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The Kolkata police on Tuesday issued summons to Bollywood actor Paresh Rawal for his recent remarks on Bengalis, a senior officer said. The sexagenarian actor has been asked to appear at Taltala police station on December 12 for questioning in connection with the remarks made during a poll...
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Two women cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist died in a gunfight with security personnel in Odisha's Kandhamal district on Tuesday, a top police officer said. Firearms, including an INSAS rifle...
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Trinamool Congress national spokesperson Saket Gokhale was arrested on Tuesday for a tweet endorsing an alleged fake news report about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Gujarat's Morbi town after the collapse of a suspension bridge in October, a police official said. Gokhale was...
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Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan is all set to mark his directorial debut soon. Aryan, on Tuesday, announced on Instagram that he has completed the writing of his first project which he will also be directing. Taking to Instagram, Aryan Khan, on Tuesday, shared a picture...
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a petition seeking a judicial enquiry against former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi in an order passed in connection with a case. A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha told the petitioner that it should have moved...
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader Trichy Suriya Shiva, suspended from the party over a controversial audio leak incident, on Tuesday announced quitting the party and blamed senior functionaries for their interference. Thanking elder brother Annamalai (BJP state chief), Suriya said travelling in...
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Melinda French Gates, co-chair and trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation called on President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday. The President said that the government of India is investing significantly in health and development through a range of flagship...
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A court in Mumbai on Tuesday granted bail to two men arrested for allegedly harassing a South Korean vlogger and YouTuber while she was live streaming on a street in Khar in the metropolis. The Bandra metropolitan court granted bail to the duo on a cash bond of Rs 15,000 each and directed...
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The online registration of new patients visiting the outpatient department at the AIIMS, Delhi has resumed, while the online appointment system is still not working and laboratory services are operating in manual mode, official sources said on Tuesday. The servers of the premier hospital...
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The over 130-day-long protest by fisherfolk against the under-construction Vizhinjam sea port was on Tuesday called off for now. The calling off of the agitation was announced by Vicar General Eugene Pereira, who has been seen at the forefront of the...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday called up Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav to enquire about the well-being of RJD president Lalu Prasad who underwent a kidney transplant in Singapore on the previous day, the party said. On its official Twitter handle, the Rashtriya...
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The Centre has taken back a sum of Rs 1,000 crore it granted under different heads in recent days to the cash-starved Andhra Pradesh government, a state Finance department official indicated on Tuesday. On November 25, the Centre released Rs 682 crore to AP...
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Noted economist and former Union minister Yoginder K Alagh passed away in Ahmedabad on Tuesday after a prolonged illness, his family said. Alagh (83) was an emeritus professor at the Sardar Patel Institute of Economic and Social Research here and was not keeping well for some time, his son...
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With an eye on the next Lok Sabha polls in 2024, BJP president J P Nadda on Tuesday asked party leaders to launch a house to house campaign to reach out to people and build emotional connect with them. Addressing the party's office-bearers from across the country, he said all state units...
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The Yuan Wang 5
Chinese spy ship Yuan Wang 5, known to be fitted with various tracking and surveillance devices, has entered the Indian Ocean Region, ahead of a plan by India for a likely test firing of a long-range ballistic missile in the Bay of Bengal, people familiar with the development said on...
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Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday congratulated the people of Delhi after exit polls showed a clean sweep by the Aam Aadmi Patyu in the municipal elections and also said the prediction for the party in Gujarat is a positive sign.But the Aam Aadmi Party will wait for the Municipal...
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The Indian Railways has decided to enhance the maximum permissible speed of trains to 75 km per hour from the present 60 km per hour to combat delays during the foggy winter months, the national transporter said on Tuesday. This, it said, would be possible due to the presence of fog devices...
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Visitors planning to witness the daily national flag lowering and retreat ceremony at the Attari-Wagah front along the India-Pakistan international border in Punjab can book their seats online from the next year. The Border Security Force, that guards the frontier and conducts the...
