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An earthquake of 4.1 magnitude shook parts of Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday, according to the National Centre for Seismology. The epicentre of the temblor, which struck at 9:32 pm, was located 27 km north northwest of Mandi in the hill state. The Himalayan region has witnessed a series...
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A West Bengal MLA has stirred controversy by allegedly asking Trinamool Congress workers to ensure that only those Bangladeshi immigrants who support the ruling party in the state find a place in the voters' list. The draft electoral roll revision is underway in the state along with the rest...
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More than 100 roads have been blocked in Himachal Pradesh following snowfall in the higher reaches of the hill state for the past three days, official sources said on Wednesday. According to the sources from the disaster management department, 90 roads have been blocked in Lahaul and Spiti,...
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Eight people were killed when an SUV fell into a deep gorge in the Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday evening. According to Jammu and Kashmir police, the incident took place around 5:30 pm in Marwah area of Kishtwar. The rescue operation is...
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West Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar on Wednesday claimed that the state would soon get a new governor who would follow the footsteps of former Raj Bhavan occupant Jagdeep Dhankhar, who had frequent run-ins with the TMC government. Prior to his election as the vice president of India,...
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Kamal Nath
Controversy erupted on Wednesday over a `temple-shaped' birthday cake with a picture of Hanuman prepared for Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath's birthday celebrations. As a video of the celebration emerged on social media, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan termed it an insult of...
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Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who has the distinction of being the first-ever Hindu lawmaker in the US Congress, has joined the conservative Fox News channel, a media report said. Gabbard, 41, who represented the Second Congressional District of Hawaii as a Democrat for four...
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Tension prevailed in a locality in Hubballi of Karnataka over alleged religious conversion and a man lodged a complaint against 15 people including a few pastors and a history-sheeter, the police said. An FIR has not been registered by the police. A large number of people from the...
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A low pressure area is likely to form over Bay of Bengal soon and rainfall is expected to resume in Tamil Nadu from November 20, the India meteorological department said on Wednesday. A cyclonic circulation lies over south Andaman sea and neighbourhood in middle tropospheric levels, the IMD...
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The release of activist Gautam Navlakha, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoists links case, was delayed yet again on Wednesday as the National Investigation Agency raised safety concerns about a premises in Navi Mumbai where he had proposed to live during his house arrest. Veteran actor...
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The funeral of veteran Telugu film star Krishna was conducted with state honours in Hyderabad on Wednesday after several prominent personalities and a large number of fans paid their last respects. Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan...
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A court in Alipurduar has issued an arrest warrant against Union Minister of State for Home Nisith Pramanik in connection with thefts at two jewellery stores 13 years ago. The hearing of the case was conducted at the judicial magistrate's court and no lawyer representing the minister, also...
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The 7th edition of Jashn-e-Rekhta festival will be held from December 2 in New Delhi at Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium after a hiatus of three years. Last held in December 2019, the grand celebration of Urdu language and Hindustani culture will host a stellar lineup of actors Naseeruddin...
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had an exchange of words during their conversation on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali on Wednesday with the Chinese leader complaining about the media reporting about their communication, according to a video of the...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday left for India from Bali after spending two productive days at the G20 Summit here during which he had fruitful deliberations with several world leaders and assumed the presidency of the influential grouping for the coming year. Before his departure,...
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Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor was asked by the party's student wing National Students Union of India to address a campaign event in Gujarat but declined as his name was not on the star campaigners' list of the party for the assembly polls in the state, sources said on...
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Sacks stuffed with over 200 kg gelatin sticks were found at two separate places under a bridge across the Som river in Rajasthan's Dungarpur district, the police said. On Wednesday, nearly 40 kg gelatin sticks stuffed in polythene bags were found 200 metres away, the police said. Seven...
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Gautam Navlakha
Veteran actor Suhasini Mulay on Wednesday stood as surety for activist Gautam Navlakha, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, before he could be released from prison and put under house arrest. Navlakha, 70, who claims that he is suffering from multiple ailments, is in prison...
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The civil aviation ministry on Wednesday said the use of masks is not compulsory during air travel but passengers should preferably use them amid the declining number of coronavirus cases. Till now, the use of masks or face covers while travelling on flights was mandatory. In a...
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The country's elite compact allows wealth and power to perpetuate over generations and keeps everyone else out. Read the column here.
