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A first information report (FIR) for causing death by negligence and endangering life of others has been registered against unidentified persons in connection with the train accident in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur district in which 11 people were killed and 20 injured, an official said on...
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A two-year-old boy died after a 5-year-old got onto a parked e-rickshaw when its driver wasn't around and pressed the accelerator, triggering forward motion and mowing down the toddler in Delhi's Burari, police said on Wednesday.The tragic incident took place in Uttarakhand Colony on Tuesday,...
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The man who allegedly stalked and shot at a 17-year-old JEE aspirant in broad daylight in Faridabad was arrested on Wednesday, police said.Jitendra alias Jatin Mangla (30) allegedly confessed during interrogation that he fired shots at the victim in a fit of rage after she refused to talk with...
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A consumer court in Kota has issued notices to Bollywood actor Salman Khan and a pan masala company over claims that a 'misleading' campaign is being run to promote a product that is hazardous to public health.The complainant, advocate Inder Mohan Singh Honey, who is also a Bharatiya...
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The Election Commission of India declared that it will make available enumeration forms online for voters absent at their respective residences in West Bengal from Thursday morning for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, the house-to-house enumeration phase of which has begun...
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In one of the biggest crackdowns on the illegal trade of banned pharmaceutical substances in recent years, Ghaziabad Police and the crime branch seized over 15.7 lakh vials of prohibited cough syrup concealed inside four trucks parked at a warehouse along the Delhi-Meerut Road, officials said on...
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A couple engaged in a violent confrontation over marital discord, leading to the death of both, in Jharkhand's Deoghar district on Wednesday, police said. The deceased, identified as Ravi Sharma (30) and Lovely Sharma (24), were found dead inside their rented house in Belabagan area of...
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Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles has announced that it will gift each member of India's ICC Women's World Cup winning cricket team the first lot of its soon-to-be-launched Tata Sierra SUVs. 'The gesture celebrates the team's historic triumph and honours their resilience, determination, and...
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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan announced on Wednesday that the state will legally challenge the implementation of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.The decision was taken at an all-party meeting held online by the CM in Thiruvanthapuram.All parties except the...
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From M I Khan in PatnaNational Democratic Alliance candidate Jyoti Manjhi, the sitting MLA from Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) and an ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition, was injured during an election campaign in Bihar's Barachatti reserved assembly constituency.According to local...
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Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar reiterated his frustration over 'a cup of tea' in Afghanistan's capital of Kabul, which he claims to have proved costly for Pakistan, describing it as a 'big mistake' that 'should not be repeated', Tolo News reported.Speaking during...
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A 55-year-old Dalit man died after being allegedly pushed off the roof by a police personnel, during a raid in his house to nab his son in Shahjahanpur, officials said on Wednesday.A video recorded before his death has gone viral, in which the man, in an injured state, claims he was beaten and...
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The Maharashtra government on Wednesday announced partnership with billionaire Elon Musk's satellite communications venture in India to deploy a host of satellite-based internet services, becoming the first Indian state to formally tie-up with the US firm. The government signed a Letter of...
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Top Democrats, including former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, have hailed the electoral success of Zohran Mamdani and other party leaders, calling it a victory of forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter. Democrats dominated the first major election since...
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Zohran Mamdani with Rama Diwaji. Pic: Jeenah Moon/Reuters
The Dallas-raised, Dubai-educated Syrian-American -- who only moved to New York City four years ago -- could soon become the youngest-ever first lady for the Big Apple.The 28-year-old opted to stay out of the spotlight -- even as her husband's profile ballooned -- but is said to have been a...
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Congress general secretary Priyanka Vadra on Wednesday took the BJP-led NDA's dynasty politics charge head-on, asserting that detractors of her party were unable to appreciate the sacrifices made by our ancestors.Addressing a rally in Valmiki Nagar, a remote assembly segment in West Champaran...
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India is set to reduce its direct imports of Russian crude from late November, following new US sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil, effective November 21. Indian refiners accounting for more than half of the country's import of Russian crude oil, which is turned into fuels like petrol and...
