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Nearly a week after Chief Minister Omar Abdullah advocated increase in frequency of the trains between Kashmir and Jammu regions, the Northern Railway on Monday extended the service of Budgam-Banihal special train to Katra with effect from February 11. The service of special train numbers...
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Karnataka deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Monday said that he would go to New Delhi to meet party leaders on February 10.I will be meeting the party leaders who have called me to Delhi. During the visit, I will also meet Union Water Resource Minister C R Patil and legal counsels as well,...
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Two persons were arrested here for allegedly gangraping a friend's wife after paying Rs 1,000 to the husband, police said on Monday. According to the police, a 30-year-old woman -- resident of Faizganj Behta police station area -- lodged a complaint on Sunday evening alleging that her...
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At least three police personnel, including a SHO, and two others were injured when mobs went on a rampage in Patna and Saharsa districts on Monday, officials said.In Saharsa's Patarghat locality, policemen were attacked by a mob when they went to rescue an auto-driver who had been held captive by...
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A Congress candidate won the Zilla Parishad polls in Latur by a wafer-thin margin of two votes, an official said on Monday. Congress candidate Asha Bhise, who received 6871 votes, defeated her sister-in-law and BJP candidate Sarita Bhise, who garnered 6869 votes, in the Kamkheda Zilla...
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The Delhi police issued non-bailable warrants against two contractors in connection with the death of a 25-year-old biker after falling into an uncovered DJB pit in the Janakpuri area, an officer said on Monday.The police have also extended judicial custody of a third accused, and sent to...
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Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra slammed Air India over its lack of clarity amid a flight delay.Bindra, who won India's first individual Olympic gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Games, termed Air India's lack of information to the passengers as 'unacceptable'.'Hate to complain, but this is...
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The Kolkata police arrested a man from Bihar and seized six firearms and 11 rounds of ammunition from his possession following a tip-off about illegal arms being smuggled into West Bengal, an officer said on Monday.The arrest was made on Sunday night after police received specific intelligence...
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The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Delhi high court to accord an out-of-turn hearing to expelled BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar's plea challenging his conviction in the custodial death case of the Unnao rape survivor's father, and said it be decided within three months. While refusing to...
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The Delhi police registered an FIR over the circulation of an unpublished book of former Chief of Army Staff Gen M M Naravane on social media, an official statement said Monday. The Delhi Police has taken cognisance of information circulating on social media platforms and online news forums...
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Three girls were killed and six others, including a couple, were injured after the roof of the Mata Temple collapsed in Morena district in Madhya Pradesh on Monday, a police official said. The incident took place at 2pm in Ahrauli village when the roof was being demolished to build a dome,...
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The police on Monday said that a 24-year-old man was arrested for allegedly assaulting a TTE and a police official after he was caught travelling without a ticket on a train in Kochi.The arrested person was identified as Shahil, a native of Mattancherry, who was travelling on the Maveli Express...
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A 37-year-old Indian-Canadian died after being shot by unidentified men in the parking lot of a busy shopping centre in Toronto, Canada, the police said. In a statement on Sunday, the Toronto Police Service identified the victim as Chandan Kumar Raja Nandakumar of Brampton. On Saturday,...
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Four girls allegedly died by suicide together after their parents scolded them for mingling with boys at a place in Bihar's Aurangabad district, a senior police officer said on Monday. Five girls, aged between 10 and 14 years, had reportedly consumed some poisonous substance on January 29 in...
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The rupee witnessed a volatile trading session and settled for the day on a lower note, down 9 paise at 90.74 (provisional) against the US dollar on Monday, as traders assessed the details of the India-US interim trade framework. Forex traders said the rupee witnessed high volatility as the...
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The deaths of two children at the state-run Dr BC Roy PG Institute of Paediatric Sciences in Kolkata triggered protests by their families, who alleged medical negligence. A one-and-a-half-year-old baby from New Town was taken to the hospital on Saturday with fever, but was advised oral...
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Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty extended their gains for the second straight session on Monday, driven by robust buying across all segments after India and the US reached a trade deal, putting an end to tariff uncertainties. The 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 485.35 points, or 0.58...
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Amid West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's apprehension of mass exclusion of voters in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state, the Supreme Court on Monday said it would not allow anyone to create an impediment in the exercise. A bench comprising Chief...
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In a push for environmental conservation, Devi Ahilya University in Indore is considering imposing fines on colleges that fail to maintain adequate greenery on their campuses, an official from the varsity said on Monday. The Madhya Pradesh government's higher education department has always...
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Unidentified persons allegedly pelted stones at the Kashi Mahakal Express near Bhimsen railway station here, damaging a window of a First AC coach and causing panic among passengers. No one was injured in the incident that occurred around 9 pm on Sunday, shortly after the train, travelling...
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The SIT probing the alleged suicide of Confident Group chairman C J Roy is examining multiple papers and documents seized during the investigation, including a nine-page note purportedly written by the real estate baron in red ink, police sources said on Monday. We are currently examining...
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The Supreme Court on Monday deferred to February 23 pleas of Meta Platforms Inc and WhatsApp against a Competition Commission of India (CCI) order imposing a penalty of Rs 213.14 crore over privacy policy. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya...
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Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam MP Tiruchi Siva on Monday submitted a notice of breach of privilege in the Rajya Sabha against Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal for giving details of the Indo-US trade deal outside the House when Parliament was in session.When the House met for the day, Siva...
