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Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) has freed its two soldiers, who were among the 12 soldiers kidnapped in 2018, in an intelligence operation inside Pakistan's territory, Anadolu Agency reported.'A successful operation was carried out last Tuesday night to rescue two kidnapped border guards...
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The Allahabad high court on Thursday ordered no coercive action against Amazon Prime Video's India Originals head Aparna Purohit, facing a first information report for the alleged derogatory depiction of Hindu deities in web series Tandav.A bench of Justice Sidharth granted a temporary reprieve...
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Days after Myanmar's powerful military seized power in a coup, India on Thursday said it was 'closely' monitoring developments in the neighbouring country.India and Myanmar are neighbours with close cultural and people-to-people ties, bolstered by trade, economic, security and defence related...
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The government on Thursday termed as 'absolutely baseless narrative' the allegations that it rushed to certify that the COVID-19 vaccination was not the cause of death of 19 health workers, saying no evidence suggests such a link so far and all details of these fatalities will be made public...
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India on Thursday said authorities in China have given clearance for crew change for 16 stranded Indian sailors on board a cargo vessel that has been on an anchorage near the Chinese port of Caofeidian since September.External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava, at a media briefing,...
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The Change of Guard ceremony, which was discontinued due to Covid-19, will resume from this Saturday at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, according to an official communique issued on Thursday.The ceremony will take place every Saturday (except on government holidays), it said.On every Saturday, a maximum...
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Photograph: Kind courtesy @SharjeelUsmani/Twitter
A day after having been booked by the Maharastra police for allegedly hurting religious sentiments of people with his remarks at Elgar Parishad conclave in Pune, former AMU student Sharjeel Usmani was slapped with the charge of sedition by Lucknow police.The case against Usmani was lodged at the...
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Over 97 per cent of 5.12 lakh people surveyed after being inoculated against COVID-19 have expressed satisfaction with the vaccination process, the health ministry said on Thursday.The government is taking feedback from vaccinated people since January 17 through its mobile app CoWIN and has got...
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The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday dubbed the support of some foreign celebrities to the protesting farmers as an attempt to destabilise the country and said that the Indian democracy doesn't need foreign certificate. Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg and several people from the...
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As the farmers continue their agitation against farm laws at various borders of the national capital, the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Thursday informed that three-hour-long 'chakka jam' on February 6 will not take in Delhi.Speaking to reporters at the Ghazipur border...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will reply to the Motion of Thanks on the President's Address, in the Rajya Sabha on Monday, February 8.
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Some time in 2020, a painting by Isha Foundation founder Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev was auctioned for Rs 2.3 crore and its proceeds would be used to provide help for coronavirus relief efforts in Coimbatore, the foundation said on Thursday. Ever since the lockdown was announced last year, Isha...
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Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) leader P K Kunhalikutty has resigned from Lok Sabha, ahead of the assembly elections in Kerala.He represented the Malappuram constituency in Kerala in the House. Speaker Om Birla has accepted the...
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UPDATE: The Delhi Police today filed a first information report against the creators of toolkit, which was shared by Greta Thunberg in her tweets on farmers' protest, but haven't named her in the FIR.Earlier, it was reported that Delhi Police has filed an FIR against Thunberg.We haven't named...
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Patole, right, hands over his resignation to deputy speaker Narhari Zhirwal. Photograph: ANI
Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Speaker Nana Patole, tipped to be the next chief of the state unit of the Congress, resigned from his post on Thursday.Legislature sources said Patole handed over his resignation to deputy speaker Narhari Zhirwal.Patole, the MLA from Sakoli in Bhandara district,...
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Farmers take rest in a tractor trailer at Ghazipur
Rakesh Tikait, Bharatiya Kisan Union: There is no harm in Hollywood artists supporting farmers' movement, I don't know them personally, but they are supporting without any expectation. If Samyukta Kisan Morcha has thanked them, Kisan Union will do the same:.On the chakka jaam: There'll be a...
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Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Nana Patole resigns from his post, hands over his resignation to Deputy Speaker Narhari Zirwal.
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Delhi police to file a case against climate change warrior Greta Thunberg over tweets on farmers' protest. The FIR alleges a criminal conspiracy and an attempt to promote enmity between groups. The teen climate campaigner, unfazed, tweeted that she still stood with farmers and no amount of...
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Heavy security at the Delhi-Ghazipur border
The UK Parliament's Petitions Committee will consider a Westminster Hall debate in the House of Commons complex on the issue of farmers protests and press freedom in India after an online petition attracted over 110,000 signatures. While the name of Boris Johnson appears in his capacity as a...
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Team India Captain Virat Kohli says the farmers' protests were discussed with team members. Any issue which is present in the country, we do talk about it and everyone has expressed what they had to say about the issue. We briefly spoke about it in the team meeting and then we carried on...
