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The police on Tuesday arrested a man accused of murdering a 27-year-old woman whose body was found under a parked car in Greater Noida's Beta-2 sector, with investigators saying the crime was triggered after she refused to marry him. The accused, Ankit Kumar, was arrested after an encounter...
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The Delhi police on Tuesday arrested two more persons in connection with the stone pelting at Turkman Gate last week, taking the total number of arrests in the case to 20, an official said. The police said that efforts are being made to apprehend social media influencers for their roles in...
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The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence's Mumbai Zonal Unit seized various narcotics with an estimated value of Rs 17.55 crore in separate operations across Maharashtra and Goa over the past three days, leading to the arrest of 10 persons, an official said on Tuesday. The seizures included...
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Bangladesh on Tuesday summoned Myanmar ambassador in Dhaka over recent cross-border firing that critically wounded two Bangladeshis, including a 12-year-old girl, as the junta-run country's civil war between government troops and rebel forces spilled over the frontier.A foreign ministry statement...
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TVK on Tuesday claimed that there were several lapses in the Karur stampede case and said its founder leader Vijay has sought the CBI to defer questioning him further to next week in view of harvest festival Pongal as well as his prior commitments pertaining to screening of his last film Jana...
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz being welcomed at Bengaluru airport on Tuesday./ANI Photo
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday visited the India headquarters of German tech major Bosch at Adugodi and CeNSE in Bengaluru.He is on a two-day official visit to India.Merz was received at the Kempegowda International Airport by Karnataka Minister for Large & Medium Industries M B...
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Indian Army troops opened fire to take down multiple suspected Pakistani drones that entered Indian territory from across the Line of Control (LoC) in the Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday evening, army officials said in Jammu. However, the drones briefly hovered in the...
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An RTI activist was apprehended from Mumbai for allegedly blackmailing an Andhra Pradesh MP and attempting to extort Rs 5 crore from him, police said on Tuesday. The accused, Rushant Jaykumar Wadke, was nabbed from south Mumbai in a joint operation by the Andhra Pradesh and Mumbai police, an...
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The Gig Workers Association on Tuesday welcomed the decision by quick commerce platforms to roll back the ten-minute delivery promise, saying the move recognises that extreme delivery timelines put unsafe pressure on delivery workers.In a statement, the association said the ten-minute delivery...
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Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini
The Haryana government has asked all its departments, public and educational institutes and others to strictly avoid using the terms 'Harijan' and 'Girijan' in official communications in respect of Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) respectively.The Haryana chief secretary's office...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party has expelled 22 members from its fold for anti-party activities ahead of the civic polls in Maharashtra's Nanded city. The action was taken recently after several aspirants, who were denied party tickets for the January 15 polls, switched allegiance to other...
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned to January 29 the hearing of a plea filed by Gitanjali J Angmo, the wife of jailed climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, against his detention under the National Security Act. A bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and P B Varale deferred the matter. List...
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The CBI has summoned TVK chief and actor Vijay for second round of questioning on January 19 in connection with the Karur stampede case, officials said Tuesday. Vijay, who was questioned at the CBI headquarters here on Monday for more than six hours, was asked to come again on Tuesday but...
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The rupee declined 4 paise to close at 90.21 (provisional) against the US dollar on Tuesday, weighed down by higher crude oil prices, a firm American currency and incessant outflow of foreign funds. Analysts said geopolitical tensions and weak equity markets also put pressure on the Indian...
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Amid speculation about a leadership change in Karnataka, Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar met Congress MP Rahul Gandhi at Mysuru airport on Tuesday.The two leaders also held talks before Rahul Gandhi arrived in Mysuru after his visit to Tamil Nadu.The speculated power tussle within the...
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Jaundice has been detected among some students of an Odisha government school in Dhenkanal district, a health official said on Tuesday. While parents and guardians of the Odisha Adarsha Vidyalalay (OAV) at Biswanathpur in Gondia block of the district have alleged that more than 10 students...
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Silver prices surged by Rs 6,000 to hit a fresh lifetime high of Rs 2,71,000 per kg in the national capital on Tuesday, and gold climbed to yet another record of Rs 1,45,000 per 10 grams amid sustained buying by the stockists. According to the All India Sarafa Association, the white precious...
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Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty ended lower on Tuesday after a day's breather, as investors pared exposure to index majors Reliance Industries, L&T and Bharti Airtel amid global tariff-related concerns. Market sentiment was also sluggish due to a weak start to the earnings...
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Elections to 12 Zilla Parishads (ZP) and 125 Panchayat Samitis in Maharashtra will be held on February 5, and counting of votes will be taken up on February 7, a senior official said on Tuesday. The schedule was announced a day after the Supreme Court extended the January 31 timeline for...
