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Setting an example in communally sensitive Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka, a newly married Hindu youth hosted an Iftar party at a mosque in Vittal in Bantwal taluk. Amid the outcry over hijab, halal, azaan and the call for boycotting shops belonging to Muslims, the youth emerged as a...
23:28
The United States on Wednesday placed India, China, Russia and four other countries on its annual 'Priority Watch List' for intellectual property protection and enforcement. The other countries that have been put on the list issued by the office of the US trade representative are Argentina,...
23:08
The judicial enquiry commission probing the Bhima Koregaon case summoned Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on May 5 and May 6, asking him to be present as a witness during the hearing in Mumbai. In February, when the commission had summoned Pawar, he had sought more time from the...
23:01
The Special Investigation Team probing the 2017 Kodanad heist-cum-murder case questioned PB Sajeevan, an AIADMK functionary and furniture dealer, for the second day on Wednesday. The team led by West Zone IG R Sudhakar had questioned him on Tuesday with regard to the case that happened on...
22:33
Adani Enterprises Ltd on Wednesday announced incorporation of its subsidiary AMG Media Networks. The wholly-owned subsidiary will start its business operations in due course. The company has incorporated a WOS namely, AMG Media Networks Limited on 26th April, 2022, with an initial...
22:15
Bollywood actor Ajay Devgn and multilingual film actor Kichcha Sudeep engaged in a 'brotherly argument' on Twitter on the topic of whether Hindi is a national language or not. However, Sudeep clarified that the context in which he made the statement was different from the way it was...
22:00
Maharashtra BJP leader Kirit Somaiya on Wednesday met Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari and submitted a representation listing his demands, including action against Mumbai police commissioner Sanjay Pandey over an alleged fake FIR filed in his name. Somaiya, a former Lok Sabha MP from Mumbai,...
21:56
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Mumbai reported over 100 new COVID-19 cases for the second consecutive day on Wednesday, but no fresh death linked to the infection was recorded in the financial capital, the city civic body said. The metropolis registered 112 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the highest daily count...
21:52
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Jyoti Jagtap, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, on Wednesday filed a discharge application before the special NIA court in Mumbai, arguing that the prosecution had failed to establish any case against her. The 34-year-old artist and singer was arrested in September 2021...
21:26
Over 20,000 devotees have registered for the annual Amarnath Yatra through J and K Bank counters in less than two weeks since the registration began, indicating a growing response to the pilgrimage to the south Kashmir cave shrine, an official said on Wednesday. The yatra, which will take...
20:55
In a relief to Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, the Gujarat high court on Wednesday quashed a 2017 criminal case against him in connection with the stampede at the railway station in Vadodara during a train trip to promote his film Raees. The case was registered for allegedly committing acts...
20:51
Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari attended a prayer meeting to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day in Mumbai, an official said on Wednesday. The governor accompanied by the consul generals of various countries attended the prayer meeting held at Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue in...
20:23
BJP leader and former Union minister Vijay Sampla has been appointed as the chairperson of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes for a second time. The official order for his appointment was issued by President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday. Sampla had resigned as the NCSC...
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Delhi reported 1,367 fresh COVID-19 cases and one fatality, while the positivity rate stood at 4.50 per cent, according to data shared by the health department here on Wednesday. It was the sixth consecutive day that the capital recorded over 1,000 new cases in a day. The infection...
19:39
Congress leader Alka Lamba, summoned over a case of inflammatory statements against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, appeared before the police in Rupnagar, Punjab on Wednesday as party workers held a protest outside the SSP office over the matter.However, police did not question Lamba as...
19:13
Former India pacer S Sreesanth, who last month announced his retirement from international cricket, is all set to feature in the Bollywood movie, Item Number One, which is being directed by Paalooran. Apart from acting, Sreesanth will also be singing a fast number in the movie for which...
19:06
India has administered more than 188 crore total doses of the COVID-19 vaccine so far. According to the data, as of 7 am on April 27, as many as 1,88,19,40,971 total doses of the vaccine have been administered in the country.
