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The Delhi police registered a case of kidnapping after a 45-year-old retired army man went missing from his home in Rohini, officials said on Tuesday. His daughter had a lodged a complaint on Monday, following which an FIR was registered, they said. The retired army man was working with...
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An MP-MLA court in Sultanpur on Tuesday acquitted former Amethi MLA and BJP leader Garima Singh in a nearly five-year-old case of violation of the Model Code of Conduct. Special judge Yogesh Yadav acquitted Singh in the absence of adequate evidence, a prosecution lawyer said. The case...
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Priyanka Chopra Jonas meets children during her visit to an anganwadi, in Lucknow/ANI
Global star and UNICEF goodwill ambassador Priyanka Chopra has praised CM Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government for its responsible attitude towards women and improvement in their condition in the state. Priyanka, who reached the state capital Lucknow for a UNICEF programme,...
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After Pakistan's Supreme Court issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the Punjab police, a First Information Report against the attempted assassination of former Prime Minister Imran Khan was registered on Monday, Geo News reported. Earlier, the court issued an order to the...
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Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Tuesday said he has tested positive for coronavirus. In a tweet, the minister said he got tested for coronavirus on the advice of doctors and the report has come positive. He also asked everyone who came in contact with him in the...
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The Telangana high court on Tuesday allowed the police to proceed with the probe into the 'TRS MLAs poaching case'. The court had earlier deferred the investigation. The three accused in the case have been remanded to judicial custody late last month after the HC had directed that they...
21:21
Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan
The Kerala governor's legal advisor and the standing counsel of the chancellor of universities in the state on Tuesday quit from their respective positions. Senior advocate K Jaju Babu, who was appointed as the honorary legal advisor to the governor in February 2009, and advocate M U...
21:06
Activists of the Nationalist Congress Party on Tuesday staged agitations in different parts of Maharashtra against state minister Abdul Sattar for his alleged derogatory comment against party leader Supriya Sule and demanded his removal. The protests were held at Nagpur, Pune, Jalgaon,...
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Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan
The Editors Guild of India on Tuesday took strong exception to the arbitrary act by Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan of expelling journalists of two news channels from a press conference in Kochi. In a statement in New Delhi, the Guild said it was deeply disturbed by this selective...
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Eight former Indian Navy officers have been detained in Doha since August 30. Among those detained is retired commander Punendu Tiwari. His sister Dr Meetu Bhargava who lives in Gwalior has sought help from the government to bring her brother back. She told ANI,...
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Three Chola-era idols, said to be in the possession of a German national, were seized from him in Auroville, the Tamil Nadu Idol Wing CID said on Tuesday. The bronze idols of Nataraj, Amman and Chandrasekhara were discreetly concealed on an attic in the first floor of the German national's...
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A special MP/MLA court in Shamli of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday framed charges against Samajwadi Party legislator Nahid Hasan in a 2019 attempt to murder case. Hasan, who is lodged in Chitrakoot district jail, was produced before the special court in Kairana amid tight security. Charges...
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A division bench of the high court of Karnataka has set aside an order of a designated economic court that ordered blocking of @INCIndia and @BharatJodo Twitter handles calling it punitive action. The order is subject to the Congress party removing...
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Pakistan interior minister Rana Sanaulla/ANI
Pakistan's Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Tuesday said the initial probe showed that journalist Arshad Sharif was murdered in Kenya and it was not a case of mistaken identity as claimed by the local police. Sharif, 49, a former reporter and TV anchor with ARY TV, and known for his...
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NCP leader Jitendra Awadh and his supporters block screening of a film in Thane/ANI
The Thane police on Tuesday registered a case against senior Nationalist Congress Party leader and former Maharashtra minister Jitendra Awhad and at least 100 others for allegedly roughing up spectators at a multiplex screening the Marathi movie Har Har Mahadev, an official said. The...
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A fire broke out on Tuesday under a flyover on the Western Express Highway at Vile Parle in Mumbai, an official said. Nobody was injured in the incident. The Fire Brigade official said the blaze engulfed some scrap vehicles parked under the Andheri-Vile Parle bridge near Sahara Hotel a...
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Bollywood star Ranveer Singh is set to perform at the 23rd edition of IIFA awards at Etihad Arena, Abu Dhabi, next year. The IIFA awards and weekend will take place at Yas Island in Abu Dhabi on February 10 and 11, 2023, bringing together the best from the music and entertainment under one...
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In a jolt to the opposition Congress ahead of the assembly polls in Gujarat, senior MLA Mohansinh Rathva on Tuesday resigned as a party member and legislator. Rathva sent his resignation letter to state Congress chief Jagdish Thakor. A prominent tribal leader, Rathva is a ten-time...
