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Union Minister for Communications, Electronics, and Information Technology on Friday informed Rajya Sabha in a written reply that 50 government websites have been hacked in the year 2022-23.Union Minister informed the upper House on the question of the details of instances of hacking of central...
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A court on Friday denied bail to a 29-year-old man arrested for allegedly raising inflammatory slogans during a protest over the release of the film Pathaan in Madhya Pradesh's Indore.Additional sessions judge Surekha Mishra rejected the bail plea of Tauseef Shaikh, a tailor, after hearing the...
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The weekly meeting between Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal could not take place on Friday as the two sides were engaged in a tussle over governance-related issues.Sources at the LG's office said Kejriwal did not turn up at the Raj Niwas for the meeting...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to look into the 'plight' of Kashmiri Pandit employees who do not want to return to the Kashmir Valley without a guarantee of their security, and accused the Union Territory administration of adopting an 'insensitive' approach...
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An ailing 50-year-old woman died on a road after she, along with her son, was allegedly forced to get down from a private bus on the way to Berhampur from Bhubaneswar, as her condition deteriorated.The son did not get help from anyone on the highway till the police arrived and took her to a...
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Ahead of its inauguration on February 17, a fire broke out in the newly-constructed Telangana Secretariat building in Hyderabad in the early hours of Friday, officials said.No one was injured in the incident, they added.The newly-built 'Dr B R Ambedkar Telangana State Secretariat Building' is...
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The government in Pakistan's Punjab has told Chinese nationals residing in the province that it will not provide security to all of them and asked them to hire private security firms for the purpose, amidst frequent terror attacks in the country.The directive from the home department of Punjab...
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In provocative remarks at a meeting of seers, Yoga guru Ramdev accused Muslims of resorting to terror and abducting Hindu women while comparing Hinduism to Islam and Christianity. He alleged that the two faiths were obsessed with conversion while Hinduism taught its followers to do...
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There is no proposal to regulate the finances of political parties, the government told Lok Sabha on Friday.Responding to a question on 'whether the government proposes to regulate the finances of political parties', Law Minister Kiren Rijiju replied in the negative.In his written response, he...
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The country's largest lender SBI on Friday said its overall exposure to the Adani Group is at 0.88 per cent of the book or around Rs 27,000 crore.SBI chairman Dinesh Khara said the bank does not envisage the embattled ports-to-mining group facing any challenge to service its debt obligations and...
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From the Sensex pack, Titan, Bajaj Finserv, Bajaj Finance, HDFC Bank, HDFC, State Bank of India, Mahindra & Mahindra and IndusInd Bank were among the major winners today.
17:21
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BSE benchmark Sensex zoomed 909.64 points or 1.52 per cent today to settle at 60,841.88.
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In a boost to the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), its candidate Dhiraj Lingade won the Amravati division graduates constituency of the Maharashtra legislative council on Friday, defeating sitting legislator Ranjit Patil of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Counting of votes for...
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The stock market turmoil created by rout in Adani group shares is a storm in a tea cup from a macroeconomic point of view, finance secretary T V Somanathan said on Friday, emphasing that India's public financial system is robust. The senior most bureaucrat in the finance ministry also said...
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Yash Raj Films' Pathaan, featuring superstar Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone and John Abraham, is close to breaching Rs 700 crore gross worldwide in nine days. The Siddharth Anand-directed spy thriller raised Rs 15.65 crore net in India (Hindi Rs 15 crore, all dubbed versions Rs 65...
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Industrialist Gautam Adani slipped out of the World' Real-time Billionaires list of Forbes on Friday and was placed in 22nd position. Gautam Adani's wealth had declined 21.77 per cent or USD 16.2 billion. The current net worth of the industrialist was USD 581.1 billion at 1.23 pm...
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A special court on Friday granted bail to Kundan Shinde, an aide of former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh, in a corruption case being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Special CBI judge S H Gwalani allowed the bail plea of Shinde, who worked as a personal...
