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Al-Badr terrorist identified as Adil Majeed Lone was neutralised by security forces in an encounter on Tuesday in the village Hawoora area of Kulgam district in Jammu and Kashmir. After receiving intelligence inputs, the area was cordoned off and the terrorist was...
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A hardcore Maoist, wanted in more than a dozen incidents of Maoist violence, was killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district on Tuesday, police said. Two to three other Maoists also sustained injuries in the exchange of fire, he added. A firearm, an...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on President Droupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday evening. It was not immediately known what transpired during the meeting which comes days after the prime minster returned from his first State visits to the US and Egypt. Prime Minister...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's wife Jashodaben on Tuesday visited Shree Gundicha Temple in Puri, where the idols of Lord Jagannath and his two siblings were brought last week as part of the Rath Yatra festival. Accompanied by her brother Ashok Modi and others, Jashodaben was at the temple...
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A local court in Jharkhand's Seraikela-Kharswan district on Tuesday convicted ten persons in connection with the 2019 Tabrez Ansari lynching case. The quantum of punishment will be announced on July 5, public prosecutor Ashok Kumar Rai said. One of the accused, Kushal Mahali, had died...
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The India meteorological department issued an orange alert for heavy rains in Thane, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Nashik, Pune and Satara on Tuesday. Earlier on June 25, the IMD issued an Orange alert for Raigad and Ratnagiri as heavy rainfall lashed parts of Maharashtra. ...
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Ashoke Pandit, co-producer of the National Award-winning film 72 Hoorain, on Tuesday said the censor board has refused to give a certificate to the trailer of the movie set for release on July 7. Directed by Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan, the film stars Pavan Malhotra and Aamir Bashir in the...
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Sharad Pawar
A court in Mumbai on Tuesday granted bail to a Pune resident arrested for allegedly issuing a death threat to Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on social media. Additional chief metropolitan magistrate (Esplanade court) L S Padhen allowed the bail plea of the accused Sagar Barve,...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will visit violence-hit Manipur from June 29-30 and meet people in relief camps and interact with civil society members, party general secretary KC Venugopal said on Tuesday. This is the first visit of the Congress leader to the northeastern state embroiled in...
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Veteran industrialist and former Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata on Tuesday said he has no associations with cryptocurrency of any form. Strongly refuting reports of his investments in cryptocurrency, in a tweet, Tata said, I request netizens to please stay aware. I have no associations with...
20:25
Jyotiraditya Scindia
Bharatiya Janata Party's Shivpuri district vice-president Rakesh Gupta, considered close to Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, has joined the Congress along with his supporters, marking his return to the Opposition party ahead of the Madhya Pradesh assembly polls. Gupta had switched over...
20:03
Leading bourses BSE and National Stock Exchange and money markets will remain closed on Thursday on account of Eid al-Adha also known as Bakrid. Earlier, the holiday was scheduled for June 28. The markets are now open on Wednesday. The change came after the Maharashtra government...
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Shiv Sena-UBT leader Sanjay Agaldare joins Shiv Sena led by CM Eknath Shinde/Eknath Shinde/Twitter
Shiv Sena-UBT leader and former corporator Sanjay Agaldare joined the Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday. Nearly a dozen former corporators from Shiv Sena-UBT have joined the Shinde-led Sena in the last year since a rebellion split the party. Before the term of the...
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The National Investigation Agency has opposed the bail plea of Mahesh Raut, an activist arrested in the Elgar Parishad Maoist links case, alleging that he acted against the interests of the state and society. The probe agency in an affidavit filed in response to Raut's bail petition said it...
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The government on Wednesday will release a list of 'critical minerals of India' for the first time, an official statement said. The list will be released by Union Minister of Coal, Mines & Parliamentary Affairs Pralhad Joshi, it said. The ministry of mines is all set to unveil for...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was injured when the helicopter in which she was flying made an emergency landing at the Sevoke air base near Siliguri in the northern part of the state due to bad weather on Tuesday afternoon, officials said. Banerjee was reportedly injured on her...
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A magistrate's court in Mumbai has issued a summons to Shiv Sena-UBT leaders Uddhav Thackeray and Sanjay Raut over alleged defamatory articles carried by the party mouthpiece Saamana against Rahul Shewale, a leader of the rival Sena faction. Metropolitan Magistrate (Sewree court) SB Kale...
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Chinese billionaire Jack Ma arrived in Nepal's capital Kathmandu on Tuesday afternoon, confirmed officials. The co-founder of the Chinese online trade platform, Alibaba, landed at Tribhuwan International Airport at around 2 pm (local time) today in his private Boeing 747 Max...