18:55
An Allahabad high court judge withdrew himself on Wednesday from a bench hearing the bail plea of Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra's son Ashish Mishra Monu in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case. Justice Rajeev Singh of the Lucknow bench of the high court, who had granted bail to...
18:32
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will begin a three-day visit to Bangladesh and Bhutan on Thursday focusing on enhancing bilateral cooperation and exchanging views on key issues. In Dhaka, Jaishankar will call on Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and hold discussions with...
18:20
The Maharashtra government may discuss the twin issues of Value Added Tax and fuel prices in the state cabinet meeting scheduled for Thursday, a senior minister said on Wednesday. Notably, during his virtual interaction with chief ministers of various states on Wednesday, Prime Minister...
17:24
The historic Mughal road, connecting the twin districts of Rajouri and Poonch in the Jammu region with south Kashmir's Shopian district, was reopened for one-way vehicular traffic on Wednesday after remaining closed for over four months due to heavy snowfall during the winter, officials...
17:12
Amid rising coronavirus cases in the country, wearing of masks in crowded places could be made mandatory again in Maharashtra, state Health Minister Rajesh Tope said on Wednesday. Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray is expected to hold a meeting with the district collectors in the state to...
16:58
BJP leaders in Delhi on Wednesday said they have renamed South Delhi's 'Muhammadpur' village to 'Madhavpuram', claiming that locals did not want to associate themselves with any symbol of slavery. The party's Delhi unit president Adesh Gupta also posed with workers and locals in front...
16:30
The Delhi CM listens to the PM's speech with his hands behind his head
The BJP criticised Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday over his mannerless posture during a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and questioned whether this is how a chief minister should behave at an important meeting. Tweeting a video of Modi's interaction with...
16:17
This tweet by the Bombay Natural History Society...From Mumbai to Altai - this Common Red Shank, tagged by the BNHS team, has covered a distance of atleast 5,100 Km.
16:09
The last fortnight has seen worrying developments on the streets as communal clashes have erupted in different states on Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti.As Hindu processions vended their way through Muslim localities in different states chanting provocative slogans, the situation descended into...
15:52
The Kerala government on Wednesday brought back the face masks mandate in the state, in the wake of surge in Covid-19 cases reported in many other parts of the country. It also announced that any violation would be punishable under the provisions of the Disaster Management Act and other...
15:18
Flagging higher fuel prices in many opposition-ruled states, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday urged them to reduce VAT in national interest to benefit the common man and work in the spirit of cooperative federalism in this time of global crisis. Modi raised the issue of many states...
15:15
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In the wake of the suicide attack on Chinese nationals in Karachi, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that he will hold a meeting to devise plan for security of people from China and other foreigners working in Pakistan. An explosion triggered by a burqa-clad Baloch woman suicide bomber...
14:29
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut has claimed that independent parliamentarian Navneet Rana received a loan of Rs 80 lakh from film financier and builder Yusuf Lakdawala, who was arrested in a money laundering case by the Enforcement Directorate, and sought a probe into it by the central...
14:09
Well-known Malayalam producer-actor Vijay Babu has been booked for allegedly sexually assaulting a female actor and disclosing the survivor's identity through a Facebook live session. Babu, who is reportedly absconding since the police charged him with rape following the woman's...
13:59
Covid vaccination of all eligible children at the earliest is a priority for the government and specialised programmes will need to be conducted for it in schools, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday. Speaking at an interaction with chief ministers on the emerging COVID-19...
13:07
Country's largest life insurer LIC on Wednesday set the price band at Rs 902-949 per share for its Rs 21,000 crore initial public offering (IPO), which will open on May 4. At the upper end of the price band the government will garner around Rs 21,000 crore. With this IPO,...
12:33
Days after the Uttar Pradesh Home Department said that illegal loudspeakers and those flouting the noise limit standards will be removed from religious places across the state, the police said that the information is being given to temples, mosques, gurudwaras, churches and marriage halls and a...
12:29
Israel PM Naftali Bennett
Israeli police have beefed up security around Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his family after a letter addressed to them was found to contain a live bullet and a death threat. The Israeli police and internal security agency Shin Bet have launched an investigation into the death...
