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India has raised its concerns about human rights and religiously motivated hate crimes in the United States, a senior Biden administration official said on Wednesday, asserting that it's vital for America's national security that the US engages a rising India.It is vital for America's national...
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If you think Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first state visit to the US is all about encomiums, testimonials from officials high and low, and gushing public welcome, you have another think coming. We know that a group of American lawmakers have written to United States President Joe Biden,...
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President Joe Biden is likely to raise United States concerns about human rights during his talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi but he will not lecture the Indian leader on the issue, a top American official said on Wednesday. Prime Minister Modi will hold high-level talks with President...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah has convened an all-party meeting on June 24 in New Delhi to discuss the situation in Manipur which has witnessed sporadic violence since May 3.  Union Home Minister Shri @AmitShah has convened an all party meeting on 24th June at 3 PM in New Delhi to discuss the...
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Advertising industry veteran Sylvester daCunha, the creator of the iconic 'Amul Girl' campaign that started in the 1960s, has died, the Gujarat-based milk cooperative that owns the dairy brand said on Wednesday.  Very sorry to inform about the sad demise of Shri Sylvester daCunha, chairman of...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Washington, DC, on Wednesday on the second leg of his maiden state visit to the US during which he will hold bilateral talks with President Joe Biden and address a joint session of the US Congress. Modi arrived from New York, where he led a historic event...
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Ram Mandir in Ayodhya is likely to open for devotees on January 24 next year after the consecration of Ram Lalla idol which will be a 10-day ritual starting January 14, chairman of temple construction committee Nripendra Mishra said on Wednesday. Â Â The ground floor work of the three-storey Ram...
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The United States supports India's rise as a great power, and this will be central to ensuring American interests in the years ahead, a senior State Department official said on Wednesday, on the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's high-level talks with President Joe Biden at the White House. ...
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Sunil Chhetri's glittering hat-trick laced India's 4-0 win over Pakistan in their SAFF Championship opener here on Wednesday as the talisman became the second-highest Asian goal-scorer in international football. Ali Daei of Iran holds the record with 109 goals from 149 matches. Chhetri has 90...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said the world witnessed the power of India's culture as Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the international yoga day celebrations at the United Nations headquarters in New York. PM Modi described Yoga as truly universal and free from copyrights and...
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Seven people, including three children, were killed in lightning strikes in West Bengal's Malda district on Wednesday evening, officials said. While one person was killed in Old Malda, six people died in the Kaliachak area, they said.The deceased were identified as Krishno Chowdhury (65), Ummey...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi departs for Washington, DC after leading the 9th International Day of Yoga celebrations at the UN headquarters in New York.In the US capital, US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will receive Modi at the White House. US First Lady Jill Biden and Modi...
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Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday said people should wait for the CBI's primary investigation to be complete to know the reason for the triple train accident in Odisha's Balasore that left 292 people dead.       Stating that the truth needs to come out, he asked...
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The makers of Adipurush, the latest adaptation of epic Ramayana facing public criticism for the poor quality of its dialogues and visual effects, have revised certain lines in the film.  The controversy-ridden film, which registered a bumper opening at the box office only to witness a major...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Yoga celebration at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Wednesday created a Guinness World Record for the participation of people of most nationalities.Modi, who is on the first leg of his maiden state visit to the US at the invitation of President Joe...
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Famed Hollywood actor Richard Gere, Iyengar yoga exponent Deidra Demens, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, and prominent American singer Mary Millben were among the eminent personalities who joined Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a unique yoga session at the UN Headquarters in New York.  Modi,...
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We've gathered here at the meeting point of entire humanity. I am delighted to see you all and thank you all for coming. I am told that almost every nationality is represented here today. Yoga means to unite, so you are coming together is an expression of another form of yoga. With these...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on stage at the UN hq lawns. He will be leading the yoga day event shortly.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has arrived at the UN headquarters in New York to lead the yoga day event, pays tribute to Mahatma Gandhi.
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Just in: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at the UN headquarters in New York to lead the the Yoga Day event, reports CNN News 18. Details soon.
