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Plans are also on to make the payment through RTGS to the bank accounts of beneficiaries. The minister said, saving of crores of rupees by weeding out bogus beneficiaries will help in effective implementation of schemes like 'Anthya Samskara.'

Maruti Suzuki Executive Director Shashank Srivastava said that the ownership pattern in India still has not changed and people purchase cars with an 'aspirational aspect'.

Criticising CM Mamata Banerjee for her opposition to the NRC, Union Minister Smriti Irani said, it proves the dichotomy on her stand on illegal immigrants.

Security forces were directed to be on extra alert along the border as well as in the hinterland so that any misadventure by the Pakistan Army and Pakistan-backed terrorists could be foiled.

The ride was flagged off from Gurgaon with stops in Shimla, Sangla, Tabo, Kaza, Nako and Theog.

Leader of the Maharishi Valmiki Ambedkar Navyuvak Sangh, Harkisan Tank joined AAP on Wednesday, along with his supporters.

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The Trinamool chief has lost her cool on a number of occasions when confronted by groups of youth chanting 'Jai Shri Ram'.

The women sought the intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik to end their plight.

THe Bhim Army chief also launched an attack against Bahujan Samaj Party general secretary Satish Chandra Mishra, accusing him of misguiding BSP chief Mayawati and weakening the Bahujan movement.

For Assembly polls last year, nearly 12,000 Bru refugees, lodged in six relief camps of Tripura, travelled to Kahnmun in Mamit district of Mizoram to cast their vote.

What anchors Kaushik Ganguly's 'Naragkirtan' solidly to the theme of sexual diastrophism are the two principal actors who play out the doomed love with a vigorous vulnerability.

Zadaphia had left the BJP ahead of the 2013 Gujarat Assembly polls to launch his own party with Keshubhai Patel. He returned to the party fold a few years back.