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Konkan Railway Corporation Limited, which celebrated its 35th Foundation Day on Wednesday, has secured new projects amounting to Rs 4,157 crore, including Rs 3,000 crore in electrification works, a top official said. At a ceremony held at the CIDCO Exhibition and Convention Centre in Navi...
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Criminals may be adept at faking identities, but police are masters of busting deceptions, which was evident when they traced and arrested a 71-year-old man wanted in an attempt to murder case, after 48 years, who was living as a recluse in a coastal village in Ratnagiri district. The police...
23:38
The Union government has decided to strengthen the drug monitoring system in the country after the recent tragic incident of child deaths due to cough syrup reported in Madhya Pradesh.A new law is being proposed to grant statutory powers to the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation to...
23:26
The Jammu and Kashmir police on Wednesday attached the immovable property of a Pakistan-based terror operative in Reasi district, officials said. The police attached land measuring more than three kanals at Sildhar village belonging to Sharif Mirasi under Section 25 of the Unlawful...
23:04
Security forces arrested five militants belonging to different proscribed outfits from Manipur's Imphal West and East districts, a police statement said on Wednesday. The police arrested two active cadres of the banned United National Liberation Front (Pambei) outfit from Haobam Marak...
22:58
The Bombay high court on Wednesday reserved its order on an interim relief plea of actor Akshay Kumar in his petition against websites and social media platforms misusing his photographs, videos and name without authority. Justice Arif Doctor reserved the order after a hearing. Kumar...
22:18
The Karur Judicial Magistrate Court I on Wednesday granted bail to TVK functionaries V P Mathiyazhagan and Masi Pounraj, rejecting the police plea for extending their custody in the Karur stampede case. TVK's Karur West district secretary Mathiyazhagan, and Karur Central town secretary...
22:03
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India has fallen to the 85th rank in the 2025 Henley Passport Index, offering visa-free access to 57 countries. Last year, India's passport was ranked 80th on the list with visa-free travel to 62 destinations. Singapore continues to be the most powerful passport with visa-free access to...
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Six leaders including a Congress councillor were released on bail after three weeks of detention following last month's violence in Leh, officials said on Wednesday. In a related development, the Leh district magistrate ordered withdrawal of all restrictions imposed under section 163 of...
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A military combat parachute system, indigenously developed by the DRDO, has been successfully tested at an altitude of 32,000 ft, opening doors for induction of indigenous parachute systems, officials said on Wednesday. This achievement makes the military combat parachute system (MCPS), the...
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This year's Deepotsav in Ayodhya promises a stunning fusion of tradition and technology, with 1,100 indigenous drones lighting up the skies to recreate iconic Ramayana scenes, alongside 3-D holographic laser shows and over 26 lakh earthen lamps. According to the Uttar Pradesh tourism...
21:11
Karnataka minister Priyank Kharge
Karnataka home minister G Parameshwara has said the government is taking the threat calls made to minister Priyank Kharge very seriously, and a thorough investigation is underway to trace the origin and motive behind them.Speaking to reporters near his residence in Sadashivanagar, he stated that...
20:39
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West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose has submitted a report on the gang rape of a medical student in Durgapur to President Droupadi Murmu and the Union Home Ministry, a Raj Bhavan official said on Wednesday. In the report, Bose has given a detailed account of his findings in the case and also...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday asked the Bharatiya Janata Party workers in Bihar to reach out to every household to spread awareness about the schemes launched by the Centre and the Nitish Kumar government, and gave the slogan Ekjut NDA, Ekjut Bihar - Isse banegi sushashan ki...
20:23
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday hailed the recommendation of Commonwealth Sport's Executive Board for Ahmedabad as the proposed host for the 2030 edition of the international multi-sport event, saying it was a matter of immense joy and pride for India. A final decision will be...
