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A Bharatiya Janata Party councillor here allegedly shot dead a 22-year-old ma who was visiting his house, police on Monday said. Councillor Amit Bisht, alias Chintu, has been taken into custody and is being interrogated, they said.The BJP expelled Bisht from the party after the...
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin launched here on Monday the free laptop distribution scheme for college students and asserted that it was not a gift but an opportunity for them to rule the world. The scheme, named as 'Ulagam Ungal Kaiyil (The world is in your hands)' is aimed at...
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A Hindu businessman, who was also the acting editor of a newspaper, was fatally shot in the head by unidentified assailants on Monday in Jessore district in southern Bangladesh, officials said.We have received information that one Rana Pratap Bairagi was shot dead at the Keshabpur area of...
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz/Photograph: Reuters
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will undertake a two-day visit to India next week to further shore up bilateral cooperation in a range of areas, including trade, investment and defence and security. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will receive the German leader in Ahmedabad on January 12, the...
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After a brief lull, a fresh death due to brain fever was reported in Kerala here on Monday, health officials said. The deceased was identified as Sachidanandan (72) of Puthiyangadi in Kozhikode district. According to health department officials, Sachidanandan was admitted to a private...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and deputy CM Ajit Pawar./File image
In a veiled dig at Nationalist Congress Party leader and deputy CM Ajit Pawar, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday said those questioning the BJP's contribution to Pune's infrastructural development should first look at themselves in the mirror. Fadnavis was apparently...
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US Vice President JD Vance on Monday said an unidentified person attempted to break into his family home by smashing windows with a hammer, thanking the Secret Service and Cincinnati police for their swift response. In a post on X, Vance said he and his family were not at home at the time,...
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A special PMLA court here on Monday issued summons to businessman Raj Kundra in the Bitcoin scam case after taking cognizance of the chargesheet filed against him by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Besides Kundra, summons was issued to Dubai based businessman Rajesh Satija. Both have...
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A special PMLA court here on Monday issued summons to businessman Raj Kundra in the Bitcoin scam case after taking cognizance of the chargesheet filed against him by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Besides Kundra, summons was issued to Dubai based businessman Rajesh Satija. Both have...
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The Enforcement Directorate has attached immovable properties worth Rs 2.85 crore belonging to Prabhanshu Shekhar, the then deputy general manager, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), Patna, Bihar, and his family members on charges of acquiring disproportionate assets, the agency said on...
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Mahindra XUV 7XO SUV/Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff
Auto major Mahindra launched the XUV 7XO SUV in Jaisalmer on Monday. This new model upgrades the popular XUV700 with advanced technology and fresh features. The XUV 7XO costs between Rs 13.66 lakh and Rs 24.11 lakh. Prices vary based on the specific variant chosen at the...
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Bollywood filmmaker Vikram Bhatt
In a setback to Bollywood filmmaker Vikram Bhatt, who is currently lodged in jail with his wife in a cheating case, the Rajasthan high court on Monday rejected his petition seeking quashing of the FIR registered against him and his associates in Udaipur. Justice Sameer Jain, while refusing...
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Youtuber Anurag Dwivedi/Courtesy Instagram
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday said it has seized two high-end cars -- a Land Rover Defender and a BMW Z4 -- belonging to social media influencer and Youtuber Anurag Dwivedi during search operations conducted last week in Delhi, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh in connection...
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Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has been ordered to appear in person before the Akal Takht secretariat on January 15 over his alleged anti-Sikh remarks. Akal Takht acting Jathedar Giani Kuldeep Singh Gargajj on Monday summoned him for allegedly making comments on 'Guru ki Golak' (a...
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The ministry of external affairs advised Indian nationals on Monday to avoid non-essential travel to Iran. Recent developments in the region prompted this official travel warning. The ministry will review the situation until further notice.Indian citizens and Persons of Indian Origin...
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath called on Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday. In a post on X, office of the Home Minister said, The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Shri @myogiadityanath met with the Union Home and Cooperation Minister Shri @Amit Shah. The Uttar Pradesh...