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The Central Bureau of Investigation has issued a fresh notice to Telangana Rashtra Samithi MLC K Kavitha to appear for questioning on December 11 at Hyderabad in connection with Delhi Excise Policy scam case, officials said Tuesday. The agency is understood to have agreed to the request of...
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A video surfaced on social media showing some people throwing stones at vehicles entering Karnataka from Maharashtra, prompting Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to take up the matter with Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday and extract an assurance on protection...
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The police in Maharashtra's Palghar have made changes at the spot where former Tata group chairman Cyrus Mistry was killed in an accident on Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway, a senior police official said on Tuesday. In the last three months since the accident, changes and repairs have been...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on December 11 dedicate to the nation three national Ayush institutes -- All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA), Goa; National Institute of Unani Medicine (NIUM), Ghaziabad; and National Institute of Homoeopathy (NIH), Delhi. These institutes will...
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Hackers allegedly tried to breach the website of the apex health research body ICMR but their attempts have been foiled, according to a government official. The official said that hackers apparently from Hong Kong tried to attack the website of the Indian Council of Medical Research...
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Fake social media narratives potentially affecting free and fair polls is fast emerging as a common challenge for most election management bodies, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said on Tuesday. Addressing a delegation led by Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, he said...
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Amid a simmering border dispute between Maharashtra and Karnataka, activists of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction on Tuesday sprayed black and orange paints on at least three Karnataka state transport buses in Swargate area of Pune city. ...
16:51
Unted States-based The Trump Organization Executive Vice President Donald Trump Jr, son of former US President Donald J Trump, is expected to visit India this month and may announce its expansion in Indian real estate market. New York-based The Trump Organization entered into Indian...
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Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Tuesday termed the situation in the border areas of Maharashtra and Karnataka as worrisome, and said time has come to take a stand after seeing what is happening there.Maharashtra ministers Chandrakant Patil and Shambhuraj Desai, appointed for...
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President Ranil Wickremesinghe has acknowledged that there was no point in economic reforms in Sri Lanka because the cash-starved island nation didn't have an economy, as he made a strong pitch for a new economic model. Sri Lanka is going through its worst economic crisis since its...
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One more anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya by members of the Sangh Parivar. In 1992, apart from the small tribe who claimed to be happy and proud for their act of destruction, it was a matter of shame and shock for most Indians, writes Ranjona Banerji. Read the...
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Trucks bearing Maharashtra numbers were stopped and smeared with black ink, and at least one of them pelted with stones, in Belagavi after a protest by an organisation called Karnataka Rakshana Vedike turned violent.Belagavi is at its centre as Maharashtra has been claiming that this...
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Talking to reporters after the all-party meeting today, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said, There are so many issues before the country, such as unemployment and price rise, and the government owes an answer to the people. Chowdhury alleged that the government did not properly...
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Court frames charges against Ashish Mishra, 13 others in Lakhimpur Kheri violence case in which four farmers were killed, says government counsel.More details awaited. -- PTI
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Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri on Tuesday apologised to Delhi high court for criticising Justice S Murlidhar for granting bail to activist Gautam Navlakha.Vivek Agnihotri, who directed the movie Kashmir Files, tendered his unconditional apology for the tweets he posted in 2018 about Justice S...
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Exit polls predict an AAP win in the MCD elections
Authorities in New Delhi are all geared up for the counting of votes polled in the Delhi municipal elections, with officials saying 42 centres have been set up. The exercise will begin on Wednesday at 8 am amid tight security. Delhi recorded a voter turnout of 50.48 per cent in the...
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday ducked queries about exit polls predicting wins in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh assembly polls, for his former ally BJP which he has vowed to defeat with the help of a united opposition in the next general elections. Most exit polls have...
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The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday claimed that the Gujarat Police has arrested its spokesperson Saket Gokhale, terming it a political vendetta.In a tweet, TMC national spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Derek O'Brien detailed the circumstances under which the arrest was made. Gokhale took a...
