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A Maoist couple allegedly involved in extremist offences in Chhattisgarh, surrendered before police in Mulugu district of Telangana on Thursday, the police said. N Bheema alias Sanju, working as section commander of the second central reorganisation committee of the banned Communist Party of...
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Four people were injured in a bear attack at a village in Srikakulam district on Thursday. The incident occurred in a cashew orchard in Vajrapukotturu village around 11 am today, a forest official said. ... four people were attacked, two of them seriously, Srikakulam district forest officer...
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The deadline to link the Aadhaar number with ration cards, and update e-KYC (know your client) and mobile number on ration card has been extended till February 29, officials said in Shimla on Thursday. The decision to extend the date has been taken in order to facilitate the consumers who have...
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More than 100 flights were delayed and 13 flights were diverted at the Delhi airport on Thursday early morning as bad weather impacted operations, an official said. The Indira Gandhi International Airport in the national capital is the country's largest airport and handles around 1,300 flight...
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Stress is not a licence to behave in an abusive manner, the Kerala high court remarked on Thursday while hearing a matter connected with a recent incident in which a police officer allegedly used expletives against a lawyer. Justice Devan Ramachandran was hearing a matter in which a video of an...
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Jharkhand ex-Chief Minister Hemant Soren
The Supreme Court on Thursday set up a special three-judge bench to hear former Jharkhand chief minister and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader Hemant Soren's plea against his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case. A bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna, MM Sundresh and...
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Leaders of several parties of the INDIA opposition bloc would meet in New Delhi on Friday morning to chalk out their joint strategy during the budget session of Parliament. Sources on Thursday said the leaders would meet in the chamber of Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun...
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The police held flag marches in sensitive areas of Varanasi ahead of Friday namaaz, a day after the Varanasi district court allowed puja in a cellar of the Gyanvapi mosque.A large number of people offer Friday namaaz in the Gyanvapi mosque complex.As a precautionary measure, security has been...
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, and Minister of State V K Singh on Thursday jointly inaugurated SpiceJet's direct flight service connecting Ayodhya with eight cities. This strategic initiative aims to enhance accessibility for...
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In a major development, the US has approved sale of 31 MQ-9B armed drones to India at an estimated cost of $3.99 billion, said American defence agency. The Biden administration on Thursday notified the US Congress on its proposed supply of 31 MQ-9B Predator long endurance drones to India,...
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The Bombay high court on Thursday directed the city police to return 41 luxury cars seized from the BKC area in Mumbai for allegedly violating prohibitory orders. The impounded cars include models from Porsche, Mercedes, Ferrari, Audi, Lamborghini, Jaguar and BMW. A division bench of Justices...
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Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar
Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday reconstituted the panel of vice-chairpersons and gave equal representation to women. The reconstituted panel of vice-chairpersons has eight members including four women. It comprises several members from the opposition. The newly appointed...
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Raghuram Rajan
Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan on Thursday said unleashing the Enforcement Directorate before elections is wrong and undemocratic, and it should bother everyone, not just politicians.The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday arrested Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief Hemant Soren on...
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West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee is likely to visit New Delhi next week to participate in a 'very important political meeting', a top source said on Thursday.Banerjee's visit to New Delhi will be after her 48-hour dharna in Kolkata from Friday to press...
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The government has allocated Rs 13,000 crore to the Tribal Affairs Ministry in the interim Budget 2024-25, a massive increase of 70 per cent from the allotment in the previous financial year.The tribal ministry was allocated Rs 7,605 crore in the financial year 2023-24.The Centre has earmarked Rs...
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Amidst the political crisis in Jharkhand, JMM legislative party leader Champai Soren on Wednesday met Governor CP Radhakrishnan in Ranchi's Raj Bhavan. The governor assured us to take a decision soon on our request go form the government, Soren said after the meeting. We stand united; all 43...
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The Gyanvapi mosque management committee on Thursday moved the Allahabad high court challenging a Varanasi court order that allowed Hindu prayers in a cellar of the mosque.Anjuman Intezamia Masjid Committee counsel SFA Naqvi said they have requested an urgent hearing.Earlier in the day, the...
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Indian stock indices took a rollercoaster ride and settled marginally in the red the day the central government presented its interim Budget for 2024-25.
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Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty closed lower on the Budget day on Thursday as investors resorted to profit-taking in capital goods, metal and realty shares amid no big announcements by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. After shedding early gains, the markets turned volatile during...
