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BJP leader LK Advani
International working president of Vishva Hindu Parishad Alok Kumar on Wednesday said that Bharatiya Janata Party veteran LK Advani will attend the Ram Temple pran pratistha ceremony on January 22 in Ayodhya.  Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader Krishna Gopal and Ram Lal along with Alok Kumar...
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Ayodhya Ram Temple construction panel chairman Nripendra Mishra and VHP leader Alok Kumar invite RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat received a formal invite to the January 22 consecration ceremony at the Ram temple in Ayodhya on Wednesday and said it was his good fortune to be a part of such a grand occasion. Ram temple construction committee chairperson Nripendra Misra and...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday said numbers are important in democracy, and the Shiv Sena led by him has the numbers as against the rival faction led by Uddhav Thackeray. Reacting to the Maharashtra assembly Speaker's ruling which said his faction was the real Shiv Sena,...
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The Enforcement Directorate has summoned National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Thursday for questioning in a money laundering case, official sources said on Wednesday. The 86-year-old politician is understood to have been called in connection with the federal agency's investigation...
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A total of 104 Myanmarese soldiers, who fled to Mizoram during armed clashes with an ethnic insurgent group in the neighbouring country, have been sent back, an Assam Rifles official said on Wednesday. Over 350 such soldiers have now been sent back to Myanmar by Indian defence authorities...
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Four men from Manipur's Kumbi assembly constituency, who had gone for collecting firewood near the hill ranges adjoining Bishnupur and Churachandpur districts, went missing on Wednesday, the police said. Their whereabouts are still not known. They have been identified as Dara Singh, Ibomcha...
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Bharatiya Janata Party president JP Nadda has assigned key responsibilities for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls to the party's national general secretaries, with Vinod Tawde to oversee the joining exercise of leaders from different parties and Radha Mohan Das Agrawal to spearhead the preparation of...
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The maximum speed limit for four-wheelers on the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link will be 100 kmph, while motorbikes, autorickshaws and tractors won't be allowed on the sea bridge, the police said on Wednesday. The MTHL, also known as Atal Setu named after former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, will be...
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The apex child rights body National Commission for Protection of Child Rights on Wednesday summoned an official of YouTube next week over purportedly portrayal of potentially indecent acts involving mothers and sons on its platform. The NCPCR has in a notice to the head of government and public...
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A 36-year-old engineer died after he suddenly collapsed of a cardiac arrest while playing cricket in a ground, police officials said on Wednesday. A video of the purported incident, which took place during the T20 cricket match at a ground in Sector 135 on Sunday, also surfaced on social media...
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Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray leader Sanjay Raut on Wednesday said his party will challenge Maharashtra assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar's order holding Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led party as the real Shiv Sena. Talking to reporters, Raut termed the order as a conspiracy, and said it...
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The Mumbai police issued an order banning possession of arms, swords, sticks or any article that can be used to cause physical harm, and also prohibited people from giving harangues till February 9, an official said on Wednesday. The prohibitory order was issued on Tuesday by deputy...
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Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader DT Lepcha is set to be elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Sikkim, as his nomination papers were found to be in order during scrutiny of documents, officials said in Gangtok on Wednesday. The scrutiny of nomination papers was held in the presence of the...
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As the bone-chilling cold wave continued to sweep Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and elsewhere across the North Indian belt, people struggled to keep warm.  As the mercury went into a free fall in Uttar Pradesh, people sat around bonfires to take the warmth from the crackling flames.  In the national...
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The Manipur government Wednesday approved the venue for the flagging off of the proposed January 14 Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra albeit with limited number of participants. The approval by the Manipur government came eight days after the Congress approached it for flagging off the yatra from Hapta...
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Bishop Raphael Thattil of Shamshabad diocese has been elected as the head and major archbishop of the influential Syro-Malabar Church, church officials said in Kochi on Wednesday. He succeeds Cardinal Mar George Alenchery, who recently resigned from the posts. The new major archbishop was...
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Eknath Shinde
Maharashtra assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar on Wednesday held that the Eknath Shinde-led faction of the Shiv Sena was the real political party when rival groups emerged on June 21, 2022. Reading out his ruling on disqualification petitions filed by Shinde-led Sena and the rival faction led by...
