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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot cancelled his meetings with visitors after 10 people at his office and residence tested COVID-19 positive on Thursday.Nine staffers, including clerks, of the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) and one member of the staff at Chief Minister's Residence (CMR) tested...
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UPDATE: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has been appointed party's chief whip in Rajya Sabha, sources said.The party has formed a group of 10 MPs (five each from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha) to deal with issues relating to Parliament.It includes party's leader and deputy leader in Rajya Sabha,...
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Congress president Sonia Gandhi appointed Gaurav Gogoi as the party's deputy leader in the Lok Sabha and Ludhiana MP Ravneet Singh Bittu as its whip in the Lower House of Parliament on Thursday.Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, the leader of the opposition party in the Lok Sabha, and K Suresh, its chief...
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Rhea Chakraborty is being hounded and subjected to a witch-hunt even as no incriminating evidence has been found against her in the Sushant Singh Rajput suicide case, her lawyer Satish Maneshinde claimed on Thursday. Chakraborty is facing a Central Bureau of Investigation probe in a case of...
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The Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said the phase 6 of the Vande Bharat Mission to repatriate Indians stranded abroad due to COVID-19 pandemic will begin on September 1.Speaking on the Vande Bharat Mission's Phase 5, Anurag Srivastava, MEA Spokesperson, said the phase will culminate on...
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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Thursday said a smooth transaction of the business of Parliament during the Monsoon Session in view of COVID-19 is his priority and all guidelines pertaining to social distancing will be adhered to during the session.In a series of tweets from the Lok Sabha speaker's...
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A top commander of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was shot dead on Thursday by security forces in northwest Pakistan.Abu Bakr alias Hamza associated with Asmat Shaheen Bhittani group of the TTP was killed in an exchange of firing in restive Waziristan tribal district of the Khyber...
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For the first time, China has fired its 'aircraft-carrier killer' missile into the South China Sea as part of the naval drills being carried out by the military in the disputed region amid aerial reconnaissance by United States spy planes.China is engaged in hotly contested territorial disputes...
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The Punjab Assembly will meet on Friday for a truncated, one-day session with strict protocols in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic.A total of 23 legislators including three ministers have tested positive for coronavirus, though a few of them have recovered.Punjab Assembly Speaker Rana K P Singh...
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Bollywood director-actor Mahesh Manjrekar received an extortion call from a person claiming to be a member of underworld don Abu Salem's gang, the Mumbai police said.However, the anti-extortion cell has arrested the accused who was trying to extort Rs 35 crore from the filmmaker.The national...
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Ghulam Nabi Azad, senior Congress leader, on the party's internal functioning: Anyone who has a genuine interest in the internal working dynamics of Congress would welcome our proposal to have every state and district president as being elected. The entire Congress Working Committee should be...
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PM Narendra Modi addresses the 'Atmanirbhar Bharat Defence Industry Outreach Webinar' through a video conference. Highlights:We aim to increase defence manufacturing in India. For many years, India has been one of the biggest defence importers. When India got independence, it had great...
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The 41st meeting of GST Council chaired by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is being held. Highlights from the meeting.Ajay Bhushan Pandey, Finance Secretary, says, Collection has been severely impacted this year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As per GST Compensation Law, states need to be...
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'These five months of thrown-together meals, lack of sufficient nutrition, poor diet and basic drudgery have taken a very heavy toll on our already fragile' elder generation, and 'the lockdown, the isolation, the anxiety and the challenge in procuring basic essentials have taken a huge toll on...
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Update on NEET/JEE exams: Ramesh Pokhriyal, Union Education Minister says the JEE exam centres have been increased to 660 from 570 while there are now 3,842 NEET centres, up from 2,546 for the convenience of students. Students have also been allotted exam centres of their choice. Over 14...
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India is the only country that has been able to stare down China with the might of its border troops and the Chinese will be forced to realise the strategic mistake they are making by provoking a powerful neighbour, BJP leader Varun Gandhi said on Thursday. In an interview with PTI, the...
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Equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty pared most of their intra-day gains to end marginally higher on Thursday as monthly derivative contracts expired amid weak global cues. After touching a high of 39,326.98 during the session, the BSE Sensex succumbed to selling pressure in the last hour of...
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A team of Mumbai police reached the residence of actress Rhea Chakraborty, who is accused of abetting actor Sushant Singh Rajput's suicide, in Santacruz on Thursday and took her father along for a questioning by the Enforcement Directorate, an official said. The police team reached...
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Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) president Jitan Ram Manjhi on Thursday met Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar amid speculations of his talks over seat sharing before joining the ruling NDA. Manjhi paid a visit to Kumar, who is also national president of the JD(U), at his official residence...
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The Metro Railway in Kolkata said on Thursday that it will restart services on receiving the go- ahead from the Union Home Ministry and the Railway Ministry. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday that the Metro Railway authorities can resume services, maintaining all Covid-related...
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The Supreme Court Thursday declined permission for carrying out Muharram procession across the country and asked Lucknow-based petitioner to move before the Allahabad High Court with his plea. The apex court said how can it pass a general order for the whole country. A bench comprising Chief...
