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When foul weather and blocked roads made it impossible for Ashish Singha to take his baraat from Kotgarh in Shimla to marry Shivani Thakur in Kullu's Bhuntar, the families found another way to solemnise the union -- video conferencing. Rain pounded Himachal Pradesh for three consecutive days...
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Nearly 140 dengue cases have been reported in the national capital this year, with Delhi health minister Saurabh Bharadwaj holding a meeting on Tuesday with senior officials of the government on containing the spread of vector-borne diseases. According to data shared by civic authorities,...
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The Indian Space Research Organisation has undertaken a 24-hour launch rehearsal simulating the entire launch preparation and process for this week's Chandrayaan-3 mission to the moon. The mission is slated to be launched at 2.35 pm onboard a Launch Vehicle Mark 3 from the spaceport at...
22:54
Amid the heavy rains in Uttarakhand, the India meteorological department on Monday issued a red alert for July 11 and 12. A red alert has been issued in four districts. We are in alert mode. CM also took the review yesterday. Only one unfortunate incident has taken place in which 4 people...
22:27
The Bharatiya Janata Party's legal cell here on Tuesday submitted an application to the police in Nagpur seeking action against Shiv Sena-UBT president Uddhav Thackeray over his taint jibe directed at Maharashtra deputy CM and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis. Addressing his party workers in...
22:06
Panic struck passengers of Dibrugarh-Kanyakumari Vivek Express on Tuesday when they saw smoke being emitted from the bottom of a coach while the train was travelling through Odisha's Ganjam district, officials said. Soon, the passengers pulled the chain and stopped the train near Brahmpur...
21:56
Muslim World League Secretary-General Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa on Tuesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discussed a host of issues. Al-Issa, who is on an India visit, also addressed an event organised by the Khusro Foundation and the India Islamic Cultural Centre...
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The Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government was snooping on its party headquarters in Delhi and called it a serious matter. Addressing a press conference, AAP chief spokesperson and Delhi cabinet minister Saurabh Bharadwaj questioned the...
21:20
The Election Commission of India on Tuesday approved Edappadi K Palaniswami as the general secretary of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. This cements Palaniswami's leadership in the AIADMK. The Election Commission of India is updating the lists of office-bearers of several...
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A court in Delhi on Tuesday allowed the police to quiz Sandeep Sharma in their custody for two days in connection with the firing incident in the Tis Hazari district court premises during a fight between lawyers. Two more advocates, Jitesh Khari and Shiv Ram Pandey, were produced in the...
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One more African cheetah died in Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park on Tuesday, a senior forest department official said. The male cheetah, Tejas, was brought to KNP in Sheopur district from South Africa in February this year. Cheetah Tejas, aged around four years, died in KNP due to...
20:29
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In an unusual move, a group of tipplers in Udupi city on Tuesday came out to stage a protest against the hefty increase in the price of liquor in Karnataka. The state government had increased excise duty on Indian Made Foreign Liquor by 20 per cent and beer by 10 per cent in the recent...
20:17
The all-powerful Goods and Services Tax Council on Tuesday decided to impose a 28 per cent tax on the turnover of online gaming companies, horse racing and casinos, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said. The panel, headed by the Union finance minister and comprising of representatives of...
20:15
Kanal Kannan, a noted stunt master in the Tamil film industry, who was arrested for offending religious sentiments has been remanded to judicial custody, the police said on Tuesday. Kannan, also an actor and chief of the art and culture wing of Hindu Munnani, an RSS affiliate, was arrested...
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An Air India Express flight from the Mangaluru International Airport bound for Dubai was delayed by over 12 hours due to a technical snag. Flight IX 813 was scheduled to depart at 11:05 pm on Monday but due to a technical snag, the aircraft departed at 12.10 pm on Tuesday. A statement...
19:35
A contractual employee with the Union finance ministry has been arrested for allegedly possessing and passing on official secrets to a contact, the police said on Tuesday. Naveen Pal (27), a resident of Bheem Nagar, was nabbed at around 7 pm on Monday near Shani temple here following a...
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A group of people pelted stones at the Vande Bharat Express near Ayodhya on Tuesday, cracking its windowpanes as they vented their anger days after the train mowed down a herd of goats, the police said. Three men have been arrested in this regard, they said. The windowpanes of two...
