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Air quality in Delhi and its suburbs deteriorated again overnight after a marginal improvement a day ago with forecasts suggesting that a major relief is unlikely in the coming days. The city's 24-hour average Air Quality Index, recorded at 4 pm everyday, stood at 348 on Monday,...
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Employing a C-17 and two C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft, the IAF airlifted 36 tonne of critical equipment on Monday, continuing to lend assistance to efforts being made to rescue workers trapped in a partially collapsed tunnel in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district, officials...
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External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Monday discussed the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict and other issues with Australian deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles. Marles is in India for the second India-Australia 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue. A very good meeting with DPM and Defence...
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Senior bureaucrat Hara Prasad Nayak has been appointed joint secretary of the National Intelligence Grid as part of a bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the central government on Monday. Nayak is a 1995-batch officer of Indian Railway Accounts Service. He has been appointed joint...
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Sharad Pawar
The Sharad Pawar faction of the NCP on Monday urged the Election Commission to take penal action against the Ajit Pawar group, alleging it filed fake affidavits before the poll panel. Two days before rebelling against uncle Sharad Pawar to join the Maharashtra government in early July, Ajit...
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A total of 13 people drowned during Chhath festivities in different water bodies in seven districts of Bihar since Sunday, officials said. The deaths were reported in Patna, Khagaria, Samastipur, Saharsa, Darbhanga, Munger and Besusarai, a statement issued by the Bihar Disaster Management...
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Three men have been arrested for bursting fire-crackers in a movie hall in Malegaon city in Nashik district during the screening of Salman Khan-starrer Tiger 3 recently, the police said on Monday. The incident occurred during the 9-12 pm show of the movie in Mohan Cinema on November 12,...
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Suryakumar Yadav was on Monday named as India captain for the upcoming five-match T20I series against Australia, which begins from November 23 at Visakhapatnam. Opener Ruturaj Gaikwad has been named as vice-captain for the series against the newly-crowned ODI champions, as the hosts only...
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The BJP received a total of Rs 256.25 crore from Prudent Electoral Trust, while the BRS received Rs 90 crore and the YSRCP Rs 16 crore from the fund during the financial year that ended in March 2023. The trust gave total donations of Rs 363.15 crore to political parties during the year,...
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Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who is convicted in a rape case got furlough for three weeks on Monday, an official statement said. Earlier in February, the Dera chief was also granted three weeks' furlough. He has been incarcerated since 2017 in Haryana's Sunaria jail...
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Sam Altman. Pic: Amir Cohen/Reuters
Support has come from Sam Altman, the sacked chief of OpenAI from unexpected quarters. The company's staff has risen in support and in revolt, as a majority of OpenAI's staff has written an open letter threatening to quit unless Altman is reinstated, reports Financial Times. FT says the...
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The Calcutta high court on Monday said that the police authorities should grant permission to the Bharatiya Janata Party for holding a public meeting in Kolkata on November 29, scheduled to be addressed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah. The BJP has moved the high court seeking direction to...
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People are not supposed to roam around on highways, the Supreme Court said on Monday while refusing to entertain a plea raising the issue of safety and protection of pedestrians on highways. The court was hearing a petition challenging an order passed by the Gujarat high court on a plea...
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At least 3,000 candidates applied for posts of priests at the Ram temple in Ayodhya after the Ram Mandir Teerth Kshetra Trust advertised vacancies, an official said on Monday. Of these, 200 candidates were selected for interviews on the basis of merit, the trust official said. The 200...
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President Draupadi Murmu on Monday went down the memory lane while inaugurating an Eklavya Model Residential School in tribal dominated Mayurbhanj district of Odisha.Expressing her happiness over the infrastructure of the school at Kuliana, Murmu, who hails from Rairangpur in Mayurbhanj district,...
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CM Ibrahim
Suspended JD-S leader CM Ibrahim claimed on Monday that he is still the party's Karnataka president and whether former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda will remain its national president will be known on December 9.Ibrahim said he will be moving to court seeking a stay of his suspension from the...
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Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi
The Tamil Nadu Governor has accorded sanction to prosecute former All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam ministers namely Dr C Vijayabaskar and BV Ramana in the gutka scam being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation, state law minister S Regupathy said in Chennai on...
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Around 35 fishermen from Tamil Nadu who were arrested more than a month ago from near the British Indian Ocean Territory in the Indian Ocean, and tried and fined 25,000 Pounds Sterling, were on Monday handed over to the Indian Coast Guard, a defence statement said. The fishermen had ventured...
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The Bangalore Electricity Supply Company has suspended five of its officials for dereliction of duties and issued show cause notice to two senior officers after a woman and her daughter died due to electrocution here, officials said on Monday. Taking serious note of the Sunday's incident at...
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A case has been registered against designated terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun for threatening people flying Air India and the airline with closure of operations from November 19, the National Investigation Agency said on Monday. The case has been registered under the Indian Penal Code and...
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Notorious goon Maradu Aneesh, who was housed in the high-security prison in Thrissur, was attacked by fellow prisoners on Monday, jail sources said. A senior jail official of the Viyyur central jail said two prisoners -- Ashraf and Hussain -- attacked Aneesh using a sharp object and injured...
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A 23-year-old man allegedly died by suicide in West Bengal's Bankura district after India lost the World Cup final to Australia, his family said. The incident happened around 11 pm on Sunday near the Cinema Hall in Beliatore police station area, the police said. Rahul Lohar used to work...
