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A professor at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad allegedly died by suicide due to depression, the police said on Wednesday. The 37-year-old professor, who is from Delhi, jumped off from the fourth floor of his residential building on the institute's campus on Tuesday night. The...
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A minor girl along with her boyfriend and his juvenile brother were arrested for murdering her mother two days ago. She also admitted to orchestrating the murder, police said on Wednesday. The murder was pre-planned as the woman opposed her daughter's relationship with the 19-year-old...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis
Power tariffs in Maharashtra will be slashed by 26 percent in five years, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Wednesday, starting with 10 percent in the initial year, which is the first in the history of the state. For the first time in the history of the state, electricity rates will...
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Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar
A panel backed by Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Wednesday swept elections to the Malegaon Cooperative Sugar Mill in Baramati by winning all but one seats, while a group supported by the Sharad Pawar-led NCP-SP could not open its account. The election, which had turned into...
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Two persons died while about 20 were feared swept away as cloudburst, flash floods and heavy rain wreaked havoc in Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday.Two bodies were recovered from the Manuni Khad in Kangra district while around 15-20 workers stationed at a labour colony near the Indira Priyadarshini...
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Forensic experts on Wednesday collected samples from Kaliganj in West Bengal's Nadia district, where a minor girl was killed in a bomb explosion during a celebratory procession linked to bypoll results there on June 23, the police said. Sabina Yasmin, the mother of the 13-year-old victim,...
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Residents of the national capital can anticipate showers, lightning, and gusty winds in the coming hours, as the India meteorological department issued a yellow alert for Wednesday.Light to moderate rainfall, along with winds gusting between 30 to 40 kmph, and isolated thunderstorms are likely to...
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Another special flight carrying 296 Indian nationals and four Nepalese nationals stranded in conflict-hit Iran landed safely in New Delhi on Wednesday, taking the total number of people evacuated under Operation Sindhu to 3,154.296 Indian and 4 Nepalese nationals were evacuated from Iran on a...
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The rupee gave up its gains and settled for the day lower by 3 paise at 86.08 against the US dollar on Wednesday, weighed down by the recovery in the US Dollar index and selling pressure from foreign funds. Forex traders said the ceasefire between Israel and Iran has led to a rise in risk...
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Three people including a father-son duo have been arrested by the Mumbai police from Junagadh in Gujarat for allegedly stealing some 13 kg of gold jewellery worth more than Rs 13 crore, an official said here on Wednesday.Nathabhai Hardasbhai Kuchdiya (50), his son Jignesh Kuchdiya (19) and Yash...
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Streaming service Prime Video on Wednesday renewed its original unscripted show The Traitors, hosted by filmmaker Karan Johar, for a second season. The Traitors, adapted from IDTV's BAFTA and Emmy award-winning global format, premiered on the streamer's platform on June 12. It is a...
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An officer of the Pakistan Army's Special Services Group, who had claimed to have captured Indian Air Force pilot Abhinandan Varthaman after his jet was shot down in a dogfight in 2019, was killed in a clash with the Taliban militants, according to the army. Major Syed Moiz Abbas Shah, 37,...
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Four Maoists, one of them allegedly involved in triggering an IED blast targeting the car of a police official last year, were arrested from Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, the police said on Wednesday. The quartet, carrying a reward of Rs 10,000 each, was arrested from their native village...
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A case has been registered against a Bharatiya Janata Party leader for allegedly molesting a woman cop in Pune, the police said on Wednesday. Accused Pramod Kondhre, general secretary of the BJP's city unit, has resigned from the party, said his senior colleague. The alleged incident...
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The Union Cabinet on Wednesday resolved to commemorate and honour the sacrifices of countless individuals who resisted the Emergency and observed a brief silence as a mark of tribute to them. At its meeting under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Union Cabinet observed a...
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Two premier schools in Kolkata on Wednesday received bomb threats via email, prompting the authorities to declare a holiday and send students home, officials said. The police, however, conducted a thorough search of the school premises and declared the threats as hoax, they said. The...
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Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar fainted on Wednesday while attending the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the Kumaon University here. As the Vice President stepped down from the dais after delivering his speech, he approached his former parliamentary colleague, Mahendra Singh Pal, who was...
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Zohram Mamdani (right) with a supporter
10 takeaways on how a 33-year-old Democratic Socialist and practicing Muslim won the mayoral primary everyone said he'd lose. Read it here.
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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor shares this picture on X saying, Good to catch up with old friend Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the #PrimakovReadings in Moscow. Tharoor is collaborating with Russian broadcaster, Russia Today, for a series called Imperial Receipts with...
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US President Donald Trump drew a comparison Wednesday between his strikes on Iran over the weekend and the US use of nuclear bombs in Japan, saying both were used to successfully end wars, reports CNN.I don't want to use an example of Hiroshima. I don't want to use an example of Nagasaki, but...
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A 29-year-old man was arrested from Chittorgarh for allegedly raping a French woman who had come to Udaipur for an advertisement shoot, officials said on Wednesday. The accused, identified as Pushparaj alias Siddharth Ojha, a resident of Gangrar in Chittorgarh, owns a casting company and has...
