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A live bomb was detected at the entrance of Meghalaya's ruling National Peoples Party office in Shillong on Monday when Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu was on a visit to the city and was defused.The 2 kg improvised explosive device was successfully defused by Meghalaya police, officials...
22:34
Facebook and WhatsApp issue stataments over outage:'We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologise for any inconvenience,' said Facebook in a statement.WhatsApp said: 'Were aware...
22:31
Jawaharlal Nehru University student Sharjeel Imam, arrested for allegedly making inflammatory speeches during the protests against Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens, on Monday told a Delhi court that he is not a terrorist and his prosecution is a whip of a monarch rather...
21:44
WhatsApp suffered outage, users are not able to send and receive new messages for nearly 10 minutes.Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by the outage, reports ANI quoting foreign news agencies.
21:30
It is very easy to criticise the government or courts unless you are in the hot seat but even some of the most advanced nations of the world faced difficulties in containing the COVID-19 pandemic, the Supreme Court on Monday told a petitioner seeking probe into shortage of Oxygen supply during...
20:35
Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu was released from Sarangpur Police Station on Monday hours after he was detained by the police while protesting outside Punjab Raj Bhavan for demanding the arrest of Union Minister of State's son Ashish Mishra over Lakhimpur Kheri incident.'Is demanding the...
19:51
The Indian rupee tumbled 19 paise to end at its weakest level in over six weeks of 74.31 against the US dollar on Monday as a stronger greenback against key rivals and rising crude oil prices weighed on investor sentiment.At the interbank foreign exchange market, the local currency opened at...
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Mumbai police registered an FIR against lyricist Javed Akhtar on Monday over his alleged remark against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), an official said.The First Information Report (FIR) were registered at the Mulund police station on a complaint filed by city-based lawyer Santosh...
19:11
The government on Monday announced that a multi-agency group headed by the chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes will investigate the Pandora Papers case.The multi-agency group will have representatives from the CBDT, Enforcement Directorate, Reserve Bank of India and the Financial...
18:56
Photograph: PRO, Hyderabad, Ministry of Defence
Air Marshal J Chalapati has taken over as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) of the Southern Air Command (SAC) here.An impressive Guard of Honour was presented to the Air Marshal on taking over the Command on Sunday, a Defence release said on Monday.Chalapati is a recipient of the...
18:19
Aryan Khan
The Esplanade Court in Mumbai on Monday sent Aryan Khan, Arbaz Seth Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha in the custody of the Narcotics Control Bureau till October 7. They were arrested in connection with a drugs seizure on a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast on Saturday night. An NCB team...
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The Supreme Court Monday said it would examine if organisations or individuals who have moved Constitutional court challenging the validity of a legislation are permitted to hold protest on the same issue when the matter is sub-judice. While hearing a plea filed by a farmers' body...
17:21
Wrestler Sushil Kumar moves a regular bail plea in the Rohini Court in the connection with the murder of 23-year-old Sagar Rana at Delhi's Chhatrasal Stadium. He was arrested by the Delhi Police on 23rd May this year.
17:11
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Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday launched an initiative to facilitate Covid-19 vaccine delivery to tough and hard-to-reach terrains of the Northeast through drones. The ICMR's Drone Response and Outreach in North East (i-Drone), a delivery model to make sure that...
17:04
Shakti Sinha
Shakti Sinha, former bureaucrat and academician who was private secretary to late prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, passed away on Monday. The cause of his death was not immediately known. Political leaders and other dignitaries expressed shock and grief over Sinha's sudden...
16:41
The NTPC stock gained by 4.08 percentage points.
16:25
Anti-drugs agency Narcotics Control Bureau has sought longer custody of Aryan Khan, the 23-year-old son of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, who was arrested in the cruise ship drugs case last evening. The agency told the court today that they need him in custody till October 11 for...
16:06
NTPC was the top gainer
Snapping its four-session losing streak, equity benchmark Sensex rallied 534 points on Monday, led by gains in index heavyweights Reliance Industries, Infosys and ICICI Bank. The 30-share BSE index ended 533.74 points or 0.91 per cent higher at 59,299.32. Similarly, the NSE Nifty...
15:43
COVID-19 patients who use blood thinners may have a nearly 50 per cent reduced risk of death and a 43 per cent lower risk of hospitalisation, according to a study published in Lancet's EClinical Medicine journal. The research was conducted on 6,195 patients over the age of 18 who were...
15:38
Aryan Khan
All the eight accused, arrested after a Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) raid on a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast, including Aryan Khan, were taken to the city court on Monday.
15:28
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.Our ability to sense heat, cold and touch is essential for survival and underpins our interaction with the world around us. In...
15:01
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in Sitapur
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra sat on a hunger strike on Monday after being detained in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur while she was en route to Lakhimpur Kheri, her party said. Gandhi and other Congress leaders accompanying her, including Deepender Hooda, had reached the...
14:52
Cases fall in the top 5 Covid hotspot states.
