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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday said that on November 1, when Kerala celebrates its formation or 'Piravi' day, it will be declared as the first state in the country without extreme poverty. Vijayan, in a post on social media platform X, said it would be the fulfilment of...
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20 people were killed after a Bengaluru-bound bus caught fire in Andhra's Kurnool
Over 40 passengers had a narrow escape as a moving bus caught fire in Ranchi on Saturday evening, police said.The incident happened on the Ranchi-Lohardaga highway when the bus was heading to Chatra from the state capital, they said.There were nearly 45 passengers on the bus, which suddenly...
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India's most celebrated astrophysicist Jayant Narlikar, who passed away in May, was on Saturday selected for the Vigyan Ratna Puraskar, the country's top science award. Narlikar challenged the Big Bang theory, which states that the universe was created in a single moment. He, along...
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A couple, allegedly addicted to drugs, sold their six-month-old son to a scrap dealer in Punjab's Mansa district, police said on Saturday. The case came to light after the child's maternal aunt approached the police, an official said. The police have recovered the child and...
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A five-member team from Ranchi on Saturday visited Chaibasa, the headquarters of Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district, to investigate allegations that HIV-infected blood was transfused to a seven-year-old thalassemia patient by the local blood bank, a senior health official said.The victim was...
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Claiming that his father Ram Vilas Paswan wanted a Muslim chief minister for Bihar in 2005 but the RJD did not agree to it, LJP-RV chief Chirag Paswan on Saturday sought to reach out to the minority community, asking how will they get respect if they continue to remain a bonded vote bank. ...
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The police on Saturday said the two-wheeler involved in the bus accident in Kurnool district had earlier met with an accident, leading to the instantaneous death of its rider.Kurnool district Superintendent of Police Vikrant Patil said Siva Shankar died on the spot after his two-wheeler skidded...
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Two days after the Assam government announced plans to make public the Tewary Commission Report on the Nellie massacre of 1983, a cross-section of people on Saturday voiced apprehension that the move could jeopardise peace among communities.Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had on Thursday told...
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The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday escalated its attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party government over the Yamuna's pollution levels ahead of Chhath puja, with the party's Delhi unit chief Saurabh Bharadwaj challenging Chief Minister Rekha Gupta to drink water from the river to prove her claims that...
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BJP MLA Suresh Dha
Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Suresh Dhas on Saturday demanded that an MP who allegedly tried to pressurise the 28-year-old woman doctor who ended her life at Phaltan must be made an accused in the case. The doctor, hailing from Beed district and posted at a government hospital, was found...
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A 32-year-old man has been arrested after he allegedly drove with a woman on the bonnet of his car, causing her to fall and sustain injuries in the western suburbs in Mumbai, police said on Saturday.The accused, Vinit Ghai, has been booked on the charges of rash driving and physically assaulting...
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Two persons were attacked and killed by Naxalites in a village in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, police said on Saturday.The incident took place on Friday night in Nelakanker village, under the Usur police station limits, an official said.A group of Naxalites dragged the victims, Ravi Kattam...
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Police raided a farmhouse on the outskirts of Ahmedabad city and arrested 15 persons, including 13 African nationals, for allegedly consuming liquor during a party, and later apprehended five more individuals, an official said on Saturday. Out of nearly 70 people present at the venue,...
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Actor-politician Vijay is likely to meet families of the Karur stampede victims in Mahabalipuram near Chennai on October 27, a month after the tragic incident, a source in the party said. Vijay's Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam has arranged the meeting at a resort where the party has booked...
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Congress MLC Yathindra Siddaramaiah on Saturday said his father and Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will complete his full five-year term in office.Speaking to reporters, Yathindra dismissed the talk of a November revolution-- speculation that Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar may take...
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Tensions prevailed in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh on Saturday after I love Muhammad graffiti was found on the walls of five temples in Bhagwanpur and Bulaqigarh villages, prompting heavy police deployment. Senior police officials rushed to the spot with forensic experts and CCTV footage...
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The driver of the ill-fated Bengaluru-bound bus which caught fire and killed 20 people on Friday in Andhra Pradesh's Kurnool, had escaped the inferno by jumping out through the passenger door and failed to gauge the situation, a police official said on Saturday.Currently, both the driver,...
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The Argentina football team and star player Lionel Messi will not be visiting Kerala next month as scheduled, the event's sponsor announced on Saturday.Earlier, Anto Augustine, the sponsor of the proposed football match along with the state sports department, had announced that the Argentina team...
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Veteran Bollywood actor Satish Shah, known for his performances in films like Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, Main Hoon Na and hit TV show Sarabhai vs Sarabhai, died on Saturday, his manager said. He was 74. Ramesh Kadatala, who has been Shah's personal assistant for over 30 years, said the actor...
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The baggage system at Delhi airport's Terminal 1 (T1) experienced a temporary glitch on Saturday, but operations were normalised later. The Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) in the national capital has three terminals -- T1, T2 and T3. T1 and T2 are only for domestic...
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A court in Haryana's Hisar district has dismissed the bail plea of YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra, who was arrested in May on the suspicion of espionage, and said there is a reasonable apprehension that her release on bail may impede the probe. Hisar police had arrested Malhotra (33), who...
15:35
A woman's name was found six times in the electoral roll of Maharashtra's Palghar district, prompting poll officials to remove the duplicate entries following due process. The woman, Sushma Sanjay Gupta, resides in the Nallasopara area and her name was found half a dozen times in the...
