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Jaidev Thackeray, the elder brother of Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray, on Wednesday evening shared the stage with Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde at the rebel faction's Dussehra rally at the Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) in Mumbai.Jaidev Thackeray's estranged wife Smita was also...
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President Droupadi Murmu skipped the Dussehra celebrations held at the Red Fort ground today due to 'unforeseen circumstances', said the president of the Luv Kush Ramlila Committee.Telugu actor Prabhas and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal attended the Dusherra celebrations.Yesterday, we received a letter...
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Additional Director General of Police Mukesh Singh on Wednesday said that no terror angle has emerged during the investigation in the murder case of Director General (DG) of Prisons H K Lohia.Lohia was found dead under suspicious circumstances in a house in the Udaywala area of Jammu on the...
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pankaja Munde on Wednesday said she was not disgruntled over not getting any post, and would start preparations for contesting the 2024 Maharashtra assembly elections from Parli.Munde, daughter of BJP stalwart late Gopinath Munde, was speaking at her customary...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday briefly stopped his speech during a rally in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir as 'azaan' or Muslim call to prayer was going on from a nearby mosque.Five minutes into his about half-an-hour speech at Showkat Ali stadium in this North Kashmir...
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Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday offered Dussehra prayers at the Bheemanakolli temple in Begur village of HD Kote Assembly segment in Karnataka.She prayed to the presiding deity at the old temple in the village near Nagrahole forest reserve in the morning.The Congress leader was...
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An unidentified person called up Sir H N Reliance Foundation Hospital in south Mumbai on Wednesday and threatened to blow it up, a police official said.The caller also issued threats in the name of some members of Ambani family, he said.The person called up the hospital's landline number at 12.57...
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Wednesday awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 to Carolyn R Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K Barry Sharpless.Bertozzi from Stanford University, US; Meldal from University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Sharpless from Scripps Research, US have been awarded...
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Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav continues to be in the Intensive Care Unit of Medanta hospital in Gurugram and his condition remains critical, the hospital said.He is being administered life-saving drugs, it added.'Mulayam Singh ji is still critical and on life saving drugs, he is...
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Ace mountaineer Savita Kanswal, who had set a national record by climbing Mount Everest and Mount Makalu within a span of 15 days, was among those killed in the avalanche at Draupadi ka Danda-II in Uttarkashi district.Principal of the Uttarkashi-based Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) Col...
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Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) has been renamed as 'Bharat Rashtra Samiti' (BRS).The decision to rechristen TRS to BRS has been taken in the General body meeting.A resolution has been passed by TRS General Body.Party workers celebrate the decision. -- ANI
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The Vishva Hindu Parishad on Wednesday raised objections to the portrayal of Lord Ram, Lakshman and Ravana in the teaser of Adipurush, claiming that it 'ridiculed Hindu society'.The organisation also warned that the film would not be allowed to be screened in theatres.Ajay Sharma, Prachar Pramukh...
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Six mountaineers with minor injuries were brought to a helipad on Wednesday from Draupadi Ka Danda peak in Uttarkashi district as search operations resumed to trace climbers missing after a massive avalanche hit the area at a height of 17,000 feet.A 41-member team of mountaineers was returning...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday reviewed the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir.Shah, who is on a three-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir, chaired a high-level meeting to review the security situation in the Union territory, officials said.They said Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha,...
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Buses carrying supporters of Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde faction) arrive at the MMRDA ground in Mumbai for the Dussehra rally. -- ANI
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Supporters of Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray faction) started arriving at Shivaji Park in Mumbai for the Dussehra rally. -- ANI
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People's Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday claimed that she has been placed under house arrest to prevent her from visiting north Kashmir's Pattan town.'While HM (Home Minister) is going around Kashmir beating drums of normalcy, I am under house arrest for simply wanting to...
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A hospital owner and his two teenaged children were killed after a fire broke out in a private hospital in Agra due to a short circuit early Wednesday, the police said. While the patients were...
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Services have been affected on the Delhi Metro's Blue line on Wednesday due to a technical snag, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation officials said. Blue Line Update: Delay in services from Dwarka Sector 21 to Noida Electronic City/Vaishali. Normal service on all other lines, the DMRC tweeted...
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RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday said India should have a population policy prepared after comprehensive thought and be applicable to all communities equally. Speaking at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's Dussehra rally in Nagpur, Bhagwat said community-based population imbalance is an...
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Equity, forex, bullion and commodity markets will remain closed on Wednesday on account of the Dussehra festival. -- PTI
09:28
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday greeted people on Vijayadashami, also known as Dussehra, and said the festival is symbolic of victory. In a tweet, he wished courage, restraint and positive energy to everyone on this auspicious occasion. The prime minister will be inaugurating...
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At least five people have been reported dead after a speeding car rammed into an accident site on the Bandra-Worli sea link in Mumbai in the early morning hours of Wednesday. Earlier according to reports, over 10 people sustained injuries in the incident when an ambulance...
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Four militants were killed in two separate encounters with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district on Wednesday, the police said. Three Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists were killed in the Drach area of Shopian, while a Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorist was killed in the Moolu area of the...
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US President Joe Biden has plans to celebrate Diwali at the White House this year, his spokesperson said. Details and nature of preparations have not been revealed yet. Yes, he has plans to celebrate Diwali just like he did last year, White House press secretary Karen Jean-Pierre told...
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Two families were engaged in a scuffle over organising a bhandara or public feast to mark the conclusion of the Navratri festival at a temple near the Indore airport, the police said on Tuesday. A case was registered at the Aerodrome police station after one of the families lodged a...
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In a surprise turn of events in the Twitter buyout saga, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has reportedly offered to proceed with his $44 billion purchase of the microblogging website. Musk is proposing to continue with $54.20 per share to buy Twitter, Reuters news agency reported citing Bloomberg...
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Salman Rushdie, the Mumbai-born author of Booker Prize-winning Midnight's Children, who is recovering after being stabbed in New York in August, is tipped among the bookmakers' as the favourites in the UK to win this year's Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday. The Guardian' newspaper...