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The Manipur government on Thursday announced that it will convene a special assembly session in the second or third week of August.Government spokesperson and Information and Public Relations Minister Sapam Rajan said that the government is making efforts towards this end.There have been demands...
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Social media websites were suspended in Bihar's Darbhanga district till July 30 amid tensions after a clash over the hoisting of a religious flag, according to a notification issued on Thursday.Some anti-social elements are using internet to share objectionable content to spread 'rumor and...
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Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh and other party MPs, staging a round-the-clock protest in the Parliament House Complex against his suspension, will now hold the agitation only when parliamentary proceedings are on and not during the night.The decision was taken after Congress president...
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The government spent Rs 408.46 crore on the publicity of its schemes through the Central Bureau of Communications in 2022-23, Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.In a written reply, Thakur said the government spent Rs 1,179.17 crore on publicity in...
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Opposition parties will hold the next meeting of their 26-member INDIA coalition in Mumbai on August 25 and 26, sources said on Thursday.The third meeting of the bloc will be hosted jointly by the Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray and the Nationalist Congress Party's Sharad Pawar faction, with...
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The Gujarat government on Thursday transferred 70 Indian Police Service officers, including Vadodara commissioner Shamsher Singh and Prem Vir Singh of the crime branch in Ahmedabad, which also got a new top cop.Anupam Singh Gehlot, a 1997 batch IPS officer currently serving as the Additional...
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Nirav Modi
Maharashtra BJP MLC Ram Shinde on Thursday claimed that investors were buying land at throwaway prices from farmers in Karjat taluka of Ahmednagar district, where an MIDC is proposed to be set up, and named one Nirav Deepak Modi as one of the buyers. Raising the issue in the state...
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Prahlad Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's younger brother Prahlad Modi underwent dialysis at the district combined hospital in Sanjay Nagar, Ghaziabad, UP. Hospital officials said it was a routine procedure as he requires dialysis twice a week.He came to the hospital in the morning as an ordinary...
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A delegation of Tipra Motha, the main opposition party of Tripura which has been demanding a separate state for tribals, on Thursday held an official meeting with the Ministry of Home Affairs in New Delhi, party supremo Pradyot Kishore Debbarma said.Debbarma, who headed the...
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Criticising state Congress president Bhupen Bora for his comment on the Golaghat triple murder case, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Thursday said that if a police case is filed against him for hurting religious sentiments, he will be arrested.On Monday, a 25-year-old man killed...
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A 28-year-old PhD scholar at the Central University of Rajasthan allegedly hanged herself in her room in the girls' hostel in the Bandarsindri area of Ajmer district, the police said on Thursday.Phunsuk Dolma, a native of Ladakh, committed suicide by hanging late on Wednesday, Bandarsindri SHO...
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The Central Bureau of Investigation to probe the case of two women stripped and paraded by a mob in Manipur on May 4, officials said on Thursday.The Centre will also file an affidavit in Supreme Court, requesting the the trial of the case to take place outside Manipur.More details awaited. ...
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Kinnaur and Spiti Valley, both tribal districts, have been cut off from Shimla, the state capital, following the blockade of National Highway 5 (Hindustan-Tibet Road) due to rock falling, landslides, and sinking of road.The National Highway has been blocked at Baroni, Manglad, and Pashada near...
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Eight wagons and the brake van of a goods train were derailed at Akaltara railway station of Chhattisgarh's Janjgir-Champa district on Thursday, railway officials said. No injuries were reported in the incident but the movement of trains on the Howrah-Mumbai up and down line was disrupted,...
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A police inspector fired a round in the air to disperse rival political cadres from the ruling Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party and the Telugu Desam Party at a rally held by the opposition party in Vinukonda town of Palnadu district in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday, a police official...
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Just In: The Allahabad high court stays ASI survey of Gyanvapi mosque premises till Aug 3.
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Thursday arrested another accused for allegedly promoting violent activities of the proscribed global terrorist outfit ISIS in Maharashtra, an official said. Adnan Ali Sarkar, 43, was the fifth accused arrested in the case, which was registered on June...
