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A five-year-old boy died after he accidentally shot himself with a country-made pistol while playing at his home in Rajasthan's Kotputli-Behror district, police said. The incident took place in Chhitoli village on Sunday evening. According to police, a country-made pistol was kept in a...
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A fishermen's organisation on Monday urged Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to initiate criminal proceedings against office-bearers of Lalbaugcha Raja Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav Mandal for alleged mismanagement during the idol immersion and ill treatment of devotees. In a letter sent...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday condemned the terrorist attack on innocent civilians in Jerusalem and said India stands firm in its policy of zero tolerance towards terrorism. Palestinian attackers opened fire at a bus stop at a busy intersection in north Jerusalem on Monday, killing...
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The national capital on Monday recorded a maximum temperature of 35.6 degrees Celsius, 2.1 degrees above the season's average, according to the India Meteorological Department.The minimum temperature settled at 23.9 degrees Celsius, 1.7 degrees below the season's average, the IMD said.The IMD has...
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Police at the site of the terror attack in Jerusalem/ANI Photo/Reuters
Terrorists opened fire on passengers after boarding a bus in Jerusalem on Sunday, killing five people and injuring 12 others, Times of Israel reported. Seven of the injured were in serious condition, while five sustained light injuries.The Israeli Prime Minister's Office said PM Benjamin...
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Professor Naima Khatoon
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to interfere with the appointment of Professor Naima Khatoon as the Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).A bench comprising Justices J K Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi rejected the appeal filed by Professors Muzaffar Uruj Rabbani and Faizan Mustafa...
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Nepal's Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak
Nepal's Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak on Monday resigned following violent protests in Kathmandu and other parts of the country over the government's ban on social media sites, the Nepali Congress sources said. He resigned on moral grounds after 19 people were killed and hundreds injured in...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asked the ruling NDA MPs to organise 'Swadeshi Mela' to promote made-in-India products and hold meetings with traders over the GST rate cuts.'Swadeshi' was the main theme of his speech to the MPs at the meeting held on the eve of the vice presidential...
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The Uttarakhand high court has held a driver cannot be presumed to be under the influence of alcohol merely on the basis of smell of liquor without scientific proof. Justice Alok Mahra said unless a blood or breath test establishes that the driver's alcohol level exceeded the legally...
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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said the All India Institute of Medical Sciences coming up at Awantipora in Pulwama district is likely to be fully functional by the end of next year. Abdullah, who visited the AIIMS site along with health and education minister Sakina...
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RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale was admitted to AIIMS Jodhpur on Monday after he suddenly fell ill due to high blood pressure, doctors in the hospital said. A team of doctors is attending to Hosabale, the sarkaryawah of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). His condition is...
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Chinese Ambassador to India Xu Feihong
Chinese Ambassador to India Xu Feihong on Monday addressed a seminar commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, emphasizing historical ties and shared sacrifices between China and...
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US President Donald Trump's trade advisor Peter Navarro/ Image courtesy @RealPNavarro/X
US President Donald Trump's trade advisor Peter Navarro on Monday termed India's purchases of Russian oil as blood money and said Delhi didn't buy oil from Moscow in large quantities before the Ukraine conflict. Using an expletive in his post on X, Navarro said, Fact: India didn't buy...
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The BSF has seized gold biscuits worth over Rs 5 crore and arrested an alleged smuggler near the India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal's Nadia district, officials said on Monday.Acting on specific intelligence inputs, troops of the BSF's South Bengal Frontier intercepted the man near the Sunder...
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Each member of the Indian men's hockey squad that won the Asia Cup 2025 will be awarded Rs 10 lakh by the Bihar government, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar announced on Monday. India bagged the Men's Hockey Asia Cup with a 4-1 win over South Korea in the final in Rajgir on Sunday. The...
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A couple along with their daughter and pet died after an air conditioner (AC) compressor exploded in their house in Faridabad on Monday morning, while the son survived by jumping from the balcony, the police said. According to the police, Aryan Kapoor (24) sustained fractures to his legs and...
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Fire officials on Monday said a Bajaj Chetak electric scooter caught fire while it was parked on the roadside at Ichalkaranji in Kolhapur district of western Maharashtra. Nobody was injured in the incident, which happened on Friday, an official said. Akshay Kale, a Bajaj Chetak dealer...
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Protestors vandalise the Parliament gate in Kathmandu/ANI on X
Authorities have issued an alert along the India-Nepal border in view of ongoing protests in Nepal, top sources said. India's border guarding force, the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), has intensified vigilance and is closely monitoring the situation to prevent any spillover of unrest into Indian...
17:37
Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty closed with gains in a volatile session on Monday, powered by buying in auto and consumer discretionary shares and a firm trend in global markets. The 30-share BSE Sensex edged higher by 76.54 points or 0.09 percent to settle at 80,787.30 despite...
