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The Congress convention in Belagavi has been cancelled following the demise of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar said on Thursday. The convention was organised to commemorate the centenary of the lone Congress convention in Belagavi, which...
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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday expressed profound sorrow and grief over the death of former prime minister Manmohan Singh, describing him as a towering statesman and the architect of India's economic reforms in the early 1990s which transformed the nation's...
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The Singhs with the Obamas
If you've just joined us: Former prime minister Manmohan Singh, the architect of India's economic reforms, died in New Delhi at 9:51 pm today. He was 92. Singh's death was announced by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, where he was admitted in the Emergency ward around 8.30 PM...
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Ghulam Nabi Azad tweets this image alongside writing on X: Deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Manmohan Singh ji, a visionary leader and one of India's most respected statesmen. As someone who had the privilege of serving in his Cabinet twice, I witnessed firsthand his extraordinary...
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Former prime minister Manmohan Singh was a great listener and spoke very little but whenever he did he spoke only substance, former RBI governor D Subbarao recalled his association with Singh, who died on Thursday.I had experience with him as prime minister and as finance secretary and late as...
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A very young Sharad Pawar with Dr Singh
NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar on Thursday condoled the death of former prime minister Manmohan Singh, saying the country has lost a great economist, visionary reformer and a global statesman. Singh, 92, died in Delhi on Thursday night. Deeply saddened to learn about the passing of Dr...
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All government programs scheduled tomorrow are to be cancelled. A national mourning of seven days will be declared. Cabinet is to meet tomorrow at 11 am. Dr Manmohan Singh's last rites to be conducted with full state honours: GoI sources.
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Mourning a great and good man tonight. Dr ManmohanSingh Om Shanti, Shashi Tharoor tweets sharing pictures and a post from 2022, where he writes: Wishing the admirable Dr ManMohan Singh a wonderful 90th birthday. I have been privileged to enjoy his blessings for many years & to learn so much...
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History will always remember Dr Manmohan Singh Ji for his dignified demeanor, commitment to public service, profound wisdom and humility. He leaves behind a legacy of economic reforms, political stability, and dedication to uplifting the lives of every Indian. His tenure first as a technocrat and...
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Congress leader and Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi tweets, Manmohan Singh Ji led India with immense wisdom and integrity. His humility and deep understanding of economics inspired the nation. My heartfelt condolences to Mrs. Kaur and the family. I have lost a mentor and guide. Millions of us who...
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Dr Singh with former President Pranab Mukherjee
Sharmistha Mukherjee posts on X: End of an era. A life well-lived Dr. Singh. A grateful nation will remember his immense contributions towards India's growth story. Above all, a genuinely nice human being & as my father always said- 'a true gentleman'. My deepest condolences to his family...
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Nirmala Sitharaman posts on X: Former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is no more. He had served as the Governor of RBI and as Finance Minister of India. Presented the milestone budget of 1991 which liberalised the Indian economy. Respected by all, he was soft-spoken and gentle. Condolences to...
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Manmohan Singh had joined a pre-medical course as his father wanted him to become a doctor but pulled out after a couple of months, losing interest in the subject, according to a book on the former prime minister by his daughter. Singh died in New Delhi on Thursday night at the age of 92...
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Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge tweets, Undoubtedly, history shall judge you kindly, Dr. Manmohan Singh ji! With the passing of the Former Prime Minister, India has lost a visionary statesman, a leader of unimpeachable integrity, and an economist of unparalleled stature. His policy of...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah tweets, The news of the demise of former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is extremely sad. From being the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India to the Finance Minister of the country and as the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh played an important role in the...
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Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar tweets, Deeply pained to learn about the passing of Dr. Manmohan Singh Ji, former Prime Minister and a distinguished economist who transformed India's economic landscape. A Padma Vibhushan awardee and architect of India's economic liberalisation in 1991, he boldly...
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Reactions to Dr Singh's death.Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra tweets, Few people in politics inspire the kind of respect that Sardar Manmohan Singh ji did. His honesty will always be an inspiration for us and he will forever stand tall among those who truly love this country as someone who...
