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BSP chief Mayawati targets Congress on SC-ST creamy layer row
Lucknow: BSP chief Mayawati on Sunday said the Congress, which won Lok Sabha seats by promising to protect reservation, seems to be in favour of sub-classification within SCs and STs and is…
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K Natwar Singh: A man who wore many hats and spoke his mind
New Delhi: K Natwar Singh wore many hats as he straddled the worlds of diplomacy, politics and writing but what remained consistent across decades was his sharp-wit and plainspeaking. The former Congress…
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Anantnag encounter: Civilian succumbs to injuries, death toll climbs to 3
Srinagar: The death toll in the overnight anti-terror operation in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir rose to three on Sunday as one of the two civilians injured in the encounter succumbed,…
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Retired Olympic hockey hero Sreejesh predicts successor will emerge soon
Paris: Just-retired PR Sreejesh, who stood like a wall defending the goal for nearly two decades before bowing out on a high with a second Olympic hockey bronze medal here, believes India…
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President Murmu addresses Indian community in New Zealand
Auckland: On the concluding day of her visit to New Zealand, the President of India, Droupadi Murmu addressed the members of the Indian Community in Auckland, at a Reception hosted by the…
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J&K: Gunfight erupts between security forces & terrorists in Kishtwar
Jammu: Firing exchanges took place on Sunday between the security forces and the terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district. Officials said the firing exchanges happened in the Paddar Batam Bridge area…
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Indian shooting icon Abhinav Bindra awarded Olympic Order
Paris: Indian shooting icon Abhinav Bindra was awarded the prestigious Olympic Order in recognition of his “distinguished contribution” to the Olympic movement. Bindra, who became India’s first-ever Olympic individual gold medallist in…
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S. Korea says N. Korea sends some 240 trash-filled balloons
Seoul: North Korea has sent around 240 balloons carrying trash toward South Korea and about 10 of them landed in the South, officials said on Sunday. As of 10 a.m., there had…
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New railway line connecting AP, Telangana & Odisha announced
Hyderabad: Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced that the new railway line project connecting Pandurangapuram (Visakhapatnam), Bhadrachalam (Telangana), and Malkangiri (Odisha) will serve as an alternative rail route between Asansol and Warangal.…
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‘Corrective’ measures: Chiefs of two Delhi dargahs welcome Waqf Amendment Bill
New Delhi: Delhi’s Matka Peer Dargah chief Sufi Shakeel Ahmed Qadri has termed the Waqf (Amendment) Bill “corrective” measures while Syed Javed Qutbi, the chief of Dargah Hazrat Syed Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar…
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Hyderabad: Man kills wife, attempts to mislead police in Asifnagar
Hyderabad: A woman was allegedly murdered by her husband in Asif Nagar and tried to mislead the police. Asma, the slain woman, worked as a domestic help for a local Congress leader.…
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Stopped recruiting Indians into military since April: Russian embassy
New Delhi: The Russian embassy on Saturday condoled the “unfortunate instances” of Indian casualties in the course of Moscow’s “special military operation” in Ukraine and said recruitment of Indians into its armed…














