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The stage is set for a no-contest election to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council with 13 candidates filing their nominations by the Thursday deadline for the same number of seats. While nine of the candidates are from the BJP, the remaining are from the Samajwadi Party, and they are set...
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Elaborate security arrangements have been made across Kanpur city ahead of Friday prayers and Section 144 of CrPC, which restricts assembly of more than four persons, has been imposed, police officials said on Thursday. Personnel from Provincial Armed Constabulary, Rapid Action Force and...
22:59
The apex child rights body National Commission for Protection of Child Rights on Thursday sought the withdrawal of Mumbai police commissioner's direction that cases of molestation and crime under POCSO Act be registered only with the zonal DCP permission, saying such a move will severely...
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The first 'Bharat Gaurav' train which will take pilgrims to destinations closely associated with Lord Ram in India and Nepal will have on-board facility for practising yoga, sources said on Thursday. The train will depart from Delhi's Safdarjung Station on International Yoga Day on June 21,...
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The Election Commission is investigating the allegation of the Congress that Bharatiya Janata Party president JP Nadda has violated the model code of conduct during his recent visit to Jharkhand where an assembly by-poll will be held later this month, an official said on Thursday. The...
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Delhi Metro commuters, largely office-goers, on Thursday faced hardship, as services on its Blue Line were delayed for over two hours due to a technical snag. Blue Line connects Dwarka Sector-21 in Delhi and Noida Electronic City, along with a branch line to Vaishali. This is the second...
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Suburban train services on the trans-harbour line of Central Railway in the Mumbai region was affected during evening peak hours on Thursday after an overhead wire broke near Vashi railway station. Thousands of commuters faced inconvenience due to the disrupted services. Shivaji Sutar,...
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Three members of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang delivered a letter threatening Bollywood actor Salman Khan and his father, writer Salim Khan, the police officials claimed on Thursday. Mahakal alias Siddhesh alias Saurabh Kamble (20), an alleged member of the Bishnoi gang which is also suspected...
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The Election Commission will provide particular pens to electors to mark their vote on ballot papers in the presidential election to be held on July 18. Polling will take in Parliament House in New Delhi and in state legislative assemblies. Elected members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha...
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Tripura Bharatiya Janata Party's vice-president Patal Kanya Jamatia was attacked by a group of people at Jampuijala in Sepahijala district on Thursday but escaped unhurt, the police said. The police, however, did not identify the group. The attack on Patal Kanya Jamatia took place few...
20:26
Vlogger Roddur Roy, arrested on charges of hurling abuses at Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee on social media, was on Thursday remanded in five days' police custody by a city court. Roy, whose real name is Anirban, was banned by a team of Kolkata police...
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The Kanpur police on Thursday arrested a man for posting nflammatory and objectionable posts' on social media related to Kanpur violence, taking the total number of those arrested in connection with the incident to 55, a senior officer said. It has also been decided to make heavy deployment...
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AIMIM supporters on Thursday held a protest outside Parliament Street police station in New Delhi after party chief Asaddudin Owaisi was named in an FIR for allegedly posting and sharing messages on social media against the maintenance of public tranquility and inciting people on divisive lines,...
19:28
The Delhi University has written to colleges asking them to ensure there is no caste-based discrimination on the campus, saying officials or faculty members should desist from any such act against SC/ST students on grounds of their social origin. The varsity's assistant registrar on...
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Maharashtra on Thursday recorded 2,813 new coronavirus cases, highest in nearly four months, and one pandemic-related death, the state health department said. The number of active cases rose to 11,571.State capital Mumbai recorded 1,702 infections and the lone death during the day.The...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday accused Congress leader Randeep Surjewala of insulting goddess Sita, asking why the party 'hates Hindus so much.' Surjewala, who is a Congress spokesperson and a Rajya Sabha candidate from Rajasthan, referred to goddess Sita of the Ramayana while...
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Over 500 villagers staged a sit-in protest against an oil refinery project in Rajapur of Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district, an official said on Thursday. Residents of 20 villages, including women and children, began the protest at Shivne Khurd village on Wednesday and stopped the agitation on...
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Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar
Amid allegations of attempts at horse-trading in the Rajya Sabha elections in four states, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Thursday said special observers have been appointed to oversee the poll process which will be videographed. Bienniel elections to 57 Rajya Sabha seats...
