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Shocked: PM Modi condoles demise of Japans Abe, announces one day mourning
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'Shocked': PM Modi condoles demise of Japan's Abe, announces one day mourning

New Delhi, July 8: Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoled the demise of former Japan PM Shinzo Abe and announced one day of national mourning on Saturday. In a series of tweets, he said: "I am shocked and saddened beyond words at the tragic demise of one of my dearest friends, Shinzo Abe. He was a...
Nation needs President who can protect constitution: Yashwant Sinha
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Nation needs President who can protect constitution: Yashwant Sinha

Gandhinagar, July 8: Joint opposition candidate for Presidential poll, Yashwant Sinha on Friday said the nation needs a president who can protect the Constitution of the country. Sinha was in Gujarat to seek support for himself. He appealed to the MLAs and MPs to vote for the candidate "who can...
Locked in school building, 50 bovines die of suffocation in J
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Locked in school building, 50 bovines die of suffocation in J'khand village

Pakur, Jul 8: About 50 bovines, locked in the room of an abandoned school building in Jharkhand's Pakur district, died due to suffocation, police said on Friday. The incident happened in Chilgo village in Amrapara block of the district, they said. "The villagers used to keep their bovines in...
Ten people sentenced for life in murder case
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Ten people sentenced for life in murder case

Ballia (UP), Jul 8: A court here has sentenced 10 people to life imprisonment for murdering a man in the district in 2016. District Judge Jitendra Kumar Pandey on Thursday also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 on each on the convicts. Ashok Kumar, a resident of Karna village, was murdered in...
SC to hear on July 11 fresh plea against appointment of Eknath Shinde as Maha CM
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SC to hear on July 11 fresh plea against appointment of Eknath Shinde as Maha CM

New Delhi, Jul 8: The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear on July 11, a fresh plea of the Uddhav Thackeray led faction challenging appointment of Eknath Shinde as chief minister of Maharashtra. A vacation bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and JK Maheshwari said it will be listed before an...
Active Covid cases in country rise to 1,22,335
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Active Covid cases in country rise to 1,22,335

New Delhi, Jul 8: India saw a single day rise of 18,815 new coronavirus infections, taking the tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,35,85,554, while the active cases increased to 1,22,335, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Friday. The death toll has climbed to 5,25,343 with 38 new...
Jyotiraditya Scindia assumes additional charge of Steel Ministry
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Jyotiraditya Scindia assumes additional charge of Steel Ministry

New Delhi, Jul 7: Union Minister Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia on Thursday assumed the additional charge of the Steel Ministry. Scindia is currently in charge of the Civil Aviation Ministry. The 51-year old BJP leader, who represents Madhya Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha, is the third steel minister...
Hackers target national portal of India via
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Hackers target national portal of India via 'unprecedented' phishing technique

Bengaluru, July 7: Cyber-security researchers on Thursday said they have discovered an "unprecedented, sophisticated" phishing technique that has been targeting government websites across the world, including the Indian government's portal https://india.gov.in, extorting the affected users. The...
Man held in UP for threatening to behead Nupur Sharma
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Man held in UP for threatening to behead Nupur Sharma

Bareilly (UP), July 7: One person has been arrested for allegedly threatening to behead former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma whose controversial remarks on Prophet Mohammad had set off a huge controversy in India and abroad. The accused Nasir, in a viral video, had threatened Nupur Sharma after...
Punjab CM Mann gets married to doctor from Kurukshetra
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Punjab CM Mann gets married to doctor from Kurukshetra

Chandigarh, Jul 7: The regular 'band, bajaa, baraat' were missing but the festivities seemed intact as Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann turned groom for his wedding with a doctor from Kurukshetra at his home on Thursday. It was a private ceremony without the usual crowds, so much a part of...
Disgruntled college teacher seeks to return Rs 23.82 lakh earned as salary
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Disgruntled college teacher seeks to return Rs 23.82 lakh earned as salary

Muzaffarpur, Jul 7: A young academician in Bihar is hogging limelight for having sought to return a sum of over Rs 20 lakh that he had earned towards salary and other emoluments in the last two years and nine months. Lalan Kumar, 33, who teaches Hindi literature at a college under the Baba Saheb...
Punjab CM to get married today
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Punjab CM to get married today

Chandigarh, Jul 7: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann will get married at a private ceremony here on Thursday. Mann (48), will be tying the knot with Dr Gurpreet Kaur, who belongs to Pehowa in Haryana's Kurukshetra. It will be Mann's second marriage. He had separated from his first wife in 2015...
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