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Narendra Dabholkar
Cross-examination of SR Singh, who was Central Bureau of Investigation officer in rationalist Narendra Dabholkar murder case, by the defence concluded in court Pune in Maharashtra on Tuesday. Singh, now retired, was deposed as a witness in the court of additional sessions judge (special...
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US President Joe Biden
US President Joe Biden has tested negative for COVID-19 and will travel to India on Thursday to attend the G20 Summit during which he will have a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the White House said on Tuesday. The announcement comes a day after First Lady Jill Biden...
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The Maharashtra government on Tuesday declared the silver pomfret as the state fish amid reports of its declining numbers in the region. The state government's move will enable the department to work towards the conservation of the fish, locally known as paplet or sarangi. The state...
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Scores of flights are likely to be affected at the Delhi airport during the three days from September 8 in connection with the G20 Summit and airlines are offering waiver of charges for customers planning to reschedule their travel dates. Officials in the know on Tuesday said airlines are...
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The committee set up by Jadavpur University to probe the death of a student in the institute's premises, Tuesday confirmed that he was subjected to severe ragging and recommended punitive action against those who were involved in the crime. The committee, which submitted its report on...
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The Indian Army on Tuesday began the process to procure 170 Armoured Recovery Vehicles (ARVs) to enhance its operational capabilities. The ARVs will be procured under the framework of the 'Make in India' and 'Atmanirbhar Bharat' (self-reliant India) initiatives, officials said. The...
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The Indian Space Research organisation on Tuesday put out a 3-dimensional 'anaglyph' image of the Chandrayaan-3 Vikram lander from the south pole of the Moon. This image features the left image within the red channel, and the right image within the blue and green channels, resulting in...
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Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh
The Editors Guild of India on Tuesday said Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh's statements in response to its report on the media coverage of the ethnic violence in the state were intimidatory and urged him to close the FIRs registered against its president and three members. In a...
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A 21-year-old college student hacked his female friend in Ernakulam district on Tuesday and then allegedly died by suicide, the police said. The incident was reported from Kuruppampady village near Perumbavoor this morning. Basil attacked Alka (20), a nursing student, at her house using...
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A delegation of the Maharashtra government, comprising ministers, on Tuesday failed to convince Manoj Jarange, whose hunger strike for Maratha quota entered the 8th day, to withdraw the protest. Jarange, who has been holding the hunger protest in Antarwali Sarati village in Jalna district,...
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A second case of Zika virus has been found in Mumbai, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said on Tuesday. The first case was reported on August 23. The second patient is a 15-year-old girl from suburban Kurla in eastern Mumbai which is under the jurisdiction of the civic body's...
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All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen MP Imtiaz Jaleel has demanded that the Maharashtra government convene an all-party meeting in Mumbai to find solution to the Maratha quota issue amid protests. If the government fails to act seriously and ignores the quota demand, it may have to...
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The rupee plunged by 35 paise to close at 83.06 (provisional) against the US dollar on Tuesday, amid a strong American currency and higher crude oil prices. Foreign fund outflows from the domestic equity markets also weakened the local currency. At the interbank foreign exchange market,...
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A 41-year-old woman suffering from a mental illness allegedly made 38 hoax calls about bombs to Mumbai police's control room in the last two months, an official said on Tuesday. The police control room received the latest call on Monday during which the woman, a resident of the Nepean Sea...
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Congress leader Aradhana Mishra landed in a controversy after she allegedly reprimanded party workers at a meeting in Jaipur for raising the 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' slogan. During the meeting of Congress workers of the Adarsh Nagar block on Monday, two factions clashed over selection of...
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The Delhi police on Tuesday said the whole city will remain open during the G20 summit, barring a part of the area under the NDMC. The police, in different posts on microblogging site X, said all the essential services such as milk booths and hospitals will remain functional in the New Delhi...
18:28
National Conference MP Mohammad Akbar Lone
National Conference MP Mohammad Akbar Lone filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court stating that he is a responsible and dutiful citizen of India and he has taken oath in Parliament to owe allegiance to the Constitution and uphold India's unity and integrity. I am a responsible and...
