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PowerGrid provides equipment to DC Samba under CSR initiative

PowerGrid Corporation of India Limited (POWERGRID) handed four Vehicles mounted road Vacuum Sweeper Machines, one Ballistic separator & one JCB loader to District Development Commissioner, Samba under Under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative on 13 January.

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January 14, 2024
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Kalyani railway station undergoes makeover

Under Amrit Bharat Stations Scheme Kalyani in a significant stride towards modernizing railway infrastructure and prioritizing passenger comfort, the Kalyani Railway Station is currently undergoing an extensive phase of development and enhancement.

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January 14, 2024
Websites of top crypto exchanges like Binance, Kucoin blocked in India
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Websites of top crypto exchanges like Binance, Kucoin blocked in India

The websites of some top global cryptocurrency exchanges like Binance, Kucoin, OKX, among others, were blocked in India on January 12.

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January 14, 2024
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Goyal rules out lifting export curbs on wheat, rice & sugar

There is no proposalas of now toremove exportrestrictions on wheat, rice and sugar. India willnotimport wheat orsugar either, says Commerce and Industry Minister

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January 14, 2024
Three Indian Navy warships decommissioned
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Three Indian Navy warships decommissioned

Indian Navy Ships Cheetah, Guldar and Kumbhir were decommissioned on Saturday after rendering four decades of glorious service to the nation.

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January 14, 2024
Govt launches insurance scheme for casual-paid labourers engaged by BRO
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Govt launches insurance scheme for casual-paid labourers engaged by BRO

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh approved a proposal to launch a Group (Term) Insurance Scheme for Casual Paid Labourers (CPLs) engaged by Border Roads Organisation/General Reserve Engineer Force for the ongoing project works, the Ministry of Defence said in a statement on Saturday.

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January 14, 2024
Body of ex-model Divya Pahuja found in Haryana canal 11 days after murder
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Body of ex-model Divya Pahuja found in Haryana canal 11 days after murder

The body of former model Divya Pahuja, who was shot dead at a hotel in Gurugram earlier this month, was recovered from a canal in Haryana's Fatehabad district 11 days after the murder, police said on Saturday.

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January 14, 2024
PM Modi asks people to light Ram Jyoti on 22 Jan
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PM Modi asks people to light Ram Jyoti on 22 Jan

PM Modialso paid tribute to Sonal Maa said her life was dedicated to public welfare, service to country

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January 14, 2024
Wildlife rehabilitation centre to come up in Coimbatore
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Wildlife rehabilitation centre to come up in Coimbatore

The Tamil Nadu government has announced that a rescue, treatment and rehabilitation centre (RTRC) for wild animals will come up in Pethikuttai near Sirumugai in Coimbatore.

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January 14, 2024
Priyanka Gandhi likely to contest LS polls from K'taka, Telangana
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Priyanka Gandhi likely to contest LS polls from K'taka, Telangana

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi is likely to contest two seats from Karnataka and Telangana during the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

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January 14, 2024
What made one of world's most brilliant’ Al scientists smother her child to death
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What made one of world's most brilliant’ Al scientists smother her child to death

The heart-wrenching visuals of a four-year-old boy's body being carried by his father are still vivid in people's minds.

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January 14, 2024
TN'sall-party MPs’ delegation to meet Shah seeking disbursal of flood relief
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TN'sall-party MPs’ delegation to meet Shah seeking disbursal of flood relief

A delegation of all-party MPs from Tamil Nadu will meet the Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday seeking immediate disbursal of flood relief to the state.

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January 14, 2024
Owaisi slams parties for forgetting Babari demolition
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Owaisi slams parties for forgetting Babari demolition

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has slammed political parties for not raising the issue of demolition of the Babri Masjid ahead of the consecration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, saying that it was shameful that a criminal act has been elevated to a moment of national pride.

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January 14, 2024
Centre orders probe against firm owned by Veena Vijayan
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Centre orders probe against firm owned by Veena Vijayan

The probe has been ordered on the basis of findings of the Income Tax Interim Settlement Board

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January 14, 2024
Symbolic hungerstrike to save dying rivers in districts
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Symbolic hungerstrike to save dying rivers in districts

As many as 75 united under the banner of organisations Jalangi Nadi Samaj gathered on Friday in Krishnagar to stage a symbolic hunger strike, urging the administration to take immediate action to save the rivers in Nadia from an impending environmental catastrophe.

