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A Myanmarese national was arrested with Rs 1.24 crore in cash from east Mizoram's Champhai district, the Assam Rifles said in a statement on Friday.The arrest was made from Ngur village on the basis of intelligence inputs, it said.The accused was identified as Lianbiaksang (26), it added.In...
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A 22-year-old Indian student was stabbed to death during an altercation in Canada's Ontario province, according to the police, who have arrested and charged the victim's housemate with second-degree murder in connection with the case. Gurasis Singh, a first-year business management student...
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Amidst the ongoing internal struggle within the TMC between veteran leaders and the younger faction, West Bengal Chief Minister and party chief Mamata Banerjee on Friday said any decision regarding her successor would be made collectively by the party leadership rather than by her personally.In...
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A clerk at the Army's canteen stores department in Mathura Cantonment has fled after allegedly embezzling more than Rs 1.8 crore from canteen funds, officials said on Friday. After the discovery of the crime, canteen in-charge...
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Actor Allu Arjun on Friday announced a sum of Rs 25 lakh to the family of a woman who died due to asphyxiation at a theatre screening Pushpa 2 premiere show in Hyderabad. In a video posted on X, the 42-year-old actor said he wants to assure the grieving family that they are not alone in this...
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Foreign secretary Vikram Misri will make a visit to Bangladesh on December 9 and meet his counterpart there, the ministry of external affairs said on Friday. Misri will lead the foreign office consultations with Bangladesh and attend several other meetings during his...
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A woman was taken into custody on Friday for allegedly attempting to perform jalabhishek (ritualistic water offering) at the Shahi Idgah, a location claimed by some Hindu groups as the original birthplace of Lord Krishna, police said. The incident coincided with the anniversary of the...
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Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has demanded the crucial home department from the BJP and talks on portfolio allocation are in the progress, Shiv Sena MLA Bharat Gogavale said on Friday. Gogavale, an aide of Shinde who heads the Shiv Sena, said the cabinet expansion is...
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More than 800 farmer suicides have been reported in 2024 in the eight districts of Maharashtra's Marathwada region, with compensation being given in 303 cases, while inquiry is pending for 314, an official said on Friday. As per a report made available by the divisional commissioner's...
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Six people lost their lives, and at least 19 others were injured after a double-decker bus collided with a water tanker on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway on Friday, the police said. The bus was en route to Delhi from Lucknow when the accident occurred. Sharing details of the incident, SP...
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The Delhi high court stayed the registration of trademark Jack Daniel's by another entity, noting the operation of the mark will cause irreparable harm to the well-known alcohol brand Jack Daniels Properties Inc. Justice Amit Bansal, in an interim order, said a prima facie case was made out...
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Pushpa fire nahi, wildfire hai, the popular dialogue from Allu Arjun's Pushpa franchise has come true with the historic box office performance of the second part, which has amassed Rs 294 crore gross globally on day one of its release. The day one collection of the Sukumar-directed movie, a...
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A Mumbai court has directed the police to lodge a case of cheating, criminal conspiracy and forgery against film director Ali Abbas Zafar and two others on a complaint filed by veteran producer Vashu Bhagnani. Magistrate Komalsing Rajput, while giving direction to the police to file the...
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Manipur's social welfare minister Heikham Dingo on Friday said all documents related to Laishram Kamalbabu Singh, who allegedly went missing from the Leimakhong Military Station, were sent to the Prime Minister's Office as well as to the offices of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Home Minister...
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A large number of students on Friday staged a protest at Udai Pratap College in Varanasi demanding removal of a mosque located on the institute's campus. About 500 students carrying saffron flags and raising 'Jai Shri Ram' slogans assembled at the college gate on Friday. However, a...
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Allu Arjun's Pushpa 2: The Rule made a blockbuster start at the box office, earning Rs 164.25 crore net on its opening day, said trade website Sacnilk. The film, a sequel to 2021's Telugu blockbuster Pushpa: The Rise, was released in theatres across the country and in the overseas...
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The Reserve Bank of India on Friday kept its key interest rate unchanged citing inflation risks, but cut the Cash Reserve Ratio that banks are required to park with the central bank, boosting money with lenders to support a slowing economy
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India's forex reserves increased by $1.51 billion to $658.091 billion for the week ended November 29, the RBI said on Friday. The overall reserves had dropped by $1.31 billion to $656.582 billion in the previous reporting week. The kitty has witnessed a declining trend in the recent...
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Cabinet expansion of the Devendra Fadnavis-led Maharashtra government is likely to take place on December 11 or 12, sources said on Friday. In all likelihood, the Ajit Pawar-led NCP will retain finance and the BJP the home department as in the previous Eknath Shinde-led government, sources...
