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Edtech firm Vedantu has laid off 200 employees as it did not find them in sync with the company's growth expectation. When contacted, the company spokesperson confirmed the development and said the firm is also hiring over 1,000 new people. We have over 6,000 employees out of which 120...
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The Allahabad high court on Thursday reserved its order on the bail application of Samajwadi Party MLA Azam Khan in the case of grabbing of enemy property for his Mohammad Ali Jauhar University project. The order has been reserved by Justice Rahul Chaturvedi. An FIR was lodged against...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday chaired an important meeting to review preparations for heat wave management and monsoon preparedness in which he stressed on the need to take all measures to avoid deaths due to heatwave or fire incidents. During the meeting, the India meteorological...
22:57
'And, she's here! Our aircraft, VT-SXE, operated a positioning flight this evening from Hyderabad to Delhi as 9W101. Some photos here of the aircraft in Delhi and of colleagues celebrating this momentous day!,' tweeted Jet Airways on Thursday evening.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi returned home on Thursday after concluding his personal visit to Nepal, days after he made news back home for allegedly attending a nightclub here in the Himalayan nation. He was in the country to attend a wedding party of a non-resident Nepali businessman's...
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The station house officer arrested on charges of raping a minor girl in Lalitpur was on Thursday sent to 14-day judicial custody. With this, all the six accused in the case have been sent to jail following court orders, the police said. Accused SHO Tilakdhari Saroj was produced before a...
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The Supreme Court Collegium headed by CJI NV Ramana has recommended the names of Chief Justice of Gauhati high court Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Gujarat high court Judge Justice Jamshed B Pardiwala for elevation to the apex court, sources said. Justice Dhulia will be the second Judge to be...
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The apex child rights body NCPCR has sought action against comedian Kunal Kamra for tweeting a doctored video of a boy singing a patriotic song in front of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The NCPCR also sought immediate removal of the video. The National Commission for Protection of Child...
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The police on Thursday filed a plea before a court here seeking to cancel the bail granted to senior Kerala politician PC George, accused of making a hate speech against Muslims in Kerala at a conclave last week. In its plea filed before the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court-II, the...
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MLA Ravi Rana on Thursday alleged that prison officials did not pay attention to his wife and independent MP from Amravati Navneet Rana when she complained of health issues and requested hospitalisation. Ravi Rana, MLA from Badnera in eastern Maharashtra's Amravati district, was...
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Bypolls to two Rajya Sabha seats -- one each from Bihar and Telangana -- will be held on May 30, the Election Commission said on Thursday. The Bihar seat fell vacant on December 27, 2021 following the death of Janata Dal-United member Mahendra Prasad. His term was to otherwise end...
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LIC's public offer, the country's biggest-ever initial public offering, was fully subscribed on the second day of bidding on Thursday. Against 16,20,78,067 shares on offer, 16,25,35,125 bids were received, making the public issue fully subscribed, as per data on stock exchanges as of...
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The construction works of the ambitious 8.25-km bridge over the Brahmaputra, connecting the world's largest river island Majuli with Jorhat in Assam, were temporarily halted after detection of a minor issue, officials said on Thursday. The Rs 925.47-crore bridge project is being...
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Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami will contest the upcoming bye-election from Champawat assembly seat, the BJP announced on Thursday. The central election committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party has given its approval to Pushkar Singh Dhami for the upcoming Uttarakhand assembly...
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National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Thursday apologised for tweeting the announcement of the death of the party's MP Akbar Lone. Based on Abdullah's tweet, PTI had put out an alert saying Lone had died following a brief illness.Minutes later, Abdullah withdrew his Twitter...
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The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday announced fare-free travel for children within 5 years of age in all kinds of buses operated by all the government-run transport corporations. Making announcements in the assembly on new initiatives (2022-23) for his...
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Over 51,000 Indian children were born in 170 foreign countries in 2020, maximum in United Arab Emirates, while about 10,817 Indians died abroad in that year, according to data prepared by the Registrar General of India. The births and deaths of Indian citizens in foreign lands in 2020...
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From October 1, the Delhi government will provide subsidy on electricity to consumers who opt for the scheme, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Thursday. The Delhi consumers at present get 'zero' power bill up to 200 units of electricity and a subsidy of Rs 800 on consuming 201 to...
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As many as 211 people have so far been arrested in connection with the communal clashes in Jodhpur before Eid, police said on Thursday while asserting the situation in the city was under control. A curfew clamped in the city following the violence continued for the third day on Thursday...
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Ahead of Maharashtra Navnirmal Sena chief Raj Thackeray's visit to Ayodhya, Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Uttar Pradesh, Brijbhushan Sharan Singh, said Thackeray must apologise to North Indians lest he won't allow him to enter Ayodhya. I have requested UP CM Yogi Adityanath as well...
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The three-member Delimitation Commission on Jammu and Kashmir, headed by Justice (retd) Ranjana Desai, on Thursday signed the final order on redrawing the assembly constituencies of the Union Territory, a day before its term was to end, officials said. A copy of this order and the report,...
