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The Army has rescued eight civilians who had met with a road accident in Manipur's Kangpokpi district, a defence statement said on Wednesday. The accident took place near Khunku Naga village in Leimakhong area late on Monday. An information was received from the chief of Henjang village...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday expressed grief at the death of veteran soldier Havaldar (retd) Baldev Singh, who fought four wars against Pakistan, and lauded him as a true epitome of courage and grit. Singh, a revered war hero, passed away at his residence in Jammu and Kashmir's...
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The Enforcement Directorate recovered and seized gold valued at Rs 3.36 crore from bank locker of Sanjay Agrawal, an accused in the illegal cricket and tennis betting case in Indore, the agency said on Wednesday. The ED, Indore conducted search operations on January 7 at the bank locker...
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The Karnataka Lokayukta sleuths on Wednesday raided places linked to eight government officers, who are accused of amassing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income. The raids led to the disclosure of Rs 21.05 crore worth assets of the accused officers. The Lokayukta...
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Three jail inmates in Mysuru prison have died after consuming food essence for cake, police said on Wednesday. While Madesh from Satagahalli in Mysuru died on Tuesday night, Nagaraj and Ramesh from Chamarajanagar breathed their last on Wednesday. They consumed the essence on December 28...
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Four people died and several feared hut in a stampede that occurred at Vishnu Nivasam in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh during the distribution of Vaikunta Dwara Sarva Darshan tokens on Wednesday. The mishap occurred at the Vishnu Nivasam in Tirupati during the distribution of Vaikunta Dwara Sarva...
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ISRO on Wednesday once again postponed the Space Docking Experiment (SpaDEx) involving two satellites, citing excessive drift during a crucial manoeuvre. The SpaDEx was supposed to take place on January 9. 'While making a manoeuvre to reach 225 m between satellites the drift was found...
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Malayalam actress Maala Parvathi has lodged a complaint with the police against an individual who allegedly made offensive comments about her on social media, as well as a YouTube channel that created a video using still photos from her movies.Based on the complaint filed by the...
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A suspected case of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) infection has been reported in Himatnagar city of Gujarat's Sabarkantha district, officials said Wednesday. The blood sample of the patient -- an eight-year-old boy, who is currently on a ventilator in the Intensive Care Unit of a private...
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Pritish Nandy, under whose editorship the Illustrated Weekly of India blossomed into the most vibrant news publication of its time, passed away today. He would have been 78 on January 15. An award-winning poet and a film producer, Nandy redefined the rules of journalism with his...
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Bollywood actor Varun Dhawan has purchased two luxury apartments, one with his mother Karuna David Dhawan and another with his wife Natasha, in Juhu, Mumbai, Square Yards said on Wednesday. Real estate consultant Square Yards said it has reviewed registration documents. Dhawan acquired...
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held bilateral discussions with the Defence Minister of Maldives Mohamed Ghassan Maumoon in New Delhi on Wednesday. During the meeting, India handed over defence equipment and stores to the Maldives, as per the island nation's request. Both sides...
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A tricolour on a 73-foot-tall mast now stands at Gorsam Chorten in Jemithang, the first administrative centre near the India-China border in Arunachal Pradesh's Tawang district. The flag was hoisted on Wednesday in the presence of over 200 locals and Indian Army personnel. Organised...
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Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri held talks with Afghanistan's acting foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi in Dubai on Wednesday. In the meeting, the Afghan side underlined its sensitivities to India's security concerns, according to an Indian readout. India would consider engaging...
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As many as 21 persons have been arrested after women were found performing obscene dances at a hotel near the hill station of Panchgani in Maharashtra, the police said on Wednesday. The owner of Hotel Hirabaug, located in Bhilar in Satara district, was among the accused, officials...
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Gold prices reclaimed the Rs 80,000-level in the national capital on Wednesday driven by increased buying from jewellers and stockists, according to the All India Sarafa Assocation. The precious metal of 99.9 percent purity rose Rs 300 to touch nearly a one-month of Rs 80,000 per 10...
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Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty ended marginally lower in a volatile session on Wednesday, as investors stayed on the sidelines ahead of the earnings season amid lower economic growth projections. Besides, a depreciating rupee and persistent foreign fund outflows also dented...
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Twenty-three people were injured when a captive elephant ran amok during a religious ceremony at a mosque near Tirur on Wednesday.Of the injured, one person is in critical condition after being picked up and tossed by the elephant, the police said.The remaining 22 individuals suffered minor...
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The Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court has granted a 28-day furlough to gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli, who is currently serving a life sentence in Nagpur for the 2007 murder of a Mumbai Shiv Sena corporator. A division of Justices Nitin Sambre and Vrushali Joshi on Tuesday allowed...
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Two educational institutes in the national capital received bomb threat e-mails on Wednesday, Delhi Fire Services said. We received two different bomb threat calls from Lady Shree Ram College (sic) at 11.40 am. Another bomb threat call was received from Tagore International School in East of...
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The Delhi police arrested the director of a private company for allegedly defrauding multiple individuals by promising high returns on their investments, officials said on Wednesday. The arrest followed a probe into allegations of cheating and fund misappropriation amounting to Rs 3.2 crore,...
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Authorities in Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday began excavation at two sites after the purported discovery of 'ancient temples' there.The digging was being carried out under police supervision, following appeals from Hindu right bodies.One of the two sites, located near Mohammadi...
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A Delhi court is likely to deliver on January 21 its verdict in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots murder case against former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar.The case is linked to the alleged killings of two men in the Saraswati Vihar area during the riots.Special Judge Kaveri Baweja, who was scheduled to pass the...
