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Chief Minister Nitish Kumar
Hindustani Awam Morcha supremo Jitan Ram Manjhi on Monday demanded the Nobel prize for Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for transforming Bihar from a 'Bimaru' province into India's fastest-growing state. Initiating a discussion on the appropriation bill in the assembly, Manjhi, also a former CM...
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An IPS officer allegedly tortured at least 10 arrested men in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu by removing their teeth using cutting pliers and crushed the testicles of two men, official sources said in Tirunelveli on Monday. The tormented men have made the allegation against the officer...
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A right wing organisation has submitted a complaint with police in Indore in Madhya Pradesh against actor Taapsee Pannu for allegedly hurting sentiments of Hindus during a fashion show in Mumbai, a police official said on Monday. The complaint by Eklavya Singh Gaur of an organisation called...
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Chinese magnate Jack Ma has returned to mainland China after spending roughly a year overseas, according to people familiar with the matter, reported Wall Street Journal. Jack Ma, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s billion co-founder, travels have drawn a great deal of attention as China attempts...
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Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Harpeet Singh
Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Harpeet Singh on Monday gave a 24-hour ultimatum to the state government to release all Sikh youths who were held during the police crackdown against radical preacher Amritpal Singh and his aides. He also condemned the state government for invoking the National...
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Aspirants undergo a physical test during an Agniveer Army recruitment rally/ANI
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a plea challenging a Delhi high court judgment that upheld the Centre's Agnipath scheme for recruitment into the armed forces. A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala, which was initially reluctant to...
21:48
Disqualified Lok Sabha member Rahul Gandhi will require a no-objection certificate from the New Delhi Municipal Council before vacating his official bungalow, an official said on Monday.The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), which looks after water and electricity supplies in these central...
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The Supreme Court asked the Centre on Monday to place two reports on the use of harmful chemicals and pesticides in India before it and questioned it on why only three pesticides have so far been banned in the country. A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices PS Narasimha...
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Pakistani-origin Member of the Scottish Parliament Humza Yousaf on Monday won the Scottish National Party leadership contest and is set to be named as Scotland's new First Minister, replacing Nicola Sturgeon. The 37-year-old MSP served as the health and social care minister in Sturgeon's...
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The special investigation team of Mumbai police probing the death of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay student Darshan Solanki has recovered a note that mentions the name of his hostel mate, an official said on Monday. The purported suicide note, written on a piece of paper, was...
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Police van carrying Atiq Ahmed's brother Ashraf arrives in Prayagraj/ANI
Gangster-politician Khalid Azim alias Ashraf was brought to the Naini Central Jail in Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh Monday evening amid tight security arrangements, hours after his brother Atiq Ahmed was escorted to the prison from Gujarat. Ashraf and Atiq will be produced before a court on...
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Namibian cheetah Sasha died due to a kidney ailment on Monday at Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park, a top forest department official said. The more than four-and-a-half years old female cheetah was among the eight cheetahs translocated from Namibia and housed in the KNP in Sheopur...
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Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, currently recovering from an on-set injury, resumed his routine Sunday meet-and-greet with fans who came out in droves to see the veteran actor at his Juhu residence in Mumbai. With his right hand supported by a homemade sling, the 80-year-old star appeared on the...
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A 19-year-old student who was preparing for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test died by suicide in Salem district on Monday, the police said. The male student of Kallakurichi district who was preparing NEET for the third time was found hanging dead in a hostel room at the training...
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A total of 610 cases of Covid's XBB.1.16 variant, which might have been behind the recent rise in coronavirus cases, have been detected across the country, according to INSACOG data.The samples have been found across 11 states and Union territories. The...
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The 30-share BSE Sensex on Monday climbed 126.76 points or 0.22 per cent to finish at 57,653.86. During the day, the index witnessed a high of 58,019.55 and a low of 57,415.02. The broader NSE Nifty advanced 40.65 points or 0.24 per cent to end at 16,985.70, with 27 of its scrips ending...
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Gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed was brought to the Naini Central Jail in Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh Monday evening amid tight security arrangements.The police cavalcade bringing him from a prison in Gujarat reached the Naini Jail at 5.30 pm.A large posse of police personnel was posted at the main...
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After being disqualified from the Lok Sabha, the Lok Sabha housing committee has served notice on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to vacate the government-allotted bungalow, ANI has tweeted quoting sources.Details soon.
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A Mumbai court on Monday granted bail to designer Aniksha Jaisinghani in the Amruta Fadnavis bribe case. Details soon.
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The Supreme Court on Monday sought a response from the Centre, Gujarat government and others on a plea filed by Bilkis Bano, who was gang-raped and seven members of her family were killed during the 2002 post-Godhra riots.Bano has challenged remission of sentence of 11 convicts in the case.While...
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Parliament on Monday approved the Union Budget for 2023-24 with the Lok Sabha clearing the Finance Bill as amended by the Rajya Sabha, amid continuous uproar by the Opposition over the Adani issue. The amendment to the Finance Bill 2023, which sought to correct an error with regard to the...
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Two bike-borne students sparked security scare as they tried to enter a Bengaluru road when the Union Home Minister Amit Shah's convoy was passing through it on Sunday night following which they were detained.The Deputy Commissioner of Police Dr Bheemashankar Guled said when Shah's convoy was...
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A court in Mumbai on Monday remanded suspected bookie Anil Jaisinghani to 14-day judicial custody in a case pertaining to allegedly trying to blackmail and bribe Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis' wife Amruta. He was arrested last week from Gujarat, along with his cousin...
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Oreva Group has deposited 50 per cent of the interim compensation amount for the victims of the Morbi cable bridge collapse tragedy, the Gujarat High Court was told on Monday. The company told the division bench of acting Chief Justice A J Desai and Justice Biren Vaishnav that the...