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The PM tweeted this collage of his meetings with Dr Singh
PM Modi tweets, India mourns the loss of one of its most distinguished leaders, Dr. Manmohan Singh Ji. Rising from humble origins, he rose to become a respected economist. He served in various government positions as well, including as Finance Minister, leaving a strong imprint on our economic...
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BJP national president and Union Health Minister JP Nadda tweets, The passing of Former Prime Minister and Economist Shri Manmohan Singh ji is an immense loss for the nation. A visionary statesman and a stalwart of Indian politics, throughout his remarkable career in public service, he...
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Manmohan Singh in Parliament. File pic
The AIIMS says: With profound grief, we inform the demise of the former Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh, aged 92. He was being treated for age-related medical conditions and had a sudden loss of consciousness at home on 26 December 2024. Resuscitative measures were started immediately...
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Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, BJP national president and Union Health Minister JP Nadda arrive at AIIMS, Delhi. If you've just joined us, former prime minister, Dr Manmohan Singh has passed away. Dr Singh was brought to the emergency department this evening in a critical...
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Former prime minister and senior Congress leader Manmohan Singh passed away at AIIMS in New Delhi on Thursday evening. He was 92. Earlier in the day, he was admitted to AIIMS Delhi after his health deteriorated, sources said.They said the condition of Singh was critical.He was brought...
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Several parts of north India continued to be in the grip of intense cold wave conditions on Thursday with minimum temperatures settling several degrees below the freezing point in some cities of Kashmir valley. Weather was mostly dry across Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand during the last 24...
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Renowned Assamese filmmaker-scriptwriter Bhaskar Jyoti Das died on Thursday due to cancer, his close friends said. He was 51. Das died at a hospital after suffering from cancer for a long period, his close friend and National Award-winning filmmaker Utpal Borpujari said. Das had...
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Ajmer dargah/File image
Ahead of the annual 'Urs' at the Dargah of sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, the Ajmer Municipal Corporation removed encroachments from Dargah Bazaar and surrounding areas on Thursday.In the presence of the police, a team from the municipal corporation removed encroachments by shopkeepers in...
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Maharashtra deputy CM Eknath Shinde meets PM Narendra Modi, in New Delhi on Thursday
Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde on Thursday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi after starting a new innings as the deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra and leading the BJP-led Mahayuti coalition to victory in the recent assembly elections. In his first meeting with Modi after assuming the new...
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Bharatiya Janata Party Tamil Nadu president K Annamalai on Thursday said he would not wear sandals and walk barefoot until the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam regime is dislodged. Further, he said he would lash himself six times with a whip on December 27 at 10 am outside his residence here to...
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A sessions court in Mumbai directed film producer Gunwant Jain, accused of raping a 38-year-model, to surrender before the police. Setting aside a magistrate's order that released Jain following his arrest in November, additional sessions judge (Dindoshi court) DG Dhoble, in his...
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A Japanese national, Hiroshi Sasaki, who works in Bengaluru, lost Rs 35.5 lakh after being 'digitally arrested' by cyber fraudsters, the police said, on Thursday. The incident occurred between December 12 and 14, police added. Sasaki, who lives in a flat near Dairy Circle, received a...
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Youtuber Ranveer Allahbadia/ Image courtesy X
Youtuber Ranveer Allahbadia has said he and his girlfriend were swept away by an underwater current on Christmas evening in Goa but were rescued by another couple. Allahbadia, who goes by the name of BeerBiceps on social media, shared his story on Instagram on Wednesday evening. He...
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will chair the sixth edition of the Armed Forces Flag Day Corporate Social Responsibility conclave here on Friday, officials said. The event organised by Kendriya Sainik Board under Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare aims to highlight the measures taken for...
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The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party received contributions of over Rs 2,604.74 crore during 2023-24 while the Opposition Congress got Rs 281.38 crore in its kitty, according to contribution reports of the two parties put in public domain by the Election Commission. The donations listed in the...
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Six people who were arrested for allegedly trespassing into the residence of top Telugu actor Allu Arjun and engaging in vandalism are students pursuing PhD, post-graduation, and other courses. These people who claim to be the members of Osmania University - Joint Action Committee, allegedly...
