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Haldwani violence claims two lives, three critical

Haldwani, Feb 9 (PTI) Two persons were killed and three critically injured in the violence that broke out over the demolition of an illegally-built madrasa and a place for offering namaz inside its premises in the town where curfew has been imposed and shoot-at-sight orders issued. Nainital District Magistrate (DM) Vandana Singh and Senior Superintendent of Police Prahlad Meena, who held a joint press conference here on Friday, confirmed the two deaths in the violence that broke out on Thursday. Meena said the police had to use force in self-defence. The situation in the town is under control with curfew

FM Nirmala Sitharaman to lay White Paper on Indian Economy in Lok Sabha

New Delhi [India], February 8 (ANI): Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman would on Thursday lay a White Paper on the Indian economy on the table of Lok Sabha. The supplementary list of business of the House on February 8 mentioned that the minister will lay a copy of the White Paper. The budget session started with the address by President Droupadi Murmu to the joint sitting of two Houses on January 31. This is the last session of the current Lok Sabha before the general elections expected to be held in April-May this year. The government had announced in the union

No misuse of Raj Bhavan in former Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren’s arrest: Guv

Ranchi, Feb 8 (PTI) Jharkhand Governor CP Radhakrishnan on Thursday denied allegations that the Raj Bhavan was involved in former chief minister and JMM executive president Hemant Soren’s arrest by the ED in a money laundering scam. Soren was arrested on January 31 after a seven-hour grilling by the ED. He resigned as the chief minister before that. Addressing a press conference here, Radhakrishnan said, “There is no question of misuse of Raj Bhavan. Every democratic norm has been strictly followed by us.” Radhakrishnan claimed that the Raj Bhvan did not ask Soren to resign as CM but it was

PM Modi not born as OBC, belongs to general caste: Rahul Gandhi

Jharsuguda (Odisha) [India], February 8 (ANI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not belong to the Other Backward Caste (OBC) community as he was born in a general category. Addressing a public rally during the Odisha leg of Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra here, the Wayanad MP said, “Whenever BJP workers come to you, tell them one thing that our Prime Minister lied to the entire country that he belonged to the backward class. He was not born in a backward class, he belongs to the general caste. You tell this to every BJP

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