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Underworld don Prakash Pandey serving life sentence in Almora jail was on Tuesday expelled from the seers' body Juna Akhara more than a month after being initiated into monkhood.The action against the don, popularly known as PP, is based on the report of a committee constituted by the Akhara to...
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The Mumbai police served a notice to a teenage boy, his father, and another person from Rajnandgaon in Chhattisgarh asking them to join questioning in connection with bomb threats posted on social media targeting three flights, officials said on Tuesday. Three international flights...
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A First Information Report was registered against a man in Indore on Tuesday for allegedly offering to enroll one lakh members for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party for money, the police said. The BJP is carrying out a membership drive across the country. The FIR was registered...
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The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday informed a Delhi court that there was enough evidence to prosecute the accused persons in the death case connected to the flooding in an Old Rajinder Nagar coaching institute.The civil services aspirants had lost their lives following a torrential...
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Singapore Armed Forces on Tuesday scrambled two fighter jets to escort an Air India Express plane away from populated areas following a bomb threat before the aircraft landed safely at Singapore's Changi airport. The Air India Express plane operating flight IX 684 from Madurai to Singapore...
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The chief priest of Ayodhya Ram Temple Acharya Satyendra Das was admitted to a hospital in Lucknow on Tuesday with some neurological problems, officials said. They said that the condition of the 84-year-old priest is stable. Acharya Satyendra Das, the head priest of Ayodhya's Shri Ram...
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The Congress on Tuesday announced that its general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra would contest the Wayanad Lok Sabha bypoll next month, making her electoral debut from the seat in Kerala.She had campaigned for her brother Rahul Gandhi who contested the seat during the general elections, apart...
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former MP from Maharashtra, Navneet Rana, has received a threat through a letter demanding Rs 10 crore, prompting the police to register a case and launch an investigation, an official said on Tuesday. The letter addressed to the former MP from Amravati was...
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Three people, including a 'DJ operator', have been arrested and around four dozen others booked after a communal flare-up during a religious procession, officials said on Tuesday.Tension escalated in the Icholi town on Monday during a Durga idol immersion procession in which derogatory music was...
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EAM S Jaishankar and Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif shake hands in Islamabad/ANI on X
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday exchanged pleasantries with Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, hours after landing in the Pakistani capital to attend a conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. The brief exchange took place at a dinner reception hosted by...
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Polling to elect gram panchayat members concluded amid tight security arrangements in Punjab on Tuesday, officials said.Two incidents of firing were reported, they added.Voting for the posts of sarpanch and panch through ballots started at 8 am and concluded at 4 pm, the officials said, adding...
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The 21-year-old nephew of a former Bharatiya Janata Party MP allegedly died by suicide by jumping off the sixth floor of his residential building in Mumbai on Tuesday, the police said. The deceased, identified as Sagar Ramkumar Gupta, was the nephew of ex-BJP MP Sangam Lal Gupta from Uttar...
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Over a month-long indefinite strike by the employees of Samsung India Electronics Ltd at its plant near in Chennai was called off on Tuesday and the workers have decided to resume work, the Tamil Nadu government said. The state government in a statement said the strike at the factory of the...
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Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar/ Jitender Gupta/ANI Photo
Kuch to log kahenge, logon ka kam hai kehna (people will say things, it is their job to say such things) -- was the response of Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Tuesday when told about critics alleging irregularities in the poll process in the recently-concluded Haryana assembly...
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Schools in Bengaluru Urban district will remain shut on Wednesday following heavy rain forecast, officials said.Due to continuous rains in Bengaluru, the Meteorological Department has issued an orange alert for the next two days. As a precautionary measure in the interest of students, all...
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EAM S Jaishankar being welcomed by children on his arrival for the SCO meet, in Islamabad/ANI Photo
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday landed in Islamabad to attend a conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, in the first visit to Pakistan by a high-ranking Indian minister in nearly a decade that came amid frosty ties between the two neighbours. Jaishankar's...
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A court in Mumbai on Tuesday remanded the fourth accused arrested in connection with the murder of Nationalist Congress Party leader and former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique in police custody till October 21. The accused, Harishkumar Nisad (23), was apprehended from Bahraich, Uttar...
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Four labourers standing on the roadside were mowed down by a truck in Murlipura area in Jaipur, the police said on Tuesday.All four died on the spot, they said.The accident took place late on Monday night when all four victims were standing on the 200-foot bypass in the Murlipura area. They...
