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An 18-year-old boy allegedly threatened his mother with a sword after she refused to give him Rs 10,000 to buy a phone, a Nagpur police station official said on Monday.The incident happened on Sunday evening, the Jaripatka police station official added.When the woman returned home from work, the...
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Former Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, one of the two central observers of the Bharatiya Janata Party for its legislature party meet in Maharashtra, on Monday asserted efforts will be made to unanimously elect a leader and said he feels the neighbouring state will get a 'BJP CM'.Earlier in...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been allocated seat number one in the Lok Sabha chamber, while the seat opposite to him on the other side of the semicircular front row has been earmarked for Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi.Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Union minister Nitin Gadkari...
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In a shocking incident, fungus and live larvae were allegedly found in the nutritional snacks provided to students of at least two Zilla Parishad and state government-aided schools in tribal-dominated Palghar district.Confirming the incident, Palghar collector Govind Bodke told PTI on Monday that...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi watched the movie The Sabarmati Report on Monday along with several members of his cabinet besides MPs from the ruling alliance at the Balyogi Auditorium in the Parliament library building.Some members of the audience, including veteran actor Jeetendra and Raashii...
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As many as 666 hoax bomb threats were received by airlines in October alone, out of the total 999 such threats reported this year till November 14, according to official data. In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Murlidhar Mohol on Monday said hoax bomb...
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The INS Vikrant, India's indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC), has achieved full operational status after completing its final operational clearance this year, Vice Admiral V Srinivas, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief (FOCINC), Southern Naval Command, said on Monday.Speaking to the media aboard the...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi failed to appear in a Pune court on Monday in connection with a defamation complaint filed against him by the kin of Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar due to the Winter Session of Parliament. Gandhi's lawyer Milind Pawar said his client had sought exemption from...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi failed to appear in a Pune court on Monday in connection with a defamation complaint filed against him by the kin of Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar due to the winter session of Parliament. Gandhi's lawyer Milind Pawar said his client had sought exemption from...
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The Sikh clergy at the Akal Takht on Monday pronounced tankhah (religious punishment) for Sukhbir Singh Badal for the mistakes committed by the Shiromani Akali Dal and its government in Punjab from 2007 to 2017, directing him to perform as a 'sewadar' and clean utensils and shoes at the Golden...
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Fadnavis is the frontrunner for CM
BJP Legislative Party meet to meet at 10 am on 4th December at Maharashtra Vidhan Bhavan: BJP Maharashtra. The BJP has already announced that the new chief minister will take oath on December 5 at Azad Maidan in Mumbai in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other leaders.Though...
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Former Rediff.com journalist, Sumit Bhattacharya pays tribute to a colleague and journalist we lost too soon -- Anthony D'Costa. Posting on Facebook, Sumit writes, The noted cartoonist Satish Acharya remembers Anthony D'Costa, Danto to all who knew him, who passed away too soon a couple of...
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The name of the Maharashtra chief minister will be announced on Wednesday, a day ahead of the swearing-in ceremony of the Mahayuti government, after the BJP elects its legislature party leader, a senior functionary said on Monday. The BJP on Monday named Union Finance Minister Nirmala...
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Maharashtra's former Deputy CM and NCP chief Ajit Pawar leaves from his residence in Mumbai. He is scheduled to arrive in Delhi today. Maharashtra BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule has said that the oath-taking ceremony of the new Mahayuti government will take place on December 5...
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Flooding in Cuddalore
Villpuram district in north Tamil Nadu continued to reel under unprecedented flooding on Monday following extremely heavy rainfall, virtually blocking access to villages and residential colonies as bridges and roads overflowed, inundating huge acreage of standing crops and leaving passengers...
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Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty ended higher on Monday amid buying in blue-chip stocks Reliance Industries, Infosys and HDFC Bank along with a firm trend in the US markets. Recovering the early lost ground, the BSE benchmark Sensex climbed 445.29 points or 0.56 per cent to settle at...
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Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Varun Sardesai on Monday claimed the trends in postal ballots and EVM results of the Maharashtra assembly polls appear inconsistent, raising doubts about the integrity of the EVM system. Sardesai, who defeated NCP's Zeeshan Siddique to win the Vandre East assembly seat in...
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India's manufacturing sector demonstrated resilience in November despite headwinds owing to price pressures and fierce competition. The seasonally adjusted HSBC India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) stood at 56.5, down from October's 57.5, marking a joint 11-month low. However, the...
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is expected to keep policy rates unchanged in the upcoming Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting scheduled from December 4 to December 6, according to a report by the State Bank of India (SBI). The report highlighted that the headline inflation...
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The Abdullahs during the Umrah last month
National Conference President Farooq Abdullah on Monday said the Centre should put a stop to activities that can spark communal tension in the country, and treat Muslims as equals. There is a need to stop (incidents like Sambhal). I will tell the government of India to stop (such acts)...
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MPs file out of Parliament after it was adjourned for the day
The government and opposition parties have come close to reaching an agreement to break the impasse in Parliament with a discussion on the Constitution to mark its 75th year of adoption likely to take place in the coming days, sources said. The Samajwadi Party may also be allowed to raise...
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Massive traffic snarls caused inconvenience to commuters crossing the Delhi-Noida border on Monday as police set up multiple barricades in view of the farmers' protest march towards the national capital. A senior police officer said checking was underway at the border. Additional...
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Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla in his office today.
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Senthil Balaji
The Supreme Court on Monday was surprised after knowing that Senthil Balaji was appointed as Minister in Tamil Nadu soon after he was granted bail in the money laundering case related to the cash-for-jobs scam. A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih said, We grant...
