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  Best-selling author Tuhin Sinha is new Mumbai BJP spokesman

  December 29, 2016 18:37 IST

  The Mumbai unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has appointed best-selling author and commentator Tuhin A. Sinha as its new spokesman.

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  Former PM Manmohan Singh to release Congress manifesto for Punjab Assembly polls

  December 29, 2016 18:31 IST

  Former PM Manmohan Singh to release Congress manifesto for Punjab Assembly polls

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  Power tussle within SP intensifies, Akhilesh may announce his own list of 167 candidates

  December 29, 2016 18:29 IST

  An undeclared tussle for power within the Samajwadi Party has begun once again, this time over ticket distribution. With Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav unhappy over the announcement of names of 325 candidates, overlooking his preferences, reports have

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  AIADMK wants Nobel Prize, Bharat Ratna for Jayalalithaa

  December 29, 2016 18:25 IST

  The AIADMK has requested the central government to award the late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa with the Bharat Ratna posthumously.

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  Owaisi brothers, three others acquitted in 2005 Muttangi Masjid demolition case

  December 29, 2016 17:03 IST

  A Telangana court today acquitted AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, his brother Akbaruddin Owaisi (a state legislator) and three others in a case related to demolition of a mosque 11 years ago.

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  Demonetisation: PM Modi should apologise to nation after end of 50-day period, says Congress

  December 29, 2016 16:14 IST

  The Congress today asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to apologise to the nation for making people “suffer” because of his decision to demonetise high-denomination currency notes.

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  Akhilesh Yadav meets his supporters, assures of fight to protect their interests

  December 29, 2016 15:28 IST

  A day after Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayan Singh Yadav announced the names of 325 candidates for upcoming Assembly polls, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today met several party MLAs and his supporters here, indicating another round of power tussle wi

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  Congress to launch nationwide agitation against note ban, graft charges involving PM Modi from January 6

  December 29, 2016 15:24 IST

  Principal opposition party, the Congress today announced that it will launch a nationwide agitation from January 6 on the twin issues of note ban and corruption charges against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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  Sushma Swaraj promises help to kin in bringing body of Indian from New Zealand

  December 29, 2016 14:10 IST

  External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has promised help to an aggrieved family in Haryana in bringing the body of their son back to India, who was stabbed to death in New Zealand. Hardeep Singh Deol,

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  Rawat rejects BJP’s demand for CBI probe into 2013 Kedar relief scam; orders judicial inquiry

  December 29, 2016 13:54 IST

  The Uttarakhand government has ordered a judicial probe into 2013 Kedar relief scam, all thanks to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his mention of corruption during his rally in Dehradun earlier this week.

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  President Pranab Mukherjee appoints Anil Baijal as Lieutenant Governor of Delhi

  December 29, 2016 13:52 IST

  President Pranab Mukherjee today appointed former IAS officer Anil Baijal as the next Lieutenent Governor of Delhi with effect from the date he assumes charge of his office.

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  Arvind Kejriwal gets into Twitter spat with Amarinder Singh, again

  December 29, 2016 13:48 IST

  Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said Punjab Congress President Amarinder Singh is fighting him rather than drugs or Badals of the Shirmomani Akali Dal. "So, you are fighting me, not Badals/drugs. Badals also

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  JD(U) supports Modi govt on ordinance to penalise people holding old notes

  December 29, 2016 13:02 IST

  The Janata Dal (United) has come out in support of the Narendra Modi government on the ordinance to penalise people holding old scrapped currency notes of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 denominations after March 31, 2017.

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  Ministries, departments to furnish detailed reports on sexual harassment cases every month

  December 29, 2016 12:42 IST

  The Women and Child Development (WCD) ministry has asked all ministries and the departments under its ambit to furnish monthly reports on all sexual harassment cases registered during a particular month.

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  ‘Why can’t we order exhumation of the body of former CM’: Madras HC raises doubts over Jaya’s death

  December 29, 2016 12:38 IST

  The Madras High Court today issued notices to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the state and central governments on a plea seeking appointment of a committee to go into the medical records relating to treatment given to later Tamil Nadu chief ministe

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  PM Modi to address the nation before curtains draw on 2016: Sources

  December 29, 2016 13:10 IST

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to address the nation again just ahead of the beginning of the new year, sources have said.

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  Delhi government to revamp teacher education bodies

  December 29, 2016 11:55 IST

  The Delhi government has approved the proposal to restructure and upgrade the State Council of Education Research and Training (SCERT) and District Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs). SCERT and DIETs are two key institutions

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  UP polls: Akhilesh Yadav convenes meeting of party leaders after Mulayam's snub

  December 29, 2016 10:51 IST

  Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has convened a meeting of party leaders today following the announcement of list of 325 candidates by his father and Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav. According to reports,

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  Sasikala Natarajan is new AIADMK chief, to officially take charge soon

  December 29, 2016 13:13 IST

  Weeks after the demise of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) supremo and Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithyaa, the ruling party today adopted a resolution to work under the leadership of Sasikala Natarajan.

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  Dalai Lama praises Bihar CM Nitish Kumar for liquor prohibition

  December 28, 2016 19:04 IST

  Dalai Lama praises Bihar CM Nitish Kumar for liquor prohibition

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  AAP accuses PM Modi of extolling 'non-existent virtues' of ‘note ban’

  December 28, 2016 18:58 IST

  Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was extolling “non-existent virtues” of demonetisation.

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  AAP’s Jarnail Singh pitted against Prakash Badal for Punjab assembly polls

  December 28, 2016 18:53 IST

  Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today announced that Delhi AAP legislator Jarnail Singh would contest in the Punjab assembly elections against Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal Kejriwal, also the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national

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  UP Polls: Mulayam Singh drops son Akhilesh's aides; UP CM unaware till yet

  December 28, 2016 20:12 IST

  Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav today declared a list of 325 candidates for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.

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  We are with PM Modi’s ‘demonetisation’ drive, reiterates Nitish Kumar’s JD(U)

  December 28, 2016 16:08 IST

  Bihar’s ruling Janata Dal (United) has reiterated its support to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘demonetisation’ drive and said that it won’t comment on the issue before the completion of 50 days, as asked by the

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  Modi govt’s vendetta politics can't deter my party: Mamata Banerjee reacts on summon of MPs

  December 28, 2016 16:04 IST

  Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today seemed irked over two of her MPs being summoned by the CBI for questioning as she said that the Narendra Modi governments "vendetta politics"

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  AIADMK cadres assault Sasikala Pushpa's husband, lawyers ahead of meet to decide Jaya’s successor

  December 28, 2016 16:47 IST

  In a shocking incident ahead of crucial meeting to pick the successor of late AIADMK supremo to lead the party here, an ugly fight broke out on the streets with rebel MP Sasikala Pushpa’s lawyers being thrashed by a large gathering of the party cadre

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  BJP rakes up AgustaWestland to target Rahul Gandhi, says ‘his frustration helping those who looted country’

  December 28, 2016 13:57 IST

  The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today raked up the AgustaWestland scam to counter Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's demands on note ban crisis.

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  TDP MLA Jaleel Khan claims he is a B. Com. graduate with Maths, Physics as subjects

  December 28, 2016 13:43 IST

  A video of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) legislator Jaleel Khan has gone viral on social media in which the Vijayawada city (West) MLA is seen lying about his education qualifications.