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A senior citizen died and another person was hospitalised after suffering from suffocation after a fire in a Mumbai building where noted Bollywood singer Udit Narayan stays, officials said. The fire broke out in the B wing of the building, the singer, who stays in the A wing of the...
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The Border Security Force on Tuesday rejected reports that the Border Guard Bangladesh has taken control of a 5-km stretch of land belonging to India along the International Border as baseless and irresponsible. In a statement, the BSF South Bengal Frontier said the reports that appeared in...
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The Kerala police on Tuesday said that spot booking for pilgrims during the Makaravilakku festival at the Lord Ayyappa shrine in Sabarimala will be capped at 5,000 persons per day from January 8 to January 15 to avoid overcrowding. This decision follows the Kerala high court's directive to...
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A fire broke out in a forest in Ratnapur village of Porbandar on Tuesday evening, a senior official said. Three fire tenders from Porbandar municipality reached the fire site. Additionally, the Indian Navy also provided two fire tenders to douse the blaze, deputy collector and...
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Over 300 flights were delayed at the Delhi airport on Tuesday due to low visibility conditions. An official said there were no flight diversions on Tuesday. In a post on X at 5.20 pm, DIAL said runway visibility at Delhi airport has improved and all flights are operating normally....
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The Digital Personal Data Protection Rules will be refined further to connect children with technology while saving them from harms in the digital space, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Tuesday. While speaking to reporters, the minister said the rules will evolve based on the...
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The Punjab police on Tuesday said it has dismantled a drug cartel with the arrest of four individuals, including a woman, and seized 5 kg of heroin from their possession.Director general of police Gaurav Yadav said those arrested have been identified as Gurpreet Singh alias Gopi (19), Baljeet...
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Malayalam actress Honey Rose on Tuesday lodged a police complaint against prominent businessman Boby Chemmanur, accusing him of making repeated sexually coloured remarks against her. Rose posted the allegation on one of her social media handles. Chemmanur rejected Rose's allegations,...
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An 18-year-old girl who fell into a 540-foot-deep borewell and was rescued after more than 33 hours in Gujarat's Kutch district was declared dead at a hospital in Bhuj on Tuesday, officials said.The girl fell into the borewell at Kanderai village in Bhuj taluka around 6.30 am on Monday and was...
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The government has decided to set up a memorial for former president Pranab Mukherjee at the 'Rashtriya Smriti' area complex. Mukherjee died on August 31, 2020. Sharmistha Mukherjee, daughter of the former president, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday and thanked him for...
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Drugs worth over Rs 11 crore have been seized in three separate operations from Assam's Cachar and Karbi Anglong districts, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Tuesday.The police seized 1.17 kg of suspected heroin worth Rs 5.1 crore from Dighar Fulertol area in Cachar district late on...
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Tamil superstar Ajith escaped unhurt after he crashed his car during a practice session for the upcoming Dubai 24 hours race. The 53-year-old actor owns racing team Ajith Kumar Racing and is participating in the racing event along with teammates Mathieu Detry, Fabian Duffieux and Cameron...
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AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi
The Asaduddin Owaisi-led All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) on Tuesday announced it was fielding Shafa ur Rehman Khan from the Okhla constituency, its second candidate for the upcoming Delhi assembly elections. The ruling AAP has again fielded its MLA Amanatullah Khan from the...
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A young man was apprehended in the Ram Janmabhoomi complex in Ayodhya for carrying camera-equipped sunglasses and clicking photos, officials said Tuesday.The accused was violating the ban on photography and videography in the temple for security reasons, the officials said.The man, identified as...
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The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday conducted searches at half a dozen locations of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike as part of a comprehensive money laundering investigation against alleged irregularities in the civic body that works for the Greater Bengaluru metropolitan...
19:11
Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty rebounded on Tuesday after sliding for the past two sessions, driven by intense buying in blue-chip stocks like Reliance Industries, ICICI Bank and L&T amid a firm trend in global markets. However, a decline in IT stocks ahead of the earnings...
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The Maharashtra cabinet on Tuesday decided to make toll collection through FASTag mandatory from April 1 and announced revisions in the Rules of Business to streamline administrative processes. The cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis approved the public works department's...
