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A five-month-old cub of African cheetah, Gamini, died at Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh on Monday, an official said. This is the second fatality of a cheetah cub in the last two months after June 4. Both the deceased cubs were born to Gamini in March this year and part of her six-cub...
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The police on Monday arrested a 51-year-old man from Kolkata on the charge of sending an email threatening to blow up the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's office in Patna, officials said in Kolkata. Preliminary investigation revealed that the accused is not linked with any terror group, though...
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Amid the ongoing crisis in Bangladesh after the resignation of Sheikh Hasina as PM, the Meghalaya government imposed a night curfew in the state along the Indo-Bangladesh border from Monday. Meghalaya deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong said that in view of the current situation in...
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Amid the ongoing unrest in neighbouring Bangladesh, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday appealed to the people of the state to maintain peace and avoid provocation. Declining to comment on developments in Bangladesh, the chief minister said it is a matter for the ministry of...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security on Monday night as the government's top brass was briefed about the situation in Bangladesh. The meeting came as Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled her country and landed in India on her way to London....
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A 34-year-old woman was allegedly molested by a cab driver two days ago while she was waiting for a neigbhour to join her for a morning walk. The accused was arrested on Monday, the police said. The incident which occurred at around 5 am on August 2 in Konanakunte police station limits of South...
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Sheikh Hasina
Bangladesh's ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina will not make a political comeback, her son and former official adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy said on Monday, asserting that she left the country for her own safety on her family's insistence. Hasina, 76, resigned and left the country for London earlier...
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A Dhaka-bound IndiGo flight from Chennai was diverted to Kolkata following the unrest in Bangladesh and the closure of the airport in its capital on Monday, an official said Kolkata. The flight landed at Kolkata at 4.56pm and left for Chennai after refuelling. Kolkata airport received a message...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday as Bangladesh leader Sheikh Hasina landed at the Hindon airbase near Ghaziabad on her way to London amid turmoil in her country. Jaishankar is believed to have briefed Modi about the evolving situation in the...
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Bangladeshi ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina/Shrikant Singh/ANI Photo
National security advisor Ajit Doval and senior military officials met the Bangladeshi ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina at the Hindon Airbase in Uttar Pradesh, said sources. Indian Air Force and other security agencies are providing security to her and she is being moved to a safe location,...
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Indo-Bangladesh trade has 'halted' this afternoon amid unrest in the neighbouring country due to large-scale protests that resulted in Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigning on Monday, according to traders. On Sunday, the Bangladesh government announced a three-day trade holiday, excluding...
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Three persons who bathed in a pond in this South Kerala district have been diagnosed with amoebic meningoencephalitis, state health minister Veena George said on Monday. In a statement, she revealed that a recent death in Thiruvananthapuram was also confirmed to have been from the deadly disease,...
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An unruly mob on Monday damaged the Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre and the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum located at the Dhanmondi area in the Bangladesh capital, eyewitnesses said. The protesters on Monday afternoon set fire to several key locations in Dhaka, including Bangabandhu Bhaban, also known...
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Air India has cancelled the scheduled flight services to and from Dhaka with immediate effect in the wake of the ongoing violence in Bangladesh and subsequent resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Air India tweets, In view of the emerging situation in Bangladesh, we have cancelled the...
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The engine and wagon of a goods train derailed in Beawar district of Rajasthan on Monday, officials said. In charge of Sendra police station Jagdish Prasad said the engine and wagon of the loaded goods train going to Palanpur from Ajmer got derailed after some stones fell on the track from a hill...
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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has landed at Hindon Air Base in a C-130 transport aircraft, said sources. The aircraft will be parked near the Indian Air Force's C-17 and C-130J Super Hercules aircraft hangars. The aircraft movement was monitored by Indian Air Force and security agencies...
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The services of Kolkata-Dhaka-Kolkata Maitree Express will remain cancelled on Tuesday, the Eastern Railway said, citing a message from the authorities concerned in Bangladesh. The services of Maitree Express, which has not been operational since July 19, will remain suspended on August 6, the ER...
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Update: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who resigned on Monday following unprecedented anti-government protests, is on her way to London through India, multiple diplomatic sources said. Hasina is learnt to be travelling in a transport aircraft of the Bangladesh Air Force and it is...
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Relatives of a man who died in the protests. Pic: Stringer/Reuters
Update: Thousands of protesters in Bangladesh on Monday looted and vandalised Sheikh Hasina's official residence in the capital Dhaka, smashed a statue of her father Mujibur Rahman with hammers and set her party's offices on fire as they celebrated her departure as Prime Minister. Hasina, 76,...
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The services of Kolkata-Dhaka-Kolkata Maitree Express will remain cancelled on Tuesday, the Eastern Railway said, citing a message from the authorities concerned in Bangladesh. The services of Maitree Express, which has not been operational since July 19, will remain suspended on August 6, the ER...
