Jammu &Kashmir’s Doda district to be recognised as role model in lavender farming: Union minister Jitendra Singh

Doda, 13/11: Union minister Jitendra Singh has said that Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district would be recognised as a role model in lavender farming owing to farmers cultivating the plant on a commercial scale there.     Singh chaired the district development coordination and monitoring committee (DISHA) meeting on Saturday to review the progress of…

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Australia’s Glenn Maxwell to miss England series after breaking leg

Perth, 13/11: Glenn Maxwell will miss Australia’s upcoming one-day international series against England after suffering a broken leg in a freak accident that is expected to sideline the all-rounder for up to three months.     Maxwell suffered a broken tibula in his left leg in an incident at a friend’s 50th birthday party on…

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Cortez Masto wins Nevada Senate race, clinching Democratic control of Senate

Washington DC, 13/11:Democrats sealed control of the Senate on Saturday as Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada narrowly defeated Adam Laxalt, a Republican former state attorney general, a decisive moment in an extraordinary midterm election in which Democrats defied historical patterns and predictions of major losses. Control of the House has still not been decided,…

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SC has not acted in consonance with spirit of India: Congress on early release of Rajiv Gandhi assassins

New Delhi, 11/11: Congress on Friday said it was “most unfortunate” that the Supreme Court “did not act in consonance” with the “spirit of the country” when it ordered the release of six convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination. While it described the judgment as “totally unacceptable and completely erroneous”, the party also made it…

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BJP, AAP field several turncoats in Gujarat polls, Congress says loyalists its first choice

New Delhi, 11/11: The ruling BJP and the AAP have rewarded several leaders, who quit rival political parties and joined them, by offering tickets to them to contest the upcoming Assembly polls in Gujarat, while the Congress has preferred to field party loyalists, including 21 sitting MLAs.     The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), opposition…

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Congress, NCP forge pre-poll alliance in Gujarat; Sharad Pawar-led party to contest three seats

Ahmedabad, ,11/11: The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) entered into a pre-poll alliance for the next month’s Gujarat Assembly elections, as part of which the Sharad Pawar-led party will contest three of the total 182 seats in the state, the leaders of the two parties announced here on Friday.        …

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