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January 19, 2023

BJP is double-faced: CM tells Mendipathar rally

Trinamul Congress chairperson Miss Mamata Banerjee urged the people of Meghalaya not to believe in the BJP, saying the party is double-faced as they promise something before an election and behave completely differently after the poll is over.

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EC announces election dates for 3 N-E states

Tripura to vote on 16 Feb, Meghalaya, Nagaland on 27th, results on 2 March

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At BRS mega rally, KCR equates Cong with BJP

Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekar Rao today equated the Congress and the BJP saying that they only indulge in verbal fights and blame each other, as he sought to stitch a non-Congress and non-BJP Opposition coalition in the presence of the leaders of AAP, Left and Samajwadi Party at the first mammoth rally of the BRS at Khammam in Andhra Pradesh.

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PM inaugurates Basti Khel Mahakumbh in UP

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday inaugurated the second phase of Saansad Khel Mahakumbh 2022-23 being held in Uttar Pradesh’s Basti district, via video conferencing. The sports event, organised by Basti MP Harish Dwivedi, will continue till 28 January. Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath was present at the inauguration.

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Vinesh Phogat accuses WFI chief of sexual harassment

Indian wrestler and Commonwealth Games medalist Vinesh Phogat on Wednesday alleged that coaches who are favourites of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) misbehave with women and harass them.

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Ukraine min, others killed in copter crash

Ukraine’s interior minister died Wednesday in a helicopter crash near the capital that killed more than a dozen other people, including children, authorities said.Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi, who oversaw Ukraine’s police and emergency services, is the most senior official to die since Russia invaded nearly 11 months ago.

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'SIMI supports Jihad': Centre justifies ban

The Centre in its affidavit filed on Wednesday in the apex court has said that an organisation that aims to establish Islamic rule cannot be permitted to operate in a secular society

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Nobellaureate Banerjee visits Beninagar weavers in Burdwan

Nobel laureate economist Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, accompanied by a film director, a fashion designer and an animation designer visited some handlooms run by the local weavers at a village in East Burdwan yesterday aiming to promote Bengal's traditional handloom products.

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Central team quizzes PMAY beneficiaries

A PMAY (Prime Minister Awas Yojana) beneficiary was yet to erect a house, yet he was disbursed the last installment six months ago, which irked the two-member central team visiting the East Burdwan villages to inquire about the status of the PMAY houses.

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Disruption in local trains

According to the Eastern Railway, the disruption in local train services occurred from 6.50 am to 7.40 am.

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STF seizes brown sugar material

The truck was also seized.

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Team to look into encroachment on KMDA land in Ward 107

The state government has formed a team to handle the issues of encroachments in several pockets of Ward 107 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation and other parts of the city.

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Mamata to distribute pattas, certificates on 2 Febin Burdwan

The CM will also inaugurate and lay foundation stones of a few other projects

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PHEDPR for drinking water from abandoned coal mines

The state Public Health Engineering (PHE) department has prepared a detailed project report set up a Rs 14 crore drinking water project from two abandoned open cast coal mines of Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) in Asansol.

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Teacher's job through forged letter: HC calls DIG CID

Calcutta High Court today summoned the DIG CID and asked him to appear in the court tomorrow in connection with a case of an alleged irregularity in recruitment of a teacher at a school in Murshidabad.

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Guidelines to streamline referral system from districts to city hospitals

Rattled by repeated incidents of patients’ deaths owing to alleged denials of referring them from one government hospital to others in the city the state health department has decided to issue guidelines on how to streamline referral system of emergency cases.

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FIR against Awas Yojana beneficiaries

The civic body chairman Suresh Mishra said during the financial year 2015-2016, it was found 31 beneficiaries after receiving the first installment unnecessary delayed construction.

1 min

Water supply disruption in South Kolkata

Citizens living in South Kolkata and few other boroughs of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation are likely to face water woes on 21 January.

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HC ruckus: Separate complaint filed against Kunal Ghosh

A special three-judge Bench of the Calcutta High Court constituted to hear the suo motu contempt of court rule by Justice Rajasekhar Mantha on the matter of ruckus in front of his court on 9 January and January 10 by a section of the lawyers, has received a separate complaint holding a total of 12 persons responsible for the fiasco.

