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The police conducted a raid at a bar in Manipal of Udupi district after pictures and videos of a party shared by students went viral on Instagram. The gathering took place within the jurisdiction of Manipal police station where students were found smoking hookah, consuming alcohol and...
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An Air India flight from Kochi to Gatwick was on Sunday cancelled following a technical fault in the aircraft that was noticed just minutes before it was set to take off, an airline source said. The AI 149 flight, which was scheduled to take off with 252 passengers on board at 2.15 pm,...
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Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan
Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan and his close aide Shah Mahmood Qureshi have been named principal accused in a case related to the alleged disclosure of state secrets, a media report said on Sunday. The Federal Investigation Agency on Saturday filed a charge sheet in the Special...
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The Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment department has banned mobile phones inside the Arulmigu Palani Dhandayuthapani Swamy temple from Sunday. The world-renowned Arulmigu Palani Dhandayuthapani Swamy Temple is visited by devotees not only from Tamil Nadu but also from...
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Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has cancelled his sermons on October 2 and 3 as he is suffering from a persistent cold, his office said. In the advice of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's personal physicians, His Holiness will take rest due to a persistent cold, a statement...
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The police have booked two doctors from a hospital here in connection with the death of a 17-year-old girl right outside the medical facility allegedly after being removed from there by the staff. The FIR...
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A baby with congenital heart disease developed severe breathing issues during a Ranchi-Delhi flight when two co-passengers, both doctors, came to the child's rescue. IAS officer Dr Nitin Kulkarni, also a...
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday appointed party leader Ajay Maken as the new treasurer of the party with immediate effect. Congress president has appointed Maken as the treasurer of the All India Congress Committee, with immediate effect, party general secretary,...
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Deep Narayan Nayak, a primary school teacher from West Bengal, and Hari Krishna Patacharu, an English teacher from Andhra Pradesh, have made it to the top 50 shortlist for the 2023 Global Teacher Prize unveiled in London recently. The shortlist for the $1-million annual prize, organised by...
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The RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad on Sunday said it has written to the Jawaharlal Nehru University administration for an inquiry into a recent incident of anti-national slogans being scribbled on the walls in the campus. The students' outfit has also demanded that the...
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Vistara on Sunday started direct flights from the national capital to Maldives' capital Male, and Air India announced that it will commence non-stop services between Kochi and Doha from October 23. Both airlines are part of the Tata Group. In addition to the 7x weekly service between...
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Six people were arrested in connection with the kidnapping and killing' of two Manipuri youths, which led to violent protests in the northeastern state last week, Chief Minister N Biren Singh said in Imphal on Sunday. The government will ensure the maximum punishment, including the death...
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Helped by improved compliance, GST collections increased by 10 per cent to over Rs 1.62 lakh crore in September, crossing the Rs 1.6 lakh crore mark for the fourth time during current financial year. Gross GST revenue collected last month was Rs 1,62,712 crore. Of this, Central GST was...
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West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Sunday appointed interim vice-chancellors for six state-run universities, an official said. Bose is the Chancellor of state-run universities in West Bengal. The governor named Professor Achintya Saha as the interim VC of Murshidabad University,...
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Nationalist Congress Party MP Supriya Sule on Sunday said that there is no fight in the party adding there is no question of the symbol 'going away'. MP Sule said that the party was founded by senior leader Sharad Pawar and it is obvious that the symbol should remain with...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party will hold a central election committee meeting on Sunday in the national capital to finalise candidates for the upcoming assembly elections in Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. Top party leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, national president JP Nadda,...
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Twelve students were injured after a private school bus overturned near Mhow town in Madhya Pradesh on Sunday, police said. The incident took place when the bus was going from Indore to Maheshwar, a police official said, adding four of the students were critically hurt. Eight buses of...
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A Delhi court has allowed Devendra Darda, son of former Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Darda and an accused in three coal scam cases, to travel abroad from October 2 to 12 for business purposes. Special Judge Arun Bhardwaj allowed Devendra to travel to UAE and Sweden, noting that he never abused the...
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The India Meteorological Department has issued an Orange alert for Odisha's seven districts, and fishermen have been warned not to venture in the sea till October 2. Senior Scientist of IMD, Bhubaneswar Sanjeev Dwivedi said, IMD has issued orange alert, heavy to very heavy rainfall...
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Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar on Sunday said he will be in New Delhi on October 6 to present his side to the Election Commision of India during a hearing in connection with the split of the party. Everyone knows who is the party founder, Pawar told reporters at Junnar in...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday teamed up with fitness influencer Ankit Baiyanpuriya in a cleanliness exercise as part of his call for everyone to undertake sanitation measures for an hour on the eve of Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary. Today, as the nation focuses on Swachhata,...
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Bihar is witnessing an alarming rise in dengue cases, with 6,146 cases reported in September, the highest for the month in the last five years, according to the health department's data. The state had reported 6,421 cases this year, of which 6,146 were reported only in September, three times...
