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Delhi and Mumbai continued to witness major decline in daily coronavirus cases on Thursday. Delhi on Thursday reported 4,291 fresh COVID-19 cases and 34 deaths while the positivity rate dropped marginally to 9.56 per cent, according to data shared by the city health department. Mumbai...
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A complaint was filed against filmmaker Mahesh Manjrekar in a court in Mumbai on Thursday for allegedly portraying women and children in an objectionable manner his latest Marathi film. The Kshatriya Maratha Seva Sanstha filed a...
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Kerala is witnessing a wave of Omicron infections, with cases of the highly contagious variant now on the rise, state Health Minister Veena George said on Thursday. It is now clear that the third wave in Kerala is the Omicron wave, she told reporters in Thiruvananthapuram. The...
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The passengers who will be travelling on Air India flights on Friday will be hearing about the Tata Group's takeover of the airline during in-flight announcements, according to an official order. The Indian government handed over Air India to the Tata Group on Thursday afternoon,...
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Congress Shekhupura assembly candidate Farha Naeem on Thursday resigned from the party and returned her ticket accusing district president of making indecent comments against women. Addressing a...
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The sale of wine will be allowed in supermarkets and walk-in stores in Maharashtra, the state cabinet decided on Thursday. The decision was taken to give a boost to fruit-based wineries which provide additional income to farmers, Minister for Skill Development Nawab Malik told...
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India and five Central Asian countries on Thursday decided to establish a joint working group on Afghanistan at the senior officials' level, ministry of external affairs secretary (West) Reenat Sandhu said. ...
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Maharashtra minister and senior Congress leader Ashok Chavan on Thursday tested positive for COVID-19 infection. I am tested COVID-19 positive. Those who were in contact with me should be careful, Chavan said in a tweet. -- ANI
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Registering its third straight session of loss, the rupee on Thursday depreciated by 31 paise to close at an over four-week low of 75.09 against the US dollar, tracking the strength of the American currency after a hawkish US Fed policy stance.Forex traders said muted domestic equities, sustained...
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The Union home ministry on Thursday extended the existing COVID-19 containment measures till February 28 in view of the wave of infections, driven by the Omicron variant, still raging and 407 districts reporting a positivity rate of over 10 per cent. In a communication to all states and...
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A new case of alleged extortion has been registered against gangster Suresh Pujari on the complaint of a businessman, the Mumbai police said on Thursday. The First Information Report was registered at the suburban Goregaon police station, an official said. Suresh Pujari, a one-time...
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External affairs minister Dr S Jaishankar tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday. Have tested COVID positive,' said Jaishankar in a tweet. Urge all those who have come in recent contact to take suitable precautions,' he said. -- ANI
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Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau has sent third summon to former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh, asking him to appear before it on February 2 in a corruption case. -- ANI
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The third phase of the construction of the Ram temple began at Ramjanmabhoomi in Ayodhya on January 24 with the laying of the granite stones for the plinth.With a view to achieving strength, other physical and chemical features and consequent longevity, the work of plinth with granite stone has...
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma
The Assam cabinet on Thursday decided to reduce the number of cars to six in the chief minister's convoy while travelling within the Guwahati metropolitan area. While travelling in other areas or districts, the chief minister's convoy will consist of 12 cars, excluding the escort and pilot...
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Central Asia is central to India's vision of an integrated and stable extended neighbourhood, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday as he hosted the first India-Central Asia Summit in a virtual format. In his initial remarks at the Summit, Modi said, We all are concerned about...
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The Indian equities markets key indices close in the negative for the sixth time in the past seven trading sessions on Thursday with Sensex and Nifty 50 sliding by around 1 per cent.The stock markets opened sharply down on Thursday after the US Federal Reserve gave signal on interest rate hike...
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An 'oxygen triage facility' in Chennai
Union Health ministry updates on Covid-19.-- Omicron sub-variant BA.2 is more prevalent in India now.-- All factual information based on scientific evidences will be made public: Ministry of Health over media reports on discussions in govt whether COVID19 booster dose should be given.-- As...
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Tata Group is committed to making Air India a world-class airline, Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran said on Thursday after the conglomerate took over the ownership of the national carrier from the government. The group also acknowledged Prime Minister Narendra Modi's commitment to...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi along with party candidates for the Punjab assembly polls paid obeisance at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on Thursday. Today, like each time before this, I felt good paying obeisance before the Durbar Sahib. I felt a sense of belonging. Ek Onkar, Rahul tweeted...
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The union government is working on a model for staggered opening of schools for physical classes following all COVID-19 related protocols, sources said on Thursday.Schools have been closed in most parts of the country for physical classes after the emergence of the new Omicron variant of the...
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Tata Group gets official handover of Air India. N Chandrasekaran, the Chairman of Tata Sons called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi today ahead of the official handover of Air India to Tata Group.The government on Thursday officially handed over Air India to the Tata Group. Tata Sons chairman N...
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As many as 27 corporators of the Congress party joined the Nationalist Congress Party on Thursday.All the corporators joined the party in the presence of party leader and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. Malegaon Mayor Tahira Shaikh is among the 27 corporators who joined the...
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A 35-year-old tourist was killed when he fell down during paragliding at a temporary resort set up in Dibru river in Assam's Tinsukia district, officials said on Thursday. The resort was set up illegally on Dibru riverbed at Guijan as the area falls under the eco-sensitive zone...
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A Christmas tree of empty vials of Covishield vaccine
India's drug regulator on Thursday granted regular market approval for COVID-19 vaccines Covishield and Covaxin for use in the adult population subject to certain conditions, official sources said. The approval was granted under the New Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules, 2019. Under...
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Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar is showing signs of improvement but continues to remain under observation in ICU, her family said on Thursday. The 92-year-old veteran tested positive for coronavirus with mild symptoms and was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Breach Candy...
