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Judgement Reserved on Total Verification of VVPAT Slips, but SC Satisfied on ECI Clarifications

April 24, 2024 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Apr 24: The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its judgement on the petitions seeking thorough cross-verification of votes cast on Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) with paper slips generated through the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) system, but appeared relatively satisfied with Election Commission of India’s assertion that the EVMs “cannot […]

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Heatwave: Nitin Gadkari Faints on Dais, Recover Quickly to Complete Speech

April 24, 2024 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Apr 24: The union and senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari fainted while speaking at an election rally but recovered soon with prompt treatment and returned to the dais to complete his speech. Mr Gadkari was addressing the rally at Pusad in Yavatmal district in Maharashtra when he fainted. The security personnel accompanying him […]

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Congress on the Backfoot over Sam Pitroda Comment on Inheritance Tax

April 24, 2024 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Apr 24: An off-the-cuff remarks by the former Congress advisor Sam Pitroda about inheritance tax in the United States has put the Congress on the defensive with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi telling the voters that they would lose their wealth if they voted the Congress to power and the Congress […]

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Football: Former Manchester star Carlos Teves hospitalized after chest pain

April 24, 2024 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi, April 24: Carlos Teves, former Manchester City and Manchester United star was on Wednesday hospitalized after he complained of chest pain, the media reported on Wednesday. The Independiente FC confirmed it in a statement on their Instagram account: “Our coach, Carlos Teves, went to la Trinidad hospital in San Isidro with chest pain. […]

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Roving Periscope: To keep fires burning, US approves $95 bn package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan

April 24, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: War is big business and supporting, even financing, wars elsewhere keeps democracy alive and kicking in America. Nothing proves it better than what the US Congress has done just now even as pro-Palestinian and anti-Semitic protestors have brought several elite universities to a halt amid raging protests. And this is in […]

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Pakistan: Now, jailed Imran’s party denies it is “in talks” with the Army!

April 24, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Wheels within wheels. That defines Pakistan and its politics. A week, after the Sharifs floated a trial balloon that crises-ridden Pakistan should re-engage its “neighbor”—meaning India—the nearly bankrupt country is agog with speculations that the ruling regime might reopen a way to New Delhi. And that the omnipresent Pakistan Army, to […]

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Kharge’s Challenge to Modi on Muslim League Impact on Congress Manifesto

April 23, 2024 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Apr 23: Throwing a strong challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his twin jabs of a Muslim League imprint on the party’s manifesto and an alleged promise of “wealth redistribution to infiltrators,” Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday said the PM should stop his attempts at dividing society and grant him time […]

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Modi Repeats Charge against Congress of “Conspiracy” to “Redistribute” Property to “Special People”

April 23, 2024 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Apr 23: Amidst reports that the Election Commission was examining the reported “hate speech” of the Prime Minister distorting the Congress manifesto, Mr Narendra Modi on Tuesday reiterated that he had put the “truth” before the country that the Congress was hatching a “deep conspiracy to snatch your property and distribute […]

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Heatwave Warning Worries Political Parties, ECI for Second Phase

April 23, 2024 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Apr 23: Warning of possible heatwave in some of the states going to the second phase of polling on Friday was causing concern to both the contesting political parties and the Election Commission of India after over four per cent drop in the turn out noticed in the first phase of polling on […]

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“Are the Public Apology Ads as Big as Your Ads against Allopathy Medicines?” SC asks Patanjali

April 23, 2024 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Apr 23: The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed reservations over the size of the advertisements published in newspapers containing public apology of the Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev and the managing director of the Patanjali Ayurved Acharya Balkrishna for the earlier alleged misleading ads against other systems of medicine, particularly allopathy. “Were […]