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Padma awardee puppeteer says will try to draw attention of Prez to plight of artistes
Bhubaneswar: Eminent puppeteer Maguni Charan Kuanr, elated over his selection for the Padma Shri award, on Thursday said he will try to draw the attention of President Droupadi Murmu to the plight…
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Meta to restore Trump’s Facebook, Instagram accounts
San Francisco: Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has announced that it will be reinstating former US President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks. The announcement was made…
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Amid outrage among locals, TN forest dept chasing away wild elephant into deep forests
Chennai: After strong protests by the people in the Gudalur area in Nilgiris district, the Tamil Nadu forest department is chasing away a tuskless male elephant, also knwon as ‘Makhna’, into the…
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Goa: Cong to distribute Rahul’s letters promising LPG cylinders at Rs 500
Panaji: The Congress in Goa will distribute letters written by its leader Rahul Gandhi which mention that the party will provide LPG cylinders at Rs 500 if it comes back to power…
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Hyderabad: SFI screens full BBC documentary for 500 students at UoH
Hyderabad: The Student Federation of India (SFI) of the University of Hyderabad (UoH) screened the two-part banned BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi with 500 students in attendance at the campus’s…
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Drunkard son arrested for beating mother in Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram: A man in Kerala’s Kottayam district was on Thursday arrested for beating up his mother after getting intoxicated, police said. The incident occurred at Meenadom in Kottayam and its video went…
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Delhi Prisons dept announces special remission to 243 inmates on Republic Day
New Delhi: The Delhi Prisons department on Thursday announced the government’s special remission to 243 inmates on the occasion of Republic Day, an official statement said. The department celebrated the 74th Republic…
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Hyderabad: After protesting BBC doc, ABVP screens Kashmir Files at UoH
Hyderabad: In a new development, members of the Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) are screening director Vivek Agnihotri’s movie – The Kashmir Files – at the University of Hyderabad (UoH) campus here…
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Ready to take taunts, will work for Telangana people’s welfare: Tamilisai
Puducherry: Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Thursday said the state government has ‘undervalued’ the importance of the Republic Day and has not held any official function to mark the occasion. Soundararajan, who…
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Maha announces compensation for 5 Solapur youths killed in Tirupati
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has announced compensation for the next of kin of 5 youths from Solapur killed in an accident in Andhra Pradesh’s Tirupati, an official said on Thursday.…
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Congress’ 2018 return in Rajasthan because of my previous work: Ashok Gehlot
Jaipur: In an apparent rebuttal to his former deputy, Sachin Pilot, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday said the Congress returned to power in 2018 because of the work done by…
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Gurugram: Thrashed by 4 men over Rs 3K, Dalit man dies in hospital
Gurugram: Four men allegedly thrashed a 33-year-old Dalit in Ghoshgarh village in Bilaspur area so severely over Rs 3,000 that he died the next day, police said on Thursday. The accused beat…
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Maha: Villagers take over stage set up for R-Day events to demand road construction
Yavatmal: Protesting locals occupied a stage and forced authorities to cancel Republic Day programs to press for their demand for a road in their village in Maharashtra’s Yavatmal on Thursday. Several residents of…
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Andhra student dies after being struck by a police vehicle in US
New York: A 23-year-old student from Andhra Pradesh died after being struck by a police patrol vehicle in Seattle, a media report said. Jaahnavi Kandula, a student of Northeastern University campus in…
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Darjeeling politics: Revolt in Trinamool grows over separate Gorkhaland state
Kolkata: Internal feud in Trinamool Congress’ Darjeeling unit over the issue of a separate Gorkhaland state seems to be aggravating with each passing day. After influential leader in the hills, Binoy Tamang,…
