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Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal along with his wife meets Manish Sisodia's wife Seema, in New Delhi/ANI
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday met the families of jailed Aam Aadmi Party leaders Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh on the occasion of Diwali. Sisodia was arrested in February in connection with the excise policy case. Singh was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate last month as...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday called on President Droupadi Murmu and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar separately and exchanged greetings on Diwali. In a post on X, PM Modi said, Called on Rashtrapati Ji and conveyed Diwali wishes. He also shared a picture of his meeting with the...
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A woman allegedly killed herself by jumping in front of a train at the Rajouri Garden metro station in west Delhi on Sunday, the police said. The police have taken the body into custody and started an investigation. We are trying to identify the woman. It seems she was around 40 years old. An...
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As the boom of firecrackers filled the air across the country celebrating Diwali with gusto, seven villages in Erode district of Tamil Nadu decided to mark the festival with just lights, and no sound, in a gesture considerate of the winged inhabitants of the bird sanctuary nearby. The villages...
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Indian Army exchanged sweets with their Pakistani counterparts on the occasion of Diwali on Sunday along the Line of Control in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. However, there was no traditional exchange of sweets and pleasantries between the two sides along the...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that the 'Deepotsav', organised by the Uttar Pradesh government in Ayodhya is amazing, divine and unforgettable. In a post on X, the Prime Minister also shared some pictures from the celebrations. He further said that the whole country has been...
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A meeting of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind on issues like reforms in the Muslim society, their education and communalism will be organised in Deoband, Saharanpur, on Monday. Spokesperson of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind, one of the leading organisations of Muslims in India, Maulana Kaab Rashidi said on Sunday...
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A fire broke out at a multiplex located in a commercial building in Gujarat's Surat city on Sunday morning, destroying a screen and a number of chairs in the theatre, fire officials said. There was no report of any casualty in the theatre as it was closed when the incident took place, but two...
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India voted in favour of a resolution in the UN General Assembly that condemns Israeli settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The draft resolution titled 'Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan' was...
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A total of 4,798 candidates from various political parties filed 5,716 sets of nominations for the 119 seats ahead of the November 30 assembly elections in Telangana. The process of filing nominations began on November 3 when the gazette notification for the election was issued and continued...
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Just in: Sensex rises by 331 pts to 65,235.78, Nifty jumps 100.85 pts to 19,526.20 in opening session of special mahurat trading. More details soon. -- PTI
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With many Bihar cities recording very poor air quality, the state pollution control board on Sunday asked the district administrations to strictly enforce laws to check air pollution in their respective areas. According to the Central Pollution Control Board daily AQI bulletin (November 11 at...
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has underlined that a fight with India was not something Canada wanted to be having right now but reiterated his allegations and said Ottawa wants to work constructively with New Delhi on this very serious matter. Addressing the media on Friday, Trudeau also alleged...
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Odisha's forest department has arrested five more people for their alleged involvement in the death of an elephant in Telkoi area of Keonjhar district, officials said on Sunday. Altogether, nine people have been held for the unnatural' death of the tusker. The elephant died after coming in...
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A man accused of committing a murder and loot and carrying an award of Rs 50,000 was killed in a police encounter in Mathura, officials said. Mathura SSP Sailesh Kumar Pandey said, One Farookh, a resident of Matiya Darwaza, was injured in a police encounter near a hotel under the Highway police...
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West Bengal Minister Jyotipriya Mallick, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate for his alleged involvement in the multi-crore ration distribution case, was taken to the Command Hospital in Kolkata for medical examination on Sunday. Earlier West Bengal Minister Jyotipriya Mallick had...
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Son of a councillor (sabhasad), who ran a coaching centre Jaunpur, was shot dead by unknown assailants, a senior police officer said on Sunday. Superintendent of police Ajay Pal Sharma said that Alok Maurya is a councillor of Kajgaon Nagar Panchayat, whose son Ajay Maurya (29) ran a coaching...
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The case lodged against members of the influential Nair Service Society for their namajapa protest over Speaker AN Shamseer's alleged remarks about a Hindu deity has been closed, the police said on Sunday. An officer of Cantonment police station, where an FIR has been lodged in connection with...
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A crew member from the popular Israeli television series Fauda has reportedly been killed in action in Gaza. Matan Meir, a reservist in Israel's 551st Brigade's 697th Battalion and a crew member on the show, was announced in an IDF list of those soldiers who died in the line of duty in Gaza, The...
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The National Investigation Agency has filed a charge-sheet against a man in a case linked to cross-border smuggling of arms and ammunition by drones in the border areas of Punjab's Gurdaspur district, an official said on Sunday. The charge-sheet against Malkit Singh alias Pistol was filed in the...
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The National Investigation Agency has filed a charge-sheet against a man in a case linked to cross-border smuggling of arms and ammunition by drones in the border areas of Punjab's Gurdaspur district, an official said on Sunday. The charge-sheet against Malkit Singh alias Pistol was filed in the...