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Uttarkashi tunnel collapse: We have achieved our first breakthrough, for which we had been trying for the last nine days and was our first priority. A 6-inch pipe has been installed and they (trapped workers) can hear us through it. We will now provide them with food and medical supplies through...
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On the occasion of World Children's Day, Israel shared pictures of children held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, stressing that there are more than 30 children, including babies and toddlers. They further urged the international community to take action to bring them...
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Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty stayed on the back foot for the second straight session on Monday as investors offloaded auto, utility and commodity stocks amid fresh foreign fund outflows. In a volatile trade, the 30-share BSE Sensex declined 139.58 points or 0.21 per cent...
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The Congress took a swipe at the ruling BJP on Monday for claiming that India's GDP has crossed the USD 4-trillion mark and alleged that the bogus news is only for generating euphoria and doing headline management. In a post on X, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said some...
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Israeli soldiers move from the border with Gaza. Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters
Three Hamas commanders were killed during overnight combat in Gaza, Israel Defense Forces announced on Monday morning. According to the IDF, the soldiers identified a squad of terrorists as they entered a munitions warehouse. The soldiers called in an airstrike, killing the terrorists and...
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The word class Mohammed Shami shares this picture from yesterday: Unfortunately yesterday was not our day. I would like to thank all Indians for supporting our team and me throughout the tournament. Thankful to PM @narendramodi for specially coming to the dressing room and raising our spirits. We...
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Staff Sergeant Yehonatan Yitzhak Semo
Staff Sergeant Yehonatan Yitzhak Semo was killed in battle in Gaza, but his organs have been donated to six patients in different hospitals, Israel's National Transplant Center announced on Sunday. The 21-year-old Semo, who had signed an organ donor card, served in the Paratroopers...
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Andhra Pradesh High Court grants bail to TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu in Skill Development Corporation scam case.
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Sam Altman, who was fired as the CEO of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, will join Microsoft to lead a new team focused on artificial intelligence, the tech giant has announced.Microsoft CEO and Chairman Satya Nadella said on Monday that Altman, fellow OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman and other former...
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The dam at Vaitarna lake
At least two persons were missing after a tug boat carrying 20 workers capsized in the Vaitarna river in Maharashtra's Palghar district on Monday morning, police said. Eighteen workers have been rescued so far, an official said. The incident took place at around 6 am when the workers...
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Corporal Noa Marciano
Israel Defence Forces (IDF) spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari has said that the 19-year-old IDF Corporal Noa Marciano who was taken hostage by Hamas terrorists was killed by the terror group at the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza. He shared that Marciano was left injured during the...
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A passenger on board an IndiGo flight from Jaipur to Bengaluru who was allegedly intoxicated and misbehaved with crew members despite multiple warnings was arrested, police said on Monday. After landing on November 17, the 32-year-old passenger was handed over to the police at the Kempegowda...
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The Indian Air Force (IAF), soon after receiving information about the sighting of unidentified flying objects near the Imphal airport on Sunday, scrambled its Rafale fighter aircraft to search for them.The sighting of the UFO over the Imphal airport happened around 2:30 pm after which a...
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Efforts to rescue the 41 workers trapped at the Silkyara tunnel collapse site continue at fever pace. The workers have been trapped for close to 216 hours since November 12.Today International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association president Arnold Dix arrived at the location site in...
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Former president Obama's top campaign guru said President Biden's chances of winning the 2024 presidential election were no better than 50-50 -- and possibly even worse. Read the the report here.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday had a telephonic conversation with Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and discussed the ongoing operations to rescue the 41 workers who have been trapped since last week in the collapsed Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi. In a statement by the...
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The deafening silence of over 90,000 supporters at the Narendra Modi Stadium, as Pat Cummins snuffed out the peerless Virat Kohli in the World Cup final, was perhaps the sweetest moment the Australian skipper has ever experienced on a cricket field. After becoming the fifth Australian...
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The Israeli military has released footage which it says shows hostages being taken into Gaza's largest hospital after the deadly Hamas attacks of 7 October.A military spokesman said one of them - a soldier - was murdered there.Cpl Noa Marciano, 19, was killed after being taken into al-Shifa...
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Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi with party president Mallikarjun Kharge look at the photo exhibition on the life of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi during the cultural programme on her 106th birth anniversary, at Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust, in New Delhi yesterday.
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Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, the closest adviser to Jimmy Carter during his term as US president and their four decades thereafter as global humanitarians, has died at the age of 96. The Carter Centre said she died Sunday after living with dementia and suffering many months of...
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Decomposed bodies of four members of a family have been found in their flat in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, police said. The deceased persons were identified as 52-year-old Brindaban Karmakar, a cloth merchant, his wife Debasree Karmakar, who was in her forties, their...
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Israel on Sunday releases a video of what it described as a tunnel dug by Palestinian operatives under Shifa Hospital complex in Gaza.OPERATIONAL UPDATE: IDF and ISA forces revealed a significant 55-meter-long terrorist tunnel, 10 metres underneath the Shifa Hospital complex, during an...
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A speeding BMW car rammed into a parked vehicle from behind, which in turn hit four pedestrians, critically injuring them, in South Delhi's Greater Kailash Enclave-II area on Sunday night, police said. Those injured in the accident have been admitted to the AIIMS trauma centre, they...
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A pro-Palestine fan breached a tight security cordon to enter the field of play in a desperate attempt to hug Virat Kohli during the World Cup final between India and Australia in Ahmedabad on Sunday.City police have booked the 24-year-old fan, identified as Wen Johnson, on the charges of...
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