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The forest department arrested a 35-year-old man on Wednesday for allegedly chopping off two paws of a leopard that died after getting entangled in a snare laid to hunt pigs in Indore district of Madhya Pradesh, an official said. The two paws of the leopard, an air gun and sharp weapons were...
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Actor Chandrachur Singh, known for his roles in 1990s films including the hit Maachis, has approached the Aligarh district administration over a family dispute over a sprawling ancestral estate dating back to the 19th century. On Tuesday, Chandrachur Singh and his brother met senior...
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Security forces and police conducted a joint search operation in the border areas of Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district as part of heightened vigilance along the International Border (IB), officials said on Wednesday. BSF troops and the Border Police Post carried out a joint search...
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A school van driver here has been arrested and sent to jail for allegedly touching an eight-year-old girl student inappropriately, the Lucknow police said on Wednesday. A charge sheet was filed in the case within 40 hours of receiving the complaint, they said. According to Rajneesh...
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O Panneerselvam
The ousted AIADMK leader O Panneerselvam called on Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the national capital on Wednesday. He discussed the political developments in Tamil Nadu during the meeting, Panneerselvam said. It was a courtesy call. I discussed the political developments in Tamil...
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An effigy became a bone of contention at a rally staged on Wednesday to mark the 41st anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy with the Bharatiya Janata Party alleging it depicted an RSS 'sevak', prompting the police to register an FIR against event organisers for promoting enmity and...
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A 45 year-old government lawyer was hacked to death in this district on Wednesday in a suspected case of land dispute, the police said.The victim, identified as Muthukumarasamy, was attacked by a two-wheeler borne man with a sharp-edged weapon outside the former's office in this town. The man was...
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Local Hindu organisations along with political parties have joined the protests against the planned tree felling in Tapovan area in Nashik for setting up a `Sadhu Gram' or settlement for religious leaders ahead of the next year's Kumbh Mela. Activists of the Hindu Mahasabha recited the...
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A stray dog died on Wednesday after biting a country-made bomb used for hunting wild animals, which exploded on the railway tracks, the police said. No humans were injured in the incident.The explosion occurred when the dog accidentally bit an onion-shaped country-made explosive wrapped in a...
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Congress general secretary KC Venugopal on Wednesday dismissed reports of a rift within the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha's Hemant Soren-led INDIA bloc government in the state.Venugopal said the alliance is rock-solid, cohesive and committed to people-centric policies.In a post on X, Venugopal wrote,...
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Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar
Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Wednesday assumed the chairship of the council of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) for the year 2026.India has been elected as the new chair of council of member states of International IDEA in...
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A coalition of five proscribed groups in Manipur on Wednesday asked all individuals and organisations which participated in the recently concluded Sangai Festival to issue a public apology before December 10, calling the event a betrayal of the suffering of internally displaced persons...
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The Himachal Pradesh high court on Wednesday ordered status quo on the lower two floors of the five-storey Sanjauli mosque in Shimla, while maintaining that the top three floors must be demolished as per the Shimla Municipal Commissioner Court's directions. A single judge bench of Justice...
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With the arrest of two foreign nationals, police on Wednesday said they have seized over 10 kg of MDMA crystal and eight kg of hydro ganja, with an estimated market value of around Rs 28.75 crore. The arrests were made by the Bengaluru City Central Crime Branch (CCB) Narcotics Wing as part...
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Delhi's Patiala House Court on Wednesday reserved its order on the bail pleas of three individuals arrested in connection with a protest at India Gate, with the police opposing the bail requests.The protesters, including students, were detained for allegedly raising anti-national slogans and...
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The rupee breached the 90-a-dollar level for the first time to settle at a fresh all-time low of 90.21 (provisional) on Wednesday, down 25 paise from its previous close, amid sustained foreign fund outflows and higher crude oil prices. Uncertainty over the India-US trade deal, along with the...
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Two Delhi University colleges received emails on Wednesday warning them of bomb threats, triggering massive security checks, evacuations and panic among students before the alerts were declared a hoax, officials said. Ramjas College in the northern part of the national capital and Deshbandhu...
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A massive fire broke out in the Nowpora area of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, engulfing 4-5 houses in the congested neighbourhood on Wednesday. The fire was reported at 1:45 pm, and emergency services responded, dispatching nearby fire stations to the scene. Fire tenders are on site, and...
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The manufacturer of Coldrif syrup, whose consumption is alleged to have killed at least 20 children in Madhya Pradesh, used industrial-grade raw materials instead of pharma-grade sans quality checks to prepare the medicine, an ED probe has found. The federal probe agency further claimed that...
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The family of veteran actor Dharmendra immersed his ashes in the Ganga at Har Ki Pauri in Haridwar on Wednesday, the family's priest said. Known affectionately as the He-Man of Indian cinema, the legendary actor passed away on November 24 at the age of 89. The rituals were kept...