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Maharashtra Assembly speaker Rahul Narwekar says, ...The UBT faction has not placed any material on record or even suggest that any meeting of the Rashtriya Karyakarini was called for where any decision about the real political party was resolved... Further, he said, The 2018 leadership...
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Shiv Sena 'pramukh' does not have power to remove any leader from the party, says Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar.
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The Delhi high court on Wednesday directed a journalist to take down his video from social media containing defamatory content against Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh. Justice Jasmeet Singh, while dealing with a lawsuit by the jailed religious leader, said the video was prima...
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Uddhav Thackeray: Long wait
Maharashtra Assembly Apeaker Rahul Narwekar says, In view of the evidence and records before me, prima facie indicates that no elections were held in the year 2013, as well as in the year 2018. However, I as the speaker exercising jurisdiction under the 10th Schedule have limited jurisdiction...
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Speaker Rahul Narwekar
Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar says,...The 2018 amended constitution of Shiv Sena cannot be considered as valid as it's not in the records of the Election Commission of India. As per Supreme Court orders, I cannot delve into any other factor on which the constitution is valid. As...
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Just In: Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar starts pronouncing his order on Shiv Sena MLAs' disqualification petitions.  Narwekar observes, There is no consensus on the constitution submitted by both the parties (two factions of Shiv Sena) to the EC. The two parties have different...
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The Lucknow University has rescheduled examinations slated for January 22, the day of the consecration ceremony at the Ram temple in Ayodhya. The exams scheduled for January 22 have been postponed and the new dates announced, a senior university official said on Wednesday. After Chief Minister...
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The Congress on Wednesday announced that party chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury have respectfully declined the invitation to attend the Ram Temple consecration ceremony, alleging that it has been made into a political project by the Bharatiya Janata Party and the...
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Radisson Hotel Group on Wednesday announced the opening of its hotel in Ayodhya, ahead of the inauguration of Ram Temple in the city on January 22 which is expected to boost religious tourism. The 80-key hotel, Park Inn by Radisson Ayodhya, offers proximity to notable landmarks such as the Ram...
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National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Wednesday refused to comment on the consecration of the Ram Temple at Ayodhya, saying he does not want to indulge in politics on the issue.  I will not comment on the Ram Mandir. This is neither the first inauguration nor the last. We have...
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Prof T J Joseph
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday arrested the main accused in the Kerala professor hand-chopping case of 2010, officials said.Savad, who was on the run for the last 13 years and carried a reward of Rs 10 lakh, was arrested from Mattannur in Kerala's Kannur, the agency said in...
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A 52-year-old man fielding in a local cricket match here died after being hit on his head by a ball from another match underway on the same ground, police said on Wednesday. The incident took place on Monday afternoon on Dadkar cricket ground in Matunga area when the man, Jayesh Chunnilal Savla,...
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Thousands of admirers of Ustad Rashid Khan paid their last respects to the classical vocalist, whose body was kept for public view at the state government-run cultural complex Rabindra Sadan in Kolkata on Wednesday. A gun salute was given to the versatile classical vocalist whose body was kept...
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The panel on 'One Nation, One Election' led by former president Ram Nath Kovind has received over 5,000 suggestions from the public on simultaneous polls, sources said on Wednesday. Last week, the high-level committee had invited suggestions from the public for making appropriate changes in the...
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The Congress on Wednesday said the Manipur government has denied it permission to start the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra from the Palace grounds in Imphal and asserted that it is determined to begin the march from the northeastern state and has sought permission for another location in the city.At a...
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Pankaja Munde
State-owned Union Bank of India has put out a notice for the e-auction of a cooperative sugar mill located in Beed in Maharashtra and controlled by the family of BJP national secretary Pankaja Munde to recover dues worth Rs 203.69 crore. As per a notice published by the bank in local newspapers...
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Ahead of the crucial decision on the cross-petitions by Shiv Sena factions seeking disqualification of each other's MLAs, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said on Wednesday that Speaker Rahul Narwekar should give his verdict on merit.Talking to reporters in Mumbai, Shinde said he would...
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Six passengers suffered minor injuries after three coaches of the Chennai-Hyderabad Charminar Express derailed at the Hyderabad Deccan Railway station in Nampally in Hyderabad onWednesday morning, senior Railway officials said. The Hyderabad Deccan railway station is the train's final...
