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England football legend David Beckham met the Ambani family in Mumbai/Mumbai Indians on X
England football legend David Beckham met the Ambani family in Mumbai on Wednesday. Mumbai Indians, the Indian Premier League franchise owned by Reliance Industries, which is chaired by Mukesh Ambani, took to X (formerly Twitter) to post a picture of Beckham with the Ambani family. David...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde pays tribute to Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray on the eve of his death anniversary/ANI
Workers of the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and the Shiv Sena-UBT of Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday came face to face and shouted slogans against each other at the memorial of party founder late Bal Thackeray, whose 11th death anniversary will be observed on Friday. The crowd was dispersed by...
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A court in Odisha's Jajpur district on Thursday sentenced 17 people to life imprisonment for burning a couple to death three years ago over suspicion that they practised sorcery. After convicting them in the case, Jajpur Road Additional District and Sessions Judge Hrusikesh Acharya slapped a...
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Four persons from Manipur were arrested in Assam's Karbi Anglong district after heroin worth nearly Rs 16 crore was seized from their possession in two separate operations, the police said on Thursday. According to Karbi Anglong Superintendent of Police Sanjib Kumar Saikia, suspected heroin...
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President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday presented new standard of bodyguard and renewed regimental standard to the President's Bodyguard at a ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. The President's Bodyguard is the oldest regiment in the Indian Army, having been raised as the...
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Myanmar nationals take shelter in the Zokhawthar area in Champhai district, Mizoram./ANI
At least 29 more Myanmarese soldiers crossed over to Mizoram on Thursday after their camp in the neighbouring country was overrun by an anti-junta group, a senior police officer said. With them, a total of 74 Myanmar military personnel had fled to Mizoram due to the recent gunfights with the...
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A Delhi court on Thursday sent a police sub-inspector to judicial custody in a bribery case linked to a Rs 45,000-crore Ponzi scam involving Pearls Group founder Nirmal Singh Bhangoo. Special Judge Anju Bajaj Chandna sent the Delhi police sub-inspector Rajesh Yadav to jail after he was...
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The Army on Thursday defused 45 unexploded ordnance (UXO) in the Kargil district of the union territory of Ladakh, officials said. Unexploded ordnance are explosive ammunition including bombs, bullets, shells, grenades, mines etc that did not explode when...
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Nirav Modi
Nirav Modi, the fugitive diamond merchant wanted in India to stand trial on fraud and money laundering charges, told a UK court on Thursday that he could be in England for years as some ongoing proceedings prevent his extradition. The 52-year-old former billionaire appeared for a hearing at...
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The Election Commission has decided to go ahead with the scheduled date for counting of votes for the Mizoram assembly polls on December 3, despite repeated appeals by various quarters to change it, a top official said on Thursday. As December 3 is a Sunday, all major political parties of...
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A heavy-duty drilling machine bored through 12 metres of rubble of the collapsed tunnel on the Char Dham route in Uttarakhand on Thursday, raising hopes for the rescue of 40 workers trapped inside for over four days. Officials said in the evening that a six-metre section of a steel pipe had...
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation on Thursday announced a 10 percent water cut in the city for 12 days starting from November 20 for carrying out repairs. Emergency repairs would be carried out from November 20 to December 2 at the pneumatic gate system installed at the Pise Weir in...
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Amid allegations of graft involving some of its officials, aviation watchdog Directorate General of Civil Aviation is carrying out a reshuffle of duties of various officials, and transferring them to different centres, according to sources. A preliminary enquiry against a senior DGCA...
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The rupee declined by 14 paise to settle at 83.23 (provisional) against the US dollar on Thursday due to foreign fund outflows and a firm greenback in the overseas markets. Losses in crude oil prices, however, helped the rupee restrict the fall, forex dealers said. At the interbank...
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A senior Air India pilot died on Thursday morning after showing signs of discomfort during a training session at the Delhi airport, according to officials. The pilot appears to have suffered a cardiac arrest, they added. The officials said that Himmanil Kumar, who was in his 30s, was at...
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It was a dream come true for at least five Indians living in cities across the UAE when they either won weekly draws or lotteries, the latest one being a control room operator winning a whopping Rs 45 crore. Indians, most of them coming from middle class or lower middle class, have been...
