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Cong MP Syed Hussain slams Modi govt over MGNREGA, National Herald case

Lucknow, Dec. 20 -- Rajya Sabha MP Syed Naseer Hussain on Saturday launched a sharp attack on the BJP-led union government, accusing it of dismantling the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guar... Read More


Best of the Week: Is India losing its pull for foreign tourists?

New Delhi, Dec. 20 -- Best of the Week is a weekly newsletter by Siddharth Sharma/Shravani Sinha. Subscribe to Mint's newsletters to get them directly in your inbox. India's tourism story is hitting ... Read More


Kokate undergoes coronary angiography at Lilavati Hospital

India, Dec. 20 -- Former Maharashtra minister Manikrao Kokate underwent coronary angiography at Lilavati Hospital on Friday, with doctors saying he has four major arterial blockages. A Nashik police ... Read More


Two more absconders arrested by NIA in Maharashtra's Dinesh Pusu Gawade murder case

New Delhi, Dec. 20 -- The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested two more absconders in Maharashtra's Dinesh Pusu Gawade murder case. The wanted accused, both members of the banned CPI (Mao... Read More


"They wanted to change Gandhi's name, kill scheme": Karnataka DyCM DK Shivakumar on VB-G-RAM-G Bill

Bengaluru, Dec. 20 -- Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Saturday vowed to launch a big movement in the state against the VB-G-RAM-G Bill passed in Parliament, alleging that the Centre a... Read More


"Soil of Bengal is not fertile for the divisive politics of the BJP," TMC's Tanmoy Ghosh hits out at PM Modi

Kolkata, Dec. 20 -- Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Tanmoy Ghosh expressed confidence that the Prime Minister's visit to West Bengal today would not alter the state's political landscape, asserting th... Read More


After arrest of CPM member in Sabrimala case, CPM's Pathanamthitta unit asks state leadership for direction

Kochi, Dec. 20 -- Following the arrest of CPM district committee member A. Padmakumar in the Sabarimala gold smuggling case, CPM Pathanamthitta District Secretary Raju Abraham said on Saturday that th... Read More


SC to examine sealed cover use in Sameer Wankhede promotion dispute

New Delhi, Dec. 20 -- The Supreme Court on Saturday heard the plea filed by the Centre in the promotion matter of IRS officer Sameer Dnyandev Wankhede, and directed the Central Administrative Tribunal... Read More


Squatters rally in Chitwan for papers to call the land theirs

Chitwan, Dec. 20 -- For Maya Devi Thakuri, a bitter irony is impossible to miss. She has lived decades on a tiny plot in Bhagyodayatol (which means a place where one's fortune blossoms) in ward 6 of G... Read More


Additional police, BGB deployed in Dhaka for Hadi's funeral

Dhaka, Dec. 20 -- Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel have been deployed at the Parliament complex and several other key locations across Dhaka ahead of the funeral prayers for slain political act... Read More