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Trial of New Drug to Control Blood Pressure Kills Senior Developer in Chennai

A police official said a post-mortem will be done after tests for coronavirus infection is done, which is the practice now.




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Delhi Government’s Unique Solution To Prevent Overcrowding in Liquor Shops

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi launched an e-token system on Thursday for sale of liquor in Delhi.




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Lockdown Period Not to be Counted for Determining Residency Status of NRIs, Foreign Nationals: CBDT

The nationwide lockdown since March 25 and cancellation of international flights to contain the spread of COVID-19 has forced non-resident Indians (NRI) and foreign nationals to prolong their stay in India.




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'Bois Locker Room': Experts Say Youngsters Need Rehabilitative Measures, Not Just Punitive Action

A dialogue on sex, consent, ownership over bodies must be introduced from a young age so that it becomes part of a dominant narrative, say experts.




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PM Modi Remembers Reformer Gopal Krishna Gokhale on 154th Birth Anniversary

Gokhale, the prime minister said, also provided exemplary leadership to India's freedom movement and made 'outstanding contributions towards education and social empowerment.'




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Former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi Suffers Cardiac Arrest, Put on Ventilator Support

Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel and other senior politicians of the state called up Jogi's family and enquired about the 74-year-old leader's health.




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CISF Reports 13 Fresh Covid-19 Cases; Maximum in Delhi Metro Unit

Among the 48 active cases, maximum 31 are in the unit that guards the Delhi Metro followed by 13 in the Mumbai international airport guarding unit.




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CBSE Announces Class 10, 12 Board Exam Dates at cbse.nic.in, Here’s a Subject-wise List

CBSE students can check the press release on the official website of CBSE at cbse.nic.in.




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Two Held in Shamli for 'Objectionable' WhatsApp Post against PM Modi, Sonia Gandhi

A case was registered against the two men for allegedly posting an objectionable WhatsApp message against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Sonia Gandhi.




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PM Modi Extends Greetings to Russian President Putin on 75th Anniversary of Victory Day

In a tweet, PM Modi also noted that tens of thousands of Indian soldiers also made the sacrifice in the second World War.




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Narco-terrorist With Links To Kashmiri Terror Groups Nabbed by NIA in Haryana

NIA, along with Punjab and Haryana police, arrested alleged notorious narco-terrorist Ranjit Singh from Sirsa.




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RPSC Declares Result for Junior Legal Officer Written Exam 2019, Check Merit List at rpsc.rajasthan.gov.in

The RPSC Junior Legal Officer examination was held on December 26 and 27 last year. The answer key of the written exam was released on the website of RPSC on January 24.




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Testing Capacity for Covid-19 Scaled up to 95,000 Per Day, Says Union Minister Harsh Vardhan

Tripura has reported 118 cases, Assam 59, Meghalaya 12 cases, Manipur two while Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh have reported a case each till Saturday morning 8 AM.




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1.5 Lakh Migrant Workers Want to Return to Haryana: Home Minister Anil Vij

Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij said over 1.5 lakh migrant workers have applied on the government portal, expressing their willingness to return back to work in the state




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Kumaraswamy's 'Told You So' Moment as Karnataka's Green Zone at Risk of Turning Red After Jail Transfer

The transfer of over 100 miscreants, who are accused of attacking the health workers in Bengaluru, to neighbouring Ramanagara district prison, has snowballed into a full blown political war in Karnataka.




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LJP Chief Says Over 14 Lakh People Not Getting Ration Benefits in Bihar, Seeks Nitish Kumar's Response

LJP Chief Chirag Paswan said the Bihar government has not issued ration cards amid the coronavirus lockdown despite repeated statements by the Centre




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Bengal Governor Accuses Mamata Banerjee of 'Explicitly Appeasing' Minority Community

Urging the TMC supremo 'to shun politics and confrontational approach', Jagdeep Dhankhar said her conduct is only compounding the miseries of the people of West Bengal.




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Govt Must Formulate Early Exit Strategy from Covid-19 Lockdown, Says Congress' Ashwani Kumar

Kumar said the prime minister must remain sympathetic to the needs of states, just as they have by and large deferred to Central advisories.