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Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das on Friday said India does not have any plans to 'de-dollarise' its trade and is only looking at derisking it by other means. He was responding to a question on US President-elect Donald Trump's threat that BRICS countries will face 100 per cent tariffs...
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The Reserve Bank's efforts are focused on keeping the inflation horse under a tight leash, Governor Shaktikanta Das said on Friday as the central bank opted for a status quo in policy rates for the 11th consecutive time, belying voices demanding a rate cut to support growth. The balance...
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More than 100 students were hospitalised due to suspected food poisoning in Maharashtra's Chandrapur district, an official said on Friday. A total of 106 students of Zilla Parishad school in Pardi in the district's Saoli tehsil had meals in the institution on Wednesday afternoon and then...
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Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty ended marginally lower in a highly volatile trade on Friday, snapping their five-day rally, after the Reserve Bank of India kept the policy rate unchanged but sharply cut the FY25 GDP growth forecast. After oscillating between highs and lows...
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Protesting farmers on Friday suspended their foot march to Delhi for the day after a few of them suffered injuries due to teargas shells lobbed by security personnel, according to a Punjab farmer leader. We have called back the 'jatha' for today in view of the injuries suffered by a...
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Superstar Aamir Khan has given an update on his next film Sitaare Zameen Par, saying the movie will come out in theatres by mid-2025. The upcoming film is a sequel to Khan's 2007 movie Taare Zameen Par, which marked his directorial debut and received critical acclaim. Khan, who has...
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Farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher
Update: At the Shambhu border, farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher says, We have called off 'Jatha' and not the march (to Delhi). 6 farmers have been injured. A 'jatha' of 101 farmers on Friday began its foot march to Delhi from their protest site at Shambhu border, but was stopped a...
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Class XII student shoots dead principal in school in Madhya Pradesh's Chhatarpur district: Police. Details awaited.
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Milind Narvekar, a Shiv Sena (UBT) MLC and close aide of party president Uddhav Thackeray, on Friday extended his good wishes to BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis for taking over as the new chief minister of Maharashtra. In a story on Instagram, Narvekar, whose party is the largest...
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Bharatiya Janata Party's MP and former national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi today took a dig at the Congress leaders after a wad of currency notes were recovered from the bench of Abhishek Manu Singhvi. Speaking to ANI, Trivedi said that, Congress leaders have so much money that...
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Mr Modi is a survivor, but certainly questions would have been raised within the BJP if they had lost both Haryana and Maharashtra, which are not being raised because jo jeeta woh sikandar, says senior journalist Rajdeep Sardesai whose latest book is the must-read 2024 The...
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Police use tear gas to disperse protesting farmers at the Haryana-Punjab Shambhu Border. The farmers have announced to march towards the National Capital-Delhi over their various demands. A large contingent of farmers gathered at the Shambhu border from where they proposed to march...
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Protesting farmers remove the barricades as they try to cross over the Haryana-Punjab Shambhu border. They have been stopped at the Shambhu border from heading towards Delhi.
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Rahul pays his respects to Dr Ambedkar
Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, asking him to attend the Winter Session of Parliament and not to be afraid of investigation on Adani. Taking to social media platform Facebook, Rahul Gandhi wrote, Modi ji sansad...
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin did not meet industrialist Gautam Adani nor was any contract signed with the Adani group, state Electricity Minister V Senthil Balaji stated on Friday and warned of legal action against those spreading rumours in this regard. The DMK regime did not...
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The Delhi high court on Friday directed the Centre to place its stand on Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy's plea seeking directions to the Ministry of Home Affairs to decide over Gandhi's Indian citizenship.A bench of Acting Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela...
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UP police detains protesting farmers
The Congress on Friday reiterated its support for farmers' demands and said their protests have received a huge booster dose from no less a person than Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar. The opposition party's assertion came ahead of a scheduled march by a group of farmers to Delhi from their...
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Lok Sabha proceedings were on Friday adjourned for the day amid protests by opposition members over BJP's attempts to link the Congress party to US-based billionaire investor George Soros. BJP member Nishikant Dubey raised the issue during Zero Hour, plunging the House into chaos with...
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The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to eight convicts in the infamous 1987 Hashimpura massacre case of 38 persons by the personnel of the Provincial Armed Constabulary. A bench comprising Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih took note of the submissions of senior advocate...
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Chaos erupted in the upper house after Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday informed the house that a wad of cash was found on a seat belonging to Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi by secruity officials.In response to the RS Chairman's statement, Congress leader Abhishek Manu...
