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Even as the United States has united the rest of the world against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, China poses the most serious long-term challenge to the international order, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday. China is the only country with both the intent to reshape the...
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Thyagraj Stadium in Delhi
In a swift action, the Centre Thursday shunted IAS couple Sanjeev Khirwar and Anu Dugga to Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh respectively following media reports suggesting misuse of official position by them, officials said in New Delhi. In an order, the Home Ministry said Khirwar, a 1994-batch...
22:58
United States special representative for Afghanistan Thomas West paid a quiet visit to India during which both sides reviewed the overall situation in the war-torn country including the humanitarian crisis. In a series of tweets on Thursday, West complimented India for providing critical...
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Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday scoffed at speculations that common ground on the issue of caste census with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, his father Lalu Prasad's arch-rival, could result in a political realignment. The leader of the opposition also deplored the...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asserted that the Centre is focused on ramping up top class infrastructure and outlined a commitment to further popularise Tamil while Chief Minister M K Stalin stuck to his pet 'Dravidian model' and sought retrieval of Katchatheevu islet from Sri...
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The Congress on Thursday attacked the government on its eighth anniversary alleging that this period has been marked by misery and misgovernance with high inflation, low employment and communal polarisation being the hallmark.Addressing a joint press conference in New Delhi, Congress leaders...
20:58
Social media platform Meta, formerly Facebook, has started sending out notification to users about privacy policy update which it will roll out from July 26, the company said on Thursday. Meta in its post said that it has rewritten and re-designed its privacy Policy to make it easier...
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The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday arrested Avinash Bhosale, chairman of Pune-based real estate group ABIL group, in an alleged corruption case involving Yes Bank founder Rana Kapoor and Kapil Vadhawan of DHFL, officials said. The CBI suspects that illicit funds were routed...
20:28
The death toll of pilgrims coming on Char Dham yatra continues to rise as four more people succumbed to the inhospitable climate of Kedarnath on Thursday. All four deceased were over 60 years of age, said Rudraprayag Chief Medical Officer BK Shukla. They were...
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A magistrate's court in Thane on Thursday rejected a bail application filed by Marathi TV and film actor Ketaki Chitale, arrested for allegedly sharing an 'objectionable' post about NCP chief Sharad Pawar on social media. She was arrested on May 15 after a case was registered against her...
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Mumbai on Thursday recorded 350 new coronavirus positive cases, its highest single-day count since February 11 this year, although nobody died due to the infection during the day, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said. This is for the 10th day in a row...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday dedicated to the nation various railway projects in Tamil Nadu, including the 75 km long Madurai-Theni Railway Gauge Conversion Project, in southern Tamil Nadu. Built at a cost of over Rs 500 crore, it will facilitate...
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All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam coordinator O Panneerselvam on Thursday urged the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam to direct the police to immediately drop a case registered against journalists in an alleged extortion case and take steps to protect the freedom of the press. The...
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The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday questioned Congress MP Karti Chidambaram for nine hours in connection with an alleged scam pertaining to the issuance of visas to 263 Chinese nationals in 2011 when his father P Chidambaram was home minister, officials said.A special court had...
18:55
The government on Thursday withdrew its offer to sell its entire 52.98 per cent stake in BPCL, saying that majority of bidders have expressed their inability to participate in the current privatisation process due to prevailing conditions in the global energy market. The government...
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Chandrakant Patil
Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrakant Patil on Thursday said his party can field a third candidate for the June 10 Rajya Sabha elections and win that seat too if the central leadership instructed. Earlier in the day, the Shiv Sena's Sanjay Raut and Sanjay Pawar filed their nomination papers for...
18:41
Snapping its three-session losing streak, the 30-share BSE Sensex rallied 503.27 points or 0.94 per cent to settle at 54,252.53 on Thursday. On similar lines, the broader NSE Nifty gained 144.35 points or 0.90 per cent to end at 16,170.15. Tata Steel topped the Sensex gainers' chart,...
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday said Russian President Vladimir Putin cannot be allowed to win his war in Ukraine and sought to end any dependence on Russian fuels, even as he asserted that deglobalisation was not going to work. In a special address on the last day of the World...
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Security personnel during an encounter in Baramulla
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a person believed to be a key accused in the Sunjwan terror attack case that happened in April on the outskirts of Jammu, an official spokesperson said on Thursday. The accused, Abid Ahmad Mir of Putrigam in south Kashmir's Pulwama,...
