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British rock band Coldplay, on Sunday night, capped off a two-night stand at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, with a special appearance by Bruce Springsteen. According to Deadline, Springsteen took the stage with the band for a pair of songs, Working on a Dream and a spare...
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The Enforcement Directorate has filed a fresh chargesheet against absconding jeweller Mehul Choksi, his wife Priti and others under the anti-money laundering law in connection with the over Rs 13,000-crore PNB loan fraud case, officials said on Monday. This is the first prosecution complaint...
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A large number of commuters on Delhi Metro's Blue Line faced hardship for nearly an hour and a half on Monday as services across the corridor were impacted due to a technical snag, officials said. Blue Line connects Dwarka Sector-21 in Delhi and Noida Electronic City, along with a branch...
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A Pakistani militant of Lashkar-e-Tayiba was killed in an encounter with security forces in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, while three terrorists managed to escape, the police said. Acting on specific inputs about the presence of militants in Panipora forest of the...
22:29
The Goa police arrested five persons, including a 32-year-old Uzbek woman, for allegedly kidnapping a 34-year-old man from Taleigao village near Panaji for ransom, the police said on Monday. The Uzbek national is identified as Ziyoda...
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Jailed Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, who was admitted to Chandigarh's PGIMER on Monday afternoon due to liver-related problems, is in a stable condition, the medical facility said. He underwent a medical examination at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research's...
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An offering of Rs.10 crore has been made to the ancient hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala here on Monday by a devotee-family, a temple official...
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A local court on Monday sentenced terror convict Waliullah Khan to death for serial blasts in Varanasi that killed at least 20 people 16 years back. District sessions judge Jitendra Kumar Sinha convicted Khan on Saturday but had held back the pronouncement on the quantum of punishment for...
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A 17-year-old girl and a 48-year-old man, who is her relative, were allegedly abused and paraded with garlands of shoes around their necks in a village in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior district as punishment for eloping by some people, the police said on Monday, adding eight persons involved in the...
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A successful training launch of an Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile, Agni-4, was carried out at approximately 1930 hours today from APJ Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha. The launch validated all operational parameters as also the reliability of the system, the defence ministry announced on...
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With rising COVID-19 cases in Bengaluru, the civic agency in the city has made masks compulsory in public places and decided to increase the tests for the virus from the existing 16,000 a day to 20,000 a day. Everyday, more than 200 new COVID...
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Nalini Sriharan
The Madras high court on Monday dismissed as withdrawn, a writ petition from Nalini Sriharan seeking six days parole for her husband Murugan. Both are among those convicted in former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. When the writ petition from Nalini came up for hearing...
20:13
Rubbishing media reports about his health, veteran actor Dharmendra on Monday posted a video on social media asking fans to think positive and not give credence to rumours. In a 42 second-long video posted on his Twitter page, Dharmendra said he might have been mum on the speculative stories...
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Maharashtra on Monday reported 1,036 new coronavirus cases but no pandemic-related deaths, the state health department said. The caseload in the state rose to 78,94,233, while death toll remained unchanged at 1,47,866. Mumbai city witnessed the highest 676 new COVID-19...
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Three people have been arrested and several crude bombs, bomb-making materials and country-made firearms seized from their possession in a village in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, police said on Monday. ...
19:13
Elon Musk has warned that he may walk away from his $44 billion deal to acquire Twitter if the social media network fails to provide data on spam and fake accounts, the billionaire said in a letter to the company on Monday.The letter said Twitter was in a clear material breach of its obligations...
18:43
India's bilateral trade with all the six members of GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) group countries, including the UAE and Saudi Arabia, has increased significantly in 2021-22 on account of increasing economic ties between the two regions. India's exports to the GCC have increased by 58.26...
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Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey on Monday said they have taken the threat letter received by Bollywood actor Salman Khan seriously, and all angles of the case will be probed. Earlier in the day, a police team visited Khan's residence in suburban Bandra and increased security around...
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Santosh Jadhav, one of the 'suspects' in the Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala murder case, hails from Pune and is a wanted accused in a 2021 murder case in the district, police said on Monday. Four cases including that of a murder have been registered against Jadhav at Manchar...
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A day after being expelled from the Bharatiya Janata Party over his controversial remarks against Prophet Mohammad, party's former Delhi media head Naveen Kumar Jindal on Monday described himself as a proud Hindu and greeted his supporters on Twitter with 'Jai Shri Ram'. Jindal said his...
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In a stinging attack on the Narendra Modi government over the targeted killings in Kashmir, the Shiv Sena on Monday said while people in the UT are suffering, the king is busy with celebrations. In an editorial in the party...
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Wading into the Hindi imposition row, senior Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader and the party's Rajya Sabha member TKS Elangovan has said the language would reduce Tamils to the status of shudras and claimed the Hindi-speaking states in the country were not the developed ones while those with...
