Following are the top PTI stories at 2230 hours:
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DEL35 LDALL-CONGRESS
Cong to win all polls from K'tka to next general elections: Rahul
New Delhi: Virtually sounding the poll bugle for the next general elections, Congress president Rahul Gandhi today said his party will win all polls starting with Karnataka and come to power at the Centre in 2019.
DEL28 POL-SONIA-CONG-LD RALLY
Modi govt betrayed people, corruption has taken deeper roots under it: Sonia
New Delhi: Launching a scathing attack on the Modi government, former Congress president Sonia Gandhi today accused it of "betraying" the people by not keeping its promises and alleged that corruption had taken "deeper roots" since it came to power.
DEL3 SHAH-RALLY-CONG
Cong rally to mourn one family's loss of power: Shah
New Delhi: Hitting out at the Congress over its 'Jan Akrosh' rally, BJP president Amit Shah today said it was in fact a 'Parivar Akrosh' rally that highlights increasing irrelevance of a "dynasty and their courtiers", who have been sent out of power from one state after another in elections.
DEL21 DEF-INDOPAK-DRILL
India, Pak to carry out military drills as part of multi-nation exercise
New Delhi: In a first, arch rivals India and Pakistan will be part of a multi-nation counter-terror exercise in Russia in September, which will also be joined by China and several other countries.
DEL24 DEF-NAVY-AIRCRAFT
Indian Navy's IL-38 aircraft makes emergency landing near Moscow
New Delhi: An Indian Navy aircraft, which is in Russia for a mid-life upgradation, made an emergency landing at the Zhukovsky airfield outside Moscow after its chassis malfunctioned, Russian media reported today.
DEL18 INTERNSHIP-PM
PM Modi asks students to take up his govt's summer internship for clean India
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asked youngsters to join the Swachh Bharat Summer Internship 2018' launched by his government and announced incentives, including credit point by the UGC, for participants, saying it is an opportunity for those who want to make a change in the society.
DEL26 MANMOHAN SINGH
Democracy is in danger: Ex-PM Manmohan Singh
New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today sought support for the Congress and its president Rahul Gandhi, saying the democracy of the country is in danger with the Modi government consistently undermining its Constitutional institutions.
DEL30 JK LD RAPE
3 CRPF men suspended after woman alleges illegal confinement; rape by one of them
Jammu: Three CRPF personnel were suspended and an FIR registered after a 24-year-old woman alleged she was wrongfully confined and then raped by one of them inside a camp here, officials said today.
CAL7 BH-BOAT
Boat capsizes in Bihar's Kosi river, 8 feared drowned
Bhagalpur (Bihar): Eight persons, including seven children aged between six and 12 years, were feared drowned in the Kosi river today after the boat they were travelling in, capsized, police said.
MDS9 KA-YEDDYURAPPA
Janardhana Reddy campaigning for Sriramulu not for BJP: Yeddy
Kalaburagi (Kar): Amid criticism over mining baron G Janardhana Reddy taking part in electioneering in poll-bound Karnataka, state BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa today said the former minister was campaigning for his friend B Sriramulu and not for the party.
BOM4 MP-LD ACCIDENTS
16 dead in two separate road accidents in MP
Bhopal: At least 16 people, including eight members of a family, were today killed in two separate road accidents in Jabalpur and Mandsaur districts of Madhya Pradesh, police said.
BOM3 GJ-DALIT-BUDDHISM
Una flogging victims among 450 Dalits who embrace Buddhism
Ahmedabad: A Dalit family, whose four members were allegedly flogged by cow vigilantes in Una tehsil in Gujarat's Gir Somnath district in 2016, embraced Buddhism today at an event organised in Mota Samadhiyala village.
MDS7 TN-RAO-LD STALIN
Telangana CM meets Karuna, holds talks with Stalin
Chennai: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, on a mission to form a non-BJP non-Congress alternative, today met DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi and its working president M K Stalin here.
FOREIGN:
FGN15 NEPAL-BLAST-3RDLD PROJECT
Blast at India-developed hydroelectricity project in Nepal
Kathmandu: A bomb exploded today at the office of a hydroelectricity project being developed with Indian assistance in eastern Nepal, an official said, weeks before its inauguration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. By Shirish B Pradhan.
FGN14 CHINA-INDIA-POLICY COORDINATION
Modi-Xi summit: India, China to step up policy coordination
Wuhan: India and China will enhance policy coordination in their cooperation with neighbouring countries following the just-concluded informal summit here between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping, a top Chinese official has said. By K J M Varma
FGN13 PAK-MUMBAI-PROSECUTOR
PTI Exclusive: Pak removes chief prosecutor of Mumbai terror attack case for 'not taking govt line'
Lahore: Pakistan's Interior Ministry has abruptly removed the chief prosecutor from the Mumbai terror attack case for "not taking the government line", an official said today, in a major setback to India's efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice. By M Zulqernain.
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