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A total of 86 new coronavirus positive cases were detected in Maharashtra on Tuesday, taking the number of infections since January 1 this year to 959, the health department said. Of these patients, 435 have recovered so far, while active cases are 510. Four patients have died in the...
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In a relief for Samajwadi Party legislator Zahid Beg, the Allahabad high court has granted bail to the Bhadohi MLA in a case of abetting suicide registered against him after a domestic help was found dead in his house. Prima Facie, there is nothing to suggest that the accused-applicant...
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The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday said it will provide 20 per cent reservation to Agniveers in direct recruitment to several positions in the state police force. The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Talking to reporters after the...
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At least seven people died due to heavy rain and hailstorms in Bihar's Siwan district, according to a statement issued by the Disaster Management Department on Tuesday.The rain and hailstorms also damaged several houses and uprooted a number of trees.Heavy rain and hailstorms lashed several...
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The Delhi government has instructed the microbreweries in the city to ensure strict compliance with rules when it comes to the quality of beer they sell, officials said on Tuesday. According to a circular issued for L-11 licenceholders, the beer produced by microbreweries must be put up for...
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The flood situation in Assam deteriorated on Tuesday with six more people dying, taking the toll in this year's deluge and landslides to 17, while the number of the affected population increased to over 6.33 lakh in 21 districts, an official bulletin said. Seven rivers were flowing above the...
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A team of police from Ladakh union territory has arrived here and submitted an application in a local court on Tuesday to seek the custody of the Nagpur-based woman, who crossed over to Pakistan last month before being repatriated, an official said. The team from Kargil in Ladakh arrived in...
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A foreign national was arrested after 5.194 kg of cocaine worth Rs 51.94 crore was recovered from him at the Mumbai international airport, Customs officials said on Tuesday. Based on specific information, the Air Intelligence Unit of the Mumbai Customs intercepted a passenger, an overseas...
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A 20-year-old man was arrested in Jharkhand's Palamu district on Tuesday for posting a video on social media with an illegal pistol, the police said. Taifique Ansari had bought the country-made pistol along with live cartridges for Rs 5,000, they said. Soon after the video went viral,...
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The government will bring an impeachment motion against Justice Yashwant Varma in Parliament's next session and will seek to build an all-party consensus for action against the Allahabad high court judge embroiled in a case of suspected corruption. Government sources said on Tuesday that...
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The rupee depreciated 22 paise to settle at 85.61 against the US dollar on Tuesday, weighed down by a firm American dollar, while selling pressure in secondary markets added further weakness to the currency. According to forex traders, the local unit remained under pressure tracking negative...
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Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station, piloted by Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla will take off at 0822 ET on June 10 from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. The Axiom-4 mission has seen multiple schedule adjustments, originally slated for May 29, and...
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Ajit Dubey, ANIAs per an ongoing analysis of the damage inflicted upon by the Indian Air Force on Pakistan Air Force, it is emerging that 6 PAF fighter jets, two high value aircraft, over 10 UCAVs, one C-130 transport aircraft along with multiple cruise missiles were destroyed by Indian...
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Senior Bihar minister Ashok Choudhary on Tuesday filed a defamation suit against Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor for alleging that he had bribed Union minister Chirag Paswan to secure a Lok Sabha ticket for his daughter.Choudhary, whose daughter Shambhavi is Lok Janshakti Party (Ram...
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The eight tourists who went missing after their car plunged into the Teesta river in Sikkim are yet to be found, with the search operation entering its fifth day on Tuesday, officials said.They were among the 11 people travelling in the vehicle that plunged more than 1,000 feet into the river...
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The rupee declined 21 paise to settle at 85.60 (provisional) against the US dollar on Tuesday, weighed down by a firm American currency and outflow of foreign funds.According to forex traders, the local unit remained under pressure tracking negative domestic equity markets amid geopolitical...
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Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged Prime Minister Narendra Modi surrendered after a call from United States President Donald Trump during the India-Pakistan military conflict.He said the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi did not budge in the 1971 war despite the US sending its...
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The Election Commission on Tuesday said it is introducing a streamlined, technology-driven system to provide timely updates on approximate voter turnout percentage data which 'significantly' reduces the time lag associated with the earlier manual reporting methods.Under the initiative, the...
