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The Delhi high court has permitted Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd to withdraw its contempt plea against ARG Outlier Media Pvt Ltd, which owns Republic TV, and its editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami over the use of 'NATION WANTS TO KNOW' tagline. In the contempt application, the Times Now owner...
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The Noida police on Thursday said they have arrested 84 people, including 36 women, after a raid at a call centre on charges of duping US citizens of crores of rupees by pretending to be American government officials. The accused had a database of around five lakh US citizens that included...
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Union minister Kiren Rijiju
A cab allegedly rammed into the wall of the official residence of Union minister Kiren Rijiju in central Delhi, causing damage to it, the police said on Thursday. They said the cab was first hit by a DTC cluster bus due to which it crashed against the wall. Rahim Khan, a resident of...
22:56
Suvendu Adhikari
The Calcutta high court on Thursday allowed a public meeting of Bharatiya Janata Party leader Suvendu Adhikari in Purba Medinipur district on August 26. A petition was moved before the court by a BJP leader of Khejuri seeking direction to the police to allow the meeting. Justice Jay...
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The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay has received a donation of $18.6 million from an alumnus for establishment of a Green Energy and Sustainability Research Hub, the premier institute said on Thursday. The IIT Bombay, however, did not disclose the identity of the alumnus, saying he...
22:27
Bollywood actor Alia Bhatt
Bollywood actor Alia Bhatt, who has been honoured with the National Film Award for Best Actress at the 69th National Film Awards for her performance in Gangubai Kathiawadi, took to her social media platform on Thursday to express gratitude to film director film's director Sanjay Leela Bhansali,...
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SriLankan Airlines on Thursday said its plane flying from Colombo to Delhi encountered a minor issue with one of its hydraulic systems and that there was no emergency landing. On Wednesday, a source had said the aircraft had made an emergency landing at Delhi airport due to a hydraulic...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi conveyed to Chinese President Xi Jinping India's concerns on the unresolved issues along Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh during a conversation on the sidelines of the BRICS summit, foreign secretary Vinay Kwatra said on Thursday. The prime minister...
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Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren
The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a preliminary enquiry to look into allegations of illegal mining in Sahibganj district of Jharkhand by Pankaj Mishra, an aide of Chief Minister Hemant Soren, officials said Thursday. A team of CBI officials has reached the district to...
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Union minister Smriti Irani on Thursday visited villages in her parliamentary constituency Amethi in Uttar Pradesh and held a chaupals to hear the grievances of people, said a BJP leader. The BJP leader said Irani, who reached in Amethi on Thursday for a two-day tour to her constituency,...
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Vehicles set on fire by miscreants after clashes broke out between two groups in Nuh/ANI
Gurugram police has arrested a man in connection with the alleged killing of a Bajrang Dal member during the recent communal violence in Haryana, an official said on Thursday. On July 31, communal violence erupted when mobs allegedly pelted stones at the Vishva Hindu Parishad's Braj Mandal...
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Films should not be prevented from release at the eleventh hour, the Bombay high court said while refusing to stay the release of Ayushmann Khurrana starrer Dream Girl 2. The movie is slated for release on Friday (August 25). A single bench of Justice Riyaz Chagla on August 22 heard a...
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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is expected to expand his cabinet soon, a senior leader of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said on Thursday, an exercise planned just months ahead of assembly polls.Three to four new members are likely to be inducted in the cabinet of...
19:03
X Corp (formerly Twitter) has been given one more and last opportunity by the Karnataka high court to submit material to show compliance of the blocking orders issued by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY).The counsel for X Corp informed the bench of...
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Allu Arjun in 'Pushpa'
The national film awards 2021 have been announced.Some of the awards are:RRR bags award for best popular film providing wholesome entertainment.Rocketry: The Nambi Effect gets national award for best feature film. The Kashmir Files wins Nargis Dutt award for best film on national...
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Harinath Goud
Bathini Harinath Goud, whose family administers the popular 'fish prasadam' to asthma patients in Hyderabad, died at his residence here following ill health. He was 84.Goud was unwell in recent weeks and the end came on Wednesday night, family members said. He is survived by his wife, two sons...