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Celebrations on the streets of Dhaka after the PM resigned
Sheikh Hasina, who resigned as Bangladesh Prime Minister following massive anti-government protests, is known to be on her way to London, people familiar with the matter said on Monday. Hasina resigned on Monday and left the country, reports from Dhaka said. She is leaving for London, the...
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The Delhi Police has beefed up security at the Bangladesh High Commission in Chanakyapuri here in the wake of developments in the neighbouring country, an officer said on Monday. Police have also made tightened security outside the Indira Gandhi International Airport, in case Bangladesh Prime...
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From the BBC: One demonstrator has told the BBC that a statue of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Ganabhaban -- the prime minister's official residence -- is being demolished by protestors.He was Sheikh Hasina's father and an independence movement leader.Sayem Faruk tells the BBC that the scenes are...
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People celebrate the resignation of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka, Bangladesh, today. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday resigned and left the country, several news reports said amid massive protests against her government that claimed more than 106 lives in the...
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Indian security agencies are monitoring a C-130 aircraft with call sign AJAX1431 since 10 kms from Indian border with Bangladesh and it is heading towards Delhi. It is believed that Sheikh Hasina and some members of her entourage are on this plane. The C-130 aircraft is expected to reach around...
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said so far only Rs 138.07 crore has been refunded to investors out of the total of over Rs 25,000 crore under the two Sahara schemes.Replying to a question in the lower house, Sitharaman said so far, the number of claims, was 19,650. Of those, based...
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Protestors in Dhaka. Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters
From the BBC: Jubilant crowds have taken to the streets in Bangladesh, celebrating the departure of long-term Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.Crowds waved flags as some demonstrators danced on top of a parked tank in the capital Dhaka, AFP news agency reported.Meanwhile, Bangladesh's Channel24...
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Army chief Waker uz Zaman
Statement coming in from Bangladesh Army chief Waker uz Zaman. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned; interim government to take over, says the Army chief. Bangladesh Army chief says he met political leaders and told them army will take over responsibility for law and order....
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The Border Security Force (BSF) on Monday issued a high alert across all its formations along the 4,096-km India-Bangladesh border in the wake of the developments in the neighbouring country, officials said. BSF director general (acting) Daljit Singh Chawdhary and other senior commanders have...
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Update: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday resigned and left the country, several news reports said amid massive protests against her government that claimed more than 106 lives in the last two days. However, there was no official confirmation about her quitting and leaving Dhaka....
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Sheikh Hasina with LK Advani and Pratibha Advani in June
Update: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has left Dhakha in a military chopper amid nationwide violence in the country, local media reported on Monday. As per latest reports from Bangladesh local media Sheikh Hasina has left for location in India. There is, however, no official...
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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reportedly resigned and left the country, amid massive protests against her government that has killed more than 106 people since Sunday. However, there was no official confirmation about her quitting and leaving Dhaka. The private Jamuna television...
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The mass burial of 31 unclaimed dead bodies and 158 body parts recovered after the July 30 landslide at Kerala's Wayanad will be held on Monday at the graves prepared inside a nearby tea estate, state Revenue Minister K Rajan said on Monday. Rajan said the graves will be marked based on the...
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Around a 100 people were killed yesterday in Bangladesh
At least six people were killed in a fresh outbreak of violence in Bangladesh on Monday as thousands of protesters started gathering for a Long March to Dhaka, a day after over 100 people died in fierce clashes between the ruling party supporters and demonstrators demanding Prime Minister Sheikh...
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Veteran filmmaker Subhash Ghai on Monday said he feels blessed after he came across an old video of the US artistic swimming team performing to the musical theme of his 1999 hit film Taal. According to Ghai's X post, the US team performed to the film's score, composed by AR Rahman, at the Doha...
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There was complete clarity in my mind that taking the public in Jammu and Kashmir into confidence was absolutely essential for the execution of the decision, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says about his government's decision to abrogate Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir. The prime minister's...
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An autorickshaw driver from Maharashtra's Thane district was allegedly cheated of Rs 10.6 lakh by a fraudster who promised to get his son a job in the Railways, police said on Monday.Based on a complaint, the police have registered a case against one Kiran Bhau Dalvi, a resident of Murbad, for...
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Udhayanidhi Stalin
DMK President and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Monday admitted that clamour within his party has grown stronger to elevate his son and sports minister, Udhayanidhi, as his deputy but indicated the time is yet to come. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of his official programmes in...
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Local lad Prajeesh drove his jeep up through the treacherous hill path twice and returned with many hapless people who were stranded atop after the deadly landslides hit Wayanad's high-range Mundakkai last week. Just before he could move to safety came a phone call for a third 'mission,' but the...
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The Supreme Court on Monday took suo motu cognisance of the deaths of three civil services aspirants in the basement of a coaching centre here and sought responses from the Centre and the Delhi government. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan said the recent incident in the national...
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The 20-year-old nephew of Chhattisgarh Deputy Chief Minister Arun Sao drowned in a waterfall in Kabirdham district, police said on Monday. Tushar Sahu drowned in Rani Dahra waterfall under Bodla police station limits during an outing with friends on Sunday evening, Kabirdham Additional...
