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Miscreants ransacked a school, run by a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-affiliated outfit, in Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol district, the police said on Tuesday. The incident occurred at Akhetpur under the Beohari police station area on Monday night when a group of persons barged into Saraswati...
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Air India CEO, top-notch executives and senior commanders may be seen flying in the airline's economy class across Indian cities as part of the carrier's new travel policy for its staff, which comes into effect in phases from next month, according to sources. The airline, which went back...
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First indigenously-built MRI scanner/ANI Photo
India has developed its first indigenous MRI scanner that will be installed at AIIMS-Delhi by October for clinical trials and evaluation. The initiative is aimed at considerably reducing the cost of Magnetic Resonance Imaging scanning and reliance on imported machines, thus allowing wider...
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The Punjab police on Tuesday booked Bajinder Singh on assault and other charges based on the complaint of a woman, days after a video purporting to show the self-styled Christian preacher slapping and arguing with her became widely circulated on social media. The Mohali police launched an...
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The United States said on Tuesday it reached pacts with Ukraine and Russia for safe navigation in the Black Sea and to stop attacks by the two countries on each other's energy facilities, according to a report by The Guardian. The White House posted the two statements on its website from its...
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The United States said on Tuesday it reached pacts with Ukraine and Russia for safe navigation in the Black Sea and to stop attacks by the two countries on each other's energy facilities, according to a report by The Guardian. The White House posted the two statements on its website from its...
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Days after a 37-year-old real estate agent was found murdered near an under-construction building in BGS Layout, his wife and mother-in-law were arrested in connection with the crime, the police said on Tuesday. Yashasvini (19) and her mother, Hema Bhai (37), were arrested on Monday for the...
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Vehicular movement will be restricted on Delhi-Gurugram Expressway on NH-48 for six hours from Wednesday midnight due to the construction of a foot overbridge, according to the Gurugram Traffic Police advisory. The construction will be undertaken near Narsinghpur from Wednesday midnight...
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India and China on Tuesday agreed to work together to make substantial preparation for the next meeting of their Special Representatives (SR) on the boundary question that is set to be held in the national capital later this year. The decision was taken at a fresh edition of talks held in...
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Russia's Ambassador to Pakistan Albert P Khorev on Tuesday identified ISIS as the greatest threat to Russia's national and regional security, a media report said. He told the Express Tribune that Afghanistan's efforts to combat militancy were inadequate but attributed it to economic...
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Maharashtra minister Nitish Rane
Shiv Sena-UBT legislator Anil Parab on Tuesday attacked Maharashtra minister and BJP leader Nitesh Rane, accusing him of making divisive and dangerous remarks that could disturb communal harmony. Speaking in the state legislative council, Parab also took a dig at Rane for projecting himself...
20:35
Stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra
An FIR was registered against stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra in Thane district of Maharashtra for allegedly defaming Shiv Sena head and deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, the police said on Tuesday. Kamra was booked under section 356(2) (defamation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita on a...
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Actor Jacqueline Fernandez will skip performing at the IPL ceremony in Guwahati on Wednesday as her mother is not keeping well. A source close to the actress informed, Jacqueline's mother is still in the ICU recovering. As the family awaits further update from the doctors. In these...
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The rupee snapped its seven-session rally and settled with a loss of 13 paise at 85.74 (provisional) against the US dollar on Tuesday, as increased demand for dollars from importers, coupled with the greenback's recovery against major currencies, weighed on the rupee. Forex traders said the...
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The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has sought a first information report in connection with the suicide of a Class 9 student who jumped off a school building in Navi Mumbai last month, flagging his father's allegation about bullying at the school. A Class 9 student...
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Odisha assembly Speaker Surama Padhy on Tuesday suspended 12 Congress MLAs for seven days over indiscipline in the House. The action against the Congress legislators came after the House adopted a motion moved by government Chief Whip Saroj Pradhan. The suspended MLAs include Congress...
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The police on Tuesday arrested six persons in connection with the murder of BJP leader Gulfam Singh Yadav, who was allegedly killed with a lethal injection, the police said on Tuesday. The incident occurred on March 10 when Gulfam Singh Yadav, 60, was at his village farm and three...
