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April 18, 2024

Naveen decides to contest from two seats, selects Kantabanji & Hinjili

CHIEF Minister and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik will once again contest from two seats in the Assembly elections.

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Security forces have 17 Naxals in crosshairs

They will be neutralised or made to surrender

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Special polling stations for city's Kashmiri migrants

SPECIAL polling stations will be created for the displaced community of Kashmiri migrants who fled the Valley and settled in the city in the late 80s to escape terrorism, officials from the Chief Electoral Office, Delhi told this newspaper.

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Migrant worker from Bihar shot dead in Anantnag targeted attack m he W OL be

TWO days before the first phase of polls in Jammu and Kashmir, militants on Wednesday evening shot dead a migrant worker from Bihar in Bijbehara area of Anantnag in south Kashmir.

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DMK locked in a gruelling contest to stay as the Raja of the Nilgiris

IT'S that time of the year when the weather here is balmy, drawing tourists in droves.

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EC flags down Bengal guv's poll-time trip

THE Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday asked West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose to cancel his proposed two-day visit to the state's Cooch Behar district that was to start on the eve of election day, saying it would violate the Model Code of Conduct.

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Min writes to CS, flags lack of meds

Visit govt hospitals, Mohalla Clinics to get feedback on medicine availability, Bharadwaj says

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Education dept to hold common entrance for admissions to Class 10, 12

THE Directorate of Education has decided to admit students to Classes 10 and 12 in government schools through a Common Admission Test (CAT).

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HC seeks govt report on measures to deal with bomb threats in schools

THE Delhi High Court recently sought a report from the Delhi government in response to a petition filed by a parent seeking direction for a \"detailed action plan\" to deal with bomb threats in city schools.

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Tag of 'child abuser' more painful than jail, says HC; convict acquitted

THE Delhi High Court, while setting aside the conviction and five-year sentence of a man accused of sexually assaulting a minor girl, has said that the social stigma suffered by those falsely accused of being \"child abusers\" is more painful than imprisonment.

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BJP aims at sweep, AAP banks on sympathy

WITH the BJP looking to increase its vote share and sweeping Delhi's seven Lok Sabha seats for the third consecutive time, the AAP, contesting the polls in an alliance with the Congress, hopes to use the \"sympathy wave\" for arrested Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to break the saffron streak.

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EC 'extended wing' of BJP, says AAP

‘Post on electoral bond irregularities taken down from X, no action on complaints against BJP’

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Mosque panels tweak Friday prayer timings

Also curtail its duration to ensure believers do not skip voting in Lok Sabha elections scheduled on April 26 in Kerala

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Election, severe heatwave hit tourism in Kerala

THE extreme heat situation since February in the state has come as a heavy blow to the tourism industry, which has been heavily reliant on domestic tourists since the easing of the pandemic.

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T'gana Cong MLA facing ED probe in touch with Himanta

AS the Lok Sabha elections draw closer, two prominent members of the Congress - a former MP who is currently an MLA and a sitting MP barely taking part in the campaign as they grapple with the prospect of Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials summoning them in separate cases before voting day.

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'AAP ka Ram rajya', new website to showcase work

Party says Kejriwal provided free electricity, redeveloped’ schools

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Lovely holds meeting with leaders to draw poll strategy

DELHI Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely on Wednesday held a meeting with senior leaders of the party to draw up a roadmap for the Lok Sabha election campaigns, a statement said.

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Rahul ducks query on Amethi, says will abide by party's call

APPEARING for the first time hand-in-hand after the seat-sharing arrangement in Uttar Pradesh, INDIA partners, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav launched a scathing attack on PM Narendra Modi over a host of issues ranging from electoral bonds to unemployment, price rise in Ghaziabad on Wednesday.

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'4 June, 400 paar,' says Modi, flays Cong for 'problems' in NE

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday that while the Congress created problems in the Northeast, the BJP transformed the region into a wave of possibilities.

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Battle of turncoats in Nagaur

Old rivals RLP chief Hanuman Beniwal, BJP's Jyoti Mirdha battle it out in Jat-dominated seat

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Shah says govt will continue to act tough against Maoists

THE Narendra Modi government will eliminate Maoists from the country in a very short period of time, Union Home Minister Amit Shah asserted on Wednesday.

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Govt notifies use of nano urea for 3 years despite row over efficiency

THE Union government on Wednesday notified the use of Nano Urea Plus for a period of three years.

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BASTAR BATTLE BETWEEN BJP.CONG EVEN

HINDUTVA FACE & EXCISE MINISTER IN THE BAGHEL GOVERNMENT FIGHT IT OUT IN THE MAOIST HOTBED

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Didi promises guaranteed jobs, free LPG cylinders, CAA repeal

THE ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal unveiled its Lok Sabha election manifesto on Wednesday, promising an array of social welfare initiatives, the revocation of the CAA, and stopping the NRC exercise if the INDIA bloc, their national-level ally, comes to power.

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Muslims find no takers in BJP, Congress lists

GUJARAT is renowned as a bastion for the BJP and a crucible for Hindutva ideologies.

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Cameron says Israel veering towards retaliation

BRITISH Foreign Secretary David Cameron said Wednesday that Israel \"is making a decision to act\" in response to Iran's missile and drone attack over the weekend.

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Storm dumps record rain across UAE, flooding Dubai airport

Schools across the federation of sheikhdoms were largely shut ahead of the storm; 142 mm rainfall recorded in 24 hours; average annual precipitation is 94.7 mm

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No entity can store card transaction data from August 2025: RBI draft rule

THE Reserve Bank of India in its new draft directions on regulation of Payment Aggregators (PAs) has said from August 1, 2025, no entity in the card transaction, except for the card issuer and card networks, will be allowed to store data.

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VIL secures ₹5,400 cr from anchor investors

Allots 491 crore shares at ₹11 each; GQG Partners, Fidelity, UBS Fund, Jupiter Fund, Australian Super major investors

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Adani family invests ₹8.339 cr in Ambuia Cements

ADANI FAMILY, the promoters of Ambuja Cements, has converted the final tranche of warrants issued for Ambuja Cements into equity by infusing ₹8,339 crore.

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BATMAN & BUTTLER: DREAM RUNS

ON the penultimate day of the Masters, Max Homa, the American golfer, was 5-under, chasing Collin Morikawa and Scottie Scheffler.

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Spanish nightmare as PSG, Dortmund march on

PSG'S emphatic victory over Barcelona keeps alive the French club's dream of ending the Kylian Mbappe era by lifting the Champions League trophy at Wembley in June.

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Road to Paris: Shooters set for all-important OST

INDIAN shooters have been spot on in the ongoing Olympic cycle.

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Bowlers shine to help DC sink GT

ON a slightly sluggish fresh black soil surface, Gujarat Titans came up a cropper against the Delhi Capitals.

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