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Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday greeted the people on the eve of Bakrid festival, which will be celebrated in the state tomorrow. Eid Gahs have been arranged at various parts of the state where namaaz will be performed. In a statement, Khan said...
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MP Faggan Singh Kulaste, who did not find a place in Modi 3.0 council of ministers, has said that he had categorically refused to be a junior minister for the fourth time. I was a minister of state three times. It is not good to become MoS for the fourth time. So, I flatly refused. I said it...
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Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju met Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday, a week ahead of the first session of the new Lok Sabha. Rijiju met Kharge at the Congress chief's 10, Rajaji Marg residence in what was said to be a courtesy call. Assuming charge of the ministry last...
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Punjab cabinet minister Anmol Gagan Maan on Sunday tied the knot with advocate Shahbaaz Singh Sohi at a gurdwara in Mohali's Zirakpur.Several leaders from the Aam Aadmi Party, including Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, attended the marriage ceremony. Singer-turned-politician...
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President Droupadi Murmu greeted people on Sunday on the eve of Eid-ul-Azha and asked all to work together for the nation's development and welfare. The festival is a symbol of renunciation and sacrifice and gives the message of love, brotherhood and social harmony, she said. This festival...
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Former Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Sunday strongly countered Elon Musk's criticism of electronic voting machines and termed it a huge sweeping generalisation even as the Tesla boss responded saying anything can be hacked. The back-and-forth of words on X (formerly Twitter) played out...
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Uttar Pradesh continued to be in the grip of heatwave conditions with the maximum temperature remaining above 45 degrees Celsius at most places in the state on Sunday. Prayagraj recorded the highest day temperature at 47.6 degrees Celsius, 8.7 notches above normal. The Regional Meteorological...
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A member of the Hashim Baba gang, who was allegedly conducting reconnaissance on two businessmen in east Delhi's Shahdara area, was arrested, police said on Sunday.A pistol with four live cartridges were also recovered from the possession of the accused, they said.According to the police, Salim...
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As many as 115 packets of charas worth Rs 62 crore have washed up on the shores of Devbhumi Dwarka district in Gujarat in the last 10 days, police said on Sunday.Taking cognisance of abandoned drugs found in the coastal areas in the past, the district police had launched an operation to look for...
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Thirteen people were arrested a day after members of two communities clashed in Medak town of Telangana over alleged transportation of cows for slaughter ahead of Bakrid festival. The situation has been brought under control and remains peaceful, police said on Sunday. Prohibitory orders under...
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A person injured in the tempo traveller accident in Uttarakhand's Rudraprayag succumbed to his injuries, taking the toll to 15, while the condition of four of the 11 injured is still critical, officials said on Sunday. A person who was brought to AIIMS, Rishikesh by air ambulance after the...
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The Navi Mumbai police have sealed a meat shop after it was alleged that a religious name had been painted on a goat brought there for slaughter, an official said on Sunday.Acting on a complaint, the police on Saturday sealed the shop at CBD Belapur and registered a case against three persons,...
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Four persons were injured after a tractor rammed into bystanders during an illegal tractor race at a village in Phagwara, the police said on Sunday. Eleven men were booked, three of whom were arrested, for their involvement in holding the illegal tractor race in Domeli village, said Jalandhar...
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A poll official on Sunday said an EVM was a standalone system with robust administrative safeguards to protect it from any kind of manipulation and that there was no need of an OTP to unlock it. Vandana Suryavanshi, returning officer of Mumbai North West Lok Sabha constituency, was reacting to a...
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A 42-year-old man, on the run for three murders including that of his wife over an extra-marital affair, has been arrested, the police said on Sunday.Nitin Verma had jumped his parole a year after his arrest in 2008, and had been absconding ever since, they said.On April 19, 2008, information was...
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Amid severe heat and water crisis in the national capital, a dispute over filling water from a common tap injured three persons in Dwarka, officials said on Sunday.The police said two PCR calls were received over a fight in Sector 23, Dwarka and a team was sent to the spot for investigation....
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Indrani Mukerjea, Sheena Bora's mother and also the prime accused in the murder case, has said that no skeleton remains were recovered in May 2012. Mukherjea, who is currently out on bail, demanded the interrogation of DNA expert and Sheena's reported fiance, Rahul Mukherjee in connection with...
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The stock market will be closed for trading on Monday on account of Bakri Eid. The trading is set to resume on Tuesday, according to the National Stock Exchange's official website. The market will be closed on Monday in all segments, including stocks, derivatives, and SLBs. Additionally, the...
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An FIR was registered against Mangesh Pandilkar, a relative of Shiv Sena leader Ravindra Waikar for allegedly carrying a mobile phone inside a counting centre in Maharashtra's Goregaon. The case has been registered at Vanrai police Station. FIR has also been registered against a polling personnel...
