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A woman has levelled the charge of rape against Ram Niwas Surjakhera, a rebel Jannayak Janta Party MLA in Haryana who recently resigned from the assembly, with the police in Jind lodging a case against the lawmaker. Surjakhera has dismissed the allegation as part of conspiracies against him...
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As many as 342 special trains will be operated for the next month's Ganesh festival, Union railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday.Lakhs of people travel to their native places in Konkan from Mumbai every year during the ten-day festival, slated to start from September 7.There was a...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Maharashtra's Palghar and Mumbai tomorrow to inaugurate development projects in Palghar. At around 11 am, the prime minister will address Global Fintech Fest 2024 at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai. The PM will address a Special Session of...
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InterGlobe Aviation promoter Rakesh Gangwal's family trust on Thursday sold a 5.24 percent stake in the airline for Rs 9,549 crore through open market transactions. The share sale is part of Gangwal's decision in February 2022 to trim his shareholding after a bitter feud with co-founder...
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PM Narendra Modi with the officer trainees of the 2023 batch of IFS, in New Delhi/ANI Photo
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday met officer trainees of the 2023 batch of the Indian Foreign Service and asserted that India engages with the world on an equal footing, with mutual respect and dignity. During the meeting, the trainees praised the success of the foreign policy under...
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In a rare meteorological phenomenon in the month of August, a cyclone is brewing over Saurashtra-Kutch region of Gujarat which is expected to emerge over the Arabian Sea on Friday and travel towards the Oman coast. A national bulletin issued by the India meteorological department said the...
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Director Lokesh Kanagaraj on Thursday announced that Telugu superstar Nagarjuna has boarded his upcoming movie Coolie, headlined by Tamil cinema icon Rajinikanth. The movie, backed by Chennai-based production house Sun Pictures, is the 171st film of Rajinikanth's career. Kanagaraj,...
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The CBI on Thursday conducted polygraph tests on two private guards employed at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, where a trainee postgraduate doctor was allegedly raped and killed on August 9, officials said. The guards were produced before a Kolkata court on Thursday for...
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The finance ministry on Thursday said there are no restrictions for persons of the LGBTQ community to open a joint bank account and to nominate a person in a queer relationship as a nominee. This is to clarify that there are no restrictions for persons of the queer community to open a joint...
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All Delhi-based Doctors' Associations have called for a silent protest on Friday at Rajiv Chowk as part of their ongoing effort to demand justice and heightened safety measures for healthcare professionals following the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata.The march will see...
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People protest against the murder of a female doctor RG Kar Hospital, in Kolkata/ANI Photo
Amid protests by civil society members across West Bengal over the rape-murder of a trainee doctor of RG Kar hospital earlier this month, a well-known theatre group in Malda district on Thursday said it will return a Rs 50,000 state grant to protest the government's handling of the...
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One of the five Delhi councillors who quit the Aam Aadmi Party earlier this week to join the Bharatiya Janata Party returned to the AAP fold on Thursday, saying it was a mistake and he wanted to rectify it. Ramchandra, councillor from ward number 28, is a former MLA from the Bawana assembly...
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Aviation watchdog Directorate General of Civil Aviation on Thursday decided to place crisis-hit SpiceJet under enhanced surveillance that will entail increased spot checks and night surveillance to ensure the safety of the airline's operations. Based on reports of cancellation of flights and...
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Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) scientist Ramashray Yadav on Thursday forecasted that Saurashtra and Kutch are likely to receive extremely heavy rainfall.A heavy rainfall warning has been issued for Jamnagar, Porbandar, Morbi, Swarka and Kutch districts.The deep depression lies 60km...
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Champai Soren
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha legislator from Ghatshila, Ramdas Soren, is likely to replace Champai Soren in the Jharkhand cabinet, an official said on Thursday.The development follows resignation of the former chief minister from the JMM, as a minister and an MLA on Wednesday. He is scheduled to join...
