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Amid heavy snowfall, a large-scale pileup involving more than 50 vehicles on an expressway in Japan's Gunma Prefecture has left at least two people dead and 26 others injured, Kyodo News reported.The incident occurred on Friday evening, around 7.30 pm (local time) on the outbound carriageway of...
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Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Saturday completed the formalities to enlist himself on Bangladesh's voter list and obtain a national identity (NID) card, two days after his return from over 17 years of self-exile in London.The 60-year-old leader of the BNP...
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Bajrang Dal members on Saturday blocked one side of a busy road in Chhattisgarh capital Raipur and staged a sit-in protest outside a police station against the arrest of their members in connection with vandalism at a mall here earlier this week.Around 300 Bajrang Dal workers gathered outside the...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday alleged that Congress leader Digvijaya Singh's praise for the organisational power of the BJP and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh was an 'open dissent' against Rahul Gandhi's leadership in the party.BJP national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi alleged that...
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Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday said that the Election Commission must come out with the number of illegal Bangladeshis and Rohingyas out of the 58.20 lakh names deleted after the publication of draft electoral rolls in West Bengal under the ongoing SIR.Alleging that...
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A first information report (FIR) has been lodged against doctors of a private hospital in Greater Noida, besides senior health officials, after a women alleged that a half-metre-long surgical cloth had been left inside her abdomen during a delivery procedure in 2023, causing severe pain for...
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Delhi Police on Saturday detained activist Yogita Bhayana, Congress leader Mumtaz Patel and several other protesters who were staging a sit-in near the Parliament complex to oppose the suspension of the life sentence of Unnao rape convict Kuldeep Singh Sengar, an official said.The protesters...
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Altogether 173 security personnel, belonging to both Assam Police and Central Reserve Police Force, were injured in violence earlier this week in which two persons were killed in West Karbi Anglong district, police said on Saturday.The situation in the trouble-torn districts of Karbi Anglong and...
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A mob attacked police teams and raised slogans of 'sar tan se juda' (beheading) on the directions of cleric Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan during the September 26 violence in Bareilly, the recent chargesheet in this matter stated.Police have filed a fresh chargesheet in connection with the violence in...
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The Trinamool Congress on Saturday accused the Election Commission (EC) of deleting the names of lakhs of legitimate voters from the electoral rolls under the SIR exercise to help the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the 2026 West Bengal Assembly polls.A TMC delegation consisting of ministers...
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A row has erupted after a video emerged showing Bageshwar Dham head, spiritual preacher Dhirendra Shastri, arriving in Chhattisgarh in a government aircraft and an on-duty police officer touching his feet, with the Congress alleging 'misuse of public money'.The Bharatiya Janata Party, however,...
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The Hyderabad police have filed a charge sheet in a court against 23 persons, including top Telugu actor Allu Arjun, in connection with the death of a woman in a stampede during the premiere of Pushpa-2 film.The theatre management has been named as the prime accused in the charge sheet filed...
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Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi trained his guns at the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre over the VB-G RAM G Act, alleging that Prime Minister Narendra Modi 'single-handedly' carried out a devastating attack on states and the poor,...
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The Congress will launch a campaign against the repeal of the United Progressive Alliance-era rural employment legislation Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) on January 5, with party president Mallikarjun Kharge warning that people are angry and the Narendra Modi...
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The hearings under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls were underway in West Bengal on Saturday with people queuing up in front of 3,234 centres across the state, a senior official said.Around 32 lakh 'unmapped' voters, those who are unable to establish linkage with the...
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Film producer Kumar Mangat Pathak on Saturday said they've issued a legal notice to Akshaye Khanna for breach of agreement for the upcoming film, Drishyam 3, after the actor refused to be 'part of the film via a text message'. Mangat Pathak said they had signed an agreement with Khanna last...
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A nationwide campaign was needed against the repeal of the rural employment scheme MGNREGA, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said on Saturday, pointing to the three farm laws that the government was eventually forced to repeal following strong opposition against it.Speaking at the Congress...
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Janshakti Janta Dal (JJD) chief Tej Pratap Yadav has filed a police complaint, alleging that his party's expelled national spokesperson Santosh Renu Yadav has threatened to kill him.The former Bihar minister, who lost the election from Mahua assembly seat in this year's assembly elections, has...
