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Suburban services on the Harbour line of the Central Railway were affected for nearly 30 minutes on Monday night after a man climbed on the rooftop of a local train at CSMT, an incident which disrupted the train schedule, an official said. He said the overhead wire supply was switched off...
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President Droupadi Murmu
Odisha Governor Ganeshi Lal on Monday sought a report from the state government on the nine-minute power blackout during President Droupadi Murmu's speech at a university's convocation in Baripada. The governor, who is also the chancellor of the universities, asked chief secretary PK Jena...
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Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh
Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Monday said that 60 people were killed, 231 injured and 1,700 houses including religious places burnt in the ethnic violence that rocked the northeastern state for the past few days. Addressing a press conference here, the chief minister said that the...
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After the grand coronation of King Charles III, he posed for official coronation portraits at Buckingham Palace and the picture are now out. Photographer Hugo Burnand got behind the camera for the historic snaps. On Monday, the Buckingham Palace released the first official portrait of...
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Popular singer Arijit Singh, recently got injured during a live concert in Aurangabad after a fan pulled his hand while he was on stage. Several videos of the concert went viral on social media in which the singer could be seen schooling his fan with patience. In the viral video, Arijit...
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The Chinese delegation is all set to travel to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir's Gilgit-Baltistan region next week to explore the options for buying and importing cherries, commercial counselor, Pakistan embassy, Beijing, Ghulam Qadir said, reported The Nation. Fifteen members of the delegation...
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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Monday directed officials to exempt gurudwaras from property tax, following a meeting with members of the Sikh faith. A Sikh delegation met the chief minister and requested him to also set up a corporation for the community for effective...
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The government on Monday banned the import of apples if its imported price is less than Rs 50 per Kg. Import of apples...is prohibited wherever the CIF (cost, insurance, freight) import price is less than equal to Rs 50 per Kg, the directorate general of foreign trade (DGFT) said in a...
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The Election Commission on Monday issued a notice to the Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party to provide verifiable and traceable facts by Tuesday evening regarding its newspaper advertisement that described the Congress as the most corrupt party in the world. The Congress had approached the...
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Officials of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence on Monday said they seized 5.90 kg of heroin from a woman passenger at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad. A press release from the DRI said they seized the drugs on Sunday from the passenger, an Indian national who arrived in...
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The Election Commission on Monday asked Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge to clarify and rectify the party's social media post on Karnataka's sovereignty remark attributed to Sonia Gandhi. The EC letter to Kharge came following a complaint by the Bharatiya Janata Party regarding a tweet...
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The owner of the boat that capsized on Sunday evening, which resulted in the death of 22 people, including 15 children, was caught from the Kozhikode beach area of the district on Monday, the police said. The capture of the boat owner, Nasar, was confirmed by a senior police officer of...
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On May 7, a portion of the perimeter wall of approximately 12-15 feet of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) collapsed due to the ongoing construction and maintenance work on the city side adjoining the wall. CSMIA Airside Security and Central Industrial Security...
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19:57
AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge
The Rajasthan police has booked Manikanta Rathod, a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate in upcoming Karnataka assembly poll, and local BJP MLA Madan Dilawar with charges of murder and criminal intimidation for their remarks against Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge, a senior officer said on...
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A Delhi court on Monday extended till May 23 the judicial custody of former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia in a money laundering case related to the alleged excise scam. Special Judge MK Nagpal extended the custody of the AAP leader after he was produced before the court on expiry of...
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The proposed visit of Amit Shah to Assam on May 11 was on Monday postponed to May 26 as the Union home minister is busy dealing with the prevailing law and order situation in strife-torn Manipur, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. The senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader was scheduled...
19:01
George Joseph receiving the award
It warms the cockles of our heart to announce that George Joseph, the affable, easy-going journalist from the US who is so clued into the happenings within the Indian American community, has been picked for the Global Indian News Lifetime Achievement Award. George, as he is fondly known, was...
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The Kerala Human Rights Commission on Monday registered a case on its own over the tragic tourist boat accident that claimed the lives of 22 people including women and children. Judicial member of the Human Rights Commission K Baiju Nath directed the Malappuram district collector and the...
