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Maharashtra minister and OBC leader Chaggan Bhujbal
Maharashtra minister and OBC leader Chaggan Bhujbal on Sunday accused Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange of issuing open threats and also took on his own government in the state. Addressing a rally of the Other Backward Classes in Bhiwandi in Thane district, he said the state government...
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A tiger was found dead in a farm well in Narkhed forest range of Maharashtra's Nagpur district, forest officials said on Sunday. A release by deputy conservator of forests Bharat Singh Hada said that the carcass of the big cat was discovered in a well of a farm in Mouza Pipla Khurd area on...
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The government is likely to table the Telecommunications Bill 2023 in Lok Sabha on Monday, according to sources. The Telecommunications Bill 2023 aims to replace the 138 years old Indian Telegraph Act that governs the telecom sector. The President has been informed about the...
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People push a car on a snow-covered road after fresh snowfall in Gulmarg/ANI Photo
As many as 61 tourists stuck at Gulmarg in northern Kashmir were rescued by the Chinar Warriors on Saturday. The tourists, including women and children, were stuck after incessant snow in the area on Saturday. According to a press release by the Indian Army, the dip in...
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Bollywood actor Tanuja was admitted in a hospital here on Sunday evening due to age related issues. A source said the 80-year-old actor is admitted in the ICU of a Juhu hospital. She is under observation. She is doing well. There's nothing to worry about, the source told...
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West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Sunday arrived in Delhi on a four-day visit, during which she is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, her party's MPs and attend a meeting of the opposition INDIA bloc. Before leaving Kolkata, she told...
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A view of the oil spillage at Kadalum in Chennai./ANI
In the matter of oil spillage, the Coast Guard on Sunday said the oil spill is trapped inside the Ennore creek area here and there is 'nil' egress. Coast Guard ships and helicopters immediately responded to the spill on December 10, and it was appropriately 'neutralised,' a defence release...
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The English translation of Tulsidas' prayer from its original Awadhi text will teach young readers about the quality of Lord Ram, according to publishers. My First Prayer To Lord Ram, written by Chitwan Mittal and Sarita Saraf, with illustrations by Aparajitha Vasudev, aims to introduce...
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President Droupadi Murmu will visit West Bengal, Telangana and Rajasthan from December 18 to 23 to attend different programmes, a Rashtrapati Bhavan statement said on Sunday. On December 18, the President will attend the 69th convocation of IIT Kharagpur in West Bengal and later arrive at...
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Two Bangladeshi smugglers were shot dead by the Border Security Force in West Bengal's Nadia district, officials said on Sunday. The incident happened at the international border in Govindpur in Krishnaganj police station area around midnight, they said. At...
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Tension erupted in Gopalganj district of Bihar on Sunday after the body of a local temple staff, who went missing a week ago, was found in a mutilated condition on the outskirts of a village, the police said. The deceased, Manoj Kumar Sah, was last seen venturing out of the temple in Manjha...
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A Delhi court has sought a report from Tihar authorities regarding the reported shifting of Lava International managing director Hariom Rai, arrested in a money-laundering case against Chinese smartphone maker Vivo, to a separate jail in Tihar in Delhi. Additional sessions judge Kiran Gupta...
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A 16-year-old boy was shot dead by two youths in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, the police said. The incident happened in Bhamora police station area. Suryansh alias Titu was riding on a motorcycle when he met two youths on a bicycle, Amla police officer Rajkumar Mishra. One...
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Three people, including a woman, were arrested and 550 grams heroin was recovered from them in two separate incidents in Punjab, the police said on Sunday. Senior Superintendent of Police Vatsala Gupta said two brothers, allegedly involved in drug smuggling, were going towards Amritsar on a...
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Kerala health minister Veena George on Sunday said the COVID-19 sub-variant JN.1 that has been detected in the state was not a cause for concern. The new case was detected as part of an ongoing routine surveillance activity of the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium, a senior official from...
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The Enforcement Directorate on Sunday said it has attached immovable properties worth Rs 207 crore located in Tamil Nadu as part of a money laundering probe linked to an alleged fraud perpetrated by a Madurai-based group. The ED investigation stems from an FIR registered by Tamil Nadu...
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PM Narendra Modi's convoy makes way for an ambulance during his roadshow in Varanasi/ANI on X
The cavalcade of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday gave way to an ambulance in Varanasi. A video showed the ambulance overtaking the cavalcade as people lined up on the road to catch a glimpse of the prime minister. The prime minister is in his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi to...
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BJP MLA Raman Singh (third from left) submits the nomination papers for the post of Speaker in Raipur/ANI Photo
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party MLA and former Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh on Sunday filed his nomination for the post of speaker of the newly-elected state legislative assembly, officials said.Earlier in the day, senior BJP MLA Ramvichar Netam was sworn in as the pro-tem speaker by the...
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Maratha reservation activist Manoj Jarange
Maratha reservation activist Manoj Jarange on Sunday said if the state government fails to fulfil the reservation demands, the community will chart its next course of action at a meeting in Beed on December 23. Speaking to reporters during a meeting at Antarwali Sarati village of Jalna...
