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Seeking to enhance employee productivity and motivate them to perform better, a structural steel design and detailing company, Team Detailing Solutions has gifted as many as 28 cars and 29 bikes to its employees.A variety of brand new cars ranging from Hyundai, Tata, Maruti Suzuki and Mercedes...
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UPDATE: Nationalist Congress Party leader Baba Siddique was shot dead in in Mumbai's Bandra East.The firing took place outside his MLA son Zeeshan Siddiqui's office near Colgate ground in Nirmal Nagar, the official added.Two to three rounds were fired. Further probe is underway as teams have...
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BREAKING: Nationalist Congress Party leader Baba Siddique was shot at in Mumbai's Bandra area this evening and rushed to Lilavati Hospital.According to media reports, the firing took place outside his MLA son Zeeshan Siddique's office.More details are awaited.
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Former Delhi University professor G N Saibaba passed away this evening at the NIMS, Hyderabad.He was 57.Saibaba, who was imprisoned in the Nagpur Central Jail in an alleged Maoist links case, suffered complications after gall bladder surgery, his wife told Rediff Contributor Jyoti...
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A 15-year-old girl was raped allegedly by her father and brother in Madhya Pradesh's Shivpuri district, a police official said on Saturday. The father-son duo has been arrested, Dinara police station in charge Vinod Bhargava said.The victim's mother was estranged from the family and...
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In a shocking revelation in the case of a woman's murder in Uttar Pradesh's Etah six days ago, police have found that she fell victim to a plot she had allegedly hatched to kill her daughter. The daughter, in collusion with her lover, allegedly killed her mother Alka (36), police...
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Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party was a party of terrorists, as he hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his recent remarks that the grand old party is being run by a gang of urban Naxals.He also accused those in the saffron party of...
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The Uttar Pradesh government will soon convene a high-level meeting to ensure compliance of the ban on using tractor trolleys for passenger transportation. The decision has been made in the wake of a spate of mishaps featuring passenger-travel on tractor trolleys, the latest one...
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A man has been arrested for allegedly giving a death threat to the Haryana chief minister in a WhatsApp group in Julana, police said on Saturday. The accused was identified as Ajmer, a native of Deverar village of Jind district. Jind Superintendent of Police Sumit...
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President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the Dussehra festivities and witnessed burning of effigies of demon King Ravana at Parade Ground of Lal Qila on Saturday evening. The organisers of Sri Dharmik Leela Committee presented with a trishul (trident) to the...
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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Saturday slammed attempts to cover up the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the state-run R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. Such incidents are the result of a larger cultural decay and corruption in society,...
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The Global Hunger Index (GHI), a tool used by international humanitarian agencies to measure and track hunger levels with GHI scores based on under-nourishment and child mortality indicators across 127 countries, has ranked India 105th, which places it under the serious category of the...
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Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange on Saturday said there will be need to change the government if their demands are not met. Assembly polls are likely to take place in Maharashtra next month. The term of the current assembly ends on November 26.Addressing a rally on the occasion of...
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Restoration of the railway lines at Kavaraipettai near Chennai where the Mysuru-Darbhanga Bagmati express derailed after ramming into a goods train on October 11 night, has been intensified, and the section with four lines will be restored by early morning of October 13, the railway said on...
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A 34-year-old woman was allegedly raped and later dumped in a semi-conscious state in Delhi, police said on Saturday. According to officials, a passerby spotted the woman in Sarai Kale Khan area and informed the police around 3.30 am on Friday.A police team reached the spot and took...
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India on Saturday said it has noted with serious concern the reported attack on a Durga Puja pandal and theft at a revered Kali temple in Bangladesh, as it requested Dhaka to ensure the safety and security of Hindus, all other minorities and their places of worship in the neighbouring...
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Five labourers were killed after soil caved in on them at a construction site in Gujarat's Mehsana district on Saturday, police said.The incident occurred near Kadi town, around 37 km from the district headquarters.Several labourers were digging a pit for an underground tank for a factory at...
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said India has never attacked any country out of hatred or contempt but if its interests are threatened, we will not hesitate to take a big step.On the occasion of Vijayadashami, Singh performed Shastra Puja (worship of weapons) at the Sukna military...
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Observing that the Congress party alone can not defeat Prime Minister Narednra Modi, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi has said the grand old party has to take on board everyone to succeed.Addressing a public meeting at Vikarabad in Telangana on Friday night, he also...
