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Irked at the non-cooperation from mall and shop owners to install a replica of the Ram temple in Ayodha to mark its inauguration on January 22, Indore Mayor Pushyamitra Bhargava on Monday said the public knows how to reply to such people. He had written a letter last month requesting the...
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SP leader Mukesh Siddharth/Courtesy Mukesh Siddharth on X
Samajwadi Party leader Mukesh Siddharth, who recently made controversial remarks against Uttar Pradesh minister Somendra Tomar, has been arrested, the police said on Monday. Siddharth was arrested late on Sunday night from Delhi for giving a call to burn minister Tomar and his house, they...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan will lead a road show on Tuesday from outside the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad a day ahead of the inauguration of Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit, officials said. The 3-km-long...
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Just In: French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne has resigned over immigration issues, news agencies have reported.Details soon.
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Bollywood actor Taapsee Pannu in Maldives/Courtesy Instagram
Amid the India-Maldives diplomatic row, traders' body Confederation of All India Traders on Monday called upon domestic traders and exporters to refrain from conducting business dealings with the island nation. CAIT secretary general Praveen Khandelwal observed that the offensive...
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The Supreme Court ruling cancelling the remission granted to the convicts in the 2002 Bilkis Bano case by the Gujarat government is path-breaking and encouraging, said the Mumbai trial court judge, who had sentenced them to life imprisonment, in Mumbai on Monday. Justice UD Salvi, now...
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In a first, a national toll-free helpline catering to all disability-related queries was launched on Monday. Launched during the Purple Festival International by Minister of State for Social Justice Ramdas Athawale and Disabilities Affairs Secretary Rajesh Aggarwal, the 24x7 helpline -- 1800...
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The Calcutta high court on Monday granted permission for filing a PIL on attacks on Enforcement Directorate officials on January 5 at Sandeshkhali and Bongaon in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district.A division bench presided by Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam said that the matter will be taken...
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Idols of deities inside a temple were allegedly vandalised by unidentified people in Jharkhand's capital Ranchi, leading to protests by locals, an official said on Monday. The incident took place in Bariatu area on Sunday night, he said. Around three to four idols were found vandalised...
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Aam Aadmi Party MPs Sanjay Singh and ND Gupta, and former Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal filed their nominations for the January 19 Rajya Sabha elections in New Delhi on Monday, officials said. The AAP had on Friday nominated Maliwal as its Rajya Sabha candidate, and...
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TMC ex-MP Mahua Moitra
Former Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra was issued a notice on Monday by the directorate of estates for not vacating her government bungalow, a source in the Union housing and urban affairs ministry said. The Trinamool Congress leader, who was expelled from Lok Sabha on December...
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The rupee pared all its initial gains to settle just 1 paisa higher at 83.14 (provisional) against the US dollar on Monday, as the downward movement in crude oil prices in international markets supported the local unit. However, a strong American currency overseas and negative domestic...
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Three men were electrocuted while putting up a cutout to celebrate the birthday of Kannada film star Yash in Gadag district on Monday, the police said. While tying up a banner to an electric pole, Naveen Gaji (19), Hanumantha (21) and Murali Nadavinamani (20) of Soorangi village in...
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State-owned oil company Oil and Natural Gas Corporation has commenced first oil production from Krishna Godavari Deep-Water Block 98/2 in the Bay of Bengal, marking new crude discovery in the country. The place where the oil is extracted is 30 kilometres off the coast of Kakinada in the...
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The fate of the $10 billion merger between Zee Entertainment Enterprises and Culver Max Entertainment, formerly Sony Pictures Networks India, is hanging by a thread, with the two parties unable to finalise an agreement as the end of the one-month grace period looms. The two parties are yet...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated his Bangladeshi counterpart, Sheikh Hasina, on Monday for securing a record fourth straight term in office and said India is committed to further strengthening its enduring and people-centric partnership with the neighbouring country. Hasina secured...
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There was a fresh exchange of fire between the Manipur police and militants at Moreh border town along the Indo-Myanmar border on Monday morning, officials said. According to officials, militants targeted security forces when they were moving through certain pockets of Moreh...
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The revised flight duty time limitations of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation has extended weekly rest periods for flight crew, increasing it from 36 hours to 48 hours for flight crew. These additional leisure hours are expected to ensure sufficient time for recovery from...
