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A special Anti-Terrorist Squad court in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday convicted 16 people, including Islamic preacher Maulana Kalim Siddiqui and Islamic Da'wah Centre founder Mohammed Umar Gautam, in a 2021 case of an illegal religious conversion racket. Special judge Vivekanand Sharan Tripathi, while...
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Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday appointed secretaries and a treasurer of the parliamentary party. While Ranjit Ranjan was appointed secretary of the parliamentary party (Rajya Sabha), MK Raghavan and Amar Singh were appointed secretaries of the...
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At least two farmers died in a lightning strike on Tuesday while working in a paddy field in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district, the police said.The incident took place at Dumapada village in Betnoti area in the afternoon, they said.The deceased have been identified as Siba Hansda (33) and Gobinda...
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Prohibitory orders were imposed in the Sanjauli locality in Shimla on Tuesday following escalating tension over illegal construction in a mosque and call for a bandh by Hindu organisations. The Shimla district administration issued the prohibitory orders under section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik...
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At least three more Vande Bharat Express trains will run through Odisha from September 15, the East Coast Railway said on Tuesday.The new trains that will run through Odisha are Tata-Berhampur, Rourkela-Howrah and Durg-Visakhapatnam Vande Bharat Express.These three are among the 10 such trains...
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Two men were arrested here for assaulting a police official and tearing his uniform in public on Tuesday, an official said. A video of the shocking incident went viral on social media. The accused were identified as Ravi Kashyap and his associate Manish, both around 25 years old. Kashyap was...
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An FIR has been registered against a wing commander following complaints of rape by a woman flying officer, officials said in Srinagar on Tuesday. Both the IAF officers are currently stationed in Srinagar. After the complaint, the FIR under relevant sections of the law was filed at Budgam police...
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Tata Motors on Tuesday said it has reduced prices of its electric vehicle model range by up to Rs 3 lakh. The Mumbai-based automaker said it has reduced the price of Nexon EV by up to Rs 3 lakh, Punch EV by 1.2 lakh, and Tiago EV by Rs 40,000. With these special, limited period prices, we are...
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The police on Tuesday detained 50 dubious people from Paltan Bazar area in Dehradun during a verification drive launched after tension arose between traders of two communities over the alleged molestation of a girl by an employee of a footwear shop recently. Senior superintendent of police Ajai...
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The Mumbai police formed a special team to trace a former scientist of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre who has gone missing from his Bandra residence, an official said on Tuesday. A reward of Rs 10,000 has been announced for any information about Vinayak Kolvankar, 76, he said. Kolvankar, who...
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Ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's ally, Thol Thirumavalavan heading the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi party, on Tuesday invited opposition AIADMK and all democratic parties to lend support to the VCK women's conference on elimination of liquor and narcotic substances to be held in Kallakurichi...
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Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has invited agitating junior doctors for meeting at state secretariat to resolve impasse over RG Kar doctor's rape and murder case, said an official on Tuesday. Responding to the chief minister's call for talks, the agitating doctors the government humiliated...
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An outsourced employee of the forest department was mauled to death by a leopard in Chhota Udepur district of Gujarat, officials said on Tuesday.The attack occurred at Pavi Jetpur range forest on Monday evening, they said.Ganpatbhai Tettabhai (45), deployed as a watchman, was dragged into Baria...
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The rupee traded in a narrow range on Tuesday and depreciated 2 paise to close at 83.97 (provisional) against the American currency, weighed down by the strengthening of the American currency in the overseas market. Forex traders said the US dollar recovered amid mixed non-farm payrolls data. The...
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The Karnataka high court on Tuesday issued an ex-parte interim order barring media outlets from broadcasting, printing, or publishing any information from the chargesheet against Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa, who is accused along with 16 others in the Renukaswamy murder case. The restriction...
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The local Met office on Tuesday warned of low to moderate flash floods in parts of six out of 12 districts -- Kinnaur, Kullu, Mandi, Shimla, Solan and Sirmaur -- till Wednesday as moderate rains continued to lash parts of Himachal Pradesh.A total of 76 roads, including the National Highway 5...
