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One National Disaster Response Force team is at the triple-train crash site in Odisha's Balasore district while five more are being rushed to the spot, officials said on Friday. The estimated strength of these six teams is more than 240 personnel, they said. The teams are equipped with...
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The government on Friday imposed stock limits on tur and urad dals held by wholesalers, retailers, importers and millers till October to prevent hoarding and check price rise. An order in this regard was issued with immediate effect by the Union food and consumer affairs ministry. All India...
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President Droupadi Murmu on Friday said she was deeply anguished by the loss of lives in an unfortunate train accident in Odisha and prayed for the speedy recovery of the injured. Deeply anguished to know about the loss of lives in an unfortunate rail accident in Balasore, Odisha. My...
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The ceremony to flag off the inaugural Goa-Mumbai Vande Bharat Express at Madgaon station has been cancelled in the wake of the accident involving three trains in Odisha, Konkan railway officials said on Friday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was scheduled to flag off the Goa-Mumbai Vande Bharat...
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The police on Friday destroyed more than 2,400 kg of seized party drug mephedrone valued in excess of Rs 4,860 crore at a facility in the adjoining Navi Mumbai, an official said. The huge stock of the synthetic stimulant and psychotropic substance was destroyed by the Mumbai police at an...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday reviewed the overall preparedness for flood management in the upcoming monsoon season and measures for formulating an overarching policy to mitigate the perennial problem of flooding in the country. Shah said at the meeting that the rain and flood forecast...
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NDRF's 1st team of 22 members from Balasore Railway Station (BLS) has already reached the site. Another team from Centralised Traffic Control (CTC) of 32 members started half an hour before. (Source: Eastern Railway)
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The 12841 Shalimar-Coromandel Express collided with a goods train on Friday evening, injuring several persons, at Bahanaga Bazar station in Balasore district of Odisha, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said, while her officials said Bengal is sending a team led by a minister to the spot...
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The National Investigation Agency on Friday filed a fresh chargesheet against five persons in connection with the Coimbatore car bomb blast in October 2022, and said the prime accused was reportedly inspired by the hardcore ISIS ideology to carry out this terrorist attack. The agency had...
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The view of a derailed train coach in Odisha/ANI
Four coaches of the Coromandel Express derailed in Odisha's Balasore district on Friday evening after a head-on collision with a goods train, officials said. Some 47 injured persons have been admitted to Balasore hospital, fatalities feared, they said. The accident happened around 7.20 pm near...
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Air India Express will start operating Haj flights from Kannur and Kozhikode on June 4. In a release on Friday, the airline said the Haj charters will be carried out in two phases. In the first phase, it will operate 44 flights from Kozhikode and 13 flights from Kannur to Jeddah and plans to...
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Tata Memorial Centre is aiming to double its share of cancer patients it serves per year to 20 per cent of the total number of such patients in the country by 2030 from the present 10 per cent, its director Rajendra Badwe said on Friday. Currently, the centre provides treatment to 10 per cent of...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a joint session of the US Congress on June 22 during his official state visit to the country, top congressional leaders announced on Friday. On behalf of the bipartisan leadership of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate,...
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The All India Forward Bloc on Friday alleged that a biopic of Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar by actor Randeep Hooda was an attempt to distort history to satisfy the interests of the Sangh Parivar. The Left party asserted that the claim in the teaser, which has been recently released, that Netaji...
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With the law commission backing the sedition law, the Congress on Friday accused the BJP government of planning to make it more draconian and giving a message ahead of the general elections that it will be used against opposition leaders. Alleging that the BJP uses the sedition law as a tool of...
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From a surge in airfares to rattled aircraft lessors to thousands of employees staring at uncertainty, it has been a month of continued turbulence since cash-strapped Go First suspended flights from May 3. As the government and other stakeholders hope that Go First restarts operations at the...
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At least 98 people lost their lives and 310 others were injured in the ethnic violence in Manipur that broke out a month ago, the government said in a statement on Friday. A total of 37,450 people are in 272 relief camps at present, said the statement, issued by the Chief Minister's Office...
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Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Friday downplayed the statement of former MLA Pankaja Munde that she belongs to the party but the party does not belong to her. Pankaja Munde, daughter of BJP stalwart late Gopinath Munde, is often at the centre of...