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Ladakh Lieutenant Governor Kavinder Gupta
Ladakh Lieutenant Governor Kavinder Gupta on Tuesday strongly rejected China's claim over the Shaksgam valley, asserting that the entire region of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) belongs to India. He also asserted that no expansionist attempt would be tolerated. China on Monday reaffirmed...
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The Supreme Court is slated to hear on January 19 the plea filed by the producer of Vijay-starrer Tamil film 'Jana Nayagan', challenging an interim order of the Madras high court that stayed a single-judge direction to grant CBFC clearance to the movie. According to the cause list of the...
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The Indian Embassy in Kazakhstan on Tuesday said that 11 Indian students from Semey Medical University were involved in a road accident in Oskemen while returning from an excursion to the Altai Mountains in East Kazakhstan. Sharing details in a post on X, the Embassy said, In a tragic...
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Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Tuesday terminated the services of five more government employees for suspected terror links. The LG administration has since 2020 sacked 85 government employees after it was found during surveillance that they were working for terrorist...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi talks to a student at a school event in Tamil Nadu./Courtesy X
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday took part in the golden jubilee celebrations of a school near Udhagamandalam and also participated in the harvest festival 'Pongal' celebrations held there. On his arrival at the St Thomas English High School, Gandhi was accorded a warm welcome and he...
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Apex exporters' body FIEO on Tuesday said US President Donald Trump's announcement to impose 25 percent duty on countries doing business with Iran will almost have no impact on India. Trump has announced that any country doing business with Iran will have to pay a 25 percent tariff on its...
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Rajya Sabha MP Aditya Sahu is all set to become the new president of the opposition BJP in Jharkhand as he was the only candidate who filed nomination for the election to the post on Tuesday, a party leader said. The process of nomination began at 12 pm and concluded at 2 pm, he...
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PhysicsWallah, which recently made its D-Street debut, is accelerating its offline expansion and aims to open nearly 70 physical centres each financial year, targeting a network of about 200 new centres by 2028-29.In an exclusive conversation with Business Standard, the company's Chief...
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A severe cold wave continued to grip large parts of Uttar Pradesh and north India on Monday morning, with dense fog reducing visibility in several cities even as thousands of devotees braved the freezing conditions to take a holy dip at the Sangam in Prayagraj during the ongoing Magh...
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Union Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya has persuaded major delivery aggregators to remove the mandatory 10-minute delivery deadline, following a series of sustained interventions, sources said Tuesday. A meeting was held with leading platforms including Blinkit, Zepto, Zomato and Swiggy...
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Malati Mondal's husband was killed by a tiger. He was attacked about a decade ago, as he went out fishing on a small raft through the mangroves. Living in the Sundarbans, the planet's largest mangrove forest which straddles West Bengal, in India, and southern Bangladesh, it's a risk...
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Tintin Stays Timeless. Indeed.From his earliest appearances to the extraordinary stories that followed, Tintin's journey is one of imagination and curiosity. Not to forget daring.As Herge's legendary young reporter marks 97 years, his adventures continue to hold fascination for generation after...
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Civil unrest in Iran has started impacting India's basmati rice exports to the country, leading to a sharp fall in domestic prices, as exporters face payment delays and mounting uncertainties, an industry body said on Tuesday. The Indian Rice Exporters Federation (IREF) urged exporters to...
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Crisil Ratings on Tuesday said that recent developments in Venezuela are not likely to have any material near-term impact on crude oil prices, as the Latin American nation had a relatively small share of global supply. A US military operation in early January resulted in the capture of...
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Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi on Tuesday said that there were no talks between the Director General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of India and Pakistan about nuclear warfare. Responding to a query raised during a press conference here, he said that the nuclear rhetoric was...
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will ask states to pay a heavy compensation for dog-bite incidents as it flagged its concern over the lack of implementation of norms on stray animals for the past five years. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta, and NV Anjaria said that even...
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Leaders of China's Communist Party (CCP) on Tuesday met Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Sarkaryavah Dattatreya Hosabale at the RSS headquarters. The meeting lasted for approximately half an hour, according to sources. According to the organisation's sources, the meeting was purely a courtesy...
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Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi on Tuesday said that Operation Sindoor, carried out in response to the ghastly 2025 Pahalgam terror attack, was the best example of tri-service synergy under clear-cut political directive. While addressing the annual press conference in the...
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NYC Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani shares this picture among others on X and writes, Rama and I feel lucky to be starting a new chapter the way so many New Yorkers have, by moving to a new part of the city. We're grateful for the welcome to the UES and humbled to be tenants of Gracie Mansion, a home...
