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Union Minister and senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari on Saturday asserted that people are not casteist but political leaders are for their selfish interests. Speaking at an event in Amravati, he also said backwardness was becoming a political interest.There is a competition on who is...
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BREAKING: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed closure report in the death case of actor Sushant Singh Rajput.The actor was found hanging at his Bandra home on June 14, 2020.
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Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna on Saturday constituted a three-member committee to conduct an inquiry into allegations against Justice Yashwant Varma from whose official residence a large stash of cash was allegedly discovered after a fire. CJI Khanna ordered the in-house inquiry after...
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In a case of familicide, a BJP worker in UP's Saharanpur on Saturday allegedly shot dead his three children with his licensed revolver and left his wife injured as he suspected her of an extramarital affair, police said. The incident took place in Sagatheda village when Rohilla informed...
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NCP-SP president Sharad Pawar on Saturday met his estranged nephew and Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar at the Pune-based Vasantdada Sugar Institute, drawing sharp comments from ally and Shiv Sena-UBT MP Sanjay Raut. Shiv Sena-UBT leaders do not maintain any contact with...
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Around 42 people have been booked for allegedly forcibly applying colours on a group of Dalits in a village in Mathura on Holi, police said on Saturday. According to police, a scuffle broke out in Bati village under the Jait police station limits on Dhulendi -- the day on which Holi is...
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A senior police officer Saturday said they would seek to put up Muskan Rastogi and her lover Sahil Shukla, accused of killing her husband Saurabh Rajput, on trial in a fast-track court to secure a swift conviction in the case. Senior Superintendent of Police Vipin Tada said that the police...
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Biju Janata Dal president Naveen Patnaik on Saturday said that population should not be the only criterion to determine the number of seats in Parliament and sought a detailed discussion with all parties before the commencement of the delimitation process.Addressing the first Joint Action...
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader Narayan Rane on Saturday claimed the then chief minister Uddhav Thackeray had called him twice and requested not to drag his son Aaditya Thackeray in the Disha Salian death case.Addressing media, Rane demanded that the police register an FIR and arrest the former...
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A man has been booked for allegedly cheating three women into marriage by claiming to be an excise department employee and obtaining loan worth lakhs in the name of one of them, Robertsganj police in UP's Sonbhadra said on Saturday. Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) at Robertsganj...
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A 28-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly giving liquor to a boy after convincing him it as black tea at her house in Peerumedu in high range Idukki district of Kerala, police said on Saturday.The accused was identified as Priyanka, a plantation worker hailing from Mlamala.The woman, known...
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The DMK-led Joint Action Committee meeting to ensure fair delimitation on Saturday urged the Centre to extend the freeze on Parliamentary constituencies, based on the 1971 Census population, by another 25 years and decided that MPs would submit a joint representation to press for demands to Prime...
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A drone camera was seized after it crashed on a residential building inside the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) campus in Jammu and Kashmir's Sambha district, officials said on Saturday. The campus falls under the 'no-flying zone' category, and the presence of the drone has...
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A pregnant woman and her unborn child died during delivery at an unregistered hospital in Budhana town here, leading to the arrest of an unqualified woman posing as a doctor, police said on Saturday. The incident occurred at Raj Health Care, a facility that was found to be operating...
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A man in Madhya Pradesh's Rewa district died by suicide during an Instagram live session, blaming his wife and mother-in-law, following which police arrested the two women, an official said on Saturday.Shiv Prakash Tripathi took the extreme step on March 16, which was witnessed by his wife, said...
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Lovers Muskan Rastogi (27) and Sahil Shukla (25), arrested in connection with the murder of the former's husband Saurabh, stayed in Himachal's Kasol for six days after committing the gruesome act. Saurabh Rajput (29), a former Merchant Navy officer, was allegedly drugged and...
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Eminent Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla was on Saturday named the recipient of the 59th Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honour. He will be the first writer from Chhattisgarh to receive the award. The 88-year-old short story writer, poet and essayist, considered one of the...
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Air India, Virgin Atlantic and British Airways operated their scheduled flights from the national capital to London Heathrow on Saturday as the UK airport resumed operations after being impacted by a power outage. Travel plans of thousands of passengers who were scheduled to fly to LHR,...
