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A B.Tech second-year student of the Gurugram University was allegedly kidnapped by three youths in an SUV who forcibly withdrew Rs 1.87 lakh from his account, the police said on Thursday. The accused held the B.Tech student captive in their SUV for around seven hours and took him to Delhi...
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BJP leader Lallu Singh/Courtesy Facebook
Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Faizabad MP Lallu Singh made a sudden exit from a press conference here on Thursday stating that mafia elements are present on stage. I cannot sit with the mafia, said Singh as he abruptly left the press conference, which was organised by the BJP...
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A 21-year-old student preparing for NEET-UG in Kota allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling of a rented room in a house on Wednesday night. This is the 14th case of suicide by a student in the coaching hub Kota this year since January, while 26 cases of death by...
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Protest against the alleged illegal construction of Sanjauli mosque in Shimla/ANI on X
Hindu right bodies on Thursday staged a massive protest at Chaura Maidan in Shimla in the vicinity of the Vidhan Sabha demanding demolition of an illegal mosque in Sanjauli. The Sanjauli area was choked as the protesters took out a march. The area teemed with hundreds of demonstrators,...
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Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah will unveil on Sunday the documentary film Mumbai Samachar - 200 Not Out, which chronicles the remarkable 200-year journey of Asia's oldest newspaper. Entering its 203rd year of publication, Mumbai Samachar is the only newspaper to reach this...
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An Indian Air Force helicopter made an emergency landing in an agricultural field in Nalgonda district of Telangana on Thursday owing to a 'technical snag'. No one was injured, the police said. The chopper which was headed to Air Force Station, Hakimpet in Hyderabad from Vijayawada in Andhra...
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Booker Prize-winning Salman Rushdie may become the first author to bag a prestigious literary prize in both fiction and non-fiction genres after his account of surviving an on-stage assassination attempt was named on the longlist of the GBP 50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction in London...
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CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury continues to be under treatment at AIIMS, where he was admitted for treatment of a lung infection, sources said on Thursday. Yechury (72) was admitted to the emergency ward of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on August 19. He was...
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Jailed Kashmiri cleric Sarjan Ahmad Wagay on Thursday filed nomination papers for the Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls from two seats, Ganderbal and Beerwah, days after his candidature was rejected from another constituency. Wagay, popularly known as Sarjan Barkati, a prominent face at the...
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The Centre on Thursday extended the ceasefire agreement with a break-away faction of the Naga insurgency group NSCN for another year. The National Socialist Council of Nagaland-K Niki group is led by Niki Sumi against whom the National Investigation Agency had announced a reward of Rs...
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A man was injured after being shot at Badlapur railway station in neighbouring Thane district on Thursday evening, the police said. The incident took place at platform number 1, and the assailant was immediately overpowered and taken into custody, said a Government Railway Police...
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Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty surrendered early gains to close lower for the second straight day on Thursday, tracking losses in the most valuable firm Reliance Industries, Bharati Airtel and L&T amid a sluggish trend in global markets. The 30-share BSE Sensex failed to hold...
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A Shiv Sena leader of the Shinde faction and several others were booked in Thane for allegedly attacking some people and preventing them from entering a temple, a police official said on Thursday. The incident took place late Wednesday night after a meeting called at a temple by accused...
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A Kuki organisation has demanded registration of an FIR and investigation against Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh alleging conspiracy to commit large scale ethnic violence against the Kukis in the state. The Kuki Organisation for Human Rights Trust has written in this regard to the...
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A local court in Maharashtra's Sindhudurg district on Thursday remanded sculptor-contractor Jaydeep Apte and structural consultant Chetan Patil, held over the collapse of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's statue, in police custody till September 10. While Patil was arrested on August 30 from...
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National Conference (NC) vice-president Omar Abdullah on Thursday filed his nomination papers to contest the Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls from Budgam. Omar Abdullah filed his nomination for the Budgam constituency for the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls, an NC spokesperson...
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Actor Vijay
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan topped the list of celebrity taxpayers with advance tax payment of Rs 92 crore in 2023-24, followed by Tamil actor 'Thalapathy' Vijay at a distant second, according to a list compiled by Fortune India Magazine. Fortune India's 'The Star Cast' list is based...
