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A 25-year-old man died after being pushed off an express train allegedly by a fellow passenger near Karjat railway station in Maharashtra's Raigad district early on Tuesday, officials said. The incident took place around 4.23 am when Mangesh Ramdas Dasore (40), a resident of Akola, allegedly...
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Union minister and Janata Dal-Secular state president HD Kumaraswamy on Tuesday watched Kannada movie 'Kantara: A Legend Chapter 1' at a theatre in Delhi's Nehru Place, his first theatre outing in seven years.Kumaraswamy, who was accompanied by his wife Anitha Kumaraswamy, Kannada journalists and...
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The Kerala government on Tuesday banned the distribution of medicines manufactured by Tamil Nadu-based Sresan Pharmaceuticals. The decision follows steps by the Tamil Nadu Drugs Controller to cancel the company's licence, state health minister Veena George said.Sales of Respifresh TR,...
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A senior functionary of the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist surrendered before police in Warangal district of Telangana on Tuesday. Manda Ruben alias Kannanna (67), who served as Division Committee Secretary of the South Bastar Division and was a member of the Dandakaranya Special...
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The Allahabad high court has dismissed a PIL seeking a direction to the Union government for bringing in a law to protect men from persecution and harassment by their estranged wives.The PIL cited several news reports on the plight of men across the country and claimed that the existing laws were...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday expressed grief over the loss of lives in a landslide in Himachal Pradesh's Bilaspur district. He also announced an ex-gratia relief of Rs 1 lakh from the PM National Relief Fund to the next of kin of each deceased and Rs 50,000 to those...
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Rescue operation underway at the accident site in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh./ANI Photo
At least 18 passengers were killed while three were rescued as a private bus they were travelling in was struck by a massive landslide in Himachal Pradesh's Bilaspur district on Tuesday evening, officials said. The accident took place in Bhalughat area in Jhandutta assembly segment around...
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The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday said it recently conducted searches as part of a money laundering investigation into an alleged Rs 30 crore fraud in the marriage assistance scheme of the Madhya Pradesh government.The raids were undertaken on October 3 at seven locations in Bhopal, Vidisha,...
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As many as 15 flights were diverted at the Delhi airport on Tuesday due to heavy rain in the national capital, according to an official.Heavy rain lashed several parts of the national capital on Tuesday afternoon. The India meteorological department has issued yellow and orange alerts for...
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Top honchos of the Tata group, including Tata Trusts chairman Noel Tata and Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran, on Tuesday met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman amid infighting among trustees over board appointments and governance issues.Noel Tata and...
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A two-and-a-half-year-old girl allegedly kidnapped from Sohna has been rescued from Faridabad, police said on Tuesday, adding that the accused is still on the run. The incident occurred in the Bhim Bagh area of Sohna on Sunday night, where a gardener, Shiv Murthy alias Sandeep, and his wife...
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The Travancore Devaswom Board, which manages the Sabarimala Lord Ayyappa temple, on Tuesday suspended a senior official in connection with the alleged irregularities in gold plating of the temple's 'Dwarapalaka' idols. B Murari Babu, currently serving as the Deputy Devaswom Commissioner...
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Security has been beefed up in Mumbai and neighbouring Navi Mumbai ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to inaugurate the Navi Mumbai International Airport on Wednesday, police officials said. The prime minister will inaugurate phase one of the airport and final phase of Mumbai...
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A 57-year-old woman went missing after a crocodile dragged her into the Kharasrota river in Odisha's Jajpur district, the police said on Tuesday. The incident occurred at Kantia village under the Binjharpur Police Station limits when the woman, identified as Soudamini Mahala, was bathing in...
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The rupee fell 4 paise to close at 88.78 (provisional) against the US dollar on Tuesday, weighed down by a strong American currency overseas and unabated foreign capital outflows. The domestic currency traded in a tight range as investors preferred to remain on the sidelines amid...
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notices to the social media platform 'X' and the BJP's Assam unit on a plea seeking the removal of an AI-generated, controversial video posted by it that portrays a Muslim takeover of the state if the party loses the assembly polls next year. A bench of...
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Suspected bird strike on Tuesday caused an impact on the engine blade of an Air India flight being operated between Chennai and Colombo and work is on to ascertain the exact cause of the damage, officials said. The crew of the Air India flight bound to Colombo from Chennai reported a...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday greeted Russian President Vladimir Putin on his 73rd birthday and conveyed his best wishes. During a phone conversation, the two leaders reaffirmed their commitment to further strengthen the longstanding India-Russia partnership, according to...
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Malayalam superstar Mohanlal is given a commendation by Army Chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi in New Delhi./Courtesy Mohanlal on X
Malayalam superstar Mohanlal, who was recently conferred the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, was on Tuesday given a commendation by Indian Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi in New Delhi. Mohanlal, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Territorial Army, said it was an honour to receive the commendation from...
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In a bizarre twist to a kidnapping case, a Mumbai-based builder abducted from his home was traced to a rehabilitation centre in neighbouring Palghar district, where he was sent on the orders of his first wife, the police said on Tuesday. As per a complaint lodged with the Versova police,...
