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Home Minister Amit Shah reviews security in Jammu and Kashmir

ION correspondentAugust 26, 2022August 26, 2022

Home Minister Amit Shah held a review meeting on the security situation of Jammu and Kashmir in New Delhi yesterday. He reviewed the working of the security grid and on...

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Arvind Kejriwal govt calls special session of Delhi Assembly to expose BJP

ION correspondentAugust 25, 2022August 25, 2022

Amid allegations that the “BJP is poaching the Aam Aadmi Party MLAs” and trying to break the party, the Arvind Kejriwal government has called a special session of the...

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Bihar CM Nitish Kumar’s convoy attacked in Patna

ION correspondentAugust 22, 2022August 22, 2022

Stones were hurled at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s cavalcade in Patna on Sunday, following which 11 people were arrested, officials said. Kumar was not present in the cavalcade, which was...

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50 killed as rains wreak havoc; Himachal, Uttarakhand worst hit

ION correspondentAugust 22, 2022August 13, 2025

At least 50 people were killed in separate incidents of floods and landslides triggered by intense monsoon rains across four states over the past three days, officials said. Heavy...

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Delhi government transfers 12 IAS officers after raid on Manish Sisodia

ION correspondentAugust 20, 2022August 20, 2022

Delhi Lieutenant Governor (LG) V.K. Saxena on Friday ordered the immediate transfer of 12 Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officers. In an official notification, the LG office said that the...

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Earthquake of magnitude 5.2 hits Lucknow, tremors felt in adjoining areas; no casualties

ION correspondentAugust 20, 2022August 13, 2025

The National Center for Seismology (NCS) informed that an earthquake of magnitude 5.2 on the Richter scale hit the north-northeast of Lucknow in the early hours of Saturday (August...

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25 lakh new voters likely to be enrolled in J&K as non-locals residing in state to get voting rights

ION correspondentAugust 18, 2022August 18, 2022

As is the case in other parts of the country, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Electoral Officer Hirdesh Kumar on Wednesday said around 25 lakh new voters are expected to...

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Fresh trouble for Ashok Gehlot as 12 Cong councillors quit following Dalit boy’s death

ION correspondentAugust 17, 2022August 17, 2022

Days after the death of a nine-year-old Dalit boy who was allegedly beaten up by his schoolteacher for touching a drinking water pot in Rajasthan’s Jalore, 12 Congress councillors...

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Kashmir Pandit shot dead by militants in J&K’s Shopian, killing fuels fresh wave of fear among minorities in valley

ION correspondentAugust 17, 2022August 17, 2022

Militants shot dead a civilian and injured another, both members of the minority Kashmiri Pandit community, in south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Tuesday. According to the police, terrorists fired...

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RJD gets lion’s share but JD(U) keeps plum portfolios

ION correspondentAugust 17, 2022August 17, 2022

Portfolios were allocated among members of the Nitish Kumar cabinet in Bihar with the chief minister retaining key departments like home which he had held in the previous government....