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A special Central Bureau of Investigation court Tuesday ordered the release of Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad's passport for renewal, his counsel said. Prasad had appealed before the court for release of his passport in order to renew it, citing the need to travel abroad for a...
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The Enforcement Directorate summoned Maharashtra Transport Minister Anil Parab for questioning in Mumbai on June 15 in a money-laundering probe linked to the alleged violation of coastal regulation zone provisions in the construction of a resort in Dapoli beach area of Ratnagiri district,...
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A court in Thane district has rejected Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's plea seeking transfer of a defamation suit filed against him by an RSS worker to another court. Principal district judge AJ Mantri rejected Gandhi's plea in December last year. However, the order was uploaded only on...
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Security force gunned down two Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists including a Pakistani national -- who were part of a group sent to attack the Amarnath Yatra -- in Srinagar on Tuesday, the police said. Five police personnel were also injured in the encounter, they said. The slain terrorists...
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Justin Bieber has shared an update about his health condition with his fans, days after the musician revealed that he was diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt Syndrome. In a statement posted on his Instagram Story, the 28-year-old singer said he is gradually recovering from the rare medical condition,...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been summoned by the ED on June 15, the third day in a row, for questioning in the National Herald money-laundering case, officials said on Tuesday. The questioning on Tuesday, the second day of his appearance before the probe agency in the money-laundering...
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Amid acrimonious relations between the Shiv Sena and BJP in Maharashtra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray shared the dais on Tuesday after more than four months. The two leaders attended the inauguration of Jal Bhushan Building and Gallery of Revolutionaries...
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Brown sugar worth crores of rupees were seized and one woman arrested in Manipur's Thoubal district on Tuesday, the police said. Acting on a tip-off, police...
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Mumbai on Tuesday reported 1,724 fresh COVID-19 cases, a rise of over 600 as compared to Monday, and two fatalities due to the infection, the civic bulletin said. With this, Mumbai's tally of infections climbed to 10,83,589 and the COVID-19 death toll to 19,575, it said. A day earlier,...
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The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee on Tuesday installed a portrait of the assassin of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh in the central Sikh museum of the Golden Temple in...
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China has announced plans to provide visas to Indian professionals and their families working in various Chinese cities who are stuck back home for over two years due to Beijing's COVID-19 visa ban. Separately, China is also processing requests of thousands of Indian students studying in...
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Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami
The Uttarakhand government on Tuesday tabled Rs 65,571.49 crore budget for 2022-23 in the state assembly. Presenting the budget on the opening day of the state assembly's ongoing budget session in Dehradun, Finance Minister Prem Chand Aggrawal said it is the flag-bearer of the state...
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More than 300 educational institutions run by Falah-e-Aam, an affiliate of banned Jamaat-e-Islami, have been stopped from operating by the Jammu and Kashmir School education department, officials said on Tuesday. An order was passed by school education secretary BK Singh on Monday directing...
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The 12th season of the adventure and stunt-based reality show Khatron Ke Khiladi will start airing on Colors channel from July 2. The television channel shared the premiere date of its popular show on Twitter. Khatron ka vaar hoga iss baar non-stop! Dekhiye #KhatronKeKhiladi, 2nd July...
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Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai watching 777 Charlie/Kiranraj K/Twitter
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai was in tears after watching Rakshit Shetty starrer movie 777 Charlie in Bengaluru. According to the film crew, the movie written and directed by Kiranraj K, is about a dog entering into the life of the protagonist, who is stuck in a rut with his...
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Delhi's single-day COVID-19 infections breached the one thousand mark on Tuesday, with a positivity rate of 6.50 per cent and two fatalities, according to data shared by the health department here. The national capital logged 1,118 cases. It was on May 10 that the national capital had...
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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee is in New Delhi today for a meeting of non-BJP parties she has convened to formulate a joint strategy for the upcoming presidential poll. Banerjee, also the Trinamool Congress supremo, last week wrote to 22 opposition leaders and chief ministers requesting them...
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PM Modi inaugurates Jal Bhushan Building at Raj Bhawan, MumbaiMaharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and the State Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari were also present on the occasion.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi returns to Enforcement Directorate for the fourth round of questioning.Rahul Gandhi left the ED office after about four hours of questioning in the National Herald money-laundering case on Tuesday.Gandhi (51) arrived at the Enforcement Directorate headquarters on APJ...
