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SP MLA Irfan Solanki
The Uttar Pradesh Police arrested Ishtiyaq Solanki, who owns a tannery and is the uncle of jailed Samajwadi Party MLA Irfan Solanki, in connection with an extortion case on Tuesday, a police officer said. Joint commissioner of police (law and order) of Kanpur Anand Prakash Tiwari said...
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Former US President Donald Trump arrived at a Miami courthouse to face charges in documents case.Trump was indicted in an investigation into his handling of classified documents after he left the White House, The Hill reported.He has been indicted on seven federal criminal charges for retaining...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be leading a yoga session at the United Nations' Secretariat on June 21 to mark the International Yoga Day, UN resident coordinator in India Shombi Sharp said on Tuesday.Interacting with PTI on the sidelines of a seminar held in New Delhi to mark 75 years of the...
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Three of the four boys who went missing after venturing near the choppy Arabian Sea off Mumbai's Juhu Koliwada area were found dead on Tuesday, while a search was still on for the fourth one, a civic official said. Earlier in the day, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation had declared that...
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Anti-submarine warfare shallow water craft vessel being launched in Chennai/Navy/Twitter
An anti-submarine warfare shallow water craft vessel built by Kolkata-based Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, for the Navy was launched at the Larsen and Toubro, Kattupalli Port in Chennai on Tuesday. Anjadip, is the third of the eight ships of the contract that was signed between...
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Uttar Pradesh continued to reel under severe heat on Tuesday with almost all the divisions of the state recording a high of more than 40 degrees Celsius, the weather office said. The MeT issued a heatwave warning for 22 districts, including Banda, Chitrakoot, Kaushambi, Prayagraj, Fatehpur,...
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US NSA Sullivan meets PM Narendra Modi in New Delhi/ANI
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday told US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan that he is looking forward to a productive US visit and an engaging conversation with President Joe Biden on bilateral, regional and global issues of mutual interest. Sullivan, who arrived in New Delhi on...
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Maharashtra excise minister Shambhuraj Desai on Tuesday hinted that the government is open to reducing the number of dry days when liquor sale is not allowed if such a demand is made by people. A dry day, declared by the government, is when liquor sales and its service are...
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Tamil Nadu's Prabanjan J and Andhra Pradesh's Bora Varun Chakravarthi have topped the medical entrance exam NEET-UG this year with 99.99 percentile scores, the National Testing Agency announced on Tuesday. A total of 11.45 lakh candidates out of 20.38 lakh have qualified the exam. Among...
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Farmers protesting over the minimum support price for sunflower seeds at Pipli in Haryana's Kurukshetra on Tuesday called off their stir after talks with the district administration here, Bharat Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait said. The protesting farmers have been assured of appropriate...
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Shahnawaz Khan, a key accused in an alleged conversion racket, was sent to 14-day judicial custody Tuesday by a Ghaziabad court where he was produced after being brought from Maharashtra's Thane on a transit remand. A court in Maharashtra's Thane had granted the Uttar Pradesh police transit...
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Cyclone Biparjoy is now completely detached from the monsoonal flow and will not adversely impact the advance of the rain-bearing system or its performance, the India meteorological department said on Tuesday. Addressing a press conference here, IMD chief Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said the...
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The Editors Guild of India on Tuesday voiced concerns over alleged intimidation and harassment of journalists by Union minister Smriti Irani and the Communist Party of India-Marxist-led government in Kerala. ...
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Crisis-hit airline Go First on Tuesday announced that its scheduled flight operations will remain cancelled till June 16, adding that a full refund will be issued to the passengers. Earlier, it was supposed to be till June 12. We regret to inform you that due to...
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'When the minister says CoWIN does not appear to be directly breached and this is a previously stolen database, what about the investigation of that old leak then? 'If there is no protection provided to users, we will continue to see such data leaks. 'When the data of a person, under...