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January 14, 2024
Man walks to Ayodhya from Rammohan's birthplace
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Man walks to Ayodhya from Rammohan's birthplace

A primary school teacher has begun his move to carry a noble message from the birthplace of Raja Rammohan Roy to the birthplace of Lord Rama, that too on foot.

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January 14, 2024
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12 arrested for attacking monks

West Bengal Police on Saturday said that 12 people were arrested for allegedly attacking three monks from Uttar Pradesh who were heading to the ongoing Gangasagar Mela in Sagar Islands, North 24-Parganas district, on the basis of a kidnapping rumour.

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January 14, 2024
Lakhs of pilgrims flock to Kapil Muni's ashram for puja
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Lakhs of pilgrims flock to Kapil Muni's ashram for puja

Several lakh people have arrived from various parts of India to take the holy dip at Gangasagar on 15 January.

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January 14, 2024
Anurag Thakur targets TMC
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Anurag Thakur targets TMC

Lashing out at the ruling Trinamul Congress in West Bengal Anurag Thakur, Union information and broadcast minister on Saturday said that the law and order situation has broken down in the state.

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January 14, 2024
Police took swift action in Purulia: Trinamul Congress
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Police took swift action in Purulia: Trinamul Congress

Minister Shashi Panjawondered howcan the Union minister raise law and order issues in Bengal

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January 14, 2024
We need to protect our young people: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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We need to protect our young people: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The rising incidence of depression, mental stress, anxiety and poor mental health among the youth was the cornerstone of the conversation between world peace leader Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, founder, of The Art of Living and 20 leading vice-chancellors and heads of institutions from all over West Bengal, including vice-chancellors from MAKAUT, Vidyasagar University, IEM-UEM, Registrar and Dean of Burdwan University.

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January 14, 2024
BSF launches programme civic action for border residents
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BSF launches programme civic action for border residents

The Border Security Force (BSF) organised a civic action programme at Dingapara Border Outpost of 17 Battalion, today, in presence of DIG , Kishanganj Sector headquarters, Ish Aul and Commandant Ajay Kumar Sukla.

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January 14, 2024
Populism overshadows hard measures in Indian democracy: Political experts
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Populism overshadows hard measures in Indian democracy: Political experts

The large number of suspension of Opposition MPs during the Winter Session of Parliamenthas started adebate

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January 14, 2024
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India lodges protest with UK over its envoy's visit to Pok

India has strongly objected to the recent visit of UK High Commissioner to Pakistan Jane Marriott to Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK), saying such infringement on this country's sovereignty and territorial integrity was not acceptable to it.

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January 14, 2024
EAM: Ties with China won't get normaluntil border row is resolved
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EAM: Ties with China won't get normaluntil border row is resolved

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday reiterated that relations with China can't normalise until the ongoing military standoff in eastern Ladakh is resolved peacefully.

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January 14, 2024
Consensus on Kharge as INDIA chairperson
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Consensus on Kharge as INDIA chairperson

Top leaders of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) on Saturday proposed Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s name for the chairperson of the Opposition bloc.

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January 14, 2024
Will Keep Fighting: Activists After Verdict On Same-Sex Marriages
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Will Keep Fighting: Activists After Verdict On Same-Sex Marriages

A five-judge Constitution bench of the SC headed by CJI DY Chandrachud ruled ina 3:2 verdictagainst giving constitutional validity to same-sex marriages

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October 18, 2023
India Will Be Among World's Top Three Economic Powers Before Long: PM
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India Will Be Among World's Top Three Economic Powers Before Long: PM

Modisaid the proposed India-Middle East Europe Economic Corridor will revolutionise regional and international trade

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October 18, 2023
'Cong a family-run party in many ways'
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'Cong a family-run party in many ways'

Reacting to a question at an event in Thiruvananthapuram on not being a Prime Ministerial candidate from the party, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said that Rahul Gandhi could become Prime Minister since Congress is in many ways a 'family-run' party.

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October 18, 2023
'BJP-RSS keen to adopt one ideology in India'
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'BJP-RSS keen to adopt one ideology in India'

Rahulalleges MNF, ZPM helping BJP in Mizoram,urges people notto vote for them

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October 18, 2023