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An Air India aircraft from Delhi to Chicago was diverted to an airport in Canada following a bomb threat, according to an airline official. Flight AI127 operating from Delhi to Chicago on October 15, 2024, was the subject of a security threat posted online and, as a precautionary measure,...
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The Mumbai police on Tuesday arrested one more person in connection with the murder of a Maharashtra Navnirman Sena worker who was beaten to death in the western suburb of Malad in Mumbai, an official said. With this, the police have arrested ten persons for their involvement in the incident...
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Benchmark stock indices closed lower on Tuesday following losses in bellwether Reliance Industries and retail inflation hitting a nine-month high in September. Paring early gains, the BSE Sensex declined 152.93 points or 0.19 per cent to settle at 81,820.12. During the day, it fell by...
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Ranbir Kapoor has got a new haircut and fans can't stop swooning. Celebrity hairstylist Aalim Hakim posted this image alongside on Instagram with several more poses of unadulterated Ranbir swag in a black shirt and sunglasses. His beard was also well-groomed. Hotness Alert !!! RANBIR...
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With half a dozen key players post splits in the Shiv Sena and NCP, a fragmented polity, Maratha quota stir and a spirited opposition, Maharashtra will see a riveting contest in the assembly polls amid dramatic changes since the last elections. Elections to the 288-member assembly, the...
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An Air India Express flight from Ayodhya to Bengaluru was delayed after a bomb threat, officials said on Tuesday. The plane came from Jaipur, Vinod Kumar, director of the Maharishi Valmiki International Airport, Ayodhya Dham, told PTI, confirming the emergency situation at the...
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A Delhi court on Tuesday extended the interim bail of Jammu and Kashmir MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid, also known as Engineer Rashid, in a terror-funding case till October 28. Additional Sessions Judge Chander Jit Singh passed the order on the ground of the health condition of Rashid's father,...
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Update: Jharkhand: The elections for the Assembly elections in Jharkhand will be held in two phases on 13 November and 20 November (same as Maharashtra). The results for the elections will be announced on November 23. Maharashtra: The elections for the Assembly elections in Maharashtra...
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The elections for the Assembly elections in Jharkhand will be held in two phases on 13 November and 20 November. The results for the elections will be announced on November 23. The term of Maharashtra Assembly's will end on November 26, while the term of Jharkhand Assembly's will end on...
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The elections for the Assembly elections in Maharashtra will be held in one phase on November 20. Counting will be on November 23. The term of Maharashtra Assembly's will end on November 26.
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Election Commission of India begins its press conference in Delhi. Dates for Assembly elections in Jharkhand and Maharashtra to be announced shortly. The CEC congratulates voters for the successful and violence-free elections in Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana. People made a historic decision, the...
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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) informed the Supreme Court on Tuesday that the investigation in the rape and murder case of a doctor working at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata was going on with utmost seriousness. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta,...
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Update: Top sources have rejected claims made by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other officials about presenting credible evidence to India regarding the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Sources said that Canada's approach, since the beginning, has been to...
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India reacts to Canada:Canadian PM Trudeau's press conference yesterday was the same old Trudeau saying the same old things for the same old reasons. The central assertion from all Canadian officials is that credible evidence has been presented to India. This was also repeated by their charge de...
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Two accused were arrested on Sunday
Baba Siddiqui murder case: The Mumbai Police has detained two people from Bahraich in Uttar Pradesh. One of the two people detained is Harish, who had a scrap shop in Pune where accused Dharmaraj and Shivprasad Gautam used to work. Harish had bought new mobile phones for Shivprasad and...
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The Maha election dates will be announced today
The Congress on Tuesday claimed that the Mahayuti government in Maharashtra knows it is not coming back to power and has spent its last few days allegedly bestowing gifts on the Adani group at the expense of the people of Mumbai and the state. Ahead of the announcement of the...
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I have no answers to how one stays non-violent in the face of the grotesque violence of a Hitler, a Menachem Begin, an Ariel Sharon, a Netanyahu, a Yahya Sinwar or an Ali Khameini, writes Ruchir Joshi. Read the column here.
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India on Tuesday inked a mega deal with the US to procure 31 Predator long-endurance drones from American defence major General Atomics under the foreign military sales route at a cost of nearly USD 4 billion to boost Indian military's combat prowess along the contested borders with...
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Corporate India is expected to offer a salary hike of 9.5 per cent in 2025, similar to the 2024 actual salary increase, as companies are balancing optimism with caution, a report said on Tuesday. According to WTW's latest Salary Budget Planning Report, the median salary increase in...
