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The new National Education Policy evoked mixed reactions among academicians on Wednesday with some hailing it as a groundbreaking action plan that promotes holistic and multi-disciplinary learning and others arguing that it will pave the way for privatisation of education. A...
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The Maharashtra government on Wednesday extended the lockdown in the state till August 31 in view of rising coronavirus cases.A notification issued by Chief Secretary Sanjay Kumar said the decision has been taken as an emergency step to prevent and contain the spread of COVID-19.As part of the...
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Rajasthan governor Kalraj Mishra has issued orders to convene the assembly session from August 14.The Governor, in his order, has also directed that all measures should be taken during the conduct of Assembly Session, as per the guidelines issued to prevent spread of COVID19.
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With 9,211 new patients being detected, the number of coronavirus cases in Maharashtra on Wednesday crossed the four lakh-mark.While the case count in the state reached 4,00,651, death toll due to the pandemic went up to 14,463 with 298 patients dying, 60 of them in Mumbai, during the day, said...
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With 9,211 new patients being detected, the number of coronavirus cases in Maharashtra on Wednesday crossed the four lakh-mark.While the case count in the state reached 4,00,651, death toll due to the pandemic went up to 14,463 with 298 patients dying, 60 of them in Mumbai, during the day, said...
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Filmmaker SS Rajamouli on Wednesday said he and his family members have tested positive for coronavirus and are currently quarantined at home. The director, best known for his epic fantasy hit Baahubali series, said they got tested after they developed mild fever recently which...
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A team of Bihar Police arrived in Mumbai on Wednesday to probe an 'abetment to suicide' case registered against actor Rhea Chakraborty and others in connection with the death of Sushant Singh Rajput. Krishna Kumar Singh (74), Sushant Singh's father, lodged a complaint against Chakraborty, the...
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The Ashok Gehlot Cabinet on Wednesday cleared another proposal to be sent to the Governor for summoning the assembly, saying the session should begin on August 14. Government sources argued that this meets the 21-day notice requirement on which Governor Kalraj Mishra was insisting.The...
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Senior advocate Vikas Singh, who is the family lawyer of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, Wednesday said that bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty's plea in the Supreme Court seeking transfer of an FIR from Patna indicates that somebody in Mumbai police was helping her. Singh said Rhea, who was...
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Professsor G N Saibaba with wife Vasantha Kumari.
Following the bail application of Prof GN Saibaba being rejected again on July 28 by the Mumbai high court bench at Nagpur, his wife, Vasantha Kumari, has issued a press note to 'condemn the impunity towards political prisoners'. In it, she states, 'The court's decision to reject Dr...
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Alongside is the letter that Albert Einstein wrote to Jawaharlal Nehru after reading The Discovery of India.
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Here's MHA's guidelines on 'Unlock 3'
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Restrictions on the movement of individuals during night have been removed, as the government issued guidelines for the month-long 'Unlock 3' beginning August 1.Under 'Unlock 3', yoga institutes and gymnasiums will be allowed to open from August 5.The lockdown will continue to be implemented...
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The Rafale jets, known globally as one the most potent strategic platforms with unmatched capability in carrying out a variety of roles, will significantly bolster India's air combat capabilities when it is facing hostile neighbours like Pakistan and China, defence experts said on...
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A Mumbai-based lawyer on Wednesday filed a complaint in a magistrate's court against Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut and her sister Rangoli Chandel for allegedly promoting enmity between two religious groups through their social media posts.Recently Twitter had suspended Chandel's account for an...
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Dhannipur village in Ayodhya's Sohaval tehsil
The Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board president Zufar Ahmad Farooqui announced on Wednesday the formation of a trust for the construction of a mosque on a five-acre land in Ayodhya. He said the trust will have 15 members, of who nine have been declared. They will co-opt six other...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray will visit Pune on Thursday to take stock of the coronavirus situation in the district, officials said. This will be Thackeray's first visit to Pune ever since the coronavirus outbreak began. The chief minister will visit Pune and take a review of the...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted tourism in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, with local businessmen claiming losses running into crores and no normal resumption of tourist activities till late next year. Home to Ajanta and Ellora Caves, two UNESCO World Heritage Sites, among other...
