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Don't oppose ministers, leaders at Republic Day events: Haryana BKU chief Gurnam Singh Charuni to farmers

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News / Times Of India/ Gurgaon

Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) Haryana state president Gurnam Singh Charuni on Saturday urged the state farmers not to oppose any ministers or leaders at Republic Day events...

Tamil people have self-respect and will defeat PM Modi’s plans: Rahul Gandhi

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News / Times Of India/ Coimbatore

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi disrespected Tamil people and that the Centre wanted to suppress Tamil culture, language and history. “But we will never allow such disrespect,’’ Rahul said launching his three-day and five district election campaign in Coimbatore...

Gujarat govt starts school tests on WhatsApp

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News / Times Of India/ Ahemdabad

Gujarat education department has decided to conduct weekly online exams for all students in government-run schools through WhatsApp starting January 23...

Oppn slams Centre for its stand on 7.5% quota

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News / Times Of India/ Chennai

With the Centre taking a hard stance on reservation for government school students in medical education, DMK president M K Stalin and TNCC president K S Alagiri on Friday urged Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami to be on his guard since the state has opted to reserve 7.5% for government students...

DMK may field at least 50 youth candidates

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News / Times Of India/ Chennai

The DMK is looking to attract young voters by fielding young candidates in the upcoming assembly elections. According to senior party functionaries, the party would field at least 50 young candidates for the assembly polls. The leadership, in fact, has revamped the party by infusing young blood over the past couple of years...

Thane: Firm looking for water purifier system cheated of Rs 1.59 crore

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News / Times Of India/ Thane

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Flight services resumes at Agra civil terminal

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News / Times Of India/ Lucknow

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Covid-19 vaccine for airport staff in Karnataka

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Youth should take inspiration from Netaji: VP

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News / Times Of India/ Hyderabad

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50 shanties gutted in massive fire in east Delhi

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News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Over 50 shanties were gutted in a massive fire that broke out in east Delhi's Ghazipur Dairy Farm area on Saturday, officials said. Fire officials received information about the blaze at 1.41 pm, following which 17 fire tenders were rushed to the spot. Around 50 to 60 shanties were gutted in the fire. The blaze was brought under control at 2.50 pm. Cooling process is underway...

Maharashtra CM to open Patripul bridge on Monday

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News / Times Of India/ Thane

Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) completed work on the Patripul rail overbridge after 26 months and has decided to inaugurate it on January 25. Completion of an additional two-lane bridge will help over two lakh commuters. It is crucial connector between Kalyan and Navi Mumbai, as well as the east and west of the city...

Maharashtra releases Rs 4 crore for sanitisation

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News / Times Of India/ Nagpur

The state government’s approval for reopening of schools for standards V to VIII has gained momentum with the state government releasing Rs4 crore for the sanitation and cleanliness...

Katihar tops in paddy procurement in Bihar

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News / Times Of India/ Patna

The Katihar administration has claimed that 57.08% of the registered farmers have sold their paddy to the primary agriculture cooperative societies (PACS) at the minimum support price (MSP), which is the maximum among the 38 districts in the state this year so far...

Ranchi: Rabri Devi, Tejashwi meet Lalu Prasad

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News / Times Of India/ Patna

A day after incarcerated RJD president Lalu Prasad had a health scare, his wife and former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi, along with sons Tejashwi Yadav and Tej Pratap, and daughter Misa Bharti visited him at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) on Friday to inquire about his condition...

15% increase in holding tax: Bihar govt to decide

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News / Times Of India/ Patna

The Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) decision to raise the holding tax by 15% is likely to increase the burden on the salaried class as well as professionals, especially when residents are still coping up with the Covid-19 pandemic...

PM won’t refuse you, Farmer writes to Hiraben

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News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Harpreet Singh, a farmer from Ferozepur who was arrested in Shimla while protesting peacefully in support of agitating farmers and released after being detained for a day, on Friday said he had written an “emotional open letter” to Hiraben Modi, mother of Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

Instant loan apps trick HR executive into scam

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News / Times Of India/ Pune

(This story originally appeared in PuneMirror on January 23, 2021)..

SSUHS organises virtual lecture on stem cell therapy

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News / Times Of India/ Guwahati

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In NE, Assam & Tripura have given maximum vaccine shots

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Students to sit for matric exam in respective schools

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News / Times Of India/ Bhubaneswar

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, students will appear for the high school certificate (HSC) examination at their respective schools unlike previous years, the Board of Secondary Education (BSE) said on Friday...

Guj: Girl raped, killed, stuffed in plastic bag

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News / Times Of India/ Ahemdabad

The forensic postmortem of a seven-year-old girl whose body was found bundled in a plastic bag in Morbi town revealed that she was raped and brutally killed by smashing a stone on her head...

