02-09-2016
Essential services such as banking and transport are likely to be hit as 10 central trade unions began one-day nationwide strike today, protesting against “anti-worker” changes in labour laws and the Centre’s “indifference” to their demands for better wages.
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02-09-2016
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday told Supreme Court that he stood by every word of his statement against RSS for the killing of Mahatma Gandhi and was ready to face trial before a Maharashtra court which had issued a summons to him as an accused in the case.
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02-09-2016
In a late development on Wednesday, over 400 RSS volunteers, including district, sub district and shakha heads announced their resignation from the Hindu organisation, in protest against the unceremonious sacking of state RSS chief Subhash Velingkar earlier in the day.
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02-09-2016
The Karnataka Government on Friday filed its reply in the Supreme Court to the Tamil Nadu Government's plea for an urgent judicial direction to Bengaluru to release 50.052 tmcft (thousand million cubic feet) of Cauvery water from its reservoirs to feed the agricultural lands of the neighbouring state.
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02-09-2016
The one-day nationwide strike called by ten central trade unions today evoked a mixed response in Karnataka. While the state-run transport buses remained off the roads causing inconvenience to office-goers and those travelling to distant places, shops, establishments, markets and hotels functioned normally.
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02-09-2016
Wimbledon champions Serena Williams and Andy Murray raised the roof at the US Open on Thursday, powering into the third round with decisive straight-sets victories.
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02-09-2016
Bastian Schweinsteiger captained Germany for the last time in a 2-0 friendly victory over Finland, receiving an emotional send-off to cap a 12-year international career that included the 2014 World Cup title.
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02-09-2016
England beat Pakistan by four wickets to win the fourth one-day international at Headingley today and so go 4-0 up in the five-match series.
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02-09-2016
A suicide bomber today blew himself up at crowded Mardan district courts, killing 12 people and wounding 52 others, hours after security forces killed four suicide attackers who tried to storm a Christian neighbourhood in Peshawar in Pakistan's restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
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02-09-2016
Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman held wide-ranging talks with Japanese Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on Thursday.
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