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The national flag will fly at half mast in Delhi and capitals of all states and union territories on Friday as a mark of respect to Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan who passed away on Thursday, the home ministry has announced.A state funeral will also be accorded to the Union minister.The national...
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As many as 17.22 lakh Indians have returned from abroad after the government launched the 'Vande Bharat' evacuation mission on May 7 in view of the coronavirus pandemic, the ministry of external affairs said on Thursday.Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said that under...
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India on Thursday took oblique potshots at China over the guidelines issued by its embassy in New Delhi to the Indian media to not violate New Delhi's 'One-China' policy ahead of the national day of Taiwan, saying there is a 'free media' in this country.There is a free media in India that reports...
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President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoled the demise of Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Thursday. 'In the demise of Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, the nation has lost a visionary leader.'He was among the most active and longest-serving members of parliament. 'He was...
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Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan died on Thursday, his son Chirag Paswan tweeted. Ram Vilas Paswan (74), who was the Lok Janshakti Party patron, had undergone a heart surgery at a hospital in New Delhi a few days ago. He had been in active politics for more than five decades and was one...
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Amid controversy over an alleged plot to manipulate TRPs, the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) on Thursday said it is committed to report a true picture of television viewership and welcomed the Mumbai Police's investigation into the case.Earlier in the day, Mumbai police chief Param...
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Chirag Paswan
The Lok Janshakti Party on Thursday named its 42 candidates for the Bihar assembly polls with some BJP turncoats figuring in the list as Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan's party works to make the contest harder for Chief Minister Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal-United.As the party released its first...
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India's drug regulator has knocked back a proposal from Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd to conduct a large study in the country to evaluate Russia's Sputnik-V COVID-19 vaccine and has asked it to first test the vaccine in a smaller trial.The recommendations by an expert panel of the Central Drugs...
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Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra on Thursday ridiculed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remark that the UPA government would have thrown out China in 15 minutes, and sought to know from where does he get such intoxicating stuff.Referring to the Ladakh standoff, Gandhi on...
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Republic TV issued a statement on Thursday in response to a press conference held by Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh. In the press conference, the commissioner identified Republic TV along with Fakt Marathi and Box Cinema for manipulating TRPs (television rating points). Responding...
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Congress chief Sonia Gandhi penned a letter to the family of former CBI chief Ashwani Kumar mourning his loss.
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US President Donald Trump, who has the coronavirus, says he will not participate in next week's presidential debate if it's held virtually. Trump says in a Fox Business interview that that arrangement is not acceptable to us. And he accused moderators of trying to protect his...
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Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has lost people's confidence and there is no democracy left in West Bengal, the BJP said on Thursday as it hit out at the TMC supremo over clashes between saffron party workers and police during protests in Kolkata and Howrah. BJP president J P Nadda in a tweet...
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Vaccines currently being developed for Covid-19 should not be affected by recent mutations in the novel coronavirus, according to researchers, including one of Indian origin, who said the finding is good news for the hundreds of vaccine candidates around the world. The researchers, including...
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Just in: The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the American poet Louise Gluck for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal. Gluck was born 1943 in New York and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Apart from her writing she...
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Airlines may be permitted to operate maximum 75 per cent of their pre-COVID scheduled domestic flights if the passenger numbers continue to remain healthy during the next 7-10 days, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Thursday. The government on September 2 had said Indian...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday appealed to everyone to join Prime Minister Narendra Modi's public movement against COVID-19 and said a global pandemic can be fought only when all the countrymen come together. Shah also said there are only three mantras to protect ourselves from...
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With the likelihood of a vaccine against coronavirus being available within months, the government has begun a massive exercise to map out cold chain storage facilities to ensure the vaccine is delivered quickly across the country. A national expert group is talking to public and private...
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The News Broadcasting Standards Authority has directed electronic news channels, Aaj Tak, Zee News, News24 and India TV to air an apology for 'insensitive reporting and sensationalising the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput.NBSA also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh to Aaj Tak for telecasting fake...
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The accused in the Hathras incident have written to the Superintendent of Police alleging they have been framed in the case and have urged for an investigation for justice to be delivered in the matter.The letter, written on October 7, in Hindi, states that the four accused had been framed on the...