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There is no virtue like protecting the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday as welcomed the first batch of five Rafale jets which landed in Ambala with a tweet in Sanskrit. He also shared a brief video of a Rafale fighter aircraft landing at the Ambala Air Force...
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The Supreme Court Wednesday allowed filing of a fresh plea challenging the June 17 environmental clearance (EC) granted to the ambitious Central Vista project, covering 3-km stretch from Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate in Lutyens' Delhi, for constructing a new Parliament House and other...
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Actress Rhea Chakraborty moves Supreme Court seeking transfer of Patna FIR to Mumbai where a probe is on in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case. A FIR was registered against Chakraborty at a police station in Patna under various sections including abetment of suicide on the complaint of Sushant...
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Founder of The Print, Shekhar Gupta, tweets: Fighter planes can make adult enthusiasts act like juveniles. But, while it's great that the Rafales have arrived, we must be the global laughing stock tracking each take-off, landing, transit stop, refuelling as if it's Charles Lindbergh making the...
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In other news: Nearly 4 kg gold, 601 kg silver, over 8,300 books, 10,438 dress material and other cloth and puja items are among the numerous things that figure in the exhaustive list of movable and immovable properties in late Chief Minister J Jayalalitha's Poes Garden residence in...
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A water salute was given to the Rafale jets on touchdown
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh reacts to the the arrival of the first batch of Rafale fighter jets in India. Touchdown of Rafale jets in India marks the beginning of a new era in our military history. I am extremely happy that IAF's combat capability has got a timely boost. If anyone should be...
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The five Rafale jets arrive at Ambala air force station. In historic moments for the Indian Air Force, the first batch of five Rafale combat jets on Wednesday landed at the Ambala airbase from France.The Birds have landed safely in Ambala. The touchdown of Rafale combat aircraft in India...
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The Birds have entered the Indian airspace..Happy Landing in Ambala! tweeted the Defence Minister's Office. The five Rafales escorted by 02 SU30 MKIs as they enter the Indian air space, read another tweet from the Defence Minister's Office. Water salute will be given to the five Rafale fighter...
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The five Rafale jets enter Indian airspace, flanked by two Su-30MKIs. This first batch of Rafale jets are scheduled to land at the Ambala air base this afternoon with police tightening the security around the air force station. The squadron of Rafale jets will be stationed at the...
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Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Wednesday said that the national recovery rate of coronavirus has improved to 64.51 per cent. He further stated that out of the total cases, so far 9,88,029 people have been cured.The Union Minister informed that the total number of...
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INS Kolkata
The Indian Rafale contingent establishes contact with Indian Navy warship INS Kolkata deployed in the Western Arabian Sea. A transcript of the 'conversation' follows:INS Kolkata Delta63: Arrow leader (flying #Rafale),welcome to Indian Ocean Rafale leader: Many thanks. Most reassuring to have...
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The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the new National Education Policy and renamed the Human Resource Development Ministry as Education Ministry, officials said. A panel led by former Indian Space Research Organisation chief K Kasturirangan had submitted the draft of the new NEP to Union...
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US biotechnology company Moderna's experimental vaccine to prevent COVID-19 induced robust immune responses and rapidly controlled the novel coronavirus in the upper and lower airways of monkeys exposed to SARS-CoV-2, according to a study. The candidate vaccine, mRNA-1273, has been...
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Writer Arundhati Roy on Wednesday slammed the government for the relentless and ongoing incarceration of activists, academics and lawyers, a day after an associate professor of the Delhi University was arrested by the NIA in the Bhima Koregaon Elgar Parishad case. Roy said people...
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One of the five Rafale jets being refuelled mid-air
Water salutes to be given to the five Rafale fighter aircraft after they land at the Ambala airbase in Haryana today. Air Force Chief RKS Bhadauria to be present at the airbase at that time.After almost two decades, India will induct a new multirole foreign fighter aircraft.The last foreign...
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Over 95 per cent students passed the Maharashtra Secondary School Certificate (SSC- Class 10) examination, the results of which were announced on Wednesday. Total 95.30 per cent students passed the SSC exam, in which girls outshone boys, chairman of the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and...
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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot meets Governor Kalraj Mishra at Raj Bhavan, Jaipur. The meeting comes after the governor returned the proposal for calling the assembly session for the third time. I am going to meet him to know what he wants, the CM said. Whether Rajasthan governor seeks a...
