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Tulsi Gabbard
Former US president Donald Trump is in conversation with former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard on various issues including foreign policy, defence and being a potential vice-presidential candidate on his ticket, according to a media report. Gabbard, 42, a four-term Democratic Congresswoman and...
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Two Iranian warships--IRINS and Tonb-- arrived in Colombo on Friday on a formal visit to engage in fostering cooperation with the Sri Lankan Navy, said an official statement, amidst the talks of Colombo preparing to join the international coalition against the Houthi rebels attacks on Merchant...
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The West Bengal government on Friday removed Jyotirpriya Mallick, behind bars for his alleged involvement in a multi-crore ration distribution scam, as the forest minister and allocated the department to Birbaha Hansda. Hansda is the Minister of State for Forests and Self Help - Self...
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As many as 20 stray dogs were found shot dead by unidentified persons in Mahabubnagar district of Telangana, police said on Friday. In the incident which took place in Ponnakal village late on Thursday night, five more dogs were found injured, they said. Unknown persons shot at stray...
22:19
Manoj Jarange
A total of 571 farmers who faced losses due to a rally of Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange on October 14 last year have received financial aid of Rs 46 lakh from the Maharashtra government, an official said on Friday. Several thousand people had attended the October rally in Jarange's...
21:46
YouTuber Elvish Yadav
The forensic reports of samples collected from a suspected rave party linked to a prominent YouTuber have been confirmed as venom of snake species, officials of the Noida police said on Friday. The samples were sent to a forensic laboratory in Jaipur, Rajasthan shortly after the November 3,...
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Imtiaz Qureshi/ Courtesy Ranveer Brar's Instagram/ANI Photo
Renowned chef Imtiaz Qureshi, who was credited with the culinary excellence of ITC Hotels, passed away at the age of 93. The news of his demise was shared by chef Kunal Kapoor on Friday. Taking to X, Kunal Kapoor posted, With great sadness and a heavy heart, I regret to inform you of...
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A drone on way to deliver a package hit the rooftop of a house before falling on the ground, triggering a scare in a residential locality in Gurugram, the police said on Friday. The incident took place in G Block of South City 2 residential area around 5 pm on Thursday, they said. The...
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Fintech firm One97 Communications -- owner of the brand Paytm -- has shifted its nodal account to Axis Bank from Paytm Payments Bank. The move will allow continuity of Paytm QR, Soundbox, card machine after the March 15 set by the Reserve Bank of India, as per a regulatory filing. The...
20:45
Pic courtesy: Vanessa Dougnac
A month after the Union home ministry threatened to withdraw her overseas citizenship of India card, French journalist Vanessa Dougnac left India today and issued a statement saying she was forced to leave India', writes Shivnarayan Rajpurohit in Newslaundry. 'She said she can't afford to...
20:16
A 45-year-old man was trampled to death by a tusker at a village in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district, the police said on Friday.The incident happened at Kalianala village on Thursday night, a police officer said.The tusker trampled Puina Dehuri to death while he was sleeping in his house, the police...
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Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad Yadav on Friday said the party's 'doors were always open' for Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, his arch-rival who recently ended a short-lived alliance and returned to the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democraitc Alliance.Lalu, who has maintained...
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is likely to appear before a court on Saturday in connection with a complaint filed by the Enforcement Directorate against him over non-compliance with its summons in a money laundering case linked to the now-scrapped excise policy.The court had on...
18:47
Alexei Navalny's wife
The White House said Friday the death in prison of Russian opposition leader Alexy Navalny, if confirmed, would be a terrible tragedy.Speaking on NPR, White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan also added the Kremlin's long and sordid history of harming its opponents raises real and...
18:41
Alexei Navalny on a video image from last year
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian leader Vladimir Putin must be held accountable for the death of opposition leader Alexey Navalny, following reports of his death. 'Alexey Navalny died in a Russian prison -- it is obvious for me that he was killed,'' Zelenskyy...
18:34
The penal settlement in Kharp where Navalny was imprisoned
More reactions: Kenneth Roth, former Human Rights Watch, chief, Horrible. Russia says Alexei Navalny, 47, is dead. We don't know the circumstances, but it's hard to believe that his death wasn't the product of his mistreatment in isolated custody, if not another deliberate attack like the FSB's...
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny appears on a screen via a video link from the IK-3 penal colony in Kharp in the Yamal-Nenets region during a hearing against the Ministry of Justice in Supreme Court, in Moscow, last month.
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Agnes Callamard, Secretary General, Amnesty International, says, They killed him. I am heartbroken. I am thinking of his wife and kids, his friends and colleagues. RIP courageous #AlexeiNavalny. May you find many wonderful rivers to swim in.Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in...
18:09
The RBI on Friday gave 15 days more, till March 15, 2024, to Paytm Payments Bank Ltd (PPBL) to stop deposits, credit transactions or top-ups in any customer accounts, wallets, and FASTags, keeping in view the interest of customers, including merchants. As per a January 31 order...
