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Pakistani security forces on Thursday foiled an attack on a checkpoint in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing 10 terrorists, including a suicide bomber, military's media wing said on Thursday. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations, terrorists tried to attack the...
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EAM S Jaishankar being presented a jersey by actor John Abraham, in New Delhi/ANI Photo
Ahead of the release of his new film The Diplomat, actor John Abraham on Thursday met External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and discussed diplomacy, football, the northeast and the upcoming movie.Directed by Shivam Nair, The Diplomat will hit the theatres on Friday.An interesting...
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The father of the RG Kar hospital rape and murder victim on Thursday claimed that though over seven months have passed after the incident, the parents are yet to get the death certificate of their daughter and have been running from pillar to post for it. The father of the deceased...
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In a show of communal harmony and brotherhood, the Manakkad Juma Masjid in Thiruvananthapuram opened its doors and provided facilities to the thousands of women who arrived in the state capital for the 'Attukal Pongala' on Thursday. A mosque representative said the entire parking area was...
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Seventeen Maoists, nine of them collectively carrying cash rewards of Rs 24 lakh on their heads, surrendered in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Thursday, a senior police official said.The cadres, including a couple, turned themselves in before senior police and Central Reserve Police Force...
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CBSE Class 12 students unable to appear in Hindi exam scheduled on March 15 on account of Holi will get another opportunity write the paper, the board announced on Thursday.It has been informed to CBSE that, though the festival of Holi would be celebrated on March 14 in most parts of the country,...
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The Enforcement Directorate Thursday said it has found multiple irregularities in the operations of TASMAC that has monopoly over liquor trade in Tamil Nadu, including manipulation in the tender processes and unaccounted cash transactions worth Rs 1,000 crore through distillery...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party, which is in power in the Chakma Autonomous District Council in south Mizoram's Lawngtlai district, on Thursday swept the village council polls, securing a majority in 64 out of 88 VCs.According to the final results announced by the state election commission, Mizoram's...
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Superstar Aamir Khan on Thursday said he and the other two Khans of Bollywood -- Shah Rukh and Salman -- want to work in a film together and are waiting for the right script to come their way. The prospect of the Khan troika appearing in a movie is something the audience is also looking...
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The Bihar government has transferred the principal and a teacher of a school in Gaya district following a controversy over prayer conducted in Urdu, and ordered an investigation into the matter, an official said on Thursday. The female principal and the male teacher of the school, located in...
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A case was registered against five people, reportedly RSS-BJP workers, on Thursday for raising slogans against Tushar Gandhi, the great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, demanding that he retract his statement against the saffron outfit. The case was registered under Sections 189(2), 191(2),...
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President Droupadi Murmu has given her approval for the registration of an FIR against Aam Aadmi Party leaders Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain in an alleged scam of Rs 1,300 crore in the construction of classrooms in Delhi government schools, sources said. In 2022, the Delhi government's...
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A woman allegedly pushed her eight-year-old daughter to death from their 29th floor flat in a housing complex in Panvel in Maharashtra and then committed suicide, a police official said on Thursday. The incident took place in Palaspe at 8am on Wednesday, the official added. The...
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The rupee surged 27 paise to settle at 87 (provisional) against the US dollar on Thursday following robust macroeconomic data and easing crude oil prices. Besides, recent weakness in the US dollar index also supported the local currency, forex dealers said. However, losses in domestic...
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Telecom sector growth at a glance.
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A Dalit man was thrashed and paraded naked in Gujarat's Sabarkantha district allegedly by the husband and kin of the woman with whom he was having an affair, a police official said on Thursday. A video of the incident, which took place in a village near Idar town on the night of March 11,...
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A farmer who had received the Maharashtra government's 'Yuva Shetkari' award in 2020 ended his life on Thursday in Buldhana district over crop and irrigation woes, a police official said. Kailash Nagre (42) consumed poison at his farm in Shivni Aarmal village in Deulgaonraja tehsil this...
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A 10-year-old boy was shot dead as he was guarding crops from stray cattle in Uttar Pradesh's Shahjahanpur district, the police said on Thursday.The police have taken two accused in the case -- a school manager and his son -- into custody on Thursday, officials said.Superintendent of police...
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BJP leader Tamilisai Soundarajan
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Tamilisai Soundarajan sharply criticised Tamil Nadu's DMK government for dropping the Rupee symbol for the Tamil alphabet 'Ru' in the state budget logo. Soundarajan stated that the Indian currency Rupee was a federal setup and the DMK should respect the...
