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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Kuwait on Saturday on a two-day trip to further strengthen multifaceted ties between India and the Gulf nation.It will be the first visit to Kuwait by an Indian prime minister in over four decades.Modi is paying the visit at the invitation of Kuwaiti...
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A Congress worker died during the party's protest near the Uttar Pradesh Assembly on Wednesday, with its UP unit chief Ajay Rai claiming that he died due to police brutality. The police lodged an FIR of murder regarding the incident and said that the post-mortem will be conducted by a panel...
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A social media content creator was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly throwing a bundle of currency notes worth Rs 20,000 on the roadside of the Outer Ring Road in Hyderabad, encouraging viewers to participate in a money hunt game, the police said. Responding to the act, the police in a...
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Central Industrial Security Force jawans swiftly rescued 56 individuals from a ferry hit by a Navy craft off the Mumbai coast on Wednesday, officials said. The mid-sea tragedy claimed 13 lives while 99 others were rescued, the Navy said. Central Industrial Security Force stated its...
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The Congress party and some of its leaders on Wednesday received notices from social media platform X for sharing certain video clips of Union Home Minister Amit Shah on their handles. Opposition sources said the communication by X refers to the notice it has received from the Cyber Crime...
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A youth allegedly set his girlfriend's house on fire after she refused his marriage proposal in Odisha's Bhadrak district, the police said on Wednesday. The incident took place at Anandpur village under Dhamnagar block of the district. The accused, identified as Jyoti Ranjan Das (28), a...
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Noise levels exceeded the prescribed limits during singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh's concert here on Saturday, the Chandigarh administration told the Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday.The submission was made by the administration before a division bench of the high court.Strict action has...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday said that the Mumbai ferry mishap will jointly be probed by the Navy and the police. Addressing the media, Fadnavis said, Near Mumbai, on Buchar Island, a passenger vessel named Neelkamal capsized around 3:55 pm after colliding with a...
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A YouTuber was arrested in Hyderabad after a 32-year-old woman co-actor accused him of sexual harassment and misconduct, police said on Wednesday. In her complaint filed at the Jubilee Hills Police Station, the woman alleged that Prasad Behera abused, misbehaved with, and sexually harassed...
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The government blocked 18 OTT platforms this year for publishing obscene and vulgar content, Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting L Murugan told the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. In a reply to a question by Shiv Sena-UBT member Anil Desai, Murugan said the IT Rules of 2021 cast...
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A Shivling was recovered from the debris of an abandoned roadside temple in the Muslim-dominated locality of Sarai Rehman in Bannadevi area in Aligarh on Wednesday, prompting intervention by the local police and the administration. The recovery led to demands for the temple's restoration...
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Net direct tax collection grew 16.45 percent year-on-year to over Rs 15.82 lakh crore till December 17 this fiscal, buoyed by higher advance tax mop-up, government data showed.Advance tax collection during the period rose 21 percent to Rs 7.56 lakh crore.The collection includes corporate tax of...
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Cold wave conditions are likely to persist over Bidar, Vijayapura, and Kalaburagi districts of Karnataka, with temperatures expected to be 2-4 degrees celsius below normal in the remaining districts of North Interior Karnataka for the next three days, the India meteorological department said on...
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The Uniform Civil Code will be implemented in Uttarakhand from January, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said on Wednesday. During a meeting of the Uttarakhand Investment and Infrastructure Development Board in Dehradun, Dhami said that the state government has completed its homework and...
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Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa was on Wednesday discharged from a private hospital in Kengeri, where he had been admitted since October 30. Sources confirmed that he left for his wife Vijayalakshmi's residence. On October 30, the Karnataka high court granted the actor interim bail...
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge
Stepping up his attack on Amit Shah over his remarks on B R Ambedkar, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday said if Prime Minister Narendra Modi has any respect for Babsaheb he should sack the home minister today itself in case he does quit on his own. Accusing Shah of...
