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The Centre on Tuesday advised Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra and Mizoram to maintain a strict watch and take pre-emptive action, if required, in the areas of concern to control any emerging spread of the coronavirus. As these states and the Union Territory of Delhi are reporting...
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kirit Somaiya on Tuesday was questioned by the Economic Offence Wing of the Mumbai police for more than three hours in connection with the INS Vikrant funds misappropriation case, an official said. Somaiya was interrogated for the second day on Tuesday. On...
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Pakistan's Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Tuesday called on newly-elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for the first time since he took over after Imran Khan's ouster, ending speculation about his failure to greet the new premier. The Prime Minister's Office tweeted a short video...
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The local administration invoked the stringent National Security Act on two persons allegedly involved in the violence that erupted during a Ram Navami procession in Madhya Pradesh's Khargone town, an official said on Tuesday. The NSA was invoked against Nawaz, a resident of Talab Chowk...
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The Narcotics Control Bureau has appointed full-time heads for its four zones in the country including Mumbai, which was being held in an additional capacity after the tenure of IRS officer Sameer Wankhede ended few months back. The federal anti-narcotics agency has appointed Amit Fakkad...
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The Mumbai police on Tuesday arrested a person in connection with the attack on NCP chief Sharad Pawar's residence during a protest by MSRTC workers in Mumbai, an official said. The accused Manoj Mudaliar was apprehended at Pune by a team from Gamdevi police station, an official...
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The Allahabad high court has dismissed a PIL challenging the prohibition on the sale of meat and other non-vegetarian items in 22 municipal wards of Mathura-Vrindavan by the state government. The state government under notification dated September 10, 2021, notified 22 wards of...
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Mumbai on Tuesday reported 85 Covid-19 cases, the highest daily addition to the tally since March 2 and two-and-half times Monday's figure of 34, a civic official said. It took the tally to 10,58,884, while the death toll remained unchanged at 19,562. On March 2, the number of cases...
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The National Security Act was on Tuesday imposed against five persons allegedly involved in the clashes that took place in Delhi's Jahangirpuri that erupted between members of two groups during a Hanuman Jayanti procession on April 16, top government officials said. The NSA has been...
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Actor Ajay Devgn on Tuesday said his upcoming action drama Bholaa will release on March 30, 2023. The film, directed by Dharmendra Sharma, also stars Tabu as a cop. Bholaa is the Hindi remake of the Tamil hit Kaithi, which was written and directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj. Proudly...
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The prosecution team in the Sri Lankan citizen's lynching case in Pakistan has received death threats apparently from the radical Islamists as an anti-terrorism court sentenced six people to death and awarded varying jail terms to 81 others for their involvement in the brutal murder that saw...
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A portion of a five-storey building under renovation collapsed in Kalbadevi area of south Mumbai on Tuesday and no casualties were reported in the incident, an official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said. The incident took place at a ground-plus-four storey structure at...
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At least one person was killed and 12 others injured on Tuesday when police opened fire to disperse anti-government protestors in Sri Lanka's southwestern region of Rambukkana. The residents were protesting the latest fuel price hike when they clashed with the police. The police said...
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The rupee fell 22 paise to close at 76.51 (provisional) against the US dollar on Tuesday, tracking a strong American currency in the overseas market and significant foreign fund outflows. At the interbank foreign exchange market, the rupee opened at 76.34 against the American currency and...
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Terror group Lashkar-e-Tayiba's member Sheikh Sajad alias Sajjad Gul, who was responsible for the killing of journalist Shujaat Bukhari in Srinagar in 2018, was designated as a terrorist by the Centre on Tuesday. Gul is the sixth individual to have been designated as a terrorist by the...
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Activists of various political outfits staged a black flag protest against Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi in Mayiladuthurai on Tuesday, when he visited a well-known mutt in the district. Local BJP functionaries accorded a warm welcome to the governor by holding the Indian tricolour during his...
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Activists of various political outfits staged a black flag protest against Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi in Mayiladuthurai on Tuesday, when he visited a well-known mutt in the district. Local BJP functionaries accorded a warm welcome to the governor by holding the Indian tricolour during his...
