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Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee legal aid cell chairman and president of the Lawyers' Congress state committee, V S Chandrasekharan, resigned from his posts on Wednesday after being named by an actress in connection with sexual abuse allegations. According to Congress sources,...
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The Indian High Commission in Malaysia on Wednesday said that the authorities are continuing their search to locate an Indian woman who fell into a sinkhole here last Friday. Vijaya Lakshmi Gali fell into a sinkhole in the Malaysian capital on August 23. The high commission said in a...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday chaired a meeting of the entire Council of Ministers where issues affecting women and timely delivery of various policy measures figured prominently, sources said. The five-hour meeting, held at the Sushma Swaraj Bhawan in New Delhi, also took stock...
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An encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists in the Tangdhar area of Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district on Wednesday, officials said. The exchange of firing began at the Khushal Post in the Tangdhar area, near the Line of Control, they said. There are no reports of...
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Senior IPS officers Rajwinder Singh Bhatti and Daljit Singh Chaudhary were on Wednesday appointed as the chiefs of the Central Industrial Security Force and the Border Security Force, according to an official order. Bhatti is a 1990 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Bihar...
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Hundreds of food lovers from Kerala and Coimbatore thronged the Boche Food Express train hotel on Wednesday to participate in the Chicken Briyani contest. The management announced that those who eat 6 plates of Briyani in 30 minutes can win Rs 1 lakh. Boche Food Express train hotel has...
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A 29-year-old man was allegedly killed early Wednesday following an altercation over a delayed order at an eatery in west Delhi's Rajouri Garden area, the police said. The man, as per reports, was beaten with sticks and a sharp object. Preliminary investigation revealed that the victim,...
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The market value of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway hit $1 trillion on Wednesday, making it the first US non-tech firm to achieve the feat, reports CNN. On Tuesday morning, shares of Berkshire Hathaway briefly rose high enough to give the conglomerate holding company a market value of $1...
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The iconic film Sholay, written by the legendary writer duo Salim-Javed, will have a special screening in Mumbai. The film's re-release will celebrate the magic of Salim-Javed. On Wednesday the official Instagram handle of Tiger Baby Films dropped an official announcement for the...
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The nomination papers of 35 candidates including that of jailed separatist Sarjan Barkati were on Wednesday rejected during scrutiny for the first phase of Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, leaving 244 contestants in the fray. The first phase covering 24 segments -- 16 in south Kashmir...
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A total of 183 pilgrims have died since the start of Chardham Yatra in May this year in Uttarakhand, the State Emergency Operations Centre said on Wednesday.Out of 183 deaths, 177 died due to health related issues and six in natural disasters along the pilgrimage route, the SEOC said.Chardham...
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Walmart-backed fintech major PhonePe on Wednesday said the market cap overhang is a challenge for the potential listing of the company and can not go to the market based on the current numbers and market share. He also said the company plans to enter the European market in...
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Former chief minister Champai Soren on Wednesday resigned from the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha saying he was forced to take such a step as he was aggrieved by the party's present style of functioning and policies. Soren, who is scheduled to join the BJP soon, said his struggle for the cause of...
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Congress leader and former MLA Anil Akkara on Wednesday said he lodged a complaint with the police against Union minister Suresh Gopi over his conduct on Tuesday towards the media in Thrissur. Akkara said he emailed a complaint to the Thrissur city police commissioner on...
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The government has strengthened the security of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat in view of latest threat inputs analysed by federal intelligence agencies, official sources said Wednesday. The 73-year-old Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief is secured by an armed VIP protection...
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In a fresh offensive to curb pesky calls, Trai has asked the industry that if a higher tariff should be introduced for calls and SMSs beyond a certain limit in a graded manner, according to a new discussion paper on measures to tighten norms around telemarketing communications. In a...
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Ahead of the assembly polls, security forces on Wednesday unearthed a terrorist hideout in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir and recovered six hand grenades, officials said. The hideout was busted by a joint search party of police and Rashtriya Rifles in Dachin top area of Sindhra in...
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The loco pilot of a goods train saved the lives of five lions when he applied emergency brakes and stopped the train in time in Gujarat's Amreli district in the early hours of Wednesday, an official said.The incident occurred around 4.30 am on the Pipavav-Rajula section of the Gir forest where...
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A 35-year-old man was taken into custody for allegedly raping a 60-year-old woman in Sangareddy district of Telangana, police said on Wednesday.The incident happened at around late Monday night when the accused, a vegetable vendor, in a drunken state allegedly sexually assaulted the woman while...
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Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan's family office is believed to have picked up a minor stake in IPO-bound food-delivery and quick-commerce platform Swiggy. The stake has been picked up through the purchase of shares from the company's employees and early investors, according to media...
