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Odisha: Tribals used as votebank but denied facilities, says Juvenile Just
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bhubaneshwar (Odisha) [India], Jan. 7 (ANI): The Juvenile Justice Board of Odisha on Saturday termed the shocking incident of man carrying his dead daughter on shoulder after failing to get a hearse van as 'shameful', adding that the tribals are used as votebank by politicians duri
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Sugar factories scam: Bombay HC rejects Anna Hazare's plea for CBI pr
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai(Maharashtra)[India], Jan. 6(ANI): The Bombay High Court on Friday asked social activist Anna Hazare to first file a police complaint, adding that it could not order a CBI inquiry "at this stage" into the alleged sugar cooperative factories scam involving Rs 25,000 crore in w
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Molestation shame: Seething women activists slam lax politicians
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 6 (ANI): The recent string of molestation cases from across the nation coming to light has left the people of the country enraged, especially women activists who have strongly slammed political fraternity for their lax attitude towards women safety and have voiced eve
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Higher pay no motivation for working-class to break into politics: Study
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan. 5 (ANI): A study reveals that increasing politicians' paychecks is not likely to encourage more working-class people to run for office.
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PM Modi's address garners praise from ministers, criticism from oppos
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 1 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 43-minute long address on the eve of New Year has garnered a mix response from politicians. While his ministers lavished praise on him for the schemes that he had announced last night, the opposition criticised him for misle
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Politicians need to respect the feelings of the nation's citizens, sa
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec.31 (ANI): Stating that political parties, political leaders and electoral funding figure prominently in any debate on corruption and black money, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his second address to the nation in 51 days, said Saturday that the time has now come that
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Sit-ins destructive for Pakistan, Sharif tells Imran, other politicians
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], Dec.29 (ANI): Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has told political leaders of various parties, including Imran Khan of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) that constant and repeated sit-ins will be destructive for Pakistan, and urged politicians not to create hurdles in the nat
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Bureaucrats, politicos involved in AgustaWestland must also come under CBI
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 10(ANI): Defence expert Nitin Gokhale on Saturday said that former air chief S.P. Tyagi is not the last person to be arrested in the AgustaWestland case, adding that other high profile officials, bureaucrats and politicians should come also be brought under the CBI sc
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Shatrughan Sinha, Paresh Rawal laud Jayalalithaa's magnetic personali
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 6 (ANI): Actors turned politicians Paresh Rawal and Shatrughan Sinha expressed their heartfelt condolences on the demise of Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa today.
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Politicians under whom chit-fund scams prospered now raising a finger at m
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Agra (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Nov. 20 (ANI): In an indirect reference to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who is opposing the demonetisation drive, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that politicians under whom chit-fund scams prospered are now raising a finger at him even
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Ahir pulls up Kejriwal, says provoking students is "social crime"
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov. 4 (ANI): Minister of State for Home Hansraj Gangaram Ahir on Friday condemned Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's move to provoke the students protesting for missing Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Najeeb Ahmed and said this kind of attitude on the
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Pen drive recovered from Malappuram court blast site contains pictures of
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Malappuram (Kerala) [India], Nov. 3 (ANI): As the probe into the low-intensity IED blast on the premises of the judicial magistrate's court in Malappuram began, the pen drive recovered from the blast site contained images of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several other politicians.
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