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Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Wednesday likened the rival Sena faction led by Eknath Shinde with Hamas. A day earlier, during his Dussehra rally, the Maharashtra Chief Minister had said in future Uddhav Thackeray would form alliance with the AIMIM and embrace even Hamas,...
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The Western Railway (WR) will operate a special traffic block on a section of the Harbour Line on Thursday night for carrying out non-interlocking work in connection with the construction of the 6th line between Khar Road and Goregaon stations, it was announced on Wednesday. In a press...
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The Kerala government on Wednesday said that the ICMR has informed them about the presence of the Nipah virus in bats in the Wayanad district of the state, but there was no need to panic.State Health Minister Veena George said that the Indian Council of Medical Research gave this...
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Controversial ex-police inspector Gurmeet Singh Pinky died at a private hospital here on Wednesday, Punjab Police sources said. He was undergoing treatment for dengue, they said.Pinky, who was said to be close to many militants, became a police informer to help Punjab Police fight terrorism...
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As the state's most powerful ex-IAS officer, VK Pandian, remained silent over his future course of action following retirement from the All India Service, ruling BJD's Ganjam unit on Wednesday said the ex-bureaucrat will win from any of the 13 assembly segments in the district if he contests in...
21:54
Air India has extended the suspension of its scheduled flights to Tel Aviv till November 2 amid the continuing tensions between Israel and militant group Hamas. The latest conflict has been triggered by the unprecedented attacks against Israel by Hamas militants from Gaza on October 7....
21:31
Six people, including two women, have been arrested for allegedly raising pro-Pakistan slogans during a 'jagran', a programme dedicated to Goddess Durga, at a village in this district, police said on Wednesday. A 15-year-old girl has also been detained in the incident which took...
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The Congress on Wednesday lodged complaints against Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma with the Election Commission, alleging that their remarks during the Chhattisgarh assembly poll campaign violated the model code of conduct. A delegation of...
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The Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra on Wednesday invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the consecration ceremony of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, which is expected to take place on January 22. Modi said in a post on X that he is feeling blessed and it is his good fortune that he will be...
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Time has come for India to proscribe Hamas as a terrorist organisation like many other nations have done, Israeli ambassador Naor Gilon said on Wednesday. The Israeli envoy, at an interaction with journalists, also thanked India for its 100 per cent support to Israel in its anti-terror...
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Sushilkumar Shinde with daughter Praniti
Senior Congress leader Sushil Kumar Shinde has said that he is as good as retiring from politics, and his daughter and MLA Praniti Shinde will contest the coming Lok Sabha election from Solapur in southern Maharashtra. Shinde, a former chief minister, represented the Solapur Lok Sabha...
19:52
India has resumed visa services in Canada amid the ongoing diplomatic standoff between two countries.India will resume visa service for -- Entry visa, Business visa, Medical visa and Conference visa, India's High Commission in Canada said on Wednesday.The ties between India and Canada nosedived...
19:41
Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Wednesday said his government has disbursed more than Rs 6.13 crore to deputy commissioners to provide assistance to over 61,000 people currently living in relief camps in the violence-hit northeastern state. The financial aid was provided to...
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President Droupadi Murmu will visit Karnataka and Tamil Nadu from October 26 to 27, the Rashtrapati Bhavan said on Wednesday.The president will inaugurate the Foundation Week of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, as part of its golden jubilee celebrations at Bengaluru, Karnataka on...
19:06
Former Mumbai captain and domestic doyen Amol Muzumdar was on Wednesday named the head coach of the Indian women's cricket team, an appointment that was on cards for a long time. The Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) comprising Sulakshana Naik, Ashok Malhotra, and Jatin Paranjape had...
18:49
BJP leader Kirit Somaiya
BJP leader and former MP Kirit Somaiya has filed three defamation suits in the Bombay high court against Ambadas Danve, leader of opposition in the Maharashtra legislative council, Lokshahi news channel and one Anil Thatte, who runs a YouTube channel for uploading content pertaining to an alleged...
18:22
Dubbing Janata Dal-Secular state president H D Kumaraswamy a political villain, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday claimed that he was more frustrated than the BJP. He hit out at the former Chief Minister for his recent attacks...
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A Nepalese pilot who sustained serious injuries in a chopper crash near the Everest Base Camp, died on Wednesday while undergoing treatment at a hospital in India, Manang Air said. Pilot Prakash Kumar Sedhain was admitted at the National Burns Centre, Mumbai, for advanced treatment as he...
18:08
Law Commission chairperson Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, along with some of its members, met the high-level committee on simultaneous polls headed by former president Ram Nath Kovind in New Delhi on Wednesday to discuss the roadmap for holding synchronised elections in the country. The...
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A Molotov cocktail was lobbed by a man in front of the Raj Bhavan's main gate in Chennai on Wednesday, the police said. The man who threw the petrol bomb was immediately overpowered, they said. A senior police official said the accused is being questioned for his motive in hurling the...
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A coach of Patalkot Express train caught fire near Agra station Wednesday afternoon, an official said. There was no report of any casualty as of now, Agra Railway Division PRO Prashasti Srivastava said. The express train runs between Firozpur Cantonment in Punjab and Seoni in Madhya...
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Karnataka has become the Congress' ATM and the party has collected huge sums of money through corruption to fund the upcoming polls in different states including Telangana, BJP spokesperson Syed Zafar Islam alleged on Wednesday. Addressing a press conference here, he said recently a huge...
