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India and Brazil on Saturday set an annual bilateral trade target of USD 30 billion by 2030 even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva discussed implications of the US Supreme Court striking down Trump administration's reciprocal tariffs.Following...
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A man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly pushing his 35-year-old wife to death from the first floor of their residence in northeast Delhi, police said. Information about the incident was received around 12.30 am on Saturday from the GTB Hospital that a woman was brought to the facility...
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Bihar Governor Arif Mohammed Khan on Saturday said that after the disturbances caused by the Godhra tragedy in 2002, he was critical of Narendra Modi, then-chief minister of Gujarat, but his opinion changed after interacting with people. Khan was speaking at the launch of the book,...
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The Mumbai police had a success rate of 99 per cent in tracing missing children in the city last year, officials said on Saturday. The city cops solved 2,165 of the 2,182 cases of missing minors in 2025 and reunited the traced children with their families, they said. So far this year,...
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Hindus are the most highly educated religious group in the United States, followed by Jews, according to a new analysis by the Pew Research Centre which examined educational attainment across America's major faith communities. Washington-based think tank Pew Research Centre said the findings...
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The Adani Group is working on strategies to restart the Formula 1 motor sport at the Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida, Karan Adani, the MD of Adani Cement said on Saturday. According to official sources, Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya recently visited the circuit and held...
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The US, UK, China, and France are among 88 countries and international organisations to endorse 'New Delhi Declaration on AI Impact', with its adoption marking a significant milestone in global cooperation on artificial intelligence, an official release said on Saturday. On the principle of...
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Talks are on with landowners for acquiring plots adjacent to the Ram Temple complex to complete construction of the security wall, sources said on Saturday. The wall is supposed to be 12 metres high and 14 metres wide and is being built at a cost of about Rs 40 crore. It will...
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A special POCSO court in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj on Saturday ordered the Jhunsi Police Station SHO to register an FIR against Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati to investigate allegations of sexual abuse of boys. Last week, the court of Special Judge (POCSO Act) Vinod Kumar Chaurasia...
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Asserting that if India can be free of Naxals, it can also be free of infiltrators, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said that the illegal immigrants would be removed not only from the electoral rolls but also from the country in the next five years.Shah was addressing a gathering after...
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MDMK chief Vaiko, an ally of the ruling DMK, on Saturday claimed that expelled AIADMK leader O Panneerselvam has given the signal to join the DMK alliance.This was evident in his meeting with Chief Minister M K Stalin in Chennai on February 20, Vaiko said.He joined yesterday, Vaiko said in a...
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The ECI on Saturday published the final electoral roll in Kerala after the SIR exercise, with around nine lakh names removed from the list.The total number of voters in the state now stands at over 2.69 crore.The Election Commission of India also shared a...
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A minor scuffle broke out between two communities during Shivaji Jayanti celebrations in Chittapur taluk of Kalaburagi district, police said on Saturday.The situation was quickly brought under control, they said.The incident took place in Gokul Nagar area of Ravur village while Shivaji Jayanti...
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Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday launched a blistering attack on the Congress, alleging that the party has committed a big sin against the country by deploying its youth wing workers to hold a protest at India AI Impact Summit. Terming the protest as shameful, Rijiju alleged that...
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Lokayukta police on Saturday said they caught BJP MLA Chandru Lamani allegedly accepting a Rs 5 lakh bribe.The trap was laid by the Gadag Lokayukta police based on a complaint filed by a contractor.Today, a successful trap was laid by the Gadag Lokayukta police station. The accused public servant...
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Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Saturday said that law cannot remain a fortress erected to protect society from arbitrariness, and called on the young lawyers to make it a forum where differences are debated, rights articulated and power is reasoned with. Kant, during his address --...
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Union minister Chirag Paswan dismissed speculations about his mother Reena Paswan contesting the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls, noting that she wants to stay away from politics.Paswan, whose LJP-Ram Vilas does not have any representation in the Rajya Sabha, made the statement when reporters asked...
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A 4.4 magnitude earthquake jolted parts of north and northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, the second tremor to hit the country in as many days. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. The earthquake that struck at 9:30 am (local time) originated at a depth of 14...
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The Indian government is studying the developments on the US tariff and their implications, the commerce ministry said on Saturday. We have noted the US Supreme Court judgement on tariffs yesterday (Friday). US President Donald Trump has also addressed a press conference in this...
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Fears that artificial intelligence could render humans redundant are misplaced, with the real breakthrough lying in combining human judgement with machine-scale automation, Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer of Cisco, said.I don't see a scenario where humans are completely extinct...
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A 21-year-old woman was allegedly murdered by her husband, who smashed her head with a stone suspecting her fidelity, police said on Saturday.According to police, the incident took place in Kullegowdanapalya under the limits of Kaggalipura police station. The deceased has been identified as...
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A Delhi court on Saturday sent the four Indian Youth Congress (IYC) workers, who were arrested for protesting at the AI Impact Summit venue a day ago, to five-day police custody.Judicial Magistrate Ravi allowed the Delhi Police's plea seeking five days of custodial interrogation of the accused...
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NCP-SP MLA Rohit Pawar on Saturday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking the ouster of Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu and demanding an independent probe into the plane crash that killed Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar.Rohit Pawar, addressing a press conference in...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said Naxalism would be eliminated from the country by the March 31 deadline set by the government.Addressing the 87th CRPF Day Parade here, the first ever in the northeast, Shah said the force played an important role in Jammu and Kashmir, where the...
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A Delhi court on Saturday reserved its order on police's plea seeking five-day custody of the four Indian Youth Congress (IYC) workers, who were arrested for protesting at the AI Impact Summit venue a day ago.The arrested IYC workers were produced before Judicial Magistrate Ravi, who reserved the...
