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Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 2: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the two women who entered the Sabarimala temple early on Wednesday were given police protection during their trek to the shrine. The two women in their 40s entered the Lord Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala and offered prayers. "Earlier, women were not able to enter the temple due to certain hurdles. They may have entered the shrine

Jan 2: Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Urjit Patel had personally written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi about wanting to resign, citing personal reasons, several months before stepping down from the office in December, Modi said in an interview with news agency. "The governor himself requested (to resign) because of personal reasons. I am revealing for the first time, he was telling

New Delhi, Jan 2: After Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested that a decision on an ordinance on the Ram temple in Ayodhya could only be taken after the completion of the judicial process, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Tuesday said the assurances given by the BJP had very little credibility. He also alleged that sharpening communal polarisation was the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 1: Ahead of the inauguration of Women Wall program in Thiruvananthapuram today, CPM State Secretary K Balakrishnan has said that the women wall was not a "referendum" on the Sabarimala verdict. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is set to inaugurate the Women Wall program later today. The CPM state secretary said government fund was not utilised for the program and

Jan 1: India slashed import tax on crude and refined palm oil sourced from Southeast Asian (ASEAN) countries after request from suppliers, a government notification said late on Monday. The duty on crude palm oil was lowered to 40 percent from 44 percent, while a tax on the refined variety was cut to 50 percent from 54 percent, the notification said. The cuts took effect on Tuesday. In March 2018

Bulandshahr (UP), Jan 1: Police have arrested a saffron extremist, accused of attacking Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh with an axe before shooting him dead during the December 3 Hindutva violence in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district over alleged cow slaughter, officials said on Tuesday. The arrest of Kalua from a bus stand on Monday night takes the total number of accused held in this case to 30

Ahmedabad, Jan 1: Students of Gujarat schools will answer roll calls with 'Jai Hind' or 'Jai Bharat' instead of the current 'yes sir' and 'present sir' from January 1 in order to foster patriotism, a notification issued on Monday stated. The notification, issued by the Directorate of Primary Education and Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB), lays down that students of

Thrissur, Dec 31: Popular Leftist and former SFI leader Simon BrittoRodrigues, who becameparalysed after a campus clash in Kochi in 1983,passed away due to a heart attack in a private hospital here Monday, CPI(M) sources said. He was 64. He is survived by wife and a daughter. Wheelchair-bound Britto was a writer who had been active in the cultural and political circles in Kerala, they said. The

New Delhi, Dec 31: Congress president Rahul Gandhi targeted the BJP-led government Monday over the Rs 41,167-crore loss suffered by banks during the past year, saying the money given to "best friends" could have been used for running the MGNREGA for one full year, waiving farm loans in three states and opening 40 new AIIMS in the country. "In the guise of 'chowkidaar', they do the work of thieves

New Delhi, Dec 31: The contentious Triple Talaq Bill is facing stiff resistance from as many as 11 opposition parties including Congress in the Rajya Sabha, which recently got united to put forth their demand of sending the legislation to the Select Committee for further scrutiny. As per the latest dossier issued by Rajya Sabha secretary-general Desh Deepak Verma on Monday all India Anna Dravida