Sat, 21 Oct 2017 18:55:30
Hoping to garner support of various communities in Gujarat polls, the state Congress today invited Patidar quota stir spearhead Hardik Patel, Thakor community leader Alpesh Thakor and dalit leader Jignesh Mevani to join hands with the party to defeat the ruling BJP.
Apart from these leaders, the Congress also hinted at forging a pre-poll alliance with Sharad Pawar-led NCP and bringing on board
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Sat, 21 Oct 2017 18:52:00
The Railway Board has ordered a review of all rail bridges in the country that need repair after it was found that out of the 275 such bridges only 23 had speed restrictions on them.
The board had earlier sought details of the condition of bridges and found that the trains would pass on the 252 dilapidated bridges at its usual speed posing a safety hazard.
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Sat, 21 Oct 2017 18:50:15
Army chief General Bipin Rawat on Saturday blamed social media for the rise in radicalisation among the youth of Jammu and Kashmir and said it was being tackled with a "lot of seriousness".
Rawat, on a day-long visit here, also brushed aside the issue of alleged braid chopping incidents in the state as a "routine matter" which the civil administration and the police would deal with.
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Sat, 21 Oct 2017 12:51:01
Reacting to Union Minister of State for Skill Development Ananth Kumar Hegde's letter, asking to not include his name in Tipu Jayanti celebration, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday said, as a part of the government, he should not have done it.
"As part of the government, he shouldn't have written it," Siddaramaiah said.
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Sat, 21 Oct 2017 12:45:34
The Indian Railways will soon cut short the running time of over 500 long distance trains by up to two hours, a senior railway official said today.
The new timings will be updated in the November timetable of the railways, he said.
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Sat, 21 Oct 2017 12:40:37
Prime Minister Narendra Modi cannot "pursue peace" with Pakistan in a way that "cuts his own security", a top Trump administration official has said, asserting that it is in the interest of Islamabad to build confidence with New Delhi to restart commercial ties.
Ahead of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's maiden visit to India and Pakistan next week, the official, with an insight into the admin
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Sat, 21 Oct 2017 12:37:20
A Pakistani woman journalist who was allegedly kidnapped while pursuing the case of an Indian engineer two years ago has been rescued, officials said.
Zeenat Shahzadi, a 26-year-old reporter of Daily Nai Khaber and Metro News TV channel, went missing on August 19, 2015, when some unidentified men allegedly kidnapped her while she was en route to her office in an auto-rickshaw from her home in a
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Sat, 21 Oct 2017 12:33:39
Mangaluru South MLA J R Lobo said that a high-level delegation will visit Lakshadweep as a part of an effort to re-establish the trade relations with the Mangaluru Old Port (Bunder).
Performing the ground-breaking ceremony for the development of Mangaluru Old Port, Lobo said that during the delegation meet between October 29 and 31, Lakshadweep administration will be persuaded to restart trade
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Sat, 21 Oct 2017 12:25:14
Fishermen in Karnataka will hold a convention at Kumta in Uttara Kannada on November 19 to press their demands including formulation of a national fishing policy, a senior state fishermens congress functionary has said.
Talking to reporters here yesterday, state fishermens congress president U R Sabhapathy said an uniform national fishing policy was urgently required to avoid the existing dispa
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