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The CBI has taken over the probe into the death of 20-year-old veterinary student Sidharthan JS, whose body was found hanging inside the bathroom of the college hostel in Wayanad district on February 18, officials said.Sidharthan was subjected to ragging by fellow students, including activists of...
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Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam legislator N Pugazhenthi died due to a brief illness at a hospital in Tamil Nadu's Villupuram on Saturday, a source at the hospital said. He was 69. Pugazhenthi is survived by his wife, a son and three daughters. The MLA, representing the Vikravandi assembly...
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Former AAP MLA Sandeep Kumar has approached the Delhi high court seeking the removal of arrested party leader Arvind Kejriwal from the post of chief minister of the national capital. The petition is listed for hearing before Justice Subramonium Prasad on Monday. In his petition, Kumar has said...
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A fire broke out in a room on the 10th floor of the Nair Hospital and Dental College hostel building in Mumbai Central on Saturday evening, an official said. Nobody was injured in the incident as the blaze remained confined to electric wiring and other fitments and put out within 20...
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Jammu and Kashmir BJP president Ravinder Raina on Saturday said the party's central election committee will take a call on fielding candidates in the three parliamentary constituencies in Kashmir Valley. He was responding to a question on the speculation that the BJP will not field its...
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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Saturday said disrespect to bhagwa (colour saffron) will not be tolerated in the country. Speaking at a campaign rally in Kawardha, headquarters of Chhattisgarh's Kabirdham district which had witnessed communal clashes in 2021, he hit out at the...
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People of southern West Bengal are likely to get a respite from the sweltering heat with the Met Department on Saturday forecasting thunderstorms owing to the formation of a cyclonic circulation over north Bangladesh. Heatwave conditions are prevailing over several districts in the region, with...
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Thierry Delaporte
Indian IT major Wipro on Saturday announced the resignation of its CEO Thierry Delaporte and named Srinivas Pallia as the new chief executive officer effective immediately. Wipro's Board noted the resignation of Delaporte with effect from April 6, 2024, the company said in a BSE filing, and...
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Uddhav Thackeray
In a fresh setback to the Uddhav Thackeray camp ahead of Lok Sabha elections, former Maharashtra minister and Shiv Sena-UBT deputy leader Babanrao Gholap joined the Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday. Gholap was welcomed in the party by Shinde in the presence of state...
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Pakistan on Saturday said it stands resolute in its intent and ability to safeguard its sovereignty, a day after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh made it clear that India will enter Pakistan if terrorists run away to the neighbouring nation after carrying out terror strikes in the country. A...
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A 55-year-old woman was assaulted and paraded semi-naked in Tarn Taran allegedly by her son's in-laws after he got married against the wishes of the bride's parents, the police said on Saturday. Four people have been arrested over the incident on Saturday while the fifth accused is at large,...
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The ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist in Kerala on Saturday said the party was maintaining transparency when it came to its bank accounts and funds and the transaction details have already been submitted before the Election Commission and the Income Tax department.If the party has to submit...
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The National Investigation Agency on Saturday carried out raids at multiple locations in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar against the Communist Party of India-Moist in an anti-India conspiracy case, officials said. The raids were carried out by NIA teams on the premises of accused and suspected persons...
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A man in Rajasthan's Sirohi district allegedly thrashed his 17-year-old daughter to death for not preparing for her school examinations, the police said on Saturday. Accused Fateh Mohammad (42), a resident of Prem Nagar, has been arrested, deputy superintendent of police Pushpendra Verma...
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Four persons were arrested on Saturday in connection with the blast near Panur here a day ago that claimed one life and caused injuries to three others, the police said.The police said that the arrested accused, the three injured persons and the one who died, all of them were CPI-M workers or...
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The Leh Apex Body on Saturday withdrew their proposed march to the Changthang border with China on April 7, saying it is doing so in the interest of people even as it accused the administration of turning Leh into a war zone. The LAB said they have already achieved their objective of creating...
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The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union has written to the varsity administration opposing a film shooting taking place near the administration block on the campus, terming it as commercialisation of the university space. No immediate reaction was available from the university...
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All 21 employees of SAIL's Bokaro steel plant, who were kept under medical observation after a fire broke out on Saturday morning, are stable, an official said.This is a precautionary measure as they were exposed to smoke, he said. There was no report of any fatality, the Steel Authority of...
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Suresh Gopi, who has lost twice in elections from this central Kerala constituency and is hoping that his third attempt from here would bring him luck, has declared assets, including both movable and immovable, of over Rs 12 crore in his nomination papers.Gopi had lost from Thrissur in the 2019...
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Congress' Leader of Opposition in Chhattisgarh Charan Das Mahant
A case has been registered against Charan Das Mahant, the Chhattisgarh Congress' Leader of Opposition, over his 'objectionable' remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a public rally. The FIR was registered under Section 506 (for criminal intimidation) at Kotwali police station in...
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Puthalapattu legislator MS Babu quit the ruling YSRCP on Saturday to join Congress in the presence of Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president Y S Sharmila. Babu, who won the 2019 election on a YSRCP ticket was denied the same for the 2024 polls, which went to M Sunil Kumar for the...
