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Twenty-four public works department engineers have been served show cause notices by the vigilance directorate over alleged violations and irregularities related to construction of Delhi government school classrooms, officials said on Monday. Notices were served to each of the engineers by...
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Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena on Monday announced a compensation of Rs 10 lakh each for the families of three civil services aspirants who died after flooding of the basement of a coaching centre in Old Rajinder Nagar here. According to a Raj Niwas statement, the LG, who met the...
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Nirmala College in Muvattupuzha, Kerala/Courtesy Nirmala College online
Members of the Muslim community in Kerala's Muvattupuzha expressed regret on Monday over a controversial incident in which a section of students allegedly protested against the denial of permission to perform namaaz inside the premises of the church-run Nirmala College there. They met with...
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A 16-year-old boy allegedly jumped to his death from the 14th floor of a residential building in Pimpri Chinchwad city near Pune, with police suspecting his involvement in an online game as a possible cause with the recovery of a log out message from his notebook. The boy was addicted to...
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Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty hit intra-day record high levels before closing almost flat on Monday due to profit-taking in FMCG and IT shares by cautious investors ahead of the key US Fed interest rate decision later this week. The 30-share BSE Sensex closed higher by 23.12 points or...
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Sixteen teenagers were rescued on Monday from the Gonda railway station when they were being taken to Bihar on the pretext of training in an online marketing company, the police said. During patrolling at the railway station, a man and a woman were seen with 16 children aged between 14 and...
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South superstar Nayanthara has drawn flak on social media with hepatologist Cyriac Abby Philips calling her out for her claims about the health benefits of hibiscus tea.Phillips, who is popularly known as The Liver Doc on social media, had earlier called out actor Samantha Ruth Prabhu for...
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Five accused arrested on Monday in connection with an incident, in which three civil service aspirants drowned at the basement of a coaching centre in New Delhi, have been sent to judicial custody for 14 days by a court. The five accused -- four co-owners of the coaching centre at Rajinder...
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Digital navigation firm CE Info Systems, which owns the MaymyIndia brand, has sent a legal notice to Ola Electric alleging that the IPO-bound firm has copied its data and reverse-engineered its app to make Ola Maps, according to sources. A source, who did not wish to be identified, said that...
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RAF personnel stand guard outside 'Rau's IAS Study Circle' in New Delhi/ANI Photo
A civil services aspirant from Gwalior on Monday claimed he had lodged a complaint about the alleged illegal used of New Delhi-based Rau's IAS Study Circle's basement, where three students drowned over the weekend, on a central government portal a month before the tragedy. Kishore Singh...
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Samajwadi Party MP Afzal Ansari/ANI Photo
The Allahabad high court on Monday set aside a Ghazipur court order sentencing Samajwadi Party MP Afzal Ansari to four years' imprisonment under the Gangsters Act in a case linked to the murder of BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai in 2005. With Justice SK Singh allowing his plea against the...
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A member of a right-wing group carrying kanwar on her shoulders tried to enter the Taj Mahal to offer 'Gangajal' on Monday, with the group claiming that the monument was a Lord Shiva temple called 'Tejo Mahalaya'. However, she was stopped by the policemen of 'Taj Suraksha' deployed at the...
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At least eight people, including children, were injured and a male suspect arrested on Monday in what British Prime Minister Keir Starmer described as a horrendous stabbing incident in the north-west England town of Southport. Armed personnel from the local Merseyside police declared a major...
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Dhanush (second from left) in his new film Raayan
Actor Dhanush has thanked fans for their response to his new film Raayan, which he said is the best birthday gift ever. Dhanush, who celebrated his 41st birthday yesterday, shared a post on his 'X' handle which read, My sincere thanks to the audience, film fraternity, friends, press and...
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Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi speaks in the Lok Sabha on the Union Budget/Video grab/Sansad TV
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday advised Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi to read the Parliamentary Rules of Procedure at least one more time. Birla's advice to Gandhi came as he made references to persons who were not members of the Lok Sabha and also sought to display photographs...
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Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren/Courtesy @HemantSorenJMM/X
In a relief to Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, the Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the Enforcement Directorate's plea challenging a high court order granting him bail in a money laundering case linked to an alleged land scam. The apex court said the Jharkhand high court's June 28...
