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The anti-terror operation in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district entered the fourth day as search teams noticed some suspicious movement in the Ahlan Gagarmandu forest early Tuesday and opened probing fire, officials said. However, there was no further firing from either side as the search...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said India has every confidence that it will be able to work with the next President of the United States, whoever occupies the Oval Office. The US presidential election will be held later this year. Responding to a question during a panel...
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Bangladesh's interim government on Tuesday cancelled a national holiday on August 15, marking the assassination of the country's founder and deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina's father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.According to the press release issued by the Chief Advisor's Office, the...
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The Border Security Force (BSF) held 83 flag meetings with Bangladesh's border guarding force Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in the last three days and impressed upon the need to protect Indian citizens and people belonging to minority communities in the neighbouring county in the wake of the...
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Bangladesh's deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday demanded justice, saying those involved in recent terror acts, killings and vandalism must be investigated, identified and punished. In her first public statement after her ouster on August 5, 76-year-old Hasina said several lives have...
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India on Tuesday successfully test-fired a Long Range Glide Bomb (LRGB), GAURAV, from the Su-30 MK-I platform of the Indian Air Force off the Odisha coast.The test was organised by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). GAURAV is an air-launched 1,000 kg class glide bomb...
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Congress and other allies of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam on Tuesday announced that they will boycott the Independence Day tea party to be hosted by Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi on August 15. Tamil Nadu Congress Committee President K Selvaperunthagai said his party has decided to abstain from...
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Legendary Indian men's hockey team goalkeeper PR Sreejesh believes that Vinesh Phogat deserves a medal after reaching the final of the women's 50kg wrestling competition in Paris after being disqualified for being merely 100 gram over-weight. The celebrated custodian, who retired from competitive...
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An airhostess was allegedly dragged and molested by an e-bike taxi rider on the way to her home from east Delhi, police said on Tuesday. The incident took place on the Simon Bolivar Marg near Buddha Jayanti Park on Wednesday night, when the woman was returning home on the taxi bike she had hired...
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The Rajasthan high court on Tuesday allowed self-styled godman Asaram Bapu, who is serving a life sentence for raping a minor, to undergo treatment for seven days at an Ayurvedic hospital in Maharashtra under police custody. Asaram, 83, who was arrested in September 2013, was admitted at AIIMS...
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The apex body of Hindus in Bangladesh on Tuesday said the minority Hindu community faced attacks and threats in 278 locations across 48 districts since the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led government on August 5 and termed it as an assault on the Hindu religion. The Bangladesh National Hindu Grand...
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Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde
Four police vehicles in Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's convoy rammed into each other in Jalgaon district on Tuesday afternoon but nobody was injured, the police said. Besides Shinde, deputy chief ministers Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar were also travelling in the convoy, an...
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Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan is stepping down effective immediately after just one year in the role, the company announced on Tuesday.The struggling coffee chain giant has announced that Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol will take over as chairman and CEO, starting September 9.
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The Election Commission will hold a meeting with Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla on Wednesday to review the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir, sources said. The EC had reviewed the poll preparedness in Jammu and Kashmir last week.Addressing a press conference in Jammu, Chief Election...
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Around 400 women representatives from Panchayati Raj Institutions have been invited as special guests to the 78th Independence Day celebrations at the Red Fort, the Ministry of Panchayati Raj said in a statement on Tuesday. According to officials from the rural development ministry, around 45...
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Salim-Javed, the legendary screenwriters who revolutionised Indian cinema in the 1970s with films such as Zanjeer, Sholay and Deewar, will reunite to pen a new feature project, Javed Akhtar, one-half of the duo, announced on Tuesday. The industry stalwart made the announcement during the trailer...
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met filmmaker Karan Johar and actor Rani Mukerji, who delivered a keynote address at the Australian Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday. Johar and Mukerji are in Australia to attend the 15th edition of the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne.Albanese...
