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US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are monitoring the Iranian attack against Israel from the White House Situation Room and receiving regular updates from their national security team. According to a White House situation room update, President Biden directed the U.S....
Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel offers prayers to the overflowing Narmada River, at Sardar Sarovar dam site/ANI Photo
The reservoir of the Sardar Sarovar Dam built on the Narmada river in Gujarat was filled to capacity on Tuesday following bountiful rainfall in its upstream area this monsoon season, officials said. Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel offered prayers at the dam site near Ekta...
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A fresh PIL was filed in the Supreme Court on Tuesday seeking a CBI probe into alleged use of animal fat in making Tirupati laddus under the previous YS Jagan Mohan Reddy-led regime. The PIL was filed by one K A Paul, a social activist and president of organisation 'Global Peace Initiative',...
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The Israeli military says Iran has fired missiles at Israel, and air raid sirens are sounding across the country, Associated Press has reported. Residents have been ordered to shelter in place and remain close to bomb shelters, the report added.Israel has warned there would be repercussions...
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Local train services on the Central line in Mumbai were affected for at least 90 minutes after an overhead wire snapped between Thakurli and Kalyan stations, inconveniencing commuters returning home during the evening rush hour on Tuesday. A Central Railway spokesperson said the incident...
The first batch of five pilgrims arrived in Pithoragarh on Tuesday to have a view of the sacred peak of Mount Kailash from the old Lipulekh pass. It is for the first time that pilgrims are getting an opportunity to view the peak from the old Lipulekh pass as part of a pilot project started...
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The Election Commission has set stringent terms for granting parole to rape convict Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, including a ban on his entry in Haryana, delivering public speeches and indulging in political activity. The Haryana government on Tuesday granted...
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A Delhi court on Tuesday extended till October 12 the interim bail granted to Lok Sabha MP Engineer Rashid in terror funding case. Additional sessions judge Chander Jit Singh directed Rashid to surrender before jail concerned on October 13. The judge had on September 10 granted interim...
Voters queue up at a polling station in Bandipora, north Kashmir/Sanna Irshad Mattoo/Reuters
The three border districts of Kashmir -- Baramulla, Bandipora and Kupwara -- registered a voter turnout of 60 percent with traditional boycott bastions of Sopore and Baramulla towns witnessing the highest turnout in an election in the last three decades. However, the turnout in the 16...
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday filed a closure report in a case of alleged cheating against former NDTV promoters and directors Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy as it could not find legally tenable evidence in the Rs 48 crore loss incurred by ICICI Bank in the settlement of a loan in...
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The Coimbatore superintendent of police K Karthikeyan and district social welfare officer R Ambika conducted an enquiry at the Isha Foundation in Coimbatore on Tuesday over allegations of women brainwashed to reside there. The move followed the Madras high court's directive on Monday to file...
Rupee stayed in a narrow range and settled 3 paise lower at 83.82 (provisional) against the US dollar on Tuesday amid subdued equity markets, unabated outflow of foreign funds and strengthening American currency. However, crude oil prices sliding to near $70 per barrel helped the local unit...
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Animal star Bobby Deol is all set to star in Vijay's next film, tentatively titled Thalapathy 69. 100% official now, Super happy & excited to announce that @thedeol joins #Thalapathy69 cast, KVN Productions, which is backing the movie, said on X.Deol is on a career high for his role in...
A voter turnout of 65.48 percent was recorded till 5 pm in the third and final phase of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections on Tuesday, according to Election Commission data. Polling in the 40 assembly segments across seven districts of Jammu and Kashmir, including the winter capital...
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A 48-hour bandh called by a Joint Action Committee over the failure to secure the release of two youths abducted by militants affected normal life in Manipur's Thoubal district on Tuesday, the police said.The bandh, which began at 3 am, was called by the JAC formed over the abduction of two local...
Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty edged lower on Tuesday, extending the losing run to the third day amid profit-taking in oil & gas and select FMCG shares. The BSE Sensex dipped 33.49 points or 0.04 percent to settle at 84,266.29. During the day, it hit a high of 84,648.40 and a...
A junior doctor was allegedly hit on the several times with a metal tool by a patient's kin at Lala Lajpat Rai Medical College in Meerut, officials said on Tuesday. In the wake of the incident, the doctors went on a strike and also suspended the emergency service sitting at the department's...
Seven children were injured, three of them seriously, in an explosion near a garbage dump in Bihar's Bhagalpur district on Tuesday, a senior police officer said.Senior superintendent of police, Bhagalpur, Anand Kumar said that the blast took place in Khilafat Nagar locality, under the...