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Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty surged nearly 1 per cent on Wednesday, tracking a rally in global markets amid signs of easing tensions in the Middle East following a ceasefire between Iran and Israel. Extending its previous day's rally, the 30-share Sensex jumped 700.40 points or 0.85...
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Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla
It was sheer providence that saw Shubhanshu Shukla take his National Defence Academy (NDA) exam, his father Shambhu Shukla recalled in Lucknow today. Some of his City Montessori School classmates had brought up a form for NDA. One of them realized that he was overage by a few days and...
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From 2026, Class-10 students will be able to take CBSE board exams twice in an academic session but it will be mandatory for them to appear for the first phase in February, officials said on Wednesday. The second phase scheduled in May will be optional for students who wish to improve their...
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Dali's swan ashtray for Air India
Caravaggio is not the only uber-famous European who is holding forth in Bengaluru's National Gallery of Modern Art (NMGA) right now. Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dal, more famously known as Salvador Dal, the Spanish artist who made surreal a household name, is keeping company with the Italian...
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After he vehemently and vociferously opposed to speak in favour of Youth Congress and its leader Sanjay Gandhi, Dev Anand said his movies were banned from being screened on television and mention of his name forbidden on official media. The actor described the period of Emergency, which...
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The Fordow underground nuclear facility in Iran after the US attack
Meanwhile, a statement from the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in New Delhi:On the occasion of the Iranian nation's victory in the face of military aggression by the Zionist regime and the United States, the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in New Delhi extends its heartfelt...
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Shuchi Mishra
Shuchi Mishra, sister of Indian Air Force Group Captain and astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, says, We hope everything will go well. We are relaxed and waiting for him to return home safely after 15 days. Our hopes are rising now, we want him to do more missions and make us proud.As Axiom Mission 4...
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday claimed that the Emergency symbolised the dictatorial streak of the government headed by Indira Gandhi and its imposition marked a black day in history. The JD(U) supremo, who had cut his teeth as a young student leader during the Emergency,...
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Diljit Dosanjh's manager, Sonali Singh, shared a long note highlighting the ongoing criticism against the singer-actor for collaborating with Pakistani actress Hania Aamir in his upcoming film 'Sardaar Ji 3'. Diljit Dosanjh is facing a massive backlash from social media, the music fraternity...
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JP was Mrs Gandhi's fiercest critic during the Emergency
In a little-known episode from the Emergency era, former prime minister Indira Gandhi quietly donated a significant sum of Rs 90,000 for treatment of her fiercest critic, Jayaprakash Narayan, the leader of the nationwide anti-Emergency movement. A new book reveals that the donation, which...
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Newly-published Global Liveability Index by Economist Intelligence Unit, unveiled its updated 2025 rankings of the world's most liveable and least liveable urban centres, among 173 worldwide. And yes, Delhi and Mumbai are in the bottom of the order. Take a look.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday welcomed the successful launch of Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station and said astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla carries with him the wishes, hopes and aspirations of 140 crore Indians.We welcome the successful launch of the Space Mission...
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The Axiom-4 crew greet family before the mission
Chants of Hip Hip Hurray, spontaneous bhangra and quiet tears. It was a morning to remember at the City Montessori School as Lucknow boy Shubhanshu Shukla lifted off into space -- and history -- on board the SpaceX Falcon 9-rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre (KSC) in Florida on...
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Shubhanshu Shukla with the other astronauts
Namaskar, my dear countrymen; we have reached space after 41 years. It was a great ride, Shubhanshu Shukla says 10 minutes into space flight. We are orbiting earth at a speed of 7.5 km per second, I have Indian tricolour on my shoulders, Shukla from Dragon spacecraft. The Tiranga embossed on my...
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In Lucknow, UP, Axiom Mission4 pilot, Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla's father, Shambhu Dayal Shukla, says, It feels great. This was all God's blessings.
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Indian Air Force tweets, From conquering the skies to touching the stars- a journey powered by the indomitable spirit of the IAF Air Warrior. Group Captain Shubahanshu Shukla sets forth on a landmark Space Mission, carrying the pride of the nation beyond Earth. This is a deja-vu moment for India,...
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Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, in a post on X, ahead of the just-successful takeoff, said India's flag will fly in space again. In a post on X, Shukla stated, INDIA IS RETURNING TO SPACE, JAI HIND He also mentioned that the Axiom-4 crew is ready for launch as Dragon's hatch is closed, all...
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SpaceX's Falcon-9 rocket lifts-off from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre at 12:01 pm IST towards the International Space Station.Axiom-4 mission expected to dock at International Space Station on Thursday at 4:30 pm IST, capping a 28-hour journey.The crew, piloted by India's Group Captain Shubhanshu...
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Axiom Mission 4, or Ax-4, successfully launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida at 2:31 am with a brand-new SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule riding atop a Falcon 9 rocket. The mission lifted off from Launch Complex 39A. India's Shubhanshu Shukla is part of the four-member crew...
