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The Supreme Court Collegium headed by Chief Justice Uday Umesh Lalit is learnt to have recommended to the Centre the transfer of Chief Justice of Orissa high court, Justice S Muralidhar, as the CJ of the Madras high court, sources said on Thursday. The collegium, which also comprised...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the `Navratri Mahotsav' organised by the Gujarat government at the GMDC ground in Ahmedabad on Thursday night and performed aarti of Maa Amba. The event has been organized on the occasion of the ongoing Navratri festival. Modi, who is on a two-day...
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Balwant Singh Mankotia, a former president of the Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party, joined the BJP in New Delhi on Thursday. He joined the party in the presence of Union ministers Jitendra Singh and Rajeev Chandrasekhar. and BJP general secretary Tarun Chugh. After leaving the...
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II died of 'old age' on September 8, according to her death certificate released by the national records office of Scotland on Thursday. The certificate stated that Queen died at 3:10 pm (local time) and at Balmoral Castle. the cause of her death was listed as old...
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Tata Group-owned full-service carrier Air India has reduced by half the discount offered on basic fares to senior citizens and students in the economy class on its flights, according to its website. The revised discount on basic fares is effective from September 29. Tata Group took...
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The Supreme Court Thursday expressed concern over the conditions of jails in the country and suggested the idea of building private jails involving big corporates. The apex court said big corporate houses can build private prisons as part of their corporate social responsibility. In...
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The southwest monsoon -- which gave highly uneven rainfall this year -- has withdrawn from Delhi. The monsoon had rolled into Delhi on June 30 yielding the season's first spell of heavy rain (117.2 mm). The normal date of arrival is June 27 and that of withdrawal is September...
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Former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot on Thursday night met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and said he discussed the events in the state in detail and expressed his sentiments on the situation. Pilot spent around an hour at Gandhi's residence and also conveyed his feedback to...
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A total of 12 Congress MLAs from Madhya Pradesh will be proposers for veteran leader Digvijaya Singh when he files nomination for the Congress president's election, a party leader said on Thursday. Singh is likely to file his nomination on Friday, the last day of the nomination...
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After a successful award weekend in Abu Dhabi this year, The International Indian Film Academy is going to be back with awards in 2023 -- again in Abu Dhabi! The International Indian Film Academy Weekend & Awards, which brings together the very best of the Indian film industry, is back...
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The makers of Shaakuntalam, the multilingual mythological drama starring Samantha Ruth Prabhu, on Thursday said they have decided to postpone the release of the film indefinitely. The development comes a week after production house Sri Venkateswara Creations announced November 4 as the...
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Senior Congress leader and former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot reached Congress president Sonia Gandhi's residence in New Delhi on Thursday for a meeting with her. Pilot reached Gandhi's residence hours after his bete noire and Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot had met...
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NCP supremo Sharad Pawar
The Nationalist Congress Party on Thursday said its state-level meeting will be held on November 4 and 5 in Shirdi in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district. The decision was taken after a meeting was held with NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, state unit chief Jayant Patil said. The two-day meet...
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Rashmi Thackeray, wife of Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, visits Tembhi Naka Navratri mandal in Thane, September 29, 2022/PTI
Rashmi Thackeray, wife of Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, on Thursday visited a Navratri event at Tembi Naka in Thane city and offered prayers to Goddess Durga. Prior to this, she visited 'Anand Ashram', the party's Thane headquarters, and paid tribute to late Anand Dighe, a hugely popular...
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Six workers were injured after a fire broke out at Ordnance Factory Khamaria near Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh on early Thursday morning, a senior official said. The fire, which started in a building inside the factory during the melting of explosives around 2.30 am has been extinguished, OFK...
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Goa BJP leader Savio Rodrigues has urged the Centre and the Goa government to set up a fund to restore heritage Catholic churches in the state. In a letter to Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, the BJP spokesperson said the scheme by the government to restore temples destroyed by the...
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Suspended headmaster Abdul Munafar Bijapur/ANI
Karnataka school headmaster, who allegedly tried to facilitate the religious conversion -- has been suspended, a day after the state education department ordered an inquiry after the headmaster was heckled by right-wing outfit activists for organising an essay competition on Prophet for children...
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Suspected terrorists triggered a blast in a parked bus in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur early Thursday, nine hours after a similar explosion took place in the city but there was no casualty, the police said. Additional director general of police Jammu region Mukesh Singh visited both the...
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China said on Thursday that the person killed in Karachi on Wednesday was not its citizen, refuting reports that the incident could be yet another targeted attack against Chinese nationals in Pakistan. We express condolences for the victims of the relevant incident. To my understanding the...
