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A 43-year-old man who allegedly made a phone call last week claiming that bombs were planted in three Income Tax offices in the city and demanded Rs 1 crore to not detonate the purported explosives has been arrested, the police said on Monday. The police conducted searches at the I-T offices...
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Subhash K Jha reports: Theatres across India have been informed by the producers of Adipurush that they must play the controversial film without the objectionable dialogues attributed to Lord Hanuman. For those who came in late, there has been a...
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Mumbai did not report a single COVID-19 case on Monday, the first time there was no addition to the tally since February 13, a civic official said. It was the fifth time no case was reported during this year and the ninth occasion since March 12, 2020, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation...
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A Kerala court on Monday sentenced a man to a cumulative of 135 years imprisonment for repeatedly raping and impregnating his minor cousin two years ago. Haripad fast track special court Judge Saji Kumar sentenced the 24-year-old man to varying sentences, under provisions of the Protection...
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In a first, Andhra Pradesh police has booked a case under the Transgender Person (Protection of Rights) Act 2019 and arrested four men for molesting a transgender woman in Visakhapatnam. On June 8, a 26-year-old Dalit transgender woman, after watching a movie at a local theatre, boarded an...
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Another spell of rain lashed Delhi on Monday under the influence of cyclone Biparjoy's remnant, bringing down the maximum temperature to 34.5 degrees Celsius, four notches below normal. The India meteorological department has predicted more rain over the next two days. Maximum...
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Edtech major Byju's has laid off close to 1,000 employees across departments as part of its restructuring process, sources aware of the development said on Monday.The fresh round of firing comes at a time when the company has entered into a legal battle with lenders in the US for USD 1 billion...
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The police said on Mondy that they have started an investigation into a video circulating on social media in which a youth allegedly tries to drive away a group of men and women from a Ganga Ghat in Haridwar for being non-Hindu. It is claimed that the video is of an incident at the popular...
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A 45-year-old security guard of a residential building in Mumbai has been arrested for allegedly molesting a seven-year-old girl inside the electricity meter room of the complex on multiple occasions, a police official said on Monday. According to the Samata Nagar police station official,...
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A view of Gita Press
Gita Press said on Monday that it would accept the Gandhi Peace Prize as it was a matter of great honour but would refuse the Rs 1 crore cash award. Dr Lalmani Tiwari, the manager of Gita Press, while speaking to ANI the said that it will, however, accept the prize as it is a matter of...
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A clash broke out between some restaurant staffers and a group of customers, including women, inside a shopping mall in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, officials said on Monday. The clash broke out allegedly after a heated argument between the two sides as one of the customers from the group of about...
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Lifeguards at Mumbai's Aksa Beach saved the lives of 10 people from drowning while they were taking a bath in the sea on Sunday evening, said the police. A large crowd thronged to Aksa Beach in the Malad area of the city on Sunday. While many were taking baths, 19 people started...
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Budget carrier IndiGo on Monday announced placing a firm order for 500 narrow-body planes with Airbus. This is the largest-ever aircraft order placed by any airline with Airbus. Financial details of the order were not disclosed. Earlier this year, Tata Group-owned Air India had...
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President Droupadi Murmu on Monday said Vietnam is an important pillar of India's Act East policy and a key partner of the country's Indo-Pacific Vision.Welcoming Vietnamese Defence Minister General Phan Van Giang, who called on Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhavan , she said the two countries share a...
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A man allegedly slit the throat of a woman inside a moving autorickshaw in Mumbai's Sakinaka area on Monday afternoon and then injured himself with the same weapon, a police official said. The incident took place in Dutt Nagar on Khairani Road, the Sakinaka police station official...
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The ruling Congress in Karnataka on Monday fielded former chief minister Jagadish Shettar, state minister and Congress national secretary NS Boseraju along with Tippannappa Kamaknoor for the June 30 MLC election in the state. The three MLC seats fell vacant owing to the resignation by...
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The Bombay high court on Monday directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to come up with a simple and temporary mechanism to avert any untoward incidents due to open manholes this monsoon season. The high court had last week asked the civic body why protective grills could not be...
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Amid the violence in Manipur, Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Monday visited some relief camps of the state and said that the state government is soon going to construct pre-fabricated houses to accommodate the people temporarily. I visited some relief camps and people...
