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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has chargesheeted 13 people under the stringent anti-terror law UAPA for alleged involvement in spying on sensitive locations as part of its probe in the Ghaziabad espionage case linked to Pakistan, officials said on Saturday.The case, which was initially...
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Amid a growing debate over the use of high-decibel loudspeakers during the upcoming Ganeshotsav in Pune, 31 prominent Ganapati mandals in the city came together to celebrate a DJ-free Dahi Handi on Saturday.The initiative, led by Punit Balan, a trustee of the Shrimant Bhausaheb Rangari Ganapati...
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A court in Ayodhya on Saturday extended till September 18 the judicial custody of all eight accused arrested in connection with the alleged theft of donations at the Ram temple, their lawyer said.The eight accused, who were associated with the temple's donation-counting process, were arrested...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday took travelled by Delhi Metro to reach Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) to attend its centenary celebrations.During the metro ride he interacted with children.He lauded Delhi University's Shri Ram College of Commerce for distinguishing itself over...
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Police have arrested a 22-year-old man in connection with the sensational murder of Pune-based realtor Ketan Agarwal at Lohagad fort in the district in June this year, officials said on Saturday.The arrested man, Ritesh Hange, is a friend of Chetan Choudhary, the alleged lover of victim Agarwal's...
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The heavy rain that drenched Gurugram on Saturday afternoon provided much-needed relief from the humid heat, but it also caused significant waterlogging in several areas, halting the city's usual pace.Traffic remained slow from Sarhaul Border to Rajiv Chowk, with 36 mm of rainfall recorded within...
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A local Samajwadi Party office bearer Mohammad Usman, has been booked for allegedly offering namaz at the Moradabad Circuit House without permission and obstructing traffic, police said on Saturday.Usman is also a relative of Samajwadi Party MLA from Bilari, Mohammad Faheem Irfan.The case was...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a 72-hour pause in strikes on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told Russia's Tass news agencyPutin has ordered that no strikes be carried out against Kyiv for three days, starting at midnight today, Peskov...
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The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) has decided to bar Muslims from taking part in 'garba' and 'dandiya' events during next month's Navratri festival across Maharashtra, and also set guidelines for the organisers to verify the Hindu identity of participants.These measures include checking the Aadhaar...
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The Jantar Mantar protest highlights that the 'Gen Z' have emerged as a political constituency the government can no longer ignore, CPI-ML Liberation general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya said, asserting that the opposition should draw strength from the youth mobilisation and build a...
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Around 10.26 lakh people across 11 districts of Bihar have been affected by floods, while the Ganga water level breached the 'highest flood mark' at Gandhi Ghat and Pandarak here on Saturday morning, amid heavy rain in the state, official bulletins said.Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary on Saturday...
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Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday stressed the importance of independent judiciary and media for the progress of a democracy, and said that among all institutions, the media suffered the biggest problem of crisis of credibility.The Road Transport and Highways Minister was addressing a...
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Karnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Saturday said teachers in the state can use the prefix 'Tr' before their names as a mark of respect for their contribution to society.The announcement was made on the occasion of Teachers' Day.The prefix is akin to professional titles such as 'Dr' for...
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A 13-year-old girl allegedly died by suicide at her residence in Delhi's Shahdara after she was scolded by family members for returning home late, police said on Saturday.The girl was found unconscious on the floor of her home in Krishna Nagar after her sister noticed her hanging and brought her...
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A special NIA court in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district on Saturday convicted all 10 accused in the 2013 Jhiram Valley Maoist attack case in which 29 people, including senior Congress leaders, were killed.The attack, among the deadliest incidents of violence related to Left Wing Extremism, took...
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The Bihar government on Saturday asserted that obtaining prior consent shall be mandatory for the Central Bureau of Investigation to probe offences allegedly involving public servants in the state.This has been made clear in a Home Department notification, which has been stated to be in...
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Manoj Jarange's stir for Maratha quota entered the eighth day on Saturday, with the activist intensifying it by refusing to take water or medical treatment while alleging that the Maharashtra government had failed to implement assurances given to him.Jarange, earlier in the week, had agreed to...
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The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered an FIR against media baron Subhash Chandra for allegedly inflating his net worth to avail loans from Life Insurance Corporation Housing Finance Ltd (LICHFL), which became default, causing over Rs 1,322 crore loss to the public sector lender,...
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Rescuers give water to a woman as she is rescued from a house
Two more persons were rescued on Saturday days after a flash flood tore through Nepal.A Chinese worker trapped underground and a 60-year-old woman buried inside a damaged home were found alive, surviving against all odds after one of the country's deadliest disasters.A 60-year-old woman was...
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An illegally-constructed mosque located within the premises of the Saharanpur district collectorate office in Uttar Pradesh was demolished early Saturday, officials said.The collectorate complex turned into a fortress Saturday morning as all five entrances were closed down while the general...
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Hindutva influencer Swatantra Bhardwaj on Saturday was produced before a Delhi court, which remanded him to one day of police custody.Bhardwaj was detained in Bulandshahr on Friday, hours after the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) staged a protest outside the Parliament Street police station demanding...
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PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday said the alleged assault on two Muslim women journalists in a police station in the national capital has proved hollow RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's assertion in the United States of communal inseparability.RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's assertion in America that...
