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Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday lauded Joe Biden's legacy, saying that it is unmatched in modern history, as she spoke at her first public appearance since the President exited the 2024 presidential race and endorsed her. On Sunday, Biden, 81, announced that he would not seek...
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Air India on Monday said its flagship wide-body aircraft Airbus A350 will start operating on ultra-long haul routes from the winter schedule this year, starting with Delhi-New York JFK flight from November 1. From January 2, 2025, the airline's Delhi-Newark flights will also be operated by...
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Nancy Pelosi. Pic: Danny Moloshok/Reuters
Former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday endorsed Kamala Harris for US president.In a post on X, Pelosi, who it was reported privately told President Joe Biden that he will lose and that he should quit the presidential race, said, 'With immense pride and limitless optimism for our country's...
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As many as 43 fishermen, who got stranded mid-sea after their boats met with a technical snag, were rescued by the Fisheries Marine Enforcement department on Monday. The two boats that ventured into sea for fishing from Koyilandy and Beypore harbours here were stranded after their engines...
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Director Rohit Shetty on Monday shared behind the scenes photographs and video from the wrap of Ajay Devgn-starrer Singham Again and reflected on the beginning of the movie franchise 13 years ago. Shetty, 50, has helmed two previous installments of the franchise, Singham (2011) and Singham...
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Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign -- formerly President Joe Biden's campaign -- debuted a new logo on Monday, just hours after Biden announced that he would withdraw from the presidential race and endorse her 2024 bid. In an email touting the slew of Democratic officials and lawmakers...
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NCP-SP chief Sharad Pawar/ANI Photo
A day after Union Minister Amit Shah claimed NCP-SP chief Sharad Pawar had institutionalised corruption, a leader of the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party, which is an ally of the BJP, on Monday said such remarks were inappropriate. Addressing the BJP's state convention in Pune on...
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Singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan has brushed aside rumours of his arrest in Dubai over an alleged defamation complaint. The singer took to Instagram and denied reports in a section of Pakistan media about his arrest. He said all is fine. I am Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, your Rahat Fateh Ali...
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Former Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday once again backed BJD leader and his key aide V K Pandian, saying the bureaucrat-turned-politician has served the state and party with utmost dedication efficiency and integrity, and rejected a media report of a split in his party as...
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A Shiv Sena legislator on Monday demanded that the telecast of the reality show Bigg Boss be stopped, claiming that a recent episode of the show had obscene content. Manisha Kayande, who is also the spokesperson of the ruling Shiv Sena, led by Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, met Mumbai police...
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IAS probationer Puja Khedkar's mother Manorama/File image/X
A court in Pune district on Monday remanded in judicial custody Manorama Khedkar, mother of IAS probationer Puja Khedkar, arrested for allegedly threatening some persons with a gun over a land dispute. Manorama was produced in the court of judicial magistrate first class after her police...
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An IndiGo plane from Abu Dhabi to the national capital was diverted to Muscat on Monday due to a technical issue. In a statement, the airline said the aircraft will be back in operations after necessary maintenance. Details about the number of passengers could not be immediately...
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A special puja at the family temple in the ancestral village of Kamala Harris in TN/ANI Photo
A special puja was held at the family temple in the ancestral village of Kamala Harris in Thulasendrapuram in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvarur district today to invoke blessings for her upcoming presidential election in the United States. After pulling out of the US Presidential election, Joe Biden...
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Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has disclosed that NCP MLA Sunil Tingre was questioned by police for three to four hours after the fatal Porsche car crash involving a minor in May in Pune, but asserted his party colleague had no role in the post-accident happenings. Tingre, the...
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The services of Maitree Express, connecting Kolkata with Bangladesh capital Dhaka, will continue to remain suspended till Tuesday, Eastern Railway said, citing operational reasons. The decision comes amid violent protests in Bangladesh over a quota system in government jobs, which has...
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The government cited an inter-ministerial group report prepared in 2012 to assert in Lok Sabha on Monday that a case for granting special category status to Bihar is not made out, a day after BJP's allies from Bihar demanded the status for the backward state. In a written reply in the Lok...
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Shraddha Walkar with Aaftab Poonawala/ANI Photo
A court in New Delhi has dismissed the plea of Aaftab Amin Poonawala, the lone accused in the sensational Shraddha Walkar murder case, seeking trial to be held only twice every month to give suitable time to his counsel to prepare his defence, holding that the request appeared to be only a tool...
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The Delhi police arrested two men who allegedly posed as Goldy Brar to demand ransom, officials said on Monday. The accused have been identified as Manoj alias Bunty (40), and Anil Sivach (43), they said. On July 18, at about 10 pm, a Delhi-based man had received a ransom call from an...
