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Former MP and actor Jaya Prada, declared an absconder in connection with two cases related to election code violation, appeared before a court in Rampur on Monday and was later granted conditional bail. The actor was the BJP candidate from Rampur in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and was defeated...
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The Hindu's side in the Gyanvapi case has filed a petition in the Varanasi district court, urging it to protect the 'Vyas Ka Tehkhana' (cellar), where the Hindus have been worshipping after the court's order in January. Vishnu Shankar Jain, the lawyer of the Hindu side, has said that...
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A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions to the Centre to ensure that social media platforms do not display obscene or pornographic material as they cause a rise in sexual crimes. The PIL filed by Paediatric Surgeon Sanjay Kulshresthra said easy access to porn...
23:11
The Jharkhand high court on Monday took suo motu cognisance of the Spanish woman's gang rape in Dumka district and asked the state government to file a report on the matter. A division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Navneet Kumar issued notices to the...
22:48
Nine Bangladeshi nationals are currently under scrutiny by the Odisha police after they unauthorisedly entered the Shree Jagannath temple in Puri, the police said on Monday. Four out of the nine foreign nationals, one Hindu and eight Muslims, had allegedly sneaked into the 12th century...
22:27
The remand report of the suspect linked to the recent death of a second year student at Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University in Wayanad has alleged that the victim was assaulted viciously. The police had arrested all the 18 accused who have been remanded to judicial custody, in...
22:10
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The Kerala University vice-chancellor on Monday barred the Left-ruled students' union from using the name 'Intifada' for this year's youth festival at the university, citing its association with the Palestinian uprising against Israel, and said the festival platform cannot be used to propagate...
21:32
With the arrest of three people, including a Chinese and a Nepalese, the Noida Police on Monday claimed to have busted an international gang of cyber thugs duping Indians.The Chinese national was allegedly staying in India without a visa and had reached Noida through Nepal, the police said.The...
21:20
The Allahabad high court has directed a Varanasi court to decide within eight weeks an application seeking unrestricted right to worship a 'Shivling' purportedly found inside the Gyanvapi mosque premises in May 2022. On May 16, 2022, during a court-ordered survey of the Gyanvapi premises...
20:59
Just In: BJP National President JP Nadda resigns from his position as Rajya Sabha MP and his resignation has been accepted by the Rajya Sabha chairman. Nadda resigned from his position as Rajya Sabha MP from Himachal Pradesh as he has been elected to the house from Gujarat in the...
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The State Bank of India on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking an extension of time till June 30 to disclose details of each electoral bond encashed by political parties. In its verdict last month, the top court directed the SBI to furnish the details to the poll panel by March 6. In...
20:04
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday visited a nuclear power plant in Kalpakkam where a key procedure regarding power generation commenced.The commencement of 'core loading' of the country's indigenous Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam, located about 60 km from Chennai...
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The Odisha government on Monday imposed a ban on the use of single-use plastic in national parks, tiger reserves, wildlife sanctuaries and eco-tourism sites in the state from April 1.Chief Wildlife Warden Susanta Nanda said in an order, In exercise of the power conferred under Section 33 of...
19:13
Three people have been arrested for raising 'Pakistan Zindabad' slogans in the Vidhana Soudha corridor on February 27, the police said on Monday.Supporters of Congress leader Syed Naseer Hussain allegedly shouted pro-Pakistan slogans after his victory in the Rajya Sabha...
19:03
The Odisha government on Monday signed an MoU with the Indian Institute of Technology-Bhubaneswar, in a bid to provide inclusive and quality education to visually impaired students in the state. The Social Security & Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Department signed the...
18:54
Three female students suffered burns after an acid attack by a youth at a government pre-university college in the taluka headquarters town of Kadaba in Dakshina Kannada district on Monday, the police said. The youth has been identified as Abin Shibi (23) hailing from Nilambur in Malappuram...
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As many as 81 tourists stranded in Himachal Pradesh's Spiti Valley due to closure of roads after heavy snowfall have been shifted to safer places, the police said on Monday. An excavator operator engaged in clearing a blocked stretch on the Shimla-Kinnaur road on national highway 5 at...
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Arjun Modhwadia
Senior Congress MLA and former state party unit president Arjun Modhwadia on Monday resigned from the assembly membership, the speaker's office said. The MLA from Porbandar tendered his resignation to Gujarat Assembly Speaker Shankar Chaudhary in Gandhinagar. The speaker's office...
