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A court in Lucknow rejected the bail plea of Kerala-based journalist Siddique Kappan in a Prevention of Money Laundering Act case on Monday. The court had reserved its order in the matter on October 12. Passing the order, special judge of Enforcement Directorate matters Sanjay Shankar...
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Atal Bridge in Ahmedabad
A day after 134 persons died in a bridge collapse in Morbi, the Ahmedabad civic body on Monday decided to restrict the number of persons on the pedestrian-only Atal Bridge on the Sabarmati River in the city to 3,000 per hour, an official said. The 300-metre long and 14-metre wide Atal...
22:39
A layer of eye-stinging smog lingered over Delhi on Monday as its air quality neared the 'severe' zone with stubble burning accounting for 22 per cent of the city's PM 2.5 pollution. The city's 24-hour average air quality index stood at 392 (very poor), worsening from 352 on Sunday. It...
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Instagram users are being logged out of the app as a result of an outage that began on Monday morning, and many are being told we suspended your account on October 31, 2022, as per The Verge. On Monday Instagram issued a statement acknowledging the ongoing problem and took to Twitter to...
21:37
More than 40 per cent of the 56.98 lakh domestic consumers did not opt for power subsidy provided by the Delhi government till the last date of application on October 31, officials said on Monday. While more than 34 lakh domestic consumers applied for power subsidy, those who could not...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high-level meeting at Raj Bhavan, in Gandhinagar, on Monday to review the situation in Morbi. The prime minister was briefed on the rescue and relief operations that have been underway ever since the unfortunate mishap took place in...
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UP minister Dayashankar Mishra/Twitter
Uttar Pradesh minister Dayashankar Mishra 'Dayalu' on Monday said his official Facebook account has been hacked. In a statement issued by the state government, the minister of state (independent charge)...
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Around 300 Army personnel have been deployed in search and rescue operations at the Morbi bridge collapse site in which 134 people lost their lives, army sources said. Army columns equipped with engineer stores are assisting NDRF, SDRF, Indian Navy and Coast Guard in the rescue operations...
20:28
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation on Monday announced 10 per cent water cut in the city from November 1 to 10, to carry out some urgent repair work at a weir in neighbouring Thane district. The civic body in an order said that the pneumatic gate system installed at Pise weir was in...
19:56
The Madras high court on Monday refused to discharge Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader and Tamil Nadu electricity and prohibition minister V Senthil Balaji from a case registered by the Enforcement Directorate under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. Justice V...
19:34
The Delhi police Crime Branch on Monday evening carried out searches at the residences of The Wire's founder Siddharth Varadarajan and founding editor MK Venu. This follows an FIR being filed against The Wire over BJP leader Amit Malviya's complaint that it forged documents with a view to...
19:26
A court in Uttar Pradesh's Balrampur on Monday awarded five-year imprisonment to 41 people for their involvement in arson during communal violence in the Utraula area of the district 17 years ago. Also, a fine of Rs 14,000 was imposed on each of them by the court. While...
19:02
India's first digital rupee pilot project will commence on Tuesday with nine banks, including SBI, HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank, issuing the virtual currency for transactions in government securities. ...the first pilot in the digital rupee -- wholesale segment shall commence on November 1,...
18:45
India's tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,46,53,592 on Monday as the country reported as many as 1,326 new infections in the past 24 hours while the death toll climbed to 5,29,024. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,41,06,656, while the...
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A rescue operation underway in Machchhu river, in Morbi./ANI
Four persons were arrested on Monday in connection with the collapse of the cable suspension bridge on the Machchhu river in Morbi in Gujarat in which 134 people were killed, the police said. We have arrested four persons so far, the investigation is going on, Rajkot Range IG Ashok Yadav...
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The Allahabad high court, which is hearing a petition in connection with a 1991 Kashi Vishwanath temple-Gyanvapi mosque suit in Varanasi, was on Monday informed by the Archaeological Survey of India that it will obey the court's direction in the matter. Justice Prakash Padia also extended...
