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US Ambassador-designate Eric Garcetti on Tuesday night arrived in India, over two years after the then US envoy Kenneth Juster stepped down when Joe Biden took charge as the American president. Considered a close aide of Biden, Garcetti received the confirmation to the post from the US Senate...
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Mumbai on Tuesday logged 242 new COVID-19 cases -- a sharp jump from 95 the previous day -- taking the overall tally to 11,59,225, while no fresh death linked to the infection was registered in the metropolis, said the local civic body. The death toll remained unchanged at 19,750, the...
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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat will be on a two-day visit to Burhanpur city in Madhya Pradesh beginning April 16 during which he will visit a Ram temple and a gurdwara, a Sangh office-bearer said on Tuesday. Bhagwat will also participate in different programs. Burhanpur, called...
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Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray leader Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday night met Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar at the latter's residence in Mumbai, the NCP said. The meeting, also attended by Shiv Sena-UBT MP Sanjay Raut, comes days after Pawar favoured a probe by a Supreme Court...
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday and held a meeting with Rashtriya Janata Dal supreme Lalu Prasad during which they were understood to have discussed the current political situation amid efforts to strengthen the Opposition unity to take on the Bharatiya Janata...
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Months after a suspension bridge collapsed in Morbi town of Gujarat killing 135 people, the state government on Tuesday superseded the town's municipality, said an official. The civic body was controlled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which rules in the state too. The state government has...
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The first additional civil judge and judicial magistrate of first class of Mangaluru on Tuesday passed an interim order imposing a temporary injunction against media houses, restraining them from publishing any kind of information or defamatory statements, photos, pictures and articles that could...
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BS Yediyurappa
The BJP on Tuesday announced its first list of 189 candidates for the Karnataka elections, featuring 52 new faces, 8 women, 32 OBCs, 30 scheduled castes, and 16 scheduled tribes. Making the announcement, party leader Arun Singh Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has been fielded from his...
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Around 70 flights of Alliance Air were affected on Tuesday as a section of pilots continued with their strike for the second consecutive day and the airline has issued show cause notices to the pilots, according to two sources. Around 70-80 pilots refrained from coming for duty to protest against...
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Punjab police chief Gaurav Yadav Tuesday reviewed security arrangements at Anandpur Sahib in Rupnagar district ahead of the Baisakhi festival. The director general of police also held a meeting with senior officers, including special DGP (law and order) Arpit Shukla, inspector general of police...
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More than 1,000 FIRs have been filed in poll-bound Karnataka on seizures of cash, liquor, drugs, precious metals and freebies since the model code of conduct came into force on March 29, the Election Commission said on Tuesday. The total seizures during the period totalled more than...
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Amid the spike in COVID cases in Delhi, the Supreme Court has called for observing preventive measures including wearing of masks, frequent use of hand sanitisers and maintaining physical distancing norms in the apex court. Delhi had on Monday logged 484 fresh COVID-19 cases with a positivity...
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The Railways will be running 217 special trains to make 4,010 trips during this summer season for the convenience of passengers and to clear extra rush, the ministry of railways said on Tuesday. The special trains have been planned to connect major destinations across the country on railway...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi
Gujarat Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Purnesh Modi filed his objection in a court in Surat on Tuesday in response to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's plea for a stay of his conviction in a defamation case over his Modi surname remark, his lawyer said. The ruling party legislator is the complainant in...
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar left for Delhi on Tuesday amid speculation that the JD-U supremo will meet leaders of non-BJP parties in a bid to forge an alliance to take on the saffron party in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. According to party insiders, Kumar is likely to meet RJD boss Lalu...
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India has already seen four consecutive years of 'normal' and 'above-normal' rains during the monsoon season.
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Jagadish Shettar
Former Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Tuesday said he has been asked by the Bharatiya Janata Party central leadership not to contest the May 10 assembly elections, to which he has informed the party top brass of his displeasure with the decision. Shettar, a sitting MLA from...
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Rising for the seventh straight session, the 30-share BSE Sensex on Tuesday rose 311.21 points or 0.52 per cent to finish at 60,157.72. During the day, it jumped 421.17 points or 0.70 per cent to 60,267.68. As many as 21 stocks in the index ended in the green and nine in the red. In the seven-day...
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The Bombay high court has quashed a case registered against a Hyderabad resident for allegedly posting rape threats on social media against the minor daughter of cricketer Virat Kohli and actor Anushka Sharma. A division bench of Justices AS Gadkari and PD Naik on Monday quashed the case after...
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The Barmer district administration in Rajasthan has been put on alert after more than 70 people fell ill likely due to a viral disease, a health department official said on Tuesday. About 40 of them have been admitted to Barmer district hospital and nearly a dozen have been referred to Jodhpur...
