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DMRC personnel will also be deployed at stations to cater to the extra rush on Raksha Bandhan. New Delhi: Delhi Metro will be running around 106 extra train trips on its corridors on Wednesday to facilitate passengers on the festival of Raksha Bandhan, officials said. Additional Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) personnel will also be…
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CM Bhupendra Patel said the decision was meant to keep all sections of the society together. (File) Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government’s decision to provide a 27 per cent reservation to Other Backward Classes in local self-governing bodies evoked a mixed reaction on Tuesday, with Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and other BJP leaders welcoming the move,…
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Kolkata: West Bengal will soon have a state anthem. An all-party meeting, called to discuss the contentious issue of the state foundation day, also saw proposals for a state anthem. States like Odisha and Maharashtra already have state anthems. Two possible songs were proposed at the meeting, attended by politicians, scholars, ministers, MLAs, educationists, citizens…
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New Delhi: A case has been filed in connection with the alleged minority scholarship scam, in which 830 “fake” institutions were benefitting, causing a loss of about Rs 144 crore to the Ministry of Minority Affairs during 2017-22, officials said on Tuesday. The FIR is filed against unidentified persons of banks, institutions and others…
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Varun Gandhi was addressing party workers in his constituency Pilibhit. (File) Pilibhit, UP: In an apparent dig at his own party, BJP MP Varun Gandhi asked people at an event in UP not to disturb a sadhu standing nearby as nobody knows “when ‘maharaaj ji’ will become the Chief Minister”. On Monday, when he was…
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The man stole at least 105 iPhones, said police. (Representational) Mumbai: A 32-year-old man was arrested in Pune on Tuesday for allegedly breaking into a warehouse in Pune district and stealing iPhones worth Rs 65 lakh, police said. Accused Tophajul Khurshid Shaikh, a resident of Jharkhand, was Arrested by the Anti-Extortion Cell of Mumbai police’s…
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Chief Minister Sukhu said that all these six species are under the ten-year felling programme. (File) Shimla: In a crackdown against timber and fuel wood smuggling in the state, the Himachal Pradesh government Tuesday banned the felling of mango and five other tree species with immediate effect. A ban has been imposed on the felling…
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A farmer was shot at by suspected terrorists in Manipur’s Thinunggei area. He is in hospital. Guwahati: After days of lull, fresh exchange of heavy fire has been reported from the border area of Kuki-dominated Churachandpur and Meitei-dominated Bishnupur districts. Manipur Police said two persons died in the firing in villages adjoining Naransena. Seven people…
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Mitul Trivedi posed as the “assistant chairman” of ISRO’s “Ancient Science Application department”. Surat: The police in Gujarat’s Surat city on Tuesday arrested a man who allegedly posed as a scientist with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and gave interviews to local media outlets claiming that he designed the lander module for the Chandrayaan-3…
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The clean chit has been given to a company run by former Mumbai police commissioner Sanjay Pandey. New Delhi: The CBI has given a clean chit to former Mumbai police commissioner Sanjay Pandey’s company as well as officials from the market regulator and the stock exchange in a case of alleged irregularities in the audit…
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