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The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Wednesday suspended the membership of former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Dr Sandip Ghosh, amid a CBI probe into the alleged rape and murder of a junior doctor at the Kolkata-based institute earlier this month. The decision to suspend...
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A Delhi court on Wednesday dismissed RAU's IAS Study Circle's petition to allow it access to the premises of its Old Rajender Nagar building where three UPSC civil services aspirants drowned in July due to flooding. Application dismissed, Chief judicial magistrate Nishant Garg said.The...
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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Wednesday apologised to people of Maharashtra for the collapse of the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at Malvan fort in coastal Konkan region. Be it officials or contractors, action will be taken against those guilty, Ajit Pawar...
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Flight services at the Amristar airport were disrupted for about three hours after the air traffic control (ATC) tower spotted a sudden movement of three objects resembling drones in the airspace, officials said on Wednesday. This disrupted the landing and taking off operations of all the...
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More people have lost their lives in India in road accidents than wars, militancy and Naxalism, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Wednesday. Addressing the sixth Edition of FICCI Road Safety Awards and Conclave 2024, Gadkari further said the number of...
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The newly-elected ICC Chairman Jay Shah's efforts as BCCI secretary in giving equal priority to men's and women's cricket have made the Indian board a pioneer for other governing bodies of the game to follow, reckoned legendary Sachin Tendulkar on Wednesday. Shah will leave BCCI after...
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It will take more than just the enhanced acreage of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and town criers heralding the return of liberal pluralism to rein in Modi's authoritarian unilateralism, writes Sankarshan Thakur. Read the column here.
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With many parts of Gujarat's Vadodara city remaining inundated on the second consecutive day, the situation is alarming and the Army has been called in to carry out relief and rescue work, the state government said on Wednesday. Some areas were under 10 to 12 feet of water, said Health...
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The body of a 32-year-old woman TV journalist in Bangladesh was recovered from a lake in Dhaka on Wednesday, according to media reports. The deceased was identified as Sarah Rahanuma, a newsroom editor at Gazi TV, a Bengali-language satellite and cable television channel owned by Gazi...
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The Congress on Wednesday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the collapse of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's statue at Rajkot fort in Sindhudurg and asked whether he will apologise to the Maratha empire founder for putting his own personal ambitions above the Maharaj's...
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The CBI on Wednesday began the process of conducting a polygraph test on Kolkata Police ASI Anup Dutta to decipher his alleged links with Sanjay Roy, arrested in the rape and murder case of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, officials said. The Central Bureau of...
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In her first comment on Kolkata doctor's rape-murder, President Droupadi Murmu tells PTI she is 'dismayed and horrified'. Enough is enough, the anguished president says on crimes against women. Even as students, doctors and citizens were protesting in Kolkata, criminals remained on...
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WB IMA protests the horrific incident
Night patrolling on hospital premises and regulating access for people to key areas are among the measures the Centre has asked states to implement to ensure the safety of medics at workplaces, following Supreme Court orders in the rape-murder case of a junior doctor in Kolkata. The incident...
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A court in Bengaluru on Wednesday extended till September nine the judicial custody of Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa along with his friend Pavithra Gowda and others, who are accused in the Renukaswamy murder case. All the 17 accused, including Darshan and Pavithra, were produced...
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Following incessant heavy rainfall in Jamnagar, the city is facing severe waterlogging in places. Several houses submerged in water; normal life affected.
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Democratic Progressive Azad Party chairman Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday said that he will not be able to campaign for his candidates in the upcoming assembly elections. In a statement issued to media houses in Srinagar, Azad said that on the night of August 25, he suffered acute chest pain...
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IAF pilots and crew dodged low hanging clouds, mist covered hills, steep valleys and landed on broken landing grounds to rescue civilians in Wayanad.In one mission, they had to descend vertically to get close to the survivors.IAF crews flew over 80 missions, saving lives and giving hope. This is...
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Amid the 12-hour 'Bengal Bandh' called by BJP today, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee says, We have dedicated this day to the RG Kar doctor. We want justice but BJP today called for a bandh. They don't want justice, they are only trying to defame Bengal.We don't support this bandh. BJP never...
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A video of several cows being thrown into a swollen river in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh by a group of persons has gone viral on social media, prompting the police to register a case against four men. As per the preliminary reports, 15 to 20 cows have died in the incident that occurred...
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If you haven't seen this yet, do. Rahul Gandhi posted this image on Instagram writing, Mum's favorite? Clearly, Noorie (heart emoji).
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday alleged that Jharkhand minister Champai Soren had been under 'surveillance of his own government' police for last five months. Two sub-inspectors (SIs) of Special Branch of Jharkhand Police were nabbed by Soren's people in a Delhi hotel...
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BJP MP Roopa Ganguly was detained
BJP workers clashed with the police at several places across West Bengal on Wednesday as they tried to enforce a 12-hour shutdown in the state. Several BJP leaders, including former Rajya Sabha MP Roopa Ganguly and MLA Agnimitra Paul, were detained for blocking roads and railway tracks since...
