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India has successfully test fired a first-of-its-kind naval anti-ship missile from Chandipur off the coast of Odisha. The trials carried out on Tuesday demonstrated the missile's capability against ship targets, the defence ministry said.Defence Minister Rajnath Singh congratulated the...
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Actor Preity Zinta visited Maha Kumbh Mela for the third time and said her experience has been magical, heartwarming and a bit sad. Zinta shared a video post on her X handle on Wednesday featuring her visit to the festival where she took the holy dip at triveni sangam. The actor expressed...
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Maharashtra Transport Minister Pratap Sarnaik on Wednesday directed that all 23 security guards employed at the Swargate bus station in Pune should be replaced following the alleged rape of a 26-year-old woman inside a stationary bus. The rape on the premises of one of the busiest bus...
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Swiggy Instamart took down non-veg items including eggs, meat and fish for delivery in select cities like Pune, Delhi, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad on the occasion of Mahashivratri on Wednesday, although the deliveries were restored by the evening in few cities, the quick commerce platform's app...
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The Gujarat Police has arrested one more person in connection with alleged hacking of a hospital's CCTV network to obtain videos of women patients for online sale, officials said in Ahmedabad on Wednesday. The arrest of Rohit Sisodia, a Delhi resident, took the tally of those held so...
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A fire broke out at a cinema hall in Select City Mall in Delhi on Wednesday during the screening of a movie, an official said. Panic gripped cinemagoers as a corner of the movie screen of PVR Cinemas at the mall caught fire during the 4:15 pm screening of the film Chhava, a witness told...
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Protesters led by Shiv Sena-UBT leader Vasant More on Wednesday vandalised the security office at the Swargate bus station in the city after a woman was allegedly raped inside an MSRTC bus on the premises. Sena-UBT workers smashed the window panes and furniture inside the security office...
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The Centre has opposed in the Supreme Court a plea seeking life ban on convicted politicians, saying imposing such a disqualification was solely within the domain of Parliament. In an affidavit filed in court, the Centre said the prayer in a plea, seeking the same, amounted to...
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday expanded his cabinet, with the induction of seven new faces, all from the alliance partner BJP.At a ceremony held in the Raj Bhavan in Patna, Governor Arif Mohammad Khan administered the oath of office to the new inductees who raised the strength of...
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A 56-year-old man allegedly killed his mother-in-law in Mumbai by setting her on fire inside a tempo and died himself due to the burn injuries suffered during the incident, police said on Wednesday. A case of murder was registered against the deceased man, Krishna Daji Ashtankar...
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Union minister Ramdas Athawale on Wednesday claimed that Shiv Sena-UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi insulted the Hindu community by not visiting the Maha Kumbh, and Hindu voters should boycott them. Thackeray talks about Hindutva but did not participate in...
16:29
The government has spent more than Rs 400 crore to contest court cases during the past 10 years, official data showed. The central government's Rs 66 crore expenditure on litigations in the 2023-24 financial year was over Rs 9 crore higher than the previous fiscal.The amount incurred on...
16:08
Actor-politician Vijay waded into the ongoing language row between the DMK-led Tamil Nadu government and the BJP-led Centre, criticising both sides over their stance on the imposition of Hindi.Speaking on the clash, he accused the state and central governments of misleading the people of Tamil...
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An army vehicle came under fire from suspected terrorists in a forward village near the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district on Wednesday, officials said. There were no immediate reports of any casualties in the brief firing near Phal village in the Sunderbani sector,...
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A manhunt has been launched after a man with a criminal record allegedly raped a 26-year-old woman inside a stationary state transport bus at the busy Swargate bus stand in Pune, police said on Wednesday.The accused, identified as Datta Gade, had cases of theft and chain snatching registered...
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The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam will not oppose Hindi if it is not imposed on Tamil Nadu and forcing the language on Tamils amounts to playing with their self-respect, state Chief Minister and the ruling party's president M K Stalin said on Wednesday.In a letter to partymen on the issue of alleged...
13:48
JMM MP Mahua Maji was injured while returning from Maha Kumbh after her car hit a truck parked on the roadside in Jharkhand's Latehar district in the early hours of Wednesday, police said.Maji, a Rajya Sabha member, suffered a fracture in her left wrist and was admitted to a private hospital in...
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As sludge started solidifying inside the Srisailam Left Bank Canal tunnel in Telangana, part of which collapsed trapping eight persons, rescuers are planning to use sniffer dogs to locate those got trapped, District Collector B Santhosh said on Wednesday.The official further said the National...