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India's extradition request of a Danish national accused of involvement in the Purulia arms drop case in 1995 has been rejected by a court in Copenhagen on Friday. Media reported that although Denmark's prosecuting agency had authorised the extradition of Hiels Holck to India, a Danish court...
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Union minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday flagged off the inaugural run of a bi-weekly train between Bandra Terminus in Mumbai and Madgaon which will enhance connectivity of the city's western suburbs with Maharashtra's Konkan region and Goa. Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw attended the...
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Corroded nuts and bolts likely contributed to the collapse of the Shivaji statue by causing a failure in steel members forming the frame inside the statue, according to a structural engineer. Ankles' of a statue, where the weight of the entire structure comes to rest upon, are most critical...
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Among the 30 Sensex firms, Tata Motors jumped over 4 per cent, followed by Bajaj Finserv, Bajaj Finance, HCL Technologies, ITC, Reliance Industries, Tech Mahindra, Maruti and State Bank of India. Reliance Industries climbed nearly 2 per cent after Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of...
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He manages to watch cricket, grows chillies at his Los Angeles home and makes sure he keeps in touch with friends. But there is one thing that renowned conductor Zubin Mehta misses and doesn't get Hapus mangoes. There are but a few things in the world -- other than musical notes of course --...
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Omar Abdullah posts: Sorry to hear about the demise of A G Noorani Sb earlier today. Noorani Sb was a man of letters, an accomplished lawyer, a scholar & a political commentator. He wrote extensively on matters of law and on subjects like Kashmir, RSS and the constitution. May Allah grant him...
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Jio will aim to add a million broadband homes every month to achieve 100 million home broadband customers in a record time, RIL Chairman Mukesh Ambani said on Thursday. While speaking at RIL's 47th AGM, Ambani said JioAirFiber clocked first million customers in six month. By...
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@INCKerala posts a video of the remains of a road leading to the Statue of Unity. It says, Welcome to the Statue of Unity! Where the road doubles as a giant jigsaw puzzle. Extra points if you reach the statue in one piece!See the video here.
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Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty hit their all-time high levels on Thursday, driven by a rally in index majors Reliance Industries and Tata Motors. The 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 349.05 points or 0.43 per cent to settle at an all-time closing high of 82,134.61, extending its...
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Amid floods in Gujarat following incessant rainfall, the road connecting Padana Patiya to Changa Patiya in Jamnagar has been closed for the movement of traffic.A portion of a small bridge over Sir PN Road has also been washed away due to flooding affecting the movement of commuters.Meanwhile,...
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Days after she was reprimanded for her controversial remarks on the farmers' protest, BJP MP Kangana Ranaut met party president JP Nadda at his residence in New Delhi on Thursday. This is the second time that Ranaut has met the BJP president since she stirred a controversy earlier this...
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Mukesh Ambani and family
Recouping the dent caused by the Hindenburg Research report, Gautam Adani's net worth shot up 95 per cent to Rs 11.6 lakh crore last year, which helped him replace Mukesh Ambani to become the richest Indian, a report said on Thursday. Reliance Industries Chairman and Managing Director...
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No, not time-pass, which is an Indian favourite, these men are in fact, hawkers queueing up to vote at a BMC school at Matunga. They are voting of the implementation of the hawking zone policy in Mumbai.
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The Assam Assembly on Thursday passed a bill to repeal a law to register marriages and divorces of Muslims. Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Jogen Mohan had on August 22 tabled The Assam Repealing Bill, 2024 in the Assembly to abolish The Assam Moslem Marriages and Divorces Registration...
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The board of Reliance Industries Ltd will consider issuing 1:1 bonus shares on September 5, the company said in a regulatory filing on Thursday. Reliance, the nation's most valuable company, had last issued bonus shares in September 2017. A meeting of the Board of Directors of the...
