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All India Congress Committee (AICC) secretary and former MLA Mainul Haque on Tuesday resigned from the party.According to sources, he will join Trinamool Congress (TMC) on September 23.Mainul Haque was a five-time MLA from Farakka in West Bengal's Murshidabad district. He submitted his...
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The Afghan crisis and its implications, China's growing assertiveness, ways to stem radicalism and cross-border terrorism and further expansion of India-US global partnership are expected to be the central focus of the first in-person meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Joe...
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Bihar industries minister Shahnawaz Hussain on Tuesday said the state will soon export ‘made in Bihar' products to more than 75 countries.While inaugurating ‘Vanijya Utsav' here, Shahnawaz said Bihar is committed to support the Prime Minister's mission of ‘Local Goes Global' and has developed the...
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The meteorological department has issued a warning for bad weather in Delhi on Wednesday with the possibility of waterlogging and disruption of traffic.It was a warm Tuesday in Delhi with some parts of the national capital witnessing rain in the latter part of the day, leading to waterlogging and...
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Five men were killed and a woman injured in lightning strikes amid heavy rains in Madhya Pradesh's Morena and Betul districts on Tuesday, officials said.The incidents occurred in Ambah town in Morena district and Bochanwadi village of Betul district, they said.Three men, one of them a senior...
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The crime branch of Mumbai Police has issued a lookout notice against two absconding accused in the pornography case allegedly involving businessman Raj Kundra.The notice was issued against Yash Thakur alias Arvind Srivastava and Pardeep Bakshi on Sunday, a police official said.Bakshi was...
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In a development expected to further strain UK-Russia relations, Scotland Yard on Tuesday named and charged a third Russian military intelligence officer in the murder conspiracy case involving nerve agent poisonings in the UK town of Salisbury back in March 2018.The Metropolitan Police...
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The Delhi Police on Tuesday detained five members of Hindu Sena for allegedly vandalising the official residence of AIMIM chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi here at Ashoka Road.The incident took place on Tuesday evening.Deputy Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) Deepak Yadav said five people...
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Over 150 media outlets in Afghanistan have shut down their operations in the last one month as they struggled to carry out their day to day functions after the Taliban takeover.In addition to the economic crisis, the Taliban are restricting the right to information to the journalists, which has...
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Taking note of the use of the word 'Dalit' for new Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi by the media, the state's Schedule Caste Commission on Tuesday ordered against using the word for the members of the SC community.Commission chairperson Tejinder Kaur said the nomenclature 'Dalit' does...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will hold around 15 bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday including those with Iran, Australia, Egypt and Indonesia.Jaishankar is in the US as the high-level segment of the UNGA is scheduled to begin on...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday discussed the recent developments in Afghanistan and shared their concerns about possible spread of terrorism, narcotics, illicit weapons and human trafficking.During their telephonic conversation, the two leaders...
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The Taliban government in Afghanistan has banned the broadcasting of the Indian Premier League (IPL), currently being held in the UAE.The IPL 2021 season resumed in Dubai on Sunday with a game between Chennai Super Kings and defending champions Mumbai Indians. The ban was placed on the Indian...
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The Serum Institute of India has informed the Centre that it will be able to supply around 22 crore doses of Covishield in October as the Union government has announced resuming export of surplus Covid vaccines in the coming fourth quarter under the 'Vaccine Maitri' programme, official sources...
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Vegan foods products will soon have a logo launched by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on its packaging.It is a part of FSSAI's draft rules for vegan food products. For the first time ever, FSSAI has come up with draft rules for such products. The Government of India has...
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The state government will bring a law for population control at the right time, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Tuesday.  The government had in July unveiled a policy aimed at stabilising the population in Uttar Pradesh and reducing maternal and infant deaths in a...
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 India will take reciprocal measures against UK's discriminatory move to recognise AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine but not Covishield, said Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Tuesday.Speaking at a news conference, Shringla said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has raised the issue...
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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee
Former Congress MLA and AICC Secretary Mainul Haque resigns from his post. He will join Trinamool Congress (TMC) on September 23. He follows in the footsteps of Sushmita Dev who joined the TMC last month.Â
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The Centre has amended over a 50-year-old rule to allow IAS, IPS and IFoS officers to retain gifts received from foreign dignitaries while being members of the Indian delegation, according to an official order.  Existing rules allowed these officers to accept gifts from their near relatives or...
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The Rajasthan government will start an ambitious scheme to provide free sanitary napkins to all women who need them in the state from November 19, the birth anniversary of former PM Indira Gandhi.  Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has approved a proposal of Rs 200 crore for the Udan scheme. Under...
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Equity benchmark Sensex rallied 514 points on Tuesday, led by gains in Infosys, Bajaj Finance and ITC amid a supportive trend in global markets. The 30-share Sensex ended 514.34 points or 0.88 per cent higher at 59,005.27. Similarly, the NSE Nifty surged 165.10 points or 0.95 per cent to 17,562....
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The Delhi High Court Tuesday said the Income Tax department is bound by its assurance to maintain confidentiality of the material seized during a survey operation at news portal Newslaundry's premises and to ensure that it is not leaked.  The court, which was hearing a petition by the news...
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81.85 crore vaccine doses have been administered so far and though India has a long way to go to get at least 70 per cent of the population fully vaccinated, it is a big deal to achieve these numbers. Â
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The per-capita cost of COVID-19 is not as great as the 1918 pandemic because there are now more than three times as many people in America. But the total number of Americans who have died of COVID-19 has topped the 670,000 who died in the 1918 flu pandemic. Read moreÂ
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will leave for the United States tomorrow morning and return to India on September 26.The main elements of the program will be the first in-person meeting with US President Joe Biden, QUAD leaders meet and United Nations General Assembly session, said Foreign...