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Bulldozers demolish Javed Ahmed's residence in Prayagraj
After the demolishing the house of the alleged mastermind of last Friday's violence here, authorities are now going over a list of 37 other accused for possibly similar action.An official said the Prayagraj Development Authority (PDA) is trying to identify the homes of the 37 people and action...
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Mallikarjun Kharge, Jairam Ramesh, Randeep Singh Surjewala, Raghu Sharma and other Congress leaders present at Vasant Kunj PS in Delhi. Surjewala and some other leaders and workers were detained earlier today during their protest over ED probe against Rahul Gandhi in National Herald case.
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NCP chief Sharad Pawar has refused to be the opposition parties' nominee for the presidential election, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said on Tuesday.Pawar met Yechury, CPI general secretary D Raja, and NCP leaders Praful Patel and P C Chacko in Delhi and conveyed to them his decision...
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Fintech lender NeoGrowth on Tuesday said the MSME sector has emerged stronger during the last two years since onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, leveraging the digital payments ecosystem.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi left the ED office after about four hours of questioning in the National Herald money-laundering case on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear if he would come back and resume the session or the questioning was over for the day. Gandhi (51) arrived at...
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A student activist on her father's arrest and the demolition of her home. Read the report here.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee left for New Delhi on Tuesday for a meeting of non-BJP parties she has convened to formulate a joint strategy for the upcoming presidential poll. Banerjee, also the Trinamool Congress supremo, last week wrote to 22 opposition leaders and chief...
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Wholesale price-based inflation rose to a record high of 15.88 per cent in May on rising prices of food items and crude oil.
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A video grab of BV Srinivas being bundled into a police van
Indian Youth Congress president Srinivas BV was detained by Delhi Police on Tuesday while he was protesting over Enforcement Directorate (ED) probe against party leader Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case.Four to five policemen were seen forcibly lifting the Indian Youth Congress chief when...
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Women of steel: Sonia Gandhi and Mamata Banerjee
The Congress is likely to attend the meeting of political parties convened by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday for deliberations over a joint opposition candidate for the post of President, sources said. They said Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge, who is also...
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The verses (abhang), to be written on the designer 'Tukaram Pagdi' or traditional headgear to be presented to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Pune on June 14 to inaugurate a temple, were changed after trustees of the temple trust expressed their displeasure, an official said on...
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The Prayagraj municipal authorities on Sunday, June 12, 2022, demolished student activist Afreen Fatima's home.The move came after riots broke out in Prayagraj after a protest against suspended Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Nupur Sharma's comments on Prophet Mohammed.Afreen's home was...
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A court in Delhi on Tuesday reserved its order against the bail plea of Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain, arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case. Special Judge Geetanjali Goel reserved the order after hearing arguments from Jain as well the...
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CDS Gen Bipin Rawat died in an accident in 2021
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said the appointment of the new Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) will be made soon and that the process for it is underway. The post of CDS has been lying vacant since General Bipin Rawat's death in a helicopter crash on December 8 last...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in Pune, where he was received by Deputy CM Ajit Pawar, LoP Devendra Fadnavis and other dignitaries. The PM will inaugurate a temple dedicated to Sant Tukaram Maharaj in Dehu near Pune city during his visit. Pune's famed turban making firm Murudkar...
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About 51 crore people living in north India are on track to lose 7.6 years of their life if the current air pollution levels persist, says a study, calls pollution the greatest threat to human health in the country. Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC)'s Air...
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NCP chief Sharad Pawar is not keen on contesting the Presidential election, according to a senior party leader, even as some opposition parties have backed his candidature for the race to the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The issue came up for discussion after Pawar met Maharashtra NCP ministers here...
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Senior Congress leaders KC Venugopal, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Gaurav Gogoi, Deepender Singh Hooda, Ranjeet Ranjan, Imran Pratapgarhi and others were taken into police custody to the Tughlak Road Police Station.Modi govt is pursuing a political vendetta. There is no case, it's...
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and the three service chiefs hold a press conference, in Delhi on the Agnipath scheme.The Cabinet Committee on Security has taken a historic decision today to approve the transformative scheme of 'Agnipath'. Under this, Indian youth would be granted an opportunity...
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Congress general secretary Randeep Surjewala, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and others were detained by Delhi Police on Tuesday during their protest in the national capital over Enforcement Directorate's (ED) probe against party leader Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case.Our...
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The Uttar Pradesh Police has so far arrested 337 people from eight districts in connection with the violence that erupted following the Friday prayers on June 10 over a controversial remark against Prophet Mohammad, an official said on Tuesday.Thirteen FIRs have also been registered in nine...
