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An alleged suicide by a lawyer triggered a violent protest on the premises of the Madhya Pradesh high court's Jabalpur bench in Jabalpur on Friday, the police said. The State Bar Council of Madhya Pradesh appealed to the lawyers to abstain from work on Saturday, alleging that Anurag Sahu,...
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The accused in the Ankita Bhandari case will be interrogated by the Special Investigation Team, formed to investigate this case for the next 72 hours, the police informed on Friday. The SIT will interrogate the accused in the Ankita murder case for the next 72 hours. For this, the...
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The Allahabad high court on Friday stayed the arrest of Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan in a case involving the recovery of some Rampur civic body machines from the Jauhar University campus. The Bench of Justices Suneet Kumar and Syed Waiz Mian passed the order on a petition filed by Azam...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered prayers at the famous Ambaji temple in Gujarat's Banaskantha district on Friday. He visited the temple after speaking at a rally in the town. He also performed 'maha aarti' at the nearby Gabbar Tirth. Hundreds of devotees greeted the prime minister...
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The 'Navaratri Kolu' inaugurated by Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi at the Raj Bhavan recently will now be open for the public, an official release in Chennai said. It will be open daily between 3 pm to 5 pm from October 1 to 5, 2022. Those interested can send their name, and other details...
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Rainfall during the June-September period in the past seven years in India.
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The Supreme Court bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Hima Kohli on Friday sat till 9:10 pm, around five hours beyond the regular working hours, to hear 75 cases to clear the board before the onset of Dussehra vacations. In the morning, when the bench commenced proceedings for the day, a...
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IAS officer Harjot Kaur Bamhrah
Indian sanitary pad manufacturing company PAN Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. on Friday took suo moto cognizance of the incident in Patna where an IAS officer, Harjot Kaur Bamhrah, had publicly mocked a schoolgirl Riya Kumari if she wanted condoms too when she asked for affordable sanitary napkins at a...
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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor will visit the Deekshabhoomi monument here on Saturday and start his campaign for the party president's election. Tharoor will pay his tributes at Deekhabhoomi, where Dr BR Ambedkar converted to Buddhism along with his followers in 1956, on Saturday, said...
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Intensifying his attack against the 22-year-old Naveen Patnaik government in Odisha, Bharaiya Janata Party president JP Nadda on Friday called upon party workers to ensure that the state becomes BJD mukt (BJD free). He also accused the Biju Janata Dal dispensation of re-branding central...
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Suburban train services on the CSMT-Kalyan section of Central Railway were affected on Friday evening due to a signalling fault at Thane station, leaving several thousand commuters inconvenienced, an official said. The technical fault took place at 6:57pm and resulted in the bunching of...
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The Kodanad heist-cum-murder case has been transferred to the crime branch-CID to expedite the case. Tamil Nadu DGP C Sylendra Babu issued orders transferring the case to the CB-CID on Friday, a senior official said. The Kodanad tea estate of late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa was...
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Pakistan authorities have arrested 16 Indian fishermen and seized two trawlers for allegedly illegally fishing in the country's territorial waters, officials said on Friday. Pakistan Maritime Security Agency said one of its ships apprehended two Indian fishing boats along with 16 crew...
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The Delhi high court has quashed an FIR registered against a man for allegedly hitting a bike rider with his car and directed his release while asking him to give food to an orphanage not having less than 100 children. Justice Jasmeet Singh asked the petitioner to provide food on October 5...
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The competent authority under the Foreign Exchange Management Act has approved an order of seizure of over Rs 5,551 crore worth of deposits of Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Xiaomi, the highest amount frozen till date in India, the ED said on Friday. The Enforcement Directorate had issued...
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The BJP on Friday took a dig at Congress presidential candidate Shashi Tharoor over the country's map shown in his manifesto, saying he put a mutilated map not having parts of Jammu and Kashmir may be to find favour with the Gandhis. Tharoor filed his nomination on Friday and released a...
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Gas leaked from a well of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation near a village in Gujarat's Mehsana district on Friday, an official said. While the gas is not inflammable or poisonous, people in nearby areas have complained of burning sensation in their eyes and throat, he said. The leak...
