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I told Centre my police is enough to handle protests: Mamata

Kolkata, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) The West Bengal government has refused the Centre’s offer to rush in paramilitary forces to quell the continuing widespread violence during protests in the state against the new citizenship law (CAA),…





Stalemate continues in UN climate talks

BY VISHAL GULATI Madrid, Dec 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) The UN climate change conference was locked in a stalemate over a number of technical issues relating to finance, loss and damage, and mechanism of a new carbon…



Centre moots Article 371 in lieu of 370 for J&K

Srinagar, Dec 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) A new dispensation may be afoot in Jammu & Kashmir with the Centre proposing granting of Article 371 as compensation for the abrogation of Article 370. Under Article 371, the Constitution…



UP government primary schools to have libraries

Lucknow, Dec 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Uttar Pradesh government has announced setting up libraries in all the 1.58 lakh government primary and upper primary schools in the state by March 2020. Vijay Kiran Anand, Special Secretary…






Yogi clicks his first ever selfie

Kanpur, Dec 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday clicked his first ever selfie during a programme in Kanpur. The chief minister was inaugurating a selfie point in Sisamau on the banks…



The curious case of Bengal’s refugees

By Sirshendu Panth Kolkata, Dec 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Sabita Das, who earns her living by working as cook in some households, has never had hesitation in telling people that she came to Kolkata (then Calcutta) from…



Nagpur-Mumbai E-way to be renamed after Bal Thackeray

Mumbai, Dec 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Nagpur-Mumbai Super Communication Expressway (NMSCE) will be re-named after Shiv Sena’s founder-patriarch, the late Balasaheb Thackeray, an official said on Wednesday. A decision to the effect was taken at a…



Chidambaram back as legal eagle

New Delhi, Dec 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) Former Union Minister P. Chidambaram, who walked out of Tihar Jail last week, resumed his legal practice on Wednesday, as he appeared in the Supreme Court in a domestic violence…