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French energy giant TotalEnergies, which had in past years taken stakes in two Adani group listed firms, on Friday said it has not performed any re-evaluation of its holdings because of volatility in stock prices following allegations of fraud. In a statement, the French firm said its...
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Pakistan's central bank said on Friday that its foreign exchange reserves have dropped by 16.1 per cent to USD 3.09 billion at the end of the last fiscal week, the lowest in nearly 10 years. Financial analysts said that the foreign exchange reserves held by the State Bank of Pakistan would...
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The film industry has been left shattered by the demise of veteran director Kasinadhuni Viswanath. Several Telugu stars including SS Rajamouli, music director MM Keeravani, actor Chiranjeevi and others paid their last respect at his funeral. He was 92. K Viswanath was undergoing treatment...
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Moody's Investors Service on Friday said it is assessing overall financial flexibility, including liquidity position, of Adani Group firms given a significant and rapid decline in stock value post release of the Hindenburg Research report. These adverse developments are likely to...
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PM Modi with BJP National Prez JP Nadda at the BJP's CEC meeting on Wednesday. Pic: ANI
Opposition MPs continued to question the government on the Adani row as both Houses were adjourned soon after the session began for the day on Friday.The Opposition parties have been demanding the constitution of a Joint Parliamentary Committee on the issue of Hindenberg's report against the...
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Update: The Supreme Court on Friday directed the central government to produce original records relating to its decision to block a BBC documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots. A bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna and M M Sundresh issued notices to the government and others on pleas filed by...
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The Narendra Modi dispensation has been stalling the Opposition's demand for discussions on every issue which it feels would embarrass it, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor alleged Friday, slamming the government for not allowing discussion in Parliament on Adani Group stock rout. Lok Sabha...
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The Supreme Court issues notice to the Centre on a plea seeking direction to restrain the Central government from censoring the BBC documentary relating to the 2002 Gujarat Riots. The SC seeks a response from the Centre within three weeks. The court posts the matter for hearing in...
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma
The Assam Police have arrested over 1,800 people so far on Friday in a massive crackdown on child marriage, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. The crackdown began early in the morning across the state and it will continue over the next three to four days, Sarma told reporters on...
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Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned till 2 pm on Friday due to protests by opposition members demanding a probe by a joint parliamentary committee into the fraud-allegation-triggered rout in Adani Group company stocks. Soon after the House met for the day, opposition members were on...
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Byju's has handed the pink slip to 900-1,000 employees in a fresh round of layoffs, according to media reports, although sources in the company said the move was part of the optimisation' strategy that the edtech giant had announced last year that included sacking 2,500 workers.The latest job...
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The Congress party on the Adani row shares this tweet saying, Fill in the blanks (emoji of pointing finger).Rahul Gandhi has always raised the alarm on the Centre's closeness with what he calls, 'suit-boot sarkar'.
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Gautam Adani
Adani shares down 30 per cent in early trading. This morning, S&P Dow Jones has said it will remove Adani Group's flagship firm Adani Enterprises from sustainability indices with effect from February 7 following a media and stakeholder analysis triggered by allegations of accounting...
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Driving down the Eastern Express Highway in Mumbai near Vikhroli you stumble upon a sight that is sheer eye-candy. Blossoms of pink Tabebuia Rosea or the Rosy Trumpet tree in full bloom is gorgeousness that you can see from now to February. Don't miss it.
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At least 16 Opposition parties met on Friday morning to coordinate their strategy in Parliament and decided to step up their attack on the government, demanding an immediate discussion on the issue of Adani stock rout. The meeting came a day after they unitedly led the charge against...
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A Calicut-bound Air India Express flight from Abu Dhabi returned to Abu Dhabi airport after flames were detected in one of the engines soon after take-off, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said on Friday.Air India Express informed that the aircraft landed safely and all passengers are...