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Lok Sabha MP and NCP-SP leader Supriya Sule on Monday demanded that the Central government discontinue Hindi voiceovers for speeches made by members of the Parliament in English or regional languages broadcast on its television channel. In a post on 'X', Sule said that Sansad TV started the...
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A speeding Audi car rammed into two stationary autorickshaws in Mumbai's Mulund area on Monday, leaving four persons injured, one of them critically, the police said. The incident occurred around 8 am on Dumping Road. The driver of the Audi fled the scene, leaving the car behind, which...
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Tax policies will have a major role to play in tackling income inequality in the coming years as deployment of technology, like AI, can have a more deleterious impact on employment and income, the Economic Survey said on Monday. It said globally, widening inequality is emerging as a...
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Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar presides over the meeting of the Business Advisory Committee at Parliament House.
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The Delhi High Court asked BJP MP Subramanian Swamy and Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi to file a short note on the submissions in the National Herald case. Justice Neena Bansal Krishna directed them to file the written note on the arguments within four weeks and said thereafter,...
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Benchmark stock market indices experienced high volatility during trading session on Monday as the Economic Survey presented a conservative economic growth forecast for the Financial Year 2024-25. Both the indices faced selling pressure and closed with a marginal dip. The NSE Nifty 50...
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The number of people at risk for contracting Nipah in the contact list of the 14-year-old boy who lost his life to the rare infection, has been increased to 350, out of which 101 are in the high-risk category, Health Minister Veena George said on Monday. The Kerala Health Department is...
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In reaction to the Supreme Court staying the directive to shops along the Kanwar Yatra route, Samajwadi Party MP Akhilesh Yadav used a metaphor, saying that just like a diya flutters before it blows out, the diya of communal politics is now fluttering. I had said that the Supreme Court...
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Manorama Khedkar, the mother of IAS trainee officer Puja Khedkar was produced before the Magistrate Court today. The Judicial Magistrate Court sent her to 14 days of judicial custody in the case of threatening a farmer. The Pune Rural police on Friday recovered the .25 Webley...
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Two teenagers, sitting on a railway track with their earphones on, were killed after being hit by a train as they couldn't hear the horn, police said on Monday. SHO of Kotwali police station, Deendayal Pandey, said the two friends, Sameer (15) and Zakir Ahmed (16), are residents of...
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It has been raining incessantly in Mumbai this month
Almost 40 days into the monsoon season, three of the eleven major dams in Marathwada region continue to report zero per cent water storage due to the lack of rainfall in catchment areas, according to a recent report from the divisional commissioner's office. The three projects facing...
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On Supreme Court's verdict on 'nameplates in Kanwar Yatra', TMC MP and petitioner Mahua Moitra says, I am happy, we had filed the petition yesterday and it came up in the Supreme Court today. It is a completely unconstitutional order against the fundament principles of our Constitution. There is...
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Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde meets NCP-SCP chief Sharad Pawar. Issues pertaining to irrigation, milk prices and sugar factories were discussed during the meeting, held at the state government guest house Sahyadri in Malabar Hill area of Mumbai, an official said. -- PTI
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A car was vandalised and its occupants thrashed by 'kanwariyas' who claimed that it had brushed against them in Muzaffarnagar on the Haridwar-Delhi national highway, police said Monday on the first day of the annual kanwar yatra. The group of devotees claimed that a 'kanwar' belonging to one...
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Congress Parliamentary strategy group to hold a meeting today at 6 pm at CPP Chairperson Sonia Gandhi's residence to discuss the strategy and issues to be raised in the Parliament session.Amidst the alleged irregularities in the NEET examination 2024, Leader of Opposition (LoP) and Congress...
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India's workforce is nearly 56.5 crore, with more than 45 per cent employed in agriculture, 11.4 per cent in manufacturing, 28.9 per cent in services, and 13.0 per cent in construction, highlights the Economic Survey 2023-24 released by the finance ministry on Monday.The survey also added...
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If there is one defeat that the Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not forget for a long time it is the defeat of BJP candidate Lallu Singh from Faizabad constituency in Uttar Pradesh.Ayodhya falls within the Faizabad parliamentary constituency and it was on January 22,...
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The Congress on Monday slammed the Centre over its order removing the ban on the participation of government employees in RSS activities, alleging that Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to politicise employees on an ideological basis. The attack by the Congress, which also said that...
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The Supreme Court stays several state government directives asking eateries on Kanwariya Yatra route to put owners' names. It also issues notices to Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh governments on petitions challenging their directive asking eateries on Kanwariya Yatra route to...
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RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat
The RSS on Monday hailed the Centre's move to lift the ban on government employees from participating in activities of the Sangh, saying the decision would strengthen the country's democratic system. It also accused the earlier regimes of furthering their own political interests by...
