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The National Investigation Agency on Thursday filed a chargesheet against three more accused in connection with the 2024 bomb attacks at two Gurugram clubs, allegedly carried out by members of the proscribed Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terrorist organisation. Vijay, Ajit Sehrawat, and...
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Russia's state-run nuclear corporation on Thursday said it has delivered the first consignment of nuclear fuel for initial loading of the third reactor at the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu. The delivery of the nuclear fuel coincided with Russian President Vladimir Putin's...
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The National Investigation Agency on Thursday arrested four people after extensive searches at multiple locations in three states, including Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, in connection with an organised arms and ammunition trafficking case. Twenty-two teams of NIA conducted simultaneous searches...
22:56
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman meets Russia's first deputy PM Denis Manturov, in New Delhi./@FinMinIndia X/ANI Photo
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharam met a Russian delegation led by Denis Manturov, first deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, in New Delhi, and both sides discussed various issues of mutual interest, encompassing investment, banking and finance. Both India and Russia expressed...
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Former Mizoram governor Swaraj Kaushal
President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday condoled the death of former Mizoram governor Swaraj Kaushal and said his contributions will always be remembered. Kaushal, the husband of late BJP veteran and former external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj, passed away on Thursday afternoon. He was...
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The ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Gujarat has revealed that more than 17 lakh deceased voters were still included in the existing voter list across the state, said a release by the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) on Thursday. The SIR exercise...
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Congress MLA Rahul Mamkootathil/File image
A YouTuber was arrested for allegedly defaming the complainant in the rape case against expelled Congress leader Rahul Mamkootathil on social media platforms, police said on Thursday. The arrested person is Jerin (39), of Velloor here, who runs a YouTube channel named 'Voice of Malayale,'...
21:58
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that growing cooperation between India and Russia is not targeted at any third country, including the United States, while addressing questions on the future of bilateral ties and Washington's reactions to them.In an interview with Aaj Tak and India Today...
21:44
Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal
Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal on Thursday informed Rajya Sabha that there was no proposal to increase the retirement age of judges. The minister, during question hour, also informed the upper house that 297 posts of high court judges are vacant and 97 cases are under process.There is...
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Pak army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday formally asked President Asif Ali Zardari to appoint chief of the Army staff Field Marshal Asim Munir as the first Chief of Defence Forces of Pakistan. Last month, the parliament passed the 27th Constitutional Amendment providing to create the post...
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Two magisterial courts on Thursday remanded four protesters to seven days of judicial custody in a case relating to the alleged use of pepper spray on police personnel during a demonstration at the India Gate over pollution last month. The four accused are Ravjot Kaur, Gurkirat Kaur, Kranti...
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Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh
Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh on Thursday met Shiv Sena-UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray. A Shiv Sena-UBT functionary termed it as a courtesy meeting, which took place at Matoshri, Thackeray's residence in Bandra in Mumbai. However, the meeting with Thackeray by a...
20:46
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin/Courtesy Narendra Modi on X
Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his pleasure in welcoming Russian President Vladimir Putin to India. In a post on X, Modi described the two leaders as friends and highlighted the longstanding relationship between the two countries, noting that the India-Russia friendship has 'greatly...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived at 7 LKM, the official residence of the PM. Modi is hosting a private dinner for Putin, in reciprocal gesture to the hospitality extended to the Indian prime minister by the Russian leader during his visit to...
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A chaotic situation prevailed at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad for the second consecutive day on Thursday as IndiGo cancelled 37 outbound flights, leaving aggrieved flyers stranded without alternative arrangements or clear communication, sources said.A similar number of...
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Six female students were booked for protesting against a burqa-niqab ban in an educational institution in Mumbai's Goregoan area, a police official said on Thursday. The action was taken after information was received that some women were on a hunger strike outside Vivek Vidyalaya and...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin at Delhi's Palam Airport.The two leaders then shook hands and hugged each other.Later, they traveled in the same official car as they left the airport in Delhi.
