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Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, was invited to the Goa-bound cruise ship from where drugs were allegedly seized to add glamour, and he had no connection with its organizers, his lawyer told a court here on Thursday.Khan and seven other accused in the case were remanded in...
22:31
No quarantine for Indian travellers to UK fully vaccinated with Covishield or another UK-approved vaccine from 11 October, announced Alex Ellis, British high commissioner to India. Posting this on Twitter, Ellis said, Thanks to Indian government for close cooperation over last...
22:20
Seventy-one per cent of the country's adult population have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 27 per cent have got both doses, the government said on Thursday as the cumulative vaccine shots administered in the country crossed 93 crore.Addressing a press conference here, NITI...
22:06
Union home minister Amit Shah reviewed the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday in the wake of terrorists killing seven civilians in the last five days, officials said.During the hour-long meeting, the home minister was given a presentation on the overall security situation in the...
21:14
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The CRPF has created an exclusive team of about 1,800 personnel within its special anti-riots wing Rapid Action Force (RAF) to act as responders against CBRN attacks and various other disasters, a senior officer of the force said on Thursday.The CBRN stands chemical, biological, radiological and...
21:13
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday described as ridiculous a Delhi University professor's mark jihad remarks against the Kerala education board after a large number of students from the southern state applied to DU colleges for higher studies with good marks.Responding to remarks by Rakesh...
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Citing that acid attack victims are entitled to compensation and rehabilitation benefits under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPwD) Act, the Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra government to pay Rs 10 lakh to a victim from the city.In an order passed earlier this week, a...
20:18
India on Thursday said discussions are going on with the US on the S-400 missile defence deal, a day after US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman expressed unease over New Delhi's procurement of the Russian weapons system.This has been under discussion between our two countries for some time....
19:56
Senior RSS functionary Indresh Kumar on Thursday condemned the Lakhimpur Kheri violence but lashed out at the opposition parties, accusing them of creating an atmosphere of hatred and violence in the country.He congratulated the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh for constituting an...
19:42
Condemning targeted killings of innocent people in Jammu and Kashmir, the external affairs ministry on Thursday said these killings highlighted its concerns over cross-border terrorism.We strongly condemn it. Innocent people are being killed. It is targeted killing. We are worried about cross...
19:11
A Mumbai court on Thursday sent Aryan Khan, Arbaz Merchant and six others to judicial custody for 14 days in the drugs seizure onboard a cruise ship, and said the case will now be heard by a special NDPS court. The court rejected further NCB custody for Aryan Khan and seven others in the...
18:43
The new national executive committee of Bharatiya Janata Party announced on Thursday includes several leaders from Uttar Pradesh with the party keeping in mind 'seniority' and caste equations in the poll-bound state.With the BJP making inroads in West Bengal, it is probably the first time that...
18:20
Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Thursday said that it will begin granting fresh tourist visas to foreigners coming to India through chartered flights from October 15.Foreign tourists travelling to India by flights other than chartered aircraft would be able to do so with effect from November...
17:40
Preparations are underway to introduce the Zydus Cadila's COVID vaccine under the national vaccination programme. It is only a matter of a short period of time. Zydus Cadila vaccine is not administered using conventional syringe or a needle but through an applicator, which will be used for...
17:33
Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin
Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai on Thursday demanded that the state government lift restrictions on week-end worship at the temples, within 10 days and warned that the DMK dispensation's attempt to impose its ideology will result in a backlash from the people. Accusing the state government...
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Please watch your October, November, December, a senior Health Ministry official warned people on Thursday about the threat of Covid-19 resurgence during the coming festival and wedding season, and advised them to avoid crowded places and celebrate festivals virtually. Asserting repeatedly...
17:12
Two people are being quizzed in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri violence in which eight lives were lost, and Union minister Ajay Mishra's son Ashish Mishra has been summoned for questioning, Inspector General of Police Laxmi Singh said on Thursday. If Ashish Mishra does not abide by the...
17:01
Fitch Ratings has cut India's economic growth forecast to 8.7 per cent for the current fiscal but raised GDP growth projection for FY23 to 10 per cent, saying the second COVID-19 wave delayed rather than derail the economic recovery. In its APAC Sovereign Credit Overview, Fitch Ratings said...
16:54
Equity benchmark Sensex rallied 488 points on Thursday, tracking gains in Titan, TCS and ICICI Bank amid a positive trend in global equities.The 30-share BSE index ended 488.10 points or 0.82 per cent higher at 59,677.83. Similarly, the NSE Nifty rose 144.35 points or 0.82 per cent to...
