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23:48

Kharge's effigy burned in UP over remark on ex-PM Chandra Shekhar

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge
Supporters of Chandra Shekhar in Ballia on Tuesday burned an effigy of Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge over his remarks on the late prime minister. The angry protesters, several of them Bharatiya Janata Party members, also demanded Kharge's dismissal from the Rajya Sabha. Chandra...
23:18

Maoists kill 2 men, including ex-colleague, in Chhattisgarh

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Maoists hacked to death two men, one of them their former colleague, at a village in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on the suspicion of being police informers, an official said on Tuesday. The incident took place on Monday night in Bugdicheru village under the Tarrem police station area,...
22:50

10 killed at education centre shooting in Sweden

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Ten persons have been killed after shooting at an education centre in Sweden on Tuesday, said a Guardian report quoting the police. The shooting happened in Orebro, 200km west of the capital, Stockholm, on Tuesday afternoon, said a BBC report. More details soon. 
22:14

Fadnavis not moving into CM's official residence due to superstition: Raut

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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis/File image
Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray leader Sanjay Raut on Tuesday claimed that Devendra Fadnavis has not shifted to `Varsha', the official residence of the Maharashtra Chief Minister in south Mumbai, because of superstition. The grapevine has it that buffaloes allegedly slaughtered in...
22:00

LIC of India slapped with Rs 101 cr GST demand

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Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) on Tuesday said tax authorities have slapped a demand notice of about Rs 101.95 crore on it for short payment of Goods and Services Tax (GST) for five financial years. The company has received a communication/demand order for interest and penalty for...
21:41

Next round of talks with agitating farmers on Feb 14, govt tells Parl

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The Centre on Tuesday informed Parliament that the sixth round of discussions with agitating farmers in Punjab and Haryana will be held on February 14. In the previous round held last month, the government had proposed a five-year plan for the procurement of certain crops at minimum support...
21:33

Amit Shah reviews J-K security situation with top officials

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday reviewed the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir which has witnessed a few terror incidents in the recent past, sources said. Top officials of the Army, Jammu and Kashmir police and intelligence agencies briefed Shah about the prevailing situation...
21:11

India inks pact with Russia for anti-ship cruise missiles

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India on Tuesday inked a contract with Russia for procurement of anti-ship cruise missiles, a move that will significantly augment the combat capabilities of the Indian Navy's submarine fleet. The defence ministry made the announcement in a post on X. The contract was inked in the...
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Hindus, Buddhists branches of same banyan tree: CM Adityanath

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday said Hindus and Buddhists are branches of the same banyan tree, asserting that they will form the strongest banyan tree in the world if both come together on a common platform. Inaugurating the Buddhist Maha Kumbh Yatra during his visit...
20:05

Gujarat ADGP resigns months before retirement

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Senior IPS officer Abhay Chudasama, who was due to retire in eight months, said on Tuesday he has tendered his resignation but the Gujarat government has not accepted it yet. Chudasama (59) was promoted to the additional director general of police rank last year. He is posted as the...
19:56

What's Assam CM Chatting With EAM About?

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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma met External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyan Jaishankar at his South Block Office on Tuesday andrequested him to chair a session on Assam in India's Act East Policy during the upcoming Advantage Assam 2.0 Summit.On Monday, Sarma met Prime Minister Narendra D...
19:45

Modi to take holy dip at Maha Kumbh tomorrow

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj on Wednesday and at around 11 am, he will take a holy dip at the Sangam, his office said. Maha Kumbh 2025, which commenced on Paush Purnima (January 13, 2025), is the world's largest spiritual and cultural gathering,...
19:19

Rupee recovers 3 paise from all-time low to close at 87.08 against dollar

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The rupee recovered 3 paise from its all-time low level to close at 87.08 (provisional) against US dollar on Tuesday, as the American currency index retreated from its elevated level after President Donald Trump agreed to pause tariffs on Mexico and Canada. Forex traders said the US dollar...
19:05

