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Malegaon blast: Bombay HC rejects Lt Col Prasad Purohit’s plea for discharge from case
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday rejected an appeal filed by Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Shrikant Purohit seeking discharge in the 2008 Malegaon blast case. Purohit and six others, including BJP MP Prgaya…
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Six yrs after Demo: Cash is king, circulation up 83 pc over 2016
New Delhi: Six years after the shock move to ban 86 per cent of the currency in circulation, cash is still the king with official data showing close to doubling of cash with…
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Despite being educated unemployment rate among Kerala youth huge: Shashi Tharoor
Kottayam: Unemployment rate among the youth in Kerala is huge and there is a need to make the state more attractive for its younger generation to prevent them from going outside for jobs,…
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Maha: BJP stages agitation against Ajit Pawar for remark on Sambhaji Maharaj
Nashik: Workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) staged an agitation here on Monday against Maharashtra Leader of Opposition Ajit Pawar over his alleged remark about Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj. A demonstration was…
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Delhi woman death case: Victim’s family, supporters protest
New Delhi: Family members and supporters protested outside the Sultanpuri Police station on Monday following the tragic death of a 20-year-old woman, who was dragged for a few kilometres by a car.…
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Congress high command will decide on who will be the CM: Shivakumar
Hubballi: Karnataka Congress President D K Shivakumar on Monday said the party high command will decide as to who the chief minister will be in the event of the party coming to power…
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SC only looked into legal, technical aspects of demonetisation: Kerala Fin Min
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Finance Minister K N Balagopal on Monday said the Supreme Court verdict upholding the Centre’s 2016 decision to demonetise the Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 denomination notes only looked into its…
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IndiGo flight from Hyderabad to be first aircraft to land at MIA on Jan 5
Panaji: An IndiGo Airlines flight from Hyderabad will be the first aircraft to land at the recently inaugurated Manohar International Airport (MIA) in North Goa on January 5, an official from the airport…
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Judgement in national interest, will Rahul say sorry: BJP on SC’s note ban verdict03:04 PM
New Delhi: The BJP on Monday hailed the Supreme Court judgment upholding the government’s demonetisation exercise as “historic” and slammed the Congress for its campaign against the decision and asked if its leader…
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IIT drop-out attempts purchasing POS machine, arrested in Bengaluru
Bengaluru: Karnataka police have nabbed an IIT-Kharagpur dropout for attempting to purchase a Point of Sales (POS) machine in the name of a restaurant, fraudulently to siphon off money, police said on…
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Sharjah-bound flight grounded in Coimbatore after bird hit
Chennai: A Sharjah-bound Air Arabia flight was grounded in Coimbatore on Monday after two eagles hit the left engine of the aircraft just before take off. The flight was taxing through the…
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Two cops suspended in Gujarat for beating youth
Surat: Two policemen have been suspended and a departmental inquiry ordered for beating two youths in the Udhna area here on December 31 night. Udhna Police inspector H.S. Acharya told the mediapersons…
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Tamil Nadu Police launch probe into desecrated Ambedkar statue
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Police on Monday launched a probe into the desecration of a statue of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in Neduvarambakkam village near Chennai. The statue was found damaged early Monday morning…
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To say demonetisation was upheld is misleading, wrong: Congress on SC verdict
New Delhi: The Congress on Monday while reacting to the Supreme Court judgement on demonetisation said the court only pronounced its verdict on whether Section 26(2) of the RBI Act, 1934 was…
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Air Marshal Pankaj M Sinha takes over as chief of IAF’s Western Command
New Delhi: Air Marshal Pankaj Mohan Sinha on Sunday took charge as the commander-in-chief of Indian Air Force’s Western Air Command that looks after the security of the air space in the…