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Three persons were arrested for allegedly kidnapping and killing a retired Mandal Parishad development officer and RTI activist over a land dispute, the police said on Monday. The murder of 70-year-old Nalla Ramakrishnaiah came to light on Sunday when his body was found in a water-filled...
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Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Monday hit out at the Congress for its criticism over awarding the Gandhi Peace Prize to Gita Press, saying nobody has any objection to it except those who consider Muslim League a secular organisation. Geeta Press is associated with India's culture,...
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The southwest monsoon set in in several districts of south Bengal on Monday, an area which has been reeling under heat wave like conditions for over a month, the IMD said. A spokesperson of the Indian Meteorological Department said conditions have become favourable for further...
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Congress senior leader Jairam Ramesh on the PM's continued silence over the violence and unrest in Manipur. The Prime Minister made his usual grand sartorial display wearing the Manipuri Leirum Phee while addressing the nation on April 14, 2020. Looks like the scarf has had a silencing effect on...
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Former Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi's Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) on Monday announced withdrawal of its support to the Nitish Kumar government. Manjhi's son Santosh Suman, the party's national president, said an appointment has been sought with Governor Rajendra Arlekar for...
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Mumbai Police provides security to dialogue writer of the film, Adipurush. Manoj Muntashir sought security cover citing a threat to his life. Police say that they are investigating the matter.In Varanasi people tore posters of the film and the Hindu Mahasabha lodged a complaint with the Lucknow...
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Adani Transmission has got shareholders' approval to raise up to Rs 8,500 crore through issuance of equity shares on qualified institutional placement basis. The company had sought shareholders' approval through postal ballot to raise up to Rs 8,500 crore by way of qualified institutional...
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The Congress on Monday stepped up its attack on the government over the situation in violence-hit Manipur, saying every passing day of neglect confirms the belief that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP are interested in prolonging the conflict. The Congress' attack came a day...
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The Kyoto Prize body describes artist Nalini Malani as an artist from the non-western world who has faced the predicaments of the oppressed, pioneered artistic expression representing the voice of the voiceless, and contributed to the 'decentralisation' of art.Nalini Malani has created...
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The Wimbledon court
A writer, dancer, playwright, mountaineer and a national tennis champion, Leela Row -- the first Indian woman to win a tennis match at the Wimbledon -- was as prolific as they come.In his 1966 book My Contemporaries, art critic Govindraj Venkatachalam recalls meeting Row as a young girl.Timid and...
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Thousands of villages in Gujarat were without electricity last week
Heavy rains lashed several parts of north Gujarat in the last 24 hours due to a depression, remnant of cyclonic storm Biparjoy, causing a flood-like situation in many villages of Banaskantha district, officials said on Monday. Various parts of Gujarat, including Saurashtra region, are likely...
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Victim Nikhil Chouhan's father
The father of the deceased student, Nikhil Chouhan, who was allegedly stabbed to death by four people at the Delhi University Campus on Sunday, broke down while speaking to media on Monday.He said that they did not have a word with the police, and received no updates so far in connection to the...
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Adipurush, a retelling of the Ramayana directed by Om Raut, has minted Rs 340 crore at the global box office in three days, the makers claimed Monday. Production banner T-Series said the movie, fronted by Prabhas, minted Rs 100 crore globally on the third day of its release. Adipurush...
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Chhattisgarh IPS officer Ravi Sinha will be new chief of Research and Analysis Wing. He will replace the current chief Samant Kumar Goel.
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A video showing UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak offering barfi to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has gone viral on social media. The video, which was first shared by Rishi Sunak, the first Indian-origin British PM, on his official Instagram handle, shows him offering Indian barfi...
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Crisis-hit airline Go First on Monday announced that its scheduled flight operations will remain cancelled till June 22 due to operational reasons. Earlier, it was supposed to be till June 19.Due to operational reasons, Go First flights until 22nd June 2023 are cancelled, the airline said in a...
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All Hindi films, including Adipurush, were banned in the Nepal capital Kathmandu and the tourist town of Pokhara on Monday following a controversy over its dialogues, including the mention of Sita as India's daughter. Police personnel were deployed across 17 halls in Kathmandu to...
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A 51-year old man from Kerala was arrested for creating a ruckus on board a flight from Abu Dhabi, police said on Monday. The accused, identified as Jizan Jacob, was held after the Kochi-bound Air India flight landed at the international airport in Kochi this morning. A police officer...
