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Mobile messaging platform WhatsApp has banned over 16 lakh accounts of Indian users in April to prevent harmful activity on the app, according to the company's monthly disclosure report published on Wednesday. The company banned 122 accounts based on user complaints while barred 16.66 lakh...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday watched Akshay Kumar-starrer Samrat Prithviraj at a special screening in New Delhi. He watched the film at a movie hall in the central Delhi along with his family members, several central ministers, top officials of the Union home ministry and other...
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A teacher who was five months pregnant was found stabbed to death in her house in Ayodhya on Wednesday. The incident occurred in Srirampuram Colony under Kotwali police station limits. The deceased, Supriya Verma, used to live in Ayodhya with her husband and mother. She was posted...
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General Officer Commanding of 15 Corps Lt General Amardeep Singh Aujla on Wednesday briefed Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha about the prevailing security situation in the valley. The corps commander called on the Lt Governor at the Raj Bhavan in Srinagar, an official spokesperson...
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A copy of the Guru Granth Sahib which was hit by a bullet during Operation Blue Star in 1984 will be put on display by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee at the Golden Temple for four days from Thursday. Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee chief Harjinder Singh Dhami said the...
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Rajasthan police used a garbage van Wednesday to take the body of a man who came under the wheels of a bus to hospital as shocked passersby looked on. The police ordered a probe and the Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission stepped in after a video clip of the incident in Chief Minister...
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Terrorists opened fire at a civilian near his residence in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir Wednesday, leaving him injured, the police said. A police official said the incident happened around 8:45 pm near Farooq Ahmed Sheikh's residence at Rakh Chidren Keegam. He said the injured...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will pay a five-day visit to Slovakia and the Czech Republic from Thursday to impart further momentum in ties with the two central European countries. The visit comes at a time Europe is grappling with the implications of the Russian invasion of Ukraine...
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At least eight persons were injured in a knife attack by a 50-year-old Nigerian national near Churchgate area of south Mumbai on Wednesday, the police said on Wednesday. The incident took place at Tata Garden near Parsi Well in the evening, when a Nigerian identified as John pulled out a...
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The son of singer Krishnakumar pays last respect to his mortal remains in Kolkata/ANI
Preliminary findings of the post-mortem conducted on renowned Bollywood singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, who passed away following a live concert here, indicated that he died due to a cardiac arrest, a senior police officer said on Wednesday. The report also said that the singer, popularly known...
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The last rites of playback singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, known by his stage name KK, will be held in Mumbai on Thursday, a source said. KK passed away on Tuesday night at the age of 53, hours after his performance at an event in Kolkata. He was later brought to the CMRI hospital, where...
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Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said he has been invited to attend the World Cities Summit in Singapore to present the Delhi Model and is looking forwards to discussing urban solutions with other leaders. The summit will take place on August 2-3. High commissioner of...
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The makers of the film Samrat Prithviraj Wednesday told the Delhi high court that the movie is caste neutral and only centered on glorifying the Indian warrior and king -- Samrat Prithviraj. The submission was made before a bench of acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Sachin Datta...
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Amid warning of a spike in coronavirus cases in the city, Mumbai on Wednesday reported 739 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, said the Mumbai civic body. This was the highest single-day surge of COVID-19 cases since February 1, this year. However, no deaths have been reported on...
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Two persons were shot at and injured by unidentified assailants outside Khalsa College at GT Road in Amritsar on Wednesday, the police said. The injured were identified as Lovepreet Singh and Gursimran Singh, both residents of Batala, they said.Lovepreet and Gursimran...
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The rupee on Wednesday recovered from its record low to close 20 paise higher at 77.51 (provisional) against the American currency. At the interbank forex market, the rupee opened at 77.58 against the greenback and moved in a range of 77.51 to 77.62 in the day's trade. The rupee finally...
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The Enforcement Directorate has attached at least 33 bank accounts of Islamist organisation Popular Front of India and a linked organisation called Rehab India Foundation as part of an anti-money laundering investigation against them, officials said on Wednesday. The accounts hold more than...
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Three people were severely injured and several houses were damaged when a 6.1-magnitude earthquake rattled the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan on Wednesday. The earthquake struck Lushan county of Ya'an City at 5:00 pm local time. The epicentre, with a depth of 17 km, was...
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Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, whose name surfaced in singer Sidhu Moosewala's murder case, is reportedly not cooperating with the police during the investigation. Lawrence Bishnoi is being interrogated in connection with the murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala. During interrogation,...