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A Congress Seva Dal functionary died after collapsing during the party's Bharat Jodo Yatra in Maharashtra's Nanded district on Tuesday, a senior official said. Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who is leading the foot march, expressed grief over the death of Seva Dal general secretary...
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Buckingham Palace has unveiled a new personal monogram or cypher for Camilla, Britain's Queen Consort, to be used on her correspondence as the wife of King Charles III. Designed by Professor Ewan Clayton, the monogram combines Camilla's initial C and R for Regina, the Latin word for...
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India and Russia will discuss the overall global situation amid the war in Ukraine as well as specific regional concerns, the government said in a statement today as Foreign Minister J Jaishankar met his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Moscow today.India strongly reiterates the return to...
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FM S Jaishankar with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov. File pic
EAM S Jaishankar speaks after his meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. During the visit, Jaishankar will be holding talks with Lavrov, in continuation of the regular high-level dialogue between the two sides.There have been strong and continuing contacts between our governments at...
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The doctor does not believe in beating around the bush; at our very first meeting, he told me firmly that he had seen the reports and surgery was my only option.I never asked what kind of cancer I had; I did not want to know.Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar on his battle with the Big C. Read...
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The Congress on Tuesday alleged that demonetisation was independent India's greatest organised loot and demanded a white paper from the Modi government on the 2016 move. Addressing a press conference on the sixth anniversary of demonetisation at the AICC headquarters, Congress leader Gourav...
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Senior BJP leader and former Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday said that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was staying away from campaigning in Himachal Pradesh to avoid taking responsibility for the party's defeat in the upcoming elections. Where is Rahul Gandhi, where is he missing?...
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Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday indicated that the expansion of his Cabinet is likely after the Gujarat Assembly polls. Gujarat will go to polls in two phases on December 1 and 5, with the counting of votes on December 8. Cabinet expansion...I have already...
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Satish Jarkiholi
Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee chief DK Shivakumar on Satish Jarkiholi's statement on the word 'Hindu'. It is his personal opinion and not the Congress party's opinion, we will ask for his explanation on the same. Congress Party supports all religions and does not agree with his statement,...
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Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday shared a short video to highlight Prime Minister Narendra Modi's efforts to augment water supply in Gujarat, saying the state suffered from water crisis 21 years ago, but every household is now receiving it through taps. Every countryman, especially the...
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Author and philanthropist Sudha Murthy met Shiv Pratishthan founder Sambhajirao Bhide in Maharashtra's Sangli on Monday. She also sought his Sambhajirao Bhide's blessings during the event held in Maharashtra. Murthy is a well-known author who has contributed to English and Kannada...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday will chair an important meeting of Gujarat Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) core committee members as the party gears up for the upcoming assembly elections in the State. All the leaders of the Gujarat BJP core committee have reached Delhi to attend...
12:38
A Varanasi court adjourns the hearing of a plea seeking worship of the 'Shivling' in the Gyanvapi mosque premises to November 14.The verdict will be based on the plea of the three main demands by the plaintiff which include the permission for the immediate beginning of prayer of Swayambhu...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior BJP leaders greeted L K Advani, considered the architect of the party's rise as a major national force in the 90s, on his birthday on Tuesday. Advani, the BJP's longest serving president, turned 95 on Tuesday. Modi and Defence...
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Karnataka Congress leader Satish Jarkiholi
Karnataka Congress leader Satish Jarkiholi today claimed that many books mention the Persian roots of the word 'Hindu', a day after his remark on the origin of the word stoked a massive controversy.There's nothing wrong in what I said. There are hundreds of records about how this Persian word...
12:13
India recorded its lowest single-day rise of 625 fresh Covid-19 cases since April 9, 2020 and reported no death in a 24-hour span, the first time since March 2020, the Union health ministry said on Tuesday. The country's infection tally has climbed to 4,46,62,141, while the active...
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If you've lived in Delhi as long as I've lived and if you believe the air (quality) in Delhi, you'll not vote for Arvind Kejriwal (AAP national convenor) in Gujarat, smiles Congress MP P Chidambaram, on being asked about emerging parties contesting elections. A layer of smog lingers in...
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Himachal Pradesh will go to polls on November 12.
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The jury is still out on the decision to demonetise high value currency notes on November 8, 2016, with the government claiming it has helped greater formalisation of the economy while critics saying it has failed to curb black money and reduce dependence on cash. On November 8, six years...