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Independent MLA Ravi Rana
Independent MLA Ravi Rana, who represents the Badnera assembly constituency in Maharashtra's Amravati district, has said he would take back the funds distributed to women under the 'Ladki Bahin' financial assistance scheme if they don't vote for him in the upcoming state polls. Rana, an ally of...
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Lt Governor VK Saxena on Tuesday nominated Delhi Home Minister Kailash Gahlot to hoist the national flag at the state Independence Day event, officials at Raj Niwas said. The choice that bypasses several other senior government leaders is likely to set a stage for another round of tussle...
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The Delhi high court on Tuesday directed veteran journalist Rajdeep Sardesai to take down an objectionable video from social media showing Bharatiya Janata Party leader Shazia Ilmi purportedly abusing a video journalist.Justice Manmeet PS Arora passed the interim order on a plea by Ilmi claiming...
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Relatives of people who disappeared during the Hasina regime
The streets of Dhaka are witnessing a peculiar sight. Dozens of students have taken to manage traffic in the capital city of Bangladesh, which witnessed a violent uprising that led to Shiekh Hasina resigning her position as Prime Minister and the formation of an interim government led by Nobel...
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Indian Meteorological Department sounding an orange alert predicting very heavy rainfall in two districts. As per the latest update of the IMD, Pathanamthitta and Idukki have been placed on orange alert on Tuesday. Very heavy rainfall has been predicted in Ernakulam and Thrissur on Wednesday...
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Patients wait for hours on end outside a govt hospital
Stating that healthcare services have been affected due to the ongoing ceasework by junior doctors over the last few days, the West Bengal government on Tuesday appealed to them to resume work and restore normalcy for the welfare of the common people. Health Secretary N S Nigam reiterated that...
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Ayushmann Khurrana in Vicky Donor
A sperm or egg donor has no legal right on the child and cannot claim to be its biological parent, the Bombay High Court held on Tuesday while allowing a 42-year-old woman visitation rights to her five-year-old twin daughters. The woman, in her plea, said her daughters, born via surrogacy, were...
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All Indian salt and sugar brands, whether big or small, packaged or unpackaged, contain microplastics, according to a study published on Tuesday. The study, titled Microplastics in Salt and Sugar and conducted by the environmental research organisation Toxics Link, tested 10 types of salt --...
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The Calcutta High Court has ordered a CBI investigation into RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder incident. The court asked to hand over all documents to CBI immediately. The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday asked why a murder case was not registered at the outset and an unnatural death...
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People in Dhaka protest violence against Hindus. Pic: Fatima Tuj Johora/Reuters
The Indian visa application centre here resumed limited operations on Tuesday, days after Bangladesh saw violent clashes which led to the ouster of prime minister Sheikh Hasina. Hasina, 76, resigned and fled to India last week following widespread protests against her Awami League-led government...
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Mamata Banerjee at the hospital
The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday asked why a murder case was not registered at the outset and an unnatural death case was initiated into the alleged rape and murder of a woman doctor at state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam put forth the question...
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Indian Coast Guard Dornier aircraft, ALH choppers and hovercraft are carrying out surveillance operations along the maritime boundary with Bangladesh to prevent an illegal influx into India in view of the present situation there, say Indian Coast Guard officials.Sajeeb Wazed, the son of former...
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A murder case has been filed against Bangladesh's ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and six others over the death of a grocery shop owner during last month's violent clashes that led to the fall of her government, media reports said on Tuesday. The case was the first to be filed against Hasina,...
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After several PILs were filed at the Chief Justice division bench of Calcutta High Court regarding RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder incident, Chief Justice mentioned in court today that how can the principal -- who resigned by taking moral responsibility, could be appointed as the...
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More than a week after a pet dog fell on a four-year-old girl from the terrace of a building in Maharashtra's Thane, which resulted in her death, efforts are on to trace three more accused in connection with the incident, police said on Tuesday. The police arrested the pet owner following the...
