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The Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday said that opposition parties were needlessly raking up a controversy by alleging that Punjab was being remote-controlled by Arvind Kejriwal and stated that there was nothing wrong if the party's leaders took guidance from the Delhi chief minister who is also the...
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The Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company is resorting to cutting electric supply only when it is facing demand-supply mismatches and that too in pockets where it is facing the highest losses, a senior official said on Tuesday. There is no planned load shedding in the...
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Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Tuesday batted for the Uniform Civil Code and stressed the need for controlling population growth. Speaking at a public rally in Thane, he also reiterated his demand that loudspeakers on mosques be removed,...
22:11
New York City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said that the shootout in Brooklyn is not being probed as a terrorism act, adding there are no life threatning injuries. There are currently no known explosive devices on the subway train. This is not being investigated as an act of terrorism...
22:00
United States President Joe Biden on Tuesday was briefed on the latest developments regarding the New York City subway shooting, White House press secretary Jen Psaki tweeted.White House senior staff are in touch with New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell, Psaki...
21:12
Shehbaz Sharif is expected to travel to Saudi Arabia and China in his first foreign trip after taking charge as Pakistan's new Prime Minister, according to a media report on Tuesday. Traditionally, a Pakistani prime minister's first foreign visit has often been to Riyadh and Beijing due to...
20:56
Police said they were searching for a Black man with an orange construction vest and a gas mask who is about 5 feet, 8 inches and weighs about 175 to 180 pounds.NYPD and senior law enforcement officials said that the man may have tossed a smoke canister on the platform to distract the crowd.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate on Thursday the 'Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya' (prime ministers' museum), which is a tribute to every prime minister since Independence, irrespective of their ideology or tenure, the PMO said. Scheduled for opening during the celebration of...
20:37
In the wake of the Deoghar ropeway accident, the Centre on Tuesday asked all states to carry out a safety audit of each ropeway project and put in place standard operating procedures to deal with such emergencies. In a communication to all states and Union territories, Home Secretary...
20:16
A court in Mumbai on Tuesday granted bail to three students arrested in the 'Bulli Bai' app case. The app targeted Muslim women by making public their details and allowing users to participate in their auction. Magistrate KC...
19:58
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Chancellor Rishi Sunak will be fined over the partygate scandal for breaching COVID-19 pandemic lockdown rules following allegations that the government flouted its own pandemic restrictions. Downing Street confirmed that the two senior-most...
19:47
Lok Janshakti Party leader Chirag Paswan on Tuesday said he has met Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to demand that Hajipur railway station in Bihar be named after his father and former Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan. He cited his father's long association with Hajipur, which the...
19:34
Breaking: Multiple people were shot at a subway station in New York's Brooklyn, the city fire department said. Fire personnel responding to reports of smoke at the 36th Street station in Sunset Park found multiple people shot, a New York City Fire Department spokesperson said.A photo...
19:10
A loud explosion took place on Tuesday merely a few metres away from where Bihar Chief Minister was addressing a gathering in his home district of Nalanda. No casualties were reported so far, as police suspected it was a firecracker.Nalanda Superintendent of Police Ashok Mishra said that...
19:06
Ali Kashif Jan, the Pakistani handler of the 2016 terror attack on Pathankot air base, has been designated as a terrorist by the government. Jan alias Jan Ali Kashif is the third terrorist to have been designated as a terrorist by the central government in last five days.The Union home...
18:39
A Delhi court on Tuesday reserved its order on a Central Bureau of Investigation application challenging an order asking the probe agency to withdraw the Look Out Circular issued against the chair of Amnesty International India Board Aakar Patel and apologies to him in connection with a case...
18:21
South African scientists have detected two new sublineages of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. According to Tulio de Oliveira, Director of the Centre for Epidemic Response & innovation, South Africa, the lineages have been named BA.4 and...
18:19
The factory output rose 1.7 per cent in February, mainly on account of rise in the mining sector and power generation. According to the government data released on Tuesday, the manufacturing sector recorded a growth of 0.8 per cent. The Index of Industrial Production had declined...
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Northern Army Commander Lt Gen Upendra Dwivedi on Tuesday asked the soldiers posted along the Line of Control to remain vigilant and maintain the sanctity of the ceasefire line, a defence spokesman said here. Lt Gen Upendra Dwivedi, on the final day of his visit to Kashmir Valley,...
17:37
Vikrant being dismantled
A court in Mumbai on Tuesday rejected an anticipatory bail application filed by BJP leader Kirit Somaiya's son, Neil Somaiya, in a case of alleged misappropriation of over Rs 57 crore collected to save the decommissioned aircraft carrier INS Vikrant. The court had rejected the pre-arrest...
17:13
The Sensex on Tuesday declined 388.20 points or 0.66 per cent to settle at 58,576.37. During the day, the benchmark tanked 666 points or 1.12 per cent to 58,298.57.The Nifty went lower by 144.65 points or 0.82 per cent to finish at 17,530.30.From the 30-share pack, Tata Steel, Wipro, Tech...
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Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said the Centre does not intend to interfere in the functioning of state cooperatives, but it will endeavour to bring uniformity in state laws through dialogue and coordination. Addressing a two-day national conference on cooperation policy,...
16:53
Students will now be able to pursue two full-time degree programmes in physical mode simultaneously either at the same university or from different universities, University Grants Commission Chairman Jagadesh Kumar announced on Tuesday. The UGC will soon issue detailed guidelines in this...
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Opposition parties in Punjab slammed the Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday over reports that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had summoned senior officials from the state for a meeting in the capital. While Congress legislative party leader Partap Singh Bajwa claimed that people of the state...
