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After Punjab, the Aam Aadmi Party will declare its chief ministerial candidate for Goa assembly elections on Wednesday. AAP's national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the party's chief ministerial candidate for Goa polls will be announced at a press conference in...
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Embattled businessman Vijay Mallya on Tuesday lost a legal battle to hold on to his plush London home after a British court refused to grant him a stay of enforcement in a long-running dispute with Swiss bank UBS. The 18/19 Cornwall Terrace luxury apartment overlooking Regent's Park in...
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Over 80 doctors and paramedics have tested positive for COVID-19 at Government Medical College Srinagar in a single day, taking the total number of infected persons in the tertiary care institution to 546 in January so far, officials said on Tuesday. Omicron is spreading very very fast: 46...
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Senior bureaucrat B V Umadevi has been appointed as additional secretary in the ministry of home affairs as part of a major bureaucratic reshuffle brought into effect by the Centre on Tuesday. Umadevi, a 1987-batch Indian Forest Service officer of Chhattisgarh cadre, is currently additional...
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Three Navy personnel were killed in an explosion onboard the Indian Naval Ship (INS) Ranvir at the Naval dockyard in Mumbai on Tuesday, an official statement said. In an unfortunate incident today at Naval Dockyard Mumbai, three naval personnel succumbed to injuries caused by an explosion in...
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After dropping for five days in a row, daily coronavirus cases marginally rose to 6,149 in Mumbai on Tuesday, while seven more patients succumbed to the infection and 12,810 others recovered, the city civic body said. The new cases rose by 193 from a day ago, but fatalities dropped by...
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Bharat Biotech on Tuesday said it is receiving several reports that children in the age group 15 to 18 are being administered COVID-19 vaccine other than Covaxin. Requesting the health workers to be vigilant and ensure that only Covaxin is administered to that particular age group, Bharat...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will campaign for Samajwadi Party in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly poll and her party - the Trinamool Congress will not contest the election in that state, SP vice-president Kiranmay Nanda said on Tuesday.Nanda, who returned from poll bound Uttar...
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Former Army chief Gen Joginder Jaswant Singh on Tuesday joined the BJP in Chandigarh in the presence of the party leadership, including Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat. Shekhawat and Punjab BJP chief Ashwani Sharma welcomed Singh into the party fold. The former army chief had...
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said that the roadmap for amicable settlement of border disputes with Meghalaya in six areas of difference has been prepared through mutual consultations at the top level of the two governments. The opposition Congress, however,...
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Abhishek Banerjee
Trinamool Congress general secretary Partha Chatterjee Tuesday said there is no internal feud in the party and the recent war of words among its leaders over comments by its national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on containing COVID-19 in West Bengal was blown out of proportion by the...
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Public trust in governments and media has declined in the last one year amid the COVID-19 pandemic while concerns about fake news have reached all-time high levels, a global survey showed on Tuesday. The annual Edelman Trust Barometer report, released every year during the World Economic...
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The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday wrote to all States and Union Territories and asked them to immediately increase testing in a strategic manner keeping in view the trend of case positivity in specific areas. In a letter, Additional Secretary (Health) Arti Ahuja said...
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A group of prominent civil society members on Tuesday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's silence over alleged hate speeches against Muslims at the Haridwar Dharam Sansad and demanded exemplary action by the government against those involved. The Indian Muslims for Secular...
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on the Devas-Antrix issue:Highlights of her presser ahead of the assembly polls:-- I would like to talk on Supreme Court judgment on Devas-Antrix issue. SC has given a comprehensive order. UPA got cancelled this deal in 2011. It was a fraud deal.-- Antrix...
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Union Ministers Amit Shah, Dharmendra Pradhan, UP CM Yogi Adityanath, BJP national president JP Nadda and other BJP leaders arrive for the BJP core committee meeting at the party headquarters in Delhi. The BJP has announced 107 candidates for the 403-seat assembly, discussions are still...
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Equity benchmark Sensex plunged by 554.05 points on Tuesday, tracking deep losses in realty, auto and metal stocks amid widespread selling pressure in global markets. The 30-share index slumped by 554.05 points or 0.90 per cent to end at 60,754.86. The broader NSE Nifty fell by...
