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Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao is openly exploring the possibilities of a new front without BJP and Congress. However, the TRS leader also cleared the air about a dispute between him and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Gauri Lankesh murder has been working with its entire focus on just this one case for the last five months.

A two-thirds majority in Tripura is a morale-booster for the BJP and its cadre in West-Bengal and even in neighbouring Odisha.

Having secured absolute majority in the 60-seat Tripura assembly, BJP’s Parliamentary Board is all set to meet on Saturday evening to decide on the successor to outgoing CM Manik Sarkar.

Sarma was in the Congress for nearly two decades and a minister in the then Tarun Gogoi-led Congress governments for nearly 15 years before joining the BJP in 2015.

However, Saturday was a pleasant surprise when in middle of the Holi weekend, the nation woke up to national TV channels doing minute-by-minute coverage of election results in Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya.

Himanta managed to break the entire top leadership of the Trinamool Congress and the Congress to bring them into the BJP fold. He then went on to build an Assam-style alliance with IPFT (Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura).

Officials said that Union ministers, who enjoy Z plus category security cover, would be entitled to use the bullet-proof vehicle.

Umar Haque, 25, showed the children beheading videos and other violent militant propaganda, forced them to re-enact deadly attacks on the British capital and made them role-play attacking police officers.

Malayalam Magazine Grihalakshmi in its latest edition had featured model-actress Gilu Joseph, also an air-hostess, breastfeeding the child without covering her breasts as part of a campaign to end the stigma attached to it, igniting a massive debate.

Varun Gandhi said people are less aware about the selection of their elected representatives, and choose them based on caste, religion and region, which is not the way to take the country forward.

The attack, which was caught on camera, took place after the victim, Ashish, stopped two men from hitting a teenager, who had thrown water balloons at them on Thursday morning.

"It is certainly concerning to see your government, to see your country, put together that kind of video that shows the Russian Government attacking the US," State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert told reporters at a separate news conference.

The attack came two days after President Ashraf Ghani offered to start peace talks with the Taliban and just over a month after an explosives-packed ambulance was detonated in the city centre, killing around 100 people.

Former Small Business Administration chief Maria Contreras-Sweet plans to launch a new company, save about 150 jobs, protect the small companies that are owed money, and create a victims' compensation fund that will supplement existing insurance coverage...

Dubbed the "Noah's Ark" of food crops, the Global Seed Vault is buried inside a former coal mine on Svalbard, a remote Arctic island in a Norwegian archipelago around 1,000 kilometres (650 miles) from the North Pole.