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Bengaluru, June 30 (IANS) Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar on Tuesday launched Karnataka's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls by filling out his own Enumeration Form at his Sadashivanagar residence and urged all eligible voters to complete the exercise to...
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) General Dhiraj Seth took over as the next Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), succeeding General Upendra Dwivedi upon his retirement on Tuesday. An officer of the Armoured Corps, Gen Seth becomes the first officer...
Chennai, June 30 (IANS) A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Chennai sentenced a former senior bank official, and a private company chief to seven years of rigorous imprisonment in a bank fraud case involving the fraudulent sanction...
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) A political row erupted on Tuesday after Uttar Pradesh Congress President, Ajay Rai, was placed under house arrest in Ayodhya ahead of his proposed visit to the Ram Mandir, with the BJP and Congress exchanging...
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) The Finance Ministry's Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC) has approved an outlay of Rs 1.25 lakh crore for the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) 2.0, paving the way for the next phase of the country's semiconductor manufacturing...
Lucknow, June 30 (IANS) Samajwadi Party MP Rajeev Rai on Tuesday took potshots at the Congress' new Uttar Pradesh in-charge, Rajendra Pal Gautam, over his seat-sharing statement, accusing him of attempting to "establish his own identity and remain in the...
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) Congress General Secretary and MP, K.C. Venugopal, on Tuesday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla requesting that a privilege motion be taken up against Defence Minister Rajnath Singh for allegedly misleading the House on...
Kolkata, June 30 (IANS) A division bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Tuesday, directed the West Bengal Police to submit a report on the actions taken by the police administration in the incidents of eggs being thrown at political...
Ramgarh (Jharkhand), June 30 (IANS) Jharkhand's Giridih district Sub-Registrar Baleshwar Patel was killed on Tuesday in Ramgarh district in a violent attack said to be linked to a land dispute, officials said.The incident took place in Balsagara village under the...
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) A 24-year-old woman has accused a man of sexually harassing her inside a moving car in East Delhiās Mandawali area. According to her complaint, the accused (known to the victim) allegedly lured her out on...
Chennai, June 30 (IANS) With water storage in the Mettur dam forcing a sharp decline in short-term paddy cultivation this season, farmers in the Cauvery Delta have urged the Tamil Nadu government to announce a special relief package and provide...
Chennai, June 30 (IANS) With water storage in the Mettur dam forcing a sharp decline in short-term paddy cultivation this season, farmers in the Cauvery Delta have urged the Tamil Nadu government to announce a special relief package and provide...