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As opposition parties once again raised the bogey of EVM manipulation ahead of the Election Commission announcement on poll dates for Maharashtra and Jharkhand, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Tuesday said that the public has answered the questions by participating in voting.Speaking...
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Protests near Governor House in Kolkata
Road, where state-organised 'Puja Carnival' will be held on Tuesday, amid calls for 'Droha' (protest) Carnival on nearby Rani Rashmoni Avenue in central Kolkata by junior doctors agitating over the RG Kar incident. The West Bengal government has been holding the Durga Puja Carnival...
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The Supreme Court has issued notice to the Centre and Election Commission of India on a plea seeking direction that promise of freebies, made by political parties during the run-up to elections, be declared as bribes. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud issued notice to...
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with his United Kingdom counterpart Keir Starmer, amidst escalating tensions between Canada and India over Hardeep Singh Nijjar case. Today, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, discussed recent...
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Akash with his sister Isha
At the International Telecommunication Union - World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (ITU WTSA), Akash Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Jio Infocomm, highlighted the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to transform India into a global manufacturing and service hub. He...
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to stay the ongoing panchayat elections in Punjab, saying there will be chaos if courts start staying elections on polling day. The polling for panchayat elections began at 8 am on Tuesday in the state and the petitions, seeking a stay on them, were...
11:22
The chill is showing
After New Delhi expelled six Canadian Diplomats from India, Foreign policy expert and Senior fellow at the Observor Research foundation, Sushant Sareen called for an investigation into Canada's interference in India's internal affairs. He emphasised the need to probe Canadian NGOs and...
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Michael Kugelman, a US-based foreign policy expert and the Director of the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center, on Monday drawn a bleak comparison between India's deteriorating ties with Canada and its long-standing strained relations with Pakistan.As tensions between India and Canada...
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Amid heavy rainfall that lashed parts of Tamil Nadu, eight flights scheduled to operate to and from Chenni from Bengaluru, Andaman, New Delhi and Muscat have been cancelled, as per an official statement.Due to heavy rain in Chennai, eight flights scheduled to operate between Bengaluru, Andaman,...
10:33
Congress MP Manish Tewari shares this image on X with his breakfast mate: My perennial breakfast companion Mr. Zeus is rather disinterested in his boiled eggs today morning, he writes.
10:29
The indefinite hunger strike of junior doctors of West Bengal to press for their demands in the wake of the RG Kar Hospital incident entered the 11th day on Tuesday, as a meeting between medics and the state government failed to resolve the deadlock. Two more doctors participating in...
10:04
Melanie Joly with Justin Trudeau
Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly has said that the decision to expel Indian diplomats was based on evidence gathered by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in India-designated terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar killing case and urged the Indian government to support the ongoing...
09:51
The Allahabad High Court has observed that a long-standing consensual adulterous physical relationship without any element of deception from its inception would not amount to rape within the meaning of section 375 of the IPC, which defines rape as sexual intercourse with a woman against her...
09:43
Jagmeet Singh is a former ally of Justin Trudeau
Amidst tensions between India and Canada over the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jagmeet Singh, a former alliance partner of Prime Minister Trudeau, on Monday claimed that Canadian Sikhs were stalked by fear and urged the Canadian government to take action...
09:23
Amid the diplomatic row between India and Canada, the US State Department has announced that an Indian investigation team would travel to Washington DC on October 15 to investigate a plot to kill a US citizen in New York. An Indian enquiry committee is set to visit the United States on Tuesday...
09:16
Baba Siddique was shot twice in the chest
Police have scoured places of worship in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain and Khandwa in their hunt for the third shooter wanted in connection with the killing of NCP leader Baba Siddique. Six rounds were fired on Baba Siddique, two of which hit the former Maharashtra minister on the chest,...
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The Election Commission of India to announce the schedule for assembly election in Maharashtra and Jharkhand today. The EC to hold a press conference at 3:30 PM today.
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Canadaian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that Canada has shared with its Five Eyes partners, the United Stated in particular, all information they have related to the allegations of the involvement of Indian officials in the killing of a Canadian national last year. The hurriedly...
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The body of former Delhi University professor G N Saibaba was donated to the state-run Gandhi hospital in Hyderabad on Monday after several political leaders, activists and friends paid their tributes to him.Saibaba, 58, died due to post-operative complications at the state-run Nizam's Institute...
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