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Ahead of the Telangana assembly polls, former MP and veteran actress Vijayashanthi resigned from the BJP and is likely to join the Congress party on November 17 in the presence of AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge, sources said on Thursday. She was not actively participating in BJP's...
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In a major blow to terror infrastructure and terror sympathisers in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, security forces have eliminated key launch commander Bashir Ahmad Malik in an anti-infiltration operation in the Uri sector, the army said on Thursday. Malik and another terrorist were killed...
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Deploying additional forces, setting up special control rooms at two major railway stations in the national capital and special helpline numbers -- these are some of the steps the Delhi police has taken to ensure hassle-free Chhath Puja for those celebrating. Senior officials said additional...
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A 27-year-old man was murdered by suspected Maoists in Gadchiroli in Maharashtra on Thursday, the incident taking place a day after the visit of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde to the district. Dinesh Pusu Gawde of Laheri village in Bhamragarh, some 200 kilometres from here, was killed in...
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Maharashtra minister Chhagan Bhujbal
Maharashtra minister Chhagan Bhujbal and senior Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar are expected to be present for a rally of the Other Backward Classes in Jalna's Ambad area on Friday, an official said. He said liquor shops will be shut in Ambad and Ghansawangi tehsils in view of the rally,...
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Indian Army, with assistance from the Border Roads Organisation, constructed a bailey bridge to connect flood-ravaged Chungthang with the rest of Sikkim, a defence release said on Thursday. Chungthang in north Sikkim was among the worst affected areas in the Himalayan state that was hit by a...
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KBK Infographics
Equity benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty closed higher for a second straight day on Thursday following gains in IT, tech and consumer durable shares amid a mixed trend in global equities. Softer-than-expected US inflation data and easing bond yields have also brought optimism in equity...
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Palestinians search for survivors. Hatem Khaled/Reuters
Israeli forces seized control over a Hamas harbor base in central Gaza, the Israeli Defense Forces announced on Thursday. In the combined raid of the navy, armour and engineering forces, along with air force support, about ten tunnel shafts were destroyed, and four buildings of associated...
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Lubna and her daughter with India's envoy in Cairo
After being evacuated from war-torn Hamas-ruled Gaza with the help of Indian missions in the region, Lubna Nazir Shaboo, is now looking forward to her homeward journey from Cairo to Kashmir. Lubna, an Indian from Jammu & Kashmir living in Gaza, and her daughter Karima had crossed...
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Mumbai Police have initiated a case against an unidentified individual under Section 295 of the IPC after Quranic verses were found in firecrackers. This action comes in response to a complaint from a local resident who found religious text, specifically verses from the Quran, on the...
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The BJP will stop welfare schemes being run by the Congress government in Rajasthan if they come to power and they will help billionaires, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Thursday. He was addressing a public meeting in Taranagar of Churu district in support party candidate Narendra...
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Militants triggered a low-intensity Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast under an Assam Rifles mine-protected vehicle in Manipur's Tengnoupal district on Thursday morning, officials said. The paramilitary force's vehicle was on routine patrolling in the district's Saibol area when...
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A heavy-duty drilling machine flown in by the IAF from Delhi began boring through the rubble of a collapsed tunnel on the Char Dham route in Uttarakhand Thursday, in a fresh attempt to create an escape passage for 40 workers trapped inside for four days. Workers outside the Silkyara...
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A man sits among rubble in Gaza. Mohammed Salem/Reuters
Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has said that IDF fighter jets hit the home of Hamas' Political Bureau head, Ismail Haniyeh in the Gaza strip. The IDF said that the house was used as terrorist infrastructure and a meeting point for Hamas' senior leaders to direct terrorist attacks against Israel.The...
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The depression over west-central Bay of Bengal moved north and northeastwards on Thursday morning to intensify into a deep depression, according to a Met Department official. In the wake of the weather system, the Met Department forecast squally winds along and off Andhra Pradesh coast...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday released its manifesto for the Rajasthan assembly polls, promising a subsidy of Rs 450 per LPG cylinder for Ujjwala scheme beneficiaries and 2.5 lakh government jobs.Releasing the 'sankalp patra' in Jaipur, party chief J P Nadda also said that if the BJP...
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UCO Bank on Thursday said the bank has retained or recovered Rs 649 crore or 79 per cent of the amount erroneously credited to some accounts of the bank via Immediate Payment Service (IMPS). By taking various proactive steps, the bank blocked the recipients' accounts and has been able to...