17:35
The search operation for bodies at River Machhu in Gujarat's Morbi has been halted as the sun set over a day of tragedy. The search will resume tomorrow morning. The suspension bridge over the river snapped yesterday leaving at least 134 people dead. A further 100 bodies are feared...
17:24
Amid a row over Tata-Airbus picking Gujarat to set up the aircraft manufacturing project, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday said officials of the consortium had last year rued the lack of conducive atmosphere in the state. Amid a row, he claimed the decision...
17:02
Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Monday held a review meeting as well as took stock of the ongoing rescue operation after the suspension bridge over Machchhu river collapsed on Sunday. According to the latest estimates, at least 132 people, including women and children, were...
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Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on the Time Magazine cover in 1947
The country would not have faced the many problems it is confronted with today had Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel been made India's first prime minister, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said here on Monday. Addressing students of the Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, Shah also said the Modi government...
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Nationalist Congress Party spokesperson Clyde Crasto on Monday said the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Gujarat must be held responsible for the bridge collapse in Morbi district in that state a day earlier in which more than 130 persons have died. He alleged the work of renovation of...
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Family members near the dead bodies of victims
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday exuded confidence that his party will win the Gujarat assembly elections, contending that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has only created a buzz in the state purely on the basis of advertisements and had no support on the ground. Addressing a press...
15:27
Armed forces personnel carry a body from the bridge collapse
Wails broke the tranquil of sleepy Keshabbati village in West Bengal's Purba Bardhaman district on Monday as neighbours flocked the house of 18-year-old Habibul Sheikh, who was among those who lost their lives in the Gujarat bridge collapse. Habibul dropped out of school after class 10...
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Star batter Virat Kohli tweets this picture with teamates Suryakumar Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal and Mohammed Siraj as they arrive in Adelaide on Monday ahead of India's match against Bangladesh on Wednesday.
15:08
Twitter is abuzz with reports that users will have to shell out a USD 20 fee for the 'blue tick', which authenticates the identity of the account holder, and a failure pay the amount will result in the coveted status being withdrawn. Refuting the reports, Union Minister of State for...
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The Congress on Monday demanded a judicial inquiry into the Morbi suspension bridge collapse in Gujarat, alleging that prima facie it seems to be a case of criminal negligence and gross misgovernance. The Opposition party also sought financial and medical assistance from the government...
13:51
Russian flag carrier Aeroflot on Monday said it is set to launch its flight services to Goa from Moscow, starting November 2. The airline currently operates its air services on the Moscow-Delhi-Moscow route twice-a-week with an Airbus A330 aircraft. Aeroflot will fly its Airbus...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit Morbi, Gujarat tomorrow.The death toll in Morbi suspension bridge collapse rose to 134 on Monday, a senior Gujarat police official said, adding that the rescue operation was still underway. Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and Minister...
13:24
Siddhartha Mukherjee, Cancer physician, researcher, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize 2011 for The Emperor of All Maladies, is out with his new tome, The Song of the Cell. Mukherjee tells the story of how scientists discovered cells, began to understand them, and are now using...
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Is BJP MP Varun Gandhi sending out a message to the ruling dispensation in India? The MP from Pilibhit who has been vocal about critical issues facing the country like poverty, unemployment, communal unrest, farmers' issues etc, has been shunned by his party for a years now. Varun Gandhi...
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Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar has been admitted to Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai after his health deteriorated. He is likely to be discharged on November 2. He is expected to participate in the party's camps that will be held in Shirdi on November 4-5, the NCP statement said.
12:45
Twelve family members of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Rajkot Mohanbhai Kundariya died in the suspension bridge collapse incident in Gujarat's Morbi on Sunday. The personal assistant of the BJP MP told ANI that 12 members of the family of Kundaria's sister died in the Morbi...
