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The Indian Army on Tuesday installed a 104-ft tall national flag near the Line of Control in the Tithwal area of Kupwara district in Jammu and Kashmir. The flag was hoisted by General Officer Commanding of 15 Corps Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai at the Tithwal-Chileana Crossing Point, an official said in...
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Labourers trapped in Silkyara tunnel were supplied veg pulao, matar-paneer, and chapatis slapped with butter for dinner Tuesday night through a food pipe stuck through the collapsed part of the structure. The dinner, prepared under the doctor's supervision with less oil and spices to make...
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A Rajya Sabha committee has called top officials of the electronics and IT ministry this week to hear about the measures put in place to enhance cyber security of member services and secure the new building of Parliament. The new building is called the Parliament House of India, while the...
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A court in Gandhinagar in Gujarat on Tuesday granted bail to an Australian, arrested for intruding on the pitch during the ICC World Cup cricket final wearing a pro-Palestine T-shirt. A day earlier, the accused, Wen Johnson, was remanded in police custody for a day by the...
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A woman on Tuesday allegedly smashed the headlights of a state-run transport bus at Kodimatha in Kottayam, Kerala, in a suspected road rage incident. The police said the woman allegedly smashed the headlights of the bus using a lever. It is suspected that the bus had earlier scratched...
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The Delhi high court on Tuesday asked authorities in the national capital, including the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), to submit a time frame for removal of concrete around all roadside trees. Justice Jasmeet Singh directed the authorities to...
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The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday said it has issued a foreign exchange violation show cause notice of more than Rs 9,300 crore against edtech major Byju's and its CEO and co-founder Raveendran Bjyu. The federal probe agency mentioned multiple grounds for charging the company and its...
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India has dismissed an unwarranted and habitual' reference to Kashmir made by Pakistan during a Security Council meeting in the United Nations. India's retort came at the UN Security Council open debate on 'Maintenance of International Peace and Security: Promoting Sustaining Peace through...
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A morcha (demonstration) organised by the Dhangar community to demand inclusion in the Scheduled Tribe category turned violent as protesters vandalised government property and two-wheelers at the collector's office in Maharashtra's Jalna city on Tuesday, the police said. The march turned...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been invited to deliver a speech at Oxford University and she has accepted it, pro-vice-chancellor of the institute Jonathan Michie said on Tuesday. Michie, however, did not elaborate. Speaking at the inaugural day of the seventh edition of...
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The high court of Karnataka has allowed 13 couples to use donor gametes for surrogacy while refraining from examining the validity of the amendment to the Surrogacy (Regulation) Rules, as a similar plea is pending before the Supreme Court. The authorities cannot insist or direct the...
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BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri
The Privileges Committee of Lok Sabha has summoned Bharatiya Janata Party MP Ramesh Bidhuri next month over his objectionable remarks against Bahujan Samaj Party member Danish Ali. The committee has also called Danish Ali to give oral evidence on December 7. Bidhuri has been asked to...
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Sam Altman
Over 505 OpenAI employees have threatened to leave the company if they do not receive the resignation of the ChatGPT company's board after a tumultuous weekend in the Artificial Intelligence industry that saw the company's CEO, Sam Altman being fired and consequently hired by AI competition,...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a road show in poll-bound Rajasthan's Jaipur on Tuesday evening amid tight security. As the prime minister began his roadshow from the Sanganeri Gate in the walled city of Jaipur, a huge crowd gathered on both sides of the road to welcome him. The...
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The Enforcement Directorate Tuesday said it has attached assets worth Rs 751.9 crore as part of its money laundering investigation against the Congress party-promoted Young Indian that owns the National Herald newspaper. A provisional order has been issued under the Prevention of Money...
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The India meteorological department has predicted heavy rainfall in over 10 districts of Tamil Nadu in the next three days. In a statement, IMD stated that more than 10 districts in Tamil Nadu are more likely to receive heavy rain from time to time due to weather...
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The 14th edition of the Indo-US Joint Special Forces exercise 'Vajra Prahar, 2023' began at the Joint Training Node in Meghalaya's Umroi Cantonment on Tuesday. The US contingent is represented by personnel from the 1st Special Forces Group of US Special Forces while the Indian Army...