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A Malaysia-bound flight on Friday was delayed over a false bomb alarm after a fight between two passengers on board the plane at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, officials said. Security agencies were alerted about the bomb call from the Malaysia Airlines's MH173 around...
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An employee of Zakir Naik-led Islamic Research Foundation arrested in 2016 for allegedly indoctrinating youngsters to join terror outfit Islamic State of Iraq and Syria was acquitted on Friday by a special court in Mumbai. The National Investigation Agency had charged Arshi Qureshi under...
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A class 2 student of a government school in Bulandshahr was left locked in the classroom, a senior official said on Friday. The school's headmaster, four teachers, two Shiksha Mitras and an office help have been suspended, Basic Shiksha Adhikari, BK Sharma said. A purported video of the...
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Amid a protracted crisis in the Congress, the supporters of Sachin Pilot gathered at the All India Congress Committee office in New Delhi on Friday and demanded that he be elected as the party president or be made the chief minister of Rajasthan.As soon as Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot...
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New coins featuring the new British monarch, King Charles III, are expected to enter general circulation in the coming months as the portrait design was unveiled on Friday. The UK's Royal Mint revealed the new design with Charles' head facing in the opposite direction to that of his late...
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Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati on Friday said the ban on the Popular Front of India ahead of elections in some states was an act of political selfishness aimed at appeasing the RSS. The Bahujan Samaj Party chief said this decision was behind countrywide demands to also ban the...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's convoy stopped for a brief time to give way to an ambulance while travelling to Gandhinagar from Ahmedabad on Friday. A video shared by the Gujarat BJP's media cell shows two SUVs, which were part of the prime minister's...
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The Reserve Bank of India on Friday slashed the growth projection to 7 per cent for the current fiscal from the earlier forecast of 7.2 per cent, citing aggressive tightening of monetary policies globally and moderation in demand. Unveiling the fifth monetary policy for this fiscal,...
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Total 30 Congress leaders have proposed Mallikarjun Kharge's name for the election of the president of the Congress.Earlier, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday said all senior leaders had decided to back veteran Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge's candidature for the party chief's...
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Preparations are underway to arrest Aam Aadmi Party leader Raghav Chadha since he was appointed as the party's co-incharge of political affairs in Gujarat, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal claimed on Friday. Kejriwal, however, did not specify which agency was working on the alleged plan...
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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Friday asserted that he has a vision to strengthen the party which should be a vehicle for change as he filed his nomination for the party president poll. Addressing a press conference after filing his papers, the former Union minister called his rival...
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Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan on Friday called on Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. The meeting came hours after Gen Chauhan assumed charge as India's new Chief of Defence Staff.The post fell vacant after the country's first CDS Gen Bipin Rawat died in a helicopter crash in Tamil...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the much-awaited 5G services in India on October 1, 2022, an official release said on Friday. According to the release, 5G to be launched by the Prime Minister in select cities, will progressively cover the entire country over the next couple...
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Veteran Congress leader and lead of opposition in Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, has filed his nomination for the post of Congress president.Former Union minister Shashi Tharoor will be Kharge's challenger.Polling will take place on October 17 and the result will be announced on October 19.
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Former Jharkhand minister K N Tripathi
Former Jharkhand minister K N Tripathi on Friday submitted his nomination papers for the Congress president election. Tripathi handed over the nomination papers to Madhusudan Mistry, chairman of the Congress' Central Election Authority, at the AICC headquarters here.Besides Tripathi, former...
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Congress presidential poll candidate Shashi Tharoor on Friday said he is aware of his underdog tag and talk of an 'official candidate' in some quarters but he has been told by the Gandhi family repeatedly that they are neither directly nor indirectly backing anyone.Tharoor, who filed his...
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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday said all senior leaders had decided to back veteran Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge's candidature for the party chief's election. Gehlot, who declared on Thursday that he would not contest the election, also announced his support for Kharge...
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Two local Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists were killed in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district on Friday, police said.Two encounters broke out between the security forces and the militants in Shopian and Baramulla districts in the early hours of Friday, they...
