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United States President Donald Trump on Thursday said that the states where Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is winning will be 'legally challenged by us for voter fraud and state election fraud'.Taking to Twitter, Trump said, 'All of the recent Biden claimed States will be legally...
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United States President Donald Trump scored the first legal battle in the battleground state of Pennsylvania wherein an appellate judge has ordered that poll watchers must be allowed within six feet of counting of votes.'Big legal win in Pennsylvania,' Trump said in a tweet soon after the court...
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Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden appeared to be on the cusp of making history along with his running mate Senator Kamala Harris, while President Donald Trump continued to have a bumpy and narrow path to victory as counting of votes in some key battleground states entered its last...
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The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to let it know on November 25 how much time it would take to complete the probe into the Hathras gang rape and murder case.It has also asked the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to file an affidavit...
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The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday said it has denied permission to the BJP's 'Vel Yatra', a rally covering six abodes of Lord Murugan and slated to start tomorrow, citing the Covid-19 pandemic. The ruling AIADMK asked its saffron ally to drop the plans to take out the rally in...
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A Indian origin demonstrator was charged with spitting in an NYPD sergeant's face during protests in Manhattan on Wednesday night, police said.Devina Singh, 24, was caught on video without a mask and screaming at the sergeant, 'F*** you, fascist!' before allegedly spitting at him.Singh, who lives...
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The Haryana assembly on Thursday passed a bill to give 75 per cent reservation in private sector jobs to youth from the state, an election promise made by ruling alliance partner Jannayak Janta Party. The Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Bill, 2020 provides a 75 per cent job...
21:14
United States President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Thursday morning to again urge for vote counting to be stopped as Democrat Joe Biden continued to push closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to carry the White House. STOP THE COUNT! Trump tweeted in upper caps.Trump...
20:54
Union home minister and top Bharatiya Janata Party leader Amit Shah Thursday set a target of 200 out of the total 294 seats in the 2021 West Bengal assembly elections and to come to power in the state, party sources said.Shah, who visited Bankura during the day to take stock of the party...
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Soliciting global investments, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said India is the best place for generating long-term returns. Addressing the Virtual Global Investor Roundtable 2020, he said the country has one of the lowest corporate tax rates in the...
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It's Thursday morning in the United States and the race for the White House is still too close to call.As votes continue to come in, former Vice President Joe Biden has edged closer to the 270-electoral-vote threshold needed to win the presidency, but razor-thin margins separate him from...
19:44
The Alibaug police in Raigad district on Thursday filed a revision application before a sessions court challenging the order passed by a lower court remanding Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami and two others to judicial custody in an abetment of suicide case.Chief Judicial Magistrate...
19:43
Advertising volumes on television touched an all-time high in the week to October 30 amid the festival demand, surpassing a five-year-old record, the Broadcast Audience Research Council said on Thursday. The release of the data, which comes amid an unprecedented impact on the economy when...
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The government on Thursday issued a set of revised guidelines for international arrivals, under which travellers seeking exemption from institutional quarantine will need to submit a negative RT-PCR report 72 hours before undertaking the journey. The India-bound passengers can...
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Asserting that reforms are impossible in an environment of mismanagement and anarchy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said he needs the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar to ensure that there is no paucity in the state's development and the welfare schemes continue there...
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Ahead of Diwali, the Delhi government on Thursday decided to ban firecrackers in the national capital and ramp up medical infrastructure in hospitals, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said after a review of the COVID-19 situation. COVID-19 cases have increased in Delhi due to the...
17:54
A court at Alibaug in Maharashtra while refusing to remand Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami in police custody in a 2018 abetment to suicide case observed that the arrest of Goswami and two other accused appears to be prima facie illegal. Chief Judicial Magistrate Sunaina Pingle after...
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Advertising volumes on television touched an all-time high in the week to October 30 amid the festival demand, surpassing a five-year-old record, the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) said on Thursday. The release of the data, which comes amid an unprecedented impact on the economy...
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The Calcutta High Court on Thursday banned the use and sale of firecrackers on Kali Puja in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. A division bench of justices Sanjib Banerjee and Arijit Banerjee gave the direction while hearing two Public Interest Litigations. Kali Puja is on November 15. The...