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A 30-year-old man allegedly committed suicide during a video call with his wife, who recorded the act, in Madhya Pradesh's Indore district, the police said on Monday. Manoj Nirmal, a resident of the Pardeshipura police station area, made a video call to his wife on Sunday and hanged himself...
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Four persons were killed in a blast in the Sopore area of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, officials said in Srinagar. The blast occurred inside the shop of a scrap dealer at Sher Colony in Sopore town of Baramulla district. Some people were unloading scrap from a truck when the incident...
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A sessions court in Chennai on Monday extended former Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji's remand till July 30. He was arrested by the ED last year in a money laundering case.Principal sessions judge S Alli, before whom Senthil Balaji was produced by the prosecution through...
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The Reserve Bank of India is planning a five-episode web series to provide an in-depth presentation about its functions and its 90-year journey.The web series is proposed to be for nearly three hours, with each episode having a duration of 25-30 minutes, according to an official document.The RBI,...
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Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Monday requested Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to remove the restrictions imposed on the media within Parliament premises.Sir, I would request you to allow the media, who have been restricted to a cage, to move out, Gandhi said in the Lok Sabha.Media persons...
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Three persons, including an army jawan, were arrested for allegedly killing a man in Hoshiarpur, the police said on Monday.The accused were identified as Kanish Kumar from Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar, Jaswinder Singh, alias Monu, and army jawan Amandeep Singh, alias Aman, both from Daffar village,...
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The committee formed by the Odisha government to supervise the inventory process of the Ratna Bhandar at Puri Jagannath temple has decided to recommend to the shrine's managing committee the use of advanced technology to conduct a thorough inspection and scanning of the treasury. This...
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The 45-year-old son of a Thane Shiv Sena (UBT) leader died of a heart attack during an argument with an autorickshaw driver in Vasai in Palghar district, after which police registered a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against an unidentified person, an official said on...
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Water being pumped out of the basement of the coaching centre
During a discussion in Rajya Sabha on Monday, Congress MP Randeep Singh Surjewala demanded legislating a law to regulate fee structure, conditions of teachers as well as students and also their safety. Participating in the discussion on the death of students in a coaching institute in Delhi...
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The civic body is working on three fronts, including demolishing encroachments over stormwater drains, following the deaths of three IAS aspirants at a coaching centre in Old Rajinder Nagar after its basement got flooded due to heavy rain, MCD Commissioner Ashwani Kumar said on...
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Police wielded lathis to disperse kanwariyas who were allegedly heading towards a women's ghat in Lohargal Dham in Jhunjhunu district, an official said on Monday. The incident occurred on Sunday night when the Kanwar Yatra reached the Lohargal Dham, they said. Superintendent...
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In Lok Sabha, LoP Rahul Gandhi says, The 'Chakravyuh' that you have built is harming crores of people. We are going to break down this 'Chakravyuh'. The biggest way of doing this, one that scares you, is the Caste Census. Like I said that INDIA Alliance will pass guaranteed legal MSP in this...
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In Lok Sabha, LoP Rahul Gandhi shows a poster of the traditional Halwa ceremony, held at the Ministry of Finance before the Budget session. He says, Budget ka halwa' is being distributed in this photo. I can't see one OBC or tribal or a Dalit officer in this. Desh ka halwa baant raha hai aur...
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LoP in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, says, Thousands of years ago, in Kurukshetra, six people trapped Abhimanyu in a 'Chakravyuh' and killed him. I did a little research and found out that 'Chakravyuh' is also known as 'Padmavuyh' -- which means 'Lotus formation'. 'Chakravyuh' is in the shape of...
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Delhi police arrested seven persons so far, including a driver of an SUV vehicle, on Monday in connection with the deaths of three students in basement flooding at a coaching centre in Old Rajinder Nagar.DCP (Central) M Harshvardhan said that the SUV driver was arrested based on a video that was...
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MCD sealed 3 coaching centres yesterday
Lok Sabha members cutting across party lines on Monday demanded an inquiry into the death of three civil services aspirants at a coaching centre in central Delhi's Old Rajinder Nagar area, with the BJP blaming the city's AAP government for the tragic incident. BJP leader and New Delhi Lok...