20:16
The six-day visit of Afghanistan's Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to India has concluded on Wednesday, with the Taliban-appointed Minister returning to Kabul after a series of cultural and diplomatic engagements aimed at strengthening bilateral ties.Before his departure, Muttaqi was presented...
20:07
India's merchandise trade deficit hit $32.15 billion in September as imports surged to $68.53 billion, outpacing exports.
19:53
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav
Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav, who filed his nomination from Raghopur assembly seat in Bihar on Wednesday, owns movable and immovable assets worth around Rs 8.1 crore, according to the affidavit filed by him. Yadav's wife, Rajshree alias Rachel Iris Godinho owns assets worth Rs...
19:39
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Delhi's much-anticipated first trial of artificial rain through cloud seeding will be held after Diwali, once the Indian meteorological department gives a green light, environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa said. During a media briefing on Wednesday, Sirsa said that pilots have already...
19:29
Pakistan on Wednesday said a 48-hour ceasefire has been agreed with Afghanistan, amid border clashes between the two countries that have killed dozens of people on both sides. A temporary ceasefire has been decided between the Pakistani government and the Afghan Taliban regime, with the...
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Playback singer R Balasaraswathi Devi/Courtesy Facebook
Veteran Telugu and Tamil actress and playback singer R Balasaraswathi Devi died at her residence in Hyderabad on Wednesday due to old age, her family members said. She was 97. Balasaraswathi Devi was the first playback singer in the Telugu film industry. She was unwell for the last...
18:39
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee
Two days after claiming that West Bengal is under Aurangzeb's rule, the father of the Durgapur gang rape victim on Wednesday described Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as a mother-like figure and urged her to forgive him if he had said anything wrong against her. He also appealed to Banerjee...
18:33
The rupee bounced back sharply by 75 paise to close at 88.06 (provisional) against the US dollar on Wednesday, posting its biggest intraday gain in nearly four months, due to likely intervention by the RBI and a surge in the domestic markets. Forex traders said domestic markets surged nearly...
17:42
A case was registered against a doctor for killing his wife in Bengaluru, following a Forensic Science Laboratory report that confirmed the presence of anaesthetic substance in her organs, six months after her death.According to police, the case was registered on Tuesday following a complaint by...
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Assam Police on Wednesday resorted to lathi-charge to disperse an agitated mob that hurled stones at vehicles carrying five accused arrested in cultural icon Zubeen Garg's death case as they were being brought to Baksa Central Jail, police said.A few people, including a policewoman, were injured...
17:23
Maithali Thakur with PM Modi
The BJP on Wednesday released its second list of 12 candidates for the upcoming Bihar Assembly polls, fielding singer Maithili Thakur from Alinagar seat and former IPS officer Anand Mishra from Buxar. According to the list, Ram Chandra Prasad will contest from Hayaghat seat, while Chhoti...
17:21
A woman was arrested for allegedly killing her one-year-old child by hanging her from a ceiling fan in Sadar Kotwali area of Mahoba district on Wednesday, police said. The accused, identified as Khushboo, was living at her maternal home following a marital discord and was allegedly suffering...
16:55
Body bags in Gaza. File pic
The Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR), a rights organization established by late Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, expressed deep concern about the apparent executions that recently took place in the Gaza Strip, reports CNNThe ICHR said the apparent...
16:41
Benchmark Sensex spurted by 575 points while Nifty closed above 25,300 on Wednesday on buying in banking and financial shares, driven by a rally in Asian and European markets amid hopes of a rate cut by the US Federal Reserve later this month. The 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 575.45 points or...
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ISRO chairman V Narayanan on Wednesday said the space agency has set a target of landing Indians on the moon by 2040, while its maiden human spaceflight mission 'Gaganyaan' is on track for launch in 2027. Narayanan said a slew of ambitious space projects and sector reforms were currently...
15:45
Legend and nine-time Wimbledon Ladies Singles champion, Martina Navratilova, remarks on the US president's 'power' handshakes with world leaders in Egypt during the Gaza Peace Summit. Here, Donald Trump pulls France PM Emmanuel Macron towards him several times in a seeming show of...
