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New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) MP, Harsimrat Badal, on Wednesday urged Union Home Minister Amit Shah to order a probe into the 11 cases of examination paper leaks in Punjab to unmask the multi-crore scam and...
Bhubaneswar, July 29 (IANS) As floods affected more than two lakh people across several districts of Odisha, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Wednesday assured that the life and safety of every citizen remained the state government's top priority. In...
Raipur/Narayanpur (Chhattisgarh), July 29 (IANS) Security forces demolished a memorial erected by Naxalites during a joint search operation in Toyapara village under Dhanora Police Station on Tuesday.The action formed part of continuous intensive searches being conducted in areas recently freed...
Amaravati, July 29 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Environment and Forests, Pawan Kalyan, on Wednesday inaugurated a Kumki elephant camp in Parvathipuram-Manyam district and termed it a new chapter in mitigating human-elephant conflict in North Andhra....
Lucknow, July 29 (IANS) Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Wednesday said that merely enacting stringent laws to curb paper leaks will not provide a lasting solution to the problem.Reacting to the Lok Sabha clearing the Bill providing for...
New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) As many as 16 of the 19 sub-sectors covered by the Index of Services Production (ISP) recorded a positive growth year-on-year in May this year with eight of them reporting a double-digit surge, according to...
New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of reports regarding the death of four workers and severe injuries to two others in an explosion at a metal processing factory in Assam's...
Chennai, July 29 (IANS) DMK president and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Wednesday mounted a sharp attack on the ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) government over the transfer of 151 super-speciality medical seats from the State quota...
Hassan (Karnataka), July 29 (IANS) Union Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy on Wednesday termed the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee's (CWRC) directive asking Karnataka to release 3,500 cusecs of water daily to Tamil Nadu for 15 days as "unscientific" and described it as...
Guwahati, July 29 (IANS) The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation on Wednesday urged the Centre to declare the devastating floods in Assam a “national calamity”, alleging that the disaster was aggravated not only by heavy rainfall but also by...
New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday hit out at Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of "speaking lies" in the Lower House, while asserting that the no firing took place...
New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) Maharashtra Minister for Fisheries and Ports, Nitesh Rane on Wednesday met Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal in New Delhi and urged the Central Government to accord priority approval to Maharashtra's proposals...