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Equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty surrendered early gains to close with deep losses on Monday, snapping their two-day winning streak as investors pared exposure to banking, metal and FMCG stocks amid a weak trend in global markets. The 30-share BSE Sensex tanked 670.93 points or 0.93...
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The Kerala high court on Monday granted anticipatory bail to actor and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Suresh Gopi in connection with a case registered against him for allegedly misbehaving with a woman journalist during a media interaction in October last year. Justice Sophy Thomas directed...
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Maharashtra Speaker Rahul Narwekar
Maharashtra Speaker Rahul Narwekar will on January 10 deliver his verdict on the disqualification petitions against Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and several MLAs whose rebellion had split the Shiv Sena in June 2022, Vidhan Bhavan officials said on Monday. The deadline set by the Supreme...
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In December 2023, the overall domestic automobile retail sales increased by 21 percent to 19,90,915 units as compared to 16,43,514 units in December 2022. Passenger vehicle retails rose to 2,93,005 units last month, 3 percent higher than that of December 2022 when the figure stood at...
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The National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited on Monday said it has completed 100 percent land acquisition for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Rail Corridor, popularly known as the bullet train project, across Gujarat, Maharashtra and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw also...
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BJP legislator T Raja Singh
The Bharatiya Janata Party in Telangana on Monday appointed key party leaders as 'political in-charges' for all 17 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state, putting MLA T Raja Singh, whose suspension from the party was revoked last year, in charge of Hyderabad where All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul...
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Himachal Pradesh minister Vikramaditya Singh./ANI Photo
Himachal Pradesh minister Vikramaditya Singh on Monday said he will attend the consecration ceremony at the Ram temple in Ayodhya, making his stand clear even as top leaders of the party are yet to take a call on the January 22 event. The public works department minister, who is the son of...
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Congress candidate Rupinder Singh Koonar on Monday won the Karanpur assembly election, defeating BJP minister Surendra Pal Singh by 11,283 votes. According to the chief electoral office, Koonar bagged 94,950 votes while Singh got 83,667. There were 18 rounds of counting.I am thankful to the...
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MakeMyTrip on Monday said it has observed a 3,400 per cent increase in on-platform searches for Lakshadweep ever since Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the islands. We have observed a 3400 per cent increase in on-platform searches for Lakshadweep ever since Honorable PM's...
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India has logged 605 new cases of Covid, while the number of active cases of the infection stood at 4,002, the health ministry said on Monday. Four deaths -- two from Kerala and one each from Karnataka and Tripura -- have been reported in a span of 24 hours, according to the ministry's data...
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Tata CLiQ, India's leading e-commerce platform, is partnering with Rediff.com, the pioneering news, entertainment, and shopping portal, for an exclusive collaboration allowing Rediff users easy access to shopping on Tata CLiQ starting January 5, 2024.With this strategic move, Tata...
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The Maldivian government on Monday informed India's high commissioner Munu Muhawar that the derogatory remarks made by three now-suspended deputy ministers against Prime Minister Narendra Modi do not represent its views.The Indian high commissioner had a pre-arranged meeting Dr Ali Naseer...
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There was an uptick in the filing of draft red herring prospectus (DRHPs) in December amid market buoyancy.In December, 10 firms filed their offer documents with the markets regulator against two in November. Those that filed their DRHP include Ola Electric, Brainbees Solutions, Emcure...
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Lakshadweep and the Andamans are astonishingly beautiful locations, said Amitabh Bachchan on Monday as the megastar hailed India's self-reliance amid a row over disparaging remarks by Maldivian ministers after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Lakshadweep. The 81-year-old is the latest...
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The Securities and Appellate Tribunal (SAT) is waiting for the appointment of a new judicial member as presiding officer.Justice Tarun Agarwala, who was appointed to the SAT in December 2018, bid farewell last month.In August 2023, the ministry of finance invited applications for filling up...
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The Congress on Monday hailed the Supreme Court judgment quashing the Gujarat government's decision to grant remission to 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case, saying it has removed the veil over the BJP's anti-women policies. Earlier in the day, accusing the Gujarat government of abusing...
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A bomb explosion targeted policemen going to provide security for polio vaccination workers in Pakistan's restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday, killing six of them and injuring 22 others.The incident occurred in the Mamund tehsil of Bajaur district in the province bordering...
