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NCP leader Manikrao Kokate
The Bombay high court on Friday granted bail to Nationalist Congress Party leader Manikrao Kokate in connection with a 1995 cheating case, directing him to furnish a bond of Rs 1 lakh.Earlier on Thursday, Manikrao Kokate resigned from the post of sports and minority development and waqf minister...
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Dense fog and deteriorating air quality with an average AQI reading of 374 in the 'very poor' category on Friday are likely going to worsen Delhi's air over the weekend despite the implementation of stringent pollution-control measures, officials said.According to the India meteorological...
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In a major crackdown aimed at curbing public drinking and disorderly behaviour, police in Uttar Pradesh's Etah district arrested 402 people within 48 hours under a special drive titled 'Operation Car-O-Bar', officials said on Friday.The district-wide operation, launched on Wednesday, was carried...
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Security forces and police on Friday conducted search operations in three districts of Samba, Kishtwar and Rajouri in the Jammu region following inputs of the movement of suspected persons in the areas. Vigilance has been further stepped up following the launch of cordon and search...
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A Maoist, who was wanted in 35 criminal cases, surrendered before the police in Jharkhand's Latehar district on Friday, officials said.Alok Yadav, alias Chandrashekhar Kumar Yadav, hailed from Bhagia village in the Balumath police station area, they said. He was an active member of the...
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Dense fog disrupted operations at the Delhi airport, with at least 177 flights getting cancelled and over 500 flights getting delayed on Friday. An official said that a total of 177 flights, including some international services, were cancelled. The figure includes departures and...
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A 40-year-old man was shot dead by two bike-borne assailants here, one of whom has been arrested, police said on Friday. Preliminary investigations suggest that the murder was linked to a financial dispute, officials said. The incident took place in Adda Kaloya in Tanda on Thursday when...
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A 27-year-old woman allegedly hacked her husband, a habitual drunkard, to death with an axe at their home in Jharkhand's Ramgarh district on Friday, a police officer said. The woman, Kiran Oraon, was arrested. Officer-in-charge of Basal police outpost Kailash Kumar said the man, Ashok...
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The Reserve Bank on Friday said it has imposed a monetary penalty of Rs 61.95 lakh on Kotak Mahindra Bank for non-compliance of norms related to basic savings bank deposit account, business correspondents, and credit information companies. The penalty was imposed in an order dated December...
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Four persons were arrested for allegedly extorting money from a businessman after threatening to circulate his obscene videos on social media, a police official said on Friday. The four, identified as Anmol Raj Arora, Lucky Santosh Verma, Himanshu Yogesh Kumar and Dipali Vinod Singh, are...
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The NHRC on Friday said it has issued notice to all states and Union territories in the wake of six children testing HIV positive after blood transfusion at the Satna district hospital in Madhya Pradesh earlier this year. Such incidents occurring in different parts of the country have also...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said his deputy Eknath Shinde had no connection with the Satara drug factory case, and the Congress's allegations in this regard were politically motivated. The attempt to link deputy chief minister Shinde to the drug factory was...
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The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the operation of the Bombay high court order restoring the control of the temple trust of the Shree Shanaishwar Devasthan at Shingnapur, saying it cannot put the crores of rupees of offerings made by devotees in the hand of a body, whose term is expiring on...
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A bear was found dead at McLeodganj near Dharamsala on Friday morning, prompting a response from the authorities, officials said.A forest department team reached the spot after receiving information, examined the carcass and informed the concerned officials.The carcass was cremated in the...
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Following alleged molestation of a woman passenger by a bike taxi rider, the Kalyan sub-regional transport office in Maharashtra has registered a criminal case against ride-hailing company Uber for allegedly providing services without a licence. Uber was allegedly operating passenger...
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The Rouse Avenue court on Friday listed the Land for Job CBI case for order on framing of charge on January 9, 2026. he court has directed former Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, Rabri Devi, Tejashwi Yadav, Tej Pratap Yadav, Misa Bharti, Hema Yadav and others accused to appear in person...
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PM Narendra Modi with Russian President Vladimir Putin in New Delhi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's eight comments or pictures have become the most liked posts among the top 10 on the social media platform 'X' in the last 30 days, including his photo with Russian President Vladimir Putin when both leaders travelled together in a car from Delhi's IGI airport,...
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A 55-year-old man was allegedly shot at by unknown assailants in the Badausa area in Banda on Friday, the police said. The incident occurred at around 5.30 am in Gargpur village when the attackers opened fire at Raja Bhaiya Garg, hitting him in the abdomen, they said. Garg, a farmer,...
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Dense fog prevailed across several districts of Uttar Pradesh and persisted till late hours during the day, leading to cold day conditions in many parts of the state, the Met department said on Friday. Meteorological officials attributed the situation to the influence of westerly winds...