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A threat call was received at Ram Lalla Sadan in Ayodhya to blow up the Ram Janmabhoomi where the construction of Ram temple is underway, police said on Thursday. According to Superintendent of Police Madhuban Singh, a man named Manoj Kumar who resided at the Sadan received a call from...
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S&P Dow Jones has said it will remove Adani Group's flagship firm Adani Enterprises from sustainability indices with effect from February 7 following a media and stakeholder analysis triggered by allegations of accounting fraud. The move comes amid leading stock exchanges BSE and...
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Opposition parties will meet Friday morning to coordinate their strategy in Parliament, a day after they unitedly led the charge against the government over the issue of the Adani Group stock rout. Various opposition parties on Thursday stalled both houses of Parliament over the Adani...
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It's not just Shah Rukh Khan's ascension from rank outsider to reigning superstar but a willingness to stand by his political and philosophical beliefs in an increasingly bigoted environment and demonstration of extraordinary grace in the face of unfortunate controversy that makes the 57-year-old...
09:39
The United States and the Philippines have agreed that the former's forces can use four more bases in the Southeast Asian country, apparently aimed at enhancing deterrence against China, according to NHK World. On Thursday, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin separately met Philippine...
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Southern Asia's strategic stability is getting harder to manage because of geopolitical changes and evolving military technologies. Read more here.
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Congress general secretary KC Venugopal on Thursday said that the party will hold nationwide protests in front of Life Insurance Corporation Offices and State Bank of India branches in all districts on February 6. Speaking to ANI, Venugopal said, Government at the Centre is using common...
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Arindam Chaudhuri
The Delhi-based Institute of Marketing and Management (IMM) has alleged that Arindam Chaudhuri of the Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) defrauded it by violating an admission agreement, misusing its name and collecting crores of rupees between 2011 and 2014. IIPM, however,...
08:56
The car in the Khanjawala case
In a chilling reminder to the Khanjawala hit-and-drag incident in the national capital on New Year's day, two youths had a narrow escape after the motorcycle they were riding was allegedly hit by a speeding car from behind they were dragged for about four kilomteres in Haryana's Gurugram on...
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SC lawyer and activist Prashant Bhushan
Prashant Bhushan on an unnamed conglomerate: Guess who was the important tycoon who met me in my SC Chamber 4 years ago? His parting shot to me was Narendra Bhai se kuch karwana ho to mujhe bataiye! I would like to take up his offer now & ask him: Narendra Bhai se kahiye ki Hindenburg...
08:43
The pecan nut
America's National Pecan Federation has welcomed the annual budgetary proposal of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to reduce the import duty on pecan by 70 per cent, a move it said would benefit thousands of farmers in the country, especially in Georgia. This is great news for the...
08:39
Dadasaheb Phalke awardee and renowned filmmaker Kasinadhuni Viswanath died at a private hospital here. He was 92. Viswanath was unwell for some time and was suffering from age-related issues, sources said. He passed away at the hospital around midnight Thursday. Popularly...
08:36
An alleged Chinese spy balloon said to be the size of three buses was spotted over the United States' airspace, the Pentagon said. The development comes days ahead of the Beijing visit of Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The United States government has detected and is tracking a...
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PM Modi at the Quad meet in 2021
Quad, an informal grouping of four countries Australia, India, Japan and the United States, has agreed to leverage machine learning and related advanced technologies to enhance cyber security, the White House has said.Officials of Australia, India, Japan and the United States met in New Delhi on...
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Lord Jo Johnson, younger brother of former British prime minister Boris Johnson, has resigned his non-executive directorship of a UK-based investment firm linked with the now-withdrawn Adani Enterprises Follow-on Public Offer (FPO).'The Financial Times' newspaper referenced UK Companies House...
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Upendra Kushwaha
Disgruntled Janata Dal-United leader Upendra Kushwaha on Thursday demanded that party supremo Nitish Kumar reveal the truth behind rumours of an alleged 'deal' struck with the Rashtriya Janata Dal over the chief minister's post, when the two decided to forge an alliance last year.The JD-U leader,...
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