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Burglars, who stole some cash, gold jewellery, and medals from the residence of national award-winning Tamil film director M Manikandan in the district, had a change of heart and returned only the medals with a note of apology. They made a sudden appearance at the house of the director in...
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The Punjab government has sounded an alert in hospitals located near the Haryana border in the wake of many farmers getting injured following clashes with police at Shambhu and Khanauri borders. According to official sources, the state government has also sought from the Haryana government...
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One more person injured in recent violence in this Uttarakhand town died during treatment at a hospital in Haldwani on Tuesday, while a police outpost was set up in the affected area within 24 hours of an announcement made in this regard by Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, the police...
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A 52-year-old Odisha woman, who was believed to be dead in a fire incident at home and carried to a cremation ground, opened her eyes just before the pyre was to be set alight. The incident occurred in Berhampur town in the southern district of Ganjam, the family said on Tuesday. Family...
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An IndiGo passenger has claimed that he found a screw in a sandwich served by the airline, which on Tuesday said the issue was not reported to it during the journey. The passenger shared his experience on social media along with a picture of the sandwich that he had after deboarding the...
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TN Governor R N Ravi
Congress MLA K Selvaperunthagai on Tuesday raised a breach of privilege issue in the Tamil Nadu assembly over a Raj Bhavan social media post related to the governor's remarks, which were expunged by Speaker M Appavu on February 12. Leader of the Congress legislature party, Selvaperunthagai,...
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Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi will file her nomination from Rajasthan for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls, party sources said on Tuesday. The sources said she will be travelling to Jaipur and party president Mallikarjun Kharge and her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra are likely to...
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A 100-foot tunnel has been constructed to steal crude oil from the Indian Oil Corporation pipeline, said the police in Jodhpur on Tuesday. The investigation has been handed over to the special operations group of the police, they said. A half-inch pipe was connected to the line and was...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday told the Indian community in Abu Dhabi that India is proud of them and it was the time to hail the friendship between the two countries. After greeting the thousands-strong audience at the 'Ahlan Modi' event with a 'Namaskar' amid chants of 'Modi,...
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Sanjay Kumar Jha/ Courtesy Facebook
Janata Dal-United on Tuesday named its general secretary Sanjay Kumar Jha, a confidant of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, as the party's candidate for the Rajya Sabha elections. In a statement, the JD-U said party president Nitish Kumar has named Jha its nominee for the biennial polls to...
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A threatening note was found in the lavatory of a Chennai-Mumbai IndiGo flight on Tuesday morning, the police said in Mumbai. Nothing suspicious was found on the aircraft and a First Information Report was registered against unidentified persons for mischief, said an airport police station...
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The Supreme Court will commence hearing on Wednesday on a plea of the Vedanta group against the closure of its Sterlite Copper unit in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra on Tuesday asked the parties to...
19:43
Jaya Bachchan
The Samajwadi Party on Tuesday renominated Jaya Bachchan to the Rajya Sabha, and announced the candidature of former MP Ramjilal Suman and retired IAS officer Alok Ranjan for the polls to the Upper House of Parliament from Uttar Pradesh. They filed their nomination papers for the elections...
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A 25-year-old village volunteer was killed and two others were injured in a gunfight between two warring communities in Manipur's Imphal East district on Tuesday, the police said. The shootout took place at Pukhao Shantipur bordering Kangpokpi district, a senior officer said. The...
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The Delhi Metro regulated passenger entry and exit at nine stations on Tuesday by shutting some gates in view of the farmers' proposed march to the national capital.The commuters were allowed to enter or exit these stations through other gates.Official sources said the gates have been shut as...
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A Hawk trainer aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed at Kalaikunda in West Bengal's Paschim Medinipur district during a training sortie on Tuesday, a Defence official said. Both the pilots ejected safely, he said. The plane crashed near the Kalaikunda Air Force Station while...
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Senior Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya on Tuesday resigned as the party's national general secretary, saying he will continue to work to strengthen the SP without any post. In his resignation letter addressed to Party president Akhilesh Yadav, Maurya said that he will continue to...
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Singer Vijay Lakshmi alias Mallika Rajput/Courtesy Facebook
Singer Vijay Lakshmi alias Mallika Rajput was found dead in her house in Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh, under suspicious circumstances on Tuesday, the police said. The body of the 35-year-old singer was found hanging from the fan in a room of her house in Sitakund locality of Kotwali police...
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The terrorist who killed two labourers from Punjab in Srinagar last week has been arrested, a senior Jammu and Kashmir Police officer said on Tuesday. The weapon used in the attack, a pistol, has been recovered, additional director general of police Vijay Kumar told a press conference in...
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Shah Rukh Khan with the Prime Minister of Qatar
Shah Rukh Khan's office issues a statement denying any involevement in helping the release of the eight navy men from Qatar. In an Instagram post, the actor's office said:Regarding the reports concerning Shah Rukh Khan's purported role in the release of India's naval officers from Qatar, the...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a rousing welcome as he arrived in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday. PM Modi was welcomed by UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The two leaders shook hands and hugged each other. Prime Minister Modi also received a guard of honour. Modi tweeted,...
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More than 3,700 children had gone missing in Assam in the last three years, with over 3,400 of them also rescued by different agencies, Women and Child Development Minister Ajanta Neog said in the state Assembly on Tuesday. The rescued children are handed back to their families wherever...
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Farmers marching from Punjab to Delhi faced tear gas shells and water cannons as police tried to stop large groups from entering Haryana through the Khanauri border in Jind district on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, farmers participating in the 'Delhi Chalo' march to press the Centre to...
