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Tennis star Rohan Bopanna
Tennis star Rohan Bopanna, who is set to be crowned world number one in the doubles format, was on Thursday selected for the prestigious Padma Shri honour by the government along with six other athletes including veteran squash player Joshna Chinappa. Padma Shri is fourth highest civilian...
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Singer Usha Uthup
Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ram Naik, singer Usha Uthup and actor late Vijaykanth among 17 awarded Padma Bhushan. Foxconn chairman Young Liu from Taiwan given coveted third highest civilian award on Republic Day
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Former Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu
Former Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, veteran actor Vyjayantimala Bali, founder of Sulabh International Late Bindeshwar Pathak awarded Padma Vibhushan. Actor Konidela Chiranjeevi and Bharatanatyam dancer Padma Subrahmanyam also given Padma Vibhushan. First woman judge of SC late M...
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Two persons from Odisha -- Gopinath Swain and Bhagabat Padhan -- have been selected for the Padma Shri award for their contribution to the field of art. Gopinath (105), a Krishna Leela Singer from Ganjam district of Odisha, has dedicated his life to preserve and promote the...
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A Nepal-native, arrested a day ago in connection with a burglary at a house in Varkala in this district, collapsed when produced before a court on Thursday and died shortly thereafter at a taluk hospital in Thiruvananthapuram. The deceased was one of a gang of four Nepalis, including a...
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The Archaeological Survey of India survey report on the Gyanvapi complex in Varanasi suggests that the mosque was built on remains of a pre-existing temple, claimed counsel for the Hindu side Vishnu Shankar Jain on Thursday. Jain told reporters that copies of the survey report consisting of...
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A 52-year-old woman accused of transporting arms meant to be used for taking revenge for the 2002 post-Godhra riots was held by the Gujarat Anti Terrorist Squad after 18 years, an official said on Thursday. Based on a specific tip off about her exact location, the ATS nabbed Anjum Qureshi...
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First female elephant mahout Parbati Baruah
India's first woman elephant mahout Parbati Baruah famous as Hasti Kanya, tribal environmentalist Chami Murmu, social worker Sangthankima who runs Mizoram's largest orphanage and plastic surgeon Prema Dhanraj who treats burn victims are among 34 unsung heroes awarded Padma Shri on...
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Twelve people, including three women, died on Thursday morning when their auto-rickshaw collided head-on with a container truck plying on the wrong side of the road amid reduced visibility due to fog, the police said. The police lodged a murder case against the container truck...
21:30
External affairs ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal
India on Thursday dismissed as false and malicious propaganda Pakistan's allegations linking Indian agents to the assassination of two Pakistani terrorists in Sialkot and Rawalkot last year. It is Pakistan's latest attempt at peddling false and malicious anti-India propaganda, external...
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A 45-year-old woman was killed after a fire erupted in the basement of a six-storey commercial building in Mumbai's Santacruz area on Thursday, an official said. Quoting eyewitnesses, a civic official said two women were trapped in the building, Dheeraj Heritage, on S V Road near Milan...
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TN Chief Minister MK Stalin
A Tirupur-based journalist working for a Tamil television channel was brutally attacked by unidentified persons in his hometown and Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday assured stern action against the perpetrators of the crime. The journalist was assaulted near his house at Palladam in...
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President Droupadi Murmu addressing the nation on the eve of the 75th Republic Day/ANI Photo
President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday expressed hope that regions embroiled in conflicts will find a peaceful way to resolve them. Addressing the nation on the eve of the 75th Republic Day, Murmu noted that in recent times, many conflicts have emerged around the world and there have been a...
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Rohit Shetty and IPS officer Manoj Kumar Sharma (left)/ Courtesy Instagram
IPS officer Manoj Kumar Sharma, whose life inspired the Hindi movie 12th Fail, is among 37 Central Industrial Security Force personnel who have been awarded various police and fire service medals on the eve of the 75th Republic Day. A Union home ministry statement named Sharma, a 2005-batch...
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Six juveniles escaped from a juvenile home by jumping the wall in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior district on Thursday morning, a police official said. The juvenile home is located near Govindpuri area under the jurisdiction of Thatipur police station in the district. The minors escaped...
