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After winning Himachal Pradesh, the Congress has called a meeting of its MLAs today to tackle its next challenge – deciding on a Chief Minister. It won’t be easy; the Congress has at least four candidates to choose from. The meeting will take place at Radisson hotel in Shimla at 3 pm. The frontrunner is […]

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A victory under his belt in Himachal Pradesh, Congress’s Sachin Pilot, the party in-charge of the state, said that the “myth” of the BJP’s invulnerability in north India is over. Gujarat, he said, was “different”. Asked about the possibility that the Congress victory in Himachal is the fallout of the rift within the BJP, he […]

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Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav told NDTV in an interview that his party has petitioned the Election Commission of India for a re-poll in Rampur assembly seat, where the party suffered a big loss at the hands of the BJP in the bypoll – the BJP in fact won the seat for the first time. […]

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Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday alleged that the BJP was trying to poach newly-elected AAP councillors and asserted that none of them will fall prey to their “game”. He said the newly elected councillors have been instructed to record “such phone calls” in case they receive one. Sisodia’s allegations come after the […]

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Balloons and celebratory posters are ready at the AAP office in Delhi while vote-counting for the the civic body is on and the fight looks much closer than an AAP landslide predicted by exit polls. At 9.15 am, BJP had crossed the halfway mark after early leads for all 250 seats came in. But the […]

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi told an all-party meeting that India’s G-20 presidency is a unique opportunity to showcase the country’s strengths to the entire world. Asserting that the country’s presidency of the G-20, a grouping of world’s 20 major economies, belongs to the entire nation, PM Modi said there is a global curiosity and attraction […]

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Those who select Muslim women to run for office are against Islam and are weakening the religion, the chief cleric of the Jama Masjid in Ahmedabad said on Sunday, in a stunningly misogynistic comment, a day before the second phase of voting for the Gujarat elections. “If you talk about Islam, see there’s nothing more […]

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The Gujarat government has told the Supreme Court that freedom of religion does not include the right to convert others, and requested the top court to vacate a High Court stay on the provision of a state law that mandates prior permission of the district magistrate for conversion through marriage. The Gujarat High Court had […]

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A day after making controversial remarks on Hindus, All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) chief Badruddin Ajmal on Saturday expressed ‘apology’ saying that he had no intention of hurting anyone’s sentiments. “I had no intentions of hurting the sentiments of any community. I deeply regret my statement. Being a senior leader, I should not have […]

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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has formally informed Punjab Police about Goldy Brar, who allegedly coordinated singer Sidhu Moose Wala’s murder, having been caught in California, sources today said. The FBI communication, seen as the first step towards bringing Brar to India, has come through the Ministry of External Affairs. Goldy Brar has been detained […]

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The Chhattisgarh assembly on Friday unanimously adopted two Bills to enhance the state’s overall reservation to 76 per cent in jobs and educational institutions — possibly the highest in India — in a strategic move by Bhupesh Baghel’s Congress government that other parties may find hard to oppose. The Bills, if and when granted assent by the […]

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K Kavitha, the daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, has been summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to appear as a witness in the Delhi liquor policy case on Tuesday. Ms Kavitha, a former MP and now a Member of Legislative Council, has been given a choice of appearing either at […]

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The Congress today saw another “gaddar” (traitor) jibe thrown around as its communications in-charge, Jairam Ramesh, went for some bite when asked if Jyotiraditya Scindia, a former Congress “young turk” who is now a BJP minister, could come back to the party. “Scindia is a gaddar (traitor), true gaddar, real gaddar and 24-carat gaddar,” Ramesh […]

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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma asserted today that “love jihad” is a “reality” and has been established by the grisly murder of Shraddha Walkar in Delhi. Sarma has earlier spoken of the issue in the context of the murder, insisting that the country needs a strict law against “love jihad” — a term coined […]

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Several buildings on Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus were defaced on Thursday with anti-Brahmin slogans, photos of which were shared on social media. Students claimed that the walls in the School of International Studies- II building were vandalised with slogans against Brahmin and Baniya communities. There was no immediate reaction from JNU Administration on the […]

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Gangster Goldy Brar, one of the main conspirators of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala’s murder, has been detained in US, sources told NDTV. A member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, Goldy Brar had recently moved to the US from Canada, where he was based since 2017. The gangster was detained in California around November 20, […]

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A total of 89 seats are voting in the first phase of assembly polls in Gujarat today, in which the BJP is hoping for a seventh consecutive term. Its big challenger is the Aam Aadmi Party, which has managed to push aside the Congress in terms of visibility. The 89 seats are spread across 19 […]

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China may station aircraft carriers, large warships and submarines in its first overseas military base in Djibouti, a move that would have profound security ramifications for the Indian Navy. Details of the base feature in the US Department of Defence’s annual report on China, which is submitted to the US Congress. The report, released on […]

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The Islamic State jihadist group said Wednesday that its leader Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi has been killed in battle and announced a replacement. A spokesman for the group said Hashimi, an Iraqi, was killed “in combat with enemies of God”, without elaborating on the date of his death or the circumstances. Speaking in an audio […]

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The names of 10 judges recommended for elevation by the Supreme Court Collegium have not received a go-ahead from the Central government. The files, returned on November 25, also include the name of senior advocate Saurabh Kirpal, the son of former Chief Justice of India BN Kirpal. Sources say some names that were reiterated by […]

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A scuffle broke out between supporters of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday during Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s roadshow in Surat city in poll-bound Gujarat. The incident occurred in Katargam locality in the evening after BJP workers chanted ‘Modi, Modi’ when the convoy of vehicles in Kejriwal’s […]

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Hundreds of people took to the streets in China’s major cities on Sunday to protest against the country’s zero-Covid policy, in a rare outpouring of public anger against the state. China’s hardline virus strategy is stoking public frustration, with many growing weary of snap lockdowns, lengthy quarantines and mass testing campaigns. A deadly fire on […]

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In one of the biggest data breaches ever, phone numbers of nearly 500 million WhatsApp users have been leaked and are up for sale. The database, up for sale on a popular hacking forum, contains the private information of WhatsApp users from 84 countries, according to a report by Cybernews. The person who put up […]

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The Congress vowed to take legal action over a “doctored” video clip and threatened the BJP with “payback” after the ruling party’s top leaders shared the clip with a claim that “Pakistan Zindabad” slogans were heard during Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra that’s currently in Madhya Pradesh. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was […]

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