced luxury service Ola Lux in the city, under which a rider can choose from a slew of luxe cars.
The company said under the new scheme, a passenger can book a Jaguar, Merc, Audi, BMW, Fortuner, Honda Accord for a minimum fare of Rs 200 and charged at Rs 19/km. A ride time charge of Rs 2/min is also applicable, it said.

The new chic category is available across south Mumbai to begin with, and would be introduced to other parts of the city soon, Ola Chief Marketing Officer Raghuvesh Sarup said.

"With a growing number of young executives, entrepreneurs and professionals, the need for on-demand luxury sedans is growing tremendously in cities," Sarup said, citing the reason for introducing the service.
Founded in January 2011, Ola offers its services across 102 cities and has over 3,50,000 cabs and 1,00,000 autos and taxis under its platform. Its services include Ola Shuttle and Ola Share for daily commute and ride-sharing, respectively.
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19:31   Farooq Abdullah caught on phone during national anthem
National Conference president Farooq Abdullah was caught on camera speaking on his mobile phone while the national anthem was being played at the swearing-in ceremony of Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata.

In the nearly-one minute video doing the rounds on microblogging site Twitter, Abdullah is seen with the phone clutched to his ear and speaking while the national anthem is on.

WATCH the video here 
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19:07   Will ensure work on Ram temple starts this year-end: Swamy
BJP MP Subramanian Swamy on Friday said that one of his missions for the year is to ensure that work to build a Ram Temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya begins by December.


Swamy also said he will actively pursue the National Herald case that involved Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi among others. The case is currently pending before the courts.


He was speaking at an event organised by Bhartiya Kisan Abhiya in New Delhi. The BJP leader further said that he will take up issues related to the farm sector next year.
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18:36   At Mamata's swearing-in Kosha Mangsho, Luchi, Rosomalai for 'federal front'
Leaders of some non-BJP and non-Congress parties today suggested the formation of a "federal front" at the Centre to challenge the BJP and said they might sit together to discuss such a possibility.

Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, who took oath as the West Bengal Chief Minister for the second consecutive term, supported the idea saying she would cooperate if such a front was formed by "like-minded parties".

After the Mamata Banerjee was sworn-in, all the VVIPS were served an elaborate lunch at the refreshment section of the podium built for the ceremony on Kolkata's Red Road.

Waiters dressed in black and white served snacks, tea, coffee and cold drinks ahead of the swearing in.

Lunch comprised Bengali delicacies like Pulao, Luchi, Kosha Mangsho, Potoler Dolma, Machher Kalia and Rosomalai.


Lalu Prasad, who was here to attend the swearing-in ceremony, told reporters, "It is necessary to defeat the BJP as the party and Sangh Parivar are out to divide the country. There is no 'vikas' (development) under the Modi government." He said all "secular and like-minded" parties would have to sit together and discuss the formation of a front against the BJP.

National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah said there was a possibility of formation of a federal front at the Centre. "There are many like-minded parties and leaders and Mamata Banerjee is one of them," he said, adding "it is a great day for democracy and for the secular fabric of the country".

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, however was non-committal, saying, "We have come here to greet her. It's a great day for all of us and for democracy." Banerjee, when asked about such a front, said, "I am ready to cooperate if such a front is formed. We have to discuss it with like-minded parties".


Pic: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar tweets this picture at Mamata Banerjee's swearing-in ceremony. With him are Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and TMC MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay.
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That's the first broad gauge passenger train flagged off by the PM today that will run between Jiribam, Manipur to Silchar, Assam.
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17:51   Politicians must avoid comments on second term for Rajan: Assocham
As RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan faces heat from some sections of BJP, industry body Assocham on Friday said he has an "impeccable track record" and politicians should restrain from commenting on a second term for him and leave it for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to decide.

The post of the RBI Governor should not be dragged into avoidable controversies unless any serious offence has been committed by an incumbent, Assocham said in a statement.

The central bank, it said, has played a pivotal role in bringing about a macro-economic stability for India, making it the best among the emerging markets.

Surely, it is the prerogative of the government to appoint and re-appoint a person to the coveted position of the RBI Governor, but the kind of media statements being issued about Rajan by senior politicians do not augur well for the countrys financial system, which is passing through a challenging time because of unprecedented levels of stressed assets in the banks, the chamber said.
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17:27   Passenger trains, roads, football stadiums... PM promises north-east
Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off new passenger trains for the northeast and also laid the foundation stone for a football stadium 'Ampati' on Friday.

Speaking on the occasion, the Prime Minister said, "Today, we laid the foundation for a football stadium. We're aware about love the people of northeast, especially the people of Meghalaya, have for football."

He further said, "Football is a passion here, and is being played in every nook and corner of the state."

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Modi interacted with members of self help groups and laid focus on rural livelihood in north-eastern states.

Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu and Minister of State for the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region Dr. Jitendra Singh were among prominent leaders who were present on the occasion.

Earlier, addressing the valedictory session of the 65th plenary meeting of the North Eastern Council here, Prime Minister Modi said the government wants to bring the north-eastern region on a par with other regions of the country.

Meghalaya Governor V. Shanmuganathan, Chief Minister Dr. Mukul Sangma, and Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal were also present at the function
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17:20   Pt Nehru's vision, values will continue to inspire us: Rahul
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Friday remembered India's first prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his 52nd death anniversary and said his vision and values will continue to guide the nation.

