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Multimedia reporter, covering politics & policy. Tea connoisseur. Axomiya. Tweets own, RTs unicorns. Read my breaks in highlights amrita.m @deccanherald .co.in

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The Sunehri Lane house comes for @RahulGandhi after 2 more houses that he had preferred were unavailable First was 22 Akbar Road, whose occupant now is Anurag Thakur Second was 7 Safdarjung Road, but it needed renovation and is allotted to Rammohan Naidu
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Another video of @RahulGandhi playing cricket with local children from Rewari
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Visuals of @RahulGandhi on way to Hathras
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. @INCIndia 's UP unit has readied 1000 buses to ferry migrants and is moving them towards the UP border tonight as they wait for permission from the UP government. @priyankagandhi had written to the UP CM today asking for permission
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. @MANJULtoons not taking any prisoners today
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"Let me tell you what it means to be a good brother ... it means I'm taking these massive long flights, squeezed up, in a little helicopter while your sister takes these short flights, & she's going a big helicopter." @RahulGandhi & @priyankagandhi have a relatable sibling moment
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watch ramayan, it has too many life truths 🤣
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Tea garden workers in Assam get a minimum daily wage of anything ranging between Rs 145 to Rs 167. That's a 172 year old industry. The conspiracy lies within. We don't need to look out
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A Congress MP from Rajya Sabha was suspended for more than one session for taking videos from inside the House last year Wonder who is taking these videos, and then sharing to a bunch of expected pliables?
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New videos of what was happening in the Opposition benches when Prime Minister @narendramodi was speaking. Watch and decide. Just who will #SaveDemocracy
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. @IYC legal cell files defamation case against @BJP4India leader @amitmalviya for a tweet on @srinivasiyc . Malviya had called Srinivas “uncouth” and “sexist” for a tweet on WCD minister @smritiirani
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3 years
First medal is by an athlete from the Northeast. Woohoo
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. @INCIndia says that after @RahulGandhi interacted with travelling migrant labourers near Sukhdev Vihar flyover, the police have detained labourers in preventive custody saying they they have received direction to do so
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my prediction for tomorrow is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . our lives will continue to be fucked go home, get a drink
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Refreshing conversations with @RahulGandhi today. Rarely does one see the country's top leaders these days field questions from all quarters. These included replies on his stand on porn, feminism,triple talaq, 2019 LS elections, the hug, among others.Must continue these exchanges
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A young police officer in Assam, known for her crusade against corruption, is dead Junmoni Rabha, who had once arrested her fiancé for corruption, died after her car had a headon collision with a truck Her mother says that night a decorated officer raided her house at 2am
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Was walking down home when four people in two bikes passed me by. Four young boys were on them, they turned back, called out to me. Asked me if I'm safe and took me 5 mins to convince them that I am before they left. This is the Daryaganj I know. I hope it remains that way.
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outsourcing is such a Delhi thing that I just heard an annoyed woman tell the neighborhood mufali guy, pointing at her kid, "bhaiya isko dantna zara pls"
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Salute to media people like Shaajila Ali Fathima who was so badly heckled outside of Sabarimala that she ended up crying. And yet continued to carry on with her work.
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That is Sardar Patel’s house at Karamsad in Anand district. Apart from Patel, Anand was also home to former CM Madavsihn Solanki Anand remains one of the last bastion of @INCIndia , which retained 5 of the region’s 7 seats
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JD (S) MLA to me, as he steps out for 2 hrs before being shifted out of B'lore: Secularism is dead; all door are closed because they have a price today. We have no security and some are also facing harassment. Today I'm wondering if I made the right choice by being a politician.
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Now @News18Northeast says huge tracts of Arunachal Pradesh land under Chinese control
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This is BIG: @INCIndia has come up with a big expose: SBI, LIC and Central Bank have equities to the tune of 40% in a company called Infrastructure and Financial Services Limited, whose debts have now crossed 91,000 crore, Alleges that PMO, FinMin pressurising RBI, SBI, LIC, NHAI
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It usually takes me a call from an existing student and valid ID to enter #JNU . Wonder how did so many outsiders enter? That, too, with weapons
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JUST IN: US VP @KamalaHarris speaks to @RahulGandhi , one of the first conversations the newly appointed LoP has had after taking over his role The conversation took over a call yesterday in the evening
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Opposition youth wing leader is doing so much with borrowed resources. Where’s the other dude from Bangalore doing? The rising star from the ruling party?
