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A joint team of Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) and Haryana police's Special Task Force (STF) has foiled an attempt to attack the Ram temple in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya, Gujarat minister Harsh Sanghavi said on Tuesday. The Minister of State for Home was referring to the arrest of...
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The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence arrested Kannada actress Ranya Rao at Bengaluru International Airport after she was found in possession of 14.8 kg of gold, officials said on Tuesday.Following her arrest on Monday night, she was presented before an economic offences court, which remanded...
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The investigating agencies are probing the involvement of sleeper cells in the arrest of a 19-year-old who is suspected to be a terrorist and could have been on his way to Ayodhya when he was apprehended, sources said on Tuesday.Abdul Rehman, a resident of Milkipur town in Uttar Pradesh's...
21:56
Days after his tense exchange with President Donald Trump at the White House, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reiterated his country's commitment to achieving lasting peace and expressed willingness to 'work under Trump's leadership'.In a post on X, Zelenskyy outlined initial steps...
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath countered the opposition's criticism of the Maha Kumbh on Tuesday by stating that a family with 130 boats made Rs 30 crore profit during the 45-day mega religious congregation in Prayagraj.During a discussion on the 2025-26 state budget, which was...
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A 25-year-old woman, employed as a software engineer, died by suicide in Hyderabad at her home due to her husband's alleged harassment, police said on Tuesday.The woman and her husband, who were in love, got married in Goa six months ago with their families' consent. In her complaint, the woman's...
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The rupee rebounded from initial losses and settled with a gain of 13 paise at 87.19 against the US dollar on Tuesday on the back of a weak American currency index and a sharp fall in crude oil prices.Forex traders said the gain in the local currency was capped due to a weak tone in the domestic...
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Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday reached Punjab's Hoshiarpur for a 10-day Vipassana session which will start from Wednesday. Along with his wife Sunita Kejriwal, the former Delhi chief minister arrived at the Forest Rest House in Chohal, about 14 kilometers from...
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Delhi Divisional Railway Manager Sukhwinder Singh was transferred on Tuesday, according to an official order issued over a fortnight after a stampede killed 18 passengers at the New Delhi Railway Station.Singh was appointed Delhi Division DRM in July 2023 and his two-year term was ending later...
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The husbands of six newly elected women panchayat representatives (panches) allegedly took the oath in place of their wives in a village in Chhattisgarh's Kabirdham district, prompting the authorities to order a probe. The alleged incident occurred on Monday in the Paraswara village...
19:17
The Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray has staked claim to the Leader of Opposition (LoP) post in the Maharashtra assembly and nominated senior MLA Bhaskar Jadhav for the cabinet-level position, party chief Uddhav Thackeray said on Tuesday.A letter regarding the same was submitted to assembly...
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A personal secretary to a Lok Sabha MP lost over Rs 1 lakh to fraudsters after calling a fake helpline number to inquire about his train ticket, police said on Tuesday.The incident occurred on January 4 in which the victim, a residing in Lutyen's Delhi, became a target of cyber fraud while trying...
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The Delhi high court on Tuesday granted bail to alleged middleman Christian Michel James in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland money laundering case. Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma granted the reprieve to James after the order on his bail plea was reserved on February 28.Details of the order...
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The Bihar assembly witnessed a heated exchange on Tuesday between the leader of the opposition Tejashwi Yadav and members of the ruling National Democratic Alliance, over functioning of the Nitish Kumar government.Yadav, who was participating in a discussion on the governor's address to a joint...
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Extending the losses for the 10th straight session, the 50-share Nifty of NSE fell by 36.65 points or 0.17 per cent to close at 22,082.65. The index opened below the 22,000 level at 21,974.45 but managed to recover some losses later. From the Sensex pack, Bajaj Finserv, HCL Technologies,...
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A 40-year-old man in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district beheaded his father on Tuesday after he refused to give him Rs 10 to buy 'gutkha', police said. The accused went to a police station carrying the severed head to surrender himself, a senior officer said. The man beheaded his 70-year-old...
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During a verbal exchange with RJD MLA Tejashwi Yadav in the Bihar Assembly, CM Nitish Kumar says, What was there in Bihar earlier? It was me who made your father what he became. Even the people from your caste were asking me why I was doing this, but I still supported him. Amid a huge...