"Remembering Nehruji today on his death anniversary," read a tweet posted by Rahul Gandhi's office.

"Nehruji's thoughts, his vision and the values he sought to uphold in his own political life and that of the nation will continue to guide and inspire us all," the tweet said further. The Indian National Congress ( INC) also went paid tribute to India's first and longest serving Prime Minister Pandit Nehru on his death anniversary.

"Pt Nehru, was a man of vision. He taught a young and independent India to be self confident & self-reliant," the Congress tweeted. Pandit Nehru was born on November 14, 1889, in Allahabad. In 1919, he joined the Indian National Congress and joined Mahatma Gandhi in the independence movement.

Pandit Nehru became the general secretary of the All India Congress Committee in September 1923. On August 29, 1928, he attended the All-Party Congress and was one of the signatories to the Nehru Report on Indian Constitutional Reform, named after his father Motilal Nehru.

The same year, he also founded the 'Independence for India League', which advocated complete severance of the British connection with India, and became its general secretary.

In 1929, Pandit Nehru was elected president of the Lahore Session of the Indian National Congress, where complete independence for the country was adopted as the goal.

He was imprisoned several times during 1930-35 in connection with the Salt Satyagraha and other movements launched by the Congress. Nehru, whose birthday on November 14 is also celebrated as Children's Day, was sworn-in as the first prime minister of India on August 15, 1947 when the nation gained independence from the British empire. Serving until his death till May 27, 1964, Nehru remains India's longest-serving prime minister.
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16:45   Complete transcript of Obama's Hiroshima speech
Seventy-one years ago, on a bright cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed. A flash of light and a wall of fire destroyed a city and demonstrated that mankind possessed the means to destroy itself.

Why do we come to this place, to Hiroshima? We come to ponder a terrible force unleashed in a not-so-distant past. We come to mourn the dead, including over 100,000 Japanese men, women and children, thousands of Koreans, a dozen Americans held prisoner.

Their souls speak to us. They ask us to look inward, to take stock of who we are and what we might become.

It is not the fact of war that sets Hiroshima apart. Artifacts tell us that violent conflict appeared with the very first man. Our early ancestors having learned to make blades from flint and spears from wood used these tools not just for hunting but against their own kind. On every continent, the history of civilization is filled with war, whether driven by scarcity of grain or hunger for gold, compelled by nationalist fervor or religious zeal. Empires have risen and fallen. Peoples have been subjugated and liberated. And at each juncture, innocents have suffered, a countless toll, their names forgotten by time.

The world war that reached its brutal end in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was fought among the wealthiest and most powerful of nations. Their civilizations had given the world great cities and magnificent art. Their thinkers had advanced ideas of justice and harmony and truth. And yet the war grew out of the same base instinct for domination or conquest that had caused conflicts among the simplest tribes, an old pattern amplified by new capabilities and without new constraints.

In the span of a few years, some 60 million people would die. Men, women, children, no different than us. Shot, beaten, marched, bombed, jailed, starved, gassed to death. There are many sites around the world that chronicle this war, memorials that tell stories of courage and heroism, graves and empty camps that echo of unspeakable depravity.Continue reading the main story.

Yet in the image of a mushroom cloud that rose into these skies, we are most starkly reminded of humanity's core contradiction. How the very spark that marks us as a species, our thoughts, our imagination, our language, our toolmaking, our ability to set ourselves apart from nature and bend it to our will -- those very things also give us the capacity for unmatched destruction.

How often does material advancement or social innovation blind us to this truth? How easily we learn to justify violence in the name of some higher cause.

Every great religion promises a pathway to love and peace and righteousness, and yet no religion has been spared from believers who have claimed their faith as a license to kill.

Nations arise telling a story that binds people together in sacrifice and cooperation, allowing for remarkable feats. But those same stories have so often been used to oppress and dehumanize those who are different.

Science allows us to communicate across the seas and fly above the clouds, to cure disease and understand the cosmos, but those same discoveries can be turned into ever more efficient killing machines.

The wars of the modern age teach us this truth. Hiroshima teaches this truth. Technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us. The scientific revolution that led to the splitting of an atom requires a moral revolution as well.

That is why we come to this place. We stand here in the middle of this city and force ourselves to imagine the moment the bomb fell. We force ourselves to feel the dread of children confused by what they see. We listen to a silent cry. We remember all the innocents killed across the arc of that terrible war and the wars that came before and the wars that would follow.

Mere words cannot give voice to such suffering. But we have a shared responsibility to look directly into the eye of history and ask what we must do differently to curb such suffering again.

Some day, the voices of the hibakusha will no longer be with us to bear witness. But the memory of the morning of Aug. 6, 1945, must never fade.

That memory allows us to fight complacency. It fuels our moral imagination. It allows us to change.And since that fateful day, we have made choices that give us hope. The United States and Japan have forged not only an alliance but a friendship that has won far more for our people than we could ever claim through war. The nations of Europe built a union that replaced battlefields with bonds of commerce and democracy. Oppressed people and nations won liberation. An international community established institutions and treaties that work to avoid war and aspire to restrict and roll back and ultimately eliminate the existence of nuclear weapons.