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Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Saturday visited Dhaka University and offered prayers at the grave of slain student leader Sharif Osman Hadi amid heavy security.The 60-year-old BNP leader also offered prayers at the grave of Bangladesh's national poet Kazi...
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The capital of Kyiv came under a large-scale missile and drone attack overnight on December 27, with multiple explosions reported across the Ukrainian capital and surrounding regions, one day ahead of the meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr...
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A 40-year-old inebriated woman has been arrested after her car rammed into a police barricade and injured a constable on duty in outernorth Delhi's Shahbad Dairy area, police said on Saturday. The incident took place on the night of December 24 when a police picket was deployed as part of...
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The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday announced its maiden foray into the upcoming civic elections in Bhiwandi and Navi Mumbai, unveiling plans to field candidates on the maximum number of seats in both municipal corporations.Speaking to reporters, AAP Bhiwandi unit's president Masih Iqbal and general...
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Salman Khan's 60th birthday bash at his farmhouse in Panvel on the outskirts of Mumbai turned out to be a rather subdued affair. Among the guests were M S Dhoni and his wife Sakshi Dhoni.They stayed for quite a while and Dhoni even danced to Salman numbers, one of Salman's prominent...
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A 22-year-old Indian-origin student has been arrested in the US on charges of arson and terroristic threat against family members, according to official records. Manojh Sai Lella, a senior at the University of Texas at Dallas, was arrested by Frisco police on...
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Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal may travel to Canada in February to resume free-trade agreement (FTA) negotiations between the two countries, according to people aware of the matter.Last week, chief negotiators from both sides held virtual discussions to find a way forward on the...
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The cumulative box-office collection in the January to November period of 2025, rose by 18 per cent year-on-year to Rs 11,657 crore, driven by a wide variety of films bringing audiences back to the silver screen.By comparison, last year, despite major Diwali releases in November, the cumulative...
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The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) will launch a Know Your Customer (KYC) drive in a mission mode to help return money locked in inoperative accounts to claimants, Union Minister for Employment Mansukh Mandaviya said on Friday.Speaking at the inaugural event of a newly-constructed...
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Midcap IT services company Coforge will acquire Silicon Valley-based AI firm Encora for $2.35 billion in an all-stock deal -- the largest takeover by an Indian IT company in the engineering research and development (ER&D) segment.The transaction is the fourth-largest ER&D deal globally...
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Police have arrested a 38-year-old man on charges of drunk and rash driving after his SUV rammed into a bike, dragged it for about 500 metres, before hitting multiple vehicles, officials said on Friday. The incident occurred on the Ring Road near Kamakshipalya around 7.15 pm on...
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Punjab National Bank on Friday said it has reported a borrowal fraud of Rs 2,434 crore to the Reserve Bank of India against the erstwhile promoters of two entities.This includes a loan account of Srei Equipment Finance for a fraud of Rs 1,241 crore, and one of Srei Infrastructure Finance for a...
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India's foreign exchange reserves grew by $4.37 billion to $693 billion in the week ended December 19, driven by an increase in gold reserves and foreign currency assets, latest data from the Reserve Bank of India showed.The rise in foreign currency assets is attributed to the RBIs USD/INR...
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New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has described the Free Trade Agreement with India as a landmark deal, noting that it means more jobs, higher incomes and more exports from Indian markets. We said we'd secure a Free Trade Agreement with India in our first term, and we've...
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A 40-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly ramming a car into a police barricade and injuring a constable in northwest Delhi's Rohini, police said on Friday. The incident took place on December 24 in Sector 11 of Rohini where a barricade had been placed, they said. According to the...
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The hearing phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in West Bengal will commence on Saturday, with 3,234 hearing centres finalised across the state, a senior official at the office of the state Chief Electoral Officer said on Friday. Around 32 lakh unmapped...
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People from several villages here held a 'mahapanchayat' on Friday opposing the ongoing construction of a church on a two-acre agricultural plot. Many leaders of Hindu outfits, including the VHP and Bajrang Dal took part in the gathering. Residents of Teekli and neighbouring villages...
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