Farooq Abdullah to join Bharat Jodo Yatra in J-K

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Farooq Abdullah to join Bharat Jodo Yatra in J-K

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National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday said he would join the Congress's Bharat Jodo Yatra at the entry point of Jammu and Kashmir, asserting that maintaining the unity and integrity of the country is the need of the hour. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is leading the Bharat...
23:37

Zorba, India's first dog on anti-poacher duty, dies in Guwahati

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Zorba, India's first dog to be deployed for tracking down poachers, died in Guwahati due to old age. The 12-year-old male Belgian Malinois was a member of 'K9', the nation's first dog squad for wildlife crimes. Zorba was the first dog of the squad and he was credited with helping law...
23:20

Ronaldo to leave Man Utd with immediate effect

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Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo will leave with immediate effect, the Premier League team said on Tuesday, marking a bitter end to the Portugal captain's second spell at Old Trafford after he said he felt betrayed by the club.Cristiano Ronaldo is to leave Manchester United by mutual...
23:11

Soccer fans of Argentina, Brazil clash in Kerala town

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It would probably take Lionel Messi to appeal for peace in frenzied Kerala where football fever has set in, and how. Fans in yellow and striped blue, the national colors of soccer giants Brazil and Argentina were coming to devilish blows in God's own country. On the opening day of the...
22:33

Maha ex-minister Anil Deshmukh's son withdraws pre-arrest bail plea

Anil Deshmukh
Anil Deshmukh
Former Maharashtra minister Anil Deshmukh's son Hrishikesh on Tuesday withdrew an anticipatory bail application, which he had filed a year ago before a special court in connection with a money laundering case. Anil Deshmukh is also an accused in the money laundering case and has been granted...
22:14

Bombay HC terms open manholes as death traps, directs BMC to cover them

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The Bombay high court on Tuesday took serious note of open manholes in the city terming them as death traps, and directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to cover these up immediately. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Abhay Ahuja was hearing petitions...
21:50

Delhi police conduct lie detector test on Aaftab

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A polygraph test on Aaftab Amin Poonawala, accused of murdering his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar, was conducted on Tuesday evening after a city court gave permission to the Delhi police, while investigators found more evidence, including blood stains in the flat where both lived. Earlier...
21:43

Live discourse on Gitas chapter 10

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Sunandaji, daughter-disciple of the renowned Vedanta philosopher Swami A Parthasarathy, will speak on chapter 10 of the Bhagavad Gita in-person in Pune on Wednesday, November 21. Sunandaji has been engaged in the dissemination of Vedanta for over three decades, with her presentations on the...
21:35

Priyanka Gandhi to join Bharat Jodo Yatra in MP on Wednesday

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Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will join the Bharat Jodo Yatra led by her brother Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday when it enters Madhya Pradesh, a senior party leader said. This is the first time that Priyanka Gandhi, the general secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh, will be participating...
21:30

Ex-MLA who accused Cong of bribe joins BJP

Former Congress MLA Kaminiba Rathod joins BJP/ANI
Former Congress MLA Kaminiba Rathod joins BJP/ANI
Days after she accused Congress of selling tickets for the next month's Gujarat assembly elections, former MLA Kaminiba Rathod on Tuesday resigned from the Opposition party and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. Rathod, a former MLA from Dehgam in Gandhinagar district, was unhappy after...
20:34

In a first, people from across the world to vote to choose Oxford Word of the Year 2022

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For the first time, people from across the world will vote to choose the Oxford Word of the Year 2022, Oxford Languages has announced. A team of expert lexicographers have narrowed down a longlist of worthy contestants to a final choice of three words -- metaverse, #IStandWith, and goblin...
20:18

India will be a $ 40 tn economy by 2047: Ambani

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India will be a $40-trillion dollar economy by 2047 and ranked among the top three economies of the world, Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh D Ambani has said and identified clean energy revolution, the bio-energy revolution and the digital revolution as three game-changing revolutions that...
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Bombay HC bench recuses from hearing PIL seeking CBI probe against Uddhav, kin

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A division bench headed by Bombay high court's Chief Justice Dipankar Datta on Tuesday recused itself from hearing a PIL alleging Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray and his family members had amassed wealth disproportionate to their known sources of income and seeking a probe by the CBI and...
19:34

Goa govt issues notice to Yuvraj Singh over villa

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The Goa tourism department has issued a notice to cricketer Yuvraj Singh for allegedly putting up his villa at Morjim for homestay online without registering it with relevant authorities in the state, and called him for a hearing on December 8. Registration of a homestay with the tourism...
19:07

CAG begins probe into allocation of works by Mumbai civic body during Covid

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The Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Tuesday began its probe into the allocation of works by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation during the COVID-19 pandemic. A 10-member team of the CAG held a meeting with BMC commissioner Iqbal Chahal at the civic body's headquarters in the...
18:44

