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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi is losing respect within his own party and could soon face a 'revolt'.The senior Congress leader claimed PM Modi's respect among the common people is also on the wane as his party 'turns against' him because of...
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A Sudarshan News editor who was arrested in Gurugram for his alleged inflammatory post on social media has been granted bail, and a person who shared his tweet has been sent to judicial custody, officials said on Saturday. Mukesh Kumar, the resident editor of the TV channel, was arrested on...
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Security has been upped across Assam as militant outfits United Liberation Front of Assam (Independent) and National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN)/GPRN have called for boycotting Independence Day celebrations, police said.A senior police officer, on condition of anonymity, told PTI, We...
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Congress leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and some other MPs suspended from Parliament will not be able to attend the meetings of parliamentary committees of which they are a member or chairperson till their suspension is revoked.Chowdhury, who heads the all-important Public Accounts...
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Days after the communal clashes in Haryana, prominent Muslim body Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind on Saturday hailed the role of Khap panchayats, social organisations, Sikhs and other people who contributed towards building communal harmony.In a statement, Jamiat president Maulana Arshad Madani said Khap...
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Subhash K Jha reports:It looks like Diljit Dosanjh's controversial Punjab 95Â bio-pic on human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra is fated to undergo more obstacles before it reaches the audience.After being subjected to 21 cuts by the Central Board Of Film Certification, the film now finds...
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The Delhi services bill that entails the creation of an authority for the transfer and posting of Group-A officers in the national capital and gives the central government primacy over such appointments has received presidential assent. In a notification, the Ministry of Law and Justice said...
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Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who has been suspended from Lok Sabha, Saturday said he had no intention to insult Prime Minister Narendra Modi and wondered why was he opposed to the word INDIA for the opposition bloc as it is the same as Bharat. Addressing a press conference in Delhi,...
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Pakistani singer Ali Sethi on Saturday denied marriage rumours, claiming that the musician has secretly exchanged vows with New York-based painter Salman Toor. Sethi, known for his rendition of songs such as Pasoori, Gulon Main Rang, Ranjish Hi Sahi and Chan Kithan, refuted the reports in a...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday asked Rahul Gandhi if he expected the armed forces to resort to shooting at Indians in violence-hit Manipur and claimed the Congress leader does not have any trace of democracy in his mind. Noting that Gandhi had claimed that armed forces can restore peace...
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Senator Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar was on Saturday picked as Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister to govern the cash-strapped country and oversee general elections later this year. Outgoing Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the Leader of Opposition Raja Riaz finalised his name after two rounds of...
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Ahead of Independence Day, Delhi Police's Special Cell has arrested a 32-year-old man and seized 21 pistols from him, officials said on Saturday.  Lal Singh Chadhar, a resident of Sagar in Madhya Pradesh, used to supply illegal weapons in Delhi-NCR after procuring them from Burhanpur in his...
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A 33-year-old Indian-origin doctor has been arrested and charged in the US for allegedly exposing himself and performing a lewd act next to a teenage girl onboard a flight last year.  Dr Sudipta Mohanty was arrested on Thursday and charged by criminal complaint with one count of lewd, indecent...
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All doctors must prescribe generic drugs, failing which they will be penalised and even their license to practice may also be suspended for a period, according to the new regulations issued by the National Medical Commission.The National Medical Commission (NMC) in its 'Regulations relating to...
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Honey Trehan's feature Punjab '95, based on the life of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, has been removed from the world premiere line-up of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) that begins next month. Starring Diljit Dosanjh as Kalra, the film was scheduled to premiere in...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday alleged that the Centre has not taken any action against those involved in unleashing atrocities in Manipur. She also said Prime Minister Narendra Modi can't speak on corruption as his government is surrounded by issues like PM Care fund,...
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National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah on Saturday said promoting border tourism or holding rallies in Jammu and Kashmir is only a tamasha which will go on until India and Pakistan hold talks with honesty on the Kashmir issue.The hearts of both the countries should be pure. There has...
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Delhi Commission For Women's 181 helpline received more than 6.30 lakh calls between July 2022 and June 2023, its chief Swati Maliwal said on Saturday.Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Maliwal said 92,004 unique cases like domestic violence, conflict with neighbours, rape and sexual...
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The Digital Personal Data Protection bill, passed by Parliament this week, has received President's assent, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday.  Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) law aims to protect the privacy of Indian citizens while proposing a penalty of up to Rs 250...
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A 30-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly stabbing his colleague to death in a dispute over Rs 500 in Navi Mumbai, police said on Saturday. The victim Vickey Chindaliya (27), a scrap collector, was found dead near Panvel railway station on August 8, inspector Anjum Bhagwan of the Panvel...
13:20
Nepal is ready to export tomatoes to India in bulk on a long-term basis to quell the skyrocketing prices but has sought easy access to the market and other necessary facilities.The neighbouring country's assurance came after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told Parliament on Thursday that...
