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A special court in Ahmedabad on Tuesday remanded in the custody of National Investigation Agency till April 4 four people held in connection with the September 2021 rpt 2021 seizure of 2,988 kilograms of heroin from Mundra port in Gujarat's Kutch district. These four, including two...
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Journalist Rana Ayyub was on Tuesday stopped by authorities at the Mumbai international airport from flying abroad in the wake of a 'look out circular' issued by the Enforcement Directorate against her, officials said. The federal probe agency wants to question and record Ayyub's statement...
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Chief of Army Staff General Manoj Mukund Naravane is scheduled to visit Central Command headquarters in Lucknow on Wednesday to preside over deliberations on wide-ranging subjects concerning military preparedness, said an Army official. The Army chief is scheduled to review the deployment of...
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Claiming that he is not worth crores of rupees so as to be served legal notice by the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, Bharatiya Janata Party Tamil Nadu chief K Annamalai on Tuesday said he would not be cowed down by such threats as his aim is to serve the people. Reacting to the DMK's...
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After the first day of a delegation-level meeting between Russia-Ukraine in Istanbul, the Russian delegation announced steps for a 'drastic reduction in military activity in the Kyiv and Chernihiv directions' and the possibility of meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian...
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India and United States are scheduled to hold 2+2 dialogue in Washington on April 11. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will meet their counterparts Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin. Jaishankar and Rajnath...
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R K Pachauri
A Delhi court has said that there can be no stigma attached to former TERI chief R K Pachauri due to an alleged sexual harassment case since the prosecution could not prove its case while he was alive. Pachauri died in February 2020 while his revision petition against an order to put him on...
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At least four Indian fishermen have been arrested for allegedly poaching in Sri Lankan waters, the navy said. They were arrested on Monday south of the northern Jaffna's Delft Island for indulging in bottom trawling, it said. They have been handed over to the fisheries inspectorate for...
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Harjot Singh, who was shot multiple times in Ukraine's capital Kyiv last month while fleeing the war-torn country, has been discharged from the Army hospital in New Delhi. His condition is now stable, his brother Prabhjot said on Tuesday. He (Harjot) was discharged yesterday. He is...
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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat will virtually address members of the Kashmiri Pandit community on April 3, the last day of the three-day Navreh celebrations to be organised in Jammu, the Bharatiya Janata Party said on Tuesday. According to Jammu and Kashmir BJP spokesperson...
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The rupee spurted by 43 paise -- its biggest single-day gain in 2022 -- to close at a four-week high of 75.73 against the US currency on dollar selling by exporters amid hopes of a peace agreement between warring Russia and Ukraine and low crude oil prices. A weak dollar in the overseas...
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The man, who had assaulted Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar two days ago, has been admitted to a hospital for psychiatric treatment, a senior police official said Patna on Tuesday. Senior superintendent of police, Patna, Manavjeet Singh Dhillon said the attacker has been sent to the Patna...
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Top 20 countries by number of persons fully vaccinated as on March 29, 2022.
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In another incident of theft on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus, miscreants broke into the house of Professor Dhananjay Singh and decamped with valuables. According to an FIR registered in the case, Singh, who is the chairperson of the Centre for English Studies and Associate Dean of...
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Tamil Nadu minister RS Rajakannappan was on Tuesday divested of his transport portfolio after an official alleged that the minister used a casteist slur against him. On the recommendations of Chief Minister MK Stalin, the portfolios of transport, nationalised transport and Motor Vehicles Act...
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British PM Boris Johnson
Scotland Yard on Tuesday confirmed that it will fine 20 people who organised or attended parties at Downing Street and within UK government offices in Whitehall in London in breach of COVID lockdown rules at the time. The Metropolitan police had launched Operation Hillman following an...
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About 44 per cent of the newly sworn-in ministers in Goa have declared criminal cases against themselves, according to poll rights body ADR. Goa Election Watch and the Association for Democratic Reforms have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of all nine ministers, including Chief Minister...
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A 84-year old man had to spend a night in a bank's locker room in Hyderabad after the bank staff accidentally locked him inside the premises and left, police said on Tuesday. It was only on Tuesday morning that the octogenarian, who spent almost 18 hours (from 4.40 pm on Monday till 10.30 am...
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The slap did it
The altercation between best actor winner Will Smith and Chris Rock at the Oscars seems to have renewed interest towards the comedian's ongoing comedy tour, with an online marketplace for events tickets claiming a surge in the sales of the shows. New York-based TickPick claims they...
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said FDI into the country during the Modi government was USD 500.5 billion, which is 65 per cent more than the amount received in the 10 years of the UPA government, as investors have trusted the economic management of the current regime.Replying to...
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Indian student Harjot Singh, injured in Ukraine was discharged from Army hospital in Delhi. The doctor said that my hands and feet will need to be treated for about a year. My financial condition is not good, my father has retired. I want the Centre to help me with further treatment, he said.
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American rapper Megan Thee Stallion chose a custom gown by Indian couturier Gaurav Gupta for her debut at the Oscars. The 'fantasy biomorphic gown' was inspired by a mystical sea creature and featured side cutouts at the waist.