16:21
Falling for the third straight day, benchmark BSE Sensex declined by 96 points to close below the 73,000 mark on Tuesday amid global equity rout on tariff war worries and persistent foreign fund outflows. The 30-share BSE barometer closed at 72,989.93, down by 96.01 points or 0.13 per cent,...
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Dhananjay Munde resigned today
BJP MLA Suresh Dhas on Tuesday said Dhananjay Munde will have to explain about a meeting that took place at his official residence allegedly about extortion in connection to the murder of sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh. Munde, the state food and civil supplies minister, resigned from the state...
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The BAPs temple in Abu Dhabi
Blending the landscapes, art and heritage of Africa and India in its design, the sprawling BAPS Hindu temple, the largest in the southern hemisphere, will open its doors by 2027 with work on the first phase almost over.Envisaged as a place of religion and a hub of culture and dialogue, the BAPS...
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Samajwadi Party MLA Abu Azmi clarifies and addresses the uproar that erupted after his stand on Aurangzeb. He says, My words have been twisted. I have said what historians and writers have said about Aurangzeb Rahmatullah Alaih. I have not made any derogatory comment about Chhatrapati...
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Actor Demi Moore failed to win the Best Actress trophy at the recent Academy Awards but that did not deter her from mission out on the chance to celebrate Oscar night. After the prestigious ceremony, she attended the Vanity Fair Oscars Party alongside her three daughters - Rumer Willis, Scout...
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The Delhi High Court on Tuesday granted bail to olympic wrestler Sushil Kumar in the case related to the murder of former junior national wrestling champion Sagar Dhankar at Chhatrasal Stadium in the national capital. Justice Sanjeev Narula granted the relief to Kumar and directed him to furnish...
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said his government may seek the help of agencies like the Interpol in investigating the alleged interference of Pakistani national Ali Tauqeer Sheikh, who allegedly has links with Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi's British wife, in India's internal...
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Delhi Police on Tuesday sought setting aside of an order over the supply of list of documents to Bibhav Kumar, an aide of former CM Arvind Kejriwal, in the Swati Maliwal assault case. Justice Vikas Mahajan asked the Delhi Police counsel to submit a note on submissions and posted the hearing...
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The Trump effect
China on Tuesday said it is imposing tariffs as much as 15 per cent on a range of food imports from the United States as Donald Trump-imposed latest tariffs came into force today. China's finance ministry announced 15 per cent tariffs on imports of chicken, wheat, corn and cotton from the...
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As many as 7,930 state-run schools in Jharkhand are functioning with a single teacher each, Education Minister Ramdas Soren said on Tuesday. In a written response to a question by BJP MLA Raj Sinha in the assembly on the crisis of teachers, he said 3.81 lakh students are enrolled in these...
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The government has slapped a USD 2.81 billion (about Rs 24,500 crore) demand notice on Reliance Industries Ltd and its partners, including BP Plc for gains made from producing and selling natural gas that may have migrated from neighbouring block of state-owned ONGC. This follows the Delhi...
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Shiv Sena UBT leader Aaditya Thackeray on Tuesday said that the resignation of Dhananjay Munde as Maharashtra Minister is not enough and that the Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis-led government should be dismissed claiming that the law and order has deteriorated in the state over the past few...
12:41
The Trump administration has paused military aid to Ukraine following a verbal clash between US President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office Trump warned that the Ukrainian leader won't be around very long if progress was not made on a peace...
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Madhabi Puri Buch
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday stayed for four weeks a special court's order directing FIR against ex-Sebi chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch and five other officials for alleged stock market fraud and regulatory violations, noting the order was passed mechanically. A single bench of Justice...
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A 21-year-old college student killed his parents and sister using stones in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district on Tuesday morning as they were opposed to his addiction to online games, police said on Tuesday. The incident took place at Jayabada Sethi Sahi under the Jagatsinghpur Police Station...
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Gandhi considered the ashram prayer 'as a hotchpotch of something Eastern and Western'. For all those who quibble over bhajans, the prayers from the Bhajanavali may open their minds. Read the column here.
