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An encounter broke out between security forces and militants in Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam district late on Wednesday, police said.Encounter has started at Hadigam area of Kulgam district, the Kashmir Zone Police said in a post on X around 10.30 pm.They said Kulgam Police, Army and CRPF are on...
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Yoga guru Ramdev on Wednesday said the consecration ceremony of the Ram temple in Ayodhya on January 22 will be a glorious moment in history and the culmination of 'a 500-year struggle' that saw the 'sacrifices by 25 generations'.The Patanjali Yogpeeth founder made the remarks after receiving an...
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Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued a show cause notice to the country's largest airline IndiGo for serving unsafe food to a passenger, days after a worm was found in a sandwich served onboard a flight.On Wednesday, the airline said it has received the show cause...
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Superstar Aamir Khan and film producer Reena Dutta's daughter Ira Khan on Wednesday tied the knot with her long-time partner Nupur Shikhare. Ira, who is the founder and CEO of a mental health support organisation, registered her marriage with Nupur, a celebrity fitness trainer, at a five-star...
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Cow vigilante Bittu Bajrangi has alleged that he has received threats that he will be shot dead and has asked security for him and his family, the police said on Wednesday. In the complaint, the Nuh violence accused has said that he has received several death threats, they said. Bajrangi, also...
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Nupur Shikhare and Ira Khan
Ira Khan's baraat arrived in a healthy style. Instead of making a grand entrance on a traditional ghodi, groom-to-be Nupur Shikhare, who is a fitness trainer, jogged from Santa Cruz in Mumbai to the wedding venue in Bandra. Several videos circulated online in which Nupur and his boys' squad can...
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A video of a man riding a horse while carrying a bag of an online food delivery platform along a busy road in Hyderabad has gone viral.The horse-rider in the video is purportedly heard telling a passer-by, who seemed to have recorded the video, that he could not purchase petrol even after...
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Underlining that the Congress' 'soul' is Hindu, Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray on Wednesday said leaders of that party should attend the Lord Ram temple consecration ceremony in Ayodhya if they have received the special invitation, keeping aside political differences.The Uddhav...
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A sessions court on Wednesday sentenced to death two men, including one from Bangladesh, for carrying out the Shramjivi Express train blast in 2005 that left at least 14 people dead and 62 injured.A fine of Rs 5 lakh each was also imposed on the convicts, who were pronounced guilty on December...
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Iranian media reports two explosions at a ceremony to commemorate top commander Qassem Soleimani have killed more than 70 people and injured many others. Soleimani was killed in a United States drone attack in 2020.Iranian officials are calling the blasts as 'terrorist activity'.The explosions...
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday arrested a key suspect in the killing of Rashtriya Rajput Karni Sena chief Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi in Jaipur last month, as it carried out raids at 31 locations in Rajasthan and Haryana. Ashok Kumar was the ninth accused to be arrested in the...
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Truck drivers, who went on strike to protest against the new stringent law on hit-and-run cases, have started coming back to work and normalcy will return in a day or two, truckers' body All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) said on Wednesday.AIMTC on Tuesday appealed to protesting truck...
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Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday named his house, a government bungalow in Bhopal, as Mama Ka Ghar and said its doors were open for everyone.Chouhan's government accommodation is located off Link Road No. 1 in the...
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Union Minister Pralhad Joshi on Wednesday rejected the allegation of leaders of the Opposition parties that the consecration ceremony of Ram Temple in Ayodhya is being politicised by the BJP. Where is the politics?... The trust (Ayodhya Ram Temple trust) has sent out invitations to prominent...
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Centre and 11 state governments on a plea seeking directions to curb caste-based discrimination in prisons and manual work being allocated to them based on different castes. A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB...
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The body of a missing teenage girl was on Wednesday recovered in frozen form in Ladakh's Zanaskar area of Kargil district, police said. The 18-year-old girl named Stanzin Dolkar went missing in Zanaskar area on November 26 last year following which the police registered a case of missing on...
