Politics
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Assembly polls: Will May 4 mark a turning point for women in politics in Tamil Nadu
Chennai: The dust has settled on the polling booths across Tamil Nadu and the state nowholds its breath for May 4 when the winners of an intensely fought election will be declared.…
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Savarkar had filed 5 mercy petitions with British, Grandnephew tells court
Pune: The grandnephew of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar admitted before a special MP/MLA court here that the Hindutva ideologue had filed five mercy petitions with the British government and had appealed for recruitment into…
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Independent journalism punished, compliance rewarded: Kharge attacks BJP-RSS
New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday, May 3, attacked the BJP-RSS over press freedom, saying their message is clear that, independent journalism will be punished and compliance rewarded. He alleged…
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Mamata asks Trinamool agents to seek recount if BJP leads by 500-700 votes
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Saturday, May 2, instructed party counting agents to promptly seek a recount in booths where the BJP is ahead by…
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HYDRAA reiterates Bathukamma Kunta has always been a water body
Hyderabad: Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA) Commissioner AV Ranganath reiterated that Bathukamma Kunta in Amberpet has historically been a minor irrigation tank which got encroached in the course of…
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Telangana CM assures Rs 6,000 crore retirement benefits within 100 days
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has announced that the state government will disburse all the pending retirement benefits of government pensioners amounting to Rs 6,000 crore within 100 days. Also…
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Bengal: Repolling in 15 booths of 2 assembly seats concludes, nearly 87 pc turnout till 5 pm
Kolkata: Repolling in 15 booths of two assembly constituencies in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district concluded at 6 pm on Saturday, with around 87 per cent turnout recorded an hour before…
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Bengal: Over 72 pc turnout till 3 pm in repoll in 15 booths of 2 assembly seats
Kolkata: Over 72 per cent turnout was recorded till 3 pm in repoll in 15 booths of two assembly constituencies in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district on Saturday, an official said.…
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No personal issues with KCR, only ideological differences: Kavitha
Hyderabad: Telangana Rakshana Sena (TRS) founder K Kavitha on Saturday, May 2, said her criticism of former BRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao was not personal but political. “In no way have I…
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Telangana govt to build world-class bus terminal at Shamshabad, says CM
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Friday, May 1, unveiled an ambitious expansion plan for the state’s road transport infrastructure, announcing two world-class bus terminals, a fleet of 1,000 electric buses…
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Bengal: EC orders repolling at 15 booths in South 24 Parganas district on May 2
Kolkata: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday, May 1, ordered a repoll at 15 polling stations spread across two Assembly constituencies in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, declaring the…
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TMC–BJP clash at Kolkata counting centre; Mamata monitors strong room
Kolkata: A scuffle broke out between workers of the Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) outside the counting centre at Netaji Indoor Stadium in Kolkata on Thursday, April 30 following…
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BJP-NDA, Opposition clash in UP Assembly over women’s quota
Lucknow: The BJP-led NDA and the opposition parties engaged in a sharp exchange in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly on Thursday, April 30, during a special one-day session on women’s empowerment, with each…
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Telangana BC Commission apprehensive over absence of BC details in census
Hyderabad: Chairman of the Telangana Backward Classes Commission G Niranjan expressed concern over the omission of Backward Classes (BC) population data in the first phase of the census, which began on April…
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BRS may not return to TRS after Kavitha’s Telangana Rakshana Sena gets ECI nod
Hyderabad: The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) is in a bind on going back to its old name, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), with K Kavitha’s new outfit – Telangana Rakshana Sena –…
