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An Air Force warrant officer lost his life during a parachute training exercise in Agra on Friday, the police said. Twelve trainee jumpers, including Warrant Officer Manjunath, jumped from an Air Force aircraft at 8:30 am. While 11 jumpers landed safely, Warrant Officer Manjunath's...
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A 41-year-old Malaysian air passenger who complained of chest pain mid-air died on Friday even as the flight she was travelling in made an unscheduled landing here following the 'medical emergency', officials at the city airport said. The woman, a Malaysian citizen, complained of...
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The Union Cabinet on Friday approved the new income tax bill, which will replace the six decades old I-T Act, sources said. The new bill seeks to make direct tax law simple to understand and not to impose any new tax burden. It will not have provisos and explanations or long...
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The medical entrance exam NEET-UG will be conducted on May 4, the National Testing Agency announced on Friday. The application process for the the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-UG began on Friday and will conclude on March 7. It is the largest entrance exam in the country in...
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The Border Security Force apprehended seven Bangladeshi infiltrators and three Indian touts in a major operation along the India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal's Nadia and Murshidabad districts, officials said on Friday. The operation, carried out by the BSF, began at around 5 am on...
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India on Friday said it has registered concerns with the US over the deportation of illegal immigrants in shackles and conveyed that this kind of treatment could have been avoided. The remarks of Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri came amid uproar over the deportation of illegal Indian...
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A case of culpable homicide has been registered against unidentified civic officials in connection with the death of a two-year-old boy who fell in an open manhole in Gujarat's Surat city, the police said on Friday. A first information report under section 105 (culpable homicide not...
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India's forex reserves
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Adani Group chief Gautam Adani with his newly married son Jeet Adani and his wife Diva Shah, in Ahmedabad/ANI Photo
Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani will donate Rs 10,000 crore for social causes including healthcare and education. At his son's wedding, Gautam Adani committed to 'seva' by donating Rs 10,000 crore for social causes. Larger part of his donation is expected to go into funding massive...
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Passengers booking tickets online via IRCTC pay more than those purchasing physically at railway counters because of convenience fee and transaction charges, the government said in the Rajya Sabha on Friday. Responding to questions raised by Shiv Sena-UBT MP Sanjay Raut regarding...
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The rupee recovered 15 paise from its all-time low closing level to 87.44 (provisional) against the US dollar on Friday after the Reserve Bank of India reduced repo rate by 25 basis points in line with street expectations. The Monetary Policy Committee, headed by RBI Governor Sanjay...
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The Bombay high court on Friday granted bail to two men arrested last year in connection with an alleged conspiracy of the Bishnoi gang to kill Bollywood actor Salman Khan near his farmhouse in Panvel. Justice NR Borkar granted the bail applications of Gaurav Bhatia alias Sandeep Bishnoi and...
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The Gujarat government has decided to withdraw nine cases filed in connection with the Patidar quota agitation of 2015, minister of state for home Harsh Sanghavi said on Friday. Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Hardik Patel, the face of the quota agitation back then and booked in several cases,...
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An engineer from Nanded in central Maharashtra has returned after spending almost two months in detention in Iran for allegedly clicking photographs in a restricted zone. Yogesh Panchal (33) was released earlier this week after an intervention by the ministry of external affairs, said Rajya...
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Mumbai reported its first case of Guillain-Barr Syndrome on Friday as a 64-year-old woman was diagnosed with the rare nerve disorder, civic officials said. GBS is a rare condition in which a person's immune system attacks the peripheral nerves, resulting in muscle weakness, loss of sensation...
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India's forex reserves rose $1.05 billion to $630.607 billion for the week ended January 31, the RBI said on Friday. In the previous reporting week, the overall reserves had increased by $5.574 billion to $629.557 billion. This is the second consecutive week of an increase in the...
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This man from Punjab went to the US via UK using the 'dunki' route
On the deportation of illegal Indian immigrants from the US, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri says, The description by the EAM of the standard operating procedure relating to the use of restraints which has been communicated to us by US authorities including the immigration and customs enforcement....
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Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty ended lower on Friday as the RBI's rate cut did not spring any major surprise for the markets and investors turned to profit-taking amid foreign fund outflows. Registering its third day of decline, the 30-share BSE benchmark Sensex dropped 197.97...
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PM Narendra Modi to pay working visit to the US from Feb 12-13, meet President Donald Trump: Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri. He adds, At the invitation of French President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting France from 10th to 12th February 2025. This visit is on...
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The Monetary Policy Committee, headed by RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra, slashed the repo rate by 25 basis points to 6.25 per cent. This was the first reduction since May 2020 and the first revision after two-and-a-half years.
