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Just In: India's Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden enter men's doubles final of US Open in New York.
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The legal head of a multinational company was arrested after being caught red handed while offering a bribe of Rs 1 lakh to a policeman, officials said on Thursday. The sub-inspector in-charge of a forgery case against officials of the company informed the Anti-Corruption Bureau about the bribe...
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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot (left)
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and other state Congress leaders congratulated Sachin Pilot on his birthday on Thursday. Hearty congratulations to Congress family member Sachin Pilot ji on his birthday. May God grant you a happy, healthy and long life, Gehlot said on 'X'. The Congress'...
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Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has mocked a woman at a public event when she asked him for a factory in her neighbouring village saying that she would be sent on the Chandrayaan-4 mission. In an unverified video which went viral, the woman is heard asking for setting up a factory in...
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On the eve of the G20 summit hosted by India, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar spoke to distinguished journalist Sheela Bhatt about the significance of India's presidency, and why it is coming at a crucial time.North-South divides have widened, aggravated by the impact of Covid, conflict,...
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French President Emmanuel Macron is likely to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi over lunch on Sunday after the conclusion of the G20 summit in New Delhi, officials said. Macron is scheduled to arrive in Delhi on Saturday to participate in the G20 Leaders summit at the Bharat Mandapam and have a...
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Udhayanidhi Stalin
A delegation of Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party leaders on Thursday met Governor RN Ravi and submitted a memorandum for his intervention in filing cases, in line with the Supreme Court's guidelines, against Udhayanidhi Stalin for his alleged hate speech at the 'Sanatana Eradication'...
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Award-winning lyricist, poet, scriptwriter and activist Javed Akhtar on Thursday received his Doctor of Literature honorary degree at a ceremony at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. The 78-year-old has been conferred the honorary degree for his creative endeavours...
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Accused Manoj Sane
The police have filed the chargesheet in the murder of a woman whose body parts were boiled in a pressure cooker and roasted by her live-in partner in their rented apartment on the outskirts of Mumbai, sources have said. The Mira-Bhayandar, Vasai-Virar police submitted the chargesheet in a...
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Several members of Pakistan's Hindu community and other faiths were injured on Thursday after the police in Sindh province baton charged them as they held a sit-in against the increasing cases of kidnappings of Hindu traders and others from minority communities for ransom. The members of the...
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An 81-year-old woman, whose son-in-law is a vice admiral-rank officer in the Indian Navy in Mumbai, lost nearly Rs 2 lakh in an online fraud as she was lured into redeeming the reward points offered in the name of a prominent bank, the police said on Thursday. The woman lodged a complaint in...
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A man was arrested from a running train in a joint operation of the Mumbai police and government railway police for allegedly kidnapping a five-and-half-year-old girl after a dispute with her mother, an official said on Thursday. The 35-year-old accused, identified as Rotin Ghosh, and the...
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IIT Mandi Director Laxmidhar Behera has stirred a controversy after he asked students to take a pledge not to eat meat while claiming that landslides and cloudbursts in Himachal Pradesh are happening because of cruelty on animals. Himachal Pradesh will have a significant downfall...if we do....
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At least 35 'Govindas' involved in the formation of human pyramids as part of the Dahi Handi celebrations were injured in parts of Mumbai on Thursday, an official said.The Dahi Handi festival is being celebrated with traditional fervour to mark Krishna Janmashtami, the birth anniversary of Lord...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Thursday expressed commitment to provide reservation to Marathas as the state government renewed its appeal to quota activist Manoj Jarange to end his 10-day-old fast launched over the issue in Jalna district.Sumant Bhange, secretary (services), General...
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The political end of those who oppose Sanatan Dharma is certain, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said here on the occasion of Janmashtami on Thursday. His comment comes against the backdrop of DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin, also the son of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin,...
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Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak
As the national capital has been decked up royally to welcome foreign delegates for the G20 summit, the Centre has assigned responsibilities to different Union ministers of state to welcome the dignitaries, according to sources.  A presentation regarding the same was given to the council of...
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Udhayanidhi Stalin
The Congress on Thursday said it did not agree with the remarks of DMK leaders Udhayanidhi Stalin and A Raja on Sanatan Dharma and asserted the party believed in sarvadharma sambhav (equal respect to all religions).The opposition party also asserted that every single member of the INDIA alliance...
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The venue of the G20 meet: Bharat Mandapam
Leaders of the G20 summit will be treated with first-of-its-kind instrumental music performances showcasing the cultural depth of Bharat on the occasion hosted by the President of India on September 9.  Bharat-Vadya-Darshanam (musical journey of India), a fusion of different musical styles...
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As Delhi is all set to host the G20 Summit over this weekend, traders in Chandni Chowk have engaged nearly 100 women entrepreneurs who will double up as translators fluent in English, French, Spanish and other languages to provide foreign visitors a seamless experience.  The Chamber of Trade...
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The Yamuna flowed above the danger mark in July
Delhi Urban Development Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj on Thursday stressed that the city police should safeguard assets created and upgraded for the G20 Summit and ensure these are not stolen or damaged after the key meeting.  In a telephonic interview to PTI, the senior AAP leader said that for...
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A Pakistan flag attached to a dozen white and green coloured balloons was on Thursday found in Payala Village of Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur, officials said. According to the Udhampur police, locals spotted the flag and balloons and informed police.Police have confiscated the flag and balloons,...
