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The Congress' central election committee will hold its meeting on Monday to finalise candidates for the upcoming Maharashtra and Jharkhand assembly polls. The CEC meeting for Maharashtra was to take place this evening but was postponed with party leaders citing various reasons from Karwa...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated the Maa Mahamaya airport in Darima village of Chhattisgarh's Surguja district on Sunday. According to a government release, this air, service is expected to usher in a new chapter for millions in Surguja and nearby districts such as Jashpur,...
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Terrorists attacked a group of labourers including non-local workers and killed two while injuring four men at Gagangeer in Sonamarg in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday evening. The victims were working at a development project in the region. One of the deceased has been identified as...
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Maoists allegedly killed a man in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district after accusing him of being a police informer, an official said on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Markam Anda of Metaguda village under Kistaram police station limits, he said. Anda was killed on suspicion of being...
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A 35-year-old man was killed while two others sustained bullet injuries in an incident of cross-firing in northwest Delhi's Jahangirpuri area, officials said on Sunday. The deceased has been identified as Deepak alias Patrakar, they said. Information was received from the BJRM Hospital...
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Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Sunday said he had prayed to God for a solution to the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute and asserted God will find a way if one has faith. He was addressing residents of his native Kanhersar village in Khed taluka where he was...
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A 16-year-old Dalit boy was allegedly assaulted by a group of students who forced him to chant 'Jai Shri Ram' in Kanpur, the police said on Sunday. A purported video of the incident surfaced online, prompting the police to register an FIR under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and...
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Villagers mourn the loss of lives in Siwan/ANI Photo
Two police personnel were suspended and 21 people, including seven women, were arrested in connection with a hooch tragedy in Siwan, Saran and Gopalganj districts of dry Bihar, officials said on Sunday. Thirty-seven people lost their lives for allegedly consuming spurious liquor in the three...
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Hezbollah has fired around 100 missiles at Israel over the course of the day, according to the Israel Defence Forces. Firefighters are working to extinguish wildfires around northern Israel sparked by two waves of barrages. Earlier, the Israeli military dealt a blow to...
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The Mumbai police's crime branch investigating the Baba Siddique murder case on Sunday arrested a scrap dealer from Navi Mumbai for allegedly providing a weapon to shooters, taking the number of persons in custody so far to 10, an official said. The accused has been identified as Bhagwat...
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Retirement fund body Employees' Provident Fund Organisation's net new member additions increased 9.07 percent to 18.53 lakh in August, compared to a year ago, according to payroll data released on Sunday. EPFO enrolled around 9.30 lakh new members in August 2024, representing an increase of...
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NSG commandos with sniffer dogs carry out search at blast site/ANI Photo
A major explosion rocked the Prashant Vihar area near Rohini in New Delhi on Sunday morning. While no injuries were reported, nearby vehicles and properties were damaged, the police said. An investigation revealed traces of low explosives near the blast site, prompting a thorough...
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Authorities demolish house of the accused in stabbing case in Jaipur/ANI on X
The Jaipur district administration has demolished the house of a father-son duo involved in an alleged stabbing incident at a temple in the city. The house allegedly built illegally inside the temple premises, was torn down using a bulldozer. The stabbing incident took place in...
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As many as 24 flights of Indian airlines received bomb threats on Sunday, according to sources. IndiGo, Vistara, Akasa Air and Air India and Akasa Air are among the airlines that received bomb threats, including international flights, they added. Six flights each of IndiGo, Vistara and Air...
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said that one Bangladesh national has been apprehended in Karimganj district while illegally entering India and sent back to the neighbouring country.A Bangladeshi infiltrator, Mohibulla, was apprehended near the international border and pushed...
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A class 5 student of a government school in Kota suffered a fracture in her arm after she was allegedly hit by her teacher with a stick for not folding a mat properly, officials said. An FIR has been registered against the teacher, Abdul Aziz, in connection with the incident which took place...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday released the first list of 99 candidates including deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis for the Maharashtra assembly elections. Accordingly, Fadnavis will contest from Nagpur South West, while state BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule has been fielded...
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People staged protests in Bihar's Bhagalpur district on Sunday after idols in a temple were found vandalised, the police said.One person has been arrested in connection with the incident in Sanhaula police station area.Security forces staged a flag march in the area as people staged protests and...
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Industrialist Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, embarked on a spiritual journey to the sacred Badrinath Dham and Kedarnath Dham in the picturesque state of Uttarakhand, on Sunday. Upon reaching Badrinath, Mukesh Ambani was warmly welcomed by Ajendra Ajay, President of the...
