Category: NATIONAL NEWS

In one of the worst fire accidents in the city, 43 people were killed after a massive blaze ripped through a four-storey building housing illegal manufacturing units in north Delhi’s Anaj Mandi area on Sunday morning, police and fire officials saidMost of the people working in the units were fast asleep when the fire broke out in the second floor of the building in the early hours and 30 fire tenders were pressed into service, fire officials saidA preliminary probe suggested that short circuit triggered the blaze, they saidNearly 150…

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Around 12.35 per cent polling was recorded till 9 am on Saturday in the second of the five-phase Jharkhand assembly elections that began in 20 constituencies.The voting commenced at 7 am amid tight security arrangements, officials said.Polling in 18 seats will end at 3 pm, while voters in Jamshedpur (East) — where Chief Minister Raghubar Das is in fray — and Jamshedpur (West) constituencies can exercise their franchise till 5 pm, an Election Commission (EC) release said.Assembly Speaker Dinesh Oraon (Sisai), Rural Development Minister Neelkanth Singh Munda (Khunti) and BJP’s…

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A 16-year-old girl was allegedly stabbed to death by a spurned lover in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur district, police said on Tuesday. The accused, Shivkumar Choudhary (24), has been arrested, Gohalpur police station’s inspector Praveen Singh said. Choudhary had earlier professed his love for the girl, but she rejected his proposal, he said. On Monday evening, the accused entered the teen’s house in Kudwari village when her parents were out for some work and her brother was playing outside, the official said. The victim’s brother saw the accused entering the house…

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BJP chief Amit Shah on Monday set a 2024 deadline for implementing the hugely divisive NRC across the country, asserting “each and every” infiltrator will be identified and expelled before the next general election.Notwithstanding the admission by some BJP leaders in West Bengal that apprehensions over the NRC had cost the party dearly in the recent bypolls there, the Union Home Minister told poll rallies in neighbouring Jharkhand that the nation- wide exercise will be conducted despite reservations voiced by opposition parties.”Today, I want to tell you that before the…

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Delhi Congress leader Arvinder Lovely alleged on Friday that nearly 40-45 per cent unauthorised colonies in the national capital will not be regularised due to a notification issued by the BJP-ruled Centre.The Narendra Modi government got a bill passed in the Lok Sabha to regularise 1,731 unauthorised colonies, but 40-45 per cent of them cannot be regularised as they are near the Yamuna riverbed or historical monuments, Lovely claimed.Regularisation of these colonies was barred according to a notification issued by the Centre last month, he said at a press conference.”Around…

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Maharashtra CM-designate and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray met Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari at Raj Bhavan here on Wednesday. Thackeray, to be sworn-in as CM on Thursday, was accompanied by wife Rashmi, an official said. The Shiv Sena chief will be the first from the Thackeray family to be sworn in as the chief minister. The Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress on Tuesday named Thackeray as their chief ministerial face. The three parties have claimed support of 166 MLAs in the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly. Devendra Fadnavis resigned as CM on…

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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis resigned on Tuesday, barely 80 hours after taking oath for the second time, the move necessitated by his deputy Ajit Pawar’s resignation citing “personal reasons”. Fadnavis was sworn in on November 23 in an early morning hush hush ceremony, with the support of Ajit Pawar, who then headed the 54-member NCP legislature party. The NCP removed Ajit Pawar as its legislature party leader the same day after he took oath as the deputy chief minister of the state. The stage is now set for Shiv…

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Nearly 19,250 marriages were registered in the city between January and September this year, of which 589 were interfaith, according to an official data. Among all the 11 districts, South-West Delhi topped the chart with registration of 2,912 marriages, followed by West (2,339), North-West (2,222), Shahdara (1,992), Central Delhi (1,800), North (1,586), East (1,461), , South-East (1,423) and New Delhi (1,019). In North-East Delhi, there were only 318 marriages registered with the Delhi government. In West Delhi, 409 Sikh marriages were listed under the Anand Marriage Act. According to the…

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Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) general secretary and former West Bengal minister Kshiti Goswami died at a private hospital in Chennai due to old age- related illness on Sunday morning, family sources said.He was 77 and is survived by his wife and daughter.Apart from age-related illness, Goswami was also suffering from a lung infection for which he was admitted to the Chennai hospital where he breathed his last, the family sources said.The leader of the RSP, a constituent of the Left Front, served as the state PWD minister for more than…

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Opposing the Centre’s decision to hive off and disinvest shares in several PSUs, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should talk to experts and all political parties to tide over the economic crisis.She asserted that shoring up funds by selling off government stake in central public sector firms (CPSUs) could only provide temporary respite.”The Centre should look for a permanent solution instead of advocating stopgap measures. Unless there is economic stability, such measures cannot be the solution,” Banerjee told newspersons here.While an elected…

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