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A woman was allegedly molested by a fellow passenger inside a moving bus in Kasba area in Kolkata on Tuesday morning, the police said.The incident took place around 9.30 am, when the woman, in her mid-20s, started screaming following which the passengers caught hold of the accused and beat him...
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RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Tuesday made it clear that there was no issue if Bihar Chief Minister Nitish kumar, who is president of the Janata Dal-United, does not join hands with him. Theek hai, nahi aana hai toh na aaye, Lalu said in reply to Nitish Kumar, who claimed on Friday that he would not...
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Agitating junior doctors defied the Supreme Court's directive to join duties by 5 pm on Tuesday, saying they would continue with their 'cease work' till their demands were fulfilled and the rape and murder victim of the RG Kar Hospital was given justice. The top court on Monday directed the...
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Four CRPF personnel were injured on Tuesday when their vehicle turned turtle in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district, officials said.The CRPF personnel were part of a party heading to Billawar to provide security to Union Minister Jitendra Singh, who was scheduled to arrive by a helicopter to...
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A Delhi court on Tuesday granted interim bail till October 2 to Lok Sabha MP Engineer Rashid in a terror funding case. Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, defeated former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls in Baramulla. Additional sessions judge Chander...
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The Manipur government on Tuesday suspended internet services in the entire state for five days amid intensified agitation by students. The decision was taken to curb the use of social media for transmission of images, hate speech and hate video, the state home department said in a notification....
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Two persons were killed after a two-storey house collapsed amid heavy rainfall in Maharashtra's Gondia district in the wee hours of Tuesday, an official said. Heavy rains lashed the district in the last 24 hours, with the Kamtha circle in Gondia tehsil recording the highest rainfall of 292.3 mm,...
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Four girls, aged between 10 to 14 years, drowned in a pond in a village Bahraich on Tuesday, the police said. According to the police, the victims -- Mehak Khatoon (14), Samia (10), Saiba (10) and Sarikul Khatoon (13) -- had gone in the pond to pull lotus plants when they slipped into deep water...
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The police have registered a case against an unidentified person after a post on social media platform X claimed that cracks have started appearing on the Statue of Unity in Gujarat and it can fall anytime, an official said on Tuesday. The 182-metre tall statue, built at Kevadia in Narmada...
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Senior AAP leader and minister Atishi on Tuesday accused the BJP of conspiring to topple the Kejriwal government through back door by imposition of the President's rule in Delhi. The accusation comes a day after the President's secretariat forwarded the assertions of opposition BJP that Delhi...
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Recalling his experiences of visiting Jammu and Kashmir while he was the Home Minister of India, Congress leader Sushilkumar Shinde said that he used to feel scared but wasn't able to tell anyone about it. During the launch of his memoir Five Decades of Politics on Monday at the India...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party has come out guns blazing against the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, over his remarks on the Sikh community and accused the Congress party of inciting people and massacring the Sikhs during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, while the Congress party has...
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Activist Manoj Jarange on Tuesday announced to launch an indefinite fast from September 16 midnight to press for the Maratha reservation demand. In February, the Maharashtra legislature passed a bill providing 10 per cent reservation for the Maratha community in education and government jobs, but...
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The BJP came down heavily on Rahul Gandhi over his remarks in the US about the Sikh community, saying the Congress leader is trying to create a dangerous narrative by speaking on sensitive issues abroad. Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri told a press conference at the BJP headquarters here that...
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A video of girl students drinking beer inside a government school in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur district surfaced on social media, prompting the education authorities to launch a probe, an official said on Tuesday. The purported video was from the Government Higher Secondary School in Bhatchaura...
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Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Tuesday targeted West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee terming her as the most dangerous politician who wants to stay in power even by selling out the country.He also criticised Mamata Banerjee over the murder of a woman doctor at RG Kar Medical College and...
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The mpox patient admitted at LNJP Hospital here is in a stable condition, Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj said on Tuesday. Bharadwaj conducted a surprise inspection of the hospital to assess preparations for dealing with mpox and dengue. There is one confirmed patient of mpox at LNJP...
