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Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat visited the areas long the Line of Control in Dras sector of Kargil district on Sunday, a day before Kargil Vijay Diwas, to review the prevailing security situation and operational preparedness, an official statement said. President Ram Nath Kovind will visit...
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Congress leader Sachin Pilot said on Sunday that his party alone can politically challenge the Bharatiya Janata Party and provide an alternative to people.  Talking to reporters in his Tonk assembly constituency, the former deputy chief minister of Rajasthan also targeted the Modi government...
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Regional parties should come together and form a national front to take on the Bharatiay Janata Party in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Shriomani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal said on Sunday and asserted that his party's story with the saffron party was over. Underlining that issues of...
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Defending champions Mumbai Indians will meet Chennai Super Kings in Dubai on September 19 when the IPL resumes in the United Arab Emirates.  The tournament was suspended in May after multiple COVID-19 cases were reported in its bio-bubble.   As reported earlier, the tournament is resuming...
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Amid speculation about a change of guard in Karnataka, Bharatiya Janata Party president J P Nadda on Sunday ruled out any leadership crisis in the southern state and said Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa has done good work.      He termed as baseless the Pegasus snooping allegations, and...
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With the COVID-19 pandemic leading to prolonged closure, majority of private schools across the country have reported a 20-50 per cent decrease in revenue, leading to reduction in teachers' salaries at some of them, a new report said. The report by the Central Square Foundation, an NGO working...
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Amid the rain havoc in parts of Maharashtra, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday said a separate force on the lines of the National Disaster Response Force will be set up in all districts of the state and the State Disaster Response Force will also be strengthened.      The number...
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After the Centre said it has no record of farmers who have died during the agitation at Delhi's borders against three agri laws since 2020, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday alleged that the government has been constantly insulting the farmers and demanded that it must repeal the...
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A 'central war room' has been established at the Department of Military Affairs in the Defence Ministry for close coordination among the three wings of the armed forces for flood relief operations in Maharashtra, the Indian Army said on Sunday.  With unprecedented rains and resultant...
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An Olympic medallist's wish is anybody's command. Domino's Pizza has pledged free pizza for life to India's silver medallist Saikhom Mirabai Chanu, after the champion said she wished to eat pizza after her feat at the Tokyo Olympics.   The chain on Saturday also delivered pizzas to her...
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All India Congress Committee general secretary Ajay Maken on Sunday said there is no contradiction among the party's leaders in Rajasthan on the issue of cabinet reshuffle and that they have expressed confidence in the high command for the decision. After meeting ministers, MLAs and office...
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Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday said the government should either call for a joint parliamentary committee probe into the Pegasus snooping allegations or request the Supreme Court to appoint a sitting judge to investigate the matter, and demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
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A month after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's outreach to mainstream leaders of Jammu and Kashmir, National Conference president Farooq Abdullah said on Sunday that there has been no follow-up results on the ground. Abdullah said this in reference to the prime minister's remarks at the June 24...
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Seventy-three bodies have been retrieved and 47 people are missing following landslides triggered by heavy rainfall in the coastal regions of Maharashtra, the National Disaster Response Force said on Sunday. S N Pradhan, the Director General of the federal force, tweeted the latest data of its...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday questioned the pace of COVID-19 vaccination, and said had the country's Mann ki Baat been understood, such would not have been the state. His remarks came just ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Mann ki Baat address to the people of the country. Had...
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Stressing on 'Nation First, Always First' mantra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that as the country enters its 75th year of Independence, every citizen should lead a Bharat Jodo Andolan in the same manner as Mahatma Gandhi had led the Bharat Chhodo Andolan. In his monthly Mann Ki...
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President Ram Nath Kovind arrived in Srinagar on Sunday on a four-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, officials said. They said Kovind arrived at the Srinagar airport at 11:15 am and was received by Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and senior officers of the police and...
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Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Sunday said he will take an appropriate decision, once he receives directions from the Bharatiya Janata Party high command this evening, regarding his continuation in the post.   By evening once it comes, you will also get to know about it, once it...
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The death toll in the collapse of a lift at an under-construction building in Mumbai rose to six and police arrested its contractor and supervisor for allegedly flouting safety norms, an official said on Sunday.      On Saturday, five people were killed and one person was injured after...
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With global electric vehicles sales expected to boom in the next 12 months, nearly 90 per cent of consumers in India are willing to pay a premium for buying an EV, according to a survey by consultancy firm EY.  The EY Mobility Consumer Index, a survey of more than 9,000 respondents from 13...
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Rajya Sabha member John Brittas has moved the Supreme Court seeking a court-monitored probe into reports of alleged snooping of activists, politicians, journalists and constitutional functionaries using Israeli spyware Pegasus.  A massive political row has erupted after media reports claimed...
10:44
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen denied reports of going for an alliance with the Samajwadi Party in the forthcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls.Speaking to ANI, AIMIM Uttar Pradesh president Shaukat Ali said, We have never said that the AIMIM will go for alliance with the Samajwadi Party...
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India reports 39,742 new COVID-19 cases, 39,972 recoveries, and 535 deaths in the last 24 hours.Active cases: 4,08,212Total recoveries: 3,05,43,138Death toll: 4,20,551Total vaccination: 43,31,50,864
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has called a special Cabinet meeting Monday before leaving for the national capital, sources in the government said Saturday.According to the official sources, the reason behind calling this special Cabinet was yet not clear since the last meeting was...
09:02
Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty told police that she had no idea about the content of the 'Hot Shots' app through which her husband Raj Kundra allegedly distributed pornographic films, sources said on Saturday. Â Kundra, a Mumbai-based businessman, was arrested by the police on July 19 for...
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An unidentified terrorist was killed in an encounter with security forces in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, police said.Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Munand area of the south Kashmir district on Sunday morning following inputs about the presence of...
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While investigating the porn film case, Mumbai Police Crime Branch has found a hidden cupboard in businessman Raj Kundra's Viaan and JL Stream office in Mumbai's Andheri during searches.Crime Branch has found a hidden cupboard in businessman Raj Kundra's Viaan and JL Stream office in Mumbai's...
