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Sebi on Friday restrained Reliance Home Finance Ltd, industrialist Anil Ambani and three other individuals from the securities market for allegedly siphoning off funds from the company. The three other individuals are Amit Bapna, Ravindra Sudhakar and Pinkesh R Shah. In a 100-page...
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Acknowledging the requirement of traveling passengers and observing the COVID lockdown restrictions across the country, IRCTC is all set to resume the services of cooked food in trains. The restoration of cooked food has been done as per guidelines received from the Railway board. Cooked...
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As informed by the National Medical Commission, a total of 1,425 post-graduate seats 1,365 broad-specialty and 60 diploma remained vacant in the 2020-21 academic year, Union Health Mansukh Mandaviya told the Lok Sabha on Friday. The health minister was responding to a question on the...
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President Ram Nath Kovind is scheduled to undertake a two-day visit to Odisha starting from February 19, an official said on Friday. The President is slated to arrive at the Biju Patnaik International Airport in Bhubaneswar at 2.45 pm on February 19 and then proceed to Puri after 10 minutes,...
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A core group meeting consisting of all security forces and intelligence agencies working in the Jammu region was held on Friday at White Knight Corps. As per a press release from the Defence PRO Jammu, Lieutenant General Manjinder Singh, GOC White Knight Corps, Dilbag Singh, Director General...
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There is no proposal of biometric authentication for voting under consideration of the government, the Lok Sabha was informed on Friday. Responding to a question on whether the government has considered how the usage of biometric authentication for voting could lead to voter...
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Train services were partially affected in Ernakulam-Thrissur route on Friday after a goods train derailed near Pudukkad station resulting in cancellation of at least four trains. There were no causalities or injuries to railway staff or...
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Six people were injured when a speeding electric bus hit several cars and two-wheelers in Kanpur on Friday, police said. The bus carrying dozens of passengers was on its way towards the Tatmil crossing from the Baradevi crossing when the accident took place as its driver lost control over...
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More than 40 lakh cancer cases were reported and 22.54 lakh people died of the disease in the country between 2018 and 2020, the government informed Lok Sabha on Friday. Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said that 13,92,179 cancer cases were reported in 2020; 13,58,415 in 2019; and...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday gifted his Australian counterpart Marise Payne a cricket bat signed by Indian cricketer Virat Kohli during a visit to the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground. Jaishankar, who attended the crucial meeting of Quad foreign ministers, visited...
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Punjab Kings co-owner and actor Preity Zinta won't be able to attend this year's Indian Premier League mega auctions. On Friday, Preity took to Instagram and informed everyone that she will miss the auction as she has to take care of her twins. This year I'm going to miss the IPL...
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The Narcotics Control Bureau has busted a pan-India drug trafficking network being run using the 'darknet' and has apprehended about two dozen persons allegedly involved in the racket, official sources said on Friday. A personnel of the federal anti-narcotics agency has also been...
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Amid the ongoing internal strife in the Trinamool Congress, its supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has convened an emergency meeting of the party's top officials at her residence on Saturday evening, sources in the ruling camp said. ...
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India's industrial production rose by 0.4 per cent in December 2021, according to official data released on Friday. According to the Index of Industrial Production data by the National Statistical Office, the manufacturing sector's output contracted by 0.1 per cent in December 2021. In...
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At least three policemen were injured in a grenade attack by terrorists in Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, officials said in Srinagar. The ultras lobbed a grenade towards the cops near...
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'India's role in the terror attacks in Pakistan is evident. But the continuing use of Afghan soil in planning and execution of cross-border attacks is alarming. The weapons used by the Baloch militants in the recent attacks reinforce suspicions about foreign linkages. 'Regional geopolitics...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday taunted former ally BJP over its proximity to Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, pointing out to the opposition party leaders' almost daily visits to the sprawling Raj Bhavan in south Mumbai. While in opposition, we used to visit...
