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India has successfully completed the flight-tests of guided Pinaka weapon system as part of a set of validation trials.During these tests, the Provisional Staff Qualitative Requirements (PSQR) parameters, viz., ranging, accuracy, consistency and rate of fire for multiple target engagement in a...
22:29
The Centre has informed the Kerala government that landslides and flash floods that happened in Wayanad in July this year cannot be declared as a 'national disaster'.More than 200 people died and hundreds of homes were destroyed in the natural calamity and the state has been demanding that it be...
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Shivkumar Gautam, the alleged main shooter in the Baba Siddique murder case, remained at the spot for 20 minutes after the Nationalist Congress Party leader was gunned down on October 12, an official said on Thursday.He had changed his clothes and returned to the spot, the official added.He had...
21:24
The Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Mahesh Khichi was elected as the next mayor of Delhi on Thursday, marking a significant victory for the ruling party in the national capital ahead of the assembly polls due early next year. As Khichi took his seat, the jubilant AAP councillors filled the air with...
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will pay a three-day visit to Laos next week to attend a meeting of a grouping comprising 10-nation ASEAN and some of its dialogue partners that is expected to deliberate on evolving regional security situation.Singh is likely to present India's position on dealing...
20:33
With pollution reaching alarming levels, the central pollution watchdog imposed restrictions under the third stage of the GRAP in Delhi-NCR on Thursday, including a ban on construction and demolition activities.The air quality in the capital remained in the 'severe' category for a second...
19:59
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday said there was no set formula for selecting the next chief minister of the ruling Mahayuti alliance and a decision in this regard will be taken once assembly poll results were declared.In an interaction with a group of reporters in...
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Sridhar Vembu
The CEO of Zoho Corporation, Sridhar Vembu, will be the chief guest at the 70th National Conference of Akhil Bharatiya Vidya Parishad (ABVP) to be held in Gorakhpur from November 22-24.Vembu will address students and faculty representatives at the inaugural session of the conference on November...
18:32
Reliance Industries has completed the merger of its media assets with the India business of global media house Walt Disney to form a new joint venture worth Rs 70,352 crore. The JV, in which Reliance Industries has invested Rs 11,500 crore (USD 1.4 billion) for its growth, will be headed by...
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All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary and Jharkhand in-charge Ghulam Ahmad Mir on Thursday courted controversy after he said at a poll rally that if the party is voted to power, gas cylinders will be given at Rs 450 to all citizens of the state, whether they are infiltrators or...
17:53
Consumer rights regulator CCPA has ordered a detailed probe into complaints related to alleged 'deficiencies' in services and electric two-wheelers manufactured by Ola Electric.The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) headed by Nidhi Khare has directed the Director General...
17:25
Naresh Meena slaps an SDM
Independent MLA candidate Naresh Meena was arrested on Thursday following high drama and escalating violence in which a mob assaulted a PTI reporter and video cameraperson and burnt their camera. The attack, a day after the Congress rebel contesting as an Independent in the bypolls slapped...
17:13
Experts stated that markets may continue the downward trend until February, and a reversal can be witnessed when Trump takes charge. The Trump Anticipation Trade is dominating the markets.
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The Bombay High Court on Thursday refused to stay the release of the movie Match Fixing - The Nation at Stake', based on the 2008 Malegaon blast, noting that it was a work of fiction. A division bench of Justices B P Colabawalla and Somasekhar Sunderesan dismissed a petition filed by...
17:04
Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleged that if the Maha Vikas Agadhi alliance gains power in Maharashtra, it will bring back the era of droughts and the water crisis in the poll bound State. Agadhi wale boond boond paani ke liye apko tarsayenge. Isliye mein mata aur beheno ko keheta hu,...
16:25
Benchmark Sensex declined by 110 points in a see-saw trade on Thursday, marking its third straight session of losses amid continued FII selling, disappointing quarterly results and soaring inflation. BSE Sensex dropped 110.64 points or 0.14 per cent to settle at 77,580.31. During the...
16:08
A day after the Supreme Court verdict on bulldozer action, the victims of demolition drives across Uttar Pradesh have breathed a sigh of relief and said they would take legal recourse to seek compensation for their losses. The Uttar Pradesh government, which has been receiving flak from...
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A newly-married woman has alleged that some youths harassed and tried to molest her when she and her husband were travelling from Delhi to Aligarh on a train, police said on Thursday. In a complaint filed at the Government Railway Police (GRP) station in Aligarh she claimed that when her...
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An 80-year-old woman was mauled to death by a stray dog in Odisha's Balasore district on Thursday, police said. The dog was also beaten to death by locals, they said. The woman, identified as Basanti Sahu, was sleeping when the dog entered her house in Jayarampur in Bograi block and attacked her,...
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NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Thursday claimed that Maharashtra has fallen into the wrong hands in the past few years and has suffered a decline. He was in the Chinchwad assembly constituency in Pune district to canvass for his party candidate Rahul Kalate, who faces off against BJP's Shankar...
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In a dig at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said Sonia Gandhi tried to launch her son 20 times, and her Rahul plane was also going to crash on the 21st attempt in Jharkhand. Addressing an election rally in Jharkhand's Giridih, he alleged that the waqf board in...
14:33
Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his attack on Rahul Gandhi for flaunting a 'blank constitution', the Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition said the Constitution seems blank to the Prime Minister because he has never read it in his life.Addressing a public gathering in poll-bound...
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Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das on Thursday said the Indian economy has been sailing smoothly amid the global headwinds. Speaking at an event organised by CNBC-TV18 in Mumbai, Das declined to comment on a suggestion by Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal for a rate cut,...
