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Rail traffic was affected after fire broke out inside part of a local train at Dadar Railway Station in Mumbai.The fire has now been doused.Trains services on platfrom 1 and 2 are suspended till further notice.Photograph: ANI
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In a sudden turn of events, the producer of Padmaavat today withdrew a petition from the Gujarat high court seeking a direction to the state government to provide police protection to theatres wanting to screen the movie.Though the matter was not listed, Justice J B Pardiwala allowed an urgent...
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Congress president Rahul Gandhi today took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Budget, saying the stock market has given a 'no confidence motion' against it, after the Sensex fell by over 800 points.'In Parliamentary language, the Sensex just placed a solid 800 point 'No Confidence...
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A man accused of forcing a Gujarat-based woman to convert and attempting to sell her off to Islamic State terrorists in Syria has been taken into custody by the National Investigation Agency, an official of the agency said today.Muhammed Riyaz Rasheed was intercepted at the Chennai airport on his...
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Police arrested two officials and a teacher of a private school in Hyderabad today after a 14-year-old student allegedly committed suicide, apparently because she was not allowed to attend classes and sit for an exam for not paying fees.K Sai Deepthi, a Class 9 student of the Jyothi Model...
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JUST IN: Three Army personnel lost their lives, while one is injured, after an avalanche hit an Army post in Kupwara's Machil Sector in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday evening.More details awaited.Image used only for representation.
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Indrani Mukerjea, Accused No 1 in the Sheena Bora murder trial, will be taken to Delhi by flight on February 5 in connection with the INX money-laundering case against her in which former finance minister P Chidambaram's son, Karti, is also being investigated, reports Savera Someshwar/Rediff.com....
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Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today paid an unscheduled visit to GD Goenka School, Sohna, a bus of which was recently pelted with stones by some miscreants protesting the release of the movie Padmaavat.Khattar interacted with teachers and students and lauded them for showing courage...
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Jammu-Kashmir Chief Minister Mehooba Mufti on Friday said that situation at present was not ripe for revocation of Armed Forces Special Powers Act in the state. Mufti justified the registration of a counter FIR by army in Shopian incident, saying that it is intact version of the troops to...
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An IPS officer of the director general of police rank has stirred a controversy by openly favouring the construction of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya at the earliest.Surya Kumar Shukla, DG, Homeguard, not only participated in an event on Ram Mandir organised at Lucknow University two days ago, but...
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The National health protection scheme announced in the Union Budget 2018-19 will be implemented from October 2.Touted as ModiCare, the scheme is envisaged to provide medical cover of up to Rs 5 lakh to over 10 crore poor and vulnerable families, constituting 40 per cent of total...
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US President Donald Trump has accused senior leadership at the department investigating potential links between his presidential campaign and Russia of developing a bias against members of his party.The top leadership and investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department have politicised the...
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The government is expecting to have the winning bidder for national carrier Air India by the end of June and the legal closing of the transaction by year-end, Union Minister Jayant Sinha said today.To revive the fortune of the debt-laden carrier, the government has decided on a strategic...
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Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama's proposed visit to Sikkim next month stands cancelled on his doctors' advice to cut down on his travels inview of his advancing age.Tenzin Taklha, the Secretary at the office of the Dalai Lama, in a mail to Sikkim's Ecclesiastical Affairs Secretary Samten...
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Lambasting the Maharashtra government for allowing events to be held at public properties free of cost and without any conditions imposed, the Bombay high court today refused permission for cultural events as part of the Kala Ghoda festival to be held at Cross Maidan in Mumbai till February 5.The...
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The CBI today filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging a 2005 order of the Delhi high court quashing all charges against the accused persons in the politically-sensitive Rs 64 crore Bofors pay-off case.The agency filed the appeal against the May 31, 2005 decision of the high court by...
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Whipping up a controversy, an IPS officer of the director general of police rank has openly favoured the construction of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya at the earliest.Surya Kumar Shukla, DG, Homeguard, not only participated in an event on Ram Mandir organised at Lucknow University two days ago, but...
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UPDATE: Sensex crashes 839.91 points to end at 35,066.75; Nifty sinks 256.30 points to 10,760.60.
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The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a chargesheet against former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and 34 others in the Manesar land deal case, officials said in New Delhi on Friday.The agency has filed the chargesheet under IPC sections related to criminal conspiracy and...
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A director of Kamala Mills Ltd has approached the Bombay high court seeking to quash the culpable homicide case registered against him in connection with the December 29 fire in the Kamala Mills compound that claimed 14 lives.Ravi Bhandari's petition was mentioned yesterday before a division...
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The post-budget sell-off dragged the Sensex down by a whopping 800 points while the broader Nifty cracked the 10,800-mark on all-round sellingThe long-term capital gains tax on equities and and 10 per cent tax on distributed income from equity-oriented mutual funds hit sentiments.Market mood...
