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The nation today celebrated Vijay Diwas to commemorate India’s victory over Pakistan in 1971 war. Rich tributes are being paid to the Martyrs who laid down their lives during the war.  President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi also paid tributes to the soldiers …

Kakinada: The Cyclonic storm ‘PHETHAI’ is moving further north-northwestwards with a speed of 16 kmph during past 06 hours and is lay centred at 410 km east-southeast of Chennai (Tamil Nadu), 530 km south-southeast of Machilipatnam (Andhra Pradesh) and 560 km south-southeast Kakinada (Andhra Pradesh). It is very likely to intensify …

Congress president Rahul Gandhi held hectic parleys today with top party leaders to decide on the new Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh. He held discussions with senior state leaders T S Singh Deo, Tamradhwaj Sahu, Bhupesh Baghel and Charan Das Mahant, who are the potential candidates, at his residence in New …

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today ruled out the possibility of a Joint Parliamentary Committee on Rafale deal. Briefing media in New Delhi, Mr Jaitley said investigations and reviews of this kind cannot be done when allegations are made by a body capable of partisan divisions. He said it has to …

Manipur Government yesterday honoured AIBA World Women Boxing Gold medalist  MC Mary Kom with the title “Meethoileima” (par excellent queen) at a function in Imphal yesterday. On the occasion, State Chief Minister N. Biren Singh handed over a cheque of ten lakh rupees to her. The Chief Minister also declared …

Hectic parleys are on for the government formation in five states where results of assembly elections were declared on Wednesday. In Madhya Pradesh, outgoing Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has taken the sole responsibility for the BJP’s defeat in the state assembly elections. Mr Chouhan was speaking in his first …

Hyderabad, Dec.12 (PMI): Declaring to fill vacant government posts very soon, TRS president and caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao today said the Rythu Bandhu program will be replicated across the entire nation if the Federal Front assumes power at the Centre after the ensuing Lok Sabha polls in 2019. …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that India stands ready to support its fellow countries in the march to achieving their development goals through skill building and training programmes, provision of affordable medicines and vaccines, knowledge transfers and exchange programmes. Inaugurating the fourth Partners’ Forum in New Delhi today, Mr …

The process of formation of governments begins in five states after the declaration of results of assembly polls yesterday. In Chhattisgarh, after winning the clear majority in the Assembly Elections, Congress has now shifted focus on forming the government in the state. The process to elect the new leader of …

Hyderabad, Dec.11 (PMI): Having won two-thirds majority in the December 7 Assembly elections in the State, a jubilant TRS supremo and caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao today attributed his party’s huge success in the polls to all sections of people, including women, youth, farmers, Minorities and others and vowed …