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The traffic control room of Mumbai police has received a call from an unidentified person warning of a 26/11-like terror attack if Pakistani woman Seema Haider did not return to her country, an official said on Thursday. The call was received on Wednesday, he said. The caller, who spoke...
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A magistrate in Madhya Pradesh's Indore on Thursday sentenced 14 Congress leaders including the party's national secretary Satyanarayan Patel `till the court rises for the day' for staging an unlawful sit-in protest over farmers' issues. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on each of...
22:12
The European parliament on Thursday adopted a resolution on the human rights situation in India, with particular reference to the recent clashes in Manipur. The parliament in Strasbourg, France, called on Indian authorities to put in place measures to halt the ethnic and religious violence...
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CM M K Stalin
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday directed the municipal administration department to provide a monthly honorarium to mayors, deputy mayors and councillors of corporations in recognition of their services to the public, with effect from this month. This initiative is a major...
21:43
Injured at a hospital in J-K/ANI
Terrorists on Thursday shot at and injured three non-local labourers in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district, officials said. The terrorists fired at and injured the three non-local labourers in the Gagran area of the south Kashmir district in the evening, the officials said. The...
21:20
TV Mohandas Pai
Former SBI chief Rajnish Kumar and IT industry veteran TV Mohandas Pai will join the advisory council of edtech major Byju's, which is facing corporate governance and financial issues. The development comes against the backdrop of a delay in financial audits of the company, a dispute with...
20:53
The Delhi High Court Bar Association on Thursday expressed concern over the Supreme Court collegium's recommendation to shift Delhi high court judge Justice Gaurang Kanth to the Calcutta high court, saying such transfer will adversely affect dispensation of justice on account of reduction in the...
20:27
Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud
After the day's hard work, it was time for the Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and several other judges of the Supreme Court to cool down over a cup of hot coffee. Justice Chandrachud Thursday visited a cafeteria with other judges on the apex court premises and relaxed while sipping...
20:03
An earthquake measuring 4.6 magnitude on Richter scale hit western Nepal's Humla district on Thursday morning, officials said. No loss of life or property has been reported. According to National Seismological Centre, the earthquake was recorded at 11:17 am with its epicentre located at...
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The ruling Shiv Sena in Maharashtra on Thursday said the state cabinet's expansion and allocation of portfolios are most likely to happen on Friday, but the rival faction of the party said it doubts the MLAs belonging to the Eknath Shinde-led camp would be accommodated in the new ministry.On July...
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The Trinamool Congress on Thursday said it has decided to postpone a scheduled visit of a party delegation to ethnic strife-torn Manipur to July 19 following a request from the government of the northeastern state. A five-member TMC delegation was scheduled to visit Manipur on July 14 to...
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A Delhi court on Thursday convicted seven accused, including former Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Darda and ex-coal secretary HC Gupta in a case related to irregularities in the allocation of a coal block in Chhattisgarh. In the 13th conviction in the coal scam, the scandal which rocked the erstwhile...
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Two people on Thursday jumped from the third floor of a commercial building in Noida after a fire broke out but were saved as they landed on a pile of mattresses spread on the ground by locals, officials said. The two -- a man and a woman -- suffered minor injuries and were shifted to a...
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Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Thursday met his cabinet colleague Devendra Fadnavis amid speculation about the allocation of portfolios to the newly-inducted Nationalist Congress Party MLAs. Earlier in the day, Pawar and Fadnavis, who is also a deputy CM, held a meeting with...
17:47
A controversy broke out over the death' of a Bihar Bharatiya Janata Party leader following a police lathi charge during the party's march towards the assembly in Patna on Thursday. The saffron party alleged that its Jehanabad district general secretary succumbed to injuries suffered in a...
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The huge collection of silver articles at the centuries-old Guruvayur Sree Krishna Temple in Thrissur will soon turn into gold! No, it's not any magic or miracle but a constructive plan by the temple management body to productively utilise the assets left unused in the shrine for...
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Some good news for Delhiwalas. The Yamuna water level is stabilising and will start reducing in four hours and drop to 208.45 metres by 3 am, Friday, says the Central Water Commission. Water reached Ring Road behind the Red Fort on Thursday as the Yamuna river continued to flow above...
17:12
Benchmark stock indices hit their record high levels in intra-day trade on Thursday, with Sensex breaching the historic 66,000-mark for the first time following a rally in global markets amid moderating US inflation data.Buying in market heavyweight stocks Infosys, ICICI Bank and Tata Consultancy...
16:51
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in France on Thursday for an official two-day visit. He was welcomed at the airport by French Prime Minister lisabeth Borne. The Prime Minister was accorded a ceremonial welcome at the airport. PM Modi will join French President Emmanuel Macron...