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Vegetable vendors and wholesalers have blamed rains for disruption in tomato supply, leading to the price of the kitchen staple skyrocketing in retail markets of the national capital. Local vendors are selling tomatoes in the price range of Rs 80 to Rs 120 per kg, depending on the quality...
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Seven people have been arrested in connection with the gunpoint robbery of a delivery agent and his associate inside the Pragati Maidan tunnel in New Delhi, the police said on Tuesday. The accused robbed them of about Rs 2 lakh on Saturday when they were on their way in a taxi to Gurugram to...
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A key aide of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech in Bhopal betrayed worry in the BJP camp following the supreme success of the opposition meeting in Patna last week. State minister and senior JD(U) leader Vijay Kumar...
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The Kerala government on Tuesday granted Rs 10 lakh as financial aid to the family of a differently-abled boy who was attacked and killed by a pack of stray dogs at Muzhappilangad in northern Kannur district earlier this month. Nihal, hailing from Kettinakam, was found grievously injured...
16:41
Modi said corrupt politicians came together at the Patna meet
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday came down heavily on opposition party leaders, asserting that he will not spare anyone involved in corruption while pledging to take every scamster to task.I will take every scamster to task, PM Modi said, without taking any names. His scathing remarks came...
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Principals of Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) schools will undergo leadership and management training at IIMs to revolutionise primary education in the city, Delhi Education Minister Atishi announced on Tuesday. She told a press conference that the first batch of 50 principals...
16:04
Reacting to Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena calling a meeting with the police on the law and order situation in New Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal stated that calling a meeting is a formality and the Center does have any plan to fix the law and order situation in the national...
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Kerala, the gateway of the monsoon into the mainland of the country, has received deficient rainfall so far, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). The southwest monsoon arrived in Kerala on June 8, nearly a week after its normal onset date of June 1. Compared to...
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The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India will conduct a special audit into alleged irregularities and violations in the reconstruction of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence, Raj Niwas officials said on Tuesday. The Ministry of Home Affairs had recommended the special...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided it would not adopt the path of appeasement and vote bank politics. The policy of appeasement practised by some is disastrous for the country, Modi said during his visit to Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh,...
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Due to low visibility, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee's helicopter made an emergency landing at Sevoke Airbase. She was going to Bagdogra after addressing a public gathering at Krinti, Jalpaiguri. TMC leader Rajib Banerjee confirmed that she was safe. Due to low visibility, West...
14:18
Manipur has been hit by violence for over 50 days
Assam Rifles and Kohima Police foiled a smuggling bid and recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition heading to strife-torn Manipur in a joint special operation in the Kohima City of Nagaland, stated a release from the Defence PRO on Tuesday. The recovered items include two pistols...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today, while addressing party workers under the party's Mera Booth Sabse Majboot campaign in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, questioned if 'triple talaq' was inalienable from Islam, why it isn't practised in Muslim-majority countries like Egypt, Indonesia, Qatar,...
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The Chandigarh-Manali national highway was restored for traffic on Monday night after remaining closed for almost 24 hours owing to landslides and flash floods, officials said.Hundreds of commuters, including tourists, were stranded in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district as the highway was blocked...
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Ahead of the Madhya Pradesh assembly election to be held later this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) booth workers are its biggest power as they make sure to reach out to the people at the grassroots level in order to make the party the...
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The wait is over as the ICC has announced the schedule for the upcoming edition of the ODI World Cup. With exactly 100 days to go for the coveted tournament, set to be hosted in India, the ICC announced the fixture with the opener being held on October 5. Checkout the full schedule here.
12:56
Opposition unity is a doomed project without a clear Prime Ministerial candidate, writes Shivam Vij. Read the column here.
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Reacting to the clash between two groups in West Bengal's Cooch Behar on Tuesday, a local Bharatiya Janata Party leader claimed that the people who created the ruckus came from neighbouring Bangladesh.Local BJP leader Ajay Roy said, Those who have created the ruckus and the person who died came...
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The 2023 World Cup will kick-off on October 5 as defending champions England take on New Zealand at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad in repeat of the final of the 2019 edition.Hosts India begin their campaign against five-time World Cup winners Australia in Chennai on October 8.The...
11:47
Sabrina Siddiqui asked Modi a question on minority rights
The White House has condemned as totally unacceptable the harassment of a US journalist on social media for asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi a question at his joint press conference in Washington with President Joe Biden. Last week, The Wall Street Journal reporter Sabrina Siddiqui...
