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Congress on Saturday accused the Centre of failing to end terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir and claimed that terrorism has returned stronger in union territory where it had been eliminated many years ago. Addressing a press conference at the party office in Srinagar, the party's...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that the agitating junior doctors can't keep on insulting her as the medics insist on live-streaming of meeting to end RG Kar impasse.We are waiting for so many days for the meeting to end RG Kar impasse. I am requesting you to hold talks, Banerjee...
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A group of migrant Kashmiri Pandits held a protest in Delhi on Saturday, reiterating their call to boycott the assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir and pressing for the enactment of a law to ensure legal recognition of alleged atrocities against the community. The peaceful protest at Jantar...
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A group of agitating junior doctors on Saturday evening reached West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's residence in Kolkata's Kalighat area to hold talks to resolve the RG Kar hospital impasse.Escorted by a pilot police vehicle, the delegation comprising around 30 medics arrived at...
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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav has asked officials to ensure meat and liquor are not consumed in and around religious towns located along the Narmada river, considered the lifeline of the state. There are 21 districts, 68 tehsils, 1138 villages and 1126 ghats as well as 430...
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The agitating doctors on Saturday evening confirmed they will attend a meeting at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's residence to resolve the RG Kar hospital impasse. Responding to the mail by West Bengal Chief Secretary Manoj Pant, the agitating doctors said they would attend the...
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An army personnel was injured in an encounter with terrorists attempting to infiltrate across the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, security officials said. The encounter occurred in the Kalal area of the Nowshera sector when army troops...
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Agitating junior doctors on Saturday sent a mail to the West Bengal government expressing their wish to hold talks with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to resolve the RG Kar impasse. The mail was sent hours after the chief minister paid a surprise visit to them at their site of the...
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said it is unfortunate to refer to Gyanvapi as a mosque and called Gyanvapi an embodiment of Lord Vishwanath himself. Adityanath made these remarks while inaugurating an international seminar on Contribution of Nath Panth in...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday said if people give a bigger mandate to the ruling Mahayuti in the upcoming state polls, the government would double the 'Ladki Bahin' scheme's monthly financial assistance amount to Rs 3,000. At present, the government pays Rs 1,500 per...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi should focus on the deteriorating security situation in Jammu and Kashmir instead of raising the bogey of dynastic politics, National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah said on Saturday. Addressing an election rally in the Doda district in support of BJP...
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A speeding truck ran over 16 cows in Madhya Pradesh's Chhatarpur district, and two persons have been arrested in connection with the incident, an official said on Saturday. Five bovines were also injured in the accident near Kaidi village on Jhansi-Khajuraho Road around 11 pm on Friday, the...
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A 12-year-old Dalit boy was allegedly stripped naked, forced to dance and filmed after he was caught stealing wire from an event here, police said on Saturday. A purported video showing the boy dancing to a song with four to five men sitting around surfaced online. In the video,...
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Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Kalatan Dasgupta was among two persons who were arrested for allegedly hatching a conspiracy to attack the protesting junior doctors, police said on Saturday.The arrests were made after an audio clip of a phone call was released by TMC leader Kunal Ghosh,...
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Five persons were arrested for allegedly pelting stones at the Durg-Visakhapatnam Vande Bharat Express during a trial run in Chhattisgarh's Mahasamund district, officials said on Saturday.The incident occurred when the train was passing through Bagbahra railway station on its way back from...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today visted the site outside Swasthya Bhawan in Salt Lake where junior doctors have been agitating. I came to meet you as your 'didi' not as chief minister, Mamata said while addressing the protesting doctors. I have spent sleepless nights as...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said terrorism is taking its last breath in Jammu and Kashmir where his government projected a new leadership to counter dynastic politics which has destroyed this beautiful region. Addressing an election rally in the Doda district of Jammu region in...
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In the wake of an undiagnosed fever claiming 15 lives in Gujarat's Kutch, the Union health ministry has set up a surveillance mechanism to immediately respond to such outbreaks, official sources said on Saturday. They said points of entry such as airports, land ports and seaports are also...
12:28
Stranded on the International Space Station through February, NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore plan to vote in the November 5 US presidential election from space. It's a very important duty that we have as citizens and (I am) looking forward to being able to vote from...
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Two private bank employees have died after getting trapped in their sports utility vehicle in the flooded Old Faridabad Railway underpass here, police said on Saturday. It happened late Friday night when the victims, Punyashray Sharma (48) and Viraj (26), were returning home in Greater...
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The Congress on Saturday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Manipur situation and said he continues to make plans to travel in other parts of the country and abroad, but studiously avoiding a visit to the most troubled state. Congress general secretary in-charge...
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Prohibitory orders around the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in north Kolkata were extended till September 30, an officer said.The orders, which were first imposed on August 18, restrict gatherings of more than five people in the designated area. The restrictions were imposed amid protests...
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Thirteen persons suffered from suffocation after a fire broke on the ground floor of a seven-storey building in Mumbai's Ghatkopar area in the wee hours of Saturday, an official said.The blaze erupted at 1.35 am in Shanti Sagar Building located in Ramabai Colony of Pantnagar in Ghatkopar east and...
10:32
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said that he will visit the Hanuman Temple in Connaught Place at noon today to offer thanks and seek blessings.In a post on X, Kejriwal said, 'Today at noon, I will go to Hanuman Temple at Connaught Place to thank God and seek his...
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A terrorist was gunned down on Saturday after an overnight encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district, police said.They said a cordon-and-search operation was launched in Chak Tapper Kreeri in the north Kashmir district's Pattan area late Friday night.The operation...
09:41
Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray leader Aaditya Thackeray has welcomed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's release on bail and used the occasion to take a swipe at those who split the Shiv Sena in 2022.In a post on X, Thackeray on Friday said truth prevails over politics.'Glad to see...
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NASA Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Willmore expressed their desire to vote in the upcoming United States presidential elections in November, from the International Space Station, as their stay in the space has got extended at least till February 2025.Williams and Wilmore participated in a...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to hit the poll campaign trail in support of his party candidates on Saturday by addressing a mega rally in Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district, amid tight security arrangements.This will be the first visit by a prime minister to Doda in the last 42...
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Twenty-two special suburban trains will be run in the night from Saturday onwards in view of the ongoing Ganpati festival, an official said on Friday. Twenty services will be operated on the main line and two on harbour line between September 14 and 18, a CR release informed. The...
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Twenty-two special suburban trains will be run in the night from Saturday onwards in view of the ongoing Ganpati festival, an official said on Friday. Twenty services will be operated on the main line and two on harbour line between September 14 and 18, a CR release informed. The...
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Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said 12,000 houses would be built for dabbawalas and members of the 'charmakar' (cobbler) community in three years under the PM Awas Yojana. The deputy chief minister has signed a memorandum of understanding with developers for...
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Agitating junior doctors in West Bengal have written to President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting their intervention in the RG Kar hospital impasse. Copies of the four-page letter written by the West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front were also sent to Vice President...
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