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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Friday filed the nomination for the Congress presidential poll. Mallikarjun Kharge is the other frontrunner in the contest after Digvijaya Singh and Ashok Gehlot dropped out of the race.The party members will elect their next chief on October 17, and the results...
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Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Friday announced that he will not contest the party president's election and would instead propose the candidature of his senior Mallikarjun Kharge.He said he has worked for the Congress all his life and will continue to do so.Kharge ji is my leader and my...
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Senior member of the pro-reform G23 group Manish Tewari on Friday called for consensus on the post of Congress president and recalled late President Pranab Mukherjee's pitch for the same. In a tweet on the last day of filing of papers for the party chief's poll, Tewari cited the ongoing...
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Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor visited Rajghat here on Friday and paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi ahead of filing his nomination papers for the party's presidential poll. Paid tribute to the man who built India's bridge to the 21st century this morning, Tharoor said in a tweet.He...
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Two earthquakes jolted parts of northeast early on Friday, an official report said. One had its epicentre in the neighbouring country of Myanmar, the second in Manipur. A report by National Centre for Seismology said a 5.2-magnitude earthquake, with epicentre...
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Ahead of filing his nomination for the Congress presidential poll, party leader Digvijaya Singh on Friday met his colleagues Mallikarjun Kharge and K C Venugopal. The details of the meetings were not known immediately.Singh collected nomination papers for the party president election on...
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The Reserve Bank of India on Friday raised the benchmark lending rate by 50 basis points to 5.90 per cent in a bid to check inflation, which has remained above its tolerance level for the past 8 months. With the latest hike, the repo rate or the short term lending rate at which banks...
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Gen Anil Chauhan on Friday became India's new Chief of Defence Staff with a mandate to implement the ambitious theaterisation plan that seeks to ensure tri-services synergy and prepare the military for future security challenges. Gen Chauhan, a former Eastern Army Commander, took charge as...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the Gandhinagar-Mumbai Vande Bharat Express train.Modi flagged off the Vande Bharat Express from Gandhinagar Capital railway station at around 10.30 am. He also took a ride on the train from Gandhinagar to Kalupur railway station in Ahmedabad.He will also...
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Congress veteran Mallikarjun Kharge will join the contest for Congress president, according to sources who have said that the Leader of Opposition in the Raja Sabha is likely to file his nomination for the party's top post today.The contest for the post will then be likely to be between Kharge,...
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has slammed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi saying he does not have systematic seriousness, wants to have power without responsibility and is not fit for politics.In an interview with ANI, Sarma who was in Congress for over two decades, said he had told the...
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Mohammed Siraj on Friday replaced injured pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah for India's remaining two T20 International matches against the visiting South African team. Bumrah was on Thursday ruled out of the upcoming T20 World Cup due to a back stress fracture. The All-India Senior...
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The body of a 30-year-old model was found hanging from a fan in a hotel room in Mumbai's Andheri area on Thursday.According to police, the model checked in the hotel around 8 pm on Wednesday and also ordered dinner. On Thursday, she did not open the door after repeated calling by the...
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Two encounters broke out between security forces and terrorists in Shopian and Baramulla districts of Jammu and Kashmir in the early hours of Friday, police said. The encounters began after the security forces launched cordon and search operations in the Chitragam area in south Kashmir's...
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A court in Mathura fixed October 26 as the next date for hearing into a plea seeking the shifting of the Meena Masjid claimed to have been constructed on a part of the land of the Katra Keshav Dev temple. Civil Judge (Senior Division) Jyoti Singh did not pass any order on Thursday except...
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China's military said on Thursday that the disengagement of Chinese and Indian troops from Patrolling Point 15 in the Gogra-Hot Springs area in eastern Ladakh is conducive to promoting peace and tranquillity in the border areas. In line with the consensus reached in the 16th Round of...
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IAS officer Harjot Kaur Bamhrah
Apex child rights body National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has asked the Bihar government to conduct an enquiry and take action after a senior IAS officer allegedly made objectionable remarks to a student on affordable sanitary napkins. Harjot Kaur Bamhrah, who is an...
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