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Airlines faced baggage handling system glitch at the Delhi airport on Sunday afternoon and the issue was resolved later, according to sources. The sources said there was a glitch with the baggage handling system for around 15-20 minutes starting around 1.45 pm on Sunday. The glitch...
21:51
Doctors of Indira Gandhi Medical College called off their strike in Shimla after Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu assured that the patient-physician brawl that led to the doctor's removal from service would be looked into again.A statement by the Resident Doctors Association of IGMC, Shimla,...
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The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board on Sunday shut down four ready-mix concrete plants in Mumbai and initiated action against 37 units, recovering penalties of Rs 1.87 crore amid stepped-up measures to curb air pollution. Special flying squads will immediately begin inspections to verify...
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The Supreme Court is slated to hear on Monday a plea by the CBI challenging the Delhi high court order suspending the life sentence of expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the Unnao rape case.According to the cause list, a three-judge vacation bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and...
21:23
The Congress party in Kerala found itself in an embarrassing situation when a line of the national anthem was sung incorrectly during a program at its state headquarters in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday.This happened during the 141st foundation day celebration of the Indian National Congress at...
21:17
A court in West Bengal on Sunday extended till January 9 the police custody of Satadru Dutta, the chief organiser of Argentine footballer Lionel Messi's event that dissolved into disorder earlier this month.After the completion of his initial police custody, Dutta was produced before the...
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A court in West Bengal on Sunday extended till January 9 the police custody of Satadru Dutta, the chief organiser of Argentine footballer Lionel Messi's event that dissolved into disorder earlier this month.After the completion of his initial police custody, Dutta was produced before the...
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Sri Lankan Navy arrested 3 Tamil Nadu fishermen and seized their fishing boat, Chief Minister M K Stalin on Sunday apprised External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and urged the Centre to get the fishermen and their boat released at the earliest.The fishermen had ventured for fishing from Mandapam...
20:58
A tigress (PN-224) translocated from Madhya Pradesh's Pench Tiger Reserve was released into the forest at Ramgarh Vishdhari Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan's Bundi district on Sunday as part of the Inter-State Tiger Reintroduction Programme, forest officials said.As part of the prescribed...
20:19
A rusted mortar shell was defused in a village near the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Sunday. The mortar shell was noticed by some locals in forward Bandi Chechian village of Haveli tehsil on Saturday evening, the officials said.They said...
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A day after several policemen were injured and vehicles were set ablaze during a protest against a coal mining project in Tamnar in Chhattisgarh's Raigarh district, Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai on Sunday said an inquiry will be conducted and strict action will be taken against those found...
20:00
A 19-year-old college student in Jaipur allegedly jumped off from the 12th floor of an under-construction building after he was caught cheating in an exam, police said on Sunday. The incident occurred on Saturday in the Bagru area, they said.The student, Priyanshu Raj, a native of Patna in...
18:38
A 20-year-old rider was killed when his motorcycle exploded in Madhya Pradesh's Sehore district on Sunday, the police said. The deceased, identified as Sukhram Barela, was engaged in blasting work at wells and other locations. He was allegedly carrying a large quantity of detonators...
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An eviction drive to clear over 87 acres of grazing land in Assam's Biswanath district was carried out by the administration on Sunday, affecting more than 360 families, an official said. He said the exercise was conducted in a peaceful manner. Biswanath district commissioner...
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Janata Unnayan Party chief Humayun Kabir/ANI Photo
Janata Unnayan Party chief Humayun Kabir's son Golam Nabi Azad was on Sunday detained for allegedly attacking a policeman posted at their residence in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, an officer said....
17:48
A top level executive of Sigachi Industries was arrested in connection with the explosion at its pharma plant in Sangareddy district of Telangana in June this year that killed 46 people, police said on Sunday.The managing director and CEO of Sigachi Industries Amit Raj Sinha, who was named...
17:30
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French film legend Brigitte Bardot has passed away at the age of 91.The news of her demise was announced by her foundation, as per CNN.The Brigitte Bardot Foundation pays tribute to the memory of an exceptional woman who gave everything and gave up everything for a world more respectful of...
17:14
A Booth Level Officer was found dead in West Bengal's Bankura district on Sunday, triggering allegations that work-related pressure linked to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls may have played a role, the police said.The incident occurred in Ranibandh block, where the...
16:58
The Uttar Pradesh police detained two suspected Kashmiri men, allegedly after villagers complained about their suspicious activities in Bareilly district, officials said on Sunday. The incident came to light on Saturday morning when villagers complained, on the police's X handle, about two...
16:53
President Droupadi Murmu, with Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi, embarks on the Navy's indigenous Kalvari class submarine INS Vaghsheer at Karwar Naval Base, in Uttara Kannada/ Courtesy @rashtrapatibhvn X/ANI Photo
President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday undertook a sortie onboard Indian Navy's frontline submarine INS Vaghsheer on the Western seaboard.Murmu became the second President to undertake a submarine sortie. In February, 2006, APJ Abdul Kalam became the first president to experience a submarine...
16:27
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor
At the 140th Foundation Day event at the Congress headquarters in New Delhi on Sunday, Shashi Tharoor supported the views of his party colleague Digvijaya Singh, saying the organisation should be strengthened. Tharoor was seated next to Digivijaya Singh during the function at the party's...
16:24
Two men were booked for allegedly using Virtual Private Network applications on their mobile phones, violating the orders of Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district administration, the police said on Sunday.The action was taken following strict enforcement of prohibitory orders issued by the Doda...
15:51
Hearings under the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls were underway in West Bengal for the second day on Sunday 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...
