Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, while speaking at the first convocation of St Xavier’s University, Kolkata, said, “Education is the most important instrument for upholding human rights and fundamental freedoms.”
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Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy is determined to not give up on the ruling JD(S)-Congress coalition. While making an opening statement after moving a confidence motion, he said, “I will prove my majority in the house.”
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West Bengal chief minister and TMC leader Mamata Banerjee slammed all the senior members and office bearers of her party who recently joined BJP after the recently concluded Lok Sabha election and called them “greedy and corrupt”.
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Amid doctors protest in West Bengal, award-winning filmmaker and actor Aparna Sen requested CM Mamata Banerjee to talk to junior doctors in the state who have struck work to protest an attack on junior doctors by relatives of a patient at the government-run hospital in Kolkata.
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Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodiya wrote to E Sreedharan to tell him that he is “surprised and pained” by latter’s letter to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in which he asked the PM to block Delhi government’s proposal to provide free rides to women on Delhi Metro.
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E Sreedharan, who is also known as the “Metro Man” of India for his planning and execution of the Delhi Metro network, has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to allow Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s proposal to give free Delhi Metro passes for women.
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The 12 Congress MLAs, who recently joined TRS hit out opposition party’s state leadership for its attack on them. They said their action was in accordance with the Constitutional provisions.
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Indian cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a tweet for “promoting” cricket during the latter’s recent visit to the Maldives.
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Samajwadi Party senior leader and Rampur MP Azam Khan said madrasas don’t produce people like Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse or 2008 Malegaon blasts accused Pragya Singh Thakur.
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Former Indian Army officer and Kargil war veteran Mohammad Sanaullah, who was arrested after a foreigners’ tribunal of Assam declared him foreigner, has been released from a detention centre in Guwahati. After release, he said it was like Eid for him.
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