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Abhishek opposes remote voting, writes to ECI

TMC felt that a hasty decision will affect the sanctity of the election process

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Car park app launched by KMC

In a major relief for motorists, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has decided to go the digital way for car parking.

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Cash-for-job: TMC youth leader quizzed by CBI

The CBI today interrogated Trinamul Youth Congress leader Kuntal Ghosh in connection with his alleged complicity in taking grafts to the tune of Rs 19cr, which he had allegedly received from 325 aspirants for admission in private D.El.Ed colleges.

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AIADMK for conducting 'Veeravanakkam Naal' to honour language martyrs

The student wing of the opposition AIADMK will organise 'Veeravanakkam Naal' across Tamil Nadu to honour the martyrs who died for the Tamil language.

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PFI hartal: Kerala HC issues asks govt to confiscate leaders' properties immediately

Kerala High Court on Wednesday expressed dissatisfaction over the delay in complying with its earlier order to confiscate the properties of the leaders of the banned outfit, Popular Front of India (PFI) and gave an ultimatum to the state government to confiscate the properties of the leaders of the banned outfit immediately.

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Kerala govt to provide village life experience to tourists

As part of new focus areas of the state's rejigged tourism initiatives, the Kerala government will stress on Responsible Tourism initiative, which allows tourists to experience village life and introducing new destinations.

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Jaipur Literature Festival set for grand opening

A five-day long Jaipur Literature Festival is all set for a grand opening here tomorrow to keep up its tradition of uncovering a gamut of ‘stories’ in literature from across the world.

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Joshimath land subsidence not linked to tunnelling, claim NTPC officers

Officials of the National Thermal Power Corporation have claimed that the land subsidence in Joshimath is not linked to tunnelling for the Tapovan project.

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Nodal officers discuss acid attacks, unregulated sale of acid

The National Commission for Women (NCW) today organized an ‘All India Nodal Officers Meeting on Acid Attack’ to deliberate, discuss, and share suggestions to resolve issues regarding sale and purchase of acid and other corrosive substances.

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SC to examine AP's plea against HC order on public meeting

The state government said that eight had died during a stampede in a political roadshow

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Former Punjab finance minister Manpreet Badal quits Congress to join BJP

In a jolt to the Congress in Punjab a day after the party's Bharat Jodo Yatra concluded in the state, former finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) minutes after resigning from the Congress on Wednesday

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Rousing reception to Rahul's Bharat Jodo Yatra in Himachal

As Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra entered Manser in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday, the people of the state gave him a rousing welcome.

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Modi govt doesn't make policies to please people unlike those in past: Amit Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah took a sharp dig at the previous governments at the Centre and said that, unlike the predecessors whose every step was ruled by vote bank politics, the policy-making principles of the Centre under Narendra Modi is not dictated by the need \"to please people\" rather their betterment is the BJP government's only aim.

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Delhivs Centre: SC reserves verdict on who will control services in National Capital

The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its verdict on the dispute between Delhi and the Central government on the contentious issue of who should control administrative services in Delhi over the transfers and postings of officers in the national capital.

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Security sphere

Barely three months ago, in October 2022, Indiareiterated its readiness to continue supportingSri Lanka in the defence sphere during a meeting between that country’s State Minister of Defence Premitha Bandara Tennakoon and his Indian counterpart in Delhi.

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Trapped people

There are two aspects to the abduction of about 50 women by suspected jihadists in landlocked Burkina Faso in western Africa last week that merit consideration.

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SLEEPERS FOR INDIAN RAILWAYS

Steel and cast iron sleepers are used fairly extensively and are manufactured in India.

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HONOUR FOR URDU POET

Sir Mahomed Iqbal in reply said that it was matter of great pride and pleasure that their great literary and philosophical traditions were still alive.

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GANGA SAGAR MELA PILGRIMS

This is a striking demonstration of the value of the preventive measures employed, and all concerned are to be congratulated on the clear proof they have given to the public.