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Dismissed Railway Protection Force constable Chetansinh Chaudhary, accused of killing four persons inside a train in July last year, on Monday sought transfer from the prison in Akola where he is lodged to a facility closer to the Dindoshi court in the north-west part of Mumbai for the sake of...
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Seventy-four persons were booked for allegedly indulging in obscene acts after a bar was raided in Bhiwandi in Thane district, a police official said on Monday. The bar was raided on March 1, the Kongaon police station official said. The arrested persons comprise the two owners of the...
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The Congress on Monday took a swipe at the BJP over its campaign of leaders suffixing their names on social media profiles with Modi Ka Parivar, saying they were misleading the people from real issues and indulging in such tactics as the INDIA bloc was growing. The BJP on Monday rallied...
17:01
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Shehbaz Sharif was on Monday sworn in as the 24th prime minister of Pakistan, Dawn reported. The swearing-in took place amid protests in different parts of the country by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) which has alleged rigging in the general...
16:37
The Enforcement Directorate has questioned Niranjan Hiranandani, the promoter of prominent Mumbai-based realty company Hiranandani Group, in a foreign exchange violation case, official sources said Monday. Niranjan Hiranandani and his son Darshan Hiranandani were asked to join the...
16:33
A day after an obscene video allegedly involving him surfaced on social media, BJP MP Upendra Singh Rawat who has been fielded again by the party from Barabanki on Monday said he will not contest any election till proven innocent. He also demanded an investigation into the matter. In...
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Time to strategise?
In a setback to the opposition Congress ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, its Gujarat unit working president Ambarish Der resigned from the party on Monday and said he will join the ruling BJP on Tuesday. Just ahead of his announcement, Gujarat Congress president Shaktisinh Gohil...
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Union Minister Shantanu Thakur on Monday reiterated Union Home Minister Amit Shah's statement that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which was passed by the Parliament in December 2019, will be implemented before the Lok Sabha elections. On Shah's statement, Shantanu Thakur said, He...
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Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, who has been reiterating for the past few days that the government is stable and would complete its five-year-term, on Monday refused to comment on his regime's stability. When asked to comment on opposition leaders saying that the...
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Unruly scenes broke out in the Punjab Assembly Monday after Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann handed over a lock and key to the Speaker, asking him to lock the Opposition inside the House so that they don't walk out during a discussion. Mann, on the second day of the Budget session in the...
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A 21-year-old stage performer from Chhattisgarh was allegedly gang-raped by her co-artistes in Jharkhand's Palamu district, police said on Monday. The incident took place days after a foreign tourist was allegedly gang-raped in Dumka district. In the fresh incident, the stage performer was...
14:12
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP national president JP Nadda and other party leaders change their bio in solidarity with PM Modi after RJD chief Lalu Yadav's 'Parivarvaad' jibe.Launching a frontal attack on Modi on his recent comments on dynastic politics, the RJD supremo while addressing...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi targeted the opposition coalition, INDIA bloc over nepotism and corruption during his address at Adilabad in Telangana on Monday. PM Modi said that the 140 crore people in the country are his family adding that his life is an open book. The...
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In Adilabad, Telangana, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says, BJP is committed to the development of the nation. That is why, even the people of Telangana are saying...abki baar, 400 paar...Face of dynasty parties may be different but they have similar character --jhoot and loot, says...
13:09
Without a poverty line, how are we to know whether poverty is the same, or it has come down or it has gone up?'The claim is more political with the elections in mind, economist Dr Santosh Mehrotra, visiting Professor of Development Economics, Centre for Development Studies, University of...
13:01
The Supreme Court on Monday rebuked Tamil Nadu Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin over his 'eradicate Sanatan Dharma' remark and asked why he has moved the top court with his plea after abusing his right of freedom of speech and expression. A bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta...
12:35
Congress General Secretary in-charge Communications Jairam Ramesh has taken a potshot at Jyotiraditya Scindia stating that the Union Minister will lose the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in the same way he lost the 2019 general elections. The Congress leader made the remark while...
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Delhi Finance minister Atishi on Monday announced the 'Mukhyamantri Mahila Samman Yojana' under which Rs 1,000 will be given monthly to all women aged above 18 from the fiscal year 2024-25. Atishi announced the scheme in her maiden budget speech. The Kejriwal government will...