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Malaika Arora
Everyone in Bollywood celebrated the man who has become such an integral part of the industry. On Karan Johar's 50th birthday on May 25, all his friends came over to Yash Raj Studios to party with him. Take a look
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India's red terror
Maoists have set ablaze at least four vehicles after storming the makeshift camp of a contractor engaged in road construction in Odisha's Kalahandi district, police said on Thursday.The Naxals left handwritten banners and posters, alleging that one of their cadres, who was reported to have...
17:25
Infosys CEO Salil Parekh has got a massive 88 per cent jump in annual remuneration to Rs 79.75 crore, making him one of the highest-paid executives in the country. The software services firm has sought shareholders' approval for the reappointment of Parekh as chief executive officer...
17:17
Heart diseases, pneumonia, and asthma together claimed highest number of lives -- over 42 per cent -- of the total 81.15 lakh medically certified deaths registered in the country in 2020. According to the Report on Medical Certification of Cause of Death 2020', prepared by India's...
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Equity benchmarks mustered gains for the first time this week on Thursday as investors piled into the recently-battered metal, bank and IT stocks amid expiry of monthly derivative contracts. Snapping its three-session losing streak, the 30-share BSE Sensex rallied 503.27 points or 0.94 per cent...
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KCR's party spokesperson Krishank Manne had the perfect comeback to PM Narendra Modi's political dynasty barb. Who is Jay Shah to lead cricket of India? They should expel Rajnath Singh and his son also if they do not believe in parivarwaad, Manne said. Lashing out at the TRS government in...
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Delhi LG Vinai Kumar Saxena
BJP MP and former Union minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday left the swearing-in ceremony of newly appointed Delhi LG Vinai Kumar Saxena at Raj Niwas here, expressing unhappiness over seating arrangement for the dignitaries. Vardhan was seen leaving the venue, saying I will write to...
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PM Modi with US President Joe Biden in Tokyo
India is the fastest growing economy among the G-20 nations, besides boasting of several other achievements including in the start-up environment, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday. Addressing graduating students of the Indian School of Business (ISB) in Hyderabad, Modi...
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A day after a Delhi court awarded life imprisonment to Yasin Malik in a terror funding case, Tihar prison authorities in Delhi on Thursday said the separatist leader has been kept in a separate cell under heavy security. For security reasons, Malik may not be assigned any work in jail....
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Former Delhi University professor GN Saibaba, who is serving a life sentence at the Nagpur central jail, is on an indefinite hunger strike unless a CCTV camera installed in his cell -- which can allegedly capture footage of the toilet and bathing area -- is not removed.Saibaba, who is 90%...
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Moody's Investors Service on Thursday slashed India's economic growth projection to 8.8 per cent for 2022 from 9.1 per cent earlier, citing high inflation. In its update to Global Macro Outlook 2022-23, Moody's said high-frequency data suggests that the growth momentum from December quarter...
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The alleged stone-pelters at a police station
The police have arrested 10 people allegedly involved in stone pelting and raising anti-national slogans at the Maisuma area in Srinagar ahead of the sentencing of separatist leader Yasin Malik by a Delhi court a day before, officials said on Thursday. A Delhi court on Wednesday...
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German Ambassador to India and Bhutan, Walter J Lindner on Thursday said the government of the European nation will start recognizing Bharat Biotech's COVID-19 vaccine for travel purpose there from June 1. In a tweet, Lindner said, Very happy that GER government just decided to recognize...
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Dismissed Mumbai Police officer Sachin Waze on Wednesday filed an application in the Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court to become an approver against other accused including former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh in an alleged corruption case.Waze has sought to become an...
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JNU student Sharjeel Imam
The Delhi High Court on Thursday permitted JNU student Sharjeel Imam to approach a trial court for interim bail on account of a Supreme Court order to keep in abeyance proceedings in all sedition cases in the country. Imam was arrested in a case related to alleged inflammatory speeches made...
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Even vaccinated people with mild breakthrough infections can experience Long Covid -- debilitating, lingering symptoms that affect the heart, brain, lungs and other parts of the body, according to a study of over 13 million people in the US. The research, published on Wednesday in the...
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While on Twitter, here's where the company's prospective buyer Elon Musk is. Musk who founded SpaceX is at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. He tweeted this image saying, Landed back at Cape Canaveral. (Humans for scale).A SpaceX Falcon 8 rocket launched the Transporter...
