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In a major drug haul, narcotic substances worth Rs 90 crore were seized from Cachar district of Assam, and two peddlers have been arrested, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Wednesday. In a post on X, Sarma said acting on credible intelligence input, the Cachar District Police...
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Folk singer Saroj Sargam was arrested in Mirzapur along with her husband and four others for allegedly uploading a song containing derogatory remarks against Goddess Durga on her YouTube channel, a police official said on Wednesday.He said that Sargam, a resident of Garhwa village in Mirzapur...
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The BJP on Wednesday alleged that the violence in Ladakh was a part of the Congress' nefarious design to create situations in the country which were witnessed in Bangladesh, Nepal and the Philippines under a nefarious design. The ruling party's charge came after the movement for the demand...
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The Met Department has issued an orange alert for Chandrapur, Gadchiroli, and Yavatmal districts, forecasting heavy to very heavy rainfall on Thursday, accompanied by lightning and gusty winds reaching 50 kmph.Simultaneously, a yellow alert for heavy rainfall has been issued in almost all...
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Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan's tenure has been extended up to May next year, the government said on Wednesday. Gen Chauhan's current stint as the top military officer is scheduled to end on September 30. The defence ministry said the government has approved the extension of...
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Delhi airport has been ranked as the world's 39th most connected airport in a list topped by London Heathrow airport, according to a report.The national capital's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA), however, slipped significantly from the 24th position in 2024.OAG, a data platform for the...
20:49
A curfew has been imposed in the violence-hit Leh district to prevent further loss of lives, announced Lieutenant Governor Kavinder Gupta on Wednesday. LG Gupta said the violence was orchestrated under a conspiracy aimed at disturbing the peaceful atmosphere in Ladakh. He assured that...
20:41
In a relief to music director A R Rahman and the makers of film Ponniyin Selvan 2, the Delhi high court on Wednesday set aside an order directing them to deposit Rs 2 crore in a copyright lawsuit over classical rendition of 'Shiv Stuti', saying there was no prima facie evidence of the Junior...
20:33
The Central Board of Secondary Education will conduct Class 10 and 12 board exams from February 17 next year, officials announced on Wednesday. The board announced a tentative datesheet for the crucial exams. This is the first time that board exams for Class 10 will be conducted twice in an...
20:29
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed a real estate firm to refund over Rs 43 lakh to a plot buyer with 18 percent interest. The top court enhanced the compensation originally ordered by the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), which had fixed the rate at 9 percent on...
20:18
The Mumbai police arrested three Bangladeshi nationals and detained two children who were living illegally in the city and adjoining Thane, an official said on Wednesday. This action was carried out by the Anti-Terrorism Cell of suburban Jogeshwari police. Based on reliable information,...
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The Jharkhand government with the help of Andhra Pradesh administration has managed to free 13 workers from Bokaro district of the state allegedly held hostage at Visakhapatnam, an official said on Wednesday. Migrant Control Cell (Jharkhand Labour department) team leader Shikha Lakra told...
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Three people were injured after a gunman opened fire at an immigration facility in the US on Wednesday. The shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot following the shooting at the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas, the authorities said. Acting ICE Director Todd...
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The Karnataka high court on Wednesday heard detailed arguments over a batch of petitions challenging the validity of the ongoing Social and Educational Survey, popularly known as caste census. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice C M Joshi did not pass any...
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The police on Wednesday arrested a person from South Kashmir who had allegedly provided logistical support to terrorists responsible for the April 22 Pahalgham terror attack, officials said in Srinagar. Based on an intelligence lead, Srinagar police arrested an Over Ground Worker from South...
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said he has asked the state's director general of police to form a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe into the untimely death of cultural icon Zubeen Garg in Singapore last week. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Assam...
18:36
Pakistan will take on Bangladesh in the Asia Cup Super 4s match which will be played in Dubai on Thursday.
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The rupee recovered 2 paise from its all-time closing low to settle at 88.71 (provisional) against the US dollar on Wednesday, as steep tariffs and H-1B visa related issues kept the domestic unit under pressure. Forex traders said rupee is hovering near its all-time low level on sustained...
