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BKU spokesman Rakesh Tikait
Bhartiya Kisan Union national spokesperson Rakesh Tikait on Wednesday said that if the government does not allow farmers to go to Delhi, the farmers also will not let them enter their villages during elections. Farmers in Meerut on Wednesday took out a tractor march to reach the collectorate...
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The Odisha police on Wednesday arrested four people, who are from Uttar Pradesh, on the charge of faking disability to beg on the streets of Berhampur town in Ganjam district, an officer said.They impersonated themselves as hearing impaired and orthopedically handicapped to attract sympathy of...
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A 32-year-old woman and her three-year-old daughter died allegedly after they jumped off a multi-storey residential building in Noida on Wednesday, the police said.The woman jumped off the fourth floor with her two daughters. The other daughter, aged 4, suffered injuries and was undergoing...
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The government on Wednesday eased Foreign Direct Investment norms in the space sector by allowing 100 percent overseas investment in making components for satellites, as part of efforts to attract overseas players and private companies into the segment. The decision was taken at the Cabinet...
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Tamil Nadu ex-minister V Senthil Balaji
The Madras high court on Wednesday reserved orders on a bail petition filed by former Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji, who was arrested by the ED last year in a money laundering case. Justice N Anand Venkatesh reserved orders without specifying any date, after hearing elaborate...
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Cold wave in Himachal Pradesh got further aggravated on Wednesday following fresh snowfall and rain in the tribal and hilly areas that caused a drop in minimum temperatures. A total of 387 roads, including four national highways, were rendered shut by snow and 895 electricity transformers...
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The Samyukt Kisan Morcha Wednesday condoled the death of a farmer in a clash between security personnel and protesters at the Punjab-Haryana border, and alleged the government was solely responsible for the present crisis and casualty. The farmers' body called a meeting of its National...
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The Kerala police have arrested four Gujarat natives in connection with the recent alleged suicide of a man after a threat from the operators of a loan app, police sources said on Wednesday. A five-member team from Wayanad went to Gujarat last week after locating their address with the help...
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About 8,000 resident doctors in Maharashtra will go on an indefinite strike from Thursday to press for their various demands, said Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors Central on Wednesday. Emergency services will remain operational to ensure the provision of essential medical care to...
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The Canadian police have arrested two teenagers for a shooting incident outside the home of a close aide of slain Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, an incident for which the separatist groups had blamed Indian agencies. Royal Canadian Mounted Police on Tuesday confirmed that two...
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Farmers' leaders on Wednesday put the 'Delhi Chalo' march on hold for two days after a protester was killed and about 12 police personnel injured in clashes at Khanauri, one of the two protest sites on the Punjab-Haryana border. Farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher said they will decide the...
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Four years after he was expelled from the Biju Janata Dal, Gopalpur MLA and former Odisha minister Pradeep Kumar Panigrahi on Wednesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the Lok Sabha and state assembly polls. Immediately after joining the saffron party in the presence of its state...
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Two visitors who had come to meet an inmate in Tihar's Rohini Jail in Delhi on Wednesday were caught with a live cartridge, officials said. The two persons are identified as Chandra Sekhar and Depanshu Vedi. They had come to meet inmate Pawan alias Manish, they said. According to a...
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The Ministry of Home Affairs has allocated Rs 20 crore for providing financial assistance to poor prisoners, who could not afford their bail money and continue to languish in jail.In a communication to all states, the MHA said that each state should open a dedicated account for seamless flow of...
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A farmer tried to kill himself by setting himself on fire near a dharna site in Muzaffarnagar on Wednesday.The fire was doused in time by the fellow agitators and he was rushed to a local hospital. City Magistrate Vikash Kashyap, who visited the hospital, said the farmer, Brijpal, received minor...
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The CBI on Wednesday moved the Bombay high court seeking a stay on the upcoming release of a documentary series on Indrani Mukerjea, facing trial for the alleged murder of her daughter Sheena Bora, a day after a special court rejected its application. The CBI is contemplating filing an...
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In a strong response to the Union Home Ministry's letter on the ongoing farmers' agitation, the Aam Aadmi Party dispensation in Punjab on Wednesday wrote to the Centre saying it is 'completely wrong' to claim the state government was allowing gathering at the two border points with Haryana.The...
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Police investigating the suspected suicide of model Tania Singh will send a notice to cricketer Abhishek Sharma as the preliminary probe revealed the duo was friends and she had sent him a message on WhatsApp chat which was not responded to, a Surat police officer said on Wednesday. ...