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Benchmark indices were trading flat intra-day amid volatility on Tuesday. BSE Sensex touched intra-day peak of 57,464.08 while the NSE Nifty recorded the intra-day high of 17,275.65 at around 2 pm.
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Lieutenant General Manoj Kumar Katiyar has been appointed as the next Director-General of Military Operations. He would be taking over the new office on May 1. He is presently the general officer commanding of 1 Corps, a strike formation responsible for offensive operations against both...
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The Nepal government has permitted 740 climbers, including 155 women, from 70 countries to scale Nepal's mountains, with highest number of applicants coming from the US. The department of tourism said that the second-highest number of climbers are from the UK, followed by 55 from...
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The situation in Jahangirpuri of northwest Delhi is heading towards normalcy amid heavy deployment of security personnel in the violence-hit area, police said on Tuesday. Some of the shops, mainly of grocery, in the streets have opened and the movement of people is becoming normal,...
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WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus greets the public in Gujarati during the inaugural ceremony of the WHO-Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar. Kemchho! Majaama? Dr Ghebreyesus said.I have a special connection with India. I learned about traditional medicines from...
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| Prime Minister Narendra Modi to shortly inaugurate the WHO-Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar. Mauritius PM Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, CM Bhupendra Patel and Union AYUSH Minister Sarbananda Sonowal present for the ceremony.
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Markets went into a tailspin during fag-end of the trade on Tuesday, with the Sensex closing 703.59 points lower as weakness in HDFC twins and Infosys continued to dent sentiments. Concerns over rising inflation and foreign fund outflows in the wake of the uncertain geopolitical...
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Mauritius PM Pravind Kumar Jugnauth arrives at Jamnagar Airport. Jugnauth is set to participate in the ground-breaking ceremony of the WHO-Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar today.
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A video of a class 10 Dalit student being beaten up and made to lick the feet of a man surfaced on social media in Rae Bareli, prompting the police to lodge a case and arrest eight people, officials said on Tuesday. According to police, on April 10, the boy, a resident of Jagatpur...
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday allotted agricultural and residential land papers to 63 Hindu Bengali refugee families that migrated from East Pakistan in the 1970s. Along with this, they will also be provided with a residential lease and approval letter from...
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The IPL match between Delhi Capital and Punjab Kings scheduled to be held on April 20 has been shifted from MCA Stadium in Pune to Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai. The venue has been changed after 5 Covid-19 positive cases were reported in the Delhi Capitals contingent, says BCCI Secy Jay...
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Jahangirpuri clashes: Accused Sonu alias Imam alias Yunus being taken to the Rohini court.A total of 23 people have been arrested and two juveniles apprehended so far in connection with the incident.The Delhi police are conducting drone surveillance to keep a vigil over the Central District....
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Terrorists on Tuesday opened fire on security forces guarding a minority village in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district, but there was no report of any damage, officials said. The ultras opened fire towards a bunker of the security forces guarding a village inhabited by members of the minority...
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Thirty-three children were among 107 people who tested positive for Covid-19 in Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar district on Tuesday, officials said. The number of active cases in Gautam Buddh Nagar, adjoining Delhi, has reached 411, they said. According to the official figures,...
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Three back-to-back blasts have happened in the west of Kabul today morning, two near a school and one near a tuition center, leaving five people wounded, reports Afghanistan's TOLO NewsSix people were killed and dozens injured as a result of two explosions on the territory of schools in western...
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When Narendra Modi and the BJP talk about Congress-mukt Bharat, what they mean is, democracy-mukt Bharat. When they say Congress mukt, it is a call for autocracy. It is an invitation for disaster, and that cannot or should not happen in the country, former Union minister M...
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Amid incidents of violence during festivals in some states, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed that no religious procession should be taken out without permission and that usage of loudspeakers should not inconvenience others. With Eid festival and Akshaya Tritiya...
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The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) has withdrawn the notice which had restricted its employees from making anti-government statements in posts on social media, an official of the institute said.The notice was withdrawn on Monday, said Ajay Abhyankar, the spokesperson of the...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said India produces milk worth Rs 8.5 lakh crore annually, more than the turnover of wheat and rice, with small farmers being the biggest beneficiaries of the dairy sector. Today, India is the world's largest producer of milk. When the livelihood of...