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Sushant Singh Rajput with Rhea Chakraborty
All those named by the father of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput, in connection with his death, have been booked and investigations have begun, said Superintendent of Police (SP), Patna (Central) City, Vinay Tiwari on Wednesday.An FIR has been registered. Preliminary investigation has begun,...
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Hetero Labs, part of Hetero group on Wednesday announced the launch of generic Favipiravir in India under the brand name 'Favivir.' According to a press release issued by the city-based drug maker, Hetero has been granted the manufacturing and marketing approval for Favipiravir from the...
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The Bahujan Samaj Party on Wednesday approached the Rajasthan High Court against the merger of six of its MLAs in the state with the Congress party amid the ongoing political crisis.Advocate Dinesh Garg moved a petition, on behalf of BSP' national general secretary Satish Chandra Mishra,...
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MacKenzie Scott, former wife of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, announced on Tuesday (local time) that she has donated around USD 1.7 billion to groups involved in philanthropic causes such as healthcare, LGBT rights and racial justice.Scott, who said she changed her surname after her divorce from Bezos...
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Jet Airways, which is undergoing insolvency resolution process, has reported widening of loss to Rs 5,535.75 crore in the year ended March 2019 as surge in expenses took a toll. The full service carrier, which shuttered operations in April last year, had a loss of Rs 766.13 crore. These...
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China's COVID-19 cases in a single day have crossed the 100-mark for the first time in over three months, sparking the fear of a rebound after Beijing contained it in Wuhan where the contagion first emerged in December last year. The National Health Commission on Wednesday said that 101 new...
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India's Covid tally update is here: The total number of Covid-19 cases in India is now 15.31 lakh. The single-day spike was 48,513. There have been 768 deaths in the last 24 hours. The total number of Covid-19 active cases in India is 5,09,447, discharged/migrated cases 9,88,030 and 34,193...
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Two days after Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and her daughter Aaradhya Bachchan were discharged from hospital after recovering from COVID-19, the actor on Wednesday extended gratitude towards her fans for their prayers, concern, wishes and love.The 46-year-old actor took to Instagram to share a picture...
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A total of 1,77,43,740 samples for COVID-19 were tested across the country as of Tuesday, said the Indian Council of Medical Research. The total number of COVID-19 samples tested up to July 28 is 1,77,43,740 including 4,08,855 samples tested yesterday, said the ICMR in a bulletin shared on...
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Domestic equity benchmark Sensex jumped over 100 points in opening session on Wednesday tracking positive cues from Asian peers. The BSE Sensex was trading 114.99 points or 0.30 per cent higher at 38,607.94; while the NSE Nifty was up 32.45 points or 0.29 per cent at 11,333. In the...
09:53
Madhya Pradesh Water Resources Minister Tulsi Silawat and his wife have tested coronavirus positive. The information was shared by the minister himself on his Twitter handle on Tuesday. In the tweet, he appealed to those who had come in his contact to get themselves tested. Senior BJP leader...
09:48
Police check commuters travelling during the Covid-19 lockdown in Kolkata. The state government has extended the bi-weekly lockdown till August 31.
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The first batch of five Rafale aircraft, would be arriving in Ambala today to join the Indian Air Force fleet.Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria would be visiting Ambala today to receive the first batch of five Rafale combat aircraft arriving from France. The Indian Rafales are...
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US recorded its highest Covid-19 deaths in a single day in the last two and half months as 1,592 people succumbed to Covid-19. Montana and Florida reported record number of Covid-19 deaths.
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A meeting of the Union Cabinet will meet today and certain key decisions are expected to be taken.The meeting will be held at the prime minister's residence in New Delhi. The Union Cabinet last met on July 8.In the last meeting, the Cabinet approved the extension of Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan...
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China under President Xi Jinping has become more aggressive and bullish, former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said, asserting that such a behavior is unlikely to last long.Indian-American Haley, in an interview to Fox News, said the Chinese were quiet and strategic during her...
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Rebel Congress MLA Bhanwarlal Sharma on Tuesday moved the Rajasthan high court for quashing of an FIR lodged against him after the surfacing of some audio tapes in one of which he is allegedly heard talking to a Union minister for toppling the Gehlot government through horse-trading. ...
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