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Can Kejriwal hold on to Delhi?
A three-tier security arrangement, including two companies of paramilitary forces and Delhi Police personnel, has been made for the 19 counting centres on the day of vote counting for Delhi Assembly elections on Saturday, officials said. We have made robust security arrangements (for...
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Late business tycoon Ratan Tata left nearly a third of his residual assets for a mystery person. Ratan Tata, who died on October 9, 2024, passed on assets worth Rs 500 crore to Mohini Mohan Dutta, a person little-known to the family or billionaire-philanthropist's inner circle, The Economic Times...
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Actor Rajkummar Rao@Mahakumbh: I am very excited to take a dip at Sangam. We came to Mahakumbh last time as well. Patralekhaa and I are devoted to Ma Ganga. We are staying at Parmarth Niketan Ashram. People who can take a dip here are fortunate. God has been kind that we got this opportunity.
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RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra on Friday said India can certainly achieve 7 per cent or above growth and that should be what the country should aspire for. These are difficult questions to answer, but nevertheless, I would like to stick my neck out and say that certainly India can achieve 7...
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Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma appeared before the police in Prakasam district in Amaravati on Friday for questioning in connection with a case filed against him over his alleged offensive posts about Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and others, police said. Several cases were...
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Actor Neena Gupta on her experience at the Mahakumbh: Finally, I took a dip today. The atmosphere here is crazy. I have never seen a bigger gathering in my life. I am impressed by the government for organising such a huge event.
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Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena on Friday ordered an anti-corruption branch (ACB) probe into allegations by the AAP leaders that the BJP attempted to poach its candidates, officials said.Meanwhile, the ACB team has reached AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal's residence to carry forward its probe....
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Lanka President Anura Kumara Dissanayake
Sri Lanka's fourth tranche of nearly USD 3 billion bailout facility by IMF will be materialised in the coming months, a top official of the world body has said. The National People's Power (NPP) government has already reached a staff-level agreement with the IMF on the third review of the USD 3...
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The United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) on Friday announced a two day nationwide bank strike on 24th and 25th March, 2025 demanding a five day week, withdrawal of the recent government directives on performance review, performance linked incentive and others. The UFBU is an umbrella body of...
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Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) posted a double-digit growth of 10.6 per cent in the December quarter -- its best in a year. In the same period last year, the sector recorded a growth of 6.5 per cent.It witnessed a growth of 5.6 per cent in the September quarter last year, up from 3.5 per...
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Maharashtra Minister Uday Samant on Friday claimed that many leaders from the opposition Shiv Sena (UBT) were in touch with the Shiv Sena and would be inducted into the rival fold in phases. Talking to reporters, Samant said people have realised that the party led by Deputy Chief Minister...
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At the MVA meeting, NCP-SCP leader Supriya Sule says, We want re-elections on the ballot paper to be held even at those constituencies where our candidates have won. 11 seats are such where we lost the elections because of confusion between party symbols. Even the party in power has accepted...
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PVR Inox, the country's largest multiplex chain, returned to profitably with a bang as on Thursday it reported a 180 per cent rise in its consolidated net profit for the third quarter of financial year 2025 (Q3FY25), helped by a clutch of festival releases including Pushpa 2 which alone...
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Search and rescue crews are looking for a Bering Air plane that was reported missing Thursday afternoon while en route to a coastal Alaskan city with 10 people aboard, authorities said.USA Today reports that the small turboprop Cessna Caravan, carrying nine passengers and a pilot, was reported...
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Reserve Bank Governor Sanjay Malhotra on Friday said the exchange rate policy has remained consistent over the years and the central bank does not target any 'specific level or band' of the rupee, which slipped to an all-time low of 87.59 to a US dollar. On Thursday, the rupee plunged 16...
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A West Bengal government employee stabbed at least four of his colleagues allegedly being denied leave, officials said on Thursday, reports NDTV. The employee, Amit Kumar Sarkar, then walked around with the bloodstained knife, a sight that was captured on camera.Amit Sarkar worked in the...
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Akasa Air, which began operations in August 2022, announced on Thursday that it has signed agreements with investors, including Premji Invest, Ranjan Pai's investment office, and 360 ONE Asset, to infuse fresh capital into the airline.The Jhunjhunwala family, which already holds about 40 per cent...
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Khushi fares better in emotional scenes but her chemistry with Junaid has the passion of a toothpaste campaign, observes Sukanya Verma. Read the review here.