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Kerala Under Severe Financial Crisis Amid Coronavirus, Says State Finance Minister

Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac said that while aimed to collect Rs 2,000 crores, the state government could raise only Rs 250 crores in April.




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Sonia Gandhi Writes to PM Modi; Seeks Economic Package for Revival of MSMEs

In a letter to Modi, Gandhi also made some suggestions for the revival of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), which is reeling under the adverse impact of the coronavirus lockdown.




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Shouldn't Alienate a Community for Mistake, Says Bhagwat, Adds Warning on Covid Misuse by ‘Anti-India Forces’

The RSS chief said there are 'anti-India forces' who are waiting to use the pandemic to break the country.




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Tablighi Jamaat’s Conduct Criminal, but Muslim Community Can’t be Held Responsible for it, Says Abbas Naqvi

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi says Jamaat does not represent the community and one can neither 'punish' nor hold the entire Muslim community 'responsible' for the Nizamuddin incident.




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Some Earning Profits in Sale of Covid-19 Test Kits to Govt, PM Modi Must Intervene, Says Rahul Gandhi

The Congress cited media reports about rapid test kits for Covid-19 being sold at around 150 per cent profits to the government and asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to fix responsibility for the same.




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BJP Serves Show-cause Notice to 2 UP MLAs for Instigating People against Muslim Vendors, Questioning Authorities

Official sources said top party leadership has found his comments 'highly irresponsible', and its national president J P Nadda 'pulled up' the state brass for not taking quick action.




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Sanitation Workers of BJP-ruled MCDs Excluded from Delhi Govt's Covid-19 Ex-gratia Scheme: Manoj Tiwari

A senior Delhi government functionary rubbished the BJP'S claim saying all sanitation staff working in the fight against coronavirus epidemic are covered under the scheme.




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After 'Immunity Booster Kadha' for Covid-19 Patients, MP CM Now Recommends Bhajans as Morale-lifters

As the deadly virus continues to claim lives, people not just in India but outside too, are looking for additional methods, especially in connection with age-old traditions, to help fight the pandemic.




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'Sensationalising Facts': Late at Night, Sitharaman Issues 13-Tweet Rebuttal to RaGa's 'RBI List' Attack

Rahul Gandhi had attacked the ruling BJP after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released a list of 50 wilful defaulters accused of cheating banks.




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Congress Accuses Government of Weakening Banking Architecture

The Congress on Wednesday attacked the government over the issue of bad loans, accusing it of weakening the entire banking architecture fiscally and imprudently in the name of cleaning the system.




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Technical Loan Write-off Route Should Not be Applied for Fugitives: Chidambaram to Govt

His remarks came after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that wilful defaulters were beneficiaries of 'phone banking' under the UPA regime and the Modi government is chasing them to recover the dues.




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P Chidambaram Suggests Running Sanitised Trains to Help Move Stranded Migrant Workers, Students

Indian government decided to allow migrant workers, tourists, students stranded in different parts of the country to move to their respective destinations.




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Here's Why an Organisation Led by a White Supremacist Has No Business Lecturing a Nation With 5,000-yr-old Heritage

That Tony Perkins and his ilk get to dictate, influence opinion about Bharat speaks volumes of the deterioration in standards of USCIRF.




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Now, BJP MLA From UP's Charkhari Caught on Tape Threatening Muslim Vegetable Seller

The incident has come a day after the BJP issued a show-cause to its Barhaj legislator Suresh Tiwari for allegedly asking people not to buy vegetables from Muslims.




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Modi Govt Taking Initiatives to Attract Companies Getting Disenchanted with China: Nadda

The BJP in a statement said the former diplomats, during their talks with Nadda, hailed India's move to help other countries in this time of coronavirus crisis.




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Shivraj Wants BJP Leaders in MP to Form 'Deendayal Committees' & Monitor Govt Coronavirus Schemes

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan told BJP party workers that the committees would be formed at every panchayat level in the rural areas and ward level in the urban areas.