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Actor Jeetendra and his son Tusshar Kapoor have sold a commercial property in suburban Mumbai to an arm of Japan's NTT Group for Rs 559 crore, documents shared by a realty consultant on Tuesday said. NTT Global Data Centres has bought over 30,195 sq m space in Balaji IT park for Rs 559.24...
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday delivered a split verdict on the constitutional validity of a 2018 provision of the anti-graft law which mandates prior sanction before initiating a probe against a government servant in a corruption case.While Justice BV Nagarathna said Section 17A of the Prevention...
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Congress leader Supriya Shrinate on Monday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for meeting leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the national capital, saying that while China settles villages in Arunachal Pradesh, hugs were being exchanged here. This photo is of the BJP...
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Maruti Suzuki India on Monday said its new car manufacturing plant, the company's fifth, will be located at Khoraj industrial estate in Gujarat's Gandhinagar district.In a notice to the BSE, the company stated that the investment required for this plant will be finalised and approved by its board...
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The Centre's net direct tax collections rose 8.8 per cent year-on-year to Rs 18.38 trillion as of 11 January 2025-26 (FY26), largely due to a moderation in refunds, according to provisional data released by the Central Board of Direct Taxes.The growth is lower than the 12.6 per cent increase...
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Delhi recorded its coldest January morning in three years on Tuesday as the minimum temperature dropped to 3 degrees Celsius, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The capital recorded a low of 1.4 degrees Celsius on January 16, 2023, according to the weather department....
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Rediff Founder and Chairman Emeritus, Ajit Balakrishnan's, new book is out.'Technology Innovation : Sword or Plough : Insights For Curious Minded People, Students, Researchers, Policy Makers' is written for students, professionals, and policy makers, and asks a defining question of our time: Will...
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The Indian electric car market reached a significant turning point in 2025 as total sales climbed to about 200,000 units, a sharp rise from the 110,000 units recorded in 2024.This nearly 82 per cent market expansion was led by the JSW MG Windsor, which emerged as the country's top-selling...
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Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning on Monday rejected India's claim to the Shaksgam Valley in Jammu and Kashmir. The territory you mentioned belongs to China. It's fully justified for China to conduct infrastructure construction on its own territory, Mao said when asked about...
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The Exiled Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi called on specialists in the field of communications to target the state's infrastructure so that the world can establish contact with the protesters. As protests have rolled on to another week, Pahlavi has emerged as a vocal supporter of the...
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Union minister and RPI (A) chief Ramdas Athawale has said Uddhav Thackeray would have retained the Shiv Sena's 'bow-and-arrow' symbol had he remained a BJP ally after the 2019 assembly elections, instead of joining hands with the Congress. He blamed the political choices of ex-chief...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has slammed recently united Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav and MNS leader Raj Thackeray, saying the January 15 Mumbai civic body poll is a battle of survival for the cousins, and not the Marathi people. Addressing a rally in Mumbai in support of...
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United States President Donald Trump announced a sweeping trade measure targeting countries that continue to do business with Iran, imposing a 25 per cent tariff on all their business dealings with the US. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that the decision would be immediately in effect...
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Maruti Suzuki India (MSIL) said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL) to set up vehicle service facilities at select IOCL fuel retail outlets across the country.Under the partnership, customers will be able to access routine maintenance, minor...
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The Supreme Court has ruled that shares allotted pursuant to a corporate amalgamation may attract tax as business incomein the year of allotment if they replace shares held as stock-in-trade and yield an immediate, commercially realisable benefit.A Bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R...
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Amid the political heat ahead of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday made strong remarks on Marathi identity, asserting that the leadership of the civic body would remain in Marathi hands. Countering Opposition claims...
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The United States Virtual Embassy in Iran on Monday (local time) issued an advisory for American citizens to Leave Iran now, warning that protests across the country are escalating and could turn violent, leading to arrests, injuries and severe disruptions to daily life.In its advisory, the...
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The US Department of State has announced that it has revoked more than 100,000 visas, including thousands of student and specialised visas, as part of its ongoing efforts to strengthen domestic security and enforce immigration laws.In a post on X, the Department of State said that the revocations...
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The Navi Mumbai International Airport will be named after the people's leader, late D B Patil, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said, asserting that the facility will play a key role in the region's economic expansion.Addressing a public meeting in Airoli during the Navi Mumbai...
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The Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh high court on Monday directed the state government to strictly enforce the ban on Chinese manja, noting that if a minor is found flying a kite using the banned string, his guardians can be held legally responsible.A bench of Justices Vijay Kumar Shukla and...
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The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine a plea challenging the immunity granted to the chief election commissioner and election commissioners under the CEC Act, 2023. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi issued notice to the Centre and the...
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