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Smartphones catapulted into the league of five most exported commodities by value, based on their harmonised system (HS) codes in FY23, up from the ninth rank in the pecking order in FY22.HS is a globally harmonised identification for a specific product used for export and import of the...
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Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh today slammed the Centre for awarding The Gandhi Peace Prize for 2021 to publisher Gita Press from Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur. Calling the decision, taken by a jury headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a travesty, the Congress MP likened it to awarding...
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Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF) chief Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot dead by two youths in the parking lot of a gurdwara in Canada, officials said on Monday. The unidentified youths shot Nijjar, a designated terrorist, inside the premises of Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara Sahib, of which he was...
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Amid the incessant rain in Assam, many villagers in the Nagaon district of Central Assam are worried about the possible flood-like situation in the villages. The villagers of Kakatigaon are worried about a possible flood following the soil erosion by the Kopili river which may pose a threat...
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Accountability is best determined by the accountable, not others. And one's own sense of accountability can include resigning and not resigning. And accepting or not accepting another's resignation, writes Gopalkrishna Gandhi.Read the column here.
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India logged 63 new coronavirus infections, while the active cases have dipped to 1,910 from 1,925, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. The death toll was recorded at 5,31,896, the data updated at 8 am stated. The Covid case tally stood at 4.49 crore...
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Uddhav Thackeray faction leader Sanjay Raut reacts to Manisha Kayande joining the Shiv Sena led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. She said that Uddhav Thackeray is inaccessible for receiving feedback on party affairs.Raut says, Let it go. What difference does it make? I don't...
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Former US president Barack Obama shares this picture on Father's Day yesterday with his daughters, Happy Father's Day to all those fortunate enough to take on the role of being a dad or father-figure. To Malia and Sasha, being your dad will always be the greatest gift of my life.
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Captain Pradeep Singh Sethi
Captain Pradeep Singh Sethi of the Indian Navy graduates with highest honours at the US Naval War College, Newport and was awarded the prestigious 'Arleigh Burke Award' for Best Academic Performance amongst over a 100 peers from Naval Command & Naval Staff College.He also bags the 'Naval War...
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Spear Corps, Indian Army statement: Armed miscreants resorted to unprovoked firing from Kanto Sabal towards Chingmang village in Imphal during the night of 18/19 June. Army columns resorted to controlled retaliatory fire keeping in view presence of villagers in the area. One army...
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Union minister Rajkumar Ranjan Singh's house in Manipur was burnt
The shambolic scenes at play in Manipur over the past six weeks have never been witnessed in independent India, writes Sushant Singh. Read the column here.
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India wasnt built in a day, but to hear the BJP's claims, one would think that India was entirely sunk in a morass of economic and technological backwardness before May 2014. Read the column here.
09:47
Two persons including a school dropout have been apprehended by the Delhi Police in connection with the murder of a student in Delhi University Campus on Sunday, police said on Monday. According to police, two persons, identified as Rahul -- a 1st year BA student -- and Haroon -- a...
09:34
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal
The government will hold a first-of-its-kind review and seek feedback to resolve the teething issues that beneficiaries of the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme are facing.A meeting on this will be held on June 27 and it will be chaired by Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush...
09:28
Soldiers rescue tourists stranded in Pegong, Sikkim
The Indian Army rescued 300 more tourists who were stranded in North Sikkim district due to landslides and roadblocks, an official statement said. The troops of Striking Lion Division, Trishakti Corps on Sunday assisted 300 stranded tourists at Chungthang in North Sikkim to cross over...
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Father's Day was celebrated across the world yesterday. UK PM Rishi Sunak shares this image with his parents, writing, To the man who taught me the value of hard work, public service, and love. You're not just my dad, you're my hero. To all the dads out there - Happy Father's Day!
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TN CM Stalin inspecting the flood situation in Chennai in 2021
Heavy overnight rains lashed Chennai and its suburbs, prompting authorities to declare a holiday for schools on Monday. International flight operations at the airport were affected as around 10 incoming flights, including from Doha and Dubai were diverted to Bengaluru, subsequently...
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In an unfortunate incident, the bodies of three missing children have been found in Farukh Nagar under the Panchpavali police station of Maharashtra's Nagpur on Sunday.As per the information received, the three children sat in the car while playing and locked the door from inside. All three...
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The flood situation in Assam continued to remain grim on Sunday as incessant rain inundated new areas across the state, even though the number of people affected by the deluge reduced to nearly 33,500 in 12 districts, an official bulletin said. According to the daily flood report of...
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