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A four-day session of the Goa legislative assembly will be held from January 16, 2023. In an order issued on Thursday, Namrata Ulman, secretary, Goa legislative assembly, informed the members that the governor has summoned the session on January 16 at 11.30 am. It would end on January...
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A portrait of Bahadur Shah Zafar hung on the wall of a biryani outlet in Maharashtra's Kolhapur city was smashed up by a group of young men who termed the last Mughal emperor a descendant of Aurangzeb, the police said on Thursday. No complaint was filed against anyone regarding the incident,...
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Three more members of the Maharashtra government's language advisory committee resigned on Thursday in protest against the decision to withdraw an award for a Marathi translation of former Maoist ideologue Kobad Ghandy's memoir. Noted political analyst Suhas Palshikar, Dr Vivek Ghotale and...
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The Congress's Karnataka unit president D K Shivakumar on Thursday charged that the cooker blast in Mangaluru was planted' to deviate public attention from the voter data theft scam.The Congress leader said he sought to know whether the cooker blast was as big as the terrorist attack in Mumbai,...
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The Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court has allowed gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli's plea for furlough, his lawyer said on Thursday. The furlough application was rejected by the Maharashtra prison authorities, after which Gawli, who is serving a life sentence in a 2008 murder case,...
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Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan on Thursday said that whatever happens surrounding people like him, they will stay positive. The comments came in the midst of a row over a song in his upcoming film Pathaan. Addressing a gathering on the occasion of the inauguration of the Kolkata...
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The Shree Jagannath temple administration on Thursday said a complete ban would be imposed on carrying smartphones inside the 13th century shrine here from next month. The restriction will come into effect from January 1, 2023. A similar ban was earlier imposed only for devotees, but...
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Flipkart on Thursday condemned the acid attack on a 17-year-old girl in west Delhi and said it has blacklisted the seller from its platform and is extending all support to the probe agencies. Earlier in the day, the Delhi Commission for Women issued notices to two e-commerce firms for...
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Lok Sabha on Thursday passed the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Second Amendment) Bill, 2022, which seeks to grant Scheduled Tribe status to Narikoravan and Kurivikkaran communities in Tamil Nadu. Piloting the Bill, Union Minister for Tribal Affairs Arjun Munda said the proposed...
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Tennis player Leander Paes's former live-in partner Rhea Pillai on Thursday opposed his plea for condonation of delay' in filing an appeal against a magistrate's court's order in a domestic violence case filed by her. In February this year, the Bandra metropolitan magistrate's court held...
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India on Thursday successfully carried out the night trials of the Agni-5 nuclear-capable ballistic missile which can hit targets beyond 5,000 km, said defence sources. More details soon.
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A special investigation team has been set up to crack the hooch case in Saran district of Bihar, where 26 people have died and at least 12 others have taken ill since Tuesday night, officials said. During a press conference in Chhapra, the district headquarters, Saran DM Rajesh Meena on...
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An autopsy of a trader who died in police custody has confirmed 24 injury marks, signalling extreme level of torture meted out to him, a doctor said in Kanpur on Thursday. Additional SP (rural) Ghanshyam also said that the autopsy performed by a panel of three doctors had confirmed that...
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Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju
Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday that the issue of vacancies and appointments in the higher judiciary would continue to linger till such time a new system is created for the same. Replying to questions in the Upper House of Parliament, the law minister said...
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Senior journalist TJS George has been selected for Mumbai Press Club's National RedInk Award for lifetime achievement for his distinguished career as an editor and columnist. In the 1960s, George (94) was the editor of the Patna-headquartered newspaper The Searchlight known for its...
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Three persons, including a couple, have been run over by a speeding train while they were making videos with mobile phones on a railway track in Ghaziabad, the police said on Thursday. The incident happened near Kaloo Garhi railway crossing under Masuri police station area on Wednesday night...
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Lt Governor VK Saxena has approved a proposal of the Delhi police to appoint two special public prosecutors in the Shraddha Walkar murder case, Raj Niwas officials said on Thursday. The gory details about Walkar's murder shook the entire nation last month after the Delhi police arrested her...
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The government on Thursday asserted that nuclear plants in the country are 'well protected' from intrusions including from cyber attacks. Minister of State (independent charge), department of atomic energy, Jitendra Singh also said the government has entered into inter-covernment agreements...
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Another day, another rape in Yogi Adityanath's Uttar Pradesh.The naked body of a missing eight-year-old girl bearing injury marks on her private parts was found in a village in Bhadohi on Thursday, with police suspecting she was raped. The girl went missing from a wedding in her...
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Diamond magnate Nirav Modi has lost his bid to take to the UK Supreme Court his fight against extradition to India on charges of fraud and money laundering.In a judgment order pronounced at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Lord Justice Jeremy Stuart-Smith and Justice Robert Jay ruled that...
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As the 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' enters its 100th day Friday, Congress watchers feel it has found some answers the party had been looking for on the road to 2024 but questions remain whether it will yield electoral dividends going forward. The Kanyakumari to Kashmir foot march has also courted...
