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Former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh says he will soon announce launch of his own political party

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I have nothing to learn from RSS 'Shakha', says Kumaraswamy

Union Minister Ramdas Athawale says India should not play its scheduled T20 World Cup match against Pakistan on October 24 in order to teach the neighbouring country a lesson

Delhi reports 36 new Covid-19 cases, 1 death, 11 recoveries in the last 24 hours

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Maharashtra govt permits all restaurants and eateries to function till midnight

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Congress demands apology for 'drug addict Rahul' barb

Karnataka Congress president D K Shivakumar, who retracted an "uncivil" tweet made by his party on Monday, has demanded an apology from his BJP counterpart Nalin Kumar Kateel for calling former AICC chief Rahul Gandhi a "drug addict and peddler".

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Amit Shah chairs meeting over issues related to sugar mills in Maharashtra

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3 HDFC employees, 9 others arrested for attempting fraudulent withdrawal from a high-value NRI account

There is one more person behind it, most likely the mastermind, he will be arrested soon: DCP (Cyber Cell) KPS Malhotra

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SAD announces four more candidates for Punjab Assembly polls

Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday announced four more candidates for the Punjab assembly polls to be held next year, taking the total number of names to 74 so far.

Baldev Singh Mann has been fielded from Sunam while Harpal Juneja will contest from Patiala Urban seat, said senior SAD leader Daljit Singh Cheema.

Former Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee chief Gobind Singh Longwal will be fielded from Lehra and Hardev Singh Megh from the Balluana assembly segment.

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Senior Jammu & Kashmir National Conference leader Prem Sagar Aziz resigns from basic membership of the party "in support of Devinder Singh Rana," who recently joined BJP.

HUL Q2 net rises 10.7% to Rs 2,185 crore; net sales up 11.3% at Rs 12,812 crore

FMCG major Hindustan Unilever on Tuesday reported a 10.69 per cent rise in consolidated net profit to Rs 2,185 crore for the second quarter ended September 30.

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Uttarakhand | More than 200mm rainfall has been recorded in the last 24 hours.

Five deaths were reported yesterday in Pauri and Champawat due to heavy rainfall. 11 people lost their lives in Almora, Nainital & Udham Singh Nagar today: SA Murugesan, Secy, State Disaster Management

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Man in UP's Greater Noida arrested for abducting on-duty traffic policeman who had stopped him to check car documents. The accused asked the cop to get inside the car to see the papers but forcibly took him on a 10-km drive before dumping him near a police post, officials said

Zomato apologises to a person who alleged that he was denied refund by its customer care agent for not knowing Hindi and announced termination of the services of the employee concerned

Economic Offences Wing, Delhi Police has arrested one Praveen Singh for operating Jai Maa Laxmi Co-operative Thrift & Credit Society Ltd which allegedly cheated 200 people on the pretext of investing in different schemes to earn high profits

A 22-year-old woman stabbed to death by a man, who is suspected to be her jilted lover, in Bindapur area of Dwarka district, in Delhi

Last night, a virtual meeting was held b/w US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, External Affairs Minister (EAM) Dr S Jaishankar, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel Yair Lapid

The Congress party has decided that it will give 40% of the total election tickets to women in the state, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra announced for 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections

After meeting LS Speaker OM Birla, Babul Supriyo speaks to media stating, "My heart is heavy as I had began my political career through BJP. I thank PM, party chief and Amit Shah. Confidence was shown in me. I'd left politics wholeheartedly.I thought that if I'm not a part of the party, I shouldn't keep seat for myself."

TMC leader Babul Supriyo arrives at the residence of Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to formally resign

163 oxygen plants with generation capacity of 182 MT daily started in different districts of Madhya Pradesh. Completion of remaining 39 plants will be ensured by end of October: CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan

Two cases of recent civilian killings in Jammu & Kashmir to be handed over to National Investigation Agency (NIA) soon ,as per official sources, reports ANI

PM Modi will visit UP tomorrow and inaugurate the Kushinagar International Airport

PM Modi will visit UP tomorrow & inaugurate the Kushinagar International Airport. The inauguration will be marked by landing of inaugural flight at the airport from Colombo carrying Sri lankan delegation of over 100 Buddhist Monks & dignitaries incl 12-member Holy Relic entourage

Khalilzad, US envoy who brokered Afghan exit, quits

Zalmay Khalilzad, the veteran US envoy whose months of patient hotel-ballroom diplomacy helped end the US war in Afghanistan but failed to prevent a Taliban takeover, resigned on Monday.

In a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Khalilzad defended his record but acknowledged that he came up short and said he wanted to step aside during the "new phase of our Afghanistan policy."

"The political arrangement between the Afghan government and the Taliban did not go forward as envisaged," he wrote. (AFP)