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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Saturday narrowly escaped impeachment over the outrage following his brief declaration of martial law.The National Assembly voted on the opposition-led motion, but most lawmakers from Yoon's ruling People Power Party (PPP) boycotted the vote, despite...
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Allahabad HC
In yet another litigation related to mosque-temple disputes, the Allahabad high court is likely to hear next week a petition filed by the management committee of Jaunpur's Atala Mosque against the orders of the lower court allowing registration of a suit which claimed that the structure was...
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'Uncertainty' over Delhi Assembly poll tickets has prompted half a dozen Bharatiya Janata Party leaders to cross over to Aam Aadmi Party while many more could soon make the switch, saffron party leaders said on Saturday.Elections to the 70-member Delhi Assembly are due in February.The BJP, which...
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The Supreme Court has constituted a special bench to hear a batch of PILs challenging the validity of certain provisions of a 1991 law that prohibits filing a lawsuit to reclaim a place of worship or seek a change in its character from what prevailed on August 15, 1947.A three-judge bench of...
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Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray leader Bhaskar Jadhav on Saturday claimed there is no provision in the law which talks about the appointment of the leader of opposition in Maharashtra legislature merely on the strength of the party.I have given a letter to the legislature secretary seeking...
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The Class XII student who allegedly shot dead the principal of his school in Madhya Pradesh's Chhatarpur district is 'remorseless' and appears to be a 'psychopath', an official connected to the probe claimed on Saturday.The 17-year-old boy shot principal SK Saxena (55) of Dhamora Government High...
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Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday claimed that no enthusiasm or overt joy was visible among the people of Maharashtra after the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Mahayuti coalition's landslide victory in the November 20 assembly elections. Speaking at a...
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Congress leader Sam Pitroda's smartphone, laptop and server have been repeatedly hacked over the past few weeks with hackers issuing threats and demanding tens of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency, according to a mail sent to those on his mailing list.'They have warned that, if unpaid, they...
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Mahindra & Mahindra on Saturday said it has decided to rename its new electric vehicle brand as 'BE 6' but noted that it will continue to contest strongly in court with InterGlobe Aviation for the trademark 'BE 6e'. InterGlobe Aviation, which owns IndiGo airlines, has taken the automaker...
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Congress leader Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra said on Saturday that the 'excavation of mosques' becoming the focus of politics instead of development is wrong while people are reeling under inflation and farmers protesting.Expressing apprehension about a potential spike in communal...
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Mumbai Police on Saturday received a message threatening to kill Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an official said.The number from which the message was sent was traced to Ajmer in Rajasthan and a police team was sent there immediately to nab the suspect, said an official.The WhatsApp message,...
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Former Supreme Court judge Justice R F Nariman has criticised the top court's 2019 judgment in the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case, describing it as a 'great travesty of justice' that did not do justice to the principle of secularism.Speaking at the First Justice A M Ahmadi Memorial Lecture on...
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The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) on Saturday alleged that its centre in Dhaka district in neighbouring Bangladesh was burnt down earlier in the day.Iskcon Kolkata vice president Radharamn Das told PTI that the targetted attack on members of the community and members of...
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Union Minister of State for Defence Sanjay Seth on Saturday said that he has received a ransom threat message and informed the Delhi Police and Jharkhand Director General of Police in this regard.Seth said he received the threat message demanding a ransom of Rs 50 lakh from an unknown number on...
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Abu Azmi
The Samajwadi Party announced on Saturday that it would walk out of the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi after Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray chief Uddhav Thackeray's close aide hailed the demolition of Babri mosque and a related newspaper advertisement.The Samajwadi Party has two MLAs in...
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Opposition Maha Vikas Agahdi (MVA) members in Maharashtra on Saturday decided not to take oath as MLAs on the first day of the special three-day assembly session, alleging misuse of EVMs in the recently-held state polls. The special session of the Lower House of the state legislature began...
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Police have registered a case against three persons for allegedly duping a couple in Maharashtra's Thane district of Rs 80 lakh by promising to get authorisation to open franchisees of a payments bank, officials said on Saturday.The incident occurred between August 2022 and April 2023, and an FIR...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis took oath as a member of the Maharashtra legislative assembly on Saturday, on the first day of the three-day special session of the House.Deputy Chief Ministers Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar also took oath as members of the Maharashtra assembly.The...
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A special three-day session of the newly-constituted 288-member Maharashtra legislative assembly began in Mumbai on Saturday, where MLAs will be administered the oath of office.Senior Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Kalidas Kolambkar on Friday took oath as a legislator and was then appointed pro tem...
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A businessman was shot dead by two unidentified assailants during his morning walk near his house in east Delhi's Shahdara on Saturday, police said. Sunil Jain, 52, was shot multiple times and rushed to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries, they said.A police officer said Jain, who...
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The national capital on Saturday recorded its coldest morning of the season with a minimum temperature of 7.1 degrees Celsius, three notches below the season's average, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). After three days of 'moderate' air quality, Delhi's air quality...
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A woman Anganwadi assistant was killed by Naxalites in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on the suspicion of being a police informer, an official said on Saturday. The incident took place on Friday night in Timapur village under Basaguda police station limits, he said.As per the...
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Amidst the ongoing internal struggle within the Trinamool Congress between veteran leaders and the Young Turks, West Bengal Chief Minister and party chief Mamata Banerjee said any decision regarding her successor would be made collectively by the party leadership rather than by her personally.In...
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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,...
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Anjali Singh/Business StandardFollowing Hyundai Motor Indias announcement of a price hike, Maruti Suzuki India (MSIL), Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) and JSW MG Motor have decided to jack up prices across their model range in a bid to pass on some input cost pressure to consumers.While the...
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The first prototype of the Vande Bharat sleeper trainset has been manufactured and will undergo field trials soon, the government informed Parliament on Friday.In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw added that the timeline for the rollout of the...
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Approximately 45 crore (450 million) devotees are expected to attend Prayagraj Mahakumbh-2025, marking a significant milestone, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya said here on Friday, during a Roadshow for the event. Highlighting that the Mahakumbh is a unique...
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Devyani Uttam Khobragade, presently ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Cambodia, has been appointed as the next ambassador of India to the Republic of Tunisia, as per a statement by the ministry of external affairs. Khobragade, of Indian Foreign Service batch 1999, is expected to take up...
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The Enforcement Directorate on Friday seized Rs 13.5 crore cash following a fresh round of searches in connection with a money laundering investigation linked to alleged irregularities in a Malegaon-based cooperative bank, officials said. Seven premises in Ahmedabad and Mumbai were raided by...
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Maharashtra deputy CM Eknath Shinde
Shiv Sena leader Uday Samant on Friday said deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde did not want to join the new Maharashtra government and instead wanted to focus on building his party. But the Shiv Sena chief, who served as chief minister in the previous Mahayuti government, relented due to...
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