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Activists of a right-wing Hindu outfit smeared black paint on a mural of the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, at Ghaziabad railway station on Friday, officials said.According to local sources, some members of the Hindu Raksha Dal reached the railway station in the morning and sprayed...
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The Madhya Pradesh high court has issued notice to the state government seeking a reply on why proceedings of the assembly are not being telecast live for the public. Justices Vivek Rusia and Gajendra Singh of Indore bench of HC issued the notice on Thursday on a PIL filed by Congress MLAs...
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A girl student from Guntur, who was pursuing her master's degree in the USA, died after a hit-and-run incident in Denton City, Texas, while returning home with a friend, her family members said on Friday.V Deepthi was walking near the 2300 block of Carril Al Lago Drive on April 12 when a speeding...
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With a sunny Friday, the national capital recorded a maximum temperature of 41 degrees Celsius, 4.2 notches above normal, with the India Meteorological Deparment predicting rain and thunderstorms in the evening.The minimum temperature was recorded at 25.6 degrees Celsius, 4 notches above normal,...
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The claims that the government is considering levying Goods and Services Tax on UPI transactions over Rs 2,000 are completely false, misleading, and without any basis, said the Ministry of Finance in a statement Friday. Currently, there is no such proposal before the government, the...
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India's forex reserves increased by $1.567 billion to $677.835 billion for the week ended April 11, the Reserve Bank said on Friday. This is the sixth consecutive week of a rise in the kitty. The overall reserves jumped by $10.872 billion to $676.268 billion in the previous reporting...
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Local residents protest against murder of a 17-year-old boy in Seelampur, Delhi/ANI Photo
The Delhi police are probing the role of a woman, who worked as a bouncer for jailed gangster Hashim Baba's wife, after the fatal stabbing of a 17-year-old boy in north-east Delhi's Seelampur area, an official said on Friday.Kunal was stabbed on Thursday evening in New Seelampur, and police have...
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Aviation watchdog DGCA has ordered a detailed investigation into the circumstances that led to the recent death of an Air India Express pilot, including checking the medical history of the deceased crew member and examining the existing guidelines to deal with such emergencies. The Air India...
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Chief Medical Officer Tarun Kumar Pathak on Friday said the health department has initiated action against unqualified medical practitioners and 70 illegal hospitals and clinics in Sambhal in the past week.A special campaign was launched in Sambhal, Gunnaur and Chandausi to identify and shut down...
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A layer of froth was seen covering the Yamuna River surface near Kalindi Kunj on Friday, bringing back the focus on heavy pollution in the river. Experts said that the froth on the river surface was a recurring issue due to the toxic chemicals present in the sewage and industrial wastewater...
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Former West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh is set to tie the knot on Friday evening.Ghosh, 60, will marry party colleague Rinku Majumdar, whom he has known since 2021, people close to them said.The couple met during morning walks, and the relationship grew over time, they said.Ghosh, known for...
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Development works in Maharashtra could be affected if the state government does not release payments in time, a senior functionary of an association of contractors and engineers said here on Friday. Milind Bhosale, president of the Maharashtra State Contractors Federation and the State...
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A man out on bail in a murder case fatally slit his throat with a paper cutter on Friday after he was confronted by a group of people for allegedly teasing a woman in Jaipur, police said. The SHO of Jhotwara police station, Rajendra Singh Shekhawat, said Anand Sharma, aged around 40, was...
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The opposition Congress on Friday announced that it would not enter into an alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and will go it alone in the upcoming bypolls to two assembly constituencies in Gujarat.After the party's political affairs committee meeting, Gujarat Congress president...
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Results of the second edition of engineering entrance JEE-Main will be announced by April 19, NTA officials said on Friday. The final answer keys will be notified by Friday, they added.The final answer keys of JEE-Main, 2025, Edition-II will be available for download on the JEE-Main website...
