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Five Bangladeshi nationals, including four women, were arrested in West Tripura district over the past 24 hours for illegally entering India, the police said on Friday.Two Indian nationals accused of aiding them were also taken into custody.On Friday, two Bangladeshi women and an Indian tout were...
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India on Friday strongly rejected a ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague over two hydroelectric projects in Jammu and Kashmir, saying it has never recognised the so-called framework for dispute resolution with Pakistan. India rejects this so-called supplemental award,...
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Union Minister George Kurian
Union Minister George Kurian on Friday said that everything was secondary to the idea of Bharat Mata, amid a controversy over displaying a portrait of the nation as a mother figure with a saffron flag at Kerala Raj Bhavan's official functions.Speaking to reporters in Pathanamthitta, he said that...
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A Parliamentary panel will hold a meeting with stakeholders on the overall safety of the country's aviation sector on July 8 against the backdrop of the fatal Air India plane crash that killed 270 people. Janata Dal-United leader Sanjay Kumar Jha-led department-related Parliamentary Standing...
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A view of the IIM-Ahmedabad campus/Courtesy Instagram
Founder of Infosys and Catamaran Narayana Murthy has instituted a scholarship in the name of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) founding faculty member Jaswant G Krishnayya. Professor Jaswant G Krishnayya Merit Scholarship, instituted by Murthy, honours Krishnayya, a pioneer in...
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India's external debt increased by 10 percent to $736.3 billion at the end of March 2025 compared to $668.8 billion in the year-ago period, the Reserve Bank said on Friday.As a percentage of the GDP, the external debt increased to 19.1 percent at the end of the recently concluded financial year...
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A fire officer stands next to the crashed Air India Boeing 787-8 aircraft, in Ahmedabad./Adnan Abidi/Reuters
Airport services management firm Air India SATS Services (AISATS) has dismissed four senior executives for hosting a party at its office, days after a video clip of the gathering in the backdrop of the fatal Air India plane crash elicited criticism from various quarters. AISATS is a joint...
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The Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL), India's public sector shipyard, has announced a proposed acquisition of a controlling stake in Sri Lanka's largest and most established shipyard, Colombo Dockyard PLC (CDPLC) valued at up to $52.96 million, a statement said on Friday. This marks...
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Thirteen Maoists including eight women, carrying a collective bounty of Rs 22 lakh on their heads, surrendered before security forces in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Friday, a senior official said. The surrendered cadres cited their disappointment due to the atrocities committed by...
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A special court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday granted a 10-day remand of the two accused who were arrested for harbouring Pakistani terrorists behind the deadly Pahalgam terror attack in April, officials said. A local court had earlier granted the NIA a five-day remand...
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Rail services to Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur and parts of southern Assam remained suspended for the fifth consecutive day on Friday, even as the Northeast Frontier Railway claimed steady progress in restoring the affected Lumding-Badarpur hill section. NFR general manager Chetan Kumar...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the mask of the RSS has come off again as it wants 'Manusmriti' and not the Constitution, after the general secretary of the organisation, Dattatreya Hosabale, sought a review of the words socialist and secular in the Preamble to the...
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Ahead of Muharram processions in Meerut, extensive security arrangements have been made to maintain law and order in all four districts of the Meerut Zone- Meerut, Bulandshahr, Baghpat and Hapur, officials said on Friday. The processions will be held on July 6, the 10th day of the Islamic...
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A case has been filed against a government school teacher in Vikarabad district after she allegedly brought an animal brain to class to explain its anatomy, the police said on Friday. Some students claimed the teacher told them it was a cow's brain. However, the police said the animal...
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Union Minister of State for Railways V Somanna on Friday said train fares will be raised in stages without affecting the commuters. Hinting that there may be a gradual hike in fares, the minister said, Discussion is going on and we are proceeding stage by stage. Somanna was responding...
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A special court in Mumbai on Friday directed police to provide round-the-clock security to a witness and his kin for the third phase of the 1993 serial blasts. On March 12 that year twelve bombs went off at different locations in Mumbai, killing 257 persons and injuring more than 700. A...
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Three people, including a bank manager, have been arrested in connection with the alleged robbery of gold and cash worth over Rs 53.26 crore from Canara Bank's Managuli branch, the police said on Friday. The accused have been identified as Vijayakumar Miriyala (41), the bank manager, and his...
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The Congress on Friday claimed that 14 Indians who went to Russia in search of work are 'missing' and urged the government to take up the matter with Moscow and make serious efforts for their repatriation. Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring addressed a press conference here...
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A Los Angeles house reportedly owned by Hollywood icon Brad Pitt was burglarised, as per a report in CNN. Three people entered the house through the front window on Wednesday night (local US time), rifled through belongings and fled with an unknown amount of property, LAPD officer Drake...
