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The Shiv Sena on Saturday slammed activist Anna Hazare for first announcing a hunger strike over farmers' issues and then calling it off within hours, saying this was on expected lines.Hazare on Friday announced an indefinite fast in support of farmers who are agitating on Delhi borders against...
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The Delhi Police has received 1,700 video clips and CCTV footage from public so far related to the violence during farmers' Republic Day tractor rally and is taking help from forensic experts to analyse the material and identify the culprits, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) B K Singh said on...
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BCCI secretary Jay Shah was unanimously elected as the President of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) on Saturday. The 32-year-old replaces Bangladesh Cricket Board chief Najmul Hasan Papon.BCCI treasurer Arun Singh Dhumal shared the news on Twitter.Congratulations @JayShah on taking over as...
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Expelled All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader V K Sasikala will be discharged on Sunday from a hospital in Bengaluru, where she was undergoing treatment for COVID, an official bulletin said. Sasikala Natarajan has completed 10 days of treatment today.She has been...
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The release of the much-awaited second season of Amazon Prime Video's critically-acclaimed web series The Family Man may get delayed, following the controversy around the streaming platform's shows Tandav and Mirzapur. Fronted by Manoj Bajpayee, The Family Man season two is slated to...
19:18
New Myntra logo
Fashion e-tailer Myntra is changing its logo following a complaint by a Mumbai-based activist who alleged that the brand's signage was offensive towards women. When contacted, Myntra confirmed the development. The logo is being changed across Myntra's website, app and packaging...
19:11
First look of 'Good Lucky Jerry'
Shooting of actor Janhvi Kapoor's upcoming film Good Luck Jerry was disrupted briefly in Punjab's Patiala district on Saturday by a group of farmers who demanded a statement from the actor in support of their protest against the three agrarian reform laws. ...
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A video of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi relishing a spicy 'kalaan biryani'(mushroom biryani) and a onion side dish he made, with some Tamil Nadu villagers in true south Indian style, has gone viral. The video, uploaded by 'Village Cooking Channel' on YouTube, showing the...
18:12
Serum Institute of India chief executive officer Adar Poonawalla on Saturday said his company has applied to start the trials of another COVID-19 vaccine and that it hopes to launch it by June 2021.The Pune-based firm has already produced Covishield vaccine, co-developed by the University of...
17:59
Over 35 lakh beneficiaries have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in the country till now with 5,70,000 vaccinations conducted in the last 24 hours, the health ministry said on Saturday. Of the 35,00,027 beneficiaries, the highest number of 4,63,793 people were vaccinated in Uttar Pradesh,...
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BCCI chief Sourav Ganguly is stable and he is likely to be discharged from the hospital on Saturday if the results of the medical examinations to be conducted on him return normal, an official of the establishment where he is being treated said.Ganguly's health condition is stable. He slept well...
17:49
Australia head coach Justin Langer's intense micro-management coaching style has apparently not gone down well with a lot of players even as the former opener termed the insinuations as something that couldn't be further from truth. The fissures in the Australian camp have come out in the...
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The Gujarat government on Saturday extended till February 15 the night curfew in four major cities of the state -- Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara and Rajkot -- to prevent the spread of coronavirus, a senior official said.However, the duration of the night curfew has been curtailed by an hour, from 10...
17:20
NIA, Delhi cops at the blast site
Investigators probing the minor blast near the Israeli embassy have not come across anything concrete yet as most of the CCTV cameras near the site of the explosion were non-functional at the time of incident, official police sources said on Saturday. An investigation team of Delhi Police's...
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The Indo-Tibetan Border Police, which guards the Line of Actual Control with China, has posted a new officer to head its frontier in Ladakh, official sources said on Saturday. Lhari Dorjee Lhatoo, a 1999-batch officer of the Manipur cadre, will be replacing ITBP Inspector General Deepam...
16:12
Virat Kohli remained the highest-placed Indian batsman at fourth position even as Cheteshwar Pujara rose a rung to sixth in the latest ICC Test rankings issued on Saturday. Apart from Kohli (862) and Pujara (760), Test vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane (748) is the other Indian batsman in...
