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There is “no vacancy” for the post of prime minister as opposition is “out of the race” and Narendra Modi will become PM again in 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Union Minister Anupriya Patel said here on Monday. “Her party (Apna Dal-Sonelal) has contested four elections with the BJP and got good results. 2024 elections are […]

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Ahead of Diwali, the Gujarat government on Monday announced a reduction in VAT (Value Added Tax) on CNG and PNG by 10 per cent and said two cooking gas cylinders will be given free every year to 38 lakh beneficiaries who have got gas connections under the Centre’s Ujjwala scheme. The reduction in VAT on […]

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Slamming Arvind Kejriwal for comparing his deputy Manish Sisodia and minister Satyendar Jain with Bhagat Singh, a close relative of the freedom fighter, Harbhajan Singh Dhath, on Monday asked the Delhi Chief Minister to “fight his fights politically”. Dhath also asked Kejriwal to refrain from “equating” criminals with freedom fighters and suggested that he “concentrate” […]

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On the eve of voting to elect the new Congress president, Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said he is batting on a track with an “uneven bounce” and doesn’t want “pitch tampering”. Asked to comment on the fairness of the polls, Tharoor in an interview told PTI, “I had said there is an uneven playing field […]

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Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, called for questioning by the CBI in the liquor policy case, predicted his arrest today as part of a BJP “plan” to stop him from campaigning for the upcoming Gujarat election. He took out a roadshow and made a series of stops on his way to the CBI office, […]

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The Border Security Force shot down a quad-copter sporting drone on Sunday night along the India-Pakistan international border in the Amritsar region, officials said. This is the second such incident in last three days at this frontier. The drone weighing 12 kg had four propellers, intercepted and shot around 9.15 pm near the Rania border […]

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Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal today said a “storm of change” is sweeping over Gujarat and his party will form the next government. Addressing a rally in Bhavnagar, Kejriwal said people in Gujarat are tired after 27 years of BJP rule and are eager to vote AAP. Kejriwal is […]

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At the opening of a key meeting of the Chinese Communist Party, President Xi Jinping said that China has achieved comprehensive control over Hong Kong, turning it from chaos to governance, while condemning what he said was interference in Taiwan. Xi Jinping walked onstage to thunderous applause from nearly 2,300 delegates who have gathered at Beijing’s […]

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Shashi Tharoor, who is running for Congress President, has clarified on his recent comments that some people in the party were assuming that there’s an official candidate. It was seen as alluding to Mallikarjun Kharge, the other candidate in the Congress President election, which is being closely watched by party insiders as well as the […]

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The Supreme Court on Saturday suspended the Bombay High Court’s order acquitting former Delhi University professor G N Saibaba and five others in alleged Maoist links case. In a special sitting of the court held to consider a plea against the acquittal, the Supreme Court said that the offences involved are very serious in nature […]

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India has slipped to the 107th position in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2022 of 121 countries, from its 2021 position of 101st and is behind its neighbours Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. Seventeen countries, including China, Turkey, and Kuwait, shared the top rank with GHI score of less than five, the website of the Global […]

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A Muslim man has been arrested and remanded to judicial custody under the recently promulgated Karnataka Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion Act, for ‘converting a woman under the pretext of marrying her.’ According to the Deputy Superintendent of Police of Bengaluru North Division, Vinayak Patil, the case was registered against Syed Mueen on […]

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In what is being seen as the first step towards a nationwide National Register of Citizens, the Union Home Ministry plans to set up a national database of all Indian citizens, registering the births and deaths of all citizens at the national level, a cabinet note and a bill moved by the ministry have revealed. […]

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Congress’s Rahul Gandhi hit a literal ‘high point’ on his Bharat Jodo yatra today. In a video tweeted by the party, the 52-year-old was seen climbing a water tank in Karnataka’s Chitradurga, from where he waved the national flag. State party chief DK Shivakumar kept him company. So did former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who on […]

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A mob of more than 200 people ransacked a mosque in a village in Gurugram, assaulting people who were praying inside and threatened to expel them from the village. Police have registered an FIR in the incident that happened in Bhora Kalan village Wednesday night, but no arrests were reported till Thursday evening. According to […]

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The highly sensitive hijab issue has been referred to a larger bench headed by the Chief Justice as the  Supreme Court passed a split verdict on a batch of appeals challenging restriction on Muslim girl students wearing Hijab in educational institutions in Karnataka. Justice Hemant Gupta dismissed the 26 appeals filed against the judgment of […]

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The India-UK free trade agreement (FTA) is reportedly on the “verge of collapse” after the Indian government was angered by comments made by UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman questioning action over visa overstayers from the country, a UK media report claimed on Wednesday. ‘The Times’ quoted government sources to say that ministers in New Delhi […]

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said Ujjain has led India’s prosperity and knowledge for thousands of years and the new India is moving forward by reviving the tradition of science and research along with faith. Speaking at a public function after performing puja at the Mahakaleshwar temple and inaugurating the first phase of the […]

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IT services major Infosys on Tuesday said its president Ravi Kumar S has resigned from his post. The company did not give any reason for the move which comes just days ahead of its second quarter earnings announcement. “The board of directors placed on record their deep sense of appreciation for the services rendered by […]

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Amid reports that Roger Binny is likely to replace Sourav Ganguly as the BCCI President, West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress on Tuesday accused the BJP of “trying to humiliate” the former Indian skipper as it failed to induct him into the party. The BJP had tried to spread a message among people ahead of last […]

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The Shiv Sena faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has received the ‘Two swords and shield’ as symbol for the upcoming by-election in Andheri (East), the Election Commission said today. The Commission has already allotted the name “Balasahebanchi ShivSena” for his group. In its letter, the Commission said the “Dhal Talwar” suggested by […]

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Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel resolved issues of merger of other princely states, but “one person” could not resolve the Kashmir issue, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday, in a veiled attack on India’s first PM Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Addressing a rally in Gujarat’s Anand district ahead of the state Assembly elections due this year-end, PM […]

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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday claimed that many leaders and workers of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Gujarat secretly support his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and want to see the defeat of their own party in the upcoming Assembly elections. Targeting the BJP over the posters that surfaced in several Gujarat […]

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Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday echoed what his party colleague and Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said on industrialist Gautam Adani’s announcement to invest Rs 65,000 crore in the northern state over the next five years. Gehlot had welcomed Adani at the Invest Rajasthan Summit earlier this week, where the industrialist announced his group’s business […]

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