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Campaigning for the third and final phase of Bihar assembly elections in which 2.35 crore voters will decide the electoral fate of more than 1,200 candidates, including the Speaker and some members of the state cabinet, ended on Thursday evening. The final phase of polling on Saturday will...
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Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, who has been sent to 14 days judicial custody in an 2018 abetment to suicide case, failed to get any interim relief from the Bombay High Court. The division bench of Justice S S Shinde and Justice M S Karnik, which was hearing the case, said it...
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If we find Goswami's brand of media problematic, and many of us do, we need to try and counter that through means of discourse, legal remedies and using whatever organisations and means are still available to us. This could include robust prosecution of hate speech and a denunciation of fact-free...
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The pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has missed its target of delivering 30 million doses of its vaccine against Covid-19 to the UK by September, as the producer is predicted to only hand over 4 million doses by the end of the year, Kate Bingham, the head of the government's vaccine task force,...
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Bihar CM Nitish Kumar addressing a poll rally in Purnia. This is my last election, the JD(U) Chief said. Yesterday, Nitish reached out to voters in Muslim dominated Kishanganj district assuring them that there was no need to fear about deportation in the event of implementation of the...
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Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Thursday said the government will take strong measures to put an end to religious conversion in the name of love jihad. In recent days there are media reports about religious conversion in the name of love jihad in Karnataka. I have discussed this...
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Amit Shah eyes a juicy rasgulla at a tribal's home in Bankura
Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah meets a tribal family in Chaturthi village, Bankura, during his two-day visit to the state.Amit Shah said on Thursday that he can sense massive public anger against the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal and the death knell of her regime has...
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Arnab Goswami is in jail till Nov 18
The Maharashtra Human Rights Commission issues notice to SP Raigad to be present before it tomorrow by 11 am over the arrest of Republic TV's Arnab Goswami and present entire material records before the Commission.Republic TV Editor-in Chief Arnab Goswami has petitioned the Bombay high court...
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A day after the arrest of Republic TV Editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami in a 2018 abetment to suicide case, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly's Privilege Committee called a meeting on Thursday to discuss a breach of privilege motion moved against him by Shiv Sena MLA Pratap Sarnaik.The meeting is...
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WhatsApp on Thursday said it is introducing 'disappearing messages' feature on its platform that will allow new messages sent to a chat to disappear after seven days. The feature will be rolled out to all users this month. The Facebook-owned company said the goal is to make conversations on...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah held a review meeting with senior officials of CRPF in Bankura, West Bengal, today. Shah is on a two-day visit to the state.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said that benefits of more than 80 schemes of the Central government are blocked for the people by the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal.Benefits of more than 80 schemes of the Central government for poor and tribals are blocked by the Mamata...
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Kerala's acclaimed elephant rehabilitation centre at nearby Kottoor is set to become the largest care-and-cure centre for pachyderms in the world with upgraded features and facilities.The existing jumbo care centre at Kottoor, located over 25 kms away from the capital city, is being upgraded to...
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Delirium or mental confusion accompanied by fever could be an early symptom of Covid-19, particularly in elderly patients, according to a review of studies. The research, published in the Journal of Clinical Immunology and Immunotherapy, suggests that together with the loss of the senses of...
14:11
A group of supporters of President Donald Trump gathered at the Arizona Capitol and Maricopa County elections centres in Phoenix demanding election workers to keep counting ballots.The county elections department indicated it would not be intimidated, USA Today reported.With 86 per cent of the...
13:44
The race for the White House is still too close to call as contests tighten in the battleground states of Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania.The biggest county in Arizona has just released the second of two sets of new votes -- shrinking Joe Biden's lead there by just over 10,000...
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Taking a swipe at the Opposition, Lok Janshakti Party chief Chirag Paswan on Thursday said questions being raised by Congress and Mahagathbandhan over the Electronic Voting Machine show that they have accepted their defeat in the ensuing Bihar Assembly polls and termed it as a good sign for...