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A cyclonic storm is likely to form over the Bay of Bengal by October 23, the IMD said on Sunday.An upper air cyclonic circulation over Andaman sea is likely to intensify into a low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal during the next 24 hours, the IMD said in a special bulletin.The weather system...
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Producer Ekta Kapoor and her mother Shobha Kapoor have landed in legal trouble. A case has been filed against them under the POCSO Act for allegedly showing inappropriate scenes involving minor girls in an episode of the ALT Balaji's web series Gandi Baat. The case is...
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Heroin worth nearly Rs 6 crore has been seized and two persons arrested from Assam's Kamrup district, the police said on Sunday.Acting on a tip-off, a Special Task Force team launched an operation at the Amingaon area and seized the drugs coming from Manipur on Saturday night, Assam police chief...
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Security personnel being deployed ahead of PM Narendra Modi's visit to Varanasi/ANI Photo
Heavy security has been deployed in Varanasi ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit on Sunday to lay the foundation for several development projects worth approximately Rs 1,300 crore. Swapna Vishwakarma expressed the city's excitement about the Prime Minister's visit,...
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Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets after Iran fired a salvo of ballistic missiles, October 1, 2024/Amir Cohen/Reuters
The US is conducting an investigation into a leak of highly classified intelligence that reveals Israel's plans for a potential retaliatory strike against Iran, according to three individuals familiar with the situation, CNN reported. One of these sources has confirmed the documents'...
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Director Vasan Bala appears to have deactivated his X account amid a series of controversies surrounding his latest release Jigra. Starring Alia Bhatt and Vedang Raina and produced by Dharma Productions, the action thriller didn't perform well both commercially and critically after it...
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Four people were taken into custody from Haryana for allegedly stealing a bronze vessel from the famed Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple in Thiruvananthapuram, the Kerala police said on Sunday. The traditional vessel, called uruli in local parlance, was used for poojas and rituals at the ancient...
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An encounter between security forces and terrorists is underway along the Line of Control in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, the Indian Army officially stated on Sunday. In a post on X, the Indian Army's Chinar Corps said that a joint anti-infiltration Operation was launched...
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Wayanad NDA candidate Navya Haridas/Courtesy Facebook
The National Democratic Alliance candidate for Wayanad Lok Sabha polls, Navya Haridas, on Sunday said the Gandhi family is considering the hill constituency as a mere choice or second seat and people of the segment have realised this now. A two-time councillor in the Kozhikode Corporation,...
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Kerala ex-chief minister VS Achuthanandan/File image
Veteran Communist leader and former Kerala chief minister VS Achuthanandan, hailed as Kerala's revolutionary sun by his followers, turned 101 on Sunday. Currently leading a retired life at his home in Thiruvananthapuram, Achuthanandan's birthday passed without much celebration this year...
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More than half of the healthcare workers who participated in a survey feel that their workplace is unsafe, particularly in state and central government medical colleges. Led by experts from the Vardhman Mahavir Medical College (VMMC), Safdarjung Hospital and AIIMS, New Delhi, the study...
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Twelve people, including eight children, died in a collision between a bus and tempo late Saturday night in the Dholpur district of Rajasthan. SHO of the Bari police station Shivlahari Meena said the accident took place when a speedy sleeper coach bus going from Gwalior to Jaipur hit...
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A mysterious blast took place near a CRPF school in Prashant Vihar area in Delhi's Rohini on Sunday morning. No one was injured in the incident, officials of the Delhi Fire Services said. Fire engines, bomb squad a police forensic team have been rushed to the spot near the CRPF...
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The Mahakaleshwar temple administration in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain has removed an official following a controversy over the entry of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's MP son Shrikant Shinde in the temple's sanctum sanctorum.Kalyan Lok Sabha member Shrikant Shinde was allowed entry into...
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The Air Quality Index (AQI) remained in the 'poor' category in the national capital on Sunday. According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data, the 24-hour average AQI at 9 am in Delhi was recorded at 265. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) reported the minimum...
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Israel on Saturday released footage showing Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar moving his belongings to a tunnel in Gaza hours before the October 7 attack last year that triggered the ongoing war.The footage was released following Sinwar's death in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.In the footage, dated...
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A Mumbai court has granted bail to advertising firm director Bhavesh Bhinde, the prime accused in the case of a hoarding collapse in Ghatkopar area here that claimed 17 lives in May this year.Additional Sessions Judge V M Pathade allowed Bhinde's bail plea on Saturday. Bhinde, through his...
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A unique cross-border wedding ceremony took place in this Uttar Pradesh district, when a Bharatiya Janata Party leader's son married a Pakistani girl through an online nikah. Tahseen Shahid, a BJP corporator, had arranged the marriage of his elder son, Mohammad Abbas Haider, with Andleep...
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