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  UP Govt must take action if Kairana incidents are true: Rajnath Singh

  June 19, 2016 12:49 IST

  Ahemdabad: Amid reports of alleged exodus of Hindus from Kairana, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said if the information is correct, Uttar Pradesh government must take proper action. "If some people are forced to

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  Nitish promises prohibition if UP voters "strengthen" his hands

  June 19, 2016 10:38 IST

  Mirzapur: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday promised total prohibition on the lines of his state if the people of Uttar Pradesh "strengthen" his hands in the 2017 Assembly elections. "Prohibition is necessary

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  CPI(M) bickers over alliance with Congress in West Bengal

  June 19, 2016 9:38 IST

  New Delhi: The differences within CPI(M) over its West Bengal unit's decision to continue alliance with Congress in the state, where it faced humiliating defeat in assembly polls recently, became more apparent during the first

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  50,000 Muslims migrated after Muzaffarnagar riots: Asaduddin Owaisi

  June 19, 2016 9:05 IST

  Hyderabad: Claiming that 50,000 Muslims migrated after the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) President Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday asked the BJP if it would send a fact-finding committee there, akin to the

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  BJP asks Mamata Banerjee to put an end to attacks on opposition in Bengal

  June 19, 2016 8:59 IST

  Siliguri:The two-day BJP state working committee meeting in Siliguri resolved to launch a movement in protest against post-poll violence in West Bengal. Urging West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to put an end to such

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  Congress' Adhir Chowdhury writes to Swaraj over attack on Hindus in Bangladesh, slams Mamata for silence

  June 19, 2016 8:53 IST

  Kolkata: Expressing concern over a series of attacks on Hindus and other communities in Bangladesh, West Bengal Congress President Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury today said he has written to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and urged

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  Uddhav Thackeray slams Modi govt on farmers' issue

  June 19, 2016 8:45 IST

  Osmanabad: Hardening its stand against ruling partner BJP, whom it has kept out of the party's golden jubilee celebrations tomorrow, Shiv Sena today fired a fresh salvo at the Narendra Modi government over the plight

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  Guj minister misspells ‘elephant’ at a school, claims it was ‘intentional’

  June 18, 2016 23:56 IST

  Ahmedabad: Gujarat Minister Shankar Chaudhary misspelt the word ‘elephant’ while teaching students during a school enrolment drive launched by the government, but later claimed the error was “intentional”. The incident took place on Thurs

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  No intention to isolate Congress on GST: Arun Jaitley

  June 18, 2016 20:33 IST

  Amid reports that the BJP is working with regional parties to isolate the Congress vis-a-vis the government's pro-reform legislative strategies, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the NDA government has no intention to do so.

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  Decision on Raghuram Rajan's successor soon: Arun Jaitley

  June 18, 2016 20:24 IST

  Bhubaneshwar: RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, in a letter to RBI employees on Saturday, said that he would go back to Chicago to continue his academic career after completion of his three-year term as central bank

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  Anantnag by-poll: Mehbooba Mufti seeks decisive mandate from the electorate

  June 18, 2016 19:13 IST

  Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today asked the electorate of Anantnag Assembly constituency to give a decisive mandate to her party in the bypolls scheduled to be held on June 22.

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  Swamy calls for liberation of Indian literature from the impact of Left ideology

  June 18, 2016 19:03 IST

  BJP leader Subramanian Swamy today stressed on the need to liberate the Indian literature from the "impact of Left ideology" and said that Indians must celebrate the unity of their country.

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  Pakistan may disrupt Amarnath Yatra: J&K Deputy CM

  June 18, 2016 18:35 IST

  The Jammu and Kashmir government today expressed apprehension that Pakistan and its sympathisers might try to disrupt the upcoming annual Amarnath Yatra that starts from July 2.

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  Congress a 'sinking' ship, says Rajnath Singh

  June 18, 2016 18:21 IST

  Senior BJP leader and Home Minister Rajnath today described Congress as a "sinking ship", saying many people want to leave such a "vessel" as it has no future.

