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The Bihar police has set up a 'cell' to maintain a database of contract killers operating in the state with a view to keep a tab on such criminals. The new cell has been constituted under the Special Task...
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Three leopard skins were seized and seven persons, including a government teacher, were arrested for trading in wildlife body parts in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district, a senior forest officer said.Acting on a tip-off, officials of the Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) conducted raids at Kutling village...
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US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that Washington is very close to a trade deal with India. We're very close to a deal with India, where they open it up, Trump said in the Oval Office while talking to reporters during a bilateral meeting with Crown Prince and Prime Minister of...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on President Droupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Wednesday, her office said. It also shared pictures of the meeting in a post on X. Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi called on President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan, the post...
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Just In: IndiGo plane from Delhi to Goa has made emergency landing at Mumbai airport due to engine failure, said sources. More details soon. -- PTI
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The UIDAI has started deactivating Aadhaar of deceased persons to prevent misuse of their identity proof, and disabled over 1.17 crore such unique 12-digit numbers till date, an official statement said on Wednesday.As part of initiatives, the Unique Identity Authority of India (UIDAI) has started...
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Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha
Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said on Wednesday that the terrorists responsible for the Pahalgam attack have been identified and will soon be dealt with. While delivering a lecture on Jammu and Kashmir: Towards Peace at the Gandhi Smriti, Sinha emphasised that any...
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In a significant development, the Indian Army on Wednesday conducted successful trials of the indigenously developed Akash Prime air defence system at over 15,000 feet altitude in the Ladakh sector. The trial were carried out by the Army Air Defence along with senior officials of...
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A Dubai-bound Emirates flight from the city was delayed for nearly three hours on Wednesday after the aircraft developed a technical glitch, which forced the passengers to return from the aerobridge and go through the security checks and immigration again, according to a source. The flight,...
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Just In: Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla has on Wednesday reunited with his family after returning from the space on Tuesday. More details soon.
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Three persons were killed and seven others injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a passenger bus in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province on Wednesday, a senior official said.The vehicle was going from Karachi to provincial capital Quetta when it came under attack in the Kalat area of...
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The Vijayawada branch of the Bureau of Indian Standards raided e-commerce giant Amazon in Andhra Pradesh's NTR district and seized a consignment of uncertified consumer products, including electronics, utensils, toys, fans, footwear, and more, an official said on Wednesday. The raid on...
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Days after resigning as Pune district president of Congress, former MLA Sanjay Jagtap on Wednesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. The former Purandar MLA joined the saffron party with his followers in the presence of Maharashtra BJP president Ravindra Chavan at Saswad in the...
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The rupee declined 18 paise against the US dollar to close at 85.94 (provisional) on Wednesday, tracking a strengthening American currency against major crosses overseas amid uncertainties over the India-US trade pact. However, renewed foreign capital inflows and sliding global crude prices...
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ISRO astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla smiles and waves after exiting the Dragon spacecraft/Axiom Space/YouTube/ANI Photo
Home cooked meals, quiet family time and sharing stories from earth and beyond' that's the kind of homecoming Kamna Shukla has planned for her astronaut husband Shubhanshu Shukla, the toast of the nation and only the second Indian to go up in space. Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, or Shuks...
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
A Delhi court on Wednesday imposed Rs 5,000 fine on Lipika Mitra for being absent in the hearing over her criminal defamation complaint against Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Mitra is the wife of former AAP MLA Somnath Bharti. Additional chief judicial magistrate Paras Dalal said,...
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Telangana CM Revanth Reddy
Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Wednesday said the Centre has agreed to several crucial proposals aimed at resolving long-pending water-sharing disputes between the state and Andhra Pradesh, including setting up telemetry systems and river management boards. Speaking to...
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US President Donald Trump has said that the proposed trade deal with India would be on the lines of what America has finalised with Indonesia on Tuesday. Under the US-Indonesia trade pact, the Southeast Asian nation will provide complete access to its market to US products, while...
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Two well-marked low-pressure areas -- one over northwest Rajasthan and its neighbourhood and another over southwest Bihar and adjoining eastern Uttar Pradesh -- are currently influencing weather conditions across large parts of India. These systems are likely to sustain heavy to very heavy...
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A teacher in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district has issued a video statement expressing regret after a police case against him over a song referencing the ongoing Kanwar yatra. Rajneesh Gangwar, who teaches at MGM Inter College, claimed that he is neither anti-religion nor anti-government,...
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Among Sensex firms, Mahindra & Mahindra, Tech Mahindra, State Bank of India, Infosys, Adani Ports and ITC were the major gainers. However, Eternal, Sun Pharma, Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Bajaj Finance and Bharat Electronics were among the major laggards.
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enchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty closed marginally higher on Wednesday as investors stayed on the sidelines amid weak global market trends and tariff-related uncertainty. Rising for the second day in a row, the 30-share BSE Sensex edged up 63.57 points or 0.08 per cent to settle at...
