Wed, 26 Jul 2017 11:32:31
A portion of an almost century-old building, declared dangerous by civic authorities, collapsed here this afternoon killing two people, a senior Kolkata Police officer said.
The bodies of Himadri Pahar (38) and Hansa Shau (20) were found from the rubble of the 10 Mirror Street building in central Kolkata's Taltala area in the evening, he said.
"They were trapped in the debris since the collaps
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Tue, 25 Jul 2017 21:21:37
Former Calcutta High Court judge C S Karnan today made a representation before newly sworn-in President Ram Nath Kovind seeking remission of the six-month jail term awarded to him by the Supreme Court.
The controversial former judge made the representation through his counsel Mathews J Nedumpara.
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Tue, 25 Jul 2017 21:16:47
The Congress today appointed Karnataka legislator Qamarul Islam as its new secretary in- charge for Kerala.
“Congress president Sonia Gandhi has approved the name of Qamarul Islam, MLA, Karnataka, as secretary of the AICC. He will be the secretary in-charge for Kerala,” said a statement from All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary Janardan Dwivedi.
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Tue, 25 Jul 2017 21:13:30
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Tuesday said that by not paying tribute to Baba Bhimrao Ambedkar in his address, President Ram Nath Kovind has shown that he has the same anti-Ambedkar thinking like the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
"President Ram Nath Kovind should have laid the flowers of reverence on the statue of Baba Bhimrao Ambedkar because of whom he is now able to become the
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Tue, 25 Jul 2017 21:10:56
The Congress on Tuesday came down heavily upon President Ram Nath Kovind for not mentioning former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru's name in his speech on the day of his oath-taking ceremony and said he should 'rise above the party politics.'
Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said President Kovind disrespected the freedom fighters by not mentioning Nehru's name in his speech.
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Tue, 25 Jul 2017 21:06:23
The Congress Party on Tuesday said there is no existing rule stating that a state cannot have its own flag and accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of being 'Hindi-Centric' and not respecting diversity.
Slamming the Centre for terming the Karnataka government's decision of having a state flag as a political gimmick, Congress leader Dinesh Gundu Rao told ANI that the BJP wants to have a "uni
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Tue, 25 Jul 2017 21:03:34
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi along with other party members and the rest of the Opposition, protested outside the Parliament at the Gandhi statue here today against the suspension of six Congress MPs by Lok Sabha Speaker yesterday.
The Congress Party said that Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan should have given the six party MPs a chance to explain their stand before she suspended them.
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Tue, 25 Jul 2017 21:00:26
National Conference (NC) supremo Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday said that while National Investigative Agency (NIA) has probed funding of separatist group and involvement of Pakistan in the same, it must also investigate whether the Indian government ever funded them or not.
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Tue, 25 Jul 2017 20:57:23
The Karnataka Police has busted a gang of online fraudsters which has duped more than 500 people in the state. They used to cheat people through different internet portals and websites.
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