Category: NATIONAL NEWS

The two were colleagues in Mumbai and started dating. After her family did not approve of their relationship, the couple eloped to Delhi and started living in a flat in Mehrauli. In a shocking case, a man allegedly strangled his live-in partner, chopped her body into 35 pieces, and dumped them in Delhi’s Mehrauli forest over 18 days, say police sources. He got away with the murder for five to six months. He would step out at 2 am every day to dump the body parts, sources say. The accused has…

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Corruption has increased in the country, Industrialists are looting the wealth of the villages, and the government is silent, Anna Hazare’s secretary said. Anna Hazare’s secretary Kalpana Inamdar on Thursday said that Team Anna will launch an agitation against BJP, if the party does not fulfil promises it made to the people post-2014.  She said that the BJP has failed to fulfil all its promises despite being voted into power by the people with a thumping majority. Inamdar at a press conference organised by the Rashtriya Kisan Manch here said…

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In a video of the incident that surfaced on social media, the accused were allegedly seen throwing a cow from their vehicle on the road. Three alleged cattle smugglers were arrested Thursday after being chased by ‘gau rakshak’ in Sector 56 area when their car overturned, police said.  The driver of the pickup truck and two others managed to flee, they said. “There were three cows in the pickup Jeep and one of them was injured. The injured cow has been sent to a shed for treatment,” said Inspector Sanjeev…

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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s administration has said it no longer wants the governor at the helm of universities in the state. Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan was removed as the chancellor of the Kerala Kalamandalam deemed university by the state government on Thursday, a day after a sharp escalation in a face-off between the two sides. The state government announced it was changing the rules of the university to replace Mr Khan with an eminent person from the field of art and culture. The governor is a representative of…

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The minister’s charges came on a day when smoke from farm fires contributed to up to 32 per cent of the tiny PM 2.5 lung-damaging pollutants in the city’s air – the highest in the past two years. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s efforts at cornering Prime Minister Narendra Modi over shocking levels of air pollution in the capital and rest of north India earned him a sharp rebuke from the Union Environment Minister on Wednesday. In a scathing attack on Mr Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Union Minister Bhupender…

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Sachin PIlot, in his latest instalment of his rivalry with Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, had said that the Congress MLAs who revolted against the party must be punished. Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has hit back after rival Sachin Pilot appeared to escalate their long-running feud, flagging the “climate of indecision” in the Congress’s state unit and PM Narendra Modi’s praise for his arch-nemesis. Here are the 10 latest developments in this story: Speaking to reporters during a visit to Alwar, Mr Gehlot urged his party leaders to “maintain…

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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday made it clear he will fight for the party’s president post and said irrespective of the outcome, it is necessary to work in a united manner and ensure the party emerges as a strong opposition. Any call on his successor to head the Rajasthan government will be taken by party interim President Sonia Gandhi and Congress’ Rajasthan in-charge, Ajay Maken, he told reporters here. “I will fix the date (to submit the nomination papers) after going (back to Rajasthan), but I have decided…

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday resumed the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ by planting a sapling brought from Lakshadweep at the premises of the Union Christian College Aluva here. He also paid floral tribute to a mango tree planted by Mahatma Gandhi at the college on March 18, 1925. “Day 15 began at 6:20 am from UC College, Aluva with @RahulGandhi paying floral tribute at a mango tree planted by the Mahatma there on 18.03.1925. @RahulGandhi planted a sapling brought from Lakshadweep by a delegation of Athithi Yatris. This is the…

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several other leaders on Wednesday condoled the death of popular comedian Raju Srivastava, remembering him as an adept performer who brightened lives with laughter and positivity. Srivastava, who made a mark as a stand-up comic and later entered politics, died after more than 40 days in a Delhi hospital. He was 58. He had joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2014. The prime minister tweeted, “Raju Srivastava brightened our lives with laughter, humour and positivity. He leaves us too soon but he will continue to…

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 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday called for concerted efforts to make India a global centre of research and innovation, and urged state governments to frame modern policies in the fields of science and technology. Addressing via video link the inaugural session of the Centre-State Science Conclave organised here, Modi said India is going ahead with the mantra of ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan, Jai Vigyan and Jai Anusandhan’. “We have to work together on various fronts to make India a global centre of research and innovation in this ‘amrit kaal’.…

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