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Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Thursday visited his mother, Bangladesh's ailing former prime minister Khaleda Zia, at a hospital, media reports said, marking their first reunion in the country in over 17 years.The 60-year-old BNP acting chairman returned from...
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The Railway Protection Force on Thursday booked two youngsters for briefly stopping a long-distance train in this district after they flashed a red light to shoot social media reels.According to the police, the incident took place around 1.50 am, shortly after the Ernakulam-Pune Express left...
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The village elders in Rajasthan's Jalore district have withdrawn the ban imposed on women using smartphones after the decision faced opposition in several places.A meeting of the panchas (village elders) was convened on Thursday in Gazipur village, where they unanimously decided to withdraw the...
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The Indian Army has brought a change in its social media guidelines under which its personnel can now sign up on Instagram, but with a rider that they can use it only as 'passive observers' without putting up posts or comments on the platform, sources said on Thursday.The move aims to augment the...
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Unidentified persons were booked for vandalising Christmas decorations at a mall in Chhattisgarh capital Raipur, a police official said on Thursday.The incident occurred at Magneto Mall on Wednesday during a day-long 'Chhattisgarh bandh' (shutdown) called by Hindu organisations to protest alleged...
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China on Thursday denounced a Pentagon report, which accused Beijing of leveraging reduced border tensions with India to undermine US-India ties while deepening defence ties with Pakistan as an attempt to sow discord with false narratives.The Pentagon's report distorts China's defence policy,...
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A 30-year-old migrant worker from West Bengal was allegedly killed in Odisha's Sambalpur district following an altercation over a bidi, police said on Thursday.Juel Sheikh was working, along with a few others from West Bengal, in the construction of a building in Shanti Nagar in the Ainthapalli...
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The parents of a 23-year-old man, who went missing from Punjab's Jalandhar district in November, have claimed that their son has been held by Pakistani Rangers after he crossed the Indo-Pakistan border inadvertently.They urged the Centre to bring their son back to India.Sharandeep Singh, a...
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A 20-year-old woman was shot dead by a man who later committed suicide in an apparent case of unrequited love in Uttar Pradesh's Baghpat on Thursday, police said.The incident took place in Mahavatpur Bawli village in the Badaut area, where the accused, Satnam, 22, allegedly shot the woman before...
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Amid political turmoil and a major shift in the country's political landscape, Bangladesh's interim government confirmed that the Awami League, led by ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, will not participate in the February 2026 national parliamentary elections due to a ban on its activities.The...
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Bangladesh police announced a reward for information on attackers who set on fire a Hindu-owned house near the southeastern port city of Chattogram, as mob violence emerged as a major crisis in the changed political landscape.Chattogram range's police chief Ahsan Habib offered the bounty on...
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Domestic carrier IndiGo on Thursday cancelled 67 flights from multiple airports due to 'forecasted' (sic) bad weather and operational reasons, according to the airline's website.Of the 67 cancelled flights, only four were for operational reasons, and the rest were due to 'forecasted' (sic) bad...
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A 57-year-old man sleeping on the window of his 10th-floor flat in Surat slipped and miraculously survived after getting stuck in the metal grill installed outside a window on the 8th floor on Thursday, officials said.Nitin Adiya remained suspended upside down in agony for an hour before being...
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The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena and Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray are yet to resolve the deadlock over a couple of seats for the BMC polls as both parties enjoy influence in those areas of the city, an MNS functionary said.An MNS leader said the stalemate is over seats in Bhandup,...
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President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday released the Constitution of India in the Santhali language at a function held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.The Santhali language, which was included in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution through the 92nd Amendment Act, 2003, is one of the most ancient...
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A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging a Delhi High Court order suspending the jail term of expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the 2017 Unnao rape case.The petition filed by advocates Anjale Patel and Pooja Shilpkar has sought a stay on the high court...
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Nearly 40 persons were rescued after a fire broke out at a 23-storey residential building in Mumbai's Andheri West area on Thursday morning, officials said.Nobody was injured in the fire that started around 10 am at Sorrento Tower near Country Club on Veera Desai Road, they said.A civic official...
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Amazon Pay has introduced biometric authentication for Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions in India, which will allow customers to approve payments using a fingerprint or facial scan, eliminating the need to enter a PIN.The new biometric authentication capability eliminates the need for...
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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday said that a proper investigation will be conducted into the Chitradurga bus accident in which at least nine people were killed.Expressing grief over the loss of lives in the accident, he said, the families of those who died in the horrific...
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Tata Consultancy Services said its annualised revenue from AI was about $1.5 billion and growing 16.3 per cent sequentially, the first time that Indias largest IT services company disclosed a metric as investors are keen to know the returns on investment (RoI) when firms are pouring in billions...
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Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting chairman Tarique Rahman landed in Dhaka on Thursday to a rousing welcome, weeks before the country goes to parliamentary elections.His return to Bangladesh comes after a gap of 17 years amid a fresh wave of unrest and political instability that has been...
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The ministry of finance has asked three regional rural banks (RRBs) to submit their draft IPO plans to their respective sponsor banks as well as the department of financial services by the end of March, according to a senior government official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.The DFS...
