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A 37-year-old Mumbai police constable died on Sunday afternoon after his throat got slit by kite string, an official said. The incident took place when deceased Sameer Suresh Jadhav was on Vakola bridge on the Western Express Highway, he said. Jadhav is attached to Dindoshi police station in...
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A boat carrying at least 142 suspected Rohingya refugees, including women and children, was intercepted by coastal security agencies near Shaheed Dweep in Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Sunday, police said. The boat left from Bangladesh around 14-15 days ago and was on its way to Indonesia, they...
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President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday greeted citizens on the eve of Christmas and hoped that everyone rekindles the spirit of mercy and compassion. The festival of Christmas gives the message of love and compassion, she said. This festival also inspires us for selfless service to the humanity. The...
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President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday greeted citizens on the eve of Christmas and hoped that everyone rekindles the spirit of mercy and compassion. The festival of Christmas gives the message of love and compassion, she said. This festival also inspires us for selfless service to the humanity. The...
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Traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway was suspended for over six hours on Sunday after a nearly 100-metre stretch of the thoroughfare caved in amid the ongoing work on a four-laning project in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district, officials said. The 270-km highway is the only all-weather...
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People gear up for Christmas festivities at Sacred Heart Church in New Delhi, December 24, 2023 /ANI on X
The Delhi police made elaborate security arrangements at all churches in the national capital for Christmas celebrations, including deployment of paramilitary forces, officials said on Sunday. The Delhi police also sought the assistance of paramilitary forces for providing security cover to major...
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Security personnel during an anti-Maoist operation in Bastar, Chhattisgarh/File image
At least three Maoists were killed in a gun battle with security personnel in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district on Sunday, a senior police officer said. The face-off occurred on a hill near Dabbakunna village under Katekalyan police station limits when a joint team of security personnel was out...
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Special director general of BSF YB Khurania
Special director general of Border Security Force YB Khurania visited the troops along the International Border and Line of Control in Jammu frontier, officials said on Sunday. Khurania, who heads the Chandigarh-based Western command of the BSF, arrived here on Saturday on a...
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Police examine the spot where man opened fire at 4 in Mumbai/Sahil Salvi for Rediff.com
One person was killed and three injured when a man opened fire in a locality in the eastern suburb of Kurla here on Sunday, the police said. The incident occurred in the Azad Galli locality in Chunabhatti around 3.15 pm, an official said....
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Amid the recent terrorist attacks in the Poonch-Rajouri sector, Army chief General Manoj Pande is likely to visit Jammu to review the situation there and discuss further strengthening the counter-terrorism grid there on Monday, defence sources said. The visit comes a few days after four troops...
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Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan (third from left) cutting a cake during pre-Christmas celebrations in Thiruvananthapuram./ANI Photo
Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and assembly Speaker, AN Shamseer, on Sunday greeted the people of the state on the eve of Christmas. In a message, Khan said the festival conveys the message of 'Peace on Earth' and wished people that may the...
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Days after Dunki hit the theatres, Shah Rukh Khan on Sunday greeted his fans to thank them for showering love on the release of his third and last film for the year 2023. Dunki, a comedy drama, has raised Rs 157.22 crore at the global box office, the makers said. According to videos circulating...
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An Indian-origin mother and son have been sentenced to a total of just under four years of imprisonment after conspiring to steal a large sum of money collected by the local Sikh community in south-east England to pay for a wedding. Kalwant Kaur, 41, and her son, Jung Singh...
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United States President Joe Biden held a telephonic conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday and emphasised protecting the civilian population amid the Israel-Hamas war, Al Jazeera reported. However, Biden said that he didn't ask Netanyahu for a 'ceasefire' in...
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The Prime Minister's Office on Sunday held a high-level meeting to take stock of the post-flood situation in Tamil Nadu and deliberated on various measures to support the state. PMO officials have interacted with Tamil Nadu government functionaries to discuss relief and rehabilitation measures in...
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Three Assamese, including two children, were injured in an explosion that occurred while they were sorting through junk in a scrapyard near Kadirur in this district on Sunday, the police said. Based on the preliminary examination by the bomb squad, the police said they are suspected that the...
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The World Health Organisation has urged countries in South-East Asia to strengthen surveillance in view of the increasing cases of respiratory diseases, including due to COVID-19 and its new sub-variant JN.1, and influenza. The WHO also urged people to take protective measures. The COVID-19 virus...
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Nepal will send special souvenirs consisting of various types of jewellery, utensils, clothes and sweets for the Ram Mandir's inauguration ceremony in Ayodhya next month, according to a media report on Sunday. A Janakpurdham-Ayodhyadham journey will be carried out to deliver the souvenirs, My...
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Prabhas-starrer Salaar: Part 1 - Ceasefire has earned Rs 295.7 crore at the worldwide box office in two days of its release, the makers on Sunday said. The film is directed by Prashanth Neel of KGF films fame and produced by Hombale Films. It also stars Prithviraj Sukumaran. The makers shared the...
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NC leaders protest against the mysterious death of 3 civilians in Poonch, in Srinagar, December 23, 2023. Umar Ganie/Rediff.com
The Army has ordered a thorough internal investigation into the deaths of three civilians in the Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir following allegations that they died in its custody, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday. The three civilians were allegedly picked up by the Army for...