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Clashes broke out between police and members of Students Federation of India and Democratic Youth Federation of India -- Left wing student and youth organisations -- after security personnel exercised force to remove them from protesting outside Kasba police station over the alleged gangrape of a...
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The rupee rose 24 paise to close at 85.48 (provisional) against the greenback on Friday on the back of strong FII inflows and firm domestic equity markets. Lower level of American currency index also favoured the Indian currency though an uptrend in crude oil prices capped its gain, forex...
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The Kerala high court on Friday asked the censor board what was wrong with the name 'Janaki' and directed it to submit in writing the decision of its revising committee regarding the Suresh Gopi-starrer movie -- Janaki Vs State of Kerala (JSK) -- on June 30. The oral observation and...
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India's forex reserves dropped by $1.01 billion to $697.93 billion for the week ended June 20, the Reserve Bank of India said on Friday. In the previous reporting week, the reserves had jumped by $2.29 billion to $698.95 billion. Forex reserves had touched an all-time high of $704.885...
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Maharashtra on Friday recorded 13 new cases of COVID-19, which took the tally of infections to 2,462, and one death, the health department said. A 65-year-old woman suffering from comorbidities, including rheumatoid arthritis, died in Kolhapur, an official said. Since January 1, the...
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The progress of the monsoon
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Thursday has directed all the Deputy Commissioners of the State to stay alert and ensure 24/7 availability for the public to deal with the unfolding situation efficiently, keeping in view the adverse weather conditions.
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Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty advanced for the fourth straight session on Friday, supported by buying in blue-chips ICICI Bank and Reliance Industries amid fresh foreign fund inflows. A strengthening rupee against the US dollar and softening crude oil prices in international...
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Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav on Friday said the government is unlikely to implement the air conditioner temperature range of 20 degrees Celsius to 28 degrees Celsius anytime soon and that it will be introduced gradually over time. Asked at the India Climate Summit when the new...
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An aspiring student of a law college in Kolkata was allegedly raped inside the institution by an alumnus, even as two seniors of the educational institution assisted the prime accused in the crime, a police officer said on Friday. All three accused were arrested and produced in court which...
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At least eighteen members of a family drowned in flash floods in river Swat in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday, rescue officials said. The bodies of seven persons have been recovered so far, they added. The rescue operation is being conducted at five different locations...
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Leaders in the US Air Force have expressed worries regarding the missile capabilities of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and its development of a kill web, noting that the forthcoming budget request from the US Department of Defense emphasizes enhancing defenses in the Indo-Pacific due to the...
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Zara Chowdhary is the winner of the 2025 Shakti Bhatt Prize. Her lacerating debut memoir, The Lucky Ones, mines generational family trauma to document three months of sectarian violence in Chowdhary's hometown of Ahmedabad. This brave and striking account, set among the fires of the 2002...
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Upgrading India's Sukhoi-30MKI fighter fleet, production of air-to-air missiles and expeditious supply of two batches of S-400 missile systems figured prominently in Defence Minister Rajnath Singh's talks with his Russian counterpart Andrey Belousov in the Chinese city of Qingdao. The two...
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After India refused to sign a joint declaration at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defence Ministers' meeting in China on Thursday, certain reports had claimed that the declaration had found a mention of the Balochistan crisis, but failed to mention the Pahalgam terror attack...
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A non-specific security alert was detected on one of Air India's aircraft on Friday. The aircraft was cleared for the next flight after standard security procedures, the Air India spokesperson said. A statement issued by the Air India spokesperson said, A non-specific security alert was...
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The Prada Kolhapuri chappal
Artisans from Maharashtra have cried foul after footwear similar to famous Kolhapuri chappals featured in Italian luxury fashion brand Prada's spring/summer collection for men, alleging violation of geographical identification (GI) rights. BJP Rajya Sabha MP Dhananjay Mahadik on Thursday led...
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Search and rescue operation by joint teams of national and state disaster response forces, police and home guards to look for six missing people following cloudbursts and flash floods in Himachal Pradesh resumed on Friday morning, officials said. These people are feared to have been swept...
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A multi-tier security setup is being put in place for the annual Amarnath Yatra, with more than 180 companies of paramilitary forces deployed in the Jammu region, officials said. The 38-day-long yatra is scheduled to start on July 3 from the twin routes the traditional 48-kilometre Pahalgam...
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The investigation into the case of a woman who was buried after her murder in Haryana's Faridabad has revealed that the victim was allegedly raped by her father-in-law before her murder, said police.The mother-in-law of the victim was also allegedly involved in the murder, and she has been...