12:18
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Green warrior and President Green Belt and Road Institute, Erik Solheim, warns of the heat wave across India. A potentially deadly and unprecedented heatwave is intensifying across India and South Asia. Over a billion people will experience temperatures above 38C for days on end. This comes...
12:06
Pakistan's ousted prime minister Imran Khan was so desperate to cling to power that he begged the military establishment till the last minute to save his government, ruling PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz has alleged. The powerful army has ruled coup-prone Pakistan for more than half...
11:42
Under the leadership of Xi Jinping, China is going back to the days of Mao Zedong's extreme communism and bringing back the memories of the famine in Mao's era.Writing for InsideOver, Federico Giuliani said Xi Jinping has made it his motto to make China the strongest superpower in the world but...
11:26
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on an official visit to three European countries -Germany, Denmark and France - from May 2-4, the External Affairs Ministry (MEA) said on Wednesday.In a statement, the MEA said this will be the Prime Minister's first visit abroad in 2022. In Berlin, Prime...
11:15
Amid nationwide protests and growing calls for his resignation, Sri Lanka Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has said that he will step down if he loses the majority in the Parliament. Sri Lanka has been gripped by an economic crisis with foreign debt estimated at USD 51...
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On the precipice of another punishing heatwave spell, Delhi is predicted to see a jump of two to three degrees Celsius in the maximum temperature on Wednesday. The Safdarjung Observatory -- Delhi's base station -- had recorded a maximum temperature of 40.8 degrees Celsius on Tuesday....
10:36
Equity markets tumbled on Wednesday after a sharp rebound in the previous trade, with the Sensex falling 496 points in early trade, tracking weak global trends. Unabated foreign fund outflows and selling in index majors Infosys and Bajaj Finance also played spoilsport. The...
10:12
Mumbai power outage: There was a double cable fault in Khar. Nine substations between Khar and Bandra were affected, early this morning. Six substations have been restored. Repairing work underway for remaining 3 substations which will be done in some time, says Adani Electricity...
09:47
A Myanmar junta court convicts Aung San Suu Kyi of corruption. A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Wednesday found deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of corruption and sentenced her to five years in jail, according to a source with knowledge of the proceedings.The case was the first of...
09:40
Terming the Uniform Civil Code 'an unconstitutional and anti-minorities move', the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Tuesday called the rhetoric for bringing the law an attempt by Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Central government to divert attention from inflation, economy and...
09:38
The US has pressed its allies to move heaven and earth to keep Kyiv well-supplied with weapons as Russian forces rained fire on eastern and southern Ukraine amid growing new fears the war could spill over the country's borders. For the second day in a row, explosions rocked the...
09:18
The hospital where the injured were taken
Thanjavur electrocution incident: Rs 5 lakh each has been announced as financial assistance for the 11 people who died in the incident, as announced by the Chief Minister's Office.An FIR has been registered and an investigation has started in connection with deaths due to electrocution during the...
09:11
The Sub-Divisional Magistrate of Uttarakhand's Laksar, Sangeeta Kanojia was severely injured in a car accident that took place near Landhaura on Tuesday, while her driver died on the spot.The accident took place near Landhaura when a truck rammed into their (Kanojia's) vehicle, said District...
08:56
Actor-turned-politician Hema Malini on Tuesday flagged the issue of cleanliness in her parliamentary constituency Mathura.The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP participated in the inaugural programme of a new government school building in Ishwariya village of Amreli district on...
08:52
Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, a mentally disabled Indian-origin Malaysian man convicted in a drug trafficking case, was executed in Singapore on Wednesday, his family told the media after his mother's appeal was dismissed by Court of Appeal on Tuesday. Dharmalingam, 34, was hanged this...
08:21
As many as 11 persons were electrocuted during a temple chariot procession in Thanjavur when it came into contact with a high tension transmission line, police said Wednesday. The deceased included children. The tragic...
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The Mumbai police on Tuesday submitted a charge sheet against senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla in an alleged phone tapping case before a court here, an official said. The over 700-page charge sheet contains statements of at least 20 persons including Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut and NCP...
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