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Actor Shilpa Shetty Kundra on Tuesday posted a motivational message on bouncing back in life as her husband, businessman Raj Kundra, walked out of a Mumbai jail after getting bail in a pornographic films case.Taking to Instagram, Shetty posted a picture of herself along with a quote from Chinese...
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Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, his two deputies and state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu took a chartered flight to Delhi on Tuesday to discuss the expansion of the new Cabinet with the party's central leadership, sources said. The team will meet AICC general secretary Harish...
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Amid talk of his infrastructure conglomerate venturing into the media space, billionaire Gautam Adani on Tuesday said media coverage cannot be biased under the garb of press freedom and criticism should not be at the cost of national dignity.  Addressing the JP Morgan India Investor Summit, the...
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Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath and his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya on Tuesday paid their last respects to the chief of Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad, Mahant Narendra Giri, who was found dead at the Baghambari Math in Prayagraj.Postmortem would be conducted tomorrow. The culprit...
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Two pilots were injured when an Army helicopter crash-landed in a dense forested area in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district on Tuesday, officials said. Today, during a training sortie in Patnitop area, Indian Army's Cheetah helicopter crash- landed in Shiv Garh Dhar area in the district, a...
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The maiden bilateral meeting between President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday will further strengthen the US-India strategic ties and allow the leaders to discuss the situation in Afghanistan and how the two countries can work together to fight terrorism, a senior White...
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At an address to the JP Morgan India Investor Summit today, Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani said over 75% of the group's planned capital expenditure until 2025 will be in green technology. The group will triple its renewable power generation capacity over the next four years, from 21% to...
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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said if voted to power in Goa in the 2022 polls, his party will ensure that 80 per cent of jobs, including in the private sector, will be reserved for local people.He also assured a monthly remuneration of Rs 5,000 to families...
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Journalist Nadia Momand
Nadia Momand, a journalist with Afghanistan's Enikass TV Nangarhar, writes, Today my Father told me to stop using social media, because he cant afford my internet bills, since it has been more then three months i didn't get my Salary. Also he said no one is here to Listen to your voice instead...
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Afghans sell blankets at a street
Rising unemployment in Afghanistan has forced many people to drive their own cars as taxis and sell goods on the country's streets.Akramuddin, who used to work in a military organization says he has not received his salary for seven months and has been living in rented accommodation. They did...
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Businessman Raj Kundra, 46, has been released from Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai. He was granted bail by a Mumbai court yesterday in connection with pornography case. Kundra, the husband of Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty, was on Monday granted bail by a magistrate court in Mumbai, two months after...
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Over 20 million people were either killed or imprisoned in the notorious concentration camps of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 when it was finally conquered by the allied forces. Among those killed was a Malayali -- Michilotte Madhavan, 28, a student from Mahe who went for his higher studies in...
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Shabana Azmi (needs no introduction) shares this image from Shekhar Kapur's 1983 hit film Masoom. I was just sent this still from @shekharkapur's #Masoom. Thats @UrmilaMatondkar on my right.. I had predicted then that she would become a very successful heroine in Hindi films.The prediction, of...
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State Environment Minister Aditya Thackeray on Monday asked Brihanamumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to design a special logo with a QR Code to identify buildings in Mumbai where all eligible residents have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus.Thackeray was speaking at a meeting held to...
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India added 26,115 new cases of coronavirus infection in a single day taking the total tally to 3,35,04,534, while the active cases declined to 3,09,575, the lowest in 184 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday.  The death toll climbed to 4,45,385 with 252 fresh...
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Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the United States has allowed fully vaccinated flyers from several countries, including India, to enter America from early November.The US announced that strict protocols will be in place from early November to curb the spread of COVID-19 from international...
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Security forces averted a major incident with the timely detection of an improvised explosive device in high security Gogo area of Budgam district in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Tuesday. The area is close to several sensitive defence and civilian installations, including Srinagar...
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India reports 26,115 new COVID-19 cases, 252 deaths and 34,469 recoveries in last 24 hrs, says the Union health ministry.Total Cases: 3,35,04,534Total Active cases: 3,09,575Total Recoveries: 3,27,49,574Total Death toll: 4,45,385Total vaccination: 81,85,13,827 (96,46,778 in 24 hrs) IMAGE: A...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar urged for an 'early resolution' of the COVID-19 quarantine issue and discussed the situation in Afghanistan and the developments in the Indo-Pacific during his meeting with the newly appointed British Foreign Secretary Elizabeth Truss.Jaishankar arrived in...
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Talks between the Centre and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak Muivah (NSCN-IM) to find out a solution to the vexed Naga issue resumed on Monday, around two years after the deliberations stopped, a leader of the outfit said.The new interlocutor, AK Mishra, held talks with NSCN-IM...
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Mobile telephony and internet services were suspended in the Uri sector of Baramulla on Monday in aid of the Army's ongoing combing operations in the wake of the detection of suspicious movement along the Line of Control (LoC), officials said.The Army also intensified its combing operation, they...
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Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Monday that Union home minister Amit Shah has authorised him to hold preliminary talks with the insurgent group ULFA.After meeting Shah here tonight, Sarma also said that he is partly involved in the ongoing peace process with the NSCN-IM but was...