18:44
Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji (right)
Income Tax officials held searches at locations linked to the brother of arrested Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji in Karur on Tuesday, official sources said. The taxmen have earlier conducted searches twice in the district and elsewhere in Tamil Nadu at properties and locations linked...
18:35
With the induction of 40 MUVs for the Nirbhaya Squad and 200 motorcycles for police beat marshals, the Mumbai police are all set to improve their mobility and response time. Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who holds the home portfolio, on Tuesday, flagged off these...
18:11
The old iron bridge over Yamuna has been temporarily closed for traffic movement as the river exceeded the evacuation mark in Delhi, the police said on Tuesday. In a tweet, the Delhi traffic police said, Iron bridge Pusta road Gandhi Nagar is closed for public/traffic till further orders due...
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Aviation watchdog Directorate General of Civil Aviation has put SpiceJet under enhanced surveillance amid the budget airline facing multiple financial headwinds in recent months, a senior official said on Tuesday, but the carrier refuted any such development. It also comes against the...
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The National Investigation Agency on Tuesday carried out raids at five locations in the Kashmir valley in a crackdown on newly-floated offshoots of proscribed Pakistan-backed terrorist groups operating in the Union territory, officials said. The operation was conducted in Anantnag, Shopian...
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The Delhi government on Tuesday said thousands of people living in the floodplain of the swollen Yamuna river in the city have been shifted to makeshift accommodations in safer places and provided with food and water. Saurabh Bharadwaj, the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP government's water...
16:35
A bridge in Shimla
A chopper sent to Chandetral in Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh to evacuate stranded tourists had to return due to bad weather conditions, officiating Director General of Police Satwant Atwal said on Tuesday. Will try again as the cloud cover gives way, she said in a...
16:19
Himachal Pradesh floods: Revenue & Disaster Management principal secretary Onkar Chand Sharma says, Since the onset of monsoon on June 24 till yesterday, we have around 72 deaths reported with 8-10 people missing. Over 73 houses have been damaged and 373 animals have died. Over Rs 761 crore...
16:02
River Ravi rages under the Bakan Bridge in flood-hit Himachal
Key highways, including the Ambala-Ludhiana national highway, were temporarily closed for vehicular traffic on Tuesday due to waterlogging following heavy rainfall in Haryana and Punjab, officials said. Ambala Deputy Commissioner Shaleen said the decision to temporarily close the highway was...
15:46
Stones were pelted on Vande Bharat Express, coming from Gorakhpur to Lucknow, near Sohawal railway station. SSP says, RPF informed us today that stones were pelted on Vande Bharat train near Sohawal railway station. Local police went to the spot for investigation and it was found that the...
15:33
The High Court has made defamation sound like a horrific crime. Read more here.
15:12
West Bengal panchayat election: As per counting of votes till 2.30 pm, TMC wins 8232 seats and leads on 2712; BJP wins 1714 seats and leads on 734 Congress wins 362 seats and leads on 215.
15:09
Amid crisis in Nationalist Congress Party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and NCP chief Sharad Pawar are likely to share stage at an award function of Lokmanya Tilak Smarak Trust on August 1 in Pune. Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Deputy Chief Ministers Ajit Pawar and Devendra...
15:06
Chirag Chauhan shares his season ticket and on the anniversary of that horrific day when Mumbai was ripped apart by serial train blasts writes:My last season train pass of Mumbai locals, 17 years have passed since 11 July 2006 I have still preserved it. The day resulted in the tragic loss of 189...
14:54
ED chief Sanjay Kumar Mishra
The Supreme Court on Tuesday held as illegal the third extension granted to the Enforcement Directorate chief Sanjay Kumar Mishra and curtailed his extended tenure to July 31. A bench of Justices BR Gavai, Vikram Nath and Sanjay Karol said in view of the peer review being conducted by...
14:40
If Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray keeps insulting Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, it might trigger a law and order situation in the state, said BJP leader Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Tuesday. We will answer bricks with stones, he...
14:15
The Opposition meeting in Patna last month
Congress president and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge has invited top opposition leaders for participation in the next unity meeting scheduled to be held on July 17-18th at Bengaluru. Congress President in a letter addressed to top opposition party leaders reminded...
14:03
Omar Abdullah donates blood and asks, Be a blood donor. It costs nothing & can help save a life. #donateblood #BeABloodDonor.Do your bit, when you can.