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Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said the government must state categorically that there will be no import liberalisation till clear cut clarifications from the American side and ensure that Indian farmers' interests are not hurt. Speaking with reporters in...
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Police are investigating a suspected leak after the class 12 Chemistry question paper was allegedly circulated on social media in Nagpur ahead of the exam being conducted by the Maharashtra board, officials said on Saturday. The exam malpractice came to light on Wednesday at a high...
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CRPF and Jammu and Kashmir SDRF personnel at the spot where a CRPF vehicle met with an accident near a water canal, in Ahmad Nagar, in Srinagar
Nine CRPF personnel were injured after their vehicle fell into a river Srinagar on Saturday, officials said. The accident occurred on the Dagpora-Umerhair Road in the Ahmadnagar locality on Srinagar outskirts. The vehicle fell into the river after the driver lost control of it,...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party leaders and workers on Saturday held a demonstration near Congress headquarters on Akbar Road in New Delhi against a shirtless protest by the latter's youth wing at the AI Impact Summit.The BJP protesters, carrying placards and raising slogans, slammed the Congress and...
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Security forces on Saturday detected an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Jammu and Kashmir's Ganderbal district, officials said.The IED was kept inside a bag and placed on the roadside at Gulab Sheikh Mohalla near Kohestan Colony in the district's Safapora area, they said.Officials said a...
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BJP workers staged a black-flag protest against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Mumbai on Saturday, calling it a response to the Youth Congress's protest at the AI Summit. Gandhi landed at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in the morning and travelled by road to...
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A militant was arrested in Manipur's Imphal West district, police said on Saturday.The member of the banned Kangleipak Communist Party (PSC) was arrested from Tera Lukram Leirak on Friday, they said.In another operation in Imphal East district, arms and ammunition were recovered, they added.Among...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday reached a magistrate's court in Maharashtra's Thane district to furnish a new surety in the defamation case filed against him by an RSS activist. The Bhiwandi magistrate's court had asked Gandhi to present a fresh surety in the case, as former Union...
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Security was tightened across key religious and heritage sites in Delhi on Saturday, including areas around the Red Fort and parts of Chandni Chowk, following intelligence inputs suggesting a possible terror threat, an official said. Security agencies issued an alert on a possible explosion...
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AI will replace operating systems and applications in mobile phones with AI agents, marking a fundamental shift in the mobile industry, said Qualcomm President and CEO Cristiano Amon at a keynote address at the India AI Summit on Friday.We expect AI is going to have a fundamental shift in the...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah will attend the CRPF's annual day parade in Guwahati on Saturday. The parade is being held for the first time in the Northeast. Shah is the chief guest at the parade, which will be held at the Arjun Bhogeswar Baruah Sports Complex. He will also lay the...
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Net foreign direct investment (FDI) remained negative for the fourth consecutive month in December 2025 due to a rise in repatriation, the Reserve Bank of India data showed.Net FDI stood at negative $1.61 billion as compared to negative $189 million in December 2024. Repatriation in December...
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As the US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's global tariffs, the Congress on Saturday alleged that the India-US interim trade deal is an ordeal the country is being subjected to by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's desperation and surrender. Congress general secretary in-charge...
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Four people were killed and seven sustained injuries after a speeding bus crashed into their van on a national highway in Madhya Pradesh's Bhind district in the wee hours of Saturday, the police said. The accident occurred around 2.30 am on National Highway 719 near Chhimka village under the...
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Telecom firm Bharti Airtel, India's second-largest carrier, and United States-based enterprise Cloud-security provider Zscaler on Friday launched an AI (artificial intelligence) and Cyber Threat Research Centre--India, which will identify and flag potential digital threats aimed at industriesand...
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India's top CEOs of IT services companies came out in defence of the three-decade-old industry, at a time when its viability has been questioned due to the impact of artificial intelligence agents.Tata Consultancy Services CEO and MD K Krithivasan said he does not foresee a 'significant...
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Mumbai has recorded its fifth-highest Air Quality Index (AQI) of February at 130, categorised as 'moderate' by the Central Pollution Control Board's SAMEER app. As per the CPCB's official AQI-monitoring application, this was recorded on Friday evening based on data collected from various...
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US Vice President JD Vance criticised the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling that the Trump administration exceeded its legal authority by using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977 to impose broad-based import tariffs.In a post on X, Vance said the SC decision is lawlessness...
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US President Donald Trump on Friday (US local time) signed an order making 10 per cent global tariff on all countries, effective almost immediately.Sharing the announcement in a post on Truth Social, the US President said, It is my Great Honor to have just signed, from the Oval Office, a Global...
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The Allahabad high court has quashed criminal proceedings against two students accused of offering namaaz at a place barred by the local administration. A single judge bench of Justice Saurabh Srivastava set aside the proceedings arising out of an FIR lodged under sections 143 (member of...
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In the wake of the US Supreme Court's decision on tariffs, President Donald Trump said there is no change in the trade deal with India and emphasised that the India deal is on. I think my relationship with India is fantastic and we're doing trade with India. India pulled out of Russia. India...
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An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 struck Afghanistan on Friday, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 70km. In a post on X, the NCS said, EQ of M: 5.7, On: 20/02/2026 18:39:54 IST, Lat: 35.52 N, Long: 69.98 E, Depth: 70 Km,...
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The police resorted to lathi-charge to control the situation after members of two communities gathered in Kamareddy district of Telangana following an argument between a man and the staff members of a mall on Friday.The man, who visited the the mall at Banswada Friday evening, questioned...
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US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that the Supreme Court's ruling that his administration's sweeping tariffs on goods from nearly all partner countries violated federal law is deeply disappointing.The Supreme Court's ruling is deeply disappointing, and I am ashamed of certain members of...
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