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Security has been beefed up across Kolkata from Thursday for the Durga Puja festivities as revellers have already started making a beeline for popular pandals, the police said. A total of 17,000 police personnel, including 10,000 home guards, have been posted across the city and 400 pickets...
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Maharashtra deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis
Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Thursday that a probe has been ordered into the purchase of 18 rapid response vehicles by the previous MVA government allegedly at an inflated price of Rs 3 crore each during the pandemic. The vehicles, called Devdoot, were...
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Hafiz Saeed
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has indicted three more suspects in a car bomb blast outside the 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind and JuD chief Hafiz Saeed's house in Lahore last year that killed three people, an official said on Thursday. The prosecutors of the counter terrorism department...
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Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor and Digvijaya Singh are scheduled to submit their nomination papers for the upcoming presidential elections of the All India Congress Committee on Friday.As per the information, Tharoor will visit 24 Akbar Road at 12.15 pm tomorrow.He will subsequently hold a press...
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Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said even as India has emerged as the world's fifth largest economy and although the country is rich, its population is poor, facing issues like starvation, unemployment, casteism, untouchability and inflation. The gap between the rich and the...
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Gautam Adani with the PM
Adani Enterprises Ltd on Thursday said it's three wholly-owned subsidiaries have achieved financial closure for the access-controlled six-lane greenfield Ganga Expressway Project in Uttar Pradesh under public-private partnership mode. The company in a statement said it has secured...
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The Popular Front of India (PFI) has been maintaining close ties with a radical Turkish group accused of supplying arms to al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadists in Syria and even two top leaders of the just-banned outfit were hosted by the group, officials said on Thursday. The Foundation for...
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The southwest monsoon -- which gave highly uneven rainfall this year -- has withdrawn from Delhi, the Met department said on Thursday. Usually, the monsoon starts retreating from northwest India by September 17 and withdraws from Delhi within a week. The southwest monsoon has...
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Exposure to air pollutants, in particular fine particles (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), increased the risk of hospitalisation in COVID-19 patients by up to 30 per cent, even for the fully vaccinated, according to a study. A team, including researchers from University of Southern...
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India's pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah was on Thursday ruled out of the T20 World Cup with a stress fracture, dealing a massive blow to the team's chances in the ICC event. A BCCI official told PTI that Bumrah has a stress fracture and could be out of action for months. Bumrah is...
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Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot says he will not contest the Congress president elections.I had a conversation with Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi. Whatever happened two days ago shocked us. It gave a message that all of it happened as I wanted to be CM. I apologised to her.I met Rahul...
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Shashi Tharoor shares this picture with Congress colleague and his presidential poll rival, Digvijaya Singh. Received a visit from @digvijaya_28 this afternoon. I welcome his candidacy for the Presidency of our Party. We both agreed that ours is not a battle between rivals but a friendly...
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The Centre defers the proposal to make six airbags mandatory in cars by one year to October 1, 2023, says Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari. Gadkari on 6 September said that the government is trying to make it mandatory for carmakers to provide at least six airbags in eight-seater vehicles...
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Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday took a swipe at the Bharatiya Janata Party and the faction headed by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde by stating the saffron flag needs to be in one's heart and not just in one's hands. The BJP and Shinde faction have often accused...
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Senior Congress leader and former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot will meet party chief Sonia Gadhi later Thursday, sources said. Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, who arrived in Delhi Wednesday night, met Gandhi around 1 pm. The meetings come days after an open...
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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot arrived for a meeting with Sonia Gandhi this afternoon amid turmoil over the Congress president election and the Rajasthan rebel crisis.Ashok Gehlot arrived in Delhi late last night for his meeting with the Congress president.With Friday the last date for...
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IAS officer Harjot Kaur Bhamra also asked the girl to go to Pakistan
The National Commission for Women (NCW) has sought explanation from a senior IAS officer over her inappropriate and highly objectionable remark to a student who asked about affordable sanitary napkins.According to media reports, when the girl student from Bihar asked why the government could not...
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Digvijaya Singh holds up his nomination papers
With Friday the last date for filing nominations, Congress leaders are in hectic discussions to solve the political conundrum that has everyone guessing -- who all will contest the election for party president. The discussions are mostly one-on-one, party insiders said on Thursday, a...
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Brigadier Lakhbinder Singh Lidder
Aashna Lidder shares her grief on missing her dad. Missing you today Papa. As much as I try, my mind always takes me back to the thought of how you would have been somewhere else today. But I hope whatever you're watching right now and wherever that is from; you're content with it. Life was good...
