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The 147th edition of the annual Lord Jagannath's Rath Yatra or chariot procession will take place in Ahmedabad on July 7 and more than 18,000 security personnel will be deployed to guard the religious event which draws lakhs of devotees, officials said on Wednesday. Gujarat Chief Minister...
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A 'Spiderman' burglar, who allegedly shinned up drainage pipes of high-rise buildings without using ropes to commit thefts in flats, has been arrested along with his two associates from Nallasopara near Mumbai, the police said on Wednesday. The prime suspect, Rajab Khan (24), along with...
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The Army denied Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi's claim on martyred Agniveer Ajay Kumar. The Army's post on X said, Certain posts on Social Media have brought out that compensation hasn't been paid to the Next of Kin of Agniveer Ajay Kumar who lost his life in the line of...
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The flood situation in Assam continued to deteriorate with eight more people losing their lives and more than 16.25 lakh people reeling under the deluge across 27 districts on Wednesday, an official bulletin said. According to the daily flood report of the Assam State Disaster Management...
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Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader Lal Krishna Advani has been admitted to Apollo Hospital under the observation of Dr Vinit Suri at 9 pm. He is under observation and stable, said Apollo Hospital. More details soon. ANI
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh
Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh lied in Parliament about the issue of compensation to families of martyr Agniveers and demanded an apology for it. The Congress leader also shared a video on X purportedly of the father of...
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The CBI arrested an alleged co-conspirator in the NEET-UG paper leak case, Aman Singh, from Dhanbad in Jharkhand, officials said on Wednesday. The CBI has developed intelligence about Jharkhand-based module allegedly involved in the paper leak that resulted in the arrest of Singh, they...
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The Bombay high court hearing petitions challenging the state government's decision to grant 10 percent quota to Marathas on Wednesday issued a notice to the Maharashtra State Backward Class Commission making it a party respondent. A full bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justices G S...
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Coimbatore Mayor A Kalpana on Wednesday resigned from her post citing personal reasons, an official in Coimbatore said. Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's Kalpana was the first woman mayor of the city. Corporation commissioner Sivaguru Prabakaran told reporters that Kalpana quit citing...
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Two congregations of religious preacher Saakar Vishwa Hari Bhole Baba in this district have been cancelled after the stampede incident in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras that claimed 121 lives, officials said on Wednesday.One of the 'Satsang Sabhas' was supposed to be held from July 4 to 11 in Saiyan and...
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Champai Soren
Jharkhand Chief Minister Champai Soren on Wednesday resigned from his post, following which JMM leader Hemant Soren called on Governor CP Radhakrishnan and staked claim to form the government. Earlier in the day, leaders and MLAs of the ruling coalition at a meeting at Champai Soren's...
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University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar on Wednesday said the date for declaration of results for the Common University Entrance Test (CUET)-UG will be announced soon.The results for the crucial test, which is a gateway for admission to undergraduate courses, were scheduled...
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Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) constable Kulwinder Kaur, who allegedly slapped actor and Bharatiya Janata Party MP Kangana Ranaut at the Chandigarh airport last month, has been transferred to a unit in Bengaluru pending a disciplinary inquiry, official sources said on Wednesday.Kaur was...
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Police on Wednesday arrested another person for his alleged involvement in the public flogging of a couple in Chopra in West Bengal's Uttar Dinajpur district, an officer said.A team of officers of Islampur police station arrested Amirul Islam alias Badhua from near the state's international...
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The Modi government on Wednesday constituted various cabinet committees, including the country's highest decision making bodies on security, economic and political affairs. According to an official notification, the Cabinet Committee on Security comprises Prime Minister Narendra Modi,...
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England great Sir Geoffrey Boycott has been diagnosed with throat cancer for the second time and will undergo surgery in two weeks time to treat the illness.In the last few weeks I have had an MRI Scan, CT Scan, a PET Scan and two biopsies and it has now been confirmed I have throat cancer and...
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Veteran actor and TMC MP Shatrughan Sinha, who was admitted to a private hospital last week after developing high fever, is back home, said his son Luv Sinha on Wednesday.The 77-year-old, popular for '70s and '80s films such as Kalicharan, Vishwanath, Kaala Patthar, Jaani...
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Jailed radical Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh, who recently won the Khadoor Sahib parliamentary seat in Punjab, is likely to take oath as Lok Sabha member on Friday.The chief of the 'Waris Punjab De' outfit, who is currently lodged in Assam's Dibrugarh jail along with nine associates under the...
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Two newly elected Trinamool Congress MLAs resumed their sit-in at West Bengal assembly premises on Wednesday demanding that they be administered oath in the House rather than in the Raj Bhavan as per Governor C V Ananda Bose's invite.The sit-in by Baranagar MLA Sayantika Bandyopadhyay and...
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Relatives try to identify bodies in Hathras
I turned over more than 100 dead bodies to check their faces, a brother, whose 50-year-old sister has been missing since the stampede incident in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras, said here on Wednesday. After visiting the postmortem houses in Hathras, Etah and Aligarh, where a large number of...
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Poverty in India is estimated to have declined to 8.5 per cent in 2022-24 from 21.2 per cent in 2011-12, despite the challenges posed by the pandemic, according to a research paper by the economic think tank NCAER. The paper titled 'Rethinking Social Safety Nets in a Changing...
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JMM executive president Hemant Soren is set to return as chief minister of Jharkhand for the third time following consensus among legislators of the party-led alliance in the state, sources said on Wednesday. Leaders and MLAs of the alliance during a meeting at Chief Minister Champai...
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The BJP on Wednesday flayed the opposition members for staging a walkout during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech in the Rajya Sabha and said their intention was to only create ruckus in the House as they did not have the strength to hear the truth. The opposition parties' INDIA...
