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Pakistani musician and Coke Studio fame singer Haniya Aslam is no more. As per Dawn, Haniya passed away on Sunday, August 11, after suffering a cardiac arrest. The news of her demise was shared by her cousin and musical partner, Zeb Bangash, via an Instagram post. Bangash's post...
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Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Monday said that he is thinking of inviting individuals of the Thadou group, the largest tribe of the Kuki Zo community, to Imphal. A number of related tribes are collectively called Kuki or Kuki Zo community, members of which mostly live in the hill...
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MP Chief Minister Mohan Yadav
A Madhya Pradesh BJP working committee member has been arrested after he allegedly created a ruckus and misbehaved with the officer on special duty to Chief Minister Mohan Yadav at a party function in Bhopal, a police officer said on Monday. Hirendra Bahadur Singh, according to a police...
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The Bombay high court on Monday suggested to former media executive Indrani Mukerjea, the prime accused in her daughter Sheena Bora's murder, that if possible, she complete her bank work in Spain and the UK from India itself instead of travelling to the two European countries. A single bench...
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India's ambassador-designate to the US Vinay Mohan Kwatra arrived in Washington, DC, on Monday in the American capital. Kwatra, 61, till recently was India's foreign secretary. He succeeds Taranjit Singh Sandhu, who retired from the foreign service early this year and served as India's top...
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A government primary school principal was suspended from duty and arrested after family members of a student and Hindu outfits on Monday staged a protest against him for allegedly serving non-vegetarian food to the pupil, officials said. Protests were held in the school and outside the...
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The Centre on Monday issued an advisory to private news channels to carry a date and timestamp on visuals of natural disasters and major accidents while reporting on such incidents. The advisory, issued by the ministry of information and broadcasting, noted that television channels provide...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi was scheduled to visit Himachal Pradesh on Monday but the trip was cancelled due to inclement weather, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said. He said the prime minister's visit would be rescheduled once the weather improves. No official announcement was...
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Two coaches of the Rani Kamlapati-Saharsa special passenger train derailed when it was about to enter Itarsi station in Madhya Pradesh on Monday evening, an official said. No casualties were reported in the incident which occurred at 6:10 pm. The train was about to enter platform number...
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Retail inflation declined to a five-year low of 3.54 percent in July mainly on account of subdued prices of food items, and base effect, according to official data released on Monday.
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The Maharashtra government on Monday informed the Bombay high court that as per law, no prison in the state follows the system of solitary confinement, but prisoners convicted of heinous crimes were kept separately. Public prosecutor Hiten Venegaonkar told a division bench of Justices Revati...
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Delhi PWD minister Atishi/Jitender Gupta/ANI Photo
Delhi minister Gopal Rai on Monday directed the general administration department to make arrangements for the hoisting of national flag on Independence Day by his cabinet colleague Atishi, in what could emerge as a new flashpoint between the LG office and Aam Aadmi Party dispensation. Rai...
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A case has been registered against a YouTuber for allegedly uploading a video on peacock curry recipe on his channel, in Rajanna Sircilla district. The YouTuber, apparently to garner more views for his channel resorted to the act, a forest official said based on preliminary...
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Pakistan's former ISI chief Lt Gen (retd.) Faiz Hameed/File image
Pakistan's former ISI chief Lt Gen (retd.) Faiz Hameed has been arrested by the military ahead of his court martial in connection with a housing scheme scandal, the army said on Monday. Complying with the orders of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, a detailed court of inquiry, was undertaken by...
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Retail inflation declined to 3.54 percent in July, slipping below the Reserve Bank's targeted 4 per cent for the first time in nearly 5 years, as food prices cooled, government data showed on Monday. The Consumer Price Index based retail inflation was 5.08 percent in June 2024 and 7.44...
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Stock markets closed marginally lower in highly volatile trade on Monday as gains in private banks helped benchmark Sensex recoup some of the early losses inflicted by allegations against Sebi chief Madhabi Puri Buch and her husband by the US short-seller Hindenburg Research. The 30-share...
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Alert security officials at the Pune International Airport foiled a 27-year-old man's purported plan to board a Lucknow-bound flight with a fake ticket, leading to his arrest, the police said on Monday. The accused, Salim Gole Khan, obtained the ticket of a private airlines from his friend...
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A two-member team of the National Commission for Women on Monday arrived in Kolkata in the wake of a woman doctor's alleged rape and murder at a state-run hospital in Kolkata. The two-member team, led by Delina Khongdup, went straight to the Kolkata police headquarters at Lalbazar from the...
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Hearing in a defamation case involving senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi could not be held in the MP-MLA court in Sultanpur on Monday as the special judge was on leave. Gandhi's advocate Kashi Prasad Shukla said as special judge Shubham Verma was on leave, no hearing could take...
