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Priyanka to meet kin of youth killed in police custody
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi will head to Kasganj on Thursday to visit the family members of the 21-year-old man who died in police custody. Gandhi was scheduled to visit Lucknow on Thursday but will now go straight to Kasganj from Delhi. The politics has now intensified over the...
Amit Shah to hold brainstorming over UP polls
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will go to Uttar Pradesh for a two-day visit starting Friday to hold strategy meetings regarding the coming elections in the country’s most politically crucial state. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath — who suffered some setbacks within the party and among allies after...
Gulf widens between Sikhs, Brahmins in Lakhimpur
“He was not present at the incident spot and he had not sent the party workers in the vehicles to receive the VIP. Hence, there is no conspiracy. He is just paying the price for being the Union Minister’s son.” Sitting under a peepal tree in the Lakhimpur District...
Assam, Meghalaya CMs to meet next week on border dispute
A meeting is likely to take place in Guwahati on November 16 between Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his Meghalaya counterpart Conrad Sangma after the latter’s brief visit to the national capital where he is said to have met the BJP top brass. Sources say Sangma called...
China delivers largest, most advanced warship to Pakistan
Beijing: China has delivered to Pakistan the largest and most advanced warship that Beijing has ever exported, Chinese state media reported. Designed and built by China State Shipbuilding Corporation Limited (CSSC), the frigate was delivered to the Pakistan Navy in a commissioning ceremony in Shanghai, according to Global Times....
Facebook to scrap thousands of sensitive ad-targeting options
Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it plans to remove detailed ad-targeting options that refer to “sensitive” topics, such as ads based on interactions with content around race, health, religious practices, political beliefs or sexual orientation. The company, which recently changed its name to Meta https://www.reuters.com/technology/facebooks-zuckerberg-kicks-off-its-virtual-reality-event-with-metaverse-vision-2021-10-28 and which makes the...
Farmer unions announce tractor march to Parliament
New Delhi: Farmer unions protesting against the Centre’s new farm laws have decided to take out peaceful tractor marches to Parliament, every day during the Winter Session from November 29, shortly after their protest at the Delhi border completes one year. The decision was taken today by the nine-member...
Sidhu scores victory in fight with Channi
Forty-eight hours was all it took to illustrate the point that the Congress at the Centre and in Punjab cannot ignore Navjot Singh Sidhu’s demands. It all began with the resignation of the advocate general (AG) for “personal reasons”. While touted as a big win for Sidhu, the resignation...
‘Taliban mentality will not be accepted in UP’: Yogi
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday invoked the “exodus” of Hindus from Kairana a few years back, telling people in the western Uttar Pradesh town that those who shoot at traders now will be dispatched to the “next world”. Addressing a public meeting in Kairana, he slammed the “Taliban...
Gehlot promises cut in VAT on petrol, diesel
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday said his government will reduce VAT on fuel like other states, hours after he urged the Centre to further slash excise duty and cited fund crunch caused by the Covid pandemic. The Centre on November 3 slashed excise duty on petrol by...
BJP leader says Brahmins, Baniyas in his pockets
BJP General Secretary P Muralidhar Rao on Monday triggered a huge row with his statement that people belonging to Brahmin and Baniya communities are in his “pockets”. Rao, in-charge of Madhya Pradesh, came under attack from the Congress which sought an apology from the BJP leader, who later claimed...
Congress promises Gairsain as permanent capital of U’khand
Ahead of next year’s assembly elections in Uttarakhand, Congress on Monday promised to make Gairsain the permanent capital of the state “within two-three years” of coming to power. “We will first create the infrastructure required for a permanent capital in Gairsain and then shift the state’s capital there within...
UK to recognise Covaxin, no quarantine for vaccinated
Britain said it would recognise COVID-19 vaccines on the World Health Organization’s Emergency Use Listing later this month, adding China’s Sinovac, Sinopharm and India’s Covaxin to the country’s approved list of vaccines for inbound travellers. The changes, which come into force from November 22, will benefit fully vaccinated people...
Deve Gowda’s last wish to see JD(S) in power: Kumaraswamy
Former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Monday said the last wish of his father and JD(S) patriarch H D Deve Gowda is to bring the party to power on its own in Karnataka. “Where we went wrong and what we need to do going forward…let’s focus on this....
French report says CBI decided not to investigate kickbacks
New Delhi: French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation paid at least 7.5 million euros (nearly Rs 650 million) in bribes to a middleman to help secure the sale of 36 Rafale fighter jets to India and investigating agencies failed to investigate it despite evidence, French portal Mediapart has alleged in...
Bhim Army chief to fight Yogi, Modi in polls
Lucknow: Dalit leader Chandrashekhar Azad has declared that he will contest against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in the state election next year. The 34-year-old had in 2019 taken a u-turn after announcing that he would fight Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi. “I decided to contest...
Ansal brothers get 7 years in jail for evidence tampering
New Delhi: Businessmen Sushil Ansal and Gopal Ansal have been sentenced to seven years in jail for tampering with evidence linked to a fire in Delhi’s Uphaar theatre in 1997 that killed 59 people. The Ansal brothers who have a big property business were also fined Rs 2.25 crore...
Modi visits Advani on his birthday, says nation indebted
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today praised LK Advani for his “scholarly pursuits and rich intellect”, and also credited the senior BJP leader for his efforts towards empowering people and enhancing “our cultural pride”, as the former deputy prime minister turned 94 today. The Prime Minister also drove...