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GitHub, the world's leading platform for agentic software development, projects that by 2030 India will have over 57.5 million developers, more than one in three of all projected global sign-ups, making it the largest developer community in the world in the next five years.The platform announced...
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Bajaj Finance posted 27 per cent Year-on-Year (Y-o-Y) growth in volume of consumer loans disbursed during the festival season, the lender told the exchanges on Tuesday. The value of loan growth was up 29 per cent compared to the same time last year. The company disbursed nearly 6.3...
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American entrepreneur and politician Vivek Ramaswamy on Wednesday issued a stern warning to the Republican Party following Democrats' sweeping victories in key races across the United States.Speaking on X, Ramaswamy described the results as a wake-up call, urging the party to refocus on economic...
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Adani Enterprises To Raise 25K CrAdani Enterprises Ltd (AEL), the flagship firm of the Adani group, plans to raise up to 25,000 crore through a partly paid-up rights issue -- one of the largest equity fundraising plans in India this year -- to bolster its balance sheet and catalyse the...
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Russian ambassador to India Denis Alipov has said that India continues to buy huge quantities of Russian feedstock, state media reported on Wednesday.In an interview to the Rossiya-24 TV channel, Alipov said as per estimates for the month of October 2025 that Russian feedstock purchases by India...
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A coalition of Sindhi civil-society groups and the Sindhudesh movement has raised urgent international concerns over alleged clandestine nuclear-related activity in remote mountainous areas of Pakistan's Sindh Province.In a formal letter to the United Nations Secretary-General, the International...
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The IPO of Lenskart Solutions, the country's largest eyewear retailer, drew an overwhelming response, being subscribed nearly 30 times and garnering bids worth over 1.13 trillion. The qualified institutional buyer (QIB) category was subscribed more than 40 times (x), the high net-worth...
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In a landmark victory, 34-year-old Democrat Zohran Mamdani celebrated his win in the fiercely contested New York City mayoral election with a rousing speech in Brooklyn.Mamdani, who will become the city's youngest mayor in over five decades, addressed the crowd on a message of hope in a time of...
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Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that 1 in 8 voters in Haryana are fake, claiming large-scale voter fraud and pointing to unexplained differences between postal and booth votes.Just a day before the first phase of Bihar polls, he said his team has clear proof that around 25 lakh...
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Rahul Gandhi's vote manipulation allegation is unfounded, and no appeals were filed against the electoral rolls in Haryana, an Election Commission source said on Wednesday. Why were no claims and objections raised by INC's BLAs during revision to avoid multiple names? the source said....
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Shekar Krishnan, who is a NYC council member and a representative of Elmhurst and Jackson Heights, shares this image as Zohran Mamdani took home a resounding win as NYC mayor. Just over 4 years ago, @ZohranKMamdani and I were arrested for civil disobedience -- fighting for debt relief for taxi...
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani. Pic: Jeenah Moon/Reuters
Voters up and down the East Coast delivered Democrats a sweep on Tuesday, electing candidates across the party's ideological spectrum in a vivid show of discontent with President Donald Trump nearly a year into his second term.In Virginia, moderate former Rep. Abigail...
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Six women were run over by an incoming train on Wednesday while they were alighting from the wrong side at Chunar Railway Station, a railway official said. The incident took place at about 9.30 am when the passengers got off the Chopan Express on the track and were hit by the approaching...
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Mamdani with his mom, Mira Nair. Pic: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
Zohran Mamdani, 34, made history by becoming the first-ever Muslim mayor of New York City and the youngest person to win the mayoral election in a century. The Democratic socialist defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa on the strength of his progressive agenda,...
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The death toll in the collision of a passenger train with a goods train near Bilaspur railway station in Chhattisgarh has gone up to 11, officials said on Wednesday. Rescue personnel had to toil for hours, cutting through the mangled coach of the passenger train, as several bodies were badly...
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Air India ferried 228 passengers who were stranded in the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar to Delhi on Wednesday morning. The passengers were stranded in the Mongolian capital after their San Francisco-Delhi flight was diverted to the Mongolian capital on Monday due to a technical issue. An...
