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The central government issued directions for blocking 3,470 URLs in 2023 under provisions of the IT Act, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. Section 69A of the IT Act provides power to the central government to issue directions to block any information if it is necessary to do so in the...
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Lyricist Javed Akhtar
A court in Mumbai while issuing summons to lyricist Javed Akhtar in a case filed by actor Kangana Ranaut has held that there was sufficient ground to proceed against him for the offence of criminal intimidation. However, no case is made out against him on charges of extortion, the court...
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Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation has suspended the flying licences of two IndiGo pilots for violating safety norms as the aircraft they operated suffered a tail strike while landing at the Ahmedabad airport last month, according to a senior official. The senior...
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The high commission of India in London has issued an urgent alert after receiving reports of fraudulent calls being made to members of the diaspora and Indian students in the UK demanding money. India House in London said it has been brought to their attention that the phone numbers...
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Flood situation continued along Hindon and Yamuna floodplains in Noida and Greater Noida, impacting 17 villages where over 3,100 people have been displaced and moved to shelter homes while nearly 1,600 hectares of land was submerged, officials said on Wednesday. Gautam Buddh Nagar District...
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Ninety-eight students died by suicide in the past five years in higher education institutions, including central universities, IITs, IIMs, NITs and IISERs, according to the Union ministry of education. Twenty cases of student suicides have already been reported in higher education...
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With the arrest of a PhD scholar of the Central University of Kashmir, the police on Wednesday said to have busted a terrorist recruitment module in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir.Two terrorist associates linked with Hizbul Mujahideen (HM)/Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) were also arrested in the...
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The Editors Guild of India on Wednesday said it was putting together a team of senior journalists for a fact-finding mission to document the coverage of the ethnic clashes in Manipur in the local and national media. In a statement, the Guild voiced its deep concern over the discernible bias...
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In view of the Indian meteorological department (Mumbai) issuing a red alert (extremely heavy rainfall warning) for Mumbai city and suburbs from 8pm today till tomorrow afternoon, the Mumbai municipal corporation (BMC) has announced a holiday for all municipal, government and private primary,...
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Kevin Spacey
Hollywood star Kevin Spacey was on Wednesday cleared of all charges in his sexual assault trial in London, where the jury returned not guilty verdicts for nine sexual offence charges relating to four men between 2001 and 2013. The actor, who turned 64 on Wednesday, had denied the allegations...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday inaugurated the International Exhibition-cum-Convention Centre complex and unveiled its new name --Bharat Mandapam. Modi unveiled the name of the new complex through a drone in the presence of Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and other...
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The weather bureau, which had earlier issued an orange alert for Mumbai, Thane, Raigad, and Palghar districts for Thursday, at night upgraded it to a red alert for the financial capital, Raigal, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg. The weather bureau has predicted heavy rain in Mumbai and suburbs with...
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Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray president Uddhav Thackeray has praised Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar as an honest and able administrator and said he handled his departments very well when he was part of the erstwhile Maha Vikas Aghadi government. Thackeray, who headed the...
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A harvested human heart was expeditiously' sent from Nagpur to Pune on Wednesday morning to be transplanted into a recipient admitted to the Army Institute of Cardio-Thoracic Sciences, said a defence release. The vital organ was sent through a green corridor created by the civil...
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Jagdish Tytler
Nearly 39 years after three people were killed and a gurudwara was set afire in Pul Bangash area during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, a Delhi court Wednesday summoned former union minister and Congress leader Jagdish Tytler on August 5, saying sufficient material was available on record to proceed...
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The headmaster of a government primary school in Visheshwarganj area Bahraich of Uttar Pradesh has been suspended for allegedly indulging in obscene acts in front of students in a drunken state, an official said on Wednesday. In a purported video, Durga Prasad Jaiswal, posted at Shivpur...
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The rupee fell 13 paise to settle at 82.01 (provisional) against the US dollar on Wednesday due to an elevated crude prices in international markets and month-end dollar demand from importers. Positive cues from the domestic equity market and inflow of foreign funds provided support to the...
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A cloudburst in Rampur sub-division of Shimla district washed away a school, five houses and agricultural land, while the National Highway 5 near Jhakri and Joeri areas was blocked due to a landslide, officials said on Wednesday. Rampur sub-divisional magistrate Nishant Tomar said about 20...
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A team of Gujarat police on Wednesday arrested a person from Bihar's Muzaffarpur district for allegedly tampering with the Aadhaar cards of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Muzaffarpur's senior superintendent of police Rakesh Kumar said Arpana...
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The Allahabad high court on Wednesday extended the stay on a survey of the Gyanvapi mosque premises by the Archaeological Survey of India till Thursday. After hearing a plea by Anjuman Intezamia Masjid, which manages the mosque, against the ASI survey, Chief Justice Pritinker Diwaker posted...
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Benchmark Sensex bounced back 351 points while Nifty closed above the 19,750 level on Wednesday following buying in capital goods, banking and oil shares amid fresh foreign fund inflows. From the Sensex pack, Larsen & Toubro jumped over 3 per cent. ITC, Reliance Industries, Sun...
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Incessant heavy rain lashed Mumbai on Wednesday, slowing down road traffic but services of suburban trains remained normal with slight delays. The weather bureau has issued an orange alert for Mumbai, Thane, Raigad, and Palghar districts for Thursday predicting heavy to very heavy rainfall...
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Minority Affairs Minister Smriti Irani
Minority Affairs Minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday said no Waqf Board in the country has the authority to expel a person or a community from a religion, remarks that come amid a row over the Andhra Pradesh Waqf Board passing a resolution describing the Ahmadiyya community as...