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Congress leader Digvijaya Singh joins the race for party presidential polls, says, I have come here to collect my nomination form and will likely file it tomorrow. The name of Digvijay Singh has made the battle interesting as G23 leader Shashi Tharoor is likely to file the nomination...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday held a roadshow after he touched down in Surat on a two-day visit to his home state Gujarat. A huge crowd gathered to welcome the Prime Minister as his cavalcade moved forward. During the visit, Prime Minister Modi will cover Surat,...
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EAM Dr S Jaishankar
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has assured the Biden administration on Wednesday of all necessary cooperation to help it resolve the backlog of visa applications from Indians seeking to travel to the US.He said that things will get better soon. Visa applications from India require a...
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The Supreme Court has held that all women are entitled to safe and legal abortion. The court says the marital status of a woman can't be grounds to deprive her of the right to abort an unwanted pregnancy. Single and unmarried women have the right to abort under the Medical Termination of...
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Actor Kamal R Khan tweets, It's final and confirmed. Soon, I will go to Nagpur to join RSS officially.
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PFI activists were rounded up across the country last week
With the Central government banning the Popular Front of India (PFI), Mangaluru city police sealed 12 of its offices and associate outfits within the city. Police sources said 10 offices of the PFI, the office of the Campus Front of India (CFI) and an information and empowerment office...
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Tamil Nadu government denies permission for RSS march which was planned for October 2, citing law and order issues.Allies the ruling DMK in the state have viewed march as an attempt to disturb peace and communal harmony, amid a massive political push by the BJP to make inroads. The RSS...
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MacKenzie Scott with her second husband
Amazon owner Jeff Bezos' former wife MacKenzie Scott has filed for divorce from her second husband, Dan Jewett, two years after they got married. On Monday, Scott, a billionaire philanthropist, filed for divorce in Washington State's King County Superior Court, per the New York Times,...
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Close on the heels of the Central government declaring the Popular Front of India (PFI) as a banned organisation, the Kerala government has initiated steps to implement the order by empowering the district administration and police to take action against the outlawed outfit's activities. The...
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Popular Front of India's (PFI) official Twitter account has been withheld in India in response to a legal demand.The Central govt yesterday declared PFI and its associates or affiliates or fronts as an unlawful association for 5 years.The PFI-affiliated Campus Front of India calls the ban on them...
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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday sought to play down the political crisis in the state for which three of his loyalists have been issued show cause notice by the party's central leadership and said, internal politics goes on, we'll resolve it.Gehlot, who had emerged as the top...
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I could walk a thousand miles for a moment like this (heart emoji), tweets Rahul Gandhi. The Congress' Bharat Jodo Yatra entered Kerala on September 10 evening and traversed through the state for 18 days. It will exit the state and enter Tamil Nadu this afternoon.
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China, which was once seen as the foremost champion of globalization could face serious obstacles in its path to reviving its economy and will likely have to face isolation with global investors seeking other avenues, according to business conglomerate Gautam Adani.Adani listed out increasing...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Wednesday that India will continue to maintain a relationship with China that is based on mutual sensitivity, respect and interest.Jaishankar made the remarks while responding to a question on the consistent comments from Beijing about how things are...
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Accompanied by a huge crowd of supporters, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday morning began the last phase of the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kerala. The foot march -- which resumed from Marthoma College Junction at Chungathara -- will take a break at CKHS Manimooly at Vazhikadavu after...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a two-day visit to Gujarat from Thursday where he will inaugurate or lay foundation stones for various projects and inaugurate the 36th National Games which are being held for the first time in the state.Gujarat, the home state of Modi, faces Assembly...
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Another blast hit a bus in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur. This is the second blast in the last 8 hours in the district. The second blast occurred at 10:45 pm in a bus at Domail chowk. Earlier, two people were injured after a blast occurred in an empty bus parked at a petrol pump in...
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India and the United States, the world's two largest democracies, do not share a narrow relationship only devoted to bilateral gains, but the one that impacts the rest of the world, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said. He said both countries have recognised that this is a...
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Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Wednesday night left Kerala for Delhi and is likely to file his nomination for the election to the party president's post on Thursday, sources said. All India Congress Committee general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal was also in the...
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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday said there was enough evidence to prove that the Popular Front of India, banned by the Centre for five years, was sowing seeds of violence in society.Talking to reporters in Mumbai, Fadnavis, who heads the Home department, said the...