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A 33-year-old woman and a two-year-old girl were killed in a fire that broke out at a house in Gujarat's Ahmedabad on Sunday afternoon, police said. According to officials, the fire spread quickly, destroying several vehicles parked outside the house situated in Gyanda Society near...
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President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday emplaned for a 4-day state visit to Portugal and Slovakia from April 7-10. She is visiting Portugal at the invitation of President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. The visit is taking place after a gap of 27 years, as the last State Visit...
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Jharkhand's East Singhbhum district police conducted a flag march to instill confidence among residents of the steel city ahead of Monday's Ram Navami flag immersion ceremony. Led by senior superintendent of police Kishore Kaushal, the march covered several sensitive areas, including the...
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Security forces on Sunday recovered arms and ammunition from a forest area in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.In a joint search operation, police and the Army recovered a substantial cache of war-like stores in the Kandi forest belt of Kupwara, an official said.The...
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Nearly 35 percent of faculty posts are vacant in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, the premier healthcare institute has revealed.Responding to a query under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, the administrative officer of the faculty cell of the AIIMS-Delhi said 430 faculty...
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Ex-MLA Shahnawaz Rana/Courtesy Facebook
The head warden of the Muzaffarnagar district jail has been suspended and departmental action has been initiated against four jail guards following the recovery of a mobile phone from incarcerated ex-MLA Shahnawaz Rana, an official said on Sunday. Jail superintendent Abhishek Choudhary...
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A fire broke out on the Bikaner-Bilaspur Superfast Express (20846) when the train was passing through the Ujjain district of Madhya Pradesh on Sunday evening, an official said. No one was injured in the fire which has been controlled, he said. Public relations officer of Western Railway...
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India's leading dairy brand Amul's revenue is expected to rise more than 10 per cent to about Rs 1 lakh crore this fiscal due to rising consumer demand for milk and its products.Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (GCMMF) sells dairy products under the 'Amul' brand.Besides, its 18...
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Popular playback singer Shreya Ghoshal on Sunday said she has finally regained access to her X account, which was hacked in February. The singer, known for songs such as Bairi Piya, Yeh Ishq Haaye, Teri...
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Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna offered prayers to Lord Venkateswara during his first visit to the Tirumala temple on Sunday. The CJI was welcomed at the Mahadwaram of the temple by Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams executive officer J Syamala Rao and additional EO Venkaiah Chowdary with...
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An electricity department contract worker has been dismissed from service in this Uttar Pradesh district for allegedly waving a Palestine flag on Eid, officials said on Sunday. The termination notice was issued after photographs of him waving the Palestine flag became circulated on social...
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More than 50 people, including children, took ill and some of them were hospitalised after consuming food at a wedding in a village in Maharashtra's Gondia district, an official said on Sunday. The affected persons are undergoing treatment at the rural hospital in Goregaon tehsil, the...
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The 'Surya Tilak' ceremony of Lord Ram took place at the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya on Sunday on the occasion of Ram Navami. Sharing a video of the 'Surya Tilak', Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust in a post on X said, Surya Tilak of Prabhu on the pious occasion of Shri Ram...
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The Income Tax department has issued a notice to Empuraan producer Antony Perumbavoor, seeking clarification on the alleged financial transactions related to his previously bankrolled films Lucifer and Marakkar: Lion of the Arabian Sea, sources said. According to sources in the Income...
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Union minister George Kurian hoists BJP flag at party office in Srinagar/Courtesy X
The BJP celebrated its 45th foundation day in Srinagar on Sunday.Union minister George Kurian presided over a function held here to mark the party's raising day at Jawahar Nagar.The Union minister of state for fisheries and animal husbandry praised the dedication and resilience of the BJP workers...
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A case has been registered against a man for allegedly giving triple talaq (instant divorce) to his 21-year-old wife in Madhya Pradesh's Ratlam, the police said on Sunday. Based on a complaint, the police have registered a case under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita and the...
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Punjab farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal on Sunday ended his indefinite fast, which he had started on November 26 last year to press for various demands of agitating farmers including a legal guarantee on the minimum support price for crops. The announcement came a day after Union...
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The Enforcement Directorate on Sunday said it has arrested a former general manager of the Karnataka Bhovi Development Corporation following searches in a money laundering case related to alleged irregularities in the department. BK Nagarajappa was taken into custody on April 5. A...
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The commissioner of the Latur Municipal Corporation in Maharashtra allegedly tried to commit suicide by shooting himself with a gun, police said on Sunday.The incident took place late Saturday night following which the civic chief, Babasaheb Manohare, was rushed to a private hospital where his...
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Women own 39.2 percent of bank accounts in the country and the proportion is even higher at 42.2 per cent in rural areas, according to a government report. The statistics and programme implementation ministry released the 26th edition of its publication titled Women and Men in India 2024:...
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Students owing allegiance to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad organised Ram Navami celebrations inside the Jadavpur University campus on Sunday, despite the authorities not granting permission for it.The students placed a clay idol of Lord Ram on a makeshift podium inside the campus for...
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The secretary of the Servants of India Society, the parent body of the prestigious Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, was arrested for alleged cheating and misappropriation of funds, a Pune police official said on Sunday. Milind Deshmukh was arrested on Saturday on the...
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Tension prevailed in Vibharapur village in this Uttar Pradesh district after villagers clashed with police over the removal of the statues of B R Ambedkar and Lord Buddha from a government land, police said on Sunday. At least eight police personnel were injured in the incident as villagers...
