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Underscoring the development as well as the public welfare work done by his government in Madhya Pradesh, former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that he feels contended and satisfied that after being the CM for 17 consecutive years, there is an affection and trust in the hearts of the...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's scheduled programmes over the next one week were on Sunday postponed after she was advised to rest by doctors following a medical procedure on her right shoulder, an official said.Banerjee was supposed to attend a programme of her party TMC at the...
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The situation in Manipur's Moreh town continues to be tense a day after three commandos of Manipur Police were injured in a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) attack at one of their posts in the border town on Saturday night, officials said.Suspected militants fired several RPGs which exploded inside...
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Leftist demonstrators burn an effigy of Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan on Kannur beach in the state's Malabar region.Khan and the Left Democratic Front government in Kerala have clashed several times this year, with the acrimony increasing in recent weeks.One of the banners raised by the...
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Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Sunday claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Mann Ki Baat programme was more popular among the masses than Mahabharat and Ramayan mega TV serials of the 1980s.His assertion came after listening to the 108th episode of Mann Ki Baat at his home...
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A woman delivered her baby at the gate of the District Women's Hospital in Budaun after its staff allegedly refused to admit her as she did not have money to pay the fees.The baby died soon after birth. Budaun District Magistrate Manoj Kumar said on Sunday that an investigation has been...
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A young Dalit woman was allegedly thrown into a hot cauldron of a jaggery-making unit for protesting against molestation in the Budaun district, police said on Sunday.The 18-year-old woman, who sustained serious burn injuries, is undergoing treatment at the GTB Hospital in Delhi, police said,...
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A 32-year-old man suffering from a mental ailment allegedly made a hoax call to the Maharashtra police's control room about a bomb in Mumbai, police said on Sunday.The police traced the man to Amravati, but no arrest was made as he was found to be mentally unstable, an official from Amravati...
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The Centre on Sunday rejected as 'baseless' Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's criticism of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government for not including the state's tableau in the Republic Day parade 2024 and his allegations of discrimination.The Aam Aadmi Party leader recently attacked the...
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The Vishva Hindu Parishad on Sunday said 'some people' have been seeking funds in the name of the Ayodhya Ram temple trust without any approval and a complaint has been made to Uttar Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and the Union home ministry requesting for immediate action against them.In a post...
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Police in Varanasi have arrested three accused in connection with the alleged rape of a female student of Indian Institute of Technology on the Banaras Hindu University campus, a police official said on Sunday.Station House Officer of Lanka police station Shivakant Mishra said that the accused...
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The government on Sunday declared pro-Pakistan separatist amalgam Tehreek-e-Hurriyat (TeH) Jammu and Kashmir a banned organisation for fomenting terrorism and spreading anti-India propaganda in the Union territory.Announcing the decision, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the group was found...
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Former Congress MP Lakshman Singh has said Rahul Gandhi is an ordinary party worker and parliamentarian and he should not be highlighted so much. Lakshman Singh, the younger brother of Congress veteran Digvijaya Singh, was speaking to reporters at the Congress office in MP's Guna city on...
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Not known to pull his punches against the Centre, senior Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister, Digvijay Singh, on Sunday raised fresh concerns over the 'misuse' of Electronic Voting Machines.Taking to his official handle on X, the senior Congress leader accused the Election...
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Amid a tug-of-war between Congress and the Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray over seat sharing in Maharashtra ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in 2024, Shiva Sena-UBT MP Sanjay Raut expressed confidence in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance, saying that the discussion on seat sharing is...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party, which has been wooing the Christian community in Kerala for some time, has said that a priest and around 50 families from the minority community joined the party in the state.Around 50 Christian families, including Fr Shaiju Kurien, Secretary of the Orthodox Church...
11:12
A remote-controlled bomb explosion targeted a police station in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, killing two children, the police said. The incident occurred in the Mach area of Bolan district of the province on Saturday, police officials said. A senior police official said that the bomb...
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India has logged 841 new cases of COVID-19, the highest in 227 days, while the number of active cases of the infection have been recorded at 4,309, the health ministry said on Sunday. Three new fatalities due to COVID-- one each from Kerala, Karnataka and Bihar -- have been reported in a span of...
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Kashmir reeled under cold wave conditions Sunday as minimum temperatures across the Valley stayed several degrees below the freezing point, officials said in Srinagar. The minimum temperature in the summer capital Srinagar dropped to minus 3.4 degrees Celsius from the previous night's minus 2.8...
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Karnataka BJP MP Pratap Simha
The forest department officials arrested Vikram Simha, brother of Bharatiya Janata Party MP Pratap Simha, in connection with an alleged tree felling case, officials said on Sunday. Simha represents Mysore-Kodagu of Karnataka and he is the former president of the Yuva Morcha Bharatiya Janata...
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Goodbies are not easy. Ask megastar Amitabh Bachchan who got teary-eyed while bringing the curtains down on the 15th season of Kaun Banega Crorepati. Big B recently bid adieu to the 15th season on an emotional note. In a video shared by Sony TV's Instagram handle, Amitabh Bachchan said, Devi...
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An anonymous caller on Saturday evening warned Mumbai police of serial blasts in the city, officials informed on Sunday. Mumbai police control room received a threat call on Saturday evening, around 6. The caller claimed that there would be serial blasts in Mumbai before hanging up, an official...
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An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 on the Richter scale jolted Indonesia's Irian Jaya late at night on Saturday, the National Centre for Seismology reported. The tremors were felt at 22:46:28 IST at a depth of 77 km. According to the NCS, the epicentre of the quake was found to be at Latitude:...
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The Uniform Civil Code will soon be implemented in Uttarakhand, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has said. The bill for its implementation will be tabled in the assembly soon, Dhami said at the Shasthi Purti Mahotsav organised on Saturday in Vatsalya Gram at Vrindavan to celebrate 60 years of...
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A Nepalese woman was arrested from East Sikkim on Saturday on the charge that she was trying to instigate communal strife in the state, the police said.The woman, identified as Uma Chamling Rai -- a native of Khotang district of Nepal's Koshi district, had uploaded a short video on social media a...
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At least 18 people, including two children, have lost their lives as a result of Ukrainian shelling on the Russian city of Belgorod on Saturday, CNN reported, citing Russia's ministry of emergency situations. This attack came after Moscow launched a major aerial assault on Ukraine. A massive...
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The Jawaharlal Nehru University on Friday collaborated with the International Society for Krishna Consciousness for a vibrant Gita Jayanti celebration, an official statement said. The celebration at the JNU convention centre witnessed a gathering of approximately 500 students and more than 20...
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Tom Wilkinson, the two-time Oscar-nominated British actor, passed away on Saturday at the age of 75, his family announced, as reported by The Hill. He was an actor best remembered for his supporting roles in the suspense films Michael Clayton and In the Bedroom. With over 130 film and...
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India's foreign exchange reserves increased by $4.471 billion to $620.441 billion in the week ending December 22, 2023, hitting a 21-month high, the latest data released by the Reserve Bank of India showed. In the calendar year 2023, the RBI added about $58 billion to its foreign exchange kitty....
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Governor RN Ravi (left) and Chief Minister MK Stalin
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin had a cordial meeting with Governor RN Ravi at Raj Bhavan in Chennai on Saturday evening. The meeting was cordial, a release from the Raj Bhavan said. According to the release, the Tamil Nadu governor had invited Stalin for a meeting to discuss affairs of the...
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At least six people were killed in a massive fire that broke out at a hand glove manufacturing company in Maharashtra's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar in the early hours of Sunday, officials said.According to fire department officials, the blaze erupted around 02:15 am at the factory in Waluj MIDC...