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L Murugan
The Madras high court on Tuesday directed a local court in Chennai to dispose of within three months, a defamation case pending against Union Minister and former BJP state president L Murugan relating to the Murasoli Trust.Justice N Anand Venkatesh dismissed the petition filed by Murugan, which...
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A magistrate's court in Mumbai has accepted the police's closure report in a case registered against a former employee of Qatar Airways for allegedly raping an actor on multiple occasions on the promise of marriage. The metropolitan magistrate court (Andheri) on August 28 accepted the...
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said he is from 'Sanatan Dharma' and stressed on respecting every religion, amid a controversy over DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin's eradicate Sanatan Dharma comment. Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is part of the INDIA opposition bloc that is...
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The BJP on Tuesday reacted with delight to a G20 dinner invitation which described Droupadi Murmu as President of Bharat, saying the use of the Hindi name for the country underscores its civilisation march, and rejected the opposition's objections to it. It was some opposition leaders,...
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its verdict on a batch of pleas challenging the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution which bestowed special status on the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. A five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud reserved the verdict...
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Sooner India gets its own house in order, the better for its global credibility, writes the Congress MP. Read more here.
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China on Tuesday said it has supported India in hosting this year's G20 Summit and it's ready to work with all parties to push for the success of the high-profile global conference in New Delhi this week. A day after the Chinese foreign ministry announced that Premier Li Qiang will...
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On security arrangements ahead of G20, Delhi Police Special Commissioner, Law and Order Dependra Pathak said that G20 was a prestigious summit and the Delhi police are confident that law and order arrangements would be flawless.Delhi Police Special Commissioner, Law and Order Dependra Pathak...
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An idol of Bharat mata
Union Minister Pratima Bhoumik on Tuesday alleged that the Congress harmed the country more than the British had done. Bhoumik, union minister of state for social justice and empowerment, also claimed that the way the erstwhile UPA government indulged in corruption, people would not vote for...
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Asserting that India is Bharat, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday questioned what suddenly happened that the country should be called only Bharat. Referring to the controversy over a G20 dinner invite in the name of 'President of Bharat', she said the world knows...
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Amid the ongoing controversy over using 'Bharat' instead of 'India', legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan's latest tweet has caught the eyeballs of all the fans.On Tuesday, taking to X (formerly known as Twitter), Amitabh wrote in Hindi, Bharat Mata Ki Jai.'As his tweet came during the...
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An average voter turnout of 60.61 per cent was recorded till 1 pm of polling on Tuesday in the by-elections to Dhanpur and Boxanagar assembly seats in Tripura's Sepahijala district, an official said. Voting began at 7 am in 59 booths in Dhanpur assembly constituency and 51 in...
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Over 260 eminent citizens, including former judges and bureaucrats, have written to Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud urging him to take cognisance of DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin's eradicate Sanatan Dharma remark. In a letter to the CJI, the signatories, including former Delhi HC...
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With a G20 dinner invite in the name of 'President of Bharat' going viral, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor Tuesday said while there is no constitutional objection to calling India 'Bharat', he hopes the government will not be so foolish to completely dispense with 'India' which has incalculable...
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Amid controversy over using 'Bharat' instead of 'India', Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said that he is happy and proud that the country's civilisation is marching ahead boldly towards Amrit Kaal. Taking to the social media platform, X, Assam Chief Minister said,...
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The Ayodhya seer who put a bounty on Udhayanidhi Stalin's head
A day after receiving a death threat regarding his 'Sanatana Dharma should be eradicated' remark, security has been tightened outside the residence of Tamil Nadu Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin in Chennai.Stalin had received a threat from Ayodhya priest Paramhans Acharya who announced a reward of Rs...
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Amid the ongoing controversy over Tamil Nadu Minister Udhayandhi Stalin's eradicate Santan Dharma remark, Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi national president Prakash Ambedkar on Monday referred to Sanatan Dharma as equal to 'untouchability'.Taking to his X handle, BR Amdekar's grandson shared an image...
