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Are you trying to address the gallery outside the court? an annoyed Supreme Court bench asked a lawyer and reprimanded him for his aggressive tone while making submissions on the Kolkata rape and murder of a trainee doctor. A bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud took objection to...
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Decoration accompanying a Ganpati idol installed as part of the 10-day festival in a household in Kalina in Mumbai is garnering attention as it is themed on the issue of violence against a women, which has come to the fore due to the brutal rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata's RG Kar...
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About 20 cows died under suspicious circumstances on Monday in a 'gaushala' here and 10 more are in critical condition, the police said. The cause of their deaths in 'Nandigram Gaushala' in Haryana's Uncha village remained unclear and post-mortem of the cows will be conducted, they...
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Maharashtra cabinet minister Chhagan Bhujbal on Monday called NCP president and deputy CM Ajit Pawar as the captain of the party and emphasised he would contest the upcoming assembly polls from Baramati, his home turf in Pune district. Bhujbal's assertion came a day after Ajit Pawar...
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A routine traffic check in west Delhi's Moti Nagar area has led to the seizure of 500 sniper rifle bullets while being transported on a motorcycle, police said on Monday. A case under relevant provisions of the Arms Act was registered at Moti Nagar police station, a senior official said,...
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Corps Commander of the Army's Chinar Corps Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai Monday reviewed the security situation and operational preparedness in north Kashmir ahead of the assembly elections in the union territory. Chinar Corps Commander visited Vajr Division, Kupwara and Tangdhar sector today to assess...
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A rail mishap was averted on Monday in Madhya Pradesh after a tractor stalled on the tracks and a train driver stopped in time by applying brakes, a police official said. The incident took place at Guramkhedi on Jabalpur-Itarsi rail route at 10am, Pipariya RPF police station in-charge Gopal...
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Ponniyin Selvan star Jayam Ravi on Monday announced that he is proceeding with the dissolution of his marriage with Aarti, his wife of 15 years, due to personal reasons. Ravi, a prominent face in Tamil cinema, shot to pan-India fame with Mani Ratnam's two-part period saga Ponniyin...
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Cow vigilante Bittu Bajrangi alias Rajkumar Panchal, an accused in the Nuh violence case, filed his nomination as an independent candidate from NIT assembly segment in Faridabad on Monday. The assembly elections will be held in Haryana on October 5. In an official statement, district...
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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday sought an urgent hearing in the Supreme Court on his plea against a Delhi high court verdict refusing to quash the defamation proceedings against him on a complaint over his alleged scorpion on Shivling remarks targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A...
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Bharat Coking Coal Ltd on Monday termed false and misleading the claims on a social media video that a company official fixed the pyjamas Union Minister Satish Chandra Dubey. The company explained that the BCCL official was helping the Minister of State for Coal and Mines to fix the belt...
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Hollywood stars like Jennifer Lopez and Rihanna were spotted wearing designs by popular couturier Sabyasachi Mukherjee at separate events recently. The designer's brand page on Instagram shared the pictures of the two fashion icons on Sunday night. While Lopez attended the Toronto...
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Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule/ANI Photo
A luxury car owned by Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule's son Sanket hit several vehicles in the early hours of Monday in Ramdaspeth area of Nagpur, following which two occupants, including the driver, were arrested, a police official said. According to the...
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A special court on Monday acquitted former Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Aakash Vijayvargiya, son of powerful Madhya Pradesh minister Kailash Vijayvargiya, in a case where a building inspector of the Indore Municipal Corporation was allegedly assaulted with a cricket bat in 2019. Besides...
19:11
Benchmark Sensex bounced back from early lows to close higher by nearly 376 points on Monday, snapping its four-day losing run following a rally in blue-chips ICICI Bank, HUL and HDFC Bank. The 30-share BSE Sensex rebounded 375.61 points or 0.46 per cent to settle at 81,559.54. The...
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Ahead of assembly polls in Maharashtra, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday held a brief meeting with Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and his deputy Ajit Pawar at the airport in Mumbai where he also visited a couple of Ganesh pandals. There was no official word on what transpired at the...
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Mehbooba Mufti
PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday accused jailed MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid's Awami Ittehad Party of being a proxy of the BJP, and warned the people of Jammu and Kashmir not to come under the influence of such parties. Her remarks came a day after PDP candidate from south Kashmir's...
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National Conference president Farooq Abdullah Monday said the restoration of Article 370 is the voice of people of Jammu and Kashmir, and asserted the special provision of the erstwhile state would definitely be restored even if it might take many years. Abdullah's remarks came a day after...
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Telugu Superstar Mahesh Babu's firm GMB Entertainment has invested an undisclosed sum in Fitday, a nutraceutical startup. A press release from the city-based firm said the strategic investment marks a significant milestone in Fitday's mission to revolutionise the nutrition and healthy...
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A third-year computer science student of the Indian Institute of Technology in Guwahati was found dead in his hostel room on Monday, the police said. The body of the male student, who hailed from Uttar Pradesh, was found in his room in the Brahmaputra Hostel, they said. Investigation is...
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The GST Council has arrived at a broad consensus on reducing Goods and Services Tax on health and life insurance premiums from the current 18 percent, but a final decision would be taken in the next meeting, sources said. The Fitment Committee, comprising the Centre and state tax officials,...