16:45
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents. Gurnahs dedication to truth and his aversion to...
16:26
71 per cent of India's adult population have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, 27 per cent have got both doses, the government says. More than 93.94 crore Covid vaccine doses have been provided to states and Union Territories so far, the Union Health Ministry said on...
16:00
The Narcotics Control Bureau seeks remand of Aryan Khan, Arbaz Merchant, Munmun Dhamecha, and five others till October 11 in the drugs seizure case.While seeking custody of Aryan Khan & seven others till October 11 in the case, the NCB tells a Mumbai-based court that it is still...
15:50
Security at the school where the teachers were shot in Idgah, J-K
Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired a security meeting with NSA Ajit Doval, Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla, and the Intelligence Bureau chief Arvind Kumar in his North Block office in Delhi. The meeting, which also saw the participation of CRPF chief Kuldiep Singh and BSF Director General...
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Aryan Khan, son of movie star Shah Rukh Khan, arrives in a Mumbai court for his bail hearing.On Monday, he was denied bail after his sensational arrest and was sent to the custody of anti-drugs agency Narcotics Control Bureau till today by a Mumbai court.Eight people were arrested on Sunday...
15:26
The Bharatiya Janata Party has announced the list of 80-member national executive council Thursday. While many Union Ministers and veteran leaders like LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi are on the list, party MPs and mother-son duo Maneka Gandhi and Varun Gandhi have been excluded from the...
15:26
Actor Kangana Ranaut called out those coming out in defence of Aryan. The actor said while it is not right to gossip about those who are vulnerable, it is also not fair to white-wash the accused. We make mistakes but we mustn't glorify them. I trust this will give him (Aryan)...
14:54
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra offered prayers at Mari Mata temple in Lucknow on the first day of Navratri. After visiting the temple, Priyanka left for Bahraich district where she will meet the families of farmers who died in Lakhimpur Kheri violence.
14:48
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was on Thursday administered the oath as a member of the state assembly by Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar. Banerjee, who won the Bhabanipur by-poll by a margin of 58,835 votes, a record for the seat, took the oath in Bengali. She needed to win...
14:44
Calcutta High Court allows people to offer 'Pushpanjali' and take part in 'Sindoor Khela' at Duga Puja pandals provided they are fully vaccinated. A maximum of 45- 60 people will be allowed at large puja pandals and 10-15 people allowed at small puja pandals.
14:42
Opener Smriti Mandhana
The International Cricket Council on Thursday decided to replace 'batsman' with gender-neutral term 'batter' in all its playing conditions starting with this month's men's T20 World Cup, describing the move as a natural and overdue evolution in the sport. Last month, the Marylebone Cricket...
14:07
It's a case for Ripley's Believe it or Not. North Korea has yet to report a single case of COVID-19, even though experts outside the country widely doubt it escaped the illness that has touched nearly every other place in the world. The North has told WHO it has tested 40,700...
14:03
BJP president J P Nadda announced the 80-member National Executive of the party on Thursday, with the names of its top brass, ranging from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to many Union ministers, several state leaders and veterans like L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi figuring on the...
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At least 582 people including 83 children and adolescents tested positive for COVID-19 pushing the tally to 10,29,994 on Thursday, while seven fresh fatalities pushed the coronavirus death toll to 8,234, a health department official said. The rate of infection of children and...
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The 2021 Nobel Prize for literature is being announced Thursday, an award that has in the past honoured poets, novelists and even a songwriter, Bob Dylan. The Swedish Academy will announce the recipient in Stockholm at about 1 PM (1100 GMT (16:30 IST). Winners are famously hard to...
13:32
Amidst superstar Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan's arrest in an alleged drug case by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), actor Hrithik Roshan has extended his support to the 23-year-old.Taking to Instagram, Hrithik penned a lengthy post asking Aryan to be strong:My dear Aryan .Life is a strange ride....
13:19
A five-member delegation of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has left from Chandigarh for Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri on Thursday to meet kin of the victims of October 3's incident which claimed eight lives.A high-level delegation of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) is leaving for Lakhimpur Kheri...
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The Supreme Court Thursday asked the Uttar Pradesh government to explain who are the accused against whom FIR has been registered in connection with the October 3 Lakhimpur Kheri violence, in which eight people were killed, and whether they have been arrested. A bench headed by Chief Justice...
12:53
The Supreme Court Thursday said it would like to hear the two lawyers who wrote a letter seeking a high-level judicial inquiry, also involving the CBI, into the Lakhimpur Kheri incident in which eight people were killed in violence during a farmers' protest. On a petition calling for action...
