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The pro-talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom, led by its 'chairman' Arabinda Rajkhowa, on Friday held peace talks with the Centre's representatives in an effort to find an amicable solution to the decades-old insurgency problem in Assam, sources said. A delegation of the...
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In late-2021, Maserati brought its latest supercar, the MC20, to the country, offering Indians to own the mean machine that can do over 325 kmph. Industrialist Gautam Singhania has been one of the buyers, but instead of revving on the city roads, notorious for potholes and humps, the car has...
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A 17-year-old nail artist was allegedly sexually assaulted in Gurugram by a man on the pretext of shooting an Instagram reel for her, the police said on Friday. According to a complaint filed by the victim's sister, the minor got in touch with accused Neeraj alias Neer Adhana on...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit South Africa's Johannesburg from August 22-24 to attend the 15th BRICS Summit at the invitation of South African President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa. After his visit to South Africa, he will travel to Greece for an official visit at the invitation of...
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Just In: Rajya Sabha chairman has referred the three bills to replace IPC, CrPC, Evidence Act to the standing committee on home affairs, seeks report within three months.
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Three people were killed while 10 sustained injuries in an explosion inside a scrap dealer's shop in Kargil district of Ladakh on Friday, officials said. A suspicious object exploded in the shop located in Kabadi Nallah area of Drass, they said. Three people, including a non-local, were...
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The body of a newborn girl was found in a drain here on Friday after people noticed a stray dog eating the mortal remains of the baby, the police said. According to police, the infant's umbilical cord was also attached to it, which indicated that she was thrown into the drain soon after...
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Zakir Hussain
An autographed baton of conductor Zubin Mehta, a tabla set signed by Zakir Hussain and a self-portrait of Dr Homi Jehangir Bhabha will be among the rare items at an auction by the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai on Saturday. The proceeds of the auction, An Evening with the...
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As many as 2,038 people lost their lives due to floods, lightning and landslides this monsoon, with Bihar reporting the highest casualty figure of 518 and Himachal Pradesh 330. According to the data prepared by the Union home ministry, 101 people went missing and 1,584 received injuries...
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Multi-genre music festival Lollapalooza will return to India with its second edition, set to be held in January 2024, the organisers announced Friday. The music festival will take place on January 27 and 28 at the Mahalaxmi Race Course in Mumbai, a press release stated. Building upon...
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Five farmers ended their lives on account of crop failure or agriculture-related financial issues in Yavatmal district of eastern Maharashtra from August 13 to 15, an activist claimed on Friday. A local official confirmed the incidents but said the causes of these suicides were yet to be...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday spoke to Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi and discussed matters of bilateral and regional importance, according to a statement. The two leaders reiterated their commitment to further strengthen bilateral cooperation, including realising the full...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday spoke to Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi and discussed matters of bilateral and regional importance, according to a statement. The two leaders reiterated their commitment to further strengthen bilateral cooperation, including realising the full...
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The Delhi high court on Friday reserved its verdict on confirmation of death penalty awarded to Ariz Khan following his conviction in the sensational 2008 Batla House encounter case in which decorated Delhi police inspector Mohan Chand Sharma lost his life. Arguments have been heard....
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Cooperatives National Cooperative Consumers' Federation of India and National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd will start selling tomatoes at a reduced rate of Rs 40 per kilogram from August 20 amid declining price of the kitchen staple in wholesale and retail...
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Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal will be on a daylong visit to Chhattisgarh capital Raipur on Saturday, his third trip to the poll-bound state in the past five months. Kejriwal will be accompanied by Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann and the duo will address...
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Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Rai on Friday claimed that party leader Rahul Gandhi will contest from Amethi in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Rahul Gandhi will contest from Amethi in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Aajy Rai said. On speculations of Priyanka Gandhi contesting in the...
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Security forces have busted a Lashkar-e-Tayiba terror module in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district by arresting eight militant-associates involved in cross-border smuggling of arms and ammunition at the behest of their Pakistani handlers, the police said on Friday. A terrorist module has...
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Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Friday said that proper drainage and cross-drainage system would be made mandatory for all roads in the state. The chief minister added that a high-level committee and monitoring teams would soon be constituted to look into the...
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Gauri Lankesh
The Supreme Court on Friday asked the CBI whether there was any common thread in the murders of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar, CPI leader Govind Pansare, activist-journalist Gauri Lankesh and scholar M M Kalburgi. Dabholkar, who fought against superstition, was shot dead by two...
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Equity benchmark index Sensex buckled under selling pressure for the second straight session to close below the 65k mark on Friday, as investors offloaded IT, teck and metal energy stocks amid a bearish global trend. Besides, fresh foreign fund outflows also hit investor sentiments, traders...
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ISRO on Friday said that Chandrayaan-3's Lander Module has successfully undergone a deboosting (slowing down) operation taking it closer to the Moon, and that its health is normal. The Lander Module comprising the lander (Vikram) and the rover (Pragyan), will undergo the second deboosting...
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Despite Ghoomer's predictability, it goes beyond the standard sports drama template to give us a genuinely moving tale of relationships, observes Mayur Sanap/Rediff.com.
