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A passenger has been booked for allegedly smoking a 'beedi' (hand-rolled cigarette) inside a toilet of a Delhi-Goa flight, the police said on Sunday.The incident took place on Saturday, when the accused Ashish, a Delhi resident, was travelling on Akasa Air flight QP-1625 from the national capital...
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An auto driver in the Kamareddy district of Telangana was arrested for allegedly killing his three minor daughters by drowning them in a lake, the police said on Sunday. The auto driver and his wife had approached the police with a complaint on March 6 that their three daughters (aged 8, 6...
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Unidentified miscreants, taking advantage of Holi festivities, allegedly stole more than 500 filled LPG cylinders from a truck here, police said on Sunday. Sipri Bazar station house officer Jayaprakash Chaube said the truck, owned by Neeraj Agrawal, a resident of Raiganj, was attached to the...
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Air India on Sunday operated nine flights with women crew in the cockpit to mark International Women's Day. The flights connected select international and domestic routes, including London Heathrow, New Delhi and Mumbai. Some of these flights were managed by all-women teams that...
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An 18-year-old Muslim youth has alleged that he was assaulted and forced to eat cow dung by a group of self-proclaimed cow vigilantes in Pune earlier this week. According to the victim, the incident occurred while he was working as a helper on a truck transporting buffalo from Karad in...
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Two crew members of a fishing boat have been killed after a ship rammed their vessel off the Kollam coast, police officials said on Sunday. The bodies of the deceased were recovered by the coast guard and will be brought to Vizhinjam on Monday, the coastal police said. The fishing boat,...
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Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Sunday evening arrived in Kolkata on a three-day visit for the EC's full bench meeting to review the preparations for the West Bengal assembly elections. The commission will hold a series of meetings with key stakeholders involved in the electoral...
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A 21-year-old postgraduate student was arrested on Sunday for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend following a dispute over a suspected affair in the Clement Town area in Dehradun, the police said. The arrested, identified as Uday Singh alias Vishu, is a first-year MCA student at a private...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will make a statement in the Lok Sabha regarding the situation in West Asia on Monday. The second half of the Budget session of Parliament will begin on Monday. According to the revised list of business of the Lok Sabha for March 9 circulated on...
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The ministry of interior of Bahrain on Sunday claimed that Iran attacked civilian targets in a water desalination plant after a drone attack. In a post on X, Bahrain's ministry of interior said, Iranian aggression indiscriminately attacked civilian targets and caused material damage to a...
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Lebanon on Sunday said that Israeli overnight airstrikes on its capital, Beirut and places in southern Lebanon killed at least 15 people and wounded another 15, the country's National News Agency reported, adding that US -designated terror group Hezbollah has announced retaliatory attacks against...
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Pakistan's security forces have killed 583 Afghan Taliban operatives in the ongoing military operation launched along the border last month, according to an official data released on Sunday. Pakistan launched Operation Ghazab lil-Haq on Feb 26 after the Afghan Taliban attacked 53 locations...
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The US issued a safety warning to civilians in Iran on Sunday, accusing the Iranian regime of conducting military operations from densely populated areas and putting innocent lives at risk. According to the US Central Command in a post on X, Iranian forces have been launching one way attack...
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An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck Pacific Ocean on Sunday, a statement by the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 130km. In a post on X, the NCS said, EQ of M: 6.0, On: 08/03/2026 14:58:27 IST, Lat: 15.92 S, Long: 173.70 W, Depth: 130 Km,...
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Russia has said international law is effectively dead amid escalating tensions in West Asia following the US-Israeli strike on Iran, and called for reviving President Vladimir Putin's proposal to convene a summit of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry...
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The Rural Development Ministry said a logo design competition for the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act (VB G RAM G) has been launched.The competition is live on the government's citizen engagement platform MyGov, the ministry said in a post on X on Saturday,...
