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Modi to arrive in B’luru for two-day state visit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive on a two-day visit to Karnataka on Thursday. He will be in Karnataka till Friday afternoon, following which he will depart to Delhi.

Modi will land in Bengaluru on thursday morning, following which he will visit the Siddaganga Mutt in Tumakuru. He will participate in a public gathering scheduled at Junior College Grounds in the city, where Krishi Karman Awards presentation ceremony and distribution of fishing equipment to the beneficiaries is scheduled. At the event, the prime minister will electronically transfer Rs 12,000 crore under the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi, to 6 crore farmers.

CBSE Board Exam 2020: 75% attendance must to appear for Class 10, 12 board exams.

CBSE Board Exam 2020: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has directed all of its affiliated schools to calculate attendance of students going to appear for class 10 and class 12 board exams this year as on January 1, 2020. CBSE in its latest notice said, “Students whose attendance will be calculated less than 75 per cent will not be allowed to appear for the exams, as per the rule”. If a candidate has a genuine reason behind the shortage of attendance, students will have to submit the supporting documents, such as, medical reports etc, with the authorities by January 7. As per the circular, no case will be considered post the deadline.

Corporation proposes to turn agriculture land in Calcutta pockets into homestead.

The Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) has proposed en masse conversion of vast tracts of land classified as sali (farmland) to bastu (homestead) on the city’s southeastern fringes and Behala, paving the way for faster real estate development and triggering concerns about the impact on some of the city’s last remaining open spaces.

Debit Card Holders Attention! SBI, PNB, HDFC, ICICI Banks to block ATM cards from 1st January 2020

Debit Card users alert! Are you debit card users of SBI, PNB, HDFC, ICICI, or other banks? Then this is important new for you! All public and private banks will block debit cards (ATM cards) which doesn’t have EMV (Europay, Mastercard and Visa) after 1st January 2020. Customers using non-EMV chip debit card may have to face a problem during money withdrawal from the ATM as your debit card may be blocked after 31st December 2019.

PM, Other Leaders’ Tribute To Pejavara Mutt Chief Vishwesha Teertha Swami

Swami Vishwesha Teertha was a “powerhouse of service and spirituality” who will remain in the hearts and minds of lakhs of people for whom he was always a guiding light, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said as he remembered the chief of Pejavara Mutt who died this morning after battling an illness. Swami Vishwesha Teertha was the 33rd head of the Pejawar mutt which is one among the “Ashta” Mutts of Udupi in Karnataka.

India on alert as Pak army boosts ties with terrorists

Recent public contacts by top Pakistani army and security officials with jihadi organisations and leaders have triggered fears the security establishment in Rawalpindi could be rolling back a move to distance itself from such entities, people familiar with the development said on Saturday.

Amit Shah’s landline ‘spoofed’ to run scam, two arrested

Delhi Police has arrested two men for allegedly ‘spoofing’ the residential and office landline numbers of Home Minister Amit Shah from an app and demanding Rs 3 crore for ‘party funds’ after allegedly making calls to Haryana power minister Ranjit Singh Chautala, estranged brother of former Haryana CM Om Prakash Chautala.

Question & Answer : Citizenship amendment law explained

The Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) became law after receiving the President’s assent on Thursday, following a bruising debate in Parliament . Assam has been in the throes of violence since Wednesday, when Rajya Sabha took up the Bill after it was passed in Lok Sabha , with its capital under indefinite curfew, and Army and paramilitary columns rolling across multiple towns.

This may have four subway stations including Rajiv Chowk Night of December 31

This is a very important information for those living in Delhi who come to Connaught Place to celebrate the new year. If these people come here through the metro, then this time they will have to use some other means. It may be that the four metro stations in Rajiv Chowk and its surroundings will be closed after nine o’clock. Other metro stations include Barakhamba, Janpath and Patel Chowk Metro stations. DCP of New Delhi district Ish Singhal has written to DMRC asking that all the gates of Rajiv Chowk metro station be closed after nine o’clock on the night of 31 December and DMRC is ready to close the remaining three metro stations as well

Anna Hazare demands his security be withdrawn, writes to CM Uddhav Thackeray

PUNE: Social activist Anna Hazare has demanded that the security provided to him by the government be withdrawn.

Hazare sent a letter to this effect to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday.

Security cover to him was a waste of public money, he said.

Many people had threatened him in the past, but he always ignored them, he said.

“I had requested the state government to revoke my security. But the government has not responded to my request. In the meantime, I came to know that the government is revoking the security of some people.

Vijayanagara (Karnataka) Assembly Bye-Election Results 2019 Live: Winner, Runner-up

Vijayanagara (Karnataka) Assembly Bye-Election Results 2019 Live: Bye-election for Vijayanagara constituency in Karnataka was held on December 5. About 66.25 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the bypolls to 15 constituencies across nine districts of Karnataka. The seats fell vacant after 17 rebel MLAs from the Congress and JD(S) parties defected to the BJP…

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