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A police officer was suspended on Thursday after a video went viral showing him allegedly mixing ash into the food served at a Bhandara (community feast) for devotees at the Maha Kumbh Mela Prayagraj. Action was taken against the station house officer of Soraon, Brijesh Kumar Tiwari, after...
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The 40-day 'Chillai Kalan', considered the harshest period of winter in Kashmir, came to an end on a sunny note on Thursday but overcast conditions towards the end of the day raised hope of some precipitation after a prolonged dry spell. Chillai Kalan, which starts on December 21, is a...
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India on Thursday outlined global AI ambitions with plans to build its own 'foundational model' that could take on the might of ChatGPT, DeepSeek R1 and others, as it lined up most affordable common compute facility powered by 18,693 GPUs to be used by startups and researchers, for creating...
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Four persons have been arrested in connection with the kidnapping of a Shiv Sena leader from Dahanu in Palghar district, a police official said on Thursday. Shiv Sena leader Ashok Dhodi went missing from Gholwad on January 20, after which a case was registered on the complaint of his...
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The Mumbai police rescued a three-year-old girl within hours of her kidnapping from outside her house in Mumbai's Worli area, and arrested a woman in this connection, an official said in Mumbai. The arrested woman was identified as Dipali Bablu Das (40), he said. The child was abducted...
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A view of the Kumbh Mela
After taking a holy dip on Mauni Amavasya at Maha Kumbh, the influx of devotees has begun to swell in Ayodhya as 65 lakh devotees arrived in the city in the last 96 hours till Thursday afternoon. By night, Ayodhya's streets were packed with devotees. In view of the growing crowd, senior...
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The river where plane and copter crashed after collision in the US.
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Just In: Prime Minister Narendra Modi may cancel the Prayagraj visit scheduled for February 5 following the stampede at Maha Kumbh on Wednesday, that left 30 dead and 60 injured, according to an ABP News report. The PM may not take part in the holy dip (snan) at the Maha Kumbh, said the ABP...
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The Bombay high court granted bail to a man accused of ramming his car into several other vehicles on Bandra Worli Sea Link in 2023 resulting in four deaths after observing there was no malafide intention on his part. A single bench of Justice Milind Jadhav on January 28 also noted that...
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The government on Thursday said DeepSeek, an open-source model, will soon be hosted on Indian servers to address data security and privacy concerns over the Chinese AI platform. Chinese company DeepSeek made headlines after its AI model R1 overtook ChatGPT as the top-ranked free app on...
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Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi/File image
Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, on Thursday took a dig at Aam Aadmi Party national convenor Arvind Kejriwal over the alleged pollution in the Yamuna River, questioning when he would fulfill his past promise of taking a dip in its waters. The issue of toxic water in...
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Members of the judicial commission set up by the Uttar Pradesh government to investigate the riots that erupted during a survey at the Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal on November 24 last year recorded the statements of government employees on Thursday.The commission, which includes former high court...
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A 4-year-old boy from Ahmedabad city has contracted human metapneumovirus, taking the number of HMPV cases in Gujarat to eight, officials said on Thursday. The child from the city's Gota area is currently being treated at a trust-run hospital and his condition is stable, said medical officer...
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Gold prices rose for the second straight session to hit another fresh all-time high of Rs 83,800 per 10 grams in the national capital on Thursday amid strong global trends. According to the All India Sarafa Association, the yellow metal of 99.9 percent purity edged up by Rs 50 to hit another...
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Extending the winning run to the third day, benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty closed higher on Thursday on buying in heavyweight stocks Reliance Industries, Bharti Airtel and HDFC Bank. The 30-share Sensex advanced 226.85 points or 0.30 percent to settle at 76,759.81 in a volatile trade...
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Kerala devaswom minister VN Vasavan on Thursday clarified that the Devaswom Board has not made any decision regarding the custom of prohibiting male devotees from wearing shirts inside temples.He stated that temple customs and rituals are determined by the tantris and respective temple...