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The parliamentary panel constituted to scrutinise the two simultaneous election bills will hold its first meeting on Wednesday, with officials of the law and justice ministry scheduled to brief its members on the provisions of the proposed laws. The 39-member joint committee of Parliament is...
18:29
A couple in their 50s allegedly died by suicide in Tilakwadi area of Nashik city, the police said on Tuesday. Jayesh Rasiklal Shah (58) and Raksha Jayesh Shah (55) died early Monday morning, a few days before their younger son's wedding, said an official. The couple lived their...
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The Karnataka government has moved the Supreme Court against the high court's decision granting bail to Kannada actors Darshan Thoogudeepa, Pavithra Gowda, and five others in the Renukaswamy murder case. The Karnataka high court on December 13, 2024, granted bail to the actor Darshan and...
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The police on Tuesday said they have registered a criminal case against eight officials of a coaching institute for allegedly cheating students preparing for Joint Entrance Examination of more than Rs 3 crore in Thane city. Assistant police inspector Sandeep Chavan of the Thane Nagar police...
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Polarisation during poll campaigns can leave scars that may last forever, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said on Tuesday and added that political parties should ensure that lines were not crossed. Kumar, who was addressing a press conference to announce the assembly poll schedule in...
17:32
A 50-year-old man allegedly hacked his wife and minor daughter to death in the early hours of Tuesday at Teluru Tummalapalli village in Kadapa district over a dispute about money for alcohol, a police official said. Gangadhar Reddy (50) allegedly killed his wife, Srilakshmi (40), and their...
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India's economic growth rate is estimated to slip to a four-year low of 6.4 percent in 2024-25, mainly on account of poor showing by the manufacturing and services sector, according to government data released on Tuesday. The gross domestic product (GDP) rate of 6.4 percent will be the...
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A gram panchayat in Punjab's Bathinda district has announced to give a cash incentive of Rs 21,000 to families who would not serve liquor and play DJ music at wedding ceremonies. The decision was taken to encourage villagers not to indulge in wasteful expenditure on marriage functions and...
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A locomotive hit a one-foot-long iron piece kept across a railway track between Atgaon and Thansit stations in Thane district of Maharashtra by unidentified persons, prompting the Government Railway Police to launch a probe, an official said on Tuesday. The incident occurred around 3.30 am...
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Two suspected cases of Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) were detected in Maharashtra's Nagpur, and both patients were in good health while their samples have been collected, a senior official said on Tuesday.The patients were sent home after treatment, and their samples have been sent to the All...
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The Election Commission will write to the cabinet secretary, informing that no Delhi-specific provision can be made in the Union Budget that can disturb the level-playing field, CEC Rajiv Kumar said on Tuesday. Polling for the 70-member Delhi Assmebly will be held on February 5 and the...
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The Enforcement Directorate has issued a fresh summons to BRS leader K T Rama Rao for questioning in a money laundering case on January 16 after he did not depose on Tuesday, official sources said. The probe by the federal agency is linked to alleged payment irregularities during the...
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Courts have ruled on 42 occasions that EVMs are not hackable and allegations of tampering are totally baseless, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said on Tuesday, rejecting claims by opposition parties about the voting machines being compromised. Announcing the schedule of the Delhi...
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India will soon create a new record of one billion-plus voters, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said on Tuesday. Addressing a press conference, Kumar said 2024 was the year of elections globally when two-third of the world's population in democracies voted in different polls.We also...
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The Election Commission on Tuesday announced Delhi will vote in one phase on February 5.Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar announced at a press conference that the counting of votes will be held on February 8.
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Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar is addressing a press conference to announce the schedule for the Delhi assembly elections.Defending the voting process, the CEC said that the EVM, voter rolls tampering is impossible.Clearing doubts over the alleged voter list fraud, Kumar said, There were...
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China has closed for tourists the scenic areas of its side of Mt Everest, also known as Mount Qomolangma, following a 6.8-magnitude earthquake that jolted Dingri County in the Tibet Autonomous Region on Tuesday. Dingri is home to the base camp of the world's highest...
