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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday announced tax free status for Salman Khan-starrer "Bajrangi Bhaijaan" in the state. The film, which is smashing records at the box office, was made tax free after director Kabir Khan…

A list of 88 people recently approved as freedom fighters eligible for pension and other benefits in Maharashtra is said to include three, including two women, who are deceased, an RTI query revealed in Mumbai on Thursday. They figure in…

There seems to be no end to the troubles plaguing the uneasy BJP-PDP coalition that governs Jammu and Kashmir. No one had expected a smooth marriage when the Kashmir Valley-based Peoples Democratic Party and the Jammu-centric Bharatiya…

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said that certain non-BJP chief ministers skipping the Niti Aayog meeting in New Delhi was "against the spirit of federalism". "Those who chose to boycott (Niti Aayog meeting) must introspect…

The Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led Madhya Pradesh government has finally decided to digitise the operations of the scam-tainted Vyapam. The move comes a full six years after it was first decided to make the exams for recruitment and admission to…

Violence continued in Manipur on Friday despite indefinite curfew imposed by the authorities to tackle protests which broke out after a student was killed by police on Wednesday during a march demanding a stringent law to check the influx…

It is not at all right to link every death with Vyapam, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Monday, the day a female trainee police sub-inspector committed suicide. Chouhan said every death is sad, but it is not…

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said 15 IT software parks generating at least 20,000 jobs were coming up in the state with eight of them ready for launch. "Fifteen IT Software Parks are coming up across the state,…

The Supreme Court ban on the "voracious" iron ore mining in Goa may have saved the state from ecological peril, Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar has said. At a book release function in the state capital late Friday, Parsekar said though…

Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis, who is on an official visit to the United States, has taken strong exceptions to the aggressive campaign launched against him by some TV channels with the allegations that he delayed the Air India flight.…