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Rishi Sunak’s best chance of becoming PM lies in no contest
London: British Indian Rishi Sunak’s best chance of becoming prime minister of the UK lies in no other candidate mustering the support of 100 ruling Conservative party MPs — a minimum condition…
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Hyderabad: Man arrested for threatening paan shop owner with gun
Hyderabad: Police arrested a man for creating commotion in the Bibi Bazaar area in the Old City on Saturday after he threatened a pan shop owner with a gun for refusing to…
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Watch: BJP youth wing leader finds video of child abusing Mughals ‘cute’
The National Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga shared a video on October 21 that shows a minor boy hurling abuses at Mughals indirectly, targetting Muslims. Bagga…
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Karnataka: Govt allows use of loudspeakers in 10,889 mosques
Bengaluru: Ruling BJP government in Karnataka has granted permission to 10,889 mosques in the state to use loudspeakers on Saturday. The police department has issued licenses as per guidelines in this regard on…
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MP HC reduces life sentence of rape convict for ‘sparing’ child’s life
A rape convict’s life sentence was reduced on Saturday by the Madhya Pradesh High Court after it was noticed that despite committing a heinous crime, the defendant was “gentle enough” to spare…
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12 members of Dalit family convert to Buddhism in Rajasthan
Kota (Rajasthan): Twelve members of a Dalit family in Rajasthan’s Baran district have converted to Buddhism, allegedly upset over the assault of a family member by a man and the police’s refusal to…
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Study reveals yearning for old style news; 49% prefer bulletins, 12% for debates
New Delhi: News bulletins are preferred by nearly half of the news viewers compared to only 12 per cent favouring debate shows, a study on media in India found, highlighting yearning among…
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J&K govt includes 15 more castes in reservation for socially backward classes
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir government on Saturday issued a notification including 15 more castes that would now benefit through the 4 per cent reservation in jobs etc for socially backward classes. As…
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RSS raising religious conversion issue to distract from BJP’s failures: Mayawati
Lucknow: BSP president Mayawati alleged on Saturday that the RSS is raising issues related to religious conversion and the population policy to divert people’s attention from the failures of the BJP government…
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MP min compares Rahul Gandhi to specially abled performer; slammed for insensitivity
Ahmedabad: Madhya Pradesh minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Vishvas Sarang on Friday purportedly compared Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to `Kamo’, a specially abled performer. Congress slammed the BJP for mocking the…
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Telangana: Congress won’t win Munugode, says Komatireddy Venkat Reddy in viral video
Hyderabad: Hours after the leak of an audio clip in which Congress’ Komatireddy Venkat Reddy was heard urging a party leader to back his brother and BJP candidate Komatireddy Rajgopal Reddy, another…
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RSS affiliate opposes complete ban on firecrackers in Delhi
New Delhi: Swadeshi Jagaran Manch (SJM), the economic wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, on Saturday strongly opposed a complete ban on firecrackers in the national capital during Diwali, terming it “inappropriate”…
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Hindu Mahasabha announces it will fight Bengal rural polls, weeks after Mahishasur row
Kolkata: The Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha, which hit the headlines earlier this month for organising a Durga Puja in Kolkata that had the idol of Mahishasur resembling Mahatma Gandhi, announced that it will…
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MJ engineering college fee hiked – Know fees of minority colleges in Telangana
Hyderabad: After the Telangana government gave a nod to the recommendations of the Admission and Fee Regulation Committee (AFRC), the fee of Muffakham Jah College of Engineering and Technology (MJCET) increased by…
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Kerala human sacrifice: HC quashes plea of accused against police custody
Kochi: Kerala High Court has dismissed the plea of all three accused persons in the Kerala human sacrifice case challenging the order of the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court of Ernakulam granting…
