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Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi will initiate the debate on election reforms in the Lower House on Tuesday.The opposition has been demanding a discussion on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Parliament since the monsoon session, but the government...
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The rupee depreciated 10 paise to close at 90.05 against the US dollar on Monday, as elevated crude oil prices and persistent foreign fund outflows dented investor sentiments.Forex traders said multiple pressures, such as sustained importer demand for the American currency, foreign fund outflows...
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Civil Aviation Minister K Ram Mohan Naidu on Monday said the government will curtail IndiGo's winter flight schedule and allocate them to other operators following the airline's recent large-scale operational disruptions.We will curtail IndiGo's routes. They are currently operating 2,200 flights....
23:09
Japan issued a tsunami warning after a series of strong earthquakes struck off the east coast of Aomori Prefecture on Monday night, prompting authorities to urge residents in coastal areas to move to higher ground and remain there until further notice.According to the advisory issued by the Japan...
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The office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal will organise special camps in Sonagachi red light area of Kolkata on Tuesday to assist sex workers in filling up the Enumeration Forms (EFs), an official said.The camps will be held for marginalised electors of Sonagachi and...
22:37
A local Labour Party politician from west London has been fined 40,000 pounds after she lost an appeal against an immigration law breach for hiring an Indian student as a nanny illegally.Hina Mir, a councillor and a qualified solicitor, was found to have hired 22-year-old Himanshi Gongley for...
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Shares of InterGlobe Aviation, the parent company of IndiGo, tanked nearly 9 per cent on Monday, wiping out Rs 17,884.76 crore from its market valuation as the disruptions in the crisis-hit airline's flight operations entered the seventh day.The stock plunged 8.62 per cent to settle at Rs...
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Police have detained two teenage girl inmates of a government observation home in Thane district of Maharashtra in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a 14-year-old female boarder, an official said on Monday.The alleged incident occurred at the Observation Home/Children's Home in...
21:19
Aviation safety regulator DGCA on Monday said it has received IndiGo's response to the show cause notice issued over the large-scale flight cancellations and will take enforcement action.It also said that the airline is 'profusely apologetic' and deeply regrets the inconvenience and hardship...
21:08
IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers and COO Isidre Porqueras have filed replies to the show cause notices issued by the aviation safety regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation over the airline's massive flight disruptions, an airline source said on Monday.The two top executives of the airline were...
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Opposition MPs lashed out at the government on Monday over the Vande Mataram debate in the Lok Sabha, calling it an attempt at diverting attention and dividing the country.Some of them also claimed that the debate was started keeping in mind next year's West Bengal Assembly polls.Commenting on...
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Woes of flyers hit by mass flight cancellations by IndiGo found a compassionate ear in the Delhi high court, which agreed to hear one of the pleas on December 10, while the Supreme Court termed the consequent chaos a 'serious matter', but stopped short of intervening.Chief Justice of India Surya...
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Market investors became poorer by Rs 7.12 lakh crore as Sensex nosedived on Monday after two consecutive days of gains, as investors rushed to take profits amid unabated selling of stocks by foreign investors.The 30-share BSE Sensex plunged 609.68 points, or 0.71 per cent, to close at 85,102.69....
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Congress on Sunday suspended former MLA Dr Navjot Kaur Sidhu with immediate effect, a day after she claimed that her family does not have 'Rs 500 crore to give to any party to sit in the chief minister's chair'. She had also said that her husband Navjot Singh Sidhu would return to active...
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NTR Jr with director SS Rajamouli. Pic: Kind courtesy Jr NTR/Instagram
Telugu actor NTR Junior on Monday approached the Delhi high court seeking protection of his personality rightsThe plea came up before Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora who directed the social media platforms and e-commerce sites to treat the actor's suit as a complaint under the Information and...
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said the time had come for an unbiased evaluation of Vande Mataram and asserted that the entire song and the Anand Math book were never anti-Islam, but reflected the popular sentiments against the Nawab of Bengal and British imperialism. Participating...
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The Directorate General of Civil Aviation-appointed panel investigating the flight disruptions at IndiGo is likely to summon the airline's CEO Pieter Elbers and Chief Operating Officer Isidre Porqueras on Wednesday as part of the ongoing probe, according to a source on Monday.The four-member...
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The Centre has disbursed Rs 10,225.83 crore for the socio-economic development of the Sikh community and other minorities, including Rs 7,641 crore in the last 11 years, by providing concessional loan for self-employment income generation ventures, Union Minister George Kurian informed the Rajya...