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Veera, the tiger cub tries out a tiny yawn as his mother watches tenderly at the Byculla zoo in Mumbai. Royal Bengal tigers Shakti and Karishma were brought to the zoo from Aurangabad and gave birth to Veera on November 14.
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Ahead of Republic Day, the Delhi-National Capital Region has been put under a very high-security cover after police received inputs from Intelligence agencies about a possible terror attack, officials said on Tuesday. Operation of sub-conventional aerial platforms, including UAVs,...
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Aam Aadmi Party national convenor and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal to announce party's CM candidate for Goa during a press conference in Panaji tomorrow. This afternoon AAP MP Bhagwant Mann was named as the party's chief ministerial candidate for the upcoming Punjab Assembly polls.Aam Aadmi...
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Cartoonist Narayan Debnath, the creator of Bengali comic characters 'Bantul The Great', 'Handa Bhonda' and 'Nonte Phonte', died in Kolkata on Tuesday morning after a prolonged illness, said the hospital where he was undergoing treatment. He was 97 and survived by two sons, a daughter...
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The decision to not include the tableaux of Kerala, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu at the Republic Day parade will not be revised, senior officials of the Defence Ministry said on Tuesday and noted that a total of 12 states have been selected to display their models. Tamil Nadu's tableaux could...
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In a much-publicized case in Uttar Pradesh, a freelancer for a news portal apprehended in October 2020 entered his 15th month of incarceration this month, even as his case was transferred to a special court in Lucknow in December. Siddique Kappan was arrested on October 5 while he was on his...
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The Army on Tuesday rescued over a dozen civilians after their vehicle came under an avalanche triggered by recent snowfall in border district of Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. The vehicle got stuck on the Tangdhar- Chowkibal axis, following which the nearest Army unit...
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Maharashtra has the unenviable distinction of the maximum number of Covid-19 cases.
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Rahul Gandhi today tweeted on a glitch that had Prime Minister Narendra Modi stop his virtual address at the World Economic Forum (WEF) summit in Davos last evening and start over.Itna jhooth teleprompter bhi nahin jhel paya (not even the teleprompter could handle such lies), Rahul...
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Two men clad in traditional dhoti and kurta run as fast as they can while an excited commentator discusses the likely outcome of the ongoing game on the ground in fluent Sanskrit. This setting might mislead one into believing that some ritual is underway but the two men are players...
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Over 50 lakh healthcare, frontline workers and citizens aged 60 years and above have been administered the precaution dose of COVID-19 vaccine since January 10, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Tuesday. With the administration of nearly 80 lakh vaccine doses in a span of...
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The Delhi Commission for Women has issued a notice to the Cyber Crime Cell, Delhi Police, seeking an FIR against a few persons for allegedly making derogatory remarks against women on an app called 'Club House'. The Commission has sought a response from the Cyber Crime Cell by January 24.
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The Bombay High Court on Tuesday commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence awarded to sisters Renuka Shinde and Seema Gavit, who were convicted by a Kolhapur court for kidnapping 14 children and killing five of them between 1990 and 1996. A bench of Justices Nitin Jamdar and S V...
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Republic Day prep amid the pandemic.The Ministry of Defence says this year the list of invitees include construction workers, sanitation workers, front line workers and auto-rickshaw drivers. The purpose is to give opportunity to every person in the society. The invitees have to be fully...
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A stunned silence descended.Unfazed, Vajpayee thought for a while, then replied with smiling eyes, 'Kashmir jaisa maamla hai [The matter is a bit like Kashmir].'A fascinating excerpt from Sagarika Ghose's Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Read it here.
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Bhagwant Mann, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP's) chief ministerial candidate for Punjab received more than 93 per cent of the votes cast through phone and WhatsApp, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal said today. More than 21 lakh people participated in the vote, AAP said.The auditorium erupted in cheers and...
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If you missed this yesterday, here's sand artiste Sudarsan Pattnaik's homage to Pandit Birju Maharaj, who passed away yesterday.