Court grants bail to Azam Khan in hate speech case

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A special MP/MLA court on Tuesday granted regular bail to senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan who has challenged his conviction in the 2019 hate speech case in a sessions court. Khan was disqualified from the Uttar Pradesh assembly following his conviction and sentencing in the...
18:35

Pak SC clears release of man who tried to assassinate Musharraf

Pervez Musharraf
Pervez Musharraf
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has rejected a plea filed against the release of Rana Mohammad Naveed, the convict in the assassination attempt case on former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf.      The three-judge bench headed by Justice Sardar Tariq Masood kept the previous...
18:05

Fallout of Kamal Nath-Sikh event row? Yatra's night halt venue in Indore changed

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Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will stay at Chimanbagh Maidan in Indore on November 27 and 28 and not in Khalsa Stadium as planned earlier, a development viewed as the fallout of a row over party veteran Kamal Nath attending a Sikh religious event recently. A police...
18:04

NIA challenges Anand Teltumbde's bail in SC

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The National Investigation Agency Tuesday moved the Supreme Court against the bail granted to scholar-activist Anand Teltumbde in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.The Bombay high court on November 18 had granted bail to Teltumbde noting that prima facie the only case made out against him...
17:38

Rajasthan Congress leader's daughter abducted

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A Congress leader's 21-year-old daughter was allegedly abducted by unidentified persons here when she had gone to buy vegetables, the police said on Tuesday. The incident took place in Pratap Nagar area on Monday evening, they said. Congress leader Gopal Keshawat told the police that...
17:19

Ankita Bhandari's parents stage dharna to press for CBI probe into her murder

Accused Pulkit Arya
Accused Pulkit Arya
The parents of Ankita Bhandari on Tuesday held a protest in Rishikesh to demand a CBI probe into her killing. Ankita, who worked as a receptionist at Vanantara resort near Rishikesh, was killed in September allegedly by its owner Pulkit Arya and his two associates after she refused to yield...
17:05

No compromise on Savarkar, Hindutva issues: Raut

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Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut on Tuesday said the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena can not compromise on key ideological issues like respect for V D Savarkar and Hindutva even as it is a part of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA). He, however, also said that his party was in an alliance with the...
16:54

Priyanka to join Yatra tomorrow for 4 days

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Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi to join Bharat Jodo Yatra from tomorrow. She'll be part of the Yatra for four days. This is the first time that Priyanka Gandhi, general secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh, will be joining the yatra.
16:42

MCD polls: AAP plans magic shows, 1,000 Nukkad Sabhas

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The AAP plans to go full-throttle with its second phase of campaigning from Wednesday with music and magic shows, street plays, and 1,000 street-corner meetings by star campaigners to woo voters for the December 4 Delhi civic polls.  During the first phase, Aam Aadmi Party candidates...
16:29

Aaftab has not confessed to killing Shraddha: Lawyer

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In a new twist to the Mehrauli murder, accused Aaftab Poonawala's lawyer says he has not confessed to killing Shraddha Walkar, reports NDTV.However, an earlier report by news agency ANI said Aaftab on Tuesday told a Delhi court that he murdered his girlfriend in the heat of the...
16:04

Delhi honour-killing victim was shot twice

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The parents of the victim
The post-mortem on the young woman whose body was found in a suitcase on the Yamuna Expressway here revealed two shots were fired at her, police said on Tuesday.  The 21-year-old woman, Ayushi Yadav, was allegedly killed by her father as the parents were unhappy over her inter-caste...
15:45

In gratitude

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Thousands of Ukrainians have helped WCK serve nearly 180 million meals since February. Today, WCK's @chefjoseandres was awarded the Order of Merit from President @ZelenskyyUa. This is a huge honor & our team is humbled to work side by side with Ukrainians to feed Ukrainians, tweets Jose...
14:57

Cong has always insulted Sardar Patel: Shah

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday alleged that the Congress did everything possible to insult Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and it has started praising him only now in view of the Gujarat Assembly elections. Even the last rites of the country's first deputy prime minister were performed...
14:23

Maha govt allows day's paid leave for Guj voters

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The Maharashtra government has issued a notification permitting one-day paid leave to voters from Gujarat working in the border districts of the state to enable them to cast their vote in the upcoming Assembly elections, an official said on Tuesday.  The state Assembly elections will be...
14:13

Rashtrapati Bhavan opens to public from Dec 1

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Rashtrapati Bhavan will be open for public viewing for five days in a week from December 1, 2022. The Rashtrapati Bhavan tour will be available on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday (except on Gazetted Holidays) in five time slots. Apart...
13:59

Shinde govt tolerates insult to Shivaji: Raut

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Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Tuesday asked how will the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government which tolerates insult to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj ensure justice for the Marathi-speaking population of Belgaum and other border areas.  Talking to reporters in New Delhi, his...
13:11