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A Congress worker was shot dead by two assailants in Jamshedpur city of Jharkhand on Wednesday, the police said. The deceased, identified as 28-year-old Alok Kumar alias Munna, was standing near his house in Shastrinagar locality in Kadma police station area when two motorcycle-borne...
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A passenger died and 66 were rescued, while search is underway around a dozen others aboard a ferry that capsized off Mumbai coast on Wednesday, the police said. The ferry, called Neelkamal, was on way to Elephanta Islands, a popular tourist destination near Mumbai, when it capsized, a...
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The government has launched the National Cooperative Database, which will be a valuable tool for improving the cooperative landscape in India, Parliament was informed on Wednesday.The NCD portal is a comprehensive repository of information on cooperative societies across India. There are...
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Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty stayed on the back foot for the third straight session on Wednesday as investors offloaded utility, capital goods and metal stocks amid foreign fund outflows. Besides, investor sentiment remained subdued ahead of the outcome of the US Federal...
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A 57-year-old man, who allegedly attempted suicide at Shambhu border amid farmers' protest on December 14 by consuming some poisonous substance, died at the Government Rajindra Hospital in Patiala on Wednesday, farmer leaders said.Ranjodh Singh, a farmer from Ratanheri village in Ludhiana...
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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah
An RTI activist on whose complaint a case was registered in the MUDA site allotment scam said that a person claiming to be personal assistant of Parvathi B M, wife of Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, attempted to lure and pressurise him and his son. Snehamayi Krishna said on Wednesday...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday held a phone conversation with his Israeli counterpart Gideon Sa'ar amid signs of a possible ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. There have been a flurry of diplomatic engagements in the last few days for the proposed ceasefire...
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Mukadma (case), mulzim (accused), ilzam (allegation), ittila (information), chashmdeed (eyewitness) and many such terms may not be a part policing vocabulary in Rajasthan for long, with the Bharaitya Janata Party government in the state issuing direction to replace them with appropriate Hindi...
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A committee led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi met in New Delhi on Wednesday to select the next chairperson of National Human Rights Commission, sources said. They also said Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Rahul Gandhi attended the meeting as leaders of the opposition...
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Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha leader Derek O'Brien on Wednesday submitted a privilege notice against Home Minister Amit Shah over his remarks on B R Ambedkar, a source said. According to the source, the notice has been filed under Rule 187 of Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business of...
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Two soldiers were killed and one injured in Bikaner's Mahajan field firing range while loading ammunition in a tank during a training exercise on Wednesday, the second fatal incident in the range this week. The charger exploded while they were loading the ammunition, said Defence...
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The Ministry of Railways on Wednesday dismissed as baseless claims that passengers would be allowed to travel free of cost during the Maha Kumbh Mela, and said no such provision exists. It has come to the attention of Indian Railways that certain media outlets are circulating reports...
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A Delhi court has granted seven-day interim bail to former Jawaharlal Nehru University student Umar Khalid to attend a marriage in his family.
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Congress MPs Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Manish Tewari, Sukhdeo Bhagat and Randeep Surjewala are the party's likely choices for the joint committee of Parliament that will scrutinise the bills for simultaneous polls, sources said on Wednesday. Two bills that lay down the mechanism to hold...
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A fire broke out at the Udaan Bhawan office complex near the Safdarjung airport area in South Delhi on Wednesday afternoon, an official from the Delhi Fire Services (DFS) said. No injuries have been reported in the incident so far, they said. Udaan Bhawan houses multiple...
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it was pitiable that some retired high court judges were getting a pension ranging between Rs 10,000 and Rs 15,000. You cannot have a legal approach in every matter. Sometimes, you need to have a humane approach, observed a bench of Justices B R Gavai and...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday met Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi amid the row over Union Home Minister Amit Shah's remarks on BR Ambedkar.According to NDTV, Modi met Gandhi and Kharge to discuss the selection of the next Chairperson for the National Human Rights...
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Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has written to Chief Minister Atishi, slamming the AAP government over a deliberate lapse in tabling CAG reports in the assembly and advising her to summon a special session of the House on December 19 or 20 to do so. In his letter on Tuesday, Saxena...
