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The release of Parasakthi, slated to follow actor Vijay's Jana Nayagan in the Pongal lineup, has reportedly been held up due to delays in obtaining certification from CBFC, triggering wider concern within the Tamil film industry about the censor process.Industry sources said the film, a...
23:07
Expressing 'serious concern' over capture of its oil tanker by US coastguard, Russia on Thursday demanded compliance of international laws on freedom of maritime navigation and strongly rejected 'neo-colonist' tendencies of Washington. The Russian Foreign Ministry also demanded humane...
23:01
A case of abduction and attempted religious conversion against a youth who was arrested, police said, for allegedly trying to take a 17-year-old girl to Ajmer Sharif after trapping her in a relationship. Police took the minor into their custody after the Government Railway Police...
22:58
Suburban services of the Central Railway's main line in Mumbai were disrupted for about half an hour on Thursday evening after a 'muck special' train parked between Kurla and Vidyavihar stations caught fire, officials said. The fire, confined to only one coach, was doused quickly.As a...
22:50
Three Indians are among the crew on board the Russian oil tanker seized by the United States, local media reported even as Moscow on Thursday asked Washington to comply with international laws on freedom of maritime navigation while strongly rejecting its neo-colonist' tendencies. The...
22:30
Four persons were booked in Maharashtra's Beed district for collecting more than Rs 4 crore fraudulently claiming it was to support Palestine amid the war with Israel, a police official said on Thursday. Since fighting between Israel and Hamas began on October 7, 2023, the overall...
22:24
The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has shut down 10 ready-mix concrete (RMC) plants in Mumbai Metropolitan Region and recovered penalty of Rs 84 lakh after inspections found environmental norm violations. In a statement issued on Thursday, the MPCB said the action was taken...
22:22
Police have arrested a man after he allegedly tricked a Karnataka-based businessman into visiting Maharashtra's Thane district on the promise of investment in his firm, and was robbed of over Rs 2 crore at gunpoint after holding him captive in multiple hotels, officials said on...
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Bangladesh Air Chief Marshal Hasan Mahmood Khan met Pakistan's Chief of Defence Forces Asim Munir on Thursday and discussed bilateral defence cooperation.During the meeting at General Headquarters, Rawalpindi, matters of mutual interest, regional security dynamics and avenues for enhancing...
21:08
Twelve newly-elected councillors in the Ambernath Municipal Council in the district, suspended by the Congress for joining a post-poll front led by the Bharatiya Janata Party, have formally joined the saffron party.The Congress slammed the BJP over the development, pointing out that while it took...
20:55
Members of the Tamil film industry, including prominent actors and filmmakers, extended solidarity to actor-turned-politician Vijay as the release of his much-anticipated film Jana Nayagan faced last-minute hurdles linked to certification and also theatre availability.Actor Silambarasan T R was...
20:38
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested an area sales manager of Vodafone for allegedly facilitating the fraudulent issuance of bulk SIM cards, which were used by a cyber-criminal gang involved in large-scale phishing operations, officials said on Thursday. The alleged role of Binu...
20:32
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) said on Thursday that a tent city on the Ganga riverbed in Varanasi was set up and operated in 2023 in violation of environmental norms. The green body was hearing a petition saying the tent city was set up without the requisite clearances and it is...
20:25
Shiv Sena-UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday said the Bharatiya Janata Party has the tendency to use its allies and discard them, and it has reduced the Eknath Shinde-led Sena faction to a doormat. In an interview to PTI Videos, Thackeray referred to the local alliances formed by the BJP...
19:58
An accused in the sensational murder of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh is contesting the January 15 Jalna Municipal Corporation polls in Maharashtra as an independent candidate. Shrikant Pangarkar is in the fray from ward 13. His opponents are candidates from the BJP and several...
19:57
Bangladesh's interim government on Thursday said it has asked its key missions in India, including at New Delhi, to suspend visa services over security concerns. Foreign Affairs Adviser M Touhid Hossain told a media briefing at his office that Bangladesh has also sought reversal of a...
19:51
Karnataka Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H K Patil said that the state cabinet on Thursday decided not to accept the recently enacted VB-G RAM G Act, replacing the UPA-era rural employment initiative, MGNREGA, and to take up a legal battle against it. The cabinet also...
