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Dozens of ISKCON members who possessed valid travel documents were turned back on Sunday by Bangladesh's immigration police from Benapole border crossing when they tried to cross into India, a media report said.We consulted the special branch of police and received instructions from the higher...
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A Delhi court on Sunday sent Aam Aadmi Party's Uttam Nagar MLA Naresh Balyan to police custody for two days in an extortion case.Delhi Police in its application claimed that Balyan, who was arrested on Saturday, was non-cooperative during the investigation and his custodial interrogation was...
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The name of Devendra Fadnavis has been finalised as the new chief minister of Maharashtra, a senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader said on Sunday night.Speaking on condition of anonymity, he told PTI that the BJP legislature party meeting will be held on either December 2 or 3.The oath-taking...
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Cautioning students against raising slogans targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and law enforcement agencies on its campus, the Jamia Millia Islamia has said no protests and dharnas against any 'constitutional dignitaries' are allowed in the university and warned of strict disciplinary action...
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Senior Congress leader and former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Sunday batted for 100 per cent counting of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips.Chavan alleged the Election Commission of India had something to hide though he did not elaborate.The VVPAT is a vote...
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Shiv Sena MLA Gulabrao Patil on Sunday said the Eknath Shinde-led party would have won 90-100 seats in the November 20 assembly polls if Ajit Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party was not part of the Mahayuti.The Mahayuti comprises the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Shiv Sena and the NCP.Pawar had...
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Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said he was ready to ban beef in Assam if state Congress chief Bhupen Kumar Borah writes to him, seeking it. Responding to the allegation that BJP distributed beef to win the Muslim-dominated Samaguri, which was under Congress control for five consecutive...
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A court in Bangladesh has set December 3 as the date for the bail hearing of Hindu leader Chinmoy Krishna Das arrested last week on sedition charges, according to a media report.Tuesday's hearing will be conducted by Metropolitan Sessions Judge Mohammad Saiful Islam, according to Additional...
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The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on December 2 a public interest litigation challenging the Election Commission's decision to increase the maximum number of voters per polling station from 1,200 to 1,500.A bench of Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar will take up the PIL...
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The high court in Dhaka on Sunday scrapped the lower court's verdict and acquitted all accused, including former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia's son Tarique Rahman and former state minister Lutfozzaman Babar, in a 2004 grenade attack in ousted premier Sheikh Hasina's rally.The high court...
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The funeral of 12 Kuki-Zo men, including the 10 killed in a gunfight with Central Reserve Police Force in Jiribam, will be held in Manipur's Churachandpur district on December 5, a leading organisation of the community said.The Indigenous Tribal Leaders' Forum (ITLF) held an emergency meeting on...
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Mumbai Cyber Police has lodged a first information report (FIR) against a man who claimed he could hack EVMs by isolating machine frequency, Election Commission (EC) officials said.The complaint in the matter was lodged by the Maharashtra chief electoral officer (CEO), alleging that the claims...
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A worker died and two other people were injured when a section of an under-construction tunnel collapsed in Kota district of Rajasthan, police said on Sunday.Superintendent of Police, Kota Rural, Sujit Shankar said the tunnel is part of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway. A portion of it collapsed on...
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader Raosaheb Danve on Sunday said the name of Maharashtra's new chief minister has been finalised and a confirmation is awaited from the senior party leadership.The people of Maharashtra know who will be the next CM, former Union minister Danve said without taking any...
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Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday ruled out the possibility of an alliance between his party and the Congress for the Delhi Assembly polls due in February.There will be no alliance in Delhi, Kejriwal said at a press conference in New Delhi.The AAP and the Congress are part of the...
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President-elect Donald Trump
President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday warned BRICS countries against any move to replace the US dollar and has sought a commitment from the nine-member group that includes India, Russia, China, and Brazil. BRICS, formed in 2009, is the only major international group of which the United...
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Malayalam superstar Mohanlal on Sunday said he has completed filming on the upcoming movie L2: Empuraan, directed by Prithviraj Sukumaran. The film will release in theatres on March 27, 2025, in Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi L2: Empuraan, a sequel to Sukumaran's 2019 release...