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Protests against former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma
MEA briefing this evening. MEA on border infrastructure by China: The govt takes all adequate, appropriate measures to safeguard territorial integrity, sovereignty.MEA on the Prophet row: We've made it pretty clear that the tweets and comments don't reflect views of the government. This has...
17:34
The imposing Qutub Minar in the Indian capital was built 300 odd years before the first Mughal set foot in India and has nothing at all to do with the Mughal era, say historians, debunking claims in a section of the media. The country's tallest minaret, standing at 72.5 metres and...
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To ensure maximum punishment for all the accused in May 28 gangrape case in Hyderabad, the state police on Thursday informed that commissioner CV Anand will be urging the Juvenile Justice Board to conduct a trial against accused by considering them as adults and not minors.We will request the...
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The incidence of early puberty, especially in girls, increased 3.6 times during the Covid lockdown, a study by researchers at a Pune-based hospital has found. The exact cause is not known but the possible reasons for idiopathic central precocious puberty (iCPP) in children as young as...
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The Gorakhnath temple in Khyber Pakhtunwa
Pakistan is home to 22,10,566 people from the minority Hindu community, comprising only 1.18 cent of the country's total registered population of 18,68,90,601, according to a report by the Centre for Peace and Justice Pakistan. The report, based on data collected from National Database...
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Cases of molestation and crimes under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act should be registered only upon the recommendation of an ACP and with the permission of the zonal DCP, Mumbai police commissioner Sanjay Pandey has instructed officials. The commissioner issued...
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A day ahead of the Rajya Sabha polls for four seats from Karnataka, Congress Legislature Party leader Siddaramaiah on Thursday wrote an open letter to JD(S) MLAs requesting them to cast their conscience vote in favour of his party's second candidate Mansoor Ali Khan.He stated that his win will be...
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Election for the President of India will be held on July 18, the Election Commission announced on Thursday, with 4,809 members of the electoral college comprising MPs and MLAs set to elect the successor to incumbent Ram Nath Kovind.Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar noted that Kovind's term...
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Special PMLA court rejects applications of Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik and former state minister Anil Deshmukh seeking permission to vote in Rajya Sabha elections tomorrow. The lawyer of former Maharashtra minister Anil Deshmukh has requested a certified copy of the order as soon as...
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Kamal Haasan, actor and President of Makkal Needhi Maiyam, attended a press meeting in Chennai regarding the success of his new film, 'Vikram'.There, the actor confirmed that he will 'contest in next election' of Tamil Nadu.In terms of working with South Indian actor Rajnikanth, Kamalahassan...
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Mr Tharoor is a man on the move. The Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram is in making the most of the gorgeous city of Venice with pictures from a gondola and in the beautiful Piazza San Marco. Is he travelling alone in romantic Venezia? We don't know.For, Shashi has tweeted, rather shrewdly, to...
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Bollywood actor Mahima Chaudhry has been diagnosed with breast cancer.On Thursday, veteran star Anupam Kher took to Instagram and informed everyone that Mahima is suffering from cancer. He dropped an emotional video in which Mahima is seen recalling opening up to Kher about her cancer diagnosis...
14:39
SAI has sought a report from the yatching federation
Days after a renowned cyclist accused her coach of sexual harassment, a national level female sailor has alleged that a coach made her uncomfortable during a foreign exposure trip to Germany. According to a source, the complainant reached out to the Yatching Federation of India (YAI)...
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Body of a missing 17-year-old girl was found in the forest of Jawahar Sagar Dam in Kota, police said on Thursday. A NEET aspirant, the girl hailed from Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh, and was staying in a hostel in Rajiv Gandhi area for the past one and a half month, they...
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Two youths accused of raping a girl have been beaten up and set on fire by villagers in Jharkhand's Gumla district, leaving one dead and the other seriously injured, police said on Thursday. The incident took place in a village in Sadar Police Station area on Wednesday night....
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The monsoon is progressing normally and will likely reach Maharashtra in the next two days, the India Meteorological Department said on Thursday. Senior IMD scientist R K Jenamani said the monsoon covered south and central Arabian Sea, entire Kerala, parts of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu between...
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Nupur Sharma
Delhi Police has registered FIRs against former BJP spokespersons Nupur Sharma and Naveen Kumar Jindal, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, controversial priest Yati Narsinghanand and others for allegedly posting and sharing messages on social media against the maintenance of public tranquility and...