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will have to cut the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) to ease the prevailing liquidity pressure in the banking sector, according to a report by State Bank of India (SBI) research. The report highlighted that with unchanged ownership in government securities (G-secs)...
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Members of the ruling Mahayuti on Tuesday demanded suspension of Samajwadi Party MLA Abu Asim Azmi from the Maharashtra assembly for eulogising Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. Abu Azmi had stated that Aurangzeb was a good administrator and the tussle with Shambhaji Maharaj was a political battle.Abu...
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Targeting the BJP-led Centre over alleged Hindi imposition, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK President M K Stalin on Tuesday wondered why the union government has not facilitated setting up of an institution to teach Tamil or other south Indian languages to people of states in north...
11:16
PM Narendra Modi inaugurated and visited the wildlife rescue, rehabilitation, and conservation centre, Vantara in Gujarat. Vantara is home to more than 2,000 species and over 1.5 lakh rescued, endangered, and threatened animals. PM explored various facilities at the centre. PM also visited...
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Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis says, Maharashtra Minister Dhananjay Munde has tendered his resignation today. I have accepted the resignation and sent it to the Governor for further course of action. Fadnavis had asked state minister Dhananjay Munde to resign, against the backdrop of his...
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Protesting farmers claimed that the Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann had got angry and provoked them during a meeting held with him in Chandigarh. The meeting on Monday was held by Mann to persuade farmers who had been sitting on a protest at the Khanauri border in the Sangrur district of...
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Organisations will need to use artificial intelligence (AI) to address the cybersecurity talent gap by delegating low-level threat analysis work to chatbots and machine learning so as to enable the analysts to do more complex and meaningful work, said Steve Ledzian, the chief technology officer...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has asked state minister Dhananjay Munde to resign, against the backdrop of his close aide Walmik Karad being named as an accused in sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh murder case, sources said on Tuesday. The sources said Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar...
10:12
Indian stock markets witnessed a continued selling spree on Tuesday as both benchmark indices opened in the red, reacting to global concerns over slowing economic growth in the US and the impact of new tariffs imposed by former US President Donald Trump.The Nifty 50 index opened at 22,011.05,...
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All India Bank Employees Association members on a dharna
The United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) -- which represents nine unions -- on Monday appealed to the central government to ensure adequate recruitment in public sector banks (PSBs) to deal with mounting work pressures at branches, which it claimed has been compromising efficiency at a time when...
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Lech Walesa with Donald Trump. File pic
Lech Walesa, the former Polish president and Solidarity trade union leader who played a leading role in the fall of Communism, signed a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump expressing horror at his argument with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy.The Nobel Peace Prize-winner posted the text of the...
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President Donald Trump said under his administration Russia got nothing except grief and criticised past US Presidents for their handling of Moscow's 'expansionist' actions when Russia got Georgia and a big submarine base and even tried to get the whole Ukraine.During an investment announcement,...
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Tuhin Kanta Pandey, the newly appointed chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), hit the ground running on his first day on Monday by meeting employees to address their concerns over morale, targets, and key responsibility areas (KRAs). Sources present at the Sebi...
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A 36-year-old woman, who committed suicide after the death of her cat in Uttar Pradesh's Amroha district, had refused to bury the animal's body and kept it close to her for three days hoping it would return to life, her family said on Monday. The grief-stricken family has...
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The Border Security Force (BSF) on Monday shot dead a Pakistani intruder along the India-Pakistan international border in Punjab, the second such incident in the state in less than a week. The intruder surreptitiously crossed the IB in the morning hours and started approaching towards...
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United States President Donald Trump has temporarily suspended, with immediate effect, the delivery of all American military aid to Ukraine, just days after an unprecedented showdown with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office. A report in The New York Times quoted a...
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''Today, the Holy Father presented two episodes of acute respiratory failure, caused by significant accumulation of endobronchial mucus and consequent bronchospasm, the Vatican stated about Pope Francis' condition.Two bronchoscopies were therefore performed with the need for aspiration...
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Two men allegedly raped a 19-year-old woman at knifepoint in front of her cousin after forcing them to get intimate and recording the act in Pune district, a police officer said on Monday. The shocking incident occurred on Saturday night when the woman and her cousin were sitting together...
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