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Ten persons were arrested on Monday in connection with an alleged religious conversion case in Mirzapur, officials said.According to the police, the case was registered at Kotwali Dehat police station on Sunday on the complaint of Anand Dubey, a resident of Kurkuthiya village. The...
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A 17-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped and robbed of her gold ornaments, while returning from a popular tourist spot near Odisha's Bhubaneswar, police said on Monday. The incident took place around 8 pm on December 10 when the girl was returning home from the Dhauli Hills, popularly...
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President Droupadi Murmu has withheld assent to three amendment Bills passed by the West Bengal Assembly, seeking to replace the governor of the state with the chief minister as chancellor of state-run universities, an official said on Monday. As a result, Governor CV Ananda Bose will...
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A total of 2,809 farmers have died by suicide in Karnataka since the 2023-24 fiscal year, with the state ranking second in the country for such suicides, minister N Cheluvarayaswamy has informed the state legislative assembly. In a written reply to a question from BJP MLA Arvind Bellad...
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Bad weather forced the cancellation of four flights and delayed the operation of 38 inbound and outbound flights at the Srinagar International Airport on Monday, officials said.An official of the Airport Authority of India (AAI) said while four IndiGo flights were cancelled due to operational...
22:25
Dense fog disrupted flight operations at Delhi Airport on Monday, with various airlines cancelling 228 flights and diverting five to nearby airports due to low visibility, an official said. However, except for Air India, which had in an X post in the morning announced the cancellation of...
22:23
A large cache of arms, including four semi-automatic rifles and a grenade launcher, along with Rs 11.57 lakh cash were seized from Maoist dumps in Balaghat in Madhya Pradesh, a police official said on Monday. The recoveries were made on the basis of information provided by 12...
22:21
A terrorist was believed to be injured in an encounter with security forces in a remote forest village in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday evening, officials said. The gunfight has stopped but the area has been put under tight security cordon and all escape routes have been...
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The Jharkhand high court on Monday quashed criminal proceedings against BJP MP Nishikant Dubey for allegedly assaulting a person on the charge of cow smuggling in Deoghar. Dubey had challenged the FIR registered against him at Manoharpur police station in Deoghar. In the complaint, it...
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Draft electoral rolls of three states and two Union Territories will be published on Tuesday as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of voters' list. The Election Commission said draft rolls of West Bengal, Rajasthan, Goa, Puducherry and Lakshadweep will be published on...
21:26
A 35-year-old worker from Bihar died and another sustained severe burns following sudden leakage of molten metal from a furnace at a steel factory in Medak district of Telangana on Monday evening, police said. The accident occurred at around 4 PM when the furnace suddenly ruptured, resulting...
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Offline classes for students from nursery to Class 5 have been suspended across Delhi in view of the sharp rise in the Air Quality Index, the Delhi government said on Monday. Schools have been directed to conduct online classes for these grades until further notice. The government...
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A court in Kochi on Monday granted custody of the prime accused to NIA in a case relating to the alleged trafficking of people to Iran for organ harvesting. NIA court judge Hafees Mohammed granted custody of prime accused Madhu Jayakumar of Vattathipadam, Palarivattom, who was recently...
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Wildlife census in Jharkhand began on Monday, with officials using a mobile application for data collection, forest department officials said.This census is being conducted in 31 territorial forest areas (general forest divisions) and five protected forest areas (wildlife divisions) of the state,...
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The rupee on Monday crashed to its lowest-ever level of 90.80 before settling at a fresh all-time low of 90.74 (provisional) against the US dollar, registering a loss of 25 paise over its previous close, weighed down by uncertainty over an India-US trade deal and persistent foreign fund...
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The Special National Investigation Agency court on Monday extended the custody of Dr Bilal Nasir Malla and Shoyeb, arrested in connection with the Red Fort blast case, for a further four days.Both accused were produced after their NIA custody expired.Principal district and session judge (special...
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A Rapido bike taxi rider was arrested in Kalyan in Thane district for allegedly molesting a 26-year-old woman passenger and stealing Rs 1000 from her, a police official said on Monday. Rider Siddhesh Pardeshi (19), a class VII drop out, was arrested on Sunday for the incident which...