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A Delhi court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing on a complaint against former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and others over alleged illegal hoardings put up in Dwarka in 2019. The matter has now been listed for December 11. Additional chief judicial magistrate Neha Mittal had earlier...
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Russian counterpart Andrey Belousov./Courtesy X@rajnathsingh/ANI Photo
India's keenness in procurement of S-400 missile systems, upgrade of Sukhoi 30 fighter jets and purchasing other critical military hardware from Russia will be on the agenda for talks between Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Russian counterpart Andrey Belousov on Thursday. Top...
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The Delhi police busted a drugs syndicate operating across Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Tripura, and arrested five alleged members involved in the supply and sale of cannabis, an official said on Wednesday. A total of 51.5 kg of cannabis, over Rs 1 lakh cash and a car used for...
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Amid growing concerns over air pollution in the national capital, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Rajya Sabha MP P Wilson on Wednesday termed it a gas chamber, urging the government to reconsider holding the winter session of Parliament amid the peak smog period. Participating in a debate on a...
17:20
From the Sensex firms, Bharat Electronics, Mahindra & Mahindra, Titan, NTPC, State Bank of India, Adani Ports, Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles and Bajaj Finserv were among the major laggards. Tata Consultancy Services, ICICI Bank, Infosys and HDFC Bank were among the gainers.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that Home Minister Amit Shah was behind the ploy of implementing the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state, months before the assembly polls. Banerjee, addressing a rally in Malda, called the SIR a...
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A chaotic situation unfolded at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here after Indigo airlines cancelled 13 flights to various destinations, including Delhi and Bangalore from here, airport sources said. The airport, however, maintained that some IndiGo flights have been impacted due to...
16:21
Stock market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty ended lower in a largely range-bound trade on Wednesday amid persistent foreign fund outflows and profit-taking by investors. Falling for the fourth day in a row, the 30-share BSE Sensex dipped 31.46 points or 0.04 per cent to settle at...
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The government on Wednesday withdrew the order mandating pre-installation of cyber security app Sanchar Saathi on smartphones by manufacturers. The Department of Telecom said that it is removing the order mandating installation of the Sanchar Saathi app, following a 10-fold jump in voluntary app...
15:58
The Pulp Fiction director, 62, named Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down (2001) as the best film of the current century while appearing on The Bret Easton Ellis podcast on Tuesday. Read more here.
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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday said he would not travel to New Delhi unless he is formally invited. His comments come after Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar's visit to New Delhi on Wednesday to attend a wedding and to plan for a party event. The two leaders...
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The PM with West Bengal BJP MPs
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday asked BJP MPs from West Bengal to effectively counter the Trinamool Congress-led government in the state and work towards winning the assembly elections next year. BJP MPs from West Bengal met the prime minister, along with Khagen Murmu -- the Lok...
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A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday set aside a single bench order that annulled appointments of 32,000 primary school teachers in West Bengal. These teachers were recruited through the Teachers' Eligibility Test (TET) of 2014. The bench, presided by Justice Tapabrata...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has met Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut and enquired about his health. The meeting took place on Tuesday at the wedding of bureaucrat Rajesh Narvekar's son. Raut, a vocal spokesperson of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Sena (UBT), has been undergoing...
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IndiGo has cancelled over 70 flights, including those from Bengaluru and Mumbai airports, on Wednesday, mainly due to crew shortages, sources said. Scores of IndiGo flights were delayed at various airports, as the carrier struggled to get the crew for operating its flights, sources said....
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India's services sector growth accelerated during November, after losing some momentum in October, driven by a faster upturn in new business intakes and subdued price pressures, a monthly survey said on Wednesday.The seasonally adjusted HSBC India Services PMI Business Activity Index rose to 59.8...
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Chief Economics Adviser V Anantha Nageswaran on Wednesday said the government is not losing sleep over declining rupee, which has breached the 90-level against the greenback. The falling rupee is not affecting inflation or exports, he said on the sidelines of CII event in New...
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Amid privacy concerns over the Sanchar Saathi app, Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Wednesday asserted that snooping is neither possible nor will it happen with the app. Depending on the feedback, the ministry is ready to make changes to the order regarding the installation of the...
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India's low-cost carrier IndiGo on Wednesday issued a statement on ongoing flight delays, attributing the disruptions to multiple factors, including technical issues, airport congestion, and operational requirements, and stated that its teams are working diligently to normalise operations as soon...
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Rediff columnist and senior journalist Prem Panicker's shoutout to writer Arati Kumar Rao: So this is kind of a big deal: @AratiKumarRao makes it to the Foreign Affairs list of best books of 2025 with Marginlands.Read Pratap Bhanu Mehta's review here.
