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The Allahabad high court on Friday dismissed a petition filed by slain gangster Ashraf's wife Jainab Fatima, who had sought a stay on her arrest in the Umesh Pal murder case. Ashraf and his gangster-turned-politician brother Atiq Ahmad were shot dead by three men posing as journalists in the...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be on a three-day visit of poll-bound Madhya Pradesh from Saturday, a party release said. He will visit Jabalpur, Chhindwara, Bhopal, Chhatarpur, Rewa, Shahdol, Ujjain, Indore and Gwalior districts and address divisional meetings, public gatherings and take...
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West Bengal minister Jyotipriyo Mallick, who was arrested earlier in the day, has been hospitalised after being diagnosed with high blood sugar and renal issues, officials said on Friday. He had earlier fainted when produced in court and complained of dizziness, nausea and weakness of the...
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A caretaker of a tiger's enclosure at Abheda Biological Park in Kota died after he was attacked by the big cat on Friday evening, officials said. The tiger was undergoing treatment for an injury. The incident took place when the caretaker, Ramdayal Nagar, was leaving after spraying...
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The Allahabad high court recently held that liking an 'obscene' post on social media does not constitute an offence, however, sharing or reposting such content will attract penal consequences. The court in its observations on Wednesday said sharing such a post would amount to transmission...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will distribute more than 51,000 appointment letters to recruits on Saturday as part of the government's Rozgar Mela drive and also address them though video-conferencing. Rozgar Mela will be held at 37 locations across the country. A statement said...
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Leading stock exchanges BSE and NSE will conduct a one-hour special muhurat trading session on the occasion of Diwali on November 12. The symbolic trading session will be held between 6 pm and 7.15 pm. This includes a 15-minute pre-market session, the stock exchanges said in separate...
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The Congress on Friday released its second list of 45 candidates for the November 30 Telangana assembly elections, fielding former India cricket captain Mohammad Azharuddin from Jubilee Hills. The party fielded former MP Madhu Goud Yakshi from Lal Bahadur Nagar, Ponnam Prabhakar from...
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All temples under the Shri Badrinath-Kedarnath Temple Committee, including the Badrinath and Kedarnath shrines, will close at 4 pm on Saturday due to the lunar eclipse. Temple committee chairman Ajendra Ajay said on Friday that the lunar eclipse will start at 01:04 pm on October 28 and the...
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Two wagons of an empty goods train derailed at Vasai Road station yard on the Western Railway, affecting the movement of some trains on one route on Friday evening, a railway official said. Two wagons of an empty goods train derailed at the Vasai Road yard around 5.15 pm and no one was...
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Uttar Pradesh gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari has been sentenced to 10 years by a Ghazipur MP/MLA court in a murder case. In addition to the imprisonment, the former MLA has been ordered to pay a fine of Rs 5 lakh. The former MLA was convicted by the same court on...
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New Delhi, Oct 27 (PTI) Scores of bus marshals deployed in cluster and DTC buses on Friday went on an indefinite sit-in outside the Delhi Secretariat over non-payment of their wages. The protesters said they will continue their sit-in outside the Delhi Secretariat until their demands...
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Several thousand Adivasis held a protest on Friday in Thane district and urged the government to not include the Dhangar community in the Scheduled Tribes list. The participants were from Thane, Palghar, Mumbai, Nashik and some other districts, said a functionary of Samyukta Adivasi Arakshan...
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Just In: Negotiations are progressing rapidly on Gaza ceasefire and prisoner exchange mediated by Qatar, Al Jazeera has reported quoting sources.Details soon.
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The state executive meeting of the Samajwadi Party will be held in Lucknow on November 1, party officials said. SP's chief spokesperson and former UP government minister Rajendra Chaudhary, in a statement issued on Friday, said with the approval of party's national president Akhilesh Yadav,...
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In a largely range-bound trade, the 30-share BSE Sensex on Friday rose 634.65 points or 1.01 per cent to settle at 63,782.80 points. During the day's session, it swung between a high of 63,913.13 points and a low of 63,393.37 points. Likewise, the wider gauge Nifty surged 202.45 points...
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A tender for about 3,000 electric buses is likely to be issued next week as part of the 'PM-eBus Sewa' scheme, a senior official in the ministry of housing and urban affairs said on Friday. The proposed e-bus service is an intervention within the larger urban mobility policy of the Centre,...
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West Bengal minister Jyotipriya Mallick, who was arrested on Friday in a money laundering case linked to an alleged multi-crore ration distribution scam, fainted inside an overcrowded courtroom when he was produced there by Enforcement Directorate officers, an official said. The state forest...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday appointed Lok Sabha MP Nayab Singh Saini, belonging to Other Backward Classes, as the Haryana unit president in place of Om Prakash Dhankar as the party prepares for the Lok Sabha elections next year to be followed by the state assembly polls. A party...
