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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Saturday unveiled the first statue of Swami Vivekananda in Latin America at a university in Mexico, according to an official statement. Birla led an Indian parliamentary delegation to Mexico. Unveiling the statue at the Autonomous University of State...
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Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday advised Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde to avoid a face-off over the annual Dussehra rally of the Shiv Sena. Both the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena and the rebel faction headed by Shinde have sought the Shivaji Park...
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Indian car and bike racing champion Alisha Abdullah joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of party state president K Annamalai in Chennai on Saturday. Alisha, the country's first female national racing champion, had joined the party inspired by...
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India's exports contracted by 1.15 per cent to USD 33 billion and trade deficit more than doubled to 28.68 billion in August, a preliminary data released by the commerce ministry said on Saturday. Trade deficit in August 2021 stood at 11.71 billion. Imports rose by 37 per cent to...
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Activist Teesta Setalvad today walked out of jail after obtaining interim bail from the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court had on Friday granted interim bail to Teesta Setalvad, arrested on June 25 for allegedly fabricating evidence to frame innocent people in the 2002 Gujarat riots cases,...
19:08
Senior India left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja is all set to miss the T20 World Cup in Australia as he will undergo a major knee surgery which is expected to keep him out of action for an indefinite period of time. Jadeja, who played the first two games of the Asia Cup against Pakistan and...
19:01
A pilot, flying in circles for over an hour, has been threatening to intentionally crash into Walmart on West Main in Tupelo, a city in northeast Mississippi in the United states.Police are evacuating the area to disperse people as much as practical, according to US media.
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Ghulam Nabi Azad, who recently broke his five-decade-long association with the Congress, will begin his fresh political journey Sunday from Jammu where he would set up the first unit of his own party. All preparations have been completed for Azad's first public rally in Jammu, a close aide...
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A Dalit student in Uttar Pradesh's Ballia was allegedly locked up in a classroom and beaten with a metal rod by his teacher for touching the latter's motorcycle, police said on Saturday. The teacher, Krishna Mohan Sharma, has been suspended. According to police, the incident was...
17:32
The demolition of the British-era Carnac Bridge located between CSMT and Masjid stations in south Mumbai has begun, with Central Railway officials on Saturday stating that work of completely razing it could take around three months. The bridge was built in...
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is likely to visit Delhi from September 5 and meet several Opposition leaders, including Rahul Gandhi of the Congress, in his bid to bring them together to fight the Bharatiya Janata Party. Janata Dal-United sources said Kumar is expected to meet Delhi...
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India has overtaken the United Kingdom to become the world's fifth-largest economy and is now behind only the United States, China, Japan and Germany, according to IMF projections. A decade back, India was ranked 11th among the large economies while the UK was at the fifth...
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The All India Democratic Students' Organisation on Saturday termed the launch of the Delhi Model Virtual School anti-student and said the move will destroy the foundation of the education ecosystem. Online classes can never be a wholesome substitute for classroom learning, it said in a...
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The Odisha government appealed to the people on Saturday to take the precaution dose against coronavirus as soon as possible as few weeks are left for the period of free jabs and only a quarter of the targeted population got vaccinated with the third shot.A total of 80.90 lakh people, including...
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday expressed outrage over MLAs of his Janata Dal-United in Manipur jumping ship to join the Bharatiya Janata Party. Talking to reporters at the party office in Patna, where a two-day national conclave is underway, Kumar questioned the propriety and...
15:53
A school principal was allegedly kidnapped by unidentified persons in Maharashtra's Nagpur city who have demanded Rs 30 lakh ransom for his release, police said on Saturday. Police have formed several teams to trace Pradeep...
15:50
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday listed the initiatives of his government in the education sector, particularly for tea garden tribes, on Twitter, tagging Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal again. Sharing a video clip, Sarma said, Unless forced to, we prefer to work...
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Bharatiya Janata Party MP Tejasvi Surya on Saturday termed Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal the biggest U-turn leader in the country and said his revdi (freebies) and bevdi (drunk) politics will be rejected by youngsters in Gujarat. The national...
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The Enforcement Directorate Saturday said it is conducting raids at Bengaluru premises of online payment gateways like Razorpay, Paytm and Cashfree as part of an ongoing probe against illegal instant smartphone-based loans controlled by Chinese persons. The searches were launched Friday at...
14:57
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Saturday visited the official residence of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde in Mumbai. Doval was welcomed by Shinde with a bouquet and a shawl after he offered prayers at Lord Ganesh's idol at the chief...