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One person has been taken into custody and a probe is underway after several windows were reportedly damaged in an incident at the Ohio residence of US Vice President JD Vance, CNN reported citing a federal law enforcement source on Monday.According to preliminary information, the Vance family...
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Cold conditions intensified across north India as night temperatures dropped well below 10 degrees Celsius in all the states. In Jammu and Kashmir, Srinagar reported -3.6 degrees Celsius.
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Two foreign nationals were detained by security agencies during a religious procession in the border sensitive area of Anupgarh in Rajasthan on Monday, officials said.According to officials, the action was taken by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) during the religious...
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India has introduced an e-Production Investment Business Visa called e-B-4 Visa that Chinese businessmen can apply for to travel to India for specific business activities, including installation and commissioning of equipment. A latest advisory on the Indian Embassy website here said the...
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The Indian stayed weak for the fourth straight session and closed 8 paise lower at 90.28 (provisional) against the US dollar on Monday, weighed down by a firm American currency and subdued equity market sentiment. Forex traders said that the renewed geopolitical uncertainties after the US...
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Former Kerala minister Antony Raju/Courtesy Facebook
Former Kerala minister Antony Raju, who represents the Thiruvananthapuram assembly constituency, has been disqualified from the Kerala Legislative Assembly following his conviction in a 1990 drug seizure case. He was convicted for tampering with evidence. The secretariat of the Kerala...
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Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Siddu Patil/ANI Photo
Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Siddu Patil and Congress MLC Bhimrao Patil came to blows during a meeting in the presence of Karnataka Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre on Monday. The video of the clash went viral on social media. According to sources, Khandre was chairing the district-level...
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Home Minister Amit Shah participates in the Pongal festival in Tiruchirappalli./ANI Photo
Union Home Minister Amit Shah participated in a grand Pongal festival celebration organised by the Bharatiya Janata Party's Mahila Morcha at Mannarpuram in Tiruchirappalli on Monday. The sweet delicacy Pongal made with rice, dhal and jaggery with ghee added to it as flavour, was cooked in...
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Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty ended lower on Monday, dragged by blue-chip HDFC Bank, Reliance Industries and IT stocks amid fresh warning from the US to further raise tariffs against India. The 30-share BSE Sensex dropped 322.39 points or 0.38 percent to settle at...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said she would move court against what she described as the inhumane conduct of the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state. Addressing a public meeting in Sagar Island in South 24 Parganas district, she alleged...
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The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea seeking directions to restrain Prime Minister Narendra Modi from offering a ceremonial 'chadar' at the Ajmer Sharif Dargah, saying the issue is not justiciable. A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi refused to entertain...
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A gas pipeline leakage at a well in Dr B R Ambedkar Konaseema district, operated by ONGC's production contractor Deep Industries Ltd, caught fire on Monday. There were no reports of death or injury, according to preliminary information, an official of the Maharatna company...
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Actor-producer Deepika Padukone celebrated her birthday on Monday by launching an initiative that she says will empower the next generation of creative talent. The actor, known for her roles in Chennai Express, Padmaavat, Piku and Pathaan, announced the...
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Pakistan's Punjab police have registered a case against a professional singer and his team for singing a song linked to incarcerated former prime minister Imran Khan during an event.Police have booked known Qawwal Fraz Amjad Khan and his team members for singing a song titled 'Qaidi No 804'...
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Bangladesh on Monday banned the broadcast of IPL's upcoming season in the wake of pacer Mustafizur Rahman's ouster from the world's biggest T20 league on BCCI instructions. A statement from Bangladesh information and broadcast ministry stated that no logical reason was given by the BCCI...
15:03
Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third instalment in James Cameron's acclaimed science fiction-fantasy franchise, officially crossed the USD1 billion mark at the global box office, just two weeks after its theatrical release on December 19, according to People. The latest chapter in the Avatar saga...
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Lawyer Sarim Javed, representing Gulfisha Fatima, one of the accused in the North East Delhi riots larger Conspiracy case, on Monday termed the Supreme Court's bail order for the five accused as a 'massive relief' for them and their families.The lawyer stressed that the top court observed that...