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Former West Bengal minister Rajib Banerjee, who recently quit the Trinamool Congress, will Saturday fly with a few other disgruntled MLAs and leaders to New Delhi where they may join the Bharatiya Janata Party, sources in the saffron party said.Banerjee and MLAs Prabir Ghosal and Baishali...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday told leaders of various political parties that his government has been continuously trying to resolve the issues raised by protesting farmers through talks, sources said. Addressing floor leaders of various political parties at the customary...
14:54
Lok Janshakti Party president Chirag Paswan is among the leaders invited to the National Democratic Alliance meeting on Saturday to discuss the ruling bloc's agenda for the budget session of Parliament, party sources said. However, Paswan will not be attending the meeting due to health...
14:29
The central government on Saturday said that internet services have been suspended in the Delhi border areas of Singhu, Ghazipur and Tikri in wake of the farmers' protest against the three farm laws.In its order, the ministry of home affairs said that internet services will continue to stay shut...
14:14
India on Saturday strongly condemned the vandalisation of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the city of Davis in California and took up the matter with the US, seeking appropriate action against those responsible for the despicable act. The statue, which was gifted by India, was vandalised at...
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Farmer leaders agitating against the Centre's new agri laws are observing 'Sadbhavana Diwas' on Mahatma Gandhi's death anniversary on Saturday and holding a day-long fast at the various protest sites. Farmer leader Abhimanyu Kohar, a senior member of Samkyukt Kisan Morcha -- an umbrella...
12:57
Suspecting that Friday's blast outside the Israeli embassy in New Delhi could be a terror attack, Israeli ambassador to India, Ron Malka, on Saturday, asserted that there is full cooperation between New Delhi and Tel Aviv to investigate the explosion. The investigation is ongoing, gathering...
12:08
Unknown miscreants have vandalised, broken and ripped from the base a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in a park in the United States state of California, shocking and outraging Indian-Americans across the country, who have demanded that the officials investigate it as an incident of hate crime. The...
11:18
Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan, famous for his otherworldly looks, killer dance moves, and enviable action skills, is soon going to start shooting for the Indian adaptation of John Le Carre's spy drama The Night Manager.The actor will play an Indian version of the Jonathan Pine character, who was...
11:15
A 37-year-old scientific officer at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) allegedly hanged himself to death at his residence in suburban Trombay following an argument with wife over feeding their children, a police official said on Saturday.The incident took place on Thursday and the...
11:14
Union Home Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Amit Shah's two-day Kolkata visit that was scheduled to begin on January 30 has been cancelled, party's state president Dilip Ghosh informed on Friday.The Home Minister has visited the poll-bound state several times in many months.Shah was...
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As the internet services were shut down in parts of Delhi-NCR close to farmers' protest sites, Krantikari Kisan Union leader Darshal Pal has appealed to the government to restore the services, else the farmers will protest against it.We demand the restoration of internet services in areas where...
10:17
With 13,083 fresh cases, India's COVID-19 tally has gone up to 1,07,33,131, while 1,04,09,160 patients have recuperated so far, pushing the national recovery rate to 96.98 per cent, the health ministry said on Saturday.The viral disease has claimed 137 more lives in the country in a span of 24...
09:19
People continue to remain at Ghazipur border, as farmers' agitation against the three farm laws of the central government goes on.Thousands of farmers from western Uttar Pradesh joined the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) members who have stayed put on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway despite Ghaziabad...
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An encounter broke out at Lelhar area of Pulwama after which the security forces made the two terrorists surrender.'Both terrorists surrendered along with two AK 47 rifles before senior officers of police and security forces,' Kashmir Zone Police tweeted.'One terrorist who was injured in the...
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The single most important challenge facing the United States in the twenty-first century is the rise of an increasingly authoritarian China under President and General Secretary Xi Jinping.As Joe Biden assumes the presidency, it might be easy to see China as an obsession of Donald Trump that he'd...
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Shah Mahmood Qureshi
United States Secretary of State Antony J Blinken spoke with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on phone, an official release said.'Blinken and Qureshi discussed how to ensure accountability for convicted terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and others responsible for the...
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A 126-year-old Shiv temple in Pakistan's Sindh province has been opened for worshippers after it was renovated and its administrative control was handed over to a local Hindu organisation, an official said on Friday.The Evacuee Trust Property Board, which looks after the places of worship of the...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday spoke to newly appointed US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during which they expressed commitment to consolidate and expand the India-United States strategic partnership and reiterated commitment to peace and security in the Indo-Pacific...
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