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Next time you want to buy that @MichaelKors bag, think of their gendered harassment on Asian women. They put a 30yo single mother in prison for expressing anxiety about layoffs on FB. She was crammed in a prison with many for 2 months
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🚨NEW🚨 My investigation of Michael Kors, Kate Spade and Vera Bradley's supply chains and a reminder that racism does not end at the US’ borders. It leaches into war, reproductive healthcare, and work—including the way fashion workers are treated in Asia
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. @RahulGandhi during his 3500km walk @bharatjodo is stirring organisational changes in @INCIndia An idea he’s unpacking as the Yatra moves from state to state: the route that Congress needs to now take
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. @INCIndia 's internal assessment, as per details of a Core Committee meeting early this week was 135-140 seats. Major gains, as per the discussions, were Gujarat (8-9 seats, with Solanki's seat being the 9th), UP (5-8) and Delhi 3: Sources
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JUST IN: 18 Congress MLAs might switch support to BJP Manipur @dna #Elections2017 #ManipurElection2017
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In this dry village, from where Pakistan is just a few hundred mtrs away, the women have decided to stop having babies, because babies need water, and there is none. Read about Akeli, where no party has campaigned and no candidate has pleaded for votes.
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I think. I debate. I read. I question. I dissent. I criticise. I emphatise. I protest. I probe. I exist. #MeTooUrbanNaxal
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A man with a loan of Rs 9,000 crore tells the world that he's had a meeting with the sitting finance minister 48 hours before he fled the country. But here's a major TV channel running after the Opposition, while the FM is untouched. Only in India.
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#EXCLUSIVE – The story of @TheVijayMallya meeting FM @arunjaitley is getting more intriguing. @RahulGandhi conveniently ignores that the loans were passed during UPAs time and seeks FM’s resignation. | #MallyaLiePolitics #Viewpoint with @bhupendrachaube
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. @ECISVEEP ’s response on the EVMs found in Karimganj in BJP MLAs car
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The Gandhis ( @priyankagandhi & @RahulGandhi ) taken away by UP police
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People are impatient, they say BJP has been in power for 10 yrs. Okay, we were in power for 10 yrs before that I’m absolutely sure this is a transitional phase; the democratic nature of India will come. We’ve gone through this before; in the 1930s @RahulGandhi at Washington DC
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. @priyankagandhi shots back at PM Modi’s “mujra” comment on INDIA parties, says he needs to respect the PM’s chair
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Dr Manmohan Singh writes a condolence letter to Namita Bhattacharya, AB Vajpayee's foster daughter
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101 FIRs filed against Arnab by @INCIndia workers across the country
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Delhi is a fucking furnace today and we are still having to fight the govt to not cut trees. We truly deserve this country.
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Raids in the houses of some VERY senior @INCIndia leaders today. Going all out against the big guns. Raids likely around 5:30-6pm.
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Opposition leaders Mallikarjun Kharge, @ShashiTharoor & KC Venugopal raise difficult questions on #Okhi to home minister Rajnath Singh. "Why were 7 NRDF teams deployed in Gujarat where there was no loss, and only 3 in Tamil Nadu and Gujarat? Will you only protect Gujarat?"
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clean sweep
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Not everywhere in Rajasthan will you see men listening to a woman in such rapt attention. Here's @divyamaderna during her campaign trail in Osian
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In a survey that @INCIndia has done to find the effect of its manifesto announcement to ban Bajrang Dal, it found only 7% respondents were aware of the issue, of which, less than 10% considered it an election issue. Loss of 1000-1500 votes in 4 seats in coastal Karnataka: Sources
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News channel @BTVI announces immediate shutdown of operations at midnight. Thoughts go out to all my friends and colleagues who work there
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. @INCIndia is promising universal education -- free & compulsory -- till the primary level in its manifesto. A National Election Fund, abolishing of electoral bonds, minimum wages to tea garden workers are some other promises. Read here:
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Chief ministers horse trading openly. Party presidents and convicted scamsters helping the party garner MLAs. This is a real revelation for the average BJP voter. From accusing Congress of corruption in 2014 to embracing it fully in 2018, BJP has come full circle.
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. @RahulGandhi : Raksha Mantri, finmin and PM Modi said that the jets were about 9% to 20% cheaper. The CAG demolishes these lies and states the jets were only 2.86% cheaper.