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President Droupadi Murmu will visit Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, by a special train from the Safdarjung railway station tomorrow, September 25, 2025.During her day-long stay in Vrindavan, the President will perform darshan and pooja at the Shri Banke Bihari temple, Nidhivan and the Kubja Krishan...
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Four people were killed and 30 others injured in intense clashes between protesters and security personnel during the Leh Apex Body (LAB) sponsored shutdown in Leh town of Ladakh on Wednesday, officials said. The police had to resort to firing to bring the situation under control after the...
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Kerala Devaswom minister VN Vasavan on Wednesday rejected reports of a campaign by right-wing groups against Vavar Swamy, the Muslim companion of Lord Ayyappa at Sabarimala. Asserting the significance of Vavar in the pilgrimage to the hill shrine, he said a large number of devotees reach...
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Authorities on Wednesday promulgated prohibitory orders under Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita in Leh district of Ladakh, banning assembly of five or more persons following a movement demanding statehood for Ladakh and extension of the Sixth Schedule took a violent turn on...
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Distribution of rainfall in 4 months
Drying of the Ganga river basin seen in recent decades could be severe and unprecedented, threatening water and food security for millions, an analysis of trends spanning 1,300 years suggests. Findings published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences show that drying...
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The Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition that sought a ban on the use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in elections. The petition, filed by one Upendra Nath Dalai, had urged the High Court to direct that elections be conducted only through ballot papers.A Division Bench...
17:06
IT stocks fell for the third day in a row on Wednesday as the steep hike in US H-1B visa fees continues to dent investor sentiment. Mastek Ltd shares fell by 3.42 per cent, Infobeans Technologies dropped 3.41 per cent, Wipro by 2.06 per cent, Tech Mahindra by 1.30 per cent, Tata Consultancy...
16:51
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a plea seeking directions for removing the graves of terrorists Mohammad Afzal Guru and Mohammad Maqbool Bhatt from Tihar Jail premises in New Delhi to prevent glorification. The two terrorists were sentenced to death and executed in...
16:46
Twenty years after winning the Booker Prize for The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai is once again in the running. Her new novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, has made it to the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist.Apart from Desai, the shortlist features Susan Choi (Flashlight), Katie Kitamura...
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Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk on Wednesday called off his 15-day hunger strike as the movement for statehood for Ladakh and extension of the Sixth Schedule took a violent turn with the BJP office and several vehicles set on fire and hundreds of people taking to the streets. Flames and dark...
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Trump at UNGA
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will travel from New York to Washington to meet US President Donald Trump on Thursday, as the two sides made a renewed push to reset their bilateral relations. Shehbaz is in New York to attend the UN General Assembly session. He will briefly travel from...
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The southwest monsoon that arrived in Himachal Pradesh on June 20 has withdrawn entirely from eight out of 12 districts, the local meteorological centre said on Wednesday. The southwest monsoon has withdrawn from Chamba, Kangra, Una, Hamirpur, Bilaspur, Solan, Sirmaur and Mandi districts,...
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As many as 71 Naxalites, 30 of them carrying a collective bounty of Rs 64 lakh, surrendered in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district on Wednesday, a police official said. The Naxalites, including 21 women, turned themselves in before senior police and CRPF officials, citing disappointment with the...
15:19
Former BJP MLA Raj Purohit has said that Congress governments did not give any awards to Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, but his party judges the actor purely on merit. Many people felt that the Congress overlooked Shah Rukh Khan, he told PTI Videos.Khan got the national award for best...
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday set November 12 to hear the issue over the statutory age of consent for adolescents, saying it would rather hear it in continuity than a piecemeal manner. The matter came up for hearing before a bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and N V Anjaria. We...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday claimed that the EC has put a lock on vote theft only after he raised the matter, and asked Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar when he would provide evidence to the Karnataka CID on the deletion of votes in Aland. The Leader of Opposition in...
14:39
Police fired teargas shells and resorted to baton charge after a group of youths allegedly turned violent and pelted stones amid a massive protest and shutdown here. The protest was held in support of the demand to advance the proposed talks with the Centre on extension of Sixth Schedule as...
