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The entire family of a businessman, who was allegedly in debt of crores, allegedly attempted mass suicide in Faridabad. The head of the family lost his life in the incident while the conditions of five others are critical, the police said on Friday. All five, including two women and two children,...
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An Indian-origin truck driver who caused a horrific bus crash in Canada involving a junior hockey team was on Friday ordered to be deported to India. Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, a truck driver from Calgary, barreled through a stop sign and into the path of the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team's bus...
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An Indian-origin truck driver who caused a horrific bus crash in Canada involving a junior hockey team was on Friday ordered to be deported to India. Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, a truck driver from Calgary, barreled through a stop sign and into the path of the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team's bus...
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Former prime minister Manmohan Singh cast his vote through postal ballot last week for the Lok Sabha elections in Delhi, the sources said here on Friday. The sources said Singh, 91, voted at his residence as he is not keeping well. Singh is residing at Motilal Nehru Marg in central Delhi and he...
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The investigation of a car accident in Kalyani Nagar involving a 17-year-old youngster was transferred to the crime branch from the Yerawada police station on Friday evening. Earlier in the day, two officials of the Yerawada police station, where the initial offence had been registered on May 19,...
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Sharing an order issued by the Kolkata police on May 22, state Bharatiya Janata Party president Sukanta Majumdar on Friday alleged that prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the CrPC were imposed in central Kolkata to stop PM Narendra Modi's roadshow in the city. Quoting Majumdar's post on X,...
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A passenger was arrested in Hyderabad for allegedly attempting to open the door of a flight from Indore to Hyderabad mid-air, the police said on Friday. The incident took place on May 21. A 29-year-old flyer allegedly tried to open the door mid-air and argued with the airline staff minutes before...
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Internet major Google has proposed an investment in e-commerce major Flipkart to buy a minority stake during the company's fresh funding round, the Walmart group firm said on Friday. As part of the latest funding round led by Walmart, Flipkart today announced that it will be adding Google as a...
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Explosion at Rameshwaram Cafe in Bengaluru, March 1, 2024/ANI on X
The National Investigation Agency Friday arrested one more accused in the March 1 Bengaluru's Rameshwaram Cafe blast case, the fifth person to be held in the matter. Thirty-five-year-old Shoaib Ahmed Mirza alias Chhotu, a resident of Hubbali city in Karnataka, was previously convicted in a...
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Over 60 super cars and 25 super bikes will roar to life on Saturday as night racing returns to Mumbai after nearly two decades with the Drag Star Night Race. The competitions will take place at the restricted Juhu Airport, once a haven for racing and off-roading events. The JK Tyre-backed event...
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Two officials attached to the Yerawada police station in Pune were suspended on Friday for alleged dereliction of duty in connection with an accident involving a 17-year-old juvenile whose Porsche knocked down and killed two persons in the early hours of May 19. Inspector Rahul Jagdale and...
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The rupee rallied for the fourth consecutive trading session on Friday and appreciated by 18 paise to settle at 83.11 (provisional) against the US dollar on fresh foreign fund inflows and suspected intervention by the RBI. Forex traders attributed the rally to Rs 2.11 lakh crore record dividend...
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The police on Friday detained two owners, including a 70-year-old woman, of the chemical factory at Dombivli in Maharashtra's Thane district, where a massive blast killed at least nine persons and injured more than 60 others a day ago, an official said. The detained persons were identified as...
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There will be no change of guard ceremony on Saturday due to the Lok Sabha elections in Delhi, the Rashtrapati Bhavan said. The change of guard ceremony is a military tradition that is held every week to enable a fresh group of the President's Bodyguards to take charge. The change of guard...
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More than 50 pilgrims have died so far since the start of the Chardham Yatra in Uttarakhand nearly a fortnight ago on May 10. At a press conference here on Friday, Garhwal Commissioner Vinay Shankar Pandey said, 52 Chardham pilgrims have died so far, mostly due to heart attacks. Most of them were...
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A Delhi court on Friday sent Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's close aide Bibhav Kumar to four-day judicial custody in connection with the alleged assault on AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal. Kumar, the personal assistant to Kejriwal, allegedly assaulted Maliwal at the chief minister's official...
