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India on Tuesday night said it is sending a team of burn-specialist doctors and nurses to Dhaka to treat those injured when a military jet crashed into a school. At least 31 people, including 25 children, were killed when the military jet crashed into the Milestone School and College in the...
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An Indian man in his 40s was hospitalised following what has been dubbed mindless, racist violence in a suburb of the Irish capital of Dublin, with the Indian Ambassador to Ireland calling for the perpetrators to be brought to justice. According to local reports, the victim had arrived...
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The Election Commission will soon initiate the process to hold polls to elect the next vice president after Jagdeep Dhankhar quit the post, sources indicated on Tuesday. Though there is no official word yet, the sources said with the Union home ministry officially notifying Dhankhar's...
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A second-year B Tech student of IIT Kharagpur died after choking on medicines, an official said on Tuesday. The institute spokesperson told PTI that Chandradeep Pawar from Madhya Pradesh gulped some medicines prescribed by his doctor after dinner on Monday night but complained of difficulty...
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Nine of the eleven persons acquitted by the Bombay high Court in the 7/11 serial train blasts case have been released from various prisons in Maharashtra, while two others will continue to be behind bars as other cases are pending against them, officials said on Tuesday. Nineteen years after...
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Five cadres of a Kuki militant outfit were shot dead during a suspected internal clash at Deivaijang village in Noney district of Manipur, officials said on Tuesday. The incident occurred at the remote Deivaijang village, about 53 km from the district headquarters Noney, on late Monday...
22:19
A pastor was on Tuesday arrested in Akbarpur town of Ambedkar Nagar district following allegations of religious conversion under the guise of faith healing, the police said.According to officials, pastor Pramod Kumar was booked under the provisions of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful...
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Two kanwariyas were killed while two others were seriously injured after their pick-up vehicle, which was covered with a tarpaulin sheet tied to an iron pipe, came in contact with a high-tension wire in Haryana's Yamunanagar district on Tuesday. A group of 15 kanwariyas from Gumthala village...
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With less than a year to go for the 2026 West Bengal assembly elections, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced a massive grassroots outreach programme, similar to another welfare initiative launched before the 2021 polls. Unveiling the Rs 8,000-crore 'Amader Para, Amader...
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The Maharashtra government has filed an appeal in the Supreme Court challenging yesterday's Bombay high court's decision to acquit twelve persons who were accused in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts. The plea was mentioned on Tuesday before a bench led by Chief Justice of India BR Gavai by...
20:59
A Delhi court on Tuesday granted to jailed Lok Sabha MP Engineer Rashid custody parole between July 24 and August 4 to attend the monsoon session of Parliament. Rashid has been lodged in Tihar jail since 2019 after he was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) under the Unlawful...
20:33
The cabinet on Tuesday approved the free trade agreement between India and the UK, which will be signed in London on July 24, sources said. The pact, officially called as comprehensive economic and trade agreement, will be signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to...
20:26
A bus carrying Amarnath Yatra pilgrims met with an accident in the Kela Morh Tunnel-T2 on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway on Tuesday, an official said.Four pilgrims were injured and have been shifted to the District Hospital Ramban. A crane is on site to clear the damaged bus from the...
20:08
The rupee pared initial gains and settled for the day down 5 paise at 86.36 (provisional) against the US dollar on Tuesday, amid uncertainty over the US-India trade deal ahead of the August 1 deadline. Forex traders said, all eyes are now on the outcome of India-US trade talks, especially as...
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A man who allegedly duped a Delhi resident of Rs 95 lakh in a land scam and later reinvented himself as a philanthropist in Haridwar to evade arrest has been arrested, the police said on Tuesday. The accused, identified as Dharmander Aggarwal (50), had completely severed ties with his family...
19:09
A case has been registered against a 40-year-old man in connection with the death of his wife, Athulya (29), who was found hanging in their apartment, police said.The incident took place inside the couple's flat in Sharjah, where the man is currently employed. Athulya was found dead under...
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An Air India plane's auxiliary power unit caught fire after landing at the Delhi airport on Tuesday afternoon, and all passengers and crew members are safe. Flight AI 315, operating from Hong Kong to Delhi on 22 July 2025, experienced an auxiliary power unit fire shortly after it had landed...
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The Delhi high court on Tuesday granted time to former diplomat Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri to peruse an affidavit filed by TMC MP Saket Gokhale tendering apology for his alleged defamatory utterances against her. A bench of Justices Anil Kshetarpal and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar passed the...