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Cheetah Aasha's cubs
Finally some good news for India's Project Cheetah.Namibian cheetah Aasha has given birth to three cubs at the Kuno National Park (KNP) located in Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh, a Union minister said on Wednesday. Purrs in the wild! Thrilled to share that Kuno National Park has welcomed...
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The Congress on Wednesday said the Supreme Court judgment on certain matters relating to transactions by the Adani Group has proven to be extraordinarily generous to SEBI and asserted that the party's fight against crony capitalism and its ill-effects on prices, employment and inequalities will...
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The Archeological Survey of India (ASI) on Wednesday requested a Varanasi court not to make its Gyanvapi mosque complex survey report public for at least four more weeks, according to the lawyer for the Hindu side. Varanasi district court judge A K Vishvesh then adjourned the matter till...
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A court in Lucknow on Wednesday directed AAP leader Sanjay Singh to pay Rs 1 lakh in damages to former Uttar Pradesh minister Mahendra Singh in a defamation case. In an order, Civil Judge (Senior Division) Kamla Kant Gupta directed the AAP MP to pay the damages within two months, following...
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is shaking in fear and not appearing before the Enforcement Directorate because he knows that he is the kingpin of the alleged liquor policy scam, the BJP said on Wednesday.The BJP's reaction came after Kejriwal skipped the third summons issued by the...
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The junior wrestlers protesting at Jantar Mantar
Former India wrestler and Olympic medalist Sakshi Malik on Wednesday accused the wrestlers protesting against her and other veteran wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia of running propaganda against them for former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Singh.Young...
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Ram temple replicas hit the markets
Former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh and Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has raised questions over Ayodhya Ram Mandir issue questioning where the old idol of Ram Lalla was over which conflict happened and why the old idol has not been consecrated.Singh raised the question while speaking...
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Students stage protests against the incident
Three individuals arrested in connection with the IIT-BHU sexual assault case have confessed to being involved in three other incidents of molestation on campus, reports the Wire. Kunal Pandey (28), Saksham Patel (20), and Abhishek Chauhan (22) revealed during police questioning that they...
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NCP leader Jayant Patil
Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party's Maharashtra unit chief Jayant Patil on Wednesday said since the party was in power for a long time, little emphasis was given to the principles on which it was built as the focus was on power. Addressing party workers on the first day of the NCP's...
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The Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) under the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported five deaths due to Covid in the last 24 hours in the country. A total of 511 cases of the JN.1 series variant have been reported from 11 states till January 2, 2024. 602 new...
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Pakistan, which is witnessing an influx of Tehreek-i-Taliban terrorists in significant numbers in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's tribal districts, is also facing a threat from the Islamic State (ISIS) which is trying to establish a foothold in the country, the Ministry of Interior has...
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MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi moves on to his next assignment. Bagchi tweeted this image saying, The baton passes on! Shri Randhir Jaiswal assumes charge as the Official Spokesperson of @MEAIndia as Shri Arindam Bagchi proceeds on overseas assignment.Bagchi has been appointed as the next...
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Prof Hany Babu
The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought a response from the Maharashtra government and the NIA on a plea by Delhi University's associate professor and Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case accused Hany Babu against an order of the Bombay High Court which rejected his bail plea. A bench of Justices...
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Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik during the protests last year
The ongoing crisis in Indian wrestling took a fresh twist on Wednesday when hundreds of junior wrestlers assembled at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi to protest against the loss of one crucial year of their careers, a situation for which they blamed top grapplers Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik and Vinesh...
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Residential buildings destroyed in Israeli bombing in Gaza. Pic: Reuters/Amir Cohen
During what was described as face-to-face battles in Gaza, many terrorists who were part of the October 7 Hamas massacre surrendered to IDF (Israel Defense Forces) units. The terrorists had been hiding among civilians and tried to blend in with them. Some even held white flags.It was during...
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Shares of Adani group of companies jumped in morning trade on Wednesday, defying a weak trend in the broader equity market, after the Supreme Court ruling that there was no ground to order an investigation by a SIT or other probe agency into allegations against the group. The Supreme Court on...