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The Kerala high court has held that a comment on a woman's 'body structure' is a sexually coloured remark which would constitute penal offence of sexual harassment.The ruling by Justice A Badharudeen came while dismissing a former Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) employee's plea to quash the...
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People from several villages in Maharashtra's Buldhana district have complained of sudden hair loss leading to baldness within a few days, prompting the authorities to initiate testing of local water sources for possible contamination. A health department team started a survey in the...
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Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama, the 1993 Japanese-Indian anime film, is set to hit Indian theatres on January 24, the movie's distributors said on Wednesday.The animated film was earlier scheduled to be released with new dubs in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu alongside its original English version...
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Aam Aadmi Party leader Saurabh Bharadwaj, along with other party leaders, reached the Prime Minister's residence on Wednesday after trying to enter the Delhi CM' residence and challenging the Bharatiya Janata Party to show the PM's residence to the public.The visit comes after BJP's remarks...
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A local court has fixed March 5 as the next date of hearing in a case connected to the Mughal-era Shahi Jama Masjid and its survey at Chandausi. The Supreme Court has directed all the lower courts not to entertain new suits seeking surveys of any place of worship until further orders. We...
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Canadian Minister of Transport Anita Anand is emerging as a potential contender to succeed Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister. Trudeau announced his resignation on Monday, signaling the start of a leadership transition within his government. Anand, a prominent figure in Trudeau's cabinet, is being...
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Prominent businessman Boby Chemmanur was taken into custody on Wednesday by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigating the sexual harassment case filed by a Malayalam actress, official sources said on Monday. He was taken into custody from Wayanad, a police officer with the Kochi City...
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The parliamentary panel constituted to scrutinise the two bills on simultaneous elections held its first meeting on Wednesday.Officials of the Ministry of Law and Justice are briefing the panel members on the provisions of the proposed laws, sources said.Headed by Bharatiya Janata Party MP PP...
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Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Suresh Dhas has said he did not meet Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Nationalist Congress Party head Ajit Pawar to seek minister Dhananjay Munde's removal in connection with the case of sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh's murder.Dhas has been targeting NCP leader Munde...
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Challenging the decision of the Biden Administration to investigate the activities of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his companies, an influential Republican lawmaker on Tuesday said such selective actions risk damaging critical alliance partners.In a strongly worded letter to United States...
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Khushboo Tiwari/Business StandardBlackstone-backed ASK Investment Managers and financial service firm Monarch Networth Capital have applied with market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) for a mutual fund licence.While Monarch Networth Capital filed its application on...
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The 18th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas convention kicked off in Odisha's Bhubaneswar on Wednesday, with over 5,000 delegates from India and abroad expected to attend the three-day event, officials said. The convention began with the inauguration of the Youth Pravasi Bharatiya Divas by External...
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A fire broke out in a three-storey residential building near the Sion Hospital in Mumbai on Wednesday morning, officials said. There was so far no report of any casualty, they said. The blaze erupted on the first floor of Panchshil building on Sulochana Shetty Marg near the Sion...
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One dead body has been recovered from the collapsed coal mine at 3 Kilo, Umrangso, in Assam where nine miners were trapped on January 6. According to a statement from an NDRF official, one body has been recovered by the divers of NDRF, the Indian army. The joint rescue operation led by...
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The United States Army soldier Matthew Livelsberger, who exploded a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Day, used generative AI tools, including ChatGPT, to plan the attack, the Associated Press reported quoting the Las Vegas police.The incident...
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Abhishek Kumar/Business StandardIn a year that is poised to be one of macroeconomic turbulence, with significant policy shifts and global trade uncertainties, investors should consider asset allocation strategies to capitalise on gains in all asset classes while reducing risks, Aditya Birla Sun...
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United States President-elect Donald Trump has refused to rule out the use of military force to take control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, and 'economic force' to acquire Canada, CNN reported.While addressing a press conference at Mar-a-Lago in Florida on Tuesday (local time), Trump was...
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United States President-elect Donald Trump warned that 'all hell will break out in the Middle East' if hostages held by Hamas in Gaza are not released before his inauguration on January 20, CNN reported.While addressing a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Tuesday (local...
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A senior engineer was killed in a fire at an ONGC facility in Assam's Jorhat district on Tuesday, a company spokesperson said.The incident happened at the Borholla Group Gathering Station around 3.20 pm in one of the heater treaters, used to separate oil from water, she said.While scheduled...
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A 28-year-old woman working with a business process outsourcing (BPO) company in Pune died after her male colleague allegedly attacked her with a sharp weapon on Tuesday evening, the police said. The attack took place in the parking space of the firm - WNS, located in Yerwada area of the...
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Two Grade 10 students of a Mumbai-based school attacked two other pupils with a knife in the classroom after a dispute over sitting arrangement for internal exams, leaving them injured, the police said on Tuesday. The incident took place on Monday morning at the private school in Antop...
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Bharatiya Janata Party MP Pradeep Kumar Panigrahy was acquitted in two cases of cheating by a special court in Odisha's Ganjam district on Tuesday. The court also acquitted former IFS officer Abhay Pathak and his son Akash Pathak who were the co-accused in one of the two cases against...
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A 21-year-old woman allegedly died by suicide at a relief camp in Manipur's Imphal West district on Tuesday, the police said. The incident happened at the Mekola relief camp in the afternoon, they said. The body of Sukham Ongbi Chanu, hanging from the ceiling, was spotted by another...
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