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The Border Security Force is raising a maiden drone squadron for deployment along the India-Pakistan border even as it has begun hardening its defences and posts against lethal UAV attacks in the wake of lessons drawn during Operation Sindoor. The squadron, to be based in specific border...
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Uttarakhand Waqf Board chairman Shadab Shams on Tuesday accused Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav of using the mosque on Parliament Street in New Delhi for a political meeting and demanded an apology from him, saying it had hurt Muslim sentiments.Shams was reacting to pictures shared by SP...
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Filmmaker Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri
Filmmaker Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri says his new movie The Bengal Files will release in theatres worldwide on September 5. The filmmaker previously directed and wrote The Tashkent Files and The Kashmir Files, the former won him a National Film Award while the latter emerged as on of...
17:14
Among Sensex firms, Eternal jumped the most by 10.56 per cent in a post-result rally. Food delivery and quick commerce firm Eternal, which owns the Zomato and Blinkit brands, on Monday reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 25 crore for the June quarter, as continuing investments in quick...
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Mumbai, Jul 22 (PTI) Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty closed almost unchanged in a volatile trade on Tuesday as gains in quick commerce and private banking shares were offset by losses in oil & gas and IT shares. The 30-share BSE Sensex ended 13.53 points or 0.02 per cent down...
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Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh on Tuesday called on President Droupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, her office said. The meeting comes a day after Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, who is also the ex-officio chairperson of Rajya Sabha, tendered his resignation to Murmu. The...
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If a senior person wants to resign, the political leadership gets a sense of it and has a mechanism to avert it. There was no mechanism in place to avert, delay or stop the VP's resignation, says leading political analyst Rasheed Kidwai, who has reported on national politics for nearly three...
16:47
As part of the centenary celebrations of Guru Dutt, Ultra Media & Entertainment Group, in association with NFDC-NFAI, will be presenting a nationwide theatrical retrospective of his most iconic films, meticulously restored and reintroduced for today's audiences. From August 8th to 10th,...
16:39
The BJP had no option but to get Dhankar out of its way for the sake of the stability of the Modi government, reveals Sheela Bhatt, the legendary political journalist. Read the column here.
16:17
Take a look at the graph alongside. The government has also said it is ensuring adequate availability of fertilizers to meet the Kharif 2025 requirement. The requirement for chemical fertilizers during the 2025 Kharif season (is) marginally higher than that of the previous year, owing to expanded...
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Jagdeep Dhankhar, who stepped down as the vice president citing health reasons, has been keeping unwell, even though he appeared lively and energetic in Rajya Sabha, which he presided over as chairperson.-- He was admitted to the AIIMS here for a few days in March, following which he was advised...
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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday wished Jagdeep Dhankhar, who resigned as Vice President on Monday, good health and expressed hope that his successor would do justice to the office. First of all, I hope for his better health and pray to God to keep the former vice...
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The death toll amid the relentless monsoon in Himachal Pradesh has risen to 132 with 74 deaths directly attributed to rain-related incidents and 58 caused by road accidents, according to the State Emergency Operation Centre (SEOC), State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA). According to...
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The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert for parts of Konkan and ghat areas of western Maharashtra, forecasting heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places on Tuesday. The orange alert has been issued for Raigad, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts, and ghat...
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The Indian Air Force will be phasing out phasing out its MiG 21 fighter jet aircraft by September 2025, and replace them with the Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Mark 1A, defence officials said on Tuesday.First inducted in 1963, these jets will be retired after 62 years of service with the...
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Rohit Pawar @RRPSpeaks shared the video of the minister allegedly playing rummy
Maharashtra Agriculture Minister Manikrao Kokate claimed on Tuesday that he never played rummy on his mobile phone as alleged by opposition parties and rejected demands to step down, stressing that a trivial issue was blown out of proportion. The Nationalist Congress Party leader warned of...
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A 45-year-old woman in Madhya Pradesh's Indore got a new lease of life after doctors of a government hospital removed 30 fibroids from her uterus, curing her of a painful condition, an official from the health department said on Tuesday. Dr Sumitra Yadav, who heads the gynaecology and...
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The Nagpur airport in Maharashtra received a bomb threat on Tuesday, prompting authorities to conduct an extensive search of the premises, officials said. Nothing suspicious was found during the search, a senior airport official said. The Airports Authority of India received an email about...
14:28
Air India on Tuesday informed that it has concluded inspections on the locking mechanism of the Fuel Control Switch (FCS) on all Boeing 787 and 737 aircraft in its fleet and stated that no issues were found. Air India informed that Boeing 737 aircraft are part of the fleet of Air India...
