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An Islamic cleric was arrested here in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday following an FIR against him over objectionable remarks on Hindu deities in a video clip circulated on social media, police said.Accused Maulana Maroof Raza Khan was arrested after a complaint was lodged at the Baheri police...
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A man and his wife were arrested here on Thursday after he allegedly assaulted and caused the death of his 30-year-old son for demanding non-vegetarian food in the month of Shravan, the police said.The incident took place in Warje area on August 24 and the deceased was identified as Mahesh...
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The devastating flash floods wreaked havoc across Nepal, with the ministry of external affairs (MEA) on Thursday stating that 84 Indian nationals have been rescued while 290 remain uncontactable as the Himalayan nation stepped up search, rescue and relief operations following the disaster that...
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A Raksha Bandhan event organised in Bareilly on Thursday for women where sarees were distributed saw a brief commotion, with some women fainting and a few children getting separated from their mothers for some anxious moments, officials said.The police, however, denied reports of any death at the...
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A 33-year-old private tutor has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting and molesting a 17-year-old Mumbai student preparing for medical entrance examination NEET, a police official said on Thursday.According to the Shahu Nagar police station official, the female student's harassment...
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Three more persons, including the alleged suppliers of methanol used to manufacture toxic liquor, have been arrested in the Bhavnagar hooch tragedy, taking the total to 31, the Gujarat police said on Thursday.The latest arrests were made in Delhi with the help of the local police as the Gujarat...
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Two government school teachers in Yadgir district have been suspended pending departmental inquiry for participating in RSS Patha Sanchalana, with the education department holding that their participation prima facie violated provisions of the Karnataka Civil Services (Conduct) Rules, 2021.The...
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Himachal Pradesh will face a fresh spell of heavy rain, with the Shimla meteorological office issuing a yellow warning for isolated heavy showers from August 31 to September 2, even as 70 roads remained closed across the state on Thursday evening.The Met office predicted a wet spell in the state...
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An NRI couple from Odisha have gone missing in Nepal following devastating flash floods there, and efforts were underway to trace them, officials said on Thursday.Sandeep Mohapatra and his wife Sidharthi Kumari Sahu, natives of Khurda district and settled in Australia since 2018, have been...
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Eleven persons from Gujarat remain missing in flood-hit Nepal, with authorities establishing contact with one woman who was earlier reported untraceable but was found to be safe later, officials said on Wednesday.The Gujarat State Emergency Operations Centre (SEOC) had earlier received...
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Fraudsters extorted Rs 22 lakh from an elderly couple here through so-called digital arrest, harassing and threatening them through video calls for two months, the Bhopal police said on Thursday.The victims were so scared by the fraudsters' threats that they returned to Bhopal from Andhra Pradesh...
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Yash in 'Toxic'.
Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups, the much-awaited pan-India movie starring KGF actor Yash, has opened to a strong response at the box office, collecting Rs 108 crore net in India on its first day across all languages except English, the makers said on Thursday.Directed by Geetu Mohandas,...
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Three bodies, including those of two women, were recovered from the Gandak river in Uttar Pradesh's Maharajganj district on Thursday after they were apparently swept downstream from flood-hit Nepal, officials said. A rescue team of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), while monitoring the river...
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The transport ministry has proposed amendments to the Central Motor Vehicles rules to make it mandatory for automatic headlamps in new two-wheelers to work only in passing beam (low beam mode) from April .The move is aimed at reducing glare and improving vision of other road users.The ministry of...
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Three persons were rescued after getting stranded on a bridge flooded by the swollen Gerua river in Jharkhand's Chatra district on Thursday, police said.One of them fainted after seeing the swollen river and was admitted to a community health centre, they said.The incident took place within...
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The police have recommended cancellation of a private bus permit after its crew allegedly dropped a woman on an elevated, unlit stretch of the national highway at night, officials said.The Payyoli police submitted a report to the Motor Vehicles Department recommending cancellation of the bus...
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The Ahmedabad city crime branch and the Food and Drugs Control Administration (FDCA) have busted an interstate syndicate involved in the manufacture and distribution of a counterfeit blood pressure medicine and arrested three persons, officials said on Thursday.A pharmaceutical company in...
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The Ahmedabad city crime branch and the Food and Drugs Control Administration (FDCA) have busted an interstate syndicate involved in the manufacture and distribution of a counterfeit blood pressure medicine and arrested three persons, officials said on Thursday.A pharmaceutical company in...
