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Protests At Parliament Turn Into Injury vs Injury Claims By BJP, Congress
Protest, counterprotests and brawls - over Home Minister Amit Shah's "Ambedkar is the fashion" remark - roiled Parliament Thursday, with the BJP and Congress trading allegations of each side using force against the other to harass the other side.
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October 28-29 Lunar Eclipse To Be Visible From All Places In India
Unlike solar eclipses, watching the moon being shadowed by the Earth with naked eyes is perfectly safe.
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Scientists Detect Eerie Echo Coming From Supermassive Black Hole In Milky Way's Core
The high and low notes of the echo were sent out when the black hole emerged from a long period of dormancy some 200 years ago.
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Justice Amit Sharma Takes Oath As Delhi High Court Judge
Justice Amit Sharma Monday took oath of office as a permanent judge of the Delhi High Court. Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma administered the oath to Justice Amit Sharma.
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Attempts Made To Forget Netaji, Our Effort To Honour Him: Amit Shah
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday lamented that attempts were made to ensure Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose gets forgotten.
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Amit Shah Invokes Subhas Chandra Bose In Latest Bengal Cultural Outreach
In a continuing celebration of Subhas Chandra Bose's 125th birth anniversary year, Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday paid a tribute to freedom fighters of Bengal, specially those who are relatively unsung as he inaugurated an exhibition in Kolkata.
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Bengal BJP Must Reach Out To People Of All Faiths: Subhas Bose's Grand Nephew Writes To PM Modi
BJP leader and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's grandnephew Chandra Kumar Bose said on Tuesday he has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party heavyweights Amit Shah and JP Nadda, flagging certain "issues and concerns", which, according to him, should be addressed by the saffron camp, ahead of 2021 Bengal Assembly polls.
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"Eradicated Many Social Evils": Amit Shah On Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was a social reformer, an educationist, a freedom fighter and the voice against women's oppression. His death anniversary is being observed today. Popularly referred to as Vidyasagar, he is best known for his 'Barna Parichay', which literally means 'introduction to alphabets'. His contribution towards propagating widow rem...
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Amit Shah Pays Tributes To Balasaheb Thackeray, Says He Never Compromised With Ideals
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday paid homage to Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray on his birth anniversary and described him as a brilliant intellect of his time who never compromised with his ideals.
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Kolkata College To Get New Vidyasagar Bust, Says Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said a new bust of social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar will be installed at the Vidyasagar College in place of the old one, which was desecrated by miscreants last month.
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Moon Moon Sen's Gaffe No. 2, Says Kolkata Clashes "Tiny Bit Of Violence"
Actor-turned-politician Moon Moon Sen, a Trinamool Congress candidate for the national election, was again accused of making a comment that undermined the violence in Bengal on the last day of voting for the national election on Sunday. "This is a tiny bit of violence," Moon Moon Sen said as she responded to a question on the vandalism of a statue ...
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In Bengal, Vidyasagar Lookalike Campaigns For BJP Amid Row Over Statue
In the massive political row over the vandalism of an Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar statue in clashes at BJP president Amit Shah's rally in Kolkata, the legendary 19th century reformer was seen in the campaign of a BJP candidate today. Or at least, an actor in costume, complete with a faux receding hairline, a dhoti, a brown shawl and a book in one han...
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Ex-Kolkata Top Cop Rajeev Kumar, Sent To Delhi, Reports To Home Ministry
Former Kolkata police chief Rajeev Kumar reported for duty at the Home Ministry in Delhi today after the Election Commission relieved him as the additional director general of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in West Bengal. The poll commission's move to attach him with the Home Ministry came after violence during a rally by BJP chief Am...
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General Elections 2019: PM Modi Promises Grand Vidyasagar Statue Amid Battle With Trinamool
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said Trinamool Congress "goons" vandalised Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar statue in Kolkata and promised to build a grand statue at the same spot.
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Election Body Invokes Article 324 After Bengal Clashes. What It Says...
The Election Commissionon Wednesdayinvoked Article 324 of the Constitution to prohibit election campaigning in nine constituencies of West Bengal from 10 pm on Thursday until the conclusion of the Lok Sabha polls on May 19. It took the decision in view of clashes between the BJP and the Trinamool Congress over the last 24 hours, which resulted in l...
