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The release of Kangana Ranaut-starrer Emergency has been postponed. The movie, in which Ranaut portrays former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was initially slated for release on September 6.Taking to Instagram handle, trade analyst Taran Adarsh shared, #BreakingNews... #Emergency postponed......
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A 9-year-old boy among two was injured in separate incidents of attack by a wolf in Bahraich, the police said on Sunday.The first incident took place in Pure Dildarsingh village on Saturday night when Paras (9) was sleeping outside his house and a wolf attacked him, divisional commissioner...
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Eleven candidates died while undertaking physical tests during a drive to recruit excise constables in Jharkhand, police said on Sunday. Physical tests under the Jharkhand excise constable competitive examinations began on August 22 in seven centres across Ranchi, Giridih, Hazaribag, Palamu, East...
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A nurse at a government hospital in West Bengal's Birbhum district was allegedly molested and verbally abused by a male patient, weeks after the shocking rape-murder of a doctor at RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata.A man who came in with high fever late on Saturday night tried to outrage the...
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President Droupadi Murmu will visit Maharashtra for three days beginning Monday to attend a host of programs, according to an official statement.She will grace the golden jubilee celebration of Shri Warana Women Co-operative Group at Warananagar, Kolhapur, on Monday, it said.On September 3, the...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party government of being a mute spectator in the face of continuous attacks on minorities, especially Muslims, and demanded the strictest action against anarchist elements behind such incidents. His comments come in the wake of...
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A Bharatiya Janata Party leader has been arrested for allegedly molesting a teenager in Almora district of Uttarakhand.Almora SSP Devendra Pincha said on Sunday that Bhagwat Singh Bora, accused of molesting a 14-year-old girl, was arrested on Saturday night.Meanwhile, taking cognisance of the...
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Domestic carrier IndiGo on Sunday started its daily flight services to Jaffna in Sri Lanka from Chennai.Jaffna is the airline's second destination in the island nation after capital city Colombo and 34th international destination, IndiGo said.The new daily direct flights from Chennai to Jaffna...
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An earthquake of magnitude 3.6 on the richter scale hit Morigaon town of Assam on Sunday evening, according to the National Centre for Seismology. According to NCS, the epicentre of the earthquake was located in the Morigaon area at a depth of 23 Km at around 3:36am. EQ of M: 3.6, On: 01/09/2024...
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Rajasthan Education Minister Madan Dilawar on Sunday said all books glorifying Mughal emperor Akbar and referring to him as great will be burnt. The minister's statement came during his visit to Udaipur, where he was addressing a gathering during an event in the Vivekanand Auditorium of Mohanlal...
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Doctors in Bangladesh on Sunday announced a nationwide strike at public and private hospitals to protest the assault on medical professionals for their alleged negligence resulting in the death of a student at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Saturday night.The demonstrating doctors called for...
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President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday said that efforts need to be made to change the culture of adjournments in courts to ensure swift justice. Addressing the valedictory event of the two-day National Conference of the District Judiciary here, she said that the pendency of court cases is a big...
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An FIR has been filed against the producers of 2023-Malayalam movie RDX over alleged embezzlement and non disbursement of profits. The FIR has been registered against producers Sophia Paul and James Paul. The case has been registered by Tripunithura police in Ernakulam at Hill Palace police...
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Gross GST collections in August grew 10 percent to about Rs 1.75 lakh crore, according to government data released on Sunday.Goods and Services Tax revenues in August last year were Rs 1.59 lakh crore, while in July the mop-up was Rs 1.82 lakh crore.In August 2024, domestic revenue grew 9.2...
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CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury continues to be under treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi for a respiratory infection, a party source said on Sunday. The 72-year-old is currently in the intensive care unit (ICU), the source said. Yechury was admitted to...
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A woman was killed and four others were injured when suspected militants launched a gun-and-bomb attack in Manipur's Imphal West district on Sunday, the police said. According to the police, the militants fired indiscriminately from hilltop positions towards the low-lying valley areas of Koutruk...
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A laboratory technician has been arrested for allegedly molesting a minor girl at a state-run hospital in West Bengal's Howrah district, the police said.The incident took place on Saturday evening at Howrah District Headquaters Hospital, where the 12-year-old girl was admitted last week, they...
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Opposition parties on Sunday targeted the Uttar Pradesh government after two of the three accused in the IIT-BHU gangrape case were released on bail, saying that it exposed the hypocrisy of the BJP-led dispensation's claims about women's security.In a post on X, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh...
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A mob vandalised the house of a panchayat member in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district for allegedly molesting a 10-year-old girl, the police said on Sunday. A senior police officer said the accused was arrested on Sunday morning and a strong police picket was posted at Rajbari area of...
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Air Marshal Tejinder Singh on Sunday took over as deputy chief of the air staff of the Indian Air Force, the defence ministry said.After taking charge at the Air Headquarters (Vayu Bhawan), the Air Marshal paid homage to the bravehearts, who made the supreme sacrifice, by laying wreath at the...
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Bengali actress Sreelekha Mitra/Courtesy Instagram
Bengali actress Sreelekha Mitra has withdrawn from the upcoming seminar in Kochi following her sexual harassment allegations against film director Ranjith. Mitra announced her decision on Sunday morning, citing the recent turmoil in her life and the intense media scrutiny surrounding the...
