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Communal clashes in 4 NCR districts, 2 homeguards killed

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Communal clashes broke out in Nuh on Monday afternoon after a religious procession passing through the district came under attack, leaving two home guards dead and dozens of people — including around 20 policemen — injured in the frenzy of violence that followed. The Nuh episode triggered mob attacks in parts of Palwal, Faridabad and Gurgaon, the most severe of them in the city’s south. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/Xkihz0Q

Govt mulls review of provisions in view of large-scale litigation over waqf properties

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Isro slingshots Chandrayaan-3 towards Moon; Lunar orbit insertion expected August 5

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Isro early on Tuesday completed the critical trans-lunar injection (TLI), a slingshot that has now put Chandrayaan-3 on a five-day journey to Moon. Now, the 2145-kg propulsion module, on top of which sits the landing module comprising Vikram (the lander) and Pragyan (the rover), will travel in a straight path to reach the lunar orbit. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/mi3Q7b6

Fissures appear in Gupkar alliance as PDP, NC spar over 'historical blunders'

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Money laundering case: ED seizes 4 cars, jewellery and cash after raids on Haryana Congress MLA Dharam Singh Chhoker

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After conducting a four-day search at properties linked to Congress MLA Dharam Singh Chhoker and his family, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) seized four luxury cars worth Rs 4 crore, jewellery worth Rs 14.5 lakh, Rs 4.5 lakh in cash, and other evidence related to siphoning of homebuyer funds, the ED said on Monday. from Delhi News: दिल्ली समाचार - Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/qMVpcrS

Coal transport by all rail route costs less than through port-rail mode: Rail ministry report

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Independence Day order to J&K officials: Selfies with flag as DP

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Was Centre sleeping as Manipur burned, asks opposition team on visit

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A 21-member delegation of the opposition alliance INDIA visited relief camps in the conflict-hit town of Churachandpur and other places in Manipur on Saturday, and accused the BJP-led central government of being asleep while the state was engulfed in unrest since May 3. The delegation assured the affected people that they were working towards bringing about positive change. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/27tJYXL

Pegged at 3,167 in April, India's tiger population now placed at 3,682

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There are 3,682 tigers now in India, up from 2,967 in 2018 — a rise of almost 24% in four years. The revised figures follow detailed analyses of census data collected during the fifth cycle of estimation conducted in 2022. With this, India is now home to approximately 75% of the world’s tiger population. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/YzxSsvp

Railway ministry receives over 170 requests from leaders across party lines for new Vande Bharat trains, more stoppages

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Violence during Muharram processions in Nangloi, 10 cops injured

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A group of people participating in Muharram processions clashed with police and threw stones at them in west Delhi's Nangloi on Saturday, officials said. from Delhi News: दिल्ली समाचार - Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/Sp53vBO

'No proof of terror links': Supreme Court gives bail to 2 in Elgar case

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BJP, Congress clash over alleged hidden cameras in Udupi college

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The Congress and the BJP have locked horns over allegations that women students were filmed by placing hidden cameras inside the restrooms of a college at Udupi in Congress-ruled Karnataka with the former refuting the opposition’s charge. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/ByvDroT

Allahabad HC judgment on Gyanvapi survey on August 3

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Shouting match drowns out Jaishankar statement in Rajya Sabha

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External affairs minister S Jaishankar's suo motu statement in Rajya Sabha on the latest developments in India's foreign policy was drowned in loud sloganeering by opposition members, dressed in black, to protest against the government's handling of ethnic violence in Manipur. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/TMhbBv6

Assam CM Himanta call to end love jihad: Don't marry outside your faith

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Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma cautioned youths Thursday not to "cross the laxman rekha" by marrying outside their faiths as he issued a call to stop so-called "love jihad" three days after a Hindu woman and her parents were murdered, allegedly by her Muslim husband, in Golaghat district. "Love and jihad do not gel," the BJP CM said. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/D72MUqN

3 years after gall bladder operation, woman finds uterus removed

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Mumbai areas flooded in another day of triple-digit rainfall

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When Smriti Irani shouted at opposition over Manipur in Parliament

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The opposition has been alleging that not just Prime Minister Narendra Modi but also women and child development minister Smriti Irani have not spoken on the ongoing ethnic violence in Manipur since May 3. Irani not just replied but she sought to put the opposition in the dock. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/XQaMNlB

