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Three days after a broad daylight bank robbery at knifepoint at a bank in central Kerala, police on Sunday arrested the suspect who fled with approximately Rs 15 lakh in cash. The arrested man has been identified as Rijo Antony, a native of Chalakudy, police said. During interrogation,...
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The wife of a local Aam Aadmi Party leader was killed by robbers near a village in Ludhiana, the police said on Sunday.The incident took place on Saturday night near Rurka village, around 40 km from Ludhiana, they said.AAP leader Anokh Mittal and his wife Lipsy Mittal were returning home after...
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Kerala general education minister V Sivankutty on Sunday came out against the practice of conducting entrance tests by some schools for admission in Class 1 and said it won't be allowed in the state. While speaking during a programme Thiruvananthapuram, the minister said it is the time when...
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An employee of the Madhya Pradesh water resources department has been suspended and booked by the police for allegedly misbehaving with farmers in Seoni district, an official said on Sunday. The action against in-charge sub-divisional officer Shriram Baghel came after a video of his...
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Two comedy shows featuring Anubhav Singh Bassi scheduled to take place in Lucknow were cancelled after the local police denied the required no objection certificate. The decision comes after a letter from the Uttar Pradesh State Women's Commission vice chairperson, Aparna Yadav, urged the...
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Two coaches of the special train running for Maha Kumbh were vandalised by passengers at the Guru Gorakhnath Dham railway station in Amethi after they were unable to board due to locked doors, officials said on Sunday. The incident occurred around 1:15 am when Kumbh Special Train number...
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A Haryana man, who was among the second batch of illegal Indian immigrants deported by the US in an aircraft that landed at the Amritsar airport in Punjab, was arrested in connection with a murder case, police said on Sunday.Among the second batch of illegal immigrants, 33 belong to Haryana...
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Stringent protocols are being enforced at key railway stations in Uttar Pradesh such as Prayagraj, Varanasi, Ayodhya, Kanpur, Lucknow and Mirzapur following the stampede at the New Delhi railway station and the massive crowds arriving for the Maha Kumbh. North Central Railway's Shashikant...
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The police arrested two persons accused of kidnapping a businessman's six-year-old son in Gwalior after a brief gunfight in Madhya Pradesh's Morena district, an official said on Sunday.The duo have told the police that they carried out the abduction for a ransom of Rs 1 crore, the official...
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Two students of Ashoka University in Sonipat were found dead in separate incidents, the police said on Sunday.The two incidents occurred on Friday night, the police said.In one incident, a 21-year-old student from Bengaluru is suspected to have died after jumping from an upper floor of the hostel...
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A 23-year-old man allegedly stabbed five passersby in southern Austria's Villach on Saturday, leaving a 14-year-old dead and four others injured, the police said, CNN reported. Following the incident, the suspect was detained in the city of Villach, the police said. The suspect...
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Two persons were arrested in connection with a Rs 850 crore Ponzi scheme involving Falcon Invoice Discounting Platform, which allegedly duped over 6,000 depositors across the country, the police said in Hyderabad on Sunday. The accused allegedly deceived the public by persuading them to make...
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A brief exchange of fire took place along the Line of Control in the Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, security officials said. They said an Indian Army post came under fire from a forested area across the LoC around 11.30 am in Gulpur sector. They said soldiers retaliated...
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In the wake of the tragic stampede at New Delhi Railway Station on Saturday, which resulted in the deaths of 18 people and left many others injured, Central Railway has announced the operation of four special trains for pilgrims travelling to Prayagraj for the Maha Kumbh. Authorities...
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Trinamool Congress leaders on Sunday accused the Centre of trying to cover up the stampede at the New Delhi railway station and demanded that Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw be sacked. In a post on X, Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee called the...
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More than 29,500 drones are registered in India, with the national capital having the maximum number at 4,882, according to official data. After the national capital, the highest numbers of registered drones are in Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra at 4,588 and 4,132, respectively. The data from...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday held wide-ranging discussions with his Omani counterpart Badr Albusaidi on bilateral cooperation in trade, investment and energy security.Jaishankar is in the Omani capital here to attend the 8th Indian Ocean Conference.Delighted to meet FM...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday claimed that a US-funded programme, now cancelled, linked to voter turnout in India is a pointer to the previous Congress-led UPA government allegedly enabling infiltration of Indian institutions by forces opposed to the country's interests. ...
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People stand at platform no. 14 of New Delhi railway station hours after the stampede
The Delhi police found in its initial investigation the deadly stampede at the New Delhi Railway Station happened as passengers got confused between 'Prayagraj Express and Prayagraj Special', and thought they might miss their train, police sources said on Sunday. According to the preliminary...
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The change of guard ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan will now be held in a new format, featuring an elaborate visual and musical performance against the backdrop of the presidential palace, an official statement said on Sunday. The new format includes military drills by troops and horses of...