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Forensic team collects evidence from the Hathras stampede site
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday announced a judicial probe into the Hathras stampede in which 121 people were killed. He said that among those killed, six were from other states: four from Haryana, and one each from Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. He said retired...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday said violence in Manipur is continuously declining and schools have reponed in most part of the state, and efforts are being made to ensure a return of complete peace. Speaking in Rajya Sabha, Modi said the Centre was working with the state...
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The T20 World Cup-winning Indian cricket team finally departed for Delhi aboard a charter flight from the Grantley Adams International airport here on Wednesday after being stranded here for three days due to a category 4 hurricane. The Air India special charter flight AIC24WC -- Air...
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Families mourn the victims of the stampede
A large number of police personnel has been deployed outside the ashram of a religious preacher a day after a stampede at his 'satsang' in Hathras district kileld 121 people and injured 31, officials said Wednesday.However, the officials remained tight-lipped when asked if Baba Narayan Hari, also...
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Social media platform Koo, which had pitched itself as a rival and viable alternate to Twitter (now X), is shutting down with co-founders on Wednesday penning a heartfelt note about tough decisions and little yellow bird bidding final goodbye. In a post on LinkedIn, co-founders...
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BJP Yuva Morcha protest against Rahul Gandhi in Jammu
The BJP people who spread violence and hatred do not understand the basic principles of Hinduism, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi said on Wednesday as he hit out at the ruling party for what he described as a violent attack on the party's office in Ahmedabad. Workers of the BJP and...
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On the Opposition's walkout from Rajya Sabha, NCP-SCP chief Sharad Pawar says, He (Mallikarjun Kharge) is on a Constitutional post. Be it the PM or the Chairman of the House, it's their responsibility to respect him, but today it was all ignored and hence the entire opposition is with him, and...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday called out the opposition parties for remaining silent on the public flogging of a woman in north Bengal, saying selective politics is a matter of concern. Replying to a debate on a motion thanking President Droupadi Murmu for her address to the...
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In Rajya Sabha, Opposition MPs protest, raise slogans and walk out as PM Modi speaks on Motion of Thanks to President's Address. The Opposition MPs say that the LoP was not allowed to speak and that he should be allowed for the same. As they walk out, PM Modi says, The country is...
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PM speaking in RS: This opportunity given to us for the third time by the people of the country is to realise 'Viksit Bharat' and 'Atmanirbhar Bharat', says PM Modi in Rajya Sabha. We feel proud of the wisdom and intelligence of the people of this country, in these elections. They...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks in the Rajya Sabha on the Motion of Thanks to the President's Address. In the last two, two-and-a-half days, around 70 MPs participated in this discussion. I express gratitude to all of you MPs in enriching this discussion on the President's Address.In the...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks in the Rajya Sabha on the Motion of Thanks to the President's Address.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will speak in the Rajya Sabha on the Motion of Thanks to the President's Address at around noon today. Yesterday, the PM spoke in the Lok Sabha.The Lok Sabha passed a resolution on Tuesday condemning Opposition's disruptions during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's...
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Hathras Stampede accident: UP CM Yogi Adityanath takes stock of the situation at the Hathras police station. As many as 27 bodies were brought to the mortuary of the district hospital after the stampede at Hathras' Phulrai village on Tuesday. The overall toll stood at 121 and...
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Asphyxia due to compression was the leading cause of death among the victims of the Hathras stampede who were brought to the district hospital in neighbouring Etah on Tuesday, a senior doctor said. The hospital performed four times the usual number of autopsies in a day in the...
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For the first time, Modi is eyeball to eyeball with his bete noire, sitting a few feet across him. Given the last 10 years, a confrontation between them was unavoidable, inevitable, points out Saisuresh Sivaswamy. Read the column here.
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Women mourn a dead relative at the satsang
The Uttar Pradesh Police on Wednesday lodged an FIR against the organisers of the religious congregation in Hathras where 121 people died in a stampede, accusing them of hiding evidence and flouting conditions with 2.5 lakh people gathering for the event in which only 80,000 were...
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A First Information Report (FIR) has been registered against Devprakash Madhukar, referred to as 'Mukhya Sewadar' and other organisers of a prayer meeting congregation 'Satsang' organised in the Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh where a stampede took place.The death toll has gone up to 121....
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Sensex hits historic 80000-mark; Nifty reaches fresh lifetime high in early trade.
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Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana, who is sought in India for his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, is extraditable under the plain provisions of the US-India extradition treaty, a US attorney has told a federal court. Assistant US Attorney, Criminal...
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The Indian Army along with the Jammu and Kashmir Police averted a major tragedy on National Highway 44 after a vehicle moving from Amarnath to Hoshiarpur, Punjab lost control due to brake failure. According to the Ministry of Defence, Jammu, The jawans of the Indian Army along with JK...
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Vice President Kamala Harris, who is of Indian and African heritage, has a better chance of retaining the White House in the November presidential polls than her boss President Joe Biden has, according to a latest CNN poll. The approval rating of Biden, 81, has plummeted after his dismal...
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Air India on Tuesday said its flight from Copenhagen to the national capital on June 30 was cancelled due to technical and operational reasons, and that the revised schedule will be announced shortly. The statement from the airline came amid complaints that many passengers have been stranded...
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The wheel of a bus carrying students got stuck in an 8-metre pit on Tuesday afternoon after a portion of the four-lane Gurugram-Sohna elevated flyover caved in again within 8 months, officials said. However, a major incident was averted as another bus was used to pull it from behind, after...
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A court in Nagpur in Maharashtra on Tuesday ordered the release of Ritika alias Ritu Maloo, accused of mowing down two men while driving her Mercedes car under the influence of alcohol in Nagpur in February, terming her arrest in the case unlawful. Notably, Maloo surrendered before police on...
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