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UK PM Rishi Sunak reacts to Navalny's death: This is terrible news. As the fiercest advocate for Russian democracy, Alexei Navalny demonstrated incredible courage throughout his life. My thoughts are with his wife and the people of Russia, for whom this is a huge tragedy.
17:39
A sessions court in Chennai on Friday extended former Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji's remand till February 20. He was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in June 2023 in a money laundering case. Principal sessions judge S Alli, before whom Senthil Balaji was produced by the...
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Imprisoned Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is dead. Seen as President Vladimir Putin's most vociferous critic, Navalny was serving a 19-year jail term for offences widely considered politically motivated, reports the BBC.He was moved to an Arctic penal colony, considered one of...
17:04
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said he will seek vote of confidence in the Assembly on Friday. The announcement came days after he alleged that the BJP tried to poach AAP MLAs and topple his government. I will bring the vote of confidence in Delhi Assembly today, Kejriwal said...
16:57
Women in Sandeshkhali demand the TMC strongman's arrest
The apex child rights body NCPCR took cognizance of a report about a child being thrown away by miscreants in the violence-hit Sandeshkhali in West Bengal and issued a notice to the district administration calling for a prompt investigation into the matter. In its notice to the...
16:27
BJP leader Yogendra Singh Tanwar, the agent of the party's Rajya Sabha candidate Chunnilal Garasiya, wrote to the Returning Officer, Election of Council of States (Rajya Sabha), objecting to what he claimed as an incomplete disclosure of immovable assets in Form 26 filed by Congress leader Sonia...
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A BJP delegation was stopped in Sandeshkhali earlier today
West Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was on Friday stopped by police on way to restive Sandeshkhali area, which has been rocked by protests over alleged atrocities on villagers by TMC leaders, citing prohibitory orders.The Congress delegation spearheaded by Chowdhury, encountered...
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SpiceJet chief Ajay Singh along with Busy Bee Airways have submitted a bid for bankrupt Go First. In a release on Friday, SpiceJet said the bid has been submitted by Singh in his personal capacity along with Busy Bee Airways Pvt Ltd. SpiceJet's role as the operating partner for the...
15:45
Several policemen were injured in the violence
The sixth body found a day after the clashes in Haldwani was not related to the violence that broke out over the demolition of a madrasa in Banbhoolpura area of the town on February 8, police on Friday said. The preliminary investigations revealed that Prakash Kumar Singh (25) alias...
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Describing as a worrisome trend the rising cases of fraudulent marriages between NRIs and Indian citizens, the Law Commission has recommended a comprehensive law to deal with the situation and compulsory registration of such alliances. While presenting the report Law on Matrimonial...
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Ayodhya's Ram temple will remain closed for an hour in the afternoon every day from Friday onwards, the chief priest of the Ram temple said here. Considering the flood of devotees to the temple following the consecration ceremony, the temple trust has increased the time of 'darshan'...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi reteirated the 400 pitch during his address to a public event in Haryana's Rewari on Friday while seeking their blessings for his third term to make India the third largest economy in the world. He also highlighted the achievements of his government in the...
14:25
Imran Khan with Bushra Bibi. File pic
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's wife Bushra Bibi has taken ill after consuming food provided at the Aidala Jail where she is serving her imprisonment in Toshakhana and 'un-Islamic' Nikkah cases, ARY News reported on Friday citing allegations by her sister Maryamn Riaz...
14:04
Barack Obama gives couple goals. On the just past Valentine's Day, the former US President tweeted this image sayng, How did I get so lucky? Happy Valentine's Day to my best friend, @MichelleObama!
14:02
Ashok Chavan, former Maharashtra chief minister, resigned from the Congress party -- which has been home to him and his late father, former chief minister and Union home minister S B Chavan -- joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on February 14. The next day he filed the nomination for the Rajya...
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The 6-member BJP delegation constituted by the party national president, JP Nadda, to visit Sandeshkhali was stopped by the police in West Bengal on Friday.The six-member team includes party leaders Annapurna Devi, Pratima Bhowmik, Sunita Duggal, Kavita Patidar, Sangeeta Yadav and Brij Lal. BJP...
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It's been a month since Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar made an exit from the Grand Alliance and joined hands with the NDA, however, RJD still seems hopeful of Kumar again making a 'U-turn' as RJD President Lalu Prasad Yadav said that doors remain open. When asked about giving a...
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BJP supporters in Sandheshkhali
A delegation of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) which visited West Bengal's Sandeshkhali to probe alleged harassment of women by TMC supporters has submitted its report to President Droupadi Murmu, officials said on Friday. A large number of women in Sandeshkhali...
13:47
Kavita Chaudhary in Udaan
Kavita Chaudhary, star of the popular Doordarshan serial Udaan, died at a hospital here following cardiac arrest on Thursday night. She was 67. The actor, also popular as the homemaker Lalitaji in the Surf detergent commercials in India in the late 1980s, was admitted to the hospital a...