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Actor and tree activist Sayaji Shinde (left)/File image
A fire damaged trees at a plantation site of actor and tree activist Sayaji Shinde in Maharashtra's Beed district, an official has said. Nobody was injured in the fire that...
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Two wanted criminals were injured in a brief encounter with police in outer north Delhi's Narela, an official said on Thursday.The encounter took place late on Wednesday night. The injured accused were identified as Afzal alias Imran (34) and Chandan alias Kaku (31), both residents of...
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Arms and ammunition were recovered from Manipur's Imphal West district, the police said on Thursday.The recovery was made from Lambal and Haorang Keirel areas of the district on Wednesday, they said.Among the items recovered were a single-barrel gun, three pistols, three bolt-action rifles, eight...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the Christmas morning service at The Cathedral Church of the Redemption in New Delhi on Thursday./Courtesy Narendra Modi on X
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday attended a Christmas morning service at the Cathedral Church of the Redemption in New Delhi along with a large congregation of Christians of Delhi and north India. The service included prayers, carols, hymns and a special prayer for the prime minister...
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Clashes have broken out between two groups of Christmas carol singers in this coastal district, leaving several people injured, police said on Thursday. The incident occurred in the Nooranad area at around 11.30 pm on Christmas Eve when a disagreement between the groups escalated into a...
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The Gujarat Kidney and Super Speciality IPO was subscribed 5.21 times on the final day of its issue on Wednesday.The retail and non-institutional portions were subscribed to 19.04 and 5.73, respectively. The quota for qualified institutional investors was subscribed 1.06 times.The Rs 251...
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President Droupadi Murmu pays tribute to former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee./ANI on X
President Droupadi Murmu, Vice President CP Radhakrishnan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several other senior BJP leaders paid floral tribute to former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee at the 'Sadaiv Atal' memorial in Delhi on his 101st birth anniversary.Former Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, Lok...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday condoled the loss of lives in a road accident in Karnataka's Chitradurga and announced an ex gratia of Rs 2 lakh from the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund (PMNRF) to the deceased and Rs 50,000 to the injured.At least nine people were killed when a bus...
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IndusInd Bank on Wednesday said that the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) is investigating into the affairs of the bank under Section 212 of the Companies Act, 2013, and has sought relevant information from the lender. Last week, the bank had notified the exchanges that SFIO...
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The second phase of the cheque clearing system has been postponed until further notice to allow more time for banks to streamline their operations, the RBI said on Wednesday. Earlier, lenders were asked to have a continuous cheque clearing system instead of the fixed batch format from...
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A teacher at Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh Muslim University was shot in the head by unknown miscreants, officials confirmed.The proctor of Aligarh Muslim University, professor Mohammed Wasim Ali said that Rao Danish Ali, a teacher at the ABK School of the university, was shot in the head.Around 9 pm,...
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The Indian economy is expected to grow at 7 percent in the next financial year 2026-2027 (FY27), despite the lingering trade-related uncertainties, according to CareEdge Ratings' latest outlook for the Indian economy.'The possibility of the US-India trade deal, low inflation being supportive of...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday greeted citizens on Christmas and hoped that the teachings of Jesus Christ continue to strengthen harmony in society. Christmas is being celebrated across the globe on Thursday. Christians celebrate Christmas to mark the birth of Jesus...
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Passengers at the Navi Mumbai International Airport on Thursday morning./ANI on X
The Adani Group-promoted Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) will commence commercial flight operations on Thursday, according to a statement.First conceived in 1997 by Maharashtra's city planning agency, City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO), Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid...
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Police and rescue team at the accident site in Chitradurga./ANI on X
At least nine persons were killed when a speeding truck crashed against a luxury sleeper bus, which caught fire under the impact, in this district early on Thursday, a senior police official said. The bus with 32 passengers which was on its way to Gokarna was engulfted in flames under the...
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Karnataka deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar/File image
Stating that he has toiled for the party for 45 years, Karnataka deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar has said he would like to remain as a party worker more than acquiring power and position.Addressing a press conference at Karnataka Bhawan on Wednesday, Shivakumar said, I have worked incessantly...
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Indian ambassador to US Vinay Mohan Kwatra (L)meets American counterpart Sergio Gor in Mar-a-Lago./Courtesy X
India's ambassador to the US Vinay Mohan Kwatra held extensive discussions with his American counterpart Sergio Gor at Mar-a-Lago, US President Donald Trump's residence in Florida, on the shared goal' to strengthen trade ties as well as priorities for the bilateral partnership. Kwatra...
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Nine persons were killed near here on Wednesday after a government bus swerved to the opposite side and collided with two vehicles, the police said. The bus changed direction due to a tyre burst, they said, adding 4 persons, including 2 children sustained severe injuries and they were being...
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The police have arrested two women, including an artist, for extorting Rs 1.5 crore from a real estate developer in Mumbai by threatening to implicate his son in a false case, an official said on Wednesday. Both women were arrested by a team of the Anti-Extortion Cell (AEC) on Tuesday at...
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Former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar
The CBI will immediately challenge the suspension of life sentence and bail to former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the Unnao rape case in the Supreme Court, officials said on Wednesday.. The decision was taken after studying the orders of a division bench of the Delhi high court in the...
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