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Functionaries of several Ganpati mandals in Nerul in Navi Mumbai were booked for allegedly violating noise pollution norms and obstructing movement of public during the 10-day festival which ended on September 6, a police official said on Monday. These violations were observed between 9pm on...
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The Indian Army's para special forces and Navy's marine commandos Marcos conducted a week-long joint scuba and combat diving exercise in chilling conditions at an altitude of 17,000 feet in Sikkim, a Defence official said on Monday. He maintained that exercises of this nature also enhance...
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A 19-year-old youth was arrested for allegedly killing his father with a brick following a property dispute and slept next to the body throughout the night, police said on Monday. According to the police, the incident took place in Sarfabad village on Saturday night when the victim,...
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A relief camp at Loha Pul
For thousands living in tents after the recent Yamuna floods, the biggest hurdle to returning home is not water anymore, but the layers of silt that must be cleared, and then waiting for the home to dry before life can resume. Vinod (47), a daily wage labourer from Ghat number 28, has been...
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Protestors in Kathmandu
At least nine people were confirmed dead on Monday in massive youth protests in Kathmandu and other cities of Nepal, which turned violent with bloody clashes with police. Police used lethal force against the demonstrators who attempted to break barricades and enter the Parliament building, days...
15:48
SpiceJet, which flew into the red in the June quarter, expects to restart operations of 10 grounded aircraft by April 2026 as more than half of its fleet remains on the ground due to various issues. At the end of the June quarter, the no-frills airline had just 21 operational planes out of the...
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Update: The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Election Commission to include Aadhaar as a 12th prescribed document for establishing the identity of a voter in special intensive revision (SIR) exercise of electoral roll in poll-bound Bihar.At the moment for Bihar SIR, there are 11 prescribed...
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The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2025 witnessed a moment of unexpected excitement as Oscar-winning composer AR Rahman shared a selfie with actor Tom Felton, popularly known for his role as Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter film series. Felton is making his Indian entertainment...
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A 26-year-old man from a village in Haryana's Jind district was shot dead in California in the US allegedly by a local when he tried to stop him from urinating on the road outside the store where he worked, according to his family. The head of Barah Kalan village in Jind, Suresh Kumar...
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To ensure a glitch-free rollout of the next-generation GST with reduced rates and lesser slabs, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman chaired three separate meetings to assess GSTN's preparedness and the time it would take to implement technological changes required in the software systems. In...
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Massive protests led by Generation Z demonstrators erupted in Kathmandu on Monday against corruption allegations against the government and the recent ban on several major social media platforms, The Kathmandu Post reported. The protestors are vandalizing the parliament gate and police has...
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The Supreme Court asks the EC to consider Aadhaar as document for identity of voter in Bihar SIR and clarifies its not proof of citizenship. SC asks EC to consider issuing necessary directions for acceptance of Aadhaar in Bihar SIR. Only genuine citizens will be allowed to vote, those claiming to...
14:20
Former US President Barack Obama became a three-time Emmy winner after securing a win at the 76th Creative Arts Emmy Awards held on September 7, as reported by People. Obama earned the award for his narration in Netflix's Our Oceans. 'Our Oceans' is a five-part documentary series that...
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Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal on Monday said that India will become one of the world's top three economies in the coming two to two-and-a-half years, highlighting the country's rapid economic progress in recent years. Speaking at the Platinum Jubilee Celebrations of...
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As Russia continues to escalate its strikes on Ukraine, US President Donald Trump on Sunday (local time) said that he has plans to speak with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the coming days, as several European leaders are expected to visit the United States for what he described as...
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BJP National Spokesperson CR Kesavan has strongly condemned TMC MLA Abdur Rahim Bakshi's reported remarks threatening to pour acid into BJP MLA Shankar Ghosh's mouth saying that such violent and abrasive statements have no place in a civilised democracy.He further said that such statements...
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Jerusalem was rocked by a shooting attack on Monday morning that left at least 15 people injured, six of them seriously, reported the Associated Press, citing Israel's emergency services.According to the report, two gunmen opened fire at a busy intersection at the northern entrance to the city,...
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A lawyer from Surat, who had been part of the Congress's legal team that represented MP Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case, allegedly committed suicide by jumping into a river in Surat, the police said on Monday. Lawyer Firoz Pathan, who was suffering from depression, allegedly took the...
12:59
Floods in Punjab have damaged health infrastructure worth Rs 780 crore according to initial estimates, state Health Minister Dr Balbir Singh said on Monday while asking the Central government to announce a relief package. The floods, he added, caused extensive damage to crops, houses and other...
12:41
Bollywood actor Salman Khan expressed his solidarity and concern for the people in North India as torrential monsoon rains and severe floods have impacted several regions of Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, and Uttarakhand. In the latest episode of Bigg Boss 19, Salman informed...
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Gaza has been almost entirely destroyed
Hamas has said it is ready to immediately sit at the negotiating table following what it described as some ideas from the American side aimed at reaching a ceasefire agreement, Al Jazeera reported. Its statement came soon after US President Donald Trump said he had issued his last warning to...