18:38
India on Monday advised its nationals to exercise due discretion while travelling to or transiting through China.New Delhi's move came over two weeks after an Indian woman from Arunachal Pradesh was detained at Shanghai airport after the authorities refused to recognise her Indian passport as...
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The Centre on Monday opposed in the Supreme Court the request made by climate activist Sonam Wangchuk to appear through video conferencing from Jodhpur jail in the case related to his detention under the National Security Act.The top court was hearing a plea filed by Gitanjali J Angmo, wife of...
18:20
A Goa police team on Monday reached the residence of Gaurav and Saurabh Luthra, owners of the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub in Goa, where a devastating fire on Saturday night claimed 25 lives, near Delhi University as part of its probe into the incident, an official said. However, the Luthra...
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Janata Dal-United MP Kaushalendra Kumar on Monday defended Humayun Kabir, the West Bengal MLA who was suspended from his party, the Trinamool Congress, for laying foundation stone of 'Babri Masjid' in Murshidabad district of the neighbouring state.The JD-U leader shared his views while talking to...
17:36
Among the Sensex constituents, Bharat Electronics Ltd, Eternal, Trent, Tata Steel, Bajaj Finance, Adani Ports, Bajaj Finserv, State Bank of India, PowerGrid, Asian Paints, Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles, Titan, NTPC, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Larsen & Toubro and Bharti Airtel were among the...
17:34
Equity benchmark index Sensex nosedived on Monday after two consecutive days of gains, as investors rushed to take profits amid the unabated selling of stocks by foreign investors.Analysts said investors turned defensive ahead of this week's US Federal Reserve policy decision, which further...
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The Goa government on Monday constituted a four-member magisterial inquiry committee to ascertain the facts and circumstances that led up to the massive fire that gutted a nightclub, killing 25 people.According to officials, fireworks have emerged as the likely cause of the blaze at 'Birch by...
16:41
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a discussion on 150 years of 'Vande Mataram' in the Lok Sabha.Gandhi said the government is holding a debate on 'Vande Mataram' to divert the attention of the people.The government wants us to keep...
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Shiv Sena-UBT legislator Aaditya Thackeray on Monday claimed that 22 MLAs from a Mahauti ally have grown close to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and are ready to switch sides, an oblique reference to Deputy CM Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena. In June 2022, the Shiv Sena split...
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Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav on Monday hit out at the BJP, claiming that those who did not participate in the freedom struggle were now talking of the values of Vande Mataram and asserted that the national song should not be used as a tool to impose one's beliefs on others. ...
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In a first since ethnic violence broke out in Manipur in 2023, a Meitei MLA on Monday visited a relief camp set up for the Kuki community in Ukhrul district.BJP MLA Yumnam Khemchand Singh, who represents the Singjamei constituency in Imphal West, visited a camp at Litan Sareikhong and interacted...
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Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu said in the Rajya Sabha on Monday that the government has initiated an inquiry into IndiGo's mass flight cancellations and will take strict action against the operator to set an example for other airlines. Blaming the airline for its failure to manage the...
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Donation boxes kept for the proposed Babri Masjid-style mosque by suspended TMC MLA Humayun Kabir in West Bengal's Murshidabad district are nearly full, with cash-counting machines whirring through the night as donations continue to pour in both physically and online.At least Rs 37.33 lakh in...
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Saurabh Luthra, one of the owners of Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub in Arpora in North Goa, in which 25 persons were killed in a devastating fire, on Monday took to Instagram to express grief and asserted that the management will extend every possible form of assistance, support and cooperation to...
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As the Lok Sabha debated Vande Matram, Congress Deputy leader in Lok Sabha Guar Gogoi criticised Priem Minister Narendra Modi alleging that the PM used Pandit Nehru's name in most of his speeches, and that it was the Congress that had given importance to Vande Mataram. The Congress...
14:33
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to host a special dinner for all National Democratic Alliance (NDA) MPs on December 11 as part of efforts to strengthen coordination, enhance engagement and streamline floor strategy during the ongoing winter session of Parliament. According to a...
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The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport received bomb threat emails to three flights coming from different cities, including two international, and after security checks they were declared to be a hoax, the police said on Monday.The airport received emails on late Sunday night targeting British...
14:05
The opposition on Monday demanded in the Lok Sabha that the government should inform the country about what it is doing in the wake of the IndiGo flight disruptions and the inconvenience being faced by the people at various airports across the country. Speaker Om Birla said Civil...
