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An explosion ripped through the Bombay Bazar in Karachi's Kharadar area on Monday evening, injuring several people, local media reported. The police and rescue officials quickly reached the spot to tend to the injured and take account of the cause of the explosion, Saama TV reported. The area...
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India's largest IT firm Tata Consultancy Services on Monday said it has fixed May 26 as the record date for determining entitlement of members to final dividend for the financial year ended March 31, 2022. If the final dividend as recommended by the board of directors is approved at the annual...
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A body of temple priests has urged Hindu and Muslim groups not to give provocative statements, saying it would adversely hit the tourism sector in Mathura and Varanasi. After spoiling the atmosphere in Varanasi and Mathura, not only tirath purohits (priests) will suffer but traders and people...
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With 41 pilgrims dying en route to the Char Dham shrines since the start of the yatra on May 3, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Monday appealed to devotees to embark on the pilgrimage only after consulting their doctors. Four pilgrims died of cardiac arrest on Monday -- each on...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party is set to convene a high-level meeting of its office bearers from all across the country in Rajasthan's Jaipur from May 19 to May 21 to brainstorm over strengthening the organisation ahead of assembly polls in several states, informed party sources. In this meeting,...
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The Karnataka government on Monday transferred Bengaluru police commissioner Kamal Pant and appointed CH Pratap Reddy in his place. Reddy, a 1991 batch IPS officer from Guntur in Andhra Pradesh, has been serving as the additional director general of police (law and order). During the recent...
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The Delhi police on Monday said it has so far collected biological samples of a total of 26 people, whose family members are believed to be killed in the fire at a building in outer Delhi's Mundka, for DNA profiling. At least 27 people were charred to death in the massive blaze that ripped...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday offered prayers at the Mahaparinirvana temple in Kushinagar district on the occasion of Buddha Purnima. The prime minister, on his return from Lumbini in Nepal, reached the temple, said to be the final resting place of Gautama Buddha where he attained...
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A special PMLA court in Ranchi on Monday sent suspended Jharkhand mining secretary Pooja Singhal and her chartered accountant Suman Kumar to another four-day remand of the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money-laundering probe linked to the alleged embezzlement of MGNREGA funds and...
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India on Monday slammed the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation for its 'unwarranted' comments on the delimitation exercise in Jammu and Kashmir and asked the grouping to refrain from carrying out its 'communal agenda' at the behest of one country, in an oblique reference to Pakistan. India's...
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A fire broke out on Monday in three temporary shelters for workers engaged in the Central Vista project near Parliament House in central Delhi, officials said. No casualties have been reported. The fire department said that the information regarding the blaze in the high-security area was...
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Partly cloudy sky led to a marginal dip in the maximum temperature in Delhi on Monday though it was still two to four notches above normal. At the Safdarjung Observatory, Delhi's base station, the maximum temperature settled at 42.4 degrees Celsius, two notches above normal. It was 45.6 degrees...
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PBKS has 6 of 12 games played.DC too has won 6 of 12 games played. So, who will win today? Take our poll, here.
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Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu would make a night-halt in Coimbatore on Monday, as he could not fly to Nilgiris district due to inclement weather there. Naidu arrived at the airport in Coimbatore by a special flight from Abu Dhabi and was to leave for Udhagamandalam by a special flight. But,...
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The government has put on hold the sale of Pawan Hans as it is legally examining an National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) order against Almas Global, which is part of the winning consortium, an official said on Monday.We will do a legal examination of the NCLT order before proceeding further....
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Sri Lanka PM Ranil Wickremesinghe
PM of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe, in Colombo, talks about the country's economic crisis.-- At present, the Sri Lankan economy is extremely precarious. Although the former government?s budget projected revenue of SLR 2.3 trillion, SLR 1.6 trillion is the realistic projection of this year?s...
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Here is when you should receive the all-embracing, exuberant festival that is the Indian monsoon.
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Covid figures as of today
The National Green Tribunal has directed the Uttar Pradesh and Bihar governments to inform it about the number of human corpses found floating in the river Ganga besides bodies buried on the river bed in the two states before the onset of Covid-19 till March 31 this year. A bench of Justices Arun...
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Aviation regulator DGCA Monday said it has issued a showcause notice to IndiGo after a fact-finding committee found the airline staff prima facie violated regulations in denying boarding to a specially-abled child at the Ranchi airport on May 7. The airline had on May 9 said the boy was denied...
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The government's penchant for sudden, badly implemented decisions continues, the draconian and brutal lockdown in 2020, a case in point. Criticizing the Centre's decision to ban export of wheat, an outfit representing agriculture-based businesses said on Monday that about 5,000 trucks laden with...