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A wad of Rs 500 currency notes recovered from Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi in Parliament. Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar says, I here by inform the members that during the routine anti-sabotage check of the chamber after the adjournment of the House yesterday. Apparently, a...
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Heavy traffic snarl seen on Noida-Greater Noida Expressway. A 'jatha' (group) of 101 farmers will embark on a foot march to Delhi at 1 pm on Friday from their protest site at the Shambhu border on the Punjab and Haryana border. The farmers are marching to force the Centre for a legal...
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An Indian bus was attacked in Bangladesh recently
Bangladesh has summoned Shikder Mohammad Ashrafur Rahman, the Acting Deputy High Commissioner in Kolkata, for urgent consultations following protests over attacks on Hindu minorities. Rahman, who is also Minister - Political Affairs, stationed in Kolkata, has returned to Dhaka. Ashrafur...
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The Reserve Bank of India on Friday decided to keep the policy rate unchanged for the 11th time in a row but sharply lowered the GDP growth forecast to 6.6 per cent for the current fiscal, as against earlier projection of 7.2 per cent. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) maintained the...
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Mumbai Police are investigating an incident at Galaxy Theatre in Bandra after a disruption during the screening of the much-awaited movie, 'Pushpa 2: The Rule'.According to audience members, the movie was halted for about 15-20 minutes after the interval when an unidentified person reportedly...
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RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das says, The Monetary Policy Committee decided by a majority of 4:2 to keep the policy repo rate unchanged at 6.5%. The Standing Deposit Facility (SDF) rate remains at 6.25% and the Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) rate and the Bank Rate at 6.75%.
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The top gainers in the markets yesterday
Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty turned highly volatile trade in early trade on Friday ahead of the announcement of the RBI monetary policy. The 30-share BSE benchmark Sensex declined 75.16 points to 81,690.70 in early trade. The NSE Nifty dipped 25.45 points to 24,682.95....
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BJP MLA Kalidas Kolambkar
BJP MLA Kalidas Kolambkar will take oath as the pro-tem Speaker of the Maharashtra legislative assembly on Friday, a day before the special three-day session of the Lower House of the state legislature begins. Talking to PTI this morning, Kolambkar, a nine-time MLA, confirmed that he...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday paid tributes to the main architect of the Constitution, B R Ambedkar, on his death anniversary, saying his tireless fight for equality and human dignity continues to inspire generations.On Mahaparinirvan Diwas, we bow to Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, the...
09:18
The attitude of treating the Northeast as an alien territory started with British colonialism. Today, it challenges the independent nation's capacity to fuse its fringes with the mainstream, writes Pradip Phanjoubam. Read the column here.
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The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Thursday proposed introducing a separate call auction session (CAS) after the market hours to determine the closing price of stocks in the equity cash market, akin to the mechanism followed globally.In a consultation paper, Sebi proposed...
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Hyundai Motor India (HMIL) on Thursday announced a price hike of up to Rs 25,000 across its model range, effective January 1, 2025. The adjustment is attributed to escalating input costs, unfavorable exchange rates, and higher logistics expenses. The revised pricing will apply to all...
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In a bid to gain first mover edge, Myntra has announced the launch of 'M-Now', which would enable shoppers to receive their orders in about 30 minutes. This quick-commerce offering will be initially available in Bengaluru, and will be expanded to more cities later. Already applicable on a...
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Anjali Kumari/Business StandardForeign portfolio investors (FPIs) have made a strong return to Indias debt and equity markets this December, partly reversing two months of consecutive outflows.With US Treasury yields stabilising and softer-than-expected domestic GDP growth in Q2FY25 sparking...
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Indian Ambassador to China, Pradeep Kumar Rawat on Thursday called on the Chief of the Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi and discussed several geostrategic issues, said the Indian Army.They also deliberated upon various aspects related to the relations between the two countries and issues...
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Bangladesh interim government head Muhammad Yunus has sought the cooperation of the religious leaders in collecting accurate information about attacks on minorities and bringing the perpetrators to justice amid reports of attacks on Hindus in the country.Speaking at a meeting of religious leaders...
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Amid escalating tensions at the Uday Pratap College in Varanasi over a mosque located on its premises, the police on Thursday restricted outsiders' entry to the campus, allowing only students with valid identity cards. The move follows Tuesday's unrest after students recited Hanuman Chalisa...
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Nykaa Fashion chief executive officer Nihir Parikh has resigned and has been relieved with immediate effect, the company said in a regulatory filing on Thursday. Nykaa Fashion is the fashion vertical of FSN E-commerce Ventures Ltd. Nihir Parikh has resigned effective December 5, 2024,...
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