19:11
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in New Delhi Thursday evening on a two-day visit to further expand a nearly eight-decade India-Russia partnership that remained in stead notwithstanding a fractious geopolitical environment. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host a private dinner for...
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A goods train derailed near the Panvel railway station in Raigad district on Thursday afternoon, affecting railway traffic on the busy Mumbai-Goa route for nearly an hour, a Central Railway (CR) official said.Nobody was injured in the incident, he said.The derailment occurred at a crossing point...
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The Reserve Bank will announce the bi-monthly monetary policy on Friday amid expectations of a 25-basis point reduction in interest rate. Some experts, however, are of the view that the central bank may maintain the status quo on the repo rate for the third consecutive...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reached the Palam airport in New Delhi to receive Russian President Vladimir Putin.The Russian leader's nearly 27-hour visit to New Delhi has assumed greater significance as it is taking place against the backdrop of rapid downturn in India-US relations.Modi will...
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday lashed out at TMC MP Saugata Roy for objecting to her speaking in Hindi on a bill, pointing out that the translation technology allows members to listen to speeches in any language. Roy, while speaking about the Health Security se...
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Security agencies launched an extensive search operation in Ajmer on Thursday after the district administration received an email threatening to blow up the Ajmer Sharif dargah and the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant with RDX-based explosives, police said. The email, received at the...
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Security forces have discovered the bodies of at least 18 Maoists, who were killed in an exchange of fire during an anti-Naxal operation along the Bijapur-Dantewada border in the Bastar region, an official said on Thursday.The encounter between Naxalites and security forces went on for nearly 12...
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Former Mizoram governor and senior advocate Swaraj Kaushal died on Thursday, Delhi BJP said in a statement. He was 73. Kaushal, husband of late BJP veteran Sushma Swaraj, was the father of New Delhi MP Bansuri Swaraj. We are sorry to inform the sudden demise of former Governor of Mizoram,...
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Snapping the four-day losing run, benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty rebounded on Thursday on buying in tech and IT shares. The 30-share BSE Sensex edged higher by 158.51 points or 0.19 per cent to settle at 85,265.32. During the day, it rose by 380.4 points or 0.44 per cent to...
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Luggage of passengers whose Indigo flights were cancelled sits at Pune airport.
Flight operations at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport continued to face heavy disruption on Thursday, with a total of 34 departures and 37 arrivals cancelled as of 4 PM, as confirmed by Delhi Airport.Meanwhile, flight operations at Delhi Airport faced major disruptions on...
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Family of former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia, who remains in a critical condition here, is preparing to transfer her to London, where her son and BNP acting chairperson Tarique Rahman lives, media reports said Thursday.Zia, the 80-year-old Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson,...
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The country's largest airline IndiGo on Thursday cancelled more than 300 domestic and international flights at Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, and other airports, as operational disruptions continued for the third day, impacting the travel plans of hundreds of passengers. A significant number of...
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A frozen river in Kashmir
Kashmir reeled under cold conditions as the minimum temperature settled below the freezing point, even as a thick layer of fog engulfed most parts of the valley, officials said on Thursday. The night temperature in Srinagar settled at a low of minus 4 degrees Celsius on Wednesday night,...
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Writer Ruchir Joshi's Great Eastern Hotel, Prajakta Koli's debut novel Too Good To Be True, Mohar Basu's biography on Shah Rukh Khan and bestselling children's author Sudha Murty's Grandpa's Bag of Stories were among the winners at the coveted 19th Crossword Book Awards for both jury and popular...
15:02
Indigo passenger Mukesh Jaiswal
Indigo passengers across the country suffer over flight delays and cancellations. A passenger, Mukesh Kumar Jaiswal at Ahmedabad airport says, They said that your flight is delayed by 4 hours. He told me my flight would be here at 8 PM, but that's not final. They just told me to...
