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All government employees in Maharashtra will now say Vande Mataram, instead of hello, while addressing phone calls, the newly appointed minister for culture Sudhir Mungantiwar told CNN-News18 exclusively, adding the order will be passed on August 18. “This is the 75th year of independence. When we were fighting the British, even when they fired bullets […]

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India does not plan to curb rice exports as the world’s biggest exporter of the staple has sufficient stocks and local rates are lower than state-set support prices, trade and government sources said. India banned wheat exports on May 14, just days after New Delhi forecast record shipments of 10 million tonnes this year, as […]

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 The GST Council, headed by the finance minister Nirmala Sitharman, is discussing several key issues at its two-day meeting which began on Tuesday. These include GST compensation to states, GST rate revisions of certain items and services, and easier compliance norms for taxpayers and others. While introducing GST in 2017, the Centre had assured the […]

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Elon Musk has terminated the $44 billion Twitter deal, citing that the microblogging platform had failed to provide him proper information on the fake accounts on its site. The billionaire notified the decision in an US SEC filing, accusing the social media company of breaching “multiple provisions of the agreement”. However, Twitter’s board in a […]

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“Nyay ke saath vikas, kanoon ka raj (justice and development, rule of law and order),” proclaims a giant hoarding with a full-length image of Nitish Kumar outside the Janata Dal (United) office in Patna. Nearby, at the Bharatiya Janata Party’s office, the leading opposition party is highlighting a spree of crimes in Bihar’s capital, to […]

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Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday said that he is sympathetic to the demands of aspiring teachers on stir and asserted that he is yet to get a reply from West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on the issue. Pradhan, a senior BJP leader, also said that it is unimaginable that heaps of currency […]

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Reacting to CBI raids on his deputy Manish Sisodia over Delhi government’s now-withdrawn policy on liquor sales, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the action is “welcome” and they “will cooperate fully”, but expressed confidence that “nothing will come out”. The raids at 20 locations, including Sisodia’s official residence, are to probe alleged corruption in […]

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The 11 men convicted for the rape of Bilkis Bano and released by the Gujarat government after 15-odd years in jail, are “Brahmins” and have “good sanskaar“, the BJP’s sitting MLA from Godhra has said. Amid the countrywide outrage over the men’s release, CK Raulji has backed the men, who were feted with sweets and […]

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Even as the AAP government granted a one-month extension of the current liquor excise policy, clubs, hotels and restaurants in Delhi did not serve alcohols as the worry about the future of their liquor licenses could be seen clearly. The Delhi government on Sunday decided to extend the retail licenses for one month, after they expired on July […]

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An excise official was given a punishment posting and transferred to the department headquarters after an audio message in which he is allegedly heard telling a liquor store employee to send scotch whiskey bottles for a minister’s function. In the audio file, which the liquor store owner has sent to the Chief Minister’s grievance redressal […]

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Syrma SGS Tech IPO Opens Today: Syrma SGS Technology (SSTL) IPO opens for subscription today, August 12, 2022. The Rs 840 crore public offer will be available for subscriptions till August 18. Electronic manufacturing services firm Syrma said it has raised Rs 252 crore from anchor investors ahead of its initial share sale. Nomura, Kuber India […]

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The stock market witnessed healthy performance and closed at a four-month high in the last session following a decline in US inflation for July, but overall it was a rangebound session. The BSE Sensex rallied more than 500 points to 59,333, while the Nifty50 rose 124 points to 17,659. Results Today More than 700 companies including […]

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IRCTC Shares Today: Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) shares were trading lower in the opening trade on Thursday morning. IRCTC posted a 196 per cent surge in its net profit, at Rs 246 crore, for the quarter ending June 30, 2022-23 (Q1 FY23). It reported a net profit of Rs 82.5 crore in […]

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India’s exports rose by 2.14 per cent to $36.27 billion in July while the trade deficit almost tripled to $30 billion during the month, according to official data released on Friday. Imports shot up by 43.61 per cent to $66.27 billion in the month compared to July 2021, the data showed. The trade deficit was […]

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Jacqueline Fernandez, the Bollywood actor named in a Rs 200 crore extortion case by the Enforcement Directorate, had received a series of expensive gifts from conman Sukesh Chandrashekar. The list included designer handbags, car and diamonds. Jacqueline Fernandez, who was been chargesheeted in the case, was confronted with Sukesh Chandrasekhar in October. Jacqueline Fernandez said […]

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A day after India’s 76th Independence Day, former Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa, who was unseated a year ago because he was above 75 years old, hit the jackpot. The BJP high command in New Delhi rewarded him with two posts — member of the party’s supreme decision-making body, the Parliamentary Board, and the Central […]

