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Chennai, Nov 9: More than a year after quitting his job to protest the Centre's anti-people policies, former Karnataka cadre IAS officer Sasikanth Senthil formally joined the Congress party in Chennai on Monday. Senthil joined the party in the presence of Tamil Nadu Congress Committee chief K S Alagiri, state incharge Dinesh Rao and All India Congress secretary Sanjay Dutt. Senthil said that he

Mumbai, Nov After arrested Republic TV anchor Arnab Goswami alleged that he was being "assaulted" in jail and was not being allowed to meet his family, the Maharashtra Governor has intervened and conveyed his concern to the state government. Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari spoke to Maharashtra's Home Minister Anil Deshmukh this morning and expressed concern over the security and health of Mr

Bengaluru, Nov 9: Reliance Industries Ltd and Saudi Aramco are resuming talks over a 20 per cent stake sale by the Indian conglomerate in its oil-to-chemical business after a brief pause due to Covid-19 pandemic, ET Now reported on Monday, citing sources. Both the companies were committed to the deal and Aramco wants to do a physical inspection of Reliance's assets in India, the report said

Abu Dhabi, Nov 8: A spirited team performance by Delhi Capitals enabled handed them their first-ever final spot in the Indian Premier League after defeating SunRisers by 17-run in Qualifier 2 here at Sheikh Zayed Stadium on Sunday. With this win, Delhi will now face Mumbai Indians in the summit clash on Tuesday, November 10. Chasing a gigantic target of 190, SRH had a poor start as they lost

Bengaluru, Nov 9: Karnataka reported 1,963 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday taking the total count of cases in the state to 8,48,850. According to the State Health and Family Welfare Department, 2,686 people were discharged today and total discharged cases now stand at 8,04,485. Nineteen people succumbed to the coronavirus in the state taking the death toll to 11,410. The active cases in the state

Bengaluru, Nov 9: A retired professor from Bangalore University and former registrar of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) committed suicide in Bengaluru. N S Ashok Kumar reportedly hanged himself from the ceiling of his residence at KAS Officers’ Colony, Mico Layout on Sunday morning. Kumar, who was serving as registrar of Garden City University for the last two years, was earlier

Washington, Nov 8: United States President-elect Joe Biden will work towards providing a roadmap to American citizenship for nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants, including over 500,000 from India, and will also establish a minimum admission number of 95,000 refugees annually. As a largely immigrant community, but in some cases with American roots reaching back generations, Indian-Americans

Washington, Nov 8: On the first day of his presidency, president-elect Joe Biden intends to rescind Donald Trump’s travel bans on travellers from 13 countries, most either majority-Muslim or African nations. Shortly after taking office in 2017, Trump issued an executive order that banned travellers from seven majority-Muslim nations from entering the United States. The Trump administration

Joe Biden was fresh off winning the Michigan primary and effectively capturing the Democratic presidential nomination, a prize he’d sought for the better part of three decades. Instead of plotting a strategy to build momentum, he was contemplating an abrupt halt. He gathered his senior team in a conference room on the 19th floor of his campaign’s Philadelphia headquarters, the type of in-person

Mumbai, Nov 8: Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami on Sunday said he was subjected to torture and was not being allowed to talk to his lawyers. A video released by the Republic Television showed him speaking to media from the police van which shifted him from Alibag primary school in Rajgad district to Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai. “I had requested them please let me talk (to my lawyers). But