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A group of supporters purportedly waved Palestine flag and launched a 'Free Palestine' campaign on the sidelines of the Pakistan vs Bangladesh World Cup match at Eden Gardens here on Tuesday. In a video and photograph that went viral on social media, three people were seen flashing...
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Dilbag Singh with RR Swain
Senior IPS officer R R Swain took over as the director general of police of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday.Swain, a 1991-batch IPS officer, assumed the post of upon the retirement of Dilbag Singh, who was the longest serving DGP of Jammu and Kashmir.He remained posted at various important and key...
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought a response from the Centre on former JNU student Umar Khalid's plea challenging various provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.A bench of justices Aniruddha Bose and Bela M Trivedi also said it would hear similar petitions on the issue on...
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At least three Manipur police personnel sustained bullet wounds after armed militants ambushed their convoy near Sinam along Imphal-Moreh NH-102 in Tengnoupal district on Tuesday, the police said.The three were part of additional forces sent as reinforcement to Moreh town for operations following...
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National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said he is fighting for the statehood of Jammu and Kashmir, and it is not necessary that I have to go to the assembly to wage this struggle.Speaking to reporters in the Tangdhar area of Kupwara, he said there are other...
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Electoral bonds generated donations worth over Rs 9,188 crore for all political parties put together till 2021-22, of which the BJP alone accounted for over 57 per cent as against 10 per cent for the Congress, according to ADR data. Between 2016-17 and 2021-22, the last year for which the...
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The Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday claimed there are apprehensions that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) will arrest Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on November 2 after questioning him in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam.The ruling party in Delhi also alleged that...
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Actor Neha Dhupia on Tuesday paid homage to her father-in-law and former India cricket captain Bishan Singh Bedi, saying the family is trying to get some life into the numbness after his demise last week.Bedi, regarded as the country's greatest ever left-arm spinner, died on October 23 after...
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A policeman was shot dead by terrorists on Tuesday in the Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. Head Constable Ghulam Mohammad Dar was shot at by the terrorists outside his residence at Kralpora in Pattan area of the district, the officials said.They said Dar was...
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The Election Commission on Tuesday issued a notification banning conduct, publication and publicity of exit polls from 7 am of November 7 and 6.30 pm of November 30 when five states go for assembly elections. While polling will be held in two phases in Chhattisgarh on November 7 and November...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has called an all-party meeting on Wednesday morning to discuss the situation in the state amid the intensified Maratha quota agitation which took a violent turn in some parts of the state. Shinde will apprise opposition leaders of the...
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Conspiracies and terror threats have not ended in Jammu and Kashmir, and this is the time to safeguard peace, the Union territory's outgoing police chief Dilbag Singh said Tuesday. In his farewell speech at a function in Zewan, he said the security forces have been successful in...
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The Maharashtra government on Tuesday declared drought in 40 talukas hit by scanty rainfall. The government would urgently seek necessary assistance from the Centre even as the Relief and Rehabilitation Department has been directed to quickly decide on the appropriate relief for the...
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Pro-Maratha quota protesters on Tuesday blocked the Mumbai-Bengaluru Highway in Pune city of Maharashtra and burnt tyres to press for the demand for reservation, the police said. Members of the Maratha community have been staging protests in different parts of the state seeking reservation...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday rejected as baseless and false opposition leaders' allegations against the government following Apple's alert of state-sponsored attackers trying to remotely compromise their iPhones, and said it is for the mobile company to explain the issue.Senior BJP...
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Residents of a posh society, including a retired IAS officer, fought over a pet dog being taken in a lift by one of them, police officials said Tuesday. While no FIR has been launched in the case, local police personnel had rushed to the society in Sector 108 to probe the matter on...
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Negating the notion of you do not switch (leadership) during war, several leading Israeli tech company leaders have called for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ouster as soon as possible to cut down losses.Dan Adika, the CEO and Co-Founder of tech firm WalkMe, on Tuesday joined Amnon Shashua,...
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A day after pro-Maratha quota protesters targeted the homes or offices of some politicians in parts of Marathwada region of Maharashtra, the police on Tuesday stepped up security at the Mantralaya, the residences of chief minister, ministers and other politicians as well as the offices of...