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The Moon as captured by the Lander Imager Camera
ISRO on Friday released a set of visuals of the Moon captured by cameras positioned on the Lander Module of Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft. The images, captured after the separation of the Lander Module from the Propulsion Module of the spacecraft on Thursday, showed the craters on the...
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The Privileges Committee of Lok Sabha on Friday decided to ask Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury to appear before it at its next meeting to hear his side on his suspension from the House for misconduct. The committee, chaired by BJP member Sunil Kumar Singh, also appeared to...
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The Supreme Court on Friday adjourned the hearing of the bail plea filed by former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Umar Khalid in an Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) case related to the alleged conspiracy behind the North-East Delhi riots in February 2020.A bench of Justices...
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A journalist was shot dead by unidentified people in Araria district of Bihar early on Friday, police said. Vimal Kumar Yadav (35), who worked for a Hindi daily, was killed at his residence in Premnagar village. The assailants knocked at the gates of Yadav's house around 5.30 am and...
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Director-General of WHO Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus on Friday said though COVID-19 is no longer a health emergency for the world, it is still a global health threat' and a new variant of coronavirus is already under the scanner.The chief of the World Health Organisation (WHO) was speaking at the...
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The Reserve Bank on Friday asked banks and other lenders to provide individual borrowers an option of switching over to a fixed rate at the time of reset of interest rates. In a notification, it said in respect of EMI-based floating rate personal loans, in the wake of rising interest rates,...
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The Congress on Friday targeted the BJP-led Centre over an alleged scam involving a Chinese national and demanded the government come out with a white paper on the allegations that he duped 1,200 people in Gujarat of Rs 1,400 crore using a betting app. Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera...
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Designer Tarun Tahliani has criticised the makers of series Made in Heaven for falsely attributing his creations to a 'fictitious designer' in an episode of the show's second season.Tahliani took to his Instagram Stories on Thursday and said his eponymous label had provided clothes for the second...
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CJI D Y Chandrachud
The court of Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Friday faced audio disruptions during virtual hearing of cases, Supreme Court sources said.The issue was later resolved by the technical team of the Supreme Court, they said.Due to the disruptions, several lawyers, litigants and journalists...
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With'Gadar 2', Sunny Deol's dhai kilo ka haath is undoubtedly shattering box office records in a historic way.The sequel, which was released on August 11, has minted Rs 284.63 crores in India in just seven days. On Friday, trade analyst Taran Adarsh shared the film's first-week box office...
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Tahawwur Rana
Ujjwal Nikam, the special public prosecutor of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack case, says the possible extradition of Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana, an accused in the case, is now a question of a few months.Nikam's statement came on the heels of US State Department Principal...
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Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Friday demanded the sacking of Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh as the four-member party delegation left for the state. Yechury-led delegation is on a three-day visit to Manipur from August 18 to...
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A bomb threat was received for Vistara's flight from the national capital to Pune when boarding was in progress on Friday morning, according to sources.The sources said the bomb threat was received at around 0730 am at the Delhi airport and search operations are going on. -- PTI
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In a fresh round of violence in ethnic strife-torn Manipur, mutilated bodies of three youths were found following heavy gunfire at Kuki Thowai village in Ukhrul district on Friday, officials said.Sounds of heavy gunfire were heard from the village, which falls under Litan police station, early...
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Spring-loaded fans are being installed in all hostels and paying guest accommodations in Kota to stem suicide cases among students.A student in Rajasthan's Kota died by suicide on Tuesday night. This becomes fourth suicide this month and 22th case this year, once again bringing the student...
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NDRF teams continue search and rescue operations at the landslide-affected area of Shimla. This is the 5th day of rescue operations. NDRF, an army team, and SDRF are involved in the operations. We have searched 80% of the area. Machines can't reach interior parts, so we have to do the...
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More than thirty people were injured after a private bus overturned near Kanimangalam in Kerala's Thrissur district on Friday. More than thirty people have been injured after a private bus overturned in Thrissur. Injured persons have been shifted to two private hospitals and Thrissur Taluk...
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The water level in the Pranmati river in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand has increased to a great extent following incessant rainfall in the state, which has been witnessed massive flooding and landslides. Authorities have alerted the locals in the area to ensure the safety and...
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A police constable was tied to a cot and thrashed by locals after he allegedly raped a woman in Rajasthan's Dausa district, officials said on Friday. However, Constable Mahesh Kumar Gurjar was let go by police personnel from the local police station after they took him for a medical...
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Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar has included Mishaal Hussain Malik, wife of jailed terrorist and Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik, in his cabinet.Malik was convicted by National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in terror funding cases and sentenced...
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A 25-year-old Sikh man has been charged in connection with the stabbing of two people during a community event in Southall, west London, the Metropolitan Police said.Gurpreet Singh, 25, appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court, London, and was charged with a series of offences, it said.The charges...
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Bharatiya Janata Party MP Poonamben Maadam on Thursday said that it was mere a 'misunderstanding' that led to a verbal spat between party MLA Rivaba Jadeja at a public event after they exchanged barbs over the 'use of slippers' while paying tributes to the bravehearts.There was definitely some...
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The team Prime Video series Made in Heaven on Thursday categorically denied appropriating author Yashica Dutt's life story for one of the episodes of the show's second season.In an Instagram post on Monday, Dutt had spoken about how she felt heartbroken to see her life story and work as a Dalit...
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