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Bollywood actor Salman Khan has sold a 1,318 square feet apartment in Bandra (West), Mumbai, for Rs 5.35 crore, according to Square Yards. In a statement on Wednesday, real estate consultant Square Yards said it has reviewed the property registration documents of the deal by Salman Khan.The...
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Maharashtra Deputy CM Eknath Shinde test drives the Tesla outside the Maharashtra Assembly today, a day after Tesla officially launched its Model Y electric midsize SUV in the Indian market. Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis yesterday inaugurated the 'Tesla Experience Centre in Bandra...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday claimed that the people of Assam will put Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in jail for corruption, though he thinks he is a 'raja'. Sarma and his family will be held accountable for corruption, Gandhi said while addressing a party meeting in...
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Days after Russian woman Nina Kutina was taken into custody for living in a cave deep inside the forest in Karnataka's Gokarna with her two daughters, her ex-husband, an Israeli citizen, is demanding shared custody of their daughters, saying he wants to be a father to them.I just want to be able...
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Uttar Pradesh will acquire more than 13,240 acres along expressways for industrial clusters, in a bid to achieve its $1 trillion economy goal. The land will be earmarked for industrial and logistics hubs in the vicinity of five expressways: Bundelkhand, Ganga (under construction), Gorakhpur...
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Drones have emerged as the new Over Ground Workers (OGWs) for terror groups in Jammu and Kashmir, causing concern among security agencies as this shift from human networks to unmanned aerial vehicles for surveillance and logistics marks a new frontier in the region's security landscape, officials...
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Thousands of Kanwar pilgrims collected the holy water during the ongoing Kanwar Yatra at Har Ki Pauri here on Wednesday. The Kanwar Yatra began on July 10. During the annual pilgrimage, Kanwariyas collect holy water from rivers and carry it over hundreds of kilometres to offer it at Lord...
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The father of the 20-year-old college student, who immolated herself in protest over alleged sexual harassment by her teacher, on Wednesday vowed to fight till his last breath for justice.He also demanded that the government conduct a screening test before hiring someone as a...
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Maharashtra Dy CM Eknath Shinde
With elections to local bodies in Maharashtra looming, Shiv Sena, headed by Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, on Wednesday announced an alliance with Republican Sena led by Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar's grandson Anandraj Ambedkar. The move is expected to consolidate Dalit votes in urban...
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The results of the Securities and Exchange Board of India's interventions in the futures and options (F&O) market are beginning to show.The total number of unique traders in the F&O segment has declined by 20 per cent to 6.7 million, according to a study released by Sebi. This count is...
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A drunk auto driver allegedly killed his parents with a hammer in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district, and spent the night with the bodies lying in a pool of blood, police said on Wednesday. The chilling incident happened in Dhonapal village in the Baisinga police station area on Tuesday night....
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Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Wednesday lambasted the media for wrongly attributing words to him during an informal conversation with reporters over the question of possible alliance with the Shiv Sena (UBT) ahead of the upcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)...
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Randeep Surjewala
As AICC general secretary in-charge of Karnataka, Randeep Singh Surjewala, continued to hold one-on-one meetings with several ministers on Wednesday, opposition BJP and JD-S took a dig at the ruling Congress, calling him super CM. They also asked whether Randeep rule has been imposed in the...
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the line of investigation adopted by Haryana SIT in the case of Ashoka University professor booked for social media posts on Operation Sindoor saying 'it misdirected itself'.A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi asked the Haryana SIT headed...
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A team of experts from Prada visited Kolhapur to interact with artisans and assess the local footwear manufacturing process, days after the Italian luxury fashion brand was accused of appropriating the region's famous flat sandals. Following the row, Prada had acknowledged that the sandals...
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Displaced Manipuris have been staying in camps for two years now
Security forces on Wednesday stopped nearly 100 internally displaced people in Manipur from returning to their villages in Dolaithabi in Imphal East district, police said. As a precautionary measure to prevent any untoward incident, they were stopped from going back to their native places, a...
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Fauja Singh
A Canada-based man arrested for allegedly running over Fauja Singh has told the police that he didn't know the victim was the world's oldest marathoner, sources said on Wednesday, reports NDTV.The accused, Amritpal Singh Dhillon, said that he learnt about the death of 114-year-old...
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The Bihar Police on Wednesday suspended a station house officer (SHO) for dereliction of duty in connection with the murder of Patna-based industrialist Gopal Khemka. The order of suspension of Gandhi Maidan Police Station SHO Rajesh Kumar was issued by Central Range (Patna) Inspector...
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday deferred for July 21 hearing on the film 'Udaipur Files - Kanhaiya Lal Tailor Murder', and asked the filmmakers to await a decision of the panel appointed by the Centre to hear objections against the movie. The panel is scheduled to meet at 2:30 pm on...
