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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday conducted raids at residences of businessmen allegedly associated with absconding Trinamool Congress leader Shajahan Sheikh in connection with an old case of fraudulent land grab, a senior officer said.Raids and search operations were started by the ED...
23:06
Trinamool Congress leader Derek O'Brien on Friday said there has been 'no change' in the party's stand of contesting all 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, a few in Assam and one seat in Meghalaya, amid reports about the Congress soon finalising its seat-sharing arrangements with the party.The...
22:21
Farmer leaders Friday said they will decide their next course of action on their 'Delhi Chalo' call on February 29, and announced a candle march on Saturday and burning of Centre's effigies two days later.A decision to this effect was taken Friday evening by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha...
22:12
A medical board of the state-run J J Hospital in Mumbai on Friday informed a special court that private medical reports of Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal suggest that he is suffering from 'malignancy', but it needs to carry out further tests.The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which has...
21:17
The Gujarat high court on Friday granted 10-day parole to Bilkis Bano case convict Ramesh Chandana to attend his nephew's wedding scheduled for March 5.Chandana, who moved the High Court for parole last week, is the second convict in the case to be granted parole after all 11 convicts in the case...
20:52
Eighteen Indian fishermen who were held for allegedly poaching in Sri Lankan waters earlier this month have been released, officials said on Friday.The fishermen were arrested on February 7 off the coast of the Delft islet in Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka.The magistrate in Jaffna while freeing the...
20:12
The police on Friday claimed to have arrested 'a local Bharatiya Janata Party leader' along with 10 others on charges of running a sex racket in a hotel in West Bengal's Howrah district, while the state's main opposition party denied any association with the accused individuals.According to...
19:28
As Sandeshkhali continued to be on the boil, protesters broke through fences and physically assaulted Trinamool Congress leader Ajit Maity on Friday in the presence of media crew. Maity is an MLA from Paschim Medinipur's Pingla assembly constituency. Visuals from the site showed...
18:57
More than 60 per cent of shareholders of edutech Byju's on Friday voted for removal of founder CEO Byju Raveendran and his family over alleged mismanagement and failures at what was once India's hottest tech startup, but the company dug in its heels, calling the voting done in the absence of...
18:39
Seeking to enhance maritime security and interoperability, coast guard personnel from India, the Maldives and Sri Lanka have embarked on a four-day trilateral exercise to identify emerging maritime challenges in the Indian Ocean Region.Indian Coast Guard ship Samarth and ICGS Abhinav along with...
18:28
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A 39-year-old man was arrested for allegedly entering the Palam Air Force Station in the Delhi Cantonment area posing as a wing commander of the IAF, police said on Friday.A senior police officer said that the accused, identified as Vinayak Chadha, wanted to get his father treated at the dental...
18:00
The Allahabad high court on Friday fixed February 29 for further hearing on a plea challenging the maintainability of a suit seeking the removal of Shahi Idgah mosque in Mathura.The Shahi Idgah Intezamia Committee has challenged the maintainability of the petition filed by Bhagwan Shrikrishna...
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The Delhi high court on Friday dismissed Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Mahua Moitra's plea against the alleged leakage of confidential information from the ED to the media in relation to a probe against her under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA).Dismissed, said Justice Subramonium...
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Kamal Nath
Senior Congress leader Kamal Nath will take part in the Madhya Pradesh leg of the Rahul Gandhi-led 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra', a party functionary said on Friday.Nath will reach Gwalior on March 2 and attend the yatra till March 6, a Congress spokesperson said.The yatra will enter Morena from...
16:57
Three days after a class 10 student hanged himself at his home, the Delhi police booked the school administration for abetment of suicide, an officer said on Friday. The student had hanged himself from a ceiling fan with a 'chunni' at his residence in the Shankar Vihar area of southwest...
16:00
BJP leader Sudhanshu Trivedi on Friday launched a scathing attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the Sandeshkhali issue, saying the land of the brave, West Bengal, from where the first cries of the struggle for India's independence were heard, is now echoing with the cries of...
15:52
Farmer leaders participating in the 'Delhi Chalo' agitation on Friday said the cremation of Shubhkaran Singh, who died amid clashes between Haryana Police and Punjab farmers, will not take place till the Punjab government registers a case against those responsible it. The development came...
15:42
Family members of a farmer injured in tear gas attacks at Shambhu border
Another protesting farmer has died at the Khanauri border, bringing the toll to four during the ongoing protest under the call for Delhi Chalo, farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher said on Friday. The 62-year-old farmer, Darshan Singh from Amargarh village in Bathinda district, had been...
15:08
Amul's tribute to legendary radio host Ameen Sayani.Also read: 'Ameen Sayani was the Shahenshah of Melody'
14:51
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in West Bengal on March 1 and 2 as part of his official programme and is expected to address a women's rally on March 6 in the North 24 Parganas district, where restive Sandeshkhali is located. BJP sources said Modi will be in Arambag and Krishnanagar on...
14:26
CEO Byju Raveendran
An Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) of Byju's shareholders got underway on Friday to vote on a resolution brought by some investors to ouster founder CEO Byju Raveendran and his family over alleged mismanagement and failures. Raveendran and his family stayed away from the EGM, calling it...
14:00
So, the man in the snow, we asked you about earlier, is Sachin Tendulkar. He is in Pahalgam with his family, Anjali and Sara, and posted this image alongside saying, Hamara 'pehla' snowfall in Pahalgam! (ice emoji.
13:52
Google's AI tool Gemini's response to a question around Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in direct violation of IT rules as well as several provisions of the criminal code, minister of state for electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Friday. The minister took cognizance of the...
