Sat, 06 Jul 2019 19:07:08
Hyderabad, Jul 6 (PTI) AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi has said the Centre should come out with a law against lynching and wondered why such legislation was not brought out despite a Supreme Court suggestion to frame one.
Addressing a meeting here on Friday against lynchings, Owaisi accused the Sangh Parivar of spreading hatred and false propaganda against the Muslims, adding that it had r
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Sat, 06 Jul 2019 19:05:32
Varanasi, Jul 6 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday dismissed as "professional pessimists" the critics of the Centre's target to achieve a USD 5-trillion economy within the next five years and asserted that the "new India" is on the threshold of sprinting forward.
A day after the Union budget was presented by Finance Minister Niramala Sitharaman, the prime minister shared his views on t
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Sat, 06 Jul 2019 19:03:51
Kolkata, Jul 5 (PTI) Notwithstanding the party's dismal performance in the Lok Sabha polls, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee Friday told the party activists to work hard as she is confident of bouncing back in 2021 assembly polls.
During a meeting with leaders of Bankura and Jhargram district, Banerjee asked the "traitors" to leave the party instead of harming its prospects.
"Our p
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Sat, 06 Jul 2019 19:00:47
Petrol price was on Saturday hiked by a minimum Rs 2.40 per litre and diesel by Rs 2.36 after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman raised taxes on the fuels to part-fund her Budget for 2019-20.
Petrol price in Delhi was increased by Rs 2.45 per litre to Rs 72.96 while the increase in Mumbai was Rs 2.42 to Rs 78.57, according to a price notification issued by state-owned Indian Oil Corp (IOC).
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Sat, 06 Jul 2019 18:58:20
Caught off guard, Karnataka Congress in charge, K C Venugopa, rushed to Bengaluru on Saturday after eight Congress and three Janata Dal Secular (JDS) MLAs resigned from from the Assembly, bringing the coalition government into a minority.
Meanwhile former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has been tasked to contact the dissidents in the party. According to sources, D K Shivakumar has also m
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Sat, 06 Jul 2019 18:55:10
The city and other northern districts of the state will observe a 'bandh' on July 10 to protest against the government's decision to take water from the Sharavathi river to Bengaluru.
The 'bandh' has been given under the auspices of the 'Save Sharavathi campaign,' an initiative of locals.
"We are observing the 'bandh' in these districts on July 10. The state government has floated a most un
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Sat, 06 Jul 2019 18:50:57
Congress leader and former MLA Gopal Bhandary died of heart attack while travelling in a bus from Bengaluru, police said.
The former Karkala MLA, aged 66, was on his way here from Bengaluru by a state-owned KSRTC bus.
After the bus reached Mangaluru at 10.15 p.m, the driver noticed that Bhandary was motionless and not responding.
He immediately informed the police who took him to the gove
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Sat, 06 Jul 2019 18:48:21
Bengaluru:
Fourteen MLAs of the ruling JD(S)-Congress alliance in Karnataka have submitted their resignation to the Speaker, putting a question mark on the survival of the 13-month-old government.
If the resignations are accepted, the wobbly ruling coalition will lose majority in the 224-member Assembly as its strength will come down to 104.
The crisis, which had been brewing ever since
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