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Gold prices surged by Rs 4,000 to touch an all-time high of Rs 1,37,600 per 10 grams in the national capital on Monday, tracking firm global cues, according to the All India Sarafa Association.The precious metal of 99.9 per cent purity had closed at Rs 1,33,600 per 10 grams on Friday.Gold prices...
19:06
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday filed chargesheet against seven accused in the Pahalgam terror attack case, including the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayiba/The Resistance Front (TRF) terrorist organisation. The chargesheet, which details Pakistan's conspiracy, roles of the...
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Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar Lok Sabha MP Supriya Sule has said she will not blame the electronic voting machines (EVM) as she has been elected for four terms because of the same machines. Sule's NCP-SP is part of the opposition Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi coalition...
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President Drouapdi Murmu will visit Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Telangana from December 16 to 22, her office said on Monday. On Tuesday, Murmu will inaugurate the 1066th Jayanthi celebrations of Adi Jagadguru Sri Shivarathreeshwara Shivayogi Mahaswamiji at Malavalli in Karnataka's Mandya...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will arrive in Israel on Tuesday to meet the country's top leadership and discuss bilateral and regional issues, according to sources in Jerusalem.Jaishankar will meet President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and hold bilateral consultations...
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Normalcy returned to Odisha's Malkangiri district on Monday, nearly a week after around 200 villages were damaged in violent clashes in a village, with the district administration fully restoring internet services, a senior official said. Additional district magistrate Bedabar Pradhan said...
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Karnataka health minister Dinesh Gundu Rao on Monday said the state government has sought information following reports that a specific egg brand may be using antibiotics, and assured the public that samples have already been collected for testing. The minister said officials of the health...
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Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty pared most of early losses to close marginally down on Monday amid persistent foreign fund outflows and weak global trends. The 30-share BSE Sensex closed lower by 54.30 points, or 0.06 per cent, at 85,213.36. The benchmark opened lower and...
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The bodies of a man and his three daughters were found hanging in their house in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, the police said on Monday. The deceased have been identified as Amarnath Ram and his three daughters, Radha Kumari, Radhika and Shivani. According to locals, the girls were in...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Jordan on Monday on a two-day visit aimed at further strengthening bilateral ties with the Arab nation. He was received at the airport by Jordan's Prime Minister Jafar Hassan. His visit marks 75 years of the establishment of diplomatic relations...
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Two Punjab men were allegedly shot dead while they were sitting inside a car in Canada's Edmonton. The incident took place early Friday, local time, a family member said on Monday. The victims were identified as 27-year-old Gurdeep Singh from Barre village and 19-year-old Ranvir Singh...
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Wholesale price inflation stayed in the negative for the second consecutive month in November at (-) 0.32 percent, even though there was an uptick in prices of food articles like pulses and vegetables on a month-on-month basis, government data showed on Monday. Wholesale Price Index...
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The Anti-Corruption Bureau on Monday arrested a police inspector and a constable attached with Gujarat CID-Crime for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 30 lakh for not taking action in a criminal case, said officials. Inspector PK Patel, serving in CID-Crime's Gandhinagar office, demanded a...
16:14
Nitin Nabin, newly appointed working president of the Bharatiya Janata Party, took charge at the party headquarters in Delhi, in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP national president J P Nadda, and other party leaders.Earlier, Bihar Minister and MLA Nabin arrived in Delhi at BJP's...
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Two persons, including a CISF Inspector, were killed and several others injured on the Delhi-Mumbai expressway on Monday in a pileup involving multiple vehicles, reportedly due to dense fog in Haryana's Nuh district, police said.Two people have died in the incident, which includes a CISF...
15:43
Alleging indiscriminate and hurtful trolling of Tollywood actress Subhashree Ganguly over social media for posting her photograph with football legend Lionel Messi, her husband and filmmaker Raj Chakraborty lodged a police complaint against a group of netizens for unfairly and abusively targeting...
15:39
In a major setback to the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray, Tejaswi Ghosalkar, a former corporator and widow of slain party leader Abhishek Ghosalkar, and daughter-in-law of party heavyweight Vinod Ghosalkar, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in Mumbai on Monday.In a...