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar
Signs of deepening fissures between Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his INDIA bloc allies have given rise to the possibility of his return to the Bharatiya Janata Party fold amid hectic efforts within the Opposition camp to stall any such development. On a day Rashtriya Janata Dal...
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French contingents participate in Republic Day parade rehearsal at Vijay Chowk, New Delhi/ANI Photo
A 95-member marching contingent and a 33-member band contingent from France will participate in the 75th Republic Day Parade in New Delhi on January 26. French Air Force Rafale fighter jets and multirole tanker transport aircraft will participate in the Republic Day parade, where...
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A train engine caught fire at a railway station in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district on Thursday, officials said. No loss of life or injury was reported in the incident and all passengers are safe, the officials added. A train engine caught fire at Qazigund railway station, along...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi left for New Delhi on Thursday afternoon as the 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra' took a two-day break after entering West Bengal. The yatra led by Gandhi, which began on January 14 from Manipur, entered the Coochbehar district of West Bengal from Assam in the...
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Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange/File image
The Mumbai police on Thursday issued a notice to Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange, who along with his thousands of supporters is on the way to the Maharashtra capital, that no ground in the city can accommodate such a large gathering and he should hold his agitation in neighbouring Navi...
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Several elected representatives from the Panchayati Raj Institutions have been invited to attend the 75th Republic Day celebrations, the Ministry of Panchayati Raj said on Thursday.About 500 guests, including elected representatives of Panchayati Raj Institutions from across the country and their...
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The Border Roads Organisation will fence a major portion of the strategic India-Myanmar border, and a 10-km stretch in Manipur has already been covered, a senior official said. The ministry of home affairs has identified around 1,700 km of fencing that needs to be done, BRO's additional...
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PM Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron/File image
Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached Jaipur on Thursday to meet French President Emmanuel Macron. Macron has already arrived in Jaipur and was visiting Amber Fort. Later, the two leaders will take part in a road show from Jantar Mantar to Hawa Mahal before holding a meeting at hotel...
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Two Trinamool Congress councillors were on Thursday questioned by sleuths of the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with their alleged involvement in irregularities in school jobs in West Bengal, a senior official said. The CBI had issued summons to the two TMC leaders Bappaditya...
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Punjab cabinet minister Aman Arora/Courtesy X/ANI Photo
A court in Sangrur district Thursday stayed the conviction of Punjab cabinet minister Aman Arora till January 31 in a 2008 assault case. The court of the district and sessions judge gave an interim relief to Arora on a petition filed by the minister seeking stay on his...
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Congress leader Jairam Ramesh Thursday said the party is hopeful of finding a solution to the seat-sharing impasse with the Trinamool Congress, a day after its supremo Mamata Banerjee made a surprise announcement of going solo in the Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal.Ramesh, while speaking to...
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French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday arrived in Jaipur. He is the chief guest at the Republic Day celebrations in Delhi.He was received by Governor Kalraj Mishra and Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma at the airport.Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a visit to Uttar Pradesh's...
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Nitish Kumar
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, one of the key personalities behind the INDIA bloc, will not attend the public rally of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in the state, reports M I Khan from Patna. Gandhi, currently in Bengal, is scheduled to enter Bihar via...
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The St Michael Church in Mahim is a famous landmark, its Novena on Wednesday attracting a large number of devotees, many of them non-Christians -- Hindus to be specific, who have prayed at the church for nine consecutive Wednesdays as part of their mannat. So it seemed unusual that outside...
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The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the criminal proceedings against Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya in a case concerning his alleged controversial remark over Tulsidas' Ramcharitmanas.A bench of Justices B R Gavai and Sandeep Mehta also issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government...
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Former Karnataka chief minister Jagdish Shettar, who had quit the Bharatiya Janata Party to join the Congress ahead of the state assembly polls last year, rejoined his old party on Thursday.Shettar cited his long association with the BJP, and said many of his well-wishers wanted him to join back...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday launched its poll campaign for the upcoming Lok Sabha Election 2024 with a new slogan, 'Modi ko chunte hai (let us choose Modi)'.The campaign was launched in the presence of Prime Mininster Narendra Modi, with party president J P Nadda releasing the...
