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Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid, the jury head of the 53rd International Film Festival of India, on Monday described Hindi film The Kashmir Files as propaganda and vulgar. In his speech at the closing ceremony of IFFI 2022, Lapid said he was disturbed and shocked to see the film being screened...
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A court in New Delhi has acquitted a man who was not wearing a mask during the lockdown in January 2022 of the charge of disobeying a public servant's order. The court gave the accused the benefit of reasonable doubt, saying the presumption of knowledge of the order to wear masks cannot be...
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As many as 23 Tamil Nadu fishermen were arrested by Sri Lanka on Monday, Chief Minister M K Stalin apprised the Centre and sought action to secure the release of fishers and their boats from the neighbouring country. Writing to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Stalin said that 23...
22:43
SP candidate Dimple Yadav
A senior official of the North Central Railway has been suspended after some people used its public address system to raise slogans for Dimple Yadav, the Samajwadi Party candidate for the Mainpuri Lok Sabha bypoll. On November 26 night, some people entered the enquiry room at Etawah railway...
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An internal survey of Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party has shown that the party may win 170 of 250 wards in the MCD polls next month, a senior party leader said here on Monday. The survey having a sample size of 43,750 voters was conducted between November 13 and November 25, Delhi BJP media...
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A one-year-old girl died in Mumbai on Monday after contracting measles, said a statement by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). According to sources, the baby girl had a 'heart condition'. The infant's death took the city's official toll from the highly infectious disease to...
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A spokesperson of instant messaging and voice-over-IP service WhatsApp on Monday said there is no evidence of a 'data leak' from WhatsApp. Evidently, Mashable India, a digital media platform, has reported that according to a recent allegation from Cybernews, someone managed to hack into...
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Some 10 municipal wards in Mumbai are expected to face a severe water shortage on Tuesday and Wednesday, with Andheri East and West the worst-hit, as the municipal corporation has announced a water cut in these parts, reports the Hindustan Times. Other areas that will face a water cut are...
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's roadshow/AAP/Twitter
A scuffle broke out between supporters of the Aam Aadmi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday during Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's roadshow in Surat city in poll-bound Gujarat. The incident occurred in Katargam locality in the evening after BJP workers chanted 'Modi, Modi'...
20:44
President Droupadi Murmu
President Droupadi Murmu will lay the foundation stone of a medical college to be built at a cost of Rs 1,090 crore in Sirsa district at an event in Kurukshetra on Tuesday, said the Haryana government. The 539-bed medical college will be built on about 22 acres, added the...
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Two MLAs of the ruling NPP in Meghalaya and one of the opposition TMC resigned from the assembly on Monday, dealing a blow to their parties. The trio, who also quit the membership of respective parties, announced that they would soon join the BJP, an ally in the NPP-led Meghalaya Democratic...
20:03
Foreign secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra has been granted a 14-month extension in the post beyond his date of superannuation on December 31 this year, a personnel ministry order said. Kwatra had assumed office as foreign secretary on May 1 this year, succeeding Harsh Vardhan Shringla to the...
19:41
A police van carrying Aaftab Poonawala, accused of killing his live-in partner, was attacked by some weapon-wielding people outside the Forensic Science Laboratory in Rohini where he was taken for a polygraph test on Monday, sources said. The vehicle was driven out of the spot while the...
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Megastar Amitabh Bachchan on Monday said a stone bench in the shape of the popular book of poetry Madhushala, penned by his late father and celebrated poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan, was installed in Mumbai at his residence Jalsa. The 80-year-old actor took to his personal blog, where he shared...
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A Delhi court on Monday awarded life imprisonment to five terrorists of the Jaish-e-Mohammed for recruiting and training youths for terror activities across the country. Special judge Shailender Malik awarded the jail term to Sajjad Ahmed Khan, Bilal Ahmed Mir, Muzaffar Ahmed Bhat, Ishfaq...
18:43
A city-based techie who has been arrested for allegedly killing his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, has confessed to have initially gone missing along with her fearing investigation into a false robbery complaint he had lodged, the police said on Monday. Rahul Parmar, who hails from...
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Hackers have allegedly demanded an estimated Rs 200 crore in cryptocurrency from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi as its server remained out of order for the sixth consecutive day, official sources said on Monday. It is feared that data of around 3-4 crore patients could...
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The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh held a meeting in Chennai with its leaders and members to finalise decisions for the upcoming year. The two-day consultative meeting, which concluded on Sunday, discussed issues including enhancing the RSS's outreach among the people and strengthen the...
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Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday vacated her Gupkar residence and shifted to a private house at Khimber, on the outskirts of Srinagar. She had been asked by the government to vacate the Fairview official residence she had been using on October 15.
17:35
Instant messaging and voice-over-IP service WhatsApp, which is considered a secure platform due to its end-to-end encryption feature, has allegedly had a data leak that compromises almost 500 million users. Mashable India, a digital media platform, has reported that according to a recent...
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An on-duty Indian Air Force jawan allegedly died by suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle in Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh on Monday, a police official said. The incident occurred when he was posted on duty at a watch tower at the IAF station in Maharajpura area of Gwalior and it...
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said there is a huge craze for Aam Aadmi Party among women and youth in Gujarat as it vows to tackle inflation and unemployment and claimed the AAP will win more than 92 seats out of total 182 in the next month's Gujarat Assembly...
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A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused Congress of playing vote bank politics over terrorism, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday said his party had sacrificed two prime ministers in the fight against terrorism. Kharge questioned whether any leader of the Bharatiya...
16:29
Shraddha Walker
The Delhi Police has recovered the weapon allegedly used by Aaftab Amin Poonawala to cut the body of his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar, sources said on Monday. Police have also recovered a ring that belonged to 27-year-old Walkar, which Poonawala allegedly gave to another woman, they...
