Nepal PM KP Sharma Oli said the “real” Ayodhya is actually a village near Nepal’s Birgunj and Ram was a Nepali. His remark drew sharp criticism in both India and Nepal.
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PM Narendra Modi called for unity and brotherhood in the country’s fight against coronavirus and said the virus doesn’t see religion and caste before infecting a victim.
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Reacting to the Supreme Court verdict on Ayodhya dispute, Asaduddin Owaisi said the Supreme Court is supreme, but not infallible. He then attributed his quote to former Supreme Court judge Justice JS Verma.
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Former finance minister P Chidambaram, who is facing probe in the INX Media case by both the ED and the CBI for alleged money laundering and is currently in jail, turned 74 on Monday. On this, his son tweeted a letter saying “no 56 can stop you”, which is seen as a challenge thrown to the prime mini
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Three months after the government’s report on jobs said India’s unemployment was at a four-decade high, Union minister Santosh Gangwar insists that there is no job crisis. Instead he blamed the north Indians for lacking requisite qualifications for employment.
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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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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.
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Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said the slogan “Jai Shri Ram” is being used to “beat up people” across the country. Sen said this at a public event in Kolkata’s Jadavpur University.
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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.
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After the members of BJP hailed the new Union Budget 2019 as one for a “New India” which laid the foundation for an inclusive and progressive nation, the Congress termed it as “old wine in new bottle”.
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