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Accusing the nation's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru of bowing to the Muslim League, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the Lok Sabha that Nehru followed Muhammad Ali Jinnah in opposing 'Vande Mataram' because it could irritate Muslims.Modi said some forces had carried out vishwas ghaat...
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Vande Mataram became the voice of our freedom movement. It integrated everyone in the country and became the resolve of every Indian. 'Swaarth ka balidaan hai ye shabd Vande Mataram'... 'Veer ka abhimaan hai ye shabd Vande Mataram', Prime Minister Narendra Modi said during a discussion on 150...
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The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on a plea challenging his election from the Varuna assembly constituency in the 2023 state elections. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta issued notice to Siddaramaiah seeking his reply on a...
12:36
Vande Mataram is a mantra, a slogan which gave energy, inspiration, and showed the path for sacrifice and penance to the freedom movement,' Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in the Lok Sabha on Monday, initiating a discussion on 150 years of Vande Mataram. It is a matter of pride that we are...
12:24
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A TVK functionary was arrested for allegedly biting a policeman during the party's protest demanding closure of a liquor shop in the district, an official said on Monday.During the protest of Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam near Palacode in the district on December 7 against the newly opened liquor shop...
11:59
Reacting to the verdict in 2017 actress assault case, popular Malayalam actor Dileep said this was a conspiracy against him.This was a conspiracy against me. I thank all the lawyers and everybody else who helped mem Dileep, who was present in court, told mediapersons.A Kerala court on Monday...
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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to accord urgent hearing to a plea seeking judicial intervention into cancellation of hundreds of flights by IndiGo, saying the Centre has taken note of the situation and has taken steps to address it. The top court said it was cognisant of the fact that...
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A Kerala court on Monday acquitted Malayalam actor Dileep in a case relating to the sexual assault of a South Indian actress in Kochi in 2017.The court, however, found six others, including prime accused Sunil N S alias Pulsar Suni, who directly committed the crime, guilty.Apart from Dileep, the...
11:29
Rajiv Gandhi International Airport has received bomb threats to three flights coming from different cities, including two international, sources said on Monday.The airport received emails on late Sunday night targeting British Airways' (BA 277) from Heathrow, Lufthansa's (LH 752) from Frankfurt...
11:26
Actor Sunny Deol shared a video of his late father and Bollywood legend Dharmendra on his 90th birthday and said he is always with him. Dharmendra, whose career spanned over six decades, died on November 24 in Mumbai at the age of 89. Just a few weeks before his 90th...
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The Goa government has intensified its crackdown on the controversial Romeo Lane club chain after a deadly fire at one of its outlets claimed 25 lives, officials said on Monday. Two other properties of the hospitality company in Goa have been sealed, they said. A state police team also...
10:27
Flight disruptions at IndiGo entered the seventh day as the crisis-hit carrier cancelled over 300 flights.According to airport officials, 134 flights have been cancelled in Delhi and 127 in Bengaluru. At Chennai airport, 71 flights have been cancelled. Several flights have also been...
10:03
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will initiate the debate on the 150th anniversary of Vande Mataram in Lok Sabha on Monday, which is expected to bring to light several important and previously unknown facets about the national song.Lok Sabha has listed 'Discussion on the 150th anniversary of national...
09:54
After record festival season sales in October, electric two-wheeler registrations skid 21 per cent to 110,761 units in November, even as a new phase of competition begins with global brands entering the market. They face stiff resistance from domestic players, who themselves are seeing rapid...
09:47
TV actor Gaurav Khanna is the winner of the popular reality TV show Bigg Boss season 19 after he beat rival Farrhana Bhatt to claim the trophy. Show host and Bollywood superstar Salman Khan presented Khanna with the prize money of over Rs 50 lakh and the trophy. It is yet to sink...
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The atmosphere became tense in the Jwalapur area of Haridwar in Uttarakhand on Sunday when a procession being taken out by the Bajrang Dal was allegedly pelted with stones, officials said. The police and administration quickly arrived at the scene and prevented the situation from escalating...
09:22
Ten hardcore Naxalites carrying a collective bounty of Rs 2.36 crore have surrendered in Madhya Pradesh's Balaghat district, prompting Chief Minister Mohan Yadav to declare Dindori and Mandla completely free from the Naxal influence.The Naxalites, including four women, laid down their modern...
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A preliminary inquiry into the devastating nightclub fire in Goa suggests that electric firecrackers were set off inside the premises, sparking a blaze that claimed 25 lives, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has said.The North Goa-based nightclub teeming with revellers turned into a death trap around...
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