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Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader and former chief minister Hemant Soren was on Thursday sent to one-day judicial custody by a special PMLA court in Ranchi, in connection with the Enforcement Directorate probe into an alleged land scam.The Directorate of Enforcement had sought 10-day remand of...
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After the consecration ceremony of the Ram temple on January 22, around 25 lakh devotees visited the temple in the past 11 days and the amount of offerings and donations has crossed Rs 11 crore. According to Prakash Gupta, office in-charge of the temple trust, in the last 11 days, about Rs 8...
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Jairam Ramesh in Murshidabad
The Congress on Thursday remained optimistic about clinching a mutually an acceptable seat-sharing arrangement with the TMC in West Bengal, despite TMC chief Mamata Banerjee's reluctance to concede seats to the grand-old party in the state. Addressing reporters in Murshidabad district, once a...
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The Congress reacts to the interim budget.Congress MP Shashi Tharoor: He said that not very much came out of it and that FM Nirmala Sitharaman used vague and rhetorical language. It was one of the shortest speeches on record in the Budget. Not very much came out of it. As usual, a lot of...
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Moderate to heavy snowfall continued in high hills and tribal areas of Himachal Pradesh on Thursday while the state capital received the first snowfall of the season bringing cheers to residents, tourists and farmers. Shimla was wrapped in a thin blanket of snow on Thursday while the 5-km...
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Former Jharkhand Chief Minister and JMM executive president Hemant Soren has been produced in the PMLA Court from the ED office in Ranchi. Soren was arrested by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) in a money laundering case related to the alleged land scam on Wednesday night. Meanwhile, the...
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sithraman on Thursday presented her sixth consecutive budget with a speech lasting 56 minutes, her shortest-ever. Dressed in a turquoise embroidered Kantha silk saree, as Sitharaman delivered her speech, it was applauded at regular intervals by the treasury...
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Update: JMM-led alliance in Jharkhand has sought time from the governor at 3 pm, says Congress state chief Rajesh Thakur. If the Jharkhand governor delays in inviting JMM-led alliance to form government, the MLAs will fly to Hyderabad, the Congress says.Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader Hemant Soren...
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Hemant Soren resigned yesterday as Jharkhand CM
JMM-led alliance MLAs likely to be shifted outside Jharkhand to prevent BJP's poaching attempt. Two chartered planes have been booked for shifting the MLAs in Jharkhand to Hyderabad.Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader Hemant Soren was arrested on Wednesday night in a money laundering case after...
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said there are no changes in tax rates for direct and indirect taxes, including import duties.
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Sreela Majumdar caught the discerning eye of Mrinal Sen and he cast her as Alhadi in his 1979 Bengali film, Parashuram. It bagged three National Awards as well as the Silver Prize at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival.The same year, Sreela Majumdar had another release, Mrinal Sen's Ek...
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The Big 3 with the PM
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said the interim budget 2024-25 draws the roadmap to achieve Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of a developed Bharat by 2047. Shah also said the budget speech sheds light on the milestones achieved by the Modi government in the last 10 years in its...
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The #ViksitBharatBudget benefits every section of the society and lays the foundation for a developed India, PM Modi reacts to the interim budget. In this budget, keeping fiscal deficit under control, capital expenditure has been given a historic high of Rs 11,11,111 Crore. If we speak the...
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said projects for port connectivity, tourism infrastructure and amenities will be taken up on our islands, including Lakshadweep to address the emerging fervour for domestic tourism in the country. While presenting the interim Union Budget, she...
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A temple of Lord Shiva has been desecrated allegedly by unidentified persons in Bamori town of Madhya Pradesh's Guna district, a police official said on Thursday. The miscreants also uprooted the 'Shivling' from the temple and threw it outside, the official said, adding the incident took place...
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday asserted that the BJP-led government at the Centre has worked with an approach to development that is all-round, all-inclusive and all-pervasive ('sarvangin', 'sarvasparshi' and 'sarvasamaveshi') and said that the trinity of Democracy, Demography...
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday presented the Interim Budget 2024 and expressed hope that the good policies and the work done by the Central government will help the BJP return to power for the third consecutive time in a row.Addressing the Lok Sabha, the Union Finance...
