Aaftab to undergo more polygraph tests tomorrow

 Sun, 27 November 2022
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22:52

Family of Assam forest guard, killed in border violence, to get Rs 14L, govt job

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The family of Bidyasing Lekhte, the forest guard killed in the violence at the Assam-Meghalaya border, will receive Rs 14 lakh ex-gratia and salary till his retirement age, besides a government job for his wife, officials said on Sunday. Immediately after the deadly violence, which left five...
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Udhayanidhi Stalin turns 45, DMK celebrates

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Udhayanidhi Stalin, DMK youth wing secretary and MLA turned 45 on Sunday and the party celebrated his birthday by distributing welfare assistance to beneficiaries. Gold rings were gifted by ruling party office-bearers to newborns in state-run hospitals, and a boat race and cricket tournament...
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Aaftab to undergo more polygraph tests tomorrow

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Forensic Science Laboratory in Rohini on Sunday said the remaining sessions of polygraph test on Aaftab Amin Poonawala, accused of brutally killing his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar, will be conducted on Monday. As these sessions are pending, the narco analysis is likely to get postponed...
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Mainpuri bypoll: SP seeks removal of officials for pressuring block heads to vote for BJP

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The Samajwadi Party on Sunday alleged that the Mainpuri district administration was pressuring village and block heads to vote for the BJP in the December 5 Mainpuri bypoll.                 A delegation of the party met...
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Gujarat polls: Modi may address rallies in Kutch, Jamnagar, Bhavnagar and Rajkot tomorrow

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Ahead of Gujarat assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to address rallies in Kutch's Anjar, Jamnagar's Gordhanpur, Bhavnagar's Palitana, Jamnagar's Gordhanpar, and Rajkot on Monday.      PM Modi is coming again and we expect huge gatherings and people love to...
19:57

13 hurt as part of FOB falls on railway track in Maha

The collapsed foot-over-bridge at Balharshah railway station/ANI
The collapsed foot-over-bridge at Balharshah railway station/ANI
At least 13 persons were injured, four of them seriously, as they fell on a railway track after some part of a foot over-bridge collapsed at a railway station in Chandrapur district of Maharashtra on Sunday, officials said. The incident occurred at Balharshah junction railway station,...
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Umesh Kushwaha gets re-elected as JD-U's Bihar chief

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Janata Dal-United Bihar unit chief Umesh Singh Kushwaha was on Sunday re-elected to the key party post in presence of top leaders, including Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.                 Kumar, the de facto leader of the...
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PT Usha set to get elected as IOA chief unopposed

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The legendary PT Usha is set to become the first woman president of Indian Olympic Association as she emerged as the lone candidate for the top post for the December 10 elections. The 58-year-old Usha, a multiple Asian Games gold medallists and a fourth-place finisher in the 1984 Olympics...
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3 children crushed to death by train in Punjab's Rupnagar

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Three children were crushed to death by a passenger train near Sri Kiratpur Sahib in Rupnagar on Sunday, the police said on Sunday. The incident took place when four children of migrant labourers were playing near the railway track close to the bridge over Sutlej river, they said. The...
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Probe ordered after 82-year-old man dies during police raid at his house

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An investigation was ordered after an 82-year-old man allegedly died of cardiac arrest on Sunday when police raided his house in the dead of the night in search of his son, an accused in a cattle smuggling case, in Jharkhand's Khunti district, an officer said.  ...
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Senior RLD leader, ex-MLA join BJP in Meerut

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Senior Rashtriya Lok Dal leader Chaudhary Yashveer Singh along with several others joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in Meerut on Sunday. Singh, who was former regional chief of RLD, joined the saffron party in presence of BJP state president Bhupinder Singh Chaudhary. Besides him,...
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Kannada actor Vishnuvardhan's memorial to open before Dec: Bommai

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Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday said the under-construction Vishnuvardhan memorial, after the actor and one of the state's biggest cultural icons, in Mysuru will be opened before December.      Speaking to reporters after attending the 'gruha pravesha' of...
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4 injured in crude bomb blast during wedding party dispute in Bengal

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Four persons were injured, one of them seriously, when several bombs exploded at Jagaddal area in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district early Sunday triggering panic in the area. An official of Barrackpore police commissionerate said as per information, an altercation took place between...
16:53

Anti-Covid stir in Xi's alma mater Tsinghua varsity

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In defiance of China's zero-Covid policy, hundreds of students on Sunday protested at President Xi Jinping's alma mater, Tsinghua University in Beijing.           Protests have spread to Xi Jinping's alma mater Tsinghua, where a student said, If we don't...
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Adityanath visits Ayodhya, offers prayer at temples

