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Veteran journalist Mark Tully, a chronicler of India and an acclaimed author, breathed his last at a private hospital here on Sunday, his close friend said. Tully was 90.
The award-winning journalist was ailing for some time and had been admitted to the Max Hospital in Saket for the past week.
"Mark passed away at Max Hospital Saket this afternoon," Satish Jacob, veteran journalist and a close friend of Tully, told PTI.
Born in Calcutta (now Kolkata) on October 24, 1935, Tully was the chief of bureau for the BBC, New Delhi, for 22 years.
An acclaimed author, Tully was also the presenter of the BBC Radio 4 programme 'Something Understood'.
He was knighted in 2002 and received the Padma Bhushan from the government of India in 2005.
Tully has written several books on India, including 'No Full Stops in India', 'India in Slow Motion', and 'The Heart of India'.

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Shri Gangotri Temple Committee has unanimously decided to bar non-Hindus from Gangotri Dham and its winter abode Mukhba, even as similar restrictions are being considered for other temples in state

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Punjab has to fight even today to get its own rights, said Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday as he slammed the Centre over the issue of MGNREGA and pending rural development funds.
Mann said that his government will make all-out efforts to get Chandigarh as Punjab's own capital.
At present, Union Territory Chandigarh is the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana.
Addressing a gathering here after hoisting the national tricolour during a function on the occasion of Republic Day, the Punjab chief minister also gave a warning to those who are trying to disturb peace in the state with their nefarious designs. He said that his government is committed to maintaining amity and mutual brotherhood at any cost.
Mann also listed several initiatives, including free electricity and government jobs for youths and campaigns against drugs and gangsters, carried out by his government.
He said Punjab is known as the food bowl and the sword arm of the nation.
"For the country's progress, we (Punj

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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday said that the time has come for people to think and make a choice whether they want 'vote bank politics' or take forward the development journey launched by his government during the last five years.
The state will go to the polls in the next few months, and people must decide whether they want to ''surrender to Bangladeshi Muslims'' or be part of progress and development, the chief minister said in his address after unfurling the national flag at the Republic Day function here.
He said that earlier, Republic and Independence Days in the state were marked by violence and insurgency, but now ''we are among the fastest growing states in the country''.
''We have decided not to surrender to the Bangladeshi Muslims who have encroached upon huge areas of land and threatened our identity, culture and traditions. We have started the process of reclaiming our land by evicting the encroachers,'' he said.
Sarma said that his government was ..

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