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The suburban services of Western Railway in Mumbai were affected due to signal failure on Tuesday afternoon, delaying trains and inconveniencing commuters, an official said.Commuters claimed that the trains were delayed by 30 to 45 minutes from afternoon till evening.According to Western Railway,...
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A girl student of Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, popularly known as IIIT Basar, in Nirmal district of Telangana, allegedly died by suicide on Tuesday, the police said. A student of Pre University Course-I, she was found hanging in the bathroom on the varsity's campus,...
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Tyre makerF on Tuesday reached a new milestone as its stock hit Rs 1 lakh mark during the day. The stock went up to Rs 1,00,300 -- also its 52-week high level -- on the BSE during the day. Shares of the company ended at Rs 99,950.65, a gain of 1.02 per cent. In intra-day, it climbed...
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Rescuers have found the bodies of all the four boys who went missing after venturing into the Arabian Sea off Mumbai's Juhu Koliwada area, an official said on Tuesday. They were part of a group of five friends, aged between 12 and 16 years, who ventured into the rough sea, about half a...
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An offence has been registered against a man for allegedly attempting to convert a youngster from Maharashtra's Palghar district after getting in touch with him on social media, police said on Tuesday. Based on a complaint lodged by the man's father, the police have registered an offence...
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A special court in Bengaluru has ordered for the attachment of 82 immovable properties belonging to former minister and accused in the illegal iron ore mining scam in Ballari, G Janardhana Reddy and his wife G Lakshmi Aruna. The special court exclusively to deal with criminal...
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A few workers at Tata Steel Ltd's plant in Odisha's Dhenkanal were affected, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. We are saddened to report an accident at the BFPP2 power plant due to escape of steam at Tata Steel Meramandali Works in Dhenkanal, Odisha, Tata Steel said in the...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi recently travelled from Washington to New York in a truck and engaged in a candid conversation with the driver that centred around the everyday lives of Indian-origin truck drivers in the US. Gandhi's journey in the truck during his recent visit to the United...
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Air India, which grounded two of its pilots for breach of regulations over inviting a woman friend into the cockpit during a Delhi-Leh flight last week on Tuesday said that it has a just culture approach to all safety-related events and followed a zero tolerance approach for any deliberate...
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An accident reported at Tata Steel's Meramandali plant in Dhenkanal. In a statement, Tata Steel says, We are saddened to report an accident at the BFPP2 power plant due to escape of steam at Tata Steel Meramandali Works in Dhenkanal, Odisha. The accident occurred at 1:00 pm today during the...
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A 5.4 magnitude earthquake hit Doda in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday afternoon, forcing people in parts of the union territory to rush out of their homes in panic and causing damage to some buildings, officials said. The tremors were felt across Delhi and other parts of north India, and in...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar along with G20 delegates Tuesday visited the historical Buddhist site of Dhamek Stupa in Sarnath here, officials said. The delegates from different countries have arrived in Varanasi for the three-day G20 Development Ministers' conclave, which...
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Israeli lawmaker and former military chief Gadi Eisenkot revealed on Sunday that the Israel Defense Forces conducted external operations against Islamic State in 2015.ISIS knows best how frequently the IDF acted in the Middle East, and they paid a price in hundreds of killed and injured, Eisenkot...
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The toll in the Odisha triple train accident increased to 289 after an injured passenger succumbed in the SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack on Tuesday, an official said. The passenger was identified as Bijay Paswan, a resident of Bihar. He was admitted to the Cuttack...
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Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin tweets on the NExT: The introduction of National Exit Test (NExT) will be an additional burden on our young medical students, who already have a rigorous academic load. It will force them to focus more on the theoretical part of medicine during their course and internships...
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Relationship between the AIADMK and the Tamil Nadu BJP appears to be on the rocks owing to BJP chief K Annamalai's alleged remark on former chief minister J Jayalalithaa.An irate AIADMK general secretary K Palaniswami on Tuesday lashed out at Annamalai for the latter's irresponsible and immature...
