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Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar
Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Sunday said artificial intelligence and deepfakes pose a real challenge for the poll panel, which will try its best to tackle them within the framework of law.He also indicated that machine-readable electoral rolls could result in breach of voters'...
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British actor Terence Stamp, best remembered for playing the iconic villain General Zod in the Superman films, has died at the age of 87, his family confirmed to The New York Times, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter. They did not reveal the cause or place of death.With striking looks and...
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Four men have been arrested for their alleged role in the recent robbery of gold jewellery and cash worth about Rs 14 crore from a small finance bank's branch in Jabalpur, police said on Sunday.The arrested persons include three locals and a person from the Damoh district of Madhya...
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The opposition INDIA bloc leaders are likely to discuss their joint candidate for the post of vice-president at a meeting of floor leaders on Monday morning. Sources said the INDIA bloc leaders would meet at the office of Mallikarjun Kharge, the leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha, at 10.15...
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The rainy spell continued in Mumbai on Sunday amid an orange alert' by the India meteorological department, though with less intensity than the previous day, officials said. As per the civic body, six short circuits, 19 tree or branch falls, and two wall collapse incidents were reported in...
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Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan conducted a surprise inspection of soybean fields in Chirakheda village of Raisen district in Madhya Pradesh on Sunday after farmers complained that their crop was ruined by a particular weedicide. The village comes under the Vidisha Lok Sabha...
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Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan calls on PM Narendra Modi, in New Delhi/ANI Photo
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said NDA Vice Presidential candidate CP Radhakrishnan has always focused on empowering the marginalised and has distinguished himself with dedication, humility and intellect. Modi said Radhakrishnan has done extensive work at the grassroots in Tamil...
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US First Lady Melania Trump has appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine, describing the toll on children as 'heartbreaking.' In a letter delivered by President Donald Trump ahead of his summit with Putin in Alaska, Melania stressed that children were caught in...
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A history-sheeter undergoing treatment at the district hospital here after being injured in an encounter escaped on Sunday morning, prompting authorities to suspend two police officers deployed for his security, officials said. The accused, Dhirendra, was accused of killing Ratrani (70),...
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An IndiGo flight from Dibrugarh to Guwahati on Sunday made a sudden 'go around' seconds before landing at Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati, officials. There has been no impact on the carrier or any passenger due to this move of the flight, a source from the...
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The National Democratic Alliance on Sunday announced Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan as its candidate for the upcoming Vice Presidential election, scheduled to be held on September 9.The announcement was made by Bharatiya Janata Party national president JP Nadda during a press conference...
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Biju Janata Dal chief and Leader of the Opposition in Odisha assembly, Naveen Patnaik, was admitted to a private hospital here on Sunday due to dehydration. His health condition is stated to be stable. Shri Naveen Patnaik was admitted to SUM Ultimate Medicare, Bhubaneswar, at 5.15 pm today...
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Seven persons travelling in a car were charred to death after it collided with an SUV on a highway in Gujarat's Surendranagar district on Sunday, police said. Seven persons travelling in the car were burnt alive while three in the SUV escaped with minor injuries following the incident near...
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Bharatiya Janata Party parliamentary board meeting began at the party headquarters in New Delhi on Sunday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President JP Nadda, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh arrived at the BJP headquarters in the national capital. As...
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Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi offers water to RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav during the Voter Adhikar Rally, in Sasaram/ANI Photo
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday earned kudos from people for his gentlemanly behaviour as he offered glasses of water to party president Mallikarjun Kharge and RJD chief Lalu Prasad, both several years his senior, in Bihar. The INDIA bloc heavyweights were sharing the stage in Sasaram...
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The list of names deleted from Bihar's draft electoral rolls following special intensive revision has been posted on the websites of district magistrates following the Supreme Court's orders, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said on Sunday. Hearing a bunch of petitions challenging...
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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah
The Congress state disciplinary committee on Sunday served a show cause notice to Channagiri MLA Basavaraju V Shivaganga for his statement that deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar will become the next Karnataka CM. Shivaganga's statement renewed the discussion about leadership change, which...
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Three people were killed and eight others injured after multiple gunmen opened fire inside a restaurant in Brooklyn, New York, in the early hours of Sunday (local time), according to the New York Post.The deceased has been identified as three men, who were 27, 35 and of unknown age. Soon...
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Four people, including a minor, suspected to be involved in a robbery earlier were apprehended after an encounter here during routine checking, police said on Sunday. One of them was shot in the leg in retaliatory firing during the late night encounter on Saturday, they...
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Two masked men fired more than two dozen shots outside YouTuber Elvish Yadav's residence in Sector 57 of Gurugram early Sunday morning, police said. The incident was captured on CCTV that showed two bike-borne masked men arriving outside the house and opening fire from a distance. After...
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Mumbai Police have imposed challans on more than 10,000 vehicles with fines of over Rs 1 crore for violation of traffic rules during the Dahi Handi festival in the city, officials said on Sunday. The festival, held to mark the birth of Lord Krishna, was celebrated on Saturday wherein a large...
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The Assam government on Sunday began an eviction drive in Biswanath district, displacing 309 families, officials said. The eviction drive was started in the morning to clear encroachment on nearly 175 bigha or 23 hectare of land in the Village Grazing Reserve (VGR) in Japariguri, they...
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CEC Gynaesh Kumar addressing a press conference in New Delhi on Sunday./ANI on X
The Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls is aimed at removing all shortcomings in voters lists and it is a matter of grave concern that some parties are spreading misinformation about it, Chief Election Commissioner Gynaesh Kumar said on Sunday as the Congress and other INDIA bloc...