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Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Abdur Rahim Bakshi has issued a clarification after sparking a controversy with his reported remarks threatening to pour acid into BJP MLA Shankar Ghosh's mouth. Bakshi said his comments were in response to Ghosh's alleged statement in the Assembly that all...
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Quota activist Manoj Jarange on Monday demanded that the Maharashtra government implement a GR issued last week for issuing Kunbi caste certificates to Marathas before September 17, or else he will take a tough decision again. Jarange ended his five-day-old fast for quota in Mumbai on...
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Gold prices retreated from record highs by declining Rs 606 to Rs 1,07,122 per 10 grams in the domestic futures market on Monday, as investors booked profits in tandem with a weak trend in the international markets. On the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX), gold futures for October delivery...
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Anjali's nightmare began with a phone call that would cost her 58.5m rupees ($663,390).The caller claimed to be from a courier company, alleging that Mumbai customs had seized a drug parcel she was sending to Beijing.Anjali, a resident of Gurugram, a suburb of Indian capital Delhi, fell prey to...
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A woman in Australia convicted of triple murder has been sentenced to 33 years in prison without parole for killing three of her estranged husband's relatives with toxic mushrooms. Erin Patterson was convicted of murdering three relatives by serving them lunch laced with death cap mushrooms in...
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One terrorist has been eliminated in an encounter that began in the Guddar forest of Kulgam in Jammu and Kashmir, the Chinar Corps of the Indian Army said on Monday. During the fierce encounter, a junior commissioned officer suffered injuried, the Army said.The encounter was based on a...
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Sankarshan Thakur, one of India's finest political journalists and the editor of Kolkata's The Telegraph newspaper, passed away on Monday. He was 63. Sankarshan was the author of three insightful books on Laloo Prasad Yadav and Nitish Kumar: Making of Laloo Yadav, The Unmaking of...
10:18
Stalin pays homage at the Thiruvalluvar statue in London
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin returned to Chennai on Monday after completing his one-week visit to England and Germany.He defined his visit as a successful tour, as 33 MoUs were signed, worth over Rs 15,516 crore in investment. He also said that ten new industries have come forward to...
10:08
Air India's recent run of operational incidents is 'entirely normal in the context of our scale and size', the airline's CEO and Managing Director Campbell Wilson told employees on Sunday, even as the carrier has faced a string of technical snags over the past three months.Over the past few...
10:06
After Maruti Suzuki India and Mahindra & Mahindra announced full transfer of benefits of the GST rejig to buyers on Friday, Hyundai Motor India also jumped on the bandwagon.On Sunday, the Creta maker announced its customers can take complete advantage of the rate cut on passenger vehicles...
10:02
German luxury car maker Audi on Monday announced a price cut ranging from Rs 2.6 lakh to over Rs 7.8 lakh in its vehicles in India across models to pass on the benefits of the GST rate cut on automobiles. Audi India has revised prices across its product portfolio following the...
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An encounter broke out in the Guddar forest of Kulgam in Jammu and Kashmir. Special Operations Group of Jammu and Kashmir, Army and CRPF are on the site, Kashmir zonal police informed. In a tweet on X, Kashmir zonal police said the encounter started based on a specific intelligence. Jammu...
09:28
Congress General Secretary in-Charge Communications Jairam Ramesh on Sunday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's proposed visit to Manipur on September 13, calling it an insult to the people of the state. In a post on X, the Congress MP shared a newspaper clipping about preparations for...
09:18
US President Donald Trump on Saturday issued a final ultimatum to Hamas as 48 hostages continue to remain in captivity. In a sharply worded post on Truth Social, the US President said that Israel has accepted his terms and it is about time Hamas accepts it as well. Trump said that he has...
08:59
The Mumbai civic body has collected 508 tonnes of 'nirmalya' (floral offerings) from natural water bodies and more than 290 artificial ponds following the immersion of idols of Lord Ganesh and Goddess Gauri, officials said. Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra...
08:55
Aam Aadmi Party Delhi president Saurabh Bharadwaj has termed as completely unconstitutional the presence of Chief Minister Rekha Gupta's husband at official government meetings. In a post shared on X, Bharadwaj said the situation is similar to that potrayed in the popular web series...
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A Pakistani intruder was arrested along the International Border (IB) in R S Pura sector here, officials said on Monday. The intruder, Siraj Khan from Sargodha in Punjab province of Pakistan, was noticed by Border Security Force (BSF) troops manning the Octroi outpost at 9.20 pm on Sunday, the...
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A drone launched from Yemen struck the passenger hall at Ramon Airport near Eilat on Sunday, injuring one person with shrapnel and causing another to suffer a panic attack, Israeli officials said.The Israel Defence Forces confirmed the strike and announced that airspace over the airport had been...
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