13:30
The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) gets 17 new warriors for its K9 Team. Mothers Olga and Oleshya gave birth to 17 Malinois pups at ITBP's elite National Training Centre for Dogs in Panchkula, Haryana. The Malinois breed was used by the United States in the operation to eliminate...
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The share of stubble burning in Delhi's pollution rose to 42 per cent on Thursday, the maximum so far this season, according to a central government air quality monitoring agency. Experts said raging farm fires and a fall in the wind speed and temperatures pushed air quality in Delhi-NCR to...
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India is determined to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of unilateralism and aggression, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday, as the border standoff with China in eastern Ladakh enters the seventh month. The defence minister also said that India...
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Thick smog covered Rajpath this morning. Pic: ANI
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said the Covid-19 situation is deteriorating in the city due to rising air pollution and appealed to people to avoid bursting firecrackers this Diwali. Addressing an online media briefing, Kejriwal said he along with his cabinet ministers will...
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Migrants hosed down with chlorine in Bareilly in March
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre to issue directions for banning use of disinfectants and ultra violet rays on humans for Covid-19 management. A bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan asked the government to do the needful in this regard within a month. The bench passed the...
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The Covid-19 tally in Maharashtra's Thane district reached 2,13,762 with the addition of 602 new cases of the viral infection, an official said on Thursday. The district also reported 13 deaths due to Covid-19 on Wednesday, taking the toll to 5,401, he said. There are currently 8,247 active...
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The Shiv Sena on Thursday slammed the BJP for describing the arrest of Republic TV Editor-in- Chief Arnab Goswami in an abetment to suicide case as black day and an attack on the freedom of press. An editorial in Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana' said it was surprising that central ministers along with...
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday, said that nobody had the power to throw anybody out of the country, apparently allaying fears of people in the region over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).Addressing a rally in Kishanganj, Kumar said: Who keeps spreading misinformation, keeps...
11:16
Arnab Goswami said he was assaulted during his arrest
Republic TV Editor-in Chief Arnab Goswami has petitioned the Bombay High Court challenging his illegal arrest in a 2018 case of abetment of suicide of an interior designer, and sought quashing of the FIR lodged against him by Alibaug police in Maharashtra. A division bench of Justices S S...
11:11
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is edging towards a victory over incumbent President Donald Trump in the fierce battle of US Presidential elections with 253 projected Electoral College votes.Biden needs 17 more votes to win the race as counting is underway in key states including...
10:45
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has pledged that his administration would rejoin the historic Paris Agreement on climate change. Biden, 77, has not won the presidential elections yet, but is inching closer to be declared the winner by garnering 253 electoral votes out of the...
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There are still about 20,000 mail-in ballots to be counted in Georgia's Fulton County, Director of Registration and Elections Richard Barron tells CNN. He added that the county may have to resume counting ballots at some point Thursday.Fulton County has counted 121,683 ballots as...
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Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi makes a valid point: World's oldest &most developed ctal demo-#usa-also most flawed. Ridiculous electoral system. No direct vote 4world's most powerful #CEO. Skewed cos Popular vote can be trumped by electoral Coll votes. Counting varies from state 2state from...
09:57
US President Trumps campaign is considering taking legal action in Arizona and Nevada as votes are still being counted, two sources told CNN. As Trumps path to victory has narrowed dramatically, the campaign pursued a tactic the US president has often relied on throughout his life;...
09:48
India recorded as many as 50,209 coronavirus cases in a span of 24 hours, taking the country's COVID-19 tally above 83 lakh, while the total recoveries surged to 77 lakh, according to the Union health ministry's data updated on Thursday.India's COVID-19 caseload mounted to 8,364,086 while the...
09:31
When a candidate wins the presidency, he or she needs to set up what's called a transition team to help prepare to take office in the following January.Now Joe Biden has launched his transition website - Build Back Better. It states: The crises facing the country are severe - from a pandemic to...
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Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide of an nterior designer, spent the night at a local school which has been designated as a COVID-19 centre for the Alibaug prison. A court at Alibaug in Maharashtra's Raigad district on Wednesday...