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The Pakistan high commission on Wednesday said it issued 84 visas to Indian pilgrims to visit the Shree Katas Raj temples in Punjab province's Chakwal district. The group has been given visas to visit the Katas Raj temples from December 19 to 25.The temples are also known as Qila Katas. It...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has responded to Opposition's protest over Union home minister Amit Shah's remarks on BR Ambedkar in Rajya Sabha.In a post on X, Modi said that Amit Shah exposed Congress' dark history of insulting Ambedkar in the Rajya Sabha.If the Congress and its rotten ecosystem...
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Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday hit out at the Congress for disrupting House proceedings over Amit Shah's remarks on B R Ambedkar and said the opposition was distorting the Home minister's comments. Displaying posters of Ambedkar, Congress MPs on Wednesday raised slogans in...
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Five IEDs, weighing a total of 21.5 kg, were found in Manipr's Imphal East district, police said on Wednesday.The recovery was made in a joint operation by the Spear Corps and state police in Maphitel Ridge near Monglham on Tuesday, they said.A canine played a crucial role in the recovery of the...
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The Congress on Wednesday demanded the resignation of Home Minister Amit Shah for his remarks in the Rajya Sabha which it claimed were an insult to B R Ambedkar. The opposition party also demanded that Shah should apologise publicly and in Parliament for his remarks. Speaking with...
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Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned till 2 pm on Wednesday as Congress members sought an apology from Home Minister Amit Shah for his remarks which they claimed were an insult to B R Ambedkar. As soon as the Lok Sabha met for the day, Congress members trooped into...
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The outgoing Biden administration has relaxed rules for H-1B visas that will make it easier for American companies to hire foreign workers with special skills and facilitate a smoother transition from F-1 student visas to H-1B visas, a move that is likely to benefit thousands of Indian tech...
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A gang rape survivor has succumbed to injuries at the district women's hospital here, five months after the assault that had led to her getting pregnant, officials said on Wednesday. According to them, the 40-year-old woman, who was five months pregnant, had been battling deteriorating...
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SpaceX founder Elon Musk said Starlink satellite beams were turned off over India, reacting to claims that its device was being used in restive Manipur.The security forces recently seized some internet devices along with arms and ammunition during a raid in Keirao Khunou in Imphal East...
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India, China Special Representatives for the border mechanism, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met in Beijing on Wednesday to discuss a range of issues, including management of peace and tranquillity along LAC and restoration of bilateral ties frozen for over...
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United States President-elect Donald Trump has reiterated his intention to impose reciprocal tariffs in retaliation for the high tariff imposed by New Delhi on import of certain American products. Reciprocal. If they tax us, we tax them the same amount. They tax us. We tax them. And they tax...
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Several students at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Tuesday held the screening of a banned BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, defying an advisory issued by the university administration warning of strict action. The screening, organised by the Left-backed All India...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party camp office on Tuesday faced bulldozer action when a team of Nagar Palika on Tuesday demolished it as it was allegedly constructed on encroached land. The operation was carried out under the supervision of a joint team from the Ballia Nagar Palika Parishad,...
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The Congress on Tuesday alleged that Home Minister Amit Shah's remarks in the Rajya Sabha during a debate on the Constitution show that the BJP and the RSS leaders have a lot of hatred for B R Ambedkar and demanded an apology from him. Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi said those who...
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Kashmir is likely to be connected to the rest of the country through rail next month as the work on the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link has been completed, a senior Railway official said here on Tuesday.The Northern Railway General Manager Ashok Verma told reporters here that the work on...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party camp office on Tuesday faced bulldozer action when a team of Nagar Palika on Tuesday demolished it as it was allegedly constructed on encroached land.The operation was carried out under the supervision of a joint team from the Ballia Nagar Palika Parishad, district...
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A man has been arrested for allegedly threatening to kill Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, police said on Tuesday. A pistol, a knife and some objectionable pictures were recovered from the accused, identified Sheikh Ataul, a resident of West Bengal's Malda, they said. Media...
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