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Eminent author Vikram Seth has penned the English translation of the sacred Hindu hymn Hanuman Chalisa his first new work in over a decade announced publishing house Speaking Tiger on Sunday. Featuring title calligraphy by Seth himself, the book's bilingual edition has the original verses in...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party will stage protests across Karnataka against the hike in petrol and diesel prices on June 17, the party's state unit president B Y Vijayendra said on Sunday.The Karnataka government on Saturday hiked sales tax on fuel which will make petrol and diesel costlier.Petrol...
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A day after his reference to former prime minister Indira Gandhi as mother of India received widespread attention, Union minister Suresh Gopi on Sunday clarified that he called the late leader the mother of the Congress party in the country and his remarks were misinterpreted by the media. The...
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The police team probing the Renukaswamy murder case, in which leading Kannada film actor Darshan Thoogudeepa and his actress friend Pavithra Gowda are the key accused, seized a car on Sunday that was allegedly used in kidnapping the victim. One of the accused persons, Ravi, had allegedly parked...
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In a tragic incident, a boat carrying 17 devotees capsized in the Ganga River on Sunday in Bihar's Barh area, located near Patna. As per the officials, the boat was travelling from Umanath Ghat to Diara when the incident happened and six people were missing while 11 were safe. Shubham Kumar, Barh...
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The number of visitors to Goa has increased in the just-concluded tourist season and touched the one crore-mark, tourism minister Rohan Khaunte has said, dismissing perception of the footfall going down in the coastal state. There has also been a rise in the number of international tourists,...
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Amid the raging row over medical entrance exam NEET, former Union minister Kapil Sibal on Sunday demanded a probe by Supreme Court-appointed officials into allegations of irregularities and called on the government to have a thorough consultation with all states as to how this examination is to...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said electronic voting machine in India are a black box which nobody is allowed to scrutinise, and asserted that serious concerns are being raised about transparency in India's electoral process. Democracy ends up becoming a sham and prone to fraud when...
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The Mumbai police registered a new case in connection with firing outside actor Salman Khan's residence here in April and arrested one person from Rajasthan on charges of criminal intimidation, an official said on Sunday. The accused has been identified as Banwarilal Laturlal Gujar (25), hailing...
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A Dubai-bound Indian passenger was apprehended by the Central Industrial Security Force personnel at the Surat airport for allegedly concealing raw diamonds worth more than Rs 2 crore, officials said on Sunday. A senior CISF officer said the passenger Sanjaybhai Moradiya was...
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A 34-year-old property dealer was shot dead in the Usmanpur area of northeast Delhi, the police on Sunday said.The family of the victim, Vicky, mounted a roadblock by placing his body on a road in protest against the killing. The blockade lasted for two hours. His younger brother, Sanjay, too...
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Chandu Champion, featuring Kartik Aaryan, has earned Rs 13.1 crore within two days of its release, the makers announced on Sunday. Directed by Kabir Khan, the sports drama is inspired by the life of India's first Paralympic gold medallist Murlikant Petkar. It minted Rs 5.40 crore...
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Delhi water minister Atishi on Sunday wrote to police commissioner Sanjay Arora requesting deployment of personnel for patrolling and protecting major pipelines for next 15 days, as the national capital grapples with a water crisis. In her letter, the minister said Delhi is reeling under a severe...
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The death toll in the blast at an explosives factory in Maharashtra's Nagpur district has gone up to nine with the last surviving person succumbing to his injuries, officials said on Sunday. Pramod Chavare died of his burn injuries at a private medical facility here on Saturday night, Dande...
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Taiwan Ministry of National Defence said on Sunday that six Chinese military aircraft and seven naval vessels were tracked operating around Taiwan between 6 am (local time) on Saturday and the same time on Sunday. According to Taiwan's MND, four of the PLA aircraft crossed the median line of the...
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In a huge drug haul, Yaba tablets worth around Rs 9 crore have been seized and two peddlers arrested from Karimganj district of Assam, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Sunday. In a joint operation by @karimganjpolice and BSF G Branch, Karimganj, 30,000 YABA tablets valued at Rs 9 cr was...
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At least nine people including two children sustained bullet injuries in an attack at a recreation area in Michigan, US on Saturday (local time). The suspect behind the attack was later found dead at a nearby home, CNN reported citing officials. The incident happened at Brooklands Plaza Splash...
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The father of one of the accused in the Renukaswamy murder case in which leading Kannada actor Darshan and his actress friend Pavithra Gowda are the key accused, died of heart attack, family sources said. Anukumar, who is the accused number seven in the police FIR, lost his father Chandrappa, on...
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Newly elected Samajwadi Party MP R K Chaudhary, one of the founders of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), has claimed BSP chief Mayawati has been ignoring the Bahujan movement which has led to her party's rout in these Lok Sabha polls.Now, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav is taking forward the Bahujan...
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath arrived on Saturday in Gorakhpur, where Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat is taking part in a camp for RSS volunteers. There was much speculation on a likely meeting between Bhagwat and Adityanath, especially in the backdrop of the...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah will review the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, sources said.The home minister will also review the preparations for the annual Amarnath pilgrimage set to start on June 29.Shah will chair a high-level meeting here at North Block, three days after...