16:44
There was once was road here in Manali
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Thursday said that a total of 60,000 stranded tourists have been evacuated from the flood-affected areas. Until 9 am today, a total of 60,000 stranded tourists have been successfully evacuated from Himachal Pradesh. I am...
16:15
The Delhi Traffic Police on Thursday issued an advisory on the restrictions and regulation of vehicular movement in place owing to rising water level of the Yamuna river as harried commuters struggled to reach their destinations. Closure of roads due to the overflowing Yamuna also hit...
16:00
As water began to enter the premises of a Delhi government-run trauma centre in north Delhi, authorities began shifting about 40 patients to the LNJP Hospital on Thursday. Three ICU patients were among those being shifted from the Sushruta Trauma Centre located opposite Chandiram Akhada in...
15:37
Light to moderate rains were witnessed in the national capital again on Thursday, adding to the severe waterlogging in the low-lying areas of the city. Brief spells of light rainfall occurred in parts of central and south Delhi like Lajpat Nagar, Saket, Malviya Nagar, Hauz Khas and...
15:20
Delhi Traffic Police issues advisory for diversion of major routes due to rising water level of the Yamuna. Movement of traffic in both carriageways from ISBT towards Majnu Ka Tila and vice-versa are restricted. Delhi government closes Okhla and Chandrawal Wazirabad water treatment plants.
15:17
NCP leaders Ajit Pawar and Praful Patel met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and senior BJP leaders late on Wednesday night amid a tussle over the allocation of portfolios to the latest entrant in the ruling Shiv Sena-BJP coalition in Maharashtra. The stand-off over portfolios has...
15:00
The 25.30 hour countdown for the launch of the country's third moon mission Chandrayaan-3 commenced on Thursday at the spaceport here, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said. Friday's lunar expedition follows the 2019 Chandrayaan-2 mission where space scientists are aiming...
14:53
Delhi: No changes recorded in the water level of river Yamuna in the past one hour. The water level at 1 pm was recorded as 208.62 metres, it was found to be the same even at 2 pm. Flood waters enter Sushruta Trauma Centre at Metcalf Road in Delhi. At least 40 patients, including three on...
14:36
A dozen National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams have been deployed in Delhi to tackle the situation in view of increased water levels in the Yamuna river, officials said on Thursday. Three teams each have been deployed in central, east and north east Delhi while two are...
14:19
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The Punjab Road Transport Corporation bus from Chandigarh to Manali, which had been missing for the past two days, was spotted today in the middle of the Beas River. The driver's body was found, but there is no trace of the conductor yet.
14:13
Massive traffic jams along the Delhi-Gurugram Expressway
More than 300 mail and express trains and 406 passenger trains have been cancelled between July 7 and July 15 due to waterlogging on tracks following heavy rainfall over the past few days, officials said on Thursday. Overall, about 600 mail and express trains and over 500 passenger trains...
13:20
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on the flood situation in the national capital: We had a DDMA meeting. Several important decisions were taken. Schools, colleges and universities will remain closed till Sunday. All Govt offices, except those providing essential services, will have Work from Home....
12:58
The Delhi government has banned the entry of heavy goods vehicles, barring those carrying essentials, in the city from four borders including Singhu as a precautionary measure in view of the rising Yamuna levels, Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot said on Thursday. Sharing a copy of the order...
12:33
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday hit out at the Centre over scientists at top research institutions having not received funds for this financial year, alleging that the Modi government is hell-bent on killing scientific research in the country. His attack came over a...
12:24
Czech novelist Milan Kundera passed away yesterday at the age of 94. Novelist and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor tweets, With the passing, at age 94, of the immortal Milan Kundera, author of The Book of Laughter & Forgetting', The Unbearable Lightness of Being' and other classics, I thought I...
12:08
A rickshaw-puller pedals through chest-deep water in the flooded area near Red Fort, Delhi.
12:06
Delhi Metro trains are crossing the four Yamuna bridges with a restricted speed of 30 kmph as a precautionary measure due to rising water level of the Yamuna, the DMRC said on Thursday. The swollen river has crossed the danger mark, breaching the all-time record of 1978, flooding...
11:51
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said water supply may be affected in parts of the city with the shutting down of treatment plants at Wazirabad, Chandrawal and Okhla following rising levels of the Yamuna. The Yamuna river swelled to a staggering 208.48 metres Thursday...
11:24
Deadly violence has plunged Manipur, a scenic Indian state bordering Myanmar, into turmoil for more than two months. Clashes between the Meitei and Kuki communities have resulted in their complete segregation. The BBC's Soutik Biswas travelled to the tribal district of Churachandpur, where the...
