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Maharashtra BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule and his colleague Pravin Darekar on Wednesday claimed that many MPs and MLAs from the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) have reached out to them expressing disgruntlement with their respective parties.The Congress rejected the assertions, with its state...
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A teenage girl from Bangladesh was arrested by West Bengal Police after the Border Security Force apprehended her after she allegedly crossed the border and illegally entered the Indian territory in Uttar Dinajpur district, an officer said on Wednesday. The 17-year-old girl claimed to...
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The ruling Shiv Sena in Maharashtra may not give another chance to three leaders in the new state cabinet even as they were ministers in the previous government in view of complaints about their performance and inaccessibility, a party leader said. The party is likely to induct...
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In an attempt to link the Aadhaar Card with the National Register of Citizens (NRC), the Assam government on Wednesday decided that all applications to get the unique identity card will be rejected if the applicant or the family had not applied in NRC. The decision was taken during a cabinet...
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The Thai embassy in India announced on Wednesday the implementation of Thailand's Electronic Visa system in India that will be effective from January 1. In its announcement, the embassy also said applications for all types of visas must be sent through the website thaievisa.go.th. The...
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Maharashtra's Additional Chief Electoral Officer Kiran Kulkarni has said in all 1,440 Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trails (VVPATs) were verified during the last month's state assembly polls with their results matching perfectly with Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) counts. A VVPAT is...
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Chilly winds on Wednesday marked the arrival of cold wave conditions in the national capital as Delhi recorded a low of 4.9 degrees Celsius, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The minimum temperatures in early December have been recorded below 5 degrees Celsius for the...
20:42
Allu Arjun's Pushpa 2: The Rule has hit the milestone of Rs 1000 crore at the global box office in just six days, making it the fastest Indian film to register the feat.The Sukumar-directed movie, which is a sequel to 2021's Telugu blockbuster Pushpa: The Rise, released on December 5 with dubbed...
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In a case of moral policing, a woman was socially ostracised and fined Rs 5,000 for wearing salwar-kameez in Darrang district of Assam, officials said on Wednesday.According to an official of the district commissioner's office, the incident took place in Gongajani Kuwori village in Sipajhar...
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought the personal presence of the director general of the Centre's Directorate General of Health Services while flagging the casual approach over the grant of admission to a medical aspirant from the disability category. A bench of Justices B R Gavai...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday thanked several senior leaders of the INDIA bloc for backing her as the leader of the non-BJP coalition.Banerjee, who is on a three-day trip to the coastal town of Digha in Purba Medinipur district, told reporters that she would pray for the...
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New RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra on Wednesday said the central bank will maintain continuity and stability in policy matters, but emphasised on the need to remain alert and agile in the wake of the current global economic and political environment. Earlier in the day, he took charge as the...
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Lok Sabha on Wednesday witnessed repeated adjournments as remarks by Kalyan Banerjee against Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia created an uproar which refused to die down despite apology tendered by the TMC member. Finally, the chair adjourned the House for the day. Trouble...
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Ex-Chief Minister of Karnataka and former External Affairs Minister S M Krishna was cremated on Wednesday with full state honours in his ancestral village Somanahalli in Mandya district.The 92-year-old veteran politician, who had also served as the Maharashtra Governor, died at his residence in...
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An Aam Aadmi Party delegation led by Arvind Kejriwal met the Election Commission on Wednesday to address allegations of mass voter deletions ahead of the Delhi Assembly elections. The party's national convenor, following the meeting, alleged that the BJP was orchestrating a conspiracy...
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There is no proposal to criminalise sexual intercourse or sexual acts by a man with his own wife, she not being under 18 years of age, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday.In response to a question, Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar said sections 74, 75, 76 and 85 of the...
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An Air Force sergeant allegedly took his own life by shooting himself while on duty in Nagpur in the early hours of Wednesday, police said. Javeer Singh (36), who hailed from Bhiwani in Haryana, shot himself in the head with his service weapon around 2 am, said an official of...
