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Ahead of Independence Day, the Punjab Police busted a terror module with the arrest of three people from Tarn Taran and also seized three pistols from them.Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav said the module was being operated by Czechia-based Gurdev Singh alias Jaisel.Jaisel is a key...
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A South African female cheetah that went untraceable in the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh's Sheopur district since her radio collar stopped working on July 21, was captured on Sunday after a 22-day search operation, officials said.The cheetah, Nirva, was caught at around 10 am in Dhoret...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said the continuing violence in the northeastern state of Manipur is disturbing and needs to be stopped immediately.The MP from Wayanad said the violence in the state was a direct result of a particular type of politics of division, hatred and anger.So, it...
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A Bharatiya Janata Party MLA's son who was accused of shooting at and injuring a tribal man some days ago in Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh was held in the early hours of Sunday, a police official said.Vivekanand Vaishya (40), son of Singrauli MLA Ram Lallu Vaishya, had allegedly fired at and...
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Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday said his party will not go with the Bharatiya Janata Party though some 'well-wishers' are trying to persuade him.Addressing reporters at Sangola in Solapur district of Maharashtra, Pawar said any association with the BJP doesn't fit into the...
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Drawing from over three decades of research, historian Roshen Dalal's new book, SRI AUROBINDO: The Life and Teachings of a Revolutionary Philosopher, claims to present the most accessible, lucid, and insightful portrait of the freedom fighter and philosopher to date. The biography, scheduled...
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Six children died by drowning in two different incidents in Jharkhand on Sunday, the police said. Three girls and a boy drowned in a pond in Pathria village in Saraiyahat police station area in Dumka district, they said. The incident happened when the four children were bathing in the...
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Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Bhadohi Ramesh Bind has claimed that he received a death threat on his mobile phone number, following which an FIR has been registered against an unidentified person, the police said on Sunday. According to a complaint lodged by Bind at Gopiganj police station...
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President Droupadi Murmu will address the nation on the eve of the 77th Independence Day on August 14, the Rashtrapati Bhavan said on Sunday. The address will be broadcast from 7 pm on the entire national network of Akashvani and telecast on all Doordarshan channels in Hindi followed by the...
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The National Investigation Agency on Sunday conducted a series of raids in five states as part of its continued efforts to foil the Popular Front of India's conspiracy to disturb peace by driving a communal wedge among the people and destabilise the country, an official said. Fourteen...
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The Kerala government on Sunday decided to terminate the service of a nurse working on contract basis at a taluk hospital in Angamally near Ernakulam for allegedly wrongly administering a rabies vaccine to a feverish child. The incident took place on August 11 when the seven-year-old child...
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Shiv Sena-UBT leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday downplayed the secret meeting between Nationalist Congress Party founder Sharad Pawar and Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar in Pune a day earlier and said the octogenarian stalwart may have asked his nephew to join the meeting of the...
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The Mumbai police have registered an offence against unidentified persons for allegedly stealing and leaking clips of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan's upcoming film Jawan on Twitter, an official said on Sunday. The case was registered on an order issued by the Delhi high court after Shah...
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A Chinese convoy of engineers was attacked near the Gwadar police station in Pakistan on Sunday. The convoy of three SUVs and a van, all bulletproof, carried 23 Chinese personnel. An IED exploded during the attack and the van was shot at, creating cracks in the glass, reported...
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Tamil Nadu Education Minister Anbil Mahesh was admitted to a private hospital in Bengaluru on Saturday after he complained of upper abdominal pain. According to sources, the minister was near Krishnagiri on Saturday when he fell ill. He was later rushed to Krishnagiri...
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The Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi has revamped its evaluation system and dropped a set of mid-semester exams to reduce students' stress, according to institute director Rangan Banerjee. The decision comes against the backdrop of several cases of student suicides across IITs which has...
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Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam President and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin has questioned Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's statement in Parliament over the alleged attack on the late CM J Jayalalithaa in 1989 in the state assembly, drawing strong rebuke from AIADMK leader Edappadi K...
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Seventeen patients have died in the last 24 hours in civic-run Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital in Kalwa in Thane city, Maharashtra minister Tanaji Sawant and a senior police official said on Sunday. The police official said the management of the facility have cited critical nature of...
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Security arrangements were beefed up in Manipur on Sunday after some Imphal valley-based banned organisations called for a strike on Independence Day, officials said. Security forces also conducted search operations in vulnerable areas of five districts and recovered arms and ammunition, the...