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Pakistan's newly-appointed Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday thanked his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for felicitating him and said his country desires 'peaceful and cooperative' ties with India.Sharif, however, emphasised that peaceful settlement of outstanding disputes including...
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Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, who chaired a meeting of the country's key experts on the new XE variant' of coronavirus on Tuesday, directed officials to boost the ongoing monitoring and surveillance of new variants and cases. He also asked the officials to constantly review the...
15:40
A second flight test of anti-tank guided missile Helina was successfully completed at a high-altitude range on Tuesday as part of user validation trials, the defence ministry said. The first flight test of Helina was successfully done on Monday, the ministry's statement said. Both the tests...
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Internet services were on Tuesday suspended in Odisha's Keonjhar district in the wake of the clashes that had broken out between members of two communities over a Ram Navami rally a day ago.The district administration also extended the prohibitory orders imposed on Joda town, the site of the...
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Satish Uke
A special PMLA court in Mumbai on Tuesday sent Nagpur-based lawyer Satish Uke and his brother Pradeep to 14-day judicial custody in a money laundering case. The Uke brothers were arrested by the Enforcement Directorate under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act on March 31. The duo...
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The Ministry of Education has sought a report from Jawaharlal Nehru University regarding a clash between students' group on occasion of Ram Navami, officials said on Tuesday.As per standard procedures, a formal report has been sought about the clash between the student groups on the occasion of...
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Alliance Air's made-in-India Dornier 228 aircraft was deployed for its first commercial flight on the Dibrugarh-Pasighat route on Tuesday with Union ministers Jyotiraditya Scindia and Kiren Rijiju on board.Accompanied by senior government officers, Scindia and Rijiju boarded the flight at the...
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The ruling BJP is headed for a big win in the Uttar Pradesh legislative council polls bagging Barabanki and Ayodhya and leading in most of the 27 seats, but lost Varanasi to an Independent candidate by a big margin. In Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Lok Sabha constituency, BJP's Sudama Patel...
13:06
Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil on Tuesday said the state government will seek from the Centre the whereabouts of BJP leader Kirit Somaiya, who enjoys 'Z' category CISF security cover and is facing a cheating case in Mumbai. The city police last week registered a case of cheating...
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On Tuesday, New York City's Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs, the New York City Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), the Mayor's Community Affairs Unit (CAU), the Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes (OPHC), and The Center for Faith and Community Partnership (CFCP), will host its first Iftar...
12:42
The Centre has given the go ahead to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to prosecute Amnesty International India and its former chief Aakar Patel for alleged violations of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), paving way for a special court to take cognisance of its charge sheet...
12:29
Congress leader Pawan Kumar Bansal on Tuesday appeared before the ED in New Delhi for questioning in a money laundering case related to the party-promoted Young Indian that owns National Herald newspaper, officials said.The former Union minister arrived with a bunch of files at the new...
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Pop star Britney Spears has announced that she is expecting her third child. The singer, who got engaged to her long-time boyfriend Sam Asghari in September, shared the news on Instagram on Tuesday. Spears, 40, who had previously expressed her desire to have a family', said she had taken a...
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The police have registered a non-cognisable offence against some BJP workers for alleged distribution of cash in Kolhapur, where voting for the bypoll to Kolhapur North assembly seat is underway on Tuesday, an official said. However, local BJP functionary Sunil Kadam alleged that they caught...
11:59
A Delhi court on Monday dismissed the bail application of former Jawaharlal Nehru University student Sharjeel Imam in a case related to the alleged conspiracy behind the 2020 North-east Delhi riots.Special Judge Amitabh Rawat denied relief to Imam, who is accused of making inflammatory speeches...
11:35
Yogi Adityanath casts his vote
Counting of votes in the biennial elections for 27 seats of the Uttar Pradesh legislative council began on Tuesday.According to the Election Commission of India, an average polling percentage of 98.11 was recorded in the state on Saturday, with Rae Bareli registering the highest voter turnout at...
11:18
Ten of the 15 tourists who remained trapped mid-air in cable cars connecting the Trikut Hills in Jharkhand's Deoghar district for about 40 hours were rescued by Indian Air Force choppers that resumed rescue operations early on Tuesday morning, officials said.Some 50 people have been rescued so...
10:26
Nirav Modi
In a major operation, the Central Bureu of Invesigation has got deported from Egypt, Subhash Shankar Parab, a key accused in the Rs 7,000 crore Nirav Modi bank fraud case.Parab was the Deputy General Manager (Finance) in Firestar Diamond, officials said on Tuesday.Parab, who was allegedly hiding...
09:51
The United States is monitoring some recent 'concerning developments' on human rights violations in India by some government, police, and prison officials, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said.Blinken made these remarks at a joint news conference with Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and...
09:26
At least four people were detained by police after members of two different communities engaged in stone-pelting in Himmatnagar town of Gujarat's Sabarkantha district, officials said.The incident took place in Vanzaravas area on Monday night, police said. In some videos shared...
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India's total purchase of oil from Russia in a month is probably less than what Europe does in an afternoon, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Monday.I noticed you refer to oil purchases. If you are looking at energy purchases from Russia, I would suggest that your attention should...
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Bollywood star Ranbir Kapoor's Krishna Raj bungalow has been decorated with bright lights ahead of the actor's speculated wedding to Alia Bhatt.The abode, which is a well-known landmark in Mumbai's Chembur, could be seen sparkled up with pink, purple and golden lights. The multi-floor...
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United States President Joe Biden on Monday conveyed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he was looking forward to seeing him in Japan on May 24 during a summit of the leaders of the Quad or Quadrilateral coalition. Biden said this in his opening remarks at a virtual meeting with Prime...
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