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Amul's tribute to Shami
After the batters put up a stellar show to post a massive 397/4 in the first semifinal at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai, Shami handed India key breakthroughs to book their ticket to Ahmedabad.Shami, the player-of-the-match, turned in sizzling figures of 7/57 as India marched into the final with...
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The Sahara matter is regarding conduct of an entity. It will continue even after death of group's founder Subrata Roy, says Sebi chief Madhabi Puri Buch.The undistributed funds totalling over Rs 25,000 crore lying with the capital markets regulator Sebi's account have come back into focus after...
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Rahul Gandhi campaigning in Mizoram
Congress leaders in Rajasthan are together and the party will win the November 25 assembly elections, Rahul Gandhi said on Thursday. In a brief interaction with reporters at the airport in Jaipur, the former Congress president said, We are together and will remain together. The Congress party...
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Aid trucks at the Rafah border. Hadeer Mahmoud/Reuters
More than 11,200 Palestinians two-thirds of them women and minors have been killed since the war began, according to the Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, which does not differentiate between civilian and militant deaths. About 2,700 people have been reported missing.U.S. National Security...
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Superstars of cricket and football at Wankhede yesterday. Adnan Abidi/Reuters
Former England football captain David Beckham, who was in attendance as India beat New Zealand at the Wankhede Stadium, described his meet with iconic Sachin Tendulkar as special.Beckham was one of the star celebrities at the Wankhede Stadium to witness India's World Cup semi-final clash against...
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The Enforcement Directorate has issued fresh summons to American millionaire Neville Roy Singham for questioning in connection with a money laundering investigation linked to online news portal NewsClick, official sources said Thursday. The businessman, who is accused of spreading...
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Mitchell Santner checks on Virat Kohli after he sustained an injury. Reuters/Adnan Abidi
Cricket fraternity the world over might be cherishing Virat Kohli's record-setting 50th ODI century but former Australian pacer Simon O'Donnell has flayed New Zealand's gesture of helping the batting great when he was suffering from cramps during the World Cup semifinal in...
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Delhi's air quality fluctuated between the very poor and severe categories on Thursday as unfavourable meteorological conditions hindered the dispersion of pollutants. Recent findings from a joint project by the Delhi government and IIT-Kanpur found that vehicular emissions accounted for...
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US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Wednesday exchanged views on regional and global issues, including Russia's refusal to stop its war against Ukraine. In a meeting with Xi in San Francisco, Biden said that he raised the concerns of the US regarding China's...
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The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said it has found more evidence that Hamas uses hospitals as bases of operations and the storage of explosives and weapons for terrorist purposes.For example, an operational headquarters, weapons and technological equipment were found in the MRI building at Shifa...
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An explosion occurred close to the Surankote bus stand in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Wednesday night, sources said.However, there was no official confirmation of the blast.There were also no reports of any loss of life or injury.The cause of the explosion was not immediately...
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In a significant move, the United Nations Security Council has approved a resolution calling for a series of humanitarian pauses in Gaza, CNN reported.The resolution received support from twelve states during the session held on Wednesday, while the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom...
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A gang of robbers looted valuables worth Rs 3.20 lakh from passengers when a train came to a halt due to signal failure in Gujarat's Kheda district, the railway police said on Wednesday. The incident took place in the early hours of November 14, said Saroj Kumari, superintendent of police,...
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Newly appointed Karnataka BJP President B Y Vijayendra on Wednesday formally assumed charge at the state party office here. Former Chief Ministers B S Yediyurappa, Basavaraj Bommai and D V Sadananda Gowda and senior party leaders were present on the occasion. The 47-year-old first-time...
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Actor-politician Suresh Gopi appeared before the police in Kozhikode on Wednesday to record his statement in a case pertaining to a complaint filed by a woman journalist stating that he misbehaved with her during his interaction with reporters in Kozhikode last month. The actor was summoned...
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Three drones and a 500-gram packet of heroin were seized near the India-Pakistan border in Punjab's Tarn Taran and Amritsar districts, a BSF official said on Wednesday. Border Security Force troops carrying out an area domination exercise ahead of the border fencing on Wednesday observed...
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The cryogenic upper stage of the LVM3 M4 launch vehicle, which successfully injected the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft into the intended orbit on July 14 this year, made an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere on Wednesday, the ISRO said. The probable impact point was predicted over...
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