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M Venkaiah Naidu
With West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar nominated as NDA's vice presidential candidate, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Saturday had words of praise for outgoing vice president M Venkaiah Naidu and said that on many occasions he got the Opposition all agitated, but at the end of it a good man...
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Two people were arrested after they entered the Lulu Mall in Lucknow on Saturday and started reciting the Hanuman Chalisa, the police said. At least 15 others were detained for creating a ruckus while trying to enter the shopping mall. Confirming the development, deputy commissioner of...
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Four more persons died of Japanese Encephalitis in Assam on Saturday, pushing the toll to 27 this month, according to a release issued by the National Health Mission. The state reported nine new cases during the day taking the tally to 169 this month. All four deaths were reported from...
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Bhupesh Baghel and TS Singh Deo (left)
Chhattisgarh minister TS Singh Deo, locked in a turf war with Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, on Saturday resigned from the panchayat and rural development department, hinting that he was sidelined in the government though he will continue to hold the other four portfolios. The development...
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The Delhi police, which often finds innovative ways to raise awareness on various topics and spread informative messages through social media, on Saturday urged people to follow traffic rules with a creative twist. They took to their official Twitter handle and shared a short meme clip...
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Dhankar meets Modi, July 16, 2022
West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar was on Saturday announced as the BJP-led NDA's vice presidential candidate, following a meeting of the BJP's parliamentary board. Making the announcement in New Delhi, BJP president J P Nadda lauded Dhankhar as a kisan putra (farmer's son) who...
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The ICSE class 10 results will be announced on July 17 with marks of both first and second semesters given equal weightage to arrive at the final score, board secretary Gerry Arathoon said on Saturday. The candidates who did not appear for either semester 1 or semester 2 examinations will be...
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Amit Shah arrives
A BJP parliamentary board meeting is underway to pick the party's candidate for the vice presidential poll. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, senior Union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, besides BJP chief JP Nadda are among those...
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An Uttar Pradesh court on Saturday rejected the bail petition of Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair in connection with an FIR lodged against him in 2021 for allegedly promoting enmity. The bail application was moved before additional chief judicial magistrate Mohamaddi on July 11 after the...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has arrived for the BJP's parliamentary board meeting, at the party's headquarters in Delhi where he was received by president JP Nadda. Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari and Shivraj Singh Chouhan had arrived earlier for the meeting, which is expected to decide on the...
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An Indo-Tibetan Border Police jawan Saturday fired at his three colleagues before shooting himself dead at a camp in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. The incident took place around 3:30 pm at the Devika Ghat community centre in the district. Constable Bhupendra...
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Basavaraj Bommai
Following instructions from Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, the Karnataka government has withdrawn the ban it had put on photography and videography in any government offices across the state. The chief minister took the decision after reviewing the decision of banning photography and...
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The opposition Congress in Goa has shifted five out of its 11 MLAs in the state to Chennai ahead of the July 18 Presidential elections. The five MLAs -- Sankalp Amonkar, Yuri Alemao, Altone D'Costa, Rudolf Fernandes and Carlose Alvares Ferreira -- were moved to Chennai on Friday evening soon...
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Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam has been admitted to a hospital after he developed COVID-19 symptoms, the hospital treating him said on Saturday. Panneerselvam was admitted in the isolation unit on July 15 with mild symptoms of COVID-19, a MGM Healthcare medical bulletin...
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A designated National Investigation Agency court on Saturday sent three Udaipur tailor murder case accused to judicial custody till August 1, according to a government lawyer. Riaz Akhtari, also known as Riyaz Attari, Ghouse Mohammad and Farhad Mohammad Sheikh were under NIA custody, and...
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At least six people have died and 71 others are hospitalised due to diarrhoea after drinking contaminated water from open sources in several villages in Odisha's Rayagada district, officials said on Saturday. The incident led to protests in the assembly, with the Opposition Congress...
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At least 14 Mexican marines were killed on Friday when their helicopter crashed during the arrest and transport of a drug lord in northern Mexico, the Mexican Navy said. The Black Hawk helicopter, owned by the Navy, was escorting another aircraft carrying Rafael Caro Quintero, founder of the...
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A drone was spotted flying along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district and it was forced to retreat after Army personnel opened fire, official sources said on Saturday. The drone was seen flying along the LoC near Baloni in the Krishna Gahti sector on Friday night, they...
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A statue of Mahatma Gandhi was vandalised by some unidentified people at a public park in Ramman Mandi in Bathinda, said the police on Saturday. The incident took place on the intervening night between Thursday and Friday, they said.Locals strongly condemned the incident when they came...
