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Sanjay Raut
Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray leader Sanjay Raut on Thursday claimed that Mauris Noronha, who shot dead party leader Abhishek Ghosalkar, had met Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde at his official residence only four days ago.Noronha ended his own life after the shocking incident...
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A central team comprising three Union ministers, including Piyush Goyal and Arjun Munda, will hold a meeting with farmer leaders in Chandigarh to discuss their demands, Sarwan Singh Pandher, leader of a farmers' organisation, said on Thursday.Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee general...
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Less than a month after he returned to the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance, a coalition he has quit twice in a decade, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday asserted his latest realignment was going to be 'permanent' and would last 'for ever'.Kumar, who is also the...
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Dozens of passengers pushed a train carriage away from the platform to free a man who had fallen into narrow gap between the train and platform in adjoining Navi Mumbai. The act of heroism was captured in a 41-second video clip, which showed several commuters coming together to push...
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In a respite for Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu, the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the suspension of a recent amendment to Parliament's standing orders that had made it easier for the opposition lawmakers to impeach the president and the vice president, local media reports said.The...
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A court in Gujarat's Kutch district on Thursday remanded Mumbai-based Islamic preacher Mufti Salman Azhari in three-day police custody in a case of allegedly delivering a provocative speech.Kutch-East police took Azhari in custody on Wednesday after a court in Junagadh granted him bail in a...
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The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved auctions in eight spectrum bands for mobile phone services at a base price of Rs 96,317.65 crore. Spectrum, held by certain companies undergoing insolvency process, that are expiring this year, will also be put on auction. All the available...
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Police at the site of the shootout
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Vinod Ghosalkar's son Abhishek was injured when unidentified persons opened fire on him in Mumbai on Thursday evening, the police said. The incident took place in the limits of MHB Colony police station in Dahisar area in the western suburbs of Mumbai, an official...
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A specialised Canadian police task force has arrested five people, including two women, of Indian-origin for alleged extortion and firearm-related offences targeting the South Asian business community in the Greater Toronto area.The Peel Regional Police Extortion Investigative Task Force (EITF),...
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Parliament on Thursday completed the exercise of passing the interim Budget for 2024-25, with Rajya Sabha returning the Finance Bill 2024 and the relevant appropriation bills.The Upper House also returned the appropriation bills related to the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.The bills were...
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Just In: Violence erupts in Haldwani locality of Uttarakhand after municipal authorities demolish a madrasa. Police burst tear gas shells as local people hurl stones, set vehicles on fire after authorities demolish the madrasa in Haldwani. Details soon.
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Chief Minister Siddaramaiah
Karnataka State Contractors' Association president D Kempanna on Thursday alleged that the practice of 40 per cent kickbacks on government contracts continues even under the Congress regime.Accusing officials in the state government of rampant corruption, he said, earlier (during the previous BJP...
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Voting concluded across Pakistan on Thursday in an election marred by sporadic violence and connectivity issues after the government suspended mobile and internet services to foil terror attacks.The polling started at 8 am and continued without any break till 5 pm.A countrywide public holiday was...
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The death toll in blast at a firecracker unit in Harda in Madhya Pradesh reached 12 on Thursday after the body of an unidentified woman was found from a home near the site, while seven persons continue to be missing, officials said. A massive blast and subsequent blaze on Tuesday levelled a...
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India will replace military personnel at aviation platforms in the Maldives with competent Indian technical personnel, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday.The Mohamed Muizzu-led Maldives government has formally requested that India withdraw its troops from Male.In this regard, a...
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A 23-year-old woman was hacked to death allegedly by a man in Nirmal district of Telangana on Thursday after she started avoiding him, the police said. The woman's sister-in-law, who tried to stop the 27-year-old assailant during the attack, was also injured in the incident that took place...
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tables White Paper on the Indian economy in Lok Sabha. Economy was in crisis in 2014; the White Paper then would have set a negative narrative and shaken confidence of investors. The NDA govt armed with political and policy stability, took tough decisions...
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Baba Siddiqui, former Maharashtra minister who resigned from the Congress party on Thursday, said that he has moved on as he was 'not needed' in the grand old party anymore. I had to take a decision and I have taken a decision. When you don't understand something and it doesn't improve...
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The time has perhaps come -- or has it already passed, who can tell, on ground slipping by so swiftly underfoot? -- for us to ask a couple of simple but blunt questions of ourselves: who are we, and what do we believe this collective of ours we call India that is Bharat should be? Is there even...
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KBK Infographics
Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty tanked around 1 per cent on Thursday dragged by selling in banking and auto shares due to increased uncertainty about the timing of interest rate cuts after the RBI's monetary policy decision. Erasing all its early gains, the 30-share BSE Sensex fell...
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Massive traffic jams were witnessed on the Delhi-Noida border on Thursday as police personnel were deployed to check vehicles after a protest called by farmers in Noida and Greater Noida, officials said. Motorists spent hours in the crawling traffic as the police personnel with heavy...
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday met veteran BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani and congratulated him on being awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour. On his first visit to Delhi after snapping ties with the opposition INDIA bloc and rejoining the BJP-led...