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PM Modi with US President Joe Biden in Bali
The Kremlin has praised Washington's measured response after a missile landed in Poland and US President Joe Biden said it was unlikely that it had come from Russia, says reports. Poland said on Wednesday that a Russian-made missile fell in the country's east, killing two people, though US...
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Remember 26/11/2008 in Mumbai?Remember the carnage at Nariman House, Colaba?If you've answered 'yes', to both the questions, you would remember Moshe Holtzberg. Moshe was only two years old when his father Rabbi Gavriel and mother Rivka Holtzberg died along with four visitors at Nariman...
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The ruling dispensation's penchant of painting everything with the 'new India vs old India' brush is rubbished by Congress leader Jairam Ramesh.Ramesh set the record straight for those who think India is being heard at international fora for the first time thanks to PM Modi. Ramesh tweets,...
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As India was handed over the presidency of the G20, the Congress on Wednesday alleged that the grouping's summit in 2023 will be milked by the world's greatest event manager for the Lok Sabha elections, an apparent jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi. India was handed over the presidency of...
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Leaders at the G20 summit on Wednesday called for an immediate end to the Ukraine conflict, holding that today's era must not be of war, a formulation that echoed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's message to Russian President Vladimir Putin in September. A communique was issued at the...
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The Delhi police is planning to conduct a psycho-assessment test on Aaftab Poonawala, arrested for allegedly strangling his live-in partner Shraddha Walker to death. He then disposed of her body after chopping it into 35 pieces in South Delhi's Chhatarpur area in May this year. Aftab was...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said the BJP ended appeasement politics and established the rule of law in Gujarat during its 27-year rule and slammed Congress on various issues. Shah alleged the Congress used to mock Bharatiya Janata Party and its cadres over the construction of...
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PM with French President Macron
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday held fruitful talks with French President Emmanuel Macron over a working lunch with a focus on ramping up cooperation in areas of defence, nuclear energy, trade and food security. After the meeting that took place on the sidelines of the G-20...
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Delhi Dy CM Manish Sisodia
The Aam Aadmi Party alleged on Wednesday that its Surat East candidate Kanchan Jariwala was abducted at the behest of the BJP, which feared a defeat in the seat during the Gujarat Assembly election. Addressing a press conference in Delhi, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said...
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Narendra Modi with heads of state of France, Netherlands, US
Bali G20 Summit ends, Indonesia hands over presidency for coming year to India. India will assume the presidency of the G20 from December and host the summit of leaders of the world's twenty largest economies in New Delhi during September 9-10, 2023.Under its Presidency, India is expected to...
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US secretary of state Antony Blinken
US secretary of state Antony Blinken held talks with foreign ministers of Poland and Ukraine, Zbigniew Rau and Dmytro Kuleba, respectively, to discuss the explosion in Poland. The leaders committed to remain closely coordinated in the coming days as the investigation proceeds and determine...
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Nalini Sriharan was suicide bomber Dhanu's, handler
The 10 final frames were a photographic record, not just of the moments before the carnage on the night of May 21, 1991, but of the men and women who made it happen. Read the column here.
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Congress General Secretary and in-charge of Rajasthan Congress, Ajay Maken writes to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge expressing his unwillingness to continue as in-charge of Rajasthan. Maken stated the developments that took place in Jaipur on September 25 (when the then Congress...
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As the Covid-19 pandemic spread across the world two years ago, one of India's leading biotech companies was racing to develop a vaccine with crucial backing from the Indian government. The shot engineered by Bharat Biotech was, in part, an important effort to create a home-grown product...
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US President Joe Biden shares a moment with PM Modi
President Joe Biden said Wednesday it was unlikely that a missile that killed two in NATO-ally Poland was fired from Russia, but he pledged support for Poland's investigation into what it had called a Russian-made missile.Biden spoke after he convened an emergency meeting of the Group of Seven...
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Enriching interaction with @KGeorgieva and @GitaGopinath, tweets Modi. Georgieva is Managing Director of @IMFnews. Gita Gopinath is First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF.
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Damage after an explosion in Przewodow, a village in eastern Poland near the border with Ukraine. Pic: Reuters
Poland does not have any conclusive evidence on who fired the missile that caused an explosion in the Przedwodow village near Ukraine's border, president Andrzej Duda said on Wednesday. In an address, Andrzej Duda said that the missile was most likely produced in Russia, CNN...
