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A five-judge constitution bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai, and Surya Kant said Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India’s sovereignty and that it does not have any right that is not available to the other states of India. The court said Article […]

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Telangana BJP legislator T Raja Singh has refused to be administered his oath by AIMIM’s Akbaruddin Owaisi, who was appointed by the protem speaker of the state assembly. Singh, who won from Goshamahal in last month’s assembly elections, said none of the BJP lawmakers would take oath. In a video message, he said he would […]

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Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra has been expelled from the Parliament after Ethics Panel’s recommendation over cash-for-query row. Opposition INDIA bloc leaders questioned the Lok Sabha Ethics Panel recommendation for expelling Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, and accused the BJP-led government of doing “vendetta politics”. The report was tabled in the Lok Sabha today amid an uproar […]

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Anumula Revanth Reddy, President of Telangana Congress, will take oath as the new Chief Minister of Telangana in a grand ceremony at Hyderabad’s LB Stadium today. Uttam Kumar Reddy, Sridhar Babu, Ponnam Prabhakar, Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, Damodar Rajanarasimha, Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy, Dana Anasuya, Tummala Nageswar Rao, Konda Surekha and Jupally Krishna Rao are the twelve […]

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A DMK MP’s ‘Gaumutra states’ remark in Parliament has added fuel to the ‘North vs South’ debate that has been raging since the BJP’s poll wins in the heartland states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh and the Congress’s victory in Telangana. The BJP’s critics claim it is the Hindi heartland where its ideology finds […]

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The results of Assembly polls yesterday show that “people have rejected negativity”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said this morning, urging the Opposition “not to vent the frustration of defeat” inside the Parliament. The Prime Minister was addressing the media ahead of the Winter Session of Parliament. “I request all MPs to come to Parliament with […]

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The BJP national leadership is expected to make the announcement soon about the new Rajasthan chief minister. There are five contenders for the post, including former chief minister Vasundhara Raje. Daughter of founding BJP leader Vijayraje Scindia and sister of the late Congress leader Madhavrao Scindia, Vasundhara Raje started her political career in 1984 as a […]

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As the BJP zoomed ahead of the Congress in the Madhya Pradesh election trends, Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia responded to a jab taken by Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra at his height. Responding to NDTV’s question on the BJP’s stellar show in the Gwalior Malwa region, seen as his area of influence, Scindia said, “Someone […]

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Just hours before Telangana went to polls, Andhra Pradesh took charge of the Nagarjuna Sagar Dam and began releasing water, leading to tensions between the two states. At around 2 am on Thursday, when most Telangana officials were busy with the polls, nearly 700 Andhra cops stormed into the project and opened the right canal […]

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Exit polls that predicted a primacy of Congress in Chhattisgarh and Telangana and that of the BJP in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, have been hotly contested by both camps in states they were predicted to lose. While exit polls are known to get it wrong many a time, their predictions proved a touchy topic in […]

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The White House National Security Council spokesperson, John Kirby, stressed on Friday that the US continues to improve its strategic partnership with India. On the other side, he added that the US “takes this very seriously,” referring to the indictment by the US Department of Justice against an Indian in an alleged foiled assassination plot. […]

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Rescuers have pulled out all 41 workers trapped for 17 days inside a collapsed Uttarakhand tunnel after rat miners drilled through the debris, triggering jubilation. The focus will now be on what led to the collapse and why the rescue took so long. The 41 workers were pulled out yesterday after a 17-day rescue operation […]

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US President Joe Biden said Friday’s release of a first group of hostages taken by Hamas was just a “start” and that there were “real” chances to extend a temporary truce in Gaza. Speaking to reporters in Nantucket, Massachusetts, where he was spending the Thanksgiving holiday with his family, Biden also said it was time […]

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Amid the reported outbreak of H9N2 cases and clusters of respiratory illness in children in northern China, Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital Director Dr Ajay Shukla advised people to be careful, follow routine practices of cleanness and if there’s someone who has got this respiratory illness or infection they should try to maintain distance from other […]

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A Qatar court has accepted India’s appeal against the death penalty to eight former Indian Navy personnel, who were handed the sentence last month in an alleged case of espionage. Sources said that the Qatari court will set a hearing date after examining the appeal. According to reports, the eight men were arrested in August […]

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Israel and Hamas agreed to a four-day truce that would see the Palestinian group release dozens of hostages taken on October 7, both sides announced Wednesday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet approved the accord after a near-all-night meeting, in which he told reticent ministers this was a “difficult decision but it’s a right decision.” […]

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The Supreme Court came down hard on the Punjab and Delhi governments Tuesday – and offered a measure of support to farmers from the former state – as it continues a marathon hearing into a clutch of petitions about the toxic air that blankets and chokes the national capital every winter. A bench of Justices […]

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Bangladesh is likely to step up heat on two “self-confessed killers” of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and ensure their extradition to Dhaka soon after results are declared for the national election by the end of January 2024. This theory, claim diplomatic sources in New Delhi, will work if the ruling Awami League returns to power in […]

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday announced that he will launch a state-wide movement if the Centre does not grant special category status to the state “at the earliest”. The JD(U) leader, who has been demanding special status for many years, said the state needs this in order to move forward. “If the Centre […]

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Pakistan cricket great Abdul Razzaq triggered a huge controversy as he insulted Indian actress Aishwarya Rai while critcising the performance of Babar Azam’s men in the Cricket World Cup 2023. Razzaq’s comments triggered a huge storm on social media that saw him earn plenty of flak, not just from fans but also from a few […]

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Cracks are now more prominent in the Opposition’s INDIA alliance with Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav questioning why the previous Congress-led governments did not conduct caste census when they were in power. Yadav’s comment highlights the differences between the two parties that are part of the mega Opposition front seeking to put up a united […]

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Oberoi Hotels’ patriarch Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi passed away on November 14 morning, leaving behind a legacy of impeccable hospitality. The former executive chairman of EIH Limited, The Oberoi Group flagship, is known as the man who changed the face of the hotels business in India. “In addition to providing leadership for the management of […]

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The air quality in Delhi and nearby cities reached hazardous levels a day after Diwali with the widespread violation of the firecracker ban across the National Capital Region (NCR) on Sunday raising pollution concerns. Most realtime air monitoring platforms this morning pegged the air quality index (AQI) above 500, with some places reaching as high […]

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Delhi’s air quality plummeted to the ‘severe plus’ category again, making the national capital the most polluted city in the country today. The real-time Air Quality Index (AQI) is over 500 in different parts of the capital. At noon, the highest level was recorded at the Wazirpur monitoring station in Delhi, reporting an AQI level of […]

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