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Bharti Group-backed OneWeb India has received the necessary authorisations from Indian space regulator IN-SPACe to launch Eutelsat OneWeb's commercial satellite broadband services in India. OneWeb India is the first organisation to be granted this authorisation, Eutelsat OneWeb said in a...
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India has donated $2.5 million to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, prompting the UNRWA on Tuesday to welcome the generous contribution at a difficult time, particularly in Gaza. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, functional since 1950, carries out...
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Five elephants including two calves were electrocuted Jharkhand's East Singhbhum district on Monday night after they came in contact with a live wire, a forest official said. The incident took place at Beniasai village in the copper township of Musabani, around 45 km from Jamshedpur under...
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At the Bengal Global Business Summit event, Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani says, Reliance will leave no stone unturned to accelerate West Bengal's growth. Reliance has invested close to Rs 45,000 crores in West Bengal. We plan to invest an additional Rs 20,000 crores in the next 3...
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Benchmark stock indices rebounded on Tuesday after two days of decline following buying in metal, banking and energy shares and a bullish trend in the US markets. The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 275.62 points or 0.42 per cent to settle at 65,930.77. During the day, it jumped 427.21...
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Soon after Congress MP Rahul Gandhi made a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi by indirectly blaming him for India's loss to Australia in the World Cup Final, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lok Sabha MP Ravi Shankar Prasad questioned the usage of such a word for the Prime Minister and asked...
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PM means Panauti Modi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said at an election rally in Rajasthan on Tuesday insinuating that Prime Minister Narendra Modi brings bad luck. Referring to India's loss in the cricket world cup final against Australia, Gandhi used the term associated with bad...
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The endoscopic camera reveals the workers for the first time
The workers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel at Uttarkashi received some amount of relief as some of the workers spoke to their relatives for the first time after being stuck in the tunnel for 10 days. In a major breakthrough in the ongoing Silkyara tunnel collapse rescue team officials...
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Writer Suketu Mehta on why his book Maximum City which was turned into a film, was dropped by Netflix. Mehta tweets, The inside story of why Netflix dropped the film adaptation of 'Maximum City': because the director Anurag Kashyap criticized the Modi government.Mehta retweeted Gerry...
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Tuesday morning brought some relief for family members of the 41 workers trapped inside the Silkyara tunnel for nine days here as the newly inserted six-inch pipeline made communicating with them easier. The family members said they could hear the workers clearly through the new...
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Former cricketer and now TMC MP Kirti Azad lashes out at PM Narendra Modi for visiting Team India in the dressing room.Kirti Azad tweeted to say, The dressing room is the sanctum sanctorum of any team. @ICC does not allow anybody to enter these rooms apart from the players and the support...
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A former student of a private school Thrissur on Tuesday barged into his alma mater brandishing a gun, terrorising staff and students, following which police took him into custody.According to the school staff, he fired a couple of rounds after roaming inside the institution. No one was...
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DMK chief MK Stalin
The DMK party on Tuesday officially announced its support for the Congress party's candidates in the upcoming 2023 Telangana State Legislative Assembly Election. In a post on their social media account X, the party has urged all its wings and cadres in Telangana to work diligently towards...
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Israeli aircraft attacked about 250 targets of the terrorist organization Hamas over the past 24 hours, the IDF said. Among the targets hit were dozens of terrorists, missile launchers and various terrorist infrastructures, the IDF said. During the night, the fire canopy of the...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday raised the caste census pitch, describing it as an 'X-ray' of the country.If it is not known whose population is how much, then how will we talk about participation, he said while addressing an election rally in Vallabhnagar in Udaipur. Gandhi...
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Almost two months after pro-Khalistan graffiti was found on a flyover here, Delhi Police's Special Cell has arrested a youth from Haryana, according to sources. The arrested youth, Malak Singh, is suspected of having painted graffiti in Delhi and other parts of India at the behest of...
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Amid the 15th year of commemoration of the Mumbai terror attacks, Israel has announced to ban the terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba to symbolise the occasion and called it a 'deadly' and 'reprehensible' terror organisation on Tuesday. The action has been taken without any request by the...
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Following India's upsetting loss in the ODI World Cup 2023 final against Australia on Sunday, former 'Men in Blue' spinner Harbhajan Singh asked cricket fans not to troll Aussie cricketers and their family members.Harbhajan took to his official X (formerly Twitter) account and wrote that...
