Assam CM slams Nalbari Deputy Commissioner for extravagant lunch at Cabinet meeting

Assam CM slams Nalbari Deputy Commissioner for extravagant lunch at Cabinet meeting

Guwahati, June 28 - Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday expressed his strong displeasure with the Deputy Commissioner of state's Nalbari district over the extravagant food arrangements during the Cabinet meeting on Thursday.

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Andhra to rope in international experts to assess Polavaram’s status: CM Naidu

Andhra to rope in international experts to assess Polavaram’s status: CM Naidu

Amaravati, June 28 - Blaming his predecessor Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy for jeopardising the Polavaram project during the last five years, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Friday said his government would rope in international experts to assess the project's current

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Post-poll violence: Central fact-finding team suggests extension of CAPF deployment in Bengal

Post-poll violence: Central fact-finding team suggests extension of CAPF deployment in Bengal

Kolkata, June 28 - A four-member central fact-finding team of the BJP, which was in West Bengal earlier this month to review the post-poll violence in the state, submitted its report to BJP President J.P. Nadda on Friday.

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Siddaramaiah meets Amit Shah; seeks implementation of Safe City Project in 5 K’taka cities

Siddaramaiah meets Amit Shah; seeks implementation of Safe City Project in 5 K’taka cities

New Delhi/Bengaluru, June 28 - Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the national capital and demanded implementation of the Safe City Project in five cities on the lines of state capital Bengaluru.

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CM Siddaramaiah ensured defeat of Shivakumar’s brother in LS polls: K’taka LoP

CM Siddaramaiah ensured defeat of Shivakumar’s brother in LS polls: K’taka LoP

Bengaluru, June 28 - Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Karnataka Assembly, R. Ashoka, claimed on Friday that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah ensured the defeat of Deputy CM D.K. Shivakumar’s brother D.K. Suresh in the recently-held Lok Sabha elections.

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Signing of 1986 Mizoram Peace Accord commemorated in Aizawl

Signing of 1986 Mizoram Peace Accord commemorated in Aizawl

Aizawl, June 28 - A programme was held here on Friday to celebrate the signing of the Mizoram Peace Accord in 1986 between the Central and the state governments and the Mizo National Front (MNF) to end insurgency in the state, raging since

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Shiv Sena leader congratulates PM Modi on 3rd term, unique style of greeting draws attention

Shiv Sena leader congratulates PM Modi on 3rd term, unique style of greeting draws attention

New Delhi, June 28 - Milind Deora, the Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde camp) MP in Rajya Sabha on Friday extended greetings to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his third consecutive tenure and said that despite three terms in power, the 'leader with global

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Over 60,000 cops trained in Madhya Pradesh on three new criminal laws

Over 60,000 cops trained in Madhya Pradesh on three new criminal laws

Bhopal, June 28 - The police in Madhya Pradesh are gearing up for the three new criminal laws that will come into force in the country from July 1.

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Haryana CM offers prayers at Golden Temple, Ram Tirath

Haryana CM offers prayers at Golden Temple, Ram Tirath

Amritsar, June 28 - Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini on Friday offered prayers at the Golden Temple and Ram Tirath, saying he found great peace of mind by visiting the sacred city of Sikh Gurus.

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Defections will have no impact on BRS, says KCR

Defections will have no impact on BRS, says KCR

Hyderabad, June 28 - With another of its MLAs defecting to Congress on Friday, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) President and former Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao said the defections would have no impact on the party.

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Raj minister holds public grievance session after surprise inspection in Jodhpur

Raj minister holds public grievance session after surprise inspection in Jodhpur

Jaipur, June 28 - Rajasthan Minister Jogaram Patel on Friday held a public grievance redressal session at the Jodhpur Circuit House after making a surprise inspection in the ditrict.

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Delhi witnesses sizeable jump in temperature-related power demand: IEEFA report

Delhi witnesses sizeable jump in temperature-related power demand: IEEFA report

New Delhi, June 28 - Delhi witnessed a sizeable jump in temperature-related electricity demand in the last 12 months (up to June 22), a new report by Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), an independent think-tank, said on Friday.

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‘Comprehensive’, Maharashtra CM hails state budget 2024-25

‘Comprehensive’, Maharashtra CM hails state budget 2024-25

Mumbai, June 28 - Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has hailed the 'please all' budget presented by Deputy CM Ajit Pawar in the state Assembly on Friday, saying that it is a comprehensive budget aimed to cover almost all sections of the society,

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Thackeray calls Maha budget ’empty promises’, seeks White Paper on MahaYuti’s 2 years

Thackeray calls Maha budget ’empty promises’, seeks White Paper on MahaYuti’s 2 years

Mumbai, June 28 - Terming the Maharashtra budget full of "empty promises", Shiv Sena-UBT President and former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday demanded a White Paper on all the assurances made by the MahaYuti government in the past two years.

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Maharashtra budget a hoax, women’s aid policy inspired by Cong’s 5 Guarantees: Nana Patole

Maharashtra budget a hoax, women’s aid policy inspired by Cong’s 5 Guarantees: Nana Patole

Mumbai, June 28 - Terming the Maharashtra budget as a 'jumla-budget' ahead of the October Assembly elections, state Congress President Nana Patole said that the policy for women has been inspired directly from the Congress' 5 Guarantees, here on Friday.

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Maha budget an attempt to compensate Lok Sabha poll debacle: NCP-SP

Maha budget an attempt to compensate Lok Sabha poll debacle: NCP-SP

Mumbai, June 28 - Nationalist Congress Party (SP) state President Jayant Patil on Friday called the 2024-25 state budget presented by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who also holds the finance portfolio, an attempt to make up for the losses suffered by

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Bengal school job case: CBI seizes sack full of documents from state Education Department

Bengal school job case: CBI seizes sack full of documents from state Education Department

Kolkata, June 28 - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday recovered a sack full of paper documents from the office of the West Bengal Education Department in northern Kolkata, officials said.

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Give students the respect they deserve: Rahul Gandhi makes fresh pitch for NEET debate

Give students the respect they deserve: Rahul Gandhi makes fresh pitch for NEET debate

New Delhi, June 28 - Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday made a fresh appeal to the government to initiate a debate on the National Eligibility and Entrance Examination (NEET) and also over the paper leak controversy, to assuage the concerns and anxiety

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Mumbai NCB busts major inter-state drug ring, seizes 31.5 kg mephedrone

Mumbai NCB busts major inter-state drug ring, seizes 31.5 kg mephedrone

Mumbai, June 28 - The Narcotics Control Bureau's Mumbai Zone has smashed a major inter-state drug trafficking ring and seized 31.5 kg of mephedrone and Rs 69.13 lakh cash while arresting three peddlers, an official said here on Friday.

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To pacify ‘miffed’ Himachal Governor, Chief Minister Sukhu pays visit to Raj Bhavan

To pacify ‘miffed’ Himachal Governor, Chief Minister Sukhu pays visit to Raj Bhavan

Shimla, June 28 - In what is being viewed as a damage-control exercise, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Sukhu on Friday paid a visit to the Raj Bhavan in Shimla to pacify Governor Shiv Pratap Shukla, who is reportedly miffed with the 'style

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