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After directing all police training schools in Madhya Pradesh to hold Bhagavad Gita and Ramcharitmanas recitals for the rookies, a top official of the department has now asked these institutions to play the 'Dakshinamurti Stotram' through loudspeakers at the break of dawn.Raja Babu Singh, the...
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An earthquake of magnitude 5.3 struck Indonesia on Sunday, a statement by the National Center for Seismology said. The earthquake occurred at a shallow depth of 10km, making it susceptible to aftershocks. In a post on X, the NCS said, EQ of M: 5.3, On: 08/03/2026 11:35:08 IST, Lat: 2.24...
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Mumbai Airport experienced significant disruption on Sunday with a total of 66 air traffic movements (ATMs) being cancelled, according to source-based information. The cancellations included 32 arrivals and 34 departures. Earlier on March 3, a total of 107 ATMs were cancelled at...
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Slain Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei./Reuters
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have issued a stern warning that they will persist in targeting any potential successor to Iran's next supreme leader, local media reported. We want to tell you that the hand of the State of Israel will continue to pursue every successor and every person who...
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A court in Thane in Maharashtra has refused bail to a junior service engineer accused of leaking sensitive information about warships and submarines to Pakistani nationals, saying the offence related to naval establishments was serious in nature. In the order passed earlier this month, additional...
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Accidents and deaths due to them rose sharply on the Nagpur-Mumbai Samruddhi Mahamarg in 2025, while minor mishaps on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway saw an increase amid a marginal decline in overall crashes, officials said on Sunday citing provisional data of the Maharashtra highway police. The...
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Ashutosh Brahmachari, who had filed a complaint alleging that Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati sexually exploited students at his ashram, was attacked by an unidentified person with a razor on a train here on Sunday morning, the police said.According to a Government Railway Police (GRP)...
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A Rajasthan police officer lodged a case against his junior officer for allegedly making casteist remarks during a meeting at the police headquarters in Jaipur, the police said. The FIR was lodged against SP Telecommunications Neetu Bugalia on Friday based on the complaint of director-...
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Monu Manesar, accused in the 2023 Junaid and Nasir murder case, was released from the Sevar Central Jail in Rajasthan's Bharatpur district after spending nearly two-and-a-half years in judicial custody, the police said.The case relates to the deaths of Junaid (35) and his cousin Nasir (27), whose...
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The Kerala Catholic Bishops Conference (KCBC), a key body of the Catholic Church in the state, on Sunday criticised the state government over the rising number of liquor outlets and alleged inaction against alcoholism and drug abuse.The KCBC Temperance Commission issued a circular, which was read...
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A class nine student allegedly went on a rampage at a private residential school here, killing one and injuring others with a sharp object and an iron rod, the police said on Sunday. The incident took place at the school hostel on Saturday night, they said. \The deceased boy was a native of...
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A promotional campaign by a footwear shop in Kozhikode promising premium shoes for just Rs 1 sparked a massive rush on Sunday morning, forcing police to resort to lathicharge to control the crowd. Hundreds of eager customers, lured by viral advertisements, flooded the area in the early...
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An FIR has been registered against a man and seven of his family members for allegedly giving triple talaq to his wife and harassing her over dowry, officials said on Sunday.The case was filed on a complaint by 21-year-old Jannat Bano against her husband Dr Zainul Abedin and his family members at...
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Bihar CM Nitish Kumar's son Nishant Kumar joins JD-U in Patna on Sunday./ANI Photo
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's son Nishant Kumar joined the Janata Dal-United on Sunday and said he will work to strengthen the party's organisation. Nishant, an engineering graduate who is in his 40s, was inducted into the party at its headquarters here in the presence of top leaders,...
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President Droupadi Murmu will visit the Ram temple here on March 19, chairman of the Ram Temple construction committee Nripendra Mishra said on Sunday.The President would stay in the Ram Janmabhoomi complex for around three hours, during which workers and employees who contributed to the temple...
