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A village head in Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi has been arrested for allegedly staging his own murder in a bid to implicate a man who owed him money, officials said on Thursday. According to the police, Yatish Singh alias Kallu (37), the pradhan of Khaddipur Chainsingh village, had disappeared on...
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Afghan foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi is expected to visit India next week, in the first high-level trip from Kabul after Taliban captured power overthrowing the Ashraf Ghani government around four years ago. The Afghan foreign minister is expected to visit India from October 10, people...
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Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams chairman BR Naidu on Thursday said nearly six lakh devotees offered over Rs 25 crore as offerings during the 'Brahmotsavams' until October 1. Addressing a press conference at Tirumala Annamayya Bhavan, the chairman said these offerings were dropped by devotees...
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Nineteen electric scooters were gutted in a fire due to short circuit in a showroom at Yelachenahalli in Bengaluru on Thursday morning, police sources said. However, there was no loss to human life, they said. According to the police, the thick smoke and raging blaze was seen in the...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit India in December for an annual summit with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and preparations are at full swing, the Kremlin said on Thursday. Yes, we have finalised the timeframe for India visit of the President. It would take place before the...
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Five motorcyclists were killed in separate road accidents in Jharkhand, the police said. Two young men, who were travelling on a motorcycle, died after a vehicle hit them from behind on the Charhi-Ghato Road in the Charhi police station area in Hazaribagh district on Thursday afternoon, they...
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IndiGo on Thursday said it will resume flights from Kolkata to Guangzhou in China from October 26. Direct flights were operational between the two countries till early 2020, before getting suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. Indian and Chinese carriers had direct...
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Five prison guards were suspended on Thursday after six inmates escaped from the Dharmanagar sub-jail in North Tripura, according to an official order. Six inmates, including a convict facing a life term, escaped from the jail on Wednesday. A disciplinary proceeding against sub jailer...
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The Assam police slapped murder charge on Zubeen Garg's manager Siddharth Sharma and festival organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta in connection with the death of the singer in Singapore, a senior officer said on Thursday.The two were arrested from Delhi on Wednesday.Munna Prasad Gupta, the special DGP of...
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The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Gujarat on Thursday issued a notification for the election of its state president and national council members.Interested candidates should submit their nomination papers at the party's state headquarters in Gandhinagar before 2 pm on Friday, it said.While the...
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Punjabi singer Rajvir Jawanda/Image courtesy Instagram
Punjabi singer Rajvir Jawanda, who sustained serious injuries following his road accident last week, continues to remain critical, the hospital authorities said.Jawanda,35, was seriously injured in an accident in Himachal Pradesh's Solan district while going to Shimla on a motorcycle on September...
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A general council member of the Ladakh Buddhist Association (LBA) has committed suicide by hanging himself at his residence, its president Chering Dorjay Lakruk said on Thursday. Stenzin Dorjay, a resident of Skitmang village, some 100 km from Leh town, was a big fan of climate activist...
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A cross-border arms and narcotics smuggling network was busted in Amritsar with the arrest of five people and recovery of 1.50 kg heroin and 12 pistols, the police said on Thursday.Preliminary investigation revealed that out of five accused, Joban Singh and Jashanpreet Singh, were in direct touch...
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Two unidentified persons set ablaze an effigy of Ravana in Bagh Mugalia-Ashima Mall area of Bhopal on Thursday and fled, officials said. A video of the effigy going up in flames went viral on social media. In it, a person can be heard claiming that a man and woman, allegedly drunk, set...
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In a unique tradition, a temple in Kanpur's Shivala area dedicated to Ravan, the demon king from the Ramayan, opens its doors to devotees only once a year on Vijaya Dashami. Worshippers offer prayers at the temple from 6 am till 8:30 pm, just before effigies of Ravan are consigned to flames...
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Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said that cowardice' was at the heart of the ideology of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Bharatiya Janata Party. Citing External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's statement about China that he made in 2023, Gandhi said that RSS' ideology is to...
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The doors of Badrinath, one of the 'chardham' pilgrimages located in the upper Garhwal Himalayan region, will be closed for the winter season on November 25, temple officials said on Thursday.The priests determined the time for closing the doors of the temple located in Chamoli district after a...
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A student of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) here was found dead in his hostel room, after other students complained about a foul smell, the police said on Thursday.Dheeraj Saini (22) from Haryana, a final-year B.Tech student of electrical engineering, had not stepped out of his room no....