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IndiGo flight cancellations/delays: IndiGo officials arrive for a meeting with the Directorate General of Civil Aviation. They have been summoned today in the wake of the terrible chaos at airports across India due to flight delays and cancellations by the airline. Domestic carrier...
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Congress expels MLA Rahul Mamkootathil, accused in rape case, from primary membership of party. In a fresh development, a second young woman has come forward with serious allegations of sexual assault against suspended Congress MLA Rahul Mankootathil. The victim has sent a detailed...
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An IndiGo flight from Madinah in Saudi Arabia to Hyderabad was diverted to Ahmedabad on Thursday following a bomb threat, a police official said.The flight landed safely at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad around 12:30 pm, and all passengers and crew were deboarded...
14:11
Flight operations at Delhi Airport faced major disruptions on Thursday as a total of 95 IndiGo flights, 48 departures and 47 arrivals across domestic and international sectors, were cancelled since morning, according to airport authorities.Earlier in the day, airport officials confirmed that...
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A goods train derailed near the Panvel railway station in Raigad district on Thursday afternoon, affecting railway traffic on the busy Mumbai-Goa route, a Central Railway (CR) official said. Nobody was injured in the incident, he said. The derailment occurred at a crossing point near the...
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Ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to India, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, on Thursday, alleged that the Centre suggests that the foreign dignitaries not meet the LoP.Speaking to reporters outside the Parliament, Rahul Gandhi said it was tradition under former...
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It was a shop that we grew up with -- and one that saw us grow. As children in boarding school, items bought from Krishnaji's store were like living symbols from home, writes Archana Masih/Rediff. Read the column here.
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The Bombay High Court on Thursday granted bail to former Delhi University professor Hany Babu, more than five years after his arrest in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case. A division bench of Justices A S Gadkari and Ranjitsinha Bhosale allowed the bail plea of Babu. The detailed order was...
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Passengers faced chaotic scenes at Telangana's Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) in Hyderabad, on Thursday, after significant delays in IndiGo flight movements, leading to long queues, confusion and distress among travellers.According to airport officials, several IndiGo flights were...
12:47
Flipkart announced the appointment of former senior Meta executive Dan Neary to its board of directors.Neary brings extensive global technology and leadership experience to the board, and his appointment highlights Flipkart's commitment to strengthening governance and accelerating its next phase...
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India has started working on providing visa-on-arrival on a reciprocal basis, where countries that offer the facility to Indian tourists would get the same benefit when tourists from their countries visit India, Minister of Tourism and Culture Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said at the CII India Edge...
12:42
Delhi is witnessing a record rise in power demand due to the early onset of winter this year, with the second half of November registering the highest daily power usage compared to the corresponding period over the last five years, according to latest data from the State Load Dispatch Centre...
12:34
Houthis in Yemen. File pic
An Indian national from Kerala, who was in detention of Houthi rebels in war-torn Yemen since early July, has been released. Anilkumar Raveendran was among the crew members of cargo ship MV Eternity C. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said India welcomes the release of Raveendran,...
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West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress on Thursday suspended its Bharatpur MLA Humayun Kabir, who had triggered a storm with the proposal to build 'Babri Masjid' in Murshidabad district. Kabir, who has hogged the limelight over the last few years with his controversial statements on various...
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Domestic carrier IndiGo has cancelled over 180 flights from three major airports on Thursday, as the Gurugram-based airline struggles to secure the required crew to operate its flights in the wake of new flight-duty and rest-period norms for pilots. IndiGo has cancelled over 180 flights on...
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The damage done to Anoushka Shankar's sitar by Air India
Renowned sitar player Anoushka Shankar expressed her disappointment with Air India after her instrument was damaged during a flight. Taking to her Instagram, she shared a video detailing the entire damage occured in her instrument, First, I was just looking at the top of my sitar and I thought...
11:26
I love interacting with Bengalis in general, though I do miss being present physically at the literary fests in Kolkata. Writing is a lonely process, says Dalrymple. Read the interview here.