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A youth allegedly stabbed his friend to death for harassing his sister in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra district, police said on Friday. The issue had previously led to tensions between the two and on Thursday night, the youth allegedly killed the teenager, Karamchand Bind at...
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Filmmaker Vinay Shukla's multiple award-winning documentary While We Watched, a turbulent newsroom drama featuring Ravish Kumar, has won the Grand Prize at the inaugural 2025 Henry Awards at the Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. The award is...
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The Maharashtra government on Friday decided to extend cashless treatment up to Rs 1 lakh for accident victims in empanelled and other emergency hospitals. Chairing a review meeting, Public Health Minister Prakash Abitkar directed officials to ensure that accident victims get timely and...
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Rajya Sabha member Kapil Sibal slammed Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday for questioning the judiciary over the timeline for the president to take decisions, saying this is unconstitutional and he had never seen any Rajya Sabha chairman make political statements of this nature.A day after...
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Actor Athiya Shetty and her husband, cricketer KL Rahul, on Friday announced the name of their newborn daughter, Evaarah. The duo shared a collaborative post on Instagram revealing the name and its meaning on the occasion of Rahul's 33rd birthday.The post featured Rahul holding...
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Friday slammed Union Home Minister Amit Shah for his criticism that the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam was harping on to issues like NEET and delimitation as diversionary tactics and challenged the latter to give clear answers to the people of the state...
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The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) on Friday clarified that no decision has been taken on the nationwide implementation of satellite-based tolling from May 1. The ministry's response came after some sections of the media reported that a satellite-based tolling system...
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A man booked for rape was allegedly tied to a bullock cart, assaulted and paraded naked by locals in the Visheshwarganj area of this Uttar Pradesh district. Police registered a case on Friday after a video of the incident became widely circulated on social media. The video purports to show...
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Filmmaker Karan Johar has dismissed rumours that he took weight loss medication to achieve his new look and said he has lost the kilos the right way.In an Instagram Live on Thursday, Johar dismissed rumours that he took any weight loss medication.That's a lot of work, and it's not medication like...
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Mutual funds are gearing up to venture into specialised investment funds (SIFs) even as more clarity is awaited around key guidelines and the application form. Several prominent asset management companies, ranging from large-to mid-sized players such as Nippon India, Axis, Mirae Asset,...
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An Indian, wanted in connection with multiple terror attacks across Punjab and who is alleged to have collaborated with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), has been arrested by the FBI, the US agency said. Harpreet Singh, an alleged terrorist who had illegally entered the US, was...
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A man allegedly bludgeoned his 70-year-old mother to death after she refused to give him Rs 200 to purchase a dog in Chhattisgarh's Raipur on Friday, police said.The accused, Pradeep Dewangan (45), also allegedly injured his wife during the attack that occurred in Nageshwar Nagar under the Urla...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Elon Musk, world's richest person with a strong influence in the US administration, on Friday as they discussed the immense potential for collaboration in areas of technology and innovation.Modi said on X after speaking to Musk, whose business empire includes...
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At least 22 Naxalites, 12 of them carrying a cumulative bounty of Rs 40.5 lakh, surrendered before security forces in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district on Friday, police said.The cadres, including nine women, turned themselves in before senior officials of the police and Central Reserve Police Forces...
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An FIR has been lodged against actors Sunny Deol, Randeep Hooda and three others following a complaint that a scene in the movie Jaat has hurt sentiments of the Christian community, police said on Friday. The complaint filed by a Christian community leader has alleged the movie, which...
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Cybercriminals allegedly placed a retired Indian Army colonel and his wife under digital arrest and duped them of Rs 49 lakh in this Himachal Pradesh district, police said on Friday. The complainant received a video call on WhatsApp in which a man introduced himself as an officer of the...
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Tata Elxsi, a design and technology services company, announced a strategic multi-year deal valued at 50 million euro with a leading Europe-headquartered automotive original equipment manufacturer (OEM).This strategic deal positions Tata Elxsi as a key engineering partner for platform and...
