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An aircraft navigation system at the Swami Vivekananda Airport in Raipur was damaged after being struck by lightning on Wednesday evening, disrupting flight operations, an official said. As many as five IndiGo flights were diverted to various nearby airports due to the damage to the DVOR...
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Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday said that India is in 'active dialogue' with the United States for a free trade agreement.The minister said that negotiations are going on with the European Union as well in the national capital for concluding a trade agreement.Besides, he...
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India has slammed Pakistan at the UN Human Rights Council, saying it doesn't need lessons from a terror sponsor' that continues to finance and shelter the very networks that threaten global security. We are compelled, once again, to address provocations from a country whose own leadership...
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At least 14 people from four families in Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh are stranded in Kathmandu amid anti-government protests and violence in Nepal. The group, which includes women and children, was visiting the Pashupatinath temple. The hotel where they are staying has run...
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A man died and 12 others were hospitalized following a gas leakage at a chemical company in Gujarat's Panchmahal district on Wednesday, the police said. Gas used in air conditioning leaked due to a breach in the pipeline at Gujarat Fluorochemicals Limited located in Ghoghamba taluka in the...
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Nepal's former chief justice Sushila Karki, Kathmandu mayor Balendra Shah and former electricity board Kulman Ghising are among the names under consideration by the protesting Gen Z group to lead an interim government in Nepal, source said on Wednesday. The development comes a day after...
21:19
Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani on Wednesday and conveyed his condemnation of the violation of the sovereignty of the brotherly State of Qatar. Israel had on Tuesday launched attacks on Hamas leaders in Qatar's capital Doha. Modi said...
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A life-size statue of Mahatma Gandhi was vandalised in Odisha's Kendrapara district, following which an investigation was started, police said on Wednesday. The statue was located at a state-run primary school in Nilikana village in the Derabish police station area, and the incident happened...
20:41
At least 27 BJP MLAs held a closed-door meeting at the party's state headquarters on Wednesday to deliberate on preparations ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's likely visit to Manipur. The meeting, which lasted nearly an hour, was attended by several senior legislators, including former...
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Vice President-elect C P Radhakrishnan is likely to be administered the oath of office by President Droupadi Murmu on Friday, officials said. The president is expected to administer the oath of office to Radhakrishnan at a formal ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on September 12, they...
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IndiGo on Wednesday announced the resumption of its flight operations to and from Kathmandu following the reopening of the Tribhuvan International Airport, which was closed earlier due to Gen Z protests.The airline issued a travel advisory informing passengers about the latest update and...
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Rainfall in India during this monsoon till September 10.
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At least 25 people, including three policemen, were killed during the violent anti-government protests led by the 'Gen Z' group in the last two days in Nepal, police and officials said on Wednesday. Nineteen people, mostly youths, were killed in firing by the security forces during protests...
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Delhi Minister Kapil Mishra on Wednesday announced that around 1 million stray dogs will be microchipped in the city over the next two years.A meeting of the Animal Welfare Board was held at the Delhi Secretariat, where many important decisions were taken.Around one million street dogs in Delhi...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday discussed with his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni the proposed free trade agreement between India and the European Union and thanked her for the support to it. In a phone conversation, Modi also discussed with Meloni ways to end the conflict in...
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The rupee recovered slightly from its record low level and ended with a gain of 4 paise at 88.11 (provisional) against the US dollar on Wednesday aided by strong foreign fund inflows and a weaker greenback. Hopes of a breakthrough in India-US trade talks and positive sentiments in domestic...
18:49
Cryptocurrency, decades-old two-wheelers, gold jewellery, mutual funds and agricultural land are among the assets declared by the members of the Council of Union Ministers for the year 2024-25. According to the disclosures published on the Prime Minister's Office website, Union Minister of...
18:21
Protesters on Kathmandu street/ANI Photo
The Nepal Civil Aviation Authority on Wednesday announced that Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport will reopen from today, lifting the suspension of flights imposed due to adverse circumstances.In an official statement, the authority said, We hereby inform that the flights suspended due...