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Tamil Nadu BJP on Wednesday submitted a memorandum to Governor RN Ravi alleging the ruling DMK's 'benami' links.In its memorandum the TN unit of the BJP has alleged 3 scams for a value of Rs 5,600 crore, vis-a-vis benami links to DMK. Its memorandum to Governor Ravi is titled 'DMK Files-II',...
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National Commission for Women member Kushboo Sundar said on Wednesday that she was heading to Udupi in Karnataka to look into the issue of alleged recording of a video of a female student in a paramedical college washroom by her fellow students. An FIR has been registered against three girl...
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The Centre on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court seeking extension of term for Enforcement Directorate Director Sanjay Kumar Mishra. SC posted the hearing for July 27. SK Mishra's term will end on July 31 as ED director as per the Supreme Court judgment.While on the subject of Mishra's...
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A Delhi court on Wednesday summoned Congress leader Jagdish Tytler on August 5 in connection with the Pul Bangash killings during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vidhi Gupta Anand passed the order after taking cognisance of a charge sheet in the case.The CBI had...
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Delhi's Special Court sentences former Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Darda to four years imprisonment in a case relating to irregularities in the allocation of a coal block in Chhattisgarh. His son Devender Darda, M/S JLD Yavatmal Energy Pvt Ltd's Director Manoj Kumar Jayaswal were also sentenced to four...
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Maharashtra Deputy Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday said in the state assembly that police personnel will not be taken on contract.Fadnavis, who is also the state home minister, said he will give a detailed statement on the matter.Raising the issue in the House, state Congress chief...
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When they will the opposition have the guts to discuss atrocities against women in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Bihar, Union minister Smriti Irani asked in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday as opposition party MPs created an uproar over the situation in Manipur.Irani's blistering attack came during...
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Online content creators, directors and producers have flagged issues around 'petty' objections against their shows, multiplicity of forums for filing complaints, and criminal sanctions under Indian regulations as impacting their ease of doing business. They aired their grievances in a...
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The Bombay high court has stayed any further proceedings to be initiated on an FIR filed against Baramati Agro Ltd, a firm controlled by Ntionalist Congress Party MLA Rohit Pawar, on charges of alleged disobedience of order passed by a public servant.Rohit Pawar is the grandnephew of NCP chief...
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A case has been registered against a man for assembling people at a spot on the Samruddhi Expressway where a bus fire claimed 25 lives, and installing a 'mahamrutyunjay yantra' and reciting mantras to prevent accidents, police said on Wednesday.Hamid Dabholkar of the Andhashraddha Nirmoolan...
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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla accepts the no-confidence motion against the government moved by the Opposition.The Motion was brought to the House by Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi. -- ANI
11:57
Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned till 12 noon on Wednesday as Opposition parties continued to protest on the Manipur issue.Rajya Sabha proceedings were also adjourned till 12 noon amid sloganeering by members of opposition, treasury benches. In the Lok Sabha, the protests began soon after the...
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The Rail Vikas Nigam (RVNL) and Russian firm JSC Metrowagonmash (TMH) have resolved their differences and formed a joint entity for the award of 120 Vande Bharat trains, ending months of uncertainty their disagreements had created.RVNL informed the stock exchanges on July 18 that a share-purchase...
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The Allahabad high court on Wednesday resumed hearing a plea against a district court order directing the Archaeological Survey of India to conduct a survey to determine if the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi was built upon a temple.After hearing arguments in the matter on Tuesday, Chief Justice...
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In the wake of heavy rains over the last few days, the Tansa and Vihar lakes, the key sources of potable water for Mumbai, started overflowing on Wednesday, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.Out of the seven reservoirs that supply water to Mumbai, the Vihar, Tansa and Tulsi lakes...
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JUST IN: Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi files a no-confidence motion against the government in Lok Sabha.Bharat Rashtra Samiti MP Nama Nageswara Rao has also filed a no-confidence motion against the government.Meanwhile, Congress MP Manish Tewari has given adjournment motion notice in the Lok Sabha,...
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President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday said all the countrymen remember the victory achieved by the extraordinary valour of the country's armed forces on the glorious occasion of 'Kargil Vijay Diwas'.The Indian Army had launched a fierce counter assault to push back Pakistani forces that had...
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday visited the Kargil War Memorial in Dras and paid tributes to soldiers who sacrificed their lives in the 1999 war.Singh laid a wreath at the memorial.He also visited the tombstones near the memorial placed in memory of the fallen soldiers.The minister...
09:25
The United States is 'shocked and horrified' by the video of an extreme attack on two women in Manipur and supports the Indian government's efforts to seek justice for them, a senior Biden administration official has said.The video showing two women being paraded naked and molested by a group of...
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The Congress party on Tuesday called for a meeting of its Lok Sabha MPs in the party's parliamentary office at 10.30 am Wednesday.The Congress has also issued a three-line whip for its Lok Sabha MPs to be present in the Parliament today.Significantly, the Opposition parties have decided to move a...
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The Opposition parties have decided to move a no-confidence motion against the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary said.Opposition members have resorted to protests and sloganeering in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha,...
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Passengers across the country were inconvenienced when the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation's website and mobile application crashed Tuesday morning, leaving officials scrambling to fix the glitch. Officials said the glitch was due to technical reasons which were later...
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Director general of Jammu and Kashmir police Dilbag Singh and General Officer Commanding of Army's 15 Corps Lt General Rajiv Ghai on Tuesday discussed measures to counter the new tactics adopted by Pakistan to push drugs, arms and terrorists into the valley. Lt Gen Ghai called on Singh at...
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Around 350 cars of online cab aggregator Ola parked at a dump yard in Greater Noida were submerged as water overflowing from the swollen Hindon river entered the low-lying area, the police said on Tuesday. While PTI could not immediately contact Ola for its response, the police said the dump...
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