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Despite Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee requesting him to postpone his visit to the violence-hit Murshidabad district, West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Friday left for Malda where he is likely to meet the victims of the riot who fled there.I am going to the field, Bose told reporters while...
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The Tirupati police Police have registered a case against former Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) Chairman and YSRCP leader B Karunakar Reddy over his claims of cows dying at SV goshala.TTD Board member Bhanuprakash Reddy lodged a complaint with Tirupati Superintendent of Police Harshavardhan...
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India has slammed Bangladesh over its condemnation of the violence in West Bengal's Murshidabad, calling Dhaka's take on the matter as unwarranted comments and virtue signaling.We reject the remarks made by the Bangladesh side with regard to the incidents in West Bengal. This is a barely...
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Actor Ben Affleck says he never liked his Batman costumes as they were horrendous to wear. Affleck played the superhero in Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Justice League (2017), Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) and The Flash (2022).I hated the Batsuits. The Batsuits are...
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A parliamentary panel has asked the labour ministry to complete third-party evaluation of the Employee Pension Scheme (EPS) -- the first such exercise since its inception 30 years ago -- within a definite timeframe, preferably by the end of 2025, to make it more effective.Headed by Bharatiya...
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Families of a number of accused in the alleged gang-rape of a woman here claimed on Thursday that there were inconsistencies in the survivor's account, while the police formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to examine both allegations. According to the complaint, the 19-year-old woman...
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Former Chief Justice of India T S Thakur has decided to skip former R&AW chief A S Dulat's book release function, citing the political storm over certain parts of the book concerning National Conference president Farooq Abdullah. The book, The Chief Minister and The Spy was...
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Tata Consultancy Services announced a partnership with Vianai Systems, a provider of enterprise-grade, domain-specific generative AI applications. The company is founded by Vishal Sikka, former Infosys CEO. Through this collaboration, TCS customers will gain access to Vianais hila platform...
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Vodafone Idea users suffered a network outage in early hours of Friday, a disruption the telco said was due to technical issue that was resolved. Vodafone Idea said all services are now back to normal. Our network services were briefly impacted in NCR...
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Islamabad's only link with Jammu and Kashmir is the vacation of illegally occupied parts of the Union Territory, India said on Thursday, strongly trashing Pakistan Army Chief Gen Asim Munir's remark that Kashmir is jugular vein of his country. New Delhi also rejected Pakistan's...
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A knife-wielding United States citizen attempted to hijack a small Tropic Air plane in Belize on Thursday (local time), injuring three people before being shot dead by a fellow passenger, the New York Post reported, citing officials. The incident occurred mid-air on a flight...
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IDFC First Bank said on Thursday that US-based private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) would invest a total of Rs 7,500 crore in the bank through a preferential equity issue aimed at supporting the lenders next phase of growth.Warburg Pincus, through its...
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India's two biggest IT service providers say they will continue to hire in thousands from engineering colleges this financial year even as revenue growth is expected to remain weak in a subdued macroeconomic environment. Infosys on Thursday said it will hire 20,000 fresh engineering...
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The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) on Thursday warned coaching institutions against making misleading claims and engaging in unfair trade practices. The consumer protection authority said that a number of coaching centres have been found flouting the Prevention of Misleading...
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National Commission for Women (NCW) Chairperson Vijaya Rahatkar on Thursday said that she and other members of the panel will visit riot-hit Murshidabad district in the next few days and meet the affected women. The panel has already taken suo motu cognizance of the violence against...
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A Dalit groom was allegedly assaulted by a group of upper-caste men during a wedding procession in Agra's Nagla Talfi area, police said on Thursday. The incident also left several members of the wedding party injured, they said. According to the complaint lodged by Anita, a resident of...
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Hindustan Unilever Limited assured the Delhi high court on Thursday that it will remove the alleged disparaging references to its competitor, Honasa Consumer Limited (HCL), from its Lakme sunscreen advertisements. In a related development, during the hearing of a separate suit filed by HUL...
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