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The Taliban on Thursday claimed to have seized Herat, Afghanistan's third-largest city amid US troop withdrawal from the country.Herat was also captured, Sputnik reported citing a Taliban statement.Buildings in the province, including the police headquarters, came under Taliban control,...
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The Delhi High Court has set aside a Central government order which stated that a widowed or divorced daughter of a deceased freedom fighter was not eligible for dependent pension under its Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme.Justice V Kameswar Rao, who was hearing a challenge to the order...
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The Centre has sanctioned a Z category armed security cover to Soumendu Adhikari, the younger brother of BJP's Suvendu Adhikari, who is the leader of opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, officials said on Thursday.A lower category of Y+ security has also been extended to Greater Cooch Behar...
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Health authorities in Maharashtra's Gondia district have started tracing close contacts of two women who were found infected with the Delta plus variant of coronavirus, considered highly infectious, an official said on Thursday.As many as 105 swab samples collected from the district were sent to...
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Security personnel at the Mumbai airport went into a tizzy after a petrol-filled bottle was hurled towards the runway side by some miscreants, official sources said on Thursday.They said the incident took place around 9 pm on Wednesday.A security official of the Central Industrial Security Force...
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Ashraf Ghani
The Ashraf Ghani-led Afghanistan government on Thursday has offered a share of power to the Taliban in a bid to stop the escalating violence in the war-torn country where the insurgent group has captured 10 provincial capitals so far, local media reported.ARY News reported that the government had...
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The Maharashtra government on Thursday launched an online facility to enable citizens who have completed 14 days after second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to obtain passes to travel in suburban trains in Mumbai from August 15. A Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) release said, A...
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The Leader of Opposition in West Bengal assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday said that the ruling Trinamool Congress is going back on its poll promises after assuming power for the third time. Speaking to reporters in Kolkata, Adhikari, a senior BJP leader who had himself defected...
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India has issued an advisory for Indian nationals to leave Afghanistan through commercial means and there is no formal evacuation mechanism, Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday.Addressing the first in-person press briefing since March this year, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson...
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India's industrial production rose by 13.6 per cent in June, official data released on Thursday showed. According to the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) data released by the National Statistical Office (NSO), the manufacturing sector's output surged by 13 per cent in June 2021. The...
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Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Thursday met World Health Organization (WHO) Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan and held a discussion over the world body's approval of Bharat Biotech's Covaxin.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi says he's guilty. Guilty of showing compassion and empathy, Rahul Gandhi says on Instagram.This is likely in response to Twitter blocking his handle for sharing pictures of the family of a nine-year-old alleged rape-and-murder victim in Delhi last week in violation of...
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Afghan government negotiators in Qatar have offered the Taliban a power-sharing deal in return for an end to fighting in the country: ANI quoting AFP News Agency.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, claiming he will be thrown out of power by a storm created by the voices of poor, Dalits, farmers and workers in the country. He said that the people of the country understood the current situation in the country...
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India cannot become the next factory of the world by copying China, Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said on Thursday and emphasised that the country needs to get into sunrise areas of growth if it wants to be a global leader. Addressing a virtual event organised by industry body CII, Kant...
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The pandemic left lakhs jobless
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday assured India Inc that the government is ready to do everything required to revive and support economic growth. There are indicators which suggest that the economy is buoyant and recovery is taking place post lifting of COVID-19...
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Equity indices touched fresh record highs on Thursday with strong buying in PSU bank and IT stocks.At the closing bell, the BSE S&P Sensex was up by 318 points or 0.58 per cent at 54,844 while the Nifty 50 ticked higher by 82 points or 0.5 per cent to 16,364. Except for Nifty...
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The resurgent Taliban have taken more territory in Afghanistan in the last two months than at any time since they were ousted from power in 2001. Take a look.
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EAM S Jaishankar at CII Annual Meeting 2021: Highlights... On handling the Covid pandemic...-- India was one country that stepped out, helped others, sent out medicines, sent out medical teams, kept food supplies going for those for whom this was very important, like the Gulf. So there was a...
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Equity benchmark Sensex surged 318 points to end at its new lifetime high on Thursday, tracking gains in ICICI Bank, L&T and Tech Mahindra. The 30-share index ended 318.05 points or 0.58 per cent higher at its all-time peak of 54,843.98. The broader NSE Nifty advanced 82.15 points or...
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RTI activist Saket Gokhale Thursday joined the Trinamool Congress in New Delhi. He said the Mamata Banerjee-led party takes an aggressive stand on issues. The TMC is the second largest Opposition party in Parliament and it has been my obvious choice. If you look at all the national...
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Islamabad should target safe hideouts of the Taliban along its border with Afghanistan, said US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during his phone call with Army Chief of Staff of Pakistan General Qamar Javed Bajwa.During a presser on Wednesday, Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said that secretary...
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Despite Opposition members alleging an attack by Rajya Sabha security personnel on Wednesday, CCTV footage of the ruckus emerged on Thursday showing Opposition MPs can be seen jostling with marshals in the Upper House.The Monsoon Session of Parliament concluded prematurely on Wednesday...
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As Chak De India completes 14 glorious years, Shah Rukh Khan tweets his thanks to the young women in the film who played hockey players to SRK's coach. Just felt like thanking all the young ladies of Chak De India for making the film such a beautiful experience. And Shimit, Adi, @yrf,...
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India is battling numerous mutant strains, writes Ruchir Joshi. Read the column here.
14:21
No change in top three positions; Kerala, Maharashtra and Karnataka continue to lead in Covid cases.
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Also read: Twitter cited the Rahul Gandhi's tweet with the parents of a rape victim blocking his account but turning a blind eye to a former BJP MP doing the same. Read it here.