18:04
Defence exposition 'EastTech 2025' will be held in Ranchi from September 19 to 21, officials said on Wednesday. This will be the first defence expo to be hosted by Jharkhand. It will be held at the sports complex in Ranchi's Khelgaon, they said. The event was earlier scheduled to be...
17:49
The police have nabbed two brothers, one of them serving as an Agniveer, from Telangana in connection with the theft of a rifle and two magazines containing 40 live cartridges from Mumbai's high-security Navy Nagar area, an official said on Wednesday. The Mumbai police's Crime Intelligence...
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A man wanted in a double murder case in Delhi was arrested after being on the run for 13 years, the police said on Wednesday. The accused -- Lalan Kumar alias Lalanwa (33), a native of Madhepura in Bihar -- was the main conspirator behind the murder of a truck driver and his helper in 2012,...
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Air India, Air India Express, IndiGo and SpiceJet cancelled their flights to and from Kathmandu on Wednesday as the city's airport remains closed amid unrest in the neighbouring nation. In a statement, Air India said its flights to and from Kathmandu on September 10 have been cancelled as...
16:53
Benchmark Sensex rose by 323 points while Nifty closed higher for the sixth consecutive day on Wednesday following buying in IT, select financial and capital goods shares amid renewed optimism over a successful conclusion of India-US trade talks. The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 323.83 points...
16:51
Protestors block roads in Kathmandu
Indian tourists, many from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, are stranded in Kathmandu after unrest swept through the capital of Nepal, a tourist said on Wednesday. Gauri K, who had gone on a Kailash-Mansarovar expedition with her sister, said she was stuck along with a large number of Indians at a...
16:27
The anthropologist offers rare insights into the indigenous communities of the Andamans by tracing their ecology, social behaviour, and more. Read more here.
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As the floodwater has started receding and life is inching back to normal, people living in flood-hit areas are facing yet another challenge -- of a reptile encounter as they venture out in the fields. In August, 690 cases of snakebite were reported. Out of those, 129 were reported from flood-hit...
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Violence has marred the protests in Nepal
Kathmandu airport will reopen from today, Nepal Civil Aviation Authority says.We hereby inform that the flights suspended due to adverse circumstances would now be lifted, which has been made in accordance with the decision of the Tribhuvan International Airport Security Committee meeting held...
16:20
Police stop protestors in Paris. Reuters/Abdul Saboor
French police arrested nearly 200 people on Wednesday in the early stages of the Block Everything protests, organised by a loose left-wing coalition amid grassroots anger at President Emmanuel Macron's leadership and austerity measures, France 24 reported. The unrest coincided with the...
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The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) said on Wednesday that aluminum nozzles, mistaken by motorists as nails, were temporarily used on a stretch of the Samruddhi Expressway to fill minor cracks. The clarification by the agency came after tyres of at least three cars...
15:36
Uttarakhand shares a border with Nepal
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has asked officials to step up vigilance in areas bordering Nepal in view of the political unrest in the neighbouring country. Chairing a high-level meeting with officials through video conferencing on Tuesday night, Dhami asked them to keep an...
15:20
Amid the ongoing dispute over late industrialist Sanjay Kapur's Rs 30,000 crore estate, Rani Kapur's lawyer said that the real fight is actually between the former spouses, Karisma Kapoor and Priya Sachdeva Kapoor, of the late industrialist.This fight is really more between Karisma Kapoor and...
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Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk and the Leh Apex Body on Wednesday announced that they are starting a 35-day fast in Leh over their demands for Ladakh's inclusion under the Constitution's sixth schedule and statehood. At a press conference, which was preceded by an all-faith prayer service,...
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Vice President CP Radhakrishnan
Recalling the time when CP Radhakrishnan was born, his mother Janaki Ammal said she had named her son after former President of India, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. She said that when her son Radhakrishnan was born, the then President of the country, Radhakrishnan, was in office and, like...
14:42
Not a bombed building in Gaza, that's the Hilton in Kathmandu
The charred remains of the Hilton Hotel in Kathmandu after it was set on fire during the anti-corruption protest.Protesting youths burnt the house belonging to former prime minister and Nepali Congress chief Sher Bahadur Deuba situated at Budhanilkantha in the east of Kathmandu.Agitators also set...