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Congress secretary Dr Vineet Punia on Thursday asserted that there was good coordination and understanding among the members of opposition INDIA bloc, but the BJP was deliberately creating an opposite narrative about the alliance. He said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was doing so...
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Several parts of Jammu and Kashmir, including Srinagar city, witnessed the warmest January in 43 years, the Meteorological Centre Srinagar's data said. In terms of snowfall or rains, Srinagar city witnessed the second driest January in the past four decades, recording a mere 3.0 mm of...
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A Varanasi court on Thursday fixed February 15 as the date for hearing the Anjuman Intezamia committee's plea seeking a stop on worship in the cellar of Gyanvapi mosque, the Hindu side counsel said. Advocate M M Yadav said District Judge Anil Kumar told the court that since Allahabad...
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Rahul Gandhi in Jharsuguda
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not born in an Other Backward Class family, and he is misleading people by identifying himself as an OBC. Gandhi, while making a brief speech in Jharsuguda on the third and concluding day of his...
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An INDIA bloc meeting
The AAP On Thursday announced three candidates for as many seats in Assam for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls and hoped that the INDIA bloc will allow them to contest from these constituencies. Addressing a press conference, AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sandeep Pathak announced the names of the...
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Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das on Thursday said there are no systemic worries and the action on Paytm was driven by a lack of compliance at Paytm. Deputy Governor Swaminathan J said the actions against the fintech have been taken due to persisted non-compliance. The Governor...
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Louise Khurshid
An MP-MLA court has issued arrest warrant against Louise Khurshid, wife of former external affairs minister Salman Khurshid in a case involving alleged misuse of government funds. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Shambhavi of the special MP-MLA court on Wednesday issued an arrest...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said the Centre has decided to scrap the India-Myanmar Free Movement Regime (FMR) to ensure the country's internal security and maintain the demographic structure of the Northeastern states. As the Ministry of External Affairs is currently in...
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Hemant Soren is in jail
The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Congress Rajya Sabha MP from Jharkhand Dhiraj Prasad Sahu for questioning in a money laundering case in which the central agency arrested former chief minister Hemant Soren, official sources said Thursday. Sahu, 64, was in the news after the...
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Bidding farewell to members retiring from the Rajya Sabha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday lauded the contribution of his predecessor Manmohan Singh to the House.Manmohan Singh came to vote in the Rajya Sabha on a wheelchair to help strengthen democracy, Modi said. I remember in the...
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Former Maharashtra Minister Baba Siddique resigned from the Congress party today with immediate effect. The development was confirmed by him on his X (formerly Twitter account).I joined the Indian National Congress party as a young teenager and it has been a significant journey lasting 48 years....
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Sameer Kamath died of gunshot wounds
Amid concerns over a string of deaths among Indian students in the US, a prominent community leader has said his organisation is dealing with at least one such tragic case a day and underscored the need for creating awareness among immigrants from India to ensure their safety.Not to exaggerate,...
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Shaktikanta Das
The Reserve Bank of India on Thursday projected a GDP growth of 7 per cent for 2024-25 financial year, which is lower than the 7.3 per cent expansion estimated for the current fiscal. Announcing the bi-monthly monetary policy, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said rural demand continues to...
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Security has been stepped up in the national capital, especially on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, in view of the major protest demonstration by the farmers, officials said on Thursday. The traffic arrangements have also been made and the commuters have been advised to avoid certain roads,...
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India's potential growth is propelled by structural drivers, says RBI Guv Shaktikanta Das as he announces the monetary policy. RBI MPC opts for status quo, keeps repo rate unchanged at 6.5%, maintains monetary policy stance as withdrawal of accommodation.Growth is accelerating and outpacing...
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RBI governor Shaktikanta Das
Equity benchmark indices climbed in early trade on Thursday ahead of the Reserve Bank of India's interest rate decision, amid a rally in global markets. The 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 321.42 points to 72,473.42 in early trade. The Nifty climbed 80.55 points to 22,011.05. Among the...
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An employee working at a Domino's Pizza shop in the Vartak Nagar area of Thane in Maharashtra allegedly died due to electrocution during cleaning, police said on Thursday.The employee has been identified as Mahesh Anant Kadam (24).An employee, Mahesh Anant Kadam (24), working at Domino's Pizza...
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JCB brand machinery weaponized as a tool in hate campaign against minorities in India. Read the report here.
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Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu met Home Minister Amit Shah and Bharatiya Janata Party president J P Nadda late Wednesday night amid indications that the two parties may join hands in Andhra Pradesh for upcoming polls.Lok Sabha and assembly polls will be held simultaneously in...
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Pakistanis on Thursday began voting in the general elections to elect a new government to rule the cash-strapped country amid speculation that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's PML-N may emerge as the largest party in Parliament as it is backed by the powerful military.The polling started at...
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Aspiring Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Wednesday said that India wants to be a partner with the US, but as of now they don't trust Americans to lead. The Indian-American presidential aspirant also said that New Delhi has played smart in the current global situation...
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Police have recovered the control unit of an electronic voting machine (EVM) after it was allegedly stolen from the office of a revenue official in Maharashtra's Pune district, and nabbed two persons in this connection, an official said on Wednesday.Taking cognisance of the matter, the Election...
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