Satyarthi, Baba Ramdev to attend peace summit in Dubai

Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi/File image
Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi/File image
Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi and yoga guru Baba Ramdev are among the prominent Indian personalities scheduled to attend a global peace summit in Dubai next month. The summit coincides with the declaration of 2025 as the 'ear of Community' by Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE...
18:37

Sooraj Pancholi suffers burns on film set, undergoing treatment

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Sooraj Pancholi on Tuesday suffered burns while filming an action sequence on his upcoming movie and is undergoing treatment for the injury, his father and actor Aditya Pancholi said. According to reports, Sooraj Pancholi sustained major burns during a stunt shoot for a movie titled Kesari...
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Police ask banks to freeze 380 FIITJEE accounts

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The police have written a letter to banks to stop transactions in 380 accounts related to FIITJEE, which has abruptly shut all its coaching centres in Noida and Ghaziabad, officials said on Tuesday. FIITJEE founder DK Goyal and 11 other people have been booked after the closure of its...
17:56

No false slogans, only development: Modi in LS

Prime Minister Narendra Modi replies to Motion of Thanks on President's address, in Lok Sabha/ANI on X
Prime Minister Narendra Modi replies to Motion of Thanks on President's address, in Lok Sabha/ANI on X
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday took a swipe at Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, saying those who entertain themselves by getting photo sessions done in huts of the poor will find the talk about the poor in Parliament boring. In another swipe at AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal, Modi...
17:53

Cheetah Veera gives birth to two cubs in Kuno National Park

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Cheetah Veera gave birth to two cubs at Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh's Sheopur district on Tuesday, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said. With these births, KNP is now home to 26 cheetahs, including 14 cubs. In a post on X, Yadav said, Two cheetah cubs enter Madhya Pradesh's Jungle...
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Ram temple head priest remains critical after stroke, undergoing treatment

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The head priest of the Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya remains in critical condition after suffering a brain stroke and is undergoing treatment at the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences in Lucknow, hospital authorities said on Tuesday. Mahant Satyendra Das (85) was...
16:45

BSE Sensex top gainers today

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Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty rebounded nearly 2 percent on Tuesday in line with a recovery in Asian peers after US President Donald Trump delayed tariffs on Mexico and Canada for a month. The 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 1,397.07 points or 1.81 percent to settle at a month's high...
16:44

Not a big incident: Hema Malini on Kumbh stampede

BJP MP Hema Malini/ANI Photo
BJP MP Hema Malini/ANI Photo
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Hema Malini on Tuesday said that the stamped at Maha Kumbh last week was not a big incident and it was being exaggerated. Speaking to reporters after visiting Maha Kumbh, she said, ...We went to Kumbh, we had a very nice bath. It is right that an incident took...
16:13

Sensex soars 1,397 points, Nifty rallies 378

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Sensex jumps 1,397.07 points to settle at 78,583.81; Nifty surges 378.20 points to 23,739.25.
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Army Chief never said that: Rajnath counters Rahul

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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday rebutted the Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi's remarks on China and said that the Army Chief's remarks referred only to the disturbance of traditional patrolling by both sides and the Army Chief never spoke the words attributed by Gandhi at any time.In a post...
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Demand raised in Rajya Sabha to rename West Bengal

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The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday demanded renaming of West Bengal as 'Bangla', saying this carries the signature of the state's history and culture. Raising the issue through a Zero Hour mention in the Rajya Sabha, party MP Ritabrata Banerjee said the West Bengal Assembly had in July 2018...
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Modi to address Lok Sabha at 5 pm today

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will reply in Lok Sabha at around 5 pm on Tuesday to the discussion on the Motion of Thanks on the President's Address.Modi's office said, 'PM Narendra Modi will be speaking in the Lok Sabha at around 5 pm this evening.'The discussion began on Monday as the ruling...
14:23

Market transactions: SEBI proposes UPI safeguards to prevent fraud

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Khushboo Tiwari/Business Standard The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has proposed measures, including creating a unique Unified Payments Interface (UPI), to ensure that investors make transactions only with registered intermediaries through UPI and are safeguarded from...
14:17