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After a video featuring the teary-eyed owners of Baba Ka Dhaba in Malviya Nagar, Delhi, went viral and was shared by the likes of @ReallySwara, & @TandonRaveena, the small eatery is seeing such large crowds that they sold out all their food in the morning itself. There were no customers, we...
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Civil rights activist Teesta Setalvad led Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) has approached the Supreme Court to transfer the Hathras case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and ensure proper witness protection is accorded in the case.The plea said that there are senior police...
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Priyanka Gandhi met the family of the Hathras rape victim
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday accused the BJP of building a narrative to defame the Hathras victim, saying she deserves justice and not slander. She charged that a narrative is being built by the ruling party in Uttar Pradesh for holding the woman responsible for...
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Congress is not interested in saving Dalits but only seeks to attain dal hit (own benefits), said Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Dr Narrotam Mishra on Thursday, over the party's role in the Hathras incident. The Madhya Pradesh Minister was speaking about reports which had surfaced regarding a...
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The Nationalist Congress Party on Thursday said it will contest the Bihar assembly polls, and released a list of its 40 star campaigners for the elections.The party in a statement said it will share details of its poll outing in the eastern state soon.NCP president Sharad Pawar will be the...
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Afghanistan's top peace negotiator Abdullah Abdullah on Thursday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discussed the ongoing peace initiative to bring back stability in the war-ravaged country. Following the meeting, Abdullah tweeted that Modi assured him of India's continued support for the...
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West Bengal: BJP workers set ablaze tires in Howrah during party's state-wide 'Nabanna Chalo' agitation against the alleged killings of its workers.
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Another Uyghur has fallen victim to the Chinese regime's persistent actions to imprison prominent Uyghurs on false charges, Campaign for Uyghurs has reported.On September 4, Hursan Hassan, 50-year-old Uyghur, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for separatism. He was earlier detained for more...
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Rajasthan Police have registered an FIR against journalist Sharat Kumar and Congress leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot's media advisor Lokendra Singh on Thursday for spreading rumours over the alleged phone tapping of some MLAs and leaders.An FIR has been registered against the...
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TMC rallies also without masks, says BJP's Vijayvargiya
Hundreds of BJP protesters clashed with the police outside the Bengal secretariat Nabanna today, throwing to the wind all safety measures for coronavirus including the use of masks and social distancing. Visuals from the spot showed the police trying to disperse them with tear gas and water...
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has reprimanded the China for using its economic power to increase its hegemony over the neighbouring countries in South Asia. The threat posed by China resulted in Pompeo's trip to Japan this week wherein he discussed the simmering tensions with the trio of key...
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The combined fiscal deficit of states and the centre during the current year may go up to 14 per cent against the mandated level of six per cent, former Reserve Bank Governor C Rangarajan said on Thursday. Speaking at a programme organised by the ICFAI Business School in Hyderabad, the former...
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An ALH Dhruv helicopter of the Indian Air Force on routine training sortie carried out a precautionary landing in the rural areas of Saharanpur district in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday.People gathered in the area while the ALH Dhruv helicopter carried out the precautionary landing in Saharanpur.The...
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Automobile dealers' body, Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations, on Thursday said passenger vehicle retail sales in September witnessed year-on-year increase of 9.81 per cent to 1,95,665 units, amid shift in customer preference for personal mobility over public transport. According...
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The safe delivery of vaccines for mass immunisation against COVID-19 is a massive challenge and India will need to significantly ramp up its cold chain facilities, say experts as the world's second most populous nation moves into the next stage of management of the disease and looks towards a...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver the keynote address at the Invest India Conference in Canada via video conferencing on Thursday evening. The forum aims to give the Canadian business community a first-hand perspective of the opportunities to invest in India and showcase India as an...
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The World Bank on Thursday said that India's GDP is expected to contract by 9.6 per cent this fiscal which is reflective of the national lockdown and the income shock experienced by households and firms due to the COVID-19 pandemic, noting that the country's economic situation is much worse than...
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The grandeur and might of the various types of aircraft in the Indian Air Force were on full display on the occasion of the 88th Air Force Day celebrations on Thursday.The newly inducted Rafale fighter jet displayed its ability to carry out sharp turns during the flypast at the IAF base in...