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An injured Iranian sailor at Galle National Hospital, Sri Lanka, March 5, 2026./Thilina Kaluthotage/Reuters
At least 22 Iranian sailors of IRIS Dena, the Iranian ship that was torpedoed by the US, have been discharged, hospital authorities said on Sunday. They were dispatched in ambulances to the Sri Lanka Air Force facility at Koggala outside Galle under heavy security, officials said. Another 10...
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The assembly of experts in Iran has reached a majority consensus regarding the successor to the late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to reports from the Tehran-based Mehr News Agency (MNA). The development follows the killing of the 86-year-old supreme leader. Quoting...
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The Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Sunday carried out a demolition drive and razed illegal portions of a house linked to one of the accused in the Uttam Nagar Holi clash case, in which a 26-year-old man was killed, police sources said. Heavy police and paramilitary deployment remained in...
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Bollywood actor Shahid Kapoor has started shooting for the second season of the acclaimed thriller series Farzi.Kapoor shared the news by uploading a picture on his Instagram story on Saturday with Farzi2 day 1 ... . Back at it, written over it. The post comprised Kapoor's picture alongside the...
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Singer-songwriter Badshah./Courtesy @Its_Badshah/X
Singer-songwriter Badshah issued an apology after his latest song Tateeree was accused of having objectionable lyrics on women and minors and said the track has been taken down from all the platforms.The 40-year-old singer, known for tracks such as Abhi Toh Party Shuru Hui Hai and Genda...
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A probe has been launched after an unidentified person hurled a stone at a Vande Bharat Express train at Aluva near Kochi, officials said on Sunday. Railway Protection Force (RPF) officials said the incident took place at around 7.15 pm on Saturday between Aluva and Angamaly railway...
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has called for enhanced cooperation between New Delhi and Beijing during a news conference held on the sidelines of the fourth session of the 14th National People's Congress in Beijing.The senior diplomat emphasised the importance of bilateral collaboration,...
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Drone and missile attacks were reported in several parts of West Asia, including Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Bahrain, amid escalating regional tensions linked to the ongoing Iran crisis.Saudi Arabia's Defence Ministry said a drone targeted Riyadh's high-security Diplomatic Quarter, where the US...
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Foreign investors pulled out Rs 21,000 crore (around $2.3 billion) from Indian equities over the last four trading sessions amid deteriorating global risk sentiment triggered by the Middle East crisis.The latest sell-off comes after foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) infused Rs 22,615 crore into...
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The United States and Israel have held discussions regarding the potential deployment of special forces into Iran to secure the country's stockpile of highly enriched uranium, as reported by Axios.According to four sources with knowledge of the discussions cited by Axios, such an operation would...
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The humanitarian crisis within the Islamic Republic has reached a critical stage as hostilities persist, with significant casualties and mass displacement reported across the country.More than a week into the conflict, the humanitarian toll in Iran continues to rise.According to Al Jazeera, the...
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Dubai Media Office has confirmed that debris from an aerial interception fell onto a vehicle in the Al Barsha area, resulting in the death of a Pakistani driver.In a post on X, it also shared that authorities had confirmed a minor incident on the facade of a tower in Dubai Marina, with no...
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United States President Donald Trump on Saturday claimed that the US had wiped out the entire leadership in Iran and called the actions getting rid of a major 'cancer' off the face of the earth.When asked whether the United States was responsible for the bombing of an elementary girls' school in...
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The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has identified two suspects following an attempted bomb attack outside Gracie Mansion, the residence of Zohran Mamdani, reported CNN.A video posted by the independent newswire agency Freedomnews captured the moment one suspect passed the device to...
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The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have announced that the Israeli Air Force (IAF) conducted targeted strikes against multiple Iranian military assets in Tehran.In a post on X, the military official account stated: 'STRUCK: Several Fuel Storage Complexes Belonging to the IRGC in Tehran.'The...
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