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Assam TMC president Ripun Bora (left) with with party's national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee/File image
Assam Trinamool Congress president Ripun Bora on Sunday resigned from the party, claiming that the people of the northeastern state consider it as a regional party of West Bengal and are not willing to accept it as their own. In a letter to All India Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek...
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A spell of heavy rain early on Sunday inundated several arterial roads and residential areas in Assam's Guwahati, disrupting vehicular movement and causing inconvenience to residents of the capital city of the northeastern state. People were seen wading through knee-deep waters in some areas of...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and deputy CMs Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar held seat-sharing talks in Nagpur for the upcoming state assembly polls, which are likely to be held in October-November. The meeting, which lasted for around three hours as per Bharatiya Janata Party...
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India's foreign exchange reserves increased by $7.023 billion, reaching a fresh record high of $681.688 billion, during the week that ended on August 23, according to data released by the Reserve Bank of India. The previous record high was $674.919 billion. The reserves have been on an upward...
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At least 49 teachers belonging to minority communities were forced to resign in Bangladesh after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led government on August 5, according to a minority organisation in the violence-hit nation. The Bangladesh Chhatra Oikya Parishad, the student wing of Bangladesh Hindu...
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Five Bangladeshis and two Rohingyas, who entered Tripura without valid documents, were arrested from two separate areas in the northeastern state, police said on Sunday.Acting on a tip-off, Government Railway Police personnel detained two persons from Agartala station on Friday, a senior officer...
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An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 on the Richter Scale hit the Bay of Bengal on Sunday morning, according to the National Centre for Seismology. According to NCS, the epicentre of the earthquake was located in the Bay of Bengal at a depth of 10 kilometres around 09:12 am on Sunday. EQ of M: 5.1, On:...
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Just In: An IndiGo flight (6E 7308) operating from Jabalpur to Hyderabad was diverted to Nagpur following a bomb threat. Upon landing, all passengers were disembarked and mandatory security checks were promptly initiated...,said IndiGo. More details soon. -- ANI
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Three persons have been detained on charges of assaulting an elderly man in an express train near Igatpuri in Maharashtra's Nashik district on suspicion that he was carrying beef, the Government Railway Police said on Sunday. Thane Central Railway deputy commissioner Manoj Nana Patil says, The...
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Around 1600 iPhones worth Rs 12 crore were stolen from a truck in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar district, police said on Sunday. The initial probe suggests the involvement of the security guard who was accompanying the truck, said the police. The truck was on its way to Chennai from Haryana, when the...
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After a migrant worker from West Bengal was allegedly beaten to death in Haryana's Charkhi Dadri district over suspicions that he had eaten beef, the police increased security in the area to prevent further unrest or any untoward incident.Badhra DSP Bharat Bhushan said that both SSB and state...
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A 28-year-old man was arrested here for allegedly posting a video with objectionable remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media, police said on Sunday.Vishal from Khaikheri village in Purkazi area was arrested on Saturday, circle officer Rajkumar said. An FIR has been registered...
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Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw inspecting Vande Bharat sleeper coach in Bengaluru/ANI on X
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Sunday unveiled the prototype version of the Vande Bharat sleeper coach in Bengaluru at the BEML's facility. The coach will undergo rigorous trials and tests in 10 days before rolling it out on the track for further testing, Vaishnaw told reporters. The train...
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Breaking his silence over the sexual harassment allegations against him, actor Jayasurya on Sunday refuted the accusations and said that they have 'shattered' him, his family and everyone close to them.The actor, who has been in the US with his family for the past one month, said he will face the...
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In a shocking incident, a 9-year-old boy suffered major injuries after a mobile phone exploded in his hand.The incident occurred in the village of Kalkoti Dewari in the Chaurai area of the Chhindwara district.Father of the boy, Hardyal Singh, said he and his wife were working in the fields when...
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JUST IN: K C Tyagi has resigned as party spokesperson, Rajiv Ranjan Prasad to be new national spokesperson, says Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal-United.More details awaited. -- PTI
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A 13-year-old girl in Farrukhabad has become pregnant allegedly after she was raped by a government school peon, police said on Saturday.A first information report (FIR) has been lodged against the peon of the council school and his associate who allegedly helped him during the incident some...
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The number of mpox cases in Pakistan has risen to five following confirmation of the virus in an air passenger at Peshawar while a suspected case of the deadly virus was detected in Karachi, health officials said on Saturday.Dr Irshad Ali, Director, Public Health of the north-western province of...
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Maharashtra's Pune city, where the concept of 'sarvajanik Ganeshotsav' or largescale public celebrations of Ganesh festival was born, will continue its tryst with expanding its gaiety and fervour to Kashmir for the second year in a row.The initiative of Pune's seven prominent Ganesh mandals will...
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A total of 24 crocodiles were rescued from residential areas in Gujarat's Vadodara amid very heavy rains between August 27 and 29, which led to the water level in the Vishwamitri river that flows through the city rising, a forest department official said on Sunday.The river is home to 440...
