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Rashtriya Janata Dal's founding president Lalu Prasad on Wednesday drove to his party office in Patna, after a gap of several years which were marred by imprisonment and ill health. Prasad's arrival at the Birchand Patel Marg office at around 3 30 pm was joyously hailed by party members who...
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French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna
French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said that France is open to Indian students, as the country set the ambitious target of welcoming 20,000 students by 2025. During a press conference along with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in New Delhi, Colonna said that both of the...
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Norah Fatehi
Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandez was on Wednesday questioned by the Delhi police's Economic Offences Wing for over eight hours in connection with an extortion case linked to alleged conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar, officials said. Actor Nora Fatehi and Pinky Irani, who allegedly introduced...
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A three-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a labourer at a town in Madhya Pradesh's Morena district, following which the police arrested him, while the local civic authorities pulled down his illegal house, officials said. The...
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Nearly six million people tried to follow a British Royal Air Force transport aircraft taking Queen Elizabeth II's coffin from Edinburgh in Scotland to London, making it the most tracked flight in history, website Flightradar24 said on Wednesday. The Queen's coffin was flown on a RAF...
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Two terrorists were killed in an encounter with security forces in Srinagar on Wednesday, the police said. Based on specific inputs, security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Dangerpora under the Nowgam police station area, a police official said. During the operation,...
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Ahead of the upcoming assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a youth rally in Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur's home district Mandi next week. PM Modi will address the youth rally to be organised by the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha...
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Aided by bountiful rains in its catchment areas, the water level of the Sardar Sarovar Dam in Gujarat's Narmada district reached 138.46 metres on Wednesday evening, just shy of 22 cms from achieving its full reservoir level of 138.68 metres, officials said. This is for the first time this...
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DIG Satya Veer Singh meets a victim of mass shooting at a hospital in Begusarai/ANI
Seven police personnel in Bihar's Begusarai were suspended on Wednesday for dereliction of duty after four gunmen went on a rampage in the district, killing a man and critically injuring 11 people, a senior official said. Earlier, district police officers had claimed that two bike-borne...
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As Queen Elizabeth II's coffin left Buckingham Palace in London for the last time on Wednesday, the new heir to the British throne, William - Prince of Wales, walked side by side with his younger brother, Prince Harry -- the Duke of Sussex, in a deliberate show of symbolic unity following a...
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A student of Guru Dronacharya College was injured critically on Wednesday when he was thrashed by some students with sticks and an iron rod right outside the college, the police said. The injured student, Rohit, is being treated at a hospital and an FIR has been registered at the city police...
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The additional city civil and sessions judge court on Wednesday ordered an FIR to be registered and investigation taken up on a private complaint alleging corruption by former Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa and his family members. The order comes exactly a week after the high court...
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Some drunk students of a government medical college in Gwalior allegedly snatched the mobile phone of a police official and also beat up the driver of a police vehicle following an argument with a patrolling team that found them wandering on a city street in the wee hours of Wednesday, the...
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King Charles III and his sons, Princes William and Harry, joined a sombre procession as the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II left Buckingham Palace in London on Wednesday, on its final journey to be conveyed to Westminster Hall in the Houses of Parliament complex for lying-in-state until the state...
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Non-vegetarian food is not a taboo and cannot be banned in the country but beef should be avoided, senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh functionary J Nanda Kumar said on Wednesday. However, Kumar, head of the RSS intellectual wing Pragya Pravha, added that this was his personal opinion...
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President Droupadi Murmu receives credentials from Marlene Inemwin Moses, high commissioner of Republic of Nauru/ANI
Envoys of five countries, including Saudi Arabia and Czech Republic, on Wednesday presented their credentials to President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. Those who presented their credentials were ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Saleh Eid Al-Husseini, ambassador...
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Amid controversy over the lack of support by the local administration for recruitment rallies in Punjab, Indian Army sources on Wednesday said such rallies under the Agnipath scheme had already been successfully conducted in a couple of cities and more were planned in Ferozepur and...
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Bhutan king Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Wednesday and both leaders discussed bilateral ties and the ways to further strengthen them. Wangchuck was in India en route to London to attend Queen Elizabeth II's funeral, officials said. Modi...
