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WhatsApp woes: No more messages, orders Chief Justice of Allahabad HC

The latest to be hit by a WhatsApp blitz is none other than the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court

Police form human chain to escort Chidambaram, face wrath from journalists

The commotion was just about settling down when a former Uttarakhand chief minister came up to the entrance of the courtroom and was allowed entry without the slightest murmur

Shashi Tharoor's tweet once again gets netizens looking up dictionaries

On Wednesday, he retweeted party colleague P Chidambaram's tweet and some of Tharoor's followers immediately reached for their dictionaries to search for the meaning of the word 'schadenfreude'

Amid remembrance and protests, Thursday promises to be politically busy day

While the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library will host the launch of a book at 5 pm, the Congress will at that particular hour kick off the 75th birth anniversary celebrations of Rajiv Gandhi

My pride, Didi: Trinamool launches tongue-in-cheek campaign on social media

No political campaign is ever complete without satire and this campaign by the TMC, too, has its share

Telangana cop caught taking bribe day after getting best constable award

Constable Tirupati Reddy of Mahabubnagar district was caught by the ACB accepting a bribe of Rs 17,000 from a sand tractor owner

BJP adds 30 million new members across the country: Shivraj Singh Chouhan

Within a few months of the formation of the Congress government in the state, the Madhya Pradesh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party has started drawing up its strategy for the 2024 elections

What's common between India's auto industry & the hen that laid golden eggs

The Twitter user said the farmer in this case was the Central government, the hen was the auto industry, and the egg was the goods and services tax

RJD's gen-next crisis: Tej, Tejashvi skip launch of membership drive

The party's recruitment drive, launched on August 10 in Patna, was a no-show with the two brothers or their sister Misa Bharti not turning up

Amit Shah releases book on M Venkaiah Naidu's two years in office

The 257-page book has 232 photographs of Naidu's public engagements and a chapter on the "turnaround" in the functioning of the Rajya Sabha

A course for priests: MP govt to set up an institute for temple management

Priests will learn the history of temples, their functioning, the art of performing rituals, their social and religious responsibilities, and so on

Madhya Pradesh Congress seeks apology from rebels for 'ghar wapsi'

According to party sources, those who want a second chance have to give a written apology

Breaking rules? Kerala traffic police give laddoos to helmetless riders

The state has made mandatory that pillion riders on two-wheelers wear the helmet and those sitting in the back seat of a car wear the seat belt

Auto firms have neither any wish-list, nor any suggestion for Budget 2019

The auto companies do not wish to 'waste time watching the Budget'

Smart project? Congress in talks to manufacture 300 AC shelters for cows

This smart cow shelter project will be funded through MGNREGA and CSR funds.

Record of sorts: Andhra Pradesh guv has administered oath to 5 CMs in 9 yrs

The most recent one was for Jagan Mohan Reddy, whose party won a majority of the seats in the Andhra Pradesh assembly

Focus turns to AIADMK's lone LS MP, Panneerselvam's son Raveendranath

AIADMK is hopeful of getting a plum post in the to-be-formed NDA government at the centre

For the post of Leader of Opposition, will NCP and Congress merge?

The status is granted to the party that gets at least 10% of the Lok Sabha's 543 seats

BSE in celebratory mood after Sensex touches 40,000 on Modi victory

The Sensex, however, failed to close above 40,000 amid profit-taking and ended below 39,000

Return of king of good times: Mallya to appear on big screen soon

While it isn't clear when the documentary-style movie will be released, what is certain is that it will be launched on Netflix