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Like Losing A Father”: PM Modi expresses grief over Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s death “He was a leader, orator, journalist, statesman

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August 16, 2018 The India Observer #AtalBihariVajpayee

Prez, PM lead the nation in mourning Vajpayee’s death

Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, one of India’s most charismatic leaders who led the nation through several crises and

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August 16, 2018 The India Observer #AtalBihariVajpayee, #LalkrishnaAdvani, #MrliManoharJoshi, #NarendraModi

Will miss my closest friend for 65 years immensely: L K Advani on Vajpayee’s death

Advani said he was at loss for words to express his deep grief and sadness. NEW DELHI: Veteran BJP leader

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August 16, 2018 The India Observer #AtalBihariVajpayee

Vajpayee to be accorded state funeral: Seven-day mourning declared, flag to be flown at half mast

National flag would be flown at half-mast from today for seven days across India and a state funeral would be

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August 16, 2018 The India Observer #ABVajpayee, #AIIMS, #AtalBiharVajpayee, #BJP, #Gwalior, #JanSangh, #PMModi

Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee dies at 93

NEW DELHI: Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, one of India’s most charismatic leaders who led the nation through several

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August 16, 2018 The India Observer #Advani-Vajpayee, #AIIMS, #AtalBihariVajpayee, #BJP, #BJPpatriarch, #lifesupport, #Vajpayeeera

Atal Bihari Vajpayee continues to be ‘critical’; PM Modi, leaders visit AIIMS

The former PM’s condition worsened over the last 24 hours and he’s on life support system, said a statement issued

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August 15, 2018 The India Observer #India@71, #IndiasIndependnceDay, #loksabhaelections2019, #ModifromRedFort, #Modispeech

Modi speaks of India’s rise under his government

New Delhi, Aug 15 (PTI) In his last Independence Day address ahead of the next Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra

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August 15, 2018 The India Observer #googledoodle, #India@71, #IndiasIndependenceDay, #REdfort, #TIO

Google celebrates 72nd Independence Day with doodle inspired by truck art

The doodle features a couple of peacocks crossing their beaks at the centre and the national birds are flanked on both sides

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August 14, 2018 The India Observer #IndiasIndependenceDay, #PresidentKovind, #Tricolor

President Kovind Addresses Nation on I-Day Eve, Hails Indian Army, Women, Farmers

New Delhi, Aug 14: President Ram Nath Kovind addressed the nation on the eve of Independence Day. President began the

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August 14, 2018 The India Observer #banhacking, #CosmosBank, #moneystolen, #Rupay

Hackers siphon off Rs 94 crore from Pune bank via ATMs in 21 countries

Hackers based in foreign countries carried out a malware attack on the servers of Pune’s Cosmos Bank and siphoned off

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August 14, 2018 The India Observer #Anitgua, #Commonwealth, #extradition, #GeetanjaliGroup, #MehulChoksi, #PNBscam

Fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi’s extradition process may go to court, ‘delayed’, says Antiguan Law Minister

Fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi’s extradition process may go to court, ‘delayed’, says Antiguan Law Minister NEW DELHI: The extradition process of

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August 14, 2018 The India Observer #BJP, #Congress, #Elections2019, #loksabhaelections2019, #OneNationOnepoll, #PMModi, #RahulGandhi

Congress dares Modi to dissolve Lok Sabha, hold general elections along with polls in states

Congress general secretary Ashok Gehlot said the ‘one nation, one election’ slogan is just a gimmick to deflect attention of

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August 14, 2018 The India Observer #CleanGangaMission, #Ganga, #NamamiGange, #RiversinIndia

Ganga river water in UP-West Bengal stretch unfit for drinking, bathing: Pollution Control Board

In compliance with the National Green Tribunal’s direction, the CPCB uploaded the map which showed most of the length of

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August 14, 2018 The India Observer #Lira, #rupeeexchnagerate, #rupeevsdollar, #Turkisheconomycrisis