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China will seek to use Pakistan's Gwadar Port, which comes under the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, as a military base, according to an expert. In an interview with Junaid Qureshi, Director of European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS),...
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AAP tweets, Punjab's next CM is in the house! #AAPdaCM, and shares this video of the battle for the state.
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An emotional Bhagwant Mann hugs AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal. Both, of course, without masks.
12:28
AAP names Bhagwant Mann as chief minister candidate for Punjab based on public votes. A video of Bhagwant Mann's life and times is being shared on stage as the announcement is made at the Mohali stadium.Mann represents the Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency and is a two-time MP.As far as the...
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath paid a courtesy visit to BJP national president JP Nadda at the latter's residence in Delhi, today.
11:46
The Indian equities markets benchmark Sensex slumped 187 points on Tuesday dragged by selling pressure in auto, IT and metal stocks.Maruti Suzuki slumped by around three per cent erasing the gains made in Monday's rally. UltraTech Cement dipped by more than two per cent. The 30 stock...
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Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday raided multiple locations in poll-bound Punjab as part of a money laundering probe against companies involved in illegal sand mining in the border state, officials said. Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi's nephew was among several...
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The Bihar government has ordered an investigation after records showed that a Patna-based civil surgeon was administered five shots of the COVID-19 vaccine. The civil surgeon, Dr Vibha Kumari Singh, however, said she had taken the jab thrice as per rules. Singh also claimed that...
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Bihar CM Nitish Kumar
In an apparent rift between Bihar's NDA allies, state BJP chief Sanjay Jaiswal on Monday warned the leaders of Janata Dal (United) to maintain the maryada (dignity) of the alliance.In a Facebook post, Jaiswal said, To ensure that the NDA alliance is strong in Bihar, we all have to be maintain...
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Two persons were sentenced to 20 years in jail by a court in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district for raping a 55-year-old tribal woman. Additional District and Sessions Judge of Rairangpur Deepak Kumar on Monday also ordered both the men to pay a fine of Rs 20,000 each. The amount will...
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India's cumulative COVID-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded 158.04 crore on Tuesday, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.As per government data, 1,58,04,41,770 vaccine doses have been administered so far. The ministry said that this has been achieved through 1,69,76,817...
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A spot of colour in the morning, perhaps?Orange growers in Siliguri, West Bengal, face hardship due to low production. Production is down 10-15% due to some disease affecting the orchards. Earlier we exported to Bangladesh and sold to Kolkata. Now, we only sell locally. The government...
10:11
With 2,38,018 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India's total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 3,76,18,271, which includes 8,891 cases of the Omicron variant, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Tuesday. The active cases have increased to 17,36,628, the...
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Former Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition in Andhra Pradesh, N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday tested positive for COVID-19 with mild symptoms and have quarantined himself at home. I have tested positive for COVID with mild symptoms. I have quarantined myself at home and taking all the...
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Accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party of sowing seeds of hatred among different communities, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday said getting rid of the saffron party will be bigger than freedom from British rule. The former chief minister said the existence of Jammu and Kashmir is...
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The explosive used in the improvised explosive device, which was seized from the Ghazipur flower market in New Delhi, is suspected to be part of consignments dropped in Punjab and Jammu Kashmir by drones from Pakistan, officials said on Monday.The seizures made in recent times and the use of RDX...
08:08
China on Monday reported 127 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, local media reported citing the National Health Commission on Tuesday.According to Xinhua news agency, out of the new local cases, 102 were reported in Henan, 18 in Tianjin, five in Guangdong, and one each in Beijing and...
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Proprietor of Gujarat-based Earth Consortium Hemraj Ramniklal Kamdar and Prof M Kailasa Rao, dean of School of and Planning Architecture, Vijaywada were on Monday appointed as the part-time member of National Monuments Authority, a personnel ministry order said. ...
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South star Dhanush on Monday announced separation from his filmmaker wife Aishwaryaa Rajinikanth after 18 years of marriage. Dhanush and Aishwarya, daughter of megastar Rajinikanth, tied the knot in 2004 and are parents to two sons, Yatra and Linga, who were born in 2006 and 2010,...
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