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A mutilated body of a two-year-old boy was found in a field in the Gadamaar Kalan village of Mahsi tehsil in Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh, Tuesday morning, possibly dragged there and mauled by an animal, the police said. The forest department said it has captured two jackals with a drone...
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A teenage social media influencer, who had more than a million followers across TikTok and Instagram, was shot dead at her residence in Islamabad, officials said on Tuesday, in a third such incident in Pakistan in the last five months.Sana Yousaf, 17, was mercilessly shot dead on Monday at her...
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Movie Thug Life will not be released in Karnataka on June 5, the scheduled date for the pan-India release of the much anticipated movie, Kamal Haasan informed the Karnataka high court on Tuesday. The court posted to June 10 the hearing on his plea seeking adequate security at theatres...
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The couple, Raja Raghuvanshi and Sonam, had travelled to Meghalaya's East Khasi Hills district.
The family of an Indore resident, whose body was found 11 days after he and his wife went missing during their trip to Meghalaya, on Tuesday alleged he was murdered and demanded a CBI probe into the matter.Transport businessman Raja Raghuvanshi (29) and his wife Sonam went missing on May 23 at...
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Congress MP Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday targeted the BJP government over reports of Prime Minister Narendra Modi not attending the G7 Summit, scheduled to be held in Canada this year. In a post on X, Jairam termed it as another big diplomatic bungle, and said that for the first time in six...
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Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty tumbled nearly 1 per cent on Tuesday, weighed down by a widespread selloff amid renewed foreign fund outflows and growing geopolitical uncertainties. The 30-share BSE Sensex tanked 636.24 points or 0.78 per cent to settle at 80,737.51. During the...
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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav took a dig at Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi for disrespecting culture after the latter offered floral tribute to the former Prime Minster late Indira Gandhi's statue wearing shoes in Bhopal on Tuesday. Yadav said, Today, I came to know that Leader of...
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The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday said Kamal Haasan's statement on Kannada language stirred a hornet's nest and led to unrest in the state. While hearing a writ plea of the actor seeking protection for release of the film, 'Thug Life' in Karnataka, the court made the observation and adjourned...
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Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan speaking at the department of defence and strategic studies in Pune:On being asked about the losses incurred by Pakistan side during Operation Sindoor, CDS General Anil Chauhan says, When I was asked about losses on our side, I said these are not...
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Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan speaking at the department of defence and strategic studies in Pune: The whole starting point of this particular war was the Pahalgam terror attack. Is terrorism a rational act of warfare? I don't think that's because terrorism has no defined...
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In the month of May, UPI transactions hit a a record 1868 crore transactions for Rs 25.1 lakh crore, up from 1789 crore (Rs 23.9 lakh crore) in April.
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Actor Kamal Haasan on Tuesday said his recent statement at the Thug Life audio launch event in connection with the evolution of Kannada language was misunderstood and that his words were taken out of context.The acclaimed actor, writing to Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce (KFCC), acknowledged...
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg posts this picture on Instagram writing: The Freedom Flotilla aid mission is about supporting Palestinian resistance and challenging the Israeli blockade and genocide when our complicit governments fail to step up.One month after the bombing of the boat...
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The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday strongly criticised actor and filmmaker Kamal Haasan for his recent remark suggesting that Kannada was born out of Tamil, and observed that a single apology could have resolved the situation.Justice M Nagaprasanna, who presided over the hearing, said that the...
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India's active COVID-19 cases have crossed the 4,000 mark, with Kerala remaining the most affected state followed by Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Delhi, according to the Union Health Ministry data released on Tuesday. There are 4,026 active cases in India and five fresh deaths have been reported...
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The problem in holding talks with Pakistan is not the language but finding a common vision for decency and peace, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said on Tuesday, stressing that New Delhi can engage in dialogue with Islamabad if it takes significant action against the infrastructure of terrorism that...
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Tripura, Assam and Mizoram have been ravaged by floods
Mizoram has reported five deaths in the current wave of landslides, house collapse and other calamities triggered by heavy rains in the last 10 days, the state's Disaster Management and Rehabilitation department said on Tuesday. Data shared by the department said that three people died in...
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said that after India put the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) in abeyance, Pakistan is weaving a new manufactured threat narrative of what will happen if China stops Brahmaputra's flow into the country.He clarified that though China has not announced...