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Two jawans of the Special Operations Group of the Odisha police were injured when an improvised explosive device planted by Maoists exploded in a forest in Odisha's Kandhamal district during a combing operation on Sunday, an officer said. The IED was planted by the Maoists and it exploded after...
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All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen district president Arif Jamal was allegedly shot dead by unidentified people in Bihar's Siwan on Saturday night, the police said. According to officials, Jamal was rushed to a hospital but died during treatment. The police were investigating the incident...
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Maharashtra ex-minister Sunil Kedar
Senior Congress leader and former Maharashtra minister Sunil Kedar has been disqualified from the state legislative assembly following his conviction by a court for misappropriation of funds at the Nagpur District Central Cooperative Bank. A gazette order of the state legislature secretariat...
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Director Vidhu Vinod Chopra's 12th Fail will have its digital premiere on Disney+ Hotstar on December 29. Starring Vikrant Massey and Medha Shankr, the film released in theatres on October 27 in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada. Disney+ Hotstar announced the movie's premiere date on its...
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Bihar deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday condemned Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam MP Dayanidhi Maran's alleged remark that people from the Hindi heartland were cleaning toilets and doing other menial jobs in Tamil Nadu. Yadav said like his Rashtriya Janata Dal, the DMK headed by Tamil Nadu...
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India saw a single-day rise of 656 COVID infections while the active cases have increased to 3,742, according to Union health ministry data updated on Sunday. The death toll was recorded at 5,33,333 with one new death reported from Kerala in a span of 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed....
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Two drone-dropped packets containing arms and cash were seized in a joint operation by the Army and the police from a village near the Line of Control in Akhnoor sector in Jammu on Sunday, officials said. The packets, believed to have been dropped by Pakistani drones for subversive activities,...
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IIT-Bombay's class of 1998 has gifted Rs 57 crore to its alma mater as part of the silver jubilee reunion celebrations -- the highest combined contribution by a single class. The donation, by the likes of private equity firm Silver Lake managing director Apoorv Saxena and Peak XV managing...
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Three youths nabbed by the police while purportedly en route to join the banned United Liberation Front of Assam-I were injured when they attempted to escape from custody in Assam's Tinsukia district, a police officer said on Sunday. The incident happened late on Saturday night when the trio was...
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Following a drone attack on two vessels in the Red Sea by the Iran-backed Houthi militants, which included MV SAIBABA, a crude oil tanker; the Indian Navy on Sunday said all 25 Indian crew members on board are safe, clarifying that it wasn't an India-flagged vessel, as claimed by the US earlier,...
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A 17-year-old boy succumbed to injuries at a hospital days after being allegedly assaulted by some students from his school in northeast Delhi's Bhajanpura area, the police said on Sunday. On December 12, an altercation took place between the victim and the group of students over a petty issue,...
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Love Story star Ryan O'Neal died of congestive heart failure, according to his death certificate. The cause of death was revealed two weeks after the Hollywood veteran died on December 8 at the age of 82. The underlying cause was cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle. No other cause was...
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The Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray, headed by former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, will hold a 'mahashibir' and a public rally in Nashik on January 23, 2024, the birth anniversary of Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray, Sena-UBT MP Sanjay Raut said on Sunday. Uddhav Thackeray...
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Trisha Krishnan
Leo star Trisha Krishnan has joined Tovino Thomas on the set of the Malayalam film Identity. The upcoming movie is directed by Akhil Paul and Anas Khan, who previously collaborated on 2020's Forensic also starring Thomas. Trisha shared the update on her X page on Saturday along with a...
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WFI president Sanjay Singh
The Union sports ministry suspends the newly elected body of Wrestling Federation of India after the newly elected president Sanjay Singh announced U-15 and U-20 nationals to take place in Nandini Nagar, Gonda in Uttar Pradesh before the end of this year. More details soon. -- ANI
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A man who quit Maoist activities a few months ago was killed allegedly by his uncle and some other persons in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, the police said on Sunday. The body of Chhotu Kursam was found on a road near Gorna village on Sunday morning, an official said. As per preliminary...
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Indian Navy warship INS Mormugao reached MV Chem Pluto, the India-bound merchant vessel, which was 'attacked' by an Iranian drone, on Saturday night and ascertained details of the attack, officials informed on Sunday.According to officials, the Indian Navy has opened an investigation into whether...
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A 53-year-old senior professor of IIT-Kanpur has died due to cardiac arrest while delivering a lecture during an alumni meet, institute authorities said on Saturday.Sameer Khandekar, who was the dean of student affairs and the head of the mechanical engineering department, collapsed on the dais...
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Quota activist Manoj Jarange has announced that he will start an indefinite hunger strike at Azad Maidan in Mumbai from January 20 to intensify his demand of reservation for the Maratha community.However, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has urged people to exercise restraint and said the...
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A retired police officer was shot dead by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district on Sunday, police said.Mohammad Shafi was shot inside a mosque early today, they said.'Terrorists fired upon Shri Mohd Shafi, a retired police officer, at Gantmulla, Sheeri Baramulla, while praying Azan...
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The Pentagon has said that an Iranian drone on Saturday struck a chemical tanker in the Indian Ocean, Reuters reported.The motor vessel CHEM PLUTO, a Liberia-flagged, Japanese-owned, and Netherlands-operated chemical tanker, was struck at approximately 10 am local time (6 am GMT) today in the...