Every 11 minutes a woman is killed by partner: UN

Shraddha Walker's partner has been accused of her murder
Shraddha Walker's partner has been accused of her murder
Asserting that a woman or a girl is killed every 11 minutes by an intimate partner or a family member, UN chief Antonio Guterres has said that violence against them is the most pervasive human rights violation in the world and called on governments to implement national action plans that tackle...
12:41

Police get nod for Aaftab's polygraph test

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A court on Tuesday gave Delhi Police permission to conduct a polygraph test on Aaftab Amin Poonawala. who allegedly killed and dismembered the body of his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar, police sources said on Tuesday.  Delhi Police had moved it application in court on Monday. Yes. We...
12:12

Aaftab's 'truth serum' test likely today

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Delhi Police has approached Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) to conduct a polygraph test on Aaftab Amin Poonawala, accused in the Shraddha Walkar murder case, FSL sources said on Tuesday.The sources further said that the test might be conducted today Delhi Police has approached FSL to conduct a...
11:58

No need to fear me, says Tharoor

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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday, while continuing his Malabar tour, met senior leaders of UDF-ally IUML at Panakkad here and also said that he fears no one and there is no reason for anyone to fear him. In response to a query by the media as to who was afraid of his tour in Kerala,...
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NIA's appeal against Teltumbde's bail on Friday

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The Supreme Court agreed to hear on Friday an appeal by the National Investigation Agency against the bail granted to scholar-activist Anand Teltumbde in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.  A bench, headed by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud, took note of the submissions by...
11:22

Murder happened in heat of moment: Aaftab

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Accused in the Shraddha Walkar murder case, Aaftab Amin Poonawala on Tuesday told a Delhi court that murdered his girlfriend in the heat of the moment.  The Saket court today extended the police custody of Aftab Poonawala to four more days after he was produced before the court via...
10:49

Aaftab threw away weapon in Gurugram bushes

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Saket court extends police custody of Aftab Poonawala for the next 4 days in Shraddha Walkar murder case. He was produced before the court in a special hearing. Today's update: Aaftab Poonawala, the prime accused in the Shraddha Walker murder case, disposed off the blade and saw he used to...
10:02

Jailed Delhi minister's masseur is rape accused

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A new twist has arisen on the viral videos of Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain getting massages in jail. While Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has claimed that these were physiotherapy session, Tihar jail officials say the masseur in the video is a prisoner in a rape case.Tihar Jail official sources...
09:51

Delhi students beat dog to death for barking

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4 students of Don Bosco Technical Institute arrested for beating a pregnant dog to death in New Friends Colony area.A video purportedly showed the students thrashing the dog and later dragging her carcass. Police say, accused said they were bothered by the dog barking at them.On the basis of...
09:32

Pak intruder shot dead along IB in J-K: BSF

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A Pakistani intruder was killed and another arrested on Tuesday as the BSF foiled their separate attempts to infiltrate into this side from across the International Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir, a spokesperson of the border guarding force said. The infiltration attempts were scuttled by...
09:08

Guv shouldn't have compared Pawar, Gadkari with Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj: Maha BJP chief

Maharashtra Governor B S Koshyari
Maharashtra Governor B S Koshyari
Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party president Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Monday said Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari should not have compared Union minister Nitin Gadkari and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar with legendary Maratha warrior king  Chhatrapati Shivaji...
08:39

Elon Musk 'holding off' Blue verified relaunch

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Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday announced that he is putting on hold the relaunch of Blue verified until there is high confidence of stopping impersonation.He made the announcement through a tweet.Musk stated that Twitter might use different colour checks for organizations and individuals.Taking...
01:25

Mumbai sees 24 fresh measles cases and one suspected death: BMC

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Mumbai on Monday reported 24 new confirmed cases of measles, while a one-year girl from suburban Govandi is suspected to have died of the viral infection, the city civic body said. The tally of measles cases in the city since January 1 this year has risen to 208, the Brihanmumbai Municipal...
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Gas leak in cold drink manufacturing unit, several workers fall ill

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Several workers of a cold drink manufacturing unit located in Kamalgazi area in the southern fringes of Kolkata fell ill following leakage of toxic gas on Monday, the police said. Two fire fighters, who went there to rescue the workers also fell ill, a senior police officer, said. The...
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MCD polls: Delhi BJP suspends 11 rebel candidates for six years

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Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta on Monday suspended membership of 11 rebels for six years who are contesting upcoming MCD polls against official candidates of the party. The primary membership of the 11 BJP workers contesting MCD polls against official candidates of the party has been...
00:42

Raj min chides collector at event over phone use

Rajasthan minister Ramesh Meena
Rajasthan minister Ramesh Meena
Rajasthan minister Ramesh Meena publicly chided the Bikaner district collector while addressing an event on Monday, saying the officer was preoccupied with his phone instead of paying attention to important issues he was raising. Meena, rural development and panchayati raj minister, was...