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As the high drama unfolded in Rajasthan Sunday evening after a group of Congress MLAs loyal to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot reached the assembly speaker's residence to submit their resignation ahead of a legislature party meeting, party's senior leader Ajay Maken said that party's interim...
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Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi has declined the central government's proposal to be appointed as the next attorney general for India. Rohatgi was set to be appointed as the fourteenth attorney general of India replacing the incumbent KK Venugopal. Asked about his decision to decline the...
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The Centre has withdrawn incentives and special allowances given to IAS, IPS and IFoS officers working in the north eastern regions with immediate effect, an official order said. A special allowance payable to the officers belonging to north-east cadres of all India services while they are...
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High drama unfolded in Rajasthan on Sunday evening as a group of Congress MLAs loyal to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot headed to the assembly speaker's residence to submit their resignation ahead of a legislature party meeting which was likely to pick his successor. The development suggested a...
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Uttarakhand DGP Ashok Kumar on Sunday assured the family of the receptionist allegedly murdered by a BJP leader's son that police will produce enough evidence in court to hang her killers. Nineteen-year-old Ankita Bhandari was killed near Rishikesh allegedly by her employer and her body was...
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Two Social Democratic Party of India functionaries were arrested on Sunday in connection with petrol bomb attack on the premises of BJP and Hindu Munnani leaders in Coimbatore. The arrests were made after prolonged technical investigation, intelligence inputs and going through CCTV footage...
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A boat carrying Hindu devotees to centuries-old Bodeshwari Temple capsized in the Korota river in northwestern Bangladesh on Sunday, killing at least 24 people, including women and children, while over a dozen remained missing, officials said....
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The Kerala government has extended the tenure of former diplomat Venu Rajamony as its officer on special duty by one year, according to an official order. Rajamony, former India's ambassador to the Netherlands, had assumed the charge as the OSD to the Kerala government for external...
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The Pune police on Sunday added the sedition charge in connection with the alleged raising of pro-Pakistan slogans during a protest organised by the Popular Front of India in the city, officials said. The police had registered a case against 60-70 suspected PFI activists for unlawful...
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav on Sunday met Congress president Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi in a bid to unite Opposition parties to take on the BJP in the 2024 general elections. The meeting at Gandhi's 10 Janpath residence is being...
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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday said a one-line resolution stating all Congress legislators have full faith in the party president's decision on his successor is likely to be passed during the legislature party meeting this evening. Gehlot said he had held different...
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Twenty Bangladeshi nationals have been arrested in Goa for allegedly staying illegally without any valid documents, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Sunday. Speaking to reporters here, Sawant said the arrests were made in different...
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The Bandipora police attached the residential house of one person after it was proved that the said house was used for the purpose of terrorism, sheltering, and harbouring terrorists, said Kashmir police press release on Sunday. The said house was...
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The results of the Common University Entrance Test for admission to postgraduate programmes will be announced on Monday, according to UGC chairman Jagadesh Kumar. National Testing Agency will declare CUET-PG results on 26 September (Monday) by 4 pm, required for post-graduate admissions in...
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Ahead of the Rajasthan Congress legislature party meeting on Sunday, many party MLAs and party leaders have reached the residence of state minister S Dhariwal. Our opinion is that Ashok Gehlot should continue as CM. He can handle both responsibilities (party president & CM),' said...
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As several opposition leaders came together on one stage in Fatehabad in Haryana, NCP supremo Sharad Pawar on Sunday said the time has come for everyone to work towards ensuring a change of the government at the Centre in 2024. Referring to the stir against the agri laws, he said farmers...
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A batch of 55 Sikh and Hindu refugees stranded in Afghanistan will land in New Delhi on Sunday evening, AAP MP Vikramjit Singh Sahney said. The Rajya Sabha MP said the ministry of external affairs had earlier granted this last batch of refugees e-visas and their repatriation was facilitated...
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Tamil Nadu has deployed about 20,000 policemen for security in southern districts of the state amid petrol bomb attacks in various parts of the state. Night patrolling has also been intensified while security increased at the homes, offices and places of important people, said South zone IG...
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Six persons, including three police constables, have been booked in connection with the alleged suicide of a constable posted at Kamasin police station in Banda, Uttar Pradesh, an official said on Sunday. ...
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Filmmaker Ayan Mukerji on Sunday announced that the team of Brahmastra Part One: Shiva will be offering the film's tickets at Rs 100 for the next four days to mark the Navratri festival. In an Instagram post, the filmmaker said the new scheme is a result of the team's experience during the...
