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Senior BJP leader and Lok Sabha MP Narayan Rane on Sunday dropped retirement hints by claiming he had now decided to sit at home and look after his family's business interests. The 73-year-old former Maharashtra chief minister also said politics today was marked by conspiracies, which...
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Senior BJP leader and Lok Sabha MP Narayan Rane on Sunday dropped retirement hints by claiming he had now decided to sit at home and look after his family's business interests. The 73-year-old former Maharashtra chief minister also said politics today was marked by conspiracies, which...
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US President Donald Trump on Sunday posted a list of several countries, including Pakistan, Bhutan, China, Bangladesh and Nepal, to highlight rates of welfare and assistance received by immigrants from those countries in the US, a compilation that does not include India. The Immigrant...
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A jeweller was allegedly shot dead at his residence in Mathura's Govind Nagar area on Sunday, the police said as they suspect robbery to be a reason behind the killing as his house was ransacked. According to the police, the body of 62-year-old Satish Chandra Garg was found inside his home...
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Sunday announced Rs 3,000 cash gift for harvest festival 'Pongal' to rice category ration card holders and to all families that reside in rehabilitation camps for Sri Lankan Tamils.Ahead of Pongal, a gift hamper comprising one kilo each of rice and sugar...
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A 12-year-old girl was found hanging in her hostel room in Latur's Navodaya Vidyalaya on Sunday morning, a police official said. The Class VI student, a resident of Taka in Ausa tehsil, allegedly committed suicide with a towel, assistant police inspector DP Samap told PTI. The incident...
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Shiv Sena-UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray and MNS president Raj Thackeray
A monthly allowance of Rs 1,500 for domestic helps and women from the fishing community who sell fish, 100 units of free power, and property tax waiver for houses up to 700 sq feet are key promises for Mumbai voters made in a joint Shiv Sena-UBT-MNS manifesto. The Vachan Nama, Shabd...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday expressed confidence that the NDA would emerge victorious in the Assembly polls due this year in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. Addressing a mega BJP rally in Pudukottai in Tamil Nadu, Shah listed out BJP-NDA's wins since 2024, including a third...
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India's foreign exchange reserves rose by $3.293 billion in the week that ended December 26 to $696.610 billion, driven by a jump in both gold reserves and foreign currency assets, the Reserve Bank of India's latest 'Weekly Statistical Supplement' data showed. Over the past few weeks, the...
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An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 hit Udayapur district in eastern Nepal, officials said.There were no immediate reports of loss of lives or damage of any kind due to the quake.The earthquake struck at 10:51 pm on Saturday with its epicentre located at Bagapati in the Udayapur district, according to...
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At least 13 children have fallen ill after consuming washnuts or soapberries in Assam's Jorhat district, officials said on Sunday.According to a senior health department official, the incident took place at Bor Soycotte Tea Estate in Titabar earlier during the day.The minors consumed the...
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Aam Aadmi Party leader and village sarpanch Jharmal Singh was allegedly shot dead by unidentified assailants at a wedding venue in Amritsar on Sunday, the police said. According to the police, Singh, a resident of Valthoa village in Tarn Taran district, was attending a marriage ceremony in...
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A fire broke out at a multi-storey residential building in east Delhi's Mandawali area on Sunday following an LPG cylinder blast, an official said. No casualties were reported in the incident; however, three personnel from the Delhi Fire Service (DFS) were injured during firefighting...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday began a six-day visit to France and Luxembourg to hold talks on bilateral and global issues of mutual interests. In Paris, he will be meeting the French leadership and will hold talks with Foreign Minister Jean Noel Barrot, according to the...
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Reality television personality Jay Dudhane has been arrested at the Mumbai airport in connection with an alleged real estate scam, the police said on Sunday. His arrest follows an FIR lodged by a retired engineer who alleged that Dudhane and four of his family members defrauded him of Rs...
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Foreign affairs expert Waiel Awwad on Sunday strongly criticised the United States over deposed Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, saying the episode once again showed that international law and the UN Charter no longer hold meaning. It is once again proved that there is no international...
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A 15-year-old girl died reportedly of a heart attack some time after she secured third position in a marathon in her school in Talasari area of Maharashtra's Palghar district, an official said on Sunday. The incident took place on Saturday when the Bharati Academy English School in...
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A 30-year-old Dalit woman has been stabbed to death in the road in Yellapur town of Uttara Kannada district on Saturday, allegedly by a man known to her, police said.The accused Rafique Imamsab was later found dead by hanging from a tree in the forest near Yellapur on Sunday, the Superintendent...
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A 12-year-old boy who was regularly chained by his parents inside their house for the last two months has been rescued in Nagpur, police said on Saturday. The parents, both daily wagers, claimed that they took the extreme step as he had behavioural issues and they did not know how to...
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The Congress on Sunday expressed grave concern over the US action in Venezuela and said settled principles of international law cannot be violated unilaterally. Congress general secretary communications Jairam Ramesh said, The INC expresses very grave concern on US actions relating to...
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Actors Mahhi Vij and Jay Bhanushali have announced their divorce with a post on social media and said they will continue to co-parent their children. The actors shared a joint note on Instagram stories on Sunday. It said there's no villain in the story and no negativity attached to...
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Families of the victims of the Goa nightclub fire held a protest at Delhi's Jantar Mantar on Sunday, demanding a death sentence for the owners of the club where the tragedy occurred. Raising slogans such as hang the killers, the protesters named brothers Saurabh Luthra and Gaurav Luthra,...
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The US-Venezuela conflict will have a negligible impact on India's trade with the South American country, think tank GTRI said on Sunday. On January 4, American forces carried out a large military operation in Venezuela, capturing President Nicolas Maduro and his wife and taking them to the...