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The Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday claimed that a team of the Election Commission officials reached Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's Kapurthala House residence in Delhi for search.A team of the Election Commission (EC) officials was present at Mann's Kapurthala House to conduct a search at the...
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At least 15 tents were gutted on Thursday after they caught fire near Chamanganj Chowki outside Sector 22 in the Maha Kumbh Mela area with officials saying there was no loss of life. Chief fire officer (Kumbh) Pramod Sharma said information about a fire was received this afternoon and the...
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A tribal woman from Arunachal Pradesh working as an analyst at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur has accused her colleague of raping her on the pretext of marriage, the police said on Thursday. An FIR has been lodged at Kalyanpur police station on the complaint of the 24-year-old...
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President Droupadi Murmu
President Droupadi Murmu will address both Houses of Parliament on Friday, marking the beginning of the Budget Session. The Union Budget will be presented on February 1. Murmu will address the joint sitting of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha at 11 am on Friday. The Budget Session...
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An IDF official receives Agam (right) after Hamas releases her/Image courtesy IDF on X
As many as 482 days since being held in captivity by Hamas after the horrific October 7 attack, Israeli hostage Agam Berger, 20, was freed in Gaza early Thursday (local time) as part of the latest prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas. Agam Berger reunited with her family at an...
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Emphasising strong India-US bilateral ties, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday described US President Donald Trump as an American nationalist. Speaking at an interactive session at Delhi University's Hansraj College, Jaishankar highlighted the evolving nature of global...
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Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi on Thursday hit out at Chief Minister M K Stalin for conducting events 'in a corner of a city museum,' to honour Mahatma Gandhi's memory and alleged that the Father of the Nation was opposed and mocked during his life time by the followers of Dravidian...
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Experts from around the world weighing in on Wednesday's aircraft collision are trying to make sense of how DC's sophisticated airspace system led to the evening tragedy, reports CNN.It's very clear, looking at the flight paths of the aircraft and the radio transmissions, that the Black Hawk was...
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The three-member judicial commission set up by the Uttar Pradesh government to find the reasons behind the Maha Kumbh stampede has a month to wrap up its probe but will try to expedite it, panel head Harsh Kumar said on Thursday. Kumar, a retired judge, also told PTI that the commission members...
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Congress MP Rakesh Rathore was today arrested in a rape case filed against him, officials said. Rathore, the Lok Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur, was arrested when he was holding a press conference.Police registered a case against Rathore, who is also the General Secretary of the...
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The FBI's Washington Field Office dive team is assisting efforts to locate victims of Wednesday's plane-helicopter collision in the Potomac River, a bureau spokesperson told CNN.The FBI Underwater Search and Evidence Response Team (USERT) is comprised of specially trained agents stationed across...
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A probe has been started after a video on social media showed two dogs playing with a skull near the hostel of a government-run medical college in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur city, police said on Thursday. It was yet to be ascertained if it was a human skull, said a senior college official....
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Information Utilities (IU), which store credit information to provide high-quality, authenticated information about debts and defaults, can now use the PAN card to verify the identity of users, according to the amended technical guidelines issued by the insolvency regulator on Wednesday. The...
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Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has confirmed that both aircraft are in the water and 64 people were flying in the American Airlines aircraft and three were aboard the military helicopter that collided mid-air. She said that the fire department and EMS supported by the fire departments and...
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DC's Fire and EMS Chief John A. Donnelly Sr. said that all search-and-rescue efforts taking place right now are in the water and that conditions are dangerous, reports CNN.The challenges are access. The water that we're operating in is about 8 feet deep, there is wind, there is pieces of ice out...
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A local journalist on the banks of the Potomac River. Pic: Carlos Barria/Reuters
President Donald Trump said early this morning that the midair collision between a US Army helicopter and American Airlines passenger plane was a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented.The airplane was on a perfect and routine line of approach to the airport. The helicopter...
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An 18-feet long iron angle was found placed on the Panipat-Delhi rail track in Haryana's Panipat district, an official said on Thursday. A government railway police official said the loco pilot of a railway engine, going from Panipat to Ganaur, found the iron angle lying on the rail track near...
