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Datia, Dec 9: As the exit polls predicted a tight race with the Congress, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday expressed confidence that the BJP would win a comfortable majority in the Assembly election to form a government for the fourth consecutive time. “I am the biggest surveyor [pollster] as I remain in the midst of the public all day long. The BJP is set to romp

An Air India Express flight -- IX715 -- from Kannur to Abu Dhabi landed in the UAE capital at 12.30pm. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Union Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu had on Sunday commissioned the Kannur International Airport Ltd (KIAL). The first flight, IX715, was flagged off by the chief guests at 10am. All 180 passengers received a gift each from KIAL. This is the

Sanya, Dec 9: A Mexican model and volunteer was crowned Miss World at a glitzy event on the tropical Chinese island of Hainan on Saturday. Miss Mexico Vanessa Ponce de Leon, 26, has a degree in international business, volunteers for "Migrantes en el Camino" and is on the board of directors of a rehab centre for girls, according to the Miss World website. She was crowned as the 68th Miss World by

New Delhi, Dec 9: Amid raging controversy over the revised economic growth numbers, former chief economic advisor Arvind Subramanian has called for an investigation by experts to clear doubts and build confidence while noting that the "puzzle" about the data needs to be explained. He stressed that institutions that do not have technical expertise in calculating the GDP data should not be involved

Lucknow, Dec 8: Bulandshahr Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Krishna Bahadur Singh and two other police officials have been transferred in connection with the mob violence in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district in which two people including a cop were killed. Sitapur Superintendent of Police Prabhakar Chaudhary has been appointed as Bulandshahr SSP replacing Singh, who has now been

Lucknow, Dec 8: A soldier who is the key suspect in the killing of a police inspector during a violent protest staged by hardline Hindutva forces in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr earlier this week, has reportedly been detained. Jitendra Malik, also known as Jeetu Fauji, was detained last night by a team of the Uttar Pradesh police from Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore town, sources said. However, the army

Bhaderwah, Dec 8: Setting an example of communal harmony and brotherhood, a Hindu-majority village in Bhaderwah town of Jammu and Kashmir elected unopposed the head of its only Muslim family as their Panch in the ongoing nine-phased Panchayat polls. Chowdhary Mohammad Hussain (54), a Gujjar from a family of cattle rearers, has become the Panch of Bhelan-Kharothi village of Hanga Panchayat

Tehran, Dec 8: Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said US sanctions were "economic terrorism", as he sought to foster a united front from visiting regional officials on Saturday. Washington has reimposed an oil embargo and other damaging sanctions on Iran since pulling out in May from a landmark 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and major powers. "America's unjust and illegal sanctions against the

Mekedatu, Dec 8: Karnataka minister for Water Resources D K Shivakumar today expressed surprise over Tamil Nadu calling for a special Legislature session over Mekedatu drinking water project taken up within the state and said that the riparian State should realise benefits as it was not an irrigation project. Speaking to reporters at the proposed dam site on the border of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu

New Delhi: Days, after a police inspector was killed during the Bulandshahr violence, erupted over alleged cow slaughter, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath called the murder an 'accident', adding that whoever responsible for it will be punished. Adityanath also said that the cop's killing was not an incident of 'mob lynching'. The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister's statement came reportedly