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An Indian woman in Singapore was charged with stabbing a six-year-old boy repeatedly with a pen at a childcare centre in Singapore in 2022, leaving marks on his face and scalp. The 43-year-old woman was handed one count of ill-treating a child under her care under the Children and Young Persons...
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A Delhi court on Friday convicted Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar in a defamation case lodged against her by VK Saxena, the incumbent lieutenant governor of the national capital. Metropolitan Magistrate Raghav Sharma found Patkar guilty of criminal defamation. Under the relevant law,...
17:34
The touch-and-go seats going to the polls tomorrow
Amid the prevailing fierce summer heat, the national capital is all set for polling on Saturday after a record two-month long campaigning, with the BJP and the INDIA bloc partners pitted in a direct, one-on-one contest in all the seven Lok Sabha constituencies. The INDIA bloc partners have...
17:31
The mangled Porsche
A court in Pune on Friday remanded Vishal Agarwal, father of the 17-year-old involved in a car crash that killed two persons in the city, and five other accused in the case, to judicial custody till June 7. The prosecution had demanded extension of their police custody for further probe. But the...
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Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty closed marginally lower on Friday as investors booked profit in FMCG, IT and healthcare stocks after the BSE Sensex and Nifty hit fresh lifetime highs in intra-day deals. The 30-share BSE Sensex dipped 7.65 points or 0.01 per cent to settle at 75,410.39....
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Internet major Google has proposed an investment in e-commerce major Flipkart to buy a minority stake during the company's fresh funding round, the Walmart group firm said on Friday. As part of the latest funding round led by Walmart, Flipkart today announced that it will be adding Google as a...
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Parents of two software engineers killed in a car accident in Pune demanded on Friday that the Supreme Court should monitor the probe and trial in the case. The families have also demanded that the trial in the case should be held in Madhya Pradesh, where the victims hailed from, and not in...
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A cyclone brewing in the Bay of Bengal will make landfall between Sagar Island in West Bengal and Bangladesh's Khepupara on Sunday midnight, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Friday. This is the first cyclone in the Bay of Bengal this pre-monsoon season and will be named Remal,...
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Bibhav Kumar brought to Tis Hazari court
Swati Maliwal assault case: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar brought to Tis Hazari Court after the end of his police custody. He was arrested on May 18. The court sends Bibhav Kumar to 4-day judicial custody.The police sought four-day judicial remand of Arvind Kejriwal aide. Bibhav...
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In a significant revelation External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has disclosed that the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) received a request only on May 21 to impound the passport of Janata Dal Secular MP Prajwal Revanna, who fled to Germany last month amid allegations of sexual...
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Launching a blistering attack on the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said on Friday that the BJP has been spreading lies about his health, adding that he is perfectly well and has been campaigning for his party for around a month across the state.Patnaik's remark...
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Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday wondered how Prime Minister Narendra Modi was raising the slogan of winning over 400 seats when his Bharatiya Janata Party was losing everywhere. He said there is every possibility of INDIA bloc getting a majority.Talking to reporters in...
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The West Bengal CID arrested one person from the state's Bongaon area in North 24 Parganas district for his alleged involvement in the murder of Bangladesh MP Anwarul Azim Anar, an officer said on Friday. The man, a butcher by profession, has admitted during interrogation that he had helped the...
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Not only are economic issues higher on people's agenda than in post-Balakot 2019, but the Mandir effect more far more muted than the BJP expected and the stench of electoral bond corruption hangs on the BJP, and the opposition is more united. Read the report here.
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AAP MP Swati Maliwal
BJP leader Gaurav Bhatia accused the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of destroying the evidence in a case related to the alleged assault of Swati Maliwal and said the AAP MP was assaulted at the beck and call of the Aam Admi Party national convenor. He also alleged that CM Kejriwal is making...
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Update: Amid a growing chorus for justice for the two IT professionals, who were mowed to death by a teen driving a Porsche, the Pune Commissioner of Police on Friday assured that the accused minor who was in his senses at the time of accident will be punished. We are investigating both the case...
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Pune CP Amitesh Kumar
Pune Porsche car accident case: Pune CP Amitesh Kumar holds a briefing. Excerpts:Minor was drinking alcohol before accident: We have the CCTV footage of him drinking liquor in the pub. The point of saying this is that our case is depending on the blood report alone, we have other evidence also....
