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Friday, September 1, 2023

Railway board gets its first woman chief after 118 years

Indian Railways got its first-ever woman chairperson of the railway board (CRB) and CEO with the appointment of Jaya Verma Sinha to the post on Thursday. She will take charge on Friday and will serve as the CRB till August 31, 2024.

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INDIA to let state panels discuss seat-sharing, eyes 400 straight fights vs BJP

While a comprehensive action plan for taking on the PM Modi-led NDA government in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections will be finalised at the end of the INDIA alliance meeting on Friday, the crucial discussions on a seat-sharing formula are likely to be left to state-level committees comprising leaders of various parties, according to Congress sources.

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Popular tribal songwriter, 5 others killed in shelling, firing in Manipur

A popular tribal songwriter-composer was among six people killed while 14 others were wounded in an explosion of violence since late Wednesday along Manipur's volatile Bishnupur-Churachandpur border that now represents more than just a geographical divide between the valley and the state's hill districts.

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Ready to hold polls in J&K, EC to take call: Centre in Supreme Court

The Union government told the Supreme Court on Thursday that assembly polls in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir could be conducted as and when the Election Commission took a decision but expressed inability to set a definite timeframe for restoration of statehood to the UT.

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Big move afoot? Govt calls special 5-day Parliament session in September

The Modi government on Thursday announced its plan to convene a five-day special session of Parliament beginning September 18, catching political circles and the opposition by surprise and triggering speculation about Lok Sabha polls being advanced to be held along with the coming round of assembly elections scheduled for November-December.

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IAF erects air defence shield for Delhi-NCR for G20 summit

The IAF is going full steam ahead in making the airspace over the Delhi-National Capital Region as impregnable as possible, with fighter jets, surface-to-air missile systems, anti-drone systems, airborne early-warning and control systems (AEW&C) and other sensors being deployed for the G20 summit on September 9-10.

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