13:09
Prime Minister Narendra Modi targetted the opposition coalition, INDIA bloc while addressing a gathering in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi on Friday. He said that the INDI alliance works for their 'parivar' (family) not the welfare of the poor.Today every Dalit and every backward person of the country...
12:58
Snow has brought cheer for the hotel industry in Kashmir after months of barren slopes. There has been bumper snowfall earlier this week and a heavy influx of domestic and foreign tourists.This legend experienced his first snowfall with his family in Pahalgam. He packs a punch on the ground and...
12:27
Modi inspects the Shivpur-Phulwaria-Lahartara Marg
Prime Minister Narendra Modi invoked Lord Mahadev's blessings in Kashi while affirming that his constituency had witnessed the 'damru' of development playing in the last 10 years.Kashi is the capital of all knowledge, today that power and form of Kashi is emerging again. This is a matter of pride...
12:09
Mamata Banerjee is yet to visit Sandeshkhali
A delegation of BJP women activists was on Friday stopped by the police from visiting restive Sandeshkhali in West Bengal. The BJP team, led by Locket Chatterjee and Agnimitra Paul, both general secretaries of the party's state unit, were stopped by the police, citing prohibitory...
11:55
Sandeshkhali women face off with police
An NHRC team on Friday reached West Bengal's Sandeshkhali to ascertain facts by an on-spot inquiry into allegations of violation of human rights there. A large number of women at Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district have accused Trinamool Congress leader Shajahan Sheikh and his...
11:29
Sandeshkhali women meet BJP's Suvendu Adhikari
Fresh protests rocked parts of trouble-torn Sandeshkhali in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district on Friday morning as enraged locals set fire to properties belonging to TMC leaders accused of sexual abuse of women and forcible land grabbing in the area. Armed with sticks, they set...
11:01
Poacher neither minces words in condemning these self-seeking slaughterers nor leaves any stone unturned in highlighting the hard work put in by friends of the forest, notes Sukanya Verma. Read the review on Rediff.com here.
10:52
Delhi Minister and AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj says, We have information that Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal will be arrested in the next 2-3 days. The question is, why is the Central Government showing such haste?Even the BJP people are telling us that if an alliance (with Congress) is forged, Arvind...
10:31
Agnimitra Paul in Sandeshkhali last week
A women's team of West Bengal BJP is all set to visit trouble-torn Sandeshkhali on Friday, which has been marred with protests over allegations of atrocities on villagers by TMC leaders. A delegation of the National Human Rights Commission ( NHRC) is also likely to visit the area this...
10:14
Protesting farmers battle tear gas at Shambhu border
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday announced a compensation of Rs 1 crore and a government job to the sister of farmer Shubhkaran Singh who died at the Khanauri border point. Singh (21), a native of Bathinda, was killed and 12 police personnel injured in clashes at Khanauri border...
09:50
A day after he was removed from the post of Mumbai Youth Congress president, Zeeshan Siddiqui, lashed out at the grand old party over its treatment of minorities while accusing it of being 'communal'. It is very unfortunate, he said on being removed from the post. Zeeshan, the son...
09:36
Opposition BRS MLA G Lasya Nanditha died in a road accident at Patancheru near Hyderabad on Friday. The incident occurred at around 5.30 AM today when the car she was travelling in hit a metal crash barrier on the Outer Ring Road resulting in her death, police said. The car's driver...
09:12
A local leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), PV Sathyanathan was hacked to death during a temple festival at Koyilandy in Kerala's Kozhikode district.The incident happened on Thursday night during a festival at the Cheriyapuram Temple.CPI(M) district secretary P Mohanan claimed that...
09:08
The IM lander
The Odysseus spacecraft from the United States successfully landed on the moon on Thursday (local time), becoming the first American spacecraft to achieve the feat in more than 50 years.With this, Intuitive Machines (IM) -- the commercial venture behind the Nova-C lander -- has become the first...
08:21
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Varanasi on Thursday and will launch a number of development projects on Friday and address public meetings, officials here said.He will participate in a prize distribution programme Friday for the winners of Sansad Sanskrit Pratiyogita at the Banaras Hindu...
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Former Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi passed away at a Mumbai hospital on Friday, where he was admitted after suffering a cardiac arrest. The former Maharashtra chief minister was admitted in the ICU of P D Hinduja Hospital here on Wednesday and breathed his last at the private...
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Akhilesh Yadav (left) and Rahul Gandhi/File image
A day after announcing the seat-sharing arrangement for Uttar Pradesh in Lok Sabha polls, the Samajwadi Party on Thursday said its chief Akhilesh Yadav will attend Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Agra on February 25. Congress leaders visited the Samajwadi Party...
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Five people were killed and as many vehicles fell off when a section of a bridge collapsed after it was hit by a container ship in China's Guangzhou city on Thursday. The accident took place in the early hours when a pier of the Lixinsha Bridge was hit by an empty container ship which led to...
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A family court in Madhya Pradesh's Indore has ordered a woman, who owns a beauty parlour, to pay a monthly maintenance of Rs 5,000 to her allegedly unemployed husband in a matrimonial case. In one of our interim applications, the family court on February 20 (Tuesday) passed an order ordering...
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A view of the Krishna Janmasthan Temple Complex and Shahi Eidgah Mosque, in Mathura/ANI Photo
Ajmer Dargah chief Syed Zainul Abedin said political parties should try to find solutions to disputes such as in Mathura and Kashi outside the courts. Any dispute that is resolved by mutual consent will win hearts and trust of communities, he said. The Ajmer Dargah chief was addressing...
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