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Bollywood actor Sonu Sood
Bollywood actor Sonu Sood's wife Sonali and two others suffered minor injuries in a car accident in Nagpur, the police said on Tuesday. The accident took place around 10.30 on Monday night, said an official. The car in which Sonali Sood was travelling with her sister and nephew rammed...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday alleged leaders of the opposition Nationalist Congress Party-SP were involved in a conspiracy against his cabinet colleague Jaykumar Gore in a case involving a woman. Replying to a motion initiated by the opposition in the state...
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Two policemen were suspended in Maharashtra's Beed district on Tuesday after a video showing a local BJP worker, arrested in a case of assault, receiving a special treatment went viral, officials said. Beed superintendent of police Navneet Kanwat suspended two policemen attached to the...
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Singer Neha Kakkar broke down and apologised profusely to her fans after she allegedly arrived three hours late for her concert in Melbourne, Australia. In a video, posted on Reddit by a user, the singer is seen crying on stage while some audience members booed for apparently arriving late...
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Shares of IndusInd Bank tanked over 5 percent on Tuesday following reports that external auditor PwC is likely to submit its report to the bank's board on Friday regarding accounting discrepancies in its derivatives portfolio. The stock dropped 4.76 percent to settle at Rs 637.30 apiece on...
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Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty eked out gains to extend their winning run to the seventh day on Tuesday, largely driven by gains in select bluechips like HDFC Bank, Infosys and Ultratech Cement. Retreating from its early highs, the 30-share BSE Sensex closed higher by 32.81 points...
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Army has rejected claims made by a social media post that one of its Remotely Piloted Aircraft was hacked by the Chinese side, and urged media houses and social media users to refrain from carrying unverified and misleading content, sources said. The Army remains fully committed to the...
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The Delhi police arrested a ground handling employee for allegedly stealing a shipment of high-end smartphones worth lakhs of rupees, an official said on Tuesday.The accused has been identified as 28-year-old Monu alias Nikhil Kumar and 36 of the stolen mobile phones have been recovered so far,...
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Stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra
Shiv Sena MP Naresh Mhaske alleged on Tuesday that stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra, who has been in the eye of the storm over his jibe at Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, has been given money to make such statements to divert people's attention from the Disha Salian death...
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Uttar Pradesh reported 33 -- the highest number of ragging-related complaints in medical colleges in 2024 followed by Bihar with 17, Rajasthan with 15 and Madhya Pradesh with 12, Minister of State for Health Anupriya Patel told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.The National Medical Commission...
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A Naxalite carrying a reward of Rs 25 lakh on his head was among three ultras killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district on Tuesday, police said. The gunfight took place at around 8 am in a forest along the border of Dantewada and Bijapur districts when...
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Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee on Tuesday accused Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan of acting as a dalal (broker) for the rich as he slammed the Union government over pending central funds for West Bengal. The BJP immediately hit back with...
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The Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed the Finance Bill 2025, along with 35 government amendments, including one that abolishes a 6 per cent digital tax on online advertisements. With the passage of the Finance Bill 2025, the Lok Sabha completed its part of the Budgetary approval process. The...
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Satish Salian, father of former celebrity manager Disha Salian, on Tuesday, submitted a complaint to the Joint Commissioner of Police demanding the registration of a case against Shiv Sena-UBT MLA Aaditya Thackeray and others in connection with his daughter's death in 2020.Salian visited the...
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Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Tuesday announced plans to relocate Tihar jail to the city's outskirts and allocated Rs 10 crore for survey and consultancy services for the same in the budget for 2025-26. The decision stems from safety concerns due to the jail's proximity to...
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Shishir with his wife, daughter and son-in-law
Newsrooms are by nature inured to news of death, and so the pall of gloom that has descended with the news of the passing of a dear former colleague, Shishir Vinay Bhate, is testimony to his popularity, yes, but also to the impact he left behind in the years he helmed the Business Desk at...
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Body of one of the seven persons who remained trapped inside the partially collapsed SLBC project tunnel here for over a month was found on Tuesday, officials said.This takes the total number of bodies retrieved so far to two.The mortal remains of the individual were found on Tuesday morning, an...