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Virtual hearings in the Delhi high court were delayed by nearly 45 minutes on Thursday morning due to a technical fault in the video conferencing software. The hearings were to start at 10.30 am but commenced around 11.15 am.Court masters of several benches said the WebEx platform being...
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The Jharkhand government has said a maximum of 50 people can enter a place of worship at a time and devotees must wear masks and maintain social distancing.The state government allowed religious institutions to reopen after more than six months on Thursday.Places of worship in areas other than...
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The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP ) has done extensive planning to defeat the Leader of Opposition in Bihar Assembly and Rashtriya Janata Dal's (RJD's) Tejashwi Yadav, on his home turf the Raghopur seat in the forthcoming State Assembly polls.The top leader from RJD is the chief ministerial...
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The super-talented Salma Hayek tweets her faith in Hinduism. When I want to connect with my inner beauty, I start my meditation focusing on the goddess Lakshmi. #innerbeauty #hinduism #lakshmi.Hayek tweeted this image alongside of Goddess Lakshmi, somebody the world is looking at among...
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Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik makes a point about wearing a mask properly. Most Indians wear a mask in public places, yet perch the mask on their chin.
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President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday said the ongoing process of modernisation with induction of Rafale, Apache and Chinook will transform the Indian Air Force into an even more formidable strategic force. On the occasion of Air Force Day, he said the nation remains indebted to the...
10:35
The police have interrogated over 70 anti-Citizenship Act protestors. Some allege they were abused, threatened, coerced into giving false statements. Read the report here
10:33
Global media and entertainment conglomerate The Walt Disney Company on Thursday said Uday Shankar will step down as President of its Asia Pacific (APAC) business and Chairman of Star and Disney India with effect from December 31, 2020. Shankar has quit to pursue entrepreneurial interests...
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IAF Chief Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria inspects the 88th Indian Air Force Day parade at Hindon airbase on the occasion of IAF Foundation Day.As we enter the 89th year, the IAF is undergoing a transformational change. We are entering an era which will redefine where we employ...
09:59
Democratic vice president nominee Kamala Harris has accused President Donald Trump of betraying our friends and embracing dictators as she attacked his unilateral approach to his foreign policy that led to America pulling out of the landmark Iran nuclear deal and making the country less...
09:48
India's Covid-19 tally crosses the 68-lakh mark with a spike of 78,524 new cases and 971 deaths reported in the last 24 hours. Total case tally stands at 68,35,656 including 9,02,425 active cases, 58,27,705 cured/discharged/migrated cases & 1,05,526 deaths, the Union Health Ministry, says.
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The national capital on Thursday woke up to 'poor' air quality, with the air quality index (AQI) stood at 210 and 214 in Delhi's Anand Vihar and Patparganj area respectively, according to the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC).The AQI in Delhi's Bawana area also slipped into the 'poor'...
09:41
Farmers in Maharashtra's Gondia and Bhandara districts who have grown early maturing varieties of paddy are worried as the retreating monsoon rains pose a threat to their standing crops. Agriculture officials in the two districts told PTI that irregular drizzle will not affect the crops, but if...
09:35
Researchers have found long-term exposure to urban air pollution may have made Covid-19 virus more deadly. Both long-term and short-term exposure to air pollution has been associated with direct and indirect systemic impact on the human body by enhancing oxidative stress, acute inflammation, and...
09:24
United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday sought withdrawal of all American troops from Afghanistan by Christmas this year. We should have the small remaining number of our BRAVE Men and Women serving in Afghanistan home by Christmas! Trump said in a tweet Wednesday night. After...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday greeted the Indian Air Force on its foundation day, saying the courage, valour and dedication of its soldiers to protect the country inspire everyone. In a tweet on the Air Force Day, he lauded the force and said its brave soldiers do not only...
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The suicide note of former governor of Manipur and Nagaland and ex-Central Bureau of Investigation director Ashwani Kumar, who allegedly died by suicide at his residence in Shimla on Wednesday, revealed that he ended his life due to 'disease and disability', informed Sanjay Kundu, Director...
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India's coronavirus fight is people driven and gets great strength from its COVID warriors, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday as he urged people to follow COVID appropriate behaviour. He made the appeal to people to follow social distancing norms and expressed confidence that...