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Raja was killed while he was on his honeymoon
Police have seized a gun and Rs 50,000 from the accused in the Raja Raghuvanshi murder case, Superintendent of Police (SP) Herbert Pyniaid Kharkongor said on Friday. SP Herbert Pyniaid Kharkongor told the reporters, A weapon was seized yesterday, including a gun with ammunition and Rs...
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Three persons have been arrested in an alleged gang-rape of a law college student in Kolkata's Kasba, reports the Telegraph.The incident allegedly happened on June 25 between 7.30 pm and 8.50pm.The arrests were carried out on Thursday night.The Kasba rape happened less than a year after a...
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NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar on Friday said that the people of Maharashtra are not anti-Hindi, but it is not right to impose the language on young students in Class 1-4. Speaking to reporters in Kolhapur, he said 55 per cent of the country's population speaks Hindi, and one cannot ignore...
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Domestic stock indices opened with gains for the fourth straight session on Friday, supported by positive global cues, like hints of extending the July 9 tariff deadline.The White House hinted that the tariff deadline may be pushed back, and President Donald Trump said a great deal is coming up...
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Congress leader Kanhaiya Kumar on Friday said if the 'Mahagathbandhan' gets a majority in the upcoming Bihar Assembly polls, the chief minister will be from the RJD, and added that there was no confusion or dispute over Tejashwi Yadav being the main face for the CM's post. He, however,...
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Sitaare Zameen Par, headlined by Bollywood star Aamir Khan, has collected Rs 88.69 crore nett at the domestic box office during its first week. Directed by R S Prasanna, the film released in theatres on June 20 and is a spiritual sequel to the critically acclaimed 2007 movie Taare Zameen...
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As United States President Donald Trump announced that a very big deal is set to be finalised soon with India, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh took a jibe at the centre on Friday, saying that he hopes the deal will be as big claimed, given that it led to the abrupt end to Operation...
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A video grab of the victim being forcibly tonsured
Days after the alleged caste-based tonsuring of a Bhagwat Katha preacher and his aide in Etawah's Dandarpur village, tensions escalated on Thursday as members of Yadav groups staged protests demanding the arrest of all accused and withdrawal of the case registered against the victims.According to...
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Lord Jagannath's chariot along with goddess Subhadra and Lord Balbhadra are set to roll out on Friday evening on way to their annual nine-day sojourn to Mausi Bari (maternal aunt's house) in Jharkhand's capital Ranchi amid tight security. The chariots of the deities will start rolling around...
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Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut tweets shares this pic alongside and posts on X: A united march will take place against the imposition of Hindi in Maharashtra's schools! Glory to Maharashtra!Amid the ongoing debate over the Maharashtra government's alleged move to make Hindi compulsory across all...
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A Bangkok-bound Air India flight from the city was held back for over five hours on June 25, after some hay was found stuck in one of the aircraft's wings, the airline has said. This was immediately attended to, and the aircraft was subsequently cleared for operation, Air India said in a...
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A 33-year-old man and two others have been arrested in Mumbai for allegedly dumping his grandmother, a cancer patient, in a forested area near Aarey Colony in the city, police said. The woman, around 70 years old, was found near a garbage dump in a distressed state on the morning of June 22,...
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Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia was stung in the finger by a suspected bee during a train launch event in Madhya Pradesh's Ashoknagar district on Thursday, according to eyewitnesses.The minister was greeting people at the Ashoknagar station after getting down from the newly launched...
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has conveyed to his Chinese counterpart Admiral Dong Jun that India and China should maintain the positive momentum in the bilateral ties and avoid adding new complexities.Singh held 'constructive' talks with Dong on the sidelines of a conclave of defence ministers...
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United States President Donald Trump said on Thursday (US local time) that America has signed a deal with China and hinted that a 'very big' deal with India will follow soon.Trump made the remarks while speaking at the Big Beautiful Bill event.In his speech hinting towards trade deals, Trump...
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Tata Sons held its first board meet after the Air India plane crash, where chairman N Chandrasekaran apprised the group leadership about the tragedy. Chandrasekaran updated the board about the relief efforts and other aspects undertaken by the group since then, as per sources in the...
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In a shocking incident, a husband and wife were arrested for allegedly live streaming their sexual acts on a mobile app for money, the police said on Thursday.The couple would share access links on the app with users who paid to watch the content. During the live streams, the man (41), a car...
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A satellite view shows an overview of the Fordow underground nuclear facility after the US attack./Maxar Technologies/Handout via Reuters
India on Thursday said it is closely following updates from the International Atomic Energy Agency about radiation levels at the Iranian nuclear sites following attacks on them. New Delhi also reiterated that dialogue and diplomacy is the only way forward for early restoration of regional...
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