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India on Wednesday slammed Pakistan for misusing international platforms for baseless and malicious propaganda against it and said Islamabad would do well to put its own house in order, before venturing to point a finger at New Delhi. Using its Right of Reply under the High-Level Segment of the...
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The cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered to healthcare and frontline workers has crossed 1.23 crore in the country, the health ministry said on Wednesday. A total of 1,23,66,633 vaccine doses have been administered through 2,63,224 sessions till 6 pm on Wednesday, according...
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Bharatiya Kisan Union president Naresh Tikait on Wednesday called Defence Minister Rajnath Singh a caged parrot and said the farmers' issues could be resolved if he is given the freedom to talk with them.  He accused the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government of being stubborn over the...
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The Congress' position has and will always be to respect electors and their freedom of choice irrespective of their location, senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal said on Wednesday, even as he refused to comment specifically on Rahul Gandhi's 'North-South' remarks.  Sibal also slammed the...
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The rise in COVID-19 cases in Maharashtra continued unabated on Wednesday with the state reporting 8,807 new infections, taking its total count to 21,21,119, the health department said.With 80 new fatalities being reported during the day, the state's death toll rose to 51,937, it added.The...
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Rescuers have recovered 70 bodies and 29 body parts so far in search operations following the February 7 glacial disaster in Chamoli, the district police said on Wednesday.     Missing reports of 205 people have been registered at the Joshimath police station, it said in a media...
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Amid a surge in coronavirus cases, the Maharashtra government on Wednesday instructed all district collectors and municipal commissioners to increase testing, a senior minister said after a cabinet meeting in Mumbai.The COVID-19 situation in the state was reviewed during the meeting, said...
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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Wednesday that Kashmir is the only dispute with India and it can only be resolved through dialogue. Addressing the Sri Lanka-Pakistan Trade and Investment Conference which he co-chaired with his counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa in Colombo, Khan said that...
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The disengagement of armies of India and China from north and south banks of Pangong Tso is a very good end result and a win-win situation for both the sides, Army Chief Gen M M Naravane said on Wednesday, stressing that there are strategies in place to address other pending issues in eastern...
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After a gap of more than a month, Mumbai's slum colony of Dharavi reported a double-digit count of COVID-19 cases at 10 on Wednesday, the city civic body said.A senior Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation official said the slum-dominated area, spread over 2.5 sq km, recorded 10 new cases in the...
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India cricketer Manoj Tiwary on Wednesday joined Trinamool Congress in the presence of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. After joining the party, Tiwary said Mamata Banerjee is trying to unite people together. The BJP is playing divisive policy and Mamata Banerjee is trying to unite...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the government has no business to be in business and his administration is committed to privatising all PSUs barring the bare minimum in four strategic sectors.   It is government's duty to support enterprises and businesses. But it is not...
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It was no doubt a proud day for Home Minister Amit Shah, when the world’s largest cricket stadium at Motera was named after his mentor and boss, Prime Minister Narendra Modi.No wonder, then, that the home minister stayed back after the stadium's inauguration to catch the third Test match between...
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Equity benchmark Sensex soared 1,030.28 points and the Nifty rallied over 270 points on Wednesday, tracking strong buying in financial stocks, after trading hours were extended following a technical glitch at NSE. After resumption of trade at 3.45 pm, NSE Nifty zoomed 274.20 points or 1.86 per...
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BJP leader Rakesh Singh, who was arrested by the police on Tuesday night, has been sent to police custody by the Alipore court in Kolkata till March 1, in connection with a narcotics case involving BJP's youth leader Pamela Goswami.Rakesh Singh was arrested from Galsi in Purba Bardhaman district,...
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Aiming at inoculating people of West Bengal for COVID-19 free of cost before the upcoming assembly election, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to help the state in procuring vaccines.    A rapid vaccination programme is needed...
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The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal to impose President's Rule in Puducherry, days after a Congress-led government in the union territory lost power during a vote of confidence. Announcing the Cabinet decision, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar told reporters that the decision was...
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The government is ready to resume talks with protesting farmers if they respond to its offer to put the three contentious farm laws on hold for one-and-a-half year and work out the difference during that time through a joint committee, Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar said...
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Leading bourse BSE said its equity and equity derivatives markets will remain open till 5 pm on Wednesday. The move comes amid the National Stock Exchange (NSE) suffering an outage due to technical glitches. BSE equity and equity derivatives markets will remain open till 5 pm today as decided...
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Considering the recent rise in COVID-19 cases, the civic body in Maharashtra's Nagpur city on Wednesday directed that restaurants, hotels and eateries will remain closed on weekends till further orders, an official said.This comes after the district administration on Monday ordered the shutting...
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From March 1, people above 60 years of age and those above 45 years of age with comorbidities will be vaccinated at 10,000 government and over 20,000 private vaccination centres, Union minister Prakash Javadekar announced after a meeting of the Union Cabinet on Wednesday. The vaccine will be...
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Mohan Delkar
The Mumbai police have said that member of Parliament Mohan Delkar's suicide note was written on his official letterpad and was 15 pages long. The police will be recording the statements of his family members in the coming days, they said. The body of 58-year-old Delkar was found in a hotel in...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a rally in Hooghly, calling him 'biggest dangabaaz (rioter) in the country'.You (Modi) say that Trinamool Congress is 'Tolabaaj', but I say you are 'dangabaaz and dhandabaaz', Banerjee said.She said that the...
