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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's niece has become the latest victim of snatching in the national capital with her purse and phone wrenched from her grasp by two persons when she was alighting from an auto-rickshaw on Saturday. Based on a complaint by Damayanti Ben Modi, daughter of the prime...
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Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution, which gave a special status to Jammu and Kashmir, had upset Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Pakistan. On his second visit to poll-bound Haryana in recent times, Adityanath...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the much-awaited Kartarpur corridor to Sri Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan on November 8, Union minister Harsimrat Badal said. Modi will inaugurate the integrated check post on the Indian side, she said. With the blessings of Guru Nanak...
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Indications of slowdown notwithstanding, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday said three Bollywood movies generating business of Rs 120 crore on the October 2 holiday suggested the sound economy even as he dubbed wrong the National Sample Survey Office report which had reportedly pegged...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accepted the invitation of President Xi Jinping to visit China for a third informal summit next year.President Xi extended the invitation during the second informal summit in Mahabalipuram of Tamil Nadu.Addressing the media after the summit, Foreign Secretary...
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Assuring account holders of troubled Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank of support, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said that she has spoken to the RBI governor, who assured that customers' concerns will be taken on top priority. The bank was put under directions by...
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In the run-up to the October 21 assembly elections, Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday blamed Nationalist Congress Party supremo and former Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar and his policies for farmer suicides in the state.Speaking at a rally in Akot tehsil in Akola...
18:54
Police have beefed up security outside the Bandra residence of Bollywood actor Salman Khan in the wake of protests seeking ban on Bigg Boss Season 13 for inclusion of a new concept which they claimed is against Indian culture and promoting vulgarity.A group of protesters, including members of...
18:52
The national capital's air quality remained poor for the third day on the trot on Saturday and is likely to deteriorate further, even as experts said the situation is better than corresponding periods in the last few years. The Centre-run System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting...
18:15
BREAKING: At least four people died in a shooting at a private social club in New York, US media reported.The shooting happened in the Brooklyn borough of the city and several other people were wounded, NBC and other news outlets reported. Further details are awaited.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will on Monday campaign for the party in Haryana and will address a public meeting in Nuh, sources said. Gandhi will address the meeting in the afternoon and will reach Nuh in southern Haryana by road from Delhi, they said.The meeting was finalised after...
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The Border Security Force seized five Pakistani fishing boats in the Harami Nala creek area, close to India-Pakistan border in Gujarat, an official said on Saturday.The five single-engine fitted boats were seized around 10.45 pm on Friday from the creek area near Kutch district, the BSF said in a...
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Restrictions on movement of people have been lifted in over 99 per cent areas of Jammu and Kashmir, state government spokesperson Rohit Kansal said on Saturday. Speaking to reporters in Srinagar, he asserted that the curbs were necessary to prevent externally-aided terrorists from...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said he and Chinese President Xi Jinping have been having productive deliberations on improving bilateral ties, as the second informal meet between the two leaders concluded at nearby Mahabalipuram. Thanking the Chinese President...
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As Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping concluded their informal meeting at Mamallapuram on Saturday, the Congress said India's meaningful engagement with China started with former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's visit to the neighbouring country in 1988 and the Manmohan...
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Veteran lyricist-writer Javed Akhtar on Saturday said people should not stop giving their opinions even if they are against the establishment. Akhtar, who has always been vocal about his views of social and political issues, believes freedom of expression cannot be curtailed in a...
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A Rajasthan court has acquitted Bollywood actor and BJP MP Sunny Deol and actress Karisma Kapoor in a 22-year-old case of illegally pulling emergency chain of a train while shooting for a film. The two had challenged in the sessions court a railway court order framing charges against...
15:57
India football captain Sunil Chhetri has joined his cricket counterpart Virat Kohli in turning a vegan, saying giving up meat and dairy products has helped him staying fitter. I have become vegan -- I don't take dairy or meat. It has helped me a lot in terms of recovery and digestion,...
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At least five persons were injured in a grenade attack by suspected militants in a market area in Srinagar on Saturday, police said. The militants hurled a grenade in Hari Singh High Street Market, which is a few hundred metres away from the city centre Lal Chowk, a police official said.At...
