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The Municipal Corporation of Delhi may officially ask people not to feed pigeons in public spaces, for it may lead to health problems associated with the birds' droppings.According to an official, the civic body will issue an advisory in the next two weeks in the matter.The person said the move...
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The first freight train arrives in the Kashmir Valley on Saturday./ANI Photo
The first freight train arrived in the Kashmir Valley on Saturday as the Northern Railway opened its Anantnag goods shed under its larger Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link project for the movement of goods, officials said. The train with 21 BCN wagons loaded with cement reached the...
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The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged mass burial of bodies in Dharmasthala has launched a new search operation at the foothills of Bahubali Betta, the police said. The operation began near the main entrance to Dharmasthala, with SIT officers joined by Puttur...
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Three people were charred to death in an explosion at an illegal firecracker manufacturing unit operating at a house in Virudhunagar district of Tamil Nadu, according to the police.The incident occurred near the Sattur area, where an illegal firecracker manufacturing operation was taking place at...
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Flight operations were affected at Mumbai airport on Saturday after a technical glitch hit the data network, forcing the facility's operator to switch to manual mode, according to a source. Though the glitch affected the system for a couple of minutes, it took an hour to fix it, the source...
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The Bihar police on Saturday said it arrested two more persons in connection with the murder of gangster Chandan Mishra inside a private hospital here last month.The arrested have been identified as Vijaykant Pandey, alias Rudra Pandey, and Rajesh Yadav, both residents of Buxar district.The...
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A passenger was apprehended at Mumbai airport allegedly with 54 exotic animals, an official said on Saturday. The passenger had arrived from Bangkok in Thailand onboard an IndiGo Airlines flights on Friday afternoon, the official said. We seized species like Albino Red Eared Slider...
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A gunfight broke out between insurgents and the Assam Rifles in Arunachal Pradesh's Tirap district in the early hours of Saturday, the police said. Suspected Naga insurgents opened fire, targeting the Assam Rifles camp at Noglo near Lazu between 3 am and 4 am, they said. Tirap's...
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Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Saturday claimed that no aircraft of the military was hit or destroyed by Indian armed forces during the recent conflict. His comments came hours after Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh said the Indian Air Force shot down five Pakistani fighter...
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Four persons have been booked for their objectionable posts on Facebook related to the Dharali disaster allegedly with the intention of stoking hatred between communities, the Uttarakhand police said on Saturday.Four FIRs were lodged at the Kotwali police station here on Friday in...
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Filmmaker SS Rajamouli
Filmmaker SS Rajamouli has revealed the title of his upcoming film starring Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu in the lead role. Rajamouli shared the announcement with a post on his X handle on Saturday. He added that the first reveal about the film will be out in November. The First...
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More than 300 flights were delayed at the Delhi airport on Saturday due to adverse weather conditions. An official said there were no flight diversions at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in the national capital, which witnessed heavy rains. IGIA is the country's largest airport,...
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India's military strike 'Operation Sindoor' was a declaration of its ability to stand tall through self-reliance, strategic foresight, and indigenous technological strength, Defence Research and Development Organisation chairman Samir Kamat said on Saturday. Addressing the 14th convocation...
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A controversy erupted in Madhya Pradesh's Raisen district after the principal of a convent school allegedly distributed alphabet charts with Islamic references, prompting the education department to launch an inquiry, officials said on Saturday.They said Baby Convent School principal IA Qureshi...
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Police and rescue team at the accident site in New Delhi on Saturday./ANI on X
Seven people were killed when a wall collapsed near Mohan Baba Mandir in Jaitpur amid heavy rains in the national capital on Saturday morning, the police said.While the Delhi Fire Service earlier claimed that eight people had died in the incident, police later stated that seven victims were...
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At least 47 terrorists have been killed by security forces in Balochistan province near the Afghanistan border in the last two days, Pakistan military's media wing said on Saturday. The Inter-Services Public Relations in a statement said the security forces conducted a sanitisation operation...
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A fire broke out at Anand Vihar Hospital in east Delhi on Saturday afternoon, leaving one person dead and at least 10 injured, Delhi Fire Service officials said. According to the officials, a call about the blaze was received at 12.12 pm, following which eight fire tenders were rushed to the...
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Incessant rain along with rising water levels of several rivers on Saturday triggered a flood-like situation in many low-lying areas of the state, officials said. Several low-lying areas of Patna, Vaishali, Muzaffarpur, Bhagalpur, Bhojpur, Khagaria, Purnea, Madhepura, Saharsa and Katihar...
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Nationalist Congress Party-SP chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday claimed that two individuals had met him in New Delhi before the 2024 Maharashtra assembly polls and guaranteed the Opposition's victory in 160 of 288 constituencies. Addressing the media in Nagpur, Pawar said he introduced the duo...
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Bengaluru Traffic Police have announced traffic restrictions across several key routes on August 10 between 8.30 am and 2.30 pm, anticipating heavy crowds and VIP movement during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit. In a traffic advisory issued, motorists are advised to avoid Marenahalli...