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Actor Richard Gere arrives at the UN hq in New York to take part in the yoga day event led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. ...It is a very nice feeling here today, he says, reports ANI on Twitter.
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Delayed by ten days due to cyclone Biparjoy, the southwest monsoon is likely to progress further and hit Mumbai between June 23-25, the India meteorological department said on Wednesday. SG Kamble, head of the Regional Meteorological Centre, Mumbai, said the monsoon reached coastal Ratnagiri on...
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Waiting for Modi
Among the dignitaries who are expected to take part in the yoga day event led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the UN headquarters lawns in New York are president of the 77th United Nations General Assembly, Csaba Korosi; actor Richard Gere; New York City Mayor Eric Adams; digital evangelist...
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The Central Bureau of Investigation questioned suspected middleman Sanville Adrian D'Souza for the second day in a case of alleged attempted extortion of Rs 25 crore from actor Shah Rukh Khan for bailing out his son Aryan in NCB's Cordelia drug bust case, officials said on Wednesday. The CBI may...
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Yoga mats await Modi at the UN hq
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a series of engagements in New York and Washington on the second day of his state visit to the US. He will take part in the following events on Wednesday: He will lead the 9th International Day of Yoga celebrations at the UN headquarters. After that he will...
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 Indian stock indices, which have been buoyant over the past several sessions, touched their all-time highs during Wednesday's trade. The rise in domestic stocks is in tune with the global market rally and firm domestic macro fundamentals.Sensex touched its record high of 63,588 points to later...
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The Congress on Wednesday said it has been 50 days since Manipur is burning and alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has totally and completely failed in his duty by choosing to deliberately ignore the violence-hit state in the time of crisis.  Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh also...
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A 42-year-old veterinary doctor allegedly killed his wife, threw his two children in a well and then died by suicide at a village in Maharashtra's Pune on Tuesday, the police said.The incident took place in Varwand village of Daund tehsil and the veterinary doctor has been identified as Dr Atul...
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The radio shows, sliced into short clips and blasted through his party's immense social media apparatus, accompanied by text and video, shape a persona wholly disconnected from the stoking of religious divides and the silence on sectarian violence that have marked his years in power. It is a...
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Twitter chief Elon Musk on Wednesday said the social media platform has no choice but to follow the local laws in any given country or risk being shut down.  Musk's comments came in response to questions regarding Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's allegations that the Indian government had...
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Rail Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday returned to Odisha's Balasore, weeks after an accident involving three trains claimed more than 200 lives earlier this month, to take part in yoga day celebrations with 7,000 people, ministry officials said.  On Tuesday, Vaishnaw, who is on a...
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As soon as you enter the White House you get a sense of the frenzied pace of preparation for Prime Minister Modi's visit, Rediff.com US Contributor Abhijit J Masih discovers on a visit to 1600, Pennsylvania Avenue on Tuesday morning. Read the report here.
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Delhi Police is on the lookout for a man who rang up the police control room twice on Wednesday and threatened to kill Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, officials said. According to the police, the caller has been identified as...
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A 21-year-old woman was grievously injured after her ex-boyfriend allegedly stabbed her multiple times in the city's Survey Park area, police said on Wednesday.  The man has been arrested, and the woman is fighting for life at a hospital, they said. The incident took place on Tuesday afternoon...
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With the Congress remembering India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru's contribution in popularising yoga, senior party leader Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday said 'we should also acknowledge all those who revived and popularised yoga, including our government', for internationalising the...
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About Rs 3,500 crore could have been saved had the roads of Mumbai been concretised 15 years ago, said Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday amid a call by the Shiv Sena (UBT) to hold a protest against irregularities in the BMC. Addressing a function in Thane, Shinde said the...
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Arvind Kejriwal and his team with Sharad Pawar
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has written a letter to the opposition parties to discuss the Centre's ordinance that effectively nullifies the Supreme Court order over control of services in Delhi while alleging that similar ordinances could be brought for other states too.  Kejriwal...
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Passengers perform yoga inside a local train in Mumbai.Â
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President Droupadi Murmu did yoga at Rashtrapati Bhawan today to mark the 9th International Yoga Day. Yoga is one of our civilisation's great accomplishments and India's great gift to the rest of the world. Yoga brings together the body and the mind and it is a holistic approach to life. Yoga...