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The national capital continued to grapple with toxic air as its air quality remained in the very poor category for the eighth consecutive day on Sunday. The Air Quality Index stood at 329 at 9 am, a slight dip from Saturday's 24-hour average of 346, according to data from the Central...
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The Enforcement Directorate has summoned businessman Raj Kundra, the husband of actor Shilpa Shetty, for questioning in a money laundering case linked to the alleged illegal distribution of pornographic movies, official sources said on Sunday. They said Kundra has been asked to depose...
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma
In a tit-for-tat response, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said he would send two delegations to study a few things in Jharkhand, days after his counterpart Hemant Soren took a cabinet decision to despatch an all-party team to study the plight of tea tribes in the northeastern...
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Jet fuel, or ATF, price on Sunday was hiked by 1.45 percent and rates of commercial LPG used in hotels and restaurants increased by Rs 16.5 per 19-kg cylinder in the monthly revision done in line with international oil price trends. The aviation turbine fuel price was increased by Rs...
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Seven Maoists were killed in an exchange of fire with the police in a forest area in Mulugu district of Telangana on Sunday. The incident occurred during a combing operation in the forest area of Eturnagaram between Greyhounds, an elite anti-naxal force of Telangana police and the ultras,...
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The Anti-Corruption Bureau of Telangana has unearthed documents of properties worth over Rs 17 crore during searches at the house and other places belonging to a suspended engineer in the irrigation department. The market value of the properties is expected to be much higher than the...
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Maharashtra's caretaker Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, who took ill at his native village in Satara district, is recovering and will return to Mumbai on Sunday evening, an associate said. A team of doctors checked on Shinde as he developed high fever on Saturday. The Shiv Sena leader...
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A major fire broke out at a private godown near the Ernakulam Junction Railway Station early Sunday, causing panic among the public. No casualties were reported though, authorities said.According to the Fire and Rescue Services, the blaze erupted around 1 am at a scrap godown near the...
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Two members of a three-man judicial commission formed to probe the November 24 violence in Sambhal reached Moradabad on Saturday, and are likely to visit the violence-hit town on Sunday, officials said. Moradabad divisional commissioner Aunjaneya Kumar Singh said, Two members of the...
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The detection of an emergency locator transmitter signal, which points to a downed aircraft or people in distress after a plane crash, near Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport caused panic for three hours in Nagpur in Maharashtra, officials said on Saturday. An ELT is a battery...
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US President-elect Donald Trump has met Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where they discussed key bilateral issues, including trade, tariffs, border security, and drug trafficking. In a social media post on Friday, Trump described the meeting as...
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Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who is on a two-day visit to Kerala after her maiden electoral win from the Wayanad hill constituency, will address joint public meetings with her brother and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi in the district on Sunday. According to the...
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Flight operations at the Chennai International Airport resumed early on Sunday morning after Cyclone Fengal crossed the North Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coasts. Shiva, a passenger travelling to Abu Dhabi via Air Arabia flight, said, We have been waiting here since 8 PM last night. I am from...
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Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma
The Rajasthan cabinet on Saturday approved the Anti-Conversion Bill, which aims to curb forced religious conversions. The bill will now be presented in the state legislature during the upcoming parliamentary session. According to deputy Chief Minister Prem Chand Bairwa, the...
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The Special Operations Group of the Surat police arrested a Bangladeshi national, for possessing multiple fake identification documents and entering India, officials said on Saturday. According to the police, the arrested accused has been identified as Mohammad Hamim Abdul Fakir...
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Death toll in Khurram tribal sectarian violence rose to 124 with two more deaths on Saturday as a gunbattle continued between Shia and Sunni groups despite a ceasefire in Pakistan's northwestern Province Khyber Pukhtunkhwa. More than 170 people have been injured in the sectarian violence...
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President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday nominated close confidant Kash Patel for the powerful position of Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, making him the highest ranking Indian American in his incoming administration. I am proud to announce that Kashyap 'Kash' Patel will...
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