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The police in Maharashtra's Thane district have registered an offence against more than 200 people who defied prohibitory orders while staging a protest in support of Palestine, police said on Friday. Hundreds had gathered for the protest organised by the Social Democratic Party of India in...
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The decomposed body of a woman, believed to be around 30 years old, was recovered from the parking area of the Shastri Park Metro station in northeast Delhi, police said on Friday. According to a police official, the body seems to be three-four days' old and was highly decomposed. The...
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Senior IPS officer RR Swain, presently working as special DG in the Jammu and Kashmir police, was on Friday given additional charge as the director general of the state's police force with effect from November 1. Swain will take charge from incumbent Dilbag Singh, who will retire on October...
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Tata Group will be making Apple iPhones in India for both the domestic and global markets within two-and-a-half years, announced Electronics and Technology Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar today.Chandrasekhar tweets, ...Now within just two and a half years, Tata Group will now start making iPhones...
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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar should have left the dais in protest in Shirdi or corrected Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he questioned NCP chief Sharad Pawar's contribution to the farming community, said former state minister Anil Deshmukh on Friday.Deshmukh was referring to PM...
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India will fight a legal battle to bring back all eight former Indian Navy personnel who have been handed down death sentence by a court in Qatar, the BJP said on Friday. Replying to a related question at a press conference here at the party headquarters, BJP national spokesperson Ajay...
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2023 brings one of the most anticipated releases of the Beatles long and endlessly eventful history. 'Now And Then' is the last Beatles song -- written and sung by John Lennon, developed and worked on by Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, and now...
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Palestinians mourn their dead. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Friday reiterated his support for the human rights of Palestinian people after his speech at Indian United Muslim League (IUML)'s pro-Palestine rally in Kerala's Kozhikode drew flak. Tharoor had yesterday's rally referred to Hamas as a terrorist group and said...
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Bodies buried under rubble is common since Oct 7. Mohammed Salem/Reuters
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has arrested 36 wanted Palestinians in Judea and Samaria in overnight counter-terror raids. The IDF said 17 were Hamas operatives. In one raid in Jenin, terrorists fired on soldiers and threw explosives. IDF forces returned fire, killing Isser...
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As all-India average retail onion price shoots up by 57 per cent to Rs 47 per kg, the Centre on Friday decided to step up the sale of buffer onion at a subsidised rate of Rs 25 per kg in retail markets in order to provide relief to consumers. The all-India average retail price of onion...
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The same way the West eliminated ISIS in Iraq and Syria, Israel will eliminate Hamas from Gaza. Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com spoke to Emmanuel Navon, CEO of ELNET (the European Leadership Network, an Israeli NGO dedicated to strengthening Europe-Israel relations), scholar and...
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The same way the West eliminated ISIS in Iraq and Syria, Israel will eliminate Hamas from Gaza. Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com spoke to Emmanuel Navon, CEO of ELNET (the European Leadership Network, an Israeli NGO dedicated to strengthening Europe-Israel relations), scholar and...
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A jawan of the Indian Army has been arrested for attacking a traffic policeman with a cement block and seriously injuring him over the issuance of a challan in Maharashtra's Pune city, an official said on Friday. Traffic cop Ramesh Dhaware had in September fined accused Vaibhav Mangate for...
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Over 2,400 children have been killed in Israeli bombing since Oct 7
The Israeli military launched a limited raid of the Gaza Strip overnight, striking dozens of Hamas targets, the Israel Defence Forces said on Friday morning. The IDF said it hit anti-tank missile launch sites, military command and control centres, as well as Hamas...
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Air India on Friday announced the appointment of Klaus Goersch as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer, as well as various other senior level appointments. In the newly-created position at the airline, Goersch will oversee flight operations, engineering, ground...
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If Vikrant Massey does not win a National Award for this film, it will be unjust to an actor who has given a performance of such unalloyed brilliance, applauds Deepa Gahlot. Read the review on Rediff.com here.
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Tejas has enough going on for it that would move you and make you weep, observes Mayur Sanap/Rediff.com. Read the review here.
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Li Keqiang, the former premier of China, died with a sudden heart attack on Friday, Xinhua reported. According to Xinhua, 68-year-old Li Keqiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 17th, 18th and 19th Communist Party of China central committees and former...
