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It is time again to loosen your purse strings! With attractive deals and huge discounts across various categories on offer, almost all major e-commerce platforms are geared up to commence their sales for the festive season. While e-commerce giant Flipkart and the online retail platforms it owns -- Jabong and Myntra -- will start with their five-day-long "Big Billion Days" sales from September 20, Amazon India's "Great Indian Festival" will begin exclusively for its "Prime" customers on the same day at 12 p.m. However, the festival sale for all customers of Amazon India will be from September 21 to 24. "For the first time ever, the Great Indian Festival will start early at 12 noon on September 20 only for 'Prime' members," Manish Tiwary, Vice President, Category Management, Amazon India , told IANS. "We expect more customers to join the digital ecosystem and shop with us during this festive season. With expanded selection

Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Tuesday attacked Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker P. Dhanapal's decision to disqualify 18 rebel AIADMK MLAs as "blatantly partisan" to help the minority government and said the state has become a "theatre of the absurd". "Nothing can save a sinking ship. Eighteen MLAs disqualified to manufacture a majority for the paralysed Tamil Nadu government. Tamil Nadu is theatre of the absurd," he said in a series of tweets. "If the Tamil Nadu Speaker is correct, no elected leader of a legislature party can be changed by dissenting MLAs? Once elected, Chief Minister for five years," Chidambaram said in a sarcastic tone. Calling it a "great betrayal", the former Union Minister said the state government should go on the sole ground it callously delayed moving the Supreme Court for additional 19 per cent for other backward classes. On Monday, Speaker Dhanapal disqualifed 18 MLAs owing allegiance to sid

As North Korea announced on Sunday that it has successfully tested a hydrogen bomb that could be loaded on to a long-range missile capable of reaching America, President Donald Trump slammed the reclusive state as a “rogue nation” that is “very hostile and dangerous to the United States”. Significantly, he declined to rule out a retaliatory strike, noting that any appeasement will not work with Pyongyang as “they understand only one thing”. “We’ll see,” Trump commented as he came out after attending church services and reporters asked him if he would attack North Korea. He said he would be meeting Defence Secretary Jim Mattis, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and other military leaders to discuss the issue. “The national security team is monitoring this closely,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters, adding the President would have a meeting later in the day. What was Pyongyang’s sixth and most powerful nuclear test was seen in Washington as