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The Manipur high court has asked the state government to find ways to provide mobile internet services to people. The court was hearing a batch of pleas filed by various parties seeking restoration of mobile internet services which were blocked after violence broke out in the state on May 3. A...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday hit out at the Opposition over the debate in Parliamnet on Manipur violence.Addressing the BJP's Kshetriya Panchayati Raj Parishad in West Bengal, via video conferencing, Modi said, Opposition parties did not want discussion on Manipur (in Parliament),...
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Four passengers of a Himachal Roadways Transport Corporation bus were injured after it fell a few feet as a portion of the Mandi-Shimla highway caved in on Saturday, officials said.  The bus with 12 passengers on board was on its way to Shimla from Mandi when a part of the road caved in near...
12:12
Australia on Saturday announced that its Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will attend the G20 summit in Delhi on September 9 and 10. The Australian prime minister's visit to India will be part of his three-nation tour. The other two countries that he will be visiting are Indonesia and the...
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Aam Aadmi Party leader Raghav Chadha on Saturday changed his bio on X, earlier known as Twitter, to Suspended Member of Parliament.This comes a day after Chadha was suspended from Rajya Sabha for gross violation of rules, misconduct, defiant attitude and contemptuous conduct, pending a report by...
12:05
India on Friday hoped that China would ensure circumstances that allow Indian journalists to stay in that country and report from there. The comments by External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi came when asked whether China has given visas to Indian journalists recently and if India...
11:15
A class 12 student belonging to the SC community in Tirunelveli district was allegedly attacked by his classmates in an apparent fallout of previous enmity, even as Chief Minister M K Stalin expressed concern over casteism poison creeping into young minds. The sister of the boy was also injured...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday morning arrived at Coimbatore airport on an IndiGo flight from Delhi.During his two-day visit to Tamil Nadu and Kerala, starting today Gandhi will also visit Udhagamandalam (Ooty).Gandhi is then scheduled to travel by road to Wayanad, his parliamentary...
10:57
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the impact of corruption is felt most by the poor and the marginalised people.  He said corruption affects the allocation of resources, markets and diminishes the quality of life of people. Addressing virtually the G-20 anti-corruption Ministerial...
10:13
A Central Reserve Police Force jawan was found dead inside a camp in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district in a suspected case of suicide, officials said.  According to preliminary reports, Sepoy Ajay Kumar was found dead at Chursoo in the Awantipora area of the south Kashmir district after...
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Five people, including three pilgrims from Gujarat, died after being buried under the debris of a landslide on the Kedarnath Yatra route in Rudraprayag district as the MeT department on Friday warned of heavy rains in six districts of Uttarakhand for the next few days.  Chief Minister Pushkar...
09:36
Twenty-eight students of a municipal school in west Delhi's Naraina area were hospitalised on Friday with two of them requiring oxygen support after allegedly inhaling noxious fumes following a suspected gas leak incident nearby, officials said. Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi said the students,...
09:27
India has deployed a squadron of upgraded MiG-29 fighter jets at the Srinagar air base to tackle threats from both the Pakistani and Chinese front.The Tridents squadron which is now also known as the ‘Defender of the North’ has replaced the MiG-21 squadron at the Srinagar air base which has...
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A former Jadavpur University student, who continued staying at the main hostel, was arrested on Friday evening for his alleged involvement in the death 18-year-old Bengali honours undergraduate student Swapnadip Kundu, a senior police officer said. The police identified the ex-student as Sourabh...
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Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday said that anyone casting a covetous eye on women or committing atrocities on them will be hanged. If anyone casts his covetous eye on sisters or commits atrocities on them will be hanged, he said addressing a 'Ladli Behna Yojana'...
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Former Congress MP Jagdish Tytler on Friday appeared through video conferencing before the Rouse Avenue court in view of safety concerns in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. He was allowed to appear through VC on Thursday. He has been charge-sheeted by the CBI in the Pul Bangash...
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Jama Masjid's Shahi Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari on Friday expressed concerns over the storm of hatred in the country, and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to listen to the 'Mann Ki Baat' of Muslims. Citing recent incidents like the Nuh riots and the killing of four persons by a railway police...
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Kichcha Sudeep (left) and Jacqueline Fernandez
A court in Bengaluru on Friday issued summons to two Kannada film producers to appear before it on August 26 in connection with the alleged remarks they made against actor Kichcha Sudeep. The Eega actor had appeared in person before the additional chief metropolitan magistrate court on Thursday...
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The train coach in which Chetan Kumar (right) shot dead 4 people, July 31, 2023
Not feeling safe here, planning to shift to another country, said the distraught son of a train passenger who was among four people shot dead allegedly by Railway Protection Force constable Chetan Singh on board the Jaipur-Mumbai Central Superfast Express late last month. On Friday, a city court...