19:16
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday claimed that Bangladeshi Muslims could constitute nearly 40 per cent of the state's population in the next Census.The chief minister asserted earlier that a demographic change has been happening in the northeastern state over the decades, with...
18:58
Shiv Sena-UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday said that he had campaigned to make Narendra Modi the prime minister in 2014 and 2019, but the latter is out to destroy his party. I am sad and angry that I campaigned for Modi ji in 2014 and 2019. Even after helping him twice, he broke...
18:54
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will lead a protest march in Kolkata on Friday against the Enforcement Directorate raids at the office of political consultancy firm I-PAC, Trinamool Congress sources said.Apart from providing political consultancy to the TMC, the I-PAC also manages the...
18:48
Maharashtra Congress president Harshwardhan Sapkal on Thursday said that in its attempt to create a Congress-free India, the BJP is now teeming with leaders poached from the opposition party.After a local Congress unit joined hands with the BJP in Ambernath municipal council post-civic elections,...
18:33
A senior Russian lawmaker issued a stern warning to Washington following the US military seizure of a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic Ocean, asserting Moscow's intention to use nuclear weapons and suggesting attacks on US vessels in response to the seizure of the tanker on...
17:53
A female social media influencer has been summoned for questioning after Delhi Police identified 10 influencers who allegedly spread rumours that the Faiz-e-Elahi Mosque near Turkman Gate had been demolished during a court-ordered anti-encroachment drive. The woman was summoned after...
17:35
The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday sought permission from the Calcutta high court to file a petition alleging interference in its investigation while it was conducting raids at the office of political consultancy firm I-PAC and the residence of its director Pratik Jain.West Bengal Chief...
17:30
Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty fell sharply by nearly 1 per cent on Thursday, continuing their weak momentum for the fourth straight session, due to renewed concerns over potential US tariff hikes amid widespread selling pressure in global markets. Deep losses in metal, oil &...
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Pune's civic-run bus corporation has fined social media influencer Atharv Sudame Rs 50,000 for filming reels inside one of its buses without permission. Sudame made reels inside a Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited bus, which featured uniform, electronic ticketing machines and...
17:10
A multiple choice question on the name of a dog in an English test paper in government schools in Chhattisgarh's Mahasamund district has triggered controversy and protests after 'Ram' was listed as one of the options. The question, in the half-yearly exam held on Wednesday, asked Class...
16:30
The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday alleged that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee entered the residence of I-PAC director Pratik Jain in Kolkata during a raid in a money laundering case linked to alleged coal smuggling, and took away 'key' evidence, including physical documents and...
16:14
A day after a court-ordered anti-encroachment drive triggered clashes and stone-pelting in central Delhi's Turkman Gate area, six more arrests have been made in connection with the violence, which left police personnel injured.The total number of arrests made in the matter now stands at 11,...
16:12
A court in Thalassery Kannur on Thursday sentenced seven Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-Bharatiya Janata Party activists to life imprisonment in connection with the 2008 murder of a CPI(M) local leader.Additional District and Sessions Court Judge Vimal J found Sumith alias Kuttan, K K Prajesh Babu,...
16:10
Rampur Police have registered a first information report (FIR) against a woman for securing a job in the basic education department by allegedly concealing her Pakistani nationality, officials said on Thursday.According to police, the case was registered at Azim Nagar police station on the...
16:08
The Supreme Court on Thursday said it had not directed the removal of every dog from the streets and the directive was to treat these stray canines according to the Animal Birth Control (ABC) Rules.While hearing arguments in the stray dogs case, the apex court observed that a dog can smell people...
16:04
The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on a plea of Allahabad high court judge Yashwant Varma challenging the legality of the parliamentary panel probing corruption charges against him.A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and SC Sharma reserved its decision after hearing senior...
14:49
A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Guwahati has framed charges against six accused in the case where three women were stripped naked and two of them allegedly gang-raped during ethnic clashes in Manipur in May 2023.The six accused have been charged with 15 counts, including...
14:18
A study has estimated 49 lakh cases of typhoid fever and 7,850 deaths in India in 2023, with Delhi, Maharashtra and Karnataka together accounting for nearly 30 per cent of the national burden. Findings published in The Lancet Regional Health Southeast Asia also show that six lakh of the 7.3...