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A day after Jagdeep Dhankhar stepped down as vice president, senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday said only a person working under pressure can give such a shocking resignation. Dhankhar may have cited health reasons for his decision, but people are finding it hard to believe, the...
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Sowing of kharif crops increased as the southwest monsoon remained vigorous over most parts of North-West India during the week ended July 16.India Meteorological Department data showed that rainfall from July 10-16 were almost 31 per cent above normal in North-West India.Data from the Department...
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Anup Kumar Saha, who succeeded Rajeev Jain as managing director of Bajaj Finance on April 1, 2025, has resigned from the position citing personal reasons, the company said in an exchange filing on Monday. The Bajaj Finance Limited (BFL) board has redesignated Jain as Vice Chairman and...
14:08
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Monday cautioned investors against dabba trading, an illegal and unregulated off-market trading activity. The market regulator's advisory follows a full-page advertisement by a dabba trading company in a Hindi newspaper on July 13,...
14:03
The opposition RJD in Bihar on Tuesday claimed that the resignation of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar was a conspiracy hatched by the BJP, aimed at shunting Chief Minister Nitish Kumar ahead of the assembly polls.However, the claim was summarily dismissed by state minister Shravan Kumar, a close...
13:27
Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on Tuesday questioned the Central government over Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar's resignation, claiming that the latter seemed in fine health. Referring to Congress MP Jairam Ramesh's X post, which alleged deeper reasons behind the resignation,...
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American aerospace major Boeing on Tuesday delivered three Apache attack choppers to the Indian Army, officials said. The company delivered the AH-64E Apaches choppers as part of a contract to supply six helicopters to the Indian Army. The AH-64 Apache is one of the world's most advanced...
12:58
In the ICICI Bank-Videocon loan matter, the Appellate Tribunal under the Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators (Forfeiture of Property) Act (SAFEMA) has found former ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar guilty of accepting a 64 crore bribe in return for sanctioning a 300 crore loan to the Videocon...
12:54
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed all hotel owners along the Kanwar Yatra route in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand to display their licences and registration certificates in accordance with statutory requirements.A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh said it was not going into...
12:47
The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday was informed about the Ministry of Home Affairs' notification regarding the resignation of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, with immediate effect. Soon after the House met for the Question Hour at 12 noon, Ghanshyam Tiwari, who was in the Chair, informed members...
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PM Narendra Modi shares a message on Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar's resignation. It says, Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar Ji has got many opportunities to serve our country in various capacities, including as the Vice President of India. Wishing him good health.Amidst the opposition raising concerns over...
12:14
The party leaders of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) on Tuesday protested against the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, alleging that voting rights of people are being taken away. Multiple leaders, including Lok Sabha Leader of...
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A couple coming from Dubai were apprehended by the CISF and Customs at the Surat airport for allegedly smuggling in over 20 kg of gold paste by concealing it under their clothes, officials said. The incident took place around 10 pm on July 20. The couple were first noticed by a...
11:52
Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh chaired the proceedings of the morning session on Tuesday, a day after Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar resigned as Vice President citing medical reasons. Vice President of India is ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha. Usually Dhankhar used to chair...
11:45
Lok Sabha proceedings were disrupted for the second consecutive day on Tuesday due to noisy protests by opposition parties demanding a discussion on Operation Sindoor, leading to the House being adjourned till 12 noon.When the House met at 11 am, opposition MPs, including Congress, were on their...
11:42
Union minister J P Nadda on Tuesday said the Vice President's office was informed that he and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju would not attend a BAC meeting convened by Jagdeep Dhankhar last evening, shortly before he resigned from the post. Nadda's remarks came after Congress...
11:25
Update: The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear on July 24 plea of the Maharashtra government against the Bombay High Court verdict acquitting all 12 accused in the 2006 Mumbai train bomb blasts case. A bench of Chief Justice BR Gavai and Justices K Vinod Chandran and NV Anjaria listed...
11:12
British fighter jet F-35 B, which made an emergency landing at the international airport here over a month ago and has been parked since then, flew back on Tuesday after completing maintenance, airport sources said.The jet, which took off at 10.50 am, flew to Darwin in Australia, they said. The...
11:09
Maharashtra govt moves SC against Bombay HC verdict acquitting 12 accused in 2006 Mumbai train bomb blasts case. The SC to hear the plea on July 24. The Bombay High Court on Monday acquitted all 12 people who had been convicted by the trial court for their alleged role in the 2006 Mumbai...
