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Dr Randeep Guleria, director, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi during an Instagram live session on Friday said that India's vaccination drive has been played important role in low severity during the third wave. The Instagram live session was organised by the ministry of health...
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The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday filed its reply to Indrani Mukerjea's plea that claimed her daughter Sheena Bora, whom she is accused of killing, was alive. The details of the probe agency's response, which was filed before special CBI judge A S Sayyad, however, were not known...
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Lawyers of 49 convicts, 38 of them sentenced to death and others to life-long imprisonment in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts case, on Friday said they will approach the Gujarat high court against a special court's verdict pronouncing them guilty. According to defence lawyers, the...
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France has become the first country to join China to jointly build seven infrastructure projects worth over $1.7 billion in Africa, South East Asia and Eastern Europe, in a boost for Beijing in the face of its growing hostility with the US. Following up on the recent virtual meeting between...
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Rejecting rumors running rampant about his health, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Friday claimed that he is in perfect health and in the service of the people of the state. Patnaik visited the 11th century Shri Lingaraj Temple...
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India and the UAE will stand shoulder to shoulder against terrorism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday at a virtual summit with Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. In his remarks, Modi also referred to the recent terror attacks in the Gulf nation even as...
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Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday said the routes and timetable of Vande Bharat train services will be finalised soon as new rakes are expected to arrive from August-September. Addressing reporters after an event to commission the 5th and 6th lines between Thane and Diva on the...
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A special court in Mumbai on Friday directed the police to probe a complaint against filmmaker Mahesh Manjrekar for allegedly portraying children in an objectionable manner in his latest film. A special POCSO court directed the local police to probe makers of the film Nay Varan Bhat Loncha...
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A guest lecturer in a private pre-university college in Tumakuru in Karnataka has resigned after she was allegedly asked not to wear hijab or display any religious symbol. Chandini, who has been working as a guest lecturer in a private college, teaching English for the past three years told...
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Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Friday formed a new officer bearers' committee, reappointing her nephew Abhishek Banerjee as the party's national general secretary and veteran leader Yashwant Sinha as its vice-president....
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US secretary of defense Lloyd J Austin III spoke with Russian minister of defense Sergey Shoygu on Friday. Austin called for de-escalation, the return of Russian forces surrounding Ukraine to their home bases, and a diplomatic resolution, said a Pentagon release.
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The Indian Embassy in Kuwait on Friday slammed Congress MP Shashi Tharoor for retweeting what it said was an 'anti-India tweet' by a 'Pakistani agent,' and asserted that such anti-India elements should not be encouraged. The sharp response from the Indian Embassy in Kuwait came after Tharoor...
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Just In: IPS officer Rajnish Seth has been appointed as the new director general of police of Maharashtra
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The infographic alongside gives the breakup between urban and rural subscribers, as well as wireless and landline subscribers.
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The National Investigation Agency on Friday arrested its former superintendent of police and IPS officer Arvind Digvijay Negi for allegedly leaking secret documents to an over ground worker of the banned Lashkar-e-Tayiba terror group, its official spokesperson said in New Delhi. The...
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A freight train derailed between Rangapara North and Bindukuri stations under Rangia division of Northeast Frontier Railway in Assam's Sonitpur district on Friday. No one was killed or injured in the incident, according to a release issued by...
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Three contract workers died in an accident in Durgapur Steel Plant while working on a maintenance job in a part of the unit in West Bengal's Paschim Bardhaman district on Friday, the plant authorities said. Union leaders alleged that they died after inhaling toxic gas. The three fell...
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President Ram Nath Kovind will visit Odisha and Andhra Pradesh from February 19 to 22, said a release issued by the Rashtrapati Bhawan on Friday. Accordingly, Kovind will reach Odisha and inaugurate the three-year long celebrations of the 150th birth anniversary of Srimad Bhakti Siddhanta...
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Air India on Friday said it will operate three flights to Ukraine next week. The flights will be operated on February 22, 24 and 26, it added.Russia has positioned around 1 lakh troops near its border with Ukraine, besides sending warships to the Black Sea for naval exercises,...
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A Pakistani journalist was shot dead on Friday in an armed attack on his car in Karachi's North Nazimabad area. According to the police, the private TV channel's senior producer Athar Mateen was assassinated at the main thoroughfare in North Nazimabad while he was on his way back home after...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday reviewed the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir along with the development initiatives undertaken in the Union Territory. Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and...
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Veteran actor Mithun Chakraborty says his partnership with Bappi Lahiri was iconic because the singer-composer understood his dancing and created chartbuster music keeping his hatke style in mind. Remembering Lahiri, who passed away on Tuesday night at the age of 69, Chakraborty said he...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated two additional railway lines connecting Thane and Diva in Maharashtra via video conferencing on Friday.He also flagged off two suburban trains of the Mumbai Suburban Railway. According to Prime Minister's Office, Kalyan is the main junction of the...
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The Sensex was dragged lower by mainly Ultratech Cement, M&M, Infosys, Reliance, Bajaj Finance and Nestle -- dropping as much as 1.88 per cent. On the index, 17 shares closed in the negative zone.