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The Delhi government on Monday banned the production, sale and use of firecrackers in the national capital to control air pollution in the coming winter season. In a press statement, environment minister Gopal Rai said that the ban is necessary to mitigate the seasonal surge in air...
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Uttarakhand finance minister Prem Chand Agarwal on Monday said the GST Council has decided to cut tax on helicopter services for religious travels to 5 percent. The 54th meeting of the GST Council, chaired by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, is currently underway. Helicopter...
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A court here on Monday extended till September 12 the judicial custody of Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa along with his friend Pavithra Gowda and others, who are accused in the Renukaswamy murder case.All the 17 accused, including Darshan and Pavithra, were produced before the 24th Additional...
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Dead body of Samajwadi Party MLA Jahid Beg's maid was found hanging in her room in his house in Bhadohi, UP police said. Nazia was working for the past many years in Beg's house and her family used to reside in Kanshiram Housing in Mamdev area, Circle Officer Ajay Kumar Chauhan...
16:05
Benchmark Sensex bounced back from early lows and closed higher by nearly 376 points on Monday, snapping its four-day losing run following a rally in blue-chips ICICI Bank, HUL and HDFC Bank. The 30-share BSE Sensex rebounded 375.61 points or 0.46 per cent to settle at 81,559.54. The...
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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday sought from a Delhi court 14-day judicial custody of AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan in a money laundering case. The central probe agency told Special Judge Rakesh Syal that no further custodial interrogation of the accused was required and he should be sent...
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Healthcare services across West Bengal have been significantly disrupted for over a month due to a cease-work protest by junior doctors demanding justice for a colleague allegedly raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. On Monday, the West Bengal government told the...
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The Centre on Monday advised states and union territories to screen and test all suspect mpox cases in the community, and identify isolation facilities in hospitals for both suspect and confirmed patients. In a letter sent to states and union territories on Monday, Union Health...
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Street protests across Bengal are still on
The Supreme Court on Monday voiced concern over the absence of a key document that was needed for the postmortem of the medic raped and murdered at the RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata, and asked the CBI to investigate into it. The top court also directed the protesting resident doctors in...
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I have never offered money to the deceased doctor's family, this is nothing but slander, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee says. I told the deceased doctor's parents that if they wanted to do something in their daughter's memory, our government is with them. This is a conspiracy by the Centre and...
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Update: RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder case: The Supreme Court urges doctors to return to work by 5 pm tomorrow and no adverse action will be taken against them, however the top court cautions if continuous abstention from work continues then disciplinary action can be taken...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah and his wife Sonal Shah had the darshan of Lord Ganesh and offered prayers to him at Lalbaugcha Raja in Mumbai today.
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The Indian Meteorological Department on Monday issued a red alert for heavy to extremely heavy rainfall in several Odisha districts in view of the further intensification of the depression into a deep depression.
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Sat Sharma is the BJP's J&K working president.
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The Supreme Court on Monday directed the CBI to submit a fresh report by September 17 on the probe in the rape and murder case of a postgraduate medic at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. A bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud perused the report filed in a sealed...
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Reacting to Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi's statement on Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh made during his US visit, Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Monday said that the Congress will have to take many births to learn about RSS, adding that the Sangh is born from the values and culture...
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Kolkata rape-murder case: West Bengal Health Department submits report in the Supreme Court. The government says 23 people have died as doctors are on strike. The Supreme Court has commenced hearing a suo motu case related to the rape and murder of a postgraduate medic at the RG Kar Medical...
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Slamming Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi over his remarks on unemployment that he made during his US visit, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday said the Leader of Opposition seems to be eager to bat for China and has a habit of insulting India. BJP National Spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari said...
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The rape and murder of a woman doctor at Kar Hospital has triggered massive public outrage in West Bengal, creating a major political crisis for the ruling TMC and posing one of the biggest challenges to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's leadership since she took office in 2011. The...
09:47
Love, respect and humility are missing in Indian politics, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said in his address to the Indian American community in Texas, where he also criticised the RSS for believing that India is one idea. Gandhi made the remarks on Sunday in Dallas during his first...
09:37
A tranquil beach in Goa
A 33-year-old Russian national on a visit to Goa drowned in the Arabian Sea while his woman partner was rescued by locals, police said on Monday. The incident took place on Sunday at Morjim beach in North Goa district. Russian national Dimitri Lvov (33) was holidaying in North Goa along with...
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Thirty days have passed after the body of a woman medic, raped and murdered, was recovered from state-run Kar Medical College and Hospital here, but investigators are still clueless about what led to the crime that has opened a can of worms. CBI detectives, who took up the probe into the...
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An attempt was made to derail the Kalindi Express, heading towards Bhiwani from Prayagraj, by placing an LPG cylinder on the tracks in the Shivrajpur area in Kanpur, police said on Monday. The train hit the cylinder before coming to a screeching halt on Sunday morning. Due to being hit by...
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Congress leader Sam Pitroda, while addressing the Indian diaspora in Texas, said that his party leader Rahul Gandhi has a vision contrary to what BJP promotes and that he is not a Pappu.He (Rahul Gandhi) has a vision contrary to what BJP promotes by spending crores of rupees. I must tell you, he...
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Two heavily armed terrorists were killed in a gunfight as alert Army troops thwarted an infiltration bid along the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Monday.The gunfight broke out late Sunday night in the Laam sector of Nowshera after the troops...
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