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Subscribers of retirement fund body EPFO will be able to withdraw their employees' provident fund (EPF) directly into their bank accounts through UPI payment gateway using its newly designed mobile application to be launched in April this year, a top source said. The labour ministry is...
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday demanded a 'transparant explanation' from Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi over his 'visit to Rawalpindi district of Pakistan', asserting that his visa 'explicitly permitted travel only to Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad'.Sarma, in a post on X, said...
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NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar was taken to a hospital in Pune city from his residence in Baramati on Monday afternoon following complaints related to the throat as well as coughing. A close aide said the 85-year-old opposition stalwart was being taken to Ruby Hall Clinic as he is suffering...
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An elderly woman was killed and another was injured when a fire broke out at a 13-storey building in Mumbai on Monday morning, officials said.The blaze erupted on the 13th floor of Suvidha Pearl Building in Vile Parle (East) in the city's western suburbs at 9.51 am, they said.At least five fire...
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Assam Congress president Gaurav Gogoi on Monday accused Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma of 'inciting genocide' against Muslims through his videos, and urged police to take suo motu cognisance.Gogoi was alluding to a now-deleted video, shared by the state Bharatiya Janata Party on X,...
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The Bombay high court on Monday granted bail to Akashdeep Karaj Singh, an accused in the murder of Congress leader and former MLA Baba Siddique, making him the first person to get relief in the case.A bench of Justice Neela Gokhale directed Singh, a resident of Punjab, not to leave Mumbai until...
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A video clip, purportedly showing a policeman verbally abusing a migrant worker employed at a roadside eatery in Erode, Tamil Nadu, has gone viral and authorities said on Monday that the errant personnel has been transferred to the Armed Reserve.The policeman, who appeared to be furious, had...
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Opposition members of the Rajya Sabha on Monday staged a walkout from the House while raising the issue of LoP Mallikarjun Kharge not being allowed to speak.Congress member Kharge rose during Question Hour to say that the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi was not allowed to...
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An email threatening to blow up the Patna Civil court premises was received on Monday, sending the administration into a tizzy, in the second such instance of its kind in a month.Police personnel, who rushed to the spot to carry out searches, were so far tight-lipped, even as judicial work was...
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A first-year law college student in Punjab's Tarn Taran district allegedly shot dead a fellow student on Monday and later shot himself with the same weapon, the police said.Prince Raj opened fire on Sandeep Kaur in the classroom, leading to her death. Thereafter, he shot himself too, Deputy...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said students should not let technology enslave them, but use it to increase their potential.In the second episode of Pariksha Pe Charcha, he noted that mobile phones have become masters of some children, who cannot even eat food without them or without a...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party and its Mahayuti ally Shiv Sena were ahead of their rivals in the early trends of the Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samiti polls in Maharashtra as counting of votes began on Monday morning.The BJP established an early lead in 26 seats of Zilla Parishads and Eknath...
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Opposition MPs have planned to move a no-confidence motion against Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, sources said on Monday.This comes in the backdrop of the Opposition alleging that the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, was not allowed to speak in the House during the discussion on...
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Maharashtra Congress on Monday criticised the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) for its chief Mohan Bhagwat having a meal with singer-composer Adnan Sami, alleging that it amounted to being anti-national. In a post on X, the Opposition party said that Adnan Sami's father had served as a...
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Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Monday announced a judicial inquiry into the blast at the illegal coal mine in East Jaintia Hills district that claimed the lives of 27 people. The explosion happened last week at the illegal mine in the remote Thangsku area in Mynsngat...
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Delhi's air quality worsened on Monday, slipping back into the 'poor' category after a day's respite in the 'moderate' category. The Air Quality Index (AQI) was recorded at 216, deteriorating from Sunday's AQI of 189. According to the Central Pollution Control Board's (CPCB) SAMEER app,...
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Bharatiya Janata Party MP Tejasvi Surya was on Monday detained for staging a demonstration at Jayanagar Metro station demanding affordable public transport in Bengaluru, police said.Surya, who is also the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) national president, staged protest at the Metro Station...
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France and Canada have formally opened diplomatic consulates in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, in a strategic move that underscores growing international engagement in the Arctic amid heightened tensions over US interest in the territory, reported CNN.The semi-autonomous Danish region has become...
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Armed militants allegedly torched several houses in Manipur's Ukhrul district, as tensions simmered in the area after a Tangkhul Naga community member was 'assaulted' by a group of people, officials said on Monday.Two tribal groups had on Sunday evening engaged in intense stone pelting at Litan...
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A Dalit youth was brutally assaulted here and lost eyesight in one eye after an attacker allegedly pierced a motorcycle key when an argument over the former defecating near a canal escalated, police said on Monday.The injured youth, Rahul, in early 20's, was referred in a critical condition from...
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'Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in one of the most prominent cases prosecuted under a China-imposed national security law that has virtually silenced the city's dissent,' according to Associated...
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Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won a two-thirds majority in the House of Representatives in Sunday's general election, handing Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi a decisive mandate to advance her conservative policy agenda, Kyodo News reported.Crossing the two-thirds threshold of 310...
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Two Electronic Voting Machines were found in a car near an eatery in Maharashtra's Solapur district, with the State Election Commission on Sunday promising strict action in the matter while clarifying that the sanctity of the poll process was maintained as these were 'reserve' devices.Elections...
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Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal clarified that India's decisions on Russian oil imports are taken solely by domestic buyers and are not dictated by the recently concluded India-US interim trade agreement framework, noting that it is in the country's 'strategic interest' to...
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