Abhijit Banerjee responds to NYAY criticism, says he would have also helped BJP if it had asked him

Banerjee, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics, also said that India’s GDP growth rate is likely to fall even lower than 5% in the coming quarters.

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Ayodhya dispute: VHP says Hindu parties did not participate in any mediation effort

Reports had earlier suggested that the Hindu and Muslim litigants in the case had reached a settlement.

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· Yesterday · 09:55 pm

FCRA case: CBI challenges Bombay HC order stopping it from taking action against senior lawyers

In July, the High Court ruled that the CBI’s first information report against Indira Jaising and Anand Grover had ‘no basis in fact and law’.

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· Yesterday · 08:17 pm

Kartarpur project: Withdraw proposed fee for visitors, Punjab CM Amarinder Singh urges Imran Khan

Islamabad has decided to levy a $20 fee on visitors to the Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara, which is the final resting place of Sikhism’s founder Guru Nanak Dev.

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· Yesterday · 07:46 pm

Bhutan: Indian tourist detained for climbing atop sacred monument, released after issuing apology

Abhijit Ratan Hajare from Maharashtra climbed on top of the National Memorial Chorten in Dochula. He was part of a group of bikers.

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· Yesterday · 07:10 pm

Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee is Left-leaning, people rejected his views: Piyush Goyal

Banerjee helped conceptualise the Congress’ minimum income guarantee scheme. The commerce minister said ‘it is not necessary that we agree with his thinking’.

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· Yesterday · 03:51 pm

Uttar Pradesh: Hindutva leader Kamlesh Tiwari murdered in his office in Lucknow

Tiwari, who claimed to be a leader of the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha, succumbed to injuries after being taken to a hospital in critical condition.

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· Yesterday · 02:56 pm

Bangladeshi border guards claim they fired at BSF soldiers in ‘self defence’

The Bangladeshi soldiers alleged that the firing began after BSF soldiers, who ‘crossed border’, were told they will be handed over to authorities.

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· Yesterday · 08:50 am

Kartarpur project: Agreement reached with Pakistan on everything except service fee matter, says MEA

Islamabad wants devotees visiting Gurudwara Kartarpur Sahib in Narowal to pay $20.

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· Oct 17, 2019 · 09:41 pm

‘It is necessary to rewrite history from Indian point of view,’ says Amit Shah

The home minister claimed the 1857 War of Independence might not have been considered a part of history had it not been for Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Savarkar.

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· Oct 17, 2019 · 08:50 pm

BSF soldier killed by Bangladesh border guards, one constable injured

The incident occurred in West Bengal following a flag meeting called by the Bangladeshi forces at 10.30 am, hours after they apprehended three Indian fishermen.

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· Oct 17, 2019 · 05:44 pm

‘Why Savarkar, why not Godse?’ Manish Tewari questions BJP’s Bharat Ratna promise in Maharashtra

Tewari said the award should be go to Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse instead of Savarkar, who was only accused of conspiring to kill Gandhi.

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· Oct 17, 2019 · 12:45 pm