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Ducks being culled in Kerala after bird flu struck
In yet another suspected case of bird flu, around 190 pigeons were found dead in Gujarat's Ahmedabad city over a period of two days, said officials on Thursday. To ascertain the exact cause of death of the pigeons in the Narol area, two carcass samples were sent to a Bhopal laboratory for...
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The government will provide Rs 1 lakh crore additional income to farmers that will be generated by converting waste into energy, Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan told Rajya Sabha on Thursday.He said the heap of waste at Ghazipur will also be cleaned soon to create...
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BKU chief Rakesh Tikait
American football league NFL star Juju Smith Schuster has donated USD 10,000 towards medical assistance for the farmers protesting in India against new agriculture laws, while NBA forward Kyle Kuzma has also extended his support to their cause. The duo's support comes after American pop star...
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R Madhavan, Chairman and Managing Director of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), on Thursday, said that they will deliver Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas to Indian Air Force (IAF) by March 2024.As per the contract, we are to start delivery of LCA (Light Combat Aircraft) by 36 months from...
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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-affiliate Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) on Thursday said that it will not support farmer unions 'chakka jam' call given for February 6 for blocking national and state highways for three hours.Farmer unions have said that they will block the highways in protest...
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At least 44,49,552 beneficiaries have received COVID-19 vaccination in merely 19 days, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) said on Thursday.Many other countries have had a head start of almost 65 days. India launched the countrywide COVID19 vaccination drive on January 16, 2021. The...
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Jhumpa Lahiri. File pic
Pulitzer prize-winning Jhumpa Lahiri will be coming out with a new novel in April, Penguin India announced on Thursday. The new book, titled Whereabouts, follows Lahiri's 2013 novel The Lowland and 2006's The Namesake. Written in Italian and translated into English by Lahiri, Whereabouts is...
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Health chiefs in the UK on Thursday began what they have described as a world-first clinical trial of patients who will receive different COVID-19 vaccines for their first or second dose, to detect its impact on immunity against coronavirus. The study, backed by 7 million pound of government...
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Twitter India on Thursday removed two of the tweets by Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut, citing a violation of the platform's rules. The actor has been criticising protesting farmers over their agitations against the Centre's three farm laws. When tried to access the two tweets, a message...
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Government-owned State Bank of India (SBI) on Thursday reported 7 per cent year-on-year drop in net profit at Rs 5,196 crore for December quarter due to increase in provisions against bad loans.India's largest public sector bank had posted a net profit of Rs 5,583 crore in Q3 FY20. On a quarterly...
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BJP leaders on Thursday slammed the AAP government for withdrawing DTC buses hired for police and paramilitary personnel amid farmer protests at the city's border points, alleging that the ruling party was spreading anarchy for political gains in Punjab. No reaction was immediately...
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BJP MP Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday slammed the Congress for not fully utilising the health budget under its rule and said the budget has increased by 137 per cent since last year under the National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) rule.When there was United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government,...
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State-owned broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) has stopped the transmission of its Tibetan service for nearly two months now ' seemingly due to administrative issues, ThePrint has learnt.While an AIR official said the move is part of an operational revamp, a few contractual staff earlier...
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SII's Adar Poonawala gets his first shot of Covishield vaccine
The Serum Institute of India (SII) and UNICEF have entered into a long-term supply agreement for the AstraZeneca/Oxford and the Novavax vaccines, with the UN children's agency saying it will have access to up to 1.1 billion doses of vaccines for around 100 countries. India is one of the world's...
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The 'bhoomi poojan' ceremony of the Central Vista Avenue was performed by Hardeep Singh Puri, MoS for Housing and Urban Affairs at India Gate on Thursday.Next R-Day parade will be on Central Vista Avenue. It'll be a symbol of Modern India. Some don't understand its importance, some don't want...
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Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday contested the statement of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) that the farm laws were passed in Parliament after a full debate and called the statement 'a travesty of the truth'.MEA's statement reads 'The Parliament of India, after a full...
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Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra meets the family members of the farmer who lost his life during the tractor rally on 26th January in Delhi.The family of the farmer, Navneet Singh, lives in in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur district.We've come to know that a farmer Navneetji who came...
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The Maharashtra government has issued guidelines for foreign tours of IAS officers and state bureaucrats, saying they will be allowed three trips abroad in a year for not more than 15 days. A government resolution (GR), issued on Monday, said a three-member committee headed by state chief...
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Bharatiya Janata Party MP Tejasvi Surya takes a sortie on LCA Tejas aircraft at Aero India show in Bengaluru. Asia's biggest Aero show began on Wednesday after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the event.