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The post-mortem of former merchant navy officer Saurabh Rajput has revealed the extreme brutality with which he was killed and the body dismembered allegedly by his wife Muskan Rastogi and her lover Sahil Shukla. His head was severed from the body, both hands were cut off from the wrist and...
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An enraged woman allegedly bit off a part of her husband's tongue during a domestic dispute at Bakani town in Jhalawar district, police said on Saturday. A case has been registered against Ravina Sain (23) for voluntarily causing hurt and grievous injuries under sections 115(2) and 118(2)...
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The cost of properties damaged during Nagpur violence will be recovered from rioters and the failure to pay up would lead to the seizure and selling of their properties, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Saturday.Addressing a press conference, Fadnavis said 104 rioters have...
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A 40-year-old man, who sustained injuries in the violence that broke out in Maharashtra's Nagpur city earlier this week, died while undergoing treatment at a hospital on Saturday, an official said.A hospital official said Irfan Ansari died at 1.20 pm at the Indira Gandhi Government Medical...
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A team of Supreme Court judges headed by Justice B R Gavai on Saturday visited ethnic strife-torn Manipur's Churachandpur district and met internally displaced persons, officials said.They also virtually inaugurated a legal services camp, a medical camp and a legal aid clinic from the Mini...
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Odisha has reported at least three such cases every day during the last six years, despite several initiatives taken by the administration, according to government data.Activists working in this field attribute tribal practice, dowry, migration of labourer families and parents' fear that...
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Engineering conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Friday said its board has approved fundraising plans of up to Rs 12,000 crore, through different debt-based instruments -- external commercial borrowings, term loans, non-convertible debentures, or any other instrument as may be...
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Controversial priest Yati Narsinghanand Giri has been booked for allegedly spreading hate and abusing top police officers of the district in a video, officials said on Saturday. According to an FIR lodged in Ghaziabad, the priest of the Dasna Devi Temple has been accused of making...
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Ola Electric on Friday said its sales were strong and asserted that the company remained focused on clearing all backlog by the end of March, amid discrepancies in actual and declared sales data for February on the government's Vahan portal.The company earlier announced that it sold 25,000...
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam president M K Stalin on Saturday said that Sothern states are not against the delimitation but seeking for a fair delimitation.Addressing a meeting that witnessed the participation of 14 leaders from at least five states, Stalin bats for...
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A 34-year-old woman has been arrested in Kerala's Kollam for allegedly trafficking synthetic drug MDMA worth several lakhs of rupees from Bengaluru, police officials said on Saturday. Anila Raveendran, a native of Anchalummoodu, was taken into custody on Friday evening by...
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The Supreme Court has said that no tax demand, even if raised by the income-tax department, can be allowed to be included in a resolution plan after the said plan has been approved by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC).A successful...
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Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar MP Supriya Sule criticised Air India over delaying her flight for more than one hour, and urged the Union Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu to enforce stricter regulations to hold airlines accountable.Sule said that her flight AI0508 was delayed by 1...
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The first Joint Action Committee (JAC) meeting on delimitation commenced in Chennai on Saturday with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam president M K Stalin in the chair.The meeting witness the participation of 14 leaders from at least five states and they would deliberate on...
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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Ajit Pawar said that any attempts to intimidate the Muslim community or create communal discord would be met with strict action, and the accused will be punished stringently.Speaking at an Iftar gathering, hosted by him in Mumbai, Pawar...
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A 12-hour statewide bandh called by the pro-Kannada groups to protest the alleged assault on a state-run bus conductor in Belagavi last month for not knowing Marathi began in Karnataka on Saturday morning amid tight security.In several parts of the state, the pro-Kannada groups took to the...
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Heathrow Airport announced on Friday night that it is restarting flights after a power outage took place there that had resulted in a complete shutdown of one of the world's busiest airports.In a series of posts on X, the Airport authorities noted that it is prioritising repatriation and...
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Rocket sirens blared across central Israel on Thursday afternoon as three rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip, marking the first such attack in months.The launch came as Israeli forces recaptured areas of northern Gaza near Beit Lahiya and hours after Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen fired a...
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Pakistan announced on Friday that it granted temporary permission to tech billionaire Elon Musk's satellite-based internet provider Starlink to provide its service in the country.Starlink Services is one of the most technologically advanced companies globally among those providing internet via...
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