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Shinde with Fadnavis
The Eknath Shinde-led government in Maharashtra on Saturday gave cabinet approval to rename Aurangabad and Osmanabad cities as Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Dharashiv respectively. The decision to rename these cities was taken in the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government's last cabinet...
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The Aam Aadmi Party will support opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha in the Presidential poll, Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh said after a political advisory committee meeting of the party on Saturday. Sinha is in fray for the top constitutional post of the country with Droupadi Murmu, the...
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India's COVID-19 case tally rose by 20,044 in a day to reach 4,37,30,071 while active cases increased to 1,40,760, according to Health Ministry data updated on Saturday.
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Train service for passengers to Tripura and parts of the North East, suspended for more than two months due to the massive landslides in the Lumding-Badarpur section in Assam, is scheduled to resume from July 22, a Railway official said on Saturday. On the first day Kanchanjunga Express will...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the 296-km-long Bundelkhand Expressway, which passes through seven districts of Uttar Pradesh and has been constructed at a cost of around Rs 14,850 crore. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath welcomed Modi by offering him a local...
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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will hold an all party meeting on Saturday, two days ahead of the start of the Monsoon session of the Parliament. The meeting is scheduled to be held at Parliament in the evening and is expected to be attended by floor leaders of several political...
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Several places in west and east Rajasthan witnessed heavy to very heavy rainfall in the last 24 hours, according to the weather department. Makrana in Nagaur district recorded the highest rainfall at 13 cm in the last 24 hours -- ending 8.30 am Saturday.It was followed by Ratangarh...
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Megastar Chiranjeevi on Saturday announced that he will be presenting the Telugu version of Aamir Khan's much-awaited movie Laal Singh Chaddha. An official remake of Tom Hanks' 1994 feature Forrest Gump, the film is directed by Advait Chandan and adapted by noted actor Atul...
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The Congress on Saturday refuted the mischievous charges against late Ahmed Patel and said the prime minister's political vendetta does not even spare the departed who were his political adversaries. The SIT which is probing Teesta Setalvad's role among others in the case of criminal...
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I served my motherland to the best of my ability and I will continue to do so in the future, former Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has said, as he defended himself in his resignation letter which was read out during a special session of Parliament on Saturday. Sri Lanka's...
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India's COVID-19 case tally rose by 20,044 in a day to reach 4,37,30,071 while active cases increased to 1,40,760, according to Health Ministry data updated on Saturday. The death toll has climbed to 5,25,660 with 56 more fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.Active cases increased by...
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Six pilgrims and one pony driver died of natural causes during the Amarnath Yatra in the last 36 hours, taking the overall death toll in the ongoing pilgrimage to 49, officials said on Saturday. The death toll includes 15 yatris who lost their life in the July 8 flash...
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Sri Lanka's Parliament is set to meet on Saturday to announce the vacancy in the presidency following the resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who has fled the country after a popular uprising against him for mishandling the country's economic crisis. Rajapaksa, who fled to the Maldives on...
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The Opposition's candidate for the next week's Presidential election, Yashwant Sinha, has cancelled his visit to Mumbai scheduled on Saturday in the wake of the Shiv Sena announcing support for the National Democratic Alliance's nominee Droupadi Murmu. ...
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The political advisory committee of the Aam Aadmi Party will meet Saturday noon to decide on its support in the Presidential election, sources in the party said. The meeting will be attended by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and other members of the PAC, including Deputy Chief...
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Eleven districts of Bengal have reported at least 65 cases of black fever or 'kala-azar' in the last couple of weeks, a senior official of the health department said, citing results of a state-administered surveillance.The districts where maximum number of cases was registered include Darjeeling,...
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Congress leader Milind Deora has said that while Gujarat is a tough state to win the assembly polls in, the challenge is not insurmountable for his party. Talking to PTI, Deora, who has been appointed the All India Congress Committee's observer for the...
09:52
As elected lawmakers from across the country gear up for voting in the presidential poll on Monday, those from Uttar Pradesh will have the maximum vote value among MLAs, while the vote value of those from Sikkim is the lowest. Members of Parliament have a much higher vote value at 700.The...
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Modi with VP Naidu
The Bharatiya Janata Party is likely to finalise its candidate for the vice presidential post on Saturday in its parliamentary board meet scheduled to be held later in the day, sources said. Its parliamentary board comprises party president J P Nadda and Prime Minister...
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United States President Joe Biden said he raised the murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the beginning of his meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Friday.I raised it at the top of the meeting, making it clear what I thought of it at the time and what I think of it now, Biden said in a...
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Four people were arrested and 25 others booked on Friday in connection with a clash between members of two communities in Bareilly that left three persons seriously injured, the police said. The station house officer of Premnagar police station has also been suspended for negligence, they...
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