13:52
To make security checks quicker and error-free at India's busiest airports, the Airport Authority of India (AAI) is all set to deploy body scanners that will cut down the passenger frisking time by half. A senior AAI official said, Presently, it takes around 30 seconds on average to frisk a...
13:49
The trajectory of the Ukraine war hangs in the balance. All eyes are on the US President Joe Biden's arrival in Vilnius for the NATO summit meeting (June 11-12.) Biden got a big boost already from Turkish President Recep Erdogan's commitment to transmit the Accession Protocol for Sweden...
13:48
File pic. Lawrence Bishnoi
Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, who has been accused of the murder of Punjabi Singer Sidhu Moose Wala, was rushed to the hospital late at night after his health deteriorated, said the police on Tuesday. According to the police, Bishnoi was rushed to Faridkot Medical Hospital from Bathinda Central...
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Five bodies recovered from helicopter crash site in Nepal. A private commercial helicopter with six people aboard including five Mexican nationals that went missing near the Mount Everest area in Nepal on Tuesday has crashed in a hilly terrain in the country's eastern region, officials...
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A swollen Beas river in Kullu
A helicopter from the Indian Air Force (IAF) has been requisitioned to airlift the tourists stranded at Chandertal in Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh while a rescue team from Kaza has reached Kunzum Top and is just eight kilometres away from the lake, Principal Secretary, Revenue,...
13:00
Taiwanese electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn is working to apply separately for setting up a semiconductor manufacturing unit in India, the company said on Tuesday. It said it is reviewing the landscape for optimal partners for the project. Foxconn is working toward submitting an...
12:41
The moment of the impact. All six in the SUV were killed
Six members of a family died and two people were severely injured on Tuesday morning when their SUV collided head-on with a school bus moving on the wrong side of an expressway in Ghaziabad, a senior police official said. The accident took place around 6 am on the Delhi-Meerut...
12:38
Suchitra Krishnamoorthy gets candid in a recent interview with RJ Siddharth Kanan, where she spoke about her marriage with Shekhar Kapur, and the reasons for their divorce. Read more here.
12:29
Violence rocked Bengal during the polls leaving 15 dead
Early trends indicate that the Trinamool Congress is leading in over 2,229 gram panchayat seats in West Bengal while the BJP is ahead in 664 seats, State Election Commission officials said on Tuesday. The CPI(M) is currently leading in over 460 gram panchayat seats followed by its ally...
12:16
A Nepal chopper with tourists crashed in 2018
Update: A private commercial helicopter with six people aboard, including five Mexican nationals, went missing near the Mount Everest area in Nepal on Tuesday, aviation authorities said. The Manang Air chopper 9N-AMV departed from Surke Airport in Solukhumbu district at 10:04 am for...
12:10
Himachal Pradesh CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu assesses the flood situation in the state. Visited Nadaun to assess rising water levels in Beas River due to heavy rain. Concerned about potential risks to nearby areas. We are taking swift action to ensure the safety of our people. Requesting residents...
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A Manang Air helicopter with six people aboard went missing near Mount Everest in Nepal on Tuesday, aviation authorities said. According to Tribhuvan International Airport General Manager Pratap Babu Tiwari, the chopper, with call sign 9N-AMV, went contactless 15 minutes into the...
11:42
The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will commence day-to-day hearing from August 2 on a batch of petitions challenging abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution that bestowed special status on the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief...
11:18
A total of 415 million people moved out of poverty in India within just 15 years from 2005/2006 to 2019/2021, the UN said on Tuesday, highlighting the remarkable achievement by the world's most populous nation. The latest update of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) was...
11:03
At 8 am today, water level of River Yamuna recorded at 206.32 metres at Old Railway Bridge, flowing above the danger level. The highest flood level of the river in Delhi is 207.49 metres. As a precautionary measure, railway and traffic movement on Old Railway Bridge has been...
10:55
-- Supreme Courts five-judge Constitution bench says hearing of a batch of pleas challenging the abrogation from of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir will start from August 2.-- A portion of a flyover in Panchkula washed away due to heavy rainfall in the city. Cracks were also seen at many...