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea challenging the premature release of former Uttar Pradesh minister Amarmani Tripathi and his wife Madhumani in poet Madhumita Shukla murder case. The Uttar Pradesh prisons department had in 2023 issued an order for the premature release of...
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Three members of the Supreme Court-appointed in-house committee on Tuesday commenced its inquiry into the alleged cash discovery row involving Delhi High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma, sources said.They said the three members -- Justice Sheel Nagu, Chief Justice of the High Court of Punjab...
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Buttermilk is a good probiotic drink
Probiotics and oral electrolytes sales have been growing at a fast clip in the gastrointestinal therapy segment, clocking a 23 per cent and 21 per cent five-year compounded annual growth rate (CAGR), respectively, according to data sourced from market research firm Pharmarack. Antidiarrheals...
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Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar Tuesday called a meeting of the leaders of various parties to decide the course of action the House should take on pleas by some MPs seeking discussion on the alleged discovery of cash from the official residence of a Delhi high court judge. Meeting of...
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Two constituents of the Hurriyat Conference -- J-K People's Movement and the Democratic Political Movement -- have announced the severing of all ties with separatism, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday. Welcoming the move, Shah asserted that the unifying policies of the Modi...
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Medical News Today explains that when you are suffering inflammation in your body, 'there will be higher levels of substances known as biomarkers'. Inflammation, when it persists, can cause a whole bunch of of chronic diseases, be it type 2 diabetes, heart ailments or...
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Bharatiya Janata Party MP and Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut slammed standup artist Kunal Kamra for his alleged disparaging remarks against Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. Being asked about the demolition of her office by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in 2020...
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The rapist, Kuldeep Sengar
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to withdraw the CRPF security cover of the Unnao rape survivor, saying there was still a perception of threat. A bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and P B Varale, however, removed CRPF security cover given to her family members and other witnesses noting...
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Afghanistan, Iran, and the security of Pakistan's nuclear programme are issues that will inevitably draw Trump's attention. When that happens, Washington will likely note China's growing presence in Gwadar and seek to exploit local Baloch resentment toward Beijing, notes journalist and...
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Despite earning in crores, these Bollywood celebs live in rented homes and don't mind shelling out huge amounts of money every month for their luxurious Mumbai abodes! What do Vicky-Kat pay?
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After stand-up artist Kunal Kamra refused to apologize for his remarks allegedly targeting Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Congress MLA Vijay Wadettiwar on Tuesday said that Kamra's decision not to apologise is right as he has not taken anyone's name. Criticising the...
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Tata AutoComp Systems, an automotive components manufacturer, said on Monday that it would acquire International Automotive Components Group Sweden AB (IAC Sweden) for an undisclosed sum.The 2024 revenue of IAC Sweden, which manufactures interior systems and components for the automotive...
12:31
Forest and tree cover in India
The Tripura government has decided to check the forest area in the state following reports that the green cover has come down because of various reasons, including incorrect implementation of a 2006 Act. As the state government found that a section of forest dwellers have been harming the woods,...
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Shiv Sena leader Raju Waghmare on Tuesday criticized comedian Kunal Kamra for his recent remarks, demanding that Kamra apologize or face legal action. Waghmare accused Kamra of insulting the Thackeray family and claimed that Kamra's statements were offensive to both Aaditya and Uddhav...
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Kunal Kamra has said he won't apologize
Stand-up Artist Kunal Kamra's refusal to apologize for his remarks made during a recent show has sparked strong reactions from Maharashtra government officials including Maharashtra's Minister of State for Home Yogesh Kadam and Minister Gulab Patil. MoS Home Yogesh Ramdas Kadam on Tuesday...
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AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami is headed to Delhi today to meet top BJP leaders.
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To ink a deal that will enhance Mahindra and Mahindra's commercial-vehicle portfolio, M&M is in talks to acquire the promoter's stake in SML Isuzu, according to sources close to the development. SML Isuzu's portfolio includes school buses.In December last year, Sumitomo Corporation, the...
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Vikram Sahu, who is currently heading global equity research for Bank of America in New York, is set to succeed Kaku Nakhate as the US-based bank's India country executive, according to an internal memo reviewed by Business Standard.Nakhate has been leading the bank's India operations as...
