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US President Joe Biden on Sunday announced that he will end his candidacy for re-election, saying it is in the best interest of my party and the country. The 81-year-old president's decision comes four months before Americans go to the polls on November 5. Biden's decision follows weeks of...
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Karnataka State IT/ITeS Employees' Union (KITU) has urged the Siddaramaiah-led government to reconsider its reported plans to extend the working hours of the IT/ITeS/BPO sector.According to the union, the government plans to increase the working hours to 14 hours a day.The proposal to amend the...
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The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a plea against the Uttar Pradesh government's order that eateries along the Kanwar Yatra route must display the names of their owners. A bench of justices Hrishikesh Roy and S V N Bhatti is likely to hear the plea filed by NGO Association of...
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As many 36 flights were cancelled at the Mumbai airport on Sunday as intermittent heavy spells of rains hit the city, which also forced the facility operator to suspend runway operations twice within almost one hour, albeit for a brief period, sources said.The flights cancelled at the Chhatrapati...
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Leaders of the ruling Telugu Desam Party in Andhra Pradesh and opposition YSRCP engaged in a war words ahead of Parliament's Budget session over the issue of special category status for the state and its interests. The session begins from Monday and will have 19 sittings till August 12.After an...
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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Sunday said the Mahayuti constituents, including the Nationalist Congress Party led by him, are free to contest local bodies elections independently.Addressing Nationalist Congress Party workers in Pimpri Chinchwad city, he argued that independent...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday termed Nationalist Congress Party-SP chief Sharad Pawar as the sargana (ringleader) who institutionalised corruption in the country and accused Rahul Gandhi of being arrogant despite Congress losing elections on three occasions.Addressing the BJP's state...
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The Haryana government on Sunday ordered suspension of mobile internet and the bulk SMS services in Nuh district for 24 hours ahead of the Braj Mandal Jalabhishek Yatra that was marred by violence last year. The internet service in the district will remain suspended from 6 pm Sunday to 6 pm...
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The Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of conspiring to kill Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in jail and cited his medical report to show that his sugar levels had fallen 26 times between June 3 and July 7. There was no immediate reaction from BJP. Addressing a...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday criticised Congress leader Jairam Ramesh for apparently live-tweeting some of the issues raised by different parties at an all-party meeting, and said the opposition party should consider sending a more seasoned hand next time. Ramesh, who attended the...
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Hormonal issues, increasing substance use, and changing lifestyle are leading to an increase in infertility in India, which may irreversibly altar India's population dynamics, potentially leading to an ageing crisis, Dr Ajay Murdia, the man behind India's one of the largest fertility chain,...
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The Jammu and Kashmir unit of the Janata Dal-United on Sunday asked the party's national president Nitish Kumar to reconsider the alliance with the BJP at the Centre. The actions of the BJP in Jammu and Kashmir has forced us to appeal to our national leader Nitish Kumar to reconsider our...
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A total of 1,267 farmers have committed suicide in Maharashtra in the first six months of this year, with Amravati division in the state's Vidarbha region accounting for 557 deaths.As per January to June data in a state government report, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar division was second with 430...
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The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a batch of petitions related to the controversy-ridden medical entrance exam, NEET-UG 2024, which was held on May 5. The National Testing Agency (NTA) had on Saturday released city- and centre-wise results of the medical entrance exam, which is...
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The Delhi high court will on Monday hear the bail plea of former JNU student Umar Khalid in a UAPA case related to the alleged larger conspiracy behind the riots here in February 2020. The plea, which assails a recent trial court order refusing to grant bail to Khalid, is scheduled to be heard...
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Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday dissolved the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee, days after the party's poor showing in the Lok Sabha and assembly polls in the state. Kharge has approved the proposal of complete dissolution of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee, including...
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Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Jayant Chaudhary on Sunday demanded the Uttar Pradesh government roll back its order that eateries along the Kanwar route must display the names of their owners, saying the pilgrimage does not belong to any one religion or caste It seems that the order was taken without...
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Sunday that Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren has offered Rs 2 crore as aid to the flood-affected people of this northeastern state.Sarma thanked Soren and the people of Jharkhand for the gesture.Hon'ble CM of Jharkhand, @HemantSorenJMM Ji has graciously...
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In view of heavy rains in several parts of Maharashtra, including Mumbai and the coastal Konkan region, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday asked officials to be on high alert. The State Disaster Response Force, the local administration, civic bodies, police etc should take regular updates on...
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The 14-year-old boy from Kerala's Malappuram, who was undergoing treatment here for Nipah infection, died on Sunday, state Health Minister Veena George said.George said the boy from Pandikkad suffered a massive cardiac arrest at 10.50 am on Sunday and efforts to revive him failed.He was on...
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Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday met West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee at her residence in Kalighat in the southern part of Kolkata, party sources said.Yadav is in Kolkata as a special invitee to the 'Martyrs' Day' rally of the TMC held in...
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One more person involved in the murder of Bahujan Samaj Party Tamil Nadu unit chief K Armstrong has been arrested, police said.With the investigation in the murder case continuing, the Greater Chennai Police said 14 accused have been apprehended and during interrogation one of the accused - Arul...
