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India confirmed on Friday that it has received an invitation from Pakistan for the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's (SCO) Council of Heads of Government meeting to be held in Islamabad in October.Pakistan invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday to the SCO's Council of Heads...
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An 'influencer' was allegedly stopped by the police while shooting a reel, because she was wearing a bikini, at Padukere beach.The woman had posted a reel about the incident, which has been picked up by local television channels and news outlets.According to her, policemen refused to allow her to...
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A couple was booked for allegedly assaulting an aggregator cab service driver after an argument over his car dashing their Audi vehicle, a Mumbai police official said on Friday.A video which went viral on social media purportedly showed the man throwing the 24-year-old cab driver onto the ground,...
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A vegetable vendor was arrested for allegedly molesting a 24-year-old woman at a market in Latur city of Maharashtra, police said on Friday.The incident occurred on Thursday when she was buying vegetables from the accused, they said.Following the incident, the Mahatma Phule Vegetable Market,...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said he will return to power in 2029 for a record fourth consecutive term.With some political pundits claiming that he may have lost his shine with the Bharatiya Janata Party not winning a majority on its own in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections,...
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Actor-politician Kangana Ranaut on Friday said her film Emergency is still stuck with the censor board contrary to rumours that it has been cleared for release.Ranaut, the Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Himachal Pradesh's Mandi, stars in the role of former prime minister Indira Gandhi in the film...
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Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in New Delhi has sent a legal notice to the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) seeking to prevent the release of Kangana Ranaut's upcoming film Emergency, claiming it may 'incite communal tensions' and 'spread misinformation'.It alleged the trailer of the film...
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A Delhi court on Friday granted bail to alleged conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar in a bribery case related to the AIADMK's two leaves election symbol. Special judge Vishal Gogne granted the relief to him on a personal bond of Rs 5 lakh. Chandrasekhar has been accused of acting as a middleman for...
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Telecom regulator Trai has extended the deadline for telecom operators to check transmission of SMSs that contain web links, which are not whitelisted, by a month to October 1, an official statement said on Friday. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India had set a deadline of September 1 to...
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A Delhi court on Friday ordered framing of charges for murder and other offences against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in a case related to alleged murder of three people in the north Delhi's Pul Bangash area during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) judge...
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BJP MP Kangana Ranaut shares a poem by Sahir Ludhianvi. Decipher as you may. Kangana was recently admonished by the BJP and gag order slapped on her after her comments on the farmers stir.
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A deep depression that triggered torrential rains and floods in Gujarat on Friday intensified into cyclone Asna off the coast of Kachchh and the adjoining areas of Pakistan, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. This is the first cyclonic storm in the Arabian Sea in August since 1976....
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Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty marched higher to scale fresh lifetime closing peaks on Friday, tracking a largely firm trend in global markets and renewed foreign fund inflows. Buying in index majors Bharti Airtel, ICICI Bank and Infosys also fuelled the rally in equities. Rallying...
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As six columns of the Indian Army are conducting rescue operations in the worst-affected areas as the flood-like situation continues, an additional team of 350 sanitation workers from Surat reached Vadodara to clean the affected areas after flood.The in-charge Executive Engineer, Surat Municipal...
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Two days after he quit the JMM, former Jharkhand chief minister Champai Soren joined the BJP on Friday. Soren along with a large number of his supporters crossed over to the saffron camp in the presence of Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma at a...
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Update: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he bow his head and apologise to the people of Maharashtra who were hurt by the collapse of the Shivaji statue at Sindhudurg.While addressing a gathering at Malvan in Maharashtra's Palghar district, the Prime Minister also criticised the opposition for...
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Floods have hit thousands of rice-growing farmers and life in general in the affected districts of Bihar. Hundreds of students of government run schools are deprived of education as floodwaters entered their schools.According to officials of the state education department, more than 250 schools...
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Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj is our deity; I apologise to him, PM Modi on collapse of warrior king's statue in Sindhudurg district. Stepping up her attack on PM Narendra Modi, Congress MP Varsha Gaikwad on Friday demanded an apology from the Prime Minister over the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj...
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The West Bengal BJP's woman unit staged a protest against the RG Kar rape and murder. The brutal murder of the junior doctor has fuelled several such protests. The women were seen protesting with cut-outs of locks accusing the state administration of inaction on law and order.On Friday BJP MLA...
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The CBI on Friday summoned former principal of Kar Medical College Sandip Ghosh for the 14th consecutive day for questioning in connection with its probe into the alleged rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor in the early hours of August 9. Ghosh, officials said, has already been...
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As Prime Minister Narendra Modi undertook his tour of Maharashtra the state Congress unit launched a protest against the state and central governments over the destruction of the Shivaji Maharaj statue in Sindhudurg.Youth Congress leaders and other party workers were detained by Mumbai police on...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, reiterating her request for stringent central legislation and exemplary punishment on heinous crimes like rape and murder. Banerjee, who wrote to Modi a few days ago on the issue following nationwide...
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The Joint Committee of Parliament scrutinising the Waqf (Amendment) bill on Friday sought suggestions from stakeholders, experts and other institutions on the proposed law. The bill seeks to reforming the registration process for Waqf properties through a centralised portal.According to a...
