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New Delhi, Dec 30: Soon after its seven personnel were allegedly caught leaking sensitive information to Pakistani intelligence agencies after being honey-trapped, Indian Navy has banned the use of Facebook by naval personnel. It has also banned smartphones at naval bases, dockyards and on-board warships. The "stringent" step has been taken by Navy soon after seven naval personnel were caught

Kolkata, Dec 30: As anti-citizenship law protests in various universities showed no signs of let up, Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal on Sunday said the central government will not tolerate educational institutions turning into hubs of politicking “at any cost”. He said that anyone is free to engage in political activities, but colleges and universities should be kept out of it, as many

Bankura, Dec 30: BJP West Bengal Vice-President Rajkumari Keshari said here on Sunday that TMC chief and State chief minister Mamata Banerjee was a "ghost who is fearful of Lord Ram". Keshari was here to attend a rally in support of the Citizenship Amendment Act -2019. "She (Mamata) doesn't have glory, she doesn't have the qualification to become Chief Minister," said Keshari. "She is a ghost as

Pune, Dec 29: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said here on Saturday that only those who will say "Bharat Mata Ki Jai" will stay in India. He was addressing the 54th state conference of the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). "Whether the sacrifice given by Bhagat Singh and Subhas Chandra Bose will go waste? People have fought for freedom not because we have to count after 70 years who all

New Delhi, Dec 29: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the coming decade belongs to the youth and lauded them for believing in the system and questioning it when it does not respond properly. Addressing his last 'Mann ki Baat' of 2019, the prime minister said the youth hate anarchy and disorder and dislike casteism, nepotism and favouritism, remarks that come in the backdrop of recent

Mumbai, Dec 29: Former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis' wife Amruta Fadnavis, who was recently engaged in a war of words with the Shiv Sena, has in a cryptic comment said having a bad leader was not the state's fault, "but staying with one is". The remark comes a week after she attacked state Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray while responding to her husband's tweet to condemn Congress

Mumbai, Dec 29: Union Minister for Minorities, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, on Saturday demanded "immediate action" against a UP cop who purportedly asked Muslims to "go to Pakistan" during a protest. "It is condemnable if it is true. Immediate action should be taken against the police officer," Naqvi told media here in response to a question on the incident. In a viral video, a police officer was seen

Lucknow, Dec 28: The Uttar Pradesh government is planning to ban Popular Front of India (PFI) here as allegations were made that the organisation had instigated violence in the name of protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, government sources said. The state police had earlier arrested three members of PFI in connection with the violent protests in Lucknow on December 19 against

New Delhi, Dec 28: Public sector state-run State Bank of India (SBI) will launch an one-time password (OTP)-based ATM cash withdrawal facility from January 1, 2020, as an overnight service (8 p.m.-8 a.m.) which signifies that while withdrawing cash, the customer will receive an OTP on the mobile number registered with the bank. The OTP-based withdrawal is applicable only to withdrawals from SBI

Meerut, Dec 28: A top police officer in Meerut allegedly told a group of people to tell protesters to go to Pakistan during violence in the city last week over the amended citizenship act in which five people were killed. The incident purportedly took place on December 20 in Lisari Gate Police Station area and it was captured on video which was circulated widely. In the 1.43 minute-long video