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The National Investigation Agency has arrested two persons for allegedly harbouring terrorists who had killed seven innocent civilians in Dhangri village of Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district early this year. Nisar Ahmed alias 'Haji Nisar' and Mushtaq Hussain, both of whom are presently...
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Actor and model Rakhi Sawant on Saturday filed a criminal defamation complaint in a court here against her friend for `comparing her to a dog' and making unsavoury remarks about her character. In the complaint filed before the Andheri metropolitan magistrate, Sawant sought action against her...
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Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday declined the invitation to be part of the 8-member committee constituted by the Centre to examine 'One nation, One election'. I have no hesitation whatsoever in declining to serve on the Committee whose terms of reference have been prepared in a...
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YSR Telangana Congress Party founder YS Sharmila on Saturday said her discussions with Congress party on working together or a possible merger have come to a final stage. Sharmila had held talks with Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in the national capital, amid speculation...
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Amid a row over the death of a student after ragging in a hostel of Jadavpur University, Registrar Snehamanju Basu has offered to resign after getting a letter threatening her with dire consequences, but she reversed the decision following the intervention of officiating Vice-Chancellor Buddhadeb...
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A former Bharatiya Janata Party MLA's son allegedly rammed his Lamborgini Huracan car into the railing of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link in Mumbai on Saturday, the police said. Former Mira-Bhayander MLA Narendra Mehta's son Taksheel was driving towards Worli around 7.30 am when he lost control of...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday called on President Droupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. The President welcomed him with a bouquet and expressed compliments for the success of India's Chandrayaan-3 mission. Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi called on President...
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Assam's flood situation continued to improve as the number of affected people decreased to below 2.5 lakh on Saturday even though one more person died due to the deluge, taking the toll to 17, an official bulletin said. The Brahmaputra river continued to flow above the danger level in...
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A Varanasi court on Saturday fixed September 8 for hearing the Archaeological Survey of India's plea seeking an additional eight weeks to complete the scientific survey of the Gyanvapi mosque complex and submit its report. The district judge's court had earlier ordered ASI to survey Gyanvapi...
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A six-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by a senior student inside a school bus in northwest Delhi's Rohini area, police said on Saturday. The accused has been apprehended, a senior police officer said. Earlier in the day, the Delhi Commission for Women issued a notice to the...
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Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande on Saturday visited forward areas along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri sector and reviewed operational preparedness and security situation, Army officials said. General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, northern command Lt Gen Upendra Dwivedi along...
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Home Minister Amit Shah
The government on Saturday named other members to the committee chaired by ex-President Ram Nath Kovind to suggest changes to Constitution for simultaneous polls. Home Minister Amit Shah, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, ex-MP Ghulam Nabi Azad have been named in the panel on...
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The wife of LDF candidate for Puthuppally assembly bypoll, Jaick C Thomas, lodged a complaint with the Kerala police on Saturday alleging cyber attacks against her.Thomas' wife, Geethu, who is pregnant, lodged the complaint with the district police chief, alleging that certain social media...
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A 'bandh' was observed on Saturday in Beed in Maharashtra in protest against police action a day earlier on those sitting on a hunger strike in Jalna seeking reservation for the Maratha community in jobs and education. On Friday, the police had resorted to baton charge and lobbed tear gas...
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A special PMLA court in Mumbai on Saturday remanded Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal in the Enforcement Directorate's custody till September 11 in an alleged case of fraud of Rs 538 crore, registered on a complaint filed by Canara Bank. Goyal (74) was arrested by the Central agency on Friday...
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A 29-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh was arrested by the police for allegedly attempting to abduct a four-year-old girl from her house near Mavelikkara in Alappuzha, the police said on Saturday.According to the police, Manjith Singh, a salesman, was selling some household cleaning materials in...
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Uday Kotak
Uday Kotak has resigned as the managing director and chief executive officer of Kotak Mahindra Bank, the bank said in a stock exchange filing on Saturday. Joint managing director Dipak Gupta will be the chief executive until December 31, it said. Uday Kotak has ceased to be the managing...
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Aditya L1's flight towards the Sun on Saturday is the culmination of the hardwork of a number of people under its project director Nigar Shaji. With 35 years of service in ISRO, Shaji has made illustrious contributions to the Indian Remote Sensing, communication and interplanetary satellite...
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The fifth accused wanted in the alleged murder of an Amazon executive in northeast Delhi's Bhajanpura area has been arrested, the police said on Saturday. The accused has been identified as Adnan (23), a resident of Subhash Mohalla in Bhajanpura, they said, adding that he was previously...
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The fifth accused wanted in the alleged murder of an Amazon executive in northeast Delhi's Bhajanpura area has been arrested, the police said on Saturday. The accused has been identified as Adnan (23), a resident of Subhash Mohalla in Bhajanpura, they said, adding that he was previously...
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A division bench of the Rajasthan high court on Saturday issued a show-cause notice to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on a PIL seeking suo moto criminal contempt proceedings against him. The PIL was filed by local advocate Shivcharan Gupta on Thursday following the chief minister's remark...
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A two-and-a-half-year-old boy was crushed to death by a car in a housing complex in Maharashtra's Palghar district, police said on Saturday. The incident took place in Virar town of the district late on Thursday night, an official said. Manish Dhakal, the son of a security guard in the...
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Lunar mission Chandrayaan 3's rover and lander are functioning well and they would be put to sleep soon to withstand the night on the Moon, ISRO chairman S Somanath said on Saturday. The lander and rover, 'Vikram' and 'Pragyaan', respectively, were still functioning and our team with...