14:29
In a strongly-worded letter to shareholders, Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani on Wednesday described the market regulator SEBI's dismissal of key allegations from the Hindenburg Research report as a powerful validation of the conglomerate's governance and transparency, and declared that truth...
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Setting the tone for the Bihar poll campaign, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday said the BJP has mentally retired Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and considers him to be a liability, while claiming that the upcoming assembly elections will mark the beginning of the end of the Modi...
13:59
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At the 60th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), Shah Faisal Mohammad, a representative of ECO-FAWN society, while addressing the Council, raised alarm over what he described as a gruesome terror attack and a blatant violation of international human rights and humanitarian...
13:46
Biennial elections to fill four Rajya Sabha seats from Jammu and Kashmir, lying vacant since 2021, will be held on October 24, the Election Commission said on Wednesday. While announcing the schedule, the EC said that the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir was bifurcated into the Union...
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In the backdrop of US President Donald Trump's tariff imposition and his actions on H1B visa, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said the very friends whom he boasts about as my friends are today putting India in numerous...
12:56
Shah Rukh Khan's children, Aryan and Suhana, have joined his fans and admirers in celebrating the Bollywood superstar's maiden National Film Award. Aryan and Suhana shared a heartfelt tribute to their father in a joint post on Instagram on Tuesday evening.You always said you never win silver,...
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J-K CM Omar Abdullah reacts to the 'I Love Muhammad' row. Omar Abdullah says, Why is anyone objecting to this? Who can object to writing these three words? I cannot understand how these three words can be the cause of arrests. Only someone mentally unwell can make a case out of these three...
12:22
A replica of the Ram Mandir available on the auction
PM Modi tweets on the official gifts he has received which will go under the hammer. Over the past few days, the online auction for the various gifts I have received during my different programmes has been underway. The auction includes very interesting works which illustrate the culture and...
12:11
Legendary India cricketer Sachin Tendulkar took to social media on Wednesday to wish his son, Arjun Tendulkar, on his 26th birthday. In a warm message, the batting great expressed pride in his son's journey so far.We are lucky to have you as our son. To watch you grow into the amazing human...
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Probably the only ones who enjoyed the floods were children
A significant number of surgeries were called off, only a handful of patients visited outpatient departments, and an even smaller number chose to be discharged or admitted to hospitals, reports the Telegraph, Kolkata.Most hospitals, both private and government, had several wings flooded. Machines...
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Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and her daughter, party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi skipped the Congress Working Committee meeting in Patna on Wednesday.Rahul Gandhi arrived alone for the CWC meeting. The Gandhis were in Kerala till Tuesday on a private...
11:38
Addressing his comments about Charlie Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel offered a tearful apology saying it was never his intention to make light of the murder and that it may have been an ill-timed statement, reports the BBC.Kimmel said he never wanted to blame any specific group for Kirk's murder and praised...
11:19
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Wednesday said that the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting in Patna will give a big boost to the Opposition INDIA bloc in Bihar, which goes to the Assembly poll later this year. It is a good thing that the CWC meeting is taking place in...
10:54
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed cautious optimism in India's support for Ukraine in its ongoing conflict with Russia, stating that India is mostly aligned with Kyiv's position, while acknowledging New Delhi's position on energy-related complexities.During an interview with Fox...
10:38
Delhi Police has booked a self-styled godman, Swami Chaitanyananda Saraswati alias Parth Sarthy, after several female students of a management institute here accused him of sexual harassment. Despite raids and surveillance, the accused remains on the run. The complaint was filed on August 4...
10:33
President Donald Trump, who holds the job once reserved for the leader for the free world, had no words of reassurance or poetic invocations of democratic values for America's alarmed allies in an address to the UN General Assembly in which he, as usual, gave most of the world's tyrants...
10:27
Gauri Khan reacted to the National Award for hubby and superstar Shah Rukh Khan yesterday. What a journey it's been @iamsrk. Congratulations on winning the National Award!!! So deserving' it's a result of your years of hardwork and dedication. Now I'm designing a special mantle for this...
