Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:21:47
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today directed the police to arrest those disrupting communal harmony in the sensitive Dakshina Kannada district and crack down on organisations disturbing peace.
The chief ministers remarks follow a spate of stabbing incidents in the district, including that of an RSS worker by unidentified presons on July 4. The victim died on Saturday.
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Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:13:48
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah held the BJP and other right-wing outfits responsible for the communal tension that followed the murder of an Rashtriya Swayam Sangh (RSS) activist in Dakshina Kannada district.
Addressing presspersons at the DAR helipad here on Tuesday, the Chief Minister, who is in the city for a Congress party workers’ conference, said there would be peace in the coastal area if “
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Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:11:05
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson took his mission to break the deadlock between Qatar and four Arab states to the tiny energy-rich nation Tuesday, securing a commitment from Qatar to intensify its counterterrorism efforts as he looks to end the squabbling among key Middle Eastern allies.
Qatar was Tillerson’s second stop on a shuttle-diplomacy circuit that will also take him to Saudi Arabia,
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Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:08:32
The BCCI on Tuesday named Ravi Shastri as the new chief coach of the Indian cricket team with former fast bowling great Zaheer Khan being appointed the bowling coach for a period of two years. Rahul Dravid, India A and Under-19 coach, will work as a batting consultant on away tours alongside Sanjay Bangar, who is with the team as batting coach.
"On Cricket Advisory Committee's recommendation, w
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Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:03:53
Scores of activists today posted sanitary napkins to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's office demanding immediate withdrawal of GST on the women's hygiene product, following a video on the issue that went viral on social media.
Scores of SFI and All India Democratic Womens' Association (AIDWA) activists sent the napkins with the text "Bleedwithoutfear" written on them.
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Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:02:16
AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi today welcomed the Supreme Court's decision to extend the Madras High Court's stay on the Centre's notification banning the sale and purchase of cattle at animal markets for slaughter to the entire country.
"Fantastic. The government is on a weak wicket. It has always been on a weak wicket. It had no right to notify those rules," the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul
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Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:00:12
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today exuded confidence that the peace would be restored soon in the Darjeeling Hills, facing violent stir for the last 27 days for a separate state of Gorkhaland.
"We will not let Darjeeling burn like this. I am saying that peace will be reinstated there soon and I am focused on that," she said at a programme here.
Blaming the BJP-led government
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Wed, 12 Jul 2017 12:57:57
The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended a stay, granted by Madras High Court on May 23 notification by the Centre that banned buying of animals from markets for slaughter, to the whole country.
A bench of Chief Justice J S Khehar and D Y Chandrachud passed its order after the Union Government represented by Additional Solicitor General P S Narasimha submitted that the Centre was reconsidering the
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Wed, 12 Jul 2017 12:53:18
In a shocking incident, a woman, currently in her 50's, was today found to be 'confined' in a room in her parents' house for the last twenty years for her 'abnormal behaviour' in Candolim village near here, the police said.
The woman, locked in a dark room which has been her world for the last two decades, was rescued after an NGO alerted the police.
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