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India has the potential to host music festivals that are bigger in scale than renowned global events like Coachella, Punjabi singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh said during his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on New Year's Day. The globally popular singer met the prime minister at...
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A city civil court in Bengaluru on Saturday granted bail to engineer Atul Subhash's wife Nikita Singhania, her mother Nisha Singhania and brother Anurag Singhania in suicide abetment case.The 34-year-old techie ended his life on December 9 in Bengaluru, alleging harassment at the hands of his...
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The diplomatic row between Dhaka and New Delhi notwithstanding, as many as 50 Bangladeshi judicial officers will undergo 10 day training at state-run academies in India, according to a media report on Saturday. The Law Ministry has given permission to 50 judicial officials of...
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A mob on Saturday pelted stones at the firm in Pithampur in Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district where 337 tonnes of Union Carbide waste linked to the Bhopal gas tragedy is proposed to be incinerated, a police official said. A mob of 100-150 persons pelted stones at the gate of the unit,...
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday sent a 'chadar' on his and the party's behalf to be offered at Ajmer Sharif dargah on the occasion of Urs of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti.He referred to the Ganga-Jamuni culture of the country and called for spreading love and affection and...
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Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party should formally declare their alliance, amid the two opposition parties sharpening their attacks on the former chief minister ahead of the Delhi assembly polls. Kejriwal also took a dig at...
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Six workers were killed following an explosion at a firecrackers manufacturing unit near Virudhunagar in Tamil Nadu on Saturday, an official said.The blast occurred in the morning when the workers were engaged in mixing chemical-raw materials, as part of the manufacturing process, leading to the...
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The Congress has announced the launch of a 'Jai Bapu, Jai Bhim, Jai Samvidhan' campaign to press for the resignation of Union Home Minister Amit Shah for insulting BR Ambedkar, the principal architect of India's Constitution.Congress leader Pawan Khera said under the campaign, party leaders will...
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An overhead wire snag affected services on the Konkan Railway route near Ratnagiri station in Maharashtra for almost an hour on Saturday, an official said. The incident occurred at Adivali, about 365 km from Mumbai, around 12:35 pm. An official said service resumed after more than an...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch multiple development projects, including the inauguration of Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Namo Bharat RRTS corridor, worth over Rs 12,200 crore on Sunday and address a public meeting in the poll-bound national capital. According to an official...
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AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday alleged that there is no benefit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi sending a 'chadar' to Ajmer Dargah and that the government should take steps to stop claims being filed in courts disputing the existing mosques or Dargahs.The message behind sending...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday slammed Arvind Kejriwal for building a sheesh mahal for himself instead of creating infrastructure in the capital during his nearly 10-year term as Delhi chief minister, saying the Aam Aadmi Party convenor will have to give an account for it.Addressing an...
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A jawan belonging to the Central Industrial Security Force allegedly shot himself dead with his service weapon at the Surat International Airport on Saturday, police said. CISF personnel Kisan Singh (32) died by suicide in a washroom of the airport around 2.10 pm, they said. Singh, who...
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Bollywood star Kiara Advani has been advised to rest following an excessive work schedule, her representative said on Saturday, dismissing reports that the actor has been hospitalised.Reports of her hospitalisation surfaced after Advani skipped the trailer launch event of her upcoming...
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Differing from Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's view that temple customs should change with the times, state Transport Minister K B Ganesh Kumar on Saturday said that practices in temples should be decided by the tantris.The minister, who is also a director board member of the Nair...
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United States President Joe Biden has named former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, fashion designer Ralph Lauren, football superstar Lionel Messi, former Defence Secretary late Ashton Carter, and controversial investor George Soros, along with 14 others for the prestigious Presidential Medal...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said India is committed to taking the lead in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), as he met entrepreneur and former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka. It was an insightful interaction indeed. India is committed to taking the lead in AI, with a focus on...
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Nationalist Congress Party MLA Prakash Solanke on Saturday suggested that the party leader and minister Dhananjay Munde be ousted from the Maharashtra ministry to ensure a fair probe in the Beed sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh murder case.Solanke is the first Nationalist Congress Party leader and...
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Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday promised to waive the inflated water bills received by people in Delhi if his party returns to power in the upcoming assembly polls in the national capital next month. In a press conference in New Delhi, Kejriwal said that people...
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Two Army personnel were killed and three injured when their vehicle fell into a gorge in Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora district, officials said on Saturday.An Army vehicle skidded off the road and fell into a gorge near SK Payen in the north Kashmir district, they said.The officials added that...
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BJP MLA Suresh Dhas on Saturday launched a fresh attack on Maharashtra minister Dhananjay Munde after two men were arrested from Pune in the Santosh Deshmukh murder case.Dhas alleged that the two men are just pawns while the key accused is roaming free.Police arrested Sudarshan Chandrabhan Ghule...
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Union Minister for Minority Affairs Kiren Rijiju on Saturday offered a ceremonial 'chadar' sent by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Ajmer Dargah on the 'Urs' of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti. Elaborate security arrangements were made for the visit of the minister, who took a flight to...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday released its first list of 29 candidates for the polls to the 70-member Delhi Assembly, fielding former MP Parvesh Verma from the New Delhi seat against ex-chief minister and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal. It has named another former MP Ramesh Bidhuri...
