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Mamata Banerjee Pays Tribute to Mother Teresa On Her Birth Anniversary

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Mother Teresa's 110th birth anniversary observed todayMother Teresa's 110th birth anniversary: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday paid tribute to Mother Teresa on her 110th birth anniversary. Fondly remembering Mother Teresa - "Saint Teresa of Calcutta" - the Chief Minister tweeted: "Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love." “Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”Fondly remembering Mother Teresa (Saint Teresa of Calcutta) on her birth anniversary— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) August 26, 2020Born in a family of ethnic Albanians in Skopje in 1910, Mother Teresa left her home when she was 18. She later joined the 'Sisters of Loreto' in Ireland's Rathfarnham.Mother Teresa, whos

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No Relief In Supreme Court For Andhra Pradesh Government On Three Capital Plan

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Jagan Reddy governnment's three capital plan was cleared by Governor last month.New Delhi/ Amaravati: The Supreme Court today refused relief to the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh after it made an appeal for lifting the status quo order by the high court on the two news laws for its three capital plan.Refusing to interfere with the interim order of the high court, a three-judge bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy and MR Shah said: "The order is pending with the high court and it may decide the issue expeditiously.""The order has brought everything to a standstill. Preparations have to be done," senior lawyer Rakesh Dwivedi, representing the state government, told the top court today. "It has never happened that the judiciary has decided where the executive

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Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Called Ghulam Nabi Azad, Targeted At Meet: Sources

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Sonia Gandhi will stay interim president until an AICC session.New Delhi: Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi both called Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday, the day he came under attack at a marathon party meeting over a "dissident" letter to which he was one of the signatories.Sources say after the seven-hour meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), in which several speakers attacked Ghulam Nabi Azad directly or indirectly over the letter calling for "full-time, visible leadership", Sonia Gandhi spoke to him and assured him that his concerns will be addressed.Rahul Gandhi had spoken to Mr Azad earlier that day, when he also called up Kapil Sibal - another signatory to the letter - to clarify that he had not accused the letter writers of colluding with the

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Yamuna River Flows Near Warning Level In Delhi; May Rise Further

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Yamina River image: Water level rises close to the danger mark in DelhiThe Yamuna River was flowing close to the warning mark in Delhi Wednesday morning and is likely to swell further. More water is being released into Yamuna from the Hathnikund Barrage in Haryana, officials said. The water level was recorded at 203.78 metre at the Old Railway Bridge at 8 am. The water level was recorded at 203.98 metre Tuesday evening, precariously close to the warning level of 204.50 metre, according to the official."The flow rate was 36,557 cusec at 5 pm on Tuesday, the maximum in the last 24 hours... The water level is likely to increase in the next 48 hours," the water department official said.The water discharged from the barrage - which provides drinking water to Delhi - usually takes 72 hours to

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Pranab Mukherjee’s “Renal Parameters Slightly Deranged”: Hospital

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Pranab Mukherjee has been admitted to the Army's Research and Referral hospital since August 10.New Delhi: Former President Pranab Mukherjee, who underwent a surgery to remove a clot in his brain over two weeks ago, is being treated for lung infection, the army hospital in Delhi said today. "His renal parameters are slightly deranged since yesterday," a medical bulletin said. The 84-year-old, who tested positive for coronavirus, continues to be in deep coma and on ventilator support.Pranab Mukherjee has been admitted to the army's Research and Referral hospital since August 10. He had tweeted before his surgery that he had tested positive for COVID-19."On a visit to the hospital for a separate procedure, I have tested positive for COVID-19 today. I request the people who came in contact

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Have To Be Alive To Go To College, Say Tamil Nadu’s JEE, NEET Aspirants

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JEE NEET 2020 aspirants in Tamil Nadu want the exams postponed till the coronavirus numbers stabilize.Chennai: Many medical and IIT aspirants in Tamil Nadu are demanding postponement of the JEE, NEET entrance exams till the Covid situation improves, in the state - which still records around 6,000 cases every day - and across the country, both.B Krithika, daughter of a driver father and domestic help mother, aspires to become a doctor, but doesn't know how she would take the common entrance test, NEET, on September 13 - there is no public transport in Tamil Nadu yet. That Sunday, the state could also be under total lockdown as it has been over the last few months.Many among the lakh-plus applicants from Tamil Nadu share Krithika's problem as only 14 of the state's 33 districts have NEET

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16 Dead, 19 Missing In Maharashtra Building Collapse, Search Operation Continues

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NDRF teams are present at the spot carrying out the rescue operation.Raigad (Maharashtra): At least 16 people have died after a five-storey residential building collapsed in Maharashtra's Raigad district on Monday.Among those who lost their lives includes 7 males and 9 females. A rescue operation is underway at the mishap site.Taking to Twitter, Director General of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) SN Pradhan informed that 19 people are missing as per the district administration.NDRF teams are present at the spot carrying out the rescue operation.The incident took place when a five-storey residential building collapsed in a residential area of Mahad in Maharashtra's Raigad district on August 24.Maharashtra Minister Vijay Wadettiwar has announced a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the

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Women’s Equality Day 2020: Know Why It Is Celebrated

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Women's Equality Day 2020 image: The day is marked on August 26 every yearWomen's Equality Day: The day is observed primarily in the United States of America on August 26, to commemorate American women getting the constitutional right to vote. The Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution was adopted in 1920. The law prohibits denying citizens, of the United States, the right to vote on the basis of gender.Women's Equality Day: History and significanceWomen's Equality Day was first marked in 1972. It is proclaimed each year by the President of the United States. President Richard Nixon had issued the first official proclamation. Since then, every US president has issued a proclamation designating August 26 as Women's Equality Day.Former US president Barack Obama's proclamation read, "

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“Distractions Through Media Won’t Help Poor”: Rahul Gandhi On RBI Report

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Rahul Gandhi has been attacking the government relentlessly over its handling of the pandemic.New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi this morning, in a fresh barb at the government, said that "distractions through media won't help the poor" as he tweeted about the Reserve Bank of India's latest warning on economic contraction amid the novel coronavirus pandemic."RBI has now confirmed what I have been warning for months," the 50-year-old ex-Congress chief tweeted this morning along with a news report.He then made a few suggestions. "Government needs to: Spend more, not lend more. Give money to the poor, not tax cuts to industrialists. Restart economy by consumption.""Distractions through media won't help the poor or make the economic disaster disappear," he added.On Tuesday, the RBI war

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Galwan Clashes “Unfortunate”, Working To Handle Talks Properly: Chinese Envoy

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Sun Weidong said India and China "should live in peace and avoid conflicts."New Delhi: Chinese Ambassador to India, Sun Weidong termed the Galwan clash, which claimed lives of 20 Indian soldiers, as ''unfortunate incident'' saying it is "brief moment from the perspective of history.""Not long ago, an unfortunate incident happened in the border areas that neither China nor India would like to see. Now we are working to handle it properly. It is a brief moment from the perspective of history," the Chinese Ambassador said while speaking at China-India youth webinar.Sun Weidong said since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and India 70 years ago, bilateral relations have withstood tests and become more resilient. "It should not be disturbed by one thing at a time. In th