Sun, 19 Feb 2017 21:41:18
CHENNAI: The DMK on Sunday appealed to Tamil Nadu Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao to "nullify" the vote of confidence won by Sasikala loyalist EK Palaniswami, alleging it was adopted by contravening the rules of the state assembly.
DMK, whose MLAs were en masse evicted from the state assembly before the voting on the confidence motion on Saturday, also announced a state-wide hunger strike on Februar
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Sun, 19 Feb 2017 21:30:37
Over Rs 110 crore cash and 18.68 lakh litres of liquor worth a few crores have been seized so far in Uttar Pradesh, where Assembly polls are being held.
The seizure has been done in the three phases out of the total of seven-phase election schedule for the state.
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Sun, 19 Feb 2017 21:28:06
Mahendra Singh Dhoni was today removed as captain of IPL franchise Rising Pune Supergiants and replaced by Australian Steve Smith, ending his innings as skipper in both international and franchise cricket.
Dhoni, who had stepped down as India'
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Sun, 19 Feb 2017 21:25:51
Over 61.16 per cent of the electorate on Sunday exercised their franchise in the third phase of polling to decide the fate of 826 candidates in Uttar Pradesh's 69 Assembly constituencies considered crucial for the ruling Samajwadi Party.
The turnout, which is higher by more than 1 per cent as compared to last Assembly polls, is expected to go up and touch 63 per cent as many voters were still i
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Sun, 19 Feb 2017 11:40:05
Some persons have been taken into custody in connection with the harassment of a noted Malayalam actress, police said here today. Police had yesterday taken the driver of the actress' vehicle into custody soon after she complained about the ordeal she underwent the previous night while travelling from Thrissur to Kochi for dubbing.
The actress was allegedly harassed for two hours by a gang of m
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Sun, 19 Feb 2017 11:36:07
tudent Islamic Organization (SIO) has filed a petition in Supreme Court of India against CBSE the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for its decision to not include Urdu as one of the languages in which NEET 2017 exam is to be conducted. The organization said that the decision to not include Urdu is unjustified and biased toward students who complete their higher secondary and senior seco
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Sun, 19 Feb 2017 11:32:17
The air Indians breathe is turning more toxic by the day and an average of two deaths take place daily due to air pollution, says a new study. According to medical journal The Lancet, over a million Indians die every year due to air pollution and some of the worst polluted cities of the world are in India. The study released this week but based on 2010 data estimates that globally 2.7-3.4 million
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Sun, 19 Feb 2017 11:30:51
From next month, people in select cities will be able to apply for passports in post offices under an ambitious initiative of the External Affairs Ministry. This is aimed at making the passport issuance process hassle-free and ease burden on passport offices across the country which are grappling with large volume of applications.
In the first phase of the project, passport services will be ma
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Sun, 19 Feb 2017 11:26:14
Shreyas Iyer stroked his way to an unbeaten half-century for India ‘A’ in reply to Australia’s first-innings total of 469 for seven declared on the second day of the three-day practice game here on Saturday.
Iyer, who has been knocking on the doors of the national team over the past couple of seasons with his attacking batting in domestic cricket, could not have chosen a better platform to sh
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