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The Enforcement Directorate on Friday questioned Jai Anmol Ambani, son of industrialist Anil Ambani, in Delhi in a money laundering case linked to an alleged bank loan fraud, officials said. They said the statement of the 34-year-old was recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act...
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A woman sarpanch was among seven persons arrested for allegedly killing a tiger in Chhattisgarh's Surajpur district, a forest official said on Friday. He identified the accused as Bhaisamuda sarpanch Siska Kujur, her husband Dinesh as well as Ishwar Kujur, Abhishek Roshan Bada, Mithlesh...
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India's forex reserves jumped by $1.689 billion to $688.949 billion during the week ended December 12, the Reserve Bank of India said on Friday. In the previous reporting week, the overall reserves increased by $1.033 billion to $687.26 billion. For the week ended December 12, foreign...
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The Karnataka high court on Friday rejected the anticipatory bail plea of BJP MLA Byrathi Basavaraj in connection with the murder of a rowdy sheeter. The case pertains to the murder of Shivaprakash alias Biklu Shivu, who was hacked to death at Bharathi Nagar in the city in July this...
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Assets of former Indian cricketers Yuvraj Singh and Robin Uthappa apart from that of ex TMC MP Mimi Chakraborty and actor Sonu Sood have been attached by the ED in an illegal betting app linked money laundering case estimated to be worth more than Rs 1,000 crore, official sources said...
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The rupee appreciated 54 paise to close at 89.66 (provisional) against the US dollar on Friday, supported by corporate dollar inflows and easing crude oil prices. Forex traders said a positive trend in domestic equities and Brent crude oil prices hovering near $59 per barrel supported the...
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Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty surged on Friday after four days of decline in tandem with a rally in global markets as a lower-than-expected US consumer price inflation data for November reinforced expectations of further interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. Fresh foreign...
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Six persons died after a water tank collapsed at an industrial unit on the outskirts of Nagpur city on Friday, a police official said. The incident occurred around 9.30 am at Avaada Electro Private Limited, a solar panel manufacturing factory located in MIDC Butibori area, the official...
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Several schools in Noida received emails containing bomb threats on Friday, which later turned out to be a hoax, the police said. Additional commissioner of police (Gautam Buddh Nagar), Rajeev Narain Mishra, told reporters that some schools in Noida received emails threatening bomb attacks...
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Five people have been arrested for allegedly beating to death a Chhattisgarh native on suspicion of theft near in Palakkad, the police said on Friday. The arrests of the five persons were formally recorded late Thursday night and all the accused have been booked for the offence of murder...
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Indian Coast Guard ship Amulya has been commissioned./Courtesy ICG on X
Indian Coast Guard ship Amulya, the third vessel in the new-generation Adamya class fast patrol vessels, has been commissioned, officials said on Friday. It will undertake a range of missions, including surveillance, search and rescue, anti-smuggling operations and pollution response,...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, NCP-SP's Supriya Sule and other leaders met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla in his chamber after the Winter Session of Parliament was adjourned sine die on Friday. The leaders thanked Birla for the conduct of the session.Defence...
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Authorities will take elaborate and corrective actions after studying the probe panel report into the recent massive flight disruptions at IndiGo, a senior official said on Friday. The four-member panel constituted by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is expected to...
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PDP leader Iltija Mufti on Friday lodged a police complaint seeking the registration of an FIR against Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for recently pulling off the veil from a woman doctor's face. However, there was no word from the police on whether an FIR has been registered against the...
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The Bangladesh interim government led by Muhammad Yunus on Friday issued its first response to the ongoing unrest in the country, urging people to resist acts of mob violence.It said it 'strongly and unequivocally' condemns all forms of violence, intimidation, arson and destruction of property,...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin will on Friday hold his annual year-end online session where he will answer questions from the public and media. The online question and answer session, which will be held at noon (2.30 pm IST), is into the 22nd year and is likely to sum up the results of...
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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday affirmed that he would remain in office for his full five-year term, expressing confidence in the Congress high command's support.During a discussion in the assembly on the issues pertaining to North Karnataka's development, Siddaramaiah also said...
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said some people arrested for alleged involvement in supplying illegal codeine-based cough syrup have links to the Samajwadi Party.Everyone knows that every 'mafia' group has ties with the Samajwadi Party, Adityanath told reporters ahead of...
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Trinamool Congress MPs held an overnight dharna in the Parliament complex against the passage of the G RAM G Bill, which they said was 'bulldozed' through both Houses without any discussion.TMC MPs spent the night at the gate of the Samvidhan Sadan, with banners and portraits of Mahatma Gandhi...