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BJP spokespersons are now meeting JP Nadda at the BJP HQ in Delhi for an important briefing. This is the party's first meeting after the Nupur Sharma controversy. Also ahead today, three service chiefs to address the media on the Agnipath initiative.
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Congress workers protest Rahul Gandhi's questioning by the ED
Vehicular traffic will be affected in parts of central Delhi as Congress leader Rahul Gandhi appeared before the Enforcement Directorate for the second consecutive day in a money laundering probe, the Delhi Traffic Police said on Tuesday. In a series of tweets, it posted information...
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Mangaluru police commissioner N Shashi Kumar held talks with Muslim religious leaders in the wake of reports that various outfits are planning to hold protests in the city against the derogatory statements by BJP leaders on Prophet Mohammed. Shashi Kumar, who called a meeting of...
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The United Kingdom government has introduced a legislation in Parliament that would override parts of the landmark 2019 Brexit agreement struck with the European Union when Britain left the common economic zone.While the British government insists the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill is aimed at...
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French energy supermajor TotalEnergies will acquire a 25 per cent stake in Adani Group's green hydrogen producing venture, the company said on Tuesday. In a statement, Adani Group said it has entered into a new partnership with the French firm to jointly create the world's largest...
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Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala on the probe against party leader Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case: We are Gandhi's heirs, we will once again walk, our 'Satyagraha' won't stop.The ED probe against Rahul Gandhi is an attempt to muzzle his voice as he has always questioned Modi govt...
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The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad has arrested a man from Jammu and Kashmir in a case of recruitment of operatives for a terrorist organisation and funding, an ATS official said on Tuesday. With this, the state ATS has nabbed four people so far since May this year in the terror...
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Communist Party of India (Marxist) Rajya Sabha MP from Kerala, Dr V Sivadasan, wrote a letter to Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Arun Kumar alleging assault on Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inside a flight from Kannur to Thiruvananthapuram on Monday.Sivadasan, in a letter dated...
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The Thane city police commissionerate's website was allegedly hacked on Tuesday, with a message appearing on it apparently directed towards the Indian government and demanding an apology to Muslims all over the world. A senior police official confirmed that the website has been hacked....
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked various government departments and ministries to undertake the recruitment of 10 lakh people on a mission mode in the next year and a half, his office said on Tuesday. The direction from Modi came following a review of the status of human...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Maharashtra on June 14 wherein he will inaugurate Jagatguru Shrisant Tukaram Maharaj Temple in Dehu, Pune and will inaugurate Jal Bhushan Building and Gallery of Revolutionaries at Raj Bhawan in Mumbai.Thereafter, at around 6 pm, the Prime Minister will...
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Kim in the Marilyn dress
Kim Kardashian's Marilyn Monroe moment at the MET Gala 2022 was the most talked about look of the night. Some praised the Business Mogul for the way she carried the 60-year-old heritage while some were clearly not happy and thought it was an insult to the legend. But now, The Kardashians...
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A day after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was questioned for over 10 hours by the Enforcement Directorate in a money-laundering probe linked to the National Herald newspaper, he will appear before the central probe agency again on Tuesday. The former Congress President appeared before ED for...
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Actor Hugh Jackman has tested positive for COVID-19 for the second time. The actor is set to miss the performances in The Music Man with actor Max Clayton scheduled to perform as the standby.Clayton will perform the role of Professor Harold Hill alongside Sutton Foster, in all...
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Bollywood actor Shraddha Kapoor's brother Siddhanth Kapoor was released on bail on Monday after he was arrested for alleged consumption of drugs. The other four people arrested have also been released on bail, said police.Siddhanth Kapoor and the four others will have to further appear...
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The Vishwa Hindu Parishad's Delhi unit on Monday called on people in the city to assemble in temples and participate in mass recitations of Hanuman Chalisa on June 14 to register protest against the June 10 violence in parts of the country. In a statement, the Vishva Hindu Parishad alleged...
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Two Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists, including a Pakistani national, were killed in an encounter with security forces in Srinagar, police said on Tuesday. Two terrorists of banned terror outfit LeT were neutralised by Srinagar Police in an encounter in Bemina area of Srinagar city. One...
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Out of 279 swab samples tested during the 12th genome sequencing series in the metropolis, 278 were found infected with Omicron sub-variants of coronavirus and one with the Delta strain, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said on Monday.The civic body said 279 COVID-19 samples were...