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The Congress on Sunday sought the Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker's position for the opposition in the all-party meeting convened by the government ahead of Parliament session, and raised the issue of paper leaks, including of the prestigious NEET, sources said.They said party leader Gaurav Gogoi said...
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Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Sunday said that in the all-party meeting ahead of Parliament session, the Janata Dal-United and the YSRCP demanded special category status for Bihar and Andhra Pradesh respectively but strangely the Telugu Desam Party kept quiet on the matter. In a post on X,...
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Former United States president Donald Trump in his first campaign rally since surviving an assassination attempt has dismissed concerns raised by critics that he is a threat to democracy, telling a large crowd in Michigan that he took a bullet for democracy.In the rally in Michigan on Saturday,...
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A man along with his wife allegedly killed his mother by slitting her throat with a sharp weapon on Saturday, the police said.The incident took place in the Hariharpur area under the Sinduria police station.According to police, Rajkumar Sahni, along with his wife Rajeshwari, killed his mother,...
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Three wagons of a goods train derailed in Alwar Yard in Rajasthan in the early hours of Sunday, Railway officials said. According to CPRO, North Western Railway, It happened on side line of the yard hence traffic movement on Delhi-Alwar route remained unaffected. The incident happened at 2:30...
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Eleven people were killed in rain-related incidents across Uttar Pradesh in a 24-hour period ending Saturday evening, relief department officials said.According to the relief department, from 6:30 pm on Friday to 6:30 pm on Saturday, five persons drowned and five others were killed after being...
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Security personnel patrolling in Churachandpur district of Manipur/ANI Photo
A man was shot dead in Manipur's Imphal East district, the police said on Sunday. The incident happened at Tekcham in Lamlain police station area on Saturday, they said. The man, identified as RK Prithibi Singh, was blindfolded, his hands were tied behind his back and shot from a point-blank...
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Poetess Shabeena Adeeb/Courtesy Facebook
A Rashtriya Lok Dal leader on Saturday claimed that poetess Shabeena Adeeb could not participate in a 'mushaira' in Meerut in Uttar Pradesh following objections from some Bharatiya Janata Party leaders.Adeeb had to take part in the recitation at the annual All India Mushaira held at the Nauchandi...
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All tourist vehicles entering Sikkim will now have to mandatorily carry a large garbage bag, according to an official order. The decision has been taken to ensure community participation towards achieving the goal of environmental sustainability, said the order issued by the Tourism and Civil...
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Protesters clash with police in Dhaka, Bangladesh/Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters
The United States has recommended that its citizens do not travel to Bangladesh and allowed the voluntary departure of its non-emergency government employees and family members in view of the ongoing civil unrest in the South Asian country.The development comes just a day after the US issued a...
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In an alleged road rage incident in Pune city, a 27-year-old woman was brutally beaten by a car driver on Baner-Pashan Road here, the police said. The incident happened on Saturday afternoon and the accused driver and another woman who was with him were arrested, the police said. The victim, who...
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Indian students from Bangladesh arrive through check post in Agartala/ANI on X
Amid the ongoing countrywide protests in Bangladesh against job quotas, around 150 Indian students from Bangladesh arrived through the Integrated Check Post in Agartala. The students arrived in Agartala on Saturday. Rajeev Agnihotri DIG, sector commander, Border Security Force, said that around...
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An Indian student who went missing while swimming in the Latvian capital is feared to have drowned, media reports said on Saturday.News portal LSM, part of the Public broadcasting of Latvia, quoted friends of Albin Shinto from Kerala, who went missing while swimming in the Jugla canal in Riga as...
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Flags of India and Cambodia/ANI Photo
The Indian embassy in collaboration with Cambodian authorities has rescued 14 Indian citizens trapped in cybercrime scam and is working for their expeditious return home, the Indian embassy said in a statement. In a post on X, the Indian Embassy in Cambodia stated, @indembcam in collaboration...
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Former US President Donald J Trump is assisted by Secret Service agents after gunfire/Brendan McDermid/Reuters
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is recovering as expected from the gunshot wound sustained during the assassination bid on him in Pennsylvania on July 13, a former physician to Trump has said in a memorandum. Trump, 78, survived an attempt on his life on July 13 when a young shooter...
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Police with the arrested drug smugglers in Amritsar/ANI on X
Three alleged drug smugglers were arrested in Amritsar and one kg methamphetamine, 2.45 kg heroin and 520 grams of pseudoephedrine was recovered from their possession, police said on Saturday. The police said Gurbax alias Lala, a big fish who was involved in sourcing the precursor chemicals used...
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A priest performs abhishek at Mahakaleshwar Temple, in Ujjain, MP/ANI Photo
The BJP-ruled Ujjain Municipal Corporation has directed shop owners to display their names and mobile numbers outside their establishments in the ancient city, a directive coming on the heels of a similar order by the BJP government in UP for eateries along the Kanwar Yatra route. Violators will...