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath visited Ayodhya on Sunday and offered prayers at the Ram Janmabhoomi complex and Hanumangarhi temple. He also took stock of the ongoing works at the Supreme Court-mandated Ram temple. Adityanath also reached Tedhi Bazar and inspected various...
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Two Zimbabwe nationals held with heroin worth Rs 50 cr at Mumbai airport

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The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence has arrested two Zimbabweans with 7.9 kg of heroin worth Rs 50 crore at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai, an official said on Sunday.           Based on specific information, the...
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YouTuber held in UP for posting objectionable tweets from SP media cell's Twitter handle

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The Uttar Pradesh Police have arrested a YouTuber for allegedly posting objectionable tweets from the Twitter handle of the Samajwadi Party's media cell, officials said on Sunday. SP leaders, however, said the arrested man does not have any links with the party. On November 23,...
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Assam lifts travel curbs to Meghalaya after violence

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Assam on Sunday lifted travel restrictions to Meghalaya, six days after being imposed in the aftermath of violence in a disputed area along the inter-state border, the police said. Vehicles from Assam are now allowed to enter Meghalaya, a senior police officer said. Wherever necessary,...
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India's Gold imports fall 17% in Apr-Oct to $24 bn

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Gold imports, which have a bearing on the current account deficit, declined 17.38 per cent to about $24 billion during April-October due to fall in demand, according to the data of the commerce ministry. Imports of the yellow metal stood at $29 billion in the corresponding period of...
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Mobile gaming app case: PMLA court sends accused Aamir Khan to ED custody

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A special PMLA court on Saturday granted Enforcement 14-day custody of the main accused Aamir Khan in mobile gaming application namely the E-nuggets case.      Accused Aamir Khan was sent to 14 days of ED custody by a special PMLA court.   Earlier ED had...
13:09

Egypt's President Sisi is Republic Day chief guest

President of Egypt Abdel Fattah Al Sisi/Reuters
President of Egypt Abdel Fattah Al Sisi/Reuters
President of Egypt Abdel Fattah Al Sisi will be the chief guest for the Republic Day celebrations in 2023, said ministry of external affairs on Sunday. At the invitation of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, will be the Chief...
13:07

Kerala film producers body lifts ban imposed on actor Sreenath Bhasi

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The temporary ban imposed on Malayali actor Sreenath Bhasi has been lifted by the Kerala Film Producers Association.      Sreenath had been banned by the KFPA over allegations that he misbehaved with a female anchor during an interview he gave to a YouTube channel. This...
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Bharat Jodo Yatra reaches Indore in MP

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The Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi reached Indore on Sunday on the fifth day of its Madhya Pradesh leg. People from different sections of society including a differently-abled man, Manohar, also joined the foot march and Gandhi was seen pushing his wheelchair to some...
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ED summons Shiv Sena leader Anil Parab's close aide in money laundering case

Former Maharashtra minister Anil Parab
Former Maharashtra minister Anil Parab
The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Sadanand Kadam, a close aide of Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray leader and former Maharashtra minister Anil Parab in connection with a money laundering case.      An FIR has also been registered against Kadam in the illegal resort...
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Case booked over video alleging 'pro-Pak' slogans during Bharat Jodo Yatra

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The Madhya Pradesh Police have registered a case in connection with a purported video pertaining to pro-Pakistani slogans raised during the Congress's Bharat Jodo Yatra, an official said on Sunday.While the Congress alleged it was a doctored video with which the Bharatiya Janata Party was trying...
11:17

CAA will be implemented in West Bengal: Suvendu Adhikari

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Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari has asserted that the Citizenship Amendment Act will be implemented in the state, and dared Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to stop its roll-out. During a meeting in North 24 Parganas District's Thakurnagar, an area dominated by the...
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Travel curbs continue at Assam-Meghalaya border

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Heavy security was deployed and prohibitory orders remained in force at the disputed area along the Assam-Meghalaya border, where six people were killed following violent clashes, even as travel restrictions between the two states continued for the sixth consecutive day on Sunday, officials...
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'Step down Xi Jinping', shout protesters in China

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Protests erupted in China's Shanghai on Saturday night against Beijing's strict COVID-19 policy.Several videos have emerged on social media which showcased people chanting slogans against restrictions imposed by the Chinese government to curb the spread of Covid.The protests erupted after 10...
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Modi, Kejriwal to address rallies in Surat today

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal will address campaign rallies on Sunday in Gujarat's 'diamond city' Surat, which sends 12 MLAs to the state's 182-member Assembly.Voting will be held in Surat in the first phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections on...