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TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu walked out of the central prison in Rajamahendravaram on Tuesday evening, hours after the Andhra Pradesh high court granted him temporary bail in the AP Skill Development case. Naidu, who spent 53 days in the jail, walked out at 4.20 pm to a rousing reception...
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Above-normal minimum temperatures are expected in most parts of India in November, barring some areas in the northwest and west-central regions, amid strengthening El Nino conditions, the IMD said on Tuesday. At a press conference, India Meteorological Department (IMD) Director General...
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Security at the headquarters of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Nagpur has been beefed up following the blasts in Kerala, a senior police official said on Tuesday. Police commissioner Amitesh Kumar held a meeting of top officials on Monday evening and directed them to tighten...
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Markets in October. KBK Infographics
Equity benchmark indices snapped two days of rally to settle lower on Tuesday amid unabated foreign fund outflows and escalating tensions in the Middle East. Besides, investors were cautious ahead of the US Federal Reserve's interest rate decision. The 30-share BSE Sensex declined...
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AAP's Raghav Chadha was one of the MPs to receive the alert
The government has ordered an investigation after Opposition MPs claimed that they received warnings of attempts being made by state-sponsored attackers to steal information from their iPhones. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the government takes...
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While campaigning in Tonk, Rajasthan, Sachin Pilot speaks on the issues between him and Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot. Sachin Pilot says, Khargeji and Rahul Gandhiji said to me, 'Sachin Pilotji forgive us, forget it and move ahead... And all of us have moved on... The party will take a proper...
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The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has barred pilots and other crew members from using substances such as mouthwash, tooth gel or any such product with alcoholic content as it could result in positive results during a breath analyser test. The aviation regulator issued revised...
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TMC MP Mahua Moitra on Tuesday said she will be writing to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla requesting him to follow Raj Dharma to protect opposition MPs over the purported warning by Apple of state-sponsored attackers trying to remotely compromise her iPhone. She also urged Birla to summon...
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Ashwini Vaishnaw
On Apple's 'state-sponsored attack' message to some Opposition members, Union Minister for Communications, Electronics & Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw says, The government is concerned about this issue and it will go to the bottom of it. There are some compulsive critics in the...
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iPhone-maker Apple Inc on Tuesday said it does not attribute threat notifications, such as the ones received by some MPs belonging to Opposition parties, to any specific state-sponsored attackers and that it cannot provide information on what causes such warnings.After some of the most vocal...
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Shashi Tharoor is one of the Oppn leaders who received a message from Apple
The BJP on Tuesday said it is for Apple to clarify the alerts it has sent to several people, including opposition leaders, about state-sponsored attackers trying to remotely compromise their iPhones and rejected the allegations against the government as baseless and false. Party leader...
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Rediff.com contributor and senior journalist Roshmila Bhattacharya's new book is set to be launched. Called SPOOKED!, the book is a collection of Bollywood's true-life paranormal encounters. The book will be launched next month.
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K Chandrasekhar Rao
Ahead of the November 30 Assembly polls in Telangana, the Congress' state unit is witnessing dissent over ticket distribution, with disgruntled party leaders flocking towards the ruling BRS which is actively wooing them. The denial of tickets has prompted some key leaders, including...
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Palestinian refugees at a UN camp. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
Amid the country's ongoing war with Hamas, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called the United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for a 'humanitarian truce' deeply flawed.On being asked about India's abstention in the UN vote as it did not condemn the Hamas attacks, Netanyahu...
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Supreme Court Advocate Nalin Kohli replied to the opposition's claim of their phones being hacked by the Centre and said, How can we assume that the Government of India has done this?Multiple political leaders have alleged that their Apple devices have been the...
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A Palestinian woman is helped in Rafah. Stringer/Reuters
IDF spokesman Colonel Jonathan Conricus says that Israeli troops are slowly and meticulously expanding their operations in northern Gaza.Conricus says Israeli forces are being supported by a lot of firepower and intelligence and attacks on Hamas are taking place from the ground and from the...
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A screenshot of the message sent by Apple
At least four opposition leaders on Tuesday claimed to have received messages from Apple warning them of state-sponsored attackers trying to remotely compromise their iPhones and posted the purported screenshots on their X handles.Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, Shiv Sena (UBT)'s Priyanka...