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Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty closed higher in choppy trade on Wednesday as investors awaited key US inflation data for further cues. The 30-share BSE Sensex rose by 16.09 points or 0.02 per cent to close at 81,526.14. Snapping its three-day losing run, the broader NSE...
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Let the games begin...
Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis has appointed Rameshwar Naik as the head of the Chief Minister's Relief Fund. Naik replaced Mangesh Chivte, considered a close aide of former CM Eknath Shinde. Chivte had been given the post after Shinde took over as Maharashtra's CM in June 2022. Naik...
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What other Opposition MPs said on RS chairperson Jagdeep Dhankar:DMK leader Tiruchi Siva said there is a blatant attack on the country's democracy in Parliament by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), while Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Nadimul Haque said he agrees with the leader of...
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As the debate over Mamata Banerjee's potential leadership of the INDIA Bloc intensifies, Haryana Minister Anil Vij stated on Wednesday that Rahul Gandhi has failed, and the alliance's plan to change its engine will not yield any benefits.From the first day, we have been saying that 'Pappu...
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Unidentified people on Wednesday kept a hand grenade in front of a private bank in Manipur's Imphal West district, police said on Wednesday. Passersby spotted the grenade on the stairs in front of the private bank at Singjamei and informed the police. The police, in turn, called the bomb...
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Several opposition parties on Wednesday said the partisan conduct of Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar prompted them to move a notice for his removal as vice president and alleged that politics has taken precedence over rules in the Upper House of Parliament.Addressing a press conference at...
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Atul Subhash's cousin
The brother of Bengaluru techie Atul Subhash, while seeking justice for his sibling voiced his concerns about the lack of legal protection for men facing harassment and said despite the gravity of the suicide incident, no arrests have been made in the case so far, and the family is committed to...
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MP Dimple Yadav
Samajwadi Party MP Dimple Yadav on Wednesday said that her party was neither with the Soros issue raised by the BJP against Congress nor with the Adani issue raised by the Congress. She said that the House should run.The House is running. It was functional today and we are hopeful that it...
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With more than 48 hours having passed since five-year-old Aryan fell into a 150-feet-deep borewell in Rajasthan's Dausa, rescuers are racing against time to pull him out safely. As they dig a parallel borewell to reach the child, National Disaster Response Force personnel say there are...
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Controversial phrases like vote jihad used by some political parties during the election campaign in the recently-held Maharashtra assembly polls are under the Election Commission of India (ECI)'s scanner, an official said on Wednesday. In an exclusive interview to PTI, Maharashtra...
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Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Whitefield, Shivakumar on Tuesday confirmed that Bengaluru-based techie Atul Subhash committed suicide in the early hours of December 9 following harassment from his wife and her family.Speaking to ANI, the DCP said, Atul Subhash committed suicide during the...
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On the 102nd birth anniversary of Bollywood's legendary Tragedy King, Dilip Kumar, his beloved wife, veteran actress Saira Banu, paid a heartfelt tribute to the actor, recalling the special moments they shared together.While the world recognized Dilip Kumar for his larger-than-life persona and...
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The cabinet expansion of the Devendra Fadnavis-led Maharashtra government is likely to take place by December 14, a senior BJP leader said on Wednesday. Fadnavis left for Delhi on Wednesday, his office said, adding it was a courtesy visit, the first after becoming the chief minister, as he...
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Aliaa Bhatt shares this post on Instagram saying:Art is timeless. And sometimes to move forward, we must look back and learn.Mr. Raj Kapoor's impact was truly global. He marked his footprint all across the world with the movies he made, the stories he told.Yesterday was such an honour to be...
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Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday accused the government of using public sector banks, the lifelines of the masses, as an unlimited source of funds for their fraudulent friends. Gandhi met a delegation from the All India Banking Officers Confederation. The...
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A 35-year-old resident of Somanpalli village, identified as Kudiyam Madho, was allegedly strangled to death by Maoists on December 10. According to the Bijapur police, a pamphlet issued by the banned CPI (Maoist) National Park Area Committee was recovered from the scene of the...
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A Rohingya man from Myanmar arrested earlier this year for allegedly living in India illegally had bought land in Pune area and built a house for himself and his family, investigation has found. In July, Pimpri-Chinchwad Police arrested two Rohingya couples for illegal entry and stay in the...