14:11
Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir on Thursday said that the Army was following a policy of zero tolerance towards any threat to national security. Munir visited Lahore Garrison, where he was given a comprehensive briefing on the formation's operational...
13:53
There was high drama at the offices of Political consultants IPAC in Kolkata after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee reached the premises even as the Enforcement Directorate was conducting searches in connected with an alleged fake government job scam. Banerjee questioned the...
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A major combing and search operation is currently underway in the forest area of Kamadh Nullah in Kathua district following an encounter between security forces and terrorists, said the officials. An exchange of fire had taken place on Wednesday between the J&K Police and...
13:12
Tata Group-owned Air India has taken delivery of the first line fit Boeing 787-9 aircraft, which is also the first Dreamliner to join the airline's fleet in more than eight years. An official on Thursday said Air India completed the title transfer of the Dreamliner at the Boeing's Everett...
13:03
Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari termed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's visit to IPAC chief Pratik Jain's house during the ED raid on Thursday as unconstitutional and interference in the central agency's probe. He said that the ED should take steps against the chief...
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More than 32,000 candidates have applied for 1,176 constable posts in Nagaland Police, an official said on Thursday. The recruitment rally commenced across multiple districts of the state on Wednesday for 1,176 posts of constable (general duty). The rally is being conducted simultaneously in...
12:57
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged that ED officials were attempting to seize TMC's hard disks, internal documents and sensitive organisational data during a search operation at the residence of I-PAC chief Prateek Jain in Kolkata. She described the raid at the...
12:55
I-PAC was founded by Prashant Kishor
The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday conducted searches on the premises of political consultancy firm I-PAC and its director Pratik Jain in Kolkata as part of a money laundering investigation, official sources said. Jain is the co-founder of the Indian Political Action Committee, or I-PAC,...
12:50
Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez stated that relations with the US have suffered an unprecedented stain, even as she asserted that the country will continue pursuing a diversified economic strategy engaging major markets across all continents, El Cooperante reported. Speaking...
12:49
Several residents of Greater Noida's Delta 1 Sector fell ill after allegedly consuming contaminated drinking water, prompting health concerns and complaints of sewage mixing with the supply line, officials and residents said. The affected residents reported symptoms such as vomiting, fever,...
11:55
For R Viswanathan, India's former ambassador to Venezuela (2000-2003) and a long-time observer of Latin American politics, what has unfolded in Caracas is neither shocking nor unprecedented.He describes the fall of President Nicols Maduro as the latest chapter in a long history of US...
11:42
The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday undertook searches at 15 locations in six states as part of a money laundering probe into a scam under which fraudulent joining letters for government jobs were sent, officials said. An organised gang is under the scanner of the agency. The Patna...
11:20
Agnivesh Agarwal
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday condoled the death of Agnivesh Agarwal, the eldest son of mining billionaire Anil Agarwal. The untimely passing of Shri Agnivesh Agarwal is deeply shocking and saddening. The depth of your grief is evident in this touching tribute. Praying that you and...
10:55
A shocking incident has been reported from Uttar Pradesh's Hapur district after the burnt, semi-naked body of a woman, aged around 30, was recovered from a sugarcane field behind brick kilns in Lahadra village under the Bahadurgarh police station area, police said in Hapur on Thursday.The woman's...
10:44
Anthropic, the developer of the chatbot Claude, plans to raise $10 billion at a valuation of $350 billion before the new investment, according to people familiar with the matter, nearly doubling its valuation from four months ago. GIC, Singapore's sovereign-wealth fund, and Coatue Management plan...
10:00
US Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday described the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent as a tragedy of her own making, while expressing strong support for ICE officers and asserting that attacks against them would not deter the...
09:15
The office of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer has clarified that SIR hearing summonses to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, cricketer Mohammed Shami and Bengali actor-turned-TMC MP Dev were part of a routine electoral verification process, and not targeted actions. Notices issued to these...
09:03
There have communal clashes in Bangladesh for over a year
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Azizur Rahman Musabbir was shot dead, while Abu Sufian Masud, General Secretary of the Karwan Bazar Van Association, was injured in a shooting, local media reported.Musabbir was the former general secretary of Dhaka City North Swechchhasebak Dal, the...
