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Canada on Tuesday imposed sanctions on four Sri Lankans, including former presidents Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa, for committing what it called 'gross and systematic violations of human rights' during the country's civil war.Sanctions have also been imposed on Staff...
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After a passenger complained of finding a stone in her in-flight meal on an Air India plane, the airline on Tuesday said it has taken serious note of the incident and will initiate strict action against the caterer.On January 8, a female passenger took to Twitter saying she found a stone in her...
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Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday took a swipe at Ghulam Nabi Azad's DAP calling it 'Disappearing Azad Party' over the exodus of leaders from the newly-formed outfit.Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh tagged a tweet by Indian Youth Congress media...
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The National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC) on Tuesday reviewed the situation in Joshimath where cracks have appeared in buildings and other structures and stressed that the immediate priority should be to ensure the complete and safe evacuation of all residents in the affected zone.At a...
21:16
Real estate tycoon Sushil Ansal, convicted in the 1997 Uphaar cinema fire case, on Tuesday approached the Delhi high court for injunction against the release of web series Trial by Fire, which is said to be based on the incident and is scheduled for release on Netflix on January 13.The lawsuit by...
20:09
A four-year-old speech-impaired boy who had fallen into a borewell was rescued after a five-hour operation in the Kotla Sadat area here on Tuesday.The NDRF (National Disaster Response Force) team has successfully rescued the boy. He is under medical observation and is being given proper...
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A Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) jawan allegedly ended his life at Delhi's IGI airport by shooting himself from his service weapon on Tuesday, officials said.The constable-rank jawan has been identified as Jitendra Kumar.The jawan shot himself using the 9mm pistol inside a bathroom at...
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No-frills airline Go First on Tuesday apologised to passengers who were left behind in a coach at Bangalore airport on Monday and said an inadvertent oversight in the reconciliation of the flight to Delhi led to the incident.The carrier has ordered an inquiry as well as derostered all the staff...
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Nepal's newly-appointed Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' on Tuesday won the vote of confidence in the House of Representatives. The 68-year-old CPN-Maoist Centre leader was sworn in as the Prime Minister for the third time on December 26 last year after he dramatically walked out of...
17:59
Aviation watchdog Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday issued a show cause notice to Go First for leaving behind 55 passengers in a coach at Bangalore airport, after finding that 'multiple mistakes' led to the incident.On Monday, Go First operated flight G8-116 from Bangalore...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday, visited Sri Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) in Amritsar as the Bharat Bharat Jodo Yatra entered Punjab. Earlier today, the former Congress President resumed the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Haryana's Ambala amid dense fog and biting cold. On...
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Locals in Joshimath on Tuesday protested against National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) seeking their withdrawal from the state. The protesters held banners of Mahila Mangal Dal and Panchayat Selang and protested across the streets. The protesters demonstrated against the NTPC's...
16:17
A 49-year-old woman, a resident of Mumbai's Vile Parle, was gang-raped by her friends in Ahmedabad. Two accused have been arrested. Efforts underway to nab those absconding, says the Mumbai police. Details awaited.
15:52
Women breakdown as they are forced to leave their homes
Residents of Joshimath broke down on Tuesday as they left their homes that have been marked 'unsafe' by the district administration in the wake of the landslide and subsidence.The district administration had asked people to vacate the areas affected by subsidence. As of now, 678 buildings marked...
15:12
Delhi was the most polluted city in India in 2022 with PM 2.5 levels more than double the safe limit and the third highest average PM10 concentration, according to an analysis of Central Pollution Control Board data. PM2.5 pollution in the national capital has reduced by over 7 per cent in...
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Manchester Museum will be the first-ever museum to have a permanent South Asia gallery in the UK, as a part of a landmark partnership with the British Museum. Showcasing over 140 historic artefacts from the collections of the Manchester Museum and British Museum, alongside new contemporary...
14:47
DMK MLAs walked out of the Assembly yesterday
DMK President and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Tuesday requested his party MLAs not to pass any distasteful comments on Governor RN Ravi during the Assembly session, sources said. According to sources, at a meeting of MLAs in Chennai on Tuesday, Stalin asked the MLAs not to...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday visited the Golden Temple in Amritsar, a day ahead of the Bharat Jodo Yatra beginning its Punjab leg. The Haryana leg of the march concluded on Tuesday in Ambala district. Gandhi will spend few hours in the holy city of Amritsar before returning to...