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The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear Monday a plea seeking directions to authorities to ensure adequate security at hospitals and medical centres to prevent attacks on doctors and healthcare workers by relatives of patients and others. A bench of Justices S K Kaul and Abhay S Oka is...
14:08
The United States has said it is determined to enforce a price cap on Russian oil announced by the G7 countries, terming it a powerful tool that will significantly reduce Moscow's main source of funding for its illegal warin Ukraine and help fight global inflation. Members of the G7 grouping...
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At least four people were killed and 14 others injured after a speeding truck rammed into a stationary bus here on Saturday morning, police said.The accident took place near Mahangupur village under the Ramnagar police station area. The bus was parked on a roadside as it had a flat tyre, they...
13:37
The Central government will hold a year-long commemoration to mark 75 years of 'Hyderabad State Liberation', with Home Minister Amit Shah as chief guest at the inaugural event on September 17, Union Culture Minister G Kishan Reddy said on Saturday. Reddy has written letters to the chief...
13:36
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday appealed to Bharatiya Janata Party workers in Gujarat to work for his Aam Aadmi Party while staying in the ruling party. Kejriwal said BJP workers should continue to get payment...
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A day after most of its MLAs in Manipur joined the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Janata Dal-United on Saturday lashed out at its former ally whom it accused of using dhan bal (money power) to poach legislators from other parties. JD-U national president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan alleged...
12:46
The IIT-Delhi has effected a 30-per cent reduction in the tuition fee for the new batch of M.Tech students following recommendations of a committee set up by the director, after a section of students staged a silent protest over fee hikes.The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) issued a...
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BJP MP Nishikant Dubey
Deoghar Police in Jharkhand has registered an FIR against Bharatiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dubey, his two sons, another MP Manoj Tiwari and Deoghar airport director among nine others for allegedly entering the Air Traffic Control room at the Deoghar Airport without permission and creating...
11:52
The Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing has questioned Bollywood actor Nora Fatehi in connection with an extortion case linked to conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar, officials said on Saturday. Fatehi was summoned last week. She was questioned at the Mandir Marg office of the EOW for hours on...
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The Bombay high court issued notices to the government of India, Serum Institute of India, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, All India Institute of Medical Sciences director, DCGI chief and others after a petition was filed by father of a late front line worker, seeking compensation for the death of...
10:24
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
Telangana minister KT Rama Rao has expressed shock over Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman reprimanding a district collector for being unable to provide her an answer to what was the Centre and state's share of rice supplied through fair price shops, and said such conduct of people holding...
10:10
National Security Advisor to Prime Minister Ajit Doval has met Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai, on Sunday. More details soon.
09:57
In a back-to-back incident of Indians being targeted in the United States, a fresh video has surfaced but this time from a European country where an Indian man is allegedly being called a parasite and a genocider. An undated clip went viral on social media platforms which shows an Indian...
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The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee has decided to launch a mass movement with the support of Sikh organisations regarding the release of Sikh prisoners who have completed their jail terms. The...
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Six pilgrims walking towards the temple town of Ambaji were killed when a car rammed into them in Gujarat's Arvalli district on Friday morning, police said. Seven other pilgrims and the driver of the...
08:53
Noted journalist and Ramon Magsaysay awardee P Sainath has said he is returning the Basavashree award, which was conferred on him by the Murugha Math in 2017. In a series of tweets on Friday, Sainath made his decision public after the chief pontiff of the Murugha Math, Shivamurthy Murugha...
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US on Friday (local time) announced the sale of approximately $1.1 billion in military equipment including Harpoon and Sidewinder missiles to Taiwan. Defence Security Cooperation Agency confirmed in a series of statements that Washington has...
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An earthquake of magnitude 4.4 occurred 106 km east-northeast of Portblair, Andaman and Nicobar islands, at around 6.59 am on Sunday. The depth of the earthquake was 70 km below the ground, said National Center for Seismology. -- ANI
08:15
A magisterial court here has ordered the re-issuance of a non-bailable warrant against the chief pontiff of Murugha Math, Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanu, in connection with a property-related matter in Kengeri Hobli. The dispute is with regard to a seven-acre property in Sulikere village that...
08:12
Former Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Friday returned to the country from Thailand, nearly two months after he fled the country following a massive uprising against his government over the island nation's worst-ever economic crisis. Rajapaksa, 73, fled the country on July 13...
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The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday conducted search operations at the office of West Bengal Board of Primary Education as a part of their ongoing investigation into the alleged irregularities in teacher recruitment in state government-sponsored and 'aided schools, an agency official...
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