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Karnataka deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar
Karnataka deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Thursday said the state government would not encourage a bandh and that the administration would speak to pro-Kannada organisations that have called for a statewide shutdown on March 22 to make them understand that it is not the right...
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A 49-year-old man was allegedly shot dead in this district on Thursday evening, the police said. Radhakrishnan was killed at his under-construction house in Kaithapram at 7.30 pm. Following the incident, the police took Perumpadavu native Santhosh into custody. Santhosh was...
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Delhi high court-ordered demolition drive against three temples in Mayur Vihar was postponed in the face of a protest led by the local MLA on Thursday.A team of DDA accompanied by police reached the east Delhi locality around 4 am Thursday to raze Kali Mandir, Amarnath Mandir, and Badrinath...
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Samyukt Kisan Morcha leaders Thursday said they have received a Punjab government invite for a meeting Friday with Agriculture Minister Gurmeet Singh Khuddian. The invitation for the meeting comes ahead of the SKM's call for taking out a march to the Punjab Vidhan Sabha on March...
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Independent MLA from Jammu and Kashmir's Gurez Faqeer Mohammad Khan on Thursday allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself, party officials said.Khan (62) shot himself using his security personnel's SLR rifle inside his official accommodation in the...
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Unidentified persons have been booked for illegal circulation of Hindi film Chhaava on digital platforms through the creation of multiple links, a Mumbai police official said on Thursday. The film, starring Vicky Kaushal as Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, is among the biggest hits of recent...
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Sheena Bora murder accused Indrani Mukerjea
The CBI on Thursday submitted to a special court here its second list of witnesses in the Sheena Bora killing case, which included accused Indrani Mukerjea's daughter Vidhie Mukerjea. The list mentioned 125 individuals the agency proposes to examine as prosecution witnesses in the...
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday abruptly left the dais ahead of national anthem at the inauguration of an international sports event here, much to the surprise of the organisers. The septuagenarian was brought back by officials after a few minutes, and the programme...
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The deadly fire in a minibus owned by a private firm that claimed the lives of four employees near Pune was allegedly an act of sabotage by a disgruntled driver, police said on Thursday. Investigation revealed that the fire was not an accident but sabotage, said deputy commissioner of police...
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Where's the empathy, asked actor-model Lisa Ray after Air India denied her a waiver when she had to change her travel plans due to her 92-year-old father's ill health. In its response, Air India said Ray's claim that the airline didn't display empathy for her unwell father is...
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Maharashtra Congress chief Harshvardhan Sapkal on Thursday set up a committee of party leaders to visit the riot-affected areas of Nagpur. Large-scale stone pelting and arson were reported in several parts of Vidarbha's largest city on Monday evening after rumours began circulating about a...
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A 32-year-old Vrindavan man cut his belly open to cure himself of appendicitis learning how to perform a surgery from YouTube videos. He developed complications on Wednesday and was rushed to a hospital by his nephew. Dr Shashi Ranjan, a senior surgeon at the Vrindavan District...
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Rajya Sabha MP Sudha Murthy at the iftar hosted by IUML/ANI on X
Rajya Sabha MP Sudha Murthy on Thursday attended the iftar hosted by the Indian Union Muslim League. I wish a very happy, peaceful Ramzan. We all should enjoy every festival..., she said. Indian Olympic Association president PT Usha also attended the iftar party by the IUML.
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Two more Bangladeshi nationals were arrested in Ernakulam district on Thursday for residing illegally in the country, the police said. With the arrest of Monirul Mulla (30) and Altab Ali (27), both natives of Mohammed Nagar in Bangladesh, the number of Bangladeshi nationals apprehended from...
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The rupee stayed firm and appreciated 1 paisa to close at 86.36 (provisional) against the US dollar on Thursday supported by positive domestic equities. Forex traders said the Indian rupee has staged a counterattack against external pressures, gaining support from strong foreign inflows into...
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The cases of sudden hair loss reported in Buldhana district in Maharashtra in December and January are not linked to consumption of wheat supplied from ration stores nor does it appear to have been caused by water contamination, state minister Meghna Bordikar said on Thursday. The minister...
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Telugu cinema star Chiranjeevi was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to cultural influence and public service by London-based thinktank Bridge India at the UK's House of Commons. The celebrated actor, known for films such as Rudraveena, Indra, Khaidi, and...
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Market investors kitty swelled by Rs 17.43 lakh crore in four days of sharp rally in equities where the BSE benchmark Sensex jumped over 3 per cent. On Thursday, the 30-share benchmark Sensex jumped 899.01 points or 1.19 percent to settle at 76,348.06, regaining the 76,000 level. During...