08:40
US President Donald Trump claimed that he had single-handedly ENDED 8 WARS and maintained that although the Nobel Peace Prize doesn't matter, he believed he had been unfairly denied the award by Norway, the country that hosts the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. In a post on Truth Social, Trump...
08:26
US President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro held their first phone conversation following a recent war of words, at a time of growing strain between the United States and several Latin American countries. The exchange took place days after Trump accused the Colombian...
08:11
The US attack on Venezuela to seize the country's President Nicolas Maduro killed at least 100 people, according to the country's interior minister.So far, and I say so far, there are 100 dead, 100. And a similar number of injured, Diosdado Cabello said late on Wednesday. Read...
08:07
Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra has witnessed an unprecedented decline in Maoist insurgency, with 783 Maoists surrendering before the police under the state's Surrender and Rehabilitation Policy since its introduction in 2005.The years 2024 and 2025 have been particularly transformative,...
07:28
American Senator Lindsey Graham on Wednesday (local time) said that US President Donald Trump has given a green light to the bipartisan Russia Sanctions Bill which would give leverage against India, China, and Brazil to stop them from purchasing Russian oil and punish the countries fueling...
07:20
The accused in the stone-pelting incident near Faiz-e-Elahi Masjid at Turkman Gate were sent to one-day judicial custody, the lawyers of the accused informed. The bail pleas filed and hearings scheduled for Thursday.Representing accused Kashif, Mohd Kaif, and Mohd Areeb, Delhi Advocate M...
07:17
As the world entered 2026, there is a growing interest among meteorologists and climate watchers on whether 2026 will turn out to be a full blown or evolving El Nino year, something which has consequences for India's monsoon and also agricultural production and general economic growth.Though it...
06:58
Just before the Lok Sabha elections, on March 10, 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated the Chitrakoot Airport, marking Bundelkhand's first airport. Initially, flights began between Chitrakoot and Lucknow, operating four days a week.However, over the next four months, flight...
06:51
Indian Ambassador to the US Vinay Kwatra met Speaker Mike Johnson at Capitol Hill, thanked him for his solidarity with India's counter-terrorism efforts after the Pahalgam attack, and discussed issues including a bilateral trade deal. Honored to meet Speaker Mike Johnson at Capitol Hill...
06:48
India's goods movement hit a fresh high in December, with total e-way bill generation rising 23.6 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) to 138.39 million, according to data released by the Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN). The December figure surpassed the previous record of 132 million logged...
06:45
US President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Wednesday (local time), directing the withdrawal of the United States from international organisations, conventions and treaties that are contrary to the interests of the US. The announcement was made in the statement of the Presidential...
06:42
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday (local time) said that after prolonged negotiations with senators, congressmen, secretaries and other political representatives, the 2027 military budget should be increased to 1.5 trillion USD, from the current 1 trillion USD. Trump said that this...
06:38
The air force chiefs of Bangladesh and Pakistan held talks on a potential pact which covers the sale of the fighter aircraft JF-17 to Dhaka, Daily Star reported, citing Pakistan's military.Referring to Pakistani military's press wing, Daily Star said on Wednesday that the talks took place in...
06:35
The National Medical Commission (NMC) has withdrawn recognition of the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence (SMVDIME) in Jammu, citing serious lapses in minimum standards, days after a controversy erupted over the religious profile of its first MBBS batch. Read...
06:29
Vedanta Group Chairman Anil Agarwal on Wednesday announced the tragic demise of his son, Agnivesh Agarwal, who passed away at the age of 49 following a cardiac arrest in the United States. Agarwal described the day as the darkest of his life, saying his son had been recovering well after a...
06:19
In a major announcement, US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday (local time) that Venezuela would now purchase only American-made products with the money they receive from the new oil deal. In a post on Truth Social, the US President said that the purchases would include American agri...
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Feroz Khan, the actor who portrayed 'Arjun' in the Doordarshan series Mahabharat, on Wednesday performed darshan at the Ram temple in Ayodhya and praised the transformation of Ayodhya following the construction of the grand shrine. Khan interacted with devotees outside the temple, where many...
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The Counter Intelligence wing of the Jammu and Kashmir Police detained 22 suspects on Wednesday following raids at multiple locations across the valley, officials said. They said the operation was part of an investigation into a cyber terror case involving the use of mule accounts.The...
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