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A khap mahapanchayat Haryana's Kurukshetra on Friday demanded the arrest of outgoing Wrestling Federation of India chief and Bharatiya Janata Party MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, accused of sexually harassing some women wrestlers, and gave the government time till June 9 to act on its demand. The...
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Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Friday said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's recent remarks on the 'miserable condition' of Dalits and Muslims in the country is a bitter truth for which previous governments of the Congress, the BJP and other parties at the Centre were responsible. In a...
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The Delhi high court on Friday permitted Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia, under arrest in cases related to alleged irregularities in the city government's excise policy, to meet his ailing wife at his residence on Saturday.Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma directed the Tihar Jail Superintendent...
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As the Afghan embassy in Delhi reels under a power struggle after the Taliban appointed a diplomat to head the mission in place of the incumbent, India on Friday said it is an internal matter of the embassy. From our perspective, this is an internal matter of the Afghan embassy and we hope that...
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While seeking support against the Centre's ordinance control over administrative services in Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday met his Jharkhand counterpart, Hemant Soren, in Ranchi. Giving a strong message to the Congress party, Kejriwal said that the party has to decide whether...
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Pakistan will release 200 Indian fishermen and three civilian prisoners as a humanitarian gesture, foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced on Friday. Last month, Pakistani authorities released 198 Indian fishermen, languishing in a prison in Karachi after being arrested for allegedly...
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A look at three papers topping the list of print outlets with a large number of central ads. Read the report here.
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Rahul Gandhi speaking at Stanford University, US on his idea of India. I have a completely different concept of India. I don't see India the way they do. They see India as a top-down centralised system, whereas I see India as a diverse nation with multiple cultures, religions, and languages. I...
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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah who chaired a Cabinet meeting on Friday said that the five guarantees promised by the Congress ahead of Assembly elections will be implemented in the present financial year. We held a cabinet meeting today. We discussed all five promises thoroughly. We have...
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The Congress on Friday hit back at the BJP over its criticism of Rahul Gandhi for calling the Indian Union Muslim League completely secular, saying the party he referred to was different from the Muslim League, for which the BJP has more love and whose leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah was hailed by L K...
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Concerned that the protesting wrestlers can take the extreme step of immersing their medals into holy river Ganga, members of the 1983 World Cup winning cricket team on Friday urged the elite athletes not to take a hasty decision and hoped their grievances will be heard and resolved. Vinesh...
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BKU's Rakesh Tikait attends a Mahapanchayat held by BKU president
A khap mahapanchayat is underway in this Haryana district to deliberate on the next steps to be taken in the agitation pertaining to the wrestlers' issue. The representatives of various khaps and farmers' outfits reached the Jat Dharamshala from different places, including Haryana, Punjab,...
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Brijbhushan Singh has been accused of several cases of molestation
Rejecting the charge that the BJP was following double standard in the Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh case, party leader Bansuri Swaraj on Friday said FIRs have been registered against him and after investigation, the judicial process will take its natural course. Swaraj, the daughter of the late...
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The Congress party tweeted this saying, 'Who is protecting Brijbhushan Singh?
Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Friday said everyone wants justice to be delivered to the wrestlers demanding action against outgoing Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, but it will happen only after following the due process of law. Thakur's remarks came...
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Jigna Vora's character in Scoop
The Bombay High Court on Friday refused to grant any urgent relief to jailed gangster Rajendra Nikalje, alias Chhota Rajan, who had filed a plea against web series Scoop, noting that the series was already released on Netflix. A vacation bench of Justice S G Dige directed the makers and producers...
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A 28-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly trying to strangle his girlfriend and banging her head against a rock after she refused to get intimate with him at a public place in suburban Bandra, police said on Friday. The woman who suffered serious injuries in the alleged attack is now...
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Now that the Class 12 results are out, students -- and their parents -- are wondering how to pick the best course and college. Which entrance exams should they give? Which course offers them the best combination for their future?Choosing the right career is one of the most crucial decisions...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be invited to the Ram Temple in Ayodhya for the consecration ceremony of the new idol of Lord Ram, an official of the temple's trust said. Ram Temple Trust general secretary Champat Rai said that the decision was taken in the recently held meeting of the...
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BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the former WFI chief accused of sexually harassing women wrestlers, said a rally in Ayodhya in his support had been postponed for a few days while the police are investigating the charges against him. The UP government has refused permission for the rally....
