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The Crime Branch of Odisha Police on Thursday recorded the statement of a person who suffered burn injuries while trying to save a 20-year-old student who died after immolating herself over alleged sexual harassment, official sources said. The Crime Branch on Wednesday took over the...
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Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy
Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Thursday announced that the state government will present the empirical data from its 2024-25 Caste Survey before the Assembly and implement 42 per cent reservation for Backward Classes in government jobs, educational institutions and local body...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit West Bengal on Friday to address a BJP rally in Durgapur and unveil key infrastructure projects, in a politically charged backdrop marked by TMC's outcry over alleged harassment of Bengali-speaking migrants in several BJP-ruled states.This will...
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Negotiations between India and the US are underway to iron out pending issues for a trade deal, the ministry of external affairs said on Thursday. The comments came a day after US President Donald Trump said that Washington is very close to the trade pact with India. These negotiations...
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The Maharashtra government will launch a special drive to take action against illegal slaughterhouses, minister Yogesh Kadam said in the assembly on Thursday. The minister of state for home was replying to a calling attention motion raised by Borivali BJP MLA Sanjay Upadhyay. On...
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The first set of wing assemblies for Light Combat Aircraft Mk1A, produced by Larsen and Toubro, was handed over to Hindustan Aeronautics Limited in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu on Thursday, the ministry of defence said in a statement.Secretary (defence production) Sanjeev Kumar attended the event...
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An assistant professor of a government university was arrested in Odisha's Sambalpur on Thursday for allegedly sexually exploiting a 20-year-old student of the varsity, the police said. On the basis of a complaint lodged by the woman, the Sambalpur Mahila police station registered a case and...
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NATO secretary general Mark Rutte (left) with US President Donald Trump at the White House./Nathan Howard/Reuters
In a firm response to NATO secretary general Mark Rutte's threat of secondary sanctions over New Delhi's ties with Moscow, India on Thursday cautioned against double standards on the matter and asserted that its energy procurement from Russia is based on national interests and market...
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The Central Board of Secondary Education has asked schools to set up oil boards to educate students and staff about harmful effects of consuming high-fat foods and oils and to serve as daily reminders promoting healthier eating habits, according to officials.The directive comes two months after...
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The owner of an eatery shop and his employee have been arrested for allegedly putting up posters carrying inflammatory messages in Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad district, the police said.According to the police, the posters were found to be a result of business rivalry rather than communal...
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Beleaguered edtech firm BYJU's founders, Byju Raveendran and Divya Gokulnath, are gearing up to file an over $2.5 billion suit against Glas Trust and others for damage to their reputation and business, a statement from their counsel said on Thursday. The founders are preparing to sue Glas...
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Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Council Ambadas Danve/File image
Ambadas Danve, Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Council, on Thursday said the state has recorded 3,506 rape and 924 murder cases in just five months of this year as he attacked the BJP-led Mahayuti government over law and order situation. Speaking during an...
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The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau on Thursday said it is too early to reach any definite conclusions on the Air India plane crash as the probe is still on and urged everyone to refrain from spreading premature narratives amid speculations about the cause of the fatal accident. It...
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The rupee declined 15 paise to settle at 86.07 (provisional) against the US dollar on Thursday amid a stronger greenback, outflow of foreign funds and volatile global crude oil prices. Selling trend in the domestic equity markets and uncertainties over the outcome of the ongoing India-US...
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Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty settled lower on Thursday following selling in IT and banking shares and investors remaining in a wait-and-watch mode ahead of the outcome of the US-India trade talks. The 30-share BSE Sensex dropped 375.24 points or 0.45 percent to settle at...
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The Bihar police have arrested four Vietnamese men in Bodh Gaya.The Vietnamese were arrested from different places in Bodh Gaya in connection with an attempt to murder case.The police acted against the four men on the basis of a written complaint filed at the Bodh Gaya police station by...
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Amid the ongoing row over the imposition of Hindi in primary schools, Shiv Sena-UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray met with Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday.The meeting, which lasted for approximately 20 minutes, was held in the office of Legislative Council Chairman Ram...
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A senior police officer in Bihar has blamed the recent spurt in crime in the state on seasonal unemployment among agricultural labourers. ADG (law and order) Kundan Krishnan made the remarks during an interaction with journalists on Wednesday evening. Bihar has only two major crop...
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The NHRC on Thursday said it has issued notices to the Railway Board and the Haryana police chief over reports that a woman was allegedly gangraped in an empty compartment of a stationary train in Panipat and later, thrown on the rail tracks by the perpetrators, where a train ran over her...