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh virtually inaugurated 75 transformative infrastructure projects of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) on Saturday.Among these, 18 projects are situated in Arunachal Pradesh, including three key roads, 14 bridges, and a helipad executed under the Brahmank, Vartak,...
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With Navratri festivities drawing to a close, quick commerce firm Zepto co-founder and CEO Aadit Palicha took to LinkedIn to inform that the platform sold over 1 Lakh dandiya sticks during the season. What a day! Closing out Navratri 2024 with a grateful heart, seeing the beauty of India's...
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Malayalam film actor Sidhique was on Saturday questioned again by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in a rape case registered against him.This is the second time he has been questioned by the SIT in the case lodged on a complaint by a young woman actor.Sidhique was questioned for close to two...
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Tension erupted in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri city during a procession of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) after members of a minority community allegedly shouted slogans, police said on Saturday.The police have registered two cases following the incident in the Konkan Nagar area on Friday...
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Eight Bangladeshi nationals who were staying illegally in Udupi district here were apprehended, police said on Saturday.They were residing in Hoode village in the district for the past three years without valid passports or visas.According to Udupi Superintendent of Police Arun K, the arrest came...
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The maharaja of the erstwhile princely state of Nawanagar, known as Jamnagar, in Gujarat, has declared his nephew and former cricketer Ajay Jadeja as his heir to the throne on the auspicious day of Dussehra on Saturday.The 53-year-old cricketer, who played 196 ODIs and 15 test matches for India...
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Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Saturday attacked the Centre over the train accident in Tamil Nadu, saying no lessons have been learnt despite many lives lost in numerous accidents and asked how many more families must be destroyed before the government wakes up.Gandhi...
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The swearing-in ceremony of the new Bharatiya Janata Party government in Haryana will be held on October 17 in Panchkula, the party said in a statement on Saturday. It said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, senior BJP leaders and chief ministers of some other states will attend the event.The...
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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Saturday said India has become stronger and more respected in the world with enhanced credibility in the last few years but sinister conspiracies are testing the country's resolve.He said a narrative is being spread in Bangladesh that India is a...
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A packet of heroin weighing 498 grams and an empty pistol magazine were recovered after the Border Security Force troops intercepted a Pakistani drone, said an official on Saturday.The BSF troops activated 'technical counter measures' to neutralise the drone after intercepting it in the border...
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Sundar Sethuraman/Business StandardThe number of active investors on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) have jumped 44 per cent over the past one year to 47.9 million at the end of September 2024.The surge in active clients is underpinned by the rally in the markets, with the Nifty 50, Nifty...
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Harsh Kumar/Business StandardIndia's net direct tax collection this financial year, after adjusting for refunds, grew 18.35 per cent to Rs 11.3 trillion between April 1 and October 10.In the same period last year, collection was at Rs 9.51 trillion, according to the I-T departments latest data...
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Sunainaa Chadha/Business StandardIn June 2024, India saw a significant increase in the number of credit, debit, and prepaid cards, reaching a total of 1.451 billion cards -- an 11 per cent jump from the previous year, according to the India Digital Payments report for the first half of 2024...
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An accused in the mega mephedrone drug seizure in Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh allegedly shot himself in the foot to escape 'tough police grilling' and then surrendered in Mandsaur, an official has said.The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad and the Narcotics Control Bureau on October 5 seized 907.09 kg of...
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The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said on Saturday that multiple rocket launches have been identified from Lebanon since the Yom Kippur fast started.Two UAVs were identified crossing from Lebanon into central Israel, according to IDF.A hit on a civilian building was identified and one UAV was...
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Additional director general of police M Chandra Sekhar, who heads the SIT which is investigating illegal mining cases, on Friday lodged a police complaint against Union minister HD Kumaraswamy and his son Nikhil Kumaraswamy for allegedly threatening him to scuttle the probe against the former...
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Delhi Chief Minister Atishi on Friday said that all agencies are working on war footing to ensure pothole-free city by Diwali. According to a statement, Atishi held a review meeting on Friday with officials from the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation and the National Capital Region Transport...
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The nephew of senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh was on Friday booked for allegedly obstructing a campaign of the Madhya Pradesh government in the state's Guna district, a police official said. Aditya Singh was booked along with his driver, Raghogarh police station in charge Zuber Khan...