Gujarat forms panel to draft Uniform Civil Code

Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel
Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel
The Gujarat government on Tuesday formed a committee under a retired Supreme Court judge to assess the need for the Uniform Civil Code in the state and prepare a draft bill for the same.The five-member committee, to be headed by former Supreme Court judge Ranjana Desai, will submit its report...
13:57

Yogi takes holy dip in Sangam with Bhutan King

Photo: @myogiadityanath/X
Photo: @myogiadityanath/X
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath shares a photograph on X of himself taking a dip in the holy Sangam at Mahakumbh alongside Bhutan's King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck.
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EC slams AAP's 'pressure tactics' in rare rebuke

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Amid allegations levelled by the Aam Aadmi Party that the Election Commission is being run by CEC Rajiv Kumar, the poll panel on Tuesday hit back saying it is a three-member body which has collectively noted 'repeated deliberate pressure tactics' to malign the poll authority in Delhi polls.It...
13:10

Kota: Criminal suspected shot dead turned out to be alive

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A 24-year-old man, who was believed to have shot himself dead after being surrounded by police, has turned out to be alive and remains at large, police here on Monday said.Rudresh alias RDX was believed to have shot himself in face on Sunday after he and another of his accomplice, hiding in a...
13:06

King of Bhutan takes dip at Sangam

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Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck visited the Maha Kumbh on Tuesday and took a holy dip at the Triveni Sangam.Accompanied by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the king performed rituals like offering 'arghya' to the Sun before taking the dip. He appeared in a formal Gho (the...
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Elderly man duped of Rs 72.98 lakh in share trading fraud

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Thane police have registered a case against two persons and a company for allegedly duping a 70-year-old man of Rs 72.98 lakh after luring him to invest in a fake share trading scheme, an official said on Tuesday.The victim, hailing from neighbouring Mumbai, stayed at his brother's place in...
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BMC presents over Rs 74,000 crore budget

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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), considered the richest civic body in the country, on Tuesday presented its budget of Rs 74,427 crore for the year 2025-26.The additional municipal commissioners presented the budget to BMC Commissioner Bhushan Gagrani, who is the state-appointed...
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Ad industry may hit Rs 1.1 trillion by year-end

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Roshni Shekhar/Business Standard India's advertising industry is projected to grow at 6.5 per cent in 2025 to reach a market size of Rs 1.1 trillion by the end of the year, majorly driven by the digital segment, according to the Dentsu e4m Digital Report 2025.Digital media has emerged as the...
12:17

Delhi CM Atishi booked for MCC 'violation'

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Delhi Police registered a first information report (FIR) on Tuesday against Chief Minister Atishi, the Aam Aadmi Party candidate from Kalkaji, for allegedly violating the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) and obstructing public servants on duty, an official said. We have registered an FIR against...
12:05

Tax breaks for infra SWFs extended by 5 yrs

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Khushboo Tiwari/Business StandardIn an effort to attract more global investments, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced an extension of the special tax exemption provided to sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and pension funds investing in infrastructure by another five years.The scheme, which...
12:02

Tata Capital set for IPO

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Dev Chatterjee/Business StandardThe board of Tata Capital, the flagship financial services arm of Tata Sons, has approved changes to its memorandum of association and adopted a new set of articles of association (AoA) to align with the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013. The changes are...
11:16

China hits back with tariffs on US, to probe Google

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China's Ministry of Commerce announced Tuesday it will impose counter tariffs on multiple American products, including a 15 per cent tariff on coal and liquefied natural gas, and a 10 per cent tariff on crude oil, agricultural machinery, and large-displacement vehicles.The move comes as a...
10:58

Will order to shoot cow smugglers: Karnataka minister

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Amid cow theft cases in Uttara Kannada district, District in-charge Minister Mankal S Vaidya has warned that those indulging in such activities would be shot at on the road or at the circle in the open.Asserting that he will not let such activities to continue in the district, he assured that the...
10:30