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Amid a buzz about Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray joining opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), NCP (SP) leader Supriya Sule on Wednesday said there was nothing wrong in coming together in the national interest. She, however, also made it clear that senior MVA leaders will...
15:17
Tens of thousands of bodies lie under the rubble of buildings bombed by Israel
An Israeli security official briefing reporters on Wednesday morning said one of the four bodies returned to Israel overnight was not a hostage. He said experts at the National Centre of Forensic Medicine determined the remains belonged to a Palestinian.The centre confirmed the identities...
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For the first time the ruling JD-U in Bihar led by chief minister Nitish Kumar has not fielded any Muslim for the Bihar assembly polls to be held next month. The JD-U has released its first list of 57 candidates today. The BJP has not fielded any Muslim this time as well from its 71...
14:38
A second-year student of a private engineering college in Kolkata was allegedly raped by her classmate, and the accused was arrested from the Anandapur area in the southern part of the city, police said. The woman, who came to West Bengal to study, filed a complaint against her classmate at...
14:23
The accused in the Durgapur gangrape case
On Durgapur alleged gangrape case, NCW Member Archana Majumdar says, The day after the incident, I met her at the hospital where she was being treated. Her bleeding had stopped, but she was very weak, and she continued receiving medicine and treatment. Psychologically and emotionally, she was...
14:21
India's first PM, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday remembered Babasaheb Ambedkar on the occasion of Dhammachakra Pravartan Din, which is celebrated on October 14 each year to commemorate the mass conversion of India's first Law Minister and his lakhs of followers to Buddhism, renouncing...
14:18
President Droupadi Murmu pays floral tributes to Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India, on his birth anniversary, at Rashtrapati Bhavan today.
13:53
Television star Pankaj Dheer, known for playing Karna in B R Chopra's Mahabharat and king Shiv Dutt in fantasy drama Chandrakanta, has died at the age of 68 following a battle with cancer. He passed away due to cancer this morning. He had been in and out of hospital in the past months,...
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The Janata Dal (United) on Wednesday released its first list of 57 candidates for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, according to an official statement from the party.According to the release, the list of candidates for Janata Dal (U) in the first phase of the Bihar Legislative Assembly...
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Singer Zubeen Garg died on September 19
Five people, who have been arrested in connection with the death of singer Zubeen Garg in Singapore last month, have been sent to judicial custody on Wednesday after their police remand ended.North East India Festival (NEIF) chief organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta, Zubeen's manager Siddhartha Sharma,...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday said that today marks an important day for Gadchiroli district, as the process of eliminating Maoism from the region began.CM Fadnavis' remarks came after Naxal Commander Mallojula Venugopal Rao, alias Sonu, a senior CPI (Maoist) leader...
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At least 12 civilians were killed and more than 100 were injured after Pakistani forces launched an attack in the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province, according to an Afghan official.The incident has triggered heavy cross-border fighting, with Afghan forces claiming to have launched...
12:11
US President Donald Trump said that BRICS was an attack on the dollar and noted that countries that want to deal in dollars have an advantage over those that do not.He categorically asserted that the US will impose tariffs on countries that wish to join the ten-member bloc.Trump made the remarks...
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Rahul Gandhi offers prayers at the condolence meeting
The postmortem of late IPS officer Y Puran Kumar began on Wednesday at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, nine days after his death.The process was initiated only after his wife, IAS officer Amneet P Kumar, gave her formal consent and identified the...
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned to October 29 the hearing on a plea filed by Sonam Wangchuk's wife Gitanjali J Angmo challenging the climate activist's detention after noting that she wants to amend her petition. A bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and N V Anjaria noted that an...
11:26
The Ministry of Commerce & Industry on Tuesday released provisional data for September 2025 showing India's All-India Wholesale Price Index (WPI) inflation at 0.13 per cent year-on-year. Positive rate of inflation in September is largely driven by price increases in manufactured food...