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed proceedings before a trial court against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor in a defamation case lodged against him for his alleged scorpion on Shivling remarks targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and R Mahadevan issued notice to...
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Police have arrested the driver of a luxury car, owned by Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule's son, after it hit several vehicles in Nagpur city, an official said on Tuesday.The person driving the car, Arjun Hawre, was arrested on Monday night and later released on bail (at the local...
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The Trinamool Congress Party on Tuesday renewed its call for doctors to return to work and pointed out that the human cost of doctors abstaining from their duty is mounting.The party also questioned how many more lives must be lost before the medical fraternity fulfils its duty.In a post on X,...
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The Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday released its second list of nine candidates for the Haryana assembly polls. The party's first list of 20 candidates was released on Monday as seat-sharing talks with the Congress broke down. In its second list, the AAP has announced the candidates for Indri,...
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CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury's condition 'critical', on respiratory support at AIIMS, the party said. Sitaram Yechury was admitted to the hospital due to high fever on August 19, after which he was shifted to the ICU.
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Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has taken a potshot at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his statements in Washington DC saying that tarnishing the country's image abroad is a crime like treason and no patriot can do this. Rahul Gandhi is the Leader of Opposition (LoP) and he is also...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has alleged the general elections in India this summer were not fought on a level playing field, asserting that the polls have destroyed the idea of Modi. The Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, who is currently on a four-day visit to the United States, made the...
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After launching a tirade of attacks at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, opened up on his thoughts on his rivals and said he doesn't hate the Prime Minister but only disagrees with his point of view.The Congress leader was...
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With the Adani Group floating a China subsidiary for providing project management services, the Congress on Tuesday alleged the risk is now that the conglomerate's investments in China will add national security and territorial sovereignty to the growing list of sacrifices that India has made at...
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Dronacharya awardee and wrestling coach Mahavir Singh Phogat said that he is saddened by the decision of Olympian wrestler and Congress candidate from Julana, Vinesh Phogat, of joining the politics, adding that she could have taken the decision of joining the politics after the 2028 Olympics.She...
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The Uttar Pradesh Forest Department on Tuesday captured the fifth 'killer' wolf, while one remains elusive. The wolves had been behind several attacks on villagers in Bahraich.The Uttar Pradesh Forest Department is taking the Wolf to a rescue shelter.We have caught the fifth wolf...One is left;...
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Taking a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, said the moment the Prime Minister claimed that he can speak directly to God, the Congress party knew that he has been blown apart.He further said that Prime Minister Modi didn't face any political...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has accused the RSS of considering some religions, languages and communities of being inferior to others and said that the fight in India is about this and not about politics. The Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha was addressing a gathering of several hundred Indian...
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Rahul Gandhi speaking on Ambani, Adani while talking to students at the prestigious Georgetown University in the US. There are many people who come from the upper caste who say, look, what have we done wrong? Why are we being punished? So, then you think about increasing dramatically the supply...
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The Congress Party will think of scrapping reservations when India is a fair place, which is not the case right now, Rahul Gandhi, Leader of Opposition has said.Gandhi made these remarks while talking to students at the prestigious Georgetown University.We will think of scrapping reservations...
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More than 66,000 idols were immersed in various water bodies in Mumbai on the second day of the Ganesh festival, civic officials said on Monday. The festival began on Saturday with families and 'savajanik mandals' (public groups) installing the idols of their beloved god at homes and community...
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The Congress on Monday released its third list for the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls, fielding JKPCC working president Raman Bhalla from RS Pura-Jammu South, Chaudhary Lal Singh from Basohli, and former NSUI chief Neeraj Kundan from Bishnah (SC). With this list, the Congress has declared a...
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The Supreme Court has agreed to consider listing on Tuesday a plea of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor against a Delhi high court verdict that refused to quash the defamation proceedings against him on a complaint lodged over his alleged scorpion on Shivling remarks targeting Prime Minister Narendra...