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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee tweets, I detect a malicious disinformation campaign in some print, electronic and digital media which has been unleashed with reference to a speech that I made in our students' programme yesterday. Let me most emphatically clarify that I have not uttered a single...
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Kolkata is set to witness a series of rallies and demonstrations on Thursday to protest against the alleged rape and murder of a doctor with political parties and several civil society organisations planning to hit the streets during the day. Despite attempts by police to stop BJP's...
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Reacting to the West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee's If you burn Bengal, Assam, North-East, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, and Delhi too shall burn! remarks, Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Thursday compared Mamata Banerjee to North Korea' Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un and said Mamata can't...
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Veteran actor Shabana Azmi says outrage over cases of crimes against women should not be selective and the society needs to work on the root cause of the menace. Azmi said there is need to end the patriarchal mindset of the people as sexual assault cases have not decreased since the...
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Gujarat: Jamnagar's Ranjit Sagar Dam overflows as the water level reaches 29 feet after continuous heavy rainfall in the district.
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Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi slammed his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee for allegedly making negative and hateful comments on the coastal state. Referring to the alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor in a Kolkata hospital, Majhi also alleged that Banerjee was making...
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Overnight rains led to waterlogging in many parts of Delhi, affecting traffic movement on Thursday morning. The minimum temperature was recorded at 23 degrees Celsius, three notches below the season's average, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). The humidity level...
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Equity benchmark indices declined in early trade on Thursday amid weak trends from global markets but soon turned positive and were trading marginally higher. The 30-share BSE Sensex declined 102.78 points to 81,682.78 in early trade. The NSE Nifty dipped 34.85 points to 25,017.50....
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Police have arrested a male teacher of a civic school at Bhiwandi in Maharashtra's Thane district for allegedly showing obscene videos to girl students on his mobile phone, an official said on Thursday. The accused, identified as Muzammil, was arrested on Wednesday, he said. His...
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Following a request from the Gujarat government, six columns of the Indian Army are conducting rescue operations in the worst-affected areas as the flood-like situation continues in parts of the state due to incessant rainfall. The Army has been deployed to support the ongoing relief...
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The Meghalaya Police recovered the decomposed body of Awami League leader Ishaque Ali Khan Panna from a betelnut plantation in Jaintia Hills district bordering Bangladesh, officials said. The body was discovered on August 26 evening, around 1.5 km from the India-Bangladesh border, they...
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The Maharashtra Government has set up a technical committee comprising engineers, IIT experts and Navy officials to probe reasons behind the collapse of Shivaji Maharaj statue at Malvan in coastal Konkan, an official said. A release issued by the Chief Minister's office after midnight...
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An encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district after troops launched a cordon and search operation in response to suspected militant movement, officials said. A search operation...
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A rape case has been registered against prominent Malayalam actor and ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist MLA M Mukesh following a female actor's allegation that he sexually assaulted her years ago, police said on Thursday.An FIR under IPC 376 (rape) was registered against the actor at Maradu...
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A school bus overturned while crossing a flooded drain in a village in Jaipur on Wednesday morning, prompting the locals and police to launch a rescue operation, officials said. The police and local villagers rescued all the nine students travelling in the bus and sent them home safely, they...
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India and Israel on Wednesday held a key meeting during which the two sides reviewed the entire gamut of bilateral endeavours even as New Delhi shared its concern over the escalating situation in West Asia and emphasised restraint, dialogue, and diplomacy, an official statement said. During...
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The Meghalaya police recovered the semi-decomposed body of Awami League leader Ishaque Ali Khan Panna from a betelnut plantation in Jaintia Hills district bordering Bangladesh, officials said on Wednesday. The body was discovered on August 26 evening, around 1.5km from the Indo-Bangladesh...
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The first double-decker flyover in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region which connects a viaduct for metro line 9 was inaugurated on Wednesday by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. The one-km-long flyover integrates a metro viaduct and a road flyover for Metro Line-9 in Mira Bhayandar in Thane...
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