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Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday issued a three-line whip to all of its Lok Sabha MPs asking them to be present in the House for the passing of the Union Budget 2025-26. All BJP members in Lok Sabha are hereby informed that guillotining of various demands for Grants 2025-26 will be taken...
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Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi
Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Thursday informed the House that 50 journalists died due to Covid-19 in the state. Replying to a question by BJD legislator Souvic Biswal, Majhi said ex gratia of Rs 15 lakh each was given to the next of kin of 49 journalists. Compensation was...
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Rallying for the fourth straight session, stock market benchmarks Sensex and Nifty surged over 1 percent on Thursday, powered by across-the-board buying amid a mixed trend in global equities after the US Federal Reserve maintained its rate cut projections for this year. Hectic buying in...
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The number of Indian nationals who have been awarded a death sentence in the UAE, but the judgement is yet to be implemented, stands at 25, the government informed Parliament on Thursday. Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh said this in a written response to a query in...
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Congress leader Shivraj Patil
Senior Congress leader Shivraj Patil met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi recently along with family members, his daughter-in-law Archana Patil said on Thursday. She did not specify the date of the meeting, which took place at the PM's official residence, but sources said it happened a...
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Andhra Pradesh IT Minister Nara Lokesh likened former Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy to Saddam Hussein for allegedly turning small tourism department villas into a palace on Rushikonda hill in Visakhapatnam.The IT minister noted that the YSRCP leader 'thought that he would be in power for 30...
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Amid demands that the tomb of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb situated in Maharashtra's Sambhajinagar district be removed, the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) has put up tin sheets on two sides of the 18th century structure. The decision was taken by the district administration two days...
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A recent market correction has increased the number of 'investable value' stocks but deep bargains are hard to find, according to a report by ICICI Securities (ISec).The percentage of 'investable value' stocks -- those offering favourable returns relative to bond yields -- has risen moderately to...
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The Standing Committee on Finance, in its report tabled in Parliament on Wednesday, has called for the adoption of a comprehensive and coordinated approach to monitor and manage general government debt, ensuring that both the central and state governments adhere to prudent fiscal...
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BJP leader and former Independent MLA from Jammu and Kashmir's Gurez Faqir Mohammad Khan on Thursday allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself, party officials said. Khan, 62, shot himself inside the Tulsibagh government quarters in Srinagar, they said. BJP spokesperson Altaf Thakur,...
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A case was registered against six Telugu film actors, including Rana Daggubati, Prakash Raj, Vijay Deverkonda and 19 social media influencers, for allegedly promoting betting apps, police said on Thursday. Actors Lakshmi Manchu, Praneetha, and Nidhi Agarwal were also booked, a police...
15:42
Social media giant 'X' (formerly Twitter), owned by US billionaire Elon Musk, has filed a lawsuit in the Karnataka High Court against Government of India, challenging what it called unlawful content regulation and arbitrary censorship.It raised concerns over the Centre's interpretation of the...
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India's fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector should see revenue rebound in FY26 aided by a gradual recovery in urban demand and steady rural demand, according to a report by credit-rating agency Crisil.The report says the FMCG sector should see revenue rebound by 100 to 200 basis points (bps)...
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The government received proposals from 67 firms till February 15 to build state-of-the-art foundational AI models trained on Indian datasets, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Jitin Prasada told the Lok Sabha.Of the 67 proposals, Prasada said, 22 are focused on large...
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Family court in Mumbai grants divorce by mutual consent to cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal and Dhanashree Verma. The Bombay High Court on Wednesday had waived the mandatory six-month cooling off period post filing of divorce plea by cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal and his estranged wife Dhanashree...
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To address the issue of unclaimed financial assets, Sebi has introduced a new facility allowing investors to store and access their demat and mutual fund holdings via DigiLocker. This initiative enables users to retrieve and save statements of their share and mutual fund unit holdings from demat...
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Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Thursday said attempts were being made to malign his image over the June 2020 accidental death case of Disha Salian, and he will present his side before the court. Satish Salian, father of Disha Salian, former manager of actor Sushant Singh...
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Jayprakash Narayan has lived in this house
Mumbai's Laxmi Nivas bungalow, just off Nepean Sea Road in south Mumbai, has been sold to Vageshwari Properties Private Limited for Rs 276 crore by the Kapadia family.Vageshwari Properties lists Elina Nikhil Meswani as one of its directors, according to the ministry of corporate affairs. She is...
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The self-regulating bodies (SRBs) for online gaming, as proposed under the amended Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, should ensure five primary aspects: No harmful content in online games, no access for children, no addictive content, and...
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Update: In a fresh offensive against Naxals, at least 22 members of the banned CPI (Maoists) were killed in two separate encounters in Chhattisgarh, officials said on Thursday. While 18 Naxals were killed in Bijapur district, four Maoists were gunned down in Kanker areas by a joint team of...
