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Four people were injured after a clash between two groups in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district where the rioters also damaged some vehicles and indulged in stone pelting, police said on Wednesday. The police registered two offences and arrested 19 persons in connection with the incident that...
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A former Army captain, a witness in the 2008 Malegaon blast case who had accused the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad officials of threatening him to give a statement before a magistrate, on Wednesday turned hostile before a special NIA court in Mumbai. He became the 34th prosecution witness...
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Cricketer Prithvi Shaw
Social media influencer Sapna Gill on Wednesday filed a criminal complaint before a Mumbai court, seeking registration of a police case against India cricketer Prithvi Shaw for allegedly assaulting and outraging her modesty at a club in suburban Andheri two months ago. The complaint was...
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The office of AICC general secretary KC Venugopal has filed a complaint with Kerala police chief Anil Kant alleging illegal cloning of his mobile number by hackers and making fraudulent calls for ulterior motives. In a tweet posted on Wednesday carrying the copy of the complaint filed with...
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The Bombay high court on Wednesday completed its hearing and reserved order on a 2014 suit challenging the position and appointment of Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin as the leader of the Dawoodi Bohra community. The suit was initially filed by Khuzaima Qutbuddin soon after his brother and the...
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Amid a rise in Covid cases, Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi on Wednesday said all civic-run hospitals are fully prepared to deal with the coronavirus situation and appealed to people not to panic. The mayor was interacting with reporters at the Civic Centre in Delhi a day after Delhi recorded 521...
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Former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia Wednesday moved the Delhi high court seeking bail in the excise policy scam case being probed by the CBI. Sisodia's bail plea is listed for hearing before Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma on Thursday. On March 31, a trial court here had dismissed...
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Former India opener Sudhir Naik, who played three Test matches in 1974, died in a Mumbai hospital on Wednesday after brief illness, confirmed Mumbai Cricket Association sources. He was 78 years old and is survived by his daughter. Recently, he fell on bathroom floor and sustained a head...
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Train services of the South Eastern Railway and East Coast Railway were affected on Wednesday as Kurmis blocked railway tracks in two stations in West Bengal demanding ST status, officials said. Members of the Kurmi community, who are currently under the OBC category, blocked tracks at...
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A marine commando from the Indian Navy's special forces died during a training exercise on Wednesday in West Bengal's Panagarh. People familiar with the matter said Chandaka Govind died while carrying out a para jump from an aircraft. In a tweet, the Indian Navy said Govind, a petty...
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Amid the furore over violence during celebration of Ram Navami in West Bengal, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad has decided to conduct 500 Hanuman Jayanti programmes across the state on Thursday. VHP national assistant secretary Sachindranath Singha told PTI that no weapons would be carried during...
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A private television news group has informed the Noida police that it has received an email from an unknown sender who threatened to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, a senior officer said on Wednesday. The police said they have lodged...
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President Droupudi Murmu will fly a sortie on the Sukhoi 30 MKI fighter aircraft on Saturday from the Tezpur Air Force Station, an official spokesperson said. In 2009, former president Pratibha Patil had flown in the frontline fighter aircraft. President Murmu will be visiting Assam...
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A 23-year-old inmate of Central Jail in Surat city of Gujarat facing trial on charges of kidnapping and raping a minor girl was found hanging inside a barrack in the wee hours on Wednesday, the police said. The police found a letter purportedly written by the deceased which indicated a love...
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The National Investigation Agency on Wednesday filed a charge sheet against four people, including a Pakistan-based Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist and Jamaat-e-Islami chief, in a terror funding case in Jammu, an official said. The 'Al Huda Educational Trust' terror funding case was registered...
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Actor Ajay Devgn's Bholaa has earned over Rs 50 crore at the domestic box office, the makers said on Tuesday. Directed by Devgn and also starring Tabu, the film released in cinema halls on March 30. It is produced by Ajay Devgn FFilms, Reliance Entertainment, T-Series Films, and Dream...
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Union minister Narayan Rane on Wednesday claimed Shiv Sena-UBT leader Uddhav Thackeray had tried to give contracts to kill him. Addressing reporters in Mumbai, the Bharatiya Janata Party MP also alleged when Thackeray was chief minister of Maharashtra (from November 2019 to June 2022), he...
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The government has no plan to use Aadhaar data for census, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar told Lok Sabha on Wednesday. The office of the registrar general and Census Commissioner of India has informed that there is no plan to use Aadhaar data for census, he...
