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The Gujarat government has urged citizens to come forward and report potholes on roads and damage to bridges through its 'Guj-MARG' mobile application for quick action, officials said on Sunday.Through the app, the public can directly submit infrastructure complaints to the state's Roads and...
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The body of 19-year-old Sneha Debnath, a Delhi University student missing for six days, was retrieved from the Yamuna River near Geeta Colony flyover on Sunday evening, police said.Debnath, a resident of Paryavaran Complex in south Delhi, hails from Tripura.She was reported missing on July 7.A...
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Noted lawyer Ujjwal Nikam, who is among four persons nominated to Rajya Sabha by President Droupadi Murmu, on Sunday said PM Narendra Modi called him to inform the news.Modi ji speaks excellent Marathi. He begins some of his speeches in Maharashtra in Marathi and then switches to Hindi, Nikam...
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Parts of Delhi were lashed by rain on Sunday evening, bringing relief from the humid weather.The weather department has issued a red alert for more showers over the next few hours and throughout Monday.The weather department, in its latest forecast, said a cloud mass approaching from the...
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Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar on Sunday strongly defended the practice of 'guru puja' observed by a section of people, saying that 'offering flowers at the feet of teachers is part of Indian culture'.His remarks came a day after the Communist Party of India-Marxist-led Left...
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India looks full of ambition, fearless, confident and full of pride from space, astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla said on Sunday.Even today, Bharat looks 'saare jahan se accha' from above, Shukla said reprising the iconic words of India's first astronaut Rakesh Sharma in 1984. Shukla was speaking...
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The Supreme Court will hear a plea on July 15 challenging the Uttar Pradesh government's directive mandating the display of QR codes on all eateries along the 'kanwar' route, which reveal the names and identities of the owners.A bench of Justices MM Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh is set to hear...
19:56
A 17-year-old boy ran away from his Nagpur home after arguing with his mother for preparing a dish with okra, a police official said on Sunday.The Anti Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) managed to trace him to Delhi and brought him back home, the Kotwali police station official added.As per his...
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A Pakistani drama group is making waves by staging an adaptation of the Ramayana, a powerful legend of good versus evil deeply rooted in Hindu mythology, in Karachi city of Pakistan's Sindh province.Drama group 'Mauj', staging the 'Ramayana' at the Karachi Arts Council over the weekend, has won...
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Delhi Police has registered a case after broken glass pieces were found scattered on roads in Shahdara's Guru Tegh Bahadur (GTB) and Jhilmil Colony areas, both located along the Kanwar Yatra route, officials said on Sunday.CCTV footage is being examined to ascertain whether the glass came from a...
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A person has been arrested in Assam's Tinsukia district for allegedly morphing photographs and creating AI-generated pornographic videos of a woman and circulating those on social media, a senior police officer said on Sunday.Dibrugarh Senior Superintendent of Police (in-charge) Sizal Agarwal...
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Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday cast doubts over the Election Commission's claim that the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar was progressing at a brisk pace and would be completed before the July 25 deadline.Addressing a press conference in Patna,...
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Income Tax refunds have jumped 474 per cent in the last 11 years to Rs 4.77 lakh crore in 2024-25, significantly outpacing the 274 per cent growth in gross tax collections, sources said on Sunday.Also, there has been an 81 per cent decrease in number of days it takes to issue income tax refunds...
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The collector of Madhya Pradesh's Bhind district was caught on camera slapping a student appearing for an examination at a local college, an action he claimed busted a mass copying racket operating at the centre.A purported video of the incident that took place on April 1 surfaced on social media...
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A local court in Shillong has granted bail to Lokendra Singh Tomar and Balbir Ahirwar, two co-accused in the murder of Indore businessman Raja Raghuvanshi in May this year.Tomar is the owner of the flat in Indore where Sonam had stayed after fleeing Meghalaya and Balbir was the security guard at...
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The proscribed United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent (ULF-I) on Sunday claimed drone and missile attacks on its camps along the Myanmar border by the Indian Army, though there was no confirmation about the development from the armed forces.The ULFA-I, in a press statement, said the attacks...
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It will be too premature to draw conclusions on the role of pilots from the preliminary investigation report into the fatal crash of Air India plane last month and the final report will mention about the most probable cause for the accident, former AAIB chief Aurobindo Handa said on Sunday.A day...
16:35
Former Supreme Court Bar Association president and senior advocate Dushyant Dave has decided to quit the profession after practising law for more than four decades.After having spent 48 glorious years at the Bar and having just celebrated 70th wonderful birthday, I have decided to quit the...
16:18
The search operation to trace one man still missing in the bridge collapse incident, in which 20 people have lost their lives, continued in the Mahisagar River in Gujarat's Vadodara district on Sunday, officials said.Efforts are on to trace Vikram Padhiyar (22), a resident of Narsinghpur village...
16:15
The Election Commission has activated its poll machinery across states for a possible roll out of pan-India special intensive revision (SIR) next month just like the one being carried out in Bihar.The move comes after the Supreme Court last week called the SIR a 'constitutional mandate' and...
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Three buses part of the Amarnath Yatra convoy collided on Sunday on their way to a base camp in Kulgam district in Jammu and Kashmir, injuring at least 10 pilgrims, officials said.The injured pilgrims were taken to a hospital for treatment, they said.Officials said the condition of all injured...
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Tensions prevailed in Jaipur's Ramganj area when two groups clashed following a minor altercation, a police official said on Sunday.Seven people from both the groups have been detained and are being interrogated, he said.The incident occurred late on Saturday night in the Paharganj locality, with...
