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The ruling National Conference (NC) on Saturday sought an inquiry into the spike in terrorist attacks in the Valley since Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was sworn in, saying some elements were trying to destabilise an elected government.Violence is taking place. There should be an investigation...
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A 17-year-old boy was stabbed after a fight over bursting of firecrackers outside his house in north-east Delhi, police said on Saturday.The incident occurred on Friday night in the Seelampur area, they said. According to police, Sahil was bursting firecrackers in front of his house when...
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Canada has for the first time named India in a list of cyberthreat adversaries, suggesting that state-sponsored actors could be spying against it.Amid an ongoing diplomatic row, India is named fifth after China, Russia, Iran and North Korea in the National Cyber Threat Assessment 2025-2026 (NCTA...
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Maharashtra minister Girish Mahajan on Saturday said the security cover of Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was upgraded after intelligence inputs.In view of the upcoming Maharashtra assembly polls, the state police has buttressed the security cover of Fadnavis, who is also the home...
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In the wake of the US imposing sanctions on several individuals and entities, including from India, for allegedly supporting Russia's military-industrial base, the MEA Saturday said New Delhi is in touch with Washington to clarify issues. MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal, in response to a...
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The stage is set for Vulcain, one of the biggest dinosaurs that roamed the earth 150 million years ago, to go under the hammer on November 16 in Paris. French auction houses Collin du Bocage and Barbarossa have announced that the most complete and largest dino skeleton to be auctioned has...
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Four sanitary workers, including two women from Tamil Nadu, were killed after being hit by the Thiruvananthapuram-bound Kerala Express near Shoranur Railway Station on Saturday evening, the Railway police said. The New Delhi-Thiruvananthapuram train struck the workers around 3.05 pm...
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The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test per se is an irregularity, Tamil Nadu's ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam alleged on Saturday and wondered how such a test could be conducted without defects.The Dravidian party's official organ, Murasoli, in an editorial argued yet again against the test...
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Nationalist Congress Party-SP president Sharad Pawar on Saturday alleged that police vehicles are being used to provide financial assistance to the candidates of the ruling parties in Maharashtra ahead of the assembly polls. Addressing reporters at his residence Govindbag in Baramati, the...
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Two women devotees from West Bengal waiting in a queue for prasad outside an ashram here suffered serious burns after a person serving 'khichdi' slipped and the hot food fell on them, officials said on Saturday. Eight more women standing in the queue also suffered minor injuries when...
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The Indian Army has commenced verification patrolling at Depsang, the second friction point in eastern Ladakh, the government said on Saturday. Patrolling at Demchok had begun on Friday, a day after the Indian and Chinese troops completed disengagement at the two friction points in eastern...
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India has protested in the strongest possible terms the references made by a Canadian minister about Union Home Minister Amit Shah and such absurd and baseless allegations will have serious consequences for bilateral ties between the two countries, the Minister of External Affairs said on...
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday accused the JMM-led coalition in Jharkhand of patronising infiltrators and claimed that this election would be fought to drive out illegal immigrants and protect Hindus.Sarma, who is also the BJP's Jharkhand election co-incharge, urged Hindus...
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Shiv Sena-UBT MP Arvind Sawant on Saturday apologised for his alleged insulting remark targeted at rival Shiv Sena's assembly election candidate Shaina N C, a day after a case was registered against him in this connection. Talking to reporters in Mumbai, Sawant maintained that he...
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Two CRPF jawans and two policemen were injured in an encounter with terrorists in the Khanyar area in Srinagar on Saturday, officials said.Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Khanyar in the morning following inputs about the presence of terrorists in the area, they said.The...
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The Static Surveillance Team (SST) of the Election Commission has seized diamonds, gold and silver jewellery costing around Rs 24 crore near a toll booth in Ahilyanagar district of poll-bound Maharashtra, an official said on Saturday. The seizure was made on Thursday morning near...
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Three persons, including a woman and her 10-month old son, were killed and an equal number of people critically injured when their car skidded off a hilly road and rolled down into a deep gorge in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir early Saturday, officials said. ...
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A girl was allegedly raped and murdered, following which enraged villagers lynched one of the accused in West Bengal's Alipurduar district, police said.The incident took place in Falakata area on Friday afternoon.The girl's body was found in a pond, following which the villagers tied a man, whom...
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The Mumbai police have forwarded a proposal for extradition of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi's younger brother Anmol Bishnoi, who has been named as an accused in some high-profile crimes, including the Baba Siddique murder case, an official said. The proposal was sent after the US...
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Two militants were killed in an encounter with security forces in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, officials said. The encounter broke out near Halkan Gali in the Shangus-Larnoo area of the south Kashmir district.Of the two militants killed, one was a foreigner and the...
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The air quality index (AQI) in Kolkata was in the 'poor' category on Saturday following Diwali celebrations, a West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) official said.AQI in terms of PM 2.5 was 288 in Ballygunge, 210 in Jadavpur, 211 in Rabindra Bharati University and 219 in Bidhannagar at 9...
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An earthquake of 3.6 magnitude hit parts of Jharkhand on Saturday morning, an official said. There was no immediate report of any loss of life or damage to property, he said. The epicentre of the earthquake, which struck around 9.20 am, was in Khunti district, around 35 km from the...
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Jan Suraj leader Prashant Kishor has reportedly revealed that he charges over Rs 100 crore as a fee for advising any political party or leader as an election strategist.Prashant Kishor made this disclosure on October 31 while campaigning for the upcoming Bihar bypolls.Ten governments in different...
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A four-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered by her distant relative at a village in Tirupati district, said a police official on Saturday. According to Tirupati district superintendent of police L Subbarayudu, Nagaraju (24), who is the victim's maternal uncle, lured the girl...
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An encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists on Saturday in the Khanyar locality of Jammu and Kashmir's summer capital here, officials said. Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in the Khanyar area of the city on Saturday morning following inputs about the...
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Reacting to Congress National President Mallikarjun Kharge's remark about not making fake promises, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde retaliated Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's 'khata khat' remarks and said that not even a single rupee was given to the people by 'khata khat, khata khat' and...
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Almost three months after the rape and murder of a medic at state-run R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, junior doctors on Friday said they are not happy with the pace of probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the incident and announced a slew of fresh agitations.The West...
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Brat, newly re-defined in 2024 as characterised by a confident, independent, and hedonistic attitude, was on Friday named Collins Dictionary's Word of the Year. The dictionary said the word brat, inspired by the name of an album by English singer-songwriter Charli XCX, has become a cultural...
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A family bursting firecrackers on Diwali in Haryana's Faridabad district was allegedly attacked with sticks and stones by a mob, police said on Friday. Police said the incident occurred in Ballabhgarh town on Thursday. The Hindu family has also alleged that members of a Muslim...
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A bomb scare on the 12565 Bihar Sampark Kranti Express train, travelling from Darbhanga to New Delhi, triggered panic among passengers and security personnel in Uttar Pradesh's Gonda on Friday evening. Following a tip-off from the Delhi Control Room, security forces, including the GRP and...
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