10:20
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi arrived in Bihar's Patna to attend the CWC meeting here on Wednesday. The Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting will be held at Sadaqat Ashram, the party's state unit headquarters in Patna. Gandhi landed at the Jay Prakash Narayan International Airport in...
10:17
Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) in Navi Mumbai has featured among the 20 most-improved container ports globally in 2024, according to a preliminary report by the World Bank. JNPT ranked 19th globally among the ports that saw the highest improvement year-on-year, according to the...
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Kolkata struggled to return to normalcy on Wednesday as several areas, particularly Salt Lake and pockets of north and central part of the city, remained waterlogged, a day after torrential rain left 10 people dead and threw life out of gear in the metropolis. The Met department has ruled...
09:54
An escalator at the UN headquarters that abruptly halted just as US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump stepped onto it was stalled after a videographer accompanying them likely triggered a safety mechanism inadvertently while trying to capture their arrival, a UN spokesperson has...
09:33
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has submitted to the Bombay high court that disclosures by listed companies do not bind them or create liabilities, in response to petitions pertaining to the Kirloskar group firms.The market regulator stated that 'mere disclosure of any agreement by a...
09:29
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Local BJP workers allegedly forced a Congress functionary to wear a saree in public after he shared a morphed photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media. A local BJP office-bearer defended the act on Tuesday, saying it was a response to Congress functionary Mama alias Prakash...
09:23
The Supreme Court on Tuesday told the Central Bureau of Investigation to register six additional cases in its ongoing investigation into the 'unholy nexus' between developers and financial institutions to dupe homebuyers.This comes on top of the 22 cases that the CBI has already lodged.A...
09:14
While attending the UN General Assembly in New York, French President Emmanuel Macron found himself in an unexpected situation as he was stuck in traffic and had to dial in the US President. Macron, who was en route from the UN headquarters to a meeting at the French Embassy, was halted by...
09:09
For the first time after Independence, the historic Sadaqat Ashram in Patna, the Bihar state Congress headquarters, is set to witness a rare event as top Congress leaders arrive to attend the Congress Working Committee meeting on Wednesday.The last time the CWC met in Patna was in 1940!The party...
09:07
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday condoled the death of Saudi Arabia's grand mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Mohammed Al AlSheikh. Modi said on X, Deepest condolences on the sad demise of the Grand Mufti of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, His Eminence Sheikh Abdulaziz bin...
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Police have arrested a man for allegedly hiring a contract killer and getting his 70-year-old businessman father stabbed to death over a property dispute in Mumbai's Kandivali area, officials said. The incident took place on Sunday, and the police have arrested the victim's son...
08:54
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Tuesday told the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) that the choice of sharing or not sharing their data with an Internet intermediary should rest with only the consumer.In its submissions before the NCLAT, the competition regulator said...
08:50
United States President Donald Trump was very involved in bringing about the cessation of hostilities in the very dangerous conflict between India and Pakistan, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has claimed. Speaking at a United Nations Security Council Ministerial Meeting on Ukraine on...
08:15
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan referred to the Kashmir issue in the UN General Assembly and said his nation was pleased with the ceasefire between India and Pakistan after a period of conflict earlier this year.He said it is important to see cooperation between India and Pakistan on...
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The government on Tuesday said consumers who have not received the benefits of GST rate cut can register their complaints on toll free number 1915 or through WhatsApp at 8800001915. In a FAQ, the central board of indirect taxes and customs (CBIC) said aggrieved customers can call National...
01:07
A decades-old mosque in the Ramgarh Range of Uttarakhand's Rajaji Tiger Reserve was sealed on Tuesday in a joint operation by the sanctuary administration and police. Ramgarh range forest officer Ajay Dhyani stated that the mosque, located on 0.0008 hectares of forest land in the Asha Rodi...
00:35
A tremor of 2.3 magnitude was recorded on Tuesday night in Latur district of central Maharashtra, officials said. There was no report of any casualty or damage to property. The tremor was recorded at 8:13 pm in Murud Akola village and its epicentre was located to the west of Latur city...
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