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Vote Jihad should be countered by Dharma-yuddha of vote, Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said here on Saturday as he campaigned for the November 20 assembly elections. The BJP leader was speaking at a rally in support of Mahayuti coalition candidates Atul Save...
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Maintaining that he made a mistake twice in the past by joining hands with Rashtirya Janata Dal, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday said that now he would stay permanently with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).Addressing a public meeting in favour of NDA nominee, Vishal Prashant...
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Canada has ended with immediate effect the popular fast track study visa programme, SDS, a major policy decision that is likely to impact scores of international students, including from India. The processing time for students applying under the Student Direct Stream (SDS) was...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday attacked the BJP-led Centre, alleging that its policies on demonetisation and Goods and Services Tax (GST) were weapons to kill farmers, labourers and the poor in the country.He also claimed that a battle is on in India between the ideologies of the...
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The Shiv Sena did not lose its identity even after an alliance of three decades with the Bharatiya Janata Party and there was no question of it turning into Congress now, former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray said on Saturday. The Sena-UBT chief was speaking at a campaign...
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A man was killed and another injured in two incidents of firing carried out by three people in separate areas of northeast Delhi within a span of 10 minutes, police said on Sunday. The accused first fired at a person in Welcome's Kabir Nagar around 1 am, looted his scooty and rode it to a...
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A minor student from Uttar Pradesh's Fatehpur who moved in Kanpur to prepare for her medical entrance exam NEET at a prominent coaching institute was allegedly held hostage for over six months and raped by two of its teachers, police said on Saturday. They said the ordeal began for the...
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The shooting of Salman Khan-starrer Sikandar was going on at a star hotel in the old city of Hyderabad amid tight security against the backdrop of threats received by the top actor from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang.The security has been tight as Khan is a 'Y plus' category security protectee,...
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Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said a man becomes a saint not by what he wears but what he speaks. The dig, apparently aimed at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, was made on the birthday of 'Khajanchi' a boy born to a woman standing in a queue...
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Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's grandnephew Chandra Kumar Bose on Saturday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take immediate steps for bringing the 'remains' of the great freedom fighter from the Renoki temple in Japan to India before his birth anniversary on January 23 next year.He said that it...
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If patriarchy stopped women from achieving what they want in India, how come Indira Gandhi made it as prime minister, asked Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.She met the students of CMS Business School in Bengaluru on Saturday and discussed various measures undertaken by the Centre to...
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The ban on the entry of women in Darul Uloom, an Islamic seminary here Uttar Pradesh's Deoband, has been lifted. They will now be able to enter the campus, subject to some rules, the institution said. Women will have to wear hijab and have to be accompanied by a family member to enter...
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday hit out at the BJP, saying its leaders were diverting people's attention by giving provocative speeches and peddling lies. Addressing a press conference in Nagpur city of Maharashtra, where assembly elections will be held on November 20, he...
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A 50-year-old woman was stabbed to death by her son allegedly after she did not allow him to shift to Canada for work, police in New Delhi said on Saturday. The incident took place in Molarband village in southeast Delhi's Badarpur area, they said. After killing his mother on the...
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Ricky Kej and Anoushka Shankar are among the Indians nominated for the 67th Grammy Awards. Kej, a three-time Grammy winner, earned his fourth nomination for Break of Dawn in the Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album category, as announced by the Recording Academy on Friday.The category,...
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The issue of 'dynastic politics' has taken the centre-stage in Assam by-elections with both the ruling alliance and the main opposition party fielding candidates from political families, and the parties engaging in a sparring match targeting each other over it.If it is Barpeta MP Phani Bhusan...
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A woman working in the paddy fields was gunned down by suspected hills-based militants in Manipur's Bishnupur district on Saturday, officials said.The incident took place in Saiton area when the woman, along with other farmers, went to tend to the crops when militants opened fire from hill-based...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday launched a scathing attack on the BJP-led Centre, saying its tax structure is designed to loot the poor.Indian tax structure is to loot the poor. Adani pays taxes equivalent to you. Dharavi land, worth Rs 1 lakh-crore, is being handed over to him, Gandhi...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of insulting and making a mockery of the Constitution by showing a fake copy of it. Shah also claimed that the BJP will never allow the Congress to implement reservations for minorities. Rahul Gandhi shows a...
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Three workers were charred to death and three others injured in a fire caused by a chemical leak at a godown in Gujarat's Navsari district on Saturday morning, police said.The blaze broke out around 9 am when workers were unloading barrels containing chemicals from a truck at a godown in Devsar...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that wherever a Congress government is formed, that state becomes the ATM (Automated Teller Machine) of the party's 'shashi parivar'. We won't let Maharashtra become the ATM of Congress, Modi said, addressing a campaign rally in Akola for...