10:52
The flood situation in Lakhimpur district of Assam has deteriorated after several new areas were inundated by flood waters, affecting nearly 60,300 people.The flood waters have submerged 67 villages under 4 revenue circles of the district. Around 545.50 hectares of crop area are still under...
10:36
Seventeen years since a string of powerful bombs ripped through Mumbai's commuter trains system in the evening rush hour on July 11, the Bombay High Court is yet to commence hearing on the confirmation of the death penalty given to five convicts in the case. On July 11, 2006, seven...
10:21
Secularism is in the blood of Indian people, former vice president Venkaiah Naidu has said, asserting that minorities are more safe and secure in India than in many countries including in the US.Naidu, 74, addressed a gathering of Indian Americans at a reception hosted in his honour by the...
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On this day in 2006, a series of seven bomb blasts took place over a period of 11 minutes on the suburban railways in Mumbai. The bombs were set off in pressure cookers on trains plying the Western line of the Suburban Railway network. Over 209 people were killed and more than 700 were...
09:49
The punctuality of Air India's flights declined over 13 per cent in June, which was the steepest fall month-on-month for any Indian airline, according to the ministry of civil aviation's data.The airline, run by the Tata group, saw its average daily on-time performance (OTP) drop from 83.27 per...
09:35
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Tuesday said that the state administration is on full alert mode in view of the India Meteorological Department's (IMD) heavy rainfall alert in the region.Talking about the precautionary arrangement made in the state, CM Dhami said, Every year...
09:32
The Amarnath Yatra was suspended for the fourth consecutive day on Tuesday due to a closure of the Jammu-Srinagar national highway owing to the extensive damage caused to its Ramban section, leaving 15,000 pilgrims stranded in Jammu and at other places. Authorities said incessant rains...
09:29
The counting of votes for the three-tier panchayat polls to nearly 74,000 seats in West Bengal began on Tuesday morning in a peaceful manner amid tight security, officials said.There are around 339 counting venues spread across 22 districts.The maximum number of counting centres was in South 24...
09:25
The United States has welcomed the role of India in helping achieve lasting peace in Ukraine, a senior administration official said Monday. A strategic failure for Russia, which has seen an enormous loss of both military personnel, but military equipment....
09:20
Two more cheetahs have been released into the wild at the Kuno National Park (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh's Sheopur district, taking the count to 12, a senior forest official said on Tuesday.Eight Namibian cheetahs, comprising five females and three males, were brought to the KNP and released into...
08:59
Seven people died and several others were injured when a bus carrying a marriage party fell into a canal in the early hours of Tuesday in Prakasam district, official sources said. An official release from Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's office said the CM expressed...
08:46
The Yamuna in Delhi has exceeded the evacuation mark of 206 metres, prompting the relocation of people residing in flood-prone areas to safer locations, officials said on Tuesday.The river crossed the danger mark of 205.33 metres in Delhi on Monday evening, much earlier than anticipated.According...
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The number of pilgrims who paid obeisance to Lord Shiva in the cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas crossed the one-lakh mark on Monday as the Amarnath Yatra gained momentum after three days of inclement weather. An official said that on Monday more than 9,000 pilgrims had a darshan of the...
01:32
Samajwadi Party chairman and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav visited Mumbai on Monday. It was a personal visit and, therefore, did not include any political meeting, an SP functionary said. He said no meeting was scheduled with NCP chief Sharad Pawar, an opposition...
01:26
Actor Parineeti Chopra announced her partnership and investment in Clensta, a personal care brand. The actor and singer took to social media app Instagram to announce the investment, although the quantum of investment is not known. She joined actors Deepika Padukone, Alia Bhatt and...
01:23
Reliance Retail and Google-backed logistics and delivery platform Dunzo has deferred payment of the June salaries to about 500 employees, according to sources. Dunzo's top management is expected to be most impacted by the decision, sources said. The development comes after Dunzo raised...
00:53
Plans for a permanent Hindu Temple and Community Centre in the UK city of Oxford have moved another step closer as the Oxford City Council granted approval for its planning application. The council-owned sports pavilion changing rooms at Court Place Farm, Marston, will be converted into a...
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The Enforcement Directorate on Monday submitted draft charges in a court in Mumbai against former Maharashtra minister and Nationalist Congress Party leader Nawab Malik in a money laundering case linked to the activities of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and his aides. Special...
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