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The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday said it has seized and frozen assets worth Rs 33 crore following searches against promoters of a Gurugram-based real estate company as part of a money laundering investigation into a fraud with homebuyers.The raids were undertaken at seven residential and...
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At least four people were killed in an ambush by armed militants in Manipur's Kangpokpi district on Thursday, officials said. Another person went missing after the militants attacked a vehicle in an isolated area between Makui Ashang and Thabamba Naga, they said.All four, belonging to the...
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At least four people were killed in an ambush by armed militants in Manipur's Kangpokpi district on Thursday, officials said. Another person went missing after the militants attacked a vehicle in an isolated area between Makui Ashang and Thabamba Naga, they said.All four, belonging to the...
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The rupee pared initial gains and settled for the day lower by 11 paise at 95.55 (provisional) against the US dollar on Thursday, on a strong American currency and weak domestic markets.Forex traders said the broad strength of the American currency in the overseas market negated the support from...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday announced that the state government has decided to give auto-rickshaw and taxi drivers one year to learn functional Marathi.No action will be taken against drivers during this period for not having the required knowledge of the state's...
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay on Thursday made heads turn in the state Assembly when he casually moved from his chair in the House and sat besides ministers in the front row, marking a major departure from a long-standing tradition vis-a-vis seating.Normally, the chief minister...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to embark on a four-day visit to Uzbekistan and the Kyrgyz Republic from August 29 to September 1, during which he will undertake a bilateral visit to Tashkent and participate in the 26th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Bishkek.Modi's visit to...
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A visa denial for a Kailash Mansarovar pilgrimage helped a woman from West Bengal avert the flash floods in Nepal that claimed 270 lives a day ago.Had her Chinese visa been granted, she would have been among the 33 people from the state who had planned to travel to the Himalayan country as part...
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Benchmark indices fell sharply at the fag-end of trade on Thursday, with the Sensex dropping 539 points and the Nifty slipping below 24,100, as selling in blue-chip HDFC Bank and persistent geopolitical uncertainty weighed on market sentiment.Falling for the second day, the 30-share BSE Sensex...
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The police suspect that a man known to a 21-year-old Delhi University SOL student stabbed her multiple times to death at her home in the Tilak Nagar area because he was enraged over her talking to another person, an official said on Thursday. The accused, identified as Imran (26), is...
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The police suspect that a man known to a 21-year-old Delhi University SOL student stabbed her multiple times to death at her home in the Tilak Nagar area because he was enraged over her talking to another person, an official said on Thursday. The accused, identified as Imran (26), is...
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The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said that 288 Indian nationals remain uncontactable following the devastating flash floods in Nepal on Wednesday morning, while around 200 Indians undertaking the Mansarovar Yatra have sought evacuation.MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal on Thursday said a...
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A man shows a photo of his missing family members. Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
Nepal's former Forest and Environment Minister Madhav Prasad Chaulagain on Thursday flagged a lack of timely information exchange between Nepal and China ahead of the devastating floods in the country as concerning and said the scale of the disaster was so huge that the toll could rise...
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An injured woman is shifted to a hospital in Kathmandu
More than 40 charter flights by private helicopters have taken off from Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport on Thursday to carry relief supplies to flood-affected areas of Nepal, including Rasuwa, authorities said.The flights were coordinated and managed by the Nepal Army, with its 14th...
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Benchmark indices fell sharply at the fag-end of trade on Thursday, with the Sensex dropping 539 points and the Nifty slipping below 24,100, as selling in blue-chip HDFC Bank and persistent geopolitical uncertainty weighed on market sentiment.Falling for the second day, the 30-share BSE Sensex...
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Two hundred and eighty-eight Indians remain missing following the devastating flash floods in Nepal, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday.MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said the missing Indians included those working on hydropower projects and tourist groups.Twenty-one...
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Giri Lal has been left with memories of his wife and four children after Wednesday's flash floods swept through Timure, a border town in Nepal's Rasuwa district.The 38-year-old was among those caught in a disaster that unfolded with such terrifying speed that, for many who witnessed it, it felt...
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A glacier collapse in Tibet triggered catastrophic flash flooding on Wednesday across a border region of China and Nepal, leaving more than 177 people dead and over 1,300 missing as of Thursday. Many of those unaccounted for were foreign trekkers or pilgrims visiting Kailash Mansarovar.The number...