Rupee plummets to historic low of 70.09 on Turkish lira collapse

Mumbai, Aug 14 (PTI) Rerversing all its early gains, the rupee today collapsed to a life-time low of 70.09 against the

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August 13, 2018 The India Observer #ConstitutinClub, #JNU, #KhuffseAzaadi, #UmarKhalid

JNU student leader Umar Khalid attacked in Delhi

New Delhi, Aug 13 (PTI) Some unidentified men targeted Jawaharlal Nehru University student leader Umar Khalid and gunshots were heard at

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August 13, 2018 The India Observer #amitshah, #Bangladeshis, #BJP, #hilsa, #infiltrators, #jamdani, #MamtaBanerjee, #NRC, #PMModi, #sandesh, #TMC, Assam

Mamata accuses BJP of being anti-Bengali, asks if hilsa, sandesh will be ‘branded ‘infiltrators’

Kolkata, Aug 13 (PTI) Attacking the BJP-led central government over exclusion of 40 lakh people in the final draft of Assam-NRC,

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August 10, 2018 The India Observer #ImranKhan, #India-Pakistan, #Kashmirissue, #militants, #PMModi, PTI

Indian envoy Ajay Bisaria meets Pakistan PM-in-waiting Imran Khan

India’s high commissioner to Pakistan Ajay Bisaria, accompanied by Deputy High Commissioner J P Singh, called on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman

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August 10, 2018 The India Observer #Hemraj, #MeghnaGulzar, #NupurTalwar, #RajeshTalwar, #Talwar

Aarushi murder case: Supreme Court agrees to hear appeals against Talwars’ acquittal

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today agreed to hear the CBI’s appeal challenging the acquittal of dentist couple Rajesh and

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August 10, 2018 The India Observer #CochinAirport, #Idukkidam, #Keralafloods, #navyrescue, #Palakkad, #Rains

Half of Kerala reels under floods as 29 die, 54,000 are homeless

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 10 (PTI) Dam reservoirs and rivers overflowed, sections of highways collapsed and homes were swept away in severe flooding

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August 10, 2018 Saeed Naqvi #AIADMK, #DMK, #JAYALALITHA, #KARUNANIDHI, #TamilNadu, #TNpolitics

Karunanidhi: Scratches On My Mind Firm Five Years In Chennai

Muthuvel Karunanidhi’s passing away has brought back disparate images of my five unlikely years in Chennai as regional editor of

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August 9, 2018 Mohd. Sayeed Malik #Article35A, #HariSingh, #IndiaPakistan, #SheikhAbdullah, Article370, kashmir

Fountainhead of unrest in Kashmir: August 9, 1953

‘Aggravated fears about the fate of Article 370 and Article 35A of the Constitution have reopened old wounds and laid

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August 9, 2018 The India Observer #amankiasha, #Feedom, #Independenceday, #IndiaPakistanfriendship, #releaseofprisoners, #TIO

36 years on, Rajasthan man to walk out of Pak jail on Aug 13

Jaipur, August 9. Union Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh on Thursday said a missing labourer from Rajasthan would

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August 9, 2018 The India Observer #Bihar, #DeputyChairman, #JDU, #NDA, #NitishKumar, #RjyaSabha

NDA’s Harivansh Singh elected Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman

New Delhi, August 9 The NDA nominee and JD (U) leader Harivansh Singh was elected to the post of Deputy

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August 9, 2018 The India Observer #airlines, #britishairways, #cabincrew, #RACIALDISCRIMINATION, #rudebehavior

Senior Indian bureaucrat accuses British Airways of racial discrimination

New Delhi, August 9. A senior bureaucrat has alleged “racial discrimination” and “rude behaviour” by the British Airways, which deplaned him

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August 9, 2018 Adam Rizvi #hatecrime, #Racism, #Sikhs, #Sikhsunderattack, #TIO, #Trumpadministration

Police chief’s son arrested for assault on elderly Sikh man in California

New York, August 9 Son of a police chief in California is among two teenagers arrested and charged with attempted