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‘BJP not serious about GST’: Congress rebuffs idea of breakthrough after Naidu raises hopes

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The Congress party on Thursday rebuffed suggestions of a breakthrough on a landmark tax reform, hours after the government said it had accepted the demands set by the main opposition party to back the measure. The proposed goods and services tax (GST), India’s biggest revenue shake-up since independence in 1947, seeks to replace a slew […]

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Fog disrupts flight operations at Indira Gandhi International Airport

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Heavy fog disrupted flight operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi on Friday. With the runway visibility dropping below the required limits, an IndiGo flight was diverted while many departures were put on hold since 0415 hours, airport sources said. All landings are taking place under CAT-III B landing system, the sources said,

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After Pathankot, suspected terrorists may target Army Cantonment in Gurdaspur; major offensive being planned

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Even as the security forces have killed six militants who have attacked the Air Force Base in Pathankot, there are concerns about two more suspected Pakistan-trained terrorists trying to target a key military facility here. As per a report carried by the Hindustan Times, the security forces are preparing for an offensive in view of

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Ethics panel should probe Rahul’s dual citizenship: Maheish Girri

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BJP’s Delhi MP Maheish Girri, who had complained against Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on his alleged “dual citizenship”, on Thursday said the Ethics Committee of Parliament needs to investigate the matter on priority and without prejudice because “no person is above Constitution”. “Many contradictory facts against Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi have come up. There is

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Hit and run: Maharashtra to move SC against Salman Khan’s acquittal

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The Bombay high court in an important order on Thursday directed Union government to consider adopting a “zero tolerance policy” towards drunken driving and make appropriate changes in the law. Observing that “too many lives had been lost” in the recent past due to the “lethal cocktail” of drinking and driving, a division bench of

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Amitabh Bachchan Replaces Aamir Khan In Incredible India With Different Terms Of Engagement

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Bollywood veteran Amitabh Bachchan is the new spokesperson of the government’s famous Incredible India campaign to market the country to tourists abroad. Mr Bachchan, 73, is to receive a letter today, said sources, informing him of his selection for a reported three-year arrangement. Mr Bachchan has been recruited directly by the government, unlike actor Aamir

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SC asks deposed Arunachal Speaker to establish plea’s maintainability

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Supreme Court Thursday asked Nabam Rebia, allegedly removed by rebel Congress and BJP MLAs from the post of Assembly Speaker in Arunachal Pradesh, to establish maintainability of his plea questioning an administrative order issued by the acting Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court. “How can you challenge it? This is an administrative order…you will have

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Sporting sensation Pranav Dhanawade offered place in Air India cricket team

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Pranav Dhanawade, the teenage sensation who scripted history with an unbeaten knock of 1009, has been offered a place in national carrier Air India’s cricket team. Air India’s offer to the 15-year-old cricketer is in line with the airline’s policy of encouraging budding talent in various fields, an official said. “We already communicated our decision

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Mehbooba Mufti, the unseen face behind PDP’s rise in Valley

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Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was one of the most recognised Kashmiri politicians in India. But for the people in the Valley, his Peoples Democratic Party is more about his daughter, Mehbooba Mufti. Mehbooba, who is likely to be J-K’s first woman chief minister following her father’s death, was a relatively unknown entity in the state when

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Bengaluru madrassa teacher arrested for links with al-Qaeda

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Delhi Police has arrested a madrassa teacher from Bangalore for suspected links with al-Qaeda, police said on Thursday. The accused, identified as Maulana Anzar Shah, was arrested on Wednesday from Bangalore by a team of Delhi Police’s Special Cell and was on Thursday produced before a court here, which sent him to police custody till

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Strike after strike fail to change US outlook on Pakistan

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Individual expressions of support and commiseration over the terrorist attacks on Indian assets in Pathankot and Mazar-e-Sharif has been tricking in from a raft of US lawmakers, but don’t hold your breath for the Obama administration to alter the long standing US policy of coddling Pakistan’s terrorism-steeped military establishment that has harmed both US and

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