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Covid-19 Response Will be Litmus Test for NDA in Bihar as Nitish Eyes Return to CM’s Throne in Polls

The problem for Kumar is more confounded because he will have to perform and emerge successful in a short span of time as polls are only five months away and the contagious disease is likely to create havoc till the time a proper vaccine is tested and developed.




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Congress Leader Dipak Babaria Resigns as AICC General Secretary for MP, Wasnik Appointed in His Place

Mukul Wasnik has been appointed as the general secretary, in-charge of MP, in addition to his current responsibility as the general secretary, in-charge of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, the Congress said.




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Don't Use Coronavirus Pandemic as Political Opportunity: BJP Tells Congress

The BJP's response came after the Congress accused the Centre of "cruelly" and "mercilessly" abandoning the entire category of migrant labourers and termed "a cruel joke" the order on inter-state movement of workers.




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With Migrants All Set to Return to Bihar, Lalu Takes Potshots at 'Helpless' Nitish

A couple of stinging tweets appeared during the day on the official Twitter handle of the ailing septuagenarian, who is serving sentences in fodder scam cases in Ranchi.




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'Humble Contribution': Sonia Gandhi Says Congress to Bear Rail Travel Cost of Migrant Workers, Slams Govt

Sonia Gandhi said that the Congress party had asked for provision of free rail travel for migrant workers to their home-towns, but their demands had been ignored by the Centre.




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Congress State Units to Work Out Modalities with Railways, Chief Secretaries to Pay Train Fare of Migrants

Congress general secretary K C Venugopal said Congress are working out the modalities to ensure that every worker and migrant stranded reaches home safely.




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Cong ka Haath, Aam Aadmi ke Saath 2.0? Extending Hand to Migrants, Sonia's 'Plan Resurrect' at Work

Sources also say that senior Congress leaders like Bhupinder Hooda, Kumari Selja, Ashok Gehlot among other have been asked to mobilise funds for the mission.




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After Oppn Criticism, Nitish Says Students Won't Have to Pay Fare, Migrants to Get Full Reimbursement

The CM said Students' fares were being paid directly by his government to the railways, while migrant workers will be reimbursed the entire expenses they incurred on the journey once they have completed their 21-day quarantine after reaching Bihar.




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'May See Rise in Cases': Cong Slams AAP for Opening Liquor Shops, BJP Asks Kejriwal to Reconsider Move

Leader of Opposition in the Assembly, Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, slammed the Delhi government's decision to open liquor shops, claiming it can increase coronavirus positive cases by up to 10 per cent.




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Delhi Govt Rushed Into Opening Liquor Shops Despite City Being in Red Zone: Harsh Vardhan

In many of the shops, people who gathered outside the outlets did not follow social distancing norms, forcing the police to use mild force to disperse the unruly crowd.




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Congress Announcement of Bearing Travel Cost of Migrant Workers 'Street Play', Says Karnataka Minister

The Congress on Monday had said its state units will bear the cost of rail travel of needy migrant workers stranded at their workplaces due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown.




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While Reopening Economy Think in Terms of Supply Chains: Rahul Gandhi

While tackling the virus, think in terms of zones. While reopening the economy, think in terms of supply chains, Rahul said on Twitter.




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The Many Cues & Sonia's Trump Card: Can Covid-19 Crisis Finally Manage to Bring Back Cong in Game?

It is clear that Sonia now wants to make COVID-19 the launching plank of sorts of for the Congress. And, in many ways it is the return of Manmohan Singh as the trump card.




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TDP Demands Probe Into Vizag Gas Leak Incident, Asks Centre to Shut Polymer Unit

N Chandrababu Naidu urged the Centre to immediately send medical experts to the district as it may not have the required expertise to treat people affected with styrene gas.




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487 Maharashtra Cops Found Covid-19 Positive since Lockdown: Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh

In a series of tweets, he also said that there is a steady rise in the number of calls regarding COVID-19 on the police helpline number 100.




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Don't Play 'Petty Politics' over Shramik Special Trains: Railway Union to Sonia Gandhi

In a letter to Gandhi, the Railways' largest union of workers said travelling during the coronavirus pandemic is dangerous but railway staffers are making it possible through their hard work.