11:22
Salman Rushdie lost his vision in one eye due to the attack
Salman Rushdie has spoken for the first time about having crazy dreams following the near-fatal knife attack on him in New York in August last year, which has left the Mumbai-born author blind in one eye, and working with a therapist to help him process the mental impact of the...
11:18
S Somanath, ISRO Chief
A team of scientists from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) visited the Sri Venkateswara temple at nearby Tirumala on Thursday morning in the run-up to launch of the lunar exploration mission Chandrayaan-3 on Friday. Visuals of the ISRO team, three women and two men, went viral on...
11:14
The Yamuna in Delhi swelled to a staggering 208.48 metres Thursday morning, inundating nearby streets and public and private infrastructure, and causing immense hardships to people living in close proximity to the river. There are two major barrages on the Yamuna -- Dakpathar in Dehradun and...
10:35
Makeshift tents were set up to house families who had to be evacuated
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday urged people in the national capital to look out for each other and extend all necessary assistance amid the floods caused by the rising waters of the Yamuna.Taking to his official Twitter handle, the Delhi CM posted, The water level of Yamuna is...
10:24
Benchmark equity indices rebounded in early trade on Thursday, with the Sensex and Nifty scaling their all-time high levels following a rally in global markets amid moderating US CPI inflation data. Buying in market heavyweight Tata Consultancy Services also helped markets to trade in...
10:21
Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena will hold a special meeting of the Delhi Disaster Management Authority on Thursday to discuss the flood situation in the city, officials said. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is the vice-chairman of the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), will...
10:19
With the Yamuna swelling to a staggering 208.48 metres, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday announced closure of schools in areas inundated with floodwater. The national capital recorded a rapid increase in the Yamuna's water level over the past three days. The water...
10:17
Himachal Pradesh: Around 300 buses stuck at various locations in the state after routes were affected due to rain and floods. We have about 3,700 total routes. If we talk about today, the operation of around 1,200 routes is suspended. The majority of them are in the Kullu district, rest are...
10:07
A flooded street in Delhi
As the Yamuna water level rises, the Delhi Secretariat housing offices of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his cabinet and other senior bureaucrats, was flooded on Thursday. According to officials from the Public Works Department, they received information regarding flooding of the...
09:47
With the Yamuna swelling to a staggering 208.48 metres, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday advised people to not use roads around the river as they have been inundated. The water level of the Yamuna is rising continuously. Now the level has reached 208.46m. Due to the...
09:38
The torrential Yamuna in Delhi swelled to a staggering 208.48 metres Thursday morning, inundating nearby streets and public and private infrastructure, and causing immense hardships to people living in close proximity to the river. The water level at the Old Railway Bridge crossed the...
09:33
India's 5G rollout has been dominated by Reliance Jio, with the company accounting for as much as 79 per cent (over 2 lakh ) of the 2.52 lakh 5G- powered base transceiver stations (BTS) in the country till June 19. Sources aware of the development say that Reliance Jio has hit over 55-60...
09:15
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday expressed confidence that his visit to France will provide a new impetus to the bilateral strategic partnership and said that he looks forward to holding wide-ranging discussions with President Emmanuel Macron on taking forward this time-tested...
08:47
A two-month-old ailing girl from a hamlet in predominantly tribal Vikramgad taluka of Maharashtra's Palghar district died on Wednesday as her parents could not reach the nearest primary health centre (PHC) on time due to lack of a proper road in the area, her family said. A video of...
08:33
Jannayak Janata Party MLA Ishwar Singh was allegedly slapped by a woman on Wednesday when he was taking stock of the flood situation in his constituency, the purported video of which has become widely circulated on social media. The Jannayak Janata Party is part of the Bharatiya Janata...
01:10
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, on Wednesday, announced the formation his artificial intelligence firm -- xAI. Announcing formation of @xAI to understand reality, Musk tweeted. The company, called xAI, unveiled a website and a team of a dozen staffers, CNN reported. The new company will be...
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The wait is finally over. The nominations for the 75th Emmy Awards are out and Succession is dominating. As per Variety, HBO's shows Succession, The Last of Us, and The White Lotus represent the three most-nominated shows of the year. The final season of 'Succession' bagged 27...
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In a relief to cash-strapped Pakistan, the International Monetary Fund on Wednesday gave a final nod to a $3 billion stand-by arrangement' for the country to support the government's efforts to stabilise the ailing economy. The development came two weeks after the two sides reached a...
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As parts of Delhi close to the Yamuna battles an overflowing river, the police and other agencies on Wednesday evacuated more than 750 people and more than 250 cattle, officials said. In one such incident, a man was found perched on a tree by a police team patrolling in a boat to track if...
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