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Senior Congress leader and Kerala MP Shashi Tharoor will file nomination for the post of party president on September 30, said sources on Sunday. Tharoor is approaching delegates from various states soon. He has taken 5 sets of nomination papers, for which he will need 50 delegates as...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday greeted the people on the occasion of Mahalaya. On Mahalaya, we pray to Maa Durga and seek her divine blessings for our people. May everyone be happy and healthy. May there be prosperity and brotherhood all around. Shubho Mahalaya! tweeted PM...
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President Droupadi Murmu will visit Karnataka from September 26 to 28 to attend a host of programmes, according to a statement issued by the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Sunday. This will be her first visit to any state as the President of India, it said. She will inaugurate the Dasara...
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Two terrorists were killed near the Line of Control in Machil sector of Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district on Sunday, the police said. The identification of the terrorists was being ascertained. Army and Kupwara Police neutralised two #terrorists near #LoC Tekri Nar in Machil area of...
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Six Indian Air Force officers have been charged with murder after a trainee cadet, against whom a court of inquiry was initiated, was found hanging, a police officer said. According to the police, Ankit Jha (27) was found hanging in one of the rooms of Air Force Technical College...
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In the wake of widespread violence in Kerala allegedly by Popular Front of India activists two days ago, country-made bombs were thrown at the residence of one of the members of its political offshoot SDPI in Kannur on Sunday. The incident occurred at Panur area of the northern Kerala...
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Amid the ongoing fracas over the viral video doing rounds on the web for alleged Pakistan zindabad slogans in a Popular Front of India protest in Pune, the Bharatiya Janata Party's Pune president Jagdish Mulik will meet the city's police commissioner on Sunday. The BJP...
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Amid continuing incidents of Sangh Parivar activists' properties being targeted in the wake of NIA raids against the Popular Front of India, the Tamil Nadu police on Sunday warned of slapping the stringent National Security Act against those indulging in such acts. A release from the office...
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In a major drug haul, a joint team of Assam Rifles and Zokhawthar police recovered 5,05,000 tablets of methamphetamine worth Rs 167.86 crore in Mizoram, officials said on Sunday. The drugs weighed around 55.80 kgs. The officials also detained...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday announced that the Chandigarh airport will now be named after Shaheed Bhagat Singh as a tribute to the great freedom fighter. In his Mann Ki Baat radio broadcast, Modi also said that climate change is a major threat to marine ecosystems and that the...
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Karnataka's former chief minister SM Krishna has been admitted to a hospital in Bengaluru after he developed acute respiratory tract infection. Krishna is on minimal respiratory support and in a cheerful frame of mind, said Manipal Hospital, where he has been admitted on Sunday...
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The Punjab Governor today approved a second special assembly session after bitter exchanges with the Chief Minister over his duties.The Hon. Governor, Punjab, has very kindly acceded to our request and summoned the Punjab Vidhan Sabha to meet for it's third session on 27.9.2022 at 11.00 AM at...
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Family members of the 19-year-old receptionist Ankita Bhandari murdered in Uttarakhand have refused to perform her last rites We won't conduct her last rites until her post-mortem report is given. We saw in her provisional report that she was beaten up and was thrown in a river. But we're...
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader Mithun Chakraborty on Saturday claimed that 21 Trinamool Congress MLAs of West Bengal are in touch with him. Addressing a press conference, the Bollywood star who joined the BJP ahead of last year's assembly elections said he stood by what he said in July -- 38...
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Describing Russia as a major partner in many domains, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said discussions with his counterpart Sergey Lavrov focused on bilateral cooperation as well as the conflict in Ukraine. We discussed a number of issues. Some part of my meeting was focused on...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday attacked the Centre over the issues of price rise and unemployment, alleging that the BJP-led government is not for farmers, youth and women but for the five-six richest Indians. PM often asks- '70 saal mein kya kiya?' We never gave India the...
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A meeting of the Congress Legislature Party in Rajasthan will be held at Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's residence in Jaipur on Sunday evening, amid the leadership change buzz following the announcement that he will contest the party president poll. Congress president Sonia Gandhi has...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday that no rhetoric, however sanctimonious, can ever cover up blood stains and asserted that nations who defend proclaimed terrorists in the United Nations neither advance their own interests nor their reputation, in a clear signal to China and...
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