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A delegation of Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray legislators on Thursday met Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar seeking an early decision on the disqualification of MLAs who rebelled against the party.The Maha Vikas Aghadi government under Uddhav Thackeray fell in June last year...
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The Chinese authorities are rushing to push out vaccines to combat an ongoing new wave of the coronavirus that is expected to peak in June and infect as many as 65 million people a week since the new XBB variants of the virus are evolving to overcome the immunity developed after China's abrupt...
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The Kerala Story movie is being screened in only one theatre in West Bengal but it is evoking a good response from the audience, an official of the Eastern India Motion Picture Association (EIMPA) said on Thursday.The Supreme Court on May 18 set aside the West Bengal government's ban on screening...
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Ashish Vidyarthi
Veteran actor Ashish Vidyarthi, 60, recently tied the knot for the second time with Rupali Barua. Reportedly, the marriage took place on Thursday in Kolkata and was an intimate ceremony. A few pictures of the newly married couple have gone viral on social media in which the actor could be seen...
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One person was arrested on Thursday after a car crashed into the gates of 10 Downing Street in London, the office-residence of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the Metropolitan Police said. At around 16:20hrs [local time] a car collided with the gates of Downing Street on Whitehall, the Met...
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The ceremony to inaugurate the new Parliament building will begin with an early morning havan and a multi-religion prayer on Sunday followed by a formal opening in the Lok Sabha chamber by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Officials said the havan will be held in the Parliament premises outside the...
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The Special Protection Group (SPG), the force that handles the security of the prime minister, will now be handled by an officer not less than the rank of an additional director general belonging to the Indian Police Service while junior officers will be appointed on deputation for an initial...
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Janata Dal-Secular supremo and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda on Thursday said he will be attending the inauguration of the new Parliament building in New Delhi on May 28, saying it is a property of the country and built from taxpayers' money.The JD-S patriarch questioned whether it was the...
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Asserting that Narendra Modi will become the Prime Minister for the third consecutive term after the general elections next year, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday claimed that the opposition Congress will not be able to even secure its present tally in the Lok Sabha.Addressing a public...
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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla
The Press Club of India on Thursday urged Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to lift the restrictions on media covering parliamentary proceedings that were imposed during the Covid pandemic. In a letter to the Lok Sabha Speaker, the Press Club of India (PCI) said a large number of journalists were still...
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In line with the Budget announcement, the finance ministry on Thursday hiked the tax exemption limit for leave encashment upon retirement for private sector salaried employees to Rs 25 lakh.So far, the tax exemption on leave encashment for non-government employees was Rs 3 lakh which was fixed in...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday alleged that the opposition parties have decided to boycott the inauguration of the new Parliament building by Prime Minister Narendra Modi just because it has been built at his initiative.Senior BJP leader and former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said...
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Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati on Thursday called the opposition parties' boycott of the inauguration of the new Parliament building by Prime Minister Narendra Modi 'unfair' as she welcomed the forthcoming opening. The BSP chief said she will not be attending the inauguration on May...
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As many as 26 children hailing from West Bengal and Jharkhand, who were being brought to Hyderabad allegedly to work as labourers were rescued and eight traffickers were arrested at the Secunderabad Railway Station, the Telangana police said on Thursday. On information that children aged between...
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Senior IPS officer Praveen Sood took over as the new CBI director on Thursday and he will be in the post for two years, officials said. On his last working day, the outgoing director, Subodh Kumar Jaiswal, handed Sood the charge of the agency at its headquarters, they said. Sood is a 1986-batch...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday appealed to people in Manipur to maintain peace and promised that justice will be ensured to all sections of society.Shah while laying the foundation stone of the tenth national campus of the National Forensic Sciences University to be set Changsari area...
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There is a crisis in the country and it's not an issue limited to Delhi. NCP and the people of Maharashtra will support Kejriwal. We will also talk to other leaders to support Kejriwal. We must focus on bringing all non-BJP parties together, says NCP chief Sharad Pawar. Delhi Chief Minister...
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More cheetah deaths. Two cheetah cubs have died at the Kuno National Park. JS Chouhan, Chief Conservator of Forest Department says, Cheetah Jwala had four cubs. Her first cub died on May 23. Today when the monitoring team visited the park, the cub looked weak, so the team called veterinary...