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A woman died, and about a dozen villagers, including children, fell seriously ill after consuming temple offerings (prasad) in a village under the Sikandrarao police station area, police said on Saturday. According to local sources, residents had placed several boxes of sweets at a temple...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday claimed that trains to Bihar are packed and tickets impossible to get with the journey becoming inhuman during the festive season, as he asserted that helpless travellers are a living proof of the NDA's deceitful policies and intentions. The...
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The Election Commission is likely to roll out the first of pan-India Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters' list next week beginning with 10 to 15 states, including those going to polls next year, officials said Saturday. Assam, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala and West Bengal will to...
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Meta Platforms, Inc's Facebook Overseas will hold 30 per cent interest in the AI venture floated by billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries, according to a regulatory filing. Reliance will hold 70 per cent in Reliance Enterprise Intelligence Ltd, the company said in the...
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Relatives of a woman government doctor, who committed suicide allegedly after rape and harassment in Maharashtra's Satara district, on Saturday demanded capital punishment for the two men named by her in a note, including a cop. The 28-year-old physician, posted at a sub-district...
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The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a suo motu case relating to stray dogs on October 27. The apex court had on August 22 expanded the scope of the stray dogs case beyond the confines of Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR) and directed that all states and Union Territories be made...
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An FIR has been registered here against 22 people, including Bollywood actors Shreyas Talpade and Alok Nath, in connection with a fake finance company duping hundreds of investors by promising to double their money within a year, officials said on Saturday. Additional Superintendent of...
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Two Australian women cricketers, taking part in the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup, were allegedly stalked, and one of them was molested by a motorcycle-borne man in Madhya Pradesh's Indore, police said on Saturday.The police on Friday arrested the man involved in the incident that occurred on the...
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The Chennai North District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has directed the Gulf Air Airlines to compensate a former Tamil Nadu legislator for denying him travel at Moscow airport as his passport did not contain his surname.The airlines has been directed to pay a compensation of about Rs...
12:31
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has barred 13 individuals from the securities market, after finding them guilty of front-running trades placed by three trusts.Front-running is trading of stocks or other assets based on insider knowledge of a future transaction.Sebi conducted an...
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American rapper-singer Armando Christian Perez, popularly known as Pitbull, is set to return to India for another tour and will perform in Gurgaon and Hyderabad. Pitbull, whose popular tracks include Timber, Hotel Room Service, No lo trates, has previously performed in the country in...
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Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu on Saturday inaugurated Delhi airport's renovated Terminal 2 (T2), which will be operational from Sunday. T2, built by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) four decades ago, was shut for renovation works in April this year. It has an annual...
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Australia will send its first-ever First Nations business mission to India this month to strengthen trade and investment links between Indigenous Australian enterprises and Indias mining and renewable energy sectors. The mission, led by the Perth USAsia Centre and the Chamber of Commerce and...
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Global furniture retailer Ikeas India arm has leased 37,259 square feet of retail space in Pune, further expanding its footprint in the Indian market.Pune has been an important market for Ikea India and one where we've seen strong demand from our customers right from the start. Given its...
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As the Indian premiumisation journey gains pace, ITC Hotels on Friday announced the launch of a new hotel brand 'Epiq Collection' to accelerate growth in the premium segment.The brand will debut in Odishas Puri with a 118-key property, which will be owned by the group, and a 201-key managed...
11:26
In a bid to ease the year-end travel jam, which usually results in skyrocketing fares for both air travel and hotel rooms, online travel platform Make My Trip will be launching a month-long campaign with value offerings on the entire travel ecosystem.The move, which will allow customers to plan...
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Police on Saturday arrested one person in connection with the alleged suicide of a 28-year-old woman doctor in Maharashtra's Satara district, an official said.A team from the Phaltan police arrested Prashant Bankar, one of the two men the doctor had named in a suicide note written on her palm,...
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Delhi's air quality showed a slight improvement on Saturday morning, with the AQI in 'poor' category at 261, marking a drop from the 290 recorded a day before, CPCB data showed.However, Anand Vihar was in the 'severe' category with an Air Quality Index (AQI) of 415, the highest among all the...
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The Securities and Exchange Board of India has restricted mutual funds from participating in pre-IPO placements of equity shares. It clarified that MFs can invest in unlisted shares only as anchor investors ahead of an IPO.An anchor allotment takes place a day before an IPO opens to the public,...
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An Indian national working as a staff nurse at a Singapore premium hospital was sentenced to a year and two months' jail, and two strokes of the cane after he pleaded guilty to a molestation charge.Elipe Siva Nagu, 34, molested a male visitor to the Raffles Hospital in June, after claiming that...
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The Central Drug Standards Control Organisation (CDSCO) has flagged select batches of one cough syrup as spurious, and listed 112 other drugs and formulations as not of standard quality (NSQ) in its routine surveillance for September 2025.The central drug regulator said it had found a purported...
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Noting that Pakistan needs to come to a policy conclusion that there's nothing positive for it in fighting with India, former CIA officer John Kiriakou has said that Pakistan will lose any conventional war with India.In an interview with ANI, Kiriakou, who was in CIA for 15 years and was the...
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The latest satellite imagery and open-source assessments have exposed extensive construction activity near Golmud, in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Province, signalling another aggressive step in China's military buildup.Analysts suggest that the site is part of the expanding...
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A case was registered against two drivers for alleged negligent and over-speed driving in connection with the fatal bus fire here in the wee hours on Friday, which left 20 people dead, a police official said.Based on a complaint by one of the survivors, N Ramesh, the Ulindakonda Police in Kurnool...
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