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Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani gets jail for 2017 'Azadi' marchA magisterial court in Mehsana on Thursday convicted Gujarat independent MLA Jignesh Mevani and nine others in a five-year-old case of holding an 'Azadi march' without permission and sentenced them to three months' imprisonment. ...
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Independent MP Navneet Rana walked out of a jail in Mumbai on Thursday, a day after a court here granted bail to her and her MLA-husband Ravi Rana, more than a week after they were arrested in an alleged case of sedition. After being granted bail on...
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Four terror suspects have been detained along with explosives in Haryana's Karnal, said the police on Thursday.According to the police, three suspects are from Punjab's Ferozepur and one hails from Ludhiana. The accused have been identified as Gurpreet, Amandeep, Parminder and Bhupinder.FIR has...
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The South Delhi Municipal Corporation's anti-encroachment drives in the Kalindi Kunj-Jamia Nagar area near Shaheen Bagh and in Sriniwaspuri were cancelled till Friday due to the unavailability of an adequate police force, civic authorities said on Thursday. According to SDMC...
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Poll strategist Prashant Kishor at a press conference held in Patna today, said he would undertake a padyatra of his home state, Bihar, and bring in a new dispensation. He stopped short of announcing his own party, a move he had hinted at after his fallout with the Congress. In next...
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The Supreme Court on Thursday said it would hear arguments on May 10 on the legal question whether the pleas challenging the colonial era penal law on sedition be referred to a larger bench and granted time to the Centre to file its response. A special bench comprising Chief Justice N V...
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A battle of videos has broken out between Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray and Shiv Sena, with both claiming the legacy of Bal Thackeray. Shiv Sena has hit out at Raj Thackeray by sharing a video of the party founder Bal Thackeray in which he is seen taking a veiled jibe at the...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair an important review meeting on the preparedness to deal with the heatwave affecting parts of the country and the upcoming monsoon season, government sources said. They said Modi is expected to hold seven to eight meetings during the day following his...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday arrived in West Bengal on a two-day visit, his first since the 2021 assembly polls. He will hold organisational meetings and a public rally, besides travelling to forward areas along the India-Bangladesh border. Shah, who arrived at the...
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India has logged 3,275 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry informed on Thursday.With this, the active cases in the country now stand at 19,719, constituting 0.05 per cent of India's total Covid positive cases. The ministry, in a press release, informed...
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Security has been tightened in Jammu's Samba area after a small opening, suspected to be a tunnel, was found near the international border on Wednesday. The Border Security Force (BSF) spokesperson said that a small opening was found in the general area near fencing in the Samba area,...
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Police have registered a case against eight people, including a hospital's medical officer and a policeman, for allegedly beating up a 36-year-old woman here in Maharashtra and then destroying the crime evidence, an official said on Thursday. The incident took place in November 2020...
10:20
Equity benchmarks bounced back in early trade on Thursday after falling sharply in the previous trade, with the Sensex rallying 651 points, following significant jump in US markets and buying in index major Infosys. The 30-share BSE benchmark was trading 650.9 points higher at 56,319.93. The...
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The Taliban regime in Afghanistan has stopped issuing driving licenses to women in Kabul and other provinces, media reports said.The ban comes at a time when the country suffers from a devastating humanitarian crisis, with an acute shortage of food and other essential supplies.Before the Taliban...
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In a veiled attack on Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray, Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednerkar on Wednesday said he has heartburn as his cousin and Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray became the Maharashtra chief minister. Without naming the...
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Amid a row over use of loudspeakers at religious places, the Mumbai police have requested automobile manufacturers to lower the sound limit of vehicle horns, in accordance with the Supreme Court's directions on noise pollution, an official said. Currently, the volume of vehicle horns...
09:16
Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy has compared India of today to a plane moving in reverse and claimed that it was headed for a crash. She was speaking on Wednesday at the launch of the book Why do you fear my way so much?, a selection of poems and letters by jailed human rights activist G N...
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United State Secretary of State Antony Blinken tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken tested positive for COVID-19 this afternoon via a PCR test, a US Department of State press statement informed.The Secretary is fully vaccinated and boosted against...
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Fulfilling their late father's last wish, two Hindu sisters donated four bighas worth over Rs 1.5 crore to an Eidgah in Uttarakhand's Kashipur, a gesture that touched Muslims so much that they offered prayers for the dead man on Eid. Kashipur is a small town in Udham Singh Nagar...
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Mumbai's slum colony Dharavi reported a new coronavirus case on Wednesday, its first infection since March 17, a Brihanmumbai Municipal corporation official said. The official said the slum-dominated area, once a coronavirus hotspot, has witnessed the first coronavirus infection since...
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The Federal Reserve has on Wednesday hiked interest rates by a half-percentage point, the highest hike in the past 22 years, in a bid to bring the worst inflation that America witnessed in the past 40 years under control, reports The New York Times. The Fed also announced to reduce nearly $9...
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