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Bhiwani killings: Accused sent to five-day police custody
Jaipur: A court in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur district sent one of the accused, Rinku Saini, to police remand on Saturday in connection with the death of two Muslim men from the state whose…
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UN launches $1 bn appeal for earthquake victims in Turkey
The United Nations (UN) has launched an appeal for 1 billion dollars in aid to help the victims of the catastrophic earthquakes that struck Turkey on Monday, February 6, killing thousands of…
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Congress starts ‘flower on ear’ campaign against ruling BJP in Karnataka
Bengaluru: Intensifying its election campaign in poll-bound Karnataka, the Congress on Saturday launched a ‘poster war’ against the BJP by pasting ‘Kivi Mele Hoova’ (flower on the ear) on BJP posters in…
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Giriraj challenges Rahul to a debate on MGNREGA, dismisses his ‘wild allegations’
New Delhi: Dismissing Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s charges related to MGNREGA, Union minister Giriraj Singh said on Saturday that both allocations for the scheme and asset creations under it during the Narendra…
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Cancer cases went up after COVID-19, says Ramdev; experts deny connection
Panaji: Yoga guru Ramdev on Saturday claimed that cancer cases increased in the country after the COVID-19 pandemic, but medical experts said there was no correlation between the two and the rise…
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Rajasthan govt committed to overall development of tribal regions, says CM Gehlot
Jaipur: The Rajasthan government is committed to the overall development of tribal regions and the state Budget includes “many important gifts” for the area’s overall development, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said on…
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Teachers’ scam: Third arrested middleman reveals rates fixed for teaching jobs
Kolkata: Chandan Mondal aka Ranjan, the third middleman arrested in connection with the multi-crore teachers’ recruitment scam in West Bengal on Friday, has reportedly given to CBI sleuths a break-up of rates…
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Pak Defence Minister acknowledges country has already gone bankrupt
Sialkot: Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif suggested on Saturday that one-fourth of Pakistans debt could be paid off if only two golf clubs built on expensive government land are sold, media reports…
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BJP has already made EC, ED and CBI their election toolkits: Priyanka Chaturvedi
Maharashtra: Uddhav Thackeray faction leader Priyanka Chaturvedi, Manisha Kayande and others arrived at ‘Matoshree’ in Mumbai today. Manisha Kayande and others arrived at ‘Matoshree’ after the Election Commission of India (ECI) ordered…
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No liquor scam in Delhi, excise policy case result of political vendetta: Kejriwal
New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has asserted that there was no “liquor scam” in Delhi and that the case over his government’s excise policy was created as a result of “political…
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Adani row: ‘Were LIC, SBI asked to invest in Adani group despite stocks crash?’
New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday asked the government whether instructions were issued to LIC and SBI to invest in the Adani Enterprises FPO despite a drastic fall in its share price…
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EC test to settle intra-party disputes – majority in legislative, organisational wings
New Delhi: The Election Commission has settled internal disputes in several political parties with the test of majority in their legislative and organisational wings. After it recognised the group led by Maharashtra…
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Telangana: Kanti Velugu scheme records over 43 lakh eye tests
Hyderabad: Telangana Government on Saturday announced that it has completed testing over 43 lakh individuals in the state through the Kanti Velugu scheme, since its inception. About 8.42 lakh people have received…
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Student death: IIT Bombay forms panel for parallel’ investigation
Mumbai: The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay has formed a panel to conduct a “parallel” probe into the death of a first-year B.Tech student amid allegations of caste bias and has urged…
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Bhiwani killings: Brinda Karat meets families of Junaid, Nasir
A delegation of the CPI(M) went to Ghatmika village in the Mewati area of Rajasthan on February 17 and met the families of Junaid and Nasir, who had been kidnapped, brutally beaten,…