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Terming the safe landing of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft's lander on the moon as a 'historic achievement', Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday said the state government will organise a special programme to officially felicitate Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) team for this...
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Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh along with a few of his cabinet colleagues went to New Delhi on Thursday, officials said.During the visit to the national capital, Singh is expected to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah to discuss the situation in his state, where ethnic clashes broke out in...
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Search engine giant Google on Thursday celebrated India's success in its third Moon mission Chandrayaan-3 with a special animated doodle.India scripted history on Wednesday with its touchdown on the lunar south pole, making it the first nation to land on the uncharted surface.With this...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said science has made it possible for India to reach a difficult terrain on the moon and thanked world leaders for their congratulatory messages on the success of Chandrayaan-3.Since yesterday I have been receiving congratulatory messages from everyone....
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IT services company Infosys on Thursday announced a three-year partnership with Rafael Nadal, onboarding the global tennis star as ambassador for the brand and Infosys' Digital Innovation.To mark Nadal's first-ever collaboration with a digital services company, Infosys and Nadal's coaching team...
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Former ISRO chairman K Sivan on Chandrayaan 3's success: ...Finally our prayers came true. After landing we did not come back, I was still sitting in the control room till the rover came out of the lander. Only after seeing that the rover came out of the lander and moving over the surface of the...
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At least eight vacant buildings collapsed on Thursday in rain-battered Himachal Pradesh's Kullu district, while one more body was recovered from the site of a landslide at the Shiv temple in Shimla. There were no casualties in the building collapse incident in Kullu's Anni area. So far...
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Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to Moon, was launched on the 22nd of October 2008. G Madhavan Nair was the chairman of ISRO then.What we had put on the drawing board in those days, my followers have succeeded in accomplishing it. So, I was really thrilled and excited by the event, G...
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Former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry, who mocked the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) earlier after the failure of a previous mission, on Wednesday congratulated the ISRO's soft-landing on the lunar South Pole.Taking to his official handle on X, formerly...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi was spotted having a brief exchange of words with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the 15th BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) leaders' press conference on Thursday. Before the conference started in earnest, PM Modi and Xi were...
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Dr. S. Jaishankar tweets this image saying, This morning at the BRICS Summit.
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ISRO chief S Somanath
As the country rejoiced the successful placement of the ISRO lander -- Vikram -- on the moon's uncharted South Pole, the agency's chairman S Somanath on Thursday confirmed that its maiden solar mission 'Aditya' is in the works and will be ready for launch in September. In a brief...
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PM Modi on the success of Chandrayaan-3 mission at the 15th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg.It is a matter of pride for us that this achievement is being accepted as an achievement for all of humanity... On behalf of India, its people and our scientists, I thank the scientists and the world's...
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Chandrayaan-3's successful soft-landing on the Moon to propel India into an elite group of nations was lauded by leading foreign media outlets as a marvellous achievement and a massive moment for the country's space exploration that has raised its profile as a spacefaring nation. From The...
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A parliamentary panel met in Delhi on Thursday to examine the bills which seek to replace the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) and the Evidence Act. Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla is scheduled to make a presentation on the three bills - the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita,...
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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has a very important point to make.Worth applauding: @ISRO chief Dr Somanath is a product of the TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, Kerala and many of his colleagues graduated from the College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram (CET). At least seven more engineers from...
12:28
Moon and romance are synonymous. So, if you missed what India's romantic hero had to say about the landing yesterday, here it is. Yeah, we are talking about Shah Rukh Khan. The actor posted, Chaand Taare todh laoon'. Saari Duniya par main chhaoon. Aaj india aur @isro chhaa gaya....
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Veteran actor Seema Deo, remembered for her roles in Anand and Kora Kagaz, died here on Thursday morning due to age-related ailments, her filmmaker son Abhinay Deo said. She was 81. The actor, who acted in over 80 Hindi and Marathi films, passed away at her Bandra home. She had been...
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The lessons learned from the failure of Chandrayaan-2 contributed to the success of India's third lunar mission, former space scientist with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) scientist, Nambi Narayanan, said after successful touchdown of the 'Vikram' lander on the lunar South...
