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KOCHI: The Congress has finally shown the door to veteran Congress leader K.V.Thomas, bringing an end to his nearlly three-decade stint with the party with several partrymen calling him the modern day ‘Judas’. Late on Thursday night, State Congress president K.Sudhakaran issued a letter announcing the party’s decision. Seventy-six-year-old Thomas’s days in the grand-old-party was … Read more

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to pass interim status quo order on the survey of Gyanvapi-Shringar Gauri complex at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. The apex court, however, has agreed to consider listing of a plea by the Muslim against the survey of the Gyanvapi premises. A bench headed by Chief Justice NV … Read more

HYDERABAD: All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday termed the Gyanvapi Masjid verdict a “blatant violation” of the Places of Worship Act 1991. As per the Act, “no person shall convert any place of worship of any religious denomination or any section thereof into a place of worship of a different section … Read more

NEW DELHI: In the last 24 hours, India reported 2,841 fresh Covid-19 cases across the country and saw the active cases slip down to 18,604 from 19,067 the previous day. This meant that the active cases stand at 0.04%. India’s daily positivity rate now stands at 0.56%, while the weekly positivity rate is 0.69% at … Read more

Bharuch/Surat: It was a lump-in-the-throat moment for Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday when a visually impaired man’s daughter broke down while telling him that she had decided to become a doctor after seeing her father’s ordeal. Interacting with Modi via video link at ‘Utkarsh Mahotsav’ in Gujarat’s Bharuch, Ayub Ibrahim Patel, a resident of … Read more

NEW DELHI: Describing polarisation in the hitherto-shunned vivid religious terms, Congress on Thursday accused the BJP of sowing seeds of divisions between Hindus and Muslims, calling it one of the big challenges in the country under the Modi government. Listing the agenda for the three-day ‘chintan shivir’ at Udaipur starting on Friday, Congress said communalism … Read more