A triumphant Eknath Shinde arrived for the swearing-in ceremony with his infant grandson in his arms and took oath after invoking Sena founder Bal Thackeray and his mentor Anand Dighe. By contrast, Devendra Fadnavis looked visibly uncomfortable. The BJP’s move is also in line with the pattern it had followed in Bihar. It had given the top post to Nitish Kumar in 2020, though it had more seats than the JDU.
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The 43-day pilgrimage is being organised after a gap of two years due to Covid restrictions and will conclude on August 11 on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan.
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The case pertains to the generation of additional profits through the cross-LoC trade mechanism between J&K and PoK and using the proceeds of the sale to foment terrorist activities in the Union Territory, the agency said in a statement.
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A well-trained sniper is a deadly force-multiplier on the battlefield to strike fear in the hearts of enemies. With this in mind, the Army is now finally going in for the acquisition of a large number of long-range sniper rifles as well as upgrading training in this lethal skill.
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Monday's Supreme Court verdict protecting the rebel Sena MLAs from disqualification proceedings till July 12 led to speculation about whether a floor test is imminent.
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Vijay Mallya’s barrister told the high court that his client wished to appeal his bankruptcy order to “undo the damage done to his reputation and to him economically”.
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Hailing several big accomplishments in the space sector recently, Modi said, “One of the big achievements is the creation of an agency named In-Space, which is promoting and creating new opportunities for the private sector.”
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The rebel camp also moved the Supreme Court against the disqualification notices sent to 16 of their MLAs by deputy speaker of the state assembly Narhari Zirwal.
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Maharashtra higher education minister Uday Samant, who joined the rebel faction on Sunday, has reportedly negotiated for a cabinet berth and guardian ministership of Ratnagiri in the new government.
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The Shinde camp on the other hand alleged security cover of the dissidents has been withdrawn, rendering them vulnerable to vandals, and Independent MP Navneet Rana demanded imposition of President's rule in Maharashtra.
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Shiv Sena has decided to prepare for the long haul. While fighting a legal and technical battle with the Eknath Shinde camp is top priority, Sena has chalked out plans to secure its party organisation from any poaching from the Shinde camp along with its frontal organisations.
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The MVA government led by chief minister Uddhav Thackeray stayed shaky on Thursday as the ranks of the dissidents continued to swell. Rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde claimed strength of 42 party MLAs, with more arriving by the night, including those who had stayed with the party at the start of the revolt.
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All 37 rebel Shiv Sena MLAs who are camping in Guwahati on Thursday sent a letter to Maharashtra Assembly's Deputy Speaker Narhari Zirwal, stating that Eknath Shinde will remain their group leader in legislature. Earlier in the day, Zirwal had said that he had approved the appointment of Ajay Chaudhary as the group leader of the Shiv Sena legislature party, replacing senior minister Shinde who has rebelled against the Shiv Sena leadership.
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India may finally get its first tribal President, with BJP naming Droupadi Murmu (64), a Santhal from Odisha, as its candidate for the top constitutional office. BJP chief JP Nadda declared Murmu’s candidature after a meeting of the party’s parliamentary board approved what is widely considered to be Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s choice for Rashtrapati Bhavan.
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The battlelines for the presidential election have been drawn. The contest will be between the ruling BJP-led NDA’s Droupadi Murmu and opposition’s Yashwant Sinha. Murmu’s name as the NDA candidate was announced late Tuesday evening by BJP president JP Nadda at a press conference at the party headquarters after a meeting of senior leaders. He said Murmu’s candidature was selected among 20 candidates whose names had been short-listed.
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Only hours before the anti-BJP bloc was set to unanimously endorse the name of former diplomat and West Bengal governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi as its consensus nominee for the presidential polls, Gandhi declined to accept the offer saying he was grateful, but that the opposition’s candidate should be someone "who will generate national consensus and a national atmosphere beside opposition unity".
