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Security forces on Friday found some suspected explosive material during a cordon and search operation in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, officials said. Troops of Rashtriya Rifles and police started the operation in Darra, Nili, Mangota villages of Thanamandi, during which some...
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Central Railway will operate a special traffic and power block in the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday to launch girders of a 5-metre wide foot overbridge at Thane station, an official said. The block will start at 10:10pm on Saturday and end at 3:40am on Sunday, a CR release...
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Mukhtar Ansari
A special court in Varanasi on Friday sentenced gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari to five-and-a-half year's imprisonment for death threat to a coal trader in 1997. Along with the imprisonment, the MP-MLA court of Ujjawal Upadhyay also slapped a fine of Rs 10,000 on Ansari after...
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A special investigation team of the Mumbai police started probe into the alleged suicide of Disha Salian, former manager of late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, an official said in Mumbai on Friday. Additional commissioner of police (North) Rajiv Jain is heading the SIT. Senior...
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A 20-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly gang-raped by two drivers in a moving bus coming to Jaipur from Uttar Pradesh, the police said on Friday. The incident took place in the intervening night of December 9 and 10 when the private bus was en route to Jaipur from Uttar Pradesh, they...
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Sagar Sharma, one of the two men who had jumped into the Lok Sabha chamber and set off smoke canisters, maintained for some years a diary in which he often wrote Inquilab Zindabad on top of the page and at one stage talked about dying for the nation. I have given my life to the nation. I...
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A 22-year-old woman was shot dead allegedly by a man she was once friendly with in Narsinghpur district in Madhya Pradesh, a police official said on Friday. She was shot in the head late on Thursday night near the railway station in Narsinghpur while she was returning home, Gotegaon police...
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Eight months after they were killed in ethnic violence in Manipur, the remains of 19 people belonging to the Kuki Zo community were laid to rest in the state's Kangpokpi district on Friday. Friends and relatives of the deceased attended the mass burial organised by the Committee on Tribal...
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Ten shops selling meat illegally in Ujjain and the Bhopal houses of three persons allegedly involved in the attack on a Bharatiya Janata Party functionary were bulldozed by the Madhya Pradesh administration, officials said on Friday. The action in Ujjain came after Chief Minister Mohan Yadav...
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Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday announced probe by a Special Investigation Team into a dance party where gangster Dawood Ibrahim's aide and 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Salim Kutta and a Shiv Sena-UBT leader were allegedly present together. Sudhakar Badgujar, the...
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A 50-year-old Maoist was arrested on Friday in Narayanpur district in Chhattisgarh, a police official said. Dasru Korram was the 'jantana sarkar' president under the 'Aamdal area committee' of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist, the official added. He was involved in 16...
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Jagdeep Singh, a former police constable and a former participant in reality TV show America's Got Talent, was among three who were arrested with 500 grams of heroin, said the police on Friday. Heroin was recovered from an SUV driven by Singh in in Tarn Taran district, a senior police...
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The Madras high court on Friday imposed a punishment of 15 days' simple imprisonment on retired IPS officer G Sampath Kumar in a contempt of court case filed by former Indian cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni. A division bench comprising Justices S S Sundar and Sunder Mohan found...
19:37
Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik with his former aide V K Pandian (right)
Ending all speculations on Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's close aide, V Karthikeyan Pandian, the ruling Biju Janata Dal on Friday clarified that the former IAS officer is unlikely to contest the upcoming elections for Lok Sabha and state Assembly in 2024. This clarification was issued by...
19:17
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Bengali singer Anup Ghoshal, who is mostly known for the Tujhse Naraz Nahi Zindagi number from the 1983 film Masoom and immortalised the songs in several Satyajit Ray's musicals died in Kolkata on Friday, his family said. Ghoshal was 77. He had been hospitalised for the past...
19:02
Rhea Chakraborty
Rhea Chakraborty has moved the Bombay high court challenging the lookout circular issued against her by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with its probe into the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. Rajput was found dead in his apartment in suburban Bandra on June 14, 2020,...
18:42
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a mass gathering of two lakh women from various walks of life here on January 2. The meeting has been titled Sthree Shakthi Samgamam and is organised by the Kerala unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party to congratulate PM Modi for successfully...