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Hemant Soren hands in his resignation to the governor
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha executive president and former chief minister Hemant Soren, who has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case, has said that the time has come to wage a war against a feudal system that oppresses poor people, Dalits and tribals. The JMM leader...
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Calling the action of the Enforcement Directorate on Hemant Soren right, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Harnath Singh Yadav said that the next number is Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.If we think deeply about the roots of corruption that have become strong in India, then it is politics....
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Journalist Pallavi Ghosh makes an observation. The sarees chosen by @nsitharaman do tell a saree - Bengal kantha in mulberry silk.. colour is Ramar (Shri Ram) blue as it's called in Tamil Nadu
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Prayers were performed inside a cellar of the Gyanvapi mosque here on Wednesday night following court orders, president of the Kashi Vishwanath temple trust Nagendra Pandey said. Earlier on Wednesday, the district court ruled that a priest can perform prayers before the idols in a cellar of the...
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Update: The Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday approved the pre-election budget 2024-25, sources said. Following this, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present her sixth budget in the Lok Sabha. She will equal the record of former Prime Minister Morarji...
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Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approves pre-election Budget.
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Stocks of companies related to railways were trading in the positive territory on Thursday morning ahead of the presentation of the interim Budget. Shares of IRCON International rallied 3.26 per cent, Texmaco Rail & Engineering jumped 2.71 per cent, Indian Railway Finance Corporation climbed...
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Will the Budget be meetha too?
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday called on President Droupadi Murmu before presenting the pre-election Budget for 2024-25. As per established tradition, the finance minister met the President at the Rashtrapati Bhawan before heading to Parliament. Union Minister of Finance...
10:27
Remember masks? Wear them!
India saw a single-day rise of 160 Covid cases, while the number of active cases stood at 1,338, the Union health ministry said on Thursday. One death from Maharashtra was reported in 24 hours, according to the ministry's data updated at 8 am. The number of daily cases had dropped to...
10:21
No 'Paytm karo' soon
Shares of One97 Communications Ltd, which owns Paytm brand, plummeted 20 per cent on Thursday as the RBI directed Paytm Payments Bank Ltd (PPBL) to stop accepting deposits or top-ups in any customer accounts, wallets, FASTags and other instruments after February 29. The stock cracked 20 per...
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Team Sitharaman
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday again took a digital tablet wrapped in a traditional 'bahi-khata' style pouch as she headed for Parliament to present the interim Budget 2024-25 in a paperless format just like the previous three years. She posed for the traditional 'briefcase'...
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be presenting the pre-election Budget which would list out achievements of the Modi government in the past 10 years, while giving a glimpse of the future plans to make India a developed nation by 2047. All eyes will be on whether Sitharaman will deliver...
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman arrives at Parliament with the paperless 'bahi katha', the budget tablet, to present the last budget before the general election 2024.
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Benchmark equity indices began the trade on an optimistic note on Thursday but later faced heavy volatile trends ahead of presentation of interim Budget. The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 248.4 points to 72,000.51 in early trade after beginning the day on a positive note. The Nifty went up by...
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Interim budget copies have arrived in Parliament as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to present her sixth straight budget today.
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Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman arrives at the Ministry of Finance ahead of interim budget presentation.
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The decomposed remains suspected to be of a 19-year-old youth who had been missing since May last year were found in Sokom village in Manipur's Chandel district, police said.Ngangom Navy of Sugnu in Kakching district had been missing since May 28 last year and has been presumed dead.The search...
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will on Thursday present the Modi 2.0 government's last budget before the general elections, which is likely to contain a mix of measures for the economy and electorally significant segments like farmers and women. Peppered with political innuendos, her sixth...
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A 15-year-old girl was gang raped at gun point in front of her parents by three men in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior district, the police said on Wednesday. The incident took place in the Bhanwarpur area on Monday night but the complaint was filed two days later, said additional superintendent of...
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Five more Indian wetlands have been added to the global list of wetlands of international importance under the Ramsar Convention, taking the total number of such highly-recognised waterlogged ecosystems in the country to 80, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said on Wednesday. Of the...
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JMM party workers protest against the ED for summons to Hemant Soren in Ranchi/ANI Photo
Protesting against the arrest of former CM Hemant Soren, several tribal outfits gave a call for Jharkhand bandh on Thursday. Speaking to PTI, Kendriya Sarna Samiti president Ajay Tirkey said 15-20 tribal organisations from across the state will join the shutdown. Despite cooperating with the ED...