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IMAGE: Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro with first lady Cilia Flores. Photograph: Gaby Oraa/Reuters
Foreign Affairs Expert Robinder Sachdev on Sunday highlighted the reason for the capture of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on January 3, 2025. Sachdev, in an interview with ANI, said that Flores, a member of the Venezuelan parliament, is considered a key figure in...
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A 50-year-old man allegedly committed suicide after jumping from the 12th floor of a five-star hotel in Delhi's Connaught Place area on Sunday, police said. The deceased has been identified as Parvinder Singh Juneja, a resident of Lajpat Nagar, they added. Singh entered the hotel...
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At least two persons were killed after rocks collapsed at an unauthorised stone quarry in Odisha's Dhenkanal district, officials said on Sunday.The incident took place on Saturday evening when some workers were engaged in drilling and exploration of stone from the quarry located near Gopalpur...
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Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) appreciated Prime Minister Narendra Modi's condolence message on former prime minister Khaleda Zia's demise while recalling her contribution to India-Bangladesh ties. The three-time Bangladesh prime minister and BNP patriarch died on December...
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Two men, both aged 18, got critically injured after allegedly being attacked and stabbed multiple time by four people in northwest Delhi's Jahangirpuri area, an official said on Sunday. According to the police, a PCR call was received at Jahangirpuri police station at around 2.55 pm...
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China on Sunday called on the United States to release Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife at once and resolve issues through dialogue and negotiation.China expresses grave concern over the US forcibly seizing President Nicolas Maduro and his wife and taking them out of the country,...
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Shiv Sena-UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday demanded cancellation of the January 15 Maharashtra civic elections in wards where candidates, mostly from ruling parties, have won unopposed, and sought a fresh poll process there.Speaking alongside Maharashtra Navnirman Sena president Raj...
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Three persons were arrested on Sunday in the case of hacking and burning to death a Hindu businessman in Shariatpur district of Bangladesh, local media reports said. Khokon Chandra Das, 50, was assaulted near Keurbhanga Bazar in Damudya in Shariatpur district, about 100 kilometres...
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A US-led takeover or restructuring of Venezuela's oil sector could deliver a direct benefit to India, potentially unlocking close to USD 1 billion in long-pending dues while accelerating the revival of crude production from fields it operates in the sanctions-hit Latin American nation, analysts...
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Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has been appointed the chairperson of the screening committee for the selection of candidates for the upcoming Assam assembly elections, a notification issued by the party said.All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal...
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An 81-year-old man in Hyderabad was duped of Rs 7.12 crore in a digital arrest scam after fraudsters posing as Mumbai Police officers threatened him of involvement in a drug trafficking racket and extorted the amount on the pretext of verification, police said on Sunday.The cyber fraudsters...
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India on Sunday said the developments in Venezuela are a matter of deep concern and it is closely monitoring the evolving situation, a day after US forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores from the capital Caracas.India reaffirms its support to the well-being...
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Venezuela's Supreme Court has directed Vice President Delcy Rodriguez to assume the role of acting president following the removal of President Nicolas Maduro by the United States. The ruling, announced late Saturday local time, concluded that Maduro is in a material and temporary...
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Around 500 two-wheelers were gutted after a fire broke out at the parking area of the railway station here on Sunday, Fire and Rescue Service officials said.The blaze erupted at the paid-parking shed at around 6.20 am, and a distress call was received at about 6.40 am, the official added. A...
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Senior Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor and Abhishek Manu Singhvi have weighed in on the United States' action in Venezuela and the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. Reacting to the developments, Tharoor said international law and the United...
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Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who is serving a 20-year jail term for raping two of his disciples and is lodged in the Sunaria jail in Haryana's Rohtak, was again granted a 40-day parole, said sources on Sunday. His latest parole comes months after he was granted a...
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Foreign portfolio investors have started 2026 on a cautious note, extending their selling streak from last year by withdrawing Rs 7,608 crore (USD 846 million) from Indian equities in the first two trading sessions of January. The withdrawal of funds followed the largest outflow of Rs 1.66...
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Former US Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday slammed US President Donald Trump over the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, saying the operation was driven by oil interests and not by concerns over drugs. In a post on X, Harris said Trump's...
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Deprecating the culture of adjournments, the Delhi high court has said adjournments were being sought indiscriminately and there was a misplaced expectation that such requests would be granted at asking. Justice Neena Bansal Krishna, who was hearing a petition seeking a waiver of a cost of...
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United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has voiced his concern over the escalation between the United States and Venezuela culminating in the capture of the country's President Nicols Maduro, saying the developments constitute a dangerous precedent. The secretary general is deeply...
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A married Pakistani woman along with her lover allegedly strangled her three children to death after giving them sleeping pills, police said on Saturday. The murder of the three children -- two daughters and a son -- aged three to seven, took place in Sarai Alamgir, Gujrat district of...
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A video of a policeman in anti-riot gear snatching a 'ghanta' (bell) from youth Congress protesters has set social media abuzz on Saturday, with netizens using the footage to comment on the language slip-up of a minister in the Madhya Pradesh government. The incident is of Friday when...
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has said he spoke with President Donald Trump directly to register his opposition to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro and his wife by the US military, as he termed the unilateral attack on a sovereign nation an act of war. Maduro and his...
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Microblogging site X owner Elon Musk on Saturday said people using the platform's AI services Grok to make illegal content will face the same consequences as those uploading illegal content. The statement from Musk comes a day after Ministry of Electronics and IT directed X to...
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After the United States captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado said that the hour of freedom had arrived for her nation. In a post on X, Machado said in a statement, Venezuelans, the...
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A new video has emerged showing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro being escorted by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officers inside the agency's headquarters in New York on Saturday.In the video, the Latin American leader is seen handcuffed and flanked by soldiers following US air...
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