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Telugu actor Vijay Deverakonda has assured his fans and followers that he is all fine, a day after his car met with a minor accident in Jogulamba Gadwal district of Telangana. Deverakonda, known for his roles in Arjun Reddy and Dear Comrade, shared a note on his Instagram story on...
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Former prime minister HD Deve Gowda was hospitalised on Tuesday following a fever, sources close to him said. According to the sources, the 92-year-old Janata Dal-Secular supremo was admitted to a private hospital after developing a fever. Most likely, he will be discharged tomorrow,...
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Superstar Akshay Kumar on Tuesday urged Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to transform the Film City, the iconic place in Mumbai that has been a hub for Bollywood film and television production. Kumar was in a free-wheeling conversation with Fadnavis at the 25th edition of FICCI...
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All that glitters is gold
Gold price jumped Rs 700 to hit a record high of Rs 1,24,000 per 10 grams in the national capital on Tuesday as investors weighed the risk of an ongoing US government shutdown and growing bets of additional rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. According to the All India Sarafa Association, the...
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A 17-year-old engineering student committed suicide on the campus of his college in Nashik after venting his frustration with life on social media, police said on Tuesday. The deceased, identified as Ayush Chavan, was a student at an engineering college in Gangapur Road area of the city. At...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday visited BJP MP Khagen Murmu at a private hospital in Siliguri, where he was undergoing treatment after being assaulted in Nagarkata during a visit to the flood and landslide-affected areas in the northern part of the state a day ago.The CM's...
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Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty advanced for the fourth consecutive day on Tuesday, helped by a rally in blue-chip bank stocks and buying by domestic institutional investors. The 30-share BSE Sensex rose by 136.63 points or 0.17 per cent to settle at 81,926.75 after a see-saw...
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The Maharashtra government on Tuesday announced a compensation package of Rs 31,628 crore for farmers who suffered massive losses due to the recent rains and floods. The government will provide Rs 47,000 in cash and Rs 3 lakh in the form of aid under the Employment Guarantee Scheme per every...
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said that she has seen several deepfake videos of herself, and called for strengthening defences to maintain people's trust. Speaking at the annual Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai, Sitharaman said artificial intelligence is transforming...
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Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu on Tuesday said there is no manipulation or dirty business happening in the investigation into the Air India plane crash that killed 260 people on June 12. His assertion comes against the backdrop of concerns expressed in certain quarters about the...
15:36
The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 goes to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit. The prize will be given out at a ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of prize...
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The Supreme Court asks the Election Commission to provide it with details of the 3.66 lakh voters excluded from the final electoral roll prepared under the Bihar SIR exercise.Most of the names added in final electoral roll in SIR are of new voters, few old voters, the Election Commission tells...
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After the Centre allotted Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal a Type-VII bungalow in the capital, the party confirmed that the former Delhi chief minister will stay at the 95, Lodhi Estate accommodation, which was allocated to him after the Delhi High Court rapped the Centre on the...
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday deferred till November its hearing on the suo-motu case in the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. On January 20, a Kolkata trial court awarded convict Sanjay Roy life term imprisonment till death in...
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Actor Shilpa Shetty has told the Mumbai police that she did not look into the affairs of the company she co-founded with her husband Raj Kundra, during her questioning in connection with the Rs 60 crore cheating case, an official said on Tuesday.A team from the police's Economic Offences Wing...
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Khagen Murmu gets a visitor in hospital
The Lok Sabha Secretariat on Tuesday wrote to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) requesting them to get a 'factual note' from the West Bengal government regarding the recent alleged attack on Bharatiya Janata Party MP Khagen Murmu. Murmu was reportedly attacked by some local persons while he...
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Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal on Tuesday condemned the shoe-hurling attempt on Chief Justice of India (CJI), BR Gavai, in the Supreme Court and appreciated CJI for showing restraint.Speaking with reporters, Arjun Ram Meghwal said, This is condemnable. No Indian can support this. The court...
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A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking inquiry and systemic reform in drug safety mechanisms in the wake of deaths of children in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan allegedly due to consumption of toxic cough syrups. The PIL, filed by advocate Vishal Tiwari, seeks a court-monitored...
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Streaming platform Amazon Prime Video has taken down their James Bond artwork after online criticism from fans who noticed the beloved agent's gun had been airbrushed out of every still. Prime Video UK released posters on its website last week, which featured 007 agent without any guns. In...
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Following the devastating fire at the trauma centre of Jaipur's Sawai Man Singh Hospital that claimed six lives, an official, who has been since been removed as in-charge of the unit, alleged that he had warned higher authorities about poor maintenance and construction work that had made the...
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The Congress' Central Election Committee will meet on Wednesday to decide its candidates for the assembly polls in Bihar next month, sources said. The party's top leadership's deliberations come even as seat sharing talks with its allies RJD and Left parties are on. The Congress is not...
