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Unique Identification Authority of India on Monday said to keep the Aadhaar database updated, intimations are issued to Aadhaar number holders from time to time, but no number has been cancelled. Aadhaar, as the most commonly used digital identity, is used to avail of numerous subsidies,...
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Ten people were arrested on Monday in connection with the violence in Uttarakhand's Haldwani over the demolition of an illegally built madrassa, police said. With these arrests, the total number of people held so far in the February 8 incident reached 68, Nainital senior superintendent of police...
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Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Jammu on Tuesday, the district administration banned the sale, purchase, and use of firecrackers, citing security reasons. Prime Minister Modi will inaugurate the campus of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Jammu on...
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An earthquake of 5.2 magnitude struck the Ladakh region near Kargil on Monday evening, according to the National Center for Seismology.As per the National Center for Seismology, the earthquake occured at 9: 35 pm.Earthquake of Magnitude:5.2, Occurred on 19-02-2024, 21:35:17 IST, Lat: 35.45 &...
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Nearly 20 hours after she went missing from a wayside tent, a two-year-old girl, daughter of a nomadic couple from Bihar, was found in a deep drainage canal near a railway track in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday evening. A police team, which was carrying out a search in the area, came across...
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Mumbai Bharatiya Janata Party chief Ashish Shelar's meeting with MNS president Raj Thackeray on Monday gave a fresh boost to the speculation about a possible poll tie-up between the two parties. On the face of it, Shelar said meetings keep taking place between old friends. He, however, added...
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Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi, who has vast operational experience along the frontiers with China and Pakistan, on Monday assumed charge as Vice Chief of the Army Staff, succeeding Lieutenant General MV Suchindra Kumar. Lt Gen Dwivedi is the front-runner to become the Army Chief when...
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Farmers leaders on Monday rejected the Centre's proposal of buying pulses, maize and cotton at MSP by government agencies for five years, saying it was not in the farmers' interest. A panel of three Union ministers -- Piyush Goyal, Arjun Munda and Nityanand Rai -- on Sunday gave the proposal...
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A BTech student who was receiving treatment for depression for the last three years allegedly hanged himself in his house in Ambedkar Nagar in Kota, the police said.According to the police, the youth called his father an engineer posted in Alwar about his intention to commit suicide on Sunday,...
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All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen leader Waris Pathan was detained and later released by the Mumbai police on Monday when he tried to visit Mira Road in neighbouring Thane district, where communal violence occurred last month ahead of the consecration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, an...
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Mehul Choksi
The National Company Law Tribunal has ordered liquidation of jewellery retailer Gitanjali Gems, promoted by absconding diamantaire Mehul Choksi, under Section 33 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016. The bench also appointed Santanu T Ray as the liquidator, who will complete the...
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A candidate for the Uttar Pradesh police recruitment examination and his dummy were arrested for alleged cheating, forgery and using unfair means during the test, officials in Noida said on Monday. The deal under which the dummy candidate appeared for the examination instead of the actual...
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Parts of Lahaul and Spiti, Kinnaur and higher reaches of Kullu and Chamba districts received moderate to heavy snowfall, the MeT office in Shimla said on Monday. The weather office had issued a red' alert for heavy' to very heavy' rain/snowfall and thunderstorms accompanied by hail, gusty...
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A Hindu organisation on Monday approached the Madhya Pradesh high court in Jabalpur seeking a direction to the Archaeological Survey of India to conduct a time-bound scientific investigation of the disputed monument of Bhojshala in the adjoining Dhar district which it claimed to be a temple of...
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A 34-year-old man who allegedly sent bomb threat e-mails to the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad allegedly was caught in Bengaluru, the police said on Monday. The accused, hailing from Bihar state, and now settled in Bengaluru, worked in the IT sector from 2012 to 2020, they...
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A 32-year-old woman died on Monday after her estranged husband allegedly doused her with petrol and set her on fire, the police said in Alappuzha. The victim Arathi, a Pattanakkad resident, was allegedly set ablaze by the accused Syam Chandran, the police added. The police said the...
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The Calcutta high court on Monday granted permission to Leader of Opposition in West Bengal assembly Suvendu Adhikari to visit trouble-torn Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district. The court directed Adhikari to provide a route map of his visit to the state government by this...
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The Samajwadi Party on Monday declared 11 candidates from Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming general elections with the list also including the name of Lok Sabha MP Afzal Ansari. The party's announcement comes amid the offer of 17 Lok Sabha seats to the Congress, an alliance partner in the INDIA...
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Accusing the West Bengal government of stifling the voices of numerous women in Sandeshkhali during protests against alleged TMC-led atrocities, National Commission for Women chairperson Rekha Sharma on Monday demanded imposition of President's Rule in the state. During the day, Sharma led a...
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The Punjab Chief Electoral Officer's office has designated Indian cricketer Shubman Gill as a state icon for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. In a statement, Chief Electoral Officer Sibin C said on Monday that Gill will engage in various campaigns aimed at voter awareness to ensure a voting...
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Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi who was admitted to Sir Gangaram Hospital in New Delhi after a complaint of dehydration and stomach infection has been discharged after the treatment, sources said on Monday. The Congress General secretary had earlier expressed her disappointment in not being...
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Traffic police will impose a fine of Rs 10,000 starting this week for not allowing ambulances and fire trucks to pass through, a senior official said. DCP (traffic) Virender Vij said zonal officer of Gurugram traffic police will also make video recordings of the incident. Offenders who...