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The Delhi police has prepared a questionnaire of 100 odd questions that actor Jacqueline Fernandez has been asked to answer in the alleged Rs 200 crore scam. The actor is being questioned by the economic offences wing of the Delhi police since 11.30 am on Wednesday which is expected to go...
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Rajnath Singh announces the Agnipath Scheme in June
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said that the AAP government in Punjab will fully support the Agnipath Scheme during the recruitment drives of Agniveers. Kejriwal's clarification came after reports that the Punjab government was not supportive of the recruitment...
17:02
The Supreme Court allows the BCCI to amend its constitution.The court says, We are of the considered view that the amendment would not dilute the original objective. We accept the proposed amendment. Amendment proposed by BCCI doesn't detract from spirit of our original judgment and is...
16:54
Rahul Gandhi at the Bharat Jodo Yatra
With the process for electing the new Congress president round the corner, senior party leader Jairam Ramesh has batted for consensus in selecting the new AICC chief and sought to uphold the prominence of the Nehru-Gandhi family in the organisational matters in any sort of emerging...
16:34
The newly-christened Kartavya Path can have a maximum of 120 ice-cream carts and water dispensing trolleys at six vending locations, NDMC said on Wednesday. New Delhi Municipal Council Vice Chairman Satish Upadhyay said that there are six vending zones on Kartavya Path between Central Vista...
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The Delhi Traffic Police on Wednesday issued 17 challans to people for not wearing seat belts in the rear seats of cars, officials said. The police conducted a drive on the Barakhamba Road near Connaught Place in central Delhi to ensure compliance. A total of 17 court challans were...
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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has alleged that the BJP was responsible for the violence in the state during the rally yesterday. The BJP brought in goons armed with bombs from outside Bengal for its September 13 rally. Police could have opened fire on violent BJP protesters, but government...
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As many as 141 passengers were evacuated from an Air India Express plane at Muscat airport on Wednesday following a smoke warning, according to an airline source. The incident happened while the Kochi-bound Boeing 737-800 aircraft was taxiing and after the warning, the passengers were...
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After two bike-borne miscreants shot at nine people, killing one in Bihar's Begusarai, former Union minister and BJP national spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain slammed Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's government for the law and order situation in the state.On Tuesday night, the BJP leader visited the...
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The King and The Queen Consort in Belfast, yesterday
President Droupadi Murmu to visit London on September 17-19 to attend the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, announces the Ministry of External Affairs. The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II will make its final journey from Buckingham Palace in London on Wednesday, to be conveyed in procession to...
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Hindi language is not a competitor but a friend of all the other languages in the country, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday as he denounced the disinformation campaign to pit Hindi against regional languages. He underlined the need to strengthen regional languages by...
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Former Congress MLA Michael Lobo
All top Congress leaders who strengthened the party will leave it in the coming days because of too much of differences among themselves. We're representing the people; we will have to hear their voices. The people told us to leave and we are leaving, former Congress MLA from Goa, Michael Lobo,...
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You give us strength, Rahul tweeted
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given 1,000 square kilometres of Indian territory to China without a fight, and asked the government how it will be retrieved.He also claimed that China has refused to accept India's demand of restoring status...
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Eight Congress MLAs including Digambar Kamat, Michael Lobo, Delilah Lobo, Rajesh Phaldesai, Kedar Naik, Sankalp Amonkar, Aleixo Sequeira & Rudolf Fernandes join BJP in presence of CM Pramod Sawant
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A day after four sadhus were allegedly thrashed by a mob in Maharashtra's Sangli district on the suspicion of being child-lifters, police took suo-moto cognisance of it and registered a case against 18 to 20 people, an official said on Wednesday. The police have detained six persons in...
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The wholesale price-based inflation eased for the third consecutive month in August to 12.41 per cent, on softening in prices of manufactured items, even as food items saw an uptick. The Wholesale Price Index-based inflation was 13.93 per cent in July and 11.64 per cent in August last...
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A day after Gujarat bagged a mega Vedanta-Foxconn semiconductor project, Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Council Ambadas Danve claimed Gujarat did not have the infrastructure required for it and hence was not even in competition for the project. Maharashtra, Telangana...
