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China's finance ministry said on Sunday all levels of government had allocated a total of 71.85 billion yuan ($10.26 billion) as of Saturday afternoon to fight coronavirus.The ministry will deploy the funds to ensure that members of public can afford diagnosis and treatment, it said in a...
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A day after voting in Delhi Assembly elections, the Congress on Sunday rubbished the exit poll results, most of which predicted little or no change in the party's fortunes from 2015 polls, saying the result on February 11 will surprise everyone. Almost all exit polls predicted little...
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Actor Kalki Koechlin and boyfriend Guy Hershberg have become parents to a baby girl. The 36-year-old actor took to Instagram and shared a picture, writing, Please welcome Sappho, amid speculation around her birth that surfaced late Saturday evening.The actor seems to have named her daughter...
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Civil society and educated youth must go the villages to counter the agenda of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, said actor Sushant Singh at an anti-Citizenship Amendment Act gathering at Haj House in Mumbaion Sunday.Among those who spoke at the gathering, which was attended by hundreds of women,...
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The final voter turnout in the Delhi polls was 62.59 per cent, senior officials said on Sunday. Elections to the 70-member Delhi Assembly were held on Saturday.The final voter turnout was recorded at 62.59 per cent, a senior official in the Delhi CEO's office said.In the 2015 Assembly...
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A book against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act written by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was sold out six days after it was launched in the International Kolkata Book Fair, her publisher said.Titles favouring and opposing the CAA and the proposed nationwide NRC authored by others were...
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BJP leader and Union Minister of Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Sunday said that misinformation is being spread around the Citizenship Amendment Act and stressed that the citizenship of all Indians is safe.Misinformation is being spread that Indian Muslims will be made to leave under...
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At the all-party meeting of Shiv held on Sunday, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said, I don't have to prove my Hindutva because my Hindutva is that of Balasaheb Thackeray's, which is very pure.I did not change my flag...the whole world knows what is our Hindutva, Uddhav Thackeray...
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The first meeting of 'Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra' Trust -- set up for the construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya -- will be held on February 19, BJP leader Kameshwar Choupal said on Sunday.Choupal is also one of the fifteen members of the Trust which has been tasked with the construction...
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Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Sunday said Congress president Sonia Gandhi should send her son Rahul Gandhi to a political playschool so that he can learn decency and language etiquette.Naqvi was replying to a question by reporters in Madhya Pradesh about Congress Lok...
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As the deadly coronavirus claimed the lives of 811 people in China, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday wrote a letter to President Xi Jinping, expressing India's solidarity with people of China over Coronavirus outbreak.In the letter, the PM condoled the lives lost due to the coronavirus...
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A statue of Mahatma Gandhi was found vandalised in Hazaribagh on Sunday.Soon after the incident was reported, police started an investigation to ascertain whether the statue fell on its own or was deliberately vandalised. We are investigating to ascertain whether the statue fell itself or...
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said it was absolutely shocking that the Election Commission has not released the final turnout percentage of assembly polls held yesterday in the national capital.Absolutely shocking. What is EC doing? Why are they not releasing poll turnout...
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Senior JD-S leader and former prime minister H D Deve Gowda has called upon all the regional parties and secular parties to join hands with the Congress and work in tandem to take on the BJP. Noting that mere speeches would not help, he said the regional and secular parties...
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BJP MP Manoj Tiwari on Sunday said that as per the survey conducted by his team, the results of the assembly elections in Delhi will be in his party's favour.Our teams have done surveys and results will come in favour of the BJP. We will get more than 48 seats as per the survey done by us by...
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Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar on Sunday unveiled the first look of the biopic based on the life of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.The film is being helmed by Hollywood directors Johnny Martin and Jagadeesh Daneti. Addressing the media, Javadekar said, I am happy to launch the...
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The Mumbai Police has made elaborate security arrangements in view of Raj Thackerays Maharashtra Navnirman Sena holding a mega morcha or demonstration in Mumbai on February 9.Heavy police deployment will be witnessed on the route where MNS will hold its Mahamorcha demonstration to show their...
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Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is in Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on a day-long visit to take part in Ravidas Jayanti programmes, the party's Uttar Pradesh unit said. On her arrival at the airport, she was greeted by senior...
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Internet services have been snapped across Jammu and Kashmir as a precautionary measure on the eve of Afzal Guru's death anniversary. Afzal Guru was convicted for his role in the 2001 Parliament attack and was hanged on February 9, 2013.A bandh has also been called by the Jammu Kashmir Liberation...
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After exit polls predicted a dismal performance by the Congress in the Delhi assembly elections, the grand old partys in-charge of the national capital, PC Chacko on Sunday looked at its prospects after the votes are counted. All the five exit polls on Saturday said the AAP is all set to...
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Rajinikanth, 69, waited 22 years to announce his entry into politics after giving a call against then Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in 1996. And more than two years after he made that announcement on December 31, 2017, top players in Rajini Makkal Mandram, an outfit launched by the actor, and his...
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Suspected coronavirus patient in Odisha has tested negative and has been discharged from a state-run hospital in Cuttack, authorities of the medical institution said on Sunday.Earlier, two medical students admitted to the hospital had also tested negative, they said.The remaining patient, who was...
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Archbishop of Goa and Daman, Rev Filipe Neri Ferrao, has urged the central government to immediately and unconditionally revoke the Citizenship Amendment Act and stop quashing the right to dissent.He also appealed to the government not to implement the proposed countrywide National Register of...
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The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has prohibited making TikTok videos inside the Golden Temple in the wake of such videos showing the visitors dancing and playing songs, going viral on social media.The SGPC, the apex religious body of Sikhs, on Saturday pasted posters inside...
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A day after withdrawing the 'state calamity' warning in the wake of the novel coronavirus (nCov) scare, the Kerala government on Saturday said over 3,000 people are still under observation.Of the 3,114 people under watch, 3,099 are under home quarantine and 45 in hospitals as they had minor...
10:04
As the outbreak of novel coronavirus has lead to the death of more than 800 Chinese nationals, aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation on Saturday said that foreigners who went to China on or after January 15 will not be allowed to enter India.The DGCA, in its circular to...
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Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will on Sunday visit Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh to take part in the birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Ravidas.Priyanka Gandhi, who is also the in-charge of the eastern Uttar Pradesh, will take part in the celebrations at Sri Guru Ravidas...
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The death toll in China due to novel coronavirus epidemic rose to 811, while the confirmed cases jumped to over 37,000, the National Health Commission announced on Sunday.According to World Health Organisation, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome epidemic in 2003 that spread to 26 countries had...
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