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Twitter on Thursday reasoned blocking of several accounts of Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, for posting an image that it said violated its rules and the action was to protect individuals' privacy and safety. Twitter handles of Gandhi and several Congress leaders have been locked...
13:35
Himachal Pradesh CM Jairam Thakur visits Kinnaur landslide site, reviews rescue operation. Death toll in the incident is 14. Rescue operations were halted for two hours due to falling rubble. At present, the national highway is closed. HRTC bus wreckage is seen spread over 100 meters...
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Productivity in both houses less than 30 per cent.
12:59
Heavy clashes are underway between Afghan defense forces and Taliban in Ghazni city in the southeastern part of the country.The terror group said to have captured the Police Headquarters in the city, TOLO News reported. The strategic city is the tenth provincial capital that could fall to...
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Opposition leaders meet Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu to apprise him of yesterday's incident in Rajya Sabha
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COVID-19 may behave like other common-cold coronaviruses in the next few years, affecting mostly young children who have not yet been vaccinated or exposed to the virus, according to a modelling study published on Thursday. The US-Norwegian team noted that because COVID-19 severity is...
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And on World Elephant Day, German Ambassador to India, Walter J Lindner shares this tender moment with a pachyderm: Today #WorldElephantDay! Elephants are loved & respected by cultures around the world, yet we are on the brink of seeing the last of these magnificent soft giants in wilderness....
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Union Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav on Thursday called for identifying the areas where human-elephant conflict exists and work on a policy to decrease it.On World Elephant Day, Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav in his speech stated, Conservation cannot happen through theories, we have...
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A woman gets vaccinated in Mumbai
The Indian Air Force has sacked one of its personnel from service for refusing to get vaccinated against Covid-19, which has been made a service condition, the central government has told the Gujarat High Court. Additional Solicitor General Devang Vyas, in his submission on Wednesday in...
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Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jairam Thakur conducts aerial survey of the landslide-hit area in Kinnaur. A total of 13 bodies have been recovered so far from the landslide site in the Nugulsari area. The Kinnaur landslide | rescue and search operation had stopped for the last one hour due to...
12:08
Silver medallist and woman of the world, Saikhom Mirabai Chanu, gets some me-time after years spent training for the Tokyo Olympics. Mirabai is from Manipur wears a pretty Phanek and tweets, Always happy to be in my traditional outfits.
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Congress MPs Shashi Tharoor, Rahul Gandhi and other opposition leaders held a march outside the parliament building this morning to protest the abrupt end to the Monsoon Session and the alleged assault on women MPs in the Upper House. At the Opposition protest march at Vijay Chowk, where...
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The Supreme Court Thursday stayed a Gujarat High Court order granting two-week furlough to rape convict Narayan Sai, son of self-styled godman Asaram Bapu. A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and M R Shah issued a notice to Narayan Sai on the plea of the Gujarat government challenging the order...
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Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Thursday said that Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi will meet leaders and Chief Ministers of Congress-ruled states on 20 August.While speaking to the media, the Shiv Sena leader said, The Opposition is united. On August 20, Congress interim president Sonia...
11:24
A slice of cake from Prince Charles and Princess Diana's wedding cake has been sold for 1,850 pounds (USD 2,565) at an auction - more than 40 years after the fairy-tale marriage took place. The generous slice is from one of the 23 official wedding cakes the British royal couple served...
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The Congress on Thursday alleged that the party's official Twitter account as well as that of a large number of its leaders and workers have been blocked by the microblogging site. This comes close on the heels of the blocking of party leader Rahul Gandhi's Twitter account after he...
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Swati Maliwal
Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal on Thursday lamented that there is no discussion on women's safety in the country after a six-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted in east Delhi's Mayur Vihar area. The minor was sexually assaulted by a 34-year-old man in her...
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India logged 41,195 new coronavirus infections in a day taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,20,77,706, while the active cases increased to 3,87,987, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Thursday. The death toll climbed to 4,29,669 with 490 fresh fatalities, the...
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Opposition MPs will hold a protest against the alleged manhandling of women members in Rajya Sabha in front of Mahatma Gandhi statue at Parliament today. Before the protest, the floor leaders of Opposition parties in both the Houses will hold a meeting in the Chamber of Leader of Opposition,...
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Amid a row over posters of the Bharatiya Janata Party not carrying party leader Vasundhara Raje's photo, the former Rajasthan chief minister on Wednesday said she did not believe in politics of posters but wanted to live in hearts of the people. Raje, also BJP's national vice...
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The death toll from the landslide in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur rose to 13 after three more bodies recovered by Indo-Tibetan Border Police personnel.We have located the remnants of the bus and three more bodies have been recovered from the site, Deputy Commandant of ITBP Dharmender Thakur told...
06:59
Randeep Surjewala
On the heels of the temporary suspension of Rahul Gandhi's Twitter account, the Congress late on Wednesday claimed that similar action was taken against the handles of five senior leaders, including media head Randeep Surjewala. The Twitter accounts of AICC general secretary and former...
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Just In: The GSLV-F10 /EOS03 mission 'cannot be accomplished fully' due to a performance anomaly in the cryogenic stage, says ISRO.
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The state-of-the-art agile Earth Observation satellite EOS-03 will be placed in a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit by GSLV-F10. Subsequently, the satellite will reach the final geostationary orbit using its onboard propulsion system, ISRO said in a notification. The mission was the first flight...
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ISRO's earth observation satellite onboard GSLV-F10 was launched this morning in Sriharikota. As the 26-hour countdown for Thursday's launch concluded, the 51.70-metre tall rocket lifted off majestically at 05.43 am from the second launch pad at this spaceport.This is the second launch for...
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