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Shelter, headlined by Jason Statham, is set to release in theatres on January 30, 2026.The upcoming action thriller is directed by Ric Roman Waugh, known for Greenland and is produced under the banners Black Bear, Punch Palace Pictures, CineMachine and Stampede Ventures.According to the...
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The Thane police registered a case against two persons, including a woman, for allegedly cheating a co-operative credit society of Rs 28.30 lakh by mortgaging imitation jewellery to secure loans over a three-month period in Bhiwandi town of Thane district, an official said on Thursday. The...
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Security was beefed up across four districts of Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly division, with police, PAC and RAF personnel out on the streets and drones in the air on Thursday in view of Dussehra, while the government has also ordered suspending internet services in Bareilly for 48 hours, officials...
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Eleven persons were rescued while one went missing on Thursday when their tractor-trolley carrying a goddess' idol for immersion fell off a small bridge on the Chambal river in Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh, a police official said. The incident took place near Ingoria, about 30 km from the...
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Unidentified people damaged the idols at an old Shiva temple located within the premises of a school in Saharanpur, Uttara Pradesh, police said on Thursday. The incident occurred late Wednesday night at the Shiva Lakshmi Junior High School in Chapar village, Nakud SHO Ashok Sisodia told...
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Malayalam superstars Mammootty and Mohanlal in a scene from 'Patriot' movie/ANI Photo
The much-awaited teaser of the film Patriot starring Malayalam superstars Mammootty and Mohanlal has been released.On Thursday, the makers dropped the Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi versions of the teaser, suggesting an intense narrative focused on two individuals who once controlled the...
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In a series of actions against the terrorist ecosystem, Handwara Police attached the property of an alleged terrorist handler at Palpora village in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday.During the course of investigation in the case registered at Police Station Kralgund, it was...
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A 20-year-old NEET aspirant from Delhi was found hanging in his PG room here, police said on Thursday. Lucky Choudhary, a native of Patna in Bihar, was found hanging on Wednesday from a ceiling fan in his PG located in Sector-2 under the Vigyan Nagar Police Station limits. The police...
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A recent report presented in the Kerala assembly has revealed that 1,157 schools across Kerala have buildings deemed unfit for holding classes, according to the local self government department,despite the state government highlighting its achievements in upgrading infrastructure in schools.Of...
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Security was beefed up in with the deployment of around 20,000 personnel from police and paramilitary on Thursday ahead of the visits of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Droupadi Murmu to Dussehra grounds, the police said on Thursday.Murmu will visit Madhavdas Park on the Red Fort...
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A magisterial inquiry ordered into the September 24 violence in Leh that left four people dead and scores injured would be completed within four weeks, officials said. The inquiry was ordered by the Leh deputy commissioner, who appointed sub-divisional magistrate Nubra Mukul Beniwal as...
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Singer-musician Zubeen Garg died due to drowning while swimming off a Singapore island and not while scuba diving as reported earlier, media reports said Thursday. Assam-based Garg, who was in Singapore for the 60th year of India Singapore Diplomatic Relations and to celebrate India ASEAN...
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South star Nayanthara shared the first look poster of her upcoming Tamil film Mookuthi Amman 2. Directed by Sundar C, the film is produced by Ishari K Ganesh alongside Khushbu Sundar, Kushmitha Ganesh, Ishan Saksena and Vignesh Shivan. The 40-year-old actor shared the post on her...
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Former Kerala police chief Jacob Thomas after joining RSS on Wednesday/ANI on X
Former Kerala police chief Jacob Thomas has joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a right wing volunteer organisation, as full time 'pracharak'. On the occasion of Mahanavami, on October 1, Thomas took part in an event of the organisation at Pallikkara here dressed in the traditional RSS...
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A demolition drive was carried out on an illegally constructed marriage hall in Sambhal's Rae Buzurg village on Thursday.KK Bishnoi, superintendent of police of Sambhal, stated that the administration carried out the demolition after no action was taken despite the 30-day deadline issued to the...
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A group of people allegedly assaulted a student from another community after he entered a Dandiya event with his friends at a hotel under Panjagutta police station limits in Hyderabad, the police said.When some people asked for his name, he revealed it, which led to the attack. The police...
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The residents of Leh City in Ladakh are enjoying the relaxation of the curfew on Thursday. The streets are crowded with vehicles and pedestrians after the shops opened, as part of the relaxation permitted by the administration.The markets will open from 10 am to 5 pm on Thursday, providing...