12:47
Former Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey has stepped down from the Twitter board of directors. The announcement came on Wednesday -- the same day that Twitter held its annual shareholder meeting, TechCrunch reported. Dorsey's exit from the Twitter board marks his full exit from...
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Vinai Kumar Saxena takes oath as Lieutenant Governor of Delhi. Want to tell people of Delhi that I will work as a local guardian and not as lieutenant governor, he said.
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Uttar Pradesh Finance Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna on Thursday tabled the maiden budget of Yogi Adityanath's second term government in the state assembly. The economy of the state is improving rapidly. We believe that we will be successful in taking the state's economy to USD 1...
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Maharashtra BJP president Chandrakant Patil has stirred a controversy with his comments asking NCP MP Supriya Sule to go home and cook instead of being in politics, drawing a sharp reaction from her party. Patil made the remarks on Wednesday during a protest by the state BJP unit in Mumbai...
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Shiv Sena (youth wing) leader Vikas Gogawale
Shiv Sena (youth wing) leader Vikas Gogawale on Thursday said that the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress party are the real enemies of the Shiv Sena and not the BJP. Gogawale said that the BJP has a low vote share in the region. We're expanding our party in...
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The Quad hopes to reduce China's growing influence in the Indo Pacific
Japanese and US forces have conducted a joint fighter jet flight over the Sea of Japan, Japan's Defense Ministry said Thursday, in an apparent response to a Russia-China joint bomber flight while US President Joe Biden was in Tokyo. The Japan-U.S. joint flight on Wednesday was meant to...
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The family of TV artist Amreen Bhat who shot dead outside her house by terrorists was lured out on the pretext of doing a shoot. She was then shot in cold blood. Her father and brother-in-law said that two people came to their home to call Amreen for a shoot last night. They shot...
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Pledging to establish Ram Rajya in Telangana, BJP chief Bandi Sanjay on Wednesday challenged AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi to excavate all mosques of the state and if shivlingas are found, then the Muslims will have to hand the mosques to the Hindus and if bodies are found, Muslims can claim...
10:41
Congress MP Karti Chidambaram reached the CBI headquarters on Thursday to join the investigation into an alleged scam pertaining to the issuance of visas to 263 Chinese nationals in 2011 when his father P Chidambaram was the home minister, officials said. A special court had ordered...
10:36
Benchmark indices on Thursday made a firm start as the Sensex rallied 353 points in early trade on buying in HDFC twins and ICICI Bank amid positive trends in global markets. The 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 353.1 points to 54,102.36 points. The broader NSE Nifty gained 104.1 points to...
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District court on Thursday sent former MLA P C George to 14 days of judicial custody in an alleged hate speech case.Earlier on Wednesday, Kerala Police had arrested George in a case registered against him for alleged hate speech.Kerala high court on Monday granted interim bail to P C George in...
09:42
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday raided multiple locations in Maharashtra as part of a money laundering probe against state transport minister Anil Parab and others linked to alleged irregularities in a land deal in coastal Dapoli area of Ratnagiri district and other charges,...
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Photograph: Marco Bello/Reuters
A student in the United States state of Texas was caught with firearms outside a high school a day after a deadly shooting at a school in Uvalde killed 19 students and two teachers, media reports said on Wednesday (local time).Police arrested a suspect walking towards a Richardson high school in...
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The Congress has said that it will take the decision within next 60 days on whether the 2023 assembly polls in Rajasthan will be held under Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.According to the party leadership, it does not want to create a Punjab-like situation where it had been postponed till the last...
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China on Wednesday announced military drills around Taiwan, days after United States President Joe Biden said Washington would intervene militarily if Beijing tried to reunify with the island by force.China continues to regard Taiwan as its province even after decades of separate...
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Four more pilgrims died in Kedarnath on Wednesday while three others were flown to AIIMS-Rishikesh in an air ambulance for treatment after they were taken ill. Rudraprayag's chief medical officer BK Shukla said 38 pilgrims on way to Kedarnath since its opening on May 6 have died because of...
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A special PMLA court on Wednesday sent Pooja Singhal, the suspended IAS officer from Jharkhand, to judicial custody till June 8 in connection with a money laundering case linked to alleged embezzlement of MGNREGA funds, said a lawyer of the Enforcement Directorate which is investigating...
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