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  PM Modi prays for Sonia Gandhi's quick recovery after she fell ill in Varanasi

  August 02, 2016 21:08 IST

  After Congress President Sonia Gandhi took ill while campaigning in Prime Minister's parliamentary constituency Varanasi, Narendra Modi prayed for her "quick recovery and good health". On the microblogging website, PM Modi tweeted: https://twitter.co

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  No major influence of ISIS on Indian youngsters, government tells Parliament

  August 02, 2016 20:23 IST

  Terror outfit Islamic State (IS) has trapped into its web "very few youth" from India, the government told Lok Sabha today, adding that both the central and state governments have launched various programmes for their

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  GST Bill amendments circulated in Parliament, government gears up for discussion in Rajya Sabha tomorrow

  August 02, 2016 19:41 IST

  The government today circulated official amendments to the GST bill among the members in the Parliament as it geared up to discuss the long-pending bill in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. According to the amendments,

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  Jayalalithaa inspired Hillary Clinton to contest US Presidential election, claims AIADMK MLA

  August 02, 2016 22:13 IST

  Political leaders of Tamil Nadu are infamous for going overboard in praising their respective leaders but this AIADMK leader has crossed all the limits by claiming that if Hillary Clinton wins US Presidential elections then she should first thank Tam

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  Negotiations with govt have brought near consensus on GST: Congress

  August 02, 2016 22:33 IST

  In a clear signal that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill may be passed smoothly in the upper house of the parliament, Congress deputy leader in the Rajya Sabha today said that negotiations with the government has brought near consensus among poli

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  No plans to change Mahatma Gandhi's photograph on currency notes: govt tells Parliament

  August 02, 2016 19:03 IST

  The Union government today informed the Parliament that it has no plans to change the photograph of Mahatma Gandhi on currency notes.

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  PM Modi's 'Namami Gange' largely on paper, despite spending 80 pc of allocated fund, reveals RTI

  August 02, 2016 18:51 IST

  What may cause a major embarrassment to the Narendra Modi Government Which largely banked on cleaning Ganga as one of its major pre poll promises, an RTI query has found that the much-hyped 'Namami Gange'

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  ‘He has gone mad’: Victims’ family slams Azam Khan’s ‘conspiracy’ theory

  August 02, 2016 19:21 IST

  Reacting to Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan’s statement that the brutal gangrape of a mother-daughter duo in Bulandshahr ‘could be a political conspiracy’, the victims’ family said that the Uttar Pradesh minister has ‘gone mad’.

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  Centre has no plans to bring prohibition, will help states in imposing ban on liquor

  August 02, 2016 16:56 IST

  The Centre has no plan to impose ban on liquor consumption across the country but can help the state governments in imposing prohibition in their respective states, the Lok Sabha was informed today. A

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  Cut off hands of those who are corrupt, demands Goa MLA

  August 02, 2016 15:50 IST

  In a controversial statement, an MLA of Goa Assembly today asked the state government to cut off the hands of those who are accused of corruption.

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  Sonia Gandhi shifted to Delhi's Sir Ganga Ram hospital

  August 03, 2016 14:06 IST

  Congress president Sonia Gandhi today launched her party’s campaign for the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi.

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  Send AAP MP Bhagwant Mann to rehab for drug de-addiction: LS members write to Speaker

  August 03, 2016 10:55 IST

  A group of Lok Sabha members have requested Speaker Sumitra Mahajan to send Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Bhagwant Mann to a Rehab centre to cure him of his alleged drug-addiction.

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  Actor Meghna Patel, who posed semi-nude to show support for Narendra Modi in 2014, joins NCP

  August 02, 2016 20:20 IST

  Meghna, who has worked in several Hindi and South Indian movies and TV serials, was in the limelight in 2014 when she has posed almost nude with several photos of Modi.

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  AAP MLA Surender Singh hits out at BJP over fake degree allegations

  August 02, 2016 13:20 IST

  Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA from Delhi Cantonment Commando Surender Singh, who was arrested along with five others here on Sunday in connection with the suicide of a woman party worker, today trashed allegations of fake degree levelled by BJP leader Ka

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  Sacrificing ‘scapegoat’ Anandiben won’t save BJP: Rahul Gandhi

  August 02, 2016 12:07 IST

  Reacting to the resignation offer of Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today said that the BJP was making Anandiben a scapegoat but sacrificing her will not save the party in the state.