16:03
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A 16-year-old JEE aspirant allegedly hanged himself in his hostel room here, hours after the National Testing Agency published the answer key for the first edition of JEE-Main 2024, police said on Tuesday. This is the third case of suspected suicide by coaching students in Kota this...
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The Haryana Police on Tuesday hurled multiple rounds of tear gas shells, including through drones, at the Shambhu border near Ambala to disperse farmers marching towards Delhi to seek enactment of a law on minimum support price. Chaotic scenes were witnessed near the border as farmers...
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A meeting of Maharashtra Congress leaders chaired by party leader Ramesh Chennithala after former Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan joined BJP today.
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The INDIA bloc has been virtually confined to the history books, after the RLD walked out of the alliance in UP it was turn of the AAP to snub the Congress in Delhi. On Tuesday the Aam Aadmi Party offered the Congress Party a single Lok Sabha seat in Delhi. This is contrary to earlier...
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After former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan left the Congress party on Monday, NCP leader Baba Siddique on Tuesday said that this is a wake-up call for the grand old party. Ashok Chavan on Tuesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He had resigned from the primary...
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Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Tuesday took a jibe at the Congress and said by the time the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, led by its leader Rahul Gandhi, reaches Maharashtra, don't know how many will bid bye-bye to the party. In a post on X, Maurya said, A number...
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Protesting farmers forcibly remove the cement barricade with their tractors as they try to cross over the Haryana-Punjab Shambhu border. Farmer leader Naresh Tikait says, Protests are underway in the entire country...The government should sit with us and hold discussions and give respect to the...
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Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Mumbai on Tuesday, a day after quitting the Congress.Chavan (65) was inducted into the BJP at the party office in Mumbai in the presence of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, BJP...
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Former Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan reaches BJP Office in Mumbai. He will be joining the BJP today after quitting the Congress party yesterday.
12:38
Barriers blockade the roads at the Singhu border
The Haryana Police on Tuesday hurled tear gas shells when a group of youth, who were part of the farmers' 'Chalo Delhi' protest march, tried to break barricades set up at the Shambhu border in Ambala. Despite an appeal by the Haryana Police to stay away from the barricades, many youth continued...
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An e-commerce company has offered an annual salary of Rs 1 crore to a student of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore, an official said Tuesday. This is the highest annual package offered during the final placement round of this session at IIM-I, the official said. One...
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Veteran leader Sharad Pawar has moved the Supreme Court challenging an Election Commission order recognising the party led by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar as the real Nationalist Congress Party. The plea was filed by Pawar senior in his personal capacity through lawyer Abhishek...
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The Delhi Government rejects the central government's proposal to convert Bawana Stadium into a jail in view of the farmers' march to Delhi today. On the Centre's proposal, Delhi Government Home Minister Kailash Gehlot says The demands of the farmers are genuine. It is the constitutional right...
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A barbed wire post on the Singhu border
Farmers from Punjab on Tuesday morning commenced their 'Delhi Chalo' march to press for their demands, after a meeting with two Union ministers over their demands, including legal guarantee to MSP for crops, remained inconclusive. The farmers plan to head to Delhi from the Ambala-Shambhu,...
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A mega traffic jam at Delhi-Gurugram Expressway
The Delhi airport issued an advisory to passengers on Monday in view of the 'Dehi Chalo' march at the borders of Delhi on February 13. It added, We recommend planning your trip accordingly and staying informed about potential delays and alternative routes. The airport advised passengers...
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Ashok Chavan will join BJP today
Taking a swipe at the BJP-led NDA government in the state after former chief minister and Congress leader Ashok Chavan resigned from the party, Shiv Sena UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray on Monday questioned whether the ruling party was suffering from 'low self-confidence' ahead of the Lok Sabha...
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A picture of Britain's first lady Akshata Murty with her father and Infosys found Narayan Murty at an ice-cream parlour has gone viral on social media. The father-daughter posed for the camera, holding ice-cream cups.
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Uttarakhand Director General of Police Abhinav Kumar stressed that the recent 'violent' clashes that broke out in Banbhoolpura town of Haldwani area following the demolition of an 'illegal structure' as part of an anti-encroachment drive on Thursday were not 'communal'.The top police official...
09:20
After quitting Congress on Monday, former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan is likely to join the Bharatiya Janata Party today, says his office.Meanwhile, in the wake of Chavan's resignation, Maharashtra Congress in-charge Ramesh Chennithala has called for a key meeting of party leaders in...
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Ashok Chavan
After former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan resigned from the Congress party's primary membership, former Congress Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Nirupam claimed that Chavan was upset with the working style of a leader from Maharashtra.'Ashok Chavan was definitely an asset for the party. Some are...
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Union minister Darshana Jardosh flagging off Ayodhya Dham 'Aastha' train from Surat/ANI Photo
The Ayodhya-bound Aastha special train that had left from Gujarat's Surat was pelted with stones near Maharashtra's Nandurbar late on Sunday night. The Aastha special train was flagged off at 8 pm on Sunday, with a total of 1340 passengers on board. The police said that the...
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Mufti Salman Azhari
A court on Monday remanded Mumbai-based Islamic preacher Mufti Salman Azhari in police custody till February 17 in a hate speech case registered against him in Modasa in Gujarat's Arvalli district. The court of principal district and sessions judge AN Anjaria remanded the cleric to police...
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Three employees of a bar located in the heart of this port city in Kerala suffered injuries in a late-night shooting incident, following which police arrested three persons on Monday, an officer said. The incident happened when one of the accused fired his handgun at the staff of the bar...
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The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force on Monday arrested four office-bearers of Halal Council of India, Mumbai, for allegedly extorting money in the name of halal certification. According to the UP STF sources, the arrested persons have been identified as Maulana Mudassir, Habib Yusuf Patel,...
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