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At least three policemen were injured in a grenade attack by terrorists in Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, officials said in Srinagar.The ultras lobbed a grenade towards the cops near Nishat park in Bandipora, the officials said. They said the grenade blast was followed by...
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Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi's nephew Bhupinder Singh Honey was produced before a court on Friday in connection with an alleged illegal sand mining case where he was sent to 14-day judicial custody.Honey was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in an alleged illegal...
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The Sensex plummeted 773 points while the Nifty dived below the 17,400-level on Friday, tracking heavy selling in global equities after US consumer inflation soared to a 40-year high in January, raising the prospects of faster-than-expected rate hikes by the Federal Reserve. A sharp...
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Providing 300 units of free electricity to every household, revising MSP of rice, wheat and sugarcane, and making Gairsain the permanent capital of Uttarakhand are among the promises made by the AAP in its manifesto released on Friday. Releasing the manifesto titled 'Vachan Patra'...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent criticism of dynasty politics evoked a below the belt response on Friday from RJD president Lalu Prasad who controls the party with the help of his wife and three children. The former Bihar chief minister was asked about Modi's remarks criticising...
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UK PM Boris Johnson gets his vaccination
Vaccinated travellers can enter Britain without taking any coronavirus tests starting Friday, after the government scrapped one of the final restrictions imposed over the past two years in response to Covid-19. British residents and visitors who have had at least two doses of an approved...
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Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu continue to remain in the unenviable top three slots
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Raveena Tandon shared a picture with her father
Noted film director-producer Ravi Tandon, known for directing Amitabh Bachchan's Khuddar and Rishi Kapoor-Neetu Kapoor's Khel Khel Mein, died in the early hours of Friday at his residence in Mumbai. He was 87. He is the father of Bollywood actor Raveena Tandon and Rajiv Tandon.Ravi Tandon...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses a presser in poll-going Goa.Govt formation: Congress will get majority and act immediately to ensure we have a government in Goa. Congress will win majority of seats in Goa elections; there won't be any need for post-poll alliances.Mining: We plan to restore...
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Sales have dropped by around 18 per cent. According to FM Nirmala Sitharaman's famous explanation it's because India are now opting to ride with Uber or Ola. Don't remember? Read this.Automobile sales in January 2022 have seen a year-on-year decline of 23.21%. Total 1,406,672 units which...
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The ongoing unrest in Karnataka on whether students should be permitted to wear the hijab in educational institutions has caught actor Sonam Kapoor Ahuja's attention.Taking to Instagram, Sonam shared a picture of a man in a turban and a woman in a hijab, and it questions why can a turban be a...
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N Chandrasekaran was on Friday reappointed as chairman of Tata Sons for a second five-year term. Tata Sons in a statement said the reappointment was ratified by the board. At its meeting on 11 February 2022, the Board of Tata Sons reviewed the last five years and considered the...
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Faced with criticism for her latest Budget not doing enough for the poor, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday mocked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's 2013 comment of poverty being a state of mind, and asked if this is the poverty she was supposed to address.Replying to the discussion on...
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Former UP BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the 2018 rape case
Unnao in Uttar Pradesh seems synonymous with crimes against women. Two months after a 22-year-old Dalit woman went missing from Unnao, her decomposed body was recovered from a vacant plot near an ashram constructed by a former minister in Samajwadi Party government Fateh Bahadur Singh,...
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PM Modi is at a public rally in Almora, Uttarakhand: After the 1st phase of polling in UP elections yesterday, it's clear that BJP will win with record numbers. More than us, the public is determined make BJP win these polls. Voters never leave the side of those who have good intentions.This...
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Maintaining the spotlight on the issue of law and order, Union Minister for Home Affairs and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Shah on Friday hailed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath-led UP government for finished mafia from western parts of the state and...
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Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma in Uttarakhand: Country is struggling with Karnataka incident. The way Congress is trying to divide the country is worrisome... it's representing 'tukde tukde' gang ... they have only one goal, to repeat the situation as it was before 1947. How would a teacher...
