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- India
What made it to PM Modi’s speech on India’s 76th Indepedence Day?
New Delhi: As India celebrates 75 years since Independence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday hoisted the Tricolour at the Red Fort and addressed the nation on the occasion. While addressing the…
- India
President Murmu: India is among the fastest growing major economies in the world
New Delhi: India is among the fastest growing major economies in the world, President Droupadi Murmu said in her maiden address to the nation on Sunday, adding that India has made unprecedented…
- Telangana
Political temperature heats up in Telangana with resignation of sitting Cong MLA
Hyderabad: With sitting Congress MLA K Rajagopal Reddy quitting his post and the party, political temperature hotted up in Telangana as the outcome of the upcoming by-poll to his Munugode Assembly segment…
- India
Jamia students break taboos around period; create reusable sanitary pads
New Delhi: Reshma, a resident of a slum in South Delhi, often wondered how sanitary napkins are made. Her inquisitiveness further increased when she learnt that menstrual pads can be made using natural…
- Bangalore
Elderly woman hacked to death in Bangalore
Bangalore: An 83-year-old woman, who called up police saying that she faces threat of being killed, was shockingly found murdered at her home in Bengaluru, police said on Sunday. The incident came to…
- India
Tragedy of partition can’t be misused to fuel hate: Congress
New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday attacked the BJP for ‘using’ the tragedy of partition for political goals. Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh alleged that the real intent of the Prime Minister to…
- Chennai
Two arrested at Chennai airport with heroin, cocaine
New Delhi: In two seperate cases, the Customs officials at Chennai airport arrested two persons, including a female, and recovered cocaine and heroin valued at Rs 111.41 cr from their possession. In the…
- India
Rajasthan: Dalit student thrashed for touching teacher’s water bottle dies
Jaipur: A third standard Dalit student, who was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Ahmedabad after being beaten up at a school in Rajasthan’s Jalore district for touching a water container, died on…
- India
Har Ghar Tiranga: Bhagwat hoists tricolour at RSS headquarters
Nagpur: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Saturday hoisted the tricolour at the organization’s headquarters here as part of the `Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign. Nagpur district collector R Vimla visited…
- India
Cattle smuggling: CBI going all out to track Mondal’s absconding associate
Kolkata: After arrested Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mondal’s bodyguard, Sehgal Hossain, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths have secured information about another close associate of Mondal, Abdul Latif in its probe…
- India
President Murmu to address the nation on eve of Independence Day
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu will deliver her maiden address to the nation on Sunday on the eve of the 76th Independence Day, according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan statement. The president’s address…
- India
Doctors’ team conducts health check-up of ex-Bengal minister in Kolkata jail
Kolkata: A team of doctors from the state-run SSKM Hospital on Saturday visited the Presidency Correctional Home and conducted a health check-up of jailed former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, a senior official…
- India
ED investigation results in loss of prestige: Firhad Hakim
Kolkata: West Bengal Urban Development & Municipal Affairs Minister, and Kolkata Mayor, Firhad Hakim, on Saturday said he is scared of loss of prestige and social position “that is inevitable while one…
- India
Muslims, Christians barred from voting in constitution of ‘Hindu Rashtra’
A group of 30 Hindu seers and experts prepared the first draft of the constitution for the proposed ‘Hindu Rashtra.’ Haridwar Dharam Sansad seer Anand Swaroop released a preamble for the constitution,…
- India
Manhunt launched for TN industrialist who raped techie in Bangalore
Bengaluru: Karnataka police have launched a manhunt for a Tamil Nadu industrialist who allegedly raped a software engineer at a luxury hotel room here on the pretext of a business meeting, police sources…