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The Kapoors with the PM
A day after the members of Raj Kapoor's family met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bollywood star Kareena Kapoor Khan thanked him for inviting them to commemorate the extraordinary life and legacy of their grandfather ahead of the cinema icon's birth centenary. The Kapoor family, including...
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Speaking in Rajya Sabha, Union Minister JP Nadda said, Our members (MPs) have been raising the issue of the connection between Sonia Gandhi and Soros. This is a question about the sovereignty of the country. Bringing a no-confidence motion against the Chair is a design to deviate the attention of...
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Sanjay Malhotra takes charge as the 26th Governor of Reserve Bank of India for the next 3 years. He was preceded by Shaktikanta Das.
11:51
Cyber criminals allegedly duped a woman of Rs 1.40 lakh by keeping her under 'digital arrest' for five hours in Noida. Police station in-charge Inspector Krishna Gopal Sharma said that last night Smriti Semwal of Noida Sector 77 lodged a complaint that a woman named Priya Sharma...
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Naxalites have killed a 35-year-old BJP worker in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district while claiming he was acting as a police informer, an official said on Wednesday. This is the fifth murder of a civilian by Naxalites in the district in the last seven days. The latest incident took...
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AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday once again ruled out the possibility of an alliance with the Congress for the Delhi assembly polls, amid reports that the two parties could be jointly contesting the elections. In a post on X, Kejriwal said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will be...
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The collapse of the Assad regime has prompted a punishing military response from Israel, which has launched airstrikes at military targets across Syria and deployed ground troops both into and beyond a demilitarized buffer zone for the first time in 50 years, reports CNN.com.The Israeli...
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With a title that translates as Neighbourhood of Ill Repute, and featuring a bisexual love triangle, the 1971 film wowed festivals -- before disappearing without trace. Now it's been rediscovered -- by accident. Read more here
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The national capital on Wednesday recorded the lowest minimum temperature of this winter season so far with the mercury dropping sharply to 4.9 degrees Celsius compared to 8 degrees Celsius the previous day.The minimum temperature of 4.9 degrees Celsius reported over Safdarjung is the lowest...
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The Securities and Exchange Board of India has proposed leveraging the DigiLocker platform to streamline the process of claiming unclaimed assets of deceased investors. According to a discussion paper, the regulator has proposed that depositories and mutual funds be required to provide demat...
09:23
The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, has become the first research organisation in the world to release the most detailed 3D high-resolution images of the foetal brain, pushing the frontiers of brain mapping technology and placing India in the global league of brain mapping science.This...
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Tennis legend Andre Agassi said finding private sector solutions for daunting social problems is important and needs to be scaled up.Agassi said that finding the niche for technology in the education space can fill a huge vacuum of personalised learning that every child deserves.I think...
09:15
Google, the search giant has come up with its list of topics that were most searched by Indian Internet users in 2024. Google says that globally, there are billions of searches a day on Google -- and 15 per cent of them are brand new.This year, India's searches spanned a fascinating spectrum -- a...
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Members of an Indian delegation met Pope Francis at Vatican City, presenting two books, Modi@20: Dreams Meet Delivery and Mann Ki Baat @100: Igniting Collective Goodness.Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Anil K Antony posted on X, saying, 'Very blessed to meet Holy Father Pope Francis at...
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Atul Subhash
The father of the 34-year-old Bengaluru techie who died by suicide on Monday has accused the 'mediation court' of not functioning according to the law, recalling his son's experiences when he was repeatedly called to the court in Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur over cases filed by his wife.A 34-year-old...
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India on Tuesday evacuated 75 Indian nationals from Syria, two days after rebel forces overthrew President Bashar Assad's authoritarian government. The evacuation, coordinated by the embassies of India in Damascus and Beirut, was put into effect following an assessment of the security...
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Members of various Hindu organisations and civil society groups on Tuesday staged protests across India against attacks on community members in Bangladesh.While hundreds of people from various outfits, including the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), held a protest march at Delhi's Chanakyapuri,...
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