Tamil film superstar Rajinikanth is stable and doing well and he should be home in two days, the corporate hospital where the top actor was admitted, said on Tuesday. Rajini was admitted to the Apollo Hospitals, in Chennai, on September 30. He had a swelling in the main blood vessel...
Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty edged lower on Tuesday, extending the losing run to the third day amid profit-taking in oil & gas and select FMCG shares. The BSE Sensex dipped 33.49 points or 0.04 per cent to settle at 84,266.29. During the day, it hit a high of 84,648.40 and a low of...
The 2024 monsoon season has ended with 7.6 per cent more rainfall than normal, the India Meteorological Department said on Tuesday. Rajasthan, Gujarat, west Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh got excess rainfall, according to the IMD data. The monsoon is critical...
Protests at Badlapur station in August
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday refused pre-arrest bail to the chairman and secretary of a school in Maharashtra's Badlapur town where two minor girls were sexually assaulted by a male attendant. A single bench of Justice R N Laddha said prima facie there is material to show the two...
More than one lakh complaints have highlighted a deliberate love jihad conspiracy wherein Hindu women were being lured into marriage by men using fake identities, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said. Targeting the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi, Fadnavis claimed vote jihad...
Siddaramaiah has said he won't resign
A team of Lokayukta police probing MUDA site allotment case against Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and others on Tuesday surveyed the land, in lieu of which 14 sites were illegally allotted to his wife Parvathi B M. The Lokayukta team was joined by the special land acquisition...
Hearing in a defamation case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a MP-MLA court in Uttar Pradesh's Sultanpur district was postponed on Tuesday as the lawyer of the plaintiff was unwell. The matter will now be heard on October 9. Gandhi's lawyer Kashi Prasad Shukla said the...
56.01% voter turnout recorded till 3 pm in the third and final phase of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections. Bandipore-53.09% Baramulla-46.09% Jammu-56.74% Kathua- 62.43% Kupwara-52.98% Samba-63.24% Udhampur-64.43%
Badlapur accused Akshay Shinde was killed
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday gave an earful to the Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the Badlapur school sexual assault case, for its inability to apprehend the two accused school trustees. A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Prithviraj Chavan questioned as...
The Ambani wedding
Ahead of the Assembly polls in Haryana, Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He claimed that while Ambani spent crores on the wedding, farmers can organise a wedding only by drowning in debt.Rahul Gandhi said, When the media of...
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday confirmed the death penalty imposed by a Kolhapur court on a man for killing his mother in 2017 and allegedly eating some of the body parts, noting this was a case of cannibalism. A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Prithviraj Chavan...
SIT probe in laddu 'adulteration' temporarily stalled as case is under SC's purview, says Andhra Pradesh DGP. Yesterday, the Special Investigation Team inspected ghee tankers and the lab at Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD).The SIT, constituted by the Andhra Pradesh government, conducted...
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's husband Robert Vadra on Tuesday alleged that the BJP was behind Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal being out of jail to campaign in the Haryana polls with an aim of denting the Congress'...
The third phase of voting in Jammu and Kashmir saw a cumulative voter turnout of 44.08 per cent as of 1 pm on Tuesday, as per the Election Commission of India. According to the latest data issued by ECI, Udhampur district recorded the highest voter turnout of 51.66 per cent as of 1 pm,...
On the MUDA scam and his wife Parvathi's letter, Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah says: It (land) was gifted by my wife's brother to her. MUDA encroached on it and for this, she asked alternative site. She didn't ask for Vijayanagara but they gave it. This has become big politics now. Let them (BJP-JDS)...
A shawl worn by Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan on Tuesday caught fire while lighting a lamp at an event in Palakkad, but it was quickly extinguished, official sources said. Sources said that as the governor bent to light a lamp at the event -- conclusion of the 'shatabdi' of the Sabari Ashram...
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has said the present design of the Great Nicobar Island infrastructure project endangers ecology in a needlessly unacceptable manner. Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh on X cited the views of former Chief of Navy...
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday alleged that his wife Parvathi B M, who decided to relinquish the ownership and possession of 14 plots that was allotted to her by the MUDA, was a victim of politics of hate' against him and he was surprised by her move. The chief...
... actor Priyanka Chopra.The star took a trip down memory lane, sharing childhood photos that show her transformation over the years. Taking to her Instagram account, the actor on Monday gave her fans a peak into how much she changed from her pre-teen years to her Miss India days. Her...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will lay down guidelines for all citizens and not for any particular community on the issue of demolition of properties. Observing that its directions will be applicable pan-India, the apex court said it will make it clear that merely because a...