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A commercial airliner beings operated by PSA for American Airlines collided with a military helicopter near Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night, resulting in a crash into the Potomac River.At least two bodies have been pulled from the water, and authorities are still searching for...
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The US Army Black Hawk that collided with a passenger plane on Wednesday was on a training flight at the time of the incident, Joint Task Force-National Capital Region media chief Heather Chairez tells CNN.The 12th Aviation Battalion, based out of Fort Belvoir, provides helicopter transportation...
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A law enforcement source tells CNN that there are confirmed fatalities and that rescuers have not yet pulled any survivors from the water. The rescue efforts continue. The plane is in pieces in the water and the helicopter is in the water nearby.A jet with 60 passengers and four crew members...
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A law enforcement source tells CNN that there are confirmed fatalities and that rescuers have not yet pulled any survivors from the water. The rescue efforts continue. The plane is in pieces in the water and the helicopter is in the water nearby.A jet with 60 passengers and four crew members...
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How 'Gandhi's Assassin' used his newspapers to create the environment for independent India's first act of terrorism. Read more here.
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De Beers Group will be expanding the presence of its retail subsidiary Forevermark with 15 retail stores in Delhi and Mumbai coming up in this calendar year.Forevermark, which went through an internal restructuring and shifted focus from supplying loose diamonds to companies to a jewellery label...
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Avendus Capital on Wednesday said it was shutting down its hedge funds business.Andrew Holland, who was heading the vertical, is moving out of the firm. Avendus Capital said while its products in structured credit, private equity and long-only public markets continue to garner significant...
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Aimed at encouraging the Indian government and private companies to acquire critical mineral assets abroad, enhance trade with resource-rich countries, and establish a stockpile at home, the Cabinet on Wednesday approved the National Critical Mineral Mission at a cost of Rs 34,300 crore.To be...
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US President Donald Trump has signed his first piece of legislation into law that permits the pre-trial detention of illegal migrants accused of theft, burglary or shoplifting. The Laken Riley Act had earlier won bipartisan support in both the House and Senate. It is Trump's first piece of...
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A passenger jet collided Wednesday with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, prompting a large search-and-rescue operation in the nearby Potomac River. There was no immediate word on casualties, but all takeoffs and landings from the airport...
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Public sector lenders to the ailing Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) may agree to a 20 per cent haircut on their Rs 8,144 crore exposure to the State-owned telecom firm, with the loans turning into non-performing assets (NPAs).The joint lenders' forum for MTNL, comprising seven public sector...
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Maharashtra minister Nitesh Rane has claimed Bangladeshi nationals and Rohingyas staying illegally in India is a major security concern and an attempt to Islamise the society. The BJP leader further said illegal immigrants should not be allowed to stay in India. Illegal Bangladeshis and...
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The victim's family holds RG Kar principal culpable for her death
BJP's West Bengal president Sukanta Mazumdar on Wednesday, condemned the maligning of the victim's family in the RG Kar rape-murder case, stating he will visit them to show support. Mazumdar also alleged that evidence was destroyed during the initial 5-day investigation by Kolkata police,...
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While on US news, the Ronald Reagan National Airport said late on Wednesday that all takeoffs and landings were halted at the airport in the Washington region as emergency personnel responded to an aircraft incident. The Washington D.C. Fire Department said separately that there was a confirmed...
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US President Donald Trump has signed a presidential memorandum to set up a 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay to detain high-priority criminal aliens. The Guantanamo Bay facility, which has so far been used to hold terrorists, will now also house illegal immigrants with...
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The Trump administration on Wednesday abruptly reversed a decision to halt spending on federal grants, just two days after the move sparked confusion and legal challenges nationwide, according to two sources familiar with the matter.The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued the...
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Following the stampede at the Maha Kumbh on Mauni Amavasya Wednesday, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath issued a slew of guidelines on crowd management, traffic flow, prevention of build-up of devotees and coordination among departments.He ordered the deployment of Ashish Goyal, who served as...