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A private function in Coimbatore where Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi was present on Wednesday witnessed brief disturbance when gas leaked from an airconditioner in the hall that led to some students seated there dashing out. The state song 'Tamil Thai Vaazhthu' was being played at the...
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A day ahead of the Reserve Bank of India's monetary policy review, the 30-share BSE Sensex on Wednesday surged 582.87 points or 0.99 per cent to settle at 59,689.31 points. As many as 21 stocks in the index ended in the green and nine in the red.After a gap-up opening, the index touched a...
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The ED Wednesday told a Delhi court the investigation in the money laundering probe against AAP leader Manish Sisodia in the alleged excise scam is at a crucial stage and it has found fresh evidence of his complicity. The agency made the submissions while seeking time to argue on the bail...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday urged people to celebrate the Hanuman Jayanti festival peacefully so that there is no problem anywhere. Her comment came on the eve of the festival and in the backdrop of the state witnessing back-to-back clashes and vandalism in...
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a petition challenging the decision to rename Aurangabad city in Maharashtra as 'Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar', saying the issue lay in the democratic realm of the government. A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice JB...
16:46
Mahatma Gandhi's assassination has been deleted
The Congress on Wednesday accused the government of distorting history and whitewashing with a vengeance after certain content from NCERT textbooks was dropped, including on Mahatma Gandhi's assassination and the subsequent ban on the RSS for some time. The Opposition party slammed the...
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Despite a robust growth, the telecom density in rural areas is just 57%.
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The Congress on Wednesday said presiding officers in legislatures are expected to be fair, even-handed and non-partisan, and cannot display their biases or their loyalty to the ruling party. The assertion by Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh did not name...
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a plea by 14 parties, led by the Congress, alleging arbitrary use of central probe agencies against opposition leaders and seeking guidelines for the future. A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice J B Pardiwala...
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Veteran politician and former Union minister Ghulam Nabi Azad believes the Congress is still run by remote control and alleges that a new coterie of inexperienced sycophants manage its affairs. Ahead of the release of his book 'Azaad -- An Autobiography', the former Congress stalwart,...
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In a move to provide relief to affected farmers, the Maharashtra cabinet on Wednesday said unseasonal rains will be considered a natural calamity in the state. A statement from the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) said that terming unseasonal rains a natural calamity will help the...
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed the Centre's telecast ban on Malayalam news channel MediaOne, and pulled up the Ministry of Home Affairs for raising national security claims from thin air without facts.Observing that the State can't impose unreasonable restrictions on press as it would...
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Several left wing trade unions held a rally at the Ramleela grounds on Wednesday with hundreds of workers and farmers in a show of solidarity against the BJP-led central government's alleged disregard of their basic needs and loss of livelihoods. The Masdoor-Kisan Sangarsh rally was...
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The Congress on Wednesday hit back at Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia for his scathing criticism of Rahul Gandhi, and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should beware of a man who did not stay loyal to his former party and will also not be loyal to him.Scindia launched a sharp attack on Gandhi...
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Gandhiji's death had magical effect on communal situation in the country, Gandhi's pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity provoked Hindu extremists and Organisations like RSS were banned for some time are among the texts missing from the class 12 political science textbook for the new academic...
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Sales of retail vehicles in India shot up 14 per cent on a yearly basis in March. Except for tractors, all categories saw double-digit growth, with two-wheelers, three-wheelers, passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles growing by 12 per cent, 69 per cent, 14 per cent, and 10 per cent,...
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The Congress on Wednesday hit out at the government over some texts missing from NCERT's new class 12 textbooks, including Mahatma Gandhi's pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity irking the right-wing and the ban on the RSS for some time, and called it whitewashing with a vengeance. The NCERT,...
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The Bombay High Court on Wednesday continued till further orders an interim stay on show-cause notice and penalty demand issued to industrialist Anil Ambani by the Income Tax department under the Black Money Act. A division bench of Justices Gautam Patel and Neela Gokhale posted Ambani's...
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Ahead of Hanuman Jayanti, the Centre on Wednesday asked all states to ensure the maintenance of law and order, peaceful observance of the festival, and to monitor any factor that can disturb communal harmony in the society. The Union Home Ministry's advisory to all states and union...
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Bandi Sanjay
Telangana BJP President and MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar was detained by the police in the early hours of Wednesday, triggering protests by his party workers. However, the police gave no reasons for the detention.The BJP has moved the Telangana High Court, alleging that Kumar was arrested illegally...