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Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty ended flat in listless trading on Thursday amid a lack of near-term triggers and unabated foreign fund outflows. The 30-share BSE benchmark Sensex dipped 0.39 points to settle at 78,472.48 in a muted trade. During the morning trade, it had jumped 425.5...
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Delhi University is planing to introduce a PhD programme in Hindu Studies form the 2025-26 academic session, according to a proposal by a Standing Committee. The Governing Body of the Centre for Hindu Studies has recommended that the PhD programme be introduced in 2025-26. The programme...
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The Russian government has cautioned against promoting hypotheses about the cause of the crash of a Russia-bound passenger plane that killed 38 people in Kazakhstan on Wednesday.Footage of the wrecked fuselage appeared to indicate shrapnel damage and some aviation experts suggested the...
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Will fight till last breath for Nehru-Gandhi ideology, honour of Babasaheb Ambedkar, Cong chief Mallikarjun Kharge at Belagavi CWC meet. BJP wants to capture all constitutional institutions like EC, but we will continue to fight this battle. People's faith in electoral process gradually...
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Maharashtra Deputy CM Eknath Shinde says, After the formation of government in Maharashtra and the expansion of the cabinet, I met with the PM and he congratulated us for the success and the work we did for the development of the state. I, Ajit Pawar and Devendra Fadnavis will meet again and will...
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Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Thursday made it clear to a visiting Telugu cinema industry delegation that there would be no compromise on law and order in the state and that it applies to everyone including the film fraternity. The CM also conveyed to the delegation of Telugu...
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The Indian stock markets on Thursday closed flat after a volatile session, driven by lack of major domestic or global triggers. At the close of the trading session, the Nifty 50 at National Stock Exchange (NSE) ended at 23,750.20, up about 22 points, or 0.1 per cent up and BSE Sensex closed...
16:28
The Brahmaputra river
China has approved the construction of the world's largest dam, stated to be the planet's biggest infra project costing USD 137 billion, on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet close to the Indian border, raising concerns in riparian states -- India and Bangladesh. The Chinese government has...
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A rescue op at a borewell. File pic
Three-year-old Chetna has been stuck inside a narrow 150 feet deep borewell for over 70 hours as the rescue operations were still underway on Thursday to save the girl.Worried about her daughter's condition, Dholi Devi has not eaten anything since the tragic accident on Monday. Chetna fell into...
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Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday started a three-day exercise to assess his party's position in Mumbai, where civic polls are likely to be held next year, one of his close aides said. After the split in the Bal Thackeray-founded Shiv Sena in 2022, the recently concluded...
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Congress leaders at Belagavi
A controversy has erupted over the alleged misrepresentation of the India map on the posters displayed by the Congress to commemorate the centenary of 1924 Congress session in Karnataka's Belagavi, with the BJP dubbing it as vote bank politics by the national party. The ruling Congress has...
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Maharashtra Deputy CM and Shiv Sena chief, Eknath Shinde, along with his son and MP Shrikant Shinde and daughter-in-law Vrushali Shinde meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
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Children play Cricket on a frozen pond in Jammu & Kashimir's Sopore. Intense cold wave conditions prevailed across Kashmir as the minimum temperatures settled several degrees below the freezing point, officials said on Thursday. There is a possibility of light snowfall over the higher...
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Five journalists were killed in an Israeli strike that hit their vehicle in Gaza, CNN reported, citing a hospital and their news outlet statement.According to the hospital, the vehicle, belonging to Al-Quds Today Television, was parked outside Al-Awda Hospital when it was hit. The television...
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Delhi CM Atishi
The AAP launched a scathing attack on the Congress on Thursday, accusing it of colluding with the BJP for the upcoming Delhi Assembly polls to harm the prospects of the Arvind Kejriwal-led party. Delhi Chief Minister Atishi and Rajya Sabha MP of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Sanjay Singh alleged...
