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Supporters of two BJP MPs clash at airport

Agencies
March 26, 2019

Patna, Mar 26: Supporters of two BJP MPs - Ravi Shankar Prasad and RK Sinha - clashed with each other at Patna’s Jayaprakash Narayan International Airport on Tuesday. Both Prasad and Sinha are Rajya Sabha members and had flown down to Patna from New Delhi.

Prasad, who is a four-term Rajya Sabha member and also Union Minister for Law and IT, has been given Lok Sabha ticket from Patna Sahib constituency as a BJP candidate. He will be pitted against the incumbent BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha. RK Sinha, an old RSS hand and Rajya Sabha member, was also a strong claimant for the BJP ticket from Patna Sahib and had even started poll preparedness in anticipation of his ticket.

“The whole fracas at Patna airport started when angry supporters of RK Sinha showed black flags to Prasad,” an airport source told Deccan Herald. The supporters of Union Minister initially tried to stop the agitators from showing dissent. But when they continued with their protest, Prasad’s men reportedly roughed them up. In return, Sinha’s supporters too thrashed some of Prasad’s workers.

In the melee, the airport campus became a battlefield with both sides indulging in fisticuffs. Cops were rushed in to restore normalcy.

Incidentally, both Prasad and Sinha belong to the upper caste Kayastha community and had, therefore, sought parliamentary poll ticket from Kayastha-dominated Patna Sahib constituency. Interestingly, the present BJP MP, Shatrughan Sinha, who is all set to join Congress and contest from this seat as Mahagatbandhan candidate, is also a Kayastha and had won from here in 2009 as well as 2014.

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kumar
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Wednesday, 27 Mar 2019

I wish same situation take place in each and every constituency. 

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January 29,2020

Mumbai, Jan 29: Unfazed by his suspension from flying on Tuesday, stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra on Wednesday claimed that he once again approached television journalist Arnab Goswami, who he said was his co-passenger on a flight from Lucknow, for an "honest discussion" but was turned away.

Kamra tweeted in the morning that "Arnab Goswami was again travelling in his flight while returning from Lucknow". "I again asked him politely if he wants to have a honest discussion he with his verbal arrogant hand jester he asked me to move away & I did that (sic)," he tweeted.

The comedian was suspended from flying by IndiGo and Air India on Tuesday after he allegedly heckled Goswami aboard a Mumbai-Lucknow plane and posted a video clip on his Twitter handle.

While IndiGo suspended Kamra from flying with it for a period of six months, Air India banned him until further notice.

In a statement released on Twitter after he posted the video, Kamra said he did "exactly what Republic TV journalists do to people in their private/public spaces". Kamra stated he had not done anything criminal by allegedly heckling Goswami.

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April 28,2020

New Delhi, Apr 28: With 1,594 new cases of COVID-19 reported in the last 24 hours and 51 deaths, India's total count of coronavirus cases surged to 29,974, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Tuesday.

The total cases are inclusive of 7,026 cured and discharged patients, one migrated and 937 deaths.

At present, there are 22,010 active COVID-19 cases in the country.

Addressing a press conference here, Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry, said that in the last 28 days, 17 districts have had no new Covid-19 cases. "This means we need to maintain constant vigil," he added.

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July 20,2020

New Delhi, Jul 20: India's COVID-19 case tally crossed the 11 lakh mark with the highest single-day spike of 40,425 new cases and 681 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, informed the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry on Monday.

Total cases in the country now stand at 11,18,043 while the death toll is 27,497.
The Health Ministry said the total number of cases includes 3,90,459 active cases and 7,00,087 patients have been cured/discharged/migrated.

Maharashtra remains the worst affected state with 3,10,455 cases reported until Sunday.
Meanwhile, as per the information provided by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 1,40,47,908 samples have been tested for COVID-19 till July 19, of these 2,56,039 samples were tested yesterday.

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