29 years after ‘gang rape by cops’, woman deposes

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She was 30 years old when she was allegedly gang-raped by policemen from UP at Rampur Tiraha during the brutal crackdown on protesters demanding a separate state of Uttarakhand in 1994. Almost 60 now, she deposed with her testimony for the first time before a court in Muzaffarnagar as both victim and witness of the crime. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/iBfZFGJ

‘Modi ki guarantee’: India will be among world’s top 3 economies in NDA 3rd term

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On a day when the opposition’s no-confidence motion against the government was admitted, a confident PM Narendra Modi asserted that he was “guaranteeing” that the pace of development would accelerate during his “third term in office” and India would be among the top three economies. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/8mq4I5F

Kapil Sibal retorts to VP Jagdeep Dhankhar, questions PM Modi over Manipur violence

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Samajwadi Party Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal has retorted to vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar’s recent observation that disturbance has been weaponised in the temples of democracy and questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not making a statement on Manipur. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/tfADx9m

Report steps taken on menstrual hygiene or face ‘coercive arm of the law’: Supreme Court to state

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Supreme Court to hear pleas on extending RTI to political parties

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hold a detailed hearing on a bunch of petitions seeking to bring political parties under the ambit of Right to Information (RTI) Act but underlined obvious limitations. The apex court posted the hearing for August 1 but responded to the petitioners’ clamour for an expeditious adjudication of the long-pending issue by saying, “We do not think we can ask the political parties why they selected a particular candidate to contest from a constituency.” from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/XtJrb4y

East India Company, Indian Mujahideen, Popular Front of India too have ‘India’ in name: PM launches attack on Opposition

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on the opposition for blocking the proceedings of Parliament and for branding their grouping as ‘INDIA’, and dismissed the move to bring a no-trust motion as “inconsequential”. “It has been the practice since the British rule to use ‘India’ as a camouflage for vested interests," the PM is learnt to have said at the closed-door meeting of BJP MPs. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/hnbcozY

Manipur horror: With essentials, first-ever goods train reaches state

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Amid the mindless mayhem, there was a small relief for Manipur on Monday as it received its first-ever train, a goods train carrying food and other essential items, which is expected to ease the scarcity of commodities in the violence ravaged state. CM N Biren Singh, who was present at the newly built Khongsang railway station to receive the inaugural freight train, flagged off from Guwahati on Sunday, tweeted his delight at witnessing its “momentous arrival”. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/74FNoaO

Union minister Anurag Thakur warns of action on CBFC over ‘Oppenheimer’

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As Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’, which released worldwide to critical acclaim last week, faced accusations of religious insensitivity over a controversial scene featuring a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, Union I&B minister Anurag Thakur demanded “absolute accountability” from the Central Board of Film Certification and asked the filmmakers to promptly remove the scene. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/tfNajTL

Ugly scenes in Rajasthan assembly as sacked minister, Congress MLAs scuffle

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Unruly scenes unfolded in the Rajasthan assembly on Monday as Congress legislator Rajendra Singh Gudha, who was recently dismissed as minister, demanded to speak about a mysterious “red diary” containing what he alleged were incriminating details that could send CM Ashok Gehlot “to prison”. However, the speaker refused, and BJP MLAs protested by rushing to the well of the House, shouting slogans and waving red diaries. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/pirfs8F

Gyanvapi mosque case: ASI begins survey, Supreme Court orders pause till Wednesday

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The Supreme Court on Monday stopped the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) till 5pm on Wednesday from conducting a scientific survey/excavation to determine whether a temple had existed on the site of the Gyanvapi mosque next to the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi to enable the Muslim side to appeal against the district court’s July 21 order allowing the archaeological examination. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/xjDQK3t

Two Chinese citizens held for trying to enter India illegally

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BJP youth wing neta killed in Bengal, party accuses TMC

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75 yrs after Independence, Gadchiroli town gets court

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Manipur horror: School torched, 1 shot in fresh violence; chances of returning to classrooms bleak

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The Manipur government’s order to reopen schools has faced significant challenges in violence-affected districts, the latest being miscreants setting fire to a school building near the border of Churachandpur and Bishnupur on Saturday evening amid reports of gunfights between two groups in the region. A woman was hit by a bullet during violence in Kwakta of Bishnupur district. She was rushed to a hospital in Imphal for treatment. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/WNZv4TG