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S K Mishra
The Supreme Court on Thursday granted an extension of tenure to Enforcement Directorate chief Sanjay Kumar Mishra till September 15 but made it clear there will be no further extension. The Centre was seeking an extension in Mishra's tenure till October 15.A bench of Justices B R Gavai,...
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In yet another cross-border love story, a Chinese woman has travelled to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to meet a Pakistani man whom she befriended and fell in love with on social media, police said on Thursday. The woman, identified by the media as Gao Feng, arrived in Islamabad on...
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National Communist Party's Rajya Sabha member Praful Patel on Thursday said Maharashtra's Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar is a popular and heavyweight leader and he will get an opportunity to become the chief minister.Asked about such speculation, Patel, who supports Ajit Pawar's Nationalist...
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A growing number of women in Punjab, India, are coming forward with stories of being lured to Oman with the promise of domestic work, only to be trapped in sexual exploitation and slavery. According to the Sun Foundation, which has rescued 24 women from the Middle Eastern country, dozens...
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The Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust has sent a formal invitation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the consecration of the idol of Lord Rama in the sanctum sanctorum of the Ram temple in January next year, a trust member said on Thursday. The trust will extend invitations to...
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Congress MLA and former school education minister Varsha Gaikwad on Thursday objected to the presence of children in the assembly visitors' gallery, citing a red alert issued in Mumbai amid heavy rains, which has led to the closure of schools. Gaikwad, who is also the Mumbai Congress...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi charged on Thursday that the BJP-RSS are only interested in power and are working towards dividing the country as they do not care about the sorrow and pain of people. Addressing a Youth Congress programme virtually, Gandhi said, The BJP-RSS only want power and...
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As many as 15 Tamil Nadu fishermen released by Sri Lanka arrived here on Thursday from Colombo, officials said. The fishermen were arrested recently by the neighbouring country for alleged poaching and they were lodged in a prison. Transport arrangements were made and the...
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Army chief General Manoj Pande on Thursday visited the Siachen Glacier and reviewed the operational preparedness, besides paying tributes to the soldiers who laid down their lives at the world's highest battlefield. The COAS interacted with the troops and lauded them for their...
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Opposition members led by Congress MPs walked out of Rajya Sabha proceedings on Thursday over their demand for a discussion on the Manipur situation. When the Upper House, which was adjourned twice in the pre-lunch session amid continuous sloganeering by members of both treasury...
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Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday urged suspended AAP Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh not to sit on protest overnight and end it every day when Parliament's proceedings conclude. He told Singh that the protest sit-in should be held when the day's proceedings...
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Kinnaur and Spiti Valley, both tribal districts, have been cut off from Shimla, the national capital, following the blockade of National Highway 5 (Hindustan-Tibet Road) due to rock falling, landslides, and sinking of road. The National Highway has been blocked at Baroni,...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar assailed the Opposition on Thursday for disrupting his statement in Rajya Sabha, saying they claim to be 'INDIA', the name of their alliance, but if they are not prepared to listen about India's national interests then what kind of India are...
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MPs from the Opposition alliance INDIA will visit Manipur on July 29 and 30 to assess the situation in the north eastern state which is riven with ethnic violence since May 3. A delegation of over 20 opposition members of parliament will visit Manipur this weekend and will...
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and accused him of not speaking in Parliament and instead making political speeches in Rajasthan. Kharge said people have now become aware and will fight this kind of...
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China has rolled over a USD 2.4 billion loan to its all-weather ally Pakistan for two years to help the cash-strapped country shore up its foreign exchange reserves, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said on Thursday. Dar said in a Twitter post that Pakistan was supposed to pay the loan in the next...
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The Centre has taken decisions in the interest of farmers for nine years and created arrangements from seed to market for them, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday and dedicated 1.25 lakh PM Kisan Samriddhi Kendras to the nation. Addressing a rally in this Rajasthan town, he...
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Rajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned till 12 noon on Thursday as members of opposition parties, who were dressed in black, raised slogans in the House demanding a discussion on the Manipur issue. Soon after the listed papers were laid on the table of the House, External Affairs Minister S...
