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Asian Boxing Championship: Lovlina Borgohain wins gold in women's 75kg category

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Direct Tax collections till Nov 10 up by 30.69% from last year's gross collection: Finance Ministry

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Congress 'insulted Sikh community' by inducting Tytler in panel for MCD polls, says BJP's Sirsa

The Congress has "insulted the entire Sikh community" by inducting Jagdish Tytler in the election committee for MCD polls, BJP leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa said on Friday.

The Congress on Thursday constituted various panels for the upcoming elections to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) with its pradesh election committee including the likes of state unit chief Anil Chaudhary, Ajay Maken, Sandeep Dikshit and Tytler.

While Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is on a 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' his party is "sheltering and promoting the murderer of Sikhs", Sirsa alleged in a press conference at the BJP's Delhi unit office.

 

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Supreme Court extends its earlier order for the protection of 'Shivling’ at Gyanvapi

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Unacceptable, completely erroneous: Congress criticizes SC releasing Rajiv Gandhi's killers

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Congress, NCP forge pre-poll alliance in Gujarat; Sharad Pawar-led party to contest three seats

The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) entered into a pre-poll alliance for the next month's Gujarat Assembly elections, as part of which the Sharad Pawar-led party will contest three of the total 182 seats in the state, the leaders of the two parties announced here on Friday.

 

In the 2017 Assembly elections, the two parties had contested the Gujarat elections separately. NCP's Kandhal Jadeja was the only MLA to win from the party. He represents the Kutiyana Assembly seat in Porbandar district.

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Govt believes in speed and scale, unlike previous regimes, says PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said his government believes speed as India's aspiration and scale as its strength.

 

He also stressed that along with physical infrastructure, social infrastructure needs to be strengthened. "Earlier governments believed speed is a luxury and scale a risk, but we changed it, we believe speed as India's aspiration and scale as India's strength," Modi said.

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China eases Zero-Covidpolicy, removes curbs on international flights and cuts quarantine time for travellers

China has trimmed the quarantine time for inbound travellers and scrapped curbs on international flights, as it began to ease its stringent Zero-Covid policy.

 

The new rules were announced following the first meeting of the newly elected seven-member Standing Committee of the ruling Communist Party of China, (CPC) headed by Xi Jinping here on Thursday.

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AAP banking on Patidars to power its foray into BJP-ruled Gujarat

"The 'Babbar Sher' (lion) has come, now no one else stands a chance here," said a youngster as Alpesh Kathiriya, AAP candidate from the Varachha Road Assembly constituency, arrived at a residential colony here on a motorcycle with his supporters in tow.

 

Kathiriya along with his supporters went from door to door chanting 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' and urging residents, many of whom came out of their houses after seeing his cavalcade, to vote for him in the upcoming state polls.

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Thane logs 34 new Covid-19 infections in a day; active tally at 261

At least 34 new cases of coronavirus were detected in Maharashtra's Thane district, raising the tally of infections to 7,47,080, a health official said on Friday.

 

The toll remained unchanged at 11,966, while the count of recoveries has reached 735,588, he said.