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- 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…
- Bangalore
Karnataka: CM Bommai, Health Min to pledge to donate organs
Bengaluru: Karnataka Health Minister Dr K. Sudhakar on Friday appealed to people to, amid this Azadi Ki Amrit Mahotsav, pledge to donate their organs which could be the “amrit” of someone’s life. “Chief…
- India
Karnataka: Controversy erupts after school throws Raksha Bandhan wristbands in dustbin
Mangaluru: A row broke out in a Christian missionary school here over alleged forcible removal of bands tied on some students’ wrists and throwing them in the dustbin. Following the alleged incident,…
- India
TMC raises question over probe by central agencies; opposition says more arrests on cards
Kolkata: Rallies and counter rallies over the arrest of TMC leader Anubrata Mondal in a cattle smuggling case kept West Bengal’s political cauldron on the boil on Friday with the state’s ruling…
- India
Yati Narsinghanand under police scanner for calling for boycott of tricolour campaign
Ghaziabad: Yati Narsinghanand, a priest no stranger to controversies, has come under police scanner owing to the surfacing of a video in which he is seen boycotting the Union government’s tricolour campaign…
- India
Cobweb delaying MGNREGA payment needs to be surgically cleared
New Delhi: A Parliamentary standing committee in its report on MGNREG Act observed that the bureaucratic cobweb surrounding the factors for delay in payment need to be surgically cleared off. The Parliamentary…