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  Government not serious about getting Vijay Mallya back: Congress

  June 18, 2016 18:14 IST

  The Congress on Saturday asserted that the Narendra Modi government is not serious about getting controversial business tycoon Vijay Mallya back to India.

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  Eknath Khadse will emerge clean from probe, claims Devendra Fadnavis

  June 18, 2016 16:38 IST

  Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is confident that former Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse, who had to resign in the wake of serious allegations levelled against him, will emerge clean after the probe is completed.

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  In a first, Congress gets legal notice for defaming Savarkar on tweeter

  June 18, 2016 15:55 IST

  Probably for the first time in India, a political party has been served legal notice over tweets posted on its official website.

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  'Udta Punjab' row an attempt to malign Punjab's image: Harsimrat Kaur Badal

  June 18, 2016 14:32 IST

  Thane: Union Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Friday said the controversy surrounding the film Udta Punjab is an attempt to malign the image of Punjab and its people. Ms Badal, while talking to

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  Eknath Khadse attends BJP's state-level executive meet in Pune

  June 18, 2016 14:31 IST

  Eknath Khadse today arrived at BJP's two-day state-level executive meet here, putting an end to speculations that he may not attend the event in the wake of his resignation from the cabinet after a host of allegations including irregularities in a la

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  Separatists to hold talks with Kashmiri Pandits on return

  June 18, 2016 14:04 IST

  Srinagar: In a significant move, separatists have decided to hold talks with Kashmiri Pandit migrants to discuss their return to the Valley, marking their first "serious attempt" to bring back the community which was forced

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  Rajya Sabha polls ink row: R K Anand files police complaint against Subhash Chandra

  June 18, 2016 13:58 IST

  Chandigarh: Independent candidate R K Anand, who lost the Rajya Sabha election in Haryana last week in the midst of an ink row, on Friday filed a police complaint against winning candidate Subhash Chandra, a

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  Congress govt doesn’t believe in politics of vendetta, says Virbhadra Singh

  June 18, 2016 13:51 IST

  Shimla: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Saturday said his government does not believe in politics of vendetta, caste, and region and is committed to overall and uniform development of entire state. Addressing a

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  Ad funds row: Look at conduct of your own govts, AAP tells Jaitley

  June 18, 2016 13:48 IST

  Launching a scathing attack on Union Finance Minister over his accusation that the Delhi government was using advertisements to manipulate the media, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today asked him to look at the conduct of his own party's governments in

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  Rich people should have more kids, says Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu

  June 18, 2016 13:14 IST

  While the government of India is trying its best to control the ever growing population of the country, Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu wants rich people of his state to go for more kids.

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  India's growth must bring benefits to its neighbours, says PM Modi as he inaugurates Jaffna stadium renovated by India

  June 18, 2016 12:59 IST

  Colombo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said India strongly believes that its economic growth must bring benefits to its neighbours as he jointly inaugurated a stadium in Jaffna along with Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena.

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  I knew Kejriwal was putting his 21 MLAs in ‘danger’: Former Delhi chief secy

  June 18, 2016 12:44 IST

  Former Delhi Chief Secretary Omesh Saigal has claimed that he was aware of the danger in which AAP MLAs were being put into by the Kejriwal government.

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  BJP MLA objects to construction of Priyanka Vadra's house in Shimla, writes to HM

  June 18, 2016 12:02 IST

  Shimla: A BJP leader of Himachal Pradesh has raised objections to the construction of a house by Congress chief Sonia Gandhis daughter Priyanka Gandhi near the summer residence of the President of India here, arguing

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  Note of dissent in CPIM over GST; Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Issac backs GST

  June 18, 2016 8:59 IST

  New Delhi: Distancing from Congress’s demand of a cap of 18 per cent on the GST rate, Kerala’s Finance Minister TM Thomas Isaac has given a spirited support to the Bill. A member the CPIM