Cabinet gives nod to creation of Rayagarh railway division

Rayagarh: The Central Government has approved the creation of a new railway division in Rayagarh. Following the approval, the Waltiar division will be renamed as Vishakhapatnam Division and this will be under the Southern railway division. A new Rayagarh division will be created and it will be headquarted at Rayagarh. Under this division, Kottabhalsa- Bacheli,…

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Aadhaar card not conclusive proof of citizenship: Supreme Court agrees with Election Commission amid SIR row

New Delhi, 12/9: Hearing a batch of pleas against the Election Commission’s electoral roll revision in Bihar, the Supreme Court on Tuesday called the row over it ‘largely a trust deficit issue’ as the poll body claimed roughly 6.5 crore people of the total 7.9 crore voting population didn’t have to file any documents for…

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Heavy rains force closure of government offices, educational institutes in Chennai

Chennai, 31/12:Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has declared a holiday on Friday for all government offices except those engaged in essential services, schools and colleges in Chennai, Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur, and Chengalpatu districts due to heavy rainfall.     So far, three people died in Chennai due to electrocution and four subways were closed due…

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Fire breaks out at Tarini Bastralaya in Bhubaneswar, salesman killed

Bhubaneswar: A devastating fire broke out at the popular Tarini Bastralaya in Kalpana Square, Bhubaneswar, the capital city of Odisha, last night. Tragically, a salesman was reportedly charred to death in the incident. According to reports, there is a five-storey warehouse in the back side of Tarini Bastralaya near Kalpana Chhack in Bhubaneswar. The alarm was…

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Shashi Tharoor admits to having difference of opinion with some colleagues from Congress

Thiruvananthapuram, 19/7: Amidst the speculations over his future plans, Congress Working Committee member and Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor has said that there are some differences with party leadership on some issues and expressed hopes that those can be sorted out. Even as Tharoor lamented that he was not invited to the campaign at Nilambur by-poll…

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Raj Thackeray, Devendra Fadnavis meet amid MNS-Sena(UBT) alliance buzz

Mumbai, 12/6: In a surprising turn of events in Maharashtra politics, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis met MNS founder-president Raj Thackeray at the Taj Lands End hotel in Mumbai on Thursday. The meeting comes at a time when there were informal discussions between Raj and his estranged cousin and Shiv Sena (UBT) head Uddhav Thackeray for…

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