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A seven-year-old boy died after he was attacked by a pit bull while walking with his mother at Anjuna village in North Goa, an official has said. Inspector Suraj Gawas from Anjuna police station told reporters on Thursday that an FIR has been registered against the dog's owner, Abdul Kader...
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A deep depression over the Kutch coast and northeast Arabian Sea is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm during the next six hours. Thereafter, it would continue to move nearly west-northwestwards over the northeast Arabian Sea away from the Indian coast during the subsequent 2 days, says...
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Vistara will operate the last flight under its brand on November 11 and the full-service carrier's operations will be unified with Air India from November 12.The government has given its nod for the foreign direct investment by Singapore Airlines as part of the Air India-Vistara merger. Vistara...
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The victim's family want protests to continue
The Kolkata Police has denied claims made in some viral audio clips that had alleged that Kolkata Police had informed the RG Kar victim's parents that she had died by suicide. Indira Mukherjee, Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Central Division, Kolkata Police said that at no instant had the police...
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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar visited the site in Malvan where the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj collapsed on August 26.Pawar stated, Everyone is saddened by what has happened. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj is our deity, and we are all proud of his legacy. The Chief Minister...
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A post office littered with parcels of the dead and missing, a special police unit deployed to stop 'selfie tourists' and patrols to check thefts in abandoned houses is all that remains in the three Wayanad villages that were wiped off during the deadly landslides that occurred exactly a month...
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Kurumbur in gold-loving Tamil Nadu was once a thriving centre for goldsmiths.Today their number is down to two.A Ganesh Nadar finds out why. Read the report here.
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We used to give these boxers a hammering in the ring and now they are teaching youngsters how to defend. Come on man.Things are not functioning properly. Nowadays, they only have observers and the boxers are selected on the basis of their scores, there are no trials to decide who is the best,...
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Tamil Nadu CM makes sure to get this steps right. MK Stalin posts this image on X writing, Starting the day with a brisk walk in San Francisco, gearing up for the Investors Conclave this evening.
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Manipur CM inspects an area in Bishnupur-Churachandpur. File pic
With ethnic violence gradually subsiding, Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh has promised to fully restore peace in the state in six months with the Centre's help, and also ruled out stepping down, saying he has neither committed a crime nor spawned a scandal. In an interview with PTI Videos...
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An IMA study has revealed that one-third of its respondent doctors, majority of them being women, felt unsafe or very unsafe during their night shifts, so much so that some even felt the need to start carrying weapons for self-defence. A duty room was not available to 45 per cent of respondents...
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The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted heavy rainfall today, Friday, in isolated areas of Gujarat's districts, including Kachchh, Morbi, Jamnagar, Devbhoomi Dwarka, and Porbandar.Moderate thunderstorms/lightning with maximum surface wind speeds of 40-60 km/h (in gusts),...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Maharashtra on Friday during which he will address Global Fintech Fest (GFF) 2024 in Mumbai and lay the foundation stone of Vadhvan Port project worth around Rs 76,000 crore in Palghar, his office has said. Modi will address GFF 2024 at the Jio World...
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Police in Maharashtra's Raigad district on Thursday registered a case of `culpable homicide not amounting to murder' against a contractor for alleged substandard work on a stretch of 26.7 kilometres between Indapur and Wadpale on the Mumbai-Goa national highway, and also arrested a project...
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Chetan Patil, the structural consultant named in the FIR registered in connection with the collapse of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's statue in Maharashtra's Sindhudurg district, has been arrested from Kolhapur, police said on Friday.Patil was taken into custody late on Thursday night and was...
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Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has assured Sikh community leaders that the state government would consider banning the release of Kangana Ranaut's upcoming film Emergency pending legal consultation, government adviser Mohammad Ali Shabbir said on Thursday. A delegation from the...
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Facing financial headwinds, SpiceJet has decided to furlough 150 cabin crew members for three months. The budget carrier is operating with a reduced number of planes amid financial, legal and lessor woes. Currently, it has an operational fleet of around 22 aircraft. A total of 150 cabin crew...
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A fire broke out in an electric scooter showroom housed in a multi-storeyed commercial building in Indore city on Thursday evening, prompting authorities to move nearly 2,500 people, including students attending coaching classes, to safer place, an official said. Nobody was injured in the blaze...
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The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence has arrested three persons involved in the transportation of smuggled gold in Mumbai and seized 22.89 kg of the precious metal worth Rs 16.71 crore, officials said on Thursday. Besides the yellow metal, Rs 40 lakh, which was sale proceeds of smuggled gold,...
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A man has been booked for trespassing for allegedly trying to enter the Parliament complex on a fake entry pass, officials said on Thursday. According to the police, a labourer of a civil construction site inside the Parliament complex was found carrying a fake entry pass while checking at one of...
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A 24-year-old man, distributing milk in the early hours of Thursday, died after a speeding SUV driven by a teenage boy knocked down his two-wheeler in Goregaon area in Mumbai, the police said. The incident took place in Aarey Colony around 4 am. Navin Vaishnaw died after a Mahindra Scorpio which...