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BJP state prez K Annamalai shared this pic
The accused in the varsity student sexual assault case is not even a primary member of the DMK, Tamil Nadu Law Minister S Regupathi said in Chennai on Thursday. Gnanasekaran, the accused was arrested in a matter of five to six hours showing police's swift action and the government had no...
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A middle-aged couple allegedly died by suicide in Nandyal district after their 24-year-old son expressed his desire to marry a transgender person.According to Nandyal sub-divisional police officer P Srinivas Reddy, Subba Rayudu (45) and Saraswati (38) took their lives after conflicts over their...
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A Thane court on Thursday remanded the main accused in the case of kidnapping and murder of a 12-year-old girl in police custody till January 2, 2025. The prime accused, Vishal Gawli, was brought to the city in the morning and kept at the Naupada police station, after being nabbed in...
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Allu Arjun holds a press conference after the incident
A meeting between Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy and directors, producers, and actors from the Tollywood industry is underway at Telangana State Police Command and Control Centre at Banjara Hills in Hyderabad. There will be no compromise with law and order, Telangana Chief Minister...
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US President-elect Donald Trump shares this gif on X.
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The passenger who captured the video said his prayers as the plane crashed
A video taken by a passenger inside the aircraft that crashed in Kazakhstan has gone viral on social media. The video shows the final moments of the plane. Thirty-eight people were killed in the crash near Aktau, an oil and gas hub on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea.In the video, the...
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Football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo shares this image from a Christmas vacation with his family in Lapland (Finland), writing, The most important part of Christmas. He also shared moments from his trip in a video on his YouTube channel, including a meeting with the...
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The severity of injuries among women in India's auto sector has been rising steadily from 2019 to 2024, according to the latest report by the Safe in India Foundation. Titled Crushed, the report marks the sixth annual study on the condition of workers in the sector.It reveals a surge in...
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A crucial meeting between the Telangana government and Telugu film industry representatives is expected to be held on Thursday to thaw the speculated strained ties between the ruling dispensation and the tinseltown following the arrest of top actor Allu Arjun. The 42 year-old star was...
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Bapsi Sidhwa. File pic
Legendary author and writer Bapsi Sidhwa passed away in Houston, Texas, yesterday. Sidhwa was a pioneering literary voice whose works transcended boundaries and bridged cultures. Born in Karachi, raised in Lahore, a proud Houstonian, and beloved around the world, Bapsi was a storyteller of...
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President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday condoled the demise of renowned Malayalam writer M T Vasudevan Nair and said with his passing away, the world of literature has become poorer. Popularly known as MT, Nair died at a hospital in Kozhikode, Kerala on Wednesday evening. He was 91. In a post...
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Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty surged in early trade on Thursday amid a rally in Asian markets and buying in blue-chip bank stocks. The 30-share BSE benchmark Sensex jumped 425.5 points to 78,898.37 in early trade. The NSE Nifty surged 123.85 points to 23,851.50. From the 30...
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The couple intended to hang themselves
Acting swiftly, the Thane Municipal Corporation's emergency response team and local police have saved the lives of an elderly couple who attempted suicide in Thane, an official said on Thursday. The Kasarwadavli police in Maharashtra's Thane city received information on Wednesday night from...
09:48
Proxgy, an Internet of Things (IoT) technology firm in areas such as safety, connectivity, and productivity solutions, said that cricketer Ajinkya Rahane, has invested in its ongoing $3 million Series A funding round.Other key investors in the round include Zerodha Co-Founder Nikhil Kamath, actor...
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Following notices issued by senior Delhi government officials disowning the ruling AAP's registration process for two of its schemes in the national capital, BJP leader Gaurav Vallabh on Wednesday took a dig at Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor Arvind Kejriwal, saying that nowadays Delhi Chief...
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Aathira Varier/Business StandardIn 2023-2024, new business premium (NBP) in life insurances micro-insurance segment, which targets low-income groups, surpassed Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion) for the first time, according to the financial years annual report by the Insurance Regulatory and...
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Samie Modak/Business StandardIndia's unique equity investor base is growing rapidly, nearing 110 million, just months after surpassing 100 million in August and 90 million in February. At the end of November, the total investor count (unique PAN number) registered with the National Stock...
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