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Union Budget: Bonanza for Bihar before Assembly Polls

February 1, 2025 Editor In Chief 0

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Feb 1: Sending a strong message to the people of Bihar, who will vote for the state Assembly elections later this year, that staying with the NDA matters, the union finance minister Nirmala Sitharamn on Saturday made a series of announcements aligned with Bihar’s financial and political interests. While presenting the […]

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8 Maoists Killed in Chhattisgarh

February 1, 2025 Editor In Chief 0

NEW DELHI, Feb 1: Eight Maoists were killed in an encounter with security forces in Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh on Saturday. The police said the gunfight broke out around 8.30 am in the forest in Gangaloor police station area when a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-Maoist operation. Personnel of the District […]

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7 AAP MLAs Resign, But were Not Given Party Ticket

January 31, 2025 Editor In Chief 0

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Jan 31: In a major blow to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal, seven AAP MLAs have resigned just five days before voting in the Delhi election. None of them got party ticket to contest the election again. The MLAs who resigned are Naresh Yadav (Mehrauli), Rohit Kumar (Trilokpuri), […]

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BJP Mounts Attack on Sonia Gandhi for her Remarks on Droupadi Murmu

January 31, 2025 Editor In Chief 0

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Jan 31: The Budget Session of Parliament began with a fresh controversy on Friday morning after the BJP twisting her remarks mounted an attack on the former Congress president Sonia Gandhi for calling the President Droupadi Murmu a “poor thing” and the Rashtrapati Bhavan branding her remark as “in poor taste, […]

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Maha Kumbh Stampede: UP Government Revamps Security, Private Vehicles Banned Entry in Prayagraj

January 30, 2025 Editor In Chief 0

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Jan 30: Taking a cue from the unfortunate stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj on Wednesday in which at last 30 people were killed and over 60 injured, the Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday ramped up efforts to ensure crowd management and safety of devotees who continued to flock […]

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All 67 Aboard Crashed American Plane and Helicopter Feared Dead

January 30, 2025 Editor In Chief 0

NEW DELHI, Jan 30: All the 64 passengers aboard the American Airlines flight which collided with an army helicopter just outside the Reagan Airport in Washington and fell into the Potomac river are feared dead even as 28 bodies had so far been recovered from the river. The incident happened in the wee hours of […]

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AAP Accuses CEC of Destroying Credibility of ECI, Cries Foul over “Raid” of Punjab CM’s Delhi Residence

January 30, 2025 Editor In Chief 0

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Jan 30: The former Delhi chief minister and the Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday accused the Chief Election Commissioner of playing politics having destroyed the credibility of the Election Commission on the row over alleged poisoning of the Yamuna river water being drawn for supplying drinking water to […]

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US Temporarily Halts Aids to Pakistan

January 29, 2025 Editor In Chief 0

NEW DELHI, Jan 29: The United States has temporarily suspended foreign assistance to Pakistan for re-evaluation following an executive order issued by President Donald Trump, according to media reports. This move has instantly stopped a number of important United States Agency For International Development (USAID) projects in Pakistan, including the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation […]

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“How Many Muslims Penalised under Banned Tripple Talaq:” SC Asks Centre

January 29, 2025 Editor In Chief 0

NEW DELHI, Jan 29: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the Centre to collect the total number of criminal cases registered against Muslim men under the law which penalises the three-word instant talaq, the practice of Tripple Talaq. The utterance of triple talaq was declared “null and void” by a Constitution Bench in a majority […]

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JPC on Waqf Act Adopts Report Amidst Opposition Criticism

January 29, 2025 Editor In Chief 0

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Jan 29: Amidst strong opposition from the Muslim Personal Law Board and criticism by the opposition party members of the committee, the Joint Parliamentary Committee scrutinising the Waqf (Amendment) Bill on Wednesday adopted its report and the amended version of the proposed law with a majority vote, the panel’s chairperson Jagdambika […]