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Fall in onion and tomato prices in December led to a month-on-month decrease in the cost of a vegetarian and non-vegetarian thali or a meal by 3 per cent and 5 per cent, respectively, a report said on Monday. Rates of home-cooked veg and non-veg thalis fell 3 per cent and 5 per cent,...
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Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu arrived in Beijing on Monday on a five-day state visit during which he is due to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and sign several agreements to bolster the bilateral ties. Muizzu, who is regarded as pro-China, is accompanied by his wife...
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The Delhi high court on Monday sought response of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on a bail plea by AAP MP Sanjay Singh, arrested in a money laundering case related to the Delhi excise policy 'scam'. Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma issued notice to the investigating agency and listed the...
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India's High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Pranay Verma, met Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and conveyed, on behalf of the Government of India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, warm greetings and congratulations to her on her general election victory.The envoy expressed hope that during...
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The Enforcement Directorate's unit in West Bengal has submitted a report to its headquarters about the attack on its team during a raid in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district last week, officials said on Monday.Three ED officers were injured and several of their vehicles vandalised as...
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No bypoll since MP Girish Bapat's death
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the Bombay high court order asking the Election Commission to immediately hold the bypoll for the Pune Lok Sabha seat, which is vacant since March 29, 2023, after the death of MP Girish Bapat. A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and justices J B...
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Pic: Bipasha Basu on Instagram
Travel plans, we know, are usually made weeks, if not months, in advance. And still, sometimes things don't go the way expect them to. Like with actress Bipasha Basu and her adorable family, who are currently taking in the beauty of Maldives on her 45th birthday. Unfortunately for her,...
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Bilkis Bano
Just In: The Supreme Court, which on Monday quashed the Gujarat government's remission granted to 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case, ordered them to surrender before jail authorities within two weeks.
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Akasa Air on Monday said it has completed a thorough inspection of its entire fleet of in-service Boeing 737 Max planes and that there are no adverse findings. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), on January 5, directed domestic airlines to immediately carry out...
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The Supreme Court, while striking down the remission granted to 11 gangrape-murder convicts in the Bilkis Bano case on Monday, held as 'nullity' its May 13, 2022, order of another bench asking the Gujarat government to consider the remission plea of convicts. The May 13, 2022, order was...
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Maldivian Member of Parliament and former deputy speaker, Eva Abdulla, on Sunday said it was 'important' that the Maldivian government issue a formal apology to the Indian people for the derogatory remarks by a section of MPs' against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to...
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The Supreme Court on Monday quashed the Gujarat government's decision to grant remission to 11 convicts in the case of gangrape of Bilkis Bano and murder of seven of her family members during the 2002 riots in the state. Holding the PIL challenging the remission as maintainable, a bench of...
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Maldivian envoy Ibrahim Shaheeb
The Maldivian envoy to India was on Monday summoned to the external affairs ministry and was conveyed strong concern over remarks posted on social media against Prime Minister Narendra Modi by a number of ministers of the Maldives, sources said. The government of the Maldives on Sunday...
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Former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel's father Nand Kumar Baghel died at a hospital in Raipur on Monday morning, a Congress leader said.He was 89. The former CM's father breathed his last at around 6 am at a private hospital in Raipur, where he was admitted for the last few days,...
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Senior TMC leader Chandrima Bhattacharya has filed a police complaint against BJP leader Amit Malviya for allegedly making defamatory remarks against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Bhattacharya's complaint was in response to Malviya's post on X where he claimed that absconding...
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Union minister Parshottam Rupala
A boat carrying Union minister Parshottam Rupala got stuck in Odisha's Chilika Lake for around two hours on Sunday evening.While earlier it was suspected that the boat might have gotten stuck in a net laid by fishermen, the Union minister later clarified that they lost their way in the blue...
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Amid the ongoing boycott Maldives campaign online, Indian travel agency firm EaseMyTrip has suspended all flight bookings to Maldives on its website.Showcasing his support of the #ChaloLakshwadeep campaign, Nishant Pitti, co-founder and chief executive officer of EaseMyTrip took to X (formerly...
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The Supreme Court is scheduled to pronounce on Monday its verdict on the petitions challenging the remission granted to 11 convicts in the case of gangrape of Bilkis Bano and murder of seven of her family members during the 2002 Gujarat riots.A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan...
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