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The Congress on Thursday said the SEBI has asked for details of financial institutions owning certain foreign funds and asked whether the market regulator can enforce this now or it was another gesture to exonerate the Adani group. Congress general secretary communications Jairam Ramesh, quoting...
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Aviation watchdog DGCA has asked crisis-hit Go First to submit a comprehensive plan for the revival of its operations, a source said on Thursday. The budget carrier, which is undergoing a voluntary insolvency resolution process, stopped flying on May 3. The Directorate General of Civil...
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A judge of the Delhi High Court Thursday recused herself from hearing a batch of pleas by aircraft lessors of Go First seeking directions to the authorities to release their planes leased to the crisis-hit airline. Justice Prathiba M Singh recused herself from hearing the four petitions...
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Delhi Chief Minister and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday met Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar. Kejriwal, who is on a two-day visit to Mumbai, was accompanied by Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann during his meeting with Pawar at Y B Chavan Centre in south...
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Karnataka Minister G Parameshwara on Thursday said no discussions have taken place till now regarding banning organisations like Bajrang Dal, after the Congress government came to power in the State, and any views expressed in this regard may be personal in response to media queries. He was...
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Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Thursday lashed out at the Congress for objecting to the inauguration of the new Parliament building by Prime Minister Narendra Modi stating that with such actions the opposition party will surely fade into oblivion....I find it very difficult to have an...
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Rakbar Khan
A court in Rajasthan's Alwar on Thursday sentenced four people to seven years imprisonment for lynching Rakbar Khan on the suspicion of cow smuggling in 2018. The fifth accused in the case was acquitted due to lack of evidence. Hearing the matter, the additional district judge court-1 held...
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An IFS officer, a career diplomat lays bare his opinion on Harsh Vardhan Shingla's book, Not an Accidental Rise. Shingla is Chief Coordinator for India's G20 Presidency in 2023 and has previously served as Foreign Secretary of India. Read the blog here.
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Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah leaves the war room at 15 GRG after having a meeting with Deputy CM DK Shivakumar, Congress in-charge for Karnataka -- Randeep Surjewala, and the party's general secretary KC Venugopal over the formation of the state cabinet. The grand old party won 135 seats in the...
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The BJP on Thursday alleged that the Congress displayed disregard for Hindu traditions by calling the sacred 'Sengol' a golden stick gifted to former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and tucking it away in a museum. The ceremonial sceptre, which will be installed in the new Parliament building,...
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Karnataka minister Priyank Kharge on Thursday likened Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders with loose cannons and warned that they could not make irresponsible comments and get away with it.Speaking on a possible rollback on the hijab ban in Karnataka, Priyank Kharge, who has been inducted into...
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A 13-year-old girl allegedly killed her younger sister with the help of her boyfriend and aunt and burnt the deceased's face with acid and chopped off fingers to conceal the identity in Bihar's Vaishali district, a senior police officer said on Thursday. Police have arrested all three...
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said 20 aadeenams from Tamil Nadu have been invited for the inauguration of the new Parliament building on May 28, where the 'Sengol' will be installed, as did in 1947 to symbolise the power transformation from the British. Addressing...
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A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a direction that the new Parliament building should be inaugurated by the President of India.Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman urged the Opposition to attend. It's a temple of democracy; even the PM entered the Parliament by bowing on...
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Four people and 150 sheep were killed after a truck carrying the animals hit a tiles-laden truck in Maharashtra's Hingoli district early Thursday morning, a police official said. The accident took place at Malegaon phata on Nanded-Kalamnuri road at around 4 am, he said, adding that traffic...
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Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi was early Thursday morning brought to Delhi from a Gujarat jail and lodged in the national capital's Mandoli prison, officials said today.Bishoi has been sent to the Mandoli jail, due to security reasons, an official said. This comes in the wake of killing of Tillu...
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Remember that sign at your GP's clinic, the one that tells you to leave Dr Google outside the door?Yes, Google is useful in many instances, but there are times you want advice from a real expert. Which is where rediffGURUS comes in.The latest expert to join rediffGURUS is Dr Hemalata Arora,...