14:28
Security personnel fire tear gas at protestors in Kathmandu
A large group of inmates from Kathmandu's Dillibazar Jail stepped out of the prison premises on Wednesday, demanding their release amid the ongoing unrest triggered by nationwide anti-corruption protests. The Nepalese Army has been deployed in and around the jail to prevent further...
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The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed Priya Kapur, wife of late businessman Sunjay Kapur, to disclose all movable and immovable assets belonging to him as of June 12, the day of his death. Justice Jyoti Singh passed the direction while hearing a plaint filed by Sunjay's two children...
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The image of Sankarshan, collar popped and cigarette dangling like Camus, fits perfectly. But so does the one of him demolishing a Maithil choora-dahi-tilkut breakfast on Makar Sankranti mornings. Remembering writer, journalist, author Sankarshan Thakur.
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Karisma Kapoor with her kids Kiaan and Samaira. File pic
Priya Kapur, wife of late businessman Sanjay Kapur, on Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that the two children from his former wife Karisma Kapoor had already received Rs 1,900 crore from the family trust and asked what more do they want? The children moved the high court seeking...
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Former Minister of State for External Affairs MJ Akbar on Wednesday lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swadeshi foreign policy, crediting it for changing the mood and tone of President Donald Trump on discussing tariffs and other trade barriers between the two countries.Akbar also referred to...
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Adivasi rights defender, a former fellow of a prestigious prime ministerial programme, and son of a police official, Mahesh Raut is the youngest of the 'Bhima-Koregaon 11', accused of spreading Maoist ideology and encouraging 'unlawful activities'. He's been in jail without trial for two...
12:35
Twenty-seven individuals involved in looting, arson, and other violent acts during the ongoing Gen Z-led protests across Nepal, including in the capital, Kathmandu, have been arrested by the Nepalese Army, The Himalayan Times reported on Wednesday.According to The Himalayan Times, the arrests...
12:28
The initial public offer of app-based beauty and home services platform Urban Company Ltd got subscribed 83 per cent so far on the first day of bidding on Wednesday, with retail and non-institutional investors part getting full subscription, within minutes of opening for share sale. The IPO...
12:10
A video grab of cars waiting on the highway for the nails to be removed
Tyres of at least three cars were punctured in the early hours of Wednesday after nails were hammered into the Samruddhi Expressway in Maharashtra's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district, police said. Videos showing the nails neatly embedded in the Mumbai-bound arm of the high-speed carriageway...
12:07
Colin Firth as Mr Darcy
Mostly miserable and even unforgivably cruel, Jane Austen's famous romantic hero is not what he seems, writes the author Sebastian Faulks, in an exclusive extract from the Folio Society, to mark the 250th anniversary of Austen's birth. Read the column here.
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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi after he said that trade talks between India and the United States would help unlock the limitless potential of the partnership. Kejriwal said that to please Trump,...
11:37
Indian-American Congressman Suhas Subramanyam has strongly condemned the recent spate of attacks and acts of vandalism targeting Hindu temples across the US, calling them part of a broader rise in hate and division threatening faith communities nationwide. Speaking on the House Floor at the...
11:26
Deepika Padukone shares this image on X writing: My love language? Baking a cake for my daughter's 1st birthday! The Bollywood star celebrated her baby girl Dua's first birthday over the weekend with hubby Ranveer Singh with an intimate bash, complete with a homemade cake she baked...
11:21
The Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (Fada) has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking a solution to the matter of the compensation cess before September 22, when the second phase of GST kicks off.The automobile industry is expected to see a hit of Rs 2,500 crore due to the...
11:19
Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday took a conscience swipe at the opposition over the probability of cross-voting by the INDIA bloc MPs in the recently concluded Vice Presidential election, where NDA candidate CP Radhakrishnan emerged victorious. Rijiju said that...
11:17
Persistent heavy rains and floods have severely impacted crops across several parts of the country, according to a report by Crisil. While Punjab and Rajasthan are facing major crop losses, the impact remains localised in other states. The report mentioned that the next few weeks will be...
