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Gupteshwar Pandey inducted into Janata Dal United

Former Bihar DGP now in Nitish Kumar parlour

Before the ink on his VRS application and its approval had dried, Gupteshwar Pandey was chaperoned into the Janata Dal United by chief minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday. Till Tuesday night, Pandey was the director-general of police in Bihar, discharging his responsibilities with such zeal that he played a key role in transforming the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput into television opium that sought to distract attention from multiple national crises. Soon after Nitish ushered Pandey into the party, the Opposition alleged...

Swamy finger at PMO official

In the season of rewards, use-and-throw stories too pop up. Subramanian Swamy, who once specialised in tormenting the UPA and was nominated to the Rajya Sabha after Nare...

Army: winter beef-up in Ladakh

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President Ram Nath Kovind confers National Service Scheme awards virtually in New Delhi on Thursday.

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President Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent on Sunday to three contentious farm bills that have triggered protests by farmers, especially in Punjab and Haryana, and prompted an ...
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Modi sells stories amid protests

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday stressed the importance of storytelling and narrated success stories of farmers as he tried to fire-fight the f...

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Democrats’ recuse plea to judge

Democrats are urging US Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett to recuse herself from any election-related cases because of President Donald Trump&rs...

When the pandemic led Chicago’s Columbia College to move some coursework online this summer without reducing tuition, many students cried foul

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Qatar Airways losses at $1.9bn

Long-haul carrier Qatar Airways on Sunday reported losses of $1.9 billion for the past year, blaming the coronavirus pandemic, its liquidation of shar...

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Cycling is the new gymming!

While some have been cycling to keep fit, others have been doing so to commute while avoiding public transport, and some others have been cycling away...

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Literally and figuratively, things are not pretty in Halahal. The opening frames may dispense with the rare act of extreme violence in the film but the ugliness of human behaviour is palpable throughout its 97-minute running time

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I shall now discuss a major moment of dissent that helped to establish a free and democratic India. I have chosen this because it draws on some of the earlier strands of the Self and th...
Unlike in current times, Indian nationalism has largely meant the coming together of all citizens who claimed equal status and rights in an independent nation-state
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Yet another media trial, yet another television channel accusing Muslim citizens of jihad this year, and we are back to contemplating the perennial excesses of Indian news televi...

We don’t have the one institutional mechanism that might rein in outrageous violations by broadcasters — an independent, statutory complaints council empowered to levy substantial fines.
There will be no brick-and-mortar memorials for the victims of the novel coronavirus. Their lives will be commemorated online, on posthumous Facebook pages, stilled Twitter timelines, in the Google searches that dredge up their names and black-and-white class photos arranged in uniformed rows.
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With 43,618 tests, the total stopped just short of 30.99 lakh, at 34,430 tests per million people
PWD had issued an order to conduct the health audit of all the bridges it maintains across the state soon after the collapse of Majerhat Bridge in Calcutta in September 2018
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The stories Modi told during Mann Ki Baat were those of farmers led to prosperity by the freedom to sell their produce wherever and to whoever they wanted — a freedom he claimed his new farm laws guaranteed them.

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Farmers block railway tracks during Rail Roko Andolan against the newly introduced farm bills at Devi Dass Pura village, 20km from Amritsar, on Sunday.
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APF spokesperson Raju Aryal was quoted by the Nepali media as saying: “We are going to construct barracks in Changru to keep a watch on the India-Nepal border.”
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In a rare instance of corporate activism, the shareholders of Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB) have voted seven directors out from the bank’s board, including MD-cum-CEO S. Sundar and two others who bel...
On Sunday, LVB sought to assuage the concerns over the outcome of the AGM.
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Literally and figuratively, things are not pretty in Halahal. The opening frames may dispense with the rare act of extreme violence in the film but the ugliness of human behaviour is palpable throughout its 97-minute running time

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