Still, every act of aggression between nations, every act of terror and corruption and cruelty and oppression that we see around the world shows our work is never done. We may not be able to eliminate man's capacity to do evil, so nations and the alliances that we form must possess the means to defend ourselves. But among those nations like my own that hold nuclear stockpiles, we must have the courage to escape the logic of fear and pursue a world without them.

We may not realize this goal in my lifetime, but persistent effort can roll back the possibility of catastrophe. We can chart a course that leads to the destruction of these stockpiles. We can stop the spread to new nations and secure deadly materials from fanatics.

And yet that is not enough. For we see around the world today how even the crudest rifles and barrel bombs can serve up violence on a terrible scale. We must change our mind-set about war itself. To prevent conflict through diplomacy and strive to end conflicts after they've begun. To see our growing interdependence as a cause for peaceful cooperation and not violent competition. To define our nations not by our capacity to destroy but by what we build. And perhaps, above all, we must reimagine our connection to one another as members of one human race.

For this, too, is what makes our species unique. We're not bound by genetic code to repeat the mistakes of the past. We can learn. We can choose. We can tell our children a different story, one that describes a common humanity, one that makes war less likely and cruelty less easily accepted.

We see these stories in the hibakusha. The woman who forgave a pilot who flew the plane that dropped the atomic bomb because she recognized that what she really hated was war itself. The man who sought out families of Americans killed here because he believed their loss was equal to his own.

My own nation's story began with simple words: All men are created equal and endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Realizing that ideal has never been easy, even within our own borders, even among our own citizens. But staying true to that story is worth the effort. It is an ideal to be strived for, an ideal that extends across continents and across oceans. The irreducible worth of every person, the insistence that every life is precious, the radical and necessary notion that we are part of a single human family -- that is the story that we all must tell.That is why we come to Hiroshima. So that we might think of people we love. The first smile from our children in the morning. The gentle touch from a spouse over the kitchen table. The comforting embrace of a parent. We can think of those things and know that those same precious moments took place here, 71 years ago.

Those who died, they are like us. Ordinary people understand this, I think. They do not want more war. They would rather that the wonders of science be focused on improving life and not eliminating it. When the choices made by nations, when the choices made by leaders, reflect this simple wisdom, then the lesson of Hiroshima is done.

The world was forever changed here, but today the children of this city will go through their day in peace. What a precious thing that is. It is worth protecting, and then extending to every child. That is a future we can choose, a future in which Hiroshima and Nagasaki are known not as the dawn of atomic warfare but as the start of our own moral awakening.
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16:35   Modi govt 'decisive', will fulfil all promises by 2019: Shah
Asserting that the Modi government had infused hope across all sectors with its "decisive" rule, BJP President Amit Shah today said it had laid a strong foundation in its two years and will fulfil all its promises before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.


"In two years it has laid a strong foundation. In next three years a strong building of development will be raised. I am sure when we go the people again for votes in 2019, we would have fulfilled all our promises," he said.

Presenting the government's two-year report card at a press conference here, Shah also pitched the party's "good" performance in the Assembly polls as the people's mandate on rows over Rohith Vemula suicide and JNU issue and took on Congress, saying those who raised them are "nowhere". Asked if the party had decided to put a stop to controversial issues like ones seen weeks ago over Rohith Vehumla's death and the JNU incident, he said, "People have already done it".

He noted that the assembly polls were held in the wake of these rows and targeted Congress. "Those who raised these issues are nowhere," he said, a reference to its poor show. Referring to a number of assembly polls the party fought under him since it came to power, Shah said people put their stamp of approval on the central government's performance whenever they got a chance as he noted that it formed governments in five states for the first time and preformed better than earlier everywhere.

The Modi government had infused hope across all sectors after, he alleged, the UPA's 10-year-rule left behind empty treasury, policy paralysis, demoralised bureaucracy, despondent masses and a state of hopelessness.

The government has struck a balance between reforms and public welfare and got success, he said. He cited a string of figures, including the highest ever urea and power production, highways construction, FDI inflow, forex reserve in 2015-16, besides pro-poor and farmers schemes to underline his point. Starting tomorrow, 30 BJP teams, comprising ministers and party office-bearers, will travel across more than 200 destinations to hold events to publicise the government's "achievements".
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16:23   Ian McKellen on Shakespeare and sexuality
On the bard's longevity, playing Prospero in an app, coming out on radio, and staying private. The legendary Ian McKellen in this must-read interview. Read
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16:10   NIA extends custody of IM operative Siddibapa
A Delhi court extends by seven days the NIA custody of Indian Mujahideen key operative Abdul Wahid Siddibapa.

The NIA arrested Siddibapa, a senior member of terror outfit Indian Mujahideen, from the IGI airport in Delhi, last week. Abdul Wahid Siddibapa, son of Siddibapa Mohaddin, is a resident of Maqdoom Colony in Bhatkal, Karnataka. He is also said to be a distant relative of Indian Mujajideen chief in India Yasin Bhatkal, who is presently in jail.

Abdul was wanted in the conspiracy by Indian mujahideen to attack various places in India. He was based in Dubai and had been involved in recruitment for IM in India and also funded their activities from Dubai.
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15:49   PM congratulates Mamata: Looking forward to working closely with WB
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today congratulated Mamata Banerjee on taking oath as the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the second time and said he looked forward to working closely with her government for the state's growth.