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Get your booster shot now
Union Health Ministry is closely monitoring the Covid-19 situation in Maharashtra, Kerala, Delhi, and Karnataka and has asked them to follow the five-fold strategy. This strategy is: Test-Track-Treat-Vaccination and adherence to Covid appropriate behavior. The single-day rise in new...
12:29
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday handed over to Vietnam 12 high-speed guard boats built under a USD 100 million Line of Credit granted to the Southeast Asian country by India. The boats were given by Singh at a ceremony in the Hong Ha shipyard amid increasing maritime...
12:25
Pilgrims on the way to Amarnath in 2014
As the countdown for the Amarnath Yatra has begun, security personnel deployed in Jammu and Kashmir, especially those in Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), will be equipped with high-tech gadgets being used first time during the annual pilgrimage of Hindus amid specific concern regarding the...
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The spectacular Rashtrapati Bhavan
The Election Commission will announce the schedule of the election to the office of the President of India on Thursday. The poll panel has convened a press conference at 3 pm to announce the schedule.The term of President Ram Nath Kovind ends on July 24 and an election for the next president...
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Delhi court extends Satyendar Jain's ED custody till June 13 in money laundering case. The Delhi's health minister was sent to the Enforcement Directorate's custody in a money laundering case by a court in New Delhi which noted that his interrogation was required to unearth the alleged larger...
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A man allegedly assaulted and molested a woman in a moving local train in Mumbai and then snatched her bag and mobile phone, but was nabbed while running away at the Churchgate railway station, police said on Thursday. The incident took place on Monday evening, when the 20-year-old...
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More than 20 people were rescued after a fire broke out in a house in southeast Delhi's Jama Masjid area on Thursday morning, Delhi Fire Service said. However, no casualty was reported so far, it added. Atul Garg, Director, Delhi Fire Service said a call about a fire in a house near...
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The Malpe beach development committee in Udupi district has put up safety nets across an important stretch of the beach in view of the increasing number of cases of drowning of tourists there in the recent past. The nets are placed to prevent tourists from venturing into the sea in the...
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More than a year after a glacial disaster ravaged parts of the NTPC's Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project, two disfigured bodies with the head of one missing were found in a tunnel at the project site, police said on Thursday. The headless body and a body part belonging to another victim of the...
10:50
Iran is satisfied with the efforts made by the Indian government in dealing with those responsible for comments on Prophet Muhammed, the visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said. Abdollahian, who is on his first visit to India since he assumed office last year, raised...
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The idols of deities at a Hindu temple in this Pakistani city have been destroyed, police have said, the latest incident of vandalism against the places of worship of the minority community in this country. The idols of deities at Shri Mari Maata Mandir in Karachi's Korangi area were...
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Mahesh Thakur doesn't have Rs 50,000 to pay the bribe
In Samastipur, Bihar, parents beg and collect money to get the mortal remains of their son released from Sadar Hospital after a hospital employee allegedly asked for Rs 50,000 to release the body.Some time ago my son had gone missing. Now, we've received a call that my son's body is at Sadar...
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Services on Delhi Metro's Blue Line were delayed Thursday morning due to a technical snag, sources said.Blue Line connects Dwarka Sector-21 in Delhi and Noida Electronic City, along with a branch line to Vaishali.Three days ago, a large number of commuters on the Blue Line had faced hardship as...
09:20
India records 7,240 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, registering an increase of 38 per cent increase from yesterday when 5,233 new infections were reported.Active cases rise to 32,498, with an increase of 3,641 cases.Eight deaths were reported in the last 24 hours and 3,591 people...
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A 40-year-old man died and 15 others were injured after a three-storey residential building collapsed in suburban Bandra on Thursday, a civic official said.A rescue operation is underway to search for three to four persons believed to be under the rubble, he said.The ground plus two storey...
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Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar with Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala
Ahead of the Rajya Sabha polls, Haryana MLAs of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-Jannayak Janata Party alliance have shifted to a resort in Chandigarh to discuss the strategy for the elections.The polls are slated to be held on June 10.Speaking to the reporters on Wednesday, Minister JP Dalal...
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The government high school in Gopalpora area of South Kashmir's Kulgam will be named after its teacher Rajni Bala, who was shot dead by terrorists on May 31, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha announced on Wednesday. During the day, Sinha visited Bala's family members at their residence in...
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The Koregaon Bhima commission, probing the January 2018 violence near a memorial in Maharashtra's Pune district, has ordered to issue summons to heads of six political parties in the state, including the Shiv Sena, Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party, on an application stating that their presence...
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