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Kejriwal trying to buy votes through water bill waiver scheme: Vijay Goel
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 27 (ANI): Hours after Delhi Government announced a scheme to waive arrears on water bills, Union Minister Vijay Goel on Tuesday criticised the move terming it a tactic by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to 'buy votes' ahead of the assembly elections.
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AIDMK will be back in power next elections: Jayakumar on DMK winning Vello
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Aug 9 (ANI): Tamil Nadu Minister D Jayakumar on Friday said though Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has won Vellore Parliamentary seat by a margin of 8,000 votes, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) will come back to power in the next elections.
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Lok Sabha passes bill to bifurcate J-K into two UTs
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Aug 6 (ANI): The Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed the Jammu and Kashmir (Reorganisation) Bill, 2019 with 370 votes in favour and 70 against it.
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BJP has wiped out J-K identity by scrapping Article 370: Opposition
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 5 (ANI): Condemning the scrapping of Article 370, Opposition on Monday said the BJP government, which is drunk on power to garner votes, has cut off the head of India by wiping out the identity of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Naqvi says opposition to Triple Talaq Bill is for votes
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 25 (ANI): Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Thursday hits back at the opposition parties for opposing the Triple Talaq Bill stating that they are afraid of losing a certain set of votes despite the fact the Bill is in lines with the constitutional co
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BJD's Sabitri Agarwalla leading in Patkura Assembly poll
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Patkura (Odisha) [India], July 24 (ANI): Biju Janata Dal (BJD) candidate Sabitri Agarwalla, wife of deceased BJD leader Bed Prakash Agarwalla, is leading by 17,234 votes against BJP's Bijoy Mohapatra in Patkura Assembly election, where polling was held on July 20.
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Pakistan: Polling concludes in erstwhile FATA, counting of votes underway
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], July 20 (ANI): The counting of votes is underway after polling concluded in the erstwhile Federal Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Pakistan at 5 pm on Saturday.
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Bihar police lathicharge: Govt will keep doing something new like Pulwama
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], July 19 (ANI): Jan Adhikar Party chief and former MP Pappu Yadav on Friday lashed out at the police lathicharge on teachers protesting near the Vidhan Sabha and said police could have utilized water cannons instead.
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74 pc of BJP's Lok Sabha winners got over 50 pc votes: ADR
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 18 (ANI): Nearly 74 per cent of BJP candidates who won the 2019 Lok Sabha polls got over 50 per cent votes, whereas the figure was 35 per cent for the Congress, according to a report by the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR).
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US House votes to block 'emergency' arms sale to Saudi Arabia
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [USA], July 18 (ANI): The US House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to block emergency arms sales to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Jordan.
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Ursula von der Leyen elected as first female European Commission president
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], July 17 (ANI): Ursula von der Leyen of Germany has been elected as the first female president of the European Commission (EC) after her nomination was approved by 383 votes in a secret ballot on Tuesday evening (local time) at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
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Gujarat: On day of RS polls, Cong MLAs leave for Gandhinagar
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Gandhinagar (Gujarat) [India], July 5 (ANI): Over 60 Congress MLAs who were housed at Balaram Palace Resort in Palanpur, left for Gandhinagar to cast votes for the two Rajya Sabha seats where by-polls are being held today.
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