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A Palestinian child at a hospital. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has claimed that the terror group is nearing an agreement on a truce with Israel amid the ongoing war in Gaza, Times of Israel reported on Tuesday. In a statement posted to Telegram, the Doha-based Hamas politburo head, Haniyeh said that Hamas gave its...
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Epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata should be taught in schools as part of the history curriculum under India's 'classical period', a high-level National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) panel has recommended. The panel has also recommended that the Preamble of the...
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Tunnel expert Arnold Dix
International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association president Arnold Dix, who has been roped in as part of the ongoing rescue efforts at the Uttarkashi tunnel collapse site, on Tuesday said he was absolutely sure that the 41 trapped workers will come home soon.Speaking to ANI, from the...
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Emmy winner Vir Das shares this image writing, For India, For Indian Comedy. Every breath, every word. Thank you to the @iemmys for this incredible honour.Vir Das has been forced to defend himself against online accusations of insulting the country after he performed a two Indias' monologue...
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Visuals of workers trapped inside Uttarkashi's Silkyara tunnel for the past 10 days emerged on Tuesday morning, has given new hope for worried relatives, some of whom are camping outside the site of the collapsed structure.Earlier today, rescuers managed to insert an endoscopy camera into the...
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A morning meal was prepared for the workers who have been trapped in a tunnel in Silkyara, Uttarkashi for 10 days.The food will be pushed through the six-inch-wide pipeline that was pushed earlier on Monday through the rubble of the collapsed portion.Teams of cooks are involved in the preparation...
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On the tenth day of rescue operations at the Silkyara tunnel collapse site in Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand, a significant milestone was achieved after an endoscopic flexi camera was successfully inserted into the collapsed section.Visuals from the special camera facilitated the first interaction with...
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Update: Actor-comic Vir Das won the International Emmy Award for his stand-up special Vir Das: Landing in the best comedy series category, the organisers said. The awards ceremony was held in New York on late Monday night. This was the second nomination and maiden win in the segment...
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Former Pakistani captain Shahid Afridi slammed Team India following their ODI World Cup 2023 loss against Australia at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Sunday.Speaking live on a Pakistan-based TV channel, Samaa TV, Afridi said that overconfidence led to Rohit Sharma's side's downfall in the...
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Six people were injured in a fight that broke out at a wedding function Agra in Uttar Pradesh over shortage of rasgullas, police said on Monday. The incident was reported from the Shamsabad area around Sunday midnight. The injured were hospitalised and their condition is stable, they...
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Almost two months after pro-Khalistan graffiti was found on a flyover in the national capital, Delhi Police's Special Cell has detained a youth from Haryana, according to sources. The detained youth is suspected of having painted graffiti in Delhi and other parts of India at the behest of...
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Stand-up comic and actor Vir Das won the International Emmy for Comedy at a ceremony in New York.
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Rescuers on Tuesday released the first video of the workers trapped inside the Silkyara tunnel here for 10 days. The visuals were captured using an endoscopic camera sent in through the alternative 6-inch food pipeline.In the video, the workers, wearing yellow and white helmets, are seen...
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The NIA on Monday arrested a man in the Visakhapatnam espionage case, which is related to leak of classified defence information through a Pakistani ISI spy network, a spokesperson of the federal agency said. Amaan Salim Shaikh was arrested from Mumbai following raids at two locations in the...
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The Allahabad high court on Monday rejected the bail plea of Uttar Pradesh MLA Abbas Ansari, the son of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, in an arms licence case. In its order, the Lucknow bench of the high court stated that a large number of metal cartridges were recovered from...
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Youth Congress workers showing black flag to CM Vijayan in Kerala/Courtesy IYC on X
A group of Youth Congress workers were arrested on Monday for allegedly waving black flags at and jumping in front of the cavalcade of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, following which they were reportedly attacked by CPI-M workers using helmets, sticks, and stones. Vijayan and his...
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Activist Manoj Jarange
Activist Manoj Jarange on Monday night announced a chain hunger strike will be launched in all villages of Maharashtra from December 1 in support of reservation for Maratha community members and accused political parties of conspiring to deprive them of quota benefits. Jarange, spearheading...
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