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State Bank of India, the country's largest lender, has cut interest rate on short-term retail domestic deposits by 15 basis points across tenors effective July 15. The rate cut, the third such instance in the current financial year (FY26), comes in the backdrop of improved liquidity...
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The Supreme Court has held that a company can be called a 'victim' under the Code of Criminal Procedure and it can file an appeal against an acquittal order in criminal cases, including violations of intellectual property rights. This means that corporate entities affected by violations of...
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Prada is retailing the chappals for Rs 1 lakh
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) against Italian fashion house Prada for its alleged unauthorised use of the famous Kolhapuri chappals. A bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Sandeep Marne questioned the locus and statutory right of...
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Kia India on Tuesday launched its first made-in-India electric vehicle, the Carens Clavis EV, starting at 17.99 lakh. The vehicle is offered with two battery pack options: a 42kWh variant promising a 404 km range, and a larger 51.4kWh battery offering up to 490 km (MIDC) on a single...
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Online real-money gaming companies on Tuesday opposed in the Supreme Court the imposition of 28 per cent goods and services tax on their services, arguing that the levy was fundamentally flawed and contrary to the legal framework. Appearing for the online gaming companies (petitioners),...
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Akbar's reign was a blend of brutality and tolerance, while Aurangzeb was a military ruler who banned un-Islamic practices and reimposed taxes on non-Muslims -- this is how the new NCERT Class 8 Social Science textbook presents key Mughal emperors. The book, to be introduced in schools from...
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Shiv Sena MLA Sanjay Gaikwad
Legislators of the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) on Wednesday staged a banian towel protest outside the Vidhan Bhavan to condemn the assault of an MLA hostel canteen employee by Shiv Sena MLA Sanjay Gaikwad.Clad in banians and towels above their dress, the legislators shouted slogans against...
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The Congress on Wednesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has to answer to President Donald Trump's India-Pakistan ceasefire claims in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha during the forthcoming Monsoon session of Parliament.Tagging a post carrying Trump's latest remarks referring to the trade...
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Echoing United States President Donald Trump's stance on imposing economic sanctions against countries maintaining trade ties with Russia if Moscow doesn't put an end to the conflict in Ukraine, North Atlantic Treaty Organisaiton (NATO) Secretary General Mark Rutte on Tuesday (local time) urged...
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Markets were shut, schools and colleges were closed, and vehicles largely remained off the roads as a bandh, called by the opposition Biju Janata Dal, was underway in Odisha's Balasore district over the death of a college student.The second-year B.Ed student of Fakir Mohan (Autonomous) College...
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A class 9 student was allegedly raped inside her house in Ghaziabad by four boys -- three of them known to her from school, with the police launching an investigation into the matter, officials said on Wednesday.The girl was alone in the house when the incident took place on Sunday morning in a...
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A bomb threat received through email triggered panic across four private schools in Delhi on Wednesday morning, prompting authorities to immediately evacuate the premises for a thorough check, a Delhi Fire Services official said.This was the third consecutive day that education institutes in the...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will lead a protest march in Kolkata on Wednesday over alleged harassment of Bengali-speaking people in Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states.The march will begin at College Square around 1 pm and conclude at Dharmatala in the heart of Kolkata.Senior...
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The Reserve Bank of Indias three-day Variable Rate Reverse Repo (VRRR) auction got a tepid response on Tuesday, with the central bank receiving bids worth Rs 57,450 crore only, against the notified amount of ₹1 trillion. Market participants said that banks were reluctant to park higher...
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For the monsoon session of Parliament, which begins on July 21, the government has listed eight new Bills, including the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions), Taxation Laws (Amendment), and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bills. The session is also set to see the Opposition...
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The interest rate cuts since February have been transmitted well to lending rates, and any future reduction in policy rates will depend on the growth and inflation outlook, Reserve Bank of India Governor Sanjay Malhotra said on Tuesday. He also indicated that the regulator might allow...
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The driver of the SUV which ran over and killed Fauja Singh, the world's oldest marathoner, has been arrested, sources said on Wednesday.They said the accused has been identified as Amritpal Singh Dhillon (26), a resident of Dasupur in Kartarpur.His vehicle has also been seized.Dhillon was going...
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India on Tuesday called on Bangladesh to reconsider its decision to demolish the ancestral property of noted filmmaker Satyajit Ray and offered help to preserve the iconic building as it symbolises Bangla cultural renaissance. Describing the move to demolish the landmark...
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A sudden landslide triggered by heavy rains struck a section of Malshej Ghat on the National Highway 61 in Thane district on Tuesday afternoon, causing disruption to vehicular movement for a few hours, an official said. The landslide hit the Kalyan-Malshej...
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In an interim order, the Bombay high court on Tuesday restrained the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) from demolishing any of the old heritage 'kabutarkhanas' (pigeon feeding spots) in the metropolis. A bench of Justices G S Kulkarni and Arif Doctor, however, made it clear it...
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