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Veteran actor Kamal Haasan, who has announced his foray into politics, today said the Union Budget showed that the Centre's attention has slightly turned towards farmers and rural areas. This was a 'bit soothing,' he said. However, the Centre seems to have...
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The Telugu Desam Party has declared war on its alliance partner Bharatiya Janata Party over what it called a raw deal meted out to Andhra Pradesh in the Union Budget.We are going to declare war (on the BJP). We now have three options. One is to try and continue. The second is that our MPs resign...
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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the world's biggest health cover plan announced in the Budget will be cashless and not a reimbursement scheme, and promised more funds if required depending on the rolloutlater next financial year.The National Health Protection Scheme touted as Modicare...
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The Supreme Court today sought the Centre's response on a plea by the Communist party of India-Marixst and its general secretary Sitaram Yechury challenging the government's decision on issuing electoral bonds.A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud...
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The United States is not contemplating military action inside Pakistan, the Pentagon has said, refuting such reports appearing in Pakistani newspapers.Instead, the US seeks Pakistan's cooperation and assistance in various operations under its new South Asia strategy, Lt Gen Kenneth F McKenzie...
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The focus on the rural sector in Budget 2018-19 was a clear indication that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government was alarmed by the Gujarat poll result and realised that the rural population was moving away from it, the Shiv Sena said today.The saffron party, in an editorial in its...
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The Supreme Court today referred matters related to the bull-taming sport Jallikattu to a Constitution bench. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice R F Nariman framed five questions to be adjudicated on by the Constitution bench. We have formulated five...
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In a major reshuffle, the Uttar Pradesh government today transferred 26 IPS officers, including ADG zone and IG range of the state capital. While ADG (Lucknow zone) Abhay Kumar Prasad has been sent to the Economic Office Wing (EOW), ADG, BR Ambedkar Police Academy Moradabad, Rajiv...
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The benchmark stock indices crashed in the morning trades after opening lower on Friday following the impact of Budget 2018 as Arun Jaitley introduced LTCG at 10% and raised the fiscal deficit target for the financial 2018-2019 at 3.3%. BSE Sensex traded lower by 566.96 points to 35,339.70,...
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Ever wondered what happens when a phone charger explodes on a plane? It's not often that we get footage of a portable phone charger suffering a similar malfunction, writes Chris Matyszczyk in cnet.com. 'However, someone flying with Aeroflot from Moscow to Volgograd, Russia, on...
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Border Security Force troops foiled an infiltration bid along the International Border in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said today.Suspicious movement was seen close to the International Border in Samba sector late last night, a BSF officer said today.Alert BSF troops fired upon...
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A minivan today crashed into pedestrians after veering onto a crowded sidewalk in China's financial hub Shanghai, injuring 18 people, three of them seriously, according to media reports.Police, however, believe the crash was not intentional and it was an accident and not an attack, state-run...
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The benchmark stock indices dropped nearly 1 per cent in morning trade due to selling in banking, auto, financial and telecom stocks after the budget proposal to impose a long-term capital gains tax on equity gainsof more than Rs 1 lakh.The 30-share BSE Sensex dropped by 328.24 points or 0.91 per...
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J Jayalalithaa's nephew J Deepak has termed utter false a woman's claim in the Madras high court that she is the biological daughter of the former Tamil Nadu chief minister.In a counter affidavit on merits and on the maintainability of the petition filed by the woman, he alleged that she wanted...
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A businessman has been arrested by Mumbai Police based on a complaint of stalking and criminal intimidation filed against him by veteran actress Zeenat Aman.On January 30, Aman had filed a molestation and stalking complaint against the businessman, Mumbai Police had said.The complaint was...
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An Indian American woman and her son have been found shot dead at their home in a Virginia suburb of Washington, local police said.The police have launched a manhunt to nab the alleged killers of Mala Manwani, 65, and her son Rishi Manwani, 32.The police were notified by a caller on Wednesday...
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Cuban government media reports that Dr Fidel Castro Diaz Balart, Fidel Castro's eldest son, has killed himself.This photograph (left) has Dr Castro at then Indian ambassador Chintapally Rajasekhar's reception in then vice-president Hamid Ansari's honour in Havana on October 30, 2013.As...
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The United States has made it clear that it expects Islamabad to take action against terrorists in sanctuaries inside Pakistan, a top American diplomat has said.Deputy Secretary of State John J Sullivan, who recently returned from a visit to Afghanistan, said the US also expects Pakistan to...
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Four Aam Aadmi Party MLAs have been booked for allegedly assaulting Leader of Opposition in Delhi assembly Vijender Gupta, two city mayors and others at the residence of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.The MLAs -- Jarnail Singh, Akhilesh Tripathi, Jitender Tomar and Sanjeev Jha -- have been...
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