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Last September, India was confirming nearly 100,000 new coronavirus cases a day. It was on track to overtake the United States to become the country with the highest reported COVID-19 caseload in the world. Hospitals were full. The Indian economy nosedived into...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday inaugurated via video conference the centenary celebrations of the historic Chauri Chaura incident, a landmark event in the country's fight for Independence. Modi also released a postage stamp to mark the beginning of the centenary celebrations. It...
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Former All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) leader VK Sasikala is scheduled to return to Tamil Nadu on February 7 after completing her quarantine in Bengaluru.Sasikala is coming to Tamil Nadu on February 7 after completing quarantine in Bengaluru. Jayalalithaa's true supporters are...
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Mahatma Gandhi signing autographs at Juhu
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi reached Calcutta by the S.S. Pangola on July 4, 1896, after leaving Durban on May 6. He did not stay in Calcutta' After visiting Rajkot, Bombay and Madras, he returned to Calcutta via Nagpur on October 31. He stayed at the Great Eastern Hotel from October 31 to...
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Delhi Police clarifies that the nails fixed on the roads at the Ghazipur border are NOT being removed. Videos and photos are getting circulated in which it's shown that nails are being taken off Ghazipur. These are just being repositioned. Position of arrangement at border remains the same, the...
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The first case of the South African strain of COVID-19 has been registered in Italy in the city of Varese (Lombardy region), the city health service said in a statement.Infection with the strain was found in a man who recently arrived at Milan Malpensa Airport from Africa.Currently, the Varese...
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Opposition leaders reached the Ghazipur border (Delhi-UP border) on Thursday to meet the protesting farmers, however, they have been stopped by the Police.We are here so that we can discuss this issue (farmers' protest) in Parliament, Speaker is not letting us raise the issue. Now all the parties...
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Ministers from the Narendra Modi government and BJP's top leaders will pan across the country this weekend in an effort to reach out to the masses regarding the Union Budget which introduced several public welfare measures.BJP chief JP Nadda has directed the party's top leadership to address...
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Captain Mohammed Quamrul Zaman joined the army as a jawan and made his way up to become an officer six years later. On Republic Day, he led the Brahmos cruise missile system at the parade on Rajpath.Capt Zaman, the son of a humble chicken seller from Bihar, travelled a long way from...
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Equity benchmark Sensex declined over 200 points in early trade on Thursday as index-heavyweights Reliance Industries, Infosys and HDFC twins witnessed intense selling pressure. The 30-share BSE index was trading 140.79 points or 0.28 per cent lower at 50,114.96. Similarly, the broader NSE...
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Aung San Suu Kyi is very wedded to the idea of the rule of law and whatever she has done to reform the constitution, she has worked within the ambit of the 2008 constitution.Secondly, don't forget, she is General Aung San's daughter who was the founder of the Burmese army.On the Rohingya issue...
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DMK's Kanimozhi speaks to SAD MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal
A delegation of Opposition leaders are heading towards Ghazipur border where farmers are protesting the farm laws since November 26. The delegation includes NCP MP Supriya Sule, DMK MP Kanimozhi, SAD MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal and TMC MP Saugata Roy.The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)...
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From just over 8,000 cases on Monday, the number of Covid cases have gone up to 12,899. There have been 17,824 discharges, and 107 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per Union Health Ministry. Total cases: 1,07,90,183 Total discharges: 1,04,80,455 Death toll: 1,54,703 Active cases:...
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Delhi Traffic Police says: Ghazipur border is closed. Traffic is diverted from Noida link road on NH 24, NH 9. Traffic is heavy on Murga mandi and Ghazipur R/A, Road no. 56, Vikas marg, IP Extension, NH 24. Please commute from other borders.Singhu, Piau Maniyari, Saboli, Auchandi borders are...
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The Delhi Police has sent a notice to social activist Yogita Bhayana over her Twitter posts on the Republic Day violence in the national capital, asking her to appear for questioning, officials said.Responding to the development, Bhayana accused the Delhi Police of suppressing her voice, and said...
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Priyanka Gandhi to visit farmer who died during Republic Day tractor rally.Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will meet the family of late Navreet Singh, who reportedly died in an accident during the tractor rally taken out in the national capital on Republic Day.
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The United States came out in support of India's new farm laws, saying it welcomes steps that would improve the efficiency of Indian markets and attract greater private sector investment.Reacting on the ongoing farm protests in India, a State Department spokesperson said that Washington...
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Russian-made Coronavirus vaccine Sputnik -- peer-reviewed by the Lancet Medical Journal -- is undergoing trials in India and could be available for use soon. I believe the vaccine should be available in India from March- April, said Deepak Sapra, the chief of API and pharma services at Dr...
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