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The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on Tuesday termed completely fake a purported letter written in its name exhorting Hindus to entrap Muslim girls and bring them back to the Sanatan religion. The purported letter has been circulating on social media. The two-page letter written on a purported...
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A court in Delhi has acquitted a man charged under the Delhi Excise Act for possessing liquor bottles beyond the permissible limit during a farmhouse party, saying the evidence before it rendered the prosecution's version false and concocted. The court was hearing a case against Ritv Kapoor, who...
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The Centre told the Supreme Court on Tuesday a new data protection bill is ready and will be introduced in the Monsoon session of Parliament in July, as the apex court heard a matter related to privacy concerns of social media users. Attorney General R Venkataramani told a Constitution bench...
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Thousands of people, including United Democratic Front leaders and workers, turned up on Tuesday at Kalpetta in this border district of Kerala to welcome Rahul Gandhi, who arrived in Wayanad along with his sister Priyanka Gandhi after his disqualification as an MP. While hundreds of UDF workers...
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Targeting the BJP over reports that B S Yediyurappa was kept out of a meeting by its central leadership to finalise candidates for the May 10 Assembly elections in Karnataka, the Congress said the ruling party was using the former Chief Minister as a disposable tissue paper. Citing a media...
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Coming down heavily on the Congress, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said that Congressmen want to dig the grave of that Prime Minister who made India famous all over the world and who ended terrorism in the North East.Addressing Bharatiya Janata Party workers at the foundation stone...
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As he ended his daylong fast demanding action from his own government over cases of alleged corruption during the BJP term, senior Congress leader Sachin Pilot on Tuesday said his movement against graft will continue. He was speaking to reporters after ending the fast at the Shaheed Smarak in...
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Union ministers Kiren Rijiju and Dharmendra Pradhan took a jibe at Congress leader Sonia Gandhi over her newspaper article on democracy and independence of institutions, saying it was an illusory statement of the highest improbity and a classic example of Modi hatred. The ministers hit back at...
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French President Emmanuel Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron is all set to visit the Netherlands on Tuesday following his recent visit to China during which he made controversial remarks about Europe's priorities on Taiwan.According to a statement released by the Netherlands Royal House, Macron's visit reaffirm ties between...
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Ukraine's Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzhaparova meets Meenakashi Lekhi, MoS MEA. Exchanged views on bilateral & global issues of mutual interest. Cultural ties & women empowerment also figured in the discussion. Ukraine was assured of enhanced humanitarian assistance, tweeted Lekhi.Emine...
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The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) will now take less than two hours to complete instead of three hours and the candidates will be able to see their official score release date upon completion of the test, according to the Educational Testing Services (ETS). ETS, which conducts...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday asserted that the BJP will win more than 300 Lok Sabha seats across the country in next year's general elections and return to power with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the helm. Addressing a rally in Dibrugarh, the senior BJP leader exuded confidence...
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Apple will next week open its first retail store in India, in signs of importance the iPhone manufacturer attaches to the world's fastest growing smartphones market. The company will open its first official store in Mumbai on April 18 and the second in Delhi on April 20. The company at present...
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A police team from Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday left with gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad from Sabarmati Central Jail here for Prayagraj by road in connection with Umesh Pal murder case, an official said. Pal and his two police security guards were shot dead outside his home in Prayagraj's...
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Amit Shah in Arunachal Pradesh
1962 but a country that belongs to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. In the presence of Shah, Khandu also said it was perhaps for the first time that a Union home minister came to a place located so close to the border with China. Shah was here on Monday to launch...
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The Trinamool Congress on Monday said it will announce a new candidate for the seat vacated by former Goa chief minister Luizinho Falerio, who resigned as a Rajya Sabha MP. TMC sources said he was asked to resign a few months back but he sought some time. We wish him good health and...
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A day after Maharashtra minister Chandrakant Patil said not a single Shiv Sena worker was involved in the Babri Masjid demolition, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray said Chief Minister Eknath Shinde should either step down or seek Patil's resignation over his remarks. When the mosque was...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Thursday distribute about 71,000 appointment letters to newly inducted recruits under Rozgar Mela via video conferencing, Prime Minister's Office said in a release. The new recruits, selected from across the country, will join various positions such as Train...
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The BCCI is planning a massive renovation of at least five major stadiums in India ahead of the ODI World Cup in October-November. The game has attracted huge money over the past 10 years, making BCCI, the richest board in the world, richer. However, the stoic fan, which has made the game what...