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Suchana Seth being taken to a Mapusa court
The four-year old boy who was allegedly killed by his mother, CEO of a city-based AI company, was cremated in Bengaluru on Wednesday, with the child's father Venkat Raman performing the last rites. He had brought his son's body from Chitradurga on Wednesday to an apartment in the city where the...
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Accused Suchana Seth
The Goa police have found two empty bottles of a cough syrup in a room where the CEO of a start-up allegedly killed her four-year-old son, indicating she might have given a heavy dose of the medicine to him and that it was pre-planned murder, an official said on Wednesday.  The postmortem has...
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Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries, extended a warm welcome to attendees at the inauguration of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2024.Recognising the summit's 20-year legacy and its status as the world's most prestigious investor summit, Ambani attributed its...
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PM at the Vibrant Gujarat Summit
Tata Group: will build a semiconductor factory at Dholera in Gujarat, Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran said on Wednesday. Speaking at the 10th Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit here, he said the group is about to start a 20 GW gigafactory for manufacturing lithium ion batteries in Sanand in two...
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PM at the Vibrant Gujarat Summit
Maruti Suzuki India will invest Rs 35,000 crore to set up its second manufacturing facility in Gujarat, Suzuki Motor Corporation President Toshihiro Suzuki said on Wednesday.  Speaking in Gandhinagar at the 10th Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit (VGGS), Toshihiro said the plant would have an...
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Narendra Modi most successful Prime Minister in India's history, says Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani.At the Vibrant Gujarat Summit in Gandhinagar, Mukesh Ambani says, I have come from the city of the Gateway of India to the gateway of modern India's growth -- Gujarat. I am a proud...
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Suchana Seth allegedly smothered her son to death
The body of a 4 year-old boy, allegedly killed by his mother who is the CEO of a city-based startup, was brought to Bengaluru on Wednesday from Chitradurga.  The child will be cremated later in the day at Rajaji Nagar in the city.  The victim's father Venkat Raman brought the body to an...
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The boy was smothered to death, said a senior doctor in Chitradurga, Karnataka, on Tuesday citing the postmortem report of the four-year-old who was allegedly killed by his mother at a service apartment in Goa. Suchana Seth, the chief executive officer (CEO) of an artificial intelligence...
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Israel's Ministry of the Environment reported that about 23 billion Shekels (USD 6.22 billion) worth of food is wasted every year in Israel. The ministry also reported that 1.4 million people in Israel live with food insecurity in that their economic situation does not guarantee a healthy...
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India has said that it is in constant touch with the leaders of Israel and Palestine and its clear and consistent message since the start of the latest Middle East conflict has been to prevent escalation to ensure continued delivery of humanitarian aid and early restoration of peace and...
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The Indian Air Force will organise an aerial display in Mumbai from January 12 to 14 as part of an outreach programme aimed at creating awareness and fostering a deeper connection between the IAF and the local community, a defence official said.The displays and demonstrations by IAF personnel and...
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Maharashtra Speaker Rahul Narwekar will today 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.The deadline set by the Supreme Court for delivering the verdict was December 31, 2023,...
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Two suspected drug smugglers were killed and another was injured in an encounter with police at the Old Talwandi Bhai Road near Punjab's Zira on Tuesday, officials said. The deceased were identified as Sandeep Singh and Sukhbir Singh and the injured as Anmol Preet Singh. They were all residents...
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Parts of Mumbai's suburban area received light rains late in the evening on Tuesday. The skies were overcast since the afternoon, leading to a rise in humidity in the middle of winter. Goregaon, Malad Borivali, Andheri, Jogeshwari and some other areas reported showers, a civic official...
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Eastern Army Commander Lt Gen RC Tiwari met Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh and Governor Anusiya Uikey on Tuesday. Lt Gen Tiwari discussed matters pertaining to the state with the chief minister. Lt Gen RC Tiwari general officer commanding-in-chief, HQ Eastern Command called on me at my...
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The Nepal police on Tuesday arrested Buddha boy, a self-styled spiritual leader who was wanted by authorities on various charges. A team of the Central Investigation Bureau arrested Ram Bahadur Bomjan from the Budhanilkantha Municipality, approximately 10 km north of Kathmandu, the Nepal police...
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday night said that hackers, possibly from Pakistan, made an attempt to hack his Facebook account. He said that an investigation was underway to identify those behind the attempt.  Unknown hackers made an attempt to hack my Facebook account this...