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Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light continues its remarkable run on the international awards circuit, securing spots on the BAFTA Film Awards longlists in three categories, including Best Director. The British Academy on Friday evening shared the results of the first round of voting...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said some people are trying to disturb peace in the name of caste politics and called for thwarting such designs to preserve the social harmony in rural parts of the country. Inaugurating the Grameen Bharat Mahotsav, the Prime Minister exuded...
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Three persons have been detained in connection with the murder of a 33-year-old journalist whose body was found in a septic tank on a local contractor's property in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, police said on Saturday.Mukesh Chandrakar, a freelance journalist, went missing on January 1, and...
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Harsh Kumar/Business StandardDepartment of Financial Services (DFS) Secretary M. Nagaraju on Friday launched a revamped e-auction portal, Baanknet.It significantly aids the recovery process of public sector banks (PSBs), thereby improving the balance sheet of banks and enhancing credit...
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India skipper Jasprit Bumrah returned to the dressing room after undergoing precautionary scans for an unspecified niggle, which forced him to leave the field after bowling just one over in the post-lunch session on the second day of the fifth Test here on Saturday.Bumrah was away from the field...
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A 14-year-old student was allegedly stabbed to death outside a school in east Delhi's Shakarpur area, the police said on Saturday. The alleged incident occurred on Friday after an altercation between the victim and some other students, they said. The dispute escalated into violence when...
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Flight operations at the Srinagar airport were hit on Saturday due to dense fog that engulfed parts of the Kashmir valley, officials said. A thick layer of fog engulfed Kashmir, including Srinagar, in the morning, they said. Poor visibility due to the fog affected operations at the airport...
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About 30 kg of gold was allegedly robbed at gunpoint from the branch of a gold loan company in Odisha's Sambalpur city, the police said on Saturday. The robbery took place at Manappuram Finance's branch on Budharaja Main Road on Friday morning, they said. Besides the gold, the robbers...
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Singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh sings as PM Narendra Modi listens during a meeting in New Delhi/ANI on X
Singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on New Year's Day. Interestingly, Diljit Dosanjh sang a tribute to Guru Nanak during his meeting with the Prime Minister, who praised the singer-actor for rising from an Indian village to global fame. Modi said, When a boy...
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India's forex reserves dropped by $4.112 billion to $640.279 billion during the week ended December 27, the Reserve Bank said on Friday. In the previous reporting week, the overall kitty had dropped by $8.478 billion to $644.391 billion. The reserves have been declining for the last few...
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The National Stock Exchange has recorded the highest number of IPOs in Asia in the calendar year 2024 with a total of 268 listings across the mainboard and the SME platform, the exchange stated on Friday.In CY24, the exchange recorded 90 successful listings on the mainboard while 178 small and...
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Veteran scientist Rajagopala Chidambaram, who played a key role in the nuclear tests of 1975 and 1998, died on Saturday, an official of the Department of Atomic Energy said. He was 88. Chidambaram, who was also associated with the nuclear weapons programme, breathed his last at Jaslok...
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In the November 2023-June 2024 forest fire season, 67 percent of major fires in India were extinguished within 24 hours, according to data from the ministry of environment, forest, and climate change (MoEFCC). This marks an improvement from 33 percent in the previous season, attributed to...
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Fifteen flights were diverted at the Delhi airport early Saturday morning as low visibility due to dense fog impacted operations for the second straight day. Due to the adverse weather conditions, many flights were delayed and the country's largest airline IndiGo temporarily put arrivals and...
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Bharatiya Janata Party MLA in Telangana Raja Singh on Friday urged Ayyappa devotees visiting Sabarimala in Kerala not to go to any mosques during their pilgrimage. Singh told reporters in Hyderabad that the devotees must strictly follow the rules of 'Ayyappa deeksha' and they would become...
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Rehearsal for the 76th Republic Day is underway amid fog and cold in New Delhi on Saturday morning/ANI on X
Delhi was shrouded in dense fog as a cold wave gripped the city on Saturday morning. As the harsh winter continued many homeless people were seen staying at night shelters. According to the India meteorological department, Delhi recorded 10.2 degrees Celsius at 5.30 am on...
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Donald Trump will be sentenced on January 10 in a criminal case for which he was convicted for silencing a porn star by paying hush money and falsifying business record, a New York judge ruled on Friday (local time). The judge also added that Trump will face no legal penalties for his...
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A Captain working with AMC (Army Medical Corps) died after accidentally falling off from the balcony of his fourth floor flat in Hyderabad, the police said on Friday. Shankar Raj Kumar (in his 30s) had returned home from Lucknow to celebrate the new year and was standing in the balcony at...
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The search for a Bijapur-based journalist, who had been missing since January 1, ended tragically when his body was found in a septic tank on the premises of a private contractor in the district on Friday, the police said. The journalist, identified as Mukesh Chandrakar, had been...
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A Dalit woman and her daughter were brutally assaulted on Friday allegedly by two men and then dragged on the road in Morena in Madhya Pradesh following a minor incident involving a dog, a police official said. A video of the incident, which took place in full public view in Ambah area, went...
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