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A 19-year-old Naval sailor was found hanging onboard INS Vikrant in the early hours of Thursday, a Defence release said. Prime facie it appears to be a case of suicide, it said, adding a statutory Board of Inquiry is being ordered into the incident.Sources said the unmarried sailor...
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Actress and National Commission for Women (NCW) member Khushbu Sundar said a through probe is necessary on the alleged video shooting of a girl in the washroom of a paramedical college in Udupi, before jumping to conclusions or giving it a communal angle.Sundar, who arrived in Udupi on Wednesday...
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A farmer from Hingoli in Maharashtra facing a debt of around Rs 20 lakh has written a letter to Chief Minister Eknath Shinde seeking a compensation for his crop losses and said if he does not get it, he will have no option but to commit suicide. Gajanan Narayan Awchar, hailing from...
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Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned till 2 pm on Thursday as Opposition parties continued to protest on the Manipur issue. Members from various opposition parties sought to raise the issue as soon as the House met for the day. Some members shouted slogans and displayed placards in...
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A woman from Telangana who is currently in the USA pursuing MS was found in awful condition. Her mother wrote a letter to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar seeking his help to bring her back home. In a letter that was posted on the Twitter page of BRS leader Khaleequr Rahman, the...
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Actress and National Commission for Women (NCW) member Khushbu Sundar said a through probe is necessary on the alleged video shooting of a girl in the washroom of a paramedical college in Udupi, before jumping to conclusions or giving it a communal angle.Sundar, who arrived in Udupi on Wednesday...
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Sunny Deol in 'Gadar 2'
Actor-politician has blamed political game for hatred between India and Pakistan, saying the people of the two countries have equal love for each other.At the trailer launch event of his upcoming film Gadar 2 on Wednesday night, the actor said the people of the two nations don't want to...
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As conjunctivitis cases are surging in Arunachal Pradesh, with children being the most affected, several district administrations have ordered a temporary suspension of school activities to curb the spread of the disease, officials said on Thursday. After the state capital Itanagar and Kanubari...
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Heavy rains lashed Mumbai and suburbs in the last 24 hours with some areas receiving extremely heavy showers, officials said on Thursday. The city witnessed incessant rainfall since Thursday morning, but there was no report of any major waterlogging in low-lying areas, they said.The India...
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Opposition alliance INDIA is likely to boycott a meeting of the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) of Rajya Sabha to be held on Thursday morning to protest against the prime minister not making a statement on Manipur violence in Parliament, a senior leader said. The Rajya Sabha BAC has 11...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who is currently undergoing Ayurvedic wellness treatment at the famous Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala in Malappuram, has offered prayers at Sri Viswambhara Temple situated on its premises.Gandhi visited the temple on Wednesday evening, party sources said. He was...
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The Allahabad high court will on Thursday resume hearing on a plea against a Varanasi district court order directing the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to conduct a survey to determine if the Gyanvapi mosque was built upon a temple.The matter is listed for hearing in the court of Chief...
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Stones were pelted at the Vande Bharat running from Bhopal to Delhi's Nizamuddin station in Agra Railway Division on Wednesday, breaking the glasses of the train's coach, officials said. According to railway sources, there was a stone pelting incident on the train between Mania and...
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A deaf Indian citizen who was swept into Pakistan by floodwaters of the Sutlej River has been handed over to an intelligence agency, officials in Pakistan's Punjab province said on Wednesday. The Indian national who is in his 50s is deaf and communicates through sign language. He said he is...
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A gas leak was noticed on a pipeline traversing below the riverbed of the flooded Yamuna River in the Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh in the early hours of Wednesday. The leak resulted in a burst of a water fountain that could be seen from a distance. Indian Oil Corp, the operator of...
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After intense showers throughout the day, Mumbai registered its wettest July ever on Wednesday with the month so far witnessing a record 1557.8 mm rainfall, the India meteorological department said. The previous wettest July on record was in 2020 when 1,502 mm rainfall was logged by the...
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