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  Days after Malda incident, Mamata claims there is no communal tension in Bengal

  January 08, 2016 17:02 IST

  Kolkata: Days after thousands of protestors, most of them Muslims, went on a rampage in Malda district raising concerns of communal tension in the area, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has said that there

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  Arun Jaitley and Arvind Kejriwal share stage at Bengal Business summit

  January 08, 2016 21:10 IST

  Kolkata: After sparring over the DDCA issue, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Delhi Chief Minister ArvindKejriwal today shared stage at the Bengal Global Business summit here.However, the leaders avoided each other at the dais.Jaitley

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  Watch video: MPs talk saris, make-up in Parliament, says Supriya Sule

  January 08, 2016 14:50 IST

  New Delhi: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Lok Sabha MP from Baramati Supriya Sule has stoked a controversy with her remark that MPs indulge in unnecessary gossip even when serious issues are discussed inside

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  DDCA probe: Kejriwal hits back, asks Centre to approach court

  January 08, 2016 18:32 IST

  New Delhi: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has hit back at the Centre's declaration of the inquiry commission constituted by the AAP government to look into the affairs of the Delhi & District Cricket Association

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  Pak has to curb terror activities to continue talks with India

  January 08, 2016 12:42 IST

  Kadapa (AP): Union Minister of Law and Justice D V Sadananda Gowda today said that if Pakistan wants to continue talks with India, it has to take steps to curb terrorist activities originating from its

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  J&K BJP legislature party meeting today, to decide on support to Mehbooba Mufti

  January 08, 2016 11:08 IST

  Srinagar: The BJP legislature party will meet today to decide on the issue of extending support to PDP president Mehbooba Mufti as Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir following the death of incumbent Mufti Mohammad

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  UP civic poll: SP sweeps, BJP suffers heavy loss

  January 08, 2016 10:53 IST

  Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh's ruling Samajwadi Party got a major boost on Thursday when its candidates for the district panchayat chiefs won on 60 of the 74 seats that went for polls earlier in the day.

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  Indira Gandhi waited to meet US president, not so with PM Narendra Modi: Minister

  January 07, 2016 23:54 IST

  Hyderabad: Union Minister Radha Mohan Singh today claimed while former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had to wait for meeting American President, today the White House incumbent himself comes out to greet Premier Narendra Modi when

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  No headway on GST, Venkaiah Naidu's meeting with Sonia Gandhi all optics: Congress

  January 08, 2016 8:14 IST

  New Delhi: Logjam today continued over the GST between government and Congress, which dismissed as "all optics" Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu's meeting with party chief Sonia Gandhi to seek her support for its passage

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  PDP writes to Governor, Mehbooba Mufti set to be first woman CM of Jammu & Kashmir

  January 07, 2016 21:01 IST

  Srinagar: Ruling PDP president Mehbooba Mufti is set to be the first woman Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, succeeding her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed who passed away on Thursday, with party MLAs unanimously electing

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  'Mufflerman' Arvind Kejriwal in government ad irks BJP, Congress

  January 07, 2016 20:07 IST

  New Delhi: The Delhi government's latest advertisement on ‘odd-even' scheme featuring Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in ‘mufflerman' avatar, was today pilloried by the BJP and Congress for having “blatantly circumvented” the SupremeCourt guidelines and violated

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  Asaduddin Owaisi trashes 'threat' from Islamic State

  January 07, 2016 17:06 IST

  Hyderabad: MIM president Asaduddin Owaisi reportedly received a threat from the Islamic State (IS) on a social networking site for speaking against the terror outfit, but the Hyderabad MP trashed it saying he would not

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  Keep your mouth shut on Islamic State, IS sympathiser warns Owaisi

  January 07, 2016 21:45 IST

  New Delhi: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi has received threat from a sympathiser of  the dreaded terror outfit Islamic State.The Hyderabad MP said that he has been warned by the ISIS on

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  GST: Naidu meets Sonia, says govt ready for early Budget session

  January 07, 2016 15:43 IST

  New Delhi: As the deadlock over passage of the Good and Services Tax (GST) Bill continues, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and sought cooperation for the early

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  Kejriwal's latest odd-even ad: A crash course on dodging the law?