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Kannada film actor Nagabhushan
Kannada film actor Nagabhushan has been arrested, as a speeding car allegedly driven by him rammed into a couple, killing a 48-year-old woman, and critically injuring her 58-year-old husband, police said on Sunday. The incident occurred at Vasanthapura Main Road in Bengaluru on the night of...
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Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said that two police officers were injured after a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device in front of the ministry building in Ankara, Al Jazeera reported. Yerlikaya said two attackers were behind the explosions in front of the...
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Celebrated Manipuri actor Rajkumar Somendra, popularly known as 'Kaiku', has said both the Kuki and Meitei communities should hold a joint meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah to thrash out differences. The actor, who had recently quit the primary membership of the BJP, told PTI in an...
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The Victoria and Albert ( V and A) Museum is all set to sign a memorandum of understanding with the Maharashtra government next week, which will see 17th century Tiger Claws' weapon believed to have belonged to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj make a journey back to India for an...
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Vice Admiral Tarun Sobti on Sunday assumed charge as deputy chief of Naval Staff. He succeeds Vice Admiral Sanjay Mahindru, who retired after more than 38 years of illustrious service, officials said. Vice Admiral Sobti was commissioned into the Indian Navy on July 1, 1988, and is a...
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A Janpad Panchayat president was found hanging at her home in Madhya Pradesh's Burhanpur city, the police said on Sunday. Prima facie, it seems to be a case of suicide, superintendent of police Devendra Patidar said, adding a probe was on into the incident. Pooja Dadu (30), who was the...
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Two young doctors died on Sunday when the car they were travelling in plunged into river Periyar at Gothuruth near Kochi, the police said. Advaith (29) and Ajmal (29), both working at a private hospital in the district, died in the accident that occurred at around 12.30 am on...
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The Assam police on Sunday said the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act or AFSPA has been extended in four districts of the state for six more months. At the Assam Police Day 2023 celebrations in Guwahati, DGP Gyanendra Pratap Singh said the 'disturbed area' tag, which allows enforcement of...
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An aircraft of the Indian Air Force with six persons on board made an 'emergency' landing at a village in Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal on Sunday due to a technical snag, a police official said. The pilot and the five crew members are safe, Berasia police station inspector Narendra Kulaste,...
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Traffic on the Central Railway's main line was affected for about 45 minutes on Sunday as commuters agitated at Diva in Maharashtra's Thane district adjoining Mumbai over the detention of an express train after the derailment of a goods train, an official said. Four wagons of the goods train...
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The India meteorological department on Sunday issued a 'red' alert for Goa, forecasting heavy rains in the coastal state over the next 24 hours. The nowcast weather warning issued by the IMD predicted moderate to heavy spells of rain accompanied with winds of speed 40 to 50 kilometres per...
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Two men died and one was injured due to electrocution after a tableau carrying a Ganesh idol came in contact with an electricity transformer in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara city, the police said on Sunday. The incident took place at around 9 pm on Saturday in Tara Colony when the idol was...
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The police have recovered 30 kg of heroin worth crores of rupees from a Punjab-bound vehicle in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district, officials said on Sunday. Two suspected narcotic smugglers were arrested following the recovery from Banihal area along Jammu-Srinagar national highway during...
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Sankarshan Thakur, whose bio on X describes him as itinerant-writer with The Telegraph, has just been given a leg-up at the Kolkata-based newspaper. Starting today he takes over as the editor, and the previous incumbent R Rajagopal, the brain behind the newspaper's front page that has...
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Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao will skip Prime Minister Narendra Modi's program in the state on Sunday.Telangana Minister and Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) leader Talasani Srinivas Yadav confirmed to ANI that he will receive Modi upon his arrival and will participate in the official...
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Stop stubble burning and get special treatment at government offices. The Gurdaspur district administration has come up with this novel idea to curb crop residue burning, one of the major reasons behind the alarming spike in air pollution in the national capital region in October and...
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The India-United States relationship is at an all-time high and the Modi government is going to take it to a different level, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said, stressing that like the Chandrayaan, bilateral ties will go to the moon and even beyond.Jaishankar's remarks came as he...
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Full-service carrier Vistara has said it had to cancel one of its flights from Kolkata to Delhi scheduled for Sunday in order to operate additional flights for passengers stranded in Kolkata and Port Blair.'Vistara Flight UK747 operating from Kolkata to Port Blair and the return flight UK787 on...
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Ahead of the Bharatiya Janata Party's central election committee meeting, the party's top guns held meetings in New Delhi on Saturday to discuss the upcoming assembly poll in Rajasthan.The party's central election committee meeting is scheduled for Sunday.This comes days after Union Home Minister...
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Photo: @MMuizzu on X
Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) candidate Mohamed Muizzu, won the Maldivian presidential elections on Saturday, Al Jazeera reported citing local media.This was the second round of polling after no candidate emerged clear winner in the first round.Muizzu had emerged as the frontrunner in the...
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