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The Shiv Sena, which is contesting 124 seats in the Maharashtra assembly election as part of its alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party, on Saturday released its manifesto, which promises to provide full meal at Rs 10 and make farmers debt-free, among other things. However, despite...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi gifted Chinese President Xi Jinping a hand-woven silk portrait at lunch hosted by the PM.The portrait has been created by the weavers of Sri Ramalinga Sowdambigai Handloom Weavers Co-operative Society in Sirumugaipudur in Coimbatore District. It was made using pure...
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The government has taken a number of steps to proactively bring information in public domain, thereby reducing the need to file Right to Information applications, home minister Amit Shah said on Saturday. The RTI Act has bridged the gap between the people and the government, and addressed...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi leaves Chennai by an IAF aircraft after his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
14:40
More than a month after quitting the Aam Aadmi Party, former Chandni Chowk MLA Alka Lamba joins the Congress party in presence of party leader, PC Chacko.
14:37
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday agreed to set up a new mechanism for issues relating to trade and investment and felt the two countries should cooperate on important regional and global issues. President Xi has said that China is ready to take...
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Women will be exempted from the odd-even road rationing scheme which is set to return in the national capital for the third time from November 4-15, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Saturday. Unlike previous occasions, privately owned CNG vehicles will this time not be...
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The strategic Jammu-Srinagar national highway was closed for traffic on Saturday after a landslide in Ramban district, a traffic department official said. The 270-km highway was opened for one-way traffic on Friday night, a day after a landslide in Ramban district left thousands of vehicles...
13:47
After concluding 2-day visit to India for the second informal summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Mahabalipuram, Chinese President Xi Jinping has left for Nepal.
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Actor Naseeruddin Shah on Saturday said he stands by his remarks on mob violence incidents and is disturbed by open hate in the society. Last year, the 69-year-old veteran, referring to the recent spate of mob violence incidents, had said that at many places the death of a cow is...
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After delegation-level talks, PM Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping at an exhibition on artifacts and handloom at Taj Fisherman's Cove hotel in Kovalam.
12:57
Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has told the depositors of the scam-hit Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank that he would discuss the issue of their distress with Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he meets the latter on October 13.A group of PMC Bank customers met Fadnavis on...
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In a major step in easing the 69 days lockdown in the Kashmir valley, the Jammu and Kashmir administration on Saturday announced restoration of all postpaid mobile phone services from Monday noon. Government spokesman and senior IAS officer Rohit Kansal told reporters that all postpaid...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping are holding delegation-level talks at the Tango hall of the luxury Taj resort Fisherman's Cove.National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale are also present at the...
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Six-time champion M C Mary Kom (51kg) on Saturday settled for a bronze medal in the World Women's Boxing Championships after losing to Turkey's Busenaz Cakiroglu in an intense semifinal bout in Ulan-Ude, Russia. Mary Kom, seeded third, lost 1-4 to second seed Cakiroglu, who is the...
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India and China have agreed to promote exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, an official statement from Beijing said early on Saturday after PM Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping met in Mahabalipuram for the second informal summit.Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime...
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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday reached the Taj Fisherman's Cove Resort and Spa for the second day of the informal summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The two leaders are slated to hold one-on-one as well as delegation-level talks in the historic coastal city today. They are...
09:54
Bharatiya Janata Party will be releasing its manifesto for the Haryana assembly elections on Sunday, in the presence of state Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and other senior leaders of the party.In the state assembly polls, BJP is banking on the development plank and clean image of Chief...
09:32
Before Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in Mahabalipuram, the PM, known for his active lifestyle, went for a walk at Mahabalipuram beach. He later tweeted a video of him clearing the litter from the beach. Taking to social media, he wrote, Plogging at a beach...
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The acting secretary of US Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan submitted his resignation to the White House, announced US President Donald Trump.He was the fourth person to serve in the post since the Trump presidency began, CNN reported. Kevin McAleenan has done an outstanding job as Acting...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping will hold their second round of informal talks today after the two leaders on Saturday bonded over a tour of the temples of Mahabalipuram, followed by cultural programmes and dinner that went well beyond the scheduled time. India and China agreed...
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Alexei Leonov, a Soviet-era cosmonaut who was the first person to perform a spacewalk back in 1965, has died in Moscow at the age of 85, Russian space agency Roscosmos Space Corporation announced on Friday.Leonov performed his spacewalk on March 18, 1965, when he spent 12 minutes outside the...
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