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Children born with congenital disabilities with their parents and relatives during a candlelight vigil to pay tributes to the people killed in the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy on the 40th anniversary of the disaster, in Bhopal yesterday. The horror happened on the night of December 2-3 when...
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Delhi's AQI has improved to 'poor'
Lahore has retained its position as the world's most polluted city, with hazardous air quality readings posing a significant threat to public health. According to recent data, the city's air quality reading stands at 303 points, indicating extremely poor air quality, ARY News...
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President-elect Donald Trump's warning that BRICS countries will face 100 per cent tariffs if they choose to move away from the US dollar is unclear to what extent he will carry out his threat, as it remains to be seen if the US law permits such an action, former RBI Governor Duvvuri Subbarao...
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Mumbai journalism is the crucible of talent, throwing up talent every now and then that blazes a trail. Anthony D'Costa was one such who burst into the scene in the late 1980s, when editor Vinod Mehta raided the Indian Post newsroom wholesale. Among the handful who stayed back was...
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The Supreme Court on Monday asked Punjab farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who is on a fast-unto-death at the Khanauri border point to press for the acceptance of farmers' demands, to persuade the protesting farmers not to obstruct highways and cause inconvenience to people.A bench of Justices...
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A 3-tier security plan has been put into effect and security forces have been deployed in parts of Noida-Delhi ahead of the farmers 'Delhi Chalo' protest march, said an official on Monday. According to the Shivhari Meena, Addl. Commissioner Of Police Noida, We are in constant talks...
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India is set to seal the proposed procurement of 26 naval variant of Rafale jets and three additional Scorpene submarines soon, Navy Chief Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi said on Monday. At a media briefing ahead of Navy Day, Admiral Tripathi also said that the government's approval for two...
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Parliament was adjourned for the day after ruckus over issues like Adani, Sambhal and Manipur. Another week with the same results as last week. Floor leaders of the INDIA bloc had convened a meeting in the chamber of Congress President and Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha,...
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Police have registered a case against 10 to 15 CISF personnel for allegedly assaulting a doctor, his brother and another person in a road rage incident in Maharashtra's Navi Mumbai township, officials said on Monday. The accused personnel of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will watch Vikrant Massey starrer 'The Sabarmati Report' movie at 4pm at Balyogi Auditorium in the national capital. The film is based on the burning of the S-6 coach of Sabarmati Express near Godhra station, Gujarat on February 27, 2002. Incidentally, Massey...
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Unidentified persons pelted stones at the Kashi Vishwanath Express at Dhaneta Halt, near Fatehganj West in Bareilly and damaged the window of a coach, an official said on Monday. No injuries were reported in the incident, he said. According to Ajit Pratap Singh, the station...
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A 26-year-old IPS officer on his way to take up his first posting died in a road accident in Hassan district, police said on Monday. Harsh Bardhan was a 2023-batch IPS officer of the Karnataka cadre and hailed from Madhya Pradesh, they said. The accident took place on Sunday evening,...
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Union minister Nitin Gadkari has said politics is a sea of unsatisfied souls where every person is sad and aspiring for a higher post than his current position. Life is a game of compromises, compulsions, limitations and contradictions, Gadkari added while speaking at the launch of a book,...
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Teams of NDRF personnel commenced clearing the mud over a building in which seven individuals were feared trapped in Annamalaiyar Hill area in the district on Monday. The teams involved in the operation arrived with rescue dogs. The locals say that seven, including five children have...
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And while you book that shikara ride on the Dal Lake, you may want to consider the thick fog that envelopes Srinagar.
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Ride-hailing app Uber has launched its first water transport service in India, with a booking of a shikara at Dal Lake in Srinagar through its app, a senior company official said on Monday. The company introduced the first service of its kind in Asia. Uber Shikara is our humble...
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Driven by festive demand, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections for the Union and state governments climbed to Rs 1.82 trillion in November, marking an 8.5% year-on-year growth, according to official data released on Sunday. Sequentially, however, the latest collection figures are lower...
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A couple sped off in their SUV during a combing drive with a constable perched precariously on the vehicle's bonnet and another policeman clinging on to its window in Ahmedabad, an official said. The constable who was on the bonnet suffered injuries as he got dragged for some distance before...
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The launch of the ambitious PM Internship Scheme (PMIS) has been postponed, two sources in the ministry of corporate affairs (MCA) confirmed to FE, even as they insisted the decision had little to do with response to the scheme from companies and job seekers. As per the plan, the scheme was...
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Kannada film and TV actress Shobitha S allegedly died by suicide at her residence in Hyderabad on Sunday, police said.Shobitha (32) was found hanging from a ceiling fan by a sari in her bedroom, according to police. Shobitha, who had appeared in TV serials and films in Kannada, had been...
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The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a red alert for four districts in the state, forecasting extremely heavy rains today.According to the IMD, Malappuram, Kozhikode, Wayanad and Kannur are expected to experience extremely heavy rainfall on Monday.Though the weather agency...
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Actor Vikrant Massey on Monday shocked his fans by announcing that he planned to retire from acting after 2025.Vikrant shared a note on Instagram where he mentioned he would meet his fans for one last time in 2025. The last few years and beyond have been phenomenal. I thank each and every...
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United States President-elect Donald Trump has responded to outgoing US President Joe Biden's decision to pardon his son Hunter who had been convicted on charges related to gun crimes and tax violations, calling it a 'miscarriage of justice'. In a post on Truth Social, Trump...
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Outgoing United States President Joe Biden Sunday issued a full and unconditional pardon to Hunter Biden arguing that he was singled out only because he was his son. For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: just tell the American people the truth. They'll be fair-minded....
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