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Filmmaker and actor Aparna Sen is one of the signatories
Thirteen prominent personalities in Bengal, including filmmaker Aparna Sen voiced concern over the rise in politics of polarisation being practised by certain groups in West Bengal and called upon the administration to do the needful for protecting the lives and properties of ordinary...
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The Border Security Force has apprehended a Pakistani national trying to enter India through the border along Gujarat's Banaskantha district, the BSF said on Wednesday. BSF troopers observed a Pakistani national crossing the international border on Tuesday. They nabbed him as...
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As part of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport's (CSMIA) monsoon contingency plan, both runways -- RWY 09/27 & 14/32 will remain temporarily non-operational on May 2, 2023, for pre-monsoon maintenance and repair work. The temporary closure will be from 1100hrs to...
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French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are set to arrive in China on Wednesday for a three-day state visit that will see them meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, reported Al Jazeera. Macron and US President Joe Biden agreed in a...
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36 people died in the stepwell roof collapse in a temple in Indore
Days after the stepwell roof collapse at a temple in Indore claimed 36 lives, the Madhya Pradesh government has ordered a state-wide survey of all the covered stepwells and open borewells within 30 days, an official said. The district administrations have also been asked to completely fill...
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Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud on Wednesday took note of the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the country and said the Supreme Court is willing to hear lawyers via video conferencing. Referring to recent media reports, a bench comprising the CJI and Justice J B Pardiwala said the...
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Jyotiraditya Scindia used to a close aide of the Gandhis
Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia launched a sharp attack on Rahul Gandhi and the Congress on Wednesday, alleging the party has been left with no ideology except the one of a traitor which works against the country. The BJP leader attacked the Congress for according Rahul Gandhi a special...
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India on Wednesday recorded 4,435 new COVID-19 infections, the biggest single-day jump in 163 days (five months and 13 days), while the number of active cases increased to 23,091, according to Union health ministry data. A total of 4,777 cases were recorded on September 25 last year. With...
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Chhattisgarh Police have solved the case of a home theatre music system explosion in Kabirdham district and arrested former lover of a newly married woman for allegedly planting a bomb in the electronic device with an intention to kill the couple, an official said on Wednesday. The...
10:13
Adult film star Stormy Daniels has been ordered to pay, over USD 120,000 in legal fees to the attorneys of former US President Donald Trump, by a federal appeals court in California. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday (local time) ordered Daniels to pay Trump's attorneys...
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Forensic experts at the spot of the incident
A joint team of Central Intelligence and Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) Maharashtra nabbed the absconding accused in the Kerala train fire incident from Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district on Wednesday. A team of Kerala police has also reached Ratnagiri and the accused will be handed over to them...
09:41
A defiant former president Donald Trump denounced the criminal charges against him in connection to hush money payments made to a porn star before the 2016 presidential election and said the United States has now become a failing nation where the radical left lunatics want to interfere with the...
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Prohibitory order was still in force and internet services remained suspended amid heavy deployment of police force in violence hit Rishra town of West Bengal's Hooghly district on Wednesday, police said. No incident of violence or arson reported from anywhere in the district, the police...
08:54
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has said India is moving towards 'Ram Rajya' with the government making every effort to work for the welfare of farmers, labourers, women and youths.Speaking at a function in Delhi for the release of Hindi poetic translation of 'Ramcharitmanas' by former bureaucrat...
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The samples of eye-drops manufactured by India's Global Pharma Healthcare,which were linked to three deaths and blindness in some patients in the United States, are found to be 'free of contamination', said health ministry sources on Tuesday.According to health ministry sources, the US Food and...
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Former President Donald Trump has left Manhattan Criminal Court after his arraignment, reports CNN.He will immediately fly back to Florida where he is expected to deliver remarks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach in the evening (local time).
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Former United States President Donald Trump appears in court with his legal team for an arraignment on charges stemming from his indictment by a Manhattan grand jury following a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, New York City, on April 4, 2023. Photograph: Andrew...
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Former US President Donald Trump, who is facing arraignment at a Manhattan court right now, has pleaded not guilty, reports CNN.
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Former United States President Donald Trump is facing arraignment at a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday, reports CNN.Trump, the first former US President to face a criminal charge, has surrendered before Judge Juan Merchan. To read previous updates on Donald Trump's arraignment and other news...
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