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Palestinians carry their children, who were wounded in an Israeli strike/Fadi Shana/Reuters
The Israel Defence Forces said that a significant number of soldiers continue to fight in Gaza City's al-Shati camp, The Times of Israel reported. It said that Givati Brigade troops identified civilians in a building and enabled them to evacuate. The IDF said that Hamas opened fire at the...
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Two people sustained burn injuries after a fire broke out at an advertising agency office in Ujjain's Nijatpur area in Madhya Pradesh on Sunday morning, officials said. A fire broke out in the Central Kotwali area of Ujjain police station at around 5:30 am at Sagar Flexo Center. Goods worth...
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Fourteen Bangladeshi nationals, including four children, were held in Tripura's Gomati district on Sunday for allegedly entering India illegally, the police said. Acting on a tip-off, raids were conducted at two houses in Baishnabpur village near the international border, and the illegal...
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Ahead of Telanagana Assembly election, workers of the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi and Congress clashed in the poll-bound state, the police said. The incident took place in Achampet town of Nagarkurnool district at 11 pm on Saturday.According to the police, ruling party MLA Guvvala Balaraju...
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Actor Kajol on Sunday marked three decades of the release of Baazigar, calling the Hindi romantic thriller a whole of a lot of firsts. Released on November 12, 1993, Baazigar went on to become Shah Rukh Khan's breakthrough project, his first as an anti-hero. It was also one of Kajol's earliest...
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A six-year-old boy was mauled to death by a leopard in Lal Nagar Sipahiya village of Suhelwa forest area of the district, a forest department official said on Sunday. The Balrampur District Magistrate has ordered the forest department to catch the leopard. Arun, the boy, had gone to a field...
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Fifteen people were rescued after a fire broke out on the seventh floor of a 14-floor residential apartment building in Haryana's Sonipat, police said on Sunday. Fifteen people were rescued... All are safe, SHO, Bahalgarh, Sonipat, inspector Devender said over the phone. The fire broke out...
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The World Health Organisation on Sunday said that it has lost communication with Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, stressing that those who fled the hospital have been reportedly shot, wounded or killed. This comes after it was reported that the hospital has been facing repeated attacks. Sharing...
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Apple chief executive officer Tim Cook on Sunday extended wishes on the occasion of Diwali. Apple CEO Coo wished everyone that their celebrations were filled with warmth, prosperity and the joy of being together. Taking on his social media X, Tim Cook stated, Happy Diwali! May your celebrations...
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Three police personnel, including a station house officer, were killed and five others including a deputy superintendent of police sustained injuries after a terrorist attack on police in the Kari Shah Noor area of Pakistan's Tank, Pakistan-based Dawn reported. The police spokesperson said that...
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A portion of a tunnel under construction between Silkyara and Dandalgaon on the Brahmakhal-Yamunotri national highway in Uttarkashi district collapsed in the early hours of Sunday, trapping around 40 workers inside, the police said. They said the incident occurred around 4 am when a...
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India will probably have to wait for another three World Cups to have a shot at the title if they are not able to extend their dominant run in the ongoing edition, reckons Ravi Shastri. Speaking to Club Prairie Fire podcast, Shastri said a majority of the squad members are at their peak,...
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Former Rajasthan deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot's campaign in Tonk has got a boost after he secured the support of Bahujan Samaj Party nominee Ashok Bairwa. Pilot said that even though BSP candidate Ashok Bairwa could not withdraw his candidature from the Tonk assembly constituency, he...
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Attacking the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena for bulldozing a 'shakha' (local level office) controlled by the Shiv Sena (UBT), its chief Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday said those high on power will be taught a lesson. Thackeray, along with top leaders of the Sena (UBT), went to Mumbra here to visit...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday morning reached Lepcha in Himachal Pradesh to celebrate Diwali with soldiers. Reached Lepcha in Himachal Pradesh to celebrate Diwali with our brave security forces,' Modi wrote on X with pictures.
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A 15-year-old boy was sentenced to three years in a special home after he was caught with 1.26 kg of brown sugar in Bhubaneswar. The boy will be lodged at the Special Home in Berhampur after the Juvenile Justice Board held him guilty under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS)...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called Hamas an integral part of the axis of terrorism led by Iran, which he said endangers the Middle East and Arab world as well. While addressing the press conference along with Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and Minister Benny Gantz at...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday greeted people on Diwali and wished that the festival brings joy, prosperity and health to everyone's lives. In a post on 'X', Modi said, Wishing everyone a Happy Diwali! May this special festival bring joy, prosperity and wonderful health to everyone's...
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The Air Quality Index (AQI) was recorded in 'poor' category in the national capital on Sunday morning. Air quality across Delhi continues to be in the 'Poor' category, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) said. As per the CPCB data, AQI in Anand Vihar was at 266, while at RK Puram it...