"Congratulations to @MamataOfficial ji & her team on taking oath. Looking forward to working closely with the WB Govt for the state's growth," Modi tweeted. His tweet came shortly after 61-year Banerjee was sworn in as the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the second consecutive time, heading a 42-member ministry.


She was administered oath of office and secrecy by state Governor Keshri Nath Tripathi at the sprawling Red Road. Trinamool Congress secured a major victory in the recent Assembly polls, bagging 211 out of the 294 seats, higher than last time's score of 184.
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Narendra Modi @narendramodi  Congratulations to @MamataOfficial ji & her team on taking oath. Looking forward to working closely with the WB Govt for the state's growth.
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15:32   There will be a Cabinet reshuffle, Amit Shah confirms
There will be a reshuffle in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet, confirmed BJP chief Amit Shah today, but refused to say when.

"There will be a reshuffle, but a date is not certain," Shah said at a press conference at the party's Delhi headquarters.

There has been speculation for some time now about major changes in the union cabinet, which was fueled by an hour long meeting that Prime Minister Modi held with Shah last week.

With the BJP focused on the crucial Uttar Pradesh elections to be held early next year, more leaders from the state are expected to be given place in the Modi cabinet. Shah is also expected to announce a new team of party office-bearers and recast the BJP's decision-making bodies and that will impact the contours of the cabinet, since the ruling party favours only one post per person.
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15:17   Kin seeks recall of transfer of officer probing Pansare case
Medha Pansare, daughter-in-law of rationalist and CPI leader Govind Pansare who was shot dead last year, has sought cancellation of the transfer of the officer investigating the case stating that it would "adversely impact" the probe.

Medha met Inspector General of Kolhapur Range, Prakash Mutnyal, yesterday and requested him to cancel the transfer order of inspector Amrit Deshmukh, attached to Rajarampuri police station in Kolhapur. According to Medha, the IG assured her that he would give a serious thought on her request. Pansare (82) and his wife Uma, were shot at by two unidentified persons on February 16 last year near their house in Kolhapur.

He died four days later at a hospital in Mumbai, while his wife survived the attack.
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15:15  
#CaughtOnCam Farooq Abdullah talking on phone during the national anthem at Mamata Banerjee's oath taking ceremony.

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14:53  
'Poet' Kapil Sibal's new composition @KapilSibal  tweets:

Modi's ' jumlas '
a cruel joke
on all those who survive
on ' hope '

two years gone by
our ' hopes ' belied
now know he took us
for a ride
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14:52  
Betrayal in Muzzafarnagar: A profile of the survivors of mass communal violence. Read more
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14:40  
President Obama speaking to some of the survivors now. Obama, however, did not apologise. 
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14:36   Obama@Hiroshima: We shall not repeat the evil
Obama walked to the Peace Memorial Park, accompanied by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Both men stood in front of the eternal flame. Obama laid his wreath first, followed by Abe.

Highlights of Obama's speech:

-- We have made choices that give us hope.

-- Every act of aggression, terror shows us that our work is never done.
-- Japan and US forged a friendship.
-- We must change our mindset about war itself. We are not bound to repeat the mistakes of the past.
-- We come to Hiroshima to think of people we love. The comforting embrace of a parent, the touch of a spouse across the kitchen table, the smile of a child first thing in the morning.
-- Those who died at Hiroshima are like us. The world was forever changed here.
-- We shall not repeat the evil

Many in the US believe the use of the nuclear bomb, though devastating, was right, because it forced Japan to surrender, bringing an end to World War Two.

Japan PM Shinzo Abe speaking now says this tragedy must not be repeated again.
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14:20   Obama@Hiroshima: Memory of August 6, 1945 has never faded
In Hiroshima, Obama and Japan PM Shinzo Abe lay wreaths at the Hiroshima memorial. Speaking on the occasion, the US president said, "In the span of a few years some 60 million died. Our abilities give us the capacity of unmatched destruction. The memory of the morning of August 6, 1945 has never faded."
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14:13   Manchester United appoint Mourinho as manager - club
Manchester United have appointed Jose Mourinho as their manager, the Premier League club said on Friday. The 53-year-old Portuguese replaces Dutchman Louis van Gaal whose two-year reign at Old Trafford ended on Monday, two days after United lifted the FA Cup.
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14:05   Obama arrives in Hiroshima, 1st US prez to visit A-bomb site
US President Barack Obama has arrived in Hiroshima, becoming the first sitting US president to visit the site of the first nuclear bombing nearly 71 years after the city was obliterated. Soon after assuming the office of President, Obama showed his commitment to nuclear disarmament when he delivered a speech in Prague on April 5, 2009. It was not a surprise that after this speech, Obama was chosen for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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13:51   Gitmo clone plan in Kashmir
The Centre has asked the Jammu and Kashmir government to build a separate high-security prison like the one at Guantanamo Bay or Gitmo in Cuba to house convicted terrorists from Pakistan and those facing trial in terror cases, fearing they may indoctrinate and radicalise other prisoners.

Union home ministry sources said the decision to set up a separate prison in Srinagar was taken recently and it was communicated to chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, who heads the PDP-BJP coalition government in the state. Read more
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13:40  
And another death. Army jawan killed fighting terrorist infiltrators at Kupwara, J-K. Number of terrorists killed now stands at 4. Operation still on. The Army soldier identifier as Havildar Hangpan Dada of Arunachal Pradesh. Hangpang was 36 years old. Leaves behind his wife & children: daughter, 11 and son, 7.
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13:27   PM in Shillong
PM Narendra Modi being welcomed by the people of Meghalaya, on his arrival at Shillong. The PM is likely to announce development initiatives for Meghalaya and highlight the achievements of his government in the last two years.
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13:05   Watching Didi
Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapati Raju, Fin min Arun Jaitley and Bhutan PM Tshering Tobgay at Mamata Banerjee's swearing-in ceremony.