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Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
Trinamool Congress leader Derek O'Brien has said that Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is the reason why alliance between the two parties is not working out in West Bengal.Earlier on Wednesday, TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee had announced that her party will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls...
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Over 1,000 police personnel have been awarded with different categories of gallantry and service medals on the eve of the 75th Republic Day, a government statement said Thursday. This includes 277 gallantry medals. After the recent restructuring of medals, a total of 1,132 personnel of...
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Former Karnataka chief minister Jagadish Shettar likely to come back to the Bharatiya Janata Party.He has met Union Home Minister and senior party leader Amit Shah, sources said.Shettar has arrived at BJP Headquarters in New Delhi.He had quit the BJP and joined the Congress in April last...
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Jaipur has been decked up to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron ahead of their visit on Thursday.The two leaders will visit the iconic Amber Fort, Jantar Mantar and Hawa Mahal in the city.They will also hold a roadshow from the Jantar Mantar to the Hawa...
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The Rahul Gandhi-led 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra' entered West Bengal on Thursday with the Congress leader exuding confidence that the opposition INDIA bloc will fight against injustice across the country.Accusing the BJP and RSS of spreading hatred and violence, Gandhi said the word 'Nyay' (justice)...
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A new plea has been filed in a court in Mathura seeking directions to the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi Trust to put up a notice board at the temple saying that the present sanctum sanctorum is 'not the real birthplace' of Lord Krishna.The suit has been filed by Delhi-based advocate P V...
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Delhiites woke up to a cold and foggy morning as the minimum temperature in the national capital on Thursday dipped to 4.8 degrees Celsius, three notches below the season's average, the weather department said.The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a 'orange alert' for dense fog at...
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Superstition of his parents that a dip in the Ganga could cure him of cancer cost a seven-year-old child his life in Haridwar on Wednesday, police said.The boy's parents kept chanting mantras on the banks of Har-ki Pairi while his aunt allegedly dipped him repeatedly in the Ganga ignoring his...
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The Karnataka government has issued a notification to cover about 13,000 state government employees, recruited after 2006, under the Old Pension Scheme.Taking to X, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that he had promised to fulfil this demand to the government employees when they were on a strike...
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The Ajit Pawar group of the Nationalist Congress Party has questioned the internal election process of the party, saying former minister Jayant Patil, who belongs to the rival faction led by Sharad Pawar, wasn't the elected but nominated president of the Maharashtra unit.The remarks were made by...
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Canada's federal commission of inquiry into foreign interference is looking to examine alleged meddling by India in the country's last two general elections, Canada-based CTV News reported.The commission, in a statement on Wednesday, said it has asked the federal government to produce...
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Thirty-nine people were killed and nine others injured after a building fire broke out Wednesday afternoon in the city of Xinyu in east China's Jiangxi Province, local authorities said. The fire broke out in a street shop in the Yushui district of Xinyu, the local fire response emergency...
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Aviation safety regulator DGCA on Wednesday terminated the contract of its Chief Flight Operations Inspector, according to sources. There was no immediate comment from the DGCA on the decision. The official, who was earlier serving as a wide-body pilot with Air India, joined the...
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Fire erupts in a 27-storey residential building in Mumbai's Goregaon/Sahil Salvi
A fire erupted in a 27-storey residential building in Mumbai suburb of Goregaon on Wednesday evening, but there was no immediate report of injury to anyone, civic officials said. The blaze erupted on the 26th floor of the 27-storey building, Anmol Pride, in Mahesh Nagar in the...
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The Mumbai Airport on Wednesday started the demolition of 20 structures at the Air India Colony near the airport which led to a protest by a section of the employees of now Tata Group-owned airline. The Adani Group-controlled Mumbai International Airport Limited said these...
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NCP legislator Rohit Pawar
Nationalist Congress Party MLA Rohit Pawar, grand nephew of party supremo Sharad Pawar, appeared before the Enforcement Directorate Mumbai on Wednesday for questioning in connection with a probe into the alleged Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank scam, and left after more than 11 hours. The...
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