‘Education most important for upholding human rights’: Tharoor

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.” Read More
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Mukherjee: India will become a $5tn economy due to previous govts

Delivering a lecture on “Furthering India’s Promise”, former President Pranab Mukherjee said that India would become a $5 trillion economy by 2024 because of the strong foundation laid by previous governments. Read More
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Mamata says Bangladesh dam killing Atrai river, slams Centre

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee warned the state assembly about the drying Atrai river and said the is drying up because of a dam’s construction in Bangladesh. She also blamed the Centre for not the issue seriously with Dhaka. Read More
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Sitharaman says the budget is presented with a 10-year vision

After unveiling the Union Budget for the financial year 2019-20, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in a news conference in New Delhi, said the Budget has been presented with a 10-year vision in mind. Read More
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Nitish: ‘JD(U) won’t compromise on principles, but issue with BJP’

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, on Monday, said that Janata Dal (United) will never compromise on its principles and claimed that there was no ill will with BJP over his party not joining the government at the Centre. Read More
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Bhagwat says ‘RSS will give suggestion to govt whenever it falters’

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said that any democratically-elected dispensation should guard against any “misuse” of its power and added that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh will give constructive advice to the government whenever it falters. Read More
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Ramdev says May 23 should be celebrated as ‘Modi Day’

Baba Ramdev, yoga guru and the head of FMCG major Patanjali Ayurved Limited, has demanded that May 23 be celebrated as “Modi Day”. It is the day on which the 2019 Lok Sabha election results were declared. Read More
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Mayawati says ‘BJP hijacked the election with help of EVMs’

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati blamed the BJP of “hijacking the national election with the help of EVMs”, after the leads indicated a clear majority for the ruling party. Read More
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Jay Panda says BJP is open to working with other parties

BJP vice-president Jay Panda said the Bhartiya Janata Party is interested to work with other parties if they want to join NDA seeing the national mood, which the exit poll show is in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's favour. Read More
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Priyanka on exit polls: ‘All this is to discourage us’

After the exit poll predicted that BJP led NDA is going to get mandate in this Lok Sabha election, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra encouraged party workers not to give up because of rumours and exit poll results. Read More
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