14:43
Since propaganda is by definition vulgar, it's difficult to think of what is not vulgar about a regime that steals credit by changing the names of existing schemes, emblazons certificates and other communications with its leader's mugshot and slogans, and is now thought to bask in a global...
14:33
Farmers in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri, who have been protesting over yesterday's deaths, have reached an understanding with the government and called off the protest. The government has promised to pay a compensation of Rs45 lakh to the families of those who died. The...
13:53
Aryan Khan is in NCB custody till today
A team of officers from Narcotics Control Bureau conducts a search at the cruise ship in Mumbai where drugs were seized. Eight more more people have been taken into custody.Three persons-- Shah Rukh Khans son Aryan Khan, Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha-- who were arrested after they were...
13:24
Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) national president Naresh Tikait has asked BJP workers not to visit the rural areas of Uttar Pradesh, saying farmers are angry over the violence that broke out in Lakhimpur Kheri on Sunday. Addressing a kisan panchayat at the BKU headquarters in Sisoli on Sunday...
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The Supreme Court Monday said no state should deny the ex-gratia compensation of Rs 50,000, as recommended by National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), to the kin of persons who died of COVID-19 on the sole ground that death certificate does not mention it as the cause of...
12:30
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday said that 70 per cent of India's adult population has been administered the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine. Strong Nation, Rapid Vaccination: India has administered the first dose of #COVID19 vaccine on 70% of the population. Under PM...
12:17
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw on Monday said the 'Pandora Papers' have wrongly implicated her husband's offshore trust, and termed the organisation as bonafide and legitimate. Media stories reporting on Pandora Papers wrongly implicate my husband's offshore trust, which is a bonafide, legitimate...
11:59
Wishful thinking by Congress leader Sunil Jakhar?If arrest of Mrs Indira Gandhi on October 3, 1977 proved to be the undoing of Janta Party's govt, the arrest of Priyanka Gandhi on October 3, 2021 marks the beginning of the end of BJP govt. @INCIndia #FarmerProtest, Jakhar...
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Kareena Kapoor Khan has a happy birthday wish for her sister-in-law. The Pataudi bahu posted this image alongside writing, From the time I went for my first holiday with her in Maldives, where I watched her wash her chicken in a glass of water (to remove the spice) and then just casually eat...
11:34
Security personnel at Lakhimpur Kheri
Local journalist Raman Kashyap died in the violence that took place in Lakhimpur Kheri on Sunday, Newslaundry reported quoting IANS. The death toll is now 9.Kashyap had been missing since Sunday's violence. His body was found in the mortuary on Monday. As per Times of India, he was...
11:24
The top 10 stocks mapped
11:13
A student gets ready for school
Mumbai schools re-opened for classes 8-12 on Monday in adherence with the COVID-19 Standard Procedure Protocols.Bai Kabibi School and Junior College located in the Bora Bazaar area of Mumbai is all prepared to welcome students after school has closed for more than one and half...
11:08
Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav was detained on Monday as he sat on a dharna outside his Vikramaditya Marg residence in Lucknow after he was not allowed to go to Lakhimpur. The SP chief had announced plans to visit Lakhimpur Kheri, where eight people were killed on Sunday...
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UP Minister Sidharth Nath Singh on Priyanka Gandhi's arrest: We've seen Priyanka Gandhi Vadra doing political tourism earlier.It an attempt to hamper the probe and manipulate public opinion. This shouldn't happen. They should at least wait for 24 hours or visit after there's a result to the...
11:00
Targeting the Uttar Pradesh government, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who was allegedly arrested on her way to the Lakhimpur Kheri, won't relent and will continue fighting for justice.Priyanka, I know you won't relent - they are stunned by...
10:23
A vehicle set ablaze at Lakhimpur
Farmers have submitted a complaint against Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra Teni and his son Ashish Mishra Teni at Tikunia over Lakhimpur Kheri violence on Sunday.Meanwhile, Lakhimpur Kheri District Magistrate Arvind Chaurasiya said, I have received a memorandum (from farmers),...
10:10
Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Sunday demanded the registration of a murder case against Union Minister of State Ajay Mishra Teni's son after the death of four farmers allegedly in an accident with a convoy of cars. He also demanded compensation for the victims, removal of the...
09:55
We mourn the passing of Ambassador B S Prakash, an early contributor to Rediff.com.Ambassador T P Sreenivasan, another long-time contributor, informs us that Ambassador Prakash passed away in Kozhikode early this morning. Ambassador Prakash was 69.Ambassador Prakash, who served the...
09:18
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel
Hours after Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was stopped from visiting Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and Punjab Deputy Chief Minister SS Randhawa were not allowed to land in Lucknow.An order in Hindi from the UP government to the Lucknow airport said because of...
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Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and other party leaders reached Lakhimpur border early Monday, but alleged they were not allowed to meet the victims of the violence that erupted during a farmers' protest and claimed eight lives a day earlier. Priyanka Gandhi, who is...
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