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Dahi is available in bhanr or kulhars in Bengal
GCMMF, which sells dairy products under the 'Amul' brand, will invest Rs 600 crore to set up an integrated plant in Kolkata, which will also host the world's largest curd (dahi) manufacturing facility, its MD Jayen Mehta said. Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (GCMMF)...
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Automobile retail sales in the country grew 6.6% year-on-year (Y-o-Y) in January, marking a 'moderately positive' note after business dipped the month before.Passenger vehicles grew almost 16% in January, according to data provided by the Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations...
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A fire broke out at the Mahakumbh in Prayagraj. The fire broke out in Sector 18, Shankaracharya Marg of Mahakumbh Mela Kshetra and has been brought under control, according to early reports. There has been no loss of lives. The reason behind the fire is under investigation, says SP city Sarvesh...
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RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra has introduced an exclusive '.bank.in' internet domain for Indian banks to combat financial fraud, along with stricter authentication protocols for digital transactions, while unveiling the Monetary Policy on Friday. The Reserve Bank shall implement the bank.in...
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The Reserve Bank on Friday projected the growth rate for the upcoming financial year at 6.7 per cent, up from 6.4 per cent estimated for the current fiscal ending March. Healthy Rabi prospects and an expected recovery in industrial activity should support economic growth in 2025-26, RBI...
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The US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is sanctioning an international network for facilitating the shipment of millions of barrels of Iranian crude oil worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the People's Republic of China (PRC). The oil was shipped on...
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The Calcutta High Court on Friday admitted an appeal of the CBI challenging the trial court's life term till death sentence awarded to RG Kar hospital rape-murder case convict Sanjay Roy. A division bench, however, refused to admit the West Bengal government's appeal challenging the quantum...
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Union Minister Chirag Paswan and Azad Samaj Party-Kanshiram President and MP, Chandrashekhar Azad share a candid moment as they arrive at the Parliament.
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The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) unanimously decided to slash policy rate by 25 basis points to 6.25 per cent, RBI governor Sanjay Malhotra said. The interest rate cut comes within a week of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Budget 2025-26 providing biggest ever tax break to the middle...
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Making a statement on Monetary Policy, RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra says, The standing deposit facility, the SDF rate shall be at 6.0%, and the marginal standing facility rate, the MCF rate and the bank rate shall be 6.5%. Rate-setting panel decides to continue with 'neutral' monetary policy...
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RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra sharing New Monetary Policy. Indian economy not immune to global headwinds, says RBI governor. The Monetary Policy Committee unanimously decided to reduce the policy rate by 25 basis points from 6.5% to 6.25%.
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Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut says, We (Rahul Gandhi, Supriya Sule, and Sanjay Raut) are holding a press conference at 12:30 pm today.
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Normal life was affected in this hill town on Thursday with mercury dipping to zero degree Celsius, for the second time in a month. Officials, citing latest weather data, said Udhagamandalam, popularly known as Ooty, and Sandynallah recorded zero degree temperature.Many parts of Udhagamandalam...
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The initial registration period for the H-1B visas, the most sought-after by Indian IT professionals, for fiscal 2026 will commence on March 7 and close on March 24, a federal agency has said. The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in...
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A prominent college and a school in Delhi received bomb threats over email on Friday, prompting police to deploy explosive disposal units and dog squads to comb the premises, officials said. The threat emails were sent to St Stephen's College, a constituent of the Delhi University, and the...
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United States President Donald Trump signed two executive orders, one imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and another addressing what he called anti-Christian bias, CNN reported. The first executive order places financial and visa restrictions on individuals and...
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A day after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reposed faith in Indias potential for artificial intelligence (AI) innovation, senior executives from the company met government officials, representatives of technology policy groups, industry bodies, and legal firms in two separate meetings on...
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A court in Punjab has issued an arrest warrant against Bollywood actor Sonu Sood in connection with an alleged fraud case. The warrant was issued by Ludhiana Judicial Magistrate Ramanpreet Kaur. The case involves an alleged fraud of Rs 10 lakh, filed by Ludhiana-based lawyer Rajesh Khanna...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday reviewed voting for the Delhi Assembly polls and asserted to win around 50 seats. Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva said that people voted on Wednesday to join Prime Minister Narendra Modi's double-engine development of the city. The BJP will...
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The government of Bangladesh has sought the extradition of former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina for offences allegedly committed before she arrived in India, the government informed Parliament on Thursday. Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh in a written...
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Eighteen Indian nationals remain in the Russian armed forces, of whom 16 have been reported as missing by the Russian side, the government informed Parliament on Thursday. Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh in a written response to a query in Rajya Sabha also shared...
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