16:15
Shraddha Walker
Update on the Shraddha Walker murder case: The Delhi Police have recovered some weapons that were used to chop up Shraddha Walker's body. Police have also recovered Shraddha's ring that Aaftab had gifted to another woman he invited to his flat.The remaining sessions of the polygraph test on...
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The Delhi Police on Monday received an email regarding a bomb being placed on a school campus here in south Delhi, officials said. A senior police officer said that the email was received on Monday regarding the bomb placed in Indian Public School, Sadiq Nagar. The local police were...
15:56
Elon Musk tweeted this image alongside, saying, My bedside table.
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There's nothing wrong in telling people to stop wasting time on social media platforms, says author Chetan Bhagat, who stirred a controversy by bringing in actor-model Uorfi Javed's name in a televised discussion on the distractions of young men. Bhagat's response came Sunday evening...
15:35
Protests have burst out spontaneously in a number of Chinese cities. Dissatisfaction with the government's zero-tolerance Covid strategy appears to be the primary catalyst, but there are unprecedented instances of citizens expressing their anger at the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Chairman...
15:09
Mallikarjun Kharge called the PM, 'leader of lies'
Training his guns at Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla on Sunday called Congress an elitist dynastic party over the derogatory remarks made by party president on PM Modi. The scathing remark comes after Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge...
14:36
Kiren Rijiju with PT Usha
Legendary athlete PT Usha has been elected as the President of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA). Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju, previously the Union Sports Minister, congratulated the athlete on her election.Congratulations to legendary Golden Girl, Smt. P T Usha on being elected as the...
14:25
Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi headed for Ujjain from Indore on Monday, the sixth day of its Madhya Pradesh leg.The foot march started in the morning from Indore's Bada Ganpati square.When asked about his views on Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot, Rahul Gandhi said, Both...
13:51
The son and wife of the victim dispose of the body parts
Pandav Nagar killing update:The police say that the woman and the son killed the victim over suspicion that he was eyeing her daughter and daughter-in law.The victim is the husband of the woman and the father of the man.The murder happened on May 30.The body was chopped into 10 pieces of which...
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Amid the ongoing resistance from the Gurjar Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti for the Bharat Jodo Yatra to enter the Congress-ruled state of Rajasthan, the party extended an invitation to hold talks with Gurjar Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti today.Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will...
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Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday lambasted Prime Minister Narendra Modi terming him as a leader of lies.The Congress chief accused the BJP and its top leaders of resorting to prevarications in order to gain the sympathy of the people. Addressing an election rally in Dediapada...
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Aaftab allegedly chopped up Shraddha's body into 35 pieces
In a chilling resemblance to the Shraddha Walkar murder case, Delhi Police on Monday arrested a woman and her son allegedly for killing her husband and chopping him into pieces and then storing the bits in a refrigerator.Police said that the man killed his father with the help of his mother,...
11:53
It will communicate to India's 200 million strong Muslim community that India's democracy has no place for even its physical safety, much less its aspirations. Read the column here.
11:24
The protests against COVID-19 lockdowns have spread to Beijing even as China reported close to 40,000 coronavirus cases on Monday as authorities scrambled to contain the fresh surge in infections. For the fifth consecutive day, China reported close to 4,000 cases in the capital city of...
11:18
A posse of policemen at the Batla House in 2008
Training his guns at Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday accused the party of being well-wishers of terrorists and questioning the Batla House encounter in 2008, which was an act of terrorism.During his address at a public rally in Gujarat's Surat, PM Modi said that the Batla house...
10:48
Dimple Yadav files her nomination last month
Winning the Mainpuri bypoll will not be a simple affair for SP's Dimple Yadav unlike the past elections when her father-in-law Mulayam Singh Yadav used to register effortless victories, some local residents feel. But many are of the view that she will make it, particularly because of...
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Indivjal Dhasmana/Business Standard reports: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has decided to audit urban local bodies (ULBs) to bring out the performance of these authorities in the context of the 74th Constitutional Amendment carried out in the early1990s and respective state...
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Another polygraph test of Aaftab Amin Poonawalla, who has been accused of killing Shraddha Walker and chopping her body into 35 parts, is set to be continued at the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Rohini on Monday, according to officials.The polygraph test held on Sunday could not be...
09:51
Ahead of Gujarat assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to address four public meetings in the state.He will address rallies in Kutch's Anjar, Jamnagar's Gordhanpur, Bhavnagar's Palitana, Jamnagar's Gordhanpar and Rajkot today. As the first phase of the Gujarat Assembly...
09:44
Mass protests are happening across China over its Covid policy
In worrying news around the ongoing mass anti-Covid restrictions protests across China, British Broadcasting Corporation has expressed concern over the treatment meted out by Chinese authorities, to its journalist, who was arrested and handcuffed while covering a similar ongoing protest in...
09:26
The Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi headed for Ujjain from Indore on Monday, the sixth day of its Madhya Pradesh leg. The foot march started in the morning from Indore's Bada Ganpati square. A cyclist joined the yatra here and Gandhi was seen riding his bicycle...
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Portugal plays Uruguay at 12:30 am.
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Serbia has won one match so far.
09:16
South Korea plays Ghana at 6:30 pm today.
09:14
Brazil plays Switzerland at 9:30 pm today.
08:44
A group of villagers in Jat taluka in Maharashtra's Sangli district shouted slogans in favour Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and displayed its flags alleging that water, education and healthcare had been neglected for decades. Maharashtra and...
08:28
Riots broke out in several Belgian and Dutch cities after Morocco's 2-0 upset win over Belgium at the World Cup in Qatar on Sunday. Police detained about a dozen people after they deployed water cannons and fire tear gas to disperse crowds in Brussels. Dozens of rioters...
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