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Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah congratulates team of ISRO scientists on the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3. He also felicitated ISRO chief S Somanath on the success.India's Moon mission Chandrayaan-3 touched down on the lunar south pole at 6.04 pm on Wednesday, making it the first country to land...
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ISRO scientists watch the lander descend last evening
Buoyed by India's successful Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission, former ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair said the scientists at space agency have achieved this historic success by getting a salary one-fifth of the scientists in the developed world. According to him, the low wages for the...
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A still of the houses collapsing
A massive landslide in Himachal Pradesh's Kullu district today destroyed several houses with many people feared trapped in the debris. Visuals of the landslide show many multi-storeyed buildings collapsing, leaving behind a massive trail of dust.Emergency response teams, such as the National...
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Philip Green OAM, Australia's envoy to India shares this image from last evening, writing. What a triumph! Congratulations #India on #Chandrayaan3's successful #MoonLanding! Our team watched with pride the final frontier of your #MoonMission. @PMOIndia @narendramodi @DrSJaishankar @MEAIndia...
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Former NASA Official Mike Gold has said Chandrayaan-3's success is a triumph of Indian innovation, human capital and the capabilities that will take India even further.Congratulations to ISRO and all of the people of India. This is a victory not only for India but for the entire world as we...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said India is seen as a combination of openness, opportunities and options as the world sees optimism and confidence in the Indian economy. In a video message at the G20 Trade and Investment Minister's meeting here, the prime minister said that...
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US astronaut Chris Hadfield, a veteran for three spaceflights tweets, Congratulations @isro and all of India! You are there, safely and proudly on the Moon!
10:17
Up close and personal with the moon
After a historic soft landing by the Chandrayaan-3 on the southern polar region of the Moon, the Indian diaspora erupted in celebrations at Times Square in New York City. Members of the Indian diaspora were seen dancing to drum rolls and immersing in unbridled joy as the country became the...
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Top United Nations leadership congratulated India on the success of its lunar mission Chandrayaan-3, describing it as a giant step for humanity and a great achievement.India's Chandrayaan-3 became the first space mission to land near the south pole of the Moon. The attempt comes days after...
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Two persons were killed and six others injured when the slab of a 20-year-old residential building collapsed in Nerul area of Navi Mumbai, fire brigade officials said on Thursday.The third floor ceiling slab of the four-storey Tulsi Bhavan building located at Shirsole in Nerul collapsed at around...
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The Pragyan rover has rolled out from the Vikram lander and will now start moving around on the lunar surface, marking a successful next stage hours after Chandrayaan-3 made its historic landing on the Moon, ISRO sources said Thursday. President Droupadi Murmu congratulated ISRO...
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American politicians, newspapers and space research institutions hailed India Wednesday on the successful moon landing of Chandrayaan-3 as the country entered the elite club of three other nations -- United States, Russia and China -- that have a rover on the lunar surface. In the process,...
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The Allahabad high court on Wednesday adjourned till September 4 hearing on a PIL seeking the removal of Mathura's Shahi Idgah mosque which the petitioner claimed was built on the Krishna Janmabhoomi or the birthplace of Lord Krishna. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Pritinker...
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Shweta Baranwal/Smriti Irani on X
Union Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Amethi Smriti Irani on Wednesday shared pictures of two people from her constituency working at ISRO and congratulated them for the successful Chandrayaan-3 mission. In a giant leap for its space programme, India's Moon mission Chandrayaan-3...
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In another episode of suppression of women's voices in Afghanistan, the Taliban regime stopped 100 girl students, who had the opportunity to pursue higher education abroad, from travelling to Dubai at Kabul Airport, Khaama Press reported. Due to this action by Taliban officials, the young...
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Uddhav Thackeray
Former Shiv Sena (undivided) MP Bhausaheb Wakchaure on Wednesday joined the Uddhav Thackeray-led faction of the party. Wakchaure won the Lok Sabha elections in 2009 on Shiv Sena ticket from Shirdi constituency in Ahmednagar district. He joined Congress in 2014 but lost to Sadashiv...
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