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Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal
Over five crore cases are pending in various courts of the country, including 80,000 in the Supreme Court, the Lok Sabha was informed on Friday. In a written reply, Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said as of December 1, out of the 5,08,85,856 pending cases, over 61 lakh were at the level of...
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A court in Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh, on Friday sentenced Bharatiya Janta Party MLA Ramdular Gond to 25 years of rigorous imprisonment for the rape of a girl nine years ago, setting the stage for his disqualification from the Uttar Pradesh assembly. According to the Representation of the...
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Former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao who underwent hip replacement surgery was on Friday discharged from the hospital. A source close to him said Rao would be going to his residence at Nandi Nagar in Hyderabad from the hospital. The BRS chief on December 8 successfully...
17:05
Rising for the third day running, the 30-share BSE Sensex on Friday jumped 969.55 points or 1.37 per cent to settle at its record closing high of 71,483.75. During the day, it surged 1,091.56 points or 1.54 per cent to 71,605.76, its all-time intra-day high level. The Nifty climbed...
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The police in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh, have booked an unidentified man for allegedly threatening to kill the district judge's son, an officer said on Friday. According to the complaint, district judge Ashok Kumar had received the call on December 10 on his WhatsApp. The anonymous caller...
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Lalit Jha (second from left) being taken to Patiala House court in New Delhi./ANI on X
A Delhi court on Friday sent Lalit Jha, arrested in the Parliament security breach case, to seven-day police custody for his sustained custodial interrogation. Special judge Hardeep Kaur remanded Jha in Delhi police's custody after the public prosecutor said he was the mastermind of the...
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There will be no change of guard ceremony on Saturday due to the scheduled guard of honour for the Sultan of Oman, the Rashtrapati Bhavan said on Friday. Oman's Sultan Haitham bin Tarik will pay a state visit to India on December 16 on his first trip to the country to explore avenues for...
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The Supreme Court on Friday deferred the hearing for January 4, 2024, of the habeas corpus petition filed on behalf of Nikhil Gupta, accused by the United States of conspiring to assassinate Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a India designated terrorist, against his arrest and ongoing extradition...
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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday announced in the assembly that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) would be set up in the next two days to probe arson during the Maratha quota stir in Beed district where homes of two Nationalist Congress Party MLAs were torched as he...
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Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde
The Supreme Court on Friday granted 10 more days to Maharashtra assembly speaker Rahul to decide the cross-petitions filed by the rival factions of the Shiv Sena seeking disqualification of each other's MLAs. The top court, which extended time till January 10, next year, had earlier asked...
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The Supreme Court refused to stay Allahabad high court's December 14 order which allowed the primary survey of the Shahi Idgah complex adjacent to the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi Temple in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura by a court-monitored three-member team of advocate commissioners.The Supreme Court has...
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The Army station in Jorhat, Assam
ULFA (Independent) on Friday claimed responsibility for the blast near the gate of the army station in Assam's Jorhat district. The 'mild blast' had occurred on Thursday night in a dustbin near the army gate in the town's Lichubari area, a defence spokesperson said. Bomb experts have...
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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Friday said he along with Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis were scheduled to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the evening but the meeting got postponed.Pawar was speaking with journalists on the Vidhan Bhavan...
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader Bhajanlal Sharma was sworn-in as the chief minister of Rajasthan, in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah and other senior leaders, in Jaipur.BJP leaders Diya Kumari and Prem Chand Bairwa also took oath as deputy chief...
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A first information report (FIR) registered under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in connection with the Parliament security breach on Thursday revealed the insights of the case and showed the meticulous planning done by the accused.The FIR mentioned that the pair of sports...
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Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha, Union ministers Arjun Ram Meghwal, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and other leaders have turned up for the swearing-in ceremony of Rajasthan CM-designate Bhajanlal Sharma, in Jaipur. Diya Kumari and Prem Chand Bairwa will also be sworn in as deputy chief ministers of...