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A juvenile was apprehended for allegedly recording videos inside a women's washroom at a cinema theatre in Bengaluru, police said on Monday.Police acted after receiving information around 9.30 pm on Sunday about a disturbance at a theatre within the Madiwala police station...
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Mumbai's mayor will be a 'Marathi manoos' and one who chants 'Vande Mataram', Shiv Sena spokesperson Shaina NC said on Monday. Talking to PTI Videos, Shaina NC said Mahayuti's politics is about Mumbai first. Mumbai's mayor will only be the one who chants Vande Mataram. Mahayuti's mayor...
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Nicolas Maduro and his wife were taken to the US
Cuba on Sunday (local time) announced that 32 of its citizens were killed during the United States military operation in Venezuela that led to the capture of deposed Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife in the capital, Caracas. The Cuban government said it would observe two days...
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Former Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar on Monday reacted to the Supreme Court's decision rejecting the bail pleas of Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the 2020 north-east Delhi riots, stating that while the apex court may have had reasons to distinguish between cases, prolonged incarceration...
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BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla on Monday demanded an apology from the Congress party for defending 2020 north-east Delhi riots accused Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam after the Supreme Court rejected the bail plea of the duo. Speaking to ANI, Poonawalla claimed that SC's observation shows...
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There is a primary school in a quiet village in Bengal with a building named after a Venezuelan revolutionary who helped liberate much of South America. The answer lies in the long, meandering story of India-Venezuela relations. Read the thread here.
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The BJP on Monday said the Supreme Court order denying bail to activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the 2020 Delhi riots case is a big slap on the Congress' face and demanded that the opposition party apologise for supporting the tukde-tukde gang. Calling Khalid and Imam the poster...
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Umar Khalid's father S Q R Ilyas says he has nothing to say about the Supreme Court not giving bail to his son in the 2020 Delhi riots conspiracy case. The Supreme Court on Monday refused to grant bail to activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the 2020 Delhi riots conspiracy matter,...
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Two persons were injured in two consecutive explosions in Manipur's Bishnupur district on Monday morning, police said.The first explosion, suspected to have been caused by an improvised explosive device (IED), occurred around 5.45 am at an abandoned house in Ngaukon in the Phougakchao police...
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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to grant bail to activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the 2020 Delhi riots conspiracy matter, saying there was a prima facie case against them under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.A bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and N V Anjaria, however,...
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Tourists in Gulmarg. Pic: Umar Ganie
Gulmarg tourist resort recorded the coldest night of this winter as mercury flipped nearly nine degrees below freezing point, officials said here on Monday. The popular ski resort in north Kashmir's Baramulla district recorded a minimum temperature of minus 8.8 degrees Celsius after receiving...
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Heavy snowfall in Leh on Monday forced airlines to temporarily suspend all flight operations, affecting both take-offs and landings, an official said.According to an advisory from Indigo Airlines, Due to snowfall in Leh, flight operations, both take-offs and landings, have been temporarily put on...
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Delcy Rodriguez holds a meeting
As Delcy Rodriguez took charge late Sunday as Venezuela's acting president, earlier US President Donald Trump issued a sharp warning, saying she must give the United States total access or face consequences probably worse than Maduro. According to Venezuela's Presidential office website,...
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Maduro in custody at the offices of the US DEA in New York. Pic: @RapidResponse47/X
China has voiced strong opposition to the United States' forcible control of deposed dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife, warning against unilateral bullying and asserting that no nation has the authority to act as the world's policeman or an international judge in an increasingly volatile...
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Nicolas Maduro Guerra, son of deposed Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, said that history will tell who the traitors are after a US military operation led to the capture of his father and First Lady Cilia Flores, who have been transferred to New York to face trial, local daily El-cooperative...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah has directed the administration in Gandhinagar city to work on a war footing amid the emergence of nearly 100 cases of suspected typhoid, the Gujarat government said. Due to leakage in a water pipeline, cases of suspected typhoid, a water-borne disease, were...
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US President Donald Trump on Sunday said that calls have been made to American service members injured during his administration's recent operation in Venezuela and that they are in good shape, while speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One.The President said the raid, carried out by the US...