15:28
West Bengal CEO Manoj Agarwal/ANI Photo
The Centre has provided an armed security cover to West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Agarwal in the wake of a potential threat to him due to the ongoing SIR exercise in the state, officials said on Sunday.A Y-plus category cover of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has...
15:20
A group of right-wing activists barged into a restaurant in Bareilly and gate-crashed a birthday party, alleging love jihad. The police got involved and fined two Muslim youths, who were among the 10 attendees of the party, and a staffer of the establishment for disturbing the peace.The...
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Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district have recommended the suspension of an Arabic lecturer of a government higher secondary school for allegedly ordering the construction of a platform on the school building to be used for offering prayers, officials said on Sunday. Quoting a...
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Mobile internet services in violence-hit Karbi Anglong and West Karbi Anglong districts of Assam were restored on Sunday following improvement in the law and order situation, an official order said.Strict security vigil continued in the districts, along with the deployment of additional security...
13:53
The EC has issued fresh instructions to district election officials in West Bengal, directing that voters marked as unmapped in the BLO app due to technical issues linked to the digitisation of the 2002 electoral rolls during the ongoing SIR exercise should not be called for hearings, even if...
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BJP councillor and Kerala ex-DGP R Sreelekha (middle)
A ruling CPI-M MLA and a newly elected BJP councillor on Sunday sparred over an office space located in the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation building, before shaking hands over the matter and burying the hatchet. Vattiyoorkavu MLA V K Prasanth told reporters that councillor R Sreelekha...
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A fire broke out at a six-storey commercial building in the eastern suburbs in Mumbai in the wee hours of Sunday, civic officials said.There were no reports of injuries in the blaze that erupted on the sixth floor of Emgeen Chambers in the Kalina area of Santacruz East around 2.30 am, they said.A...
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A six-year-old boy, who had been reported missing after leaving his house in this north Kerala district, was found dead in a pond on Sunday morning, the police said.The body of the boy was found floating in the village pond close to his home.As soon as Suhan had gone missing from his house on...
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A well-known Pakistan international kabaddi player, Ubaidullah Rajpoot, has been banned indefinitely by the national federation after he appeared for an Indian team in a private tournament in Bahrain earlier this month.The Pakistan Kabaddi Federation (PKF) imposed the ban following an emergency...
12:17
Tu Meri Main Tera Main Tera Tu Meri, featuring Ananya Panday and Kartik Aaryan in the lead roles, has collected over Rs 20 crore at domestic box office in three days of its release. The makers shared the box office numbers with a post on their Instagram handle on Sunday, which had the film's...
11:57
The seat-sharing talks between the Shiv Sena and the BJP for the upcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation elections are in the final stages, Maharashtra minister Uday Samant has said. Speaking to reporters on Saturday, Sawant said it is certain that the polls will be contested by the...
11:22
Industrialist Gautam Adani inaugurated the Sharadchandra Pawar Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence at Baramati in Maharashtra's Pune district on Sunday.The centre of excellence, funded by the Adani Group chairman, has been established under Vidya Pratishthan, the educational institute...
11:07
Bangladesh's former prime minister Khaleda Zia is in an extremely critical condition, her personal physician has said. Zia, the 80-year-old chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, has been undergoing treatment at Dhaka's Evercare Hospital since November 23 for multiple health...
11:03
Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday advocated learning at least one South Indian language and said he was trying to learn a South Indian language.Speaking at a mega farmer seminar on sustainable tree-based agriculture held under the aegis of the Isha Foundation in Hosur,...
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Indian-American lawmaker Ro Khanna has condemned the killing of a Hindu garment factory worker in Bangladesh, urging the global community to speak out against such vile acts of hatred and bigotry. Dipu Chandra Das, 27, was lynched by a mob and his body set on fire over alleged blasphemy in...
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Eight wagons of a goods train have derailed in Bihar's Jamui district, causing disruption of railway services on the Howrah-Patna-Delhi route, officials said.No casualties have been reported so far, they said.The accident took place between Lahabon and Simultala railway stations under the Asansol...
10:32
Consensus on seat sharing for the January 15 Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation elections eluded both the Thackeray cousins and the BJP-Shiv Sena camps, as leaders from the respective parties held hectic parleys on Saturday.The Shiv Sena-UBT, led by Uddhav Thackeray, and the Maharashtra Navnirman...
10:14
Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani will inaugurate the Sharad Pawar Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence in Baramati in Pune district on Sunday, centre officials said. NCP-SP head Sharad Pawar, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, Baramati MP Supriya Sule and Rajya Sabha...
09:09
Domestic carrier IndiGo on Saturday cancelled 57 flights across its network, citing bad weather at various airports, according to the airline's website. The airline has also cancelled 13 flights, as of now, for Sunday, with two of them for operational reasons, and the remaining...
09:05
A khap panchayat in Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh has banned children from keeping smartphones or wearing half pants in public places. Instead, boys are advised to wear kurta-pyjamas and girls salwar-kurta. The panchayat said that boys and girls seen in public places wearing half...
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An experienced pilot was killed when a tandem paraglider reportedly developed a technical malfunction shortly after take-off, lost balance mid-air, and crashed near the road below the launch site in Kangra district, officials said on Saturday. The incident occurred at the internationally...
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Several policemen were injured and vehicles set ablaze after an ongoing protest against a coal mining project turned violent in the Tamnar area of Chhattisgarh's Raigarh district, officials said.The mob also stormed into the coal handling plant of Jindal Power Limited, and torched a conveyor...
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