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Adani Group Chairperson Gautam Adani reacts to the Supreme Court order a SEBI probe within three months. Adani tweets, The Supreme Court's judgement shows that: Truth has prevailed. I am grateful to those who stood by us. Our humble contribution to India's growth story will continue. The...
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Neelam Azad (centre) with police
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition by Neelam Azad, an accused arrested in the December 13 Parliament security breach case, seeking her release on ground that her police remand was illegal. A bench headed by Justice Suresh Kumar Kait said the petition was not...
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India's manufacturing sector growth fell to an 18-month low in December amid softer increase in factory orders and output, despite minimal inflation, a monthly survey said on Wednesday. The HSBC India Manufacturing PMI survey, conducted by S&P Global, showed that there were softer, albeit...
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Turkish authorities have detained 33 people on suspicion of engaging in espionage activities on behalf of Israel's foreign intelligence service Mossad, Anadolu Agency reported citing security sources on Tuesday. It reported that the arrests led to an investigation by the Istanbul prosecutor's...
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KBK Infographics
Tea is unofficially India's national drink. Most Indians typically begin their day with a cup of tea, followed by repeats through the day. This graph shows how much tea India produced in a year.
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the SEBI to complete its probe into two pending cases relating to allegations against the Adani group within three months. Holding that it cannot regulate SEBI's power of investigation, a bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud noted that SEBI has...
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Delhi minister and AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj on Wednesday accused the BJP-led Centre of hatching a conspiracy to arrest Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to stop him from campaigning for the Lok Sabha polls. Kejriwal on Wednesday skipped the third summons issued by the ED in the Delhi excise...
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CM Hemant Soren
The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday raided premises of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren's press advisor, officials of Sahibganj district and a former MLA as part of a money laundering probe into alleged illegal mining in the state, official sources said. About a dozen locations in the...
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Equity benchmark indices fell in early trade on Wednesday pulled down by IT stocks and weak trends from global markets. Extending its previous day's decline, the 30-share BSE Sensex fell 271.85 points to 71,620.63. The Nifty slipped 71.35 points to 21,594.45. Among the Sensex firms, JSW...
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Advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai on Tuesday alleged that TMC leader Mahua Moitra is carrying out illegal surveillance on him with her contacts in West Bengal police.In a letter written to CBI Director Praveen Sood and Union Home Minister Amit Shah dated December 29, Advocate Dehadrai said that there...
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday skipped the third summons issued by the Enforcement Directorate in the Delhi excise policy case and sent a written reply calling the notice illegal, AAP sources said. The Aam Aadmi Party asserted that Kejriwal was ready to cooperate with the...
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At least 12 people were killed and around 30 others injured on Wednesday in a head-on collision between a coal-laden truck and a bus in Golaghat district of Assam, police said.The accident took place at Balijan near Dergaon this morning when the bus with 45 people on board collided with the goods...
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Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai has said his government has decided to declare January 22 as a dry day as the consecration of Ram temple will take place in Ayodhya on that day.As you all know that from December 25 till January 2, we have been observing 'good governance' day. Ram Raj...
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Uttarakhand BJP MLA Durgeshwar Lal/Courtesy Facebook
Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Purola Durgeshwar Lal on Tuesday sat on a dharna outside the residence of state forest minister Subodh Uniyal demanding immediate transfer of a DFO in his constituency. The MLA has accused the divisional forest officer of being inactive and creating hurdles in...
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Two men were booked for allegedly thrashing and running over a Pakistani refugee with a car near the Signature Bridge area of northeast Delhi, the police said on Tuesday. The accused brutally thrashed the man over a dispute regarding two glasses of water that they asked him for, they said. On...
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Maratha quota agitation activist Manoj Jarange
Maratha quota agitation activist Manoj Jarange on Tuesday urged the Maharashtra government to fulfil the community's demand for reservation by passing a resolution to that effect by January 20. If that is done, then the members of the community do not have to take out a protest march to Mumbai...