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Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray will visit Delhi on Tuesday for three days.During his three-day-long visit to the national capital, the Shiv Sena (UBT) chief is likely to meet Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress Parliamentary Party...
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The Sensex, India's benchmark stock index, opened with a sharp decline on Monday. The index has seen significant declines on several occasions, often in response to global and domestic economic events. The five biggest intraday falls in the history of the Sensex include the day of election...
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Investors' wealth eroded by Rs 9.51 lakh crore on Monday morning, following a crash in equity markets where the benchmark Sensex tanked over 2,400 points, mirroring a sharp plunge in global peers. The 30-share BSE benchmark tanked 2,401.49 points to 78,580.46 in early trade. Following the sharp...
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Investors' wealth eroded by Rs 9.51 lakh crore on Monday morning, following a crash in equity markets where the benchmark Sensex tanked over 2,400 points, mirroring a sharp plunge in global peers. The 30-share BSE benchmark tanked 2,401.49 points to 78,580.46 in early trade. Following the sharp...
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Yusuf Dikec, a Turkish silver medalist, who has become a meme for his cool approach to a Olympic win, posts, Hi Elon, do you think future robots can win medals at the Olympics with their hands in their pockets? How about discussing this in Istanbul, the cultural capital that unites continents?...
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An anti-immigration protestor. Pic: Reuters/Hollie Adams
As the UK struggles with the greatest social unrest it has seen in years, rioters on Sunday set fire to and broke into hotels designed to house asylum seekers in northern England. The stabbing deaths of three young girls in Southport, northwest England, earlier this week catalyzed the violence,...
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Army personnel help people affected by the cloudburst
Relief and rescue operations are currently underway in flood-affected Samej village near Rampur in Shimla district following catastrophic cloudbursts in different areas of Himachal Pradesh.A catastrophic cloudburst recently struck Himachal Pradesh, causing widespread devastation and destroying...
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Rupee opened on a muted note and fell to an all-time low of 83.80 against the US dollar on Monday, as the risk off situation in world markets kept the dollar well bid. Forex traders said the sharp downfall in the domestic unit came on the heels of a significant downturn in the Indian equity...
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Sensex tanks 1500 points to 79,000 in early trade; Nifty tumbles 489.65 points to 24,228.05. The Asian stock markets, Japanese indices registered high losses during the early trading session on Monday.The Japanese markets are down 20 per cent from their recent all-time highs. The Nikkei 225 index...
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Bangladesh braced for another tense day as protestors asked the general public to join a Long March to Dhaka on Monday, a day after nearly 100 people died in fierce clashes between demonstrators demanding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's resignation and the ruling party supporters in different...
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The Consumer Price Inflation in India is expected to remain around 5 per cent in the financial year 2024-25 except for September and October month, according to a research report by SBI.The report also noted that the inflation outlook in India remains a critical focus for the Reserve Bank of...
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In the Asian stock markets, Japanese indices registered high losses during the early trading session on Monday.The Japanese markets are down 20 per cent from their recent all-time highs. The Nikkei 225 index declined more than 1600 points or 4.85 per cent to 34,247.56.The markets of Japan faced...
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Army troops opened fire after noticing the movement of two groups of infiltrators along the Line of Control (LoC) in Akhnoor and Sunderbani sectors of Jammu and Kashmir in the early hours of Monday, officials said. Though there was no exchange of fire, a massive search operation is underway in...
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India's key defender and first rusher Amit Rohidas will miss Tuesday's Olympic men's hockey semifinal against Germany after he was handed a one-match suspension following his red card against Great Britain in the quarterfinal. This means India will have only 15 players available for the key...
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As many as nine Kanwariyas died and several others were injured when their vehicle came in contact with a high-voltage overhead wire in Bihar's Hajipur. According to the police, eight devotees died on the spot one Kanwariyas died during treatment in the hospital. Om Prakash, sub-divisional police...
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India on Sunday night strongly advised all its nationals presently residing in Bangladesh to exercise extreme caution and restrict their movements in the wake of fresh waves of violence in the neighbouring country.In its latest advisory, India also asked its citizens not to travel to Bangladesh...
08:18
Pune's Mutha river in spate
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde will visit flood-affected areas of Pune on Monday, according to the sources. He will meet the district administration and other agencies engaged in disaster relief, the sources added. The city has been experiencing persistent heavy rain for the past few...
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The Delhi police has detained a man in Rohini following a complaint that he had written slogans supporting Pakistan on a wall of his flat, officials said on Sunday.We got information from locals that a man staying at Avantika C-Block area of Rohini wrote some slogans supporting Pakistan on a wall...
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Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Sunday night ordered the removal of the Sagar district collector, superintendent of police and sub-divisional magistrate, an official said. The transfer orders were issued late at night. As per the late-night order, Sagar collector Deepak Arya was transferred to the...