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Sixteen children and their three caretakers were rescued after a fire broke out at an orphanage in Noida early Saturday, officials said.The fire broke out around 2 am in the two-storey building and no person was hurt in the incident, Chief Fire Officer Pradeep Kumar Choubey said. The fire...
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Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi
Weeks after he lost the Rajya Sabha election from Himachal Pradesh, Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Saturday filed an application in the high court challenging the interpretation of draw of lots rules by the poll officer after there was a tie in the poll. BJP nominee Harsh Mahajan won...
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Army troops opened fire and subsequently launched a search operation after noticing suspicious movement near their camp in a village in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district early Saturday, officials said.There was no report of any casualty in the firing at the Srotha Morha village in the Darhal...
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The CBI has busted a child trafficking ring in the national capital and rescued two newborns, officials said on Saturday. On receiving information about the child trafficking ring, officials of the federal probe agency conducted searches at multiple locations in Delhi and Haryana on Friday...
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The price of Brent crude surged to a six-month high on Friday, surpassing the $91 per barrel mark, propelled by escalating tensions in the Middle East. This sudden and significant uptick in oil prices has sent reverberations throughout global financial markets, reigniting fears of inflationary...
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The Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLC K Kavitha filed an application in Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court opposing permission granted to the CBI to quiz her in Tihar Jail in relation to the state excise policy case. The plea stated that the CBI thwarted due process of law by filing a plea behind her. The...
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The Congress on Saturday announced the names of former Union minister Ramakant Khalap and Viriato Fernandes as its candidates for the North and South Goa Lok Sabha seats. All India Congress Committee general secretary KC Venugopal made the announcement ending the INDIA bloc's prolonged wait for...
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The Congress on Saturday announced the names of former Union minister Ramakant Khalap and Viriato Fernandes as its candidates for the North and South Goa Lok Sabha seats. All India Congress Committee general secretary KC Venugopal made the announcement ending the INDIA bloc's prolonged wait for...
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China is likely to deploy Artificial Intelligence-generated content via social media to sway public opinion to boost its geopolitical interests during elections in countries like India, South Korea and the US, tech giant Microsoft has warned. Voting for 543 Lok Sabha seats in India will take...
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Survival drama The Goat Life, starring Prithviraj Sukumaran, has collected over Rs 100 crore in worldwide gross collection, the makers announced on Saturday. Directed by Blessy, the movie is based on the 2008 bestselling novel Aadujeevitham by Benyamin. It was released in theatres on March...
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A court in Delhi on Saturday extended the judicial custody of Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia till April 18 in a money laundering case related to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam. Special judge Kaveri Baweja extended Sisodia's judicial custody after he was produced before the court on...
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Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann along with AAP MLAs and volunteers will sit on a fast on Sunday to protest against the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, a party leader said. The Aam Aadmi Party had given the call for a nationwide collective fast on April 7 against the arrest of...
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A vehicle carrying National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials was on Saturday attacked by villagers in Bhupatinagar area of West Bengal's Purba Medinipur district, where they had gone to investigative a 2022 bomb blast case, police said.A team of NIA officials earlier this morning arrested two...
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Three Naxalites were gunned down in an exchange of fire with security forces in a dense forest in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district bordering Telangana on Saturday, a senior police official here said.The encounter took place in Pujari Kanker forest along the interstate border when a team of...
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On the 44th foundation day of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said it has become India's preferred party and expressed confidence that people will elect it for another term at the Centre, allowing it to build on the 'ground covered in the last decade'.Greeting...
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A 58-year-old college professor from Mumbai was duped of Rs 1 lakh by a man posing as a police inspector who claimed her son had been detained in a case, an official has said.The incident took place on Tuesday when the professor was in college in the city's Juhu area, the official said.During...
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The Israeli military said that it has dismissed two officers and reprimanded three others for their roles in an attack in Gaza that killed seven aid workers, Al Jazeera reported.The Israeli military said that the officers had mishandled critical information and violated the army's rules of...
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Bharatiya Janata Party national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi has criticised the Congress manifesto for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, stating that it contains pictures from New York and 'Rahul Gandhi's favourite destination, Thailand'.Earlier on Friday, the Congress released its manifesto...
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A day after resigning from the Biju Janata Dal, Athamallik MLA Ramesh Chandra Sai on Friday joined the Opposition BJP and became the third legislator of the ruling party to cross over to the saffron camp ahead of the Lok Sabha and the Odisha assembly polls. Sai switched sides in the presence of...
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AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday said he hoped the Election Commission is monitoring the threatening social media posts reportedly made against him after he met family members of gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari recently. Owaisi had visited Ansari's Ghazipur home in Uttar Pradesh to...
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An Indian student in the US state of Ohio has died and the police are investigating the case, the Indian Consulate in New York said on Friday. Deeply saddened by the unfortunate demise of Mr Uma Satya Sai Gadde, an Indian student in Cleveland, Ohio, the Consulate General of India in New York...