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Fitch Ratings has removed Adani Energy Solutions Ltd from a rating watch and assigned it a negative outlook, saying Adani group has demonstrated adequate funding access since the US indictment of its key executives.Fitch Ratings affirmed Adani Energy Solutions Limited's (AESL) long-term foreign-...
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Justice may or may not happen, but who are those people who did this to her?If the hospital authorities had helped us that day, or the police, then the real culprits would have been caught.Getting justice for my daughter is my goal now and I want Mamata Banerjee to remember that.The RG Kar...
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Benchmark BSE Sensex reversed its early gains to close lower by 200 points on Thursday, marking its fifth straight session of losses due to selling in realty, IT and auto counters. The 30-share BSE Sensex declined by 200.85 points or 0.27 per cent to close at 73,828.91 with 22 of its...
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On State's Economic Survey, Tamil Nadu State Planning Commission Executive Vice-Chairman Dr J. Jeyaranjan says, We don't want to use the Devnagri. That's all. Tamil Nadu's MK Stalin government has replaced the Rupee symbol 'Rs' for the Indian currency with the The Tamil alphabet 'Ru' in...
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A woman was arrested for allegedly honey-trapping a 74-year-old businessman and extorting Rs 18.5 lakh from him, a Mumbai police official said on Thursday. The incident came to light after the victim, who is the managing director of a firm dealing in medical disposables, filed a complaint...
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Priests at the famed Banke Bihari temple in Vrindavan have rejected a demand to stop using attires made by Muslim artisans for its deity, emphasising that religious discrimination has no place in temple traditions.The demand was raised by Dinesh Sharma, a leader of the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi...
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In a quiet village on the western border of Uttar Pradesh, a centuries-old tradition has stood unshaken -- Holika Dahan has never been performed here. The reason?The villagers believe that Lord Shiva himself resides in the ancient temple at the heart of the village and even roams within its...
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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) leader, Omar Ayub Khan strongly condemned the recent attack on the Jaffar Express in Balochistan. Addressing the National Assembly of Pakistan on Wednesday, Khan questioned Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's government and intelligence agencies, asking...
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Domestic passenger vehicle dispatches from factories to company dealers rose 1.9 per cent year-on-year to 3,77,689 units in February amid slowing demand, industry body SIAM said on Thursday. The total passenger vehicle wholesales stood at 3,70,786 units in February 2024.
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Politicians have locked horns over the three-language formula in the New Education Policy, 2020 (NEP). However, one of the policy's main objectives has been overlooked in this debate -- raising education expenditure by the Centre and states to 6 per cent of the country's GDP. This target...
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Tamil Nadu has replaced the rupee symbol in promotional material for the 2025 state budget with a Tamil symbol, in what has been seen as a statement move amid the ruling DMK's battle with the BJP-led central government over the 'imposition of Hindi' through the new National Education Policy.
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday said it has accomplished de-docking of the SpaDeX satellites, clearing the way for future missions such as exploring the moon, human spaceflight, and building its own space station.Union Minister Jitendra Singh announced the...
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Amid tight security, devotees on Thursday celebrated Holi at Kartikeya Mahadev in Khaggu Sarai for the first time in 46 years. The event saw enthusiastic participation from social and Hindu organisations at the temple, which was reopened last December after it was shut following riots in...
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Days after Kannada actress Ranya Rao was arrested by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials at the Bengaluru International Airport for smuggling gold, the agency has asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the case. The CBI has filed an FIR in the Ranya Rao...
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Inside visuals of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's sea-facing mansion built on Rushikonda hill in Visakhapatnam.
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Shares of MTNL surged more than 18 per cent on Thursday after the government said in the Parliament that state-owned telecom firm has earned Rs 2,134.61 crore till January 2025 from monetisation of lands and buildings. The scrip of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) rallied 18.36 per cent to...
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The highlight of the two meetings of the select committee of the Lok Sabha, tasked with examining the Income Tax Bill, 2025, has been suggestions that the panel could recommend expanding the definition of 'accountant' to include other professionals, especially company secretaries and cost...
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Update: A British woman was allegedly raped and molested by two men at a hotel in in Delhi's Mahipalpur area, an official said on Thursday. Police have arrested two people in connection with the incident which occurred on Tuesday, and informed the British High Commission about the incident, he...