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Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh on Saturday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of forcefully attempting to pass Waqf (amendment) bill. PM Narendra Modi is forcefully trying to pass Waqf (amendment) bill. He does not even want to hold a discussion in the JPC, leaving all parliamentary rules...
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has acknowledged the presence of Khalistan supporters in Canada but said they do not represent the Sikh community as a whole. His comments came during Diwali celebrations at Ottawa's Parliament Hill recently amid an ongoing diplomatic row with...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has described industry doyen Ratan Tata, who died on this day last month, as the epitome of the finest traditions of Indian enterprise with a steadfast commitment to integrity, excellence and service. Penning a tribute to the widely respected former Tata Group...
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Congress leader Jairam Ramesh announced that the Congress government in Telangana will commence its long-awaited caste-based survey on Saturday, marking a 'historic and revolutionary' moment for the state. Taking to his official handle on X, Jairam Ramesh posted, The Congress Government in...
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The police seized more than Rs 3.70 crore cash from a van in Palghar district of Maharashtra amid the code of conduct in place for the November 20 assembly polls, an official said on Saturday. The cash was seized at Wada in the coastal district on Friday, police inspector Datta...
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At least 20 people were killed and 30 others injured in a bomb explosion at Quetta's railway station in Pakistan on Saturday, according to a media report. Preliminary reports indicate that the explosion took place at the railway station's booking office just before the train arrived at the...
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Onions have got citizens teary-eyed as the prices have surged across the markets in several cities, leaving customers in distress. The price of onions has risen from Rs 40-60 kg to Rs 70-80 per kg at the wholesale markets. Speaking to ANI, a seller at a market in Delhi said, The price...
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A layer of smog covered the national capital Monday morning and the air quality was recorded in the very poor category with an average AQI of 358 at 9 am, according to Central Pollution Control Board data. Data from the CPCB's Sameer App, which provides hourly AQI updates, showed that the...
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Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren
The Income Tax department is conducting raids at the residence of Sunil Srivastava, allegedly a close aide and personal secretary of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, said sources on Saturday. According to the sources, nine different locations are covered in the raids in Ranchi and...
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Ahead of the celebrations for the Alpassi Arattu procession, the operations at Thiruvananthapuram International Airport in Kerala will remain suspended on Saturday. The flight operations will be disrupted from 4:00 in the afternoon to 9:00 in the evening. The procession for Alpassi...
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Five people were killed and several others were injured after a bus collided with a parked vehicle on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway in Firozabad district, said an official on Saturday. According to superintendent of police Rural Firozabad Akhilesh Bhadoria, the bus was enroute from Mathura to...
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Republican presidential nominee Donald J Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 4, 2024/Jeenah Moon/Reuters
The US Department of Justice on Friday (local time) charged an Iranian citizen who was tapped by Iran to allegedly assassinate Donald Trump before the presidential election. Farhad Shakeri, 51, of Iran was charged as an asset of the Iranian regime who was tasked by the regime to direct a...
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The Chhattisgarh police on Friday gunned down rogue Amit Josh in a police encounter in Bhilai city of Durg district. He was absconding for four months after shooting two people in the city's Rail Globe Chowk, the police said. Josh was being trailed by the police after his criminal...
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Three coaches of the Secunderabad-Shalimar Superfast Express derailed near Howrah in West Bengal around 5.30 am on Saturday, South Eastern Railway officials said. The weekly special train derailed at Nalpur, about 40 km from Kolkata. No casualties or injuries have been reported so far, they...
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A Class 5 girl was allegedly forced to consume poison by three youths on a motorcycle as she was on her way to school in Pilibhit's Jehanabad area on Friday, the police said.Ramgopal, a resident of Suswar village, reported that his niece, the 13-year-old daughter of Ramautar from Devipura village...
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The commander of the Army's White Knight Corps visited Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district on Friday to review the ongoing operations to track down terrorists responsible for the killings of two Village Defence Guards.The bodies of Nazir Ahmed and Kuldeep Kumar, the two Village Defence Guards...
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Asserting that state-sponsored infiltration was a serious threat to Jharkhand, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday said India was not a 'dharmshala' where anyone can come and settle. Addressing an election rally in Ranchi, he accused the JMM-led ruling coalition of...
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Asserting that state-sponsored infiltration was a serious threat to Jharkhand, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday said India was not a 'dharmshala' where anyone can come and settle. Addressing an election rally in Ranchi, he accused the JMM-led ruling coalition of...
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IndiGo airline on Friday announced a number of new flights and resumption of operations in its winter schedule to bolster connectivity to eastern and northeastern India.The airline announced additional frequencies on the Kolkata-Bangkok route. The new frequencies will operate on Tuesdays,...
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Nationalist Congress Party chief and Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Friday said leaders of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's stature generally do not hold campaign rallies in smaller places, and hence Modi would not be coming to Baramati. Pawar is contesting the November 20...
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