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Former Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai
Former Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai appeared before a court in Chennai on Thursday in connection with a defamation case filed by DMK MP TR Baalu. The XVII metropolitan magistrate, before whom Annamalai appeared, posted to August 28, further hearing of the case. In his complaint,...
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The Ministry of External Affairs made comprehensive remarks on the Nimisha Priya case during the weekly press briefing here on Thursday. The 37-year-old nurse from Kerala was set to be executed on July 16 after a trial court in Yemen convicted her of killing a Yemeni national, a decision that the...
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India has successfully test fired the Akash Prime missile in Ladakh, the defence ministry said on Thursday. The weapon system is customised to operate in an altitude of 4,500 metres. India, on July 16 achieved a significant milestone by successfully destroying two aerial high speed...
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Adani has executed the sale of a 20 per cent stake in AWL Agri Business Limited to Wilmar International, Singapore, with the deal size valued at Rs 7,150 crore, according to a stock exchange filing by Adani Enterprises. The stake sale was executed at Rs 275 per share. In December 2024,...
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Shubhanshu with his wife Kamna after returning home
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday said initial health assessments of astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, who returned to earth after a 20-day space mission, indicated that he was in stable condition with no immediate concerns. Shukla returned to earth on June 15 when the...
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Former Bihar chief minister and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav has moved the Supreme Court against an order dismissing his plea seeking a stay on the trial court proceedings over the CBI's land-for-jobs case. A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh would likely hear the matter...
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The Karnataka government on Thursday justified the suspension of IPS officer Vikash Kumar Vikash before the High Court, arguing that the police officer and his colleagues acted as though they were servants of RCB during preparations for the IPL victory celebration, leading to a stampede that...
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The Enforcement Directorate has filed a charge sheet against Robert Vadra, the businessman husband of Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, in a money laundering case linked to a land deal in Haryana's Shikohpur, official sources said on Thursday. This is the first time that any probe agency...
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Co-pilot Clive Kunder
Former Flight Operations Inspector with the DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation), Captain Prashant Dhalla, spoke to ANI on Thursday regarding the Wall Street Journal's news report on the Air India AI 171 crash that occurred in Ahmedabad last month.Dhalla emphasised the word...
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A massive fire in a five-storey commercial complex in Kut city, eastern Iraq, has left at least 61 people dead and several others missing, according to the country's Interior Ministry, Al Jazeera reported. The fire broke out late Wednesday night in a building that had opened just a week ago....
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Following the Wall Street Journal report on the Air India AI171 crash, aviation expert Sanjay Lazar on Thursday expressed concern over the leak of investigation details in the United States. He pointed out that while the American report claims the flight commander may have switched off the...
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Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have introduced the Chip Security Act, a bipartisan effort to block advanced U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) chips from ending up in the hands of adversaries like the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party...
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A veteran pilot and aviation consultant has suggested that investigators should also focus on a possible fault in flight AI171's stabilizer, which he believes could have created conditions for the plane's crash, albeit due to an unintended mistake by the pilot. Air India flight 171, which...
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Ranya Rao
Kannada film actress Ranya Rao has been sentenced to one year of imprisonment under the stringent COFEPOSA, in connection with a gold smuggling case.The Advisory Board handling the Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act (COFEPOSA) matter recently ruled that...
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Nisaba Godrej, executive chairperson, Godrej Consumer, has told shareholders -- in its annual report -- that the company's 2040 vision is bold and revealed that it has a sharp total addressable market (TAM) strategy to get there.The company has already started to play out through its...
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Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sinha on Thursday said that the decision to provide 125 units of free electricity will benefit over 1.86 crore domestic consumer. Speaking with ANI, Vijay Sinha, hailing the government's decision said, The big decisions taken by NDA under the leadership of...
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Altogether 147 people have so far recorded their statements as part of an administrative inquiry into the June 29 stampede in Odisha's Puri district, where three persons were killed and around 50 others injured during the Rath Yatra festivities, officials said on Thursday. These people...
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Continuous rainfall in Dakshina Kannada district has triggered a landslide on National Highway 75 near Kadaba taluk, bringing vehicular movement between Bengaluru and Mangaluru to a standstill. The landslide occurred near the Dharmasthala cross stretch of NH-75 following days of persistent...
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The father of pilot Sumeet Sabharwal
Pilots' grouping ALPA-India on Thursday said the crew of the crashed AI 171 flight made every possible effort to protect the passengers onboard and they deserve respect, not unfounded character judgements. The Air Line Pilots' Association - India (ALPA India) has been demanding a transparent...
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Indore retained the top position among the cleanest cities for the eighth time in a row, followed by Surat and Navi Mumbai in the government's annual cleanliness survey. The results of the Swachh Survekshan were announced on Thursday. In the category of 3-10 lakh population, Noida emerged...