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Congress MLAs with the Goa CM Pramod Sawant
The Goa Congress Legislature Party on Wednesday passed a resolution to merge into the Bharatiya Janata Party, soon after BJP state president Sadanand Shet Tanavade said eight Congress MLAs will join the ruling party. Leader of Opposition Michael Lobo moved the resolution in the...
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In a scathing attack on the Modi government, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that power has become intensely concentrated over the past eight years in a handful of politicians and business persons, which is undermining India's democracy and institutions. She also alleged...
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The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II will make its final journey from Buckingham Palace in London on Wednesday, to be conveyed in procession to Westminster Hall in the Houses of Parliament complex for Lying-in-State until the state funeral at Westminster Abbey nearby on Monday. At 2.22 pm local...
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Nine people died and 27 more sustained injuries when a mini-bus plunged into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Wednesday, officials said in Jammu.The bus, carrying over 36 passengers, was on its way to Poonch from Gali Maidan when it met with the accident near the Brari...
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Eight Congress MLAs from Goa are set to join the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, state BJP chief Sadanand Shet Tanavade told PTI on Wednesday. In the 40-member Goa Assembly, the Congress has 11 legislators and the BJP has 20. In a similar move in July 2019, 10 Congress MLAs had...
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Investors' wealth eroded by more than Rs 2.21 lakh crore in early trade on Wednesday, with the market witnessing a selling-off amid prospects of aggressive rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve to tackle high inflation, and sluggish global trends. In less than hour of the start of...
10:20
As the country observed Hindi Diwas on Wednesday, Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah said Hindi is the friend of all Indian languages and it unites the whole nation in a thread of unity as an official language.The minister took to Twitter to express his views at the event and made it...
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Heavy overnight showers in Mumbai caused water-logging in some low lying areas, but the water receded after the rain intensity reduced on Wednesday morning, civic officials said. Trains and buses were running normally in the city, they said. Some parts of the city witnessed...
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Anne, The Princess Royal, only daughter of the longest serving monarch of the UK Queen Elizabeth II, and Prince Philip, wrote a heartfelt note for her mother, as she accompanied her coffin back to Buckingham Palace.Grieving the loss of her mother, the Queen's second child, The Princess Royal...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday commenced the Bharat Jodo Yatra on a spiritual note by paying his respects to renowned philosopher and social reformer Sree Narayana Guru at Sivagiri Mutt in Thiruvananthapuram.At Sivagiri Mutt, Gandhi met the swamis there and offered prayers to the saint...
09:34
The Congress on Tuesday took a swipe at Ghulam Nabi Azad, who quit the party recently, saying climate change has taken place and he has become a loyal soldier of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh tagged a tweet of a video...
09:08
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Four sadhus or religious ascetics were allegedly assaulted by a mob in Maharashtra's Sangli district on Tuesday on suspicion of being child-lifters, police said. The sadhus, however, lodged no complaint over the incident even though its video went viral.The incident took place at...
09:04
The United States has a very close defence relationship with India, the Pentagon has said as it dismissed questions about the latest multinational military exercises involving Russia, India and China.India's a sovereign nation, they can make their own decisions in terms of who they're going to...
08:19
With the process for electing the new Congress president round the corner, senior party leader Jairam Ramesh has batted for consensus in selecting the new All India Congress Committee chief and sought to uphold the prominence of the Nehru-Gandhi family in the organisational matters in any sort of...
01:17
Medical service in MGM Medical College and Hospital in Jamshedpur came to a halt as heavy rains that lashed Jamshedpur city on Tuesday caused waterlogging at the hospital premises, especially the burn care unit. The waterlogging forced the patients and their attendants to remain confined to...
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Naveen Patnaik
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday went on a three-day trip to Mumbai where he is scheduled to attend an investors' meet, months ahead of the Make-in-Odisha Conclave. Patnaik will hold discussions with major industrialists from different sectors and woo them to invest in Odisha,...
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Chhatrapati Shivajiraje Bhosale, a twelfth-generation descendant of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died at a private hospital in Pune on Tuesday due to age-related ailments, family sources said. He was 75. Shrimant Chhatrapati Shivajiraje Bhosale, an heir of the Chhatrapati family and...
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The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II arrived in London on Tuesday evening from Scotland for a final night at Buckingham Palace before its journey to Westminster Hall on Wednesday for Lying-in-Rest ahead of the state funeral on Monday. Queen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch, died on...
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