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A third year LLB student died allegedly by suicide in her hostel room at National Law University in Dwarka North area, officials said on Thursday. The body of the student was discovered on Wednesday afternoon by her roommates and other hostel staff, when she did not open the door despite...
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BJP chief JP Nadda hands over party membership certificate to veteran party leader LK Advani in New Delhi/ANI on X
Bharatiya Janata Party chief JP Nadda, along with party general secretary Dushyant Kumar Gautam, handed over the BJP membership certificate to veteran party leader LK Advani in Delhi as part of the party's membership drive on Thursday. Along with BJP National President respected JP...
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Fuel prices are set to go up in Punjab with the state Cabinet on Thursday deciding to increase value-added tax on petrol and diesel by 61 paise a litre and 92 paise per litre, respectively. A decision in this regard was taken by the council of ministers in a meeting chaired by Punjab Chief...
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A 14-year-old boy arrested following the fatal assault on 80-year-old Bhim Kohli while he was out walking his dog in a park near the eastern England city of Leicester appeared in court on Thursday charged with his murder. The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons as he is a minor,...
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Actor Darshan is in custody
Expressing anguish over the latest picture of Renukaswamy which has emerged on social media, the victim's parents called the jailed Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa and his accomplices 'demons' for allegedly torturing their son to death. The photograph shows a shirtless Renukaswamy pleading...
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The board of Reliance Industries Ltd on Thursday approved issuing 1:1 bonus shares -- the first bonus issue in seven years. Reliance, the nation's most valuable company, had last issued bonus shares in September 2017. In a regulatory filing, the company said its board recommended to...
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The Supreme Court reserves its order on Arvind Kejriwal's pleas seeking bail and challenging arrest by the CBI in the excise policy scam.Questioning the maintainability of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's pleas seeking bail and challenging his arrest, the Central Bureau of Investigation...
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A case of rape and murder has been registered after the body of a 19-year-old woman was found with multiple injuries days after she went missing from her home at Gunateerthawadi village in this district of Karnataka, police said on Thursday. Three people have been arrested in...
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Chief Adviser to Bangladesh's interim government, Muhammad Yunus, has said the issue of attacks on minority Hindus in his country is exaggerated and questioned the manner in which India projected it.In an interview with PTI at his official residence in Dhaka, Yunus said the attacks on minorities...
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Passenger vehicle retail sales in India witnessed a 5 per cent on-year decline in August on account of delayed customer purchases, poor consumer sentiment and persistent heavy rains, industry body FADA said on Thursday. The overall passenger vehicle (PV) registrations last month stood at...
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Prime Minister Narendra called on Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam in Singapore, during his two-day visit to the island nation on Thursday and discussed avenues to broaden and deepen India-Singapore cooperation.The two leaders warmly greeted each other and sat down and held...
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Former Education Minister and AAP leader Manish Sisodia on Thursday said a teacher's salary should be more than that of an IAS officer if India wants to evolve into a developed country by 2047. He made the remarks while addressing a 'Shikshak Samman Samaroh,' organised by the Municipal...
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Former Education Minister and AAP leader Manish Sisodia on Thursday said a teacher's salary should be more than that of an IAS officer if India wants to evolve into a developed country by 2047. He made the remarks while addressing a 'Shikshak Samman Samaroh,' organised by the...
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Pratik Majumdar writes about Bimal Roy's Sujata, memorable for many reasons, but mostly for the way it broached the subject of caste inequality in mainstream Indian cinema, all of 65 years ago. Read the column here.
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The Karnataka government has withheld its decision to bestow the best teacher award on B G Ramakrishna, principal of the Government Pre-University College at Kundapura in Udupi district, sources in the Education Department said on Thursday.Ramakrishna was supposed to get the award today on the...
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Porbandar: ICG ALH Helicopter crash: Search for one missing aircrew is in progress. 4 Indian Coast Guard ships, 2 Indian Naval ships, and aircraft are continuing with the search. The average depth in area is 55 mtrs. Indian Navy clearance diving team along with specialized vessels are assisting...
