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  What transpired at UP BJP MLAs' meeting where Yogi Adityanath was elected CM: Blow by blow account

  March 19, 2017 8:02 IST

  Yogi Adityanath was elected the BJP legislature party leader at a meeting of the newly elected MLAs.

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  Ban on beacons, restriction on foreign travel: Amarinder govt to end VIP culture in Punjab

  March 19, 2017 7:19 IST

  Beacons will be only allowed on vehicles engaged in emergency services like ambulances and fire brigades, and on cars of the Chief Justice and judges of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

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  Dinesh Sharma: What we know about UP's deputy CM-designate

  March 19, 2017 6:58 IST

  Dinesh Sharma will be one of the two deputy Chief Ministers of CM Yogi Adityanath in UP.

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  Yogi Adityanath sworn in as 21st Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh; two deputies also take oath

  March 19, 2017 17:13 IST

  Firebrand Hindutva leader Yogi Adityanath was sworn in as the Chief Minister of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Uttar Pradesh today.

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  Former RSS pracharak Trivendra Singh Rawat will find organisational skills handy

  March 18, 2017 20:13 IST

  Risen from obscurity to become Uttarkhand Chief Minister, Former RSS pracharak Trivendra Singh Rawat is known for his fierce loyalty and will find his organisational skills handy in the task of fulfilling the development promises

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  When Twitterati ‘congratulated’ Vin Diesel in place of UP CM Yogi Adiyanath

  March 19, 2017 16:32 IST

  Immediately after the newly elected BJP MLAs in Uttar Pradesh elected Gorakhpur MP Yogi Adiyanath as their legislature party leader, Twitterati had their biggest laugh by comparing the firebrand Hindutva leader to Hollywood actor Vin

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  Yogi Adityanath: Five-time MP, a Hindu-hardliner to head BJP government in Uttar Pradesh

  March 18, 2017 19:22 IST

  High-profile BJP MP from Gorakhpur, Yogi Adityanath, is all set to be appointed as the next Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.

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  India not happy with label of world’s largest arms importer, says Arun Jaitley

  March 18, 2017 15:13 IST

  Union Defence Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said that India is not happy with the label of world’s largest importer of arms.

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  I will never accept the job of advising Rahul Gandhi, says Amit Shah

  March 18, 2017 13:28 IST

  Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah on Friday said that he will “never accept” the job of advising the Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi.

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  ‘Sonia Gandhi Congress President for namesake, Rahul running party for last 10 years’

  March 18, 2017 13:10 IST

  Taking pot-shot at the electoral acceptability of Rahul Gandhi, union minister Venkaiah Naidu today said that the Congress vice president has been running the party for last 10 years while her mother Sonia Gandhi remained President only for namesake.

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  Digvijaya stopped state Congress leadership from staking claim, says Goa Cong chief Luizinho Faleiro

  March 18, 2017 12:41 IST

  Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) chief Luizinho Faleiro has refuted claims that the party’s state unit leadership failed to form the government in the coastal state.

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  Don’t want to become Uttarakhand Speaker, BJP shouldn’t insult a saint: Satpal Maharaj

  March 18, 2017 14:13 IST

  senior BJP leader Satpal Maharaj today refuted speculations over his becoming the new Speaker of state Assembly and made it clear that the party should not insult a saint like him.

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  Yogi Adityanath elected BJP legislature party leader, to be sworn in as CM of UP tomorrow

  March 18, 2017 22:49 IST

  Newly elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs in Uttar Pradesh today elected Gorakhpur MP Yogi Adiyanath as their legislature party leader.

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  Union minister Manoj Sinha visits Varanasi temples

  March 18, 2017 10:13 IST

  Union Communications Minister Manoj Sinha, widely speculated to become the new Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, today visited a number of temples in Varanasi including the famous Kashi Vishwanath temple.

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  Rahul Gandhi not acting decisively, he gets angry when I repeat this: Digvijaya Singh

  March 18, 2017 8:48 IST

  Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh has said that it’s time for party vice president Rahul Gandhi to act decisively in order to make a new Congress with a new charter, a new roadmap and a new style of campaigning.

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  Punjab CM is like my father, would have served as MLA if Captain had asked: Navjot Singh Sidhu

  March 18, 2017 7:26 IST

  The newly appointed Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday said that Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh was like his father and that he would have served as an MLA if the Captain had asked him for the same.

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  Former RSS pracharak Trivendra Singh Rawat sworn in as CM of Uttarakhand

  March 18, 2017 17:51 IST

  Former RSS pracharak Trivendra Singh Rawat was sworn in as Uttarakhand Chief Minister today after the BJP's emphatic win in the Assembly elections held last month.

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  No official confirmation regarding whereabouts of missing Indian clerics in Pak: Sushma Swaraj

  March 17, 2017 23:32 IST

  External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today asserted that she is in constant touch with the High Commission on the issue of two missing Indian sufi clerics in Pakistan. In a series of tweets, Swaraj said

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  Digvijaya should retire from politics, says former Goa Congress MLA Vishwajit Rane

  March 17, 2017 19:24 IST

  Former Goa legislator Vishwajit Rane on Friday stepped up his attack on Congress general secretary Digivjaya Singh and said it's time the veteran politician called it quits.

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  Shahshi Tharoor as Congress' PM candidate in 2019? Here is what the Kerala MP has to say

  March 17, 2017 19:21 IST

  Congress leader Shashi Tharoor today responded to an online petition sought to project his name as the United Progressive Alliance’s (UPA) prime ministerial face for the 2019 General Elections.

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  Won’t part ways with ‘The Kapil Sharma Show’, says Punjab minister Sidhu

  March 17, 2017 19:13 IST

  Sidhu said that he will fly down to Mumbai every Saturday, shoot for the show and then fly back to his home state on Sundays.

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  In UP, Punjab and Goa, increase in MLAs without criminal records

  March 17, 2017 16:20 IST

  Of 690 MLAs elected in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Manipur and Goa, 27.8 per cent (192) have a criminal record, while 20 per cent (140) face serious criminal charges, such as murder, kidnapping and extortion, the data show.

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  When Amarinder Singh threatened to quit Congress if not made state party chief

  March 17, 2017 15:33 IST

  Miffed over not being allowed to lead the Punjab unit of Congress, Captain Amarinder Singh in 2015 had told Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi that he was ready to quit and float his own outfit, if he was not appointed state party chief.

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  Rejecting objections by political parties, former CECs swear by reliability of EVMs

  March 17, 2017 15:22 IST

  Requesting political parties not to pass their "unhappiness of the loss" on to the EVM machines, former chiefs of the Election Commission of India have vouched for the reliability of these machines.

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  Digvijaya Singh blames Congress leaders for Goa fiasco

  March 17, 2017 15:03 IST

  Refuting allegations of his poor handling of Congress’ affairs in Goa, party general secretary Digvijay Singh today said that his own party leaders sabotaged his proposal for a pre-poll alliance with Goa Forward Party.

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  Devendra Fadnavis denies reports of his moving over to Centre

  March 17, 2017 15:00 IST

  Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today denied speculations over his appointment as a Union minister and insisted that he will continue to stay in the state.

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  Cost of PM Modi’s social media outreach ‘zero’: PMO in response to RTI filed by AAP leader Manish Sisodia

  March 17, 2017 14:54 IST

  The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has revealed that PM Modi’s presence on social media has not cost the exchequer a single rupee since May 2014.

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  Ravi Shastri likens BJP’s UP win to ‘Tracer Bullet’, PM Modi returns favour

  March 17, 2017 14:53 IST

  Ravi Shastri on Thursday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah for the BJP’s landslide victory in the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.