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RAF and police personnel stand guard outside the Rao IAS Study Centre
The body of Nevin Delvin, who was among the three civil services aspirants who were killed after the basement of a coaching centre in Delhi was flooded following heavy rain, was handed over to his family on Monday after post-mortem. The bodies of the other two students were handed over to...
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A 50-year-old woman was found tied to a tree with an iron chain in a forest in Maharashtra's Sindhudurg district, and a photocopy of her US passport as well as other documents, including an Aadhaar card with a Tamil Nadu address, were recovered from her, a police official said on...
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Following Manu Bhaker's historic bronze medal in the ongoing Paris Olympics 2024, Union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya congratulated the shooter on her win and revealed the hard work and expenditure that went behind her training.Bhaker finished third to secure a bronze medal in the final of...
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Students hold a candlelight protest
Delhi Police on Monday said it has arrested five more people including the owner of a basement in a four-storey building where three IAS aspirants died after it was flooded following heavy rains. With these arrests, the total number of people arrested in the case so far has gone to...
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Students stage a protest outside the Rao IAS Study Centre
A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in Delhi High Court, seeking the formation of a high-level committee to investigate the Rajendra Nagar incident in which three people lost their lives. The plea also sought directions for an investigation into the Municipal Corporation...
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The CBI filed a charge sheet against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in connection with the excise policy case on Monday, officials said. The central agency filed the charge sheet before a special CBI court at Rouse Avenue, they said. PTI
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Rainwater that had flooded the basement
Delhi Police have arrested five more people in connection with the deaths of three students owing to a waterlogged and flooded basement at a coaching centre in Old Rajinder Nagar, officials said on Monday.DCP (central) M Harsha Vardhan, while speaking exclusively to ANI, said that five more...
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Several teams have been formed to crack the murder case of a 20-year-old woman, whose body was dumped in the thicket near Uran railway station in Navi Mumbai last week, a senior police official said on Monday. The woman's body was found in the early hours of Saturday and police believe...
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Two 'kanwariyas' died and 14 were injured after a truck hit a tractor-trolley in Morena in Madhya Pradesh on Monday, a police official said. The incident took place at 5am on National Highway number 44, some 10 kilometres from the district headquarters, which led to enraged villagers beating...
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Equity market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty hit their new all-time high levels in early trade on Monday in-tandem with a rally in global peers and fresh foreign fund inflows. The 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 416.62 points to hit a new record peak of 81,749.34 in early trade. The NSE Nifty...
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Security has been beefed up in the Old Rajinder Nagar area amid a protest by civil service aspirants over the death of three students due to flooding in their institute's basement following heavy rains, officials said on Monday. The protesting aspirants have gathered outside Rau's IAS...
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Security personnel stand guard outside a coaching class in Delhi
After the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) initiated action against coaching centres violating building bye-laws, the owners of the institutes asked students using the basement libraries to vacate on Monday.The MCD sealed the basements of 13 coaching centres in Karol Bagh on Sunday for...
09:29
Mumbai-born author Salman Rushdie has endorsed Kamala Harris's candidacy for the US presidency and said he believes she is the person who can prevent former president Donald Trump from dragging the country towards authoritarianism. Rushdie on Sunday extended his support and endorsement of US...
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The accused was driving his owner's car when the accident happened. Representational image
A 28-year-old man who was left severely injured after his two-wheeler was hit by a speeding BMW car in Mumbai's Worli area on July 20 has died in hospital, a police official said on Monday. The incident took place on Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan Road at Worli Seaface when Vinod Lad, employed as a...
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Former election strategist Prashant Kishor on Sunday said his Jan Suraaj campaign will become a political party on October 2, coinciding with Gandhi Jayanti, and contest the Bihar assembly polls next year.Kishor was addressing a state-level workshop of Jan Suraaj in Patna, which was attended by...
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The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has started action against illegal coaching centres and will set up a high-level committee to probe the flooding of the basement of a coaching institute which led to three civil services aspirants' deaths, an official said on Sunday. A team of the civic...
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