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Twenty-two 'govindas' or youngsters involved in the formation of multi-storeyed human pyramids as part of the 'Dahi Handi' celebrations, were injured in parts of Mumbai on Saturday, civic officials said.Of them, 21 were discharged from hospitals after treatment, they said.Dahi Handi, which is...
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Tata Sons, the holding company of the USD 275-billion-plus Tata conglomerate, has narrowed its search for a successor to Chairman N Chandrasekaran to three prominent corporate leaders -- Tata Steel CEO and MD T V Narendran, Tata Sons Executive Director and Group CFO Saurabh Agrawal, and NSE MD...
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Assam-Agartala NH blocked during 72-hour protest over 11-point demands./ANI Photo
Train services and vehicular movement were affected in parts of Tripura on Saturday on the second day of a 72-hour blockade called by a forum of surrendered militants over an 11-point charter of demands, including the implementation of a tripartite agreement under which they laid down...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appealed to teachers to make students aware of the menace of drugs and has urged them to help reduce their screen time.Interacting with the national award-winning teachers on Friday, the eve of Teacher's Day, Modi said that everyone in society should push students...
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In a major push to advance operations at Nepal's Chilime tunnel, the Indian tunnel rescue team worked in close coordination with the Nepal Army to drain accumulated water and dig deeper into the shaft, following severe flooding and landslides that swept through Rasuwa district in Nepal.The joint...
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A 32-year-old warden at Parappana Agrahara Central Prison in Bengaluru was allegedly assaulted by five undertrial prisoners, who also attempted to strangle him, the police said on Saturday.The accused are lodged in the prison in connection with the murder of former Bajrang Dal activist Suhas...
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Keralam sports minister O J Janeesh, who represents Kodungalloor, on Saturday criticised the NHAI following the death of eight engineering students whose car rammed into a lorry parked on NH-66 at Kaipamangalam in Thrissur.The accident occurred on Friday night when the car carrying the students...
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Author and journalist Samar Halarnkar/Courtesy X
Author and journalist Samar Halarnkar said he heaved a sigh of relief after tracing his and his mother’s 2002 voting details under Karnataka’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR). In a post on X, Halarnkar said online and offline efforts, aided by neighbours on WhatsApp, helped him locate...
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Congress MLA Ramya Haridas./ANI Photo
A scuffle broke out between Congress MLA Ramya Haridas and local party workers in Chirayinkeezhu near Thirivananthapuram, with both sides trading allegations, the police said on Saturday.Haridas alleged that she was attacked and threatened by local Congress leaders, while district panchayat...
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As rescue and relief operations continue in Nepal in the wake of the devastating flash floods of August 26, the Nepal police said on Saturday that the death toll has risen to 1,344.The Nepal police shared the latest death toll in a post on X.The aftermath of the devastating floods has affected...
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The police on Friday arrested the sixth and last named accused in the August 31 illegal cracker factory blast in Kaushambi that killed 14, after an encounter, officials said. Shakil was arrested around 9 pm after a joint team of Manjhanpur police and the Special Operations Group received...
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Eight people, believed to be students from neighbouring Tamil Nadu, have been killed in a tragic road accident in central Keralam's Thrissur district, the police said on Saturday.The accident occurred around 11.40 pm on Friday, according to the police.The car in which the youths were travelling...
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Hindu community in Bangladesh celebrates Janmashtami AT Dhakeshwari National Temple./ANI Photo
The Hindu community in Bangladesh on Friday celebrated Sri Krishna Janmashtami with religious fervour at the historic Dhakeshwari National Temple in Dhaka, with devotees gathering to mark the birth of Lord Krishna through prayers, rituals and traditional festivities.The celebrations in Dhaka...
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Tamil Nadu minister P Viswanathan on Friday said that Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, will be the prime ministerial candidate in the 2029 elections, while expressing confidence in the Congress' political position in the state.Viswanathan was one of the 2 MLAs...
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Devotees in a crowd gather to pay obeisance to Lord Krishna on the occasion of the Janmashtami festival in Mathura, on Friday./ANI Photo
The sound of drums, hand cymbals and mridangam, along with the chants of 'Hari Bol' filled the air with devotional fervour as devotees danced to celebrate Janmashtami at Sri Krishna Janmasthan in Mathura in the early hours of Saturday.Janmashtami marks the birth of Lord Krishna, who is revered as...
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US President Donald Trump/Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
US President Donald Trump on Friday (local time) said the United States could hit Iran's heavily fortified underground nuclear site known as Pickaxe Mountain very soon, days after Washington targeted Iranian military targets.Speaking to reporters at the Oval Office, Trump defended the months-long...
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Authorities in Uttar Pradesh's Etah have launched an investigation after a firecracker warehouse, licensed to store up to 500 kg of explosive material, was allegedly found to have stock exceeding the permitted limit, officials said on Friday.The actual stock is being weighed and matched with the...
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Ahead of the Ganesh festival, Nagpur police commissioner Vishwas Nangre Patil on Friday made it clear that although there was no blanket ban on using the DJ system in the city, action will be taken in case of violation of permitted decibel limits.A day earlier, Nangre Patil said that the police...
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A class 9 student was stabbed to death in broad daylight in Delhi's Nangloi area allegedly by three juveniles following a dispute over his friendship with a girl from his school, the police said on Friday.The three juveniles have been apprehended in connection with the incident that occurred on...
