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A 55-year-old salesman of a shoe showroom was allegedly beaten to death by his co-worker here, police said on Monday. Kewal Kishan Bhatia, a resident of NIT-2, and Prashant, a resident of Nangla Part-2, worked as salesmen at a shoe showroom located in Faridabad's NIT-1 market, they...
23:38
Russian President Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that US President Donald Trump would severely damage relations between Washington and Moscow if he approved the delivery of long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, RT reported.Late last month, US Vice President JD Vance said the White House was...
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In an airstrike carried out earlier on Monday in the Nabatieh region of Lebanon, the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) eliminated the terrorist Hassan Ali Jamil Atwi, who was described as a key terrorist in Hezbollah's air defence system.Atwi led the reconstruction and resupply efforts of Hezbollah's...
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Two multi-party delegations of parliamentarians headed by BJP MPs P P Chaudhary and Daggubati Purandeswari will be representing India at the 80th United Nations General Assembly in New York.The first group, headed by Chaudhary, will be in New York between October 8 and October 14, while the other...
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The Delhi government, respecting the sentiments of people, will move the Supreme Court seeking permission for the use of certified green firecrackers on Diwali, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta announced on Monday. The government is committed to balancing tradition and environmental protection,...
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After the death of 14 children in neighbouring Madhya Pradesh allegedly linked to the consumption of a toxic cough syrup, the Chhattisgarh health department has put its officials and doctors on high alert to ensure strict compliance with the advisory on the use of medicines for children....
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Baba Siddique
A special court in Mumbai on Monday refused bail to two accused in the Baba Siddique murder case. The bail pleas of Kisan Pardhi and Anurag Kashyap were rejected by special MCOCA judge Mahesh Jadhav, said special public prosecutor Mahesh Mule. The detailed order has not been made available...
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The Odisha government on Monday extended the suspension of internet services in Cuttack till 7 PM of October 7, as tension prevails in the city following back to back violent incidents during the Durga idol immersion last week. The Cuttack district administration has expressed concern over...
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Gold prices skyrocketed by Rs 2,700 to scale a fresh peak of Rs 1,23,300 per 10 grams in the national capital on Monday, lifted by safe-haven buying in the overseas markets.According to the All India Sarafa Association, the yellow metal of 99.9 percent purity had closed at Rs 1,20,600 per 10...
21:28
Lt Gen Asim Malik
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence director general Lt Gen Asim Malik will continue to serve in his position as the chief of the powerful spy agency, a media report said on Monday. Lt Gen Asim Malik is continuing his services in his present appointment, The Express Tribune newspaper...
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Horses will be used by police for patrolling in 250 polling booths in Bihar's Diara region while polling parties will travel through boats to around 197 stations, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said on Monday. Addressing a press conference to announce the schedule of the Bihar...
20:51
Chief Justice of India B R Gavai
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday spoke to Chief Justice of India B R Gavai to convey his condemnation of a lawyer's attempt to hurl a shoe at him, and said the attack has angered every Indian. There is no place for such reprehensible acts in our society, he said and praised Gavai for...
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In a major relief for voters, the Election Commission would set up mobile phone deposit counters at polling stations for the upcoming Bihar assembly polls, CEC Gyanesh Kumar announced on Monday. Several voters who go to exercise their franchise take their phones inside polling booths by...
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The CBI has registered an FIR against a Delhi resident for allegedly seeking favours from various institutions, including the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam, by posing as an official of the Prime Minister's Office, officials said on Monday. The Central Bureau of Investigation registered the...
20:16
Actor Vijay Deverakonda's car met with a minor accident in Jogulamba Gadwal district of Telangana on Monday, the police said, adding that he was unharmed. The incident occurred while he was returning to Hyderabad from Puttaparthi in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, when another four-wheeler...
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SpiceJet on Monday said it will start special daily non-stop flights to Ayodhya from Delhi, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad. These Diwali flights will commence in a phased manner from October 8, it said in a release. Flights from Mumbai are also under consideration to further enhance...
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Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Monday asserted that CCTV footage of polling stations can only be shared with high courts, saying giving such electronic records to the public breaches the privacy of voters. He said webcasting footage of voting is akin to Form 17A, which...
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Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Monday said the attack on Chief Justice of India B R Gavai was not just an attack on him but on the Constitution. No words are adequate to condemn the attack on the Honourable Chief Justice of India in the Supreme Court itself....
19:33
United States President Donald Trump took credit for warning about Osama bin Laden a year before the al-Qaeda leader perpetrated the 9/11 attacks, as he lauded US Navy Seals for putting a bullet in his head and dumping his corpse into the dark abyss.History will never forget that it was the SEALs...
19:28
The National Human Rights Commission has issued notices to Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh governments, directing them to probe allegations of children's deaths due to contaminated cough syrup and immediately ban the sale of spurious medicines. It has also directed the Drugs...
18:43
A 40-year-old Dalit man was allegedly lynched by villagers who mistook him for a thief during a night vigil amid rumours that a gang was using drones for surveillance to mark houses for robberies, police said on Monday. Five persons have been arrested in the case and three police...