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Cricketer Virat Kohli has retained his position as India's most valuable celebrity brand in 2021, despite losing over a fifth of his worth in the year that saw the batsman stepping down from captaincy of the Indian cricket team.Kohli's value was pegged at USD 185.7 million (close to Rs 1,400...
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The voting on the no-confidence motion against Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan will be held on April 3, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid said on Tuesday. Rashid was addressing the media in Islamabad in the federal capital over the latest political situation after the Opposition...
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The Kyiv Independent: Head of the Ukrainian delegation David Arakhamia (R), an MP chairing President Volodymyr Zelensky's party in the parliament, meets in Istanbul with the head of the Russian delegation Vladimir Medinsky, aide to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
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The Covid carnage during the 2nd wave
India has one of the lowest 374 Covid-19 deaths per million population, according to the World Health Organisation, compared to similarly affected countries like the USA, Brazil, Russia and Mexico, the government said on Tuesday. In a written reply, Minister of State for Health...
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Benchmark BSE Sensex rallied over 350 points on Tuesday following gains in index majors HDFC twins, Bharti Airtel and Infosys amid a largely positive trend in global equity markets.The 30-share BSE barometer jumped 350.16 points or 0.61 per cent to settle at 57,943.65. During the day, it rallied...
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Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma and Meghalaya CM Conrad K Sangma sign an agreement to resolve the 50-year-old pending boundary dispute between their states, in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi. Firstly I want to thank HM Amit Shah for giving us the direction to resolve the...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said efforts are being made to mitigate the burden on citizens due to the economic crisis. He said after the Covid-19 pandemic, the fiscal crisis was aggravated with the world entering a battlefield, an apparent reference to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine...
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Anastasiia Lapatina, a journalist with the Kyiv Independent tweets this image with a surprising twist. This woman drove six generators from Krakow to the outskirts of #Kyiv, and just urgently unloaded one for our soldiers in Irpin. Gotta go now, it's very loud here,' she said. My mother is...
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MoS Ajay Mishra Teni
The Uttar Pradesh government told the Supreme Court that the state has taken all efforts to protect the witnesses and families of victims of the Lakhimpur Kheri incident.The UP government said that all the witnesses are also regularly contacted by the police for appraisal of their security...
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What really caused the Kashmiri Pandits to flee their homeland on January 19, 1990?How true is the portrayal in The Kashmiri Files that depicts the Pandits's agony?How did Kashmir almost slip out of India's grasp in the early 1990s?A S Dulat, former chief of the Research and Analysis...
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After Madhya Pradesh journalist Tanveer Warsi reported leaky ICU ceilings, faulty ventilators and Covid-19 mismanagement in government hospitals, he found himself facing three criminal cases, part of a pattern of intimidation of journalists in many parts of India. Jailed for over 140 days between...
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The government on Tuesday said only authorised law enforcement agencies in the country are empowered to tap telephones or intercept and monitor any electronically transmitted information. Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Kumar Mishra said this in response to a question on whether...
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FM S Jaishankar with SL minister Douglas Devananda.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday asked the Indian High Commissioner in Colombo to help a Sri Lankan hospital that has suspended surgeries due to lack of medical facilities, amidst an unprecedented financial crisis in the island nation. The Director of the Peradeniya...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday reiterated the Bharatiya Janata Party's commitment to empowering women and said that under the PM Awas Yojana, women also have ownership rights to 2 crore houses.During a virtual address at the 'Grih Pravesham' of about 5.21 lakh beneficiaries of...
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Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi voiced support to Telangana farmers on Tuesday and said the government should procure every grain of paddy produced by them. He also accused the Centre and the Telangana government of politicising the issue and asked them to stop harassing the farmers. It...
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From the Kyiv Independent: These are the indicative estimates of Russia's combat losses as of March 29, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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The Taliban's District Governor of Takhar province in Afghanistan who was arrested by the group on charges of cooperation with the Islamic State (Deash) has escaped, local media reported citing sources.The Governor, Abdul Qadir was arrested on Saturday in the Khaja Ghar district and local sources...
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Assam and Meghalaya CMs in a file pic
Assam and Meghalaya governments are set to sign an agreement here in the national capital on Tuesday evening to resolve their 50-year-old pending boundary difference.Officials in the Ministry of Home Affairs told ANI that the agreement will be signed by the Chief Ministers of Assam and Meghalaya...
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Kashmir in full bloom
As many as 34 people from outside Jammu and Kashmir have bought properties in the Union Territory after abrogation of Article 370, Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said in Lok Sabha on Tuesday.The Article 370, which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir and also barred people...
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at the talks between Russia and Ukraine: Continuing war will not benefit anyone. Restoring peace will benefit your countries and all the others. You, as delegations, bear historical responsibility for the decisions made today, Erdogan said at the...
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Elon Musk
US lawmakers are trying to resolve entrepreneur Elon Musk's business ties to China, which they fear may include the Beijing connections to SpaceX, said a recent Wall Street Journal report.Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) introduced legislation aimed at rectifying the problem, according to The Hill,...
