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The government has called an all-party meeting on Monday, a day ahead of the start of the Budget Session of Parliament.The customary meeting, called by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi, is to be held at noon on January 30 in Parliament Annexe Building. During the meeting, the...
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Odisha's Health and Family Welfare Minister Naba Kishore Das died of bullet injuries on Sunday, Apollo Hospital officials said.Earlier in the day, Das was shot and grievously injured when he got out of his car, allegedly by a police officer who was captured.The injuries were repaired, and steps...
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The highly anticipated H1B visa filing season for fiscal 2023-24 will officially begin on March 1 when the United States immigration agency will start accepting applications for skilled foreign workers visas, the most sought-after by Indian IT professionals.The H1B visa is a non-immigrant visa...
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Authorities in Pakistan's Rawalpindi have demolished houses of a minority community, a Hindu and a Christian family, who were living in the area for the past 70 years.As per the sources, at least five houses were demolished in the Cantonment area of Rawalpindi on January 27 that belonged to a...
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'Beating the Retreat' ceremony, which marks the formal end of Republic Day celebrations, began at Vijay Chowk in the national capital on Sunday.Amid rain lashing the national capital, military bands enthralled audience at at Vijay Chowk at the ceremony attended by President Droupadi Murmu, the...
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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Sunday sacked one of his Cabinet ministers and Conservative Party chairman, Nadhim Zahawi, after he was found to have been in serious breach of the Ministerial Code.Zahawi, who was a minister without portfolio as the chief of the governing Tory party, had...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday unfurled the national flag at the historic clock tower of Lal Chowk in the heart of Srinagar as part of the Kanyakumari-Kashmir 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' and said a 'promise' made to India has been fulfilled.The security for the 10-minute event was at its peak as...
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Superstar Shah Rukh Khan's Pathaan continued its record-breaking spree at the box office as it collected Rs 429 crore gross worldwide in four days, said production banner Yash Raj Films (YRF) on Sunday.According to YRF, the high-octane spy thriller raised Rs 53.25 crore nett in India (Hindi, all...
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People's Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi unfurled the national flag here under 'different circumstances' when Jammu and Kashmir has been turned into a military garrison and assurances given by the Constitution demolished by the Bharatiya...
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Actor Annu Kapoor, who was admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi after he complained of chest pain four days ago, was discharged on Sunday, doctors said.He was admitted to the hospital in the early hours of January 26.According to Dr Ajay Swaroop, Chairman (Board of Management, Sir...
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A passenger on board an IndiGo flight to Mumbai from Nagpur allegedly attempted to remove the cover of the emergency exit when the aircraft was approaching for landing in Mumbai, the airline said on Sunday.An FIR has been registered against the passenger for the alleged act, IndiGo said in a...
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Odisha Health Minister Naba Das sustained injuries after being shot at by some unidentified miscreant near Brajarajnagar in Jharsuguda district.The incident occurred when Naba Das was on his way to attend a programme at Gandhi Chowk in Brajarajnagar.More details awaited. -- ANI
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday unfurled the national flag at the historic clock tower of Lal Chowk in Srinagar as part of the 'Bharat Jodo Yatra', amid stringent security measures usually reserved for a prime ministerial visit.Taking a 30-minute break from the Kanyakumari to Kashmir foot...
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A National Investigation Agency (NIA) team on Sunday reached the Hurriyat Conference office in the Rajbhag area in Srinagar as part of its investigation into a terror funding case, officials said.Sources claimed that the federal agency might seal the office as part of the probe.The Hurriyat...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi resumed his 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' from Srinagar's Panthachowk on Sunday, as the foot march entered its last day. Gandhi, along with his sister and Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, began the yatra at 10.45 am in his trademark white T-shirt. The Gandhis...
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The National Investigation Agency is set to take Mangaluru cooker blast accused Mohammed Shariq into custody following his recovery, sources privy to the case said. Shariq, who was undergoing treatment in the Victoria Hospital in Mangaluru for burns, is learnt to have recovered from the...
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The Congress has released its final list of candidates for the Meghalaya assembly elections, a senior party leader said on Sunday. Meghalaya Pradesh Congress Committee president and MP Vincent H Pala said the final list of five candidates was approved by the central election...
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The Gujarat government's competitive examination for the recruitment of junior clerks was cancelled hours before it was scheduled on Sunday over its question paper leak and the police detained a suspect in this connection, the state panchayat exam board said. As many as 9.5 lakh candidates...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address his first Mann Ki Baat of the year 2023 on Sunday. The 97th edition of Mann Ki Baat, the PM's monthly radio programme, will be aired at 11 am on Sunday. Earlier, on December 25, 2022, Modi addressed the 96th episode of...
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Uttar Pradesh's Board of Secondary Education has issued a list of guidelines, which include barring invigilators from using mobiles, calculators or any other e-devices, to ensure there is no cheating in the state board exams next month. Fifty per cent of the invigilators at the examination...
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Rakhi Sawant cries inconsolably after mother's demise/ANI
Actor Rakhi Sawant's mother Jaya Bheda died at a hospital in Mumbai on Saturday due to endometrial cancer. Bheda, 73, passed away around 9 pm, said Deepak Namjoshi, pulmonologist and director, CritiCare Asia Multispecialty Hospital & Research Center, Juhu. Sawant's mother had stage...
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The police on Saturday stopped the Students Federation of India from screening the controversial BBC documentary on Gujarat riots on the Himachal Pradesh University campus. The SFI activists raised slogans and tried to stop the police from removing the screen installed on the University...
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A day after four persons died on entering an abandoned underground coal mine in Shahdol in Madhya Pradesh, three more bodies were recovered from the facility on Saturday, a police official said. The four men had entered the mine in Dhanpuri, some 28 km from the district headquarters,...
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Sonam Wangchuk, a prominent engineer whose life inspired a character in Bollywood blockbuster 3 Idiots, has claimed that he placed under house arrest at his institute in Leh, a charge denied by the police which said he was only prevented from observing a five-day-long fast at Khardung La...
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