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Three Pakistani fishermen, who intruded into the Harami Nalla area in Gujarat's Bhuj, have been apprehended, and 11 Pakistani fishing boats seized, said the Border Security Force (BSF) on Friday. The intrusion of Pakistani fishing boats and fishermen was detected on Thursday in Harami...
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The Rajya Sabha was on Friday adjourned to resume its second part of the Budget Session on March 14 after a recess of one month.Deputy Speaker of Rajya Sabha Harivansh Narayan Singh adjourned the House after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addressed the House on Union Budget 2022-2023...
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The government's inflation management is robust and it has handled the price rise during the COVID-19 crisis in a much more efficient manner than the UPA government did during the 2008-09 global financial crisis, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday.Replying to the general...
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FM in the RS today. MoS finance Karad snoozing?
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said the government has sovereign right to tax profit made from cryptocurrency transactions, and the decision on banning or not banning will be taken based on feedback from consultations. Replying to the general discussion on Union Budget,...
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FM Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget 2022 explainer is less about the Budget more about the Congress. Sitharaman is holding a general discussion on the Union Budget in the Rajya Sabha. The minister said, the Budget for 2022-23 fiscal year, stands for continuity, brings stability to the economy along...
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Investors' wealth plunged over Rs 3.39 lakh crore in early trade on Friday amid an extremely weak broader market trend. The BSE benchmark tanked 1,011.93 points to 57,914.10 after a weak opening. The market capitalisation of BSE-listed companies declined by Rs 3,39,519.47 crore to...
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Shabana Azmi and Javed Akhtar
Former Rajya Sabha MP and veteran star Shabana Azmi has called out actor Kangana Ranaut for her controversial statements on the ongoing Hijab row in India. Taking to her Instagram on Thursday night, Kangana shared her reaction on the ongoing controversy that erupted after the Karnataka...
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Parents of six Muslim girl students, who are protesting for their right to wear hijab at the pre-university college in Udupi, have lodged a complaint with the police that the personal details of their children are being shared by some people on social media. The parents, who submitted...
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in Rajya Sabha: We went in for a Budget which would stand for continuity, which will be bringing in stability to the economy and predictability in taxation and also a vision for India at 100.Guidance which comes from PM Gati Shakti was essentially...
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India reports 58,077 fresh COVID-19 cases, 1,50,407 recoveries and 657 deaths in the last 24 hours. Active cases: 6,97,802 (1.64%) Death toll: 5,07,177 Daily positivity rate: 3.89% Total vaccination: 1,71,79,51,432
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Equity benchmark Sensex tumbled over 600 points in the opening session on Friday, mainly due to weakness in IT and financial stocks amid a weak trend in global markets.The BSE gauge was trading 611.54 points or 1.04 per cent lower at 58,314.49 in early trade.Likewise, the Nifty fell 168.95 points...
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A case was registered by the Uttar Pradesh Police after a 'roadshow-like situation' emerged during Congress leader Rizwan Qureshi's door-to-door campaign in Moradabad.Qureshi, who is Congress' candidate from Moradabad, held a door-to-door campaign in the constituency along with the party's...
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United States President Joe Biden warned Americans in Ukraine to leave the country immediately amid tensions between Moscow and Kiev, saying that sending US troops for an evacuation would mean 'world war'.American citizens should leave now, Biden said during an interview with NBC News.It's not...
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Former MP Ajay Chautala was on Thursday released from Tihar jail in New Delhi after completing his 10 years' sentence in connection with a teachers' recruitment scam in Haryana, officials said. The jail officials said Chautala's sentence has been completed and he was released formally on...
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Ghaziabad and Gautam Buddh Nagar were two districts with the lowest voter turnout in the first phase of assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh that concluded on Thursday, with Noida seat having just 50.1 per cent electors at polls, according to officials. The state's average voter turnout was...