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Kolkata, Jul 28: Outgoing West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi on Saturday said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has the vision and power to implement her decisions but her appeasement policy is adversely affecting the social harmony of the state. Tripathi, who has had several run-ins with Banerjee during his five-year tenure, said she should look at every citizen equally without

New Delhi, Jul 28: The Congress Working Committee meeting to decide the new Working President will meet after Parliament's Budget session with outgoing party chief Rahul Gandhi and General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra refraining from taking any decision, party sources said. A senior Congress leader wishing not to be named said the CWC, party's top decision-making body, will meet after the

Basti, Jul 28: Taking exception to a video of a police team indulging in self-glorification by brandishing automatic weapons, the state's top cop on Saturday transferred them to police lines and ordered an inquiry into the matter. The video was shot after six members of the Uttar Pradesh Police's SWAT team led by Vikram Singh nabbed a rape accused-- Asgar following a brief gunfight, four days ago

New Delhi, Jul 28: Embattled liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya on Saturday approached the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the confiscation of properties owned by him and his relatives. In the petition, Mallya has said that no other properties other than that of Kingfisher Airlines facing cases of alleged irregularities should be attached. On July 11, the Bombay High Court had refused to grant a stay on

Hyderabad, Jul 28: Senior Congress leader and former Union minister S Jaipal Reddy died at a hospital here in the early hours of Sunday, sources close to him said. He was 77. He was recently diagnosed with pneumonia and was admitted to the hospital, where he died at 1.28 am, a Congress leader told news agency. Reddy has been a parliamentarian for several decades and held key portfolios in various

Jul 27: In a landmark move by the government, the GST Council has brought down the GST rateon electric vehicles (EVs) to 5 per cent from 12 per cent. The move has come as a shot in the arm for the auto industry which has been pushing for a tax boost to promote the sale of EVs. The Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles (SMEV) has welcomed the move to slash the GST. The move comes at a time

New Delhi, Jul 27: The Congress on Saturday attacked the government for allowing cutting of over 1 crore trees for development projects since 2014 as the party wondered if the "BJP is destroying our future". "Trees are 'life'. Tress are 'oxygen'. Tress absorb 'carbon dioxide'. Trees protect 'environment'. Modi Govt has cut a whopping 1,09,75,844 trees in the past 5 years! (Parliamentary Reply),"

Badlapur, Jul 27: Around 900 passengers, including railway staff, who were stranded on board Mumbai-Kolhapur Mahalaxmi Express, which was marooned in floodwaters between Vagani and Badlapur stations, near 100 km from Mumbai, were rescued and taken to safety, after an 8-hour-long rescue operation mounted by various forces, Children, women, nine of them pregnant, elders and disabled persons were

Washington, Jul 27: Days after the meeting between US President Donald Trump and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, the Pentagon notified the US Congress on Friday of its decision to approve military sales worth USD 125 million that would result in 24x7 end-use monitoring of the F-16 fighter jets of Pakistan. US officials asserted that the freeze in security assistance to Pakistan on Donald

Lagos, Jul 26: A snake burst onto the chamber floor of a state parliament building in southwest Nigeria, sending lawmakers scampering and forcing an indefinite recess, officials said on Friday. "When we were about to enter into plenary, a big snake just ran out of the chamber which disrupted our sitting and we had to hurriedly leave the chamber," said Olugbenga Omole, a spokesman for lawmakers