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PM Modi with Nepal PM Sher Bahadur Deuba
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday left for home after concluding his day-long visit to Nepal's Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautam Buddha, during which he held bilateral talks with his Nepalese counterpart Sher Bahadur Deuba and offered prayers at the sacred Maya Devi temple on the occasion of...
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As Downton Abbey: A New Era readies for its worldwide release -- the film premiered at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York on May 15 -- the cast were there to celebrate. Recognise her? She plays a pivotal role in the series and helps Lady Mary skirt disaster.Here's more of the party...
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Northern Army commander Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi on Monday said the targeted killings of Kashmiri Pandits and non-local labourers by militants was to keep terrorism alive in Kashmir. He also said Pakistan created a facade of proxy tanzeems' (outfits) to give an indigenous colour to the...
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The Mumbai police have in last two months registered 12,390 cases for wrong-side driving and also removed 13,430 abandoned vehicles from streets, an official said on Monday. Also, there were 18 cases of gutka seizure worth over Rs 80 lakh last week, while drugs worth over Rs 30 lakh were also...
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The most popular view among scholars is the fact that Buddhism was seen as the most modern and rational religion by Ambedkar. Read the column here.
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The country's largest insurer LIC will list its shares on the stock exchanges on Tuesday after witnessing a good response from domestic investors in the initial share sale, which fetched Rs 20,557 crore to the government. The government had fixed the issue price of LIC shares at Rs 949 apiece for...
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Benchmark BSE Sensex rebounded by 180 points at close after a see-saw trade on Monday, ending its six-day falling streak on the back of gains in banking, financials, power and auto counters. The 30-share BSE benchmark gained 180.22 points or 0.34 per cent to settle at 52,973.84. During the...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that in the ongoing situation in the world, the friendship between India and Nepal is set to benefit the entire humanity. PM Modi made the remarks while addressing the Buddha Purnima celebrations in Kathmandu during his day-long visit to Nepal's...
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At least 59 per cent of the accelerated inflation is attributable to the impact of the geopolitical conflict triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, economists at SBI said on Monday. In the face of the heightened inflation situation the headline number touched nearly 7.8 per cent for...
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An awareness programme for Covid-19
Hyderabad based pharmaceuticals firm Biological E. Ltd (BE) today said it has reduced the price of its Covid-19 vaccine Corbevax to Rs 250 from Rs 840 a dose, inclusive of GST, for private vaccination centres. The company in a statement said that the reduction in price will result in end users...
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II was all smiles as she attended the first of a series of events planned to commemorate 70 years of her reign for the Platinum Jubilee celebrations over the coming weeks. The 96-year-old monarch, who has recently skipped some ceremonial events over age-related mobility...
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Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on Monday called for a ban on Vivek Agnihotri-directed film 'The Kashmir Files', alleging that it has created an atmosphere of hatred in the country. He also called the film baseless, citing the incidents portrayed in the movie as fake....
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday asserted that it will not take long before work began on a state-level caste-based census, which he has agreed to after inability expressed by the Centre to conduct the same on a national level. Talking to reporters here, the chief minister said he had...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Nepalese counterpart Sher Bahadur Deuba have signed a six MoUs/Agreements in Lumbini, Nepal. PM Modi arrived in Lumbini this morning on an official visit. On arrival at Lumbini, Prime Minister was warmly received by the Nepal PM, his spouse Arzu Deuba, and...
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Chinese nationals teaching Mandarin in different parts of Pakistan have left for home after being called back by Beijing following the recent deadly attacks targeting them, an official of the Karachi University said on Monday. Their departure came weeks after a burqa-clad Baloch woman suicide...
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PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on terrorism in J-K and the Gyanvapi mosque issue. We created a safe atmosphere for Kashmiri pandits. In 2010, 2016 during peak unrest, no killing happened.The movie Kashmir Files has also triggered it. They're creating Hindu-Muslim issues to distract from real topics and...
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Monsoon predictions: RK Jenamani, IMD on the arrival of the monsoon: Today it has already arrived over Andaman Sea & adjoining SE Bay of Bengal. We've given the prediction for Kerala, that it will come around 27th May. So, as per the progress and all monitoring, it shows that our prediction will...
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The Left parties have called for a nationwide protest against inflation and unemployment, starting May 25 to 31 while also rolling out a list of demands in front of the Centre. The parties have also directed their units across the country to carry out a coordinated nationwide struggle during the...
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The US has made Pakistan a slave without invading it, ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan claimed, asserting that the people will never accept an imported government. Khan, the 69-year-old cricketer-turned-politician, was voted out of power last month through a no-confidence motion, which he...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of destroying the country's economy, which was strengthened by the former UPA government. At a rally in Rajasthan's Banswara district, he also charged that the BJP and Prime Minister Modi want to create two Hindustans,...