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Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma
A vehicle in which the mother of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma was travelling met with a minor accident on National Highway 37 in Morigaon district on Tuesday, an official said. No injuries were reported in the accident. Sarma's mother Mrinalini Devi and brother Diganta...
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The NTPC's Vishnugad hydel project is the primary cause of what Joshimath is facing at this moment.The tunnelling technology which is used across eastern and western Himalayan region brings havoc to the local environment. It is happening in the Teesta project area also.The NTPC project must be...
13:30
Amid the row over Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi's remark that 'Tamizhagam' rather than 'Tamil Nadu' would be a more appropriate name for the state, many posters with the words '#Getout Ravi' were spotted in Valluvar Kottam and Anna Salai areas of West Chennai. Amid the controversy over the...
13:17
Cracks in a house in Joshimath
Policy interventions are needed on construction work in Himalayan regions to avoid a repeat of Joshimath, according to experts. Read the column here.
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A Go First Airways flight took off from Bengaluru with more than 50 passengers forgotten in a bus on the tarmac, reports NDTV. Aviation regulator DGCA has asked the airline for a report.The DGCA or Directorate General of Civil Aviation said today it is looking into the matter after many...
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Village Defence Guards have been strengthened
Over 50 people have been detained so far for questioning in connection with the attack on the minority community in Jammu and Kashmir's Dhangri village even as a massive search operation to track down the terrorists behind the strike continued on the ninth day on Tuesday, officials...
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Noting that peace is prevailing in Tripura under the BJP-led government, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma appealed to the voters not to let the days of bloodshed return to the northeastern state. Addressing the Jan Vishwas Rally in Killa area of Gomati district on Monday, he...
12:51
Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena has granted sanction to prosecute former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union vice president Shehla Rashid Shora for her tweets on the Indian Army, officials said on Tuesday. According to officials at the L-G office, the sanction is related to a...
12:50
Amid the global unrest over the civil unrest triggered by Mahsa Amini's death, the Iranian judiciary on Monday handed down three more death sentences, reported France24. In the latest ruling, Saleh Mirhashemi, Majid Kazemi and Saeed Yaghoubi were sentenced to death for 'moharebeh' --...
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An under-construction Metro pillar collapsed near the Nagawara area of Bengaluru on Tuesday morning. The collapse affected the movement of traffic in the area. People were seen trying to move the fallen pillar to ease traffic flow. Further details are awaited.
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A sub inspector has been suspended and a Station House Officer sent to police lines for allegedly beating up a salesman of a liquor shop in Sikheda area of the district, police said on Tuesday. According to a complaint filed by the victim Anit Kumar, he was beaten by the two policemen...
12:10
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has come out with a list of 301 feature films eligible for Oscars with Indian films RRR, Gangubai Kathiawadi, The Kashmir Files and Kantara making the cut. The reminder list includes movies that can officially compete in...
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A Delhi court on Tuesday extended for 14 days the judicial custody of Aaftab Amin Poonawala, accused of killing his live-in partner and dismembering her body. Poonawala was produced before Metropolitan Magistrate Aviral Shukla in the court lock up.The court extended his judicial custody for...
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear on January 16 a plea seeking the court's intervention to declare the crisis in Uttarakhand's Joshimath as a national disaster. A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha, however, refused to list the plea, filed by...
11:31
Amid reports that the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has asked the makers of Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Pathaan to make changes to the shots used in its song Besharam Rang, lyricist-writer Javed Akhtar has said filmmakers need to have trust in the film certification body that has the...
10:59
Moving a step closer to commercialising the first India-developed vaccine in the US, Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech's partner Ocugen Inc. has announced positive top line data for the Covid vaccine candidate Covaxin (BBV152).Nasdaq-listed Ocugen is Bharat Biotech's partner to commercialise Covaxin...