08:38
During the 90 minutes of the VP debate, Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris ended up with nearly the same amount of speaking time, differing by just a few seconds. Pence spoke for 36 minutes 27 seconds while Harris talked for 36 minutes 24 seconds.
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During the vice-presidential debate earlier, a fly landed on Vice President Mike Pence's head.
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The vice presidential debate was much more cordial than raucous presidential debate with frequent interruptions and outbursts.Image: US Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic vice presidential nominee and US Senator Kamala Harris applaud at the end of the 2020 vice presidential debate on...
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And with that the only US vice-presidential debate has come to an end.
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The final topic question is on the election itself.Susan Page says the president has repeatedly refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power. So what, she asks Harris, would she and Biden do if he refused to stand aside?Harris responds that she and Biden have built a broad coalition of...
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Kamala Harris sharpened her attack on the Trump administration by saying that President Donald Trump betrayed friends, embraced dictators. She highlighted that Russia interfered in the 2016 US Presidential Elections.She also said that Trump's unilateral approach to foreign policy coupled...
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The next topic brings criminal justice and race issues on the table.Was justice done in the case of Breonna Taylor, a Black medical worker who was shot and killed by Louisville police officers in March while they raided her apartment?Harris is up first. She says her life was taken unjustifiably,...
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Harris points out that her home state of California is burning. This administration took the word science off the website, Harris says looking at Pence.We have seen a pattern with this administration and that is they don't believe in science, she said.She says Biden will deal with climate...
07:54
Looks like United States President Donald Trump is watching the vice presidential debate along with all of us.Mike Pence is doing GREAT! She is a gaffe machine, Trump tweets.
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Senator Kamala Harris criticises Vice President Mike Pence and the Trump administration's handling of trade, leading the vice president to fire back at Joe Bidens record on trade agreements.The vice president earlier said it's what he thinks as an accomplishment that the President's trade war...
07:36
Pence gets the first stab at this question: Does he believe that man-made climate change has made wildfires and hurrianes worse?Pence says he's proud of the administration's record on the environment and conservation and he says that air is historically clean.He says Trump has made a commitment...
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Sen. Kamala Harris hit back at Vice President Mike Pence trying to interrupt one of her answers about coronavirus by bluntly saying, Mr. Vice President, I am speaking.The American people have had to sacrifice far too much because of the incompetence of this administration, Harris shot at the vice...
07:27
Senator Kamala Harris said in a vice presidential debate against Vice President Mike Pence that she will not take a coronavirus vaccine if it is recommended by incumbent President Donald Trump.If Dr. Fauci, if the doctors tell us that we should take it, I'll be the first in line to take it....
07:18
Moving from discussing the country's Covid-19 response, Senator Kamala Harris attacked President Donald Trump tax bills by saying that Trump measures economy's strength based on how rich people are.
07:11
Vice President Mike Pence claims Joe Biden plagiarised the Trump administration's COVID-19 response.Describing the Biden-Harris plan to combat coronavirus, Pence suggested it was ripped from the current Trump administration approach.It looks a little like plagiarism, which is something Joe Biden...
07:06
Responding to Harris's charges about covering up the coronavirus pandemic, Pence said he and the administration have always told the American people the truth.The vice president also touted the transparency of Trump's medical team.
06:59
Senator Kamala Harris attacks the Trump administration's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, calling it the greatest failure in the history of the US government.The American people have witnessed what is the greatest failure of any presidential administration in the history of our country,...
06:52
The candidates are talking about COVID-19 now that has claimed over 200,000 American lives and battered the country's economy.
06:42
Here we go, the first and only vice-presidential debate has officially begun at the Kingsbury Hall in Salt Lake City, Utah. Moderator Susan Page laid down rules for the debate which include wearing of masks by audience, 12 feet distance between the candidates. She further welcomed Senator...
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United States Vice President Mike Pence and his Democratic challenger Senator Kamala Harris are all set for a crucial debate, which comes as Donald Trump is ill with coronavirus that has claimed over 200,000 American lives and battered the country's economy.Political analysts believe that an...
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French health authorities said more than 7,500 patients are being treated in hospital for Covid-19, marking a three-month high and an increase of more than 65 per cent versus a 29 August low point of 4,530.The government has put in place restrictions all over the country -- including bars in...
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