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Two persons were killed and several others injured in a blast in an explosives manufacturing firm in Maharashtra's Nagpur district on Sunday, a senior police official said. The explosion took place at 1:30pm at Asian Fireworks in Kotwalbudi in Katol tehsil, some 50 km from the district...
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The Congress on Sunday demanded that Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw must resign, taking moral responsibility for the stampede at the New Delhi Railway Station in which 18 people died. Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate said if Vaishnaw does...
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Four persons, including a woman, were killed while six others were injured after a tempo-traveller hit a bus from behind on the Purvanchal Expressway in Barabanki district on Sunday, the police said.The bus coming from Chhattisgarh and the tempo-traveller coming from Maharashtra were both headed...
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Crowd at platform no. 14 of New Delhi railway station hours after the stampede./ANI on X
Most of the bodies of the deceased brought to the national capital's Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital following the stampede at the New Delhi Railway station had injuries on their chest and abdomen areas with asphyxia being the likely cause of death, according to RML hospital...
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AIIMS Delhi has installed a state-of-the-art surgical robot in its department of surgical disciplines, making it one of the first general surgery units in a government hospital in India to acquire such cutting-edge technology. The introduction of robotic surgery underscores AIIMS's...
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The number of Maha Kumbh-bound vehicles in Madhya Pradesh's Rewa, bordering with Prayagraj, has increased in the past 24 hours, prompting the administration to be on alert, officials said on Sunday. Around 1,000 vehicles were moving towards Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh every hour at Chakghat...
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Two youths from Rajpura in Patiala district, who were among 116 individuals deported by the US in a C-17 aircraft that landed at the Amritsar airport on Saturday night, have been arrested in connection with a murder case, the police said on Sunday.The accused, Sandeep Singh alias Sunny and...
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Railways on Sunday announced the names of two high administrative group officials, who will be part of the inquiry committee constituted to probe the stampede at the New Delhi Railway station. Narsingh Deo, principal chief commercial manager, Northern Railway and Pankaj Gangwar, principal...
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Veteran Telugu actress and producer C Krishnaveni died here on Sunday, Movie Artistes Association vice-president Madala Ravi said.She was 102 years old. Krishnaveni passed away due to age-related issues, Madala Ravi said. She is survived by her daughter....
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Two houses owned by notorious drug peddlers were attached in Jammu, the police said on Sunday, describing the action as part of its war against the menace of drugs in the region.The houses of Poonam Devi and Khemo Devi were attached at Rajeev Nagar in Bahu Fort area of the city under the...
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Deported immigrants being transported to Haryana from Amritsar on Sunday/ANI on X
Daljit Singh, who was among the deportees who reached Amritsar from the US on Saturday night, on Sunday claimed they were handcuffed with their legs chained during the journey. Our legs were chained and hands were also cuffed, Singh told reporters in Hoshiarpur. Singh, a native of...
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Security forces have dismantled illegal check posts put in place by village volunteers in Manipur along the Imphal-Churachandpur road, the police said on Sunday. The check posts came into existence since the beginning of the ethnic conflict, they said. Joint security forces dismantled...
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A 42-year-old woman was killed and three other persons suffered from suffocation after a fire broke out in an 11-floor building in Mumbai on Sunday morning, a fire official said. The blaze erupted at 6.11 am at Panna Ali Mansion building, located in Masjid Bandar area in south Mumbai, he...
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More than a dozen terrorists were killed by security forces in two separate operations in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province on Saturday, The Express Tribune reported. According to Inter-Services Public Relations, on 15 February 2025, fifteen Khwarij were sent to hell by the...
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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has urged people to avoid consuming undercooked chicken as a precautionary measure amid the outbreak of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), a nerve disorder.Speaking to reporters on Saturday in Pune, which has reported the most cases in the state, Pawar...
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Former Railway Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, on Sunday, said that the Railway's mismanagement led to the stampede at the New Delhi railway station that claimed the lives of at least 18 people.The incident is very unfortunate and I offer my condolences to the victims....
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President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday condoled the loss of lives in a stampede at the New Delhi railway station, and prayed for the speedy recovery of those injured.At least 18 people were killed and more than a dozen injured in a stampede that broke out late Saturday night at the crowded railway...
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According to Himanshu Shekhar Upadhyay, Chief Public Relations Officer of Northern Railway, the tragic stampede at New Delhi Railway Station took place when a passenger slipped and fell on the stairs while approaching platforms 14 and 15.This led to a chain reaction, causing several passengers...
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Indian Railways has announced a compensation of Rs 10 lakh for the families of those who lost their lives in the stampede at New Delhi Railway Station yesterday.Additionally, 2.5 lakh will be provided to the seriously injured and 1 lakh to those with minor injuries. -- ANI
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Dilip Kumar, Executive Director of Information & Publicity at the Railway Board, on Sunday, informed that a two-member high-level committee had been formed to investigate the matter and determine the cause of the stampede at New Delhi railway station on Saturday, which claimed 18 lives.A...
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