Rahul Gandhi @OfficeOfRG tweets: Congratulations to @MamataOfficial ji on being sworn in as Chief Minister.My best wishes to her & the Cabinet for the term ahead.
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Trinamool MLAs take a cue from AIADMK MLAs -- touch Mamata Banerjee's feet after they are sworn in.
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13:01   Rajan's reappointment should not be of media's interest: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the issue of reappointment of RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan was an administrative subject and it should not be an issue of interest of the media, in his first comments in the wake of continuing attack on the top economist in recent months.

"I don't think this administrative subject should be an issue of interest to the media," Modi said. "Besides, it will come up only in September," he told The Wall Street Journal, referring to the three-year term of Rajan which ends in September. "Do you support the reappointment of Mr Rajan, the central bank governor?" the Prime Minister was asked. As an outspoken RBI Governor, Rajan has expressed his views on host of issues, including intolerance and has even described India as 'one-eyed king' in the land of blind in reference to the country's high economic growth. B


JP MP Subramanian Swamy has levelled allegations against Rajan including of sending confidential and sensitive financial information around the world and asked the Prime Minister to sack him immediately.


The BJP leader also accused Rajan of publicly disparaging the Modi government and alleged that he is a member of "a US dominated group" that was set up to defend America's dominant position in the global economy.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said RBI and the government are in continuous dialogue and that relationship will continue. Jaitley also said that he does not approve of "personal comments" against anyone including the RBI Governor.
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12:51   Mamata takes oath as CM in the name of Ishwar and Allah
Mamata Banerjee takes oath in Bengali in the name of Ishwar and Allah immediately after the national anthem is played. This is her second term as the chief minister of West Bengal. 41 MLAs will be sworn in today.

The local units of the Left, Congress, BJP have boycotted the ceremony over multiple attacks on party workers after the Trinamool victory.

Officials said an elaborate security cover has been arranged for the function around 1,000 policemen will be deployed on Red Road. This is the first time a chief minister will take oath on Red Road in an event "open to the public".

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and MoS for Urban Development Babul Supriyo will represent the Centre at the ceremony.
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12:40   Thanda Thanda Cool Cool, Charidike Trinamool on Mamata's D-Day
Mamata Banerjee arrives for the swearing-in ceremony. Huge cutouts of Mamata at the venue. Supporters cheering Ms Banerjee shout, "Thanda Thanda Cool Cool, Charidike [everywhere] Trinamool."
The ceremony is being held at Red Road, now renamed Indira Gandhi Sarani.

Pic: The crowd at Mamata Gandhi's oath taking ceremony tweeted by  ‏@Sougata_Mukh.
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12:16   SRK, Big B, Ambani to witness Mamata's swearing-in today
In a few minutes from now, Mamata Banerjee will be sworn in as the chief minister of West Bengal for the second term.

At the high decibel event will be a galaxy of Bollywood and Tollywood stars, and VVIPs. Kolkata Mayor Sovan Chatterjee, former Indian cricketer Laxmi Ratan Shukla and noted singer Indranil Sen will be among 18 new faces to be sworn in as ministers.

Bhutan Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay is the guest of honour at the ceremony.

The strength of the ministry would be 42, including the chief minister, Banerjee announced on Thursday, after submitting the list to Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi at the Raj Bhavan.

There are three women and seven members from the Muslim community in the ministry, which will be sworn in on the arterial Indira Gandhi Sarani (Red Road), where arrangements have been made for thousands of people to watch.

Apart from Tobgay, who is already in the city, Bangladesh Industry Minister Amir Hossain Amu, union ministers Arun Jaitley and Babul Supriyo, Chief Ministers Arvind Kejriwal (Delhi), Akhilesh Yadav (Uttar Pradesh), Nitish Kumar (Bihar), and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah have already confirmed their presence in the ceremony, said Banerjee.

Industrialist Mukesh Ambani and actors Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and OM Puri  are among the 140 VVIPs who will be present Representing the Union government will be finance minister Arun Jaitley, parliamentary affairs minister Venkaiah Naidu and minister of state for urban development Babul Supriyo.

A couple of chief ministers from BJP-run state may also attend. The ministry's fresh entrants include former Marxist-turned-Trinamool Congress lawmaker Abdur Rezzak Mollah, Suvendu Adhikary, Sovandeb Chattopadhyay, Churamoni Mahato, Tapan Dasgupta, Siddiqullah Chowdhury and Asima Patra. Two retired IPS officers Abani Joardar and James Kujur, Gulam Rabbani, Bachchu Hansda, Jakir Hossain, Sandhyarani Tudu, Shaymal Santra and Rabindranath Ghosh are the other new inductions.

File pic of Mamata Banerjee with Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan.
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12:07   IAS officer who praised Nehru transferred
A senior bureaucrat in Madhya Pradesh has been transferred after he praised former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on Facebook. Ajay Singh Gangwar has now deleted his post on Thursday after the post went viral on internet. The ruling BJP says he has been penalized because he violated a basic rule - bureaucrats are not meant to share political affiliations.