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The 30-share benchmark Sensex stayed mostly firm during intra-day on Wednesday but settled 434.31 points or 0.59 per cent lower at 72,623.09 points. It touched the intra-day low of 72,450.56, down 0.83 per cent from the previous closing level of 73,057.40 points.Similarly, the broader Nifty...
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Zeeshan Siddique with Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde
Congress MLA Zeeshan Siddique has been removed as the president of the party's youth wing in Mumbai, days after his father Baba Siddique quit the party and joined the Nationalist Congress Party led by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar.On Tuesday, Indian Youth Congress (IYC) president...
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Medical entrance exam NEET-UG will also be conducted at exam centres in 14 foreign cities on May 5, the National Testing Agency announced on Wednesday.The move comes after the National Testing Agency (NTA) received requests from aspirants as the information bulletin for the exam notified earlier...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will share the stage with RJD president Lalu Prasad and CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury at a mega rally in Patna on March 3.An announcement to this effect was made at a press conference addressed jointly by Mahagathbandhan leaders including state Congress...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair a meeting of the Union Council of Ministers on March 3, days before announcement of the Lok Sabha elections, officials said.The meeting of the Council of Ministers is scheduled to be held at the Sushma Swaraj Bhawan in Chanakyapuri diplomatic enclave in New...
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After Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, party leader Ravidas Mehrotra also confirmed an alliance with the Congress, for the Lok Sabha Election 2024 together.Sharing details of the alliance, Mehrotra said that the Samajwadi Party will contest elections on 63 seats and Congress on 17 seats in...
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Salaries in India are expected to increase by 9.5 per cent in 2024, slightly lower than the actual increase of 9.7 per cent in 2023, largely in response to market dynamics, according to global professional services firm Aon plc.According to the firm's annual salary increase and turnover survey...
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The Women's Premier League calendar. The matches begin from February 23.Meanwhile, the Board of Control for Cricket in India is planning to start the Indian Premier League 2024 on March 22, Chairman of IPL's Governing Council, Arun Dhumal, has said.
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Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra spoke with Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav over phone on Wednesday to break the deadlock on Lok Sabha polls seat-sharing in Uttar Pradesh and give a final shape to an alliance at the earliest, sources said. They said the alliance had...
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The Mamata Banerjee-led government has surpassed the erstwhile CPI(M) dispensation in subjecting the people of West Bengal to atrocities, the BJP claimed on Wednesday, saying the public will give a befitting reply to the ruling TMC in the Lok Sabha elections. Raising the issue of...
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West Bengal DGP Rajeev Kumar is slated to visit the restive Sandeshkhali on Wednesday afternoon to assess the situation in the area, which has been marked by protests following allegations of sexual abuse of women by TMC leaders. This will be his first visit to the area since the...
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Rohini Hattangady is a National Award winner, winner of two Filmfare Awards. She is the only Indian to have won a BAFTA (Best Actress in a Supporting Role) for her performance as Kasturba Gandhi in Sir Richard Attenborough's Gandhi.Last year, the actress who has over 160 films to her...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh on February 22 and 23 during which he will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects worth more than Rs 61,000 crore in the two states. While Modi will inaugurate, lay the foundation stone and...
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Congress MP and former UN diplomat Shashi Tharoor has been conferred with the highest French civilian honour, 'Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur' for being a 'friend' of France and working for deepening Indo-French ties. Tharoor was conferred with honour by Chairman of the French Senate...
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Speaking in the Delhi Assembly on Wednesday, Chief Minister and AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal slammed the BJP over the Supreme Court overturning the outcome of the Chandigarh mayoral poll. Quoting from the Bhagavad Gita, Kejriwal said the god decided to intervene and put an end to the...
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The Mysore Paints and Varnish Ltd has been tasked with providing over 26 lakh vials of indelible ink, which leaves a deep purple mark on a voter's left forefinger, to various states for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The Karnataka government undertaking has been manufacturing the...
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Union Agriculture Minister Arjun Munda said on Wednesday that the central government is ready to discuss all the issues raised by the Punjab farmers. He further invited the farmers for a fifth round of talks while urging them to find a solution through 'dialogue'. After the...