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The sesquipedalian Congress leader Shashi Tharoor gets his message across with this meme.
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China's People's Liberation Army has handed over the missing teenager from Arunachal Pradesh to the Indian Army, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju said on Thursday.Read more here.
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Charanjit Singh, the hockey legend under whose captaincy the Indian hockey team won gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics, passed away today.
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Weekend curfew to be lifted in Delhi, night curfew to remain, DDMA officials have said. Odd-even opening for shops to go. Opening of schools will be discussed in the next DDMA meet.Weddings can be held up to a maximum of 200 people or 50 per cent capacity. Bars, restaurants and...
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Karnataka, Maharashtra and Kerala are the states with the highest Covid numbers.
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The following is the transcript of the keynote address delivered by former Judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman on Constitutional underpinnings of the Rule of Law at the inauguration of D.M. Harish School of Law, Mumbai on January 14, 2022.Read it here.
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The 14 th Lecture in the Democracy Dialogues Series organised by New Socialist Initiative will be delivered by Prof Irfan Habib, Famous Historian, Public Intellectual and Marxist Thinker, on Sunday, 30th January 2022 at 6 PM (IST). Prof Habib would be speaking on...
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday unfurled a 115-ft high tricolour in Timarpur constituency and said such high-mast national flags were installed at 75 locations across the city to mark 75th year of India's Independence. He said he will get it examined if this qualifies...
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A 20-year-old was gang-raped, tonsured, garlanded with slippers and paraded with a blackened face in the Kasturba Nagar area in the national capital, Delhi Commission for Women Swati Maliwal alleged on Thursday.Maliwal in a tweet stated that she was issuing a notice to the Delhi Police in...
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Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in Afghanistan have faced grave threats to their safety and lives under the Taliban, said Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a newly released report.A 43-page report, based on 60 interviews with LGBT Afghans, revealed how Taliban...
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Amid the spread of the Omicron variant, Pakistan's active COVID-19 case count crossed the 90,000 mark, local media reported citing National Command and Operation Center on Thursday.
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The PM has maintained that Yogi has made UP crime-free
Uttar Pradesh police on Thursday arrested two people for allegedly beating a journalist to death after a road rage incident in Saharanpur.According to the police, the journalist who was on a motorbike overtook the car in which three persons were seated. Enraged by this, the three men allegedly...
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A 14-year-old girl died of electrocution and another one suffered burn injuries when a flagpole on which the national flag was hoisted came in contact with a live wire while they were removing the pole in Mahasamund district of Chhattisgarh, officials said on Thursday. The incident...
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After a long journey of 69 years, Air India is set to be officially handed over to Tata Group on Thursday. Tata Group Chairman N Chandrasekhar is in Delhi to witness the formal transfer, sources told ANI. Officially Air India hands over to Tata Group today in the afternoon. Tata Group...
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Former Congress Chief of Uttarakhand, Kishore Upadhyay, joins the Bharatiya Janata Party in Dehradun, ahead of the Uttarakhand Election 2022.Upadhyay was expelled from the Congress for six years for anti-party activities. He was earlier removed from all posts as a disciplinary action.
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Twitter spox on Rahul Gandhi's letter to Twitter stating that the number of his followers are seeing a drop:-- Follower counts are a visible feature and we want everyone to have confidence that numbers are meaningful and accurate. Twitter has zero-tolerance approach to platform manipulation and...
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Equity indices opened in red on Thursday with Sensex down by 1020.11 points and Nifty down by 298 points.The 30-scrip BSE Sensex was down by 1020.11 points or 1.76 per cent at 56838.04 at 9.20 am. Similarly, 50-scrip NSE Nifty was trading at 16980 at 9.20 am, down by 298 points or 1.72 per...
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In Chhattisgarh, the mother of a police jawan, Basil Toppo, who lost his life in a Naxal attack made a memorial in his memory at the village of Jashpur. I feel proud of him, said his mother. He was in the police and was killed in an attack in 2011 in Bastar, said his uncle.
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A R-Day tableau on the pandemic
India reports 2,86,384 new COVID-19 cases, 573 deaths and 3,06,357 recoveries in the last 24 hours.Active case: 22,02,472 (5.46%) Daily positivity rate: 19.59% Total Vaccination : 1,63,84,39,207
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The United States is ready either way in handling the escalating Ukraine crisis, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Moscow on Wednesday as the Biden administration's top envoy delivered a letter to the Russian government in this regard.All told, it sets out a serious diplomatic path...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will be on a day-long visit to Punjab on Thursday during which he will visit religious places along with 117 candidates in an apparent show of strength ahead of assembly elections that are due next month.During his day-long visit, Rahul Gandhi would pay obeisance at...
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In a major setback to Congress ahead of the February 14 Uttarakhand assembly polls, former party state chief Kishore Upadhyay is likely to join the BJP today, said sources. According to them, Upadhyay could contest the assembly polls from the Tehri constituency. Earlier, Congress...
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Terming the committee formed by the Union railway ministry to look into the concerns raised by the aspirants of alleged irregularities in Railway Recruitment Board's NTPC stage 1 exam results as a hoax, student union AISA and other youth organisations have called for Bihar bandh on Friday and...
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Mamata Banerjee
Leader of Opposition in West Bengal assembly, Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday slammed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for protocol violation as she did not receive the Governor during his arrival at the Republic Day function and said that the conduct of TMC chief goes against the culture of the...
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Former Uttarakhand chief minister and Congress leader Harish Rawat will now contest the February 14 assembly elections from Lalkuan seat instead of Ramnagar, which was announced earlier. The Congress changed Rawat's seat in the third list of 10 candidates announced late on Wednesday. In...
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