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Damaged vehicles in Khan Younis. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari has accused Hamas of setting up roadblocks to stop people evacuating from the north of the Gaza Strip.Hagari says Israel targeted those roadblocks overnight to allow the population to evacuate.Hagari said Hamas and its leadership are exploiting Gazans,...
16:08
Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty plunged nearly 1 per cent on Wednesday, in continuation with the pessimistic trend amid the ongoing tensions in the Middle East. Falling for the fifth day running, the 30-share BSE Sensex tanked 522.82 points or 0.81 per cent to settle at 64,049.06....
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Israeli mourners cover graves with earth. Shir Torem/Reuters
In the 18 days since the October 7 terror attacks in southern Israel, more than 100,000 Israelis have filed requests for gun licenses, according to the National Security Ministry in Tel Aviv. Before the war, the ministry added, that number would have equalled two years of...
14:59
India should be replaced with Bharat in the school textbooks for all classes, a high-level committee for social sciences, constituted by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to revise the school curriculum, has recommended. According to committee...
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An ambulance in the convoy of Antonio Guterres at Rafah. Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters
Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan Wednesday said that his country will deny visas to UN officials after remarks by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that appeared to justify Hamas' assault on Israel, The Times of Israel reported.Due to his remarks we will refuse to issue...
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A Delhi court on Wednesday sent NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and human resources department head Amit Chakravarty to police custody till November 2 in a case lodged under the anti-terror law UAPA over allegations that the news portal received money to spread pro-China...
13:59
Buildings destroyed by Israeli air strikes in Gaza. Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters
The head of Lebanon's Hezbollah met with top leaders of Palestinian terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. The Israeli publication posted an image tweeted on social media X to show Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, with Hamas deputy...
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The Congress has changed its candidates in four constituencies for the November 17 assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, days after its lists sparked protests at various places in the state.The All India Congress Committee (AICC) on Wednesday morning changed its earlier announced candidates from...
13:47
Former Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat sustained minor injuries when his car collided with a divider in Udham Singh Nagar district, the police said on Wednesday. According to information received, the senior Congress leader along with some of his workers was going from Haldwani to...
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A Red Crescent worker sorts aid. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
Israeli airstrikes on southwestern Syria have left eight Syrian soldiers dead. Syria's state news agency says the attack happened around 01:45 local time on Wednesday.Israel's military confirmed it attacked Syrian targets. Israel said its fighter jets carried out a strike on military...
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Palestinian children at a refugee camp. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
Israeli Navy forces intercepted and thwarted an attempted infiltration by a group of Hamas terrorists from the Gaza Strip into Israel via the sea on Tuesday evening, The Israel Times reported. The exact number of Hamas divers involved in the infiltration was not specified by the Israel...
12:00
While global economic growth faced stagnation for the second consecutive month in September, India continued to shine as a beacon of economic resilience, expanding at one of the strongest rates in nearly 13 years.According to a report by S&P Global Market Intelligence, this comes as the...
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A Palestinian man grieves over deaths. Mohammed Salem/Reuters
Jordan's Queen Rania has lashed out at the glaring double standard of the Western mainstream media in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, for failing to condemn civilian deaths in Tel Aviv's bombardment of Gaza as the conflict threatens to destabilise relations between the United States and Arab...
11:04
Gaza's 2.3 million people have been running out of food, water and medicine since Israel sealed off the territory following the devastating October 7 attack by Hamas on towns in southern Israel. The Gaza Health Ministry, which is run by Hamas, said Israeli airstrikes killed at least 704...
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Farmers in Vijaypura, Karnataka, took a crocodile to the office of the state-run Hubli Electricity Supply Company (HESCOM) in an unusual protest against irregular power cuts that disrupted their agricultural activities. They were peeved at the risk posed by wild animals and snakes when...
10:27
Israel Defense Forces says that civilians and hospitals in Gaza need fuel to produce electricity. Hamas has that fuel, IDF says retweeting this image alongside, purportedly of fuel tanks. Several countries around the world call for humanitarian pauses in the fighting to deliver much-needed...
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'Jailer' actor Vinayakan was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly creating a ruckus at a police station in Kochi in an inebriated state, officials said. The actor allegedly caused a commotion at the Ernakulam Town North police station in the evening, where he was summoned by the police over a...
09:48
Palestinians react at the site of an Israeli strike on a house. Mutasem Murtaja/Reuters
More than 700 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the Hamas-run health ministry says.The BBC reports that Israel's military said it struck 400 'terror targets' and killed several Hamas commanders over the same period. The...
09:31
Weapons allegedly used by the Hamas. Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters
The Israel Defence Forces on Wednesday said that it struck several Syrian military targets after rockets were fired from Syria toward Israeli communities in the Golan Heights.The IDF said that fighter jets hit military infrastructure and mortar launching sites.In response to rocket launches from...
09:10
India has voiced deep concern over the deteriorating security situation and large-scale loss of civilian life in the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict, urging the parties to work towards creating conditions necessary for peace and restarting direct negotiations through de-escalation and ending...
08:51
Israel has demanded the resignation of United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres from his position over his remarks against the Israeli counteroffensive in Gaza after terror attacks by Hamas on October 7.The Israeli envoy to the UN, Gilad Erdan called Guterres unfit to lead the UN...
08:46
The entire flow of crude oil from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) -- among the largest sources of imported oil for India -- may be at risk if Iran attempts to block the Strait of Hormuz in the wake of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, senior officials of state-run...
08:35
Amidst reports of an imminent ground invasion of Gaza by Israel, President Joe Biden has said that Israel can make its own decisions, as the United States firmly backs its ally while urging caution.The latest conflict was triggered by unprecedented attacks against Israel by Hamas militants on...
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