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Former President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday rued that good people are staying away from politics, and urged the youth to be a part of the country's political landscape. Addressing as the chief guest of the annual Vijayadashmi rally of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh at Reshimbagh ground in...
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The Manipur police rescued two persons who were abducted for ransom and arrested an accused involved in the crime from Thoubal district, an officer said on Thursday. The two abducted persons were rescued from a fish farm at Lilong Dolaithabi in Thoubal district on Wednesday. They were...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Mallikarjun Kharge and wished him a speedy recovery on Thursday, a day after the Congress president underwent a procedure for pacemaker implant. Kharge, 83, was admitted to M S Ramaiah Hospital in Bengaluru on Tuesday and underwent the procedure the next...
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On the RSS' 100th anniversary, the Congress on Thursday cited excerpts from a book to claim that Mahatma Gandhi described the Sangh as a communal body with a totalitarian outlook.In a post on X, Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said Pyarelal was one of Gandhi's...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid his tributes to Mahatma Gandhi on his birth anniversary, and said his government will follow his path for building a developed India. He said on X, Gandhi Jayanti is about paying homage to the extraordinary life of beloved Bapu, whose...
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Jane Goodall, the conservationist and primatologist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.Goodall died of natural causes while in California on a speaking tour, the Jane Goodall Institute said in a social media...
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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday said the positions taken by various countries after the Pahalgam terror attack showed the nature and extent of their friendship with India.He was speaking at the RSS's annual Vijayadashmi rally, which also marked the centenary of the...
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Former India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin went unsold at the ILT20 auction. Ashwin, the only player with a six-figure base price of USD 120,000, did not feature in the accelerated auction either but could still make the cut as a wildcard signing. Ashwin had registered...
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Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions dipped by 2 per cent in September to 19.63 billion against 20.01 billion in August.However, in terms of value, transactions were up by 0.2 per cent to Rs 24.9 trillion during the month as against Rs 24.85 trillion in August.In July, the volume was...
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A convoy of the Manipur Police came under attack by a mob at Longja village in Chandel district, officials said on Thursday. Windshields of a few police vehicles were damaged in the attack that took place late Wednesday night.One of those vehicles belonged to the additional superintendent of...
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Security forces found at least 10 firearms, ammunition and explosives during search operations in Churachandpur and Imphal West districts of Manipur, the police said on Thursday.The recoveries were made on Wednesday.An M-16 automatic rifle with magazine, two single barrel rifles, two 9 mm pistols...
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Tata Motors has restructured its Harrier and Safari portfolios, cutting the number of variants nearly by half and introducing new Adventure X trims at lower entry price points, to reduce complexity in the lineup and expand reach in the SUV segment.Harrier will now be available in six variants,...
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Airbus and Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) will set up Indias first private sector helicopter final assembly line (FAL) in Vemagal, Karnataka, to manufacture Airbus H125 helicopters, the companies announced on Wednesday.The project was first unveiled in January 2024, when Airbus and TASL...
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Renowned classical vocalist and Padma Vibhushan Pandit Chhannulal Mishra died early Thursday. He was 89. Family sources said Mishra breathed his last around 4 am after a prolonged illness. The vocalist had been living in Mirzapur with his youngest daughter's...
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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday performed 'Shastra Puja' on the occasion of the organisation's Vijayadashmi Utsav in Nagpur. Besides traditional arms, replicas of modern weapons, including Pinaka MK-1, Pinaka Enhance and Pinaka, and drones were on display during...
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From Tushar Gandhi & Feroze Mithiborwala at Sevagram Ashram, Wardha: 'It is with great sorrow that we inform you that Dr. G G Parikh passed away this morning, around 5.45 am. We have lost a great soul this day, the Saint of the Socialists has left us on the very day, 2 October of...
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Musician Zubeen Garg died last month after swimming in waters off Singapore island and not while scuba diving as per earlier media reports. The Singapore Police Force (SPF) said they have extended a copy of the autopsy report, along with its preliminary findings on Garg's death, to the High...
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Samajwadi Party Maharashtra unit president and MLA Abu Azmi on Wednesday courted controversy when he questioned the need to speak in Marathi while replying to media queries in Bhiwandi and sought to know what is the 'difference between Marathi and Hindi'.The row began when Azmi visited...
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Recovery of balloons allegedly bearing the Pakistani flag along with biscuit packets at a shop in neighbouring Rajasthan, an episode with links to Madhya Pradesh, has prompted an inquiry by police of both states.Police from both states questioned several traders at length on Wednesday to unravel...
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