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War reporter Nolan Peterson tweets: Valeriy, a territorial defense soldier who lives on the outskirts of Kyiv, shows me where a Russian bomb fell on his property. The rest of his home was destroyed. Yet, he had a glass-half-full attitude: 'Thanks to the rashists, I now have a custom lake in my...
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Gyanvapi mosque survey: Varanasi court orders DM Varanasi to seal the area where a 'Shivling' has been found and prohibit the entry of any person to the area. DM, police commissioner, police commissionerate, & CRPF commandant Varanasi responsible for security of the sealed area, the court said. A...
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Slamming the anti-encroachment drive being carried out in various parts of the city, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said if bulldozers raze shops and houses of 63 lakh people in Delhi, which are considered illegal, it will be the biggest destruction in independent India. At a meeting...
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Kedarnath temple
As many as 39 pilgrims have lost their lives en route since the commencement of the Chardham Yatra in Uttarakhand, as per an official on Monday. The official has presented high blood pressure, heart attack and mountain sickness as the reasons for the demise of the pilgrims. Most of the deaths...
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PM Modi and Nepal PM Sher Bahadur Deuba participate in the foundation stone laying ceremony for construction of a centre for Buddhist culture and heritage, in a plot belonging to the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC), Delhi within the Lumbini Monastic Zone. The Centre will be...
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A four-day meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organization's (SCO's) Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure or RATS started in New Delhi on Monday amid the presence of a three-member Pakistani delegation among other foreign dignitaries from seven other countries. Headed by a Director-level official of...
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A month ago, I was in Mumbai for an event. The event was in Parel, in the crowded midtown area of the city. Though it was not the most convenient option, I opted to stay some distance away at The Oberoi, at the tip of Nariman Point. Though this involved more time waiting in traffic jams than I...
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@PMOIndia shares this picture: A timeless bond of friendship' Prime Ministers @narendramodi and @SherBDeuba at the Maya Devi Temple in Lumbini. Lumbini, located in the Terai plains of southern Nepal, is one of the holiest places of Buddhism, as Lord Buddha was born there. During the visit, PM...
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A meeting of AAP MLAs with Delhi chief minister and party's national convener Arvind Kejriwal over the BJP's bulldozer politics began in Delhi on Monday morning. The meeting being held at chief minister's residence was attended by almost all the ruling Aam Aadmi Party MLAs in Delhi, the party...
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PMs India and Nepal at the Mayadevi temple in Lumbini, the birth place of Gautam Buddha.
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A day of temple visits. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot also offered prayers at Lord Shiva temple in Beneshwar Dham, Dungarpur. They also visited the Valmiki temple earlier.
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PM Narendra Modi offers prayers at the Mahamayadevi Temple in Lumbini, Nepal on the occasion of Buddha Jayanti.PM Modi is paying an official visit to Lumbini on the occasion of Buddha Purnima at the invitation of the Sher Bahadur Deuba, Prime Minister of Nepal. This is Prime Minister's fifth...
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The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party has released a list of 40 star campaigners including five Union Ministers who will campaign for the party candidate in the byelection to the Brajrajnagar Assembly seat. The list submitted to the Election Commission of India by the Odisha BJP unit...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday arrived in Nepal for a brief visit to Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautam Buddha, and also hold comprehensive talks with his Nepalese counterpart Sher Bahadur Deuba to expand bilateral cooperation in multiple areas, including in hydropower, development and...
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Truth about Gyanvapi mosque, Taj Mahal and Krishna Janmabhoomi in Uttar Pradesh and all other disputed places in the country should come out before the people, senior RSS leader Indresh Kumar said on Sunday. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an event in New Delhi, he said the people...
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With 2,202 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India's tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,31,23,801 while the active cases dipped to 17,317, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Monday. The death toll climbed to 5,24,241 with 27 fresh fatalities, the data updated...
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A court-mandated videography survey of the Gyanvapi masjid complex here began for the third consecutive day on Monday amid tight security, officials said. Till Sunday, around 65 per cent of the survey was completed. The survey at the Gyanvapi masjid complex has started, Varanasi District...
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Altogether eleven MLAs -- nine from the Bharatiya Janata Party and two from the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura -- will take oath as the cabinet ministers of Tripura on Monday. All the ministers of the Biplab Kumar Deb cabinet, barring Mevar Kumar Jamatia of IPFT, found a place in the new...
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India is set to host a Regional Anti-Terror Structure (RATS) talks under the auspices of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in New Delhi on Monday.The key anti-terror meet will begin in New Delhi at 9 am today.All members of the SCO will be attending the meeting which will include a...
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One person was killed, and five others were injured in a shooting on Sunday at a church in the western US state of California, the Orange County Sheriff's Department said. The shooting was reported at the church on the 24000 block of El Toro Road in the City of Laguna Woods in Southern...