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Several parts of Gurugram witnessed waterlogging following heavy rainfall on Wednesday morning. The rain lashed the city at 6 am.The waterlogging on the expressway after the rains, causing a traffic jam for up to 5 kilometers. People were highly inconvenienced as massive delays were caused, and...
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A powerful senatorial committee on Wednesday is set to consider a bipartisan resolution to recognise Arunachal Pradesh as an integral part of India, pushing back against China's military aggression to change the status quo along the Line of Actual Control.  The Senate Foreign Relations...
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PM with Nobel prize-winning American economist Paul Romer
Nobel prize-winning American economist Paul Romer who met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New York on Tuesday (local time) commended India's model of Aadhar-based authentication saying that the country can really show the world how to do it right.  Prime Minister Modi and the former chief...
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Nandan Nilekani, Co-Founder and Chairman of Infosys Ltd. and Founding Chairman of UIDAI, has donated Rs 315 crore to his alma mater, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. This contribution builds upon his previous grants of Rs 85 crore to IIT. The donation will be instrumental in...
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TN CM Stalin met Senthil Balaji last week in hospital
Arrested Tamil Nadu Minister V Senthil Balaji on Wednesday underwent a bypass surgery and was hemodynamically stable, the private hospital treating him in Chennai said. The minister, arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a cash-for-jobs scam last week, underwent a beating heart...
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Congress leader Jairam Ramesh tweets this image saying: This is a picture of the country's first PM doing yoga. 'The Yoga system of Patanjali is essentially a method for the discipline of the body and the mind leading up to psychic and spiritual training', Pandit Nehru in Discovery of India.Today...
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The US Coast Guard says a Canadian aircraft has detected underwater noises during the search for a submersible that vanished while taking five people down to the wreck of the Titanic.  As a result of the noises detected by the Canadian P-3 aircraft, search efforts have been relocated. Those...
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A powerful American senator has said he plans to introduce a bill to make India part of the NATO Plus grouping that would facilitate the transfer of topmost American technology and defence equipment without much bureaucratic hassle, amid growing challenges from a rising China.  NATO Plus,...
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Delhi celebrated the International Day of Yoga on Wednesday with events across the national capital that witnessed the participation of political leaders and officials. Union ministers Hardeep Singh Puri, Mansukh Mandviya and Piyush Gotal and Delhi Lt Governor VK Saxena took part in yoga day...
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A member of the Indian diaspora in the United States was seen donning a unique Nehru jacket adorned with an image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Indian diaspora gave a rousing welcome to Prime Minister Narendra Modi upon his arrival in New York on Tuesday for the first leg of his inaugural...
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Congress senior leader Jairam Ramesh tweets: Let us remind ourselves amidst all the news of the Prime Minister's visit to the USA that today is the 50th consecutive day of Manipur's pain, distress and agony. The Prime Minister who gives gyaan on so many issues has sadly not said a word on the...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets CEOs, economists, scientists, scholars, entrepreneurs, academicians, health sector experts in New York.  Modi is visiting the US from June 21-24 at the invitation of US President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden. He will celebrate the International Day of Yoga...
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John Kirby. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters
India like the United States is a vibrant democracy and the two nations are going to continue to work on their bilateral relationship, the White House said amid Prime Minister Narendra Modi's State Visit.Modi is visiting the US from June 21-24 at the invitation of President Joe Biden and First...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said India has always nurtured traditions that unite, adopt and embrace, and made a fervent appeal to eliminate contradictions, hurdles and resistances through yoga.In a video message on the occasion of the International Day of Yoga, Modi said Indians...
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Former BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on Tuesday paid a visit to West Bengal governor C V Ananda Bose at the Raj Bhavan, an official said. Ganguly spent around 40 minutes at the governor's official residence, he said. This was a courtesy meeting, the official said. The former India cricket...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lead a unique yoga session on Wednesday in a historic celebration to commemorate the 9th International Day of Yoga at the UN Headquarters here that will see participation from top UN officials, envoys from across and the world and prominent individuals.Modi will...