15:57
Amid the ongoing investigations of Sidhu Moose Wala's killing gangster Lawerence Bishnoi who's being interrogated in the case was also questioned about the threat letter addressed to Bollywood actor Salman Khan and his father Salim Khan, police sources said.Addressed to the actor had 'L.B.'...
15:38
Any change in the BJP will now be strategic, not fundamental. The party has come too far for that, writes Vir Sanghvi. Read the column here.
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Dismissing reports, the Reserve Bank on Monday said there is no proposal to replace the face of Mahatma Gandhi with that of others on currency notes. In a statement, the central bank said there are reports in certain sections of the media that the Reserve Bank of India is considering...
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Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Monday said they are confident of achieving the target of running the country's first bullet train between Surat and Bilimora in Gujarat in 2026 as good progress has been made in this direction.Vaishnaw was in Surat to inspect the progress of the government's...
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Shiv Sena MLAs were also herded to a resort
The BJP on Monday was shifting its MLAs to a resort here for a training camp ahead of the Rajya Sabha elections on June 10, days after a similar move by Rajasthan's ruling Congress. By the afternoon, the opposition party MLAs had reached the BJP office from where they were to taken to...
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Nupur Sharma and Naveen Kumar Jindal
India on Monday slammed Pakistan for criticising it following certain controversial remarks against Prophet Mohammed by two BJP functionaries.External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said the absurdity of a serial violator of minority rights commenting on the treatment of minorities...
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Left parties on Monday charged that the BJP was forced to act and suspend its national spokesperson Nupur Sharma for her controversial remarks against Prophet Mohammed due to pressure from other countries. The BJP on Sunday suspended Sharma and expelled its Delhi media head Naveen Kumar...
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Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik, currently in jail following arrest in a money laundering case, on Monday approached a special court here seeking bail for one day to cast vote in the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections to six seats from the state. Last week, Maharashtra's former home minister...
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Telangana Minister K T Rama Rao lashed out at the Centre on Monday after criticism from Gulf countries over controversial remarks allegedly by some Bharatiya Janata Party leaders against minorities.KTR, reacting to an ANI tweet, said, 'If the BJP truly respects all religions equally, should you...
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The Punjab Police has arrested another person in connection with the killing of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala, taking the number of people held in the case so far to three. Davinder alias Kala was nabbed on Sunday evening from Haryana's Fatehabad. Two suspects involved in the killing had...
12:25
A total of 780 laboratory-confirmed cases of monkeypox have been reported or identified since May 13 and as of June 2 from 27 countries across four WHO regions that are not endemic for the monkeypox virus, the World Health Organisation has said. The UN's health agency said that while...
11:47
Pro-Khalistani sloganeering inside Golden Temple in 2019
Pro-Khalistan slogans were raised by supporters of radical Sikh outfits as well as that of Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) at the Golden Temple on the 38th anniversary of Operation Bluestar.The marbled premises of the Golden Temple near Akal Takht, the supreme temporal seat of the Sikhs, echoed...
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Former FM, the late Sushma Swaraj at an OIC meet
Ministry of External Affairs makes a statement on the remarks by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on a BJP spokespersons comments on Prophet Mohammed. We have seen the statement on India from the General Secretariat of the OIC. The Government of India categorically rejects...
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Founder of Isha Foundation Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev said that there is a lot of heat in television studios, which is being exaggerated to suggest that there is rising religious intolerance in the country while underlining that the last one decade has been free of major communal violence.In an...
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A survivor of the tragic bus accident
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday said Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has accepted his request that the bodies of pilgrims killed in a bus accident in Uttarakhand be brought to MP in the Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft. Twenty six people were killed and four...
09:49
A Haj pilgrim undergoes Covid testing
India logged 4,518 new coronavirus infections taking the tally of Covid-19 cases to 4,31,81,335, while the active cases increased to 25,782, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. The death toll climbed to 5,24,701 with nine fresh fatalities, the data updated at...
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Mukesh Ambani with grandson Prithvi at the Arangnetram ceremony of Radhika Merchant at Jio World Centre. Prithvi is the son of Akash Ambani and Shloka Mehta. Radhika Merchant is engaged to the Mukesh Ambani's son Anant. She is the daughter of industrialist Viren Merchant.
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Australia's Defense Ministry on Sunday claimed that a Chinese fighter jet's aggressive manoeuvres endangered an Australian reconnaissance plane near the South China Sea.The Chinese J-16 fighter jet 'chaffed' Australian Australian P-8 plane near the South China Sea, while it was on a routine...
08:27
BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma
Several Gulf countries including Saudi Arabia have condemned remarks on Prophet Muhammad made by two BJP leaders that were described as Islamophobic. The controversy erupted amid Vice President Venkaiah Naidu tour of Qatar to bolster trade.The comments were made by BJP national spokesperson...
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Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain's home raided by Enforcement Directorate in connection with hawala transactions related to a Kolkata-based company, say sources.
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