14:07
BJP MP and former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan has said the slogan batenge to katenge is not in good taste and irrelevant and the people will not appreciate it. In an interview to PTI on Wednesday, Chavan also said he doesn't attach much importance to the vote jihad - dharma...
13:18
Exuding confidence in winning the Maharashtra Assembly polls, Congress general secretary KC Venugopal on Thursday said that the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance has a clear-cut chance in the State and preparations are going well.Speaking to mediapersons, Venugopal said, Preparation is going on well....
12:46
Independent MLA candidate from Rajasthan's Tonk district Naresh Meena was arrested on Thursday, a day after he slapped a sub-divisional magistrate during polling in full view of camera crews. Meena, a Congress rebel contesting as an Independent, caught SDM Malpura, Amit Chaudhary, by...
12:39
Wholesale price inflation rose to a 4-month high of 2.36 per cent in October as prices of food items, especially vegetables, and manufactured goods turned dearer, as per the government data released on Thursday. The wholesale price index (WPI) based inflation was 1.84 per cent in...
12:29
Amruta Fadnavis
Congress leader Kanhaiya Kumar sparked a row with his 'controversial' remarks against Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis' wife Amruta Fadnavis stoking strong condemnation from the Bharatiya Janata Party.Targeting Deputy CM Fadnavis over his Dharamyuddh remark, Kanhaiya Kumar took...
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Imtiaz Jalil (left) with his family
Zameer Sheikh, an auto-driver in his 50s, makes no bones about his wish to see the opposition MVA in power in Maharashtra. He is no less sure about his preference in his Aurangabad East constituency -- it is Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM. In this one-time capital of the erstwhile...
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The prices of onion continue to remain high in November while other vegetable prices are seeing a dip of 4.1 per cent MoM in Nov so far, highlighted a report by ICICI Bank.The report noted that the overall vegetable prices have seen some relief in November, but onion prices continue to remain...
11:49
A blanket of smog envelops Shri Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) in Amritsar as the air quality in the region continues to deteriorate. The AQI has been recorded at 326, categorized as 'very poor'. The AQI level in Delhi at 8 a.m. was 428, as per the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).
11:27
In its ongoing efforts to break down the terror network in Kashmir, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday attached the immovable property of a major terror suspect associated with 'The Resistance Front' (TRF), an offshoot of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the agency said on Thursday....
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A Kolkata-bound IndiGo flight with 187 passengers and six crew members onboard made an emergency landing at Raipur airport on Thursday morning following a bomb threat to the aircraft, police said. The aircraft, which had taken off from Nagpur for Kolkata, was diverted after airport...
10:27
Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez's counsel has claimed in the Delhi High Court that she was unaware of the illicit origin of gifts she received, which are allegedly part of a Rs 200 crore money laundering case involving conman Sukesh Chandrashekar. Delhi High Court on Wednesday...
10:08
Benchmark equity indices bounced back in early trade on Thursday after facing heavy correction in the last two trading days, amid massive buying by domestic institutional investors and a rally in frontline stocks HDFC Bank, Reliance Industries. The BSE benchmark Sensex climbed 254.5...
09:52
A dense layer of smog enveloped the national capital as the pollution levels continued to rise. The AQI level in Delhi at 8 a.m. was 428, as per the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).Bhayender, a local said that the daily activities were being affected due to the increased pollution.Speaking...
09:34
Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid homage to India's first PM Jawaharlal Nehru on his birth anniversary on Thursday. Nehru was born on this date in 1889 in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad (now Prayagraj). He was one of the leading faces of the country's freedom struggle. He breathed his last on...
09:32
After his victory over Democratic candidate Kamala Harris in the 2024 US presidential election, President-elect Donal Trump on Wednesday nominated Congressman Matt Gaetz to be the Attorney General of the United States. In addition, Trump announced other key appointments for his 2024...
09:29
Sri Lankans on Thursday began voting in the snap parliamentary election, the first major test of the ruling National People's Power party led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. The voting is taking place at over 13,314 polling stations across the country. The voting started at 7 am...
09:05
After the 2024 United States Presidential election that confirmed Donald Trump's victory, social media platform X (formerly Twitter) experienced its largest user exodus since Elon Musk acquired it in 2022, with users migrating to alternatives like Bluesky, CNN reported. More than...
08:35
The United States will see an orderly and peaceful transition of power, the White House said following a two-hour long meeting between President-elect Donald Trump and outgoing President Joe Biden on Wednesday. Today, President Biden met with President-elect Trump for approximately two hours...
08:28
United States President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat and the first-ever Hindu elected to the US Congress, would serve as Director of National Intelligence in his second term. A four-term Congresswoman, 2020 presidential candidate and NYT...
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A joint team of local police and Sashastra Seema Bal on Wednesday arrested an Iranian citizen while he was trying to cross over to Nepal illegally, officials said. The arrested Iranian citizen is identified as Kamran of Tehran, they said. Police and SSB have recovered four passports, two...
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The police on Wednesday registered an FIR against five people for allegedly stalking a woman and damaging her car in Mumbai's Jogeshwari area, an official said. According to the MIDC police station official, the incident took place on Tuesday night outside a club on the Jogeshwari-Vikhroli...
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Three persons died and 12 others fell ill due to suspected food poisoning at a state-run shelter home in Patna, an official said on Wednesday. The incident happened at the home for differently-abled women, Asha Grih, at Patel Nagar in the Shahstri Nagar police station area, district...
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