"He has violated code of conduct. If in the name of freedom of speech, we will insult the system, that is wrong," said Vishwas Sarang of the BJP. Read more
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11:55   Trump agrees to debate with Bernie Sanders on payment of USD 10 mn
Agreeing to engage in a one-on- one debate with Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has sought USD 10 million charity from the news channel who would be hosting the event. The money, he said, would be given to various charity or non-governmental organisations working in the field of women's health issues or something.


"I'd love to debate Bernie. He's a dream," Trump told reporters in Bismarck, North Dakota, after he secured enough delegates to clinch the Republican presidential nomination. "I think it would get very high ratings. It would be in a big arena." "So what we can do, if we can raise for maybe women's health issues or something '" if we can raise 10 or 15 million dollars for charity, which would be a very appropriate amount. I understand the television business very well," Trump said.


In the last one year, a television debate with Trump has been receiving a record viewership. Sanders, a Senator from Vermont, is running far behind Democrat front-runner Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic nomination for the presidential election.


A day earlier on the "Jimmy Kimmel Love" Sanders campaign was given a chance to ask Trump a question. Sanders asked if he was ready for a debate with him. "Yes, I am. How much is he going to pay me? If he paid a nice sum toward a charity, I'd love to do that," Trump said on Wednesday night.
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11:52  
Former J-K CM Omar Abdullah takes on the Mehbooba Mufti government. "Empathise with CM over circumstances in which the government was formed. The government lacks direction and was formed under compulsion."
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11:38   2 security personnel injured in gunbattle in Baramulla
Two soldiers were today injured in an encounter between militants and security forces in Tangmarg area of Kashmir's Baramulla district. The gunbattle broke out after security forces launched a search operation in Kanchipora village of Tangmarg, 35 kms from Srinagar, following information about presence of two militants in the area, a police official said.

Two security personnel were injured in the encounter which began at 6.30 am, he said, adding the gunbattle was on when reports last came in.
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11:30   Obama at Hiroshima: What to watch for
US President Obama arrives in the southern Japanese city late afternoon Friday, with plans to lay a wreath at the saddle-shaped cenotaph in the Peace Memorial Park before delivering short reflections.

From a distance, Obama will take in the iconic A-bomb dome, a building skeleton that's come to represent the scale of destruction the bomb imparted.He's also expected to meet some survivors of the blast, most of whom were young children at the time their city was destroyed and at least 140,000 lives were lost.

It wasn't yet clear, however, the extent to which Obama would interact with the Hibakusha survivors, many of whom made loud calls for a presidential audience.Obama's subdued trip to Hiroshima is expected to last less than three hours. 

Click on this link to see the pictures of the devastation of Hiroshima.
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11:25   Obama to make history with Hiroshima journey
President Barack Obama is set to make history today as he travels to Hiroshima -- becoming the first sitting US leader to visit the site that ushered in the destructive power of the nuclear age. The trip comes more than seven decades after the world was first shown the potential keys to its own destruction when an American plane, the Enola Gay, dropped its payload, dubbed "Little Boy" over the western Japanese city.


The bombing claimed the lives of 140,000 people, some of whom died immediately in a ball of searing heat, while many succumbed to injuries or radiation-related illnesses in the weeks, months and years afterwards.


The US dropped a second bomb on the city of Nagasaki three days later. Coming in Obama's final year in office, the visit also marks seven years since he used his trademark soaring rhetoric to call for the elimination of atomic arms in a landmark speech in Prague that helped him win the Nobel Peace Prize. And while the world today appears no closer to that lofty vision, Obama is expected to use the symbolism of his presence in Hiroshima to call attention to present dangers.


"I want to once again underscore the very real risks that are out there and the sense of urgency that we all should have," he told reporters yesterday at a Group of Seven summit in Japan.
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11:21   Haryana top cop's shocker, says common man can kill criminals!
KP Singh, the Director General of Police ( DGP) of Haryana has said that the common man, when threatened, has the right to take law into his own hands and dole out justice, by taking a criminal's life.


"If someone insults a woman or tries to kill a person, then the law empowers a common man to kill that person. This is not just the powers vested in the police, if someone is insulting any mother and sister, if somebody tries to immolate a house or shop, or if someone tries to kill a person in front of you, then a common man has been empowered by the law to kill that person," Singh said in a function here.


"A common man should understand his responsibilities. The police are responsible but people should also understand," he added.
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11:08   SC declines to hear NEET ordinance, states can go ahead with entrance exams
The Supreme Court refuses to stay the NEET ordinance, says state can go ahead with their medical entrance examination. The court says staying the ordinance will create confusion among students.


This means states will continue with exams for admissions to MBBS, BDS courses. "Let the petition be listed on reopening," says SC adding, "let there be some certainty for students."

The ordinance that was deferred by a year has come up for hearing in the Supreme Court over the conduct of the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) from 2016.

Health activist Anand Rai, known for exposing the Vyapam scam -- an admission and recruitment scandal in Madhya Pradesh -- on Thursday filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the centre's decision to promulgate the ordinance.

The petition that sought the quashing of the ordinance questioned the centre's flip-flop on the issue. The centre had initially accepted the apex court's order and later partially reversed it through the ordinance.