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A fresh plea has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, claiming it was a blatant intrusion into the rights of a religious denomination to manage its own affairs in the matter of religion. President Droupadi Murmu on...
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An MBBS student has been found hanging in her hostel room at Government Medical College in Kalamassery, near Kochi, the police said on Sunday. The deceased, Ambili from Kasaragod, was a third-year medical student. According to the police, her hostel mates found her hanging from the...
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World-renowned sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik with the award/Courtesy X
World-renowned sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has been honoured with The Fred Darrington Sand Master Award for his contributions to the field. During the Sandworld 2025 International Sand Art Festival, which opened at Weymouth in the southern England county of Dorset on Saturday, Pattnaik set...
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A soldier allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle at an Army camp in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir in the early hours of Sunday, officials said. Sepoy Vijay Kumar, posted with 26 Rashtriya Rifles, was on sentry duty when he shot himself at Dharmund...
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Uttar Pradesh minister Baby Rani Maurya has urged Shahjahan Garden in Agra be renamed after the Malwa Kingdom queen Ahilyabai Holkar. The women welfare minister made the urge in a letter to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Yes, I wrote to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ji on the issue...
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Food and grocery delivery platform Swiggy has received an an assessment order for the April 2021 to March 2022 period, amounting to Rs 7.59 crore from the Office of the Profession Tax Officer, Pune. Violation of provisions pertaining to deduction of Profession Tax from the employees' salary...
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BJP leader Locket Chatterjee on Sunday claimed that a Ram Navami rally led by her from New Town in the outskirts of Kolkata was stopped by police, prompting a change of route of the procession. Chatterjee was also seen engaging in a verbal spat with police personnel after the rally was...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurates the Pamban sea bridge/ANI Photo
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated the Pamban sea bridge, providing rail link between Rameswaram island and the mainland and flagged off the new Rameswaram-Tambaram (Chennai) train service in Rameswaram. The PM also flagged off a Coast Guard ship which passed under the...
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Former Kerala minister MA Baby was elected as the CPI-M general secretary at the 24th party congress in Madurai on Sunday, sources said. A section of the party leaders had backed All India Kisan Sabha president Ashok Dhawale for the post. Born to PM Alexander and Lilly Alexander in...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday departed for Tamil Nadu's Rameswaram after concluding his three-day visit State visit to Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake saw him off at the airport. On the occasion of Ram Navami, Modi is set to inaugurate...
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Union minister Chirag Paswan
Union minister Chirag Paswan on Saturday deplored the alleged ill-treatment of his badi maa, the first wife of his late father Ram Vilas Paswan, by his estranged uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras. The Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) president claimed that personal and political ambitions had led...
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The high court of Karnataka has appealed to Parliament and state legislatures to move forward with the implementation of a Uniform Civil Code, calling it a crucial step toward realising the Constitutional ideals of justice, equality, secularism, and national unity. The comment was made...
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Sri Lanka on Sunday released at least 11 Indian fishermen as a special gesture, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi pitched for resolving the vexed fishermen issue with a humane approach. The fishermen issue figured prominently during talks between PM Modi and Sri Lankan President Anura...
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Special NIA court judge AK Lahoti, conducting trial in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, has been posted to Nashik in the annual general transfer of district judges, days before the court was likely to reserve the matter for judgement. The transfer order, for Lahoti and other judges issued by...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday visited the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi temple in the historic city of Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka and paid respects at the Buddhist shrine.Modi was accompanied by Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake during the trip to Anuradhapura, a spiritual city at a...
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Amid growing protests by students and other groups, AICC in charge of party affairs in Telangana Meenakshi Natarajan has asked the state government to hold discussions with all the stakeholders about the 400-acre 400-acre land adjacent to the University of Hyderabad.The committee of ministers...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to inaugurate on Sunday noon the new Pamban sea bridge, in Rameswaram, providing a rail link between the mainland and the Rameswaram island. This would improve connectivity to this spiritual destination flocked by devotees throughout the year from...
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A Bangladeshi version of a meeting between chief adviser Muhammad Yunus and Prime Minister Narendra Modi was mischievous and politically motivated, especially the aspects relating to attacks on minorities and Dhaka's request for extraditing former premier Sheikh Hasina, people familiar with the...
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A retired Army colonel from Haryana has filed a police complaint here, alleging that he was held hostage, assaulted, looted and forced to participate in an obscene video at gunpoint with a woman he met through a matrimonial website, police said on Saturday. The woman from Mathura, who...
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YouTuber Samay Raina on Saturday appeared before the Assam Police in Guwahati in connection with a case filed against him and four others for allegedly promoting obscenity on a publicly accessible online show, a police officer said.Raina, who had earlier informed the police that he was out of the...
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Shiv Sena MP Dhairyasheel Mane on Saturday said that his party head Ekanth Shinde might be the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra on paper, but he is the CM in people's hearts.Speaking at a thanksgiving rally in Kolhapur, which was attended by Shinde, Mane said the deputy CM has been taking...
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On the foundation day of the BJP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the people are seeing the good governance agenda of the party, which is also reflected in the historic mandates it received in the years gone by.Greetings to all BJP Karyakartas on the Party's Sthapana Diwas.We recall...
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Police have invoked the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) section for terrorist act against two men arrested in the case of blast at a mosque in Maharashtra's Beed district, officials said. Gelatin...
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