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Four members of a family including two teenage sons were found dead in their residence in Chennai on Thursday, police said. The bodies of the doctor-advocate couple and their two sons were found in two separate rooms, police said and added that they could have ended their lives by hanging.The...
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Sudiksha Konanki
The US authorities have identified a 24-year-old man as person of interest in the case of a 20-year-old Indian student who has mysteriously gone missing during a spring break visit to the Dominican Republic. Sudiksha Konanki, a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the United States,...
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All competitive examinations conducted through the Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) will be held in Marathi, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has said.Fadnavis made the announcement in the state legislative council on Wednesday while responding to a question raised by Shiv Sena (UBT)...
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After co-founding and exiting Flipkart, Binny Bansal has now come out with a new venture Opptra, a franchising business which aims to help consumer brands expand in Asia markets. Backed by a team of former Amazon and Flipkart executives, Opptra is building a portfolio of franchising...
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A British woman was allegedly gang-raped by two men at a hotel in Delhi's Mahipalpur area. Both men were arrested, an official said on Thursday. The British national was befriended by one of the accused on a social media platform. The woman had travelled from the UK to Delhi to meet him, the...
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Equity market benchmarks Sensex and Nifty climbed in early trade on Thursday driven by buying in index heavyweights ICICI Bank and Reliance Industries amid a robust domestic macroeconomic data and firm trend in the global peers. The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 192.32 points or 0.26 per cent...
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Ritesh Agarwal, founder of hospitality technology firm Oyo, said that half of the company's business now comes from its premium brands, Townhouse and Sunday, both of which are growing at a double-digit rate each month. The reason for adding premium offerings to the company's suite of...
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I didn't feel that he wanted me, says Judi Dench. While she undoubtedly made some great memories on the set of A Room With A View, she wasn't so fond of working with James Ivory, who she found difficult.Read the interview here. Also read: When Rediff's Dominic Xavier spent...
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The silver pichkari
A jewellery shop in Lucknow is selling a special silver Pichkari (water gun) and small buckets worth Rs 1 lakh ahead of the Holi festival tomorrow. Speaking to ANI, Jeweller Adesh Kumar Jain said, This is an old tradition in which this 'Pichkari' is gifted among a newly married couple's...
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Ahead of the Holi festival, mosques in Aligarh were covered with tarpaulin sheets as a precautionary measure following a decision by the local administration.The move aims to prevent any untoward incidents and maintain communal harmony during the celebrations.Authorities have taken this step to...
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The European Commission has announced it would launch 'swift and proportionate countermeasures' on US imports into the European Union in response to the tariffs imposed by the US on EU steel and aluminium imports.The European Commission expressed regret over the US decision to impose US tariffs,...
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Amid row over his 'Gaza Plan', United States President Donald Trump asserted that no one would be 'expelled' from the strip, The Jerusalem Post reported.He made the remarks before his meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin at the White House on Wednesday (local time).In his statement...
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As many as four people died and two others were injured as a speeding vehicle rammed into the people near Rajpur Road in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, officials said.According to Dehradun Superintendent of Police Ajay Singh, the accident occurred on Wednesday 8 pm.The police is on the lookout for the...
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Abhijit Lele, Business StandardGlobal Rating agency Moody's said the asset quality of Indian banks may deteriorate moderately up to 3.0 per cent in the next 12 to 18 months after substantial improvements. But the rating agency kept the outlook for the banking system 'stable'.The system-wide...
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and SpaceX on Wednesday scrubbed the launch attempt of the agency's Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station due to a 'hydraulic system issue with a ground support clamp arm for the Falcon 9 rocket at Launch Complex 39A' at NASA's...
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The Punjab police on Wednesday said it arrested 118 drug smugglers in raids at 543 locations as part of its ongoing anti-drug drive. In all, police have nabbed 658 drug smugglers in the past 12 days, it said. The police also recovered 994 grams of heroin, 4,633 intoxicant tablets or...
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The police on Wednesday arrested Jadavpur University (JU) student in connection with the March 1 unrest and vandalism on the campus, taking the total number of arrests in the case to two. A leader of the JU SFI unit told PTI that Soumyadip Mahata, a student of philosophy, was called to...
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The Uttarakhand hgh court on Wednesday stayed the felling of 3,000 trees for the widening of the Rishikesh-Bhaniyawala road. A division bench of Chief Justice G Narendar and Justice Ashish Naithani was hearing a PIL filed by Dehradun resident Renu Pal. The petitioner's advocate, Abhijay...
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