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Gadar 2, which stars Sunny Deol's reprising his iconic character Tara Singh, has collected Rs 83.18 crore net at the domestic box office in the first two days of its release, the makers said Sunday. Directed by Anil Sharma, who also worked on the 2001 original Gadar: Ek Prem Katha, the film...
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A refurbished Bakshi Stadium in Srinagar will host the main Independence Day function of Jammu and Kashmir after a gap of five years as the civil administration on Sunday appealed to people take part in the celebrations on Tuesday. The function is being held here so that more and more people...
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A 'mahapanchayat' by Hindu outfits will be held in Haryana's Pondri village on Sunday which will take a call on resuming VHP's Braj Mandal Yatra in Nuh that was disrupted on July 31 after communal violence broke out in the area, officials said. The 'Sarva Jatiye Mahapanchayat' was originally...
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A Hindu temple was vandalised in Canada by extremist elements, with Khalistan referendum posters in the late hours of Saturday, Australia Today reported. The incident happened in British Columbia province in Canada. #Breaking Another #Hindu temple vandalised in #Canada by...
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Actor Rajinikanth on Saturday visited Badrinath Temple for a darshan where he was accorded a warm welcome by the Badrinath-Kedarnath temple committee officials. While he was ushered into the temple the committee officials, devotees outside jostled with each other for a glimpse of the...
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A female elephant trapped in the Ken river water in Madhya Pradesh's Panna Tiger Reserve has been rescued, officials said on Sunday. The incident took place on Thursday, they said, adding the stranded jumbo managed to keep its trunk up for breathing and was rescued after a four-hour...
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A 33-year-old Indian-American doctor has been arrested and charged for allegedly masturbating and exposing himself in front of a 14-year-old female seated next to him onboard a flight from Honolulu to Boston. US Attorney's Office in a statement said that the incident took place on a...
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A mild tremor of 3.6 magnitude hit the border area of Gaurela-Pendra-Marwahi and Korba districts in Chhattisgarh on Sunday morning, officials said. The aftershocks were felt in some parts of the two districts, but so far there was no report of any loss of life or property, according to...
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Vehicular movement has been suspended on Sunday near Red Fort in the national capital ahead of Independence Day. With only two days left for Independence Day, preparations for the occasion have been intensified as full dress rehearsals of different armed forces are underway at...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged people to change the display picture of their social media accounts to the tricolour in the spirit of the 'Har Ghar Tiranga' campaign. Modi also changed the display picture of his social media accounts to the national flag. The prime minister on...
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Two students of Jadavpur University were arrested on Sunday for their alleged involvement in ragging an 18-year-old undergraduate student who died after falling from the balcony of a hostel, the police said. Three persons have so far been held in the case a senior officer said. A former...
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Maharashtra Congress MLC Rajesh Rathod on Saturday alleged a truck brushed past his car in a bid to kill him while he was travelling to Jalna from Mumbai. The MLC claimed the incident occurred on August 10 and could be the fallout of his raising the voice against the alleged issuance of...
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A month after a robbery in a house in Delhi, the burglar was arrested from Agra after the police tracked his location through his travel vlogs, officials said on Sunday. Sanjeev (29), a resident of Bindapur, robbed a house in Uttam Nagar on July 11, they said. In his complaint, the...
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The death toll from Hawaii's Maui wildfires surged to 89 as the search teams sifted through the smoking blazes of Lahaina town in the US, according to a CNN report. At least 89 people have died in the fires as of Saturday night, Gov Josh Green said, and the death toll is expected to...
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On the occasion of the 60th birth anniversary of the late actor Sridevi, search engine Google paid a heartfelt tribute to her via a creative doodle. Google honored Sridevi with a colorful and whimsical illustration created by Mumbai-based guest artist Bhumika Mukherjee of the actor on...
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A church in Barampur area of Vasai in Palghar district of Maharashtra was allegedly ransacked by some unidentified persons, the police said on Saturday. The miscreants damaged status and other items in the church on Friday. No one is arrested so far in connection with the incident, a...
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Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar and his deputy chief minister nephew Ajit Pawar, who heads the group of rebel MLAs of the party, are believed to have met at the residence of a businessman in Pune on Saturday, sparking a buzz in Maharashtra political circles. Nationalist...
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Deloitte has resigned as auditor of the Adani group's port company, with the firm run by billionaire Gautam Adani saying the auditor wanted a wider remit over other firms in the conglomerate following the report of a US short seller. The resignation comes weeks after Deloitte raised concern...
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Ahead of Independence Day celebrations, the Delhi police beefed up security arrangements in the national capital. The Delhi police put up stringent security arrangements and intensified patrolling and checking of vehicles. Earlier, a full dress rehearsal of different armed...
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