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This election will be remembered for being the first election where the Election Commission failed to take action on gross violations involving the ruling party that repeatedly used religion, communal slurs, lies and undocumented allegations, observes Ramesh Menon. Read the column here.
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Mr and Mrs Adani vote
The Supreme Court on Friday refused an NGO's plea to issue the Election Commission directions to upload polling station-wise voter turnout data on its website during the Lok Sabha polls, saying it would be difficult for the poll panel to to mobilise manpower. A vacation bench of Justices...
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After former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda warned his grandson Prajwal Revanna to return to India from abroad and face the law in the obscene video case, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar said that it is a family matter of the Gowdas and he will not be intervening into it....
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The Dombivli chemical company where a blast killed nine and injured over 60 had not taken precautions over the mixing and storage of compounds knowing well that any lapses might lead to an explosion, according to the FIR. The First Information Report (FIR) names company owners/directors Malti...
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The Porsche teen has been sent to a remand home
Amid the nationwide outrage over the Porsche hit-and-run deaths and calls for justice for the two IT professionals who lost their lives in the incident, Kanpur Police sent a minor son of a prominent doctor to a juvenile home after he allegedly rammed his father's car into persons, killing them in...
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A helicopter with seven people on board made an emergency landing due to a technical snag in Uttarakhand's Kedarnath early on Friday.The helicopter landed a few metres from the helipad at the Himalayan temple, an official said. The helicopter was carrying seven people, including the pilot, and...
10:07
Indian indices Nifty and Sensex opened flat on Friday, near the record closing of the previous day. The Nifty Index opened at 22,930 points, very close to the 23,000 mark. The Sensex also sustained Thursday's rally and opened near 75,335, close to the 75,500 mark.The net inflow number by FIIs on...
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On the second day of China's military games on the Taiwan strait, the island nation's Ministry of National Defense (MND) reported a significant presence of Chinese military aircraft and vessels near its territory.According to the MND, as of 6 am on Friday, a total of 49 China's People's...
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An outbreak of avian flu (H5N1) at the government-run regional poultry farm at Manarcad here was confirmed by the district administration. Following the outbreak, a decision was taken to euthanize and cremate all domesticated and pet birds within a one kilometer radius of the poultry farm, the...
09:41
The damaged Porsche car
The mother of the 17-year-old boy who allegedly fatally knocked down two persons with his high-end car has appealed to the police to protect her son after a video purportedly featuring him, boasting about how he got away with the accident, went viral. In a video message, the teen's mother...
09:27
The West Bengal CID on Thursday evening detained one person for his alleged involvement in the murder of Bangladesh MP Anwarul Azim Anar, an officer said.Police suspect that the MP could have been lured into a New Town flat by a woman and then murdered by contract killers.The detained person, who...
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At least seven people died and 20 were injured when a minibus was hit by a truck in Ambala in the early hours of Friday, police said. The accident took place near Mohra village, close to Ambala Cantt.The bus was carrying around 30 people from Uttar Pradesh who were going to the Vaishno Devi...
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In a major triumph for India at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, Chidananda S. Naik's Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know... has won the first prize of La Cinef at Cannes. The Mysuru doctor-turned filmmaker made the film at the end of his one-year course in the television wing of Pune's Film and...
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Twenty-two passengers from a Singapore Airlines flight that was hit by turbulence May 21, have spinal cord injuries and six have brain and skull injuries, according to media reports. Twenty people remained in intensive care, although none were life-threatening cases, reported The Straits Times,...
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Syria Parveen, a BJP leader and a notable figure in the Sandeshkhali movement, joined the TMC on Thursday, attributing her decision to disillusionment with the saffron party and a sense of suffocation within the party's ranks. Formerly serving as the secretary of BJP's Basirhat mandal in West...
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The Delhi police registered two FIRs after slogans to boycott elections were found written on walls at multiple places in the Delhi University area, officials said on Thursday. Bhagat Singh Chhatra Ekta Manch claimed the responsibility for the slogans, such as Ek hi raasta Naxalbari, written on...
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The police on Thursday registered a case against seven persons, including a priest and the parents of a 15-year-old girl and a man aged 19, for solemnising their marriage, an official said. They were married as per the Hindu customs on April 24, he said. Chandan Nagar police filed a case against...