12:38
The European Union and India conducted their first joint naval exercise in the Gulf of Guinea. Indian Naval Ship Sumedha, and ships from three EU Member States' ships in the Gulf of Guinea -- Italy, France and Spain participated in the exercise. Pic: ANI
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Food being distributed to Gaza refugees at a UN camp. Reuters/Stringer
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) President Dennis Francis on Thursday (US local time) expressed his condolences to the families of 35 UN staff members who have lost their lives in providing humanitarian service during the Israel-Hamas war. I join the Secretary-General in expressing my...
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The BSF on Friday said the unprovoked firing by Pakistan Rangers along the International Border in Jammu targeting Indian posts and civilian areas continued for close to seven hours.In an official statement, the Border Security Force (BSF) said the Pakistan Rangers fired mortars and used heavy...
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Much of the film's enjoyment comes from the carefully picked star cast who do a pretty good job, writes Mayur Sanap/Rediff.com. Read the review here.
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Hosted by Karan Johar, Koffee With Karan is back with its season 8.Bollywood power couple Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh graced the premiere episode, twinning in black, and spoke about their 11-year relationship, their dreamy marriage proposal, life after marriage and Deepika's...
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A UN refugee camp in Khan Younis. Reuters
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) says about 6,29,000 refugees are now sheltering in 150 UN sites across the Gaza Strip.This means these shelters have reached nearly three times their intended capacity.The current overcrowding conditions remain of concern and represent a health...
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Equity benchmark indices rebounded in early trade on Friday after facing massive drubbing of late amid recovery in Asian markets. The 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 411.17 points to 63,559.32 in early trade. The Nifty climbed 115.9 points to 18,973.15. Among the Sensex firms, NTPC, Mahindra...
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Panic gripped Arnia other areas of the RS Pura sector of Jammu and Kashmir along the India-Pakistan international border on Thursday evening after Pakistan Rangers resorted to unprovoked firing on BSF troops. There was a lot of firing by Pakistan overnight. No person was injured but houses...
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If Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to know more about the case in Qatar, where eight retired Indian Navy officers were sentenced to death on Thursday, he just needs to summon Deepak Mittal, the Indian Foreign Service officer, who is currently a joint secretary in the prime minister's...
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In this analytical piece on Negotiating with China Vijay Gokhale argues that the secretiveness, stage-setting and theatricality of Chinese counterparts should not throw Western negotiators off their game. It is the result of a workshop held at MERICS in Spring 2023. Read...
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Wael Dahdouh at the funeral of his family
Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh who lost his wife, son, daughter and grandson in an Israeli airstrike on Wednesday, has returned to work today, stating it is my duty, despite the pain and the bleeding wound. Wael Dahdouh lost four members of his family in an...
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Cricketer Rohit Sharma has amassed an impressive fortune thanks to his sporting success. But who is he, what is his net worth and does he have a brother? From his cricket career to his family life -- here's everything you need to know about the sports star. Read...
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A man reacts to death and destruction in Gaza. Ibraheem Abu/Reuters Mustafa
Approximately 900 US troops have been deployed or are being deployed to the Middle East amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, Pentagon spokesperson Brigadier General Pat Ryder said on Thursday (local time), CNN reported.He stated that deployed or deploying units include Terminal High Altitude Area...
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Jyotipriyo Mallick
The Enforcement Directorate has arrested West Bengal minister Jyotipriyo Mallick in a money laundering case linked to an alleged multi-core ration distribution scam in the state, official sources said on Friday. The minister was arrested under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in the...
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The United States military on Friday launched air strikes on two locations in eastern Syria linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps. A statement by US Secretary of Defence Lloyd J Austin III read: 'Today, US military forces conducted self-defence strikes on two facilities in eastern Syria used...
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Three men, including a village head, were arrested for allegedly vandalising two cars of lawyer Gunaratna Sadavarte, who is a vociferous opponent of Maratha reservation, on Thursday in Parel in Mumbai, a police official said. They were later released on bail by a local court. The...
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A film producer was cheated of Rs 10.35 lakh allegedly by his domestic help in Andheri in Mumbai, a police official said on Thursday. Ramesh Jagdish Sharma (65), producer of films like Baaghi, Ek Tha Raja, Aakrosh, Pyaasa, Game, which were released in the 1990s, filed a complaint with DN...
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A 21-year-old man was on Thursday arrested here in connection with the ammunition theft case, the police said. A joint operation carried out by Government Railway Police and Railway Protection Force led to the recovery of the stolen ammunition and apprehension of the accused, who is a...
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The Congress on Thursday released its third list of 19 candidates for the November 25 Rajasthan assembly elections, taking to 95 the total number of nominees declared by the party so far. The party included 13 sitting MLAs, including a Cabinet minister, in this list. The Congress has...
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