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Stock markets closed marginally lower in a highly volatile trade on Monday as investors turned cautious about the potential disruptions from the US short-seller Hindenburg Research report on SEBI chairperson and her husband's undisclosed investments in obscure offshore funds in Bermuda and...
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Resident doctors from multiple hospitals in Delhi, including centrally-run facilities AIIMS, RML Hospital and Safdarjung Hospital, have begun an indefinite strike, suspending all elective services on Monday, in response to the recent rape and murder of a resident doctor in Kolkata. According...
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Natwar Singh's mortal remains taken to the crematorium
The mortal remains of former foreign minister K Natwar Singh were consigned to flames here on Monday as several political leaders, including External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, joined in paying tribute to him. Natwar Singh passed away on Saturday night after a prolonged illness, according...
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Days after the resignation of the Bangladesh Bank governor, two deputy governors and the head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (BFUI) have resigned following the directives from the interim government, a media report said on Monday. Additionally, an adviser to the central bank has also...
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IIT Madras has been ranked the best higher educational institution in India followed by IISc Bengaluru and IIT Bombay in an overall category in the ranking conducted by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) and National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF).The announcement was made on...
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A house flows by in Kullu
Landslides and flash floods triggered by heavy rain since Sunday led to the closure of 338 roads, including four national highways in Himachal Pradesh, officials said. Several areas in Una are waterlogged, they said on Monday. Rescue operations to locate about 30 people who went...
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Will hand over RG Kar hospital doctor murder probe to CBI if police fail to solve case by Sunday, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee. We want RG Kar hospital doctor murder case to be tried in fast track court, says the CM. A PIL seeking a CBI investigation into the alleged rape and murder of a woman...
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A PIL seeking a CBI investigation into the alleged rape and murder of a woman doctor at Kar Medical College and Hospital will be heard by the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday. The body of the woman doctor was found inside the seminar hall of the hospital in north Kolkata on Friday. A...
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'I want to die with my finger on the click button of the camera,' veteran photographer Pradeep Bandekar, who passed into the ages early on Sunday morning told Syed Firdaus Ashraf last week. Read the tribute here.
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The Delhi High Court on Monday granted interim protection from arrest till August 21 to former IAS probationer Puja Khedkar, who has been accused of cheating and wrongly availing OBC and disability quota benefits. Justice Subramonium Prasad issued notice to the Delhi Police as well as the UPSC...
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Federation of Resident Doctors Association (FORDA) on Monday launched a nationwide strike as they gathered outside various hospitals across the country, demanding justice for the trainee-doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata.The doctors gathered outside the Lok...
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Union minister Prataprao Jadhav has claimed Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray was bowing before trivial people with an eye on the chief minister's post ahead of Maharashtra polls and had abandoned the Sena's ideology. The state assembly elections are due in October this year....
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An employee of a popular coffee chain in Bengaluru has been arrested for allegedly placing a mobile phone with video recording in a dustbin inside a women's washroom, police said.The incident took place at the Third Wave Coffee shop on BEL Road in Bengaluru on Saturday.According to the police,...
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The RG Kar Hospital where the horrific incident took place
Hospital services across West Bengal were disrupted on Monday as junior doctors, interns, and postgraduate trainees continued their strike for the fourth consecutive day, protesting the rape and murder of a woman doctor and demanding a magisterial inquiry into her death. Over the past...
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Manish Sisodia plays with his kids
Senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia prayed at the Gauri Shankar temple in Chandni Chowk on the auspicious Monday of Shravan month, saying he does not have hatred against anyone. The former deputy chief minister of Delhi, who walked out of Tihar jail after 17 months on Friday, visited the...
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Manoj, an eyewitness to the stampede
At least seven people were killed and 16 others injured in a stampede at Baba Siddheshwar Nath Temple in Bihar's Jehanabad district, an official said on Monday. Seven people, mostly kanwariyas, were killed and 16 others injured in a stampede at Baba Siddeshwar Nath temple in Barabar Pahadi...
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A 12-year-old boy allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself at his house in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Monday. The incident took place on Sunday in Kalyan town, they said adding a suicide note was recovered from the spot and it was being examined. The...
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Sajeeb Wazed, the son of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, refuted reports surfacing on social media regarding her resignation. Wazeb strongly denied the authenticity of the statement, asserting that the report attributed to his mother published in a newspaper is completely false...
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The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Dr PT Usha on Sunday clarified that the responsibility of weight management of athletes in sport like wrestling, weightlifting, boxing and judo is that of each athlete and his or her coach and not that of the IOA-appointed Chief Medical Officer Dr...
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