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A Biden campaign adviser says they feel good about Georgia, along with Arizona and Pennsylvania, as votes continues to come in the state.Advisers have long viewed Georgia as an expansion state where a win could help complicate Trumps path to the presidency.Biden himself paid a visit to the state,...
08:29
US President Trump is angrily phoning Republican governors while publicly casting doubt on his own legal strategy that he personally instructed aides to carry out.After Fox News called Arizona for Joe Biden, Trump instructed aides to begin filing lawsuits almost immediately. Those aides spent...
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In Pennsylvania, vote counting is expected to continue for a few more days.Almost 80% of the votes counted today were for Biden.
07:57
A poll worker supervisor looks on as she handles an envelope of original ballots at the TCF center after Election Day in Detroit, Michigan
The top election official in Michigan has criticised a legal challenge launched by the Trump campaign to stop vote counting in the battleground state, calling it frivolous.All valid ballots cast in the state had been tabulated accurately, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said.Trump won the state...
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Activists hold signs as they attend a news conference to demand respect for the results of the 2020 US presidential election, in Phoenix, Arizona
After Maricopa county, Arizona released a latest batch of election results, Joe Bidens lead in the state narrowed.The counting in Maricopa County, which contains Phoenix, is underway. So far it shows Joe Biden at 887,457 and President Trump at 802,160, CNN's Kyung Lah reported.That is 52 per cent...
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Here's a roundup of where we are with the US elections. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leads the race for the presidency with 253 electoral votes. US President Trump has 213 electoral votes.The final result will come down to key, undeclared battleground states: Arizona, Georgia,...
06:39
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leads the race for the presidency with 253 electoral votes. US President Trump has 213 electoral votes.Trump's lead in Georgia has shrunk to about 47,000 votes as more ballots continue to be tallied in Fulton County, home to Atlanta.
06:29
The Trump campaign is filing a lawsuit to stop vote counting in Georgia, a campaign official said. It is unclear whether the suit will be successful. President Trump and his team are fighting for the good of the nation to uphold the rule of law, and Georgias law is very clear: to legally count,...
06:11
As the US awaits election results, more than 100,000 have tested positive for Covid-19, per the COVID Tracking Project.Cases are surging in nearly every state, with major cities including Omaha, Nebraska pausing elective surgeries to free up staff and resources to treat coronavirus...
06:05
With more votes in populous, Democratic counties left to be counted, Donald Trumps lead in Georgia has shrunk to 47,000 votes.Fulton county said they will be announcing the results of 36,000 votes by midnight tonight so far, 72% of voters in that county have favoured Biden. If the trends hold,...
05:13
The voting percentage in the second phase of polling on 94 seats in the Bihar assembly elections increased to 55.70 after updation of the figures by the Election Commission Wednesday.The provisional voting figure till late Tuesday night was 54.64 which rose marginally after the poll panel...
03:33
United States President Donald Trump's campaign is set to file a lawsuit in Pennsylvania over poll watchers and voter ID laws amid the run-up to the nail-biting finish of the 2020 presidential elections.'Bad things are happening in Pennsylvania. Democrats are scheming to disenfranchise and dilute...
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Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters
CNN projects Joe Biden victory in Michigan.After the latest projection, Biden has 253 electoral college votes as against Trump's 213, making it much difficult for the President to win the polls.Meanwhile, the Trump Campaign has filed a lawsuit to halt counting until meaningful access is granted...
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Photograph: Andrew Kelly/Reuters
The United States reported its second-highest daily total of new COVID-19 cases on Election Day as over 91,000 new cases were reported on Tuesday.Around 9.4 million cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the US, including more than 232,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. The...
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Joe Biden wins Wisconsin, projects CNN.Biden delivers a setback to President Trump's path to reelection by flipping a state Trump won four years ago, inching ahead in the race with 237 electoral college votes against Trump's 213.
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JUST IN: United States President Donald Trump campaign files a lawsuit in Michigan to halt the counting of ballots. -- ANI
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The campaign of President Donald Trump will 'immediately' request a recount in the battleground state of Wisconsin, citing 'irregularities' in several state counties while raising doubts about the validity of the results.Democratic candidate Joe Biden is leading Trump by 0.6 per cent in Wisconsin...
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