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A drone and over 500 grams of heroin were recovered from a field near the International Border in Punjab's Amritsar, a Border Security Force spokesperson said on Sunday. Acting on specific information, BSF troops and Punjab police carried out a search operation on the outskirts of Dhanoe...
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A water-logged road in Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli after heavy rain/ANI on X
Several parts of Tamil Nadu are likely to witness rainfall over the next seven days, the India meteorological department said on Sunday. According to IMD, a cyclonic circulation that was over the Equatorial Indian Ocean and adjoining southwest Bay of Bengal off the south Sri Lanka...
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India on Sunday logged 335 new COVID-19 infections while the number of active cases increased to 1,701, according to the Union health ministry. India's COVID-19 caseload stands at 4.50 crore (4,50,04,816) and the death toll at 5,33,316, the data updated at 8 am stated. The number of...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be arriving on a two-day visit in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi on Sunday during which he will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of 37 projects valued worth over Rs 19,000 crore for the development of the Varanasi and the Purvanchal...
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The police on Sunday used water cannon to disperse Youth Congress workers who tried to force their way through barricades while marching towards Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's residence in Chandigarh to protest alleged deterioration of law and order. Several Youth Congress leaders...
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In a major success for its in-house design and development efforts, the Indian Air Force has successfully testfired its SAMAR air defence missile system. The IAF has developed the Surface to Air Missile for Assured Retaliation air defence missile system by using its old Russian-origin...
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J-K police chief RR Swain
Three 'hybrid' terrorists involved in last week's attack on a policeman in Bemina area of Srinagar city have been arrested, director general of police Jammu and Kashmir RR Swain said on Sunday.Constable Mohammad Hafeez Chak was attacked on December 9 while he was returning home.The DGP said the...
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Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri
Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri is travelling to Kuwait on Sunday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's special envoy to pay condolences on the demise of Emir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, ministry of external affairs said. Puri will also deliver personal letters of condolences...
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Ravi Teja
Actor Ravi Teja on Sunday announced that his next film is titled Mr Bachchan after his favourite megastar Amitabh Bachchan. Directed by Harish Shankar, the tagline of the upcoming Telugu movie is Naam Tho Suna Hoga (You must have heard the name). Also starring Bhagyashri...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the seriousness of the security breach in Parliament cannot be underestimated, and called for no squabbling over the issue amid Opposition's protests over it in Parliament. In an interview to Hindi daily Dainik Jagran, Modi said probe agencies are...
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A large number of rusted arms and ammunition were found during the excavation work for road construction in the Kacharaila area of Akhnoor district, a senior official said. The police rushed to the spot on Saturday and later, Army personnel called in, sub-divisional police officer...
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Around 10 fishermen from Tamil Nadu who were arrested earlier this month from near the British Indian Ocean Territory in the Indian Ocean, and tried and fined 60,000 Pounds Sterling, were on Sunday handed over to the Indian Coast Guard. The fishermen had ventured into fishing areas in the...
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Nine people were killed in a blast at an explosives manufacturing factory in Maharashtra's Nagpur district on Sunday, the police said. The blast took place at 9 am in a cast booster unit of the Solar Industries in Bazaargaon area, a senior police official said. Nine people were killed,...
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PM Narendra Modi inagurates new terminal building of Surat airport/ANI
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated the new terminal building of Surat airport in Gujarat. The new integrated terminal building at the airport is equipped to handle 1,200 domestic passengers and 600 international passengers during peak hours. It has a provision for...
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Senior Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Ramvichar Netam was on Sunday sworn in as the pro-tem Speaker of the newly-elected Chhattisgarh legislative assembly. Governor Biswabhusan Harichandan administered the oath of office to 61-year-old Netam at a function held at the Raj Bhawan here....
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Three men were burnt alive when their car caught fire after colliding with a divider in Ajmer district of Rajasthan, the police said on Sunday. Two others sustained critical burn injuries in the accident that took place on Lohagal road late Saturday, they said. Sohail Khan, Jai Sankhla,...
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A sub-inspector of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was killed and a constable injured in an encounter between security personnel and Naxalites in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district on Sunday, police said.The incident took place in the morning under Jagargunda police station area when a team of...
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The government has announced one-day state mourning on Sunday following the demise of Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.The ruling emir died on Saturday at the age of 86.In a communication to all states, the Union home ministry said during the period of state mourning on...
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A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed in the Rajasthan high court on Saturday challenging the 'swearing-in' of Diya Kumari and Prem Chand Bairwa as deputy chief ministers, claiming that the Constitution does not recognise this post.Petitioner Om Prakash Solanki, a lawyer, has also sought...
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A United States destroyer shot down a wave of Houthi drones over the Red Sea on Saturday morning, the US Central Command (Centcom) announced.Centcom said the USS Carney, a guided missile destroyer, 'successfully engaged 14 unmanned aerial systems launched as a drone wave from Houthi-controlled...
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The Union Ministry of Health has initiated preparedness measures after a case of the JN.1 subvariant of COVID has been identified in Kerala as part of the ongoing routine surveillance conducted by the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG), said a government release on Saturday.Dr Rajiv...
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