  January 07, 2016 15:34 IST

  New Delhi: Call it circumventing the rules or sheer creative genius, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal's latest advertisement asking citizens of the national capital to follow the odd-even scheme is a concept you just can't

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  President, PM, other political leaders condole Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's demise

  January 07, 2016 10:55 IST

  New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi today condoled the death of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and said his contribution to public service will always be remembered.Expressing his

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  J&K CM Sayeed passes away, Mehbooba Mufti set to be new CM

  January 07, 2016 15:19 IST

  New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed died this morning at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) where he was admitted for the past 15 days.The All India Institute of

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  Rahul Gandhi UK citizenship row: Sumitra Mahajan refers complaint to Parliament Ethics Committee

  January 07, 2016 8:02 IST

  New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan has forwarded to the Ethics Committee of Parliament a complaint by a BJP MP alleging that Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi presented himself as a British citizen to float

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  J&K CM Mufti Mohammad Sayeed put on ventilator support as condition worsens

  January 07, 2016 8:58 IST

  New Delhi: The condition of Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, admitted in AIIMS for the past 14 days, is believed to have further worsened with doctors putting him on ventilator support. 79-year-old Sayeed,

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  Ram Mandir work to start this year end: Subramanian Swamy

  January 07, 2016 7:33 IST

  New Delhi: Senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has claimed that work on the construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya would start in this year and an action plan for that would be unveiled at a

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  Chhattisgarh Congress expels Amit Jogi , recommends expulsion of his father Ajit Jogi

  January 06, 2016 17:26 IST

  New Delhi: Congress legislator and son of former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi's son, Amit Jogi has been expelled from the party for six years.Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) chief Bhupesh Baghel has said,"Amit Jogi

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  Shiv Sena raps BJP again, asks 'what changed after getting big mandate'

  January 06, 2016 13:36 IST

  Mumbai: Stepping up its attack on the BJP in the backdrop of Pathankot terror attack, ally Shiv Sena today asked the party what changes it has made on issues, including Pakistan policy and Ram Temple

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  Jayalalitha's Pongal gift to ration card holders

  January 06, 2016 13:35 IST

  Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalitha on Wednesday announced Rs.100 cash, one kg each of rice and sugar and a two-foot-long sugarcane stalk would be distributed to 1.91 crore ration card holders in the

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  Karnataka HC quashes all FIRs against BS Yeddyurappa in land denotification

  January 06, 2016 8:15 IST

  Bengaluru: In a relief to former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday quashed 15 FIRs filed against the senior BJP leader for alleged illegal denotification of lands based on a

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  Narendra Modi took election losers in Cabinet: Shatrughan Sinha

  January 05, 2016 23:59 IST

  New Delhi: Actor-turned politician Shatrughan Sinha has said that contesting elections against Bollywood star Rajesh Khanna was his biggest regret and he had apologised to him too."If there is one regret that I have in

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  Manohar Parrikar meets kin of soldiers killed in Pathankot attack

  January 05, 2016 20:59 IST

  Pathankot: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today visited the family of two of the seven soldiers who were killed in th Pakistani terrorist attack at the air base here as he announced that they would be

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  What assurance Pakistan gave to India, Congress asks PM Modi

  January 05, 2016 19:04 IST

  New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday sought to know from Prime Minister Narendra Modi what assurances were given to him by Pakistan that paved the way for a comprehensive dialogue with that neighbour.The party's remark

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  Railways to soon invite bids for modernisation of stations: Arun Jaitley

  January 05, 2016 17:34 IST

  New Delhi: Eyeing more investment from private players in infrastructure space, the government is considering allowing them to manage smaller airports while railways will soon invite bids for modernisation of 400 stations, Finance Minister Arun