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Till recently it has always been the BJP that celebrates the use of India over Bharat. LK Advani lost an election by telling us that India was shining, Modi launched Make in India. Read Vir Sanghvi's column here.Â
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The session will be held in the new Parliament as well
If the opposition parties boycott the special session of Parliament, the BJP will take a one-sided decision, said Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Thursday, adding that there should be a discussion in Parliament about important issues, and we will put them forward.  Ramesh's statement comes as...
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The Reserve Bank (RBI) resisted a raid planned by some in the government to extract Rs 2-3 lakh crore from its balance sheet in 2018 to meet populist spending in run-up to general elections, Viral Acharya, who was deputy governor at RBI at that time, has written.  This apparently had led to...
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A siren giving a warning about tsunami erroneously started playing from the Early Warning Dissemination System at Porvorim near Panaji, triggering panic among the local residents, an official said on Thursday.The siren started sounding the alert after 9 pm on Wednesday and it continued for more...
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Amid a raging row across the country over cabinet colleague Udhayanidhi Stalin's alleged anti-Sanatan Dharma remarks, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday said his son had expressed certain comments about the inhuman principles preached in it.  Pro-BJP forces, unable to tolerate his...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for home on Thursday after wrapping up a short but fruitful and productive visit to Indonesia to attend the ASEAN-India and East Asia summits during which he reaffirmed India's strong ties with the countries in the strategically key region. The prime minister...
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India's Aditya-L1 mission headed to the Sun-Earth L1 point takes images of the Earth and the Moon. The mission is carrying scientific instruments to observe the sun's outermost layers in a four-month journey.If successful, this latest mission from ISRO will be the first by any Asian nation to be...
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Accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led central government of being anti-poor and inhumane, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday urged the people of the state to not vote for the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.  The statement was made by the Karnataka CM at an event that...
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This is just the kind of movie that I was waiting to catch Shah Rukh Khan in and if the cheers of the audiences of the 6 am show are any indication, this will be unstoppable at the box office.Read the review here.Â
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Olympian Neeraj Chopra with a javelin. A javelin is pointed at one end
A 15-year-old boy died after a javelin thrown by another student during a practice session pierced his head at a school in Maharashtra's Raigad district, the police said on Thursday. Hujefa Daware had bent down to tie his shoelace and didn't realise the pointed object was moving towards him, an...
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Ahead of the G20 Summit in New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that India's presidency strives to bridge divides, break barriers, and sow seeds of collaboration in a world where unity prevails over discord.  In an editorial that has been published across newspapers, Modi said that the...
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Under intense attack from the BJP over his alleged anti-Sanatan Dharma remarks, DMK leader and Tamil Nadu Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin on Thursday accused the saffron party leaders of twisting his statements and vowed to face all cases in this connection legally.  He also launched a strident...
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The Supreme Court lit up for G20
The US is committed to ensuring that India hosts a successful G20 Summit, the White House has said ahead of President Joe Biden's departure for New Delhi to attend the global summit and a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.  India is hosting the annual G20 Summit in New Delhi...
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Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut says on Udhayanidhi Stalin's statement on Sanatan Dharma. ...I have heard that statement... Udhayanidhi Stalin is a minister and no one will support his statement and one should refrain from making such statements. This could be DMK's view or his personal view....
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Coming down heavily on DMK leader and Tamil Nadu minister Udhayanidhi Stalin for his remark equating 'Sanatan Dharma' with mosquitoes, dengue, malaria, fever and corona, Union Minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday said that the chants for Lord Krishna should be so loud that they reach those who...
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Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth arrives in Delhi for the G20 Summit that will be held on September 9-10.
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Indian tennis player Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden advanced to the men's doubles semi-finals of the US Open 2023 tennis tournament in New York on Wednesday.  The Indo-Australian pair, seeded sixth in the competition, defeated the American duo of Jackson Withrow and...
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US President Joe Biden will arrive in New Delhi on Friday and is scheduled to hold a Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the White House informed.  Beginning Friday, Biden has a packed schedule for three days. After he departs from the US, he will arrive in Ramstein, Germany on Friday for a brief...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday called for building a rules-based post-COVID world order and strengthening the voice of the Global South.In an address at the annual ASEAN-India summit in Jakarta, the prime minister also underlined the need for ensuring a free and open Indo-Pacific. The...
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The United Nations considers requests from countries to change their names as and when the world body receives them, a top United Nations official has said, amid a row over President Droupadi Murmu's G20 dinner invites referring to her as 'President of Bharat' instead of 'President of...
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A 26-year-old undertrial prisoner escaped from a Mumbai hospital where he was taken by the police for treatment on Wednesday, but was traced to a crematorium four hours later and arrested, an official said. Deputy commissioner of police (Zone I) Jayant Bajbale said the man, Vivek Vishwanath...
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Alleging that the Election Commission did not take steps to prevent large-scale rigging in the Tripura by-elections, the CPI-M-led Left Front on Wednesday night announced that it will boycott the counting of votes. The polling for the by-elections to the Dhanpur and Boxanagar assembly seats in...
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The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday summoned Bengali actress Ruplekha Mitra for questioning next week in a case linked to alleged duping of senior citizens by promising them flats in New Town on the outskirts of Kolkata, an official said. The ED had on Tuesday issued a summons to TMC MP and...
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A court in Mumbai on Wednesday rejected the anticipatory bail application of a woman lawyer, accused of abetting the suicide of Shiv Sena-UBT leader and former corporator Sudhir Sayaji More. The plea filed by the accused, advocate Nilima Chavan, was rejected by additional sessions judge Raja...
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Distributing the Holy Bible and imparting good teachings cannot be termed as an allurement for religious conversion under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, the Allahabad high court said on Wednesday. The high court's Lucknow bench also said a stranger cannot...