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  J&K Education Minister Naeem Akhtar’s house attacked with petrol bombs

  August 02, 2016 11:24 IST

  Petrol bombs were hurled at the house of Jammu and Kashmir Education Minister Naeem Akhtar in Parraypora area of the city last night.

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  Anandiben Patel may be given role of Punjab governor: Report

  August 02, 2016 11:21 IST

  Gujarat Chief minister Anandiben Patel, who on Wednesday offered to resign from her post, may be given the role of Punjab governor, according to a report in The Times of India. The party wants to

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  GST Bill to be taken up in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday; BJP, Congress issue whip to MPs

  August 02, 2016 10:19 IST

  The government has listed the long-pending GST Bill for discussion in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, hoping it will be passed through consensus.

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  Health Minister Nitin Patel leads race to succeed Anandiben Patel as Gujarat CM

  August 02, 2016 11:08 IST

  With Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel resigning from her post, talks are already on about who will be her successor. Among the frontrunners for the CM race include Health Minister Nitin Patel, Speaker Ganpat Vasava, Finance Minister Saurabh Pat

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  Political conspiracy behind Bulandshahr gangrape, says Azam Khan

  August 02, 2016 8:48 IST

  Senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan has stoked a controversy yet again with his remark that the brutal gangrape of a mother-daughter duo in Bulandshahr ‘could be a political conspiracy’.

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  Varanasi: Sonia Gandhi to hold mega roadshow in PM Modi’s bastion today; to woo Dalits, Brahmins

  August 02, 2016 12:29 IST

  Kicking off poll campaign for Uttar Pradesh Assembly election early next year, Congress president Sonia Gandhi will today hold a mega roadshow in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Lok Sabha constituency, Varanasi.

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  Five major reasons why Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel offered to resign

  August 02, 2016 9:28 IST

  Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel, who has seen two major protests in her tenure of just two years, today said she was resigning from the post and asked the Bhartiya Janata Party leadership to find

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  Will be burned if you ride scooties, poster in Srinagar threatens girls; Mehbooba cautions of Kashmir becoming Afghanistan

  August 01, 2016 22:35 IST

  A hitherto-unknown group of stone-pelters in Jammu and Kashmir has threatened girls against riding two-wheelers or they would be set on fire. The threat by ‘Sangbaaz (stone-pelters) Association Jammu and Kashmir’ was made in a

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  AAP worker suicide: Trouble mounts for AAP as court sends party MLA Sharad Chauhan to 14-day judicial custody

  August 01, 2016 23:35 IST

  Much to the disappointment of Aam Aadmi Party MLA Sharad Chauhan, a court in the national capital today rejected his bail plea, sending him to 14-day judicial custody. The Narela MLA was arrested by police

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  To highlight achievements on its second anniversary, Modi govt spent Rs 35 crore

  August 01, 2016 20:45 IST

  On completing two years in power in May, the Narendra Modi government spent Rs 35.58 crore on advertisements in print media to highlight its achievements, an RTI query has revealed. Anil Galgali, an RTI activist,

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  Rs 500 on a bouquet: All that Goa government spent on Arvind Kejriwal’s May visit

  August 01, 2016 20:42 IST

  The Goa government spent a meagre Rs 500 on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal during his recent visits to the state, the Legislative Assembly was told today. Kejriwal had refused to stay in the

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  Govt downplays Hafiz Saeed, Salahuddin threat; says Rajnath’s Pak visit on as scheduled

  August 01, 2016 19:19 IST

  The government today downplayed Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed's threat to Rajnath Singh’s Pakistan visit and said that the Home Minister will travel to Islamabad this week to attend the SAARC Home Ministers' conference as scheduled.

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  All because of AAP, boasts Kejriwal as Anandiben Patel offers to quit as Gujarat CM

  August 01, 2016 18:54 IST

  Soon after reports of Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel offering to quit from her post came up, Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal took to Twitter to do what he does best. Kejriwal, in his