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  PM Modi asks District Collectors to prepare vision document for 2022

  August 10, 2017 7:50 IST

  PM Modi asked the District Collectors to decide where they must see their districts in 2022 in terms of removal of deficiencies and improvement in services.

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  On Quit India movement anniversary, opposition parties launch campaigns to unseat BJP

  August 09, 2017 23:08 IST

  Opposition parties today vowed to oust ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) with the Trinamool Congress, the Samajwadi Party and the RJD launching campaigns in WB, Bihar and UP respectively.

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  Azam Khan's MLA son possesses two PANs with different age, says report; faces disqualification

  August 09, 2017 22:51 IST

  Former Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan's MLA son Abdullah is facing disqualification over charges that he furnished incorrect date of birth while filing his nomination for the Assembly election earlier this year.

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  Gujarat RS polls: Day after Ahmed Patel's victory, Congress expels 8 MLAs for cross-voting

  August 09, 2017 21:19 IST

  The Congress today expelled for six years eight of its MLAs who cross-voted in yesterday's Rajya Sabha elections.

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  Rajiv Gandhi 'politically immature' to succeed Indira: CIA in 1983 report

  August 09, 2017 18:00 IST

  The document discussed the prospects of India in the mid-1980s and looked into various political scenarios, including re-election of Indira Gandhi in the 1985 general election with a slim majority

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  Permanent Residents Act: NC asks Mehbooba Mufti to seek Centre's help in Article 35A case

  August 09, 2017 17:28 IST

  National Conference has advised the government to seek the help of its ally BJP and the Centre in Article 35A case.

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  JDU rift wide open? Sharad Yadav congratulates Ahmed Patel for RS win despite 'toughest hurdles'

  August 09, 2017 19:01 IST

  Yadav's greetings to Patel assumes significance because the JD(U) had asked its lone MLA in Gujarat, Chhotu Vasava, to vote in favour of BJP's Balwantsinh Rajput. However, Vasava said that he voted for Congress' nominee Ahmed Patel.

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  I should not talk about politics in this responsibility: Vice President-elect Venkaiah Naidu

  August 09, 2017 13:34 IST

  NDA nominee M Venkaiah Naidu was last week elected as India's next Vice President.

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  Another blow to Samajwadi Party as one more MLC resigns from Council

  August 09, 2017 16:36 IST

  Last week, SP MLC Sarojini Agrawal had resigned from the House. Agrawal’s term as MLC was due to end in January 2021.

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  Some organisations had opposed Quit India Movement’: Sonia’s jibe at RSS, BJP in Parliament

  August 09, 2017 12:47 IST

  The Parliament is today holding a special session to mark the 75th anniversary of the Quit India Movement, which later snowballed into enabling India gaining Independence from the British Rule in 1947.

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  India's freedom defining moment in ending colonialism around the world: PM Modi

  August 09, 2017 12:40 IST

  Prime Minister Modi said that the movement had marked rise of a new leadership in the country. Speaking on the floor of the House, he remembered Father of Nation Mahatma Gandhi and others who participated in the historic movement in 1942.

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  ‘Are you Pak supporters’: Bihar minister to media persons for not chanting ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’

  August 18, 2017 19:47 IST

  Bihar minister Vinod Kumar Singh on triggered sparked a controversy when he called media persons “supporters of Pakistan” who did not shout “Bharat Mata ki Jai” during a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) function

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  Ahmed Patel retains Rajya Sabha seat: How Congress managed to upset BJP in Gujarat battle

  August 09, 2017 11:00 IST

  The high-voltage political drama for three Gujarat Rajya Sabha seats culminated with Congress leader Ahmed Patel’s victory, coming as a major blow to the BJP on their home turf despite wins for Amit Shah and Smriti Irani

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  ‘Satyameva Jayate’, says Ahmed Patel after winning prestige battle against BJP in Gujarat

  August 09, 2017 10:46 IST

  In a dramatic turn of events in the high stakes Rajya Sabha elections in Gujarat, Congress leader Ahmed Patel emerged victorious to make it to the Upper House for the fifth time on the strength of first preference votes

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  Gujarat RS elections: Will take legal steps over EC decision, says CM Vijay Rupani

  August 09, 2017 6:39 IST

  Vijay Rupani on Wednesday said that the Congress won the Rajya Sabha election from the third seat in the state because two votes were invalidated and the BJP will explore legal options to challenge the Election Commission's decision

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  Jammu and Kashmir's special status needs to be protected: CM Mehbooba Mufti

  August 09, 2017 1:26 IST

  Article 35-A of the Constitution empowers the state's legislature to define its "permanent residents" and accord special rights and privileges to them.