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Many problems can be solved if Prime Minister Narendra Modi checked his ego, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut suggested on Wednesday. Raut was addressing a gathering at the inauguration of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Sanskrutik Bhavan in Pune. Only one message of Gautam Buddha should be kept in...
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A three-day literature festival themed on sweets will be held in the city from December 9. The unique literary meet, to be participated by Oxford University professor Dr. Kunal Basu, painter Jogen Choudhury and former Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar among others, will be the first of its kind...
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Stating that he is taking a break from politics, Brijesh Kalappa, the former Congress leader and Supreme Court advocate who resigned from the party earlier on Wednesday, asserted that 'politics without passion' leads one to nowhere.Politics without passion will not take you anywhere...I was not...
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A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Wednesday approved the application of dismissed police officer Sachin Waze to turn 'approver' against other accused including former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh in an alleged corruption case.The court has ordered Waze to appear...
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Anguished over targeted killing of many Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday demanded that they should be given adequate security and their voices should not be quelled. In an online press briefing, he also said that terrorist forces don't want...
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Equity benchmarks failed to hold on to early gains and came under selling pressure in a choppy session on Wednesday, with the Sensex tanking 185 points amid mixed trends from global markets. High crude oil prices and foreign fund outflows also played spoilsport. The 30-share BSE...
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No pilgrims were allowed to Mecca in 2020 amid a raging pandemic
Sri Lankan Muslims have decided to forgo the Haj pilgrimage this year due to the worst economic crisis facing the debt-ridden country, a media report said on Wednesday. Saudi Arabia had approved a quota of 1,585 Haj pilgrims from Sri Lanka for the year 2022, out of the one million...
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MNS chief Raj Thackeray's hip bone surgery, scheduled on Wednesday, was deferred after dead cells of novel coronavirus were found in his blood, a party spokesperson said. Doctors (at Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai) informed Thackeray and his relatives that he could not be given...
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Protests against the killing of a Hindu school teacher in Kulgam continued to rock several parts of Jammu, Samba and Kathua districts of Jammu and Kashmir on the second consecutive day on Wednesday. Rajni Bala (36) was shot dead by terrorists following which Kashmiri Pandits, employed under...
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GST revenues bucked the two-month rising trend in May and stood at nearly Rs 1.41 lakh crore, registering a year-on-year increase of 44 per cent. Although the May Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenues came in lower than the record high collection in April at Rs 1.68 lakh crore and Rs 1.42 lakh...
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When you sing, you have to be in the song. You have to feel it or else, don't do the song. That's why I haven't delivered a bad song in my career, KK told Patcy N/Rediff.com in this 2014 interview. Read it here.
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Still no mask mandate in Mumbai as Covid cases rise. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, Mumbai's civic body said the test positivity rate in the city has jumped to six per cent.It has asked officials to immediately increase testing on a war footing.Testing labs have also been asked...
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The West Bengal government on Wednesday paid its last respects to renowned Bollywood singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, popularly known as KK, with a gun salute to his mortal remains. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who supervised the proceedings, paid floral tributes to the late singer, whose...
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The family of singer KK pay their last respects to him at Rabindra Sadan in Kolkata. West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee also paid her last respects earlier. KK's body was brought from SSKM hospital to Rabindra Sadan in Kolkata.The WB government will give him a gun salute at Rabindra Sadan.
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Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw is in charge of Maharashtra
The BJP on Wednesday appointed Union ministers Narendra Singh Tomar and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat its in-charge for Rajya Sabha polls in Rajasthan and Haryana respectively, two states which are headed for a keen contest with the entry of party-backed independents. The party also...
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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on the demise of singer KK. Gun salute will not be given at the airport, it will be given at Rabindra Sadan as the postmortem is still going on. We have consulted with the family; they have a 5.15 pm flight, so we will pay respects there (at Rabindra Sadan). It is...
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Leading private sector and government-run lenders including Punjab National Bank, ICICI Bank and mortgage lender HDFC have hiked their lending rates that will make home, car and other loans costlier.ICICI Bank has increased its lending rates by 0.30 per cent or 30 basis points across tenures. The...
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The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday summoned Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her MP son Rahul Gandhi for questioning in a money laundering case linked to the National Herald newspaper, officials said. The case was registered recently to probe alleged financial irregularities in the...
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Singer and composer Krishnakumar Kunnath, known by his stage name KK, passed away on May 31 at the age of 53. Alongside is the playlist for his last performance in Kolkata. KK performed at a concert organised by a college at Nazrul Mancha in south Kolkata for almost an hour in the evening...
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Gautam Chikermane, friend and former band member with singer KK on the tragic death. Chikermane is VP, Observer Research Foundation. KK was a drummer & lead singer in our college band of six. More than that, he was the energy in our band. I couldn't believe the news. I double and triple...