The centre's decision was in violation of Section 14 (right to equality), Section 21 (right to life) in terms of its arbitrary character and with regards to the students who would suffer irreparably because of the constantly changing stand by the centre, the petition stated. 
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10:34   Lok Sabha Speaker's new car is a Jaguar worth Rs 48.25 lakh
Indian Express reports: The new official car of Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan is a white Jaguar XE Portfolio costing Rs 48.25 lakh. 

The Lok Sabha Secretariat cited security reasons to purchase the luxury sedan, which was delivered at the Speaker's official residence in Delhi on Monday.

So far, Mahajan has been using a Toyota Camry as her official vehicle. 

Read more HERE 
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10:29   Infiltration bid foiled in Nowgam; 4 terrorists, 1 soldier killed
Four terrorists and one soldier have been killed, as army foiled an infiltration bid in north Kashmirs Nowgam sector.

The operation is still underway.

Troops guarding the Line of Control intercepted a group of five to six terrorists, who were trying to sneak into this side, near Toot Mari Gali in Naugam sector on Wednesday evening, an Army official said.

He said the troops of 35 Rashtriya Rifles challenged the infiltrating terrorists who opened fire, triggering a gunbattle between the two sides.
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10:22   Encounter on in Tangmarg to flush out 2 terrorists
Mukhtar Ahmad reports: An encounter between a group of terrorists and security forces is underway in Tangmarg in north Kashmir's Baramulla district.

The gunfight started early Friday after troops of Rashtriya Rifles, Central Reserve Police Force and police jointly surrounded Kotchipora village near Tangmarg on specific information about presence of two terrorists in a house.

"A fierce gunfight is on," a senior police officer said.

More reinforcements have been rushed to the encounter site. 
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10:21   Navy woman officer molestation case: Parrikar seeks report
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has sought a report on the allegations of molestation made by a female doctor of the Indian Navy against her senior.

On this issue I am not going to keep quiet. I have checked up and asked the Navy to look into it. I will see to it that fairness is maintained. The board has been constituted, the officer has been sent on leave and once the report is submitted , we shall take a call, Parrika said.

In her complaint, the junior officer has accused her senior, a Surgeon Commander by rank, of having twice attempted molesting her over successive days earlier this month. The first instance allegedly took place inside the residence of Indian Navy Chief of Personnel Vice Admiral AR Karve, where the duo had gone to treat the admiral's ailing mother. 

The accused Surgeon Commander was posted at INS India, the establishment looking after administrative and logistical requirements of the navy in the national capital. He was recently recognised for his meritorious service by the leadership of the Indian Navy.
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09:49   Google beats Oracle in $9 billion Android trial
A US jury has handed Google a major victory in a long-running copyright battle with Oracle Corporation over Android software used to run most of the world's smartphones.

The jury unanimously upheld claims by Google that its use of Oracle's Java development platform to create Android was protected under the fair-use provision of copyright law, bringing trial to a close without Oracle winning any of the $9 billion in damages it requested.

Oracle said it saw many grounds to appeal and would do so. 

"We strongly believe that Google developed Android by illegally copying core Java technology to rush into the mobile device market," Oracle General Counsel Dorian Daley said in a statement.

Alphabet Inc's Google in a statement called the verdict "a win for the Android ecosystem, for the Java programming community, and for software developers who rely on open and free programming languages to build innovative consumer products."

The trial was closely watched by software developers, who feared an Oracle victory could spur more software copyright lawsuits.
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09:46  
Suspended JDU MLC Manorama Devi's bail plea rejected by district judge in Gaya.
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09:01   Modi ministers on UP visit from today for 'NDA outreach' program
Several union ministers including Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Health Minister JP Nadda, Human Resource Development minister Smriti Irani will be visiting various cities of Uttar Pradesh from Friday as part of the outreach programme by the Narendra Modi-led government.

Through these visits there will be an effort to make a direct contact with people and to communicate them the pro public welfare measures being taken by the Narendra Modi government.

Union ministers and senior BJP leaders will participate in the 'Vikas Parv', the celebratory programmes being organised at various places in UP on completion of two years of NDA government at the Centre.

Jaitley will come to Lucknow today whereas health and family welfare minister JP Nadda will go to the Prime Minister's constituency Varanasi, while Irani will be visiting Gorakhpur.

In the coming days ministers like Suresh Prabhu, Ravishankar Prasad, Narendra Tomar, DV Sadanand Gowda and various others are scheduled to visit Uttar Pradesh, the state which is going to polls next year.
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08:59   PM Modi to flag-off Mizoram's first broad-gauge passenger train today
Mizoram will launch its first broad-gauge passenger train on Friday between Bairabi and Silchar stations. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag-off the train through video conferencing, a media report said.

A trial run of the train was conducted on May 24 and 25 to check the operability of the tracks under the supervision of Railways Safety Commissioner SK Pathak, the Assam Tribune quoted a railway official as saying.

The train will pass through Katakhal in Cachar before reaching Silchar.

Mizoram's first broad-gauge freight train had commenced on March 21 when it reached the Bairabi Railway Station from Guwahati, carrying 2,600 metric tonnes of rice.

Before the rail tracks were built, the National Highway 54 was the only lifeline linking Aizawl with the rest of the country. The rail services will be a major boost for the state's economy.
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08:56   Bangladesh gifts jamdani sari, 20 kg hilsa for Mamata
Bangladesh has sent a special jamdani sari, 20 kg hilsa fish and molasses for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee which will be presented to her by a senior minister at the swearing in ceremony today.