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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday distanced himself from the 'vote chori' issue raised by the Congress and said the 'INDIA bloc has got nothing to do with it'.His remarks came a day after top Congress leaders attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party and the election...
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Ripples of Saturday's Salt Lake stadium spectator rampage during Argentine football legend Lionel Messi showcasing event reached the corridors of the Calcutta high court on Monday after Acting Chief Justice Sujoy Pal allowed the filing of three separate PILs related to the fiasco.The petitions...
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Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday slammed the government over its move to change the name of MGNREGA, asking what is the government's intention behind removing the name of Mahatma Gandhi who is the tallest leader not just in India but in the world.A bill to repeal the MGNREGA and...
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The Supreme Court on Monday granted interim bail to journalist Mahesh Langa in a money laundering case linked to an alleged financial fraud matter lodged by the Enforcement Directorate at Ahmedabad.A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pamcholi also...
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A 16-year-old boy was killed after a classmate allegedly attacked him with a knife inside a classroom at a coaching centre in Pune district on Monday, police said.The attack was apparently the fallout of a previous dispute between the two boys, who were studying in Class 10, they said.The...
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Over 60 flights were cancelled and 5 diverted at Delhi airport on Monday due to poor visibility conditions, according to an official.Delhi airport operator DIAL said in a post on X shortly after 10 am that flight operations are still impacted due to dense fog.Our on-ground officials are working...
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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a PIL seeking judicial intervention into the issue of cancellation of hundreds of flights by IndiGo, and asked the petitioner to move the Delhi high court with the grievances. The Delhi high court, on December 10, questioned the central...
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Newly appointed Bharatiya Janata Party national working president Nitin Nabin on Monday termed his elevation as a blessing of the party and thanked its leadership for the trust reposed in him.Nabin, who is Bihar's PWD minister, pledged to carry forward the work of his late father and former BJP...
12:02
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday conveyed to his Australian counterpart Penny Wong India's 'fullest support' to Australia in the wake of a deadly shooting incident at the iconic Bondi Beach targeting a Jewish celebration that left 16 people dead.In a phone conversation with Wong,...
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Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday sought an apology from Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi for their party workers' alleged threat to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's life.At a hurriedly called press conference in New Delhi, Rijiju alleged...
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Delhi Police has beefed up security in the central parts of the national capital and set up traffic restrictions as global football icon Lionel Messi sets foot in the city, the final stop of his GOAT tour of India.The Argentine legend is scheduled to attend an event at the Arun Jaitley Stadium...
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That Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge was at the late Congress doyen Shivraj Patil's funeral in Latur was given.We were surprised to see Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Minister of State for Defence Sanjeev Seth at the funeral.Our Delhi Correspondent informs us that Prime Minister Narendra...
09:59
A man was arrested upon his arrival in India for allegedly posting derogatory and provocative content about the Hindu religion while staying abroad, police said on Monday.The accused Abdul Khader Nehad (27), a resident of Ulaibettu in Mangaluru, was working in Saudi Arabia, they said.According to...
09:54
A retired Indian Air Force personnel was arrested in Assam's Sonitpur district for his alleged links with Pakistani intelligence operatives, the police said on Saturday. According to the police, the accused was taken into custody following specific intelligence inputs indicating that he had...
09:52
A bill to repeal the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and bring a new law for rural employment -- Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) -- has been circulated by the government among the Lok Sabha members, a source said.According to a...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday embarked on a visit to Jordan, Ethiopia and Oman -- countries which enjoy civilizational ties and exceptional bilateral relations with India.First, I will be visiting Jordan, on the invitation of His Majesty King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein. This historic...
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Dense fog enveloped Delhi and the National Capital Region on Monday morning, reducing visibility and causing inconvenience to commuters, officials said.The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a yellow alert for fog in the national capital and advised people to remain cautious while...
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) will file a charge sheet on Monday in the Pahalgam terror attack case, in which 26 people, mostly tourists, were killed by Pakistan-based terrorists, officials said.NIA investigations had found direct involvement of three terrorists in the April 22 terror...
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