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The cloudburst-hit area in Kathua, Jammu and Kashmir./ANI Photo
The Army on Sunday deployed helicopters and several columns in the cloudburst-hit Jodh Ghati village of Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district, officials said.The calamity struck the village and Janglote amid heavy overnight rains, leaving seven persons dead.Several army columns were inducted into...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated the Delhi section of the Dwarka Expressway and the Urban Extension Road-II (UER- II), worth nearly Rs 11,000 crore, which are aimed at reducing traffic jams in Delhi and its surrounding areas. The two projects have been developed under the...
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A teenager has been apprehended for allegedly sexually assaulting and murdering a five-year-old boy, the police said on Sunday.The accused, a worker of a timber depot, lured the victim by offering to buy him biscuits on August 12 and took him to an isolated place near his house and sexually...
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Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn's Bengaluru factory, its second-largest manufacturing unit, has commenced operation with production of iPhone 17 recently at a small scale, sources aware of the development said. Foxconn is the largest manufacturer of iPhones, and the second-biggest...
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Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw invited West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee to the inauguration of three metro projects in Kolkata on August 22. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the Sealdah-Esplanade section of the Green Line, Hemanta Mukhopadhyay (Ruby...
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The building owner and his son were arrested in connection with the devastating fire that broke out in a plastic articles manufacturing unit near KR Market in Bengaluru, killing five people, including a family of four, police said on Sunday. The police arrested building owner Balakrishnayya...
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A 15-year-old boy died and another person suffered injuries after an electric pole fell on a group of people during Dahi Handi celebration on Janmashtami in Gujarat's Kutch district, the police said on Sunday.The incident, captured on video, showed an electric pole tied to a rope collapsing on a...
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Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad to flag off Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's 16-day Vote Adhikar Yatra (right to vote march) from Sasaram on Sunday. In a bid to send a strong political message, Lalu has decided to join Rahul led Vote Adhikar Yatra. Laluji himself...
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that he would be meeting with US President Donald Trump on Monday for diplomatic efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict, just two days after the historic bilateral meeting between Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska.In a...
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A 25-year-old man was apprehended for allegedly mowing down a man with his Thar SUV in west Delhi's Moti Nagar, the police said on Sunday.Amrinder Singh (25), a resident of Sudarshan Park, allegedly rammed his vehicle into the motorcycle of Bhikshu Lal (40). The biker died on the spot, the police...
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Noted documentary filmmaker Rakesh Sharma has been chosen for the lifetime achievement award of the 17th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, to be held Thiruvananthapuram from August 22 to 27. The award, carrying a cash prize of Rs 2 lakh, citation and statuette,...
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A second year engineering student at a private university in Greater Noida allegedly ended life by hanging at his hostel room, the police said on Sunday. In his suicide note, Shivam Dey held no one responsible for his death and requested the university to refund the fee to his...
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Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir has ruled out any change in the leadership, describing rumours about the removal of President Asif Ali Zardari as completely false and against both the government and the establishment, a media report said on Saturday.In July, social media reports began to circulate...
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A day after rains battered parts of Mumbai, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast the possibility of heavy to very heavy showers with occasional gusty winds in the city and suburbs on Sunday, civic officials said.After heavy overnight downpour, the rain intensity decreased on Sunday...
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The Shiv Sena-UBT and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena will most certainly form an alliance for the upcoming local body polls in Maharashtra, but the final call on it is likely to take place very close to the elections, leaders from both the parties have said.While Shiv Sena-UBT chief Uddhav...
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With heavy rains lashing Mumbai and its suburbs, the Tulsi lake, one of the seven reservoirs supplying drinking water to the metropolis, has overflowed, a civic official said on Sunday. The Tulsi lake, situated in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in suburban Mumbai, started overflowing at...
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At least one person was killed and several others injured on Sunday when four carriages of a passenger train derailed in Pakistan's Punjab province, according to a media report. The derailment occurred near the province's Lodhran railway station, Geo News reported. The train was...
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Three bike-borne attackers sprayed over two dozen rounds outside YouTuber Elvish Yadav's residence in Sector 57 of Gurugram early Sunday morning, police said. Yadav was not at home when the incident happened around 5.30 am.However, some family members were inside but no one was injured in...
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A 39-year-old man allegedly raped his mother in central Delhi's Hauz Qazi area after she returned from a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, police said on Saturday. According to officials, the complainant, accompanied by her 25-year-old daughter, approached the Hauz Qazi police station and...
09:19
The Dharmaveer Swarajya Rakshak Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj Road, popularly known as Mumbai Coastal Road, has been opened 24X7 for all kinds of four-wheelers and buses, a civic official said.All the work of the coastal road is finished, an order said, following which the entire stretch was...
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A cloudburst struck a remote village in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, leaving four persons dead and six others injured, officials said on Sunday.The cloudburst struck Jod Ghati village of Rajbagh during the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, snapping access to the village and...
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Security has been heightened around a disputed mausoleum in Fatehpur as a Hindu organisation, the Math Mandir Sanrakshan Sangharsh Samiti, on Saturday announced plans to hold a 'kirtan' (devotional singing) at the site. This move comes amidst a tense standoff following a recent...
08:21
Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla returned to India in the early hours of Sunday after his historic visit to the International Space Station (ISS).Shukla, who has been in the US training for the Axiom-4 mission to the ISS over the past year, was welcomed at the airport by Union Minister Jitendra Singh,...
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