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Due to the COVID-19 lockdown across India this year's carbon emissions are predicted to fall by around eight per cent, a senior official of the environment ministry has said. During a virtual session organized by PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday on 'Paradigm Shift in Business...
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A 48-year-year-old man, who was among the two volunteers administered the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine candidate on day one of the second phase, says he is happy to be a part of the global effort to fight coronavirus. The volunteer, a doctor, said on Thursday that he also volunteered 10 years ago...
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Actor Rhea Chakraborty on Thursday said there was a threat to her and her family's life and requested the Mumbai police for protection. Rhea took to Instagram and shared a video where her father was seen being hounded by the media outside her building compound. She said they have...
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Normal life was affected in the city on Thursday as a complete shutdown was enforced across West Bengal to stem the spread of Covid-19 cases, while violation of the lockdown restrictions was witnessed in some districts. All public transport, government and private offices, banks and other...
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Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the phone and requested him to postpone NEET and JEE exams, in view of the COVID-19 pandemic and the flood situation in the state, a senior official said. Two day ago, the CM had written a letter in this...
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The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its order on a plea filed by fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya seeking a review of its May 2017 order holding him guilty of contempt for transferring USD 40 million to his children in violation of the court's order.A bench of Justice UU Lalit and Justice...
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Realty stocks on Thursday were in huge demand, rising up to 15 per cent, following the Maharashtra government's decision to reduce the stamp duty to two per cent till December saying the move will foster demand creation and give a boost to the allied industries. Sunteck Realty zoomed 14.61...
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RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das on Thursday warned banks that being overly risk averse will be self-defeating and that lenders will not be able to win their bread' if they do not carry out their basic task. Speaking at a webinar organised by financial daily Business Standard, Das said, rather...
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Portraying President Donald Trump as a protector of the nation, his deputy and running mate Vice President Mike Pence has said the US needs four more years of his administration in these challenging times. Pence, 61, formally accepted the Republican Party's vice-presidential nomination on the...
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Vital health parameters of the two volunteers, who have been administered the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine candidate at a medical college here as part of the phase II clinical trial, are normal, a senior official from the medical facility said on Thursday. Two men, aged 32 and 48, were given the...
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Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma announce the arrival of their baby in January. Anoushka, who is four months pregnant, sports a radiant smile and a polka dress that reveals a tiny baby bump. Kohli tweeted, And then, we were three! Arriving Jan 2021, followed by a heart emoji. More updates in a...
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The questioning of actor Rhea Chakraborty's brother Showik Chakraborty is underway at the DRDO guest house in Mumbai where the CBI is staying to probe the Sushant Singh Rajput death case. The CBI team is recording the statement of Showik. Earlier this month, Rhea, Showik and their father...
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Indrajeet Chakraborty, father of actor Rhea Chakraborty, who was Sushant Singh Rajput's live-in partner, has been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate again.Meanwhile, Vikas Singh, the lawyer representing Sushant's father observed that if the CBI took Rhea Chakraborty into custody...
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Covid-19 can affect almost all organs besides the lungs and the initial symptoms may be totally unrelated to chest complaints, according to experts at AIIMS in Delhi. They stressed that classification of cases into mild, moderate and severe categories based just on respiratory symptoms should be...
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Update on the Sushant Singh Rajput case: A team has been formed and has left from Delhi for Mumbai for investigation in the drugs-related matter in Sushant Singh Rajput's death. The investigation has been put into motion, says Director General, Narcotics Control Bureau to ANI. Another team...
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India's COVID-19 tally crosses 33 lakh-mark today with 75,760 fresh cases in the last 24 hours, Union health ministry said.The total cases in the country now rises to 33,10,235, including 7,25,991 active cases.With 1,023 deaths in the last 24 hours, India's fatalities rises to 60,472.The total...
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Indian-origin Senator and Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris has said her mother instilled in her that the core values of America is not just to strive for success and but also to leave the country better than they found it. And this is what she strives to be, Harris said...
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Actor Sushant Singh Rajput's father K K Singh has alleged that his late son's rumoured girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty was giving poison to Sushant and she is his murderer.Singh also demanded Rhea's arrest and her associates.Rhea Chakraborty was giving poison to my son, Sushant from a long time. She...
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Mike Pence has formally accepted the Republican vice-presidential nomination for the November 3 election. Pence, 61, accepted the nomination on the third night of the National Republican Convention on Wednesday as a crowd in Baltimore, Maryland, cheered, Four more years.Four years ago, I...
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New Zealand mosque shooter Brenton Tarrant was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Thursday for the massacre of 51 Muslim worshippers.The judge imposed the maximum available sentence on 29-year-old Australian gunman.Judge Cameron Mander said Tarrant's crimes were so wicked that a life...
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United States President Donald Trump is no hawk and he believes in seeking peace instead of perpetual conflict, a top national security official from the White House told Americans Wednesday as he urged them to re-elect him in the November presidential election. President Trump challenged,...
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Over 150 academicians from various universities in India and abroad have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that delaying the medical and engineering entrance exams -- JEE-Main and NEET any further will mean compromising the future of students.Referring to the growing chorus against...
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