Two more old videos of women burning add to Manipur’s horror

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A freedom’s fighter’s 80-year-old widow was burnt alive in her home in Manipur on May 28, while an old video of a burnt woman reported in TOI and other media outlets resurfaced on social media, adding to the series of disturbing events unfolding in the strife-torn state. These reports followed the surfacing of a video on July 19, showing two women being stripped, molested and paraded naked by a mob on May 4, a day after ethnic violence erupted in the state. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/uA5nM0f

Manipur ripple in Mizoram? Outfit asks Meiteis to leave, govt assures safety amid escalating tension

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Manipuri people, both Meiteis and Pangals (Manipuri Muslims), have started fleeing Mizoram after an organization of former insurgents of Mizoram, Peace Accord MNF Returnees’ Association (Pamra), asked the Meiteis residing there to leave the state for “their own safety” on Friday. Later on Saturday evening, Mizoram government’s home department issued a statement saying that Pamra representatives, while expressing regret that their statement on Friday was misconstrued, decided not to pursue it. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/hC9QuZO

Monsoon fury: Delhi government issues Yamuna rise warning as Hathnikund volume up

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A fresh spell of rain in the hill states led to the release of huge volumes of water from the Hathnikund barrage into the Yamuna on Saturday, forcing the Delhi government to issue a warning to people who had moved back to their houses in the low-lying areas. The release rate had increased to 2.51 lakh cusecs on Saturday morning, an engineer said. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/ikaOecS

NCW told about stripping horror via mails June 12

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The National Commission for Women (NCW) had received on June 12 separate emails from a pair of Hyderabad-based activists and the North American Manipur Tribal Association, flagging the May 4 horror of a mob stripping and parading two women naked in B Phainom village of Kangpokpi district. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/jVXaodO

Ensure life of dignity for Tamils: PM Modi to Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe

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India signed five agreements with debt-ridden neighbour Sri Lanka and released a bilateral vision document for economic cooperation, even as PM Narendra Modi told visiting Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe that the security interests and development of the two countries were intertwined and it was essential for them to work together keeping in mind each other’s safety and sensitivities. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/d15QAis

On day of Manipur mob horror, 2 gang-raped, killed 40km away

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Two young tribal women from Manipur’s Kangpokpi working in an Imphal car wash were allegedly gang-raped at their workplace, dragged out and left to die by a mob rampaging through the capital city on May 4, coinciding with the strip-parade horror unfolding 40km away that very day. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/tJLg9rU

Railways set to commission double decker wagons which can carry SUVs in both decks

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The Indian Railways, which remains the cost effective and popular transportation medium for car manufacturers, is likely to introduce redesigned double-decker auto transport wagons in next two weeks. The wagons, redesigned in line with the industry demand, will help in transportation of more cars, especially sport utility vehicles (SUVs), thereby curbing emission and cutting cost. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/En3SAlt

16 killed, 100 missing as rain-triggered landslide buries hamlet in Maharashtra

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In one of the biggest natural disasters in Maharashtra, a massive landslide precipitated by over 400mm of rainfall flattened a remote tribal hamlet named Irshalwadi in Khalapur tehsil in the foothills of the Sahyadri range in Raigad district on Wednesday night. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/jASYbtf

2 months after FIR & a day after video surfaces, 4 arrested for Manipur horror

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The prime accused and three other suspects from the Manipur mob that paraded two women naked and allegedly gang-raped one of them on May 4 were arrested on Thursday, 63 days after a zero FIR was registered and within 10 hours of a video emerging of the horrific assault that one of the survivors — a Kargil War veteran’s wife — recounted to TOI as akin to being attacked by “wild animals”. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/zbscP2x

Railways eases process to book tickets for passengers unaware of new names of stations

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From today (Friday), rail passengers can plan their journey better and book their tickets easily even if they don’t know the exact name of the stations close to their origin or destinations as railways has introduced a new feature of linking popular areas with station names. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/rEnIf6o

16 electrocuted at river project site in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district

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Sixteen people, including a sub-inspector and three home guard personnel, were electrocuted on Wednesday morning at the site of a sewage treatment plant (STP) of the Namami Gange project on the Alaknanda river in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/SlIWfx6