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Sporadic instances of violence still occur in Manipur
Amid ethnic violence, the number of students appearing for Class 12 state board examinations in Manipur this year has dropped by around 5,000 to over 31,000, an official said on Wednesday. Last year, more than 36,000 students appeared for the Council of Higher Secondary School Leaving...
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National Conference VP Omar Abdullah posts this image saying, Nothing like a late evening walk in Gulmarg. It's as beautiful after sunset as it is during the day.
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In a case of suspected food poisoning, around 200 people fell ill after consuming 'prasad' during a religious programme at Lonar in Maharashtra's Buldhana district, officials said on Wednesday. The incident took place on Tuesday night during the 'Harinam Saptah', a week-long religious...
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Actor-politician Kamal Haasan on Wednesday said discussions were on for his party MNM's political alliance and stressed it would support any bloc that would selflessly think about the nation but desist from being part of feudal politics. Addressing reporters in Chennai after leading...
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Tear gas caused injuries to farmers
Tear gas shells were fired by Haryana security personnel after some young farmers were heading towards the multi-layered barricades at the Shambhu border point at Punjab and Haryana on Wednesday. After Haryana Police lobbed tear gas canisters at around 11 am, young farmers ran for...
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Rajya Sabha member Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said there are differences among some of the opposition INDIA bloc parties in a couple of states over issues including seat-sharing which senior leaders from other states would try to resolve. Speaking to reporters in Kolhapur, the senior...
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Human rights lawyer and senior advocate at the Supreme Court of India, Indira Jaising, on Fali Nariman: He was the last of the Bombay pre-Independence lawyers. Shaped by the Original side Bombay which itself was heavily geared to the needs of British rule, he went on to be a leading voice in the...
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Responding to the concerns shown by Haryana government on JCBs, Poclaines, Tippers, Hydras and other heavy earthmoving equipment being brought to Shabhu border by agitating farmers, DGP Punjab directed all the concerned officers of Punjab on Tuesday to stop the movement of this type of machinery...
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Long before Aishwarya Rai and Priyanka Chopra, Yukta Mukhey and Diana Hayden, a beautiful woman from Bombay was crowned Miss World.In 1966.Reita Faria was India's first Miss World.Vaihayasi Pande Daniel/Rediff.com met the 80 year old in Dublin recently, still as elegant, still as attractive...
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Ameen Sayani, the iconic radio presenter of the popular show Binaca Geet Mala', passed away on Tuesday of a heart attack. He was 91. Sayani's son, Rajil Sayani, said that his father suffered a heart attack on Tuesday night after which they took him to HN Reliance Hospital, Mumbai,...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party, National Commission for Women and the Calcutta High Court came down heavily on the TMC government over the Sandeshkhali violence issue, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday expressed grave concern over the situation in West Bengal and asserted that...
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Rahul Gandhi at Cambridge last year
The Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra will take a break from February 26 to March 1 to enable Rahul Gandhi to deliver two special lectures at his alma mater, Cambridge University, and attend important meetings in New Delhi, the Congress said on Wednesday. Congress general secretary in-charge...
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West Bengal police on Tuesday claimed that BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari hurled a 'Khalistani' slur at a Sikh police officer.In a series of posts on 'X', the West Bengal Police expressed outrage and labelled the comment by BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari as malicious, racial, communally inciting and a...
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Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal on Wednesday said protesting farmers, who have been camping at two border points between Punjab and Haryana after they were stopped by security personnel, will march towards Delhi in a peaceful manner. Our intention is not to disturb peace, Dallewal said...
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Police have slapped charges under the stringent UAPA against the accused in three cases connected to the murder of two home guards and a Bajrang Dal member and an attack on a cyber police station six months ago. While the charges were not included in the initial FIRs related to the cases,...
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Eminent jurist senior advocate Fali S Nariman passes away at the age of 95.
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Apex child rights body National Commission for Protection of Child Rights on Tuesday sent notices to the NCERT and UNICEF, asking them to explain how they were responsible for designing curriculums for madrassas in Bihar. The inquiry by the National Commission for Protection of Child...
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A 47-year-old man who was jailed over links to the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh was arrested from Jhansi on Tuesday for alleged fraud in the just-concluded Uttar Pradesh police recruitment examination, officials said. Amitabh Rawat, a former teacher who hails from the Morena district of...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi
In a veiled swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who represents Varanasi in the Lok Sabha, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday claimed that during his visit to the temple town as a part of the ongoing Bharat Jodo Nyay yatra, he saw people lying drunk on roads. Addressing the...
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