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BSP president Mayawati's mother Ramrati died from heart failure in Delhi on Saturday.Ramrati, 92, died at a hospital in the national capital where she was undergoing treatment, a release issued by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) here said.Mayawati left for Delhi soon after getting information about...
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The Centre on Saturday told the Supreme Court that it has administered 17.26 crore vaccine doses till September 27 to the elderly and differently abled persons through its Near to Home COVID Vaccination Centres (NHCVC).A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and A S Bopanna was told by the Centre...
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At least 26 Naxals were killed on Saturday in an encounter with police in eastern Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district, over 900 km from Mumbai, senior officials said.We have recovered the bodies of 26 Naxals so far from the forest, said district Superintendent of Police Ankit Goyal.The gunbattle...
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We are working on proposal for lockdown in Delhi, will present plan to Supreme Court, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said while speaking about his government's plans to tackle air pollution.Earlier, the SC had suggested a two-day lockdown to the Centre and had urged both the Centre and...
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Strongly condemning the attack on an Assam Rifles convoy in Manipur that claimed seven lives, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that their sacrifice will never be forgotten.Five soldiers including the Commanding Officer of 46 Assam Rifles, and his two family members were killed in the...
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The Maharashtra government has initiated the process to suspend former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh and another police officer after they were named as accused in extortion cases, an official said on Saturday.The process began after a proposal was sent by the Director General of...
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After remaining net sellers since Nov 8, foreign institutional investors bought stocks worth Rs 511 crore as both the bellwether indices -- NSE Nifty 50 and BSE Sensex -- ended in green.
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A woman has been arrested in Pune in Maharashtra in connection with a 2020 cheating case registered against Kiran Gosavi, private investigator and witness in the Narcotics Control Bureau's cruise ship drug bust operation, police said on Saturday.A Pune Cantonment police station official said...
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A group of villagers allegedly tonsured a 14-year-old girl, blackened her face and paraded her as a punishment for eloping with a man at a village in Gujarat's Patan district, police said on Saturday.At least 22 people have been arrested so far for the alleged incident that took place in Harij...
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The Commanding Officer of an Assam Rifles battalion, some of his family members, and peronnel of the paramilitary force were killed in an ambush in Manipur on Saturday, Chief Minister N Biren Singh said.The incident occurred in Churachandpur district close to the Myanmar border.No militant...
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A local court on Saturday extended the police custody of dismissed assistant police inspector Sachin Waze till November 15 in connection with an extortion case registered against him at suburban Goregaon police station.The Mumbai police's crime branch had taken Waze's custody on November 1 in the...
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More than 123 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses have so far been provided to the states and Union territories through the Government of India (free of cost channel) and under the direct state procurement category, the Union health ministry said on Saturday.More than 18.53 crore (18,53,90,836) balance...
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Police impose curfew in Amravati city of Maharashtra in backdrop of violent protests.Details awaited   -- PTI
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The TMC on Saturday named its vice president Luizinho Faleiro as its candidate for the upcoming bypoll to a Rajya Sabha seat from West Bengal.Faleiro, the former chief minister of Goa, had quit the Congress and joined the TMC in September.We are extremely pleased to nominate @luizinhofaleiro to...
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At least four Naxals were killed in an encounter with the police on Saturday in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, a senior official said.The gun battle took place this morning at Dhanora in the Gyarahbatti forest area in the district, located over 920 km away from Mumbai, when a police team was...
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Incessant rains lashed several parts of Kerala since November 12 night, causing water-logging in low lying areas and minor landslips in high ranges as weatherman sounded an 'orange alert' for six districts predicting very heavy rainfall there on Saturday.Isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall was...
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India's forex reserves decreased by US$ 1.145 billion to US$ 640.874 billion for the week ended on November 5 on a fall in currency and gold assets, the Reserve Bank said on Friday.The overall reserves had increased by US$ 1.919 billion to US$ 642.019 billion for the previous reporting...
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A mob hurled stones and damaged shops at various places in Amravati city of Maharashtra on Saturday during a bandh organised by a saffron body prompting the police to lathicharge the protesters, an official said.The incident occurred during a bandh (shutdown) called by a saffron body against...
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The Supreme Court on Saturday termed the rise in air pollution in Delhi-NCR an emergency situation and asked the Centre and the Delhi government to take emergency measures to improve the air quality.A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana said the situation of pollution is so bad that people...
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The Madhya Pradesh government has decided to exempt vehicles travelling to Bhopal to attend the Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas tribal convention, to be addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 15, from paying the toll. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Buses ferrying tribals to the rally,...
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A total of 11,850 new coronavirus infections were reported in a span of 24 hours, taking the country's infection tally to 3,44, 26,036, while the active cases declined to 1,36,308, the lowest in 274 days, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Saturday.   The death toll has...
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Taking cognisance of attacks on the minority community, the National Commission for Minorities sent a notice to the governments of Uttar Pradesh and Tripura seeking reports on the recent cases of violence against the minority community. We have issued notice to the director general of police and...
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The police on Friday said the Kishtwar town in Jammu and Kashmir is fully under CCTV surveillance and no one can get scot-free after any incident. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Kishtwar deputy superintendent of police (headquarters) Satesh Kumar said the police in coordination with the general...
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A police complaint was filed on Friday against former Union minister and Congress leader Salman Khurshid over his recent book Sunrise over Ayodhya -- Nationhood in our times at the Kotwali police station of Jaipur. Advocate Bharat Sharma filed a complaint under Sections 153, 295 of the Indian...
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American media personality and businesswoman Paris Hilton has married Carter Reum. The two wed in a ceremony on Thursday, November 11. According to photos obtained by TMZ, Hilton's mom and dad, Kathy and Rick, as well as her wedding guests, were photographed arriving at the venue, her late...
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Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Friday announced to provide Rs 2 lakh as compensation to 83 people arrested by the Delhi police for carrying out a tractor rally in the national capital on January 26. Reiterating my government's stand to support the ongoing farmers' protest...
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US President Joe Biden is scheduled to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on November 15, virtually.In the evening of Monday, November 15 in Washington, DC, President Joseph R Biden, Jr will meet virtually with President Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China, said a statement of White House...