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An eight-member fact-finding panel of the National Green Tribunal Monday visited the Giaspura locality where 11 people were killed last month after inhaling toxic gas that emanated from a sewer. The panel was led by Punjab State Pollution Control Board chairman Adarsh Pal Vig. It has...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday ordered an immediate ban on the screening of the controversial film The Kerala Story to avoid any incident of hatred and violence, a senior official said in Kolkata. Action will be taken against any theatre found showing the film, the...
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Despite several fatal boat accidents in Kerala over the last 100 years and three Commission of Inquiry reports recommending preventive measures, lack of government intervention resulted in the boating tragedy in Malappuram that claimed 22 lives, the opposition Congress and BJP contended on...
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Bangladesh's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate in the current fiscal year will overtake China, the International Monetary Fund's latest report on the Asia-Pacific region forecast, according to Daily Sun citing United News of Bangladesh.According to the latest report from the IMF,...
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The body of a missing seven-year-old girl with her eyes gouged out and injury marks on her private parts was found in a field in Kannauj, police said on Monday. The minor had gone missing from a wedding function three days ago and her body was found in a naked condition in a field in Talgram...
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Expressing concern over the current situation in violence-hit Manipur, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday alleged that the BJP government is not providing a clear picture of the death toll in the northeastern state where shoot-at-sight orders are in force. She also...
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Karnataka polls. Voices: Vote for stability, development; not for BJP, Mamata Banerjee tells voters ahead of the Karnataka polls on Wednesday.Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra who is in Bengaluru as part of the Karnataka Assembly elections campaigns, on Monday said that the grand...
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Siddaramaiah with Mallikarjun Kharge
Expressing confidence that the BJP would achieve a clear majority in the May 10 Karnataka Assembly elections, party state president and Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel on Monday said former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah would be defeated in the Varuna constituency, as a group within the...
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Students and locals being evacuated from Manipur on Sunday
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu paid Rs 60,000 from his own pocket for the evacuation of five local students stuck in violence-hit Manipur, an official spokesperson of the government said on Monday. The Chief Minister immediately responded to an urgent text...
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The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine the plea of a 72-year-old woman, on whom a male co-passenger urinated on board an Air India flight in November last year, seeking a direction to the Centre, aviation regulator DGCA and airlines to frame an SOP to deal with such...
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Aviation regulator DGCA directs Go First to stop sale of tickets with immediate effect till further orders. DGCA also issues show cause notice to Go First for their failure to continue operations in a safe, efficient and reliable manner.As Go First awaits the NCLT ruling on its voluntary...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah will undertake a daylong tour of West Bengal on Tuesday during which he will attend the birth anniversary celebrations of Rabindranath Tagore and lay foundation stone of or inaugurate a number of developing projects, sources said. In the morning, the home...
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Aishwarya Thatikonda
Indian-origin engineer Aishwarya Thatikonda, was among the nine people killed when a gun-wielding man opened fire at shoppers outside a mall in Dallas area in the US on Saturday, The New York Post reported. Thatikonda, a project manager with a private company in Dallas and a resident of...
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Those who want to ban The Kerala Story are as wrong as those who didn't want Aamir Khan-starrer Laal Singh Chaddha to be released, said veteran actor Shabana Azmi on Monday amid the row around the Sudipto Sen-directorial that hit the screens last week. Her comments come a day after...
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Crisis-hit airline Go First on Monday requested the National Company Law Tribunal to take an early decision on its voluntary insolvency resolution plea, saying lessors have started deregistering the carrier's aircraft. On May 4, after a hearing, the tribunal had reserved its order on the...
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The BJP on Monday filed a complaint with the Election Commission against former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi over the statement that the party will not allow anyone to pose a threat to Karnataka's reputation, sovereignty or integrity and requested it to issue direction for registration of FIR...
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Even as the row over the power disruption at President Droupadi Murmu's programme in Odisha's Baripada continues, the Chief District Medical Officer (CDMO) of Mayurbhanj has suspended a pharmacist for taking photos with the President's helicopter, an official said on Monday.CDMO Dr Rupabhanu...
