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The Congress on Monday demanded the sacking of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, accusing him of making 'blasphemous' comments on the China issue.The opposition party's attack came a day after Rahul Gandhi hit out at Jaishankar, saying the minister does not understand the China threat.If...
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Outrightly dismissing the reports of alleged 'attacks' on the Bihar migrant labourers in Tamil Nadu, the state's top police official on Monday said that the situation is peaceful and the workers have resumed their work.The police official said that the videos which were circulated on social media...
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Several parts of Maharashtra, including Mumbai, are likely to receive light to moderate rainfall along with thunderstorms over the next two days, an Indian meteorological department official said on Monday. This bout of rain is due to a trough running from south Konkan to central...
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader Manik Saha on Monday evening met Governor Satyadeo Narain Arya to stake his claim to be the next chief minister of Tripura.Earlier in the day Saha was elected as the leader of the BJP legislature party and the next chief minister of the northeastern state at a...
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Amid the ongoing military standoff with China on the Line of Actual Control, defence intelligence agencies have issued a strong advisory to formations to ensure that the troops are not using Chinese mobile phones. Formations and units are to sensitise their personnel through various forms...
19:48
The rupee appreciated by 5 paise to close at 81.92 (provisional) against the US dollar on Monday, as a positive trend in domestic equities and fresh foreign fund inflows boosted investor sentiments.At the interbank foreign exchange market, the local unit opened at 81.85 against the American...
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TN BJP chief K Annamalai
Tamil Nadu BJP state IT wing secretary Dilip Kannan on Monday announced he was quitting the party faulting the state leadership. Kannan, who announced his decision with a heavy heart on Twitter, a day after the saffron party's IT wing...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said six children have so far died in the state due to adenovirus, and urged people to start using face masks again to combat the menace.Banerjee also said one of her family members has been infected by the virus, but did not elaborate on the...
19:09
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the swearing-in ceremony of Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma and his cabinet colleagues on Tuesday, officials said.Sangma, the National People's Party chief will take the oath of office as chief minister for the second time on Tuesday after successfully...
18:35
The 30-share BSE benchmark on Wednesday rose by 415.49 points or 0.69 per cent to close at 60,224.46 with 25 of its constituents ending in the green. The barometer opened higher and spurted further nearly 690 points to touch a high of 60,498.48 in the day trade. The broader Nifty of the...
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Manik Saha was named as the next chief minister of Tripura at a meeting of the BJP legislative party held in Agartala on Monday. A spokesperson of the BJP informed reporters after the meeting that the selection was unanimously endorsed by all MLAs of the party. Earlier, there was...
18:24
Union health ministry has conducted a meeting of top health officials of big hospitals and experts and discussed cases of viral infections on the rise in the country, especially due to the H3H2 virus, an official said on Monday.With the COVID-19 cases under subsidence in the country, the viral...
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Former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia will be lodged in central jail number-1 of Tihar Prison in New Delhi after a court remanded him to judicial custody till March 20 in connection with the excise policy case, according to officials.Sisodia was produced before special judge M K...
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Hours after Pakistan's media regulator banned broadcasts of ousted prime minister Imran Khan's speeches, the private ARY TV news channel was taken off air on Monday for airing his address a day earlier.The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Sunday night banned satellite...
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Farmers suffered losses after unseasonal rain lashed the Nashik district of Maharashtra on Monday.Chandori, Saikheda, Odha, Mohadi village, etc. areas of Niphad division of taluka received unseasonal rains along with strong wind yesterday evening. The sky remained cloudy the entire day,...
16:22
Usman, an accused in the Umesh Pal murder case
Reacting to the encounter of the accused in the Umesh Pal murder case, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Monday said that the remaining suspects in the case will also be nabbed and punished. Talking to ANI, Maurya said, I would like to congratulate the police team...
16:00
NCW member Khushbu Sundar
Actor and National Commission for Women (NCW) member Khushbu Sundar has said she was sexually abused by her father at the age of 8, which she described as the toughest thing. When she was 15 years old, she started revolting against her father who then left the family in the lurch, the...
15:53
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said only anger and desperation could be seen in Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray's speech during his rally in Ratnagiri and there was nothing new in it. In a rally held in Khed on Sunday, Thackeray targetted the Election Commission...
15:38
Nikki Yadav with her boyfriend Sahil Gahlot
Delhi's Dwarka court on Monday extended the judicial custody of Sahil Gahlot and five other accused including his father and two cousins in the Nikki Yadav murder case for two weeks. Accused of killing his live-in partner Yadav and stuffing her body into a fridge, Sahil, was arrested...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be joined by his Australian counterpart, Anthony Albanese in Ahmedabad on March 9, where the two will watch the fourth cricket Test match of the Border-Gavaskar trophy. The match between India and Australia will take place at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
15:11
Adani Electricity Mumbai Limited has put the lifeblood of the country's financial capital at precipitate risk of severe disruption in the event of a payment default. Read the report here.
14:48
Shiv Sena MLA Sanjay Shirsat, who owes allegiance to Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, on Monday said he would write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding that Mughal emperor Aurangzeb's grave be removed from Aurangabad city. Shirsat termed as a biryani party a protest being held...
14:38
Former deputy chief minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia has been sent to judicial custody till March 20.Sisodia was produced before special judge M K Nagpal on expiry of his seven-day custodial interrogation allowed by the court earlier.The CBI last week arrested Sisodia in connection with alleged...