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The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education on Friday declared Class 10, or SSC, results that saw a pass percentage of 93.83, a drop of nearly 3 points from last year, board officials said. The overall pass percentage stood at 96.94 last year. Maintaining the trend,...
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Hollywood star Harrison Ford-led Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny will release across Indian cinemas on June 29, a day ahead of its worldwide theatrical premiere. The film, directed by James Mangold, marks Ford's final appearance as the legendary hero archaeologist. #IndianaJones and the...
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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday held a meeting of senior officers of the State government to take a decision on implementing the five guarantees promised by the ruling Congress ahead of the Assembly elections.The Chief Minister held a meeting with the senior officers before the...
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In wrestling, to be on your back, shoulders hitting the ground is to be pinned', defeated. This is where every bout ends. In the photo, as unknown hands try to yank Sangeeta upwards onto her feet and into the police van, she is being held down by her cousin Vinesh. What looks like defeat is...
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Photograph: Kind courtesy Mark Zuckerberg/Instagram
From The Guardian newspaper: Mark Zuckerberg has raised internet eyebrows after revealing he has taken part in an intensive challenge in which he ran a mile, completed 100 pull-ups, 200 press-ups and 300 squats, before running a further mile, all while wearing a 9kg weighted vest.The Facebook...
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Union Minister Kiren Rijiju has lashed out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his completely secular remarks for the Indian Muslim League party stating that it was extremely unfortunate that some people in the country still consider the person who supports the Muslim League as Secular.Rijiju...
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The Law Commission has backed the penal provision for the offence of sedition, saying repealing it altogether can have serious adverse ramifications for the security and integrity of the country Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code dealing with sedition is at present under abeyance following...
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As BJP MP and former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh reiterated that he would hang himself if charges against him were proven, the charges against him in the FIR filed by the Delhi police suggest he is a serial molester. According to an NDTV report, Singh allegedly touched women athletes...
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The Personal Data Protection Bill, which has been overdue, will now be introduced in the parliament's monsoon session, said Lt General (Dr) Rajesh Pant, National Cyber Security Coordinator, Government of India on Thursday while addressing the Global Privacy & Data-Protection Leadership Meet 2023...
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All eyes are set on the Karnataka Cabinet meeting on Friday where a decision will be taken on implementing the five guarantees promised by the ruling Congress during the Assembly elections in May. The Congress had said that it will implement these schemes if it formed a government in Karnataka....
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Beti rulao, tweets @INCIndia. The reference, of course, is the Centre's refusal to listen in to the wrestlers' demands for over a month now. The picture is obviously photoshopped.
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A terrorist was killed in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district on Friday morning, officials said.According to officials, the encounter was reported in Dassal forest area of the district.A terrorist was killed in the encounter in Rajouri's Dassal forest area,...
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Popular Bhojpuri singer Nisha Upadhyay received a bullet injury allegedly in celebratory firing at her show in Bihar's Saran district, police said.The incident happened in Sendurva village in Janta Bazar police station area on Tuesday but it came to light after videos of the show went viral on...
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United States President Joe Biden tripped on a sandbag and fell after he handed out the last diploma at a graduation ceremony at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado on Thursday, CNN reported.He got up quickly and walked back to his seat and appeared fine afterward. In a video after the fall,...
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The Indian Army released a statement on Thursday stating that all its ranks were race, caste, creed, and gender neutral.The clarification came in light of alleged misinformation on social media, discrediting officers of a certain community for doing internal security tasks in violence-hit...
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A special NIA court in Chandigarh has declared a wanted member of the proscribed terror group Sikhs for Justice, who is currently based in Germany, a proclaimed offender in the Model Jail tiffin bomb case of April 2022, an official said. The official said Jaswinder Singh, alias Multani, of...
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Chief Minister Siddaramaiah
The Congress' master strategist in Karnataka Sunil Kanugolu, the brains behind the 'PayCM' campaign against the previous Bharatiya Janata Party government, has been appointed as Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's chief adviser. An order for Kanugolu's appointment was issued on Wednesday. He has been...
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Murder accused Sahil
The police have recovered the knife allegedly used by 20-year-old Sahil to kill a teenage girl in northwest Delhi's Shahbad Dairy area, the police said on Thursday. A senior police officer said the accused's police custody was extended for three more days by the court on Thursday. He was again...