Industries minister and senior leader of ruling Awami League Amir Hossain Amu will represent Bangladesh at the installation of Banerjee for the second term. 

"We are sending her 20 kilograms of hilsha fish and our famous molasses of Jessore as a mark of greetings along with jamdani sari," junior minister for foreign affairs Shahriar Alam told newsmen.
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08:46   Indian American kids sweep Spelling Bee
Indian American kids continued their domination in the Spelling Bee with Jairam Hathwar and Nihar Janga emerging as the co-champions of the Scripps National Spelling Bee competition. 

This is the third year in a row there have been co-champions. 

The runner-up was Sneha Ganesh from Sacramento, California

While Nihar spelled the word 'gesellschaft' correctly, Jairam got 'Feldenkrais' right.

Jairam is the second sibling pair to win the bee. Last year, Vanya Shivashankar became the cochampion; her sister Kavya won in 2010.

While Jairam said, "It was just insane, I don't even know how to put it in words...", his co-champion Nihar was speechless.

"I'm just speechless. I can't say anything. I'm only in fifth grade," Nihar said.
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08:31   Mamata to take oath as Bengal CM along with 41 ministers today
Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee will be sworn in as West Bengal chief minister for a second term today at a ceremony to be held at the metropolis' famous Red Road, an arterial link road.

An elaborate security cover has been thrown with around 1,000 policemen keeping a hawk eye on Red Road. This is for the first time that a chief minister will take oath on Red Road.

Among the 41 MLAs there will be 17 new faces. 

Besides Kolkata Mayor Shovan Chatterjee, former Indian cricketer Laxmi Ratan Shukla and singer Indranil Sen, the new faces in the ministry include Abani Mohan Joardar, former IPS officer, Abdur Rezzak Mollah, who quit CPI-M ahead of assembly polls, Shovandeb Chattopadhaya, Suvendu Adhikari, Rabindranath Ghosh, Churamani Mahato, James Kujur, Siddikullah Choudhury, Asima Patra, Ghulam Rabbani, Zakir Hossain, Sandhya Rani Tudu, Tapan Dasgupta and B Hansda.
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08:15  
Tripura's Left Front government removes Indian history from Class IX history textbooks altogether under the new social science syllabus.
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02:35   Lost WWII submarine found with 71 bodies on board
A long lost British Second World War submarine that vanished 73 years ago has been found with 71 bodies of crew off the coast of Italy. The 1,290 tonne vessel was found by a diving team at a depth of 100 metres, close to the island of Tavolara, off the northeast coast of Sardinia.

The submarine vanished without a trace around Janaury 2, 1943 and is believed was hit by a mine in the Gulf of Olbia."Immediately I thought of the destiny of the men who met their deaths down there. It was a fate shared by so many men, submariners in particular, fighting on all both sides of the conflict," diving team leader Massimo Domenico Bordone told Italian media.

The submarine had left Malta on December 28, 1942 for its first mission to destroy two Italian battleships when they lay anchor at the port of La Maddalena.
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02:10   Three suspected Chhota Shakeel men arrested for extortion
Three suspected associates of gangster Chhota Shakeel were today arrested by the anti- extortion cell of Mumbai crime branch for threatening a builder. Faisal Juneja, Hanif Shaikh and Mohamad Mansuri have confessed to the crime, a senior crime branch official said.

The complainant had purchased a warehouse at Masjid Bunder from Faisal and Hanif in February, but had not got its possession, police said. Faisal's father allegedly told the complainant that Chhota Shakeel, the fugitive gangster, had asked them not to give him the possession.

The complainant then asked Faisal and Hanif to return his money. The duo allegedly threatened him with dire consequences and said he would receive a call from Chhota Shakeel. 

On May 3, the complainant received a call from an international number in Europe, but he didn't answer it.
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01:02   Boy 'thrashed', stripped naked in Delhi; 4 arrested
A 16-year-old boy was allegedly thrashed by a group of boys, stripped naked and subjected to unnatural sex in southwest Delhi's Inderpuri area. 

The incident took place on Monday, but it was reported to the police yesterday, following which four persons have been arrested, a police official said. "The boy was thrashed by the group and the perpetrators were drunk.

 A case of criminal assault and wrongful confinement has been registered in connection with the matter and four persons arrested from a slum cluster in the area," DCP (Southwest) Surender Kumar said today. He, however, said "the medico-legal counselling report of the boy doesn't suggest any sexual assault." 

A purported video of the incident, allegedly recorded and circulated by the group, surfaced this evening. In the video, a boy can be seen being beaten up, with his hands and legs tied. He can be seen screaming as the others try to push beer bottles through his rectum. The police said the video is yet to be verified.

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00:13   Eight killed after jeep falls in gorge in Uttarakhand
At least eight people were killed and five others injured after the jeep they were travelling in fell into a gorge near Rangtolion the Chamoli-Lassi road on Thursday.

Five people died on the spot, while three died on their way to a hospital.The dead included school teachers and the driver of the Jeep. All the injured have been airlifted to Dehradun for treatment.

Their condition was said to be critical.Among the injured, most of them are teachers, who were on their way back home in Chamoli and Gopeshwar after duty in their schools.

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