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In the all-party meeting on Tuesday, Opposition parties demanded discussions on price rise, unemployment and Economically Weaker Section (EWS) quota among other issues, sources said. Leaders from all major parties attended the meeting convened by the central government to discuss the...
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Kerala Finance Minister K N Balagopal on Tuesday said the state is reeling under unprecedented financial crisis and attributed the distorted financial policies of the Centre, the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic and recurring natural disasters as reason for the poor economic condition. The...
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BJP leader Giriraj Singh, easily a fierce critic of Lalu Prasad Yadav, has praised his daughter Rohini Acharya for donating her kidney. Rohini Acharya is the ideal daughter. I'm proud of you. You have set an example for future generations, Singh tweeted.The Rashtriya Janata Dal president had...
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Border Security Force troops have recovered a drone and over two kilograms of heroin from a village near the India-Pakistan border in Punjab's Tarn Taran district, the fourth such recovery in as many days, officials said on Tuesday. At 8:56 pm on Monday, the troop heard the sound of a...
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Flagging the persistence of terrorist networks in Central Asia, including in Afghanistan, National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval on Tuesday emphasised on making countering of terror financing a priority for India and other countries in the region.Addressing the inaugural meeting of National...
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World Bank on Tuesday revised upwards its GDP growth forecast for India to 6.9 per cent for 2022-23 from 6.5 per cent earlier. World Bank's India Development Update said India is affected by spillovers from the US, Euro area and China. It however saw the government meeting the fiscal...
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The Union Home Ministry is going to hold a high-level meeting to review security situation in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. The high-level security review meeting will take place this noon at the Ministry of Home Affairs in New Delhi. According to official sources, the...
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Defence minister Rajnath Singh arrives for the meeting
An all-party meeting ahead of the Winter Session began on Tuesday in the Parliament Library Building. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi, DMK MP TR Baalu, Harsimrat Kaur Badal (SAD), and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury (Congress) among several leaders...
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For the first time in about two years, China's capital city Beijing relaxed its norms for coronavirus test requirements on Tuesday after unprecedented public protests against President Xi Jinping's stringent zero-Covid policy rocked the country. As per the new announcement, negative nucleic...
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Security in Mathura has been beefed up amid the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha's (ABHM) call to recite the Hanuman Chalisa at Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi complex-Shahi Idgah Masjid maidan in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh.Police barricading has been placed at various places in Mathura this morning and vehicle...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday paid tributes to B R Ambedkar, the architect of India's Constitution, on his death anniversary and said his struggles gave hope to millions.He along with President Droupadi Murmu and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar paid floral tributes to him at Parliament...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi began his yatra on Tuesday morning on a rather interesting note, giving flying kisses to people who gathered at the BJP Jhalawar office's rooftop to catch a glimpse of the march. This comes a day after he targeted the saffron party and the Rashtriya...
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Jiang Zemin in the courtyard of the Taj Mahal in 1996
The remains of Jiang Zemin, who passed away last Wednesday, were cremated at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in western Beijing on Monday.Jiang was an outstanding leader enjoying high prestige acknowledged by the whole Communist Party of China (CPC), the entire military and the Chinese...
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A 21-year-old Sikh woman was shot dead in Canada in a shooting incident outside a gas station in Mississauga.The Peel Regional Police identified the victim as Pawanpreet Kaur on Monday and said that she was an employee of the gas station, CBC reported.The Peel Regional Police provide policing...
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Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray on Monday met Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi chief Prakash Ambedkar in Mumbai and said the alliance will be decided after fixing certain small issues. Reacting to Thackeray's remarks, Ambedkar said...
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Security has been beefed up in Mathura in Uttar Pradesh following the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha's call for reciting Hanuman Chalisa inside Shahi Masjid Idgah on Tuesday, with the district police chief asserting that no new tradition or ritual would be allowed. Nearly 1,500 police, armed...
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