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PM Modi’s greetings to Chinese counterpart goes viral
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s greetings to Prime Minister Li Keqiang on the 94th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s establishment has gone viral in China.
Modi, who has around 100,000 followers on Weibo, China’s equivalent of…
Over 1,000 Pilgrims leave Jammu for Amarnath Yatra
Over 1,000 pilgrims of the first batch of this year's annual Amarnath Yatra left Jammu on Wednesday for the high-altitude cave shrine in Kashmir Valley.
State Health Minister Chowdhary Lal Singh flagged off a convoy of 34 vehicles carrying…
Jammu and Kashmir Govt sacks 63 ‘Tainted’ Civil Servants
In a closely guarded move, the Jammu and Kashmir government overnight served sealed cover letters to 63 officials conveying their forced retirement from civil services.
Special messengers delivered sealed cover letters containing orders…
Congress wins Kerala Bypoll, BJP too gets 34,000 Votes
Thiruvananthapuram, June 30: K.A. Sabarinath of the Congress was on Tuesday elected to the Kerala assembly from Aruvikara, trouncing former speaker M. Vijayakumar of the CPI-M by over 10,000 votes. The result came as a relief to Chief…
Congress furnishes new documents on Dholpur Palace ownership
The Congress on Tuesday stepped up pressure on beleaguered Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, producing fresh documents in support of its claim that the Dholpur Palace is a state-owned property.
The party also demanded an…
BJP wins MP’s Garoth Assembly Constituency bypoll
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Chander Singh Sisodia on Tuesday defeated the Congress party's Subhash Sojatia by a margin of 12,945 votes in Madhya Pradesh's Garoth assembly constituency bypoll.
The results were declared after 19…
CPI-M retains Tripura Seats by huge margins, BJP is second
Tripura's ruling CPI-M on Tuesday retained by huge margins both the assembly seats where polling took place on Saturday, but the BJP edged out the Congress to take the second spot.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist won from Pratapgarh…
Jayalalithaa returns to Assembly with Massive Victory
Chennai, June 30: AIADMK general secretary and Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa was returned to the Tamil Nadu assembly on Tuesday by a record victory margin from the Radkhakrishnan Nagar constituency here.
Jayalalithaa polled 160,432…
Bombay High Court allows Nestle to export Maggi Noodles
Mumbai, June 30: In a partial breather for Nestle, the Bombay High Court on Tuesday allowed the company's Indian branch to export all varieties of its popular two-minute Maggi noodles.
The domestic restrictions, however, would continue…
5.5-magnitude quake jolts Kashmir Valley, No Loss of Life
A moderate intensity earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale shook the Kashmir valley in the early hours of Tuesday.
"A moderate intensity earthquake occurred at 3.40 a.m. today," an official of the local MET department here told.…