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A two-member team of the National Commission for Women (NCW) visited West Bengal state-run R G Kar Medical College and Hospital on Tuesday morning. They went to the seminar hall where a woman doctor was raped and murdered. The two-member team led by Delina Khongdup went to meet the investigating...
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A woman in Rajasthan's Nagaur district was allegedly thrashed by her alcoholic husband, tied to a motorcycle and dragged around their village, police said on Tuesday. A video purporting to show the woman tied to the motorcycle and being dragged behind it was circulated on social media,...
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Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is a third-rate phoney candidate and more incompetent than her boss President Joe Biden, her Republican rival in the November election, Donald Trump, has said. In a much-anticipated audio-only interview with billionaire tech magnate Elon Musk on...
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The Pune police have registered a case against an unidentified person in connection with the hacking of the WhatsApp account of NCP (SP) Lok Sabha member Supriya Sule, an official said on Tuesday. The MP, who represents Baramati in Maharashtra's Pune district, in a post on X on Sunday claimed...
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Four junior doctors are among those summoned by Kolkata police for questioning on Tuesday in connection with the murder and alleged sexual assault case of a second year postgraduate student at a government-run hospital in the city last week.The junior doctors of the RG Kar Medical College in the...
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Four junior doctors are among those summoned by Kolkata police for questioning on Tuesday in connection with the murder and alleged sexual assault case of a second year postgraduate student at a government-run hospital in the city last week.The junior doctors of the RG Kar Medical College in the...
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-- Sensex declines 134.27 points to 79,514.65 in early trade; Nifty dips 38.65 points to 24,308.35.-- Para shuttler Pramod Bhagat suspended for 18 months due to whereabout clause failures, to miss Paris Paralympics.-- Dera Sacha Sauda chief and rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh has been...
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla accused Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government of hiding and suppressing the truth in the murder and alleged sexual assault of a 2nd year PG student of RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata.On one side, doctors are...
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Dr Muhammad Yunus, the head of the interim government
The dominance of her party also meant that the institutions became lopsided -- whether it was the bureaucracy or the courts or the military.She centralised power to the extent that you would see her representatives or her party office bearers having overly represented in these institutions.That...
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In a conversation with the billionaire CEO and entrepreneur Elon Musk, former US President Donald Trump opened up on the recent 'assassination attempt', which he described as a 'hard hit', and said that it was a surreal situation.During the interview, after X owner asked, how was the shooting...
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The Madras Sappers constructed the 190 feet-long Bailey bridge in Kerala's landslide-hit Wayanad to help expedite the rescue operations. It was a war-like situation, but instead of enemy fire, we fought against the vagaries of nature, says Major Seeta Shelke. Archana Masih/Rediff.com reports....
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Union Minister Kiren Rijiju accused opposition parties of defaming the country and said that a campaign was being run to project that minorities were not safe in India.Speaking at an event organised by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) minority morcha in Delhi, Rijiu said that whenever there was...
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Elon Musk has announced that a massive DDoS attack hit his livestream with former US President Donald Trump, forcing X owner to scale down the live audience.The interview was delayed as the glitch kept the users out of the livestream.'Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live...
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The prosecution on Monday opposed the bail pleas of six accused in the Porsche car crash case claiming these are influential persons and several key witnesses were afraid of them. Investigating officer Ganesh Ingale told court the accused, like fugitive businessmen Nirav Modi and Vijay Mallya,...
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All 11 accused arrested in connection with the July 2 Hathras stampede, which claimed 121 lives, appeared before a local court in Hathras on Monday. The accused, including two women, who are lodged in the Aligarh jail, joined the hearing virtually, their lawyer A P Singh said. The district court...
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An army soldier was stripped and assaulted in police custody in Jaipur, Rajasthan minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said on Monday after he visited the Shipra Path police station where he rebuked the cops over the alleged incident and raised the matter with the director general of police. A...
