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Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Aug. 27 : As the Tamil Nadu Government in their application filed before the Supreme Court made a prayer that the court should direct the Government of Karnataka to release 50tmcf (thousand million cubic feet) of water as…

Chennai[India], Aug. 27 : Seeking withdrawal of recommendation made by an Expert Appraisal Committee of the of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change to build a dam on Siruvani river at Attappady, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa …

Kolkata, [India], Aug. 27 : After two nursing staff and one infant died in the fire in Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital, the West Bengal Government on Saturday ordered a CID probe in the matter.State Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee earlier today…

Damoh (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Aug. 27 : In an inhumane act, a man and his five-year-old daughter were thrown out of the bus they were travelling in after his sick wife died on board in Damoh district of Madhya Pradesh on Saturday.The shameful inciden…

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh, India), Aug.27 : Justifying his firing order to the Uttar Pradesh Police that claimed the lives of 16 kar sevaks in Ayodhya on October 30, 1990, former chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav on Saturday said had even 30 people been …

Patna (Bihar) [India], Aug. 27 : President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said universities must be the bastions of free speech and expression, adding that they must be the arena where diverse and conflicting schools of thought contend.”There should be n…

Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir [India], Aug. 27 : Asserting that Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) is as much part of Jammu and Kashmir as are Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh and Gilgit-Baltistan, Minister of State for Prime Minister’s Office Jitendra Singh …

Agartala (Tripura), Aug. 27 : Tripura Governor Tathagatha Roy has raised question over India’s policy on not giving the legitimate share of river water to friendly nation Bangladesh when it does not deny the same right to a hostile nation like Pakistan…

Kolkata,[India] Aug. 27 : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday ordered the formation of a committee to probe the fire tragedy at the Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital.She also announced an ex-gratia amount of Rs. two lakh for n…

Jorhat (Assam) [India], Aug. 27 : Frog weddings were solemnized by the Rongdoi village in Assam’s Jorhat district to please the Hindu Rain God Barun.Hundreds of village folk, young and old, boys and girls gathered at Rongdoi village community hall til…