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Focus on "development roadmap" as Mizoram signs agreement with "only remaining underground group"
1+ hour, 48+ min ago (216+ words) The Mizoram government has announced that it signed a "Memorandum of Settlement" with the Hmar People"s Convention-Democratic (Lalhmingthanga Sanate"s faction) on Tuesday, which it says it had identified as the "only remaining underground armed group operating within Mizoram....
Expelled Congress leader Mohammed Moquim launches new party in Odisha
1+ hour, 55+ min ago (304+ words) Expelled Congress leader Mohammed Moquim Wednesday launched a new political party " Odisha Janata Congress " at a large public gathering, with his daughter and suspended Congress MLA Sofia Firdous among hundreds in attendance. The new outfit, which focuses on youth leadership…...
Baramati bypoll: Rohit Pawar campaigns for Sunetra, urges 100% voters turnout to honour Ajit's work
1+ hour, 22+ min ago (326+ words) While NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar and Baramati MP Supriya Sule have stayed away from campaigning, party MLA Rohit Pawar on Wednesday sprung a surprise as he campaigned for Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar in the Baramati bypoll. Rohit Pawar…...
Women's quota pretext to push through delimitation that could disproportionately favour certain states: Rajya Sabha MP
1+ hour, 36+ min ago (187+ words) The Centre appears to be invoking women's reservation as a convenient pretext to push through a delimitation exercise that could disproportionately favour certain states while unsettling the carefully maintained balance of parliamentary representation, Jose K Mani, the Chairman of Kerala…...
President Xi will give me a big, fat hug: Trump claims China made a major US concession to end Iran war
1+ hour, 58+ min ago (317+ words) US President Donald Trump has claimed that China has agreed not to provide weapons to Iran, following his direct request to the Chinese leadership. The comments come after a two-week ceasefire brought a pause to the US'Israel'Iran conflict on April…...
Iran's dig at Trump after Meloni backed Pope: "Italy lost an ally; we'd like to apply for vacancy'
3+ hour, 12+ min ago (275+ words) Following a public fallout between Rome and Washington, the Iranian Embassy in Ghana has mockingly "applied" for Italy's alliance, citing a "vacancy" left by the US President. The jab follows Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's defence of Pope Leo IV against…...
Sabarimala reference: You cannot hollow out religion in name of social welfare and reform, says top court
4+ hour, 16+ min ago (630+ words) The Supreme Court said on Wednesday that religion should not be hollowed out in the name of social reform, as it continued to examine constitutional questions arising out of its September 2018 judgment striking down age restrictions on the entry of…...
Opposition targets Maharashtra CM Fadnavis over "collapse" of law and order, seeks full-time home minister
3+ hour, 39+ min ago (246+ words) The Opposition on Wednesday alleged a "complete collapse" of law and order in the state and renewed its demand for the appointment of a full-time Home Minister, a portfolio currently held by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis himself. Leading the attack,…...
Odisha's Naveen Patnaik opposes delimitation bill, says it "hits spirit of cooperative federalism'
3+ hour, 41+ min ago (379+ words) Underlining that the proposed Delimitation Bill hits the "spirit of cooperative federalism, former Odisha Chief Minister and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president Naveen Patnaik said his party will support it only if Odisha's political rights remain intact. Noting that Odisha…...
On Himachal day, story of how the state nearly became part of Punjab
43+ min ago (741+ words) Himachal Pradesh marks 79 years of its formation on April 15 (Wednesday) this year. It came into being as a chief commissioner's province " that is, a centrally administered territory " on April 15, 1948, with the integration of 30 erstwhile princely states. It would take two…...