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Maharashtra's Khar Police has sent a summon to standup artist Kunal Kamra, asking him to appear before the investigating officer at 11 am today.As per Mumbai police, Kunal is not in Mumbai right now. MIDC police had registered an FIR against Kunal Kamra for his remarks during a stand-up comedy...
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Update: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has likened comedian Kunal Kamra's jibe at him to taking supari (contract) to speak against someone, and said a decorum should be maintained while taking jibes, otherwise the action causes a reaction.Freedom of speech is there, but there...
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Maharashtra Dy CM Eknath Shinde reacts to comedian Kunal Kamra's remarks: Freedom of speech is there; we understand satire, but there should be a limit. This is like taking 'supari' (contract) to speak against someone. The other person should also maintain certain level, otherwise, action causes...
09:50
Filmmaker Hansal Mehta has voiced his support for stand-up artiste Kunal Kamra amid a massive controversy that erupted after he allegedly passed disparaging remarks on the Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde in his latest standup act. The director who is known for films like 'Shahid',...
09:47
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance has urged the ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MoSPI) to 'salvage some useful data' from the fieldwork of the 7th Economic Census and come up with interim data.In its latest report submitted to Parliament, the committee notes...
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Mamata Banerjee outside Buckingham Palace
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and her entourage are in London. Banerjee posted on X: Bengal and Britain share a relationship that spans centuries, rooted in history, culture, and commerce. As we landed in London yesterday, we stepped into a city that, much like Kolkata, carries the weight of its...
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US NSA Mike Waltz
Former national security officials have reacted with shock after revelations that senior members of President Donald Trump's administration shared operational plans for military strikes in Yemen via an encrypted messaging app, inadvertently adding a journalist to the discussion, CNN...
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India should prepare for a nine to 10 per cent growth in peak electricity demand this summer with the country expected to experience more heatwaves, experts have warned. Last year, the all-India peak electricity demand crossed 250 gigawatts (GW) on May 30, which was 6.3 per cent higher than...
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The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is set to introduce a settlement scheme for over 100 stock brokers who faced regulatory scrutiny for their association with algorithmic trading platforms promising guaranteed returns.Each broker may be required to pay a settlement amount of Rs 1...
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The brother of Yusuf Sheikh, an accused in the March 17 communal violence in Nagpur, has claimed the civic body started demolition of a portion of their house despite the family having all sanctions and possessing documents for the building.Ayaz Sheikh claimed the house of his brother was built...
08:53
Dragged down by iron, steel, aluminium and copper, India's engineering goods exports declined from $9.94 billion in February last year to $9.08 billion the same month this year, down 8.62 per cent year-on year (Y-o-Y), according to the Engineering Export Promotion Council (EEPC) India.This marked...
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The appointments committee of the Cabinet approved Ajay Seth's appointment as finance secretary in the Union ministry of finance on Monday.Seth is currently the secretary in the department of economic affairs in the finance ministry and holds additional charge as revenue secretary.A 1987-batch...
08:27
The US is committed to advancing a 'productive and balanced' trade relationship with India, a spokesperson for its embassy in New Delhi said Monday, ahead of trade talks and the April 2 rollout of reciprocal tariffs, which American President Donald Trump suggested could have flexibility in...
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Stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra has said he will not apologise for his controversial comments about Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and criticised the vandalism of the venue in Mumbai where the comedy show was recorded. The 36-year-old comedian has kicked up a major political...
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A consultant psychiatrist on Monday claimed that the RG Kar hospital rape and murder victim was under acute mental stress for various reasons and had sought professional help from him around a month before her death on August 9 last year. Long duty hours, discrimination in allotment of...
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A Bengaluru-bound flight was cancelled after the aircraft suffered a bird hit at the international airport in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday morning. The incident occurred just before takeoff, with 179 passengers on board, airport sources said. IndiGo flight 6E 6629, operating from...
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Samajwadi Party MP Zia Ur Rehman Barq
The police will issue notice to Samajwadi Party MP Zia Ur Rehman Barq for questioning in the case of violence that took place in Sambhal in November last year, a senior police official said on Monday. Violence had erupted in Sambhal during a court-ordered survey at the Shahi Jama Masjid in...
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