Eight dead in rain-related tragedies in Jammu & Kashmir’s Kathua

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At least eight people died in four rain-related accidents in Bani area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district on Wednesday, even as district authorities closed schools in Kishtwar, Doda, Rajouri and the hilly belt of Kathua due to heavy showers and resultant landslides. Meanwhile, Vaishno Devi and Amarnath Yatra were temporarily suspended in view of inclement weather. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/aMRXbjO

INDIA will not stay silent while idea of India being attacked in Manipur: Rahul Gandhi

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday over the situation in Manipur and said "INDIA will not stay silent while the idea of India is being attacked" in the northeastern state. Gandhi's remarks came after a video shot on May 4 surfaced on Wednesday, showing two women being paraded naked in ethnic violence-hit Manipur. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/Jbc3fgY

PM Modi in Rajasthan's Sikar on July 27 to release Samman Nidhi to farmers

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CM Kejriwal, LG to meet today over new DERC chief

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With the Supreme Court waiting to know the outcome of their meeting on Thursday, lieutenant governor VK Saxena and chief minister Arvind Kejriwal would try to reach a consensus on the name of a retired judge to head Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) on Wednesday. from Delhi News: दिल्ली समाचार - Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/6I0ywpf

4 foreign terrorists killed, 4 LeT aides held in J&K

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Security forces gunned down four “foreign” terrorists in a fierce shootout in J&K’s Poonch district on Tuesday, while four men linked to Pakistan-backed terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were taken into custody in the Beerwah area of Budgam district in central Kashmir. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/nVmwouy

2 migrant workers wounded in J&K terror attack

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Suspected terrorists shot at and wounded two migrant workers in south Kashmir's Anantnag district late Tuesday. Both are in hospital and stable, police said. Kashmir Zone Police tweeted that the area where the duo was attacked had been cordoned off for a search of the assailants. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/yCLnKk8

Supreme Court says lawyers’ strike unacceptable, seeks action taken report

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The Supreme Court on Monday frowned upon advocates of the Delhi high court abstaining from work to protest the transfer of Justice Gaurang Kanth to the Calcutta HC, and asked the Bar Council of India (BCI) to furnish details of strikes called by lawyers’ bodies in the last one year across the country and action taken against their office-bearers. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/ZjUrdgp

As foot soldiers, you will be brand ambassadors of India: V-P Dhankhar tells IFS trainees

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Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday told the 2022 batch trainees of Indian Foreign Service (IFS) that as foot soldiers, they will be brand ambassadors of the country. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/BcsR7kp

Eyeing OBCs in UP, NDA wins over Rajbhar

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Fortifying further its plans for the 2024 contest, BJP-led NDA roped in a new constituent on Sunday as part of its OBC outreach in UP — estranged Samajwadi Party ally Om Prakash Rajbhar’s Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) — while eyeing a deal with three strong potential allies down south. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/LGsmZPS

River set to dip below danger mark, some spots still flooded

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The Yamuna receded further to marginally above the danger mark on Sunday, giving respite to the government and the affected people. While flood waters receded in Civil Lines in the north and several areas in the southeast, there was not much respite in Guru Tegh Bahadur Nagar and Mukherjee Nagar in northwest Delhi. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/puODbXE

AAP to attend Bengaluru meet as Congress says will oppose ordinance in Parliament

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A day after marking its opposition to the Delhi ordinance, Congress on Sunday made it clear that the party would oppose it in Parliament, prompting AAP to welcome the announcement as “a positive development” and declare that it would take part in the two-day opposition meet, to be held in Bengaluru from Monday to chalk out joint strategy for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/MyBgwVo

Boulders in rain kill woman on Amarnath Yatra

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Delhi: Firefighters rescue 10 people stuck in elevator at South Extension

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Ten people were rescued from an elevator in Delhi’s South Extension after being stuck for several hours. from Delhi News: दिल्ली समाचार - Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/0osY91J

Delhi babus take on ministers over charges of laxity & insubordination

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‘Brazen assault’: Congress opposes Delhi ordinance

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Congress on Saturday said the Modi government’s “assault” on democratically elected state governments is a subject of national concern and slammed the Delhi ordinance as its manifestation — spelling out the party stance on the ordinance that AAP said was a prerequisite for its attendance in the opposition parties meeting in Bengaluru next week. from India News | Latest India News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/X2Hrw9s