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The central government is likely to target a reduction in the debt-to-GDP (gross domestic product) ratio to 54.5 to 55 per cent for FY27 in the forthcoming Union Budget, down from the 56.1 per cent budgeted for FY26, an official said.The government is likely to follow a moderate consolidation...
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The Supreme Court on Monday will pronounce its verdict on the bail pleas of Sharjeel Imam, Umar Khalid and several others, who have challenged the Delhi High Court order denying them bail in a case under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) linked to the alleged larger conspiracy...
08:31
On India's Russian oil imports, US President Donald J Trump says, They wanted to make me happy, basically... PM Modi's a very good man. He's a good guy. He knew I was not happy. It was important to make me happy. They do trade, and we can raise tariffs on them very quickly...On reports of a...
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On the US attack on Venezuela's capital, US President Donald J Trump says: One of the helicopters got hit pretty badly, but we got everything back, and nobody was killed. Don't ask me who's in charge because I'll give you an answer and it'll be very controversial. It means we're in charge. It is...
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Colombia is run by a sick man who won't be selling drugs in the US for very longFrom CNN: Colombia is very sick too, run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States, and he's not going to be doing it very long, President Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One...
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President Donald Trump insisted Sunday that his supporters are behind his actions in Venezuela.The voters that voted for me are thrilled. They said, This is what we voted for,'' Trump told reporters on Air Force One when asked about concerns about forever wars.Trump again invoked the Monroe...
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Over three decades ago, the US government executed the shocking arrest of the leader of a foreign country: Panama's Manuel Noriega. The dictator's case may prove to be a guide for the prosecutors, defense attorneys and judges now involved in the case against...
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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Sunday expressed serious concern over the US' military action in Venezuela, during which they captured the country's president and deposed dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife, warning that the incident reflected a growing trend of might is right in global affairs...
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Food-delivery platform Zomato terminates nearly 5,000 gig workers a month due to fraud cases, while around 150,000 to 200,000 workers leave the platform voluntarily, according to Deepinder Goyal, founder and CEO of parent firm Eternal.In a video podcast with YouTuber Raj Shamani, Goyal...
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are set to appear before a federal judge on Monday (local time), after US authorities confirmed that the case will be heard in the Southern District of New York on Sunday, CBS News reported. The spokesperson said that Maduro and...
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday (local time) took a U-turn on Trump's remark to run Venezuela following their military operation in its capital, noting that the President had always retained optionality. Rubio, when asked, in an interview with CBS News's Face the Nation, to...
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A validation flight, a requirement for commercial operations, was conducted at the Bhogapuram airport, near Visakhapatnam, on Saturday, said its operator GMR Visakhapatnam International Airport Ltd (GVIAL).This marked a regulatory milestone ahead of the airport's inauguration in June this...
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Airlines have begun asking passengers not to use power banks on board and are ensuring that such devices remain with passengers if hand baggage is taken at the boarding gate for check in.The move follows a Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) circular issued on November 11 which warned...
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An earthquake of 5.1 magnitude jolted the central part of Assam on Monday morning, an official bulletin said. There is no immediate report of any injury to anyone or damage to any property, officials said. A National Centre for Seismology report said the quake was recorded at 4.17 am in...
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At least 40 people, including military personnel and civilians, were killed in a US strike on Venezuela early Saturday, The New York Times reported, citing a senior Venezuelan official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.Washington carried out a large-scale strike against Venezuela, and Nicolas...
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Senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik stated that his party's primary electoral opponents in the 2026 Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections are the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena. Responding to allegations of diverting minority votes, he said...
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A soldier of the Army's Chinar Corps died on Sunday after suffering a cardiac arrest at a camp in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said here. Naik Pargat Singh died at the 19 Rashtriya Rifles Camp at Larkipora in Anantnag district, they said. Singh hails from Amritsar in Punjab...
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A 27-year old Indian woman, who was reported missing last week, was found dead and police are looking for her former boyfriend, alleging that he killed her and fled to India. Nikitha Godishala of Ellicott City was reported missing on January 2. Howard County police said in a statement on...
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