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Home Nathuram Godse Remark: Kamal Haasan gets anticipatory bail
Chennai, May 20: The Madurai bench of Madras High Court granted an anticipatory bail to Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) Chief Kamal Haasan in a case filed against him by the Hindu Munnani party for his comments on Nathuram Godse. Campaigning for his party candidate in the by-election for the Aravakuruchi Assembly constituency, speaking about the killer of Mahatma Gandhi, Haasan said: "The...
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Home OP Rajbhar removed from UP Cabinet
Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik on Monday accepted Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's request and dismissed Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party supremo Om Prakash Rajbhar from the post of Minister for Backward Class Welfare and 'Divyangjan' empowerment in the state cabinet with immediate effect. Besides this, Seven members of SBSP including OP Rajbhar's son Arvind Rajbhar were also removed from...
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Home Singapore-bound Scoot Airways flight makes emergency landing at Chennai airport
A Singapore-bound Scoot Airways flight made an emergency landing at the Chennai airport on Monday morning. "Singapore-bound Scoot Airways flight TR 567 flying from Trichy (Tamil Nadu) made an emergency landing at Chennai airport after the pilot detected smoke in the aircraft cargo at around 3:40 am today. The pilot had requested an emergency landing, which was...
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Home Threats to US would mean Iran's end: Warns Trump
Washington, May 20: US President Donald Trump has asked Iran "never to threaten" the US and warned Tehran that if it wants a fight, it would be "the official end" of the Islamic nation. "If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran," Trump tweeted on Sunday afternoon. "Never threaten the United States again!" His Sunday tweets appeared to...
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Home Exit polls not perfect for Lok Sabha elections
New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) If exit polls are to be believed, the Narendra Modi government is coming back to power with full majority, but the predictions by poll survey agencies in the past have been found not to be close to the actual results. Barring exit polls of 1998, when some of them were quite close to the actual results, the pollsters went completely wrong in mapping the electorate mood since...
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Home Over 64% voting recorded in Lok Sabha polls' last phase
New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) Over 64 per cent voter turnout was recorded on Sunday in polling for 59 seats in the seventh and final phase of the Lok Sabha elections, with Madhya Pradesh recording the highest turnout of 75.53 per cent. There were reports of people ransacking a polling booth and holding an official hostage in Bihar, as well as sporadic violence in West Bengal. Polling was...
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Home All surveys can't be wrong, time to switch off TV: Omar
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) Minutes after the exit polls projected the return of a BJP-led NDA government, National Conference leader Omar Abdullah it was not possible for all the surveys to go wrong. "Every single exit poll can't be wrong! Time to switch off the TV, log out of social media & wait to see if the world is still spinning on its axis on the 23rd," Abdullah, the...
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Home Exit polls a gameplan to manipulate EVMs: Mamata
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) Dismissing the exit poll predictions of the Lok Sabha elections as "gossip", West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said it was a "gameplan to manipulate and replace thousands of EVMs" and urged opposition leaders to stand strong and united. "I don't trust Exit Poll gossip. The game plan is to manipulate or replace thousands of...
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Home Don't think exit polls are accurate: Punjab CM Amarinder Singh
Chandigarh, May 19 (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Sunday rejected the various exit polls, saying their accuracy was suspect and that he expected the Congress to do much better, both at the national level and in the state. Most opinion polls are giving clear or near-clear majority to BJP-led NDA at the Centre, while projecting 9-10 seats out of 13 for the Congress in...
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Home DMK-led alliance to sweep Tamil Nadu: India Today-Axis exit poll
The DMK, which suffered a major debacle in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, will make a grand comeback in the 2019 general elections as the party-led alliance will get about 34 to 38 seats in Tamil Nadu, the India Today-Axis My India exit poll predicted on Sunday. The state's ruling AIADMK, which had won 37 out of the state's 39 seats, will get around zero to four seats, it...
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