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The land in question was “gifted” by then deputy chief minister of J&K Mirza Afzal Beigh, during Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah rule as CM in 1977, to his sons Mehboob Beigh and Mumtaaz Afzal Beigh. Such gifting of government land to their wards by those in positions of power was witnessed in the erstwhile state from late Shiekh Abdullah period in 1977 till the Congress-PDP rule in 2008.
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The exact number of women among the 3,000 naval Agniveers to be inducted this year is still to be finalized but it’s likely to be 10-20% of the first batch that will begin training at the naval establishment INS Chilka in Odisha on November 21.
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This implies that a child enrolled at any anganwadi across states will be able to avail of the same services and get the cooked meals and rations at a centre in another district of the same state or in a different state by citing the Aadhaar-enabled registration details available on the Poshan platform.
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At least 30 members of the minority Sikh community were at the Karte Parwan Gurdwara in Kabul’s Bagh-e-Bala area when an explosives-laden vehicle blew up near the Sikh temple at about 6.30 am. Taliban officials later said the vehicle had been prevented from reaching the gurdwara.
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Sub-inspector Farooq Ahmad Mir, attached to the 23rd India Reserve Police battalion, was the seventh off-duty cop to be shot and killed in J&K this year and the third in just over a month. Terror outfits have also gunned down 13 civilians, including school staff, migrant workers and a prominent TV singer-actor, in a series of targeted killings since the start of the year.
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The Andhra police has arrested Avula Subba Rao, a retired havaldar of the Army who runs several coaching centres, on charges of instigating aspirants against the scheme, while the Secunderabad railway police arrested 45 people on Saturday for turning the city’s railway station into a battle zone on Friday.
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Addressing an event to celebrate the 200th year of the coronation of Maharaja Gulab Singh, the defence minister said the delimitation exercise has been completed and now the number of seats has gone up to 90 in J&K, with Kashmir having 47 seats and Jammu 43. “By this year-end, there is a possibility of holding assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir,” he said.
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The slain terrorists were identified as Junaid Ahmed Bhat and Basit Ahmed Wani, both from Anantnag. Junaid had been active since June 10, 2018, while Basit had been operating since August 18 2021, IGP (Kashmir Range) Vijay Kumar said. Basit was involved in the murder of sarpanch Ghulam Rasool Dar and his wife, a panch, on September 9, 2021, in Anantnag, added the IGP.
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General Manoj Pande said the initial notification for the Army recruitment process will be issued within the next two days, with the training of the first Agniveers to begin in December, while Air Chief Marshal V R Chaudhari said IAF will begin the selection process under Agnipath on June 24.
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The FM said he believed that diplomatic, economical, cultural and political engagement was the only answer. “When I say that we’re cutting our nose to spite our face, I mean that if we’re not even going to try and engage on the basis of one issue or the other, then how can we hope to impact or change the course of events,” he asked, before narrating the list of issues that Pakistan has been raising against India time and again.
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“Our neighbour has always resorted to anti-India activities. J&K witnessed terror activities in the past as well. Now, Pakistan is continuously trying to disturb peace in the country through its approach of ‘bleed India with a thousand cuts’,” Singh said while addressing security forces in Baramulla district. He added that despite Pakistan’s best efforts, terror activities in J&K have declined in recent times.
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The government also stressed the intake in the armed forces in the coming years will be around triple the current recruitment, with several avenues also being opened for those being demobilised after the four-year tenures.
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Issuing a statement, NIA said its sleuths conducted searches at three locations in Baramulla district and one in Handwara. The searches were carried out on the premises of suspected cross-LoC traders and connected people.
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The name of Abdullah was a last-minute suggestion forwarded by NCP chief Sharad Pawar just hours before leaders of 17 opposition parties confabulated on a consensus candidate for the presidential polls.
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TOI has learned that the government is looking at the options to liquidate the excess stock. “First, we need to get requests from states for getting pulses from the Central pool. The prices of pulses have been under control and sliding, which is a positive sign,” said a government official.
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