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Protests At Parliament Turn Into Injury vs Injury Claims By BJP, Congress
Protest, counterprotests and brawls - over Home Minister Amit Shah's "Ambedkar is the fashion" remark - roiled Parliament Thursday, with the BJP and Congress trading allegations of each side using force against the other to harass the other side.
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October 28-29 Lunar Eclipse To Be Visible From All Places In India
Unlike solar eclipses, watching the moon being shadowed by the Earth with naked eyes is perfectly safe.
-
Scientists Detect Eerie Echo Coming From Supermassive Black Hole In Milky Way's Core
The high and low notes of the echo were sent out when the black hole emerged from a long period of dormancy some 200 years ago.
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Justice Amit Sharma Takes Oath As Delhi High Court Judge
Justice Amit Sharma Monday took oath of office as a permanent judge of the Delhi High Court. Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma administered the oath to Justice Amit Sharma.
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Attempts Made To Forget Netaji, Our Effort To Honour Him: Amit Shah
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday lamented that attempts were made to ensure Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose gets forgotten.
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Amit Shah Invokes Subhas Chandra Bose In Latest Bengal Cultural Outreach
In a continuing celebration of Subhas Chandra Bose's 125th birth anniversary year, Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday paid a tribute to freedom fighters of Bengal, specially those who are relatively unsung as he inaugurated an exhibition in Kolkata.
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Bengal BJP Must Reach Out To People Of All Faiths: Subhas Bose's Grand Nephew Writes To PM Modi
BJP leader and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's grandnephew Chandra Kumar Bose said on Tuesday he has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party heavyweights Amit Shah and JP Nadda, flagging certain "issues and concerns", which, according to him, should be addressed by the saffron camp, ahead of 2021 Bengal Assembly polls.
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"Eradicated Many Social Evils": Amit Shah On Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was a social reformer, an educationist, a freedom fighter and the voice against women's oppression. His death anniversary is being observed today. Popularly referred to as Vidyasagar, he is best known for his 'Barna Parichay', which literally means 'introduction to alphabets'. His contribution towards propagating widow rem...
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Amit Shah Pays Tributes To Balasaheb Thackeray, Says He Never Compromised With Ideals
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday paid homage to Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray on his birth anniversary and described him as a brilliant intellect of his time who never compromised with his ideals.
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Kolkata College To Get New Vidyasagar Bust, Says Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said a new bust of social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar will be installed at the Vidyasagar College in place of the old one, which was desecrated by miscreants last month.
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Moon Moon Sen's Gaffe No. 2, Says Kolkata Clashes "Tiny Bit Of Violence"
Actor-turned-politician Moon Moon Sen, a Trinamool Congress candidate for the national election, was again accused of making a comment that undermined the violence in Bengal on the last day of voting for the national election on Sunday. "This is a tiny bit of violence," Moon Moon Sen said as she responded to a question on the vandalism of a statue ...
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In Bengal, Vidyasagar Lookalike Campaigns For BJP Amid Row Over Statue
In the massive political row over the vandalism of an Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar statue in clashes at BJP president Amit Shah's rally in Kolkata, the legendary 19th century reformer was seen in the campaign of a BJP candidate today. Or at least, an actor in costume, complete with a faux receding hairline, a dhoti, a brown shawl and a book in one han...
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Ex-Kolkata Top Cop Rajeev Kumar, Sent To Delhi, Reports To Home Ministry
Former Kolkata police chief Rajeev Kumar reported for duty at the Home Ministry in Delhi today after the Election Commission relieved him as the additional director general of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in West Bengal. The poll commission's move to attach him with the Home Ministry came after violence during a rally by BJP chief Am...
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General Elections 2019: PM Modi Promises Grand Vidyasagar Statue Amid Battle With Trinamool
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said Trinamool Congress "goons" vandalised Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar statue in Kolkata and promised to build a grand statue at the same spot.
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Election Body Invokes Article 324 After Bengal Clashes. What It Says...
The Election Commissionon Wednesdayinvoked Article 324 of the Constitution to prohibit election campaigning in nine constituencies of West Bengal from 10 pm on Thursday until the conclusion of the Lok Sabha polls on May 19. It took the decision in view of clashes between the BJP and the Trinamool Congress over the last 24 hours, which resulted in l...