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The Supreme Court on Monday directed that Election Commission's order of February 7 granting name of 'Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar' for the group led by Sharad Pawar will continue till further orders. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and K V Viswanathan sought response...
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AAP leaders protest the mayoral polls
Update: Observing that horse-trading is taking place, the Supreme Court has said it would peruse on Tuesday the ballot papers of the Chandigarh mayoral polls and the entire video-recording of the counting day, and directed the registrar general of the Punjab and Haryana High Court to depute a...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday claimed that Aadhaar cards of SC, ST and minority people of the state are being deactivated ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. Attacking the BJP government at the Centre, she alleged that the Aadhaar cards are being deactivated as a...
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AAP protests against the Chandigarh mayoral polls
Chandigarh mayoral polls: Returning Officer Anil Masih appears in the Supreme Court. He says he put 'X' marks on eight 'defaced' ballot papers. Taking a strict view of the alleged defacement of ballot papers during the Chandigarh mayoral election, the Supreme Court has said that the returning...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that the BJP government has laid emphasis on both ease of living and ease of doing business in Uttar Pradesh and has worked towards saturation of welfare schemes which is true justice and true secularism.Addressing the groundbreaking ceremony for...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that the BJP government has laid emphasis on both ease of living and ease of doing business in Uttar Pradesh and has worked towards saturation of welfare schemes which is true justice and true secularism.Addressing the groundbreaking ceremony for...
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The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a PIL seeking a court-monitored CBI or SIT probe into the violence in West Bengal's Sandeshkhali village. A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Augustine George Masih said the Calcutta High Court is already seized of the matter and...
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Not happy with the party's Rajya Sabha nominations, Samajwadi Party leader and former MP Saleem Shervani has resigned from the post of party's national general secretary. A five-time MP and an ex-Union minister, Shervani in a letter to SP president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday alleged...
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Four-time Congress MLA and former Rajasthan minister Mahendrajeet Singh Malviya on Monday joined the BJP, in a setback to the grand old party in the state. Malviya was welcomed to the BJP by the party's Rajasthan in-charge Arun Singh, state unit chief CP Joshi and other...
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Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Mahua Moitra on Monday skipped the Directorate of Enforcement (ED)'s summons issued against her last week in connection with irregularities in a foreign exchange contravention case. The ED had issued summons to Moitra on February 15, asking her to appear...
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The BJP on Monday slammed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for questioning the version of some of the complainant women in Sandeshkhali, saying she has made very cheap remarks and that it was time to throw out her government. BJP MP Locket Chatterjee said women's protests in...
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Even as former Congress president Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra enters the erstwhile bastion of Amethi a political face off was seen. Union Minister and BJP MP from Amethi, Smriti Irani held a Jan Samwad in Amethi on Monday as part of a four-day visit to her parliamentary constituency.Amethi...
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Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has made his participation in the Congress' Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra conditional to a decision on seat sharing, saying that he will be joining it the moment the seats for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections are distributed between the two parties.Right now talks...
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The Enforcement Directorate is expected to issue fresh summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for questioning in the excise policy case, official sources said. The ED sources claimed that a local court recently held Kejriwal guilty of disobeying the earlier notices issued to him,...
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The arrest of ICICI Bank's former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a loan fraud case was without application of mind and due regard to the law, amounting to an abuse of power, the...
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The Supreme Court on Monday stayed proceedings against Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and others in connection with a protest march held in the state in 2022. A bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and P K Mishra issued notice to the Karnataka government and the complainant in the...
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The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the notices issued by the privileges committee of the Lok Sabha Secretariat to the West Bengal chief secretary, DGP and others over a complaint of misconduct filed against them by BJP MP Sukanta Majumdar. Majumdar sustained injuries last week as BJP workers...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of Shri Kalki Dham in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal district on Monday. PM Modi was seen taking part in the puja rituals part of the foundation stone laying ceremony. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Acharya Pramod Krishnam,...
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Sandeshkhali women meet Governor CV Ananda Bose
A delegation of the National Commission for Women (NCW) led by its chairperson Rekha Sharma is scheduled to visit unrest-hit Sandeshkhali on Monday. Last week two members of NCW had visited the area and submitted a report revealing a troubling pattern of negligence and complicity by the Bengal...
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A two-year-old girl, daughter of a nomadic couple from Bihar was allegedly kidnapped while she was sleeping in a wayside tent near Pettah in Thiruvananthapuram in the early hours today, police said. The incident happened after midnight and the missing girl was sleeping along with her...
10:17
The Swedish ambassador to Russia, Karin Olofsdotter, lays down flowers in honor of Alexei Navalny by the Solovetsky stone in Moscow, a memorial for the victims of political repression.
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Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal will not appear before ED, its summons is illegal, says AAP. ED should wait for court's decision instead of repeatedly sending summons to the Delhi CM, AAP said. A Delhi court on Saturday granted exemption to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal from personal appearance...
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Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who died mysteriously in prison, posted for the first time on Sunday after her husband's death. Taking to Instagram, Navalnaya posted a picture of herself enjoying a moment with Navalny, two days after his death. The...
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As the government proposed the buying of pulses, maize and cotton crops by government agencies at minimum support prices for five years after, farmer leaders said they will discuss the government's proposal in their forums on Monday and Tuesday, and thereafter, decide the next course of action.On...
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Sunday claimed that if the ED was stopped and section 45 of the PMLA abolished, no one would cross over to the BJP and its leaders like Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Vasundhara Raje may form their own political outfits.Chouhan and Raje were overlooked by the BJP...
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