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The BJP on Monday claimed that West Bengal's Trinamool Congress has become a private limited company and the situation in the state under its government is worse than a jungle raaj. It hit out at Mamata Banerjee-led government over the issues of unemployment and lack of development. Suvendhu...
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India has requested the Nepal government not to allow fugitive radical preacher Amritpal Singh, who is believed to be hiding in Nepal, to flee to a third country and arrest him if he attempts to escape using Indian passport or any other fake passport, a media report said on Monday. In a...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi why there was no investigation into the investment of people's retirement fund in the Adani group even after various allegations were levelled against the firm. Taking to Twitter, Gandhi said, LIC's capital, to...
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Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Monday lashed out at the Congress' drama over Rahul Gandhi's disqualification from Lok Sabha and questioned whether leaders of the Opposition party will continue to wearing black clothes after their black deeds. Thakur also took a jibe at Rahul Gandhi...
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The convoy of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed being escorted by police to Prayagraj entered Uttar Pradesh on Monday after crossing Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh, a police official said. The convoy had entered MP from the Rajasthan border in the morning, hours after it set out...
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A large number of Khalistan supporters staged a protest at the iconic Times Square here to express support for the fugitive radical preacher Amritpal Singh. The protesters took out a car rally that originated from the Baba Makhan Shah Lubana Sikh Center in the Richmond Hill neighbourhood and...
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Bilkis Bano
One of the convicts in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gangrape and murder of her family members case, freed last year under Gujarat's remission policy, has shared the stage with BJP MP Jaswant Bhabhor and his MLA brother Shailesh Bhabhor at a government event held at Limkheda in Dahod district of the...
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If Rahul Gandhi's speech demands this punishment then the top leaders of the BJP would rot in jail for many lives. Read the column here.
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Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut reacts to Rahul Gandhi's comment on Savarkar. Wrong statement. He's a Gandhi but no need to drag Savarkar's name. Savarkar is our inspiration. Inspiration behind our fight is Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and Veer Savarkar, says Sanjay Raut.I will definitely try to speak to...
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Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday lashed out at Rahul Gandhi who was disqualified as Lok Sabha MP recently, and said that the Congress leader should fight the court's action in the court instead of speaking against Veer Savarkar.You are getting an ass to run a horse's race...They really...
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Opposition MPs protest near the Gandhi statue in Parliament
Two MPs of the Trinamool Congress participated in a meeting called by Rajya Sabha LoP Mallikarjun Kharge in the Parliament on Monday, a move which the Congress president welcomed. Speaking to the reporters, Kharge thanked the opposition parties which came out in support of Congress...
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MPs of various opposition parties, including Congress, TMC, BRS and SP, met at Parliament complex on Monday to discuss a strategy to take forward the Adani issue as well as Rahul Gandhi's disqualification matter in Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha. Some of the Members of Parliament were seen...
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Gangster Atiq Ahmed
The police convoy bringing gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed from an Ahmedabad jail to Prayagraj entered Uttar Pradesh on Monday morning, officials said. Ahmed will be produced before a court on Tuesday when it passes an order in a kidnapping case in which he is an accused. The...
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The BJP on Monday accused the Gandhi family of considering itself a class apart, elite and above the Constitution as it kept up the counterattack on the Congress amid the opposition party's nationwide protests against Rahul Gandhi's disqualification from Lok Sabha. The ruling party...
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Atiq Ahmed inside the police van
The convoy of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed being escorted by the Uttar Pradesh police halted briefly in Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh on early Monday morning before entering Jhansi on its way to Prayagraj, a police official said. As the convoy halted briefly at Kharai in...
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A mock drill at a hospital in Delhi
India has logged 1,805 new coronavirus cases, while the active cases have surpassed the 10,000-mark after 134 days, according to Union health ministry data updated on Monday. The daily positivity rate has been recorded at 3.19 per cent and the weekly positivity rate at 1.39 per cent....
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Deputy Bihar CM Tejashwi Yadav is a new father. The RJD leader shared this image holding his baby daughter and wrote, Ishwar ne anandit hokar putri ratna ke roop mein uphar bheja hai. The lord is happy and has sent us a gift of a precious daughter.
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A man offers sweets to convicts in the Bilkis Bano case
The Supreme Court will hear a batch of pleas on Monday challenging the release of 11 convicts who had gang-raped Bilkis Bano and murdered her family members during the 2002 Godhra riots.The Gujarat government had granted remission to 11 convicts on August 10 last year following which they walked...
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Prem Singh Tamang Golay was convicted of corruption and should have been disqualified from contesting an election for six years. But the Narendra Modi-led Union government repealed a key clause in the Representation of the People Act, allowing the BJP ally to become Sikkim's chief minister. Read...
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Hitting out at Rahul Gandhi, Union Minister Anurag Thakur has said the Congress leader can never be Veer Savarkar even in his best dreams as it required strong determination and love for the country. Thakur was responding to repeated assertions by Rahul Gandhi that Savarkar was an...
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Update: The convoy of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed being escorted by the Uttar Pradesh police halted briefly in Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh on early Monday morning on its way to Prayagraj, a senior official said. The carcade entered MP from the Rajasthan border, he...
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The Bombay High Court has dismissed a petition seeking action against former Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari and BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi for their statements on Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and other icons, saying their remarks prima facie do not constitute an offence under any...
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Two people have been shot at a Gurudwara in Sacramento County, California in United States, news agency ANI reported.Both of the victims are in critical condition.According to the Sacramento County Sheriffs Office, the shooting is not related to a hate crime. The shooting is not related to a...
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