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Bangladesh authorities have discovered that China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), a subsidiary of China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), was involved in tax evasion while importing the construction material for government projects.Bangladesh Live News reported that after the case...
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Killed in a shooting this week, the 28-year-old Punjabi Sikh MC offset gangster bravado with a keen sociopolitical awareness. Read the column here.
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The West Bengal Government will give a gun salute to singer KK, who passed away yesterday in Kolkata after a live concert, said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday.The gun salute will be given at Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata in the presence of the Chief...
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KK at his last performance in Kolkata
The demise of Bollywood singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, popularly known as KK, in Kolkata kicked off a political debate on Wednesday with the opposition BJP blaming the West Bengal administration for lapses and demanding an impartial probe, drawing a sharp retort from the ruling TMC which asked the...
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A parasailing cable tethering a young mother and two children to a boat was intentionally cut by the vessel's captain on Memorial Day, plunging them into the water and dragging them across the surface before they hit a Florida Keys bridge, according to police investigating the case. Read the full...
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The faithful offering namaz at Charminar
A college professor in Aligarh was sent on compulsory leave after a video showing him performing 'namaz' in the college lawns went viral and Hindu right-wing youth leaders demanded action against him. The incident was reported in Sri Varshney College following which Professor S R...
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday performed a 'Shila Pujan' of the sanctum sanctorum of Ram temple and said the temple will be a symbol of people's belief. He laid the foundation of the sanctum sanctorum amidst chanting of mantras in the presence of the Ram...
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KK death probe: The Kolkata police has said that an initial probe has revealed that the 53-year-old singer, who was on a two-day tour to Kolkata to perform at two college programmes, was almost mobbed by fans at the hotel when he returned after performing at the Nazrul Mancha auditorium in the...
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Kolkata Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), Murlidhar Sharma arrives at the The Oberoi Grand hotel where singer KK was staying. The singer passed away last night after a live performance in the city. The Kolkata Police has registered a case of unnatural death over the demise of the popular...
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Singer KK's family arrives in Kolkata. Bollywood singer and composer Krishnakumar Kunnath, popularly known by his stage name KK, passed away on Tuesday night. His body has been sent for post-mortem. KK's wife, Jyothy Krishna, along with her son Nakul and daughter Taamara boarded from...
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IndiGo will conduct an internal case study on how to better handle specially abled passengers, especially when they are feeling distressed, its CEO Ronojoy Dutta has said.The aviation regulator DGCA had last week imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on the airline for denying boarding to a specially abled...
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With 2,745 new coronavirus infections being recorded in a day, India's total tally of Covid-19 cases rose to 4,31,60,832, while the active cases increased to 18,386, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The death toll climbed to 5,24,636 with six fatalities, the...
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Uttar Pradesh Minister of State for Excise (independent charge) Nitin Agrawal on Tuesday informed that the licences of all the liquor shops in the 'Shri Ram Mandir' area in Ayodhya have been cancelled.Agrawal informed while responding to the question of Bahujan Samaj Party member Bhimrao...
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Kolkata Police has registered a case of unnatural death in connection with the sudden demise of singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, popularly known as KK, on Tuesday night.The singer fell ill while performing at an event in Kolkata on May 31 and was brought to the CMRI hospital, where he was declared...
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A new controversy erupted with a Telangana Congress leader starting a signature campaign to hold a sit-in protest to allow the Charminar in Hyderabad to be opened for offering prayers.Congress local leader Rashid Khan on Tuesday claimed that prayers were earlier held at the Charminar, an...
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Hyderabad Police on Monday booked Bharatiya Janata Party national spokesperson Nupur Sharma for her alleged remarks against Prophet Muhammad during a television debate.Sharma has been booked under sections 153(A), 504, 505(2), 506 of Indian Penal Code (IPC).The case has been registered in...
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will lay the foundation stone of Ram Mandir's on Wednesday.Chief Minister Adityanath will take part in the ceremony by placing the first carved stone in it.Seers and saints from across the country have been invited for the occasion.The...
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South star Yash's blockbuster movie K.G.F: Chapter Two will make its streaming debut on Prime Video on June 3. In a statement, the Amazon streamer announced that the film will be available to its subscribers in five languages -- Kannada, Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and Malayalam. Directed by...
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A few students suffered minor injuries in a 'brawl' between two groups on the Ramjas college campus here on Tuesday, the police said. Complaints have been received from both the groups, alleging excesses by the other group, a senior police officer said, adding that legal action is being...
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