12:23
Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweets A great judgment by the Supreme Court which will ensure clean politics and deepen people's faith in the system. A seven-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that an MP or MLA cannot claim immunity from prosecution on a charge...
12:19
Update: BJP's Kuljeet Singh Sandhu was elected to the post of senior deputy mayor in repolls in the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation on Monday. Election to the post of deputy mayor is underway. Sandhu secured 19 votes while Congress' Gurpreet Gabi got 16 votes. One vote was declared invalid. The...
12:08
Chandigarh mayoral polls: BJP gets 19 votes, Congress+AAP get 16 votes, 1 invalid. BJP candidate Kuljeet Singh Sandhu won the election of senior Deputy Mayor of Chandigarh with 19 votes.
12:06
Student dropout rates in state-run primary schools across Assam have been continuously rising for the last few years despite the government taking various initiatives to improve the situation, the latest Economic Survey said. Terming education as one of the key inputs for balanced social and...
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Delhi Finance Minister Atishi presented the budget for the financial year 2024-25 in the state assembly on Monday with an outlay of Rs 76,000 crore, and said the government is trying to realise the dram of Ram Rajya. She spoke about how Delhi has changed in the last 10 years under the AAP...
11:35
The government has permitted exports of 64,400 tonnes of onion to the UAE and Bangladesh through the National Cooperative Exports Ltd (NCEL), according to notifications of the commerce ministry. While export of 50,000 tonnes of onion is permitted to Bangladesh, shipments of 14,400...
11:10
The Supreme Court on Monday held that MPs and MLAs do not enjoy immunity from prosecution for taking bribe to make a speech or cast a vote in the legislature. A seven-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud unanimously overruled the 1998 verdict delivered by a...
10:36
Delhi Finance Minister Atishi sought the blessings of senior AAP leader and former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia's mother and wife ahead of presenting the budget on Monday. Sisodia was arrested on February 26 by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the...
10:28
The general secretary of the Punjab Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, Sarwan Singh Pandher, said on Monday that the decision to March towards Delhi has not changed. The farmer leader said that the groups of farmes will remain at the Shambhu and Khanauri borders till the government...
10:06
Equity benchmark indices climbed in early trade on Monday, with the Nifty hitting its fresh all-time high level, amid a rally in global markets. Optimistic investors' sentiment after impressive GDP data has propelled rally in the equity markets. The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed...
09:59
The jeep safari and elephant ride will remain closed in the Kaziranga range of Kohora from March 7 to 9. The jeep safari and elephant ride in Kaziranga Range, Kohora, will remain closed to visitors. Jeep Safari will remain closed to visitors on March 7, March 8 and March 9 - forenoon...
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The Birhor Adivasi are hunter-gatherers
In Adivasi villages of Palamu and Lohardaga districts in drought-hit Jharkhand, exclusion from the right to food law takes many forms. Women are denied their rights in marital homes, children's names are not included for years, and there are unexplained months-long gaps in disbursing food...
09:45
The probe into the blast at a cafe in Bengaluru has been handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), sources said on Monday. At least nine people were injured when a blast took place at Rameshwaram Cafe in Brookfield in East Bengaluru on March 1. According to the...
09:28
Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has defeated former US President Donald Trump in Washington DC in the Republican primary according to The Hill projections on Monday.Haley garnered 1,274 votes to former President Trump's 676 with all precincts reporting, according to the US-based news...
09:26
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal sends a reply to the Enforcement Directorate. He says he is ready to answer its questions through video-conferencing and seeks a date after March 12.The Enforcement Directorate has issued eight summons to the Delhi Chief Minister for questioning in the excise...
08:56
Two people have been apprehended in Goa in connection with the killing of Indian National Lok Dal's leader Nafe Singh Rathee, police said on Monday. Rathee, the president of the INLD Haryana unit, was shot dead in Bahadurgarh in the state's Jhajjar district on February 25.The district...
08:43
Kalpana Soren, wife of jailed former chief minister Hemant Soren, has announced her decision to enter 'public life' during Jharkhand Mukti Morcha's foundation day programme in Giridih on Monday. The party has decided to observe its 51st foundation day as 'Aakrosh Diwas' at Jhanda ground in...
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