RBI holds meet to swap salt farmer’s burnt notes

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News / Times Of India/ Ahemdabad

It was a sweet ending to an over two-and-a-half month’s travails of salt farmer Babu Redani, 65, when he was handed crisp notes worth Rs 6,450 by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) officials on Thursday...

Govt to assess learning of classes X, XII students

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News / Times Of India/ Chennai

The school education department has begun conducting basic learning assessment tests for students of Classes X and XII students in government schools before starting physical classes to know where they stand in terms of learning...

Metrowater will earn 30% more with new meters

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News / Times Of India/ Chennai

Metrowater is set to earn 30% more revenue from its commercial water connections as the project to introduce automated water meters nears completion. Of the 12,708 commercial connections, about 10,500 have been fitted with these meters. Commercial establishments include hospitals, institutions, marriage halls and multistorey complexes that use more than 5,000-kilo litres of water a day...

JNTU-H & OU seek logistical plans from colleges

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News / Times Of India/ Hyderabad

Merely a week before reopening of institutions in Telangana, state universities such as the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (JNTU-H) and Osmania University (OU) have sought sanitation and logistical plans from all the colleges...

Woman found murdered at Gurugram's Sohna home

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News / Times Of India/ Delhi

A 65-year-old woman living alone in a two-storey independent house in Sohna has been murdered, in a case of suspected robbery that has put the security of senior citizens in the city in the spotlight...

Cong sees red over green gift for Shivaji Park

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News / Times Of India/ Mumbai

With BMC cutting funding for open spaces by 25%, Congress is crying foul that while BMC approved a plan to spend Rs 6.1 crore on revamping Shivaji Park, which is has corporators and MLAs from Shiv Sena, it is not giving any funds to develop gardens like Kalina’s Joseph Baptista garden or Kalina talao. Congress alleged that BMC is only speeding funds on the G-North (Dadar, Mahim) and G-South (Lower Parel, Worli) wards, which are Sena strongholds...

Petrol price in Mumbai crosses Rs 92-mark

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News / Times Of India/ Mumbai

Petrol price here crossed the Rs92-mark for the first time, with people fearing it could soon hit a century if hikes are not kept in check. The rate of petrol was hiked by 24paise on Friday to retail at Rs92.04 per litre. Diesel also escalated to Rs82.40, an all-time high, on Friday...

Kerala govt planning to fast-track swimming programme

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News / Times Of India/ Thiruvananthapuram

Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan told the assembly on Friday that the government was thinking about fast tracking swimming training programmes in view of increasing number of drownings...

Jodhpur: CDS takes part in Indo-French drill

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Punjab: Support for stir from BJP stronghold

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News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Most farmers in Mukerian area of Hoshiarpur have traditionally supported the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since the days of Jan Sangh but are lending full support to the ongoing farmers’ agitation against agri-laws and are all set to join the tractor parade proposed on January 26...

Goa: Prominent private doctors take vax jab

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News / Times Of India/ Goa

Prominent private doctors in Margao grabbed the opportunity to get vaccinated at Victor Hospital, Margao on Friday evening...

Vax: Pvt hosps in Kolkata fall back on staffers

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News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

Private hospitals had to fall back on their own employees to meet their vaccination target on Friday even as 25%-35% of those on the Co-Win list failed to turn up. Four out of six hospitals that conducted vaccinations had to substitute the absentees with their own healthworkers. Several are planning to step up counselling to convince recipients...

Bengal plans to set up university for journalism

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News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The government is set to unveil a university for journalism and mass communication, aiming to begin admissions in 2022-23...

Martyred on LoC, Ambala Army man cremated amid tears, slogans and salutes

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News / Times Of India/ Gurgaon

The mortal remains of Havildar Nirmal Singh, who was martyred at the age of 37 in Jammu and Kashmir, were cremated with full state honours on Friday. The Havildar made the supreme sacrifice during firing by Pakistan along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district...

We will defend culture of Tamils against attacks by Modi govt: Rahul Gandhi

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Gaming scam: 'I am a cryptocurrency trader'

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News / Times Of India/ Hyderabad

Justice G Sri Devi of Telangana high court on Friday posted to February 4 the bail plea filed by Naisar Shailesh Kothari, an accused in the China gaming scam. The Gujarat-based accused was arrested by the Hyderabad Enforcement Directorate following his alleged role in the scam...

