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Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party president Altaf Bukhari on Saturday said his party will not allow non-locals to settle in the Union Territory as he criticised the administration for its ongoing anti-encroachment drive to retrieve state land. The former minister appealed to people to maintain...
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An Indian citizen missing in Turkey since February 6 earthquake, that has killed more than 25,000, was pulled out from under the rubble of a hotel in Malatya, said the Indian embassy in Turkey. The dead man is from the hill state of Uttarakhand. The dead man has been identified as Vijay...
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The country's first lithium reserve, found in Jammu and Kashmir, is of the best quality, a senior government official said on Saturday, as upbeat villagers expressed hope the discovery will bring them a bright future.The 5.9-million ton reserve of lithium, a crucial mineral for the manufacturing...
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Senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Saturday said religious and social harmony, secularism and tolerance are in India's DNA and asserted that it is the only country where believers of almost all religions live peacefully. Addressing the Samajik Samrasta Sammelan organised by...
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A second batch of 12 cheetahs is expected to arrive in Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park (KNP) from South Africa on February 18, six months after eight of the spotted cats were released into the reserve, a senior forest official said on Saturday. According to current plans, 12 more...
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Pathaan, superstar Shah Rukh Khan's return to the big screen after four years, has raised Rs 901 crore gross at the worldwide box office. According to Yash Raj Films (YRF), the Siddharth Anand directorial raised Rs 5.90 crore nett in India on its third Friday.The total worldwide gross...
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India's hero in the opening Test victory over Australia in Nagpur, Ravindra Jadeja was on Saturday fined 25 per cent of his match fee for applying cream on the swollen index finger of his bowling hand without taking permission from the on-field umpires on the first day of the match. ...
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Hitting out at the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the Centre, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday alleged there was no freedom of speech in the country. Addressing a rally in Jharkhand's Sahebganj district, Kharge expressed anguish, claiming that parts of his...
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Former Kerala Chief Minister and senior Congress leader, Oommen Chandy, who has been admitted to a private hospital near Thiruvananthapuram, will be shifted to Bengaluru for further treatment, AICC general Secretary in charge of Organisation, K C Venugopal, said on Saturday. ...
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Aviation safety regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), on Saturday imposed a penalty of Rs 20 lakh on Tata Group-owned budget carrier AirAsia India for violation of certain norms relating to pilots' training. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation also ordered...
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A Delhi court judge, who recently discharged student activists Sharjeel Imam and Asif Iqbal Tanha along with nine others in the 2019 Jamia Nagar violence case, has recused himself from hearing a similar matter citing personal reasons. Additional Sessions Judge Arul Varma was hearing a case...
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Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday dubbed the removal of the Kejriwal dispensation-appointed members from discom boards by LG V K Saxena as unconstitutional and illegal.The LG has started a new trend of reversing decisions taken by the elected government of Delhi, Sisodia said...
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said the new tax regime will benefit the middle class as it will leave more money in their hands. Talking to reporters after the customary post-Budget address to the central board of RBI, she said it is not necessary to induce...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 246-km Delhi-Dausa-Lalsot section of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway on Sunday, with the new stretch set to reduce the travel time from the national capital to Jaipur from five hours to around three and a half hours. Developed at a cost of...
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Fresh snowfall in Kashmir on Saturday affected air and surface traffic as the Srinagar-Jammu national highway was closed for vehicles due to shooting stones and flights were delayed because of poor visibility, officials said. The highway too remained closed on Friday and Thursday due...
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India recorded 132 new coronavirus infections, pushing the tally to 4.46 crore, while the active cases increased to 1,820, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. The death toll stands at 5,30,750, data updated by the ministry at 8 am stated. The daily positivity was recorded at...
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'Government nominees', including Aam Aadmi Party leader Jasmine Shah, appointed to the boards of power discoms in Delhi by the Arvind Kejriwal-led dispensation have been replaced with senior officials, sources at the Lieutenant Governor's office said on Saturday. Besides Shah, a...
12:34
The Centre will introduce new guidelines for releasing subsidies to farmers for the purchase of farm machinery and tools, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shobha Karandlaje has said. A major portion of the subsidy is at present set...
11:58
ChatGPT could score at or around the approximately 60 per cent passing threshold for the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE), with responses that made coherent, internal sense and contained frequent insights, according to a new study. Tiffany Kung and colleagues at AnsibleHealth,...
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The United States intelligence community has linked the Chinese spy balloon to a vast surveillance programme run by the People's Liberation Army, and US officials have begun to brief allies and partners who have been similarly targeted, The Washington Post reported.According to The Washington...
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The White House on Friday reiterated that the United States would welcome any effort that could lead to an end of hostilities in Ukraine when asked if there is still time for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stop the war or convince President Vladimir Putin.White House National Security Council...
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The Telangana government on Saturday said the inauguration of the state's new secretariat which was scheduled to be inaugurated on February 17 has been postponed owing to the poll code.The Election Commission on February 9 released the schedule for two seats of the Telangana Legislative Council,...
08:54
Rescuers pulled out children on Friday (local time) from the rubble of the Turkey-Syria earthquake as the toll crossed 24,000, reported The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH).The confirmed death toll from the deadliest quake in the region in two decades stood at more than 24,000 across southern Turkey...
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The Aam Aadmi Party's Teachers Wing on Friday opened its account in its first-ever academic polls at Delhi University with a landslide victory. The AADTA had fielded Dr Seema Das, a professor of political science at Hindu College, for the executive council elections. Das won the...
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Press Council of India chairperson Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai/ECI/Twitter
The Press Council of India on Friday condemned the alleged murder of a journalist in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district and sought a report from the state government. Taking suo motu cognizance of the matter, Press Council of India chairperson Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai directed the...
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Telangana BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar/ANI Photo
Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party president Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Friday said his party would demolish the domes of the state's new secretariat building if it gets elected to power, and make changes to it to reflect the culture of Telangana along with that of the country. Addressing a street...
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