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As a country, we should reserve our wilderst cheers for Sivan. The man looks crestfallen alright, but he gave us a peep into an incredible dream. He's a real hero #Chandrayaan2
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DK with a coffee in hand is a whole mood
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Zee News reporter tells Rahul Gandhi that their channel also carried the same investigation I’ve lived to see the day
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₹30 lakh crore money of retail investors is lost. The prime minister and home minister were found advising people to buy stocks. Both interviews were shown on Adani channels, Adani is facing SEBI investigators We want a JPC on this @RahulGandhi
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. @RahulGandhi at the Lok Sabha: The Prime Minister did not speak on Adani at all
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@Memeghnad These guys will interview a dead mattress if the money is right
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Naming all my files FUCK YOU GORMINT while I wait for someone to sedition my anti-national ass #surveillancestate
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If the Shiv Sena breaking away from the NDA is not respecting people's mandate, then how is JJP allying with the BJP respecting the people's mandate? Ideology is no bar in Indian politics today, so that argument is invalid. #MaharashtraWithShivsena
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"The ED should have some ethics; power goes & comes. My wife, mother & my daughter's assets are in public domain; there was no point in calling them.Yet, they took the pleasure of calling them" Before landing in Bangalore after 2 mnths, @DKShivakumar had a small chat with me
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178 poll rallies of @RahulGandhi drawn up by party's general secretaries, grading of winnable seats into sections & finalising manifesto points in the upcoming CWC meet: @INCIndia is taking a slew of steps to gear up for the big battle. Read here:
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Opposition MPs @Dolasen7 , @priyankac19 & Jaya Bachchan say that as the only three lone Oppn MPs in the Rajya Sabha, the three women walked out @DeccanHerald
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Wondering if Kejriwal isn't safe in Delhi, what chances does a woman have
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the new abhinandan video has shown that we may be divided by a border, but are united by a love for tea and the eternal desi question, "shaadi ki ya nahi?"
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. @DeependerSHooda headed to JNU now. Seems like the first responder from @INCIndia
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Deplorable that Noida media is making out the #Manipur strife into a Hindu vs Christian story. Manipur is a tinderbox, fault lines here run deep, and the complexities are not easy for the mainland mind to grasp
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🚨🚨🚨 Exclusive: 4% farmers drawing Rs 6000 per year under the PM Kisan Scheme do not exist, as per an RTI. A physical audit of 12.4 lakh farmers showed that 50,000 farmers existed only on paper.
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this guy is a national treasure
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"You, the press, has been unkind to me. You ask him questions of mangoes and wallets and pose the tough ones to me. At least show some fairness." @RahulGandhi
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This is how the system fails a woman. Raped, assaulted, lost her family and friends. Stabbed. And then burnt. Yet she pursued the case doggedly. If that is not grit in the face of apathy, I don't know what is. This is shameful, despairing and downright infuriating. #Unnao
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just as she died. The lady official has now been transferred Junmoni was also accused of corruption at some point. Experts are pointing at inconsistencies with the accident — how her body does not look like it has been in such an accident It’s a murky case that needs attention
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WHAT THE FLYING DUCK IS HAPPENING IN DELHI WHY HAVE WE BECOME THE KIND OF STATE THAT IS DRAGGING STUDENTS FROM LIBRARIES AND BEATING THEM UP
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A 23-member @IndianPAC team, which had gone to do a pre-election survey for @AITCofficial , has been detained in Agartala. They are held at Hotel Woodland Park, and the police is deployed outside the hotel. No one is allowed to step out
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Why did @RahulGandhi say at the Ramlila Maidan that the BJP will not cross 180 seats? His calculation may have led to raised eyebrows, but @INCIndia sources say inputs from the bureaucracy, diplomatic circle and industry players indicate so @shemin_joy
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"Right now, we are concerned by recent events regarding our employees in India and the potential threat to freedom of expression for the people we serve." @Twitter in a statement
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Chaliye, science + logic ko vanakkam
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Tattoo her eye? 😱
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A botched eye tattoo left this model partially blind and now she's warning others
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Atmaram College ranking over Stephens and LSR is the underdog story I never expected
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I grew up in Guwahati, and never since the NDFB attack in 2008 which left over 80 people dead, have I seen people so agitated and hit the streets. The agitation then was one of sad resignation; today it is boiling anger.
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If women form 50% of the electorate, and if representation in the Parliament is on the basis of population, then why don't we have enough women in the Lok Sabha? The Women's Reservation Bill should no longer be a token cause. Pass the Bill. #ThisBillWillPass
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Daryaganj police allowed someone in. 32 adults detained, minors (names and numbers not disclosed) will be released to parents only. In the video the person is reading our names of those detained.