Securities reclassified as capital assets

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Khushboo Tiwari/Business StandardFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced tax relief for Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) in categories I and II in her Budget speech, reclassifying securities as capital assets.This change brings AIFs on par with Foreign Portfolio Investors...
10:28

Ramesh Bidhuri's son booked for MCC violation

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Delhi Police has responded to Aam Aadmi Party candidate from Kalkaji Atishi's allegations that Ramesh Bidhuri's son, Manish Bidhuri, interfered in the constituency during the 'silence period'.The official handle of the Deputy Commissioner of Police, South East Delhi posted on X and informed that...
10:19

Bhopal to prosecute beggars, those giving alms

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Authorities have banned begging in Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal and warned of penal action against those found involved in it as well as people who give alms.The state's Indore district has already banned begging. Bhopal district collector Kaushlendra Vikram Singh prohibited begging in an...
10:03

IPO street waiting for a boost

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Samie Modak/Business StandardFundraising through initial public offerings (IPOs) slowed sharply in January, with six companies raising Rs 4,845 crore an 80 per cent drop from the Rs 25,439 crore raised by 15 firms in December. Market participants attributed the decline to weakness in the...
10:02

Minor girl injected with unknown substance at Mumbai school

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Mumbai Police have launched a probe following a complaint lodged by the parents of a minor girl, alleging that an unidentified man administered an injection to their daughter on school premises, officials said.According to police, the incident took place on January 31, following which a case was...
09:32

US deporting migrants to India via military aircraft: Report

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A United States military plane is deporting migrants to India, marking the farthest destination for such flights under the Trump administration, Reuters reported, citing a US official.The official, who requested anonymity, said that additionally, the Pentagon has begun providing flights to deport...
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Woman donates 35 years of savings to TTD educational institution

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A septuagenarian woman on Monday donated Rs 50 lakh to Sri Venkateswara Sarva Shreyas (SV Balamandir) Trust of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), which she saved over the past 35 years.C Mohana from Renigunta donated the amount from the savings she made while working in the development and...
09:16

Derivatives volumes remained stagnant in Jan despite volatility

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Samie Modak/Business StandardThe spike in volatility in January did not significantly boost derivatives turnover.The average daily turnover (ADTV) for the futures and options (F&O) segment reached Rs 298 trillion, marking a 6.44 per cent increase month-on-month.However, this is still down 44...
09:13

Signal glitch hits CR's local services in Mumbai

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Local train services on the Central Railway's main line were disrupted on Tuesday morning due to a technical snag in the signalling system near Mumbai, officials said.Suburban trains, considered as the lifeline of Mumbai, were running late by at least 15-20 minutes due to the problem that...
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'Tax relief move has reduced demand uncertainty'

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Ruchika Chitravanshi/Business Standard The tax cut announced in the Union Budget has reduced the demand uncertainty in the domestic economy and given a nudge to the private sector capital formation, Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran said on Monday.It is quite clear that the current...
08:44

Trump pauses tariffs on Canada for a month

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President Donald Trump delayed the start of tariffs on Mexico and Canada for a month Monday after the US neighbors struck last-minute deals to tighten border measures against the flow of migrants and the drug fentanyl.Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted: 'I just had a good call with...
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Aaradhya Bachchan moves court over misleading content

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The Delhi high court on Monday sought Google's response after Aaradhya Bachchan said her petition to restrain and take down misleading content on her health should be decided without hearing the YouTube channels that were not responding to her plea.   Justice Mini Pushkarna issued...
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Like Maharashtra, Haryana...: Piyush Goyal on BJP's Delhi prospect

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The BJP is headed for a massive poll victory in Delhi, similar to what happened recently in Maharashtra and Haryana, Union minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday.Addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters here, Goyal accused the AAP government in Delhi of depriving the people of the...
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FIR against 8 for spreading 'misleading' posts on Kumbh

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Police have registered an FIR against eight people for allegedly spreading misleading information about the ongoing Maha Kumbh on X, formerly Twitter and Instagram, officials said on Monday.   According to police, one of the posts on X described Maha Kumbh 2025 as a death festival,...