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The BJP's IT department head Amit Malviya Tuesday came down heavily on former Twitter chief executive officer Jack Dorsey, saying the social media company was in violation of laws between 2020-2022 when he was at the helm of affairs. Malviya's counteroffensive through a Twitter post...
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Four people were killed and three injured when a chemical-laden tanker caught fire following an accident and exploded on Pune-Mumbai Expressway on Tuesday, police said. The accident took place on the expressway stretch between Lonavala and Khandala, an official said. The tanker...
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The Congress on Tuesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the 'Rozgar Mela' events, saying this entire tamasha is giving the identity of job destroyers to the BJP which is now resorting to desperate gimmicks to manage the headlines. The Opposition party's attack came after Modi...
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There's a strong chance you saw the viral video of union minister Smriti Irani ticking off a journalist -- one Vipin Yadav. I will call the owner of your paper, she said, and tell them no journalist has the right to insult the people. A day later, a stringer -- but it wasn't Yadav --...
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Earthquake tremors were felt in the national capital and parts of north India on Tuesday afternoon. The quake was felt post 1:30 pm. Further details are awaited.
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Kandla port has been cleared of ships
Cyclone 'Biparjoy' has an extensive damaging potential and it is likely to impact Kutch, Devbhoomi Dwarka and Jamnagar districts of Gujarat the most, the India Meteorological Department said on Tuesday. Cyclone Biparjoy is predicted to cross Saurashtra and Kutch coasts near Jakhau Port on...
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A Mumbai court acquits two of the accused -- Harshad Raoji Bhai Solanki and Mafat Manilal Gohil -- in the 2002 Best Bakery case. The case pertains to a bakery in Vadodara that was torched by a mob during the 2002 Gujarat riots, which led to the death of 14 people. Following the incident...
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A 39-year-old physiotherapist allegedly strangled her mother to death and surrendered at a police station with the corpse packed in a suitcase, police said on Tuesday. The accused Sonali Sen, a native of West Bengal, was the only child of her parents and after her father's death in...
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Bihar CM Nitish Kumar
In a sudden move, Bihar minister for SC and ST welfare, Santosh Suman, on Tuesday resigned from the Nitish Kumar cabinet, his party Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) announced in Patna. Suman is currently the national president of HAM which was founded by his father Jitan Ram Manjhi, a former...
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Bihar minister Santosh Suman, son of ex-CM and Hindustani Awam Morcha founder Jitan Ram Manjhi, resigns from Nitish cabinet.Cyclone Biparjoy may cause extensive damage; Gujarat's Kutch, Devbhumi Dwarka, Jamnagar districts likely to be most impacted: IMD
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Over a month after an Air India pilot was grounded for inviting his female friend into the cockpit, the airline has now initiated action against two pilots for inviting a woman into the cockpit of a Delhi-Leh flight last week. The Air India management acted against the pilot and the co-pilot...
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The Indian Coast Guard evacuated 50 personnel from an oil rig located 40 km off the Dwarka coast in Gujarat in an overnight operation amid inclement weather conditions due to the impending cyclone Biparjoy in the region, the maritime agency said on Tuesday. India Coast Guard Region...
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The Congress Tuesday demanded answers from the Modi government after ex-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey claimed the platform was threatened it would be shut down unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts critical of the government during the farmers' protest. In a tweet, Congress general...
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Is Eknath Shinde ready to break free?
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena on Tuesday placed a full-page advertisement in many newspapers titled Modi for India, Shinde for Maharashtra, quoting a survey where Shinde is shown as more preferred for the top post than BJP's Devendra Fadnavis. The ad prompted Shiv...
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An IndiGo aircraft has been grounded after it suffered a tail strike during its landing at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi.The incident took place on Sunday when the plane was on course to Delhi from Kolkata. No injuries were reported in the incident. According to the Directorate...
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Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait reacts to former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's claim on 'pressure' from India during the farmer protests. We had information that the kind of reach on Facebook and Twitter that was expected on farmers' protest, was not coming. They used to try to stop it at their level....