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Over 2 crore adolescents in the 15-18 age group nationwide are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Friday. Young India taking the world's largest vaccination drive to the next level! Over 2 crore youngsters between 15-18 age group are...
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Tareekh pe tareekh: Karnataka High Court adjourns for 21st February the hearing on petitions challenging the ban on hijab in educational institutes.
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139 post graduates in the UP polls phase III candidates' list.
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Update: Karnataka HC hearing the petitions challenging the ban on hijab in educational institutes.Senior Advocate AM Dar informs the court that he has filed fresh petitions on behalf of 5 girl students after taking care of objections made by the court. Court to hear the petition on February...
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Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday expressed support for RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, convicted in the fodder scam case, and said an important aspect of the BJP's politics is that the one who refuses to bow before it is harassed in every possible way. A special CBI court...
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Vaccination and boosters are the only way forward
The BA.2 subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant is not only faster at spreading, but may also cause more severe disease, a lab study suggests.The yet-to-be peer-reviewed findings, recently posted on the preprint repository BioRxiv, show that the BA.2 sub variant may have features that make...
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Kerala has been on the top slot for over a year with the maximum cases among all states in India.
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The full bench of the Karnataka High Court hearing the case related to hijab row in educational institutions on Friday declined a plea to restrain live streaming of proceedings. As soon as the proceedings began, senior advocate Prof Ravi Varma Kumar, representing Muslim girls questioning the...
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Hitting back at BJP leaders over their dynast jibe against him, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday said a person who has a family understands its pain and asked will those without a family be able to feel the pain of families. Addressing an election meeting in Jalaun in...
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Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw (in blue jacket) at Thane station
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday travelled by a local train between Thane and Diva stations on the Mumbai suburban rail network for inspection of two additional railway lines, and ate 'vada pav', a popular snack, at a roadside eatery during his visit, officials...
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Karnataka HC begins hearing petitions challenging the ban on hijab in educational institutes:Senior Advocate AM Dar informs the court that he has filed fresh petitions on behalf of five girl students after taking care of objections made by the court. Court to hear the petition on February...
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Robert Vadra tweets, Happy silver Anniversary P (heart eye and hug emojis)25 years of togetherness has made us grow as one.Our understanding of each other couldnt have been better..full of love, respect and strength. Looking forward to many years of happiness and helping achieve all our...
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As the Jammu and Kashmir government stamps out the last vestiges of the free press in Kashmir, the arrest and incarceration of website editor Fahad Shah arrest marks an unprecedented level of intimidation, with security forces raiding homes of journalists, calling them in frequently for...
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The CBI on Friday questioned former CEO of National Stock Exchange (NSE) Chitra Ramkrishna in view of fresh facts emerging in connection with its ongoing probe into the alleged abuse of co-location facility in the NSE, officials said. The agency has also opened look out circulars...
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Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said that no central agencies could find anything against him despite multiple raids in the last seven years.Kejriwal was addressing a press conference in Bathinda, with the last few hours of the...
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday emphasised the need for bridging the infrastructure funding gap and developing innovative financing mechanisms for an inclusive growth in the sector. Participating in a virtual session on 'sustainable financing and infrastructure' at the ongoing...
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Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to order a probe into former AAP leader Kumar Vishwas' allegations that Arvind Kejriwal is supporting separatists during the campaign for the assembly elections. Aam Aadmi Party leader Raghav Chadha had...
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A glass front of a shop was shattered when terrorists hurled a grenade at security forces at the Khwaja Bazar Nowhatta area of Srinagar. Two shops were damaged in the incident.
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-- A policeman was injured in a grenade attack by terrorists in Khwaja Bazaar area of Srinagar today. -- A tiger was found dead in Kanha Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh's Mandla district. The cat, aged around three years old, was likely killed in a territorial fight with another feline...
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An Indian driver in Singapore was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison on Friday for damaging a company vehicle by pouring soil into its engine compartment, following a work-related dispute with his employer. Seeni Paramasivam, 40, was jailed for one count of committing mischief.
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At the end of last year, the Philippines released initial funding for the purchase of the Indian-Russian BrahMos missile system. The contract for three batteries to be operated by the Philippine Marine Corps was signed by Secretary of National Defense Delfin Lorenzana in January, with...
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Update on the situation in the Ukraine: Russian Defence Ministry on Friday said that it had begun withdrawing more tanks and other armoured vehicles from areas near Ukraine's border amid the ongoing tension between Moscow and Kiev.Units of the Western Military District continue to return to the...
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Update: A special court in Gujarat on Friday pronounced the death sentence to 38 out of 49 convicts in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial bomb blast case. Eleven others have been sentenced to life imprisonment by the court. Earlier on February 8, a Gujarat court convicted 49 accused and acquitted 28...
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Ahead of the Uttar Pradesh polls, the state government drops recovery notices to anti-CAA protesters. The Supreme Court directs the govt to refund any recovery made till now. The UP govt tells the SC that all show-cause notices have been withdrawn against anti-CAA protesters. The Apex...