12:43
The Aam Aadmi Party has dismissed speculation that former Delhi chief minister and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal may enter the Rajya Sabha following his party's electoral setback in the national capital.Arvind Kejriwal is not going to Rajya Sabha. As far as Arvind Kejriwal is concerned, media...
12:09
Jaiprakash Gaur, Founder Chairman of Jaypee Group, the contracting firm of Srisailam Left Bank Canal project that suffered partial collapse trapping eight persons, on Wednesday said accidents may happen during difficult works.Jaiprakash Associates Ltd, the flagship company of Jaypee Group, was...
11:41
Social media personality and actor Prajakta Koli has tied the knot with her longtime boyfriend Vrishank Khanal. Koli, 31 and Khanal 35, dated for several years before getting engaged in 2023. The couple got married in an intimate wedding on Tuesday.The Mismatched star shared a series...
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The Maharashtra government has appointed renowned lawyer Ujjwal Nikam as the special public prosecutor in sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh murder case. Deshmukh's family members had made a similar demand.In a post on X on Wednesday, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said the state government has...
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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor extended his greetings on the occasion of Mahashivratri on Wednesday, while highlighting why today marks such a special day for him and his family.The Thiruvananthapuram MP recalled that he was born on the occasion of 'Mahashivratri' and his name Shashi comes from the...
10:54
New India Cooperative Bank's Prabhadevi branch in Mumbai had a capacity to keep Rs 10 crore at a time, but the cash in hand book showed there was Rs 122.028 crore in the safe on the day of Reserve Bank of India inspection, police have said.The Mumbai Police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) is...
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In a significant development, a team of experts engaged in rescuing the eight persons who have remained trapped for the past five days in the partially collapsed SLBC tunnel were able to reach the end of the tunnel and return, a senior police official said on Wednesday.The teams so far were able...
10:24
A Pakistani intruder was shot dead early Wednesday morning by Border Security Force troops along the international border at Pathankot in Punjab, officials said.BSF personnel noticed some suspicious movement in the Border Outpost Tashpatan area along the IB.Despite being challenged by the BSF...
09:41
President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will introduce a 'gold card' for wealthy foreigners, granting them the right to live and work in the country, with a pathway to citizenship, in exchange for a $5 million fee, CNN reported.The CNN report, citing Commerce Secretary Howard...
09:24
Expediting its inquiry, the Odisha government summoned four more KIIT officials to depose before the high-level committee probing the alleged death by suicide of 20-year-old Nepalese BTech student Prakriti Lamsal and the subsequent unrest on the campus.The Higher Education Department summoned the...
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The Holy See Press Office provided an update on Pope Francis's health on Tuesday evening, stating he has not suffered acute respiratory episodes, and his hemodynamic parameters remain stable, Vatican News reported.The prognosis remains guarded, Vatican News added.The Holy Father's clinical...
08:53
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday announced that the White House Press Pool will now be determined by the White House Press Team.During her briefing, Leavitt announced that the journalists who were earlier 'chosen' to cover the White House by the White House Correspondents'...
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Shiva Rajora, Business Standard The number of monthly fresh formal hirings saw a decline in December, signalling a deterioration in the formal labour market during the month.In December, the number of new monthly subscribers under the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) decreased nearly 3 per...
08:32
Kunal Dutt and Kishor Dwivedi, PTIAmid chants of 'Har Har Mahadev', hordes of pilgrims from Gujarat to Karnataka on Wednesday took a holy dip at the Triveni Sangam on Mahashivratri as the 45-day Maha Kumbh inched towards its closure.Maha Kumbh, the spectacle that takes place once in 12 years,...
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Director Sanoj Mishra
An FIR has been filed against five persons, including a YouTube channel owner, in Mumbai after director Sanoj Mishra accused them of attempting to defame him and stop his film with 'Maha Kumbh viral girl' Monalisa Bhosle, a police official said on Tuesday. The first information report (FIR)...
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Maharashtra cultural affairs minister Ashish Shelar on Tuesday announced the establishment of an award for inspirational songs in the memory of Maratha king Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj and said the inaugural honour will go to a composition penned by Hindutva icon VD Savarkar. Shelar...
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Berhampur University Vice Chancellor Geetanjali Dash was alleged defrauded of Rs 14 lakh by a cybercriminal who, impersonated as an ED officer, put her under digital arrest, the police said in Berhampur on Tuesday. Dash had received a phone call on February 12 from someone claiming to be an...
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