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In what was a close shave with one of the many online scams going around, the author recounts how criminals posing as police officials held him in digital custody over Skype on the pretext of helping him avoid arrest, writes Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay. Read the column here.
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Economy expected to grow at 6.5-7 pc in FY25, says the Economic Survey 2023-24. Domestic growth drivers supported economic growth in FY24 despite uncertain global economic performance. The outlook for India's financial sector appears bright. Escalation in geopolitical conflicts and its...
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Economic Survey 2023-2024 tabled in Lok Sabha by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. The Economic Survey document, prepared by the Economic Division of the Department of Economic Affairs in the Ministry of Finance and formulated under the supervision of the chief economic adviser, will...
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Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday rejected notices from opposition MPs calling for discussion on an Uttar Pradesh government order asking shops along the Kanwar Yatra route to display names of their owners and staff. Opposition MPs had given notices under rule 267 seeking...
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Congress MP and LoP in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi says It is obvious to the whole country that there is a very serious problem in our examination system, not just in NEET but in all the major examinations. The minister (Dharmendra Pradhan) has blamed everybody except himself. I don't even think he...
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The Supreme Court on Monday gave bail to ex-Union minister Ajay Mishra's son Ashish Mishra in the case related to the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence that claimed eight lives, and restricted his movement to Delhi or Lucknow. On January 25 last year, the top court had given interim bail...
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Congress MP and LoP in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi talks on the NEET issue in Parliament: The issue is that there are millions of students in the country who are extremely concerned about what is going on and who are convinced that the Indian examination system is a fraud. Millions of people believe...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday appealed to all parliamentarians to rise above party politics and come together to work for the future of the country.Addressing the press ahead of the Budget session of Parliament, PM Modi appealed to opposition parties doing negative politics to get rid of...
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Ahead of the start of Parliament's Budget session, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said people have given their verdict in the Lok Sabha polls and now all political parties must fight together for the country for the next five years. A day before the presentation of the Union Budget,...
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Modi in Kargil in 2022
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Ladakh's Drass on July 26 to mark the 25th anniversary of Kargil Vijay Diwas. Earlier on Sunday, Lt. Governor of Ladakh Brig (Retd) B D Mishra held a meeting at the secretariat on Sunday and reviewed arrangements for the PM's visit to the Kargil War...
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Update: India's newly-appointed head coach Gautam Gambhir on Monday declared that his much talked about relationship with batting mainstay Virat Kohli is between the two of us and not for TRPs. Gambhir and Kohli had not been the best of friends, something which was evident from the...
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My relationship with Virat Kohli is between two of us and not for TRP: Gautam Gambhir addresses a press conference.At his first media interaction after being appointed coach of the Indian cricket team, Gautam Gambhir revealed he has exchanged messages with Virat Kohli after his appointment....
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Equity benchmark indices declined in early trade on Monday dragged by Reliance Industries and Kotak Mahindra Bank along with weak global market trends. The 30-share BSE Sensex tanked 504 points to 80,100.65 in early trade. The NSE Nifty dropped 168.6 points to 24,362.30. Among the...
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Kamala Harris is the new figurehead for the deep state and would be incredibly dangerous as the commander-in-chief, Hindu-American former congressman Tulsi Gabbard has said. Her comments came after US President Joe Biden decided not to seek re-election in November and endorsed his Vice...
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Calling Joe Biden one of America's most consequential presidents and patriot of the highest order, former US President Barack Obama has praised his fellow Democratic leader for opting out of 2024 presidential race in November. In a statement, Obama said, Joe Biden has been one of America's...
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Moderate rain is very likely to occur at isolated places over Mumbai, Palghar, Raigad Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Thane and Ghats of Satara in the next 3 hours.In other parts of Maharashtra, Konkan and Vidarbha regions have been receiving heavy rainfall since the weekend, causing rivers to swell and...
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Heavy rains continued to lash Mumbai on the second consecutive day on Monday, with some areas receiving up to 34 mm of rainfall in just one hour in the morning, affecting local train services during the rush hour between Kalyan and Thakurli stations of the Central Railway network.In the last 24...
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Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district after suspected terrorists fired at a security post early on Monday, official sources said. According to them, suspected terrorists fired at a security post in the Gundha area of Rajouri district...
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The Congress on Sunday cited a purported government order issued last week to claim that a ban on the participation of government employees in the activities of the RSS has been removed. While the veracity of the purported government order, which was posted on X by Congress leaders, could...
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US President Joe Biden, who has dropped out the presidential race on Sunday night, has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for the job.In a post on X, Biden said, My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the...
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