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New Zealand PM Christopher Luxon shares this image from Mumbai. Visited the Bombay Stock Exchange so couldn't not do the photo, he writes. Luxon arrived in India on March 16 and will be leaving today. This is his first visit to India in his current capacity as prime minister.
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In a massive operation against Left Wing Extremism, security forces killed 18 Naxalites in an encounter in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Thursday, an official said. A police jawan was also killed in the encounter, he said. The gunfight broke out at around 7 am in a forest along the...
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Textile major Bombay Dyeing and Manufacturing Company is contesting fines levied by the NSE and BSE for allegedly not securing a special resolution from shareholders prior to the appointment of an independent director who had reached the age of 75.In a letter addressed to both stock exchanges,...
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Grabbing the breasts of the victim and snapping her pyjama strings do not constitute rape or attempt to rape but serious sexual assault, Allahabad court observed in a Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) case of alleged rape of a minor girl.A single bench of Justice Ram Manohar...
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The accused with the police
The six-year-old daughter of Meerut's Saurabh Rajput, allegedly murdered by his wife Muskaan Rastogi and her lover Sahil Shukla, kept telling neighbours, Papa drum mein hai, Saurabh's mother Renu Devi has said.The claim chillingly suggests that the child was aware of the murder and what...
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Advocate Nilesh C Ojha, lawyer of Satish Salian, on Thursday levelled serious allegations against former Maharashtra Environment Minister Aaditya Thackeray, labelling him as an accused in the Disha Salian death case. He also accused former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh of not...
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The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Wednesday barred former news anchor Hemant Ghai and two others, including his wife, from dealing in securities for five years for their alleged involvement in fraudulent practices.The market regulator directed Hemant and his wife Jaya Ghai to...
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The net foreign direct investment (FDI) in India declined to $1.4 billion during the 10 months of 2024-25 (April 2024-January 2025) from $11.5 billion a year ago, owing to higher repatriation and outward FDI from India.However, gross FDI remained elevated, with 12.4 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y)...
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Police have formed 18 special teams to track down and arrest those involved in the violence in Maharashtra's Nagpur city, officials said on Thursday. As of now, 69 persons have been in connection with the violence which took place here on Monday. Curfew remained imposed in several areas of...
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Muslim cleric Chaudhary Ifraheem Husain on Thursday condemned the alleged molestation of policewoman during the Nagpur violence which unfolded three days ago, demanding strict action against the culprits. The case of molestation of women police personnel which came to light in connection...
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Another update on the case of the Indian student missing from the Dominican Republic. The last person to see the missing University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki has left the Caribbean nation. Joshua Riibe, a senior at St. Cloud University in Minnesota, is allowed full...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Wednesday that business decisions are increasingly linked to national security. The world today makes business decisions factoring in national security in a manner in which it did not do so before, especially in the digital era,' Jaishankar said...
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Seven months after their daughter's rape-murder at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, her parents finally received her death certificate from West Bengal Health Secretary NS Nigam. Accompanied by the medical superintendent and vice principal (MSVP) of RG Kar hospital, the health secretary...
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The parliamentary standing committee on finance criticised the NITI Aayog after it found discrepancies in its allocations and spending over the past three financial years, and slammed India's official policy think-tank for 'amateur planning'. The panel, headed by Bharatiya Janata Party MP...
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Three men defaced the signboard of 'Akbar Road' in Delhi on Thursday, claiming that the statue of Maharana Pratap was vandalised at Kashmere Gate ISBT. The men sprayed black paint on the signboard and pasted Maharana Pratap's posters over it, while raising slogans of Jai Bhavani. They...
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Muskan Rastogi's mother
The parents of accused Muskan Rastogi, Pramod and Kavita, are devastated after their daughter, along with her partner, allegedly killed her husband, dismembered his body, and sealed the body parts in a drum filled with cement in Uttar Pradesh's Indiranagar. Expressing their grief and anger...
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Commerce Secretary Sunil Barthwal on Wednesday said that to avoid prolonged discussions and enable quicker outcomes, there is a need to prioritise talks on core trade issues such as tariff and non-trade barriers during free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations. Long-drawn negotiations often...
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A 30-year-old man allegedly committed suicide by jumping off the Coastal Road at Worli in central Mumbai, police said on Wednesday. This was the first known incident of suicide on the bridge since the road was inaugurated last year, an official said. The incident took place on Tuesday...
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The West Bengal assembly on Wednesday passed a bill to allow women to work in bars. The West Bengal Finance Bill, 2025, was tabled by MoS Chandrima Bhattacharya in the assembly. It seeks to amend the Bengal Excise Act, 1909, to remove the prohibition on employment of woman in ON...
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