13:27
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday told Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav that he would be in the driving seat when it comes to Bihar. The former Bihar deputy CM joined Gandhi for the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, which has spent five days in the state in two...
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In a sharp attack on the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that India failed to deliver under the corrupt rule of the grand old party while asserting that the country is moving forward with confidence.Congress is corrupt; it can't think of a future; India failed to thrive under...
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The Congress on Friday said Income Tax authorities had frozen its main bank accounts, impacting all political activity. However, the accounts were later de-frozen by the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal pending a further hearing next week. Party leader Vivek Tankha, who appeared before the...
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Congress says everything including the Nyay Yatra will be affected
Congress general secretary Ajay Maken alleged that the party's accounts have been frozen by the Income Tax department and called it the freeze of democracy.In a press conference held at the AICC headquarters in Delhi, Maken said, I have very disturbing news to share with all of you. The accounts...
11:21
The blocked Delhi-Ghazipur border
Amid a third round of talks with the central government ending in a stalemate, the General Secretary of Punjab Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, Sarwan Singh Pandher on Friday urged an intervention on part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address the farmers issues adding that they would like...
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Army troops guarding the Line of Control (LoC) on Friday opened fire to bring down Pakistani quadcopters at two different places in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, officials said. However, the flying objects returned to the Pakistan side after briefly hovering over the Indian...
10:46
Air Commodore Nitin Sathe's latest book, The Siachen Soldier and Other Stories draws from his extensive service in the Indian Air Force and reflects on the trials, triumphs, and moments of joy that once consumed his service in the forces. This is his fifth book and the stories vividly...
10:34
Farmers say police have been using rubber bullets on them
Commuters in Punjab faced inconvenience on Friday as many buses stayed off the roads in response to the Samyukta Kisan Morcha's call for a 'Bharat Bandh' to press the government to accept farmers' demands including a legal guarantee of MSP. Punjab Roadways, Punbus and PRTC Contract...
10:16
A medical checkup after curfew relaxation
A look out notice has been issued against Haldwani violence key accused Abdul Malik and his son Abdul Moid, while five more rioters have been arrested, police said on Friday. With the fresh arrests, the total number of rioters held in connection with incidents of stone pelting and...
10:10
KBK Infographics
India's exports rose to a three-month high of 3.12 per cent to USD 36.92 billion in January despite global uncertainties including the Red Sea crisis, while the trade deficit narrowed to a nine-month low of USD 17.49 billion, the government data released on Thursday showed. After recording...
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In a suspected case of suicide, an M.Tech student of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi was found hanging in his hostel room, police said on Friday. The matter came to light after the family of the student, Sanjay Nerkar (24), asked his hostel mates to check on him as he...
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The Manipur government on Friday suspended internet services in Churachandpur district for five days after violence broke out there over an action taken against a policeman. The situation in the district remained tense this morning after the offices of the superintendent of police and...
09:38
A langar for the protesting farmers
Protesting farmers will stay put at the two borders of Punjab and Haryana over their various demands as the deadlock persisted despite the third round of talks with a panel of Union ministers. A five-hour meeting, which started around 8:45 pm on Thursday, between three Union ministers...
09:31
More than 1,300 railway stations across India are to be part of the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme; of these, 98 in West Bengal are to be converted to 'world-class stations'. Will the Centre's effort come at the cost of the livelihoods of thousands of railway hawkers? Is that what is behind the...
09:25
The Supreme Court of India in a path-breaking verdict on Thursday, February 15, 2024, told the State Bank of India to disclose the names of all the contributors of electoral bonds to the Election Commission of India.Electoral bonds -- introduced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's...
09:22
Beneath the calmness of this island is a simmering dispute between the local people and the Lakshadweep administration over the latter's continued numbering of trees on 'Pandaram lands', allegedly insisting such property belongs to the government. Pandaram lands, a form of land...
09:15
The farmers' leaders, who held talks with the union ministers for more than five hours on Thursday night, have expressed their concerns over actions by the forces on the agitating cultivators and said that they do not seek 'confrontation but a peaceful solution'. Three Union ministers held...
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Eleven people were killed and four injured in a fire that broke out in a paint factory in outer Delhi's Alipur on Thursday evening, police said.The deceased are yet to be identified and the bodies have been shifted to Babu Jagjeevan Ram Hospital, they said. Among those four admitted to...
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United States President Joe Biden and his administration are working very hard to thwart and disrupt attacks on Indian and Indian American students, the White House has said.The announcement by John Kirby, Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council in the White...
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Security during a protest in Manipur in August 2023. ANI Photo
Fresh violence broke out in Manipur's Churachandpur on Thursday night after a mob barged into the government complex housing the superintedent of police and district collector offices and torched vehicles and ransacked government property, hours after a head constable of the district police was...
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