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Jailed don Anant Singh and his right-hand man, Bihar’s new Law Minister Kartikeya Kumar, have become a headache for the newly sworn-in Nitish Kumar-Tejashwi Yadav government in the state. Anant Singh, the RJD’s leader from Mokama popularly called ‘Chote Sarkar’, was sentenced to 10 years in jail just two months ago and hence lost his […]

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Rajasthan Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasra on Tuesday announced a financial assistance of Rs 20 lakh to the family of a nine-year-old Dalit boy who died after being beaten up by his teacher in Jalore district. Dotasra said that the amount will be given to the victim’s family by the party. The state Congress president, […]

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The death of a Dalit student in Rajasthan’s Jalore has led to infighting within the Congress as a section of party leaders has raised the pitch against Gehlot government in the state. Twelve Congress councillors in the Baran Municipal Council sent their resignation letters to Ashok Gehlot, expressing anguish over atrocities against the Dalits and […]

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Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech emphasised on the fight against nepotism and corruption, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday refused to comment regarding the remarks. “I won’t make a comment on these things. Happy Independence to everyone,” he was quoted as saying by ANI. #WATCH | Congress MP Rahul […]

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The retail inflation in India, based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI), declined to 6.7 per cent in July, compared with 7.01 per cent in the previous month. This is the third month in a row to see an easing in the retail inflation. food inflation in July 2022 moderated to 6.75 per cent as […]

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It is going to be a long-term proposition for India – which has a decades-old relationship with Moscow – to reorient its foreign policy away from Russia, the United States has said. It said it was working “very closely” with India through the Quad as well as other forums. “It is not for me to […]

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  By K Raveendran   A brief respite in retail inflation registered for July may not be of much assurance about price stability as another GST readjustment is threatening to push up prices of items of mass consumption.   Retail inflation was steady in June, although well above the Reserve Bank of India’s tolerance limit […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty   In 1984 Lok Sabha elections held during the national wave in favour of the Congress following the murder of Indira Gandhi, the ruling party got the maximum number of seats – 414. The BJP was decimated electorally with only two seats. The 40-year-old Rajiv Gandhi started his tenure with widespread goodwill. […]

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By Prakash Karat   The Narendra Modi government is deepening strategic ties with the United States on all fronts.  Three events which took place in the last few weeks highlight this growing proximity to the geopolitical designs of the United States.   India has joined a new grouping called the I2U2 in West Asia which […]

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  By Arun Srivastava   The political spectre looming over the country points to bad days. The recent political actions of Narendra Modi without any ambiguity underline the threat of India turning into an authoritarian state.  Modi has turned so self-aggrandizer that he is reluctant to stand to his critics belonging to his own party. […]

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By Ashis Biswas   While it has not been possible for the Border Security Force (BSF) and different state police authorities to reduce illegal cattle sales to Bangladesh to zero level, cow smuggling has declined sharply over the years.   However, reports from Assam and West Bengal areas close to the Bangladesh border suggest that comparatively […]

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Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Wednesday slammed the BJP government at the centre as “dictatorial” and vowed to oust Prime Minister Narendra Modi from power in the 2024 general elections. He made the remarks when asked about the way forward for the 2024 polls. The comments are his first since the […]

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Meira Kumar, former minister, Lok Sabha Speaker and a Presidential candidate, reacted with a visceral tweet today to the death of a 9-year-old in Rajasthan. The boy was beaten badly by his teacher for drinking water from a pot meant for the so-called upper castes. Her father, former Deputy Prime Minister and Dalit leader Babu […]

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Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad — long upset with the party — has resigned from a key party post in Jammu and Kashmir, signalling a revolt within. The chairman of the party’s campaign committee, he stepped down from the post shortly after his appointment. He has also resigned from the party’s Jammu and Kashmir […]

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  By Arun Srivastava   It was certainly not a coincidence that on the day Prime   Minister was addressing the Independence   Day rally, Amit Shah in association with the senior BJP leaders and members of the core group of party was working on the design to throw out the newly formed mahagathbandhan government of Nitish […]

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  By Nitya Chakraborty   In 1960, at the global level, the most important development was the World Conference of the   communist parties, the result of which was the 81 parties’ document. The conference laid bare the growing fissures within the once monolithic communist movement, as well as the Communist Party of China’s advocacy of […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak   The ongoing freebies case in the Supreme Court of India has reached an interesting stage with the DMK seeking to be made a party into it. It clearly indicated that the presumption on which the ‘freebies’ is understood would decide its fate in favour of the Centre or States, the […]

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By Sushil Kutty   Monday, the eleven   persons   who gang-raped Bilkis Bano during the 2002 Gujarat communal riots walked free. The panel that let them off called it “remission”, which is different from “relapse”. And, with these ’11’, you never know when they’ll have a relapse. Anything is possible with a rapist on the loose. […]

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