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An 81-year-old retired Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer allegedly shot himself dead with a pistol at his house in south Delhi's Defence Colony area on Wednesday morning, the police said. The deceased, Ranjeet Sethi, left a suicide note stating that he does not want to live any longer, they...
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Premium denim brand Levi's on Wednesday said it has roped in Bollywood actor Deepika Padukone as its new global brand ambassador.With the keen objective to attract new generations of women consumers with a relevant fashion-forward offering in line with the brand DNA of quality and comfort; Levi's...
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Union AYUSH Minister Shripad Naik was on Wednesday discharged from Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), after undergoing treatment for over a month for injuries he sustained in a car accident.Naik was admitted to the GMCH on January 12 after he met with an accident, in which his wife and an...
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The West Bengal CID has detained a Bangladeshi national in connection with the blast in Murshidabad's Nimtita Railway Station in which state minister Jakir Hossain and over 20 others were injured, an official said on Wednesday.Hossain, Trinamool Congress MLA and the minister of state for...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a public meeting organised by the Bharatiya Janata Party in Puducherry on Thursday and also inaugurate and lay foundation stone of various development projects for the poll-bound union territory.Puducherry BJP chief Swaminathan told PTI that after...
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Rahul Gandhi with MK Stalin
Congress president Sonia Gandhi has appointed Oommen Chandy and Randeep Surjewala to negotiate seat-sharing with the DMK in Tamil Nadu for the forthcoming assembly elections. The two leaders will be reaching Chennai today and hold talks with the DMK leadership tomorrow morning. Prior to that,...
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As many as four unidentified terrorists have been killed in an ongoing encounter in Anantnag, said Jammu and Kashmir police on Wednesday. Earlier, a source in the CRPF had said that two to three terrorists are believed to be trapped at the site of the encounter in Anantnag. On February 19, two...
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Trading on NSE halted till further notice due to technical glitch.All the segments have been closed at 11.40 am and will be restored as soon as the issue is resolved, says NSE India.
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Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh has felicitated Indian Army Captain Soiba Maningba Rangnamei for his bravery during the clash with the Chinese People's Liberation Army in Eastern Ladakh's Galwan Valley last year.The CM felicitated Capt Rangnamei of 16 Bihar Regiment at his official...
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The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation's (CDSCO) Subject Expert Committee (SEC) is meeting on Wednesday afternoon to discuss Dr Reddy's Laboratories application seeking emergency use approval (EUA) for SputnikV, a Russian Vaccine. Today, SEC meeting is scheduled to be conducted at 12...
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A court in New Delhi on Wednesday sought response from the Delhi Police on the anticipatory bail application of Shantanu Muluk, who along with Disha Ravi is accused of sharing a toolkit on social media related to the farmers' protest. Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana, who granted bail...
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Critically-acclaimed filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali's next Gangubai Kathiawadi, featuring Alia Bhatt in the lead, will open in the theatres countrywide on July 30. The film has been adapted from one of the chapters of noted author Hussain Zaidi's book Mafia Queens of Mumbai. On Wednesday, the...
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A social worker in Bihar filed a case against 14 people including Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in a Muzaffarpur Court for discrepancies in the voters' list for the Panchayat election in Chaki Sohagpur.Speaking to ANI, Jaychandra Prasad Sahni, a lawyer at Muzaffarpur Civil Court said, the court...
10:24
In the wake of curbs imposed by the Maharashtra government in Amravati, Yavatmal and some other places due to spike in daily COVID-19 cases, working hours of all subordinate courts in five districts will be restricted till further notice.As per a notice issued by the Bombay high court's...
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A meeting of the Union Cabinet is scheduled to be held this morning via video-conferencing. The virtual meeting will reportedly start at 10:30 am. The agenda of the meeting is yet to be known. In the last meeting held on February 17, the cabinet approved enhanced delegation of financial powers...
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India reports 13,742 new COVID-19 cases, 14,037 discharges, and 104 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per Union health ministry.Total cases: 1,10,30,176Total discharges: 1,07,26,702Death toll: 1,56,567Active cases: 1,46,907Total Vaccination: 1,21,65,598
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Travellers from Maharashtra, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab will need a negative coronavirus test report to enter Delhi from February 26 till March 15.More details awaited. -- ANI
09:17
Myanmar's military junta must relinquish power and restore the democratically-elected government, the United States has said, asserting that it stands with the people and supports their aspirations in reinstating a civilian-led government in the country.Myanmar's military early this month toppled...
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Golf legend Tiger Woods was injured after the car he was driving met with an accident in Los Angeles County on Tuesday (local time).He has been admitted to hospital, according to CNN.According to the sheriff's department, Woods was the only occupant of the car, CNN reported.He was taken to a...
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Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission has summoned state director general of police over allegations made by Bhopal Bharatiya Janata Party MP Pragya Singh Thakur about custodial torture against her.He has been asked to appear before April 6, as per the lawyer Aditya Mishra who filed a...
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Several Bharatiya Janata Party leaders and union ministers on Tuesday accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of being an 'opportunist' and alleged that he belittled north Indians during a speech delivered in the southern state of Kerala.  Addressing a public gathering in Thiruvananthapuram, the...