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A four-member specialist medical team from the UK arrived in Bangladesh on Wednesday to assist in the treatment of former prime minister Khaleda Zia, who remains in a critical condition in a private hospital in Dhaka. The delegation, led by Dr Richard Buell, visited Evercare Hospital soon...
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The cyclone has caused devastation in Sri Lanka as well
AIADMK member I S Inbadurai on Wednesday flagged the catastrophic impact of cyclone Ditwah on Tamil Nadu's farmers during Zero Hour in the Rajya Sabha, urging the Centre to immediately dispatch an assessment team as thousands of acres of cropland remains submerged. Cyclone Ditwah and the...
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The rupee plummeted to a new low of 90.25 against the greenback in the intra-day session on Wednesday, falling 29 paise from its previous close, amid FII outflows and sustained buying of dollars by banks. A decline in the domestic equity markets and the absence of an India-US trade deal put...
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U.S. media outlets could learn some lessons from The Caravan. Read more here.
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Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Wednesday said snooping is neither possible nor will it happen with the Sanchar Saathi safety app, amid a row over his ministry's order asking smartphone makers to preload the state-run cybersecurity app on all new devices. In Lok Sabha, Scindia...
12:40
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is offering a reward of up to USD 50,000 for information about an Indian national wanted for his alleged involvement in the 2017 murder of an Indian woman and her six-year-old son, with authorities here urging the government of India to extradite the...
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Congress parliamentary party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday claimed that since coming to power, the Modi government has displayed a particularly venal streak of cynicism in relation to environmental protection, while alleging that it has now nearly signed a death warrant for Aravalli...
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The Bharatiya Janata Janata won big in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) bypolls on Wednesday, winning 7 of the 12 wards, including all 5 reserved wards for women, which went to polls on November 30. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) 3 of the seats, while the All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) and the...
11:23
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet all the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs from West Bengal in Parliament on Wednesday, sources said. This meeting comes ahead of the Parliamentary discussion on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in 12 States and Union Territories,...
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The government's cyber security and safety app Sanchar Saathi recorded a 10-fold jump in downloads on Tuesday, rising from a daily average of around 60,000 to nearly 6 lakh, DoT sources said on Wednesday. The number of downloads jumped even as Opposition leaders and a section of industry...
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Karnataka Home Minister G. Parmeshwara on Wednesday said he does not wish to comment further on recent political differences, stating that any minor issues have been resolved. He added that he is heading to Mangaluru to attend an unpolitical event. Speaking to reporters, Parameshwar said,...
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As many as 499 children were reported kidnapped in Maharashtra's Navi Mumbai township between January and November this year and the police managed to trace 458 of them, while 41 remain missing, officials said on Wednesday. Among the 458 recovered children, the reasons for their...
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has asserted that former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru wanted to use government funds to build Babri Masjid, but it was the then Home Minister Sadar Vallabhbhai Patel who opposed the idea, as he was truly secular. Remembering India's first Home Minister at...
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The Congress on Wednesday took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over repeated claims by the US that President Donald Trump brokered peace between India and Pakistan, saying no wonder the Modi-Trump huglomacy is in deep freeze. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that President...
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An Army soldier was killed during a routine military exercise in the Indira Gandhi canal in Rajasthan's Sriganganagar district, police said on Wednesday. The incident took place on Tuesday morning.There were two soldiers in the tank. While one managed to come out, the other got trapped. The...
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US President Donald Trump has brokered several peace deals, including the very dangerous ones like India and Pakistan, and deserves tremendous credit for reshaping America's foreign policy, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said.During a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday, Rubio said...
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Check-in systems of Air India and other airlines faced glitches due to a third party system disruption at various airports, resulting in flight delays on Tuesday evening. The problem persisted for at least 45 minutes before getting addressed, one of the sources said. A...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday stated Moscow is ready for a military confrontation if European nations choose escalation, accusing European governments of blocking diplomatic efforts on Ukraine. Speaking at an investment forum in Moscow, Putin stated, We are not planning to go...
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The Russian cabinet has cleared the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to deepen bilateral cooperation with India in civil nuclear energy during President Vladimir Putin's visit to the country on December 4-5.Russia's Rosatom nuclear corporation, which is building several reactors at...
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A tiger was found dead in the Saleghat range of the Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR) in Maharashtra's Nagpur district, a forest official said on Tuesday. All body parts of the animal were found intact, he said. A tiger carcass was found in Compartment No. 630 of Saleghat South Beat, Saleghat...
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The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force arrested a man from Lucknow on Tuesday in connection with illegal storage and trade of banned cough syrup and other drugs containing codeine, police said. According to a statement issued by the office of the Director General of Police, the Special Task...
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The Union home ministry on Tuesday appointed senior advocate Madhav Khurana as the special public prosecutor for conducting trial and other matters in the case related to the November 10 car blast near the Red Fort that claimed 15 lives, a government order said. Khurana has been appointed...
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