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The initial public offer of non-banking financial company Tata Capital Ltd received 39 per cent subscription on the first day of bidding on Monday. The IPO got bids for 12,86,08,916 shares against 33,34,36,996 shares on offer, according to details available with the NSE. The quota for...
18:14
The voting for assembly bypolls in eight constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir, Odisha, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Punjab, Telangana and Rajasthan will be held on November 11, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar announced on Monday. The counting of votes will be done on November...
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Auto maker Mahindra on Monday launched a new range of its popular SUV Bolero, featuring refreshed styling and advanced features. The updated Bolero lineup includes the top-end variants, Bolero B8 and Bolero Neo N11, which are designed to offer a more premium and contemporary SUV...
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Over 7.4 crore people are eligible to vote in the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections including 14 lakh first-time voters, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar announced on Monday. The CEC asserted that the Bihar elections will be conducted in a transparent and peaceful...
17:26
Flight operations were temporarily suspended at the Imphal airport in Manipur on Monday afternoon after a drone was sighted, raising security concerns, officials said.An IndiGo flight from Agartala to Imphal reported the drone around 2 pm on its final approach path from the city side, at an...
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Four Indian nationals were killed in a road accident in southern Italy's Matera city, according to the Indian embassy in Rome. The victims were in a seven-seater Renault Scenic with six other people, which collided with a truck in the municipality of Scanzano Jonico in Matera city on the...
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Stock markets rallied for the third consecutive day on Monday, with benchmark Sensex climbing 583 points and the Nifty reclaiming the 25,000-level following value buying in IT and financial shares. The 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 582.95 points or 0.72 per cent to settle at 81,790.12. During...
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Bihar deputy CM Vijay Kumar Sinha says, Bihar election will be the mother of elections. It will set an example for the country. These elections will be a testament to the strength of democracy. This is the examination of mother of democracy and it will send a new message to the country.
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The Bihar Election will take place in two phases on 6th and 11th November. Counting to take place on 14th November. Assembly bypolls will also take place in J-K, Odisha, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Punjab, Telangana and Rajasthan on Nov 11. while results will be on the same day as Bihar -- Nov...
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A 59-year-old Border Security Force inspector died while thwarting a cattle smuggling bid along the international border with Bangladesh in West Bengal. A Court of Inquiry (CoI) has been ordered into the incident which occurred around midnight on October 4 near the Agra border outpost (BOP)...
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday said that barring one, seven others present with singer Zubeen Garg during his last moments in Singapore were yet to respond to CID summons. Sarma said that Rupkamal Kalita, who was present on the yacht when Garg died while swimming in the sea on...
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The Kerala Health Department on Monday ordered that no medicines should be given to children under 12 without a doctor's prescription, a move taken in the wake of concerns over certain cough syrups. The state has also set up a three-member expert panel to study the use of cough medicines in...
15:09
Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi get Nobel in medicine for their discoveries on peripheral immune tolerance.
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CJI Gavai
Congress MP Manickam Tagore on Monday called the attempt to attack the Chief Justice of India (CJI) a result of RSS hate, weakening respect for institutions. Sharing an X post, Tagore lauded the CJI BR Gavai for remaining calm and unshaken. He wrote, Shocking scenes in the Supreme Court...
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Makkal Needhi Maiam chief Kamal Haasan is set to visit the scene of stampede at a TVK rally in Karur soon and is expected to meet the families of victims. Forty one persons were killed and over 50 were injured in the September 27 stampede at the rally addressed by top actor Vijay, the chief of...
14:17
France's Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has resigned, less than a day after his cabinet was unveiled. The Elyse palace made the announcement after Lecornu met President Emmanuel Macron for an hour on Monday morning.The shock move comes only 26 days Lecornu was appointed prime minister following...
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The Maharashtra FDA on Monday appealed to the people to immediately stop the sale or use of a specific batch of Coldrif syrup, following child deaths in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan allegedly linked to the medicine.Earlier, the Tamil Nadu drug control authorities, in their report of October 2,...
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From Acropolis to South City and Flurys to Oudh -- malls, restaurants and cafes recorded double-digit growth during Durga Puja 2025. Read more here.
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CJI Gavai
Update: A lawyer allegedly tried to hurl a shoe towards Chief Justice of India BR Gavai during proceedings in the Supreme Court on Monday, according to lawyers. The incident occurred when a Bench led by the CJI was hearing the mentioning of cases by lawyers.The lawyer approached the dais,...
12:55
Trump has warned Hamas of complete obliteration
Hamas on Sunday strongly rejected claims that it had agreed to disarm under Trump's proposed Gaza peace deal. The group said such claims were false and politically motivated to weaken its position in the region. Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi dismissed the reports on October 5,...
12:26
More than 220 advertisers used 108,000 column centimetres across over 400 Indian newspapers to wish Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his 75th birthday on September 17.The SRM Group and JK Tyre were among the top advertisers. Add political and social ads wishing him and the total comes to 363,000...