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Thousands of families have lost their homes in the flash floods
For Ilavarasi from Thanjavur, embarking on a 'Kailash yatra', was a long-time ambition and her dream came true this year, but the woman has now gone incommunicado following the devastating floods in Nepal.Her distraught son, Murali, told PTI Videos that his mother saved up on her pension to take...
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Spiritual leader Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev has expressed anguish over a devastating flash flood near the Tibet-Nepal border and said 77 members of an Isha Foundation Kailash pilgrimage group remain unaccounted for after the disaster struck the Gyirong area in Tibet. The Spiriitual leader who is in...
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Stepping up its prompt disaster response in the wake of catastrophic flash floods that left hundreds unaccounted for, New Delhi sent out a second aircraft loaded with 37.5 tonnes of humanitarian aid, essential pharmaceuticals, and food supplies to Nepal on Thursday.Weighing in on the ongoing...
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Bengali actor Kharaj Mukherjee, known for films such as Kahaani and Special 26, and his wife Pratibha are stranded in Nepal following the devastating flash floods, their family said on Thursday.The couple had travelled to the Himalayan country on August 20 with the production team of a...
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The death toll in the massive flash floods in Nepal rose to 177, as authorities in Nepal on Thursday race against time to find hundreds of missing people, including 300 Indian tourists, in one of the country's worst disasters in recent years.The flash floods on Wednesday wreaked havoc across...
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The NDRF on Thursday said there has been no adverse impact of the devastating Nepal flash floods in the border areas of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh till now, but the situation is being continuously monitored in coordination with the two states governments.National Disaster Response Force (NDRF)...
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India will add 100 vessels to its merchant ship fleet over the next five years, Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal said.The government has been attempting to woo foreign shipowners to reflag their vessels under the Indian flag. Reflagging a vessel means changing...
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Mud covers houses in Trishuli after the flash flood. Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
An advocate from Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, named Manoharan on Thursday voiced concern after his sister in law, undertaking a spiritual pilgrimage to Mount Kailash via Nepal, got caught in a devastating road accident involving multiple tour buses, amid flash floods that have struck Nepal's...
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A list of injured people pasted on a hospital wall. Sabrina Dangol/Reuters
As Nepali newspapers report the loss of several lives in a devastating flash flood in the Bhote Koshi River in Nepal's Rasuwa district, the scale of the tragedy continues to evoke widespread grief and anxiety across the Himalayan nation.Speaking to ANI, reflecting on the profound impact of the...
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Bihar CM Samrat Choudhary
Bihar CM Samrat Choudhary conducts an aerial survey of the flood situation in Bihar's border areas of Bagaha, Valmiki Nagar, Bettiah, and Motihari, in view of the floods in Nepal.Bihar CM says, A review was conducted of administrative preparations regarding potential impacts, necessary...
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Nepal army rescues an injured person
Amid heavy rainfall and severe flooding in neighbouring Nepal, the Uttarakhand State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) has intensified its vigil in the border district of Champawat, with the Tanakpur post placed on high alert to deal with any possible rise in the water level of the Sharda River.The...
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NDRF teams load relief material onto an IAF C-130J aircraft at Hindon Airbase
Nepal was struck by massive flash floods following a powerful surge along the Bhote Koshi River, resulting in a devastating loss of life, widespread displacement, and extensive damage to homes, roads, bridges, hydropower facilities, and other critical infrastructure.Nepal's security and...
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India is monitoring the situation in Nepal and border districts 24X7
Nearly 300 Indian tourists are among thousands who are reportedly missing after a flash flood swept through parts of the Nepal-Tibet border, Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal said on Thursday.The flash floods on Wednesday wreaked havoc across three districts in Nepal.Nepal Foreign Minister Khanal on...
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University considered teaching MBA students outside US after White House sought to bar international students. Read more here.
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Providing a detailed update on the unfolding disaster response following the massive flash floods, the Central Spokesperson of Nepal Police Headquarters, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Abhi Narayan Kapale outlined the extensive deployment of security personnel across affected regions.Detailing...
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A drone view shows mud covering buildings in Trishuli. Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
Following the flood tragedy in Nepal, an atmosphere of fear prevailed in the Uttar Pradesh-Bihar border in Kushinagar district. However, as floodwaters did not enter overnight, villagers breathed a sigh of relief in the morning.However, due to heavy rainwater accumulation along the routes...
