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Dear Editor, Every country participating in the Olympics does so to win medals. Our sportspersons also competed but the final result was rather dissapponting. India's Rio story ended with just one silver and one bronze medal, secured by two…
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New Delhi: The Karnataka government today moved the Supreme Court challenging the state high court verdict acquitting Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in the disproportionate assets case. The state government in its appeal, filed…
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Stanford: Promising that the Centre will go "all out" to support Bihar in a "big way", Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the government is likely to announce projects and schemes in a few weeks time to assist the resource-rich state.…
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Lucknow: Charging Narendra Modi government with following UPA's footsteps, BSP surpemo Mayawati today said one year of NDA rule was "disappointing" as people experienced "bad days". "With its faulty policies and acts, the Modi government's…
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New Delhi: Rejecting opposition demands for Sushma Swaraj's resignation, the government, the BJP as well as RSS today defended the External Affairs Minister over the Lalit Modi travel documents issue, asserting that she had done no wrong…
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New Delhi: As a first step to grant Indian nationality to nearly two lakh refugees from neighbouring countries, the NDA government has given citizenship to around 4,300 Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan and Afghanistan in one year. During the…
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New Delhi: Rejecting criticism that he has concentrated all powers in his hands, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said Narendra Modi is a hands-on Prime Minister who listens to everybody but his word is final. He contrasted this with…
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Hyderabad: Dismissing allegations that the NDA government is a one-man show and that ministers have been reduced to "toys," Union Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore today said that the respect for the Prime Minister's office has been…
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Kochi: Celebrating one year in office, the NDA government has asked states to enrol all MNREGA workers under the three newly-launched social security schemes and open bank accounts for each worker under the Jan Dhan Yojana. In a…
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odiNew Delhi: The government has put the derailed economy back on track, contained inflation and improved investor confidence in the last one year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today while promising to do more in the coming days to…
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