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Reiterating the death warning against Tamil Nadu Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin over his eradicate Sanatan Dharma remark, Ayodhya priest Paramhans Acharya on Tuesday said that if required, I myself will behead MK Stalin's son, and I will also increase the bounty of Rs 10 crore if that is not enough...
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Congress seniour leader Jairam Ramesh: So the news is indeed true. Rashtrapati Bhawan has sent out an invite for a G20 dinner on Sept 9th in the name of 'President of Bharat' instead of the usual 'President of India'. Now, Article 1 in the Constitution can read: Bharat, that was India, shall...
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The government wants all ministries to be realistic while budgeting for the current and next year, a senior government official said, with preparations for the next financial year set to kick off from October.The first batch of supplementary demands for grants for 2023-2024 will be tabled in...
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Private steel major Tata Steel announced a total payout of Rs 314.70 crore on account of annual bonus to employees for the year 2022-2023 following the signing of a Memorandum of Settlement with Tata Workers' Union (TWU) here. As per the Memorandum of Settlement the total payout for eligible...
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Following the remarks by DMK minister Udhayanidhi Stalin on Sanatana Dharma, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) drew parallels between the DMK leader and Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. The BJP, in a veiled swipe at the son of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, said that the leader's...
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Rahul Gandhi with a little girl in Ladakh
On Teachers' Day, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said he considers even his opponents as his teachers, who by their behaviour, lies and words, teach him that the path he is following is absolutely right. The birth anniversary of former president S Radhakrishnan is celebrated as Teachers'...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to move a resolution renaming India as 'Bharat'. The PM will move the resolution on September 18 at the new Parliament House.A five-day special Parliament session is scheduled to be held from 18 to 22 September. There will be no Question Hour, Zero...
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Over 17 per cent voting was recorded in the by-election to Dhupguri assembly seat in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district in the first two hours of polling, an official said. Polling began, amid tight security, at 7 a.m. across 260 booths in the constituency, and the poll percentage stood...
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Heavy gunfire rattled a remote village in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district where an over 20-hour-long operation to neutralise a holed up terrorist entered second day on Tuesday, officials said. While one terrorist was killed and two security personnel injured in the initial gunfight...
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Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party president Nalin Kumar Kateel met Janata Dal-Secular leader and former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy at his residence in Bengaluru on Monday after the latter got discharged from the hospital.Taking to the micro-blogging site 'X', Nalin Kumar Kateel said that he...
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India has strongly rejected comments by United Nations experts on Manipur, terming them 'unwarranted, presumptive and misleading' and asserting that situation in the Northeast state is peaceful.In the note verbale issued on Monday to the Special Procedures Branch of the Office of the High...
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United States First Lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, her communications director Elizabeth Alexander said in a statement.However, she is experiencing only mild symptoms as of now and will remain at the couple's home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware for the time being.'This...
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Sambhaji Bhide
A case was registered against some supporters of Hindutva leader Sambhaji Bhide for allegedly holding a public programme in Pune without permission from the police, an official said on Monday. The programme was held in Kolwadi in Manjari area here on Saturday and was attended by Bhide, the...
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The Madras high court on Monday directed the principal district judge in Chennai to dispose of arrested Tamil Nadu Minister V Senthil Balaji's bail application in the alleged cash-for-jobs scam at the earliest after an issue had arisen regarding the jurisdiction of the trial proceedings.A...
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A woman and her paramour were partially tonsured and paraded at Lepakshi village in Andhra Pradesh's Sri Sathyasai district on Monday by the man's wife and in-laws for their alleged extramarital affair, the police said. Enraged by her husband Hussain's (30) alleged affair with Shabana (32),...
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A 40-year-old DUSIB toilet complex caretaker was found dead with stab injuries on Monday morning in central Delhi's Anand Parbat area, the police said. The incident took place at Holi Chowk, Punjabi Basti, Baljeet Nagar, they said. According to the police, they received a PCR around 6...
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DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin
Ayodhya seer Paramhans Acharya on Monday announced a reward of Rs 10 crore for beheading DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin over his alleged remarks against 'Sanatan dharma'. I will pay Rs 10 crore cash reward to anyone who beheads Stalin and brings his head to me. If no one dares to kill Stalin,...
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