Global investors piled a net $216.3 million into Indian bonds on Friday, the day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s sweeping election victory.
The second-biggest daily inflow in two months turned foreign funds into net buyers of rupee-denominated notes for May, signalling the
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Surendra Singh, a former village head of Amethi, was killed due to local political rivalry, Uttar Pradesh police said on Monday. Singh had campaigned for BJP’s Smriti Irani during the Lok Sabha elections.
The police said that three people have been arrested in connection with the
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Eleven personnel of the CRPF and the state police were injured in an IED blast triggered by Maoists in Jharkhand’s Seraikela Kharsawan district in the early hours of Tuesday, officials said.
The blast took place around 5 am when a joint team of the CRPF’s special jungle
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US President Donald Trump said he isn’t pursuing regime change in Iran and his main goal is to ensure the Gulf country won’t develop nuclear weapons. Iran “has a chance to be a great country with the same leadership,” Trump said at a joint press conference in Tokyo on
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A global monitoring group says the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an explosion targeting a police van in Bangladesh's capital. Police said Sunday night's explosion in Dhaka's Malibagh area left three people injured, including a police officer , but
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Forty eight hours after the Congress Working Committee (CWC) met and analysed the party’s debacle in the Lok Sabha election, there was no clarity on whether Rahul Gandhi would continue as party president.
Sources told that there could be another CWC meeting later this week if Mr.
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At least one person was killed and 11 others sustained injuries after a powerful earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale struck northern Peru on Sunday morning.
Peru's National Emergency Operations Center reported the death of Dario Munoz, 48, a resident of San Ignacio town
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Three more state Congress chiefs resigned on Monday taking ‘moral responsibility’ for party’s poor performance in Lok Sabha elections , days after the PM Modi-led NDA swept to power bagging 352 of 542 seats .
These resignations take to six the number of party unit
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The Congress could lose the post of the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Maharashtra assembly, with five of its legislators set to leave the party, according to people familiar with the developments.
Five legislators — current LoP Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil, Abdul Sattar,
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Veeru Devgan, the popular action director behind films such as “Roti Kapda Aur Makaan” and “Mr Natwarlal” and the father of actor Ajay Devgn, passed away in Mumbai on Monday morning. He was 77. The cause of death is immediately not known but family
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