11:22
The Supreme Court on Wednesday permitted the sale and bursting of green crackers in Delhi-NCR for Diwali. Allowing the joint request of the Centre and Delhi government, a bench comprising Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran relaxed the ban on green firecrackers. It...
11:13
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A massive traffic jam on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad National Highway in Maharashtra's Palghar district stranded more than 500 students and commuters for nearly 12 hours, officials said on Wednesday. Twelve buses carrying students from Classes 5 to 10 of different schools, along with some college...
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A 35-year-old woman was allegedly raped at knife point and robbed aboard a passenger train running between Guntur and Peddakurapadu Railway Stations of Andhra Pradesh, the railway police said in Hyderabad on Wednesday. The incident occurred on October 13 when the woman, belonging to...
10:37
Trump with Netanyahu in Israel
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday stated that Hamas would be required to surrender its weapons under the terms of the recently negotiated peace agreement, warning that the US would take action if it failed to do so. They're going to disarm, because they said they were going to disarm,...
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Leader of the Opposition in the Bihar Assembly and RJD leader, Tejashwi Yadav, will file his nomination papers from the Raghopur seat tomorrow. Tejashwi, who is a former Bihar deputy chief minister, said in a press release that he is going to Hajipur, the district headquarters of Vaishali, to...
10:19
After ruling NDA's ally Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) chief Upendra Kushwaha publicly claimed that nothing is well in the NDA ahead of next month's Bihar assembly polls, the BJP top leadership has invited him to Delhi on Wednesday to discuss the matter.Kushwaha is reportedly angry following the...
10:08
Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor on Wednesday announced that he will not contest the Bihar assembly polls, a decision, he claimed, was taken by the party for its greater good.In an exclusive interview with PTI, the former political strategist also said that a tally of less than 150 seats...
10:03
Donald J. Trump shares this image on X and posts: Don't forget to get a copy of my son Eric's book, UNDER SIEGE, which is breaking records everywhere. It's a phenomenal book, that's a must read for everyone --Congratulations Eric, you deserve it!!!
09:57
Rahul Gandhi with the family of IPS officer Y Puran Kumar
Following the suspicious death of Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar at his residence in Chandigarh, the 31-member committee on Tuesday announced to submit a memorandum to the Haryana Governor in the IPS Y Puran Kumar death case citing inaction by state and Chandigarh administration.Committee...
09:42
Ending impasse over the autopsy of Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, who allegedly committed suicide here on October 7, his family has given consent to conduct post-mortem of the deceased, a police official said on Wednesday. The development came a day after Chandigarh Police moved court...
08:58
The AAP and BJP traded barbs over Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta's Karwa Chauth celebration, with the opposition mocking the elaborate festivities, while the ruling party hit back, calling them enemies of Sanatan Dharma. Gupta celebrated Karwa Chauth at the Mukhyamantri Jan Sewa...
08:56
Goa's agriculture minister and former chief minister Ravi Naik passed away on Wednesday after a cardiac arrest, family sources said. Naik, 79, suffered cardiac arrest at his hometown, 30 km away from Panaji, the sources said. He was shifted to a private hospital in Ponda town where he...
08:51
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued an alert against three cough syrups that have caused deaths of at least 22 children in Madhya Pradeshs Chhindwara, urging national regulatory authorities worldwide to immediately notify it if they are detected in their country.These syrups include...
08:42
Ashley J Tellis, an India-born US advisor on foreign policy, has been arrested and charged with unlawfully retaining classified national defence information and allegedly meeting with Chinese officials on several occasions.Tellis, 64, the Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs and a senior fellow at...
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Singapore authorities have sought the names of police officers from Assam to be deputed for carrying out an investigation in that country in cultural icon Zubeen Garg death case, and the list has already been sent, eminent citizens said after a special meeting with the Criminal Investigation...
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