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Alleging that riots occurred wherever veteran BJP leader L K Advani's 'Rath Yatra' had gone for the construction of Ram temple at Ayodhya, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday claimed that it was a wrong decision to confer Bharat Ratna on him.Speaking to reporters in Hyderabad,...
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The Enforcement Directorate on Saturday filed a complaint against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a court here for not appearing before it in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam. The complaint was filed before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate...
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State Bank of India on Saturday said it is ready to help Paytm customers who will be affected by the Reserve Bank of India's order to stop almost all its activities from March 1. Addressing the media during the third quarter earnings here, SBI Chairman Dinesh Kumar Khara ruled out...
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Days after a NEET aspirant from Uttar Pradesh hanged himself to death in his hostel room in Kota, the district administration seized the facility as it lacked 'anti-suicide devices' in ceiling fans, officials said on Saturday. The 19-year-old student from Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad , who...
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Rahul Gandhi on Saturday accused the BJP of attempting to steal the government in Jharkhand and asserted that the Congress intervened to safeguard the people's mandate.Addressing a gathering during the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Godda district, Gandhi highlighted the role of the Congress in...
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Former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot was admitted to Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Hospital here with a fever and low oxygen saturation after he tested positive for COVID-19 and swine flu.In a post on X on Friday night, Gehlot said he had a fever for the past few days and had tested positive for...
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A complete ban on polygamy and child marriage, a common marriageable age for girls across all faiths and enforcing similar grounds and procedures for divorce are understood to be among the major recommendations of a panel which drafted a Uniform Civil Code for Uttarakhand. The...
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Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday took an apparent dig at the BJP saying former deputy prime minister Lal Krishna Advani is being presented the Bharat Ratna so that the saffron party's votes do not get scattered. Yadav's statement came hours after the BJP stalwart's...
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The Maldives' government has formally requested the Indian government to provide comprehensive details of an incident in which its coast guard personnel allegedly boarded three Maldivian fishing vessels operating within its economic zone. The development is the latest in the...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said BJP stalwart LK Advani challenged dynasty politics and connected India's democracy to all-inclusive and nationalist ideologies. Addressing a rally in Odisha's Sambalpur, Modi said the Bharat Ratna to Advani, the former deputy PM, is an honour to...
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The United States has issued a travel advisory for American citizens visiting Pakistan and asked them to exercise caution ahead of the general elections scheduled for February 8, and also warned of potential poll-related violence. The US Embassy in Pakistan on Friday issued an advisory and...
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A Pakistan court on Saturday sentenced jailed former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi to seven years imprisonment in the 'un-Islamic nikah' case. Bibi's first husband, Khawar Maneka, had filed the case, alleging that she violated the Islamic practice of observing the...
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Union Minister Meenakshi Lekhi on Saturday lashed out at a section of the audience at a youth conclave here for not chanting the Bharat Mata Ki Jai slogan despite she repeatedly asked them to do so.A visibly irked Lekhi asked them whether Bharat was not their mother and even suggested a woman,...
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Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader Lal Krishna Advani said on Saturday that the Bharat Ratna award is not only an honour for him as a person but also for the ideals and principles that he strove to serve throughout life to the best of his ability. With utmost humility and...
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Senior Madhya Pradesh Congress leader Kamal Nath on Saturday brushed aside a query on his joining the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party but added that political leaders are free and not bound to be associated with any outfit. Nath was fielding questions from the media on the likelihood of his...
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Punjab Governor and Chandigarh Administrator Banwarilal Purohit submitted his resignation to President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday, citing personal reasons. Due to my personal reasons and certain other commitments, I tender my resignation from the post of governor of Punjab and...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated and laid the foundation stones for projects worth over Rs 68,000 crore in Odisha.Besides inaugurating the 400-crore permanent campus of IIM, Sambalpur, Modi unveiled several infrastructure projects across various sectors such as power, roads...
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The country's largest lender SBI on Saturday reported a 35 per cent fall in standalone net profit to Rs 9,164 crore for the December quarter. State Bank of India (SBI) had earned a net profit of Rs 14,205 crore in the year-ago period. The bank's total income rose to Rs 1,18,193...
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The condition of Mahesh Gaikwad, the Shiv Sena leader from Maharashtra's Kalyan who was shot by a BJP MLA, is critical, said the Thane hospital treating him. Kalyan MLA Ganpat Gaikwad of BJP opened fire on Mahesh Gaikwad, the local Shiv Sena chief, inside a police station at Ulhasnagar in...
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India saw a single-day rise of 159 cases of COVID-19, while the number of active cases of the infection was recorded at 1,400, the health ministry said on Saturday. Three deaths from Kerala have been reported in a span of 24 hours, according to the ministry's data updated at 8 am.The...