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Haldiram Snacks (Haldiram's), one of India's largest packaged snack and food companies, has proposed to invest Rs 1,000 crore in setting up a new manufacturing plant in Odisha.The company plans to invest in three phases for its savoury snack and baked product manufacturing unit. The state...
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German semiconductor major Infineon Technologies has leased 632,000 square feet of office space in Bengaluru's Whitefield for a total rent of over Rs 750 crore for 10 years.According to documents accessed by Propstack, real estate data analytics platform, Infineon will pay rent for a chargeable...
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A 26-year-old man, who was recently granted bail in a robbery case, was allegedly hacked to death by a woman at her residence in Sivakasi after she accused him of repeatedly harassing and sexually troubling her, police said.The deceased has been identified as Thanga Muneeswaran, a resident of...
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The flood and landslides have obstructed various road sections, including a national highway in nine districts, according to a statement issued by Nepal Police.In some places, the collection of mud and rocks has blocked the road, while in other places transportation has been halted due to...
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The death toll in the massive flash floods in Nepal rose to 162, leaving many, including security personnel and foreign tourists, missing in one of the country's worst disasters in recent years, police said on Thursday.The flash floods on Wednesday wreaked havoc across three districts in...
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Multiple state governments, along with the Embassy of India in Kathmandu, have activated emergency helplines to assist affected individuals after families after devastating flash floods struck Nepal's Bhotekoshi River on Wednesday, killing atleast 157 individuals while 400 remain missing.The...
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A 32-member group from Kolkata on the Kailash-Mansarovar Yatra was among many from West Bengal, who went untraceable after the flash floods in Nepal, an official said.The group, comprising 30 tourists and two tour managers, left the city on August 21 and reached Nepal the following day, he...
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Vigilance has been stepped up in Uttarakhand's border district of Champawat following severe floods in Nepal on Wednesday. The Tanakpur post of the SDRF has been placed on high alert, and people have been urged to stay away from the banks of the Sharda River, officials said.According to...
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A woman is transported to a safer place at Trishuli. Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
Payyanur MLA V Kunhikrishnan has said that 37 people from his constituency are stranded in Nepal following flooding and are unable to proceed with their journey or return home.In a Facebook post on Wednesday night, Kunhikrishnan said he had brought the matter to the attention of Chief Minister VD...
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China's Xinhua News Agency said on Thursday that mudslides triggered by a glacial collapse in Tibet killed three people and left 558 missing.State broadcaster CCTV said 260 of those missing were foreigners and two villagers had been rescued, the Associated Press reported.In Nepal, police said at...
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The state-run Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya (IGKV) in Raipur has demanded a police investigation into the alleged leak of another BSc Agriculture question paper, officials said.Earlier, exams of two BSc Agriculture subjects were cancelled after their question papers were allegedly...
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Ahead of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat's upcoming 'Universal Oneness Celebration' at Madison Square Garden in New York City, the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) has issued an official community advisory alert.The security advisory was issued by the American non-profit advocacy...
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With several large block deals worth Rs 10,300 crore on Wednesday, block-window sales in August so far surged to Rs 30,957 crore -- the highest since June 2025.Earlier in 2026, June recorded Rs 29,981 crore worth block deals, and May saw Rs 27,090 crore. In July, the same stood at Rs 7,006...
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United States President Donald Trump has stated that he believes Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is still alive, though he suffered severe injuries during ongoing military operations, as mystery continues to shroud the appearance of the Iranian leader.Speaking in an interview with US...
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Demonstrating unflagging solidarity during a time of crisis following catastrophic flash floods, the Embassy of India in Nepal has stepped forward with crucial backing, underscoring its deep-rooted partnership with the Himalayan nation.Emphasising its steadfast commitment to the Himalayan nation...
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The World Bank on Wednesday offered Nepalese Rs. 25 billion in emergency financial assistance to flood-hit Nepal for the rescue, relief and reconstruction of affected areas, according to the Ministry of Finance.Soon after news of the flood spread, the World Bank's Country Director for Nepal,...
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Bihar was put on high alert on Wednesday as floodwaters from Nepal entered the Gandak river and reached the Gandak Barrage, prompting authorities to open all 36 gates to control the surge, officials said.The barrage is situated at Valmikinagar in West Champaran, the northernmost district of the...