10:50
Former ICICI Bank CEO and MD Chanda Kochhar and her husband have been released from jail in Mumbai after getting bail in loan fraud case. The Kochhars were granted interim bail in the case on Monday.The Bombay High Court, while allowing interim relief to the former ICICI Bank CEO and...
10:40
Most of atmospheric layer that protects planet from ultraviolet radiation likely to be fully recovered for most of world by 2040. Read the report here.
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As many as 40 flights, scheduled to depart from Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport, were delayed because of dense fog, sources informed on Tuesday. However, the airport sources further informed that no flight diversions were reported till 7 am. While several domestic...
10:33
Tata Motors will commercially introduce Ace EV in 10 cities, starting with Delhi, Pune and Mumbai, followed by Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai.The Ace model's starting price is Rs 9.99 lakh (ex-showroom) and it comes with a five-year comprehensive maintenance package. Its first fleet of 25...
10:32
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has issued guidelines for extension of trading hours in case of an outage at a stock exchange along with standard operating procedures for stock exchanges for handling such an outage.In a circular issued on Monday, the capital markets regulator said that...
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Jamnagar Collector said the flight was cleared for takeoff
Police on Tuesday said nothing suspicious was found on the Azur Air Moscow to Goa international flight which was diverted to Jamnagar airport in Gujarat after a bomb threat. The National Security Guard (NSG) and local police teams completed checking the aircraft on Tuesday morning...
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Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar will undergo a cataract surgery at a hospital in Mumbai on Tuesday, a party functionary said. On Monday, Sharad Pawar's nephew and senior NCP leader Ajit Pawar had said the party chief was to attend a book launch event but could not as...
09:56
A cracked road in Joshimath
Amid civilian fears in the wake of land subsidence in the Joshimath area, fresh cracks were seen on some houses in Bahuguna Nagar of Karnaprayag Municipality in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand.Earlier, on Monday, Sitarganj MLA Saurabh Bahuguna said that other villages near Joshimath were...
09:43
Several school children were hospitalised in West Bengal's Birbhum district after consuming food in which a snake was allegedly found, officials said.Around 30 students of a primary school in Mayureswar block in the district fell ill after consuming the food served to them in mid-day meal on...
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Authorities at Joshimath said on Tuesday that they will start demolishing hotels and houses in the holy town, which developed cracks in the wake of the landslide and subsidence.Hotels Malari Inn and Mount View, which have developed more cracks, will be demolished on Tuesday, officials said,...
09:29
Pakistan is facing its worst ever flour crisis with parts of the country reporting shortage of wheat and stampedes reported from several areas in Khyber Panhtunkhwa, Sindh and Balochistan provinces.Tens of thousands spend hours daily to get the subsidized bags of flour that are already short in...
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Statements of two crew members of the Air India flight on which a man allegedly urinated on an elderly woman co-passenger will be recorded on Tuesday, police said.The two crew members were to join the probe on Monday but could not do so as they were not in Delhi, the officials said.Since the two...
08:46
Senior Samajwadi Party leader Shivpal Singh Yadav on Monday said derogatory remarks against party MP Dimple Yadav will not be tolerated and the battle against such comments will be fought from the streets to Parliament. Reacting to certain comments made by Richa Rajpoot, the social media...
08:21
A small number of documents marked as classified from the previous Obama-Biden administration have been found at President Joe Biden's think-tank institute in Washington, DC, the White House has said.The White House is cooperating with the national archives and the Department of Justice regarding...
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Security was beefed up after some miscreants pelted stones at houses of a particular community in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Monday, sources said. The incident took place in Banch village, they said, adding the pelting of stones created panic among the people. The police...
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Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has approved a proposal of the Delhi government to provide a compensation of Rs 10 lakh to the family of a 20-year-old woman who was killed at Kanjhawala after being dragged by a car for more than 12 kilometres on January 1, officials said on Monday. Chief...
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Village Defence Committee members patrol at Dhangri village of Rajouri
More than a week after a major terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri, authorities on Monday handed over self-loading rifles to the ex-servicemen acting as village defence guards in Dhangri village, officials said. This is for the first time that the VDGs, who were earlier known as...
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