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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi joined his party lawmakers in raising slogans in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday over the political developments in Karnataka state where his party’s coalition government is staring at collapse following resignation of 15 dissident lawmakers belonging to the alliance and ...
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Popular Bangla novelist Manishankar Mukhopadhyay, better known by his pen name Shankar, was sworn in as Kolkata’s 245th sheriff on Monday. Shankar took oath at the Calcutta High Court. The outgoing sheriff Sanjoy Chatterjee administered the oath of office to the octogenarian writer. A largely ...
Twenty nine people were killed and 18 injured as a state-run bus skidded off the six-lane Yamuna Expressway and fell into a large overflowing drain in Uttar Pradesh on Monday, officials said. The bus was going from Lucknow to Delhi and had at least 50 passengers on board and the accident took place ...
All the ministers in the dissidence-hit Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) government in Karnataka resigned on Monday in a desperate bid to save the ministry of Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy from collapse by facilitating a fresh cabinet reshuffle. While 21 ministers of coalition partner Congress quit th...
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Two key Congress leaders Jyotiraditya Scindia, a close aide of Rahul Gandhi, and Milind Deora, on Sunday resigned from their organizational posts, adding to the turmoil in the party over the party's crushing defeat in parliamentary elections.The first to announce the resignation was Deora as Mum...
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Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan has retained the top spot among all-rounders as the International Cricket Council on Sunday came out with its latest ranking of players in One Day Internationals.England’s Ben Stokes has gained nine places to reach second position as all-rounder.In the ICC OD...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched a country-wide drive to get new members for his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party saying it is aimed at further connecting people from all walks of life with the saffron outfit. Launching the drive from his parliamentary constituency Varanasi, Mod...
India’s new budget for 2019-20 on Friday hiked excise duty on petrol and diesel, raised import duty on gold, levied more tax on the super-rich and sought to spur growth with a cut in corporate tax and sops to housing sector, start-ups and electric vehicles. Presenting the first full budget for...
India's defence budget for 2019-20 presented in parliament on Friday marked a 7.93 per cent increase to Rs 3.18 lakh crore from Rs 2.98 lakh crore in the previous financial year. Out of the total allocation this year, Rs 1, 08,248 crore has been set aside for capital outlay to purchase new weapo...
India’s new budget for 2019-20 on Friday hiked excise duty on petrol and diesel, raised import duty on gold, levied more tax on the super-rich and sought to spur growth with a cut in corporate tax and sops to housing sector, start-ups and electric vehicles.Presenting the first full budget for ...
Reiterating that he is no longer the Congress president, Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday made it clear that that he has resigned as party head as “accountability is critical for the future growth of the party.” "Accountability is critical for the future growth of our party. It is for this...
At least 17 people were killed when a boundary wall of a residential apartment complex collapsed and came crashing down on a cluster of huts adjacent to it in western Indian city of Pune on Saturday. The 60-feet long wall crashed on tin-roofed huts killing the occupants who were mostly labourers fro...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to launch a new initiative to set up a coalition of countries for building natural disaster infrastructure development in small vulnerable and developing countries. “This is a new initiative that India is looking at launching. It is essentially a...
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For countless fans of Bollywood badshah Shah Rukh Khan, his age, the number of films he has featured in and the time he spent in the cinema industry may be just a number, but the actor did not forget to thank his admirers for giving him space in their hearts as he completed 27 years of dominating on...
Facing the Bharatiya Janata Party’s surge in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has made a key political outreach to opposition Congress and CPI(M) to join her fight against the saffron party in the state but the two parties rejected her appeal saying her policies are responsible for ...
India and the United States on Wednesday said they would seek to reduce bilateral trade friction and sharp differences over New Delhi’s purchase of Russian missile defence system as visiting US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here. Addressing a joint news confer...
In his first major speech in the newly-elected Lok Sabha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called on all lawmakers to work together to help turn India into a five trillion dollar economy and slammed main opposition Congress for not doing enough for Muslims and women. During his nearly hour-long spee...
An additional 1,02,462 persons have been excluded from the draft National Register of Citizens (NRC), a list of Indian nationals, in Assam, a statement released on Wednesday by the state NRC Coordinator said. The final draft published on July 30 last year left out the names of four million people, s...
Facing public protests for taking ‘cut money’, a local leader of West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress in Birbhum district on Tuesday returned around Rs 2.25 lakh to over 100 beneficiaries of government social welfare schemes from whom he had taken it as commission and apologised...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday paid homage to all ‘those greats’ who resisted the Emergency imposed by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on this day in 1975 and said democracy had prevailed over authoritarianism. The Emergency was imposed in India on June 25, 1975 and...
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