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I am watching the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip today and thinking about one of the world leaders I've most admired: Manmohan Singh. He was India's Prime Minister in late November 2008, when 10 Pakistani jihadi militants from the Lashkar-e-Taiba group, widely believed to be linked to...
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Family members of hostages held by Hamas hold a presser. Ronen Zvulun/Reuters
A US national, Natalie Raanan, who was released by Hamas after several weeks of captivity in Gaza has arrived back in Chicago, The Times of Israel reported. Raanan and her mother Judith Tai Raanan, both US citizens who were held in captivity by Hamas terrorists during the Israel-Hamas...
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Andhra Pradesh High Court grants interim bail to Former Andhra Pradesh CM and TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu for four weeks, in the skill development case: High Court Advocate Sunkara Krishnamurthy.
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The Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday claimed there are apprehensions that the Enforcement Directorate will arrest Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on November 2 after questioning him in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam. The ruling party in Delhi also alleged...
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'She was once asked what the secret to political leadership was and she said it was the ability to like all kinds of people.' Sagarika Ghose tells Rediff.com's Nikhil Lakshman that Indira Gandhi may have left India had Lal Bahadur Shastri not died suddenly in Tashkent in...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday remembered his grandmother and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 39th death anniversary saying that she was the source of his strength.My strength, my grandmother! I will always protect the India for which you sacrificed everything. Your memories...
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A woman cleans the statue of former prime minister Indira Gandhi in Bikaner. She was assassinated 39 years ago on this date. Photograph: ANI Photo.Read: 'Indira Gandhi was the James Bond of power politics'and 'Mera baap sant tha, main nahin hoon'
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All three lines affected by the train accident between Alamanda and Kantakapalli are now fit for train operations, according to railway officials.Middle line fit for train operations at 11.29 pm, last night after track and overhead equipment works. The first train on the middle line passed the...
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As the Supreme Court starts hearing the electoral bonds case, let's look at one of the most fascinating early cases on the business-politics relationship in India. Read the thread here.
09:44
Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani has received a threat email from an unidentified person seeking Rs 400 crore, police said on Tuesday. Ambani's company received the email on Monday. It is the third threat email sent to Ambani in four days, an official said. Earlier, an FIR...
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Mourners at the graves of a couple killed by Hamas. Ronen Zvulun/Reuters
German-Israeli woman, Shani Louk, 23, who was taken hostage by Hamas in Gaza following the October 7 assault has been confirmed dead, her family said Monday, according to The Times of Israel.Louk attended a rave party close to the Gaza border when Hamas terrorists attacked and killed about 260...
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Ahead of Pakistan's ODI World Cup 2023 match against Bangladesh at Eden Gardens Stadium on Tuesday, Babar Azam's side indulged their taste buds and ordered biryani, kebabs, and chaap from Kolkata's famous Zam Zam Restaurant. The 'Men in Green' chose to skip dinner at the team hotel...
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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday made it clear that Israel would not agree to a ceasefire, drawing parallels to the United States' position after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.He noted that calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza are calls for Israel to surrender to...
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Suella Braverman
UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman has called pro-Palestine rallies hate marches and added that the protests that took place against Israel's attacks on Gaza witnessed a large number of bad actors who are deliberately operating beneath the criminal threshold, Anadolu Agency reported.Braverman...
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Industrialist Ratan Tata on Monday said that he has no connection with cricket while refuting claims that he has offered cash prize to Afghanistan's Rashid Khan. In a post on micro blogging site X (formerly Twitter), Tata said: I have made no suggestions to the ICC or any cricket faculty...
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The Allahabad high court on Monday adjourned the hearing till November 8 on a petition filed by Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee which has challenged the maintainability of a suit seeking restoration of a temple at the site where the Gyanvapi mosque exists in Varanasi. When the case was...
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Onion prices remained at a high level in the national capital on Monday and was ruling at an average price of Rs 78 per kilogram in the retail market, according to government data. However, the all-India average price of onion was at around Rs 50.35 per kg while the maximum rate was Rs 83...
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