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US President Joe Biden stumbled on the stairs while he was heading towards the Taman Hutan Raya mangrove forest.On Tuesday, Biden, not for the first time, stumbled on the stairs and appeared to lose his footing after which, Indonesian President Joko Widodo held him during their visit to a...
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Doing the rounds on social media: @haveigotnews tweets: UK's presence at the G20 causes major headache for local engravers.
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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has given the go-ahead for 3,000 visas for young professionals from India to work in the UK each year.The British government said India is the first visa-national country to benefit from such a scheme, highlighting the strength of the UK-India Migration and Mobility...
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PM Narendra Modi, US President Biden and other G20 leaders visit a Mangrove forest in Bali and plant trees on the second day of the G20 Summit.
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Modi visits Taman Hutan Raya mangrove forest in Bali
The G20 summit delegates will visit the world famous Ajanta and Ellora caves and other prominent sites in Maharashtra's Aurangabad district over two days in February next year, officials said. India will assume Presidency of the influential G20 group for one year from December 1,...
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PM Modi and US President Biden exchange greetings at the mangrove forest in Bali, Indonesia during the G20Summit 2022.
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PM Narendra Modi reaches a mangrove forest in Bali on the second day of the G20 Summit.
09:34
Call centre employee Shraddha Walkar's live-in-partner Aaftab Poonawala, accused of brutally murdering her in Delhi, had appeared confident with no trace of remorse on his face when Manikpur police in Maharashtra called him for questioning earlier this month, an official said. After Walkar's...
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At least 11 people have died and 10 others were injured in a fire incident in Tuirial, Aizawl district, after a tanker carrying petrol caught fire. A four-wheeler taxi and two 2-wheelers got damaged in the incident, Aizawl SP C Lalruaia.A total of 11 died in a fire incident after a tanker lorry...
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Gita Gopinath, First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF, tweets from Bali: A productive day of discussions at the G20 with several leaders making candid & constructive suggestions, especially those from Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau of Canada.
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The Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi continued on the 10th day of its Maharashtra leg on Wednesday in Washim district. The foot march, which began at 6 am from Jambhrun Phata, will proceed to Medshi village in the evening and will take a night halt at Patur in Akola...
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The Polish government has summoned the Russian ambassador to the country, claiming that a Russian-made missile fell in the country, killing two citizens.In a statement, Polish foreign ministry spokesperson Lukasz Jasina has it has demanded 'immediate detailed explanations' on the incident.'On 15...
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Former United States President Donald Trump has filed papers to contest for the post of president again.He filed his documents establishing his candidacy to run for the presidency again in 2024, CNN reported.The announcement comes after the mid-term elections held in the US.Democrats have been...
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United States President Joe Biden held an emergency roundtable meeting with world leaders on the margins of the G20 summit in Bali, according to the White House.The meeting took place Tuesday night after reports emerged on Russian-made missiles landing in Poland earlier in the day.Moscow has...
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An eight-year-old Indian-origin girl who was abducted in South Africa's Cape Town has been safely returned to her family and is unharmed, the police said on Tuesday. Abirah Dekhta, a student of Rylands Primary School, was abducted on the morning of November 4 from her school transport...
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Nawab Malik
A special court in Mumbai on Tuesday allowed the plea of former Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik, arrested in a money laundering case, seeking permission to undergo diagnostic examination PET-CT. The money laundering case against Malik (62) is linked to the activities of fugitive underworld...
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Dismissed Mumbai police officer Sachin Waze on Tuesday filed a bail application before a special court in Mumbai in a money laundering case linked to former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh. This was Waze's second application for bail under section 88 of the CrPc where the applicant...
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The Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala will be opened on Wednesday, a day ahead of commencement of two-month long pilgrimage season. The annual Mandalam-Makaravilakku pilgrimage season begins on November 17. The sanctum sanctorum of the temple will be opened at 5 pm on November 16 in the...
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Bollywood actress Sunny Leone has moved the Kerala high court seeking to quash an FIR filed against her by the crime branch wing of the state police for allegedly breaching terms of a contract supposedly entered into with a firm for a stage performance in Kozhikode four years ago. In her...
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