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Dr Manmohan Singh is admitted at the cardio-thoriac ward and is doing fine, as per Congress sources
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It's great you all are coming out in support of the women who are speaking out, coz twitter. But back in the day, when Tarun Tejpal forced himself,there were a lot of you who took his side. Several of you accomplished women editors who we look up to. We haven't forgotten.
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. @INCIndia going to EC at 5:30pm to complain about @narendramodi 's roadshow, @AmitShah 's comment that IAF is "Modi ki vayu Sena", and malfunctioning EVMs in Kerala @htTweets
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. @ShashiTharoor introduced a private member's Bill Friday, seeking the criminalisation of marital rape, an amendment to the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, and the provision of free sanitary napkins to women across the country
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Despite Kejriwal's dramatics, we can all see what the Centre is up to. Why is the LG not meeting him? He's an elected representative and is duty-bound to meet the CM. What's happening with IAS officers? Never seen bureaucrat become so pliable. Remember, Delhi is watching.
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On Sunday, at 5pm, stand outside your doors or balconies and salute those who are fighting #CoronavirusOutbreakindia by clapping for five mins: @narendramodi
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. @derekobrienmp says that audio of the Rajya Sabha TV feed was cut off as Opposition and NDA MPs squared off over the Farmers Bill. He says that mics and PA system was not working
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INPT withdraws both their Lok Sabha candidate to support @INCIndia 's two candidates after meeting TPCC president @PradyotManikya . Former MLA & senior BJP leader Ashok Debbarma joing Congress tonight @dna
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The video of the Muslim man being fed pork in Assam is a consequence of the deep-seated bigotry that we've all been fanning. NRC and CAB are two sides of the same coin, one shade of bigotry darker than the other. I know the shitty @'s that'll follow now, but I wish I could care.
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Mass resignations expected from Assam Congress ahead of @AmitShah 's visit
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The @DazedMagazine guide to Acid Cinema. Features Felix the Cat and Macaulay Caulkin O_O http://t.co/CEVseGM7Mz http://t.co/cIeT2TRTU6
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Have heard that @priyankac19 has exited all whatsapp groups of @INCIndia comms team this morning, with a thank you message. She's dropped changed her bio on Twitter, no trace of her @INCIndia association at all
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JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh has an injury to her head. WTF is happening! Divert attention to JNU after Netflix and sex chats failed?
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BREAKING: Transcripts of Sriramulu-Muralidhar Rao offering BC Patil money and ministry
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In BJP Patna office, celebrations stopped. Party-workers are now saying crackers were burst because of Advani's birthday. #BiharResults @dna
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All experts from Delhi giving Congress 3 seats in Assam, and 10+ to BJP, I have one question: Will you give me my money back on May 23? #ExitPoll2019
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At the @bharatjodo campsite at Itanagar today, @RahulGandhi met with adv Amoni Diru Pullom In 2015, her father in law was abducted by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army &he has not been heard from since She spoke to Gandhi abt the ordeal & how she hasn’t received any help yet
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just witnessed the glorious meltdown of a senior journalist in a wa group after someone pointed to them that flaunting a cozy relationship w a politician is not the brightest of ideas. sometimes i feel so undone 😭
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Don't stop me, my hottakes are about to begin now: INDIA Alliance should felicitate two people tomorrow
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. @INCIndia has managed to pacify some of its rebels in Himachal *Former minister & PCC Kuldeep Kumar from Chintpurni *Former MLAs Dr Beeru Ram Kishore in Jhandutta & Tilak Raj in Bilaspur *Kamal Kishore in Indora *Karan Parmar in Shahpur *Lal Singh Kaushal & Hem Chand in Nachan
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amrita madhukalya
4 years
If the cop interrogating Arnab is covid +ve, what happened to quarantine protocols? Is Arnab under self-quarantine?
@srivatsayb
Srivatsa
4 years
Today, Arnab's lawyer Harish Salve told SC that the cop who interrogated Arnab is COVID +ve Why is Arnab not quarantined as he is a primary contact? Why is he still holding TV debates? This is violation of law! Requesting @OfficeofUT to immediately quarantine him in a hospital
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amrita madhukalya
5 years
EC bans Pragya Thakur for 72 hours for appealing votes on religious lines
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@visually_kei
amrita madhukalya
6 months
@appadappajappa Gryffindor = Garudwar Fun fact: One of the entrances of the new Parliament is also Garudwar
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amrita madhukalya
5 years
"Premature to say the number of casualities that we have inflicted in the terror camps," say Air vice marshall RGK Kapoor. So, who were the sources who leaked the number of casualties (300-350) to defence correspondents.
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