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Veteran soldier Havaldar (retd) Baldev Singh, who fought four wars against Pakistan, passed away at his residence in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, a defence spokesman said on Tuesday. He was 93. The revered war hero passed away due to natural causes in his hometown Naushera on...
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted interim bail to jailed self-styled godman Asaram in a 2013 rape case on medical grounds till March 31. Notably, a bench of Justices M M Sundresh and Rajesh Bindal directed Asaram not to meet his followers post release. The top court said...
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A senior citizen died and another person was hospitalised after suffering from suffocation following a fire in a multi-storey residential building in Mumbai's Andheri area, officials said on Tuesday.The blaze erupted in a flat on the 11th floor of the 13-storey Sky Pan building in Oberoi Complex...
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The Centre has advised states to step up surveillance for respiratory illnesses including ILI and SARI, and spread awareness about the prevention of transmission of the human metapneumovirus (HMPV) after five cases were detected in India. Union Health Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava on...
12:03
United States President-elect Donald Trump has accused Joe Biden of making the presidential transition difficult, citing recent executive orders on climate and other official acts being taken by him in his last weeks as president.Trump, 78, is slated to be sworn in as the 47th President of the...
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Army personnel have been engaged to rescue the nine labourers trapped inside a coal mine in Assam's Dima Hasao district, officials said on Tuesday.A relief task force with specialists such as divers and sappers, equipped with essential tools, reached the site in Umrangso to rescue the miners, a...
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Spider-Man co-stars Tom Holland and Zendaya are engaged. The news comes after Zendaya stepped out for the 2025 Golden Globe Awards on Sunday flashing a massive diamond ring on her left-hand ring finger to the shutterbugs. Holland, however, gave the ceremony a miss.A family source...
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Top Telugu actor Allu Arjun on Tuesday visited the boy, who is undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Hyderabad after suffering serious injury in a stampede at the premiere of his latest film Pushpa 2.Earlier, Arjun scheduled to visit the hospital on January 5 but the plan was...
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A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck and jolted the city of Xigaze in Tibet Autonomous Region in China on Tuesday, killing at least 32 people and injuring 38, state media reported.The quake jolted Dingri County in the city of Xigaze in Tibet Autonomous Region in China at 9:05 am Tuesday (Beijing...
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Thick fog blanketed Delhi early Tuesday, reducing visibility and delaying 25 trains. The city recorded a minimum temperature of 10.5 degrees Celsius. Minimum visibility of 150 metres in dense fog with northwesterly winds at 11-13 kmph was reported over Palam between 5 and 5.30 am, gradually...
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Congressman Suhas Subramanyam, who is the first Indian American Congressman from the East Coast, took oath of office on Gita, making him the only lawmaker from the community to do so on the holy Hindu book this year.Subramanyam's mother, who immigrated through Dulles Airport, watched her son...
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A joint session of the US Congress presided over by Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday formally certified the November 5 presidential elections, paving the way for the swearing-in of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States on January 20. Harris, 60, presided over the...
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A Delhi bound Air India flight on Sunday made an emergency landing after one of its engines shut off midair, sources in the airport said.According to sources, the flight 2820 took off on Sunday evening at about 7 pm from the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru.It returned an hour later...
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The Election Commission will on Tuesday announce the schedule for polls to the Delhi Legislative Assembly. The Commission has convened a press conference at 2 pm on Tuesday to announce the election schedule. The term of the 70-member Assembly ends on February 23, and elections have to held...
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A strong earthquake jolted Kathmandu early morning on Tuesday. The earthquake measuring 7 magnitude on Richter scale was recorded by the National Earthquake Measurement Centre at 6.50 am. The epicentre of the earthquake was Dinggye, China, according to the centre.The tremors were...
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A major fire broke out in an 11th floor flat of a 13-storey residential building in Andheri West in Mumbai on Monday, though there was no report of anyone getting injured, officials said. The blaze erupted in Sky Pan building in Oberoi Complex at 10pm, they added. There is no report of...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday disapproved of its senior leader and Kalkaji candidate Ramesh Bidhuri's controversial remarks on Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Delhi Chief Minister Atishi, saying gender or family related comments need to be avoided by politicians. Bidhuri on...
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