11:05
Former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel on Tuesday morning expressed doubts over the health reasons cited by Jagdeep Dhankar for his resignation as Vice President of India, saying it was an indication of an impending political storm. He said that...
10:44
On Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar's resignation, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi says, Despite his health situation, he used to conduct parliamentary proceedings. This is the first time a Vice President has resigned in such a shocking manner and hope we get to know more... There should be...
10:30
Congress MP Manish Tewari says, First of all. I wish the Vice President of India a very healthy and long life. However, his resignation remains somewhat of a riddle which is at the moment wrapped in a mystery and rolled in an enigma. Because the abrupt circumstances or the abrupt manner in which...
10:26
US President Donald Trump has released files related to 1968 assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, despite opposition from most of his family, local media reported. More than 6,000 documents related to the assassination totaling nearly a quarter-million pages, were...
10:17
Deputy Leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi on Tuesday said the resignation of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar was shocking and asked the Centre to clarify if it had any prior information about it. He also wanted clarification from the government regarding the transition plan for the...
10:05
Congress MP Mallu Ravi expressed concern over the sudden resignation of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and claimed that ahead of Bihar elections, the BJP government wanted to get rid of him and appoint someone who would bring benefit in the upcoming polls. Speaking to ANI, Ravi claimed that...
09:51
The death toll from the crash of the Bangladesh Air Force training fighter jet into a school building in Dhaka rose to 27 as more people succumbed to their injuries, authorities said on Tuesday. The F-7 BGI aircraft, a training fighter jet manufactured in China, experienced a mechanical...
09:49
A 23-year-old man was found dead with injuries from a sharp-edged weapon in Muzaffarnagar, officials said on Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Anuj Kumar. The victim's family told police that Kumar had stepped out to witness the kanwar procession on Monday but did not return...
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A food delivery agent was caught urinating inside the lift of a building in Maharashtra's Palghar district, following which residents allegedly beat him up and handed him over to police, officials said. The incident took place on Monday at the high-rise residential building in Bolinj area of...
09:41
Congress MP Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday claimed that there are far deeper reasons behind the resignation of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, citing the deliberate absence of Union Ministers JP Nadda and Kiren Rijiju from the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) meeting chaired by the Rajya Sabha...
09:33
In a sudden move, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar resigned from his post on Monday, citing medical reasons.He sent his resignation to President Droupadi Murmu and said he is stepping down with immediate effect. The Vice President's resignation does not require the President's approval.No...
09:30
With Jagdeep Dhankhar quitting as the vice president, the election to appoint his successor will have to be held as soon as possible. According to Clause 2 of Article 68 of the Constitution, an election to fill a vacancy in the office of the vice president occurring due to his death, resignation...
09:13
A Delhi court on Monday convicted Abhay Kumar Srivastava, former chairman and managing director of the National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco), for money laundering under Sections 3 and 4 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). Nalco is a public sector undertaking (PSU). The court...
09:10
The Congress on Tuesday claimed that there are far deeper reasons for Jagdeep Dhankhar's resignation as the vice president than the health reasons cited by him, and said his resignation speaks highly of him but poorly of those who got him elected to the post. Congress general...
08:47
Indian-American economist Gita Gopinath who is serving as the first deputy managing director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said she is rejoining Harvard University as an economics professor. After nearly 7 amazing years at the IMF, I have decided to return to my academic roots,...
08:23
Tremors were felt across Delhi-NCR on Tuesday morning. There were no reports of any loss of life or damage to property. The National Centre for Seismology said an earthquake of 3.2 magnitude was recorded at 6 am, with Faridabad as its epicentre. The depth of the earthquake was 5...
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The Odisha government on Monday banned sale of petrol and diesel in plastic bottles. The state government also ordered petrol pumps in the state not to sell petrol and diesel to people coming with plastic bottles. Inflammable substances were used in the Balsore student self-immolation...
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The Mumbai police registered an FIR against a retired deputy secretary posted at Mantralaya in south Mumbai for allegedly duping 19 Maharashtra government officers and employees to the tune of Rs 2.61 crore in a housing scam, an official said on Monday. According to the Powai police station...
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Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday became the third vice president to have resigned mid-term. Earlier, Vice President VV Giri, who had taken over as the acting president after the death of incumbent Zakir Hussain on May 3, 1969, had resigned from the post. Giri resigned as the vice president on...
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