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Bharatiya Janata Party MP Varun Gandhi on Friday took a veiled jibe at the Centre over the bank frauds and said that a 'strong government' is expected to take 'strong action' on the 'super corrupt' system.Taking to Twitter, Gandhi said in Hindi, 'Vijay Mallya: 9000 crores Nirav Modi: 14000 crores...
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A 27-year-old burqa-clad woman, who is a triple-talaq victim, is campaigning for the BJP in the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls to make the Muslim women realise the good work being done by the saffron party in the state. Nida Khan believes that unlike other parties, the BJP does not see...
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AAP Convener Arvind Kejriwal on FIRs: I have been informed by an officer that an FIR will be lodged against me in the NIA (National Investigation Agency) within two days. I welcome all such FIRs.
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Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi's comment on 'UP, Bihar ke bhaiyye' continues to draw ire from Nitish Kumar. The Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday once again criticised his Punjab counterpart for the controversial remarks. Nitish said that Channi does not know the importance...
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Kumar Vishwas with Arvind Kejriwal in 2013
AAP Convener Arvind Kejriwal responds to allegations of his former party colleague and poet Kumar Vishwas that he is a terrorist. This is a comedy. If their allegations are to be believed, I am a big terrorist. In this case, what were security agencies doing in last 10 years? I am probably...
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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday arrested Iqbal Kaskar, the jailed brother of 1993 Mumbai blasts mastermind Dawood Ibrahim, as part of a probe into a recently registered money laundering case against him, officials said. Kaskar, already lodged in Thane jail in connection with...
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A video grab of the meeting
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday hosted the prominent Sikhs from across the country at his residence in the national capital ahead of the Punjab Assembly elections.In a video, shared by the Prime Minister's Office the Sikhs gave a kirpaan to the Prime Minister.Punjab will go to the poll on...
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2008 Ahmedabad serial bomb blast case: A special court pronounces death sentence to 38 out of 49 convicts. 11 convicts have been sentenced to life imprisonment.
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The Central government on Friday said that it has provided more than 171.76 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses provided to States and Union Territories so far.According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 1,71,76,39,430 vaccine doses have been provided to States and UTs so far through...
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Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday said it was most unseemly for the Ministry of External Affairs to summon the envoy of a friendly country like Singapore over remarks by their prime minister to their own Parliament, and asserted that we must learn to be less...
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2008 Ahmedabad serial bomb blast case: A special court will pronounce the quantum of sentence against 49 convicts today.
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Narendra Modi takes a dip in the Ganga
A special court in Pune has denied bail to three persons accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, saying that the material on record suggests that the trio, along with other members of the CPI (Maoist), a banned organisation, hatched a serious conspiracy to create unrest in the country...
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As many as 100 chickens were found dead at a poultry farm in Vehloli village of Shahapur tehsil in Thane district, said Thane District Magistrate and Collector Rajesh J Narvekar on Friday.Considering the bird flu threat, the samples have been sent to a lab in Pune. He further said that around...
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Congress leader Manish Tewari
Congress leader Manish Tewari on Friday compared the Bhaiya controversy in the country with the Black issue in the US and said that it is reflective of an unfortunate systemic and institutionalized social bias against migrants stretching back to the inception of the Green Revolution.The Bhaiya...
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While on tolerance, which seems to have disappeared from our political and social ethos, this piece from Himachal Pradesh.Muslim Gujjars are a scheduled tribe, legally and constitutionally protected from eviction from their traditional forest land. Police are also required to file criminal cases...
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Bhakts, we hear, are livid with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's remarks on Indian MPs on Tuesday -- the MEA even summoned the Singapore high commissioner for a talking to last evening! PM Lee even invoked Narendra's Modi's bete noire, Pt Jawaharlal Nehru, while talking about...
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Equity indices opened in the red on Friday with the Sensex down by 109.52 points and Nifty down by 27.10 points.The 30-scrip BSE Sensex was down by 109.52 points or trading at 57782.49 and down by 0.19 per cent at 9.19 am. Similarly, 50-scrip NSE Nifty was trading at 17277.50 at 9:19 am, down by...
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Bharatiya Janata Party youth wing on Thursday lodged a first information report against Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi over his statement against the citizens of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in Bihar's Patna.Channi has courted controversy during a poll rally by asking people not to let...
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India reports 25,920 fresh COVID-19 cases (4,837 less cases than yesterday), 492 deaths, and 66,254 recoveries in the last 24 hours.Active case: 2,92,092Daily positivity rate: 2.07%Total recoveries: 4,19,77,238Total vaccination: 1,74,64,99,461
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United States president Joe Biden on Thursday said that the threat of Russian invasion is 'very high' as they have not moved any of their troops out.The threat is very high-- because they have not moved any of their troops out, Biden said, adding that 'we have reason to believe they're engaged in...
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West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has convened the first meeting of the party's newly formed national working committee on Friday to decide on the mayors of three municipal corporations it won this week....
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Goa government on Thursday announced the reopening of physical classes for students of classes I to XII from Monday as the COVID-19 cases have come down. The order is applicable to all educational institutions. As COVID-19 cases are reducing day by day in the state, it has been decided...
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