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Superstar Salman Khan on Saturday shared the first poster of Tiger 3, the fifth chapter of Yash Raj Film's spy universe. Directed by Maneesh Sharma, Tiger 3 will see Khan and Katrina Kaif return as spy agents -- Tiger and Zoya. The movie, which follows Ek Tha Tiger (2012) and Tiger...
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The Aditya-L1 spacecraft onboard a PSLV rocket on Saturday successfully got separated and would be proceeding on its journey towards the Sun on a 125-day voyage, ISRO said on Saturday. ISRO chief S Somanath said the spacecraft was injected in the precise orbit. Aditya L1 spacecraft has...
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Family members of the seven people killed in a terror attack earlier this year in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district have called for a protest on September 4 against an alleged delay in action by security agencies over the incident. Seven people died and 13 more were injured on January 1...
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In a first, police in Pakistan's Punjab province arrested five women terrorists belonging to the Islamic State terrorist group, authorities said on Saturday. The counter terrorism department of the Punjab police said it arrested the five women from Lahore and Sheikhupura after receiving a...
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Two more terrorists, absconding for over 30 years, were arrested by the Special Investigation Agency from Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district, officials said on Saturday. The accused have been as Firdous Ahmad Wani of Ghat village and Khurshid Ahmad Malik of Bharat village. The duo, both...
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Three policemen were killed and two others injured when the car carrying them collided with a stationary truck in Khargone district of Madhya Pradesh on Saturday morning, an official said. The incident occurred near Badud village under Sanawad police station limits around 5 am, he...
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The PSLV-C57.1 rocket carrying the Aditya-L1 orbiter, lifted off successfully from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh at 11.50 am on Saturday. The successful launch of the maiden solar mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation came on the heels of the...
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President Droupadi Murmu will confer the National Teachers' Award 2023 to 75 selected awardees on 5th September 2023 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, said the Union ministry of education in a statement. Every year, India celebrates 5th September, the birth anniversary of India's...
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Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday criticised the BJP-led Centre's proposal for 'one nation, one election', saying there is no practical way in which such a system can be implemented. Talking to reporters in Thiruvananthapuram on his first visit to his Lok Sabha constituency...
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Mohamed Al-Fayed, the outspoken Egyptian tycoon who turned around the fortunes of two iconic London institutions -- Harrods department store and Fulham Football Club -- and waged a war of words with the British royal family after his son was killed in a car accident alongside Diana, Princess of...
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A 56-year-old man allegedly shot dead his wife, but soon afterwards collapsed and died, apparently due to a heart attack, at their residence in Thane city of Maharashtra, police said on Saturday. The incident occurred around 10.15 pm on Friday in Yashwant Nivas building located...
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar asserted that the Narendra Modi government at the Centre has lent credence to his anticipation of early Lok Sabha polls by convening a special session of Parliament.The Janata Dal-United leader made the remark here while replying to queries from journalists after...
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United States President Joe Biden will travel to India next week to participate in the G20 Summit and will have a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 8 on the sidelines of the historic meeting, the White House has announced.India, President of the G20, will host...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will address public meetings in Chhattisgarh, where assembly elections are due by the year-end, on Saturday. Ahead of the polls in the Congress-ruled state, this is for the first time that events of the two senior leaders belonging to...
09:36
United States President Joe Biden will travel to India on Thursday to attend the G20 summit on the sidelines of which he will also have a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the White House has announced.India, President of the G20, will host global leaders for the Summit...
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A 21-year-old tribal woman was allegedly stripped naked and paraded in a village in Rajasthan's Pratapgarh district by her husband, police said on Friday, after a video of the incident surfaced online. Initial investigation revealed that the woman was in a relationship with another man,...
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ISRO is all set to launch India's maiden solar mission, Aditya L1, from the spaceport in Sriharikota on Saturday, the countdown for which was on.Aditya-L1 is the first space-based observatory class to study the Sun and is being fired using ISRO's reliable Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) at...
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Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das has been ranked as the top central banker globally by US-based Global Finance magazine. Das has been rated 'A+' in the Global Finance Central Banker Report Cards 2023. Das has been placed at the top of the list of three central bank governors...
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President Droupadi Murmu on Friday stopped her convoy and gave chocolates to children on her way to Guru Ghasidas Central University in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur district. The President, on a two-day visit to Chhattisgarh, visited the Mahamaya temple at Ratanpur town earlier in the day. On her...
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The National Investigation Agency has arrested another person linked to a module that carried out a car bomb explosion in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu last year, an official said on Friday. Mohammed Azarudeen alias Azar is the 13th person to be arrested in the case, which was taken over by the...
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As many as 23 students of Punjab government schools Friday took a flight from Chandigarh to Sriharikota to attend ISRO's Aditya L1 launch event. As India aims for the Sun on Saturday with its maiden solar expedition, ISRO's PSLV C57 will carry the Aditya L1 mission on a 125-day voyage to the...
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A 21-year-old engineering student allegedly hanged himself in his hostel room at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi on Friday evening, the police said. Anil Kumar was pursuing B.Tech in Mathematics and Computing (session 2019-2023), and was staying in Vindhyachal Hostel of the institute,...
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The tour of the Rashtrapati Bhavan for the general public will remain closed for 10 days due to preparatory work related to the upcoming G20 Summit, according to an official statement. The G20 Summit will be held in the national capital form September 9 to 10. Tour of Rashtrapati Bhavan...
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