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Air India on Tuesday said a passenger behaved in a repulsive manner onboard an Air India flight from Mumbai to the national capital on June 24 and was handed over to the security personnel after the plane landed at Delhi airport. A police complaint has been registered and the incident has...
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The World Bank on Monday approved USD 391 million in financing to improve access to high-quality healthcare services and to economic opportunities for people in Assam and Tripura. The Assam State Secondary Healthcare Initiative for Service Delivery Transformation (ASSIST) Project, for...
11:09
Women demonstrate over violence in Manipur's Kanto Sabal
The Manipur government has decided to invoke no work, no pay rule for its employees who are not attending office. The General Administration Department (GAD) has been asked to furnish details of employees who are not able to attend their official work due to the prevailing situation in the...
11:00
PM Narendra Modi flags off five Vande Bharat trains to boost connectivity in MP, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa, Bihar and Jharkhand.At around 10:30 am, Modi reached Rani Kamalapati Railway Station. He flagged off five Vande Bharat Express trains which are: Rani Kamalapati-Jabalpur Vande Bharat...
10:38
A fraction of the populace have taken their booster shots
India has recorded 33 fresh coronavirus infections, the lowest number of cases since March 2020, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. The active cases have been recorded at 1,606 while the death toll was recorded at 5,31,903, the data updated at 8 am stated. The...
10:26
Aisha Noori, the sister of gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed and Ashraf Ahmed, who were shot dead in police custody in Uttar Pradesh on April 15, has moved the Supreme Court seeking a comprehensive probe headed by a retired judge or by an independent agency into alleged 'extrajudicial killings'...
10:24
Tomato prices soar. In in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, tomatoes, a staple in most hopes are selling for Rs 100 a kilo. We are selling tomatoes at Rs 100 kg. Due to rain, the prices have increased, says a tomato seller. .The rate has suddenly shot up in the past two-three days. This sudden increase...
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A boulder crashed on the Mumbra bypass road in Maharashtra's Thane district, affecting vehicular movement on the route, a civic official said on Tuesday. No one was injured in the incident which took place at around 11.30 pm on Monday when the boulder crashed near a temple on the...
09:49
Aarti Holla-Maini
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Indian-origin satellite industry expert Aarti Holla-Maini as Director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) in Vienna. Holla-Maini of the United Kingdom will succeed Simonetta Di Pippo of Italy. UNOOSA works to...
09:41
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor shares this image saying, On my way back to Delhi via Dubai, was pleasantly surprised when @shoaib100mph said hello. What a smart & engaging young man the tearaway fast bowler is! He has plenty of fans on our side of the border: all the Indians who came up to greet...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Tuesday visit Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal, where he will flag off five Vande Bharat trains, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said.After arriving here, Modi will head to Rani Kamalapati railway station from where he will physically and virtually flag...
08:57
A passenger coming from Saudi Arabia was duped of Riyal 19,000 (Rs 4.15 lakh) and his belongings by two people who posed as fake customs officers at the Indira Gandhi International Airport of New Delhi.The accused took the passenger from the airport in their car by posing as fake customs officers...
08:42
An unidentified terrorist was killed in an encounter with security forces on Tuesday in Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam district, police said.They said one security personnel was injured in the operation.'01 local #terrorist neutralised. Identification and affiliation being ascertained. Incriminating...
08:29
Noting several incidents in past of women-led mob interfering in operations of security forces in Manipur, the Indian Army has said that 'blocking' movement of security personnel is not only unlawful but also detrimental to their efforts towards restoring law and order.In a tweet on Monday, the...
08:16
A man was held in New Delhi for allegedly defecating and urinating on the floor of a Mumbai-Delhi Air India flight mid-air, police said on Monday.The incident took place onboard flight AIC 866 on June 24, police said. According to the FIR, Ram Singh, a passenger on seat number 17F,...
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The Allahabad high court is set to hear pleas against Adipurush film on Tuesday. The Lucknow bench of the high court on Monday allowed an amendment application of the petitioner who has raised objections to the movie on different counts. The bench will hear the petitioner's application...
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The Supreme Court on Monday set up a fresh five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud to hear four cases from July 12. The top court will reopen on July 3 after the summer vacation that had begun on May 22. Besides the CJI, the Constitution bench would...
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A 25-year-old man was arrested on Monday for his alleged involvement in a 2021 case in which drugs worth Rs 70 crore were seized in Indore in Madhya Pradesh, a police official said. Deputy commissioner of police Nimish Agrawal told reporters Bilal Khan was held from Chhoti Gwaltoli area in...
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