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Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, visit the All India Institute of Ayurveda in Delhi.Dr Ghebreyesus will attend the inauguration of the WHO...
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Madhya Pradesh Congress president Kamal Nath and party leaders Digvijaya Singh, Mukul Wasnik, KC Venugopal meet party president Sonia Gandhi at her residence in Delhi to discuss strategy for Madhya Pradesh political situation and upcoming polls.
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The country's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) has raised its marginal cost of funds based lending rate (MCLR) by 10 basis points (bps) or 0.1 per cent across all tenures, a move that will lead to an increase in EMIs for borrowers. The lending rate revision by SBI is likely to...
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Hindi films from Zanjeer to Mission Kashmir to The Kashmir Files have routinely used kohl to mark out the villainous 'Muslim' man. Read the column here.
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The Kerala High Court on Tuesday declined to interfere with the decision of a Christian woman to marry a Muslim DYFI leader, a decision which stirred up a political storm in the state after her relatives alleged love jihad, as she categorically told the court that she has not been illegally...
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Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Tuesday informed that he discussed several state issues in his meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah.The chief minister apprised Shah of the development of Bru rehabilitation in Tripura. He also informed the Union Home Minister about the obstacles...
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MNS Chief Raj Thackeray tries to stay relevant with the loudspeaker issue. He will hold a meeting with the party's top leaders at his residence today. In today's meeting, a strategy will be prepared on the issues of the May 3 ultimatum to remove loudspeakers in mosques. There will be a party...
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Russian forces have started the battle for Donbas, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said in a video address, adding that Kyiv will defend itself. Russian forces have started the battle for Donbas for which they've been preparing for a long time and a considerable amount of...
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A huge cache of arms and ammunition have been recovered from Kupwara district during a search operation, conducted by Kupwara Police along with the Indian Army, at Hajam Mohalla on Tuesday. According to the police, the seizure involved 10 pistols, 17 pistol magazines, 54 pistol rounds...
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The Delhi Police have arrested five people and apprehended one minor of the same family in connection with the April 16 Delhi Jahangirpuri violence.A total of 23 people have been arrested and two juveniles apprehended so far in connection with the incident in which nine people, including eight...
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Seeing red
Benchmark indices bounced back in early trade on Tuesday after facing heavy drubbing in the previous session, with Sensex jumping 293.15 points. Sensex was trading 293.15 points higher at 57,459.89 points while the Nifty was up 102 points at 17,275.65 points. However, as the...
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When the Narendra Modi government doesn't deliver on the promise of jobs, the people have to step up. Priyanka Gupta, an economics graduate sets up a tea stall near Women's College in Patna. I did my UG in 2019 but was unable to get a job in the last 2 yrs. I took inspiration from Prafull...
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With 1,247 coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India's total tally of Covid-19 cases rose to 4,30,45,527, while the active cases increased to 11,860, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. The death toll climbed to 5,21,966 with one fresh fatality being...
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Centre's interlocutor for Naga Peace talks, A K Mishra arrived in Dimapur on Monday and is likely to meet National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak Muivah (NSCN-IM) general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah and other leaders of the outfit at their Camp Hebron during his week-long stay to resolve the...
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China on Monday reported 3,297 locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said on Tuesday, while lockdowns in cities are triggering cascading effects with Beijing staring at a national crisis.Of these new locally transmitted cases, China's economic hub Shanghai...
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Lt Gen Manoj Pandey (L), Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari, Admiral Hari Kumar (R)/ANI
The three service chiefs of the Indian armed forces will be from the 61st batch of the National Defense Academy at Khadakwasla, after the Army chief-designate Lt Gen Manoj Pandey takes over as the 29th chief of Army staff on April 30. Navy chief Admiral Hari Kumar and Air Chief Marshal Vivek...
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The Maharashtra unit of All India Sunni Jamiyatul-Ulama on Monday approached Mumbai police seeking permission to use loudspeakers atop mosques to relay azaan. The outfit, in a statement, said some people have been questioning the use of loudspeakers and this is why it had decided to...
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