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Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik arrives at the Parliament in Delhi. DMK MP TR Balu invited Patnaik for the inauguration of the party's office building in Delhi.
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BJP leader Vasundhara Raje meets the party's national president JP Nadda at Parliament House today. Raje is the former CM of Rajasthan and is from the erstwhile royal family of Gwalior.
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The meeting in China is on Afghanistan
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Tuesday embarked on a visit to China to attend a meeting on Afghanistan. The third meeting of Foreign Ministers of Neighbouring Countries of Afghanistan is being held on March 29 to 31, according to the Foreign Office (FO). Besides...
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The visit of Prime Minister of Israel Naftali Bennett to India has been postponed, spokesperson of the Israel Embassy in India, announced. He was scheduled to visit India from April 3 to April 5. Bennett has tested positive for Covid-19.
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Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee writes to non-BJP CMs, opposition leaders urging everyone to come together in fight against saffron party. She alleges misuse of central agencies, calls for meeting on way forward.Let us commit to cause of unified opposition to make way for a government that the country...
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PM Imran, possibly on his way out, appeared to have skippered his cricket team and the country differently. Read the column here.
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The case against Khalid, therefore is based on: (a) membership of WhatsApp groups; (b) participation in various meetings, the particulars of which are provided by anonymous witnesses, for the most part in vague terms; and (c) being mentioned in a flurry of calls' after the riots began. Out of...
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Ukraine updates: In a PBS interview Monday, a Kremlin spokesperson ruled out Russia using nuclear weapons in Ukraine, saying Moscow would only use them if there was a threat to the country's existence.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told PBS Newshour in an interview Monday. Any outcome of the...
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Tired but still cracking jokes, Ukraine's hunted president says, I'm not a hero. Read the report here.
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Pakistan's opposition parties have vowed to bring down the beleaguered government of Prime Minister Imran Khan who is facing his toughest political test since assuming office in 2018. The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), which among others include Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz...
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Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral R Hari Kumar
Indian Naval Air Squadron (INAS) 316, the Indian Navy's second P-8l aircraft squadron, commissioned on Tuesday at INS Hansa in Goa.The INAS 316 was commissioned in the presence of Admiral R Hari Kumar, Chief of the Naval Staff. In today's dynamic and complex security situation, this...
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Delhi Police Special Cell busts international narcotic drugs cartel, recovers 10 kilo heroin worth over Rs 40 crore and arrests 2 key members of the cartel. The recovered heroin was smuggled into India from Myanmar via Manipur. A car having a secret cavity to conceal and transport drugs...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with Bharatiya Janata Party top brass on Tuesday arrived at Ambedkar International Centre in the national capital for the BJP Parliamentary party meeting.The BJP president JP Nadda, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Union Home Minister Amit Shah are also...
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Equity benchmark Sensex surged over 300 points in early trade on Tuesday, following gains in index majors HDFC, Maruti Suzuki and ICICI Bank amid a largely positive trend in global equity markets. Besides, a fall in international crude prices supported the market sentiment, traders...
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The Academy of Motion Picture Art and Sciences has launched an inquiry into Will Smith-Chris Rock's altercation at the Oscars 2022 ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday. Condemning the actions of Smith, the organisation behind the annual film awards issued a statement...
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No booster doses for below 60 years yet
India's Covid-19 tally climbed to 4,30,21,982 on Tuesday with 1,259 fresh cases, while the number of active cases of the infection further declined to 15,378, according to the Union health ministry. The death toll due to the viral disease has gone up to 5,21,070 with 35 more fatalities, the...
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American actor Will Smith on Monday apologized to comedian Chris Rock for hitting him during the Oscar ceremony and said he was out of line and was embarrassed.I would like to publicly apologize to you, Chris. I was out of line and I was wrong. I am embarrassed and my actions were not indicative...
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Indian American Raj Subramaniam would be the new Chief Executive Officer of FedEx, according to an announcement made Monday by the United States multinational courier delivery giant. Subramanian would replace Frederick W Smith, chairman and CEO, who will step down from this position on June...
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Seven Indian-origin persons have been charged by federal authorities with insider trading in a scheme through which they made over a million dollars in illegal profits. Hari Prasad Sure, 34, Lokesh Lagudu, 31 and Chotu Prabhu Tej Pulagam, 29, are friends and worked as software engineers at...
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Petrol price on Tuesday crossed Rs 100 a litre mark after rates were hiked by 80 paise a litre and 70 paise in case of diesel, taking the total increase in rates in one week to Rs 4.80 per litre. Petrol in Delhi will now cost Rs 100.21 per litre as against Rs 99.41 previously while...
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The Gujarat high court on Monday extended its interim stay on a Surat court's proceedings against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a criminal defamation case filed over his alleged Modi surname remarks. The complainant in the case, state minister Purnesh Modi, had sought a stay on proceedings...
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The Bihar assembly on Monday witnessed uproarious scenes as opposition members demanded strict action against 'erring' police officers, who were not able to thwart an attack on Chief Minister Nitish Kumar the day before. Kumar was on Sunday physically assaulted in Patna's Bakhtiyarpur town...
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