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The astronauts inside the capsule. The crew, piloted by India's Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla will travel to the orbiting laboratory on a new SpaceX Dragon spacecraft after launching on the company's Falcon 9 rocket. The targeted docking time is approximately 7 am EDT on Thursday or 4 pm...
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The Axiom-4 mission is targeting a launch window of 2:31 a.m. EDT or 12 noon IST on Wednesday from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida in the US.
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SpaceX has said that the Axiom-4 mission crew is ready for launch to the International Space Station as the Dragon's hatch has closed and all communication and suit checks have been completed.Dragon's hatch is closed, all communication and suit checks are complete, the seats are rotated, and the...
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On the 50th anniversary of the 1975 Emergency, observed as Samvidhan Hatya Diwas, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday sharply criticised the Congress government of 1975 for undermining democratic institutions and suppressing fundamental rights.In a series of posts on X, the Prime Minister...
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In a scathing attack on the Modi government, the Congress on Wednesday alleged that over the past eleven years, Indian democracy has been under a systematic and dangerous five-fold assault that can be best described as Undeclared Emergency@11. With the BJP in an all-out attack mode on the...
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Indian-origin lawmaker Zohran Kwame Mamdani stunned in the Democratic primary race for New York City mayor, upsetting former governor Andrew Cuomo. Mamdani, a state assemblyman from Queens and the son of Indian filmmaker Mira Nair and Mahmood Mamdani, declared victory in the Democratic mayoral...
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The Securities and Exchange Board of India on Tuesday proposed an overhaul of the governing board of market infrastructure institutions (MIIs) -- such as stock exchanges, clearing corporations, and depositories. The market regulator has proposed the appointment of two executive directors...
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NITI Aayog CEO B V R Subrahmanyam on Tuesday said data errors cost vulnerable citizens a lot, and India must move beyond accepting above-par quality as good enough. He called for the need to strive for complete accuracy, following Japanese standards. Citing the example of LPG cylinder...
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In a first, the Competition Commission of India is conducting a preliminary inquiry into the allegations made by the All India Consumer Products Distributors Federation (AICPDF) against three quick-commerce companies for allegedly indulging in anti-competitive practices, according to people in...
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ICICI Bank is tapping the debt capital market
Andhra Pradesh Mineral Development Corporation, Samvardhana Motherson, ICICI Bank, SMFG Credit, Muthoot Finance, and L&T Finance, are tapping the debt capital market to raise over 10,000 crore through bond issuances. The move comes amid volatility in the corporate bond market driven by...
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The list of companies eligible for trading in the futures and options (F&O) segment is set to shrink after the National Stock Exchange has announced deletion of eight stocks.Currently, 220 stocks are eligible for trading in the derivatives segment, while four new stocks are will get added...
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Ahead of the release of a book on Emergency, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday that the period was a learning experience for him and reaffirmed the vitality of preserving the democratic framework. 'The Emergency Diaries - Years that Forged a Leader', which highlights Modi's...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday the Emergency was not a national necessity but a reflection of the anti-democratic mentality of the Congress and just one person, a reference to then prime minister Indira Gandhi. Paying tributes to those who suffered after the imposition of...
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The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) on Tuesday increased the auto-settlement limit for advance claims to Rs 5 lakh, up from the current Rs 1 lakh, labour minister Mansukh Mandaviya told reporters. The move will now allow nearly 75 million subscribers of the retirement fund body...
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US President Donald Trump has slammed CNN for its report suggesting that the US strikes did not destroy nuclear sites in Iran. Trump said CNN, along with The New York Times, teamed up to demean one of the most successful military strikes in history and termed it fake news. He reiterated his...
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As the BJP rants about former PM Indira Gandhi and Emergency, TMC MP Sagarika Ghose makes this point: Indira Gandhi imposed #Emergency1975 because @RSSorg was pushing India towards total anarchy. YES, the Emergency was a BLOT, BUT the same #IndiraGandhi called elections, resigned and took...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday that no Indian will ever forget the manner in which the spirit of the Constitution was violated during the Emergency, as he affirmed his government's commitment to strengthening constitutional principles. In a series of posts on X on the...
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The Agra zila panchayat has decided to change the names of Fatehabad town and the Badshahi Bagh area of the town to Sindoorpuram and Brahmapuram respectively. A proposal in this regard was put forth by zila panchayat chairperson Dr Manju Bhadoria and passed unanimously during a board...
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After multiple delays, Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three others are all set to travel to the International Space Station on Wednesday with SpaceX announcing that the weather was 90 per cent favourable for lift-off. All systems are looking good for Wednesday's...
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A woman, allegedly being forced into prostitution by her husband, strangled him to death and was arrested on Tuesday, police said.She gave him sleeping pills before strangling him with a long scarf in a bid to make it look like suicide, they said.The couple had been married for six years and have...
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Union minister K Rammohan Naidu on Tuesday announced the establishment of a dedicated helicopter directorate under the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to provide a single-window regulatory oversight, address chopper-specific safety and certification issues.The Minister for Civil...
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