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Claim the Night protests in Kolkata
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the CBI to file a report by September 18 on detestable posts being made on social media regarding the rape-murder victim of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital. The court noted that nasty comments, which are far from being acceptable to any...
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Muhammad Yunus, the head of Bangladesh's interim government, has said that former prime minister Sheikh Hasina making political remarks from India is an unfriendly gesture, asserting that she must remain silent to prevent the discomfort to both countries until Dhaka requests her...
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Iltija Mufti, 37, is contesting her first election from Srigufwara Bijbehara, Jammu and Kashmir.She holds a master's degree in international relations from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, and was the spokesperson for her mother Mehbooba Mufti when the former J&K chief minister was...
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Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das on Thursday said the fundamental drivers of the Indian economy are gaining momentum and the country is moving on a sustainable growth path. In the inaugural address at FIBAC 2024, the governor said that massive changes are taking shape in various...
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The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought the stand of the CBI on the bail pleas of jailed co-owners of the Old Rajinder Nagar coaching centre basement, where three civil services aspirants died after drowning in July. Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma issued notice to the agency on the bail...
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal told the Supreme Court on Thursday that the CBI did not arrest him for nearly two years in the alleged excise policy scam and an 'insurance arrest' was made on June 26 after he got bail in the harsher money laundering case filed by the ED. Senior...
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The Supreme Court on Thursday commenced hearing on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's pleas seeking bail and challenging his arrest by the CBI in the alleged excise policy scam. Senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, appearing for the chief minister, told a bench of Justices Surya Kant...
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Stalin cycles like a champ during his visit to the US
A video of Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin cycling in the US has received more than 2 million views, 25K likes, and nearly a thousand comments. Sharing Stalin's video in a post on X, Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi, said, Brother, when are we cycling together in Chennai?Stalin, whose party DMK is part of the...
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Thousands of women across West Bengal marched in midnight as part of the second edition of the Reclaim the Night campaign, demanding justice for a doctor who was allegedly raped and murdered at a state-run hospital in Kolkata last month. The campaign on Wednesday night, the second one after...
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Telangana: 50,000 trees uprooted in Tadvai range, Medaram forest area, Mulugu due to incessant rainfall. The Chief Minister's Office, the state government will submit a comprehensive report on flood damages to the central government. Chief Minister Reddy said he will write a letter to the...
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The aunt of the murdered doctor. The pic has been blurred to protect her identity
Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder case: Aunt of the deceased doctor says: When the body of the daughter was lying in front of the parents in the house the police were offering money. Is this the humanity of police? Till the last rites were not performed, 300-400...
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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has alleged that the Aam Aadmi Party benefited from the illicit funds generated through the criminal conspiracy in the Excise Policy case. The CBI claims that as the National Convenor and Overall In-Charge of AAP, Arvind Kejriwal is responsible for...
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Benchmark equity indices rebounded in early trade on Thursday amid steady foreign fund inflows along with buying in frontline stocks Reliance Industries and HDFC Bank. The 30-share BSE Sensex rebounded 264.85 points to 82,617.49 in early trade. The NSE Nifty climbed 76.75 points to...
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Leader of Canada's New Democratic Party (NDP) Jagmeet Singh has announced that he is withdrawing support to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government.The NDP leader on Wednesday in a video posted on social media stated that he ripped up the supply-and-confidence agreement his party made with...
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India and Singapore signed four Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the fields of digital technologies, semiconductors, health cooperation and skill development, which will further strengthen the cooperation between the two nations. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a visit to...
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Dev Chatterjee/Business StandardAdani Enterprises, the flagship company of the Adani group, has set up a subsidiary in Kenya as it intensifies efforts to take over Jomo Kenyatta international airport in Nairobi. The Gautam Adani firm has established a wholly-owned step down subsidiary --...
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In his call with Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week, United States President Joe Biden expressed his concerns about the safety of people in Bangladesh and the future of democratic institutions there, the White House has said.During the call, Biden and Modi 'shared concerns' on the recent...
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Kolkata experienced a unique and powerful display of civic solidarity on Wednesday evening when residents turned off their lights for an hour from 9pm to 10 pm and came down to the streets with burning candles to protest the murder of the doctor at RG Kar hospital and to express support for the...
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