Online gambling: Chinese nat'l wants cases clubbed

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News / Times Of India/ Hyderabad

Chinese national Yan Hao, who was the first to be arrested for organising online gambling, and is presently lodged in Chanchalguda jail, is now waiting for High Court’s intervention. He feels that he is facing the heat of police questioning repeatedly as a result of multiple cases being registered against him over the same type of offence...

Budding 'bizman' gets duped by his own friend

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News / Times Of India/ Bangalore

(This story originally appeared in BangaloreMirror on January 23, 2021)..

Ministers rue CM’s decision to retain B'luru devpt

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News / Times Of India/ Bangalore

Chief minister BS Yediyurappa’s decision to retain the Bengaluru development portfolio has not gone down well with his cabinet colleagues, who fear the step might hurt BJP’s prospects in the upcoming BBMP polls...

Delhi: Keep an eye out for post-Covid danger

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News / Times Of India/ Delhi

If you suffered from Covid-19 in the past and now have vision-related problems, be watchful...

Lalu Prasad stable, Rabri Devi & family meet him

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News / Times Of India/ Ranchi

A day after incarcerated RJD president Lalu Prasad had a health scare, his wife and former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi, sons Tejashwi Yadav and Tej Pratap along with daughter Misa Bharti visited him at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims) on Friday to inquire about his condition...

IMA-Bihar to observe hunger strike from Feb 1

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News / Times Of India/ Patna

Doctors under the aegis of the Indian Medical Association (IMA)-Bihar will observe round-the-clock relay fast from February 1 to 14 against the Centre’s decision to allow ayurvedic postgraduate degree holders perform various surgical interventions...

Over 32% active Covid cases under home isolation

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News / Times Of India/ Lucknow

More than 32% of the active cases of coronavirus infection in the state are under home isolation, according to data from the state health department...

Couple allowed to divorce without separation period

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News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

The Punjab and Haryana high court has made it clear that if marriage between two parties has broken down irretrievably, they cannot be denied the right to live their lives in the manner they like. The court made these observations while waiving off the statutory period of six-month separation that is mandatory before divorce can be granted on ground of mutual consent. In this case, the Hisar family court had rejected the couple’s plea seeking waiver of this six-month period...

Trio promises MBBS seat, cheats couple of Rs 4 lakh in Bengaluru

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News / Times Of India/ Mysore

A 51-year-old woman filed a complaint with Ashoknagar police station against three persons, alleging that they cheated her of Rs 4 lakh on the pretext of getting a medical seat for her daughter in a city college...

WB: TMC expels Bally MLA Baishali Dalmiya

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News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

In a step that may have reverberations beyond politics, Trinamool Congress on Friday expelled Baishali Dalmiya, the party’s Bally MLA...

Ready to open schools, education dept tells WB CM

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News / Times Of India/ Kolkata

The school education department has sent a note to chief minister Mamata Banerjee in favour of re-opening schools from February after an 11-month closure...

71-year-old walks to Tikri border

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News / Times Of India/ Gurgaon

In a show of solidarity with farmers, 71-year-old Mahendra Singh, a two-time marathon winner, started a ‘paidal yaatra’ from Ludhiana to Tikri border to press for repeal of the three farm laws...

Ahd: Drones search for missing 10-year-old girl

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News / Times Of India/ Ahemdabad

After a 10-year-old specially-abled girl from Hebatpur failed to return home after going out to play, Sola police deployed four drone cameras and 70 cops to trace the child. This is probably the first time in the city that drone cameras are being used to look for a missing person...

Delhi high on plan to lower drinking age

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News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Many people support the idea of reducing the legal drinking age in Delhi from 25 to 21 years and want bars in clubs and restaurants to remain open till 3am for a good nightlife in the city. They also want to reduce the number of dry days...

Mumbai turnout hits 92% as health staff allowed to select centre

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News / Times Of India/ Thane

The fourth day of Covid-19 vaccination saw the city turn around its lacklustre performance of the previous three rounds by registering a turnout of 92%, albeit after the count of target beneficiaries was shrunk marginally. The state, too, saw the number of recipients surge to 76% on Friday from 68% and 53% seen on Day 3 and Day 2 of the drive, respectively, which officials attributed to increasing acceptability and the option to walk into centres even without an appointment...

Rajasthan Budget session to kick off on Feb 10

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Excise officer held in graft case in Rajasthan

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News / Times Of India/ Jaipur

An excise officer was arrested on Friday for allegedly giving bribe to an Anti-Corruption Bureau officer (ACB) in Rajasthan's Sawai Madhopur district, an official said...

CCI: Huda an enterprise, functions not sovereign

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News / Times Of India/ Chandigarh

Hearing a plea against Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda) — now called Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran — on restricting right to transfer the title of plot and building constructed on it without its prior permission, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has held that all functions of the authority are not of "sovereign" nature and the authority is undoubtedly "an enterprise."..

