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Supreme Court set to hear plea against jallikattu today
Bull tamers and Bull owners celebrating the Central Government's order of removal of ban on Jallikattu. (Photo: PTI)With the Animal Welfare Board and 12 others challenging the Centre’s decision to...
View ArticleBihar takes down article on Indira Gandhi
The Bihar government removed the anti-Indira Gandhi write-up from its website after state Congress leaders showed their ire over the issue. On Monday, the Congress, which is a coalition partner of the...
View ArticleJD-U, RJD work on UP strategy, but separately
The JD(U) and the RJD are busy preparing a roadmap for the upcoming Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. This became evident on Monday when leaders of both the parties claimed that secular forces will...
View ArticleMehbooba Mufti meets cadres, no talk of government formation
Even as suspense over forming a government in Jammu and Kashmir continues, internal consultations in the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) over future course of action are already underway. Party...
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Some in BJP float CM rotation idea
Ram MadhavWhen asked if the BJP expected a smooth takeover by a new PDP-BJP government, BJP general secretary Ram Madhav said: “I am tempted to say it will be smooth. We would like to know what they...
View ArticlePDP to take first call in J&K: BJP
The BJP has put the ball in the PDP’s court regarding government formation in J&K, saying while it wanted the existing power-sharing arrangement between the two to continue, it was for the PDP to...
View ArticlePMO blocks ministries’ steel import price plan
Concerned over cheap imported steel from China flooding Indian markets and adversely affecting the investments of domestic companies, a proposal by the steel and commerce ministries to impose a minimum...
View ArticleDelhi HC declines to intervene, ‘odd-even’ is on till Friday
The Arvind Kejriwal government’s “odd-even” traffic curbs will continue till January 15 as planned, the Delhi high court ruled Monday, saying it wouldn’t interfere with the notification that is in...
View ArticleSpeculation as Pawar meets KCR
Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar called on Telangana chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday. Besides the chief minister, Telangana Rashtra Samithi secretary-general and MP Dr...
View ArticleBJP chooses OBCs to lead at district level
With 22 out of the 51 district presidents belonging to the OBC categories, the BJP in Uttar Pradesh has made it clear that it will be targeting the backward vote banks with a vengeance. In three...
View ArticleAssembly bypolls for 12 seats on February 13
The Election Commission on Tuesday announced the byelection schedule of 12 Assembly constituencies in eight states, including Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Karnataka and Maharashtra. The byelections will be...
View ArticleBJP: Malda is an issue of national security
A three-member BJP delegation that met Union home minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday accused the Trinamul Congress government in West Bengal of protecting criminals involved in the incident of “anarchy...
View ArticleBJP tieup intact, no date on government: PDP
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) said on Tuesday that its alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is intact and that neither side has set any preconditions towards the formation of the new...
View ArticleCabinet may discuss crop insurance policy
The Union Cabinet in its meeting is likely to take up the proposal of a new crop insurance policy under which the Centre will bear the burden to the tune of Rs 8,000 crore each year to ensure that the...
View ArticleRailways likely to go for fare revision
With the ministry of finance turning down the demand for grant of Rs32,000 crores to bear the burden of implementation of the 7th Pay Commission recommendations, the Railways is likely to resort to...
View ArticleWoman held for beating up in-law
A video posted on the social media, which shows a young woman in Bijnore district in Uttar Pradesh brutally beating her elderly mother-in-law, has gone viral on the Internet. The video has been posted...
View ArticleNod to pay panel secretaries group likely
With the 7th Pay Commission having submitted its report to the government a couple of months back, the Union Cabinet is likely to approve the constitution of an empowered group of secretaries which...
View ArticleSupreme Court stay on jallikattu leads to Tamil Nadu protests
Jayalalithaa urges PM to promulgate ordinance Supporters of the bull taming sport jalikattu on Tuesday staged protests in Tamil Nadu after Supreme Court stayed the Centre’s notification lifting the ban...
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JFR Jacob, strategist of 1971 war,dies at 92
Lt. Gen. JFR JacobLt. Gen. J.F.R. Jacob, who played a critical role in the 1971 war that led to the birth of Bangladesh, and later served as governor of Punjab and Goa, died here on Wednesday, aged 92,...
View ArticleArunachal government in danger of falling after High Court’s ruling
The Gauhati high court on Wednesday rejected the writ petition challenging the impeachment of the Speaker of the Arunachal Pradesh Assembly, Nabam Rebia, while refusing to go into the merits of a...
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