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The Nepali Army on Wednesday announced the imposition of prohibitory orders and continuation of the nationwide curfew in response to the escalating unrest driven by the Gen Z-led protest in various parts of the country.In a statement released on Wednesday by the Directorate of Public Relations...
10:58
The US doesn't need unfair trade with India but New Delhi is desperately looking for access to the American markets, White House Trade Advisor Peter Navarro has said. In the last few weeks, Navarro has made a series of critical remarks against India, especially for its continuing procurement...
10:43
Ahead of the expected meeting between Nepal's Gen-Z protesters and President Ram Chandra Poudel, one of the protesters said that the violence that has unfolded in the past two days might stop, but their demand for new rules and regulations against corruption should be met.The PM of our country,...
10:23
Shares of IT companies rose on Tuesday, led by a 5 per cent jump in Infosys on the back of its buyback plan.Infosys, in an exchange filing on Monday after market hours, said its board will consider a proposal to buy back its shares on Thursday. The Nifty IT index rose 2.8 per cent, the...
10:22
A whole host of deregulation is required, and the country needs plenty more big bang reforms that will ensure more capital expenditure and investments, Jamshyd Godrej, chairman & managing director, Godrej Enterprises Group, said at a press conference.There is a whole host of deregulation...
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The ripples of unrest raging across Nepal have travelled nearly 800 km south to Kolkata's Sonagachi, Asia's largest red-light district, where Nepalese sex workers are unable to get in touch with their families, amid the political upheaval back home. On Tuesday, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli...
09:52
It hasn't even been a full day since Apple pulled the curtain back on its brand-new iPhone 17 series, but the internet has already crowned the real star--the memes. From jokes about the price tag to humorous takes on the design, users on X (formerly Twitter) wasted no time roasting the...
09:48
The incident happened in Delhi
A 48-year-old cab driver has been arrested for allegedly masturbating in front of a young woman during a ride in Delhi, police said on Wednesday. The incident happened on Monday in Maurice Nagar area. The woman booked a cab to reach her college in Delhi. When she noticed the driver doing the...
09:46
David Goldwyn, leading Geopolitical expert believes US President Trump miscalculated by assuming sanctions could serve as a pressure tool against India. What he's learning in this fiasco, really, in terms of diplomatic relations with India, is that this oil weapon was not quite the tool of...
09:35
Nepali students in India say they have put their plans to travel home on hold and call up their families repeatedly, fearful of their safety amid the violent protests rattling the Himalayan nation. The student-led Gen Z protests in Nepal that began against a government ban on social media...
09:17
After the INDIA bloc nominee Justice B Sudershan Reddy lost in the Vice Presidential elections on Tuesday, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor shared a heartfelt post for Sudershan Reddy on social media. Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday shared a heartfelt message for INDIA bloc nominee Justice B...
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The India-Nepal border at Sonauli in UP's Maharajganj saw an influx of Indian tourists on Wednesday as many cut short their trips and returned home due to the escalating unrest in Nepal. The situation remains tense in Nepal following violent protests against corruption by Gen Z that...
08:58
The Nepal parliament was set on fire by protestors
The 'fire' in Nepal is from the spark of unemployment and anger, and India should learn a lesson from it, an editorial published in Saamna said on Wednesday, cautioning that the problems of unemployment, 'destruction of democracy,' increasing politics of caste and religion are very dangerous for...
08:29
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday reacted warmly to United States President Donald Trump's positive assessment of trade talks between the two countries, expressing confidence that the ongoing negotiations will pave the way for unlocking the limitless potential of the partnership between...
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A 29-year-old software professional was allegedly assaulted inside a film theatre in Pimpri Chinchwad here after he took objection to a man continuously narrating the storyline of the horror film The Conjuring- Last Rites to his wife, police said on Tuesday. The incident took place on Friday...
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A lathi charge on a protester in Kathmandu.
The Nepal Army on Tuesday took control of the Tribhuvan International Airport here after the agitators tried to enter its premises in the evening. Flight services at the airport were partially suspended in view of the protests. Air India, which operates six flights a day between New...
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