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Modi and Biden at the G20 Summit in Bali last year
The Biden family is planning to host an intimate dinner for Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 21, a day before the much-in-demand State Dinner at the White House, a senior administration official has said. Modi has been invited by President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden for an...
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Choreographer, director and actor Prabhu Deva is on top of the world. He has become a father again, his first child with his second wife Himani whom he married in 2020.Confirming this Prabhu says, It's true. I am a father again at this age (50). I feel very very happy and...
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The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday issued an Orange alert for Saurashtra and Kutch coasts in Gujarat as the cyclonic storm Biparjoy is set to cross the Jakhau Port in Gujarat by the evening of June 15 as Very Severe Cyclonic Storm (VSCS).Cyclone Warning for Saurashtra and Kutch...
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... At least not on June 16 when Adipurush releases all over the world. There are reports in a section of the media that the teaser of Karan Johar's Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahaani will be attached to Adipurush.Informs a source close to Dharma...
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Farmers blocking the national highway in Pipli in Haryana's Kurukshetra district over the demand for MSP for sunflower seeds will hold a meeting on Tuesday to mull their future course of action after two rounds of talks with the district administration failed to yield any outcome. Farmers...
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Arthur Road prison is in the soup for the third time this month. A man has alleged that his 24-year-old son, imprisoned in a POCSO case, was sexually assaulted by two inmates. They first badly thrashed him inside the toilet and then took turns to sodomise him, said the father from...
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The inmates of a shelter home under the government of India's ambitious project Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana -- National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) -- in Vasai are allegedly being tortured, assaulted and not taken care of by the workers of an NGO that runs it. The...
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As the powerful cyclone Biparjoy moves closer to the Gujarat coast, the Western Railway has short-terminated more than 50 trains heading to coastal areas of the state and is considering cancellation of several trains over the next three days, a release said. The WR is taking various...
09:13
Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on co-founder and former CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey's claim on 'pressure' from India: This is an outright lie by Jack Dorsey -- perhaps an attempt to brush out that very dubious period of twitters history. Twitter under Dorsey & his team were in repeated...
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Tidal waves at Tithal beach in Valsad
As Cyclone Biparjoy' approaches and is likely to make landfall near Jakhau port in the Kutch district off the Gujarat coast, evacuation efforts will pick up on Tuesday, with the government aiming to evacuate people within 10 km from the coast. Authorities in the coastal districts of...
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The fire that broke out at Satpura Bhawan in Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal has been brought under control, informed officials on Tuesday morning. A massive fire broke out at Satpura Bhawan in Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal on Monday afternoon. Bhopal District Collector Ashish Singh said that...
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The United States has a significant defence partnership with India and terrific cooperation inside the Quad, the White House has said.The remarks by John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council in the White House, to reporters at Monday's daily news...
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An accused in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast on Monday moved a plea before a special court here, seeking action against a former Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad officer for allegedly falsely implicating a co-accused in the nearly 14-year-old case. The court asked the National Investigation...
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Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sent 600 kg of mangoes as a gift to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, officials said Monday. Mangoes comprising the imsagar' and 'angra' variants have been sent to Banerjee, as part of diplomatic efforts. Last year, too, we had sent...
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A news portal journalist has been arrested for allegedly circulating baseless and misleading news against judicial and government officers in Chhattisgarh's capital Raipur, the police said on Monday. Raipur-based Nilesh Sharma, editor of the India Writers portal, was apprehended by a team of...
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A woman was killed and her husband was injured on Monday after a tree fell on their motorcycle on a state highway in Jasdan taluka of Gujarat's Rajkot district due to strong winds, an official said. Many parts of Gujarat are experiencing strong winds due to cyclone 'Biparjoy', which appears...
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Shiv Sena-UBT Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut
Shiv Sena-UBT Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut on Monday filed a criminal defamation complaint against Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kirit Somaiya in a court in Mumbai for allegedly posting defamatory tweets against him since 2022. In the complaint filed before a magistrate's court in suburban...
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