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A man was arrested for allegedly strangulating a woman in a village near Moradabad, UP, and stabbing her with a screwdriver over two dozen times, including in her private parts, police said on Tuesday. The 20-year-old woman was murdered on Saturday in a maize field in the Mainather police...
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An unspecified number of inmates managed to escape from District Prison Malir in Karachi late on Monday night, reports the Dawn. Police officials said the prisoners broke through the jail's outer wall, which had been weakened due to the multiple low-intensity tremors felt in the area since...
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Lok Sabha MP Gaurav Gogoi on Tuesday assumed charge as the Assam Congress president and he is all set to lead the party in next year's assembly polls. He was handed over the reins by outgoing president Bhupen Kumar Borah, who had helmed the state's main opposition party for over three years, at...
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Customers looking to buy term insurance are increasingly favouring higher sum insured, driven by rising awareness and attractive policy features, while focusing on shorter duration covers, industry insiders said.Higher premiums for long tenure policies has proved to be a dampener, they...
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Virat Kohli didn't leave because he stopped loving the game. He left because the game stopped understanding the kind of love he gave it. Read the column here.
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The flood situation in Assam remained grim on Tuesday with more than 5.35 lakh people affected in over 20 districts even as the meteorological department predicted more rain in several parts.Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday took stock of the flood situation in Assam from Chief Minister...
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On Mani Ratnam's birthday on June 2, Subhash K Jha lists 7 memorable A R Rahman songs in Mani's movies. Listen in
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After an 18-hour cop ordeal after false charges by Bajrang Dal hecklers, nun Rachana Nayak was released after she proved that her six young companions -- two men and four women -- were all Christians by birth and were travelling for enrolment in training courses.Read the report here.
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A team of 23 NDRF personnel were rushed to Chhaten in North Sikkim from here on Tuesday for rescue and search operations for six soldiers missing after a landslide hit an army camp, officials said. The NDRF team is equipped with satellite phones and essential emergency equipment, the...
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Private equity giant KKR & Co has provided $600 million in financing to the Manipal group, marking the American firm's largest private credit investment in India to date.The structured capital will back the Ranjan Pai-led group's long-term growth and expansion strategy, the firms said in a...
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Second Lady of the United States Usha Vance described her visit to India in April as the trip of a lifetime for the family and said her three young children have put Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the grandfather category. Vice President J D Vance undertook his first official visit to India...
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US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick
A trade deal between India and the United States could be finalised soon, with both countries finding common ground that suits their interests, US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said, expressing strong optimism about the direction of ongoing talks while speaking at the US-India Strategic...
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The core population of India has drive and ambition and that's why its economy will always continue to thrive, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said, underlining that President Donald Trump deeply admires and respects India and the two countries are going to have a great relationship...
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Infosys Chairman Nandan Nilekani has said that enterprises are in an era of uncertainty never seen before due to geopolitics, tariffs, trade war, and artificial intelligence that is making them go back to the drawing board to chart the future course of action. Multiple trends are colliding...
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US Second Lady Usha Vance has termed the India-US relationship as one that is very personal for her, underlining that this is a time of great opportunity for the bilateral relations that have ebbed and flowed at times.Well, of course, it is a very personal relationship because I have family...
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Infosys CEO Salil Parekh's salary rose about 22 per cent to Rs 80.6 crore in the last fiscal, compared to Rs 66.2 crore a year earlier, according to the company's annual report. Parekh's pay consisted of a base salary of Rs 7.45 crore, a bonus of Rs 23.1 crore, and perquisites of Rs 49.5...
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Over 56,000 people have been affected by flash floods triggered by overflowing rivers and embankment breaches in Manipur, an official statement said on Tuesday.It said that 10,477 houses have been damaged and 56,516 174 people affected by the floods.One person went missing after being swept away...
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United States Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said a trade deal between India and the US could happen in the not too distant future because we found a place that really works for both countries. When they put the right person in India, put the right person on the other side of the table,...
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The Indian Space Research Organisation on Monday achieved a significant milestone with the successful completion of the third hot test of the Power Head Test Article at the ISRO Propulsion Complex in Mahendragiri, Tamil Nadu. The test is part of a crucial series of evaluations to validate...
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has scrapped its plan to procure Turkey-made robotic lifebuoys for deployment across half a dozen beaches, civic officials said on Monday, a move coming in the backdrop of Ankara facing backlash in India for supporting Pakistan. They said the...
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