Govt has met 40% assurances of 2017 poll manifesto: Goa CM

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News / Times Of India/ Goa

The governemnt have met 40% of the assurances made in the 2017 election manifesto by the BJP, chief minister Pramod Sawant said on Friday...

Two Bihar natives get bail in Walke murder case

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News / Times Of India/ Goa

The additional sessions court in Margao on Friday granted bail to two more Bihar natives arrested for their involvement in the Swapnil Walke murder case...

'Meter down' drive to take on errant auto drivers

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News / Times Of India/ Pune

RTO, cops crack down on drivers not charging by meter..

Two builders dragged to green court

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Student held hostage for 4 days rescued; 3 arrested

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Ghaziabad turnout highest among major UP cities

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TN: Gang robs 25kg of gold from finance firm

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News / Times Of India/ Chennai

A six-member gang armed with guns, knives and sickles barged into a Muthoot Finance branch in Hosur in Krishnagiri district around 10.30am on Friday and decamped with 25kg of gold jewellery — worth around rS Rs 7.5 crore — and Rs 96,000 in cash, police said...

Mayor poll on Feb 11; TRS may deny deputy to MIM

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News / Times Of India/ Hyderabad

Even as the Telangana State Election Commission (SEC) issued a notification on Friday for the mayoral election of Greater Hyderabad which will be held on February 11, the ruling TRS in a change of heart said it may not offer the deputy mayor post to its ally AIMIM...

Nearly zero cases from T'gana's Wanaparthy in a wk

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News / Times Of India/ Hyderabad

Amid fears and apprehensions over Covid-19 vaccine, Wanaparthy district has reported nearly zero cases in the last one week, except for January 16 when a mere two cases were recorded. On Friday also, the district reported zero cases, indicating a near normal situation...

No third chance for missed vaccine dates

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News / Times Of India/ Bangalore

BBMP had kept aside three days to complete the vaccination for frontline workers but with poor turnout that did not work out...

6 days after jab, Gurugram health worker dies

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News / Times Of India/ Delhi

Lajwanti, a 56-year-old nurse who worked as a health visitor for 20 years, passed away after a sudden cardiac arrest on Friday morning, six days after she had taken a Covid-19 vaccine...

UP farmer dies at Ghazipur border

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News / Times Of India/ Delhi

A 60-year-old farmer of UP’s Kasganj district who fell ill at a protest site near Ghazipur border succumbed at a private hospital in Moga, Punjab on Friday. Lakhvinder Singh was an active member of Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) and was popular among the farming community...

4 million Covid doses flown to Brazil, Morocco

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News / Times Of India/ Mumbai

Two million doses of Covishield vaccine were flown to Brazil on Emirates Sky Cargo and another two million doses to Morocco on Royal Air Maroc from Mumbai airport early on Friday, an airport spokesperson said...

Ex-MLA Bhupendra Khant dies

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Amid Cov inoculation, regular immunization drives on across Jharkhand

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Protesting ‘contract staff’ march towards CM house, lathicharged

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Civil aviation secy assures speedy completion of work at Deoghar airport

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‘Need land for separate cluster’

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Youth’s involvement in politics a brightspot for the nation, says Hema Malini

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More takers for Covaxin on Day 5

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Two murders within 24 hours rock city

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Round 1 of health workers’ vax affair to end on V-Day

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Wildlife tourists peeved over Covid curbs in district

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Chandrapur to have country’s 1st jungle safari in territorial forest

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End parking woes in internal lanes: Ramdaspeth residents

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Bomb threat at mall, cinema halls turns out to be a hoax

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Atal Tinkering Labs to be set up in 2 govt schools

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Gold, cash stolen from locked house

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NER cancels spl trains on Paush Purnima over low turnout

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Morari Bapu performs ‘puja’ at Gorakhnath temple

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52 cr ballot papers ready for UP panchayat polls

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News / Times Of India/ Lucknow

With over 52 crore ballot papers already printed, the State Election Commission (SEC) is gearing up to conduct the three-layered panchayat polls for over 8.88 lakh posts and having a strong electorate of over 12.5 crore...

Assam defeated Covid under PM Modi’s leadership, says CM Sarbananda Sonowal

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Prayag Sangeet Samiti’s bank a/c seized over house tax dues

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Tendu patta trade sees surge after Covid slump last year

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Goa: Ayush minister Shripad Naik shifted out of ICU

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Odisha Naval Tata Hockey HPC commences boys’ resident programme

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Jayalalithaa death: Probe panel’s term extended

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