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Former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao who underwent hip replacement surgery was on Friday discharged from the hospital.A source close to him said Rao would be going to his residence at Nandi Nagar in Hyderabad from the hospital.The Bharat Rashtra Samiti chief on December 8...
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(Left) Shekhawat and Gehlot at the swearing-in
Outgoing chief minister of Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot reached the swearing-in ceremony of the new chief minister Bhajan Lal Sharma and sat next to rival Gajendra Singh Shekhwat. Gehlot has been repeatedly targeting Union minister Shekhawat, accusing him of being involved in the Sanjivani Credit...
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At least two policemen were killed and as many as injured after militants attacked a regional police headquarters in a former Taliban stronghold in northwest Pakistan on Friday, three days after terrorists killed 23 soldiers in the same region. The attack occurred at the Police Lines in...
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Both Houses of Parliament were adjourned soon after they met for the day as opposition MPs raised slogans demanding Union Home Minister Amit Shah's statement on the Parliament security breach.As soon as the Lok Sabha met at 11 am, opposition MPs held up placards and raised slogans.Most of them...
11:37
The Mumbai police's crime branch, which is probing the Mahadev betting app case, has summoned actor Sahil Khan and three others to record their statements on Friday, an official said.A special investigation team (SIT) of Mumbai police has been formed to probe alleged illegal transactions between...
11:04
Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty surged to all-time high levels in early trade on Friday amid an optimistic trend in global markets after the US Federal Reserve kept its key interest rate unchanged and signalled rate cuts next year.Continuous foreign fund inflows into the equity markets...
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The Special Cell of Delhi Police, conducting an investigation into the Parliament security breach case, has detained two more people following their suspected association with five arrested in the case.The detained persons are identified as Mahesh and Kailash, both residents of Rajasthan and have...
10:26
Police have questioned a friend of Lalit Mohan Jha, a key accused in the Parliament security breach incident, for hours in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, an officer said.A team from Barrackpore Police Commissionerate visited Nilakahya Aich's Halisahar residence on Thursday and asked...
10:11
The White House said on Thursday that it wants the Israel-Hamas war to end 'as soon as possible' but also clarified that Washington won't be dictating terms and Tel Aviv has the right to take it 'as long as they feel' to eliminate the Hamas threat.US National Security Council Coordinator for...
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Lalit Jha, the fifth accused and mastermind in Parliament security breach case, has burnt the mobile phones of his associates along with his friend Mahesh after fleeing to Rajasthan's Kuchaman, said police sources.Ahead of the incident, all four accused had handed over their mobile phones to Jha...
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The Special Cell of the Delhi Police will be recreating the scene of Wednesday's Parliament security breach by taking the accused to the Parliament complex on Saturday or Sunday, sources said.According to sources, the accused will be taken to the Parliament to recreate the scene of the crime....
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Actor Shreyas Talpade, suffered a heart attack after finishing a shoot in Mumbai on Thursday. As per a source close to the actor, Shreyas, 47, was shooting for Welcome to the Jungle and in the evening he suffered a heart attack and underwent angioplasty. He is fine...
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A class 12 student of an AMU-run college in Aligarh was booked for allegedly making derogatory remarks against Prophet Muhammed, officials said on Thursday. The action was taken after a classmate of the accused lodged a complaint against him with the Aligarh Muslim University authorities on...
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Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation on Thursday issued the aerodrome license for the upcoming Ayodhya airport. The airport has been developed at a cost of around Rs 350 crore by the Airports Authority of India. On Thursday, AAI said the airport has been granted an...
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The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday shunted eleven senior IPS officials in the rank of director general of police, additional DGP and inspector general of police. Among them, DKalpana Nayak, ADGP crime against women and children, Chennai, has been posted as member secretary TN Uniformed...
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The Uttarakhand high court on Thursday took suo motu cognisance of permission given by the forest department to kill an unidentified man-eater big cat in the vicinity of Bhimtal. The order came after the animal killed two people in the area recently causing panic among the...
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A pro-Vidarbha statehood activist and journalist on Thursday shouted slogans to highlight problems of farmers in the press gallery of the Maharashtra legislative assembly in Nagpur when house proceedings were on. Activist Prakash Pohare said he came to the press gallery of the...
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