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Senior journalist Suhasini Haider tweets on India's consumption of Russian oil. According to figures for October, Russia is now India's largest supplier of oil, surpassing Saudi Arabia and Iraq, leaping from 43,400 bpd or 0.2% of total exports last year, to 9,35,556 bpd which is about 22% of...
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Congress MP P Chidambaram on the Morbi bridge tragedy. The bridge collapse has brought shame to the fair name of Gujarat. The most shocking development is that no one, on behalf of the government, has apologized for the tragedy. No one has resigned taking responsibility.Gujarat is...
10:43
Releasing another letter from jail, alleged con man Sukesh Chandrasekhar, who is facing several cases of corruption under the Prevention of Corruption Act and Money Laundering Act alleged that he was ready to be hanged if any of the issues he has raised to Delhi LG turn out to be...
10:38
PM Narendra Modi visits LK Advani on his 95th birthday. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh was at Advani's residence ahead of the PM's visit.
10:32
Fast bowling greats, Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis have slammed the Pakistan Cricket Board for sharing clips of the dressing room on social media. The PCB's social media is one of the most active compared to other cricket teams in sharing videos, interviews and other happenings...
10:17
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh met senior BJP leader LK Advani to greet him on his birthday. The BJP stalwart, pushed to the backbenches to what is called 'Margdarshak Mandal', is paid a token visit by the ruling dispensation, every year on this birthday. Advani is 95 today.
10:05
Amid significant bilateral trade volatility between Russia and nearly all other markets due to the war in Ukraine, India has emerged as a strong trade partner of Russia and is expected to remain so in 2023, according to a new S&P Global Market Intelligence report released on...
09:29
Days ahead of the Assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh, several Congress leaders and members of the state including Dharampal Thakur Khand - Former General Secretary of the Pradesh Congress Committee joined the BJP on Monday. A total of 26 leaders of the Congress party quit and...
09:20
Pic: Waris Pathan on Twitter
The window pane of the Vande Bharat Express in Gujarat was broken by some unidentified persons, with AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on board, claimed party leader Waris Pathan on Monday.Pathan claimed that the AIMIM chief along with the party's Gujarat state president Sabir Kabliwala and other...
09:13
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi visited a gurdwara in Nanded district of Maharashtra before resuming his Bharat Jodo Yatra foot march on Tuesday.The Congress MP visited Gurdwara Yaadgari Baba Zoravar Singh ji Fateh Singh ji on the occasion of Guru Nanak Jayanti a few hours after the yatra entered...
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A layer of smog lingers in Delhi's sky as the air quality in the national capital continue to remain in the 'very poor' category on Tuesday morning with an overall Air Quality Index (AQI) at 321, as per the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR). On Monday...
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A fast-track court in Varanasi will pronounce its verdict today on the plea seeking worship of the 'Shivling' that the Hindu side claimed to be found on the Gyanvapi mosque premises. The Civil Judge Senior Division Fast Track court will deliver its verdict on the three main demands by...
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The Indian team on Tuesday morning suffered a massive scare as captain Rohit Sharma sustained a powerful blow on his forearm during an optional session ahead of India's T20 World Cup semi-final against England on Thursday. Rohit was taking customary throwdowns from S Raghu at the Indian net...
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A court in Mumbai on Monday issued a fresh non-bailable warrant against Lok Sabha MP Navneet Rana and her father in a fake caste certificate case. Earlier, the court in September issued the NBW against Rana and her father, which is yet to be executed. As the matter came up for hearing...
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The Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly on Monday declared the seat of BJP MLA Vikram Singh Saini as vacant following his disqualification after being convicted by a court in a 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots case. An MP/MLA court of Muzaffarnagar had recently awarded the BJP legislator two years of...
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Former Haryana minister Kartar Singh Bhadana on Monday floated a new outfit in an apparent bid to regain his lost political ground. Bhadana, a Gurjar leader, has named his outfit 17 Sutriya Sangarsh Samiti, which represents the 17 demands he wants the next government to implement in the...
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A 46-year-old Dalit man was beaten to death over drawing of water from a tubewell in Rajasthan's Jodhpur, the police said on Monday. The accused also hurled casteist slurs at Kishanlal Bheel (46), from Bhomiyaji ki Ghati in Soorsagar, and did not allow his family members to take him to a...
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Twitter's new CEO Elon Musk, on Monday, shared the new set of rules for the micro-blogging platform while emphasising that they will evolve over time. In the wake of the company's $44 billion acquisition by Musk, the Tesla CEO took to Twitter and posted a link to Twitter's new...
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