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The country can expect normal rainfall during the southwest monsoon season as a positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) and a lower snow cover over the northern hemisphere are likely to counter the evolving El Nino conditions, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Tuesday. This forecast...
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A woman being groped on a street or public transport cannot be termed as participative on her part in such incidents and she cannot be prosecuted for failing to act, a Mumbai court has held in the 2007 obscenity case over Hollywood star Richard Gere kissing actor Shilpa Shetty at a public...
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Residents of a local panchayat in northern Palakkad district on Tuesday observed a hartal protesting the proposed translocation of rice eating rogue tusker Arikomban to the nearby Parambikulam wildlife sanctuary, based on a Kerala High Court order. Majority of shops remained closed and...
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All anti-national forces that want to halt the country's progress are against the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), its national convenor Arvind Kejriwal said in New Delhi on Tuesday. Describing the AAP's newly-acquired status of a national party in a short span of 10 years as a miraculous and incredible...
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CBI calls Congress leader Jagdish Tytler for recording his voice sample in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case in Pul Bangash area of Delhi, say officials.Tytler, 74, is facing trial in a case on his alleged involvement in the killing of three persons by a mob in the 1984 riots. The riots followed then...
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Mumbai Police have detained a 16-year-old boy from neighbouring Thane district for calling the police control room and allegedly threatening to kill Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, an official said on Tuesday. The main control room of Mumbai Police received the call on Monday. The police then...
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Despite a warning issued to him by the Congress, former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot began his daylong fast at the Shaheed Smarak in Jaipur on Tuesday, demanding action in cases of alleged corruption related to the previous BJP government in the state led by Vasundhara Raje....
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Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday joined the Enforcement Directorate investigation in a land-for-jobs case involving his father and former Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and other family members. The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader reached the Enforcement Directorate...
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The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the Madras High Court orders allowing the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to hold marches in state and dismissed the appeals of the Tamil Nadu government.A bench of Justices V Ramasubramanian and Pankaj Mithal said, All special leave petitions are dismissed....
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India recorded 5,676 new coronavirus infections, while the active cases increased to 37,093, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. The death toll has increased to 5,31,000 with 21 deaths. While three deaths each were reported from Delhi, Punjab and Rajasthan, two were...
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Sonia and Rahul Gandhi at the BJY last year
Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said with the Narendra Modi government bent on misusing every power and elections approaching in several key states, her party will take its message directly to people and join hands with all like-minded parties to defend the Constitution. In an...
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Domestic equity benchmark indices began the trade on a positive note on Tuesday helped by firm global market trends and continuous foreign fund inflows. The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 252.39 points to 60,098.90 in early trade. The broader NSE Nifty gained 85.2 points to 17,709.25. Among the...
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A Pakistani drone
India is facing a serious challenge of cross-border supply of illicit weapons using drones, which cannot be possible without active support from state authorities, New Delhi's envoy to the UN said in an apparent reference to Pakistan. Speaking at the UN Security Council's open debate on Threats...
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Amritpal Singh
Papalpreet Singh, a close aide of fugitive Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal Singh, was brought to Amritsar airport in the early hours of Tuesday.Papalpreet Singh was arrested from Amritsar's Kathu Nangal area on Monday.Earlier, on Monday Punjab's Inspector General of Police (IGP), Headquarters,...
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The roots of the populist upsurge in India lie in the deepening of intra-subaltern conflicts. Dominant explanations of populism perceive it as the 'massification' of democracy through an anti-elitist discourse manifest in populism's extra-institutional mobilisation. There is, though, a need to...
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman responds to a question on 'violence against Muslims' in India and on 'negative Western perceptions' of India.India has the second largest Muslim population in the world and that population is only growing in numbers, the finance minister said speaking at...
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Adani Electricity Mumbai Ltd (Adani Electricity) topped the country's 71 electricity distribution companies for its overall governance includingFinancial Sustainability, Performance Excellence and External Environment, said a press release from Adani press release. According to the release, in...
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With Sachin Pilot firm on holding a fast to press his party-led government in Rajasthan for action against graft, the Congress Monday night issued a stern warning to him and said any such action on his part would amount to anti-party activity. Sources close to Pilot said he would go ahead with...
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The engine of a goods train derailed at Godhni Chord Line in Nagpur district on Monday, but there was no disruption of services or report of any casualty, a railway official said. According to the official, the engine of the empty freight train came off the tracks at Godhni Chord Line at around...
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Maharashtra minister Chandrakant Patil
Maharashtra minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Chandrakant Patil on Monday said not a single worker of the Shiv Sena was near the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya when it was brought down by the Bajrang Dal and Durga Vahini on December 6, 1992. Patil, minister of higher and technical...