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India needs to find vocations that will be least impacted by artificial intelligence and make it 'fashionable' for students to adopt them, in a bid to combat the disruptive impact of AI on job creation, Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran said on Tuesday. India needs to...
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The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on Tuesday set aside the Competition Commission of India's (CCI's) direction debarring Meta and WhatsApp from sharing user data with other Meta group entities for advertising purposes for five years.The tribunal, however, retained the penalty of...
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Zohran Mamdani celebrates with his wife Rama Duwaji. Pic: Jeenah Moon/Reuters
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani challenged US President Donald Trump, who has launched a crackdown on immigration, asserting that New York will be powered by immigrants and after his historic victory, will be led by an immigrant.To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of...
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Supporters cheer Mamdani. Pic: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
US President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to express his views on the election losses suffered by the Republican Party. In a post, Trump attributed the losses to two main factors: his absence from the ballot and the government shutdown. According to Trump, pollsters agree that these two...
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Zohran Mamdani kisses his mother Mira Nair as his wife Rama Duwaji stands by. Pic: Jeenah Moon/Reuters
Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani celebrated his victory in the New York City mayoral elections on Wednesday by invoking Jawaharlal Nehru's iconic 1947 speech, 'Tryst with Destiny'. Speaking to his supporters after being projected as the winner, Mamdani cited Nehru's words from the speech...
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Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani has won the New York City mayoral race, becoming the city's first Muslim mayor. With his projected win, Mamdani said voters had delivered a series of mandates, CNN reported.New York, tonight you have delivered a mandate for change, a mandate for a new kind of...
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In other news: The elder brother of a JD(U) leader and his wife and daughter were found dead in their residence in Bihar's Purnea district, police said on Wednesday. The bodies were recovered from their house in the European colony under the Kehat Police Station limits on Tuesday night, a senior...
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Future is in our hands; we have toppled a political dynasty, Zohran Mamdani tells a roaring crowd which welcomed him chanting, 'Zohran, Zohran!'The New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said he had four words for President Donald Trump: 'Turn the volume up.'During his victory speech, Mamdani...
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The New Yorker's upcoming cover features Mamdani
Former US President Barack Obama on Tuesday congratulated Democratic candidates on their victories, calling the results a reflection of unity and strong, forward-looking leadership.Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It's a reminder that when we come together around...
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Andrew Cuomo, who lost the mayoral race to Zohran Mamdani, promised to unite behind Mamdani. He told his supporters, even as he conceded the mayoral elections, not to boo. Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani, Cuomo said, as he stopped a chorus of boos from the crowd. That's not right, that's not...
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Indian-descent Zohran Mamdani, who made history has NYC's first Muslim mayor, is the son of renowned filmmaker Mira Nair and Columbia University professor Mahmood Mamdani. He was born and raised in Kampala, Uganda and moved to New York City with his family when he was 7. Mamdani became a...
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Two men were killed and as many were seriously injured after a speeding car hit the motorcycle they were riding from behind on National Highway 19 in Uttar Pradesh's Bhadohi, police said on Wednesday. Superintendent of Police Abhimanyu Manglik said the accident occurred around...
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After winning the closely-watched battle for New York City Mayor, Zohran Mamdani took to social media and announced his 'arrival'.Mamdani posted a video where a train stops at the City Hall station, with a subway announcement saying, The next and the last stop is City Hall.The mayor's office is...
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US President Donald Trump feels very positive and strongly about the future of India-US relationship, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has said. I think he feels very positive and strongly about it. As you know, he recently, a few weeks back, spoke to Prime Minister (Narendra...
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BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani scripted history as he emerged victorious in the closely-watched battle for New York City Mayor, becoming the first South Asian and Muslim to be elected to sit at the helm of the largest city in the US. Mamdani won the NYC Mayoral election, getting 948,202 votes...
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The high-voltage campaign for the first phase of the Bihar assembly elections, covering 121 constituencies, ended on Tuesday evening, after weeks of acrimonious exchanges, personal attacks, and divisive rhetoric.Electioneering began in earnest a couple of weeks after the polls for the 243-member...
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