Karnataka BJP chief B Y Vijayendra on Tuesday said the decision of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's wife Parvathi B M to relinquish the ownership and possession of 14 plots amounts to his official acceptance of wrongdoing in the MUDA 'scam' and demanded his immediate resignation. Vijayendra...
A voter turnout of 28.12 per cent was recorded in the first four hours of polling for the third and final phase of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections of Tuesday, according to Election Commission (EC) data. Polling in 40 assembly segments across seven districts of Jammu and Kashmir began at...
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Sonam Wangchuk shared this image of a Ladakhi fellow protester's blistered feet
Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk and several others who were detained at the Delhi border while marching to the capital to demand Sixth Schedule status for Ladakh on Tuesday launched an indefinite fast at police stations where they have been kept. Wangchuk was leading the march, 'Delhi...
Sonam Wangchuk's post saying he was being detained
The Congress on Tuesday slammed the Modi government over the detention of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk and several other Ladakhis, with Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi terming it as unacceptable and saying Prime Minister Narendra Modi would have to listen to Ladakh's...
The health of Tamil film superstar Rajinikanth, admitted to a corporate hospital in Chennai late Monday night, is stable, and he is likely to undergo an elective procedure at the cath lab later in the day, a source said. Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi said in a post on the social media...
Actor Govinda thanks fans, says doctors have removed bullet from leg after his revolver misfired at Mumbai residence. In an audio message from his hospital bed, the 60-year-old actor says that the blessings of his fans, parents and his guru saved him. I was hit by a bullet, but it has been...
Rupee fell 2 paise to 83.81 against the US dollar in early trade on Tuesday, tracking massive outflow of foreign funds amid volatile global markets. Forex traders said the Indian unit was weighed down by a strengthening American currency against major rivals, though a retreating crude oil...
A voter turnout of 11.60 per cent was recorded in the first two hours of polling for the third and final phase of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections of Tuesday, according to Election Commission (EC) data. Polling in 40 assembly segments across seven districts of Jammu and Kashmir...
Benchmark indices rebounded in early trade on Tuesday, after a sharp decline in the previous trade, amid buying in IT stocks and recovery in Japanese markets. The BSE Sensex climbed 348.1 points to 84,647.88 in early trade. The NSE Nifty went up by 96.75 points to...
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A peoples' protest in Kolkata against the RG Kar incident
Agitating junior doctors in West Bengal resumed their indefinite 'total cease work' on Tuesday to press for various demands, including ensuring their safety and security at all medical establishments. The junior doctors had on September 21 rejoined their duties partially at government...
A BJP leader and member of the Delhi Gurdwara Committee has received a threat note from gangster Gogi Mann, police said on Tuesday. According to police, Raman Jot Singh, 30, was informed by the sewadar of the gurdwara in JJ Colony, Pankha Road in Dwarka's Bindapur area that a threat...
Actor and Shiv Sena leader Govinda hospitalised after he was accidentally shot in the leg by his own revolver this morning, says a senior Mumbai Police official.
Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) Chief Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday urged voters to reach at the polling stations along with their families and cast votes.Speaking to ANI, Azad said, I urge all voters to reach at the polling stations along with their families and caste votes. I think...
Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) launched targeted ground operations in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, focusing on Hezbollah strongholds and infrastructure identified through precise intelligence.According to the IDF, the limited and localised raids concentrated in villages near the border, aim to...
Veteran actor Rajinikanth was admitted to a private hospital in Chennai late on Monday, sources said. The 73-year-old is likely to undergo an elective procedure on Tuesday, they said and added that his condition was stable. There has been no official communication from Rajinikanth's...
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With the third and final phase of polling for the Jammu and Kashmir assembly election scheduled for Tuesday, authorities have said exit poll predictions could be aired only after 6 pm on October 5. According to the guidelines issued by the Election Commission (EC) on August 31 and under the...
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A Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation-appointed high-level probe committee has held Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd and its contractor responsible for the death of a woman, who fell into a storm water drain here during last week's downpour. In a release on Monday, the BMC cited the...
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Social activist Snehamayi Krishna, a complainant in the alleged land allocation scam against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, has been booked over a woman's complaint that he threatened her in a property dispute, the police said on Monday. According to police sources, the 30-year-old woman, a...
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The Calcutta high court on Monday allowed a rally to be held in the metropolis by the Joint Platform of Doctors on October 1 to protest the rape-murder of a trainee medic at RG Kar hospital. Disposing of a petition by the JPD, Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj directed that a peaceful rally be held...
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