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Khagen Murmu being wheeled to a hospital. Pic: Facebook
BJP MP Khagen Murmu may require a surgical intervention to treat the serious facial injuries, including a fractured bone below his eye, a senior official of the hospital where he is undergoing treatment said on Tuesday.The health condition of Murmu, who is still in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)...
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British lender NatWest is likely to hire professionals in India who will be part of its fledgling small language model team which will work on some specific areas such as financial crimes and biometrics.The bank has just hired a clutch of people to work on its language models from Meta.It has...
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Hyderabad-based GVK Group scion Keshav Reddy is betting big on an AI-powered future with his startup Equal, which aims to touch one million daily active users (DAU) by mid-2026 on its new call assistant platform Equal AI.The AI-powered call assistant will go a step further than just identifying...
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Passenger vehicle retail sales shot up 35 per cent year-on-year during the nine-day Navratri period this year, helping the overall registrations last month grow 6 per cent, as offtakes remained muted in the first 21 days of the month and only took off after the roll-out of new GST rates on...
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A 14-year-old girl from Maharashtra's Palghar district has alleged that she was forcibly married to a man, sexually assaulted and made to undergo an abortion, police said on Tuesday. Based on her complaint, a case has been registered against the man and five other persons from Jalgaon...
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Ahead of the Bihar assembly elections, popular folk singer Maithili Thakur on Tuesday indicated her willingness to make her political debut from her hometown Benipatti in Madhubani district. Thakur recently met with BJP national general secretary and Bihar organisation in-charge Vinod Tawde...
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Lawyer Rakesh Kishore, who attempted to hurl a shoe at Chief Justice of India (CJI) BR Gavai on Monday, said that he does not regret his action. Speaking to ANI on Tuesday, Rakesh Kishore said that he was hurt by the CJI's remarks while dismissing a plea seeking restoration of the structure of...
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In a strong retort against Pakistan in the UN Security Council, India on Monday said its neighbour as a country that bombs its own people and conducts systematic genocide. During his remarks to the UNSC open debate on Women, Peace and Security, India's Permanent Representative to the UN...
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The woman who was in labour said the doctor refused to deliver baby
A controversy erupted in Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur after a Muslim woman alleged that a doctor at the district hospital refused to treat her on religious grounds, an accusation denied by hospital authorities, officials said.According to Chief Medical Superintendent (CMS) Dr Mahendra Gupta, the...
09:56
Debt-laden private telecom service provider Vi continued to lose customers, with more than 300,000 subscribers logging out of its network in August, according to subscriber data from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai).On the other hand, market leaders Reliance Jio Infocomm and...
09:53
The Indian pharmaceutical market (IPM) posted steady growth in September, with total sales reaching Rs 20,886 crore, marking a 7.3 per cent increase compared with the same month last year, according to data released by Pharmarack.Therapies such as antidiabetic, cardiac, and respiratory segments...
09:44
Gross non-performing assets (NPAs) of banks are likely to have bottomed out and expected to remain in the 2.3 to 2.5 per cent range by March 31, 2026, rating agency Crisil said. Bad loans had reached a historic low of 2.3 per cent as of March 31, 2025.Asset quality of corporate credit,...
09:43
India's primary market is on track to cross the Rs 1 trillion fundraising milestone this year. The strong pipeline sets the stage for this year's tally to challenge the record Rs 1.6 trillion raised in 2024 through IPOs. This will be only the third time -- the first two being 2021 and 2024 --...
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Reena Roy in the film, Nagin
A man has approached the Sitapur district magistrate with an unusual complaint claiming he can't sleep at night out of fear as his wife turns into a nagin. The complainant, Meraj from Lodhasa village in Mahmudabad tehsil, narrated his ordeal before District Magistrate Abhishek Anand during...
09:35
US President Donald Trump has announced a 25% tariff on medium and heavy-duty trucks imported into the United States, effective November 1, 2025. The information was shared by Trump on his social media platform, Truth Social, as part of his continued push to strengthen American...
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Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty faced questioning by the Mumbai Police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) in connection with an alleged case of cheating a businessman of Rs 60 crore. According to EOW, the actor was questioned for about four and a half hours by the officials. However, details...
08:59
United States President Donald Trump has denied that he recently told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop being so 'f***ing negative' and 'take the win' after Hamas accepted parts of Washington, DC's proposal for ending the Gaza war, while saying that it would have to hold talks...
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A 23-year-old Texas man has been arrested over the murder of an Indian student at a Fort Worth gas station on Friday night, leaving the local Indian-American community shocked and fearful.The suspect allegedly shot Chandrashekar Pole, 28, while he was working a part-time shift, then fled the...
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A controversy erupted in Uttar Pradesh's Jaunpur after a Muslim woman alleged that a doctor at the district hospital refused to treat her on religious grounds, an accusation denied by hospital authorities, officials said on Monday. According to chief medical superintendent, Dr Mahendra...
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An old video showing a foreign woman tourist being verbally harassed by a youth near the historic Charminar here has gone viral, prompting a police investigation. The city police on Monday said they verified and found that the video was recorded in 2023. In the video, a young person,...
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