12:14
Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde says mega projects will come to the state. Prime Minister and Home Minister have given assurance that big projects will come to Maharashtra. The state will further develop, Shinde said.The state government has come under severe criticism after four projects slipped...
12:05
Elon Musk, the new CEO of Twitter, is planning to charge users USD 19.99 (over Rs 1600) for the new Twitter Blue subscription that brings extra features like edit and undo tweets. Under the current plan, verified users would have 90 days to subscribe or lose their blue checkmark....
11:36
Rescuers wend their way at the collapse site
The Congress on Monday demanded a probe headed by a retired Supreme Court or High Court judge into the Morbi suspension bridge collapse in Gujarat. The Opposition party also sought financial and medical assistance from the government to all those affected. 134 people have died in the...
11:28
Updates on the Morbi bridge collapse: FIR filed: by Morbi B Division Police Insp Prakashbhai Dekavadiya against maintenance and management agencies of the bridge, u/s 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 308 (attempt to commit culpable homicide) & 114 (abettor present when offence...
11:20
A video grab of the Instagram post shared by Virat Kohli
India batter Virat Kohli today shared what a terrible experience during his stay at a hotel in Perth. He said that the incident made him feel very paranoid about his privacy. Kohli shared an Instagram post, a video, where someone enters his hotel room in his absence and films the...
10:54
Indian Army teams deployed in Morbi, Gujarat carried out search and rescue operations for survivors of the mishap. All three defence services have deployed their teams for search operations, Defence officials.
10:40
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said said that enemies were trying to break India's unity and the country should stand firm against any such attempts.After paying tributes to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel at Kevadia in Gujarat on his birth anniversary, Modi remembered those who died in...
10:11
An eyewitness said people were hanging on to the bridge as it collapsed
Eyewitnesses' accounts painted a heart-wrenching picture of the tragedy of the collapse of the suspension bridge in Gujarat's Morbi city on Sunday, which claimed over 132 lives including that of women and children.Locals recount how they carried the injured, some of them lifeless bodies of...
10:01
Australia cannot afford to take Ireland lightly in Monday's T20 World Cup contest. Ireland stunned England in a rain-marred Super 12 contest and are joined by Australia as well as England on three points, two behind Group 1 leader New Zealand, from as many matches.Australia vs Ireland, 01.30 pm...
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Rahul Gandhi on the Bharat Jodo Yatra
The Congress on Monday paid tributes to former prime minister Indira Gandhi on her death anniversary, with Rahul Gandhi saying he is carrying her love and values in his heart and will not allow the India for which she sacrificed her life to fall apart. Congress president Mallikarjun...
09:43
PM Narendra Modi in Kevadiya, Gujarat, expresses grief at the Morbi bridge collapse. I am in Ekta Nagar but my mind is with the victims of Morbi. Rarely in my life, would I have experienced such pain. On one hand, there is a pain-riddled heart and on the other hand, there is the path to duty, the...
09:37
Brazil's Lula da Silva emerged as the country's new president on Sunday after he defeated incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro in a fierce voting which was a tight race between the two politicians.Widely known as Lula, the politician gained 50.83 per cent of the votes, with over 98 per cent of the...
09:08
The suspension bridge on the Machchhu river in Gujarat's Morbi city which collapsed killing at least 132 people was reopened for the public just five days back after seven months of repair work by a private firm, but had not received the municipality's fitness certificate, an official said.The...
08:59
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and other leaders and workers of the party taking part in the 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' in Telangana's Shadnagar observed a two-minute silence in memory of those killed in the Morbi suspension bridge tragedy in Gujarat. They also paid floral tributes to former prime...
08:29
The death toll in Morbi suspension bridge collapse in Gujarat rose to 130 on Monday with rescue personnel recovering more bodies from the Machchhu river, a police official said. The over a century-old bridge, which had reopened five days ago after extensive repairs and renovation, was...
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