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The Sanchar Saathi app saga's message to the critics of Modi government is: protest loudly because it is possible to get this administration to reverse its policy. Read more here.
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Pilots' body Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) has alleged that IndiGo, despite getting a two-year preparatory window before the full implementation of new flight duty and rest period norms for cockpit crew, inexplicably adopted a hiring freeze. FIP said it has urged the safety regulator,...
11:08
The US government has expanded screening and vetting measures for H-1B visa applicants and their H-4 dependents, directing them to keep the privacy settings on all their social media profiles set to public. In a new order issued Wednesday, the State Department said beginning December 15, a...
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Congress MP Manish Tewari on Thursday recalled the time that the BJP had mocked the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) regime for the falling rate of the rupee and noted that the current rate has far exceeded even the age of Prime Minister Narendra Modi now.Tewari said that during the time of the...
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The national capital is on high alert on Thursday, as a multi-layered security grid has been enforced for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is landing in Delhi in the evening for his two-day visit to India. The exact location of his stay remains undisclosed due to strict security norms,...
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Forty-two members of the United States Congress, led by Democratic Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and Congressman Greg Casar, have written to Secretary of State Marco Rubio demanding immediate sanctions against senior Pakistani officials for what they termed an escalating campaign of transnational...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host a private dinner for Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, hours after he lands in Delhi to expand overall bilateral strategic and economic partnership against the backdrop of frosty ties between India and the US. Boosting defence ties,...
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As many as 33 outbound Indigo flights are expected to be cancelled from here on Thursday, Rajiv Gandhi International Airport sources said. Similarly, 35 incoming flights are also likely to be cancelled during the day, they said. Indigo cancelled 19 flights from Hyderabad on Wednesday. We...
10:03
The Indian rupee plunged to an all-time low against the US dollar on Wednesday, crossing the psychologically significant 90 mark amid foreign fund outflows. The development came amid firm crude oil prices and perceived uncertainty around the India-US trade deal. The Indian Rupee has been...
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has appealed to the people to avoid visiting the seashore in the city as a high tide of 4.96 metres is expected on Thursday.High tides exceeding 4 metres have been forecast between December 4 and 7.As per the BMC, the Arabian Sea here will witness a...
09:35
The 'C' rating assigned by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to India's national accounts data was linked only to the country's use of an old base year of 2011-2012 for GDP data, and the IMF had not questioned India's growth numbers, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on...
09:27
New Delhi and Moscow are discussing the possibility of manufacturing Russia-designed nuclear small modular reactors (SMRs) in India, the government told Parliament on Wednesday.Jitendra Singh, minister of state in the Department of Atomic Energy, said a meeting took place between DAE and Russias...
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A mild earthquake of magnitude 4.1 shook Bangladesh early Thursday, with tremors felt in the capital Dhaka and neighbouring districts.The quake hit at 6:14 am local time, with the epicentre located at a depth of 30 km in Narsingdi, news portal tbsnews.net reported, quoting the...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to inaugurate the broadcasting of Russia Today's RT India news channel on Friday.Putin is scheduled to land in India on Thursday evening, and will have dinner with Prime Minister Narendra Modi where the two leaders are expected to take stock of...
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The Enforcement Directorate has provisionally attached two immovable properties worth Rs 2.58 crore as part of a money laundering probe against assistant drug controller in Himachal Pradesh, Nishant Sareen, and his associate Komal Khanna, the agency said in a statement on Wednesday. The...
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation on Wednesday issued an advisory urging citizens to avoid visiting the seashore as high tides exceeding 4.5 metres are forecast between December 4 and 7. The highest tide with waves reaching 5.03 metres at 12.39 am is expected on December 6, the civic...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has warned that countries such as the United States and those in Europe could undermine their own interests and end up being net losers if they place excessive curbs on immigration and hinder the movement of skilled workers.Speaking at India's World...
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