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Air India on Thursday cancelled its flight from the national capital to Tel Aviv, citing operational reasons. The cancellation also comes against the backdrop of escalating tensions in the ongoing conflict between Israel and the terror group Hamas. Air India operates four flights from...
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Central Railway on Thursday promoted shooter Swapnil Kusale, who won a bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics, and appointed him as officer on special duty. Kusale clinched the first ever Olympic bronze in 50m rifle 3 positions event, taking India's overall tally to three at the ongoing Paris...
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Hundreds of SpiceJet passengers were stranded at the Dubai airport on Wednesday after flights were cancelled due to issues related to non-payment of dues to the airport authority, according to a source. A SpiceJet spokesperson on Thursday said few flights from Dubai to India were cancelled...
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Three Maoists cadres including an area committee member of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist and a Maoist sympathiser were on Thursday arrested in Bhadradri Kothagudem district of Telangana, the police said.The four including a woman Maoist were nabbed in Damaratogu forest area of the...
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IndiGo will commence direct daily flights connecting Chennai and Jaffna from September 1.For the airline, Jaffna will be the second destination in Sri Lanka after Colombo and the 34th international destination.In a release on Thursday, IndiGo said it will have non-stop daily flights between...
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A view of the devastating landslide in Wayanad, Kerala/Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters
The Kerala government requested the state's scientific community on Thursday to refrain from sharing their opinions and study reports on the Wayanad landslides with the media. Tiku Biswal, the state relief commissioner and principal secretary for disaster management, in an order directed all...
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Twelve people were killed by lightning strikes across four districts in Bihar in the last 24 hours, an official statement said on Thursday.According to the Chief Minister's Office, Gaya reported five deaths, Jehanabad (3), and Nalanda and Rohtas recorded two each.Chief Minister Nitish Kumar...
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A Bengaluru court on Thursday extended the judicial custody of arrested Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa, his friend Pavithra Gowda and 15 associates in the Renukaswamy murder case till August 14. The 24th additional chief metropolitan magistrate court, presided over by Judge Vishwanath C...
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An Indian fisherman was killed and another went missing following a collision on Thursday morning between a Sri Lankan naval vessel and an Indian fishing boat allegedly poaching in the island nation's territorial waters, the Navy said in Colombo. The incident happened off the coast to the...
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US journalist Evan Gershkovich/Dmitry Chasovitin/Reuters/File Photo
Just In: Russia released US journalist Evan Gershkovich and former US marine in the biggest prisoner swap with the West since Cold War, said a BBC report. The US journalist was freed under the prisoner exchange pact between Russia and the US, reported BBC quoting the Wall Street...
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The Centre's fiscal deficit at the end of the first quarter touched 8.1 per cent of the full-year target, government data showed on Wednesday.In absolute terms, the fiscal deficit -- the gap between expenditure and revenue -- was Rs 1,35,712 crore as of June-end, according to data released by the...
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From the Sensex stocks, Power Grid, NTPC, HDFC Bank, Nestle India, Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone, Maruti Suzuki India and Reliance Industries were the major gainers.In contrast, Mahindra and Mahindra, Tata Steel, Bajaj Finserv, State Bank of India, Larsen & Toubro and Tata Motors were...
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Stock markets remained on a record-smashing course for the fifth straight day on Thursday, with Sensex and Nifty settled at record-high levels after buying in index heavyweights HDFC Bank and Reliance Industries.The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 126.21 points or 0.15 per cent to settle at a new...
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The Karnataka government on Thursday 'strongly advised' the Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot to withdraw his 'show-cause notice' to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) site allotment 'scam' and alleged a concerted effort to destabilise the Congress regime.The...
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Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi along with sister Priyanka visited landslides-hit areas of Wayanad on Thursday and said he was 'deeply pained' to see people who have lost family members and homes in the tragedy, calling it a 'national disaster' and demanded...
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A court in Delhi on Thursday allowed the second bail plea of an SUV driver, arrested for his alleged role in drowning of three civil services aspirants in the basement of a coaching centre. During the proceedings, the Delhi police told the court that they have decided to drop harsher charge...
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The Indian embassy in Beirut on Thursday strongly advised Indian nationals against travelling to Lebanon till further notice and leave the country amidst the growing tensions between Israel and Hezbollah. Since October 8 last year, violence has flared across the border between Israeli troops...
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A Delhi court on Thursday denied anticipatory bail to former IAS probationer Puja Khedkar who has been accused of cheating and wrongly availing of OBC and PwD (person with disabilities) quota benefits. Additional Sessions Judge Devender Kumar Jangala...
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The Delhi police on Thursday told a court that they have decided to drop harsher charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the SUV driver in the coaching centre death case. The decision to drop the charge was conveyed by the investigating officer (IO) to additional sessions...