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Former Member of Rajya Sabha, Sambhaji Chhatrapati on Wednesday said that he had written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the inauguration of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj statue, saying that it was not up to the mark.Sambhaji told ANI that the protocols that should have been...
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Showbiz has always been a patriarchal power set-up where if a woman speaks up, she is labelled as a trouble maker, said actor Swara Bhasker as the findings of the Justice Hema Committee report on sexual exploitation in Malayalam film industry leads to an uproar with more and more people coming...
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Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Wednesday slammed Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma for his will not let 'Miya' Muslims take over the state remark, saying his comment was pure communal venom and silence was not the answer to such a statement.Asserting that he would take sides, Sarma on...
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Hemant Soren was granted bail in June
The Supreme Court on Wednesday held that even in money laundering cases, bail is a rule and jail is an exception, and granted relief to Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren's aide in an illegal mining related case registered by the Enforcement Directorate. A bench of Justices BR Gavai...
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Simone Biles shares this image among others with her medals on X, writing, 6 year old me would be proud.The American artistic gymnast has won 11 Olympic medals and 30 World Championship which make her the most decorated gymnast in history. She is considered to be one of the...
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'Garm Hava understands that the scorching, hate-filled, doubt-filled affair between Hindus and Muslims is our national love affair.'Sreehari Nair revisits M S Sathyu's classic film, featuring the incomparable Balraj Sahni at his finest in his final role. Read the column here.
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A cop lobs a teargas shell during protests yesterday
Even as the BJP continues its 12-hour 'Bengal Bandh', party leader Priyangu Pandey on Wednesday claimed that people belonging to TMC attacked and fired on his car in the Bharpara area of North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal.He also alleged that bombs were thrown on his car and then 6-7...
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After two teenage girls were found hanging on a tree at Bhagautipur village of Kaimganj, Chief Medical Officer Farrukhabad Avanindra Kumar said that the postmortem of both girls has been conducted and there is no evidence of sexual or physical assault.CMO Farrukhabad Avanindra Kumar said,...
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Food delivery company Zomato has completed the acquisition of Paytm subsidiaries WEPL and OTPL for the entertainment ticketing business, the company said in its filing with the exchanges.On August 21, the Deepinder Goyal-led company entered into definitive agreements for the acquisition of...
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NC VP Omar Abdullah responds to journalist Rahul Shivshakar's post on US diplomats visiting him. Omar writes on X:Dear Mr Shivshankar, Normally I'd ignore misinformation/disinformation that is sought to be passed off as fact but since are an editor in chief & have a leadership role in...
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Self-styled godman Asaram Bapu, who is serving a life sentence in Jodhpur Central Jail for raping a minor, has been brought to a medical facility at Khopoli in Maharashtra's Raigad district for treatment of a heart-related ailment, officials said on Wednesday. Asaram, 83, who was arrested in...
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The number of injured people during the Dahi Handi celebrations on the occasion of Krishna Janmashtami has risen to 238, according to the latest reports by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and other private hospitals on Wednesday.Earlier, the number of injured Govinda's was at...
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Daily life was somewhat affected in parts of West Bengal on Wednesday due to a 12-hour shutdown called by the BJP in protest against the police action against demonstrators during a march to the state secretariat. In Kolkata, the usual busy roads on a weekday morning was missing with fewer...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday expressed her grief and solidarity with the family of a trainee doctor, who was sexually assaulted and murdered at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9.In a post on X, CM Mamata said that she is dedicating the foundation...
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BJP's 12-hour 'Bengal Bandh' begins today. Drivers of North Bengal State Transport Corporation (NBSTC) buses are seen wearing helmets in Cooch Behar.A bus driver says, We are wearing helmets because of the bandh called by the BJP today. The department has given us the helmets to wear for...
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The Supreme Court-appointed National Task Force (NTF) met for the first time on Tuesday to formulate a protocol for the safety and security of healthcare professionals. At the meeting, it was decided that the NTF would hold wider consultations with all stakeholders and chief secretaries and...
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Port and dock workers' unions of major ports have deferred their indefinite strike proposed from Wednesday, official sources said on Tuesday. The decision came after an agreement between representatives of workers' unions and ports management on workers' demands at a marathon meeting in the...
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The Railway Board has given its approval for operating a bi-weekly train for Goa and Maharashtra's Konkan region from Bandra Terminus station on the Western Railway, officials said on Tuesday. The train's inaugural run will take place on August 29 from Borivali, a major station on WR,...
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The Indian Navy is likely to commission its second nuclear submarine INS Arighat on Thursday. The commissioning of the second boat is expected to be done in presence of the top defence, national security and military officials, sources said. The submarine INS Arighat is the...
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