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Vajpayee, Advani’s BJP is dead: Sinha tells BJP lawmakers ahead of Presidential polls

New Delhi, 17/7: Urging lawmakers to heed to the “call of conscience”, Opposition Presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha on Sunday sought the votes of BJP MPs and MLAs, claiming it is their “last chance” to save the party, as the party once led by AB Vajpayee and LK Advani is “dead and gone”. His call came…

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Dalmia Bharat Foundation Spearhead’s India’sRural Youth &Social Transformation with 15th DIKSHa Centre Launch on World Youth Skills Day

New Delhi:Dalmia Bharat Foundation (DBF) has launched its new DIKSHa (Dalmia Institute of Knowledge and Skill Harnessing) centre in India – at Rajaram Road, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, reinforcingits commitment to India’s next generation workforce on the occasion of World Youth Skills Day, 15th July.This also marks DBF’s social transformation journey to create opportunities for the nation’s…

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Margaret Alva is Opposition’s pick for Vice President

New Delhi, 17/7:The Opposition candidate for Vice Presidential elections to be held in August is Margaret Alva. Alva has served multiple terms as governor of Rajasthan, Goa and Uttarakhand.     Opposition parties on Sunday met to choose the Vice Presidential candidate at NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s residence. Many senior leaders including Mallikarjun Kharge, Shiv…

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Technical defect forces Sharjah-bound IndiGo plane to land in Karachi

New Delhi, 17/7: India’s biggest airline, IndiGo, diverted a plane to Karachi in neighbouring Pakistan due to a “technical defect”, local news agencies reported on Sunday, the second such incident involving an unscheduled landing in less than two weeks.   The flight was to fly to Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates from Hyderabad.  …

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Process is the punishment in our criminal justice system: CJI Ramana

New Delhi, 16/7: Chief Justice of India N V Ramana on Saturday emphasised an urgent look at the process which led to prolonged incarceration of undertrials while blaming the non-filling up of the judicial vacancies and not improving the judicial infrastructure as major reasons for the huge backlog of cases.   “In our criminal justice…

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