12:20
Licious, the online meat and seafood retailer, has expanded 30-minute delivery to serve 60 per cent of its 1.2 million customers as it aims to capitalise on India's $55 billion protein market, said sources.In seven cities, more than half of Licious's consumers already avail of the service called...
12:18
Genomic testing, once considered an expensive and niche service, is rapidly becoming more affordable and accessible across India, with prices of routine tests falling by 30 to 40 per cent in the past few years. Prices of routine tests such as BRCA1/2 for cancer risk assessment and...
11:55
The central government is not in favour of allowing public sector banks (PSBs) to appoint their own independent directors, said a senior official, arguing that retaining control is essential to ensure consistent oversight and to effectively implement financial inclusion schemes.During the PSB...
11:53
The office of the Medical Superintendent of the Sawai Man Singh Hospital, Jaipur, confirmed that the fire at the Neurosurgery ICU of Trauma and Orthopaedic Institute, which claimed six lives, was caused by a short circuit. According to the press note by the SMS Hospital, on the night of...
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Hundreds of trekkers stranded by a blizzard near the eastern face of Mount Everest in Tibet had been guided to safety by rescuers, Chinese state media reported on Sunday, as unusually heavy snow and rainfall pummeled the Himalayas.As of Sunday, 350 trekkers had reached the small...
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She was an icon, a path-breaker, says Dr Saket Badola, Director, Corbett Tiger Reserve, as he remembers his meeting with Dr Jane Goodall, the legendary conservationist and renowned chimpanzee expert who passed into the ages this week. In conversation with Archana Masih/Rediff.Read it...
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Kapil Sibal and his team is handling the case pro bono
Supreme Court issues notice to Centre, Union Territory of Ladakh, Superintendent of Police Jodhpur Central jail on a plea of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk's wife, Gitanjali Angmo, against his detention under the National Security Act (NSA) and seeking his release. The court posts the...
10:49
The Nifty Realty has been one of the weakest sectoral performers over the past year. While the benchmark Nifty 50 slipped 6 per cent, the real estate index fell 22 per cent during the same period.Godrej Properties led the decline, losing 40 per cent of its value, followed by Brigade Enterprises,...
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Arun Sigchi, an Executive Member of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration, Darjeeling and Kalimpong, on Monday confirmed 11 dead and at least 9 injured in Mirik, out of the 18 casualties after a massive landslide in West Bengal's Darjeeling. Speaking to ANI, Arun Sigchi demanded that...
09:58
The Election Commission will announce the schedule for the Bihar legislative assembly polls on Monday. The poll authority has convened a press conference at 4 pm. The term of the 243-member state assembly ends on November 22. Political parties have urged the EC to hold the polls...
09:56
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal will begin his two-day visit to Qatar on Monday, during which he will hold discussions on a proposed comprehensive trade deal between India and the West Asian nation, including steps to finalise the framework of the deal, the commerce department said on...
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Six critical patients were killed in a blaze at the trauma centre of the state-run Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Hospital in Jaipur late Sunday, officials said. Trauma centre in-charge Dr Anurag Dhakad said 11 patients were being treated in the Neuro ICU when the fire erupted in the storage area,...
09:29
History will never forget that it were the US Navy Seals that stormed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's compound and put a bullet in his head, US President Donald Trump said. Trump also repeated his claim that a year before Al Qaeda terrorists attacked the World Trade Centre twin towers in...
09:24
Ballot boxes have closed across Syria after the counting continued late into Sunday evening, as the country conducted its first parliamentary elections since the fall of the Assad regime, CNN reported. According to CNN, election spokesman Nawar Najmeh told Syrian state TV al-Ikhbariya that...
09:17
A year ago, Indian equities scaled lifetime highs, with the Nifty reaching 26,277 and the Sensex approaching 86,000. Since then, both indices have remained more than 6 per cent below those peaks.The total market capitalisation (mcap) of BSE-listed companies now stands at 450.6 trillion, down from...
09:15
India and Australia are set to further strengthen defence and security cooperation in information sharing, maritime domain, and joint activities, with three agreements expected to be signed during Defence Minister Rajnath Singh's two-day official visit to the country beginning Thursday.Singh's...
09:04
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has asked airlines to add flights across key routes to prevent a spike in airfares during the festival season.In a statement issued on Sunday evening, the ministry of civil aviation said, 'DGCA is mandated by the ministry to keep a watch on...
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The Madhya Pradesh police have formed a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the death of 14 children in Chhindwara due to suspected renal failure, linked to the consumption of a toxic cough syrup, officials said. Dr Praveen Soni from Chhindwara has been arrested for alleged negligence...
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Rescue efforts were underway on Sunday in the remote Tibetan slopes of Mount Everest where a blizzard has trapped nearly 1,000 people in campsites on the eastern side of the world's tallest mountain.Hundreds of local villagers and rescue teams have been deployed to clear out snow blocking access...
08:26
Six critical patients were killed in a fire at the trauma centre of the state-run Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Hospital in Jaipur late Sunday night, officials stated.Trauma centre in-charge Dr Anurag Dhakad said that 11 patients were being treated in the Neuro ICU when the fire erupted in the storage...
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