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Shahul Hameed, an auto driver, rushed to the Thoovaltheeram beach in his three-wheeler on Sunday night on hearing of the tragic boat accident and as rescuers piled into his vehicle some children fished out from the water, he never realised they were his sister's kids. His sister and her...
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The Taliban has successfully returned to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Swat Valley. The Taliban in Afghanistan and the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are not planning on granting a moment's respite, The Pakistan Military Monitor reported. The Swat Valley is covered in clouds of fear and...
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Farmers break through police barricades as they join protesting wrestlers at Jantar Mantar, Delhi. Security was beefed up at Jantar Mantar in the national capital on Sunday after Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) announced that it will hold nationwide protests including in Delhi in support of the...
12:06
Atiq Ahmed and his brother were shot dead
An FIR was registered against an unidentified individual at a cybercrime station in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj after a social media post vowed to take revenge for the killing of gangster Atiq Ahmed, police said.According to an FIR registered by Prayagraj Police on the complaint of an individual...
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Rajiv Gandhi
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the Gandhi family of advocating secession of Karnataka from India, former Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Monday hit back stating that the same 'shahi parivar' bled for the country.PM said: Congress Shahi Parivar wants Karnataka to secede from India. But...
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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea of jailed Bihar YouTuber Manish Kashyap against whom the stringent National Security Act (NSA) has been invoked for allegedly circulating fake videos of migrant labourers being attacked in Tamil Nadu. A bench comprising Chief...
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Pakistani authorities are expected to go ahead with its goodwill gesture to release on Friday 199 Indian fishermen arrested for allegedly fishing illegally in the country's waters, despite the death of an Indian civilian who was to be repatriated with them. Kazi Nazir, a top police...
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When in Bengaluru do as locals do. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi hops on to a BMTC bus and interacts with passengers to understand their vision for Karnataka. The women discussed various topics including the rising price of essentials, the Gruhalakshmi scheme and the Congress' guarantee of free...
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A video grab of the crash site
An Indian Air Force MiG-21 crashed in Rajasthan's Hamumangarh district on Monday, defence sources said. Two civilian passengers have been killed but the pilot is safe. An army helicopter has reached the accident site for rescue. The aircraft had taken off from Suratgarh according to...
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Hundreds were moved to relief camps
Life was crawling back to somewhat normal in violence-hit Manipur as people came out of their homes in state capital Imphal to buy essential items with the curfew being relaxed for a few hours on Monday morning, officials said. Drones and helicopters continued a close watch, while...
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Launching a scathing attack on Priyanka Gandhi, Telangana Minister KT Rama Rao on Sunday described the Congress leader as a political tourist and alleged that her party is a sinking ship which needs to learn from the Bharat Rashtra Samithi's inclusive policies in the state. Bharat...
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After watching the movie 'The Kerala Story', Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president JP Nadda said that there is a new type of terrorism which is without ammunition, adding that the film exposes poisonous terrorism.Nadda on Sunday, attend a special screening of the movie in the Garuda...
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India on Monday recorded 1,839 fresh COVID-19 infections, while the number of active cases came down to 25,178 from 27,212 the day before, according to Union health ministry data. The COVID-19 tally now stands at 4.49 crore (4,49,71,469). The death toll climbed to 5,31,692 with 11...
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Two Naxalites, including a woman, were killed in an encounter with police in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district on Monday morning, an official said. A cache of explosives and an automatic weapon were recovered from the encounter site, he said. ...
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Actor Sonam Kapoor delivered a spoken word piece about the Commonwealth at the Coronation Concert to celebrate the crowning of King Charles III and Queen Camilla as part of the United Kingdom's long celebratory weekend.The event, which also saw performances by pop stars Katy Perry and Take That,...
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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday claimed he survived the 2020-revolt by some Congress MLAs because Bharatiya Janata Party leaders Vasundhara Raje and Kailash Meghwal refused to support a conspiracy to topple an elected government through money power.Raje, a former chief minister of...
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Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar has said he is surprised that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given religious slogans during campaigning in Karnataka, which votes on May 10. Speaking to a regional news channel, Pawar said, I am surprised that Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
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