Modi shared the warmth of Chief Minister M K Stalin who briefly held the PM's hand and patted the back of the latter's palm while walking through the displays exhibited at the new Chennai airport terminal.
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'I asked him why were he and other writers being targeted.' 'I saw his point of view, that he and others being writers, their work was popular and well-appreciated by people, especially the youth.' 'This made the State fear them.'
A man was shot dead in police firing in Telangana's Secunderabad, trains went up in flames, and public and private vehicles attacked, as railway stations and highways turned into battleground in many states on Friday amid burgeoning protests against Agnipath, the contentious defence recruitment scheme.
A tug of war was witnessed in a Delhi court between the National Investigation Agency and the Special Cell of Delhi Police for seeking the custody of top Indian Mujahideen operatives Tehseen Akhtar and Zia-ur-Rehman alias Waqas.
The incident took place on January 13 on Kushinagar Express on its way to Gorakhpur. The trouble began after an unclaimed bag was recovered from the general compartment of Kushinagar Express which contained meat.
11 students injured in the bus-train collision at an unmanned railway crossing in Telangana's Medak district continue to battle for their life on Friday even as the district authorities and police have begun an inquiry into the mishap.
According to a 2020 study Analysis of bridge failures in India from 1977 to 2017, as many as "2,130 bridges" -- excluding culverts and pedestrian bridges -- have collapsed during various phases of construction in the last four decades.
Thousands of migrants were stranded in places across the country since the lockdown was enforced on March 25, many even attempting to walk home.
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, senior leaders K C Venugopal, P Chidambaram and Salman Khurshid were among the party's top brass taking part in the satyagraha at Rajghat.
"Convict him or acquit him," an anguished Supreme Court observed on non-framing of charges on an accused jailed for 11 years over serial blasts in multiple Rajdhani Express and other trains in 1993.
Several migrants in Bengaluru were desperate to return home as they were out of job and money.
The prime minister thanked the people but said it was the start of a long battle, as he urged them to follow social distancing to stop the chain of transmission of Coronavirus which has infected 360 people and claimed seven lives in India.
Had the driver of the ill-fated school bus, which met with a tragic accident while crossing the unmanned railway crossing in Telangana's Medak district on Thursday, not taken a short cut, lives of 16 children could have been saved, police said.
A Hyderabad-based man, alleged to be involved in chatting on Jihadi websites about the dreaded ISIS, was on Wednesday granted bail by a Delhi court.
'Is it not deplorable that even after 75 years of independence, there are people in our society who have been denied freedom?'
The victim, Vikram, was selling samosas on the Hyderabad-Warangal train.
The mishap took place at Martur village station, about 20 kilometres from Kalburgi.
10 central trade unions have called a nationwide shutdown against 'anti-worker policies' of the central government. Apart from being successful in Bengal, Kerala and NE states, the bandh has also got support from Cong leader Rahul Gandhi and Shiv Sena in Maharashtra.
Security has been beefed up at major hospitals and crowded places, including railway and bus stations in the city, City Police Commissioner B Prasada Rao told PTI.
The Punjab athlete clocked 14.05 seconds to erase Guruprith Singh's record of 14.07s, at the Open National Athletics Championships.
Two women doctors were injured in Indore when a five-member team of health officials was pelted with stones in Taatpatti Bakhal area on Wednesday while they were trying to trace a person who had come into contact with a COVID-19 patient, police said.
The state government will review the lockdown situation in Guwahati after seven days from the enforcement of the restrictions.
Verma came to the CVC office in the late afternoon and stayed there for about two hours, they said.
The Central Vigilance Commission on Tuesday examined some Central Bureau of Investigation official.
Initial reports reaching Hyderabad from the region indicate the Road Transport Corporation bus services were partially affected as protesters staged dharnas in front of depots in Telangana districts, including Hyderabad.
Stepping up their agitation, power employees in Seemandhra on Sunday began an indefinite strike to protest the decision to divide Andhra Pradesh.
Several protests -- some peaceful, some violent -- erupted across India on Monday against the police crackdown in Jamia Millia Islamia and the controversial citizenship law as students and political leaders took to the streets, even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi called these protests "deeply distressing" and appealed for peace.
Marathas, a politically influential community that constitutes around 30 per cent of the state's population, have been demanding 16 per cent reservation in government jobs and education.
The ten-day-long Ganesh Chaturthi culminated on Sunday as thousands of devotees immersed idols of the elephant-headed deity.
With more details of an Indian Mujahideen role emerging in the Patna blasts case, investigation agencies have found that alleged mastermind Tehsin Akhtar had access to 90 improvised explosive devices.
Agitating against the decision to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh, Samaikyandhra supporters on Tuesday continued with their week-long protests across coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions.
Verma is understood to have given point-wise refusal to all the allegations levelled by Asthana before the panel comprising Vigilance Commissioners T M Bhasin and Sharad Kumar, they said.
State capitals and major cities across the country have seen security being beefed up at vulnerable places and key installations.
Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal, arrested from the Indo-Nepal border in north Bihar, is wanted in several blast cases being probed by the National Investigation Agency and state police forces. His name had come up in connection with the explosion outside Delhi high court on September 7, 2011 in which 12 people were killed.
The flooding in Kerala, Karnataka and Maharashtra has left people without homes and brought about destruction worth crores.
'Unlike Andhra Pradesh or Tamil Nadu, there is no opportunity for workers to earn a livelihood in Bihar.'
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
Four people have died including one each in Delhi, Karnataka, Punjab and Maharashtra.
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