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The newly elected BJP MLAs are set to meet later today to elect the chief minister at the party's office at Colonel Chowmuhani in Agartala, a senior party leader said. In the recently concluded elections the BJP won 32 seats of the 60- member Assembly while its ally- Indigenous People's...
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Television actor Sheezan Khan, the prime accused in co-star and ex-girlfriend actress Tunisha Sharma's suicide case, has been released on bail from Thane Central Jail on Sunday.The Vasai Court ordered Sheezan's bail with Rs 1 Lakh surety bond on Saturday and asked the actor to submit his passport...
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To give a message of religious harmony to the society, a Muslim couple was married according to the Islamic wedding rituals at a Hindu Temple premises in Rampur of Shimla district on Sunday. The wedding took place in Thakur Satyanarayan temple complex premises run by Vishwa Hindu...
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NCP chief Sharad Pawar on the letter written by nine Opposition leaders to PM Narendra Modi alleging misuse of central agencies. The first signature in that letter is mine. We want the PM to take our concerns seriously. For example, in the Kejriwal government, the person who worked well in the...
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NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Monday said the people in Maharashtra are looking for a change and he will ensure that constituents of Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) contest the upcoming Assembly and Lok Sabha elections together. Pawar was speaking to reporters after the newly-elected Congress MLA...
11:43
Rahul Gandhi at Cambridge
The Uddhav Thackeray-led faction of Shiv Sena on Monday said the time has come to stand up to the Bharatiya Janata Party's corruption washing machine to save the country and cited the letter written by Opposition leaders to Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighting the authoritarian...
11:42
The CBI team is not conducting a search of the premises
A CBI team on Monday visited the residence of former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi in connection with further probe in the land-for-jobs scam case, officials said. There is no search or raid taking place, they said. The CBI had already filed its charge sheet in the case and the...
11:13
Conrad Sangma will be CM for the second term
A special session of the Meghalaya Assembly has been convened today for the swearing-in ceremony of the newly elected MLAs and the election of the speaker, a senior official said. The new House, with 59 members, will have its first sitting today, when the pro-tem speaker administers...
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Update: Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan said that he sustained injury during the shooting of his upcoming film, Project K, in Hyderabad.Big B took to his blog to share on Sunday that he has broken his rib cartilage and stated that he is currently taking rest at his home in Mumbai. In...
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Amitabh Bachchan injured during shooting in Hyderabad. The superstar says I'm mobile a bit for all essential activities, in rest. In Hyderabad at shoot for Project K, during an action shot, got injured, rib cartilage popped broke & muscle tear to the right rib cage. Cancelled...
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A 15-year-old girl, an alleged victim of sexual exploitation, delivered a girl at her home in Nagpur, Maharashtra, watching YouTube videos and killed the newborn, police said on Sunday.A police official said the girl was sexually exploited by a man she got acquainted with on social media.She hid...
09:57
The Jal Jeewan godown in UP
Half a dozen unidentified miscreants stole goods worth Rs 37 lakh of the Jal Jeevan Mission project kept in a godown near Tehsil headquarters in the Bharthana Kotwali area here last night, police said. The unidentified miscreants held hostage the two armed security guards posted in...
09:47
Delhi Congress puts up posters of AAP leaders Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain, outside AICC and Delhi Congress offices. Sisodia was arrested by the CBI last month in an excise policy case. Jain was arrested by the ED in 2022 in a case of hawala transactions related to a Kolkata-based...
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Delhi's deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia will be produced in court this afternoon. The senior Aam Aadmi Party leader has been in the CBI's custody for a week now following his arrest in the Delhi liquor policy case.Sisodia had been sent to CBI's custody for five days. He was produced in court...
09:23
Falling for the fourth consecutive week, India's foreign exchange reserves declined $325 million to $560.942 billion during the week ended February 24, according to the latest RBI data. In the previous week, the forex reserves had dropped $5.68 billion to $561.267 billion.
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Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar has said he was not involved in any kind of talks between Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray and Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) chief Prakash Ambedkar.On January 23 this year, the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) and VBA announced...
09:00
Rahul Gandhi pays tribute to Guru Basavanna in London. Gandhi is in London as part of a week-long visit to the UK organised by the Indian Overseas Congress.
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Rahul Gandhi pays tribute to Mahatma Gandhi in London. The Congress leader on Sunday launched a fresh attack on the BJP, saying he is not afraid of the criticism against him as he asserted that it is a fight between courage and cowardice, and love and hatred.
08:48
Vijay alias Usman, an accused in the Umesh Pal murder case, was shot dead by a Prayagraj police team in an encounter in the city in the early hours of Monday, officials said. Dhumanganj Station House Officer (SHO) Rajesh Kumar Maurya said the encounter took place in Kaundhiyara police station...
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Rahul Gandhi at the IOC
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday launched a fresh attack on the BJP, saying he is not afraid of the criticism against him as he asserted that it's a fight between courage and cowardice, and love and hatred. Gandhi, who is in London as part of a week-long visit to the UK, made...
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Two people were killed and six others were injured on Saturday (local time) after a shooting at a house party in Douglas County, Georgia where more than 100 teenagers gathered, CNN reported citing local police. The officials said that the shooting stemmed from a confrontation at the...
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