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Over 20 wagaons of two goods trains derailed near Chandil station in Jharkhand's Seraikela-Kharswan district in the early hours of Saturday, affecting train services between Chandil-Tatanagar section of South Eastern Railway, an official said. There was no report of any injury in the...
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A man was shot dead allegedly over an old dispute in northeast Delhi's Nand Nagri area, police said on Saturday.A 20-year-old man was arrested for the murder that took place on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday. A country-made pistol recovered from his possession, they said.A firing...
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Tension flared in central Kolkata on Saturday as police used lathis to disperse BJP workers attempting to break through a security cordon during a march to the state secretariat. The protest marked the anniversary of the RG Kar incident. Senior BJP leaders, including Leader of the...
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A training aircraft crash-landed near Baramati airport in Pune district on Saturday, police said, adding that nobody was injured. The incident occurred when the aircraft, owned by Redbird Flight Training Centre, was landing after completing a training sortie. While flying the aircraft,...
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A 64-year-old woman has been pushed off Sampark Kranti Express while it was running slowly after crossing Kozhikode railway station and was robbed of over Rs 8,000 cash and mobile phone, Railway police said on Saturday. The woman, along with her brother, was travelling to Thrissur in Kerala...
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Maharashtra Navnirman Sena activists allegedly assaulted a food stall operator in Kalyan area of Thane district, accusing him of making derogatory remarks against Marathi people and Raj Thackeray. Taking cognisance of the viral video, a police official said the law and order monitoring has...
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As part of the ongoing Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) operations in Harsil and Dharali areas of Uttarakhand, specialised Indian Army canine teams have been deployed to assist in search tasks in coordination with Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), Zevar radar, and reconnaissance...
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The Election Commission on Saturday said it has delisted 334 registered unrecognised political parties which have failed to fulfil the essential condition of contesting even a single election for six years since 2019. The offices of these parties could also not be physically located...
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Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal AP Singh speaking on Op Sindoor in Bengaluru on Saturday./ANI on X
Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal AP Singh, on Saturday said the Indian Air Force achieved the largest ever recorded surface-to-air kill during Operation Sindoor. He said the force had confirmed the destruction of five aircraft and one large platform, believed to be either an...
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The Rajasthan unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party expelled state spokesperson Krishna Kumar Janu for six years, citing his public criticism of the party's treatment of former governor Satya Pal Malik and ex-vice president Jagdeep Dhankhar. According to party officials, the action followed a...
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Security arrangements have been tightened and traffic restrictions are in place across Kolkata and Howrah on Saturday in view of a march to the West Bengal secretariat 'Nabanna' to mark the completion of one year of the rape and murder of an on-duty doctor inside the state-run RG Kar hospital,...
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The Election Commission on Saturday reiterated that it has not received a single claim or objection from any political party regarding the draft electoral rolls in Bihar.So far, after over a week since the beginning of the Claims & Objections period, not even a single claim or objection has...
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Five people, including two sisters, died in a collision between a trailer truck and a car in Rajasthan's Dausa district, the police said on Saturday.The accident occurred on the Jaipur-Agra National Highway on Friday when five people in the car were returning to the village after giving an exam...
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The Central Bureau of Investigation has booked an officer of AIIMS-Bhubaneswar and five others for alleged corruption in the recruitment to Group-B and Group-C posts using forged documents, officials said on Saturday. The agency acted on the findings of its preliminary enquiry registered by...
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Rescue and relief operations intensified in flood and landslide-hit Dharali and Harsil in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district, where at least four to five people have died and around 49-50 remain missing.Officials said 729 people have been evacuated so far, with four helicopters deployed to airlift...
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The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday conducted searches at 26 houses, including that of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Mohammad Amin Bhat alias 'Jehangir Saroori', in a massive clampdown on the terror ecosystem in the Kishtwar district, officials said.Besides Bhat, the raids mostly targeted...
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Two soldiers have been killed in the ongoing encounter in Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam, the Army said on Saturday.Four security personnel were injured in overnight firing as the gunfight in Kulgam entered the ninth day on Saturday -- one of the longest anti-terror operations in the valley,...
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An incident of cloudburst was reported in the Sharod Nala area of Kullu in Himachal Pradesh on Friday as per the information received from the Central Water Commission, Mohal.According to the information received from Hemraj (N T Jari), Fire Station Jari, Assistant Engineer, Public Works...
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United States President Donald Trump has announced that he will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin next Friday, August 15, 2025, in Alaska. The meeting is expected to focus heavily on efforts to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.Trump revealed the details on his Truth Social...
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Air India has decided to increase the retirement age for pilots to 65 years and for non-flying staff to 60 years, sources said on Friday. At present, the retirement age for both pilots and non-flying staff at the airline is 58 years. The announcement about increasing the superannuation...
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Senior officers of West Bengal Police on Friday said they have no objection to peaceful rallies marking the first death anniversary of the RG Kar Medical College rape-murder victim, but warned of strict legal actions against any attempt to break law and order. Addressing a press conference...
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