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Thorat, 66, has been a farmers' leader and has been involved in the cooperative movement in Maharashtra. He replaces Ashok Chavan, who had recently resigned from the post of Maharashtra Congress president.

Chinese soldiers crossed the LAC in Demchok sector of Ladakh division after some Tibetans hoisted Tibetan flags on the occasion of Dalai Lama's birthday, security officials had said.

No casualty was reported so far as shopowners and customers were evacuated from the 13-storey building, which housed one of the biggest wholesale markets in the country, a senior official of the fire services department said.

The Union Home Ministry had said recently that intelligence inputs were received on terrorist organization Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh using madrassas in Burdwan and Murshidabad districts to radicalise and recruit people in West Bengal.

The complainant accused the poet of depicting a xenophobic image of the Assamese people and termed it a threat against them.

The Bhartiya Janta Party MP from Bihar Begusarai constituency expressed his concern over the increasing population of the country and stressed the need for population control on World Population Day.

1,023 fast track courts will be set up in one financial year under a joint initiative of ministry of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Law and Justice and Home Ministry.

While appearing before the special judge, Indrani Mukerjea told that she will record the statements 'truthfully with all the facts'.

The admission authority Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) has published NEET 2019 Counseling rescheduled circular on its official website giving information about the revised dates for the second round of the NEET 2019 Counseling.

The accident occurred on Kumher-Dhanwada state highway early morning when the car driver lost control over the vehicle.

Union minister for Jal Shakti Gajendra Singh Shekhawat also said as announced in the Union Budget, it has been envisaged to ensure piped water supply to all rural households by 2024 under the Jal Jeevan Mission.

Sakshi Misra, 23, warned on video that if anything happened to her or her husband, she would ensure her father was put behind bars.

The anti-land acquisition movement at Singur and Nandigram had catapulted Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress (TMC) to power in the state in 2011, ending a 34-year-long Left regime.

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Tamil Nadu CM K. Palaniswami also announced that the Rs 11,000 crore target of loan disbursal for Women Self Help Groups during 2018-19 was surpassed and Rs 11,449 crore loan has been given through banks.

A senior police officer said a chargesheet will be presented in court in the next three days and the trial will be fast-tracked. The district police will ask the state government to appoint a special public prosecutor for this case, he added.