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UNIONIST PARTY FUNDS

Viscount Farquhar himself is credited with the view that it will not be long before the Chamberlainites actively rejoin the old party.

1 min

Eco-friendly farmers protect livelihoods

At a time when climate change is a matter of increasing concern, the challenge of integrating protection of livelihoods with protection of environment has acquired a new urgency in rural areas. Initiatives which combine reduction of poverty and promotion of livelihoods with protection of environment and climate change mitigation as well as adaptation are increasingly important. In this context the work taken up by Srijan, a voluntary organization has relevance.

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INDIAN MUTINY VETERAN

He had the unique distinction, as Chief Herald of the Indian Empire, of proclaiming Queen Victoria Empress of India.

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Asian shares decline as Bank of Japan keeps policy unchanged

U.K. inflation eased for a second month in Dec, boosting confidence that the cost-of-living crisis has peaked

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Govt aims to produce 1 bn tonnes coal in 2023-24

Aiming to produce 1 billion tonnes of dry fuel in 2023-24, the Coal Ministry has decided to fix 780 million tonnes target for Coal India Ltd (CIL), 75 million tonnes for Singareni Collieries Company Ltd, and 162 million tonnes for captive and commercial mines for the forthcoming fiscal.

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India IT spending to reach $110.3 bn in 2023

A turbulent economy has changed the context of business decisions and can cause CIOs to become more hesitant, delay decisions or reorder priorities.

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No pothole deaths in 10 states in two years

In ten states and Union territories of the country, including Bihar, no life was lost due to potholes on the road in the last two years.

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Exempt levy of customs duty on telecom equipment to boost 5G roll out: COAI

The top telecom industry body on Wednesday urged the government to exempt the levy of basic customs duty (BCD) charges in the upcoming Union Budget, which will further help in the deployment and smooth roll-out of 5G in India.

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Indian stocks up for second day amid continued FPI selloff

Indian stocks extended gains from the previous session but concerns over slowing global economic growth and the pulling out of funds by foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) from the country continue to remain.

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POWERGRID awarded for its massive procurement through GeM

Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (POWERGRID), a Maharatna PSU under Ministry of Power, Government of India has been awarded for extensive procurement through Government eMarketplace (GeM) portal.

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UK nurses stage new walkout as strike wave intensifies

Thousands of nurses in Britain walked out Wednesday in a new protest over pay, with no end in sight to a wave of strikes that has piled pressure on the U.K.’s overburdened public health system.

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Greta carried away by police at German mine protest

Police in western Germany carried Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and other protesters away Tuesday from the edge of an open coal pit mine where they demonstrated against the ongoing destruction of a village to make way for the mine’s expansion, German news agency dpa reported.

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Court to hear appeal of ex-officer in murder of George Floyd

An attorney for Derek Chauvin is planning to ask an appeals court Wednesday to throw out the former Minneapolis police officer’s convictions in the murder of George Floyd, arguing that numerous legal and procedural errors deprived him of a fair trial.

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Four generations of a family killed in 'cartel like execution' in California

Four generations of a family were killed in what authorities have described as a \"cartel like execution\" at a private residence in California which was raided by police last week for drugrelated activity, the media reported.

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Ukraine interior minister, others killed in Kyiv helicopter crash

Denys Monastyrskyi is the most senior official to die since Russia invaded

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California sees extensive storm damage as wild weather calms

Key roadways remained closed and officials estimated thousand of homes were seriously damaged in California as weeks of wild weather that flooded roadways, collapsed hillsides and toppled countless trees finally became calm Tuesday.

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Australian Open: Defending champion Rafael Nadal suffers huge upset against Mackenzie McDonald in second round

Mackenzie McDonald upset a hobbled Rafael Nadal on Wednesday in the second round of the ongoing Australian Open, eliminating the top seed here at Rod Laver Arena on Wednesday.

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India Open: Srikanth loses to Axelsen, bows out in first round

Kidambi Srikanth fought hard but could not stop Olympic and world champion Viktor Axelsen in the opening round of the Yonex-Sunrise India Open , at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium here on Wednesday.

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