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Dense fog continued to disrupt operations at the Delhi airport, with at least 79 flights getting cancelled on Friday, according to an official. More than 230 flights were delayed at the airport and the average delay for departures was 49 minutes on Friday morning, as per data from...
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United States President Donald Trump has suspended the green card lottery program.Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on X that at Trump's direction she is ordering the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the program.The development came days after a...
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With an eye on expanding in West India, Max Healthcare on Thursday said it would invest around Rs 1,020 crore in building a 450-bed greenfield super speciality hospital in Pune, announcing its entry into the market. The healthcare chain had also signed an agreement to set up a 500-beds greenfield...
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An encounter broke out between security personnel and Naxalites in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Friday, a police official said.The exchange of fire started in the morning in the forested hills of Bhairamgarh-Indravati area when a District Reserve Guard team was out on an anti-Naxalite...
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Lok Sabha was adjourned sine die on Friday, drawing curtains on the 19-day-long Winter Session of Parliament. During the brief session with 15 sittings, key Bills were passed, including the one to open up the civil nuclear sector for private companies.Another Bill to replace the MNREGA with...
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The Delhi high court on Friday set aside an order of the Lokpal granting sanction to the CBI to file a chargesheet against Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra in the alleged cash-for-query scam. A bench of justices Anil Kshetarpal and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar, while pronouncing the...
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The Ahmedabad branch of the National Company Law Tribunal gave its nod for the first-stage approval to the proposed merger of Adani Harbour Services Limited with its parent firm, Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited.It also cleared the way for the amalgamation process and waiving the...
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Investigations into the death of singer Zubeen Garg are ongoing but so far no foul play is suspected, Singapore police have said. Garg died under mysterious circumstances while swimming in the sea in Singapore on September 19. The case is currently still being investigated by the...
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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, along with a group of ministers and legislators, attended a dinner hosted by senior minister Satish Jarkiholi in Belagavi on December 18, official sources said. The dinner meeting held at the residence of Jarkiholi, who is considered close to...
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Nissan Motor India on Thursday unveiled the name of its upcoming seven-seater B-MPV, Gravite, marking the first step in the carmaker's renewed product push aimed at reviving its India business from 2026.Scheduled for launch in early 2026, the Gravite will be locally manufactured at...
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A thick layer of fog stretching from Punjab to Bihar reduced visibility across the Indo-Gangetic plains on Friday morning, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issuing a red alert for Delhi and warning that road, rail and air traffic may be affected. IMD officials said...
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The Supreme Court on Thursday questioned two earlier rulings which held that a company's director or authorised signatory, if convicted in a cheque bounce case, cannot be asked to deposit money under Section 148 of the Negotiable Instruments (NI) Act while seeking suspension of sentence.When...
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More than 1,000 wedding guests escaped without any injury after a fire broke out at a banquet hall in Maharashtra's Thane city, officials said on Friday. The incident occurred around 11 pm on Thursday at the marriage hall premises in the Ovala area along the Ghodbunder Road in the city, they...
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A 23-year-old woman shooter alleged that she was raped at a hotel during her stay in Faridabad for a competition. Three people, including the woman's friend, have been arrested, officials said. The victim managed to lock the accused in a hotel room after the alleged rape on Wednesday evening...
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Ola Electric on Thursday confirmed that founder-promoter Bhavish Aggarwal has completed the one-time, limited monetisation of a small portion of his personal shareholding. The transaction was undertaken solely to repay a promoter-level loan of approximately ₹260 crore fully and to release...
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Avadhut Sathe Trading Academy (ASTA) has approached the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) against an order by the Securities and Exchange Board of India, in which the regulator had directed disgorgement of Rs 601 crore and imposed a ban on founder Avadhut Sathe from the securities market.In an...
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After the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, a prominent leader of the July Uprising who was shot last week, Bangladesh's Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus has appealed for peace.Hadi, also a candidate in the scheduled February 12 general elections, died late Thursday. He was shot in the head by masked...
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Violent protests broke out in several cities in Bangladesh overnight after the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, a prominent leader of the July Uprising.Hadi, also a candidate in the scheduled February 12 general elections, died late Thursday. He was shot in the head by masked gunmen last week as he...
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Former Samajwadi Party MLA Deep Narayan Singh Yadav/Courtesy X
Former Samajwadi Party MLA Deep Narayan Singh Yadav, who was absconding in a criminal case, surrendered before a special MP-MLA court in Uttar Pradesh's Jhansi on Thursday and was sent to judicial custody. Special Judge Jitendra Yadav remanded him in jail after he surrendered in connection...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, deputy CMs Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar./File imate
Maharashtra minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Thursday said his party and the Shiv Sena had formed an alliance for the upcoming municipal elections in the state. He, however, said there were a large number of aspirants from the Ajit...
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