12:35
Omar Abdullah condemns the killings of the schoolteachers in Srinagar this morning. The former J-K CM tweeted, Shocking news coming in again from Srinagar. Another set of targeted killings, this time of two teachers in a Govt school in Idgah area of the city. Words of condemnation are not...
12:22
Gangsters Tillu Tajpuriya and Naveen Balli have been arrested in connection with the killing of Jitender Gogi in a shootout inside a courtroom in Delhi's Rohini last month, officials said on Thursday. A few days ago, the Crime Branch had taken jailed gangster Tillu Tajpuriya -- one of...
12:00
Singapore reported 3,577 Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, including 630 from dormitories housing foreign workers, with experts predicting a more challenging time ahead for hospitals and primary health care clinics with daily infections in the affluent city-state expected to surge between 5,000 and...
11:55
Chemist Makhan Lal Bindroo's daughter
Terrorists have killed two teachers in Srinagar. This comes two days after three civilians, including a prominent chemist, were gunned down in the city. The Kashmir Valley on Tuesday witnessed three targeted civilian killings in 90 minutes, which included a prominent Kashmiri Pandit...
11:40
SM Krishna, former chief minister of Karnataka along with CM Basavaraj Bommai inaugurated the Mysuru Dussehra festival today.
11:29
Scores of devotees visit Vijayawada's Kanaka Durga temple as the nine-day Navratri festival begins today. No social distancing in place.
11:23
Arms and ammunition recovered at the IB
The Border Security Force (BSF) on Thursday foiled a major bid by terrorists to smuggle in weapons from Pakistan along the International Border (IB) and seized a big cache of arms and ammunition in Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district, officials said. The BSF, Jammu today foiled a weapon...
11:19
After remaining closed for nearly six months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, religious places reopened in Maharashtra on Thursday, with devotees seen visiting various temples and mosques in Mumbai and other places since early morning. Chief Minister Uddhav Thackarey along with his wife Rashmi...
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The continued and sustained harassment of the Sri Lanka navy on Indian fishermen...The Sri Lankan Navy on Wednesday pelted stones on Indian fishermen from and damaged their fishing nets, Tamil Nadu government officials said. Fisheries Department officials said on Thursday that the...
10:57
Rahul and Priyanka at Lakhimpur yesterday
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Congress, on Lakhimpur Kheri deaths: Justice is a right in a democracy. I will continue my fight for justice. All the affected families I met yesterday only demanded justice. The Union minister needs to resign to ensure an unbiased investigation.
10:46
With the administration of 43,09,525 COVID-19 vaccine doses in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 vaccination coverage exceeded 92.63 crores, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Thursday.As per provisional reports, till 7 am today, 92,63,68,608 vaccine doses have been administered...
10:41
The financial ruin that the pandemic has brought up about compounded with India's fiscal policies beginning with demonetisation have left the poor crippled. Timely intervention by two Delhi policemen saved the life of an e-rickshaw driver who attempted suicide worrying over financial woes in...
10:21
The Uttar Pradesh government has constituted a one-member Commission to probe the Lakhimpur Kheri incident in which eight people were killed, a senior Home Department official said on Thursday. A notification for the constitution of the Commission has been issued. The commission has been...
10:04
Senior Congress leader and former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat will be visiting violence-hit Lakhimpur Kheri district in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday.He will be leaving for Lakhimpur Kheri from Ramnagar at 9.30 am. Congress workers from the state will also accompany Rawat in more...
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BJP MP Varun Gandhi, the only leader of the country's ruling party, has once again called for accountability for the innocent blood of farmers.Tweeting a longer and better quality video that he says reveals what happened at UP's Lakhimpur Kheri earlier this week, this is the second time that...
09:38
The withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan resulting in the Pakistan-backed Taliban taking control of the country has created an extremely dangerous situation in South Asia, a former national security advisor has told lawmakers.I think it's an extremely dangerous situation in South...
09:14
At least 20 people were killed and over 300 others injured after a powerful 5.9 earthquake struck Pakistan's Balochistan province early on Thursday, according to media reports.Disaster management officials said the death toll may increase, Geo News reported.According to the seismological centre,...
08:34
Pakistan is the biggest perpetrator and supporter of terrorism masquerading us as its victim, said India at the sixth committee of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly.During the session, Counsellor/Legal Adviser Dr. Kajal Bhat said that Pakistan has once again misused this...
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More than 200 people onboard an Air India flight from London to Cochin experienced anxious moments that soon turned into a pleasant surprise as a boy was born mid-air on Tuesday.Two doctors and four nurses who were onboard the flight AI 150 helped the lady passenger in the premature delivery of...
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