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The Allahabad high court on Thursday ruled that the trial in 18 cases relating to the Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Idgah dispute in Mathura can continue, dismissing a petition filed by the mosque committee that challenged the maintainability of these suits.Justice Mayank Kumar Jain had on June 6...
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The Union Health Ministry on Thursday said that 148 cases of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome have been reported in the country since June, and 59 patients have died.Chandipura virus (CHPV) has been confirmed in 51 cases, the ministry said in a statement.Till July 31, 140 AES cases have been reported...
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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday held discussions with his cabinet colleagues in the wake of the Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot reportedly issuing him a show-cause notice, seen as a precursor to sanctioning his prosecution in the alleged Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA)...
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The India meteorological department (IMD) issued forecasts for significant rainfall activity along the west coast of India on a regular basis and a red alert for Kerala in the early morning of July 30, IMD chief Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said on Thursday.Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said...
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Three people, including a minor girl, drowned after rainwater gushed into the basement of their house in Vishwakarma area of Jaipur city early Thursday morning, officials said.The bodies were recovered after a rescue operation that lasted for several hours, they said.After the water entered the...
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Clashes erupted between Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) residing in a relief camp and security forces in Manipur's Imphal East district on Thursday after tear gas was used to disperse a protest rally, the police said.Approximately 100 IDPs from Akampat relief camp in the district attempted to...
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India is predicted to record above-normal rainfall in August and September, with a good chance of favourable La Nina conditions developing by the end of August, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Thursday. The monsoon is critical for India's agricultural...
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Congress leader and former Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra arrived in Kerala on Thursday and will visit various relief camps set up in the landslides-hit areas of Wayanad district, party sources said. Gandhi, who won from the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency in the...
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A 73-year-old British-American author and journalist, who sought an interview with Pakistan's jailed former premier Imran Khan, has been deported after his tourist visa was revoked, a media report said on Thursday.Charles Glass, an author, journalist, broadcaster, and publisher who specialises in...
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Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal
Is this kind of goon supposed to work in the CM's residence, the Supreme Court asked on Thursday as it came down heavily on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar who allegedly assaulted AAP MP Swati Maliwal earlier this year.A bench of Justices Surya Kant, Dipankar Datta and...
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Congress' Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor has urged Home Minister Amit Shah to declare the Wayanad landslides as a calamity of severe nature under the MPLADS guidelines in order to facilitate urgent assistance from MPs to the affected areas.In his letter to Shah, Tharoor said that on July...
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Altogether 18 Jharkhand Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs were suspended from the assembly till 2 PM of August 2, after they created ruckus in the House on Thursday, in protest against the eviction of opposition MLAs by marshals on the previous day and Chief Minister Hemant Soren's refusal to reply to...
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In a majority verdict, the Supreme Court on Thursday said that states are empowered to make sub-classifications of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for granting quotas inside the reserved category to uplift more underprivileged castes. A seven-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief...
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Military personnel on Wednesday intensified search and rescue operations in Kerala's Wayanad district where landslides have claimed more than 160 lives, with the Army saying that it recovered over 80 bodies and rescued nearly 1,000 people.Extremely heavy rain triggered the landslides in the hilly...
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An all-party meeting, chaired by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, will be held in Wayanad on Thursday as search and rescue operations by various agencies and armed forces continue in the landslides-hit areas. State ministers camping in the district, MLAs from Wayanad and political...
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As many as 173 people have died and over 200 injured in the massive landslides that hit Wayanad district two days ago, with the numbers expected to increase even more as rescuers unearth debris, the district administration said on Thursday. The 173 dead include 23 children and 70...
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has launched a racially insensitive attack against Kamala Harris by questioning whether she is Indian or Black, drawing a sharp reaction from his Democratic rival who termed his remarks the same old show of divisiveness and disrespect. Trump, 78,...
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Over 30 people are missing following a cloudburst in Jhakhari area of Rampur subdivision of Shimla district early Thursday, officials said.Roads have been washed away and a hydro power project in the area has also been damaged, Deputy Commissioner Anupam Kashyap told PTI.Teams of the National...
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A Pakistani intruder has been shot dead by Border Security Force (BSF) personnel along the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district, officials said on Thursday. The infiltrator was spotted moving into Indian territory near the Khora post late Wednesday, the officials...
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Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday headed to Wayanad to take stock of the situation in Kerala constituency that was rocked by devastating landslides in which death toll has risen to 167 and hundreds more still...
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Heavy rainfall unleashed chaos in the national capital on Wednesday evening, inundating large parts of the city with a 22-year-old woman and her toddler drowning in Ghazipur, while key stretches were choked with unending traffic and people left stranded as roads resembled rivers.The torrential...
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The Union home ministry has posted on its website the Department of Personnel and Training's (DoPT) order revoking the ban on government employees' participation in the activities of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).The public display of the July 9 office memorandum of the DoPT came as per...
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