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Portfolios were on Saturday allocated in the new Bihar cabinet headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who retained Home department, while giving away finance, held by his JD-U, to new ally BJP, according to a notification.Samrat Choudhary, one of the two Deputy Chief Ministers, got finance, a...
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Model-actor Poonam Pandey says 'I'm here, alive' after reports of her death from cervical cancer. She took to Instagram and announced that she was fine and that this was done in order to spread awareness about cervical cancer.I feel compelled to share something significant with you all - I...
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Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Saturday said that the party assumes West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is still part of the opposition bloc INDIA and all should come together to fight the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls.His statement came a day after Banerjee expressed doubt whether...
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The Army on Saturday opened fire after observing a suspicious movement near the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, officials said. They said Army troops picked up the suspicious movement in the Sabra Gali area of Mendhar and immediately responded.The firing...
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Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader Lal Krishna Advani will be conferred Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award in India, announced Prime Minister Narendra Modi.I am very happy to share that Shri LK Advani Ji will be conferred the Bharat Ratna. I also spoke to him and congratulated him on...
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal
A Delhi police crime branch team arrived at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence Saturday morning to serve him a notice in connection with a probe over his claim that the BJP was trying to buy AAP MLAs, an official said. He said the team is led by an assistant commissioner of...
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UK Member of Parliament Bob Blackman has raised concern over the British media's biased reporting of the Ram Mandir. The MP while speaking in the UK parliament on Friday, said: Last week in Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh, the Ram Mandir was consecrated. This was of great joy to Hindus across...
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Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's dharna, demanding West Bengal's dues from the Centre for various social welfare schemes, continued overnight amid the cold, following which she went for a walk on Saturday morning. Banerjee along with leaders of her party, the TMC, started the demonstration...
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A powerful US Senator has said he ended his objection to the $3.9 billion drone deal with India after months of painstaking discussions with the Biden administration which assured him that New Delhi is committed to investigating an alleged plot to assassinate a Khalistani separatist on American...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday will visit the famed Baba Baidyanath Dham in Deoghar on the second day of his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Jharkhand. The Yatra, which began in Manipur on January 14, entered the state from West Bengal through the Pakur district on Friday...
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More than 27 per cent of financial influencers or finfluencers do not make adequate disclosures when they are pushing out sponsored content on their platforms, according to research published by the CFA Institute. Finfluencers captivate their audiences by breaking down complex financial...
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A Bharatiya Janata Party MLA has been arrested for allegedly shooting and injuring a leader of the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena over a land dispute in Maharashtra's Thane district, officials said on Saturday. Kalyan MLA Ganpat Gaikwad of BJP opened fire on Mahesh Gaikwad, the Shiv Sena chief...
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A senior Army officer visited forward areas along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Friday and reviewed the operational preparedness of the troops deployed on ground zero. General Officer Commanding of the Army's 16 Corps Lieutenant General Navin Sachdeva visited...
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The Punjab police on Friday claimed to have averted targeted killings in the state with the arrest of a member of the Harpreet Singh alias Happy Jatt gang wanted in multiple criminal cases. Police teams also recovered one .30 bore automatic pistol along with a magazine and three live...
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A right wing organisation has filed a petition in an Agra court seeking prohibitory injunction against the observation of the 'Urs' at Taj Mahal. The petitioner, Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha, has also challenged free entry inside the Taj for 'Urs'. Agra Court has accepted the petition...
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The United States has retaliated against the killing of its soldiers in Jordan by striking on a dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard . President Joe Biden and other top US leaders had been warning for days that America would...
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Former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday said he has tested positive for COVID-19 and swine flu. In a post on X, the Congress leader advised people to take care of their health in the changing season. Due to fever for the last few days, today I got myself tested on the...
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Jharkhand Chief Minister Champai Soren
The Leonia Hotels on the city outskirts, where the MLAs of the ruling JMM-led alliance in Jharkhand have been put up on Friday ahead of the trust vote to be faced by the newly-formed Champai Soren government, is a luxury facility and a destination for various social events. Located at...
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Three Maoists, including a self-styled militia deputy commander, surrendered on Friday in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district, a police official said. He identified the three as Madkam Sukka (30), who was militia deputy commander of the outlawed outfit's 'Pidmel revolutionary people's council',...
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A Central Park on the lines of one in New York will be developed on land surrendered by Mahalaxmi Racecourse in south Mumbai, municipal commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal said on Friday. He was talking to reporters after presenting the annual budget of the Brihanmumbai Municipal...
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Functionaries of the RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and students of Pune University's Lalit Kala Kendra on Friday scuffled over a play based on 'Ramleela' that the former claimed had objectionable dialogues and scenes. The play, staged by the Lalit Kala Kendra, officially...
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