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  JD(U) sacks Gujarat general secretary Arun Shrivastav for anti-party activities

  August 08, 2017 22:49 IST

  The lone JD(U) MLA in Gujarat, Chhotu Vasava, today claimed he voted for Congress' nominee Ahmed Patel in the Rajya Sabha polls as the ruling BJP has done little for the tribal people and the poor.

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  Sonia Gandhi attacks Modi government, says many sections living in fear

  August 08, 2017 22:30 IST

  Addressing a special CWC meeting on 75th anniversary of Quit India Movement, Sonia highlighted the party's role in freedom struggle and took a swipe at BJP on the issue of nationalism.

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  J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti meets Farooq Abdullah in Srinagar

  August 08, 2017 21:08 IST

  Omar did not elaborate on the issues discussed by Mehbooba and Abdullah, who is a Lok Sabha member from Srinagar constituency.

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  Amit Shah completes three years as BJP president tomorrow

  August 08, 2017 19:22 IST

  As the 52-year-old leader from Gujarat begins his fourth year at the helm of the party's affairs, Amit Shah is also set to make his debut in Parliament as a Rajya Sabha member from Gujarat.

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  Chandigarh stalking: ‘Victim like my daughter’, says Haryana BJP chief Subhash Barala

  August 08, 2017 18:39 IST

  Barala's son Vikas (23) and another person Ashish Kumar (27) were earlier arrested for allegedly stalking the 29-year-old woman, daughter of a senior IAS officer.

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  Gujarat RS election results: Congress upbeat as Ahmed Patel retains seat for 5th term in prestige battle

  August 09, 2017 2:12 IST

  Ahmed Patel, the political advisor to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, was pitted against Balwantsinh Rajput in a battle that was seen as a direct battle with BJP president Amit Shah

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  New Rs 500, 2000 notes have unique dimension: Finance Ministry

  August 08, 2017 17:53 IST

  Opposition today forced adjournment of the proceedings in the Rajya Sabha over what it called as the "biggest scam of this century" in the printing of two different sizes for the new currencies.

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  Upset with Nitish Kumar, lone JD(U) MLA votes for Ahmed Patel in Gujarat Rajya Sabha polls

  August 08, 2017 17:00 IST

  JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav had also opposed Nitish Kumar's alliance with the BJP to form the new government in Bihar.

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  Nitish Kumar won't get more than two seats in 2019 polls, says Lalu

  August 08, 2017 16:41 IST

  RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav today once again attacked Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for walking out of the Grand Alliance government in the state.

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  Delhi Court to frame charges against Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia on August 23 in criminal defamation case

  August 08, 2017 14:04 IST

  The court had on August 2 passed order on framing of notice (charge) on the criminal defamation complaint filed against the two AAP leaders and Yogendra Yadav by advocate Surender Kumar Sharma.

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  ‘Biggest scam of the century’: Uproar in RS as Congress alleges different types of Rs 500 notes

  August 08, 2017 13:28 IST

  Opposition Congress, supported by TMC and JD(U), today forced four adjournments of the proceedings in the Rajya Sabha over what it called as "biggest scam of this century" in the printing of two different kinds of 500- and 2000-rupee notes

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  Omar Abdullah on opposition unity: Each one for themselves in 2019 elections, 5 more years to BJP

  August 08, 2017 13:21 IST

  Omar Abdullah was reacting the developments in Gujarat Rajya Sabha polls where Ahmad Patel, Congress candidate and confidante of party president Sonia Gandhi, is seeking a fifth term to the Upper House