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Central Delhi witnesses traffic jams following protests by AAP, BJP
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Central Delhi witnesses traffic jams following protests by AAP, BJP

New Delhi, Feb 2: Parts of Central Delhi on Friday witnessed traffic jams due to heavy police deployment and diversion in view of ongoing protest by AAP and BJP outside each other’s party offices. While AAP is protesting outside the BJP headquarters over alleged rigging in Chandigarh Municipal...
JMM leader Champai Soren takes oath as new Jharkhand CM
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JMM leader Champai Soren takes oath as new Jharkhand CM

Guwahati, Feb 2: In a significant turn of events, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) party leader Champai Soren took oath as the new chief minister of the state at Raj Bhavan in Ranchi on Friday afternoon. This comes after the former chief minister Hemant Soren was arrested on Wednesday night by the...
Arvind Kejriwal skips fifth ED summon in excise policy case
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Arvind Kejriwal skips fifth ED summon in excise policy case

Guwahati, Feb 2:Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has once again skipped the summons sent by the Enforcement Directorate on Friday for the fifth time in an alleged money laundering case linked to the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy.According to reports, a fresh summon was issued by the ED for...
Lt General Kavita Sahai becomes first woman commandant of Army Medical Corps Centre and College, Lucknow
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Lt General Kavita Sahai becomes first woman commandant of Army Medical Corps...

Lucknow, Feb 2: Lieutenant General Kavita Sahai has been appointed as the first woman commandant of Army Medical Corps Centre and College, Lucknow. She has succeeded Lt Gen V. Sabid Syed who retired from the service on January 29. A recipient of Sena Medal and Vishisht Seva Medal, Lt Gen Sahai...
Rape case against Chinmayanand withdrawn
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Rape case against Chinmayanand withdrawn

Shahjahanpur (UP), Feb 2: A special MP/ MLA court in Shahjahanpur has acquitted former Union Minister of State Chinmayanand in a 2011 rape case, observing that it did not find enough evidence against the accused and the main complainant had also turned hostile. The court has ordered initiation of...
Gauhati High Court issues temporary ban on buffalo fights in Assam
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Gauhati High Court issues temporary ban on buffalo fights in Assam

Guwahati, Feb 2: Gauhati High Court has issued a ban on buffalo fighting across Assam after the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) filed a petition in this regard. In an order issued on Thursday, the High Court directed all district administrations in Assam to put a temporary ban...
Interim Budget 2024: Nirmala Sitharaman Presents Economic Roadmap for Modi 3.0
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Interim Budget 2024: Nirmala Sitharaman Presents Economic Roadmap for Modi 3.0

Welfarism remained the prime focus of the Budget proposals with what Sitharaman defined as empowering the four caste groups comprising the poor, women, youth and farmers
Spl court reserves order in Hemant Soren case; ex-CM to be in one-day judicial custody
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Spl court reserves order in Hemant Soren case; ex-CM to be in one-day judicial...

The special PMLA court here sent former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren, arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case, to judicial custody for a day, lawyers said. The ED sought 10 days remand for Soren. The court reserved its order for Friday.The JMM executive...
‘No change in taxation’: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
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‘No change in taxation’: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

Guwahati, Feb 1: During her Interim Budget 2024 speech, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stated that the government will not propose to make any changes relating to taxation. Sitharaman said, “In keeping with the convention, I do not propose to make any changes relating to taxation and...
Interim Union Budget 2024: Govt to encourage cervical cancer vaccination for girls
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Interim Union Budget 2024: Govt to encourage cervical cancer vaccination for...

Guwahati, Feb 1: In a new focus on the health of young girls, the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman declared on Thursday its commitment to actively encourage vaccination for girls aged 9–14 to combat cervical cancer. Sitharaman disclosed this initiative during her Interim Budget speech,...
Sitharaman announces three new railway economic corridors
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Sitharaman announces three new railway economic corridors

New Delhi, Feb 1: Finance Minister Nirmal Sitharaman on Thursday announced the setting up of three new major railway economic corridors.“These include the energy, mineral and cement corridor, a port connectivity corridor and a high traffic density corridor,” she said while presenting the...
Sitharaman speaks on housing plan for middle class in Interim Budget 2024
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Sitharaman speaks on housing plan for middle class in Interim Budget 2024

Guwahati, Feb 1: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Thursday that the central government will launch a scheme of housing plan for middle class families.She said that a scheme will be launched to help the deserving sections of the middle class families living in rented places, slums or...
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