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A 38-year-old security guard died after being hit by a speeding car driven by a degree student allegedly in a drunken state at Gajularamaram here on Sunday, police said.The incident happened at around 6.15 am when the security guard was walking on the road, a police official at Jeedimetla police...
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Three flights were diverted at the Delhi airport on Sunday due to bad weather, according to an official.Various parts of the national capital witnessed heavy rains on Sunday.The official said three flights of Air India were diverted, two to Jaipur and one to Lucknow.These flights were diverted...
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Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar leader Sharad Pawar on Sunday faced angry Maratha agitators in separate incidents who stopped his vehicle in Solapur district and later raised slogans and waved black flags when the veteran politician was addressing a rally in Barshi town.Visuals...
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Dr Bidhan Ranjan Roy Poddar and Suprodip Chakma were sworn in on Sunday as the members of the council of advisers of Bangladesh's interim government led by Nobel laureate Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus.President Mohammed Shahabuddin administered the oath of office to Poddar and Chakma while Chief Adviser...
19:24
Kerala Forest Minister A K Saseendran broke down while consoling people looking for their missing family members days after the devastating landslides in Wayanad district. The minister, who visited the landslide-hit areas, spoke to a father and son who were seen searching at the spot where their...
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The attack on the convoy of Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray chief Uddhav Thackeray in Thane was a reaction to action, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, who heads the rival Shiv Sena, has said.When Thackeray arrived for a gathering of his party workers at the Gadkari Rangayatan...
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Eleven Bangladeshi nationals have been apprehended while trying to infiltrate into India through international border in West Bengal, Tripura and Meghalya, the Border Security Force (BSF) said on Sunday.They are being questioned and will be handed over to state police for further legal action, a...
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Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Sunday announced that her party will field candidates in all the 10 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh where bypolls are going to be held.The Election Commission is yet to declare the schedule for the by-elections to Karhal, Milkipur, Katehari, Kundarki,...
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Two pilots were injured after a trainer aircraft belonging to a private aviation academy crashed at an airstrip in Madhya Pradesh's Guna district on Sunday, a police official said.The two-seater Cessna 152 plane crashed at around 1.30 pm, possibly due to engine failure, after remaining airborne...
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Syed Refaat Ahmed was sworn in as Bangladesh's new chief justice on Sunday, a day after Obaidul Hassan stepped down as the top judge following an ultimatum by the protesters demanding a revamp of the judiciary.Hassan and five other judges of the apex Appellate Division on Saturday tendered their...
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Twelve passengers were injured when they jumped out of a slow-moving train in panic after some men operated a fire extinguisher and its fumes filled a coach near Uttar Pradesh's Bilpur on Sunday.The incident took place in a general coach of the Howrah-Amritsar Mail in the morning near Bilpur...
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Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar MP Supriya Sule has alleged that her phone and WhatsApp have been hacked.In a post on 'X' on Sunday, the Baramati legislator requested people not to call or message her.'My phone and WhatsApp have been hacked. Please do not message or call me. Please...
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Asserting that the mega infra project in Great Nicobar Island is a 'grave threat' to the natural ecosystem, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has urged Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav to suspend all clearances accorded to the project and called for its thorough and impartial review, including by...
12:25
A former MLA's wife was killed in a bomb blast in Manipur's Kangpokpi district, officials said on Sunday.The bomb blast was triggered at a house adjacent to that of former Saikul MLA Yamthong Haokip on Saturday evening, they said.Sapam Charubala, the second wife of Haokip, was injured in the...
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Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray president Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday evening said his party workers were his 'wagh-nakh' (tiger claws), and he was not afraid of 'Abdali'.Earlier, as Thackeray arrived for a gathering of his party workers at the Gadkari Rangayatan auditorium in Thane,...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar meets with Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu, in Maldives/ANI Photo
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said the Maldives is no ordinary neighbour of India and emphasised that New Delhi will continue to nurture it and find practical ways of expressing friendship with the archipelagic nation. Jaishankar also explained how India values its diaspora...
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A view of the Tungabhadra dam/Courtesy X
The Andhra Pradesh State Disaster Management Authority on Sunday alerted people living along the banks of Krishna river to keep vigil, following the washing away of a Tungabhadra dam gate in Karnataka. Due to the snapping of a chain link, APSDMA managing director R Kurmanadh said gate number 19...
10:59
Five Bangladeshi nationals have been arrested for allegedly staying illegally in Navi Mumbai township of Maharashtra, the police said on Sunday. Following a tip, the Navi Mumbai police's anti-human trafficking cell conducted a raid at a residential building in Koparkhairne area on Saturday and...
10:51
A 13-year-old boy died due to electrocution at a cricket ground in outer Delhi's Ranhola area. According to the police, a PCR call around 1.30 pm was received on Saturday that a 13-year-old boy was playing cricket on the Cricket Ground in Kotla Vihar Ph-2 when he got an electric shock from an...
10:36
Doctors and nurses of a state-run hospital in West Bengal's Purba Bardhaman district on Saturday demonstrated, alleging that a patient had threatened a woman medic if his treatment was delayed. The patient, in an inebriated condition, entered the emergency ward of the Bhatar State General...
10:13
Cochin International Airport, Kerala/File image
A passenger, who was scheduled to fly from Kochi to Mumbai on an Air India flight, was arrested on Sunday morning at Cochin International Airport in Kerala for making an 'alarming comment' to a Central Industrial Security Force officer at the X-ray baggage inspection system checkpoint. The flight...
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Pradeep Bandekar with Shah Rukh Khan
Pradeep Bandekar, veteran photographer and ace chronicler of the film industry, passed away on Sunday morning. Pradeep has been contributing to Rediff.com since its inception in February 1996, and his loss feels like a personal tragedy. His son Prathamesh, also a photographer, told Rediff.com...
09:42
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India on Saturday opened its resident mission in Albania as part of efforts to expand its footprint in the Balkan peninsula.India has operationalised its new resident mission in Tirana, Albania with effect from August 10, the ministry of external affairs said.It said the operationalisation of the...
09:14
A Bangladeshi citizen posing as an Indian was caught at the Lucknow airport while he was allegedly trying to fly to Thailand on a fake tourist visa, an official said on Saturday.The incident came to light Friday at the Chaudhary Charan Singh Airport when immigration officers questioned a...
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Shiv Sena-UBT leader Anita Birje (third from left) joins Shiv Sena led by CM Eknath Shinde/Courtesy X
Senior Shiv Sena-Uddhav Baladaheb Thackeray leader from Thane, Anita Birje, joined the Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday night. Shinde welcomed Birje into the Sena fold at a function attended by several workers of the party, mainly women. Birje, who headed the women's wing...
08:42
Former external affairs minister K Natwar Singh/File image
Former external affairs minister K Natwar Singh passed away on Saturday night after a prolonged illness, family sources said. He was 93. He breathed his last at Medanta Hospital in Gurugram near Delhi, where he had been admitted for the past couple of weeks, they said. Singh was born in 1931 in...
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An encounter took place between security forces and terrorists in a remote forest in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir early Sunday, officials said. The gunfight took place for a brief period when police assisted by army and paramilitary forces launched a search operation in Nownatta,...