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Shares of LIC on Thursday climbed nearly 4 per cent after the company posted more than five-fold jump in consolidated net profit at Rs 13,191 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 2023. The stock gained 3.72 per cent to Rs 615.65 on the BSE. At the NSE, it jumped 3.63 per cent to Rs...
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After the opposition parties announced that they would refrain from attending the inauguration of the new Parliament building, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Thursday said that in times to come the nation will boycott Congress and its allies.In the upcoming time the nation will...
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Key indices of the domestic equities market opened in the red today continuing with the losses from Wednesday, tracking weak global cues. Metal Index is dragging the key index and is one of the biggest laggards on BSE. Hindalco, JSW Steel and Tata Steel are trading in the negative territory....
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Former US President Barack Obama pays tribute to Tina Turner. Tina Turner was raw. She was powerful. She was unstoppable. And she was unapologetically herself -- speaking and singing her truth through joy and pain; triumph and tragedy. Today we join fans around the world in honoring the Queen of...
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PM Modi at the site of the new Parl building in 2021
Congress leader Acharya Pramod Krishnan has appealed to the Opposition to reconsider its decision to boycott the inauguration of the new Parliament building. This comes in the wake of the announcement by 20 Opposition parties, including the Congress to boycott the ceremony to unveil the new...
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Former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain has been admitted to the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Hospital after he fell in the bathroom in Tihar Jail last night. This is the second time within a week that Jain has been taken to hospital. Just a few days ago, he was taken to the Safdarjung hospital for a...
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The Congress on Thursday stepped up its attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the inauguration of the new Parliament building, saying one man's ego and desire for self-promotion has denied the first tribal woman president her constitutional privilege to inaugurate the complex. The...
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Naveen Patnaik's BJD and the Yuvajana Shramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP), will be among two Opposition parties to attend the inauguration of the new Parliament building on Sunday. Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), Telugu Desam Party (TDP) have also confirmed their attendance, apart from the Bahujan...
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Hugh and Colleen Gantzer began travel writing in the 1970s -- one of their first journeys was on a Vespa scooter from Cochin to Kanyakumari. The Gantzers have visited every state and Union Territory of India -- and were the first to write regular travel columns for newspapers. The duo travelled...
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Congress MLA and Punjab's state chief Harish Chaudhary on Wednesday made it clear that Sachin Pilot has not given any ultimatum to the party but wanted to speak to the party and prefers to build a bridge between the people and the state government. Sachin Pilot has not given any ultimatum to the...
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Concluding his three-nation visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday morning arrived in Delhi and said, today the world wants to know what India is thinking.While addressing the public gathered to welcome him, PM Modi said, The people here asked me why I gave the vaccines to the world. I...
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Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party national convenor Arvind Kejriwal will meet Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar in Mumbai on Thursday.Kejriwal and his party comrade and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann arrived in Mumbai on Tuesday evening.The two CMs on Wednesday met...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi was given a warm welcome by BJP workers and supporters on Thursday as he returned from the three-nation tour. All the leaders I met and all the personalities I spoke to have been so mesmerised and appreciative of India holding the G20 presidency so excellently. This...
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Tina Turner, the US-born singer and stage performer who left a hardscrabble farming community and abusive marriage to become one of the top artists of all time, died in Switzerland on Wednesday, reported Reuters. She was 83. Turner died following prolonged illness in her home near Zurich,...
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In yet another historic event in the maritime calendar of India, INSV Tarini touched the Indian shores as it entered Goa harbour and secured alongside the INS Mandovi jetty on successful completion of a 17000nm trans-ocean inter-continental voyage, after 188 days. According to an official...
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Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra on Wednesday announced that the government would disclose the identity of those persons, who bail out drug peddlers, by displaying their names on boards in their localities. The exercise will begin from Indore, he said. Talking to reporters in...
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In an incident similar to Shraddha Walkar murder, the Hyderabad police arrested a man for killing a woman on Wednesday. The accused has been identified as B Chandra Mohan (48). The police said that the accused Chandra Mohan had killed the deceased Anuradha Reddy by stabbing her and later...