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The Indian Air Force has said the Eastern Air Command would conduct an exercise to train its crew in the northeastern region but that the exercise was planned well ahead of the recent developments in Tawang and is therefore not associated with the events. The latest incident in Tawang...
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A man arrested for allegedly making a death threat call to NCP president Sharad Pawar, has told the Mumbai Police that he committed the offence as he was agitated after his wife eloped with an NCP worker and the party chief did not intervene in the matter, an official said on Thursday. The...
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Nearly a fortnight after China lifted the much-despised 'zero-Covid' restrictions following a spate of protests, the country is reeling under a massive coronavirus wave, with a Chinese diplomat blaming foreign forces for the anti-government demonstrations. Videos circulating in China's...
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A few bone samples retrieved from one of the spots where pieces of Shraddha Walker's body was thrown has matched the DNA of Shraddha's father. The police say this indicates that the body pieces belonged to the victim. They were collected by the Delhi Police from the jungles of Mehrauli and...
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In the wake of the Chhapra hooch tragedy, Bihar Industry Minister Sameer Mahaseth claimed on Wednesday that the strength of the body has to be improved to tolerate 'poisonous' liquor.The minister was present with other dignitaries at the state-level ball badminton tournament at Kushwaha Ashram in...
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Rescue and fire fighting operation is underway at the Avignon Park building in Mumbai, where a fire broke out earlier today. Fire tenders and police reached the location.
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Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday took a dig at the Narendra Modi government in the Centre for trying to dodge a discussion in Parliament over the India-China Tawang clash of December 9. Using terms like lal aankh and Chinese glasses, Kharge's tweet in Hindi could roughly be...
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The wreck of the Mercedes car
Gynaecologist Dr Anahita Pandole, who was booked on the charge of rash driving that resulted into the death of industrialist Cyrus Mistry, has a history of traffic rules violation and was issued challans for over-speeding on several occasions since 2020, a police official said on...
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The Delhi High Court on Thursday reserved its order on an appeal by former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray challenging a single judge's decision dismissing his plea against an Election Commission interim order freezing the Shiv Sena name and election symbol. Thackeray claimed...
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Update: A fire broke out in a flat on the 14th floor of a multi-storey residential building in Currey Road area of central Mumbai on Thursday, but there was no report of any injury, officials said. The blaze erupted in One Avighna Park building around 11 am, they said. At least...
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A 20-year-old man was bludgeoned to death with a rock in northern West Bengal's Siliguri allegedly by his friend over Rs 10, police said on Thursday. The body of Ramprasad Saha was found in the Baikunthapur forest, they said. During the investigation, it was found that Saha was an...
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Smoke bellows from the building. Pic: Hemant Kadam
Fire breaks out at Avignon Park, a residential multi-storey building in Mumbai's Lower Parel area. As many as four fire engines have been rushed to the spot. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.
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Vinod Arya is the father of Pulkit Arya held for murder
An FIR was registered against former BJP leader Vinod Arya in Haridwar Tuesday for allegedly attempting to sodomize his driver and get him killed. Vinod Arya is the father of Pulkit Arya, who is the main accused in the September 18 murder of receptionist Ankita Bhandari, 19.The FIR...
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Former Indian Army chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane has said that China's attempts to change the status quo on the Line of Actual Control by resorting to salami slicing tactics have led to a more assertive response from the Indian Army.In a 'Podcast with ANI,' General Naravane said that the...
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Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla will chair a high-level meeting on airport rush here in the national capital on Thursday morning.The meeting is likely to be held after 11 am in the Ministry of Home Affairs. Senior officers in the MHA, officials in the Minister of Civil Aviation and...
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Infosys was among the major laggards
Equity benchmark indices declined in early trade on Thursday following weak global markets amid the US Federal Reserve's hawkish stance. The 30-share BSE Sensex declined 186.74 points to 62,491.17. The broader NSE Nifty dipped 51.95 points to 18,608.35. From the Sensex pack,...
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World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday called on China to share the requested data concerning Covid-19 in a bid to understand the origins of the virus.We continue to call on China to share the data and conduct the studies that we have requested, to better...
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A house in Maharajguda village, Chandrapur is spread between Maharashtra and Telangana. Four rooms in the house fall in Maharashtra while four others fall in Telangana.Owner, Uttam Pawar says, Around 13 of us live here. My brother's four rooms are in Telangana and four of mine are in Maharashtra....
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All five newly-elected Aam Aadmi Party MLAs from Gujarat called on the party's national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at his residence in New Delhi on Wednesday.Party MLA Bhupat Bhayani, who had initially hinted that he may go with the BJP to 'resolve several key issues' of...
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Former governor of the Reserve Bank of India Raghuram Rajan, who joined Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra on Wednesday, said the next year will be difficult for the Indian economy as also for the rest of the world and the country failed to generate reforms needed for growth. He said...
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