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Padma Vibhushan awardee and Pandavani legend Teejan Bai dies at 70 | India News | ACTPnews
Teejan Bai, the renowned Pandavani singer who brought Chhattisgarh’s folk art of Pandavani global recognition, passed away early on Sunday morning at AIIMS Raipur. The Padma Vibhushan awardee was 70 and had been ill for some time. Born in Ganiyari village near Bhilai in Chhattisgarh, Teejan Bai began singing Pandavani at a…
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PM Modi’s Indonesia visit key to rules-based Indo-Pacific order: Experts | External Affairs & Defence Security News | ACTPnews
Eight years after his last bilateral visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Indonesia this week – at a time, experts say, the Indo-Pacific needs New Delhi and Jakarta to work closely together. “India and Indonesia occupy pivotal geographic positions at either end of the Indian Ocean and both have an interest…
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The long journey to your tap: How India’s biggest cities get their water | India News | ACTPnews
India’s major reservoirs are holding just 26 per cent of their live capacity There’s a particular kind of math millions of Indians have learned this summer: how many buckets can you fill before the tap pressure drops, or which day of the week the water actually comes. It’s no longer an emergency routine. It’s just…
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Teacher, ex-mechanic: Who are the 8 arrested in Ayodhya Ram Mandir donation embezzlement case? | India News | ACTPnews
The arrests follow an FIR registered on June 25 after a preliminary report by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) NEW DELHI: The eight people arrested in connection with the alleged embezzlement of donations at the Ram temple in Ayodhya come from varied backgrounds, including a primary school teacher, a retired bank employee, a former automobile…
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The right to walk: After Supreme Court judgement, who will reclaim our footpaths? | India News | ACTPnews
Parked vehicles and stored goods occupy a footpath, obstructing pedestrian movement, at Lajpat Nagar, in New Delhi. (PTI Photo) A five-year-old child was killed by a tanker on his way to school with his father. At the site of the tragedy, there was no footpath or a proper pedestrian crossing.On June 19, in a compensation…
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‘Syama Prasad Mukherjee resides in people’s hearts’: BJP after Jana Sangh founder’s statue vandalised in Kolkata | India News | ACTPnews
The bust that was allegedy vandalised NEW DELHI: A portion of an under-construction statue of Jana Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mukherjee on Sukia Street in north Kolkata was allegedly vandalised overnight, police said on Sunday.A worker who arrived at the site in the morning found the statue’s tile and nameplate damaged. “When I came here…
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‘DMK to remain protective fortress of Muslims, minorites’: Udhayanidhi Stalin | India News | ACTPnews
Udhayanidhi said the party’s bond with minority communities remained strong despite political attack. NEW DELHI: DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin on Sunday strongly reaffirmed his party’s commitment to protecting minorities, declaring that the DMK would continue to stand by the Muslim community despite what he described as attempts by political opponents to divide them.His remarks come…
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Still waiting for Hogwarts letter: Why millennials are obsessed with Harry Potter | India News | ACTPnews
Harry Potter: The magic that never dies Somewhere between paying EMIs, navigating workplace politics, doom scrolling through bad news, and wondering whether adulthood was always meant to feel this way, an entire generation is still waiting for an owl.Millennials know that no letter is coming through that letterbox and no half-giant named Hagrid is about…
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Sealing escape routes, deploying more troops in J&K: Army’s hunt for 2 LeT terrorists in Shopian enters Day 2 | India News | ACTPnews
Area cordoned off in search of 2 LeT terrorists NEW DELHI: An anti-terror operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district entered its second day on Sunday, with security forces tightening the cordon around a dense orchard and deploying additional personnel to block all possible escape routes for two suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists.The operation, launched on…
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MCQ-based entrance exams test intelligence in less time: NITI Aayog member | India News | ACTPnews
NITI Aayog member Gobardhan Das on Sunday backed the multiple-choice questions for entrance exams even for universities such as JNU, emphasising that the format is a fair test of their intelligence. The comments from Das, a renonwed academic, came amid criticism of Common University Entrance Test (CUET) since its rollout in 2022, with…
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