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Hospitality chain ITC Hotels reported a 54 per cent year-on-year surge in its net profit to Rs 133 crore in the first quarter of financial year 2025-2026 (Q1FY26), despite geopolitical developments impacting the sector.The company's portfolio expanded to over 200 hotels, including 143...
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The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) President CS Randhawa on Thursday condemned a media report that claimed that the captain of the Air India flight that crashed in Ahmedabad last month deliberately cut off fuel to the engines. Captain Randhawa dismissed the claims as baseless and vowed to...
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Maharashtra Transport Minister Pratap Sarnaik spoke to ANI about illegal bike-taxis in Mumbai and stated that the administration seized 72 cars during raids at 138 locations yesterday, with action being taken in coordination with the RTOs and police.He said to ANI, The state government has...
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This woman spent 7 hours at a store in US and is accused of theft
The US Embassy in India has cautioned that committing crimes such as assault, theft, or burglary in the United States could result in serious consequences beyond legal troubles, including visa revocation.Committing assault, theft, or burglary in the United States won't just cause you legal issues...
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Update: A man, who was a murder convict and out on parole, and shot by gunmen inside a private hospital in Bihar's Patna on Thursday, has succumbed to his injured. The deceased was identified as Chandan, a resident of Buxar district, and went to the hospital for treatment, a senior officer said....
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RJD leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday questioned the Bihar government asking if anyone was safe anywhere in the state after unidentified assailants shot a prisoner admitted at a hospital in Patna. In a post on X, Tejashwi Yadav said, Government criminals...
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And while on Patna: People wade through flooded fields as the Ganga swells following heavy downpour, in Patna on Wednesday.
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The FSL team
In another shocking incident in Bihar, a patient undergoing treatment at a reputed private hospital in Patna was shot and seriously injured on Thursday morning.Patients, attendants, doctors, nurses and other staff fled as unidentified criminals entered a ward of the Paras hospital and fired three...
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Over a third of bank account holders in India were no longer using the banking facilities and had inactive accounts, a World Bank report titled Global Findex 2025 released on Wednesday said, as it cited Jan Dhan Yojana accounts as one of the likely reasons for the country's high share...
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Indian banks are likely to see a contraction of 30 basis points (bps) in their Net Interest Margins (NIMs) in 2025-2026 (FY26) as 45 per cent of loans in the system are repriced downward immediately. This reflects the transmission of repo rate cuts to borrowers, according to Fitch...
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The government will provide free artificial intelligence training to all 550,000 village-level entrepreneurs (VLEs) operating Common Services Centres (CSCs), Union Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said. The training will be conducted under the IndiaAI Mission,...
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In another populist measure ahead of the Bihar assembly elections, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday announced 125 units electricity of free of cost.Nitish Kumar shared his government's decision to provide 125 units of free electricity to domestic consumers on X.Free electricity, the chief...
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A remote village in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district, which was once a Naxal hotbed, has now become accessible with the starting of the state-run bus service in the area for the first time since independence, police said. As the first bus rolled into the Markanar village on Wednesday,...
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The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has proposed a new methodology for valuing physical gold and silver held by exchange traded funds (ETFs), aiming to bring uniformity across schemes. The proposal suggests valuing gold and silver based on the spot prices determined by domestic...
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Commuters in Mumbai were left stranded as the strike by the drivers of ride-hailing service providers Uber and Ola continued for a second straight day on Wednesday.Some of the drivers' demands include a fixed base price similar to the one charged by local cabs (kali-peeli), reduction in the...
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The Amarnath Yatra was suspended on Thursday due to heavy rain in the valley for the last 36 hours, officials said.A weather advisory warned of more heavy rain in parts of Jammu and Kashmir.This comes a day after a woman pilgrim died and three sustained injuries in a landslide along the Baltal...
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Operations of app-based cab aggregators such as Ola, Uber and Rapido were affected in the Mumbai metropolitan region on Wednesday as several cab drivers went on indefinite strike for their various demands including higher fares. Kiran Kshirsagar, president of the Maharashtra Gig Works Manch,...
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A woman pilgrim died while three others sustained injuries on Wednesday in a landslide incident along the Baltal route of the Amarnath Yatra in Ganderbal district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. Four pilgrims were washed downhill by a landslide at Railpathri along the Baltal axis to...
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An Air India Express Boeing plane faced a technical issue at Lucknow airport on Wednesday morning following which the flight from the city to Dubai was cancelled, according to a source. The flight IX 193 was to be operated with a Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. The source said the...
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