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President of the Federation of Indian Pilots, Charanvir Singh Randhawa, on Sunday raised doubts over the preliminary report on the Air India AI171 crash, saying it fails to clarify who was in control of the cockpit and points to a possible electrical or software malfunction in the...
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Enrolment of about 10,500 participants in the phase III clinical trial of the indigenous one-shot Panacea Biotec developed dengue vaccine, DengiAll, is likely to be completed by October across 20 centres in India, according to ICMR scientists.So far, 8,000 participants in various centres at Pune,...
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The Supreme Court will hear on Monday a plea seeking a direction to the Centre to use diplomatic channels to save an Indian nurse, who is likely to be executed in Yemen on July 16 for murder charges.A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta is likely to hear the matter.The matter was...
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Prominent political leaders in Jammu and Kashmir-- both from ruling National Conference and opposition parties except the Bharatiya Janata Party -- on Sunday claimed that they have been placed under house arrest to prevent them from paying homage to the 22 persons killed by the Dogra army on this...
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Excessive salt consumption is fuelling a silent epidemic in India with people at increased risk of hypertension, stroke, heart disease, and kidney disorders, according to scientists from Indian Council of Medical Research's National Institute of Epidemiology.The scientists have initiated a...
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A man absconding for nearly 13 years after being accused in a murder case in Maharashtra's Thane district has been apprehended from Bihar, police said on Sunday.The accused, identified as Bangali alias Mahanand Surujikant Mistry (39), was wanted in connection with the murder of Vinod Gupta (21)...
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Five people allegedly beat up a Dalit teenager in a village here and made casteist remarks against him, police said on Sunday.A case has been registered against the five people from Badhai Kala village in Muzaffarnagar district for beating up Gullu, 19, when he was going to buy goods from a shop...
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Field-level functionaries of the Election Commission have found 'a large number of people' from Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar during house-to-house visits made for the ongoing intensive review of voters' list in Bihar, officials said on Sunday.They asserted that the names of illegal migrants will...
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A video showing an auto-rickshaw driver being beaten up allegedly by Shiv Sena-UBT workers in Maharashtra's Palghar district for 'anti-Marathi' remarks has gone viral on social media, further fuelling controversy over the language issue in the state. The police on Sunday said they have seen...
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A four-year-old boy was killed when a car hit him while his mother was holding him close at a roadside EV charging station in Kerala's hilly Vagamon region on Friday afternoon. The child, from Nemom near Thiruvananthapuram, was on a short holiday with his parents when the accident occurred,...
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Veteran Telugu actor and former MLA Kota Srinivasa Rao/ANI Photo
Veteran Telugu actor and former MLA Kota Srinivasa Rao died following prolonged illness here on Sunday, industry sources said. He was 83. Kota Srinivasa Rao, known for his versatile performances, appeared in over 750 films across multiple languages during his illustrious career. He...
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Fire breaks out in goods train carrying high-speed diesel Tiruvallur in Tamil Nadu./ANI Photo
A goods train carrying high-speed diesel caught fire on Sunday morning near Tiruvallur, a Railway official said. The fire broke out in a wagon and quickly spread to others. No casualties have been reported, the official said. Fire tenders have been rushed to the spot and overhead...
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader Surender Kewat, 52, was shot dead on Saturday night in Punpun block in Patna district. Two motorcycle borne assailants shot him four times and fled. His family rushed him to AIIMS Patna but doctors declared him brought dead.Kewat, a resident of Sheikhpura...
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Former foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla, special public prosecutor in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks case Ujjwal Nikam, Kerala BJP leader C Sadanandan Master and historian Meenakshi Jain have been nominated to the Rajya Sabha. In a notification issued late Saturday night , the...
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Security forces arrested five militants belonging to various proscribed outfits from three districts of Manipur, the police said on Sunday. Two active cadres of the banned Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) were apprehended from Laikhong in Imphal East district on Saturday, while a member of the...
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Police on Saturday arrested a man for allegedly making objectionable remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in a video and circulating it on social media, an official said.The accused has been identified as Irshad Khan (26), a resident of Rasulpur...
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A Muslim man, who allegedly married a Hindu girl at a temple in Pratapgarh in Uttar Pradesh by posing as a Hindu, has been arrested, the police on Saturday said.Additional superintendent of police, East, Shailendra Lal, said that action was initiated in this case on the intervention of Mangala...
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The Uttarakhand police on Saturday arrested a woman near the India-Nepal border in the Banbasa area of Champawat district and recovered 5.688 kg of MDMA drug, valued over Rs 10.23 crore in the international market, officials said. The accused has been identified as Isha (22) of...
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A 50-year-old rural health officer was allegedly shot dead in the Pipra locality of Patna on Saturday, officials said. The deceased has been identified as Surendra Kumar (50), they said. The incident took place at Sheikhpura village late this evening when Kumar was working in his...
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A fire broke out at Dwarka's Radisson Blu Hotel in the national capital in the early hours of Sunday.The fire was observed in the sauna room on the second floor of the hotel, said officials, adding that no casualties have been reported.We received a call around 12:17 am that a fire broke out in...
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More than 100 Palestinians, including children and women, were killed and dozens of others injured since dawn on Saturday as a result of Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.According to Palestinian medical sources, the total number of casualties since 7th October 2023 has risen to 57,882 martyrs...
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