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The Kerala Film Producers Association on Tuesday decided to temporarily ban Malayalam actor Sreenath Bhasi from movies over allegations against him of misbehaving with a female anchor during an interview he gave to a Youtube channel. Producers association stated, Currently, the remaining...
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Bollywood superstar Salman Khan on Tuesday dismissed the rumours that he is charging 'Rs 1,000' for hosting the latest season of Bigg Boss, saying he will stop working the day he earns such a whopping amount. While he was rumoured to have earned Rs 350 crore for the last season of Colors...
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The DRDO on Tuesday successfully flight tested the very short range air defence system missile in Chandipur off the coast of Odisha. The VSHORADS is an air defence system designed and developed indigenously by Hyderabad-based Research Centre Imarat of the Defence Research and Development...
22:36
Politician-cum-actor Ravi Kishan has allegedly been duped of Rs 3.25 crore by a Mumbai-based businessman, his public relations officer said on Tuesday. Ravi Kishan had given the money to accused Jain Jitendra Ramesh in 2012. When nudged to return it, Ramesh allegedly handed him 12...
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A Sikh couple has approached the Bombay high court seeking that it order the Maharashtra government to frame rules for the implementation of the Anand Marriage Act, 1909, in the state. The plea filed by the advocate couple earlier this month noted that ten states in India, including Delhi,...
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Jailed gangster Abu Salem was on Tuesday sentenced to three years imprisonment in a 25-year-old fake passport case by an Uttar Pradesh court. Special judicial magistrate Samriddhi Mishra convicted Salem, who appeared through video conferencing from Taloja jail, New Mumbai, where he has been...
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A 55-year-old seer was found dead inside a temple in Mathura on Tuesday morning, the police said. The body of Sudhakar Das alias Lal Baba was found on a bench on the premises of Chamar Devi temple in Jaint police station area, Station House Officer Arun Panwar said. The seer, a native...
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The Delhi high court has sought a response from the CBI on a plea by three ex-Indian Air Force officers challenging the summons issued to them in the Rs 3,600-crore AugustaWestland chopper scam. Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain issued notice to the CBI and listed the matter for further hearing on...
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A woman living separately for the last few months died after she was allegedly attacked by her husband when she refused to wear a hijab and sought a divorce in Mumbai, the police said. Inspector Vilas Rathod said, The victim was living separately with her 2-year-old child due to being...
20:36
CEC Rajiv Kumar
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Tuesday said the Election Commission of India will apply the transparent process of the rule of majority after the Supreme Court allowed the EC to go ahead with the hearing of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde group's plea for recognition as the...
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Congress observers for Rajasthan on Tuesday recommended disciplinary action against three party leaders, including two ministers, for the crisis in the state, but did not seek any action against Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. The three Gehlot loyalists against whom action has been recommended...
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The Mumbai police on Tuesday issued an order prohibiting people from taking photographs and shooting videos of floating or half-submerged idols of Goddess Durga after immersions from October 5 to 7. The police cited that pictures and videos of floating and half-submerged idols can hurt...
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The Maharashtra government on Tuesday allowed the use of loudspeakers till midnight during the ongoing Navratri festival on October 1 also, apart from October 3 and 4, in Mumbai. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday decided to give concession in Mumbai for...
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The Kerala State Road Transport Corporation on Tuesday moved the high court in Kochi seeking directions to the Popular Front of India to compensate the loss of over Rs 5 crore caused to it due to damage to its buses and reduction in services during the hartal on September 23. On September...
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An encounter broke out between militants and security forces in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, the police said. Security forces received inputs about the presence of militants in the Ahwatoo area of Kulgam, following which a cordon and search operation was launched...
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Durga Puja in Kolkata and southern West Bengal districts is likely to be rain-drenched this year with the Met department on Tuesday saying that a cyclonic circulation may form over northwest Bay of Bengal on October 1. ...
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Residents of Mumbai and the metropolitan region will have to pay Rs 28 as the minimum fare for travelling in black and yellow taxis and Rs 23 for auto rickshaws, with the basic fares being hiked by Rs 3 and Rs 2 respectively, authorities said on Tuesday. The new fares will come into effect...
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A 20-year-old Pakistani national has been apprehended by the Border Security Force from the Sri Ganganagar sector in Rajasthan, a spokesperson of the force said Tuesday. Mohammed Waqas was nabbed from along the India-Pakistan International Border in suspicious circumstances on Monday...
17:29
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off Gandhinagar-Mumbai Vande Bharat Express and Ahmedabad Metro rail, and lay foundation stones for several projects worth more than Rs 29,000 crore during his two-day visit to poll-bound Gujarat from September 29. An official statement said the...
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Election Commission to go ahead with the hearing of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde group's plea seeking recognition as the real Shiv Sena and allocation of the party's bow-and-arrow poll symbol to it. Justice D Y Chandrachud, heading a...
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President Droupadi Murmu has given her assent to a legislation of Haryana under which every child marriage that has been solemnised will be considered as void ab initio (having no legal effect from inception), thus making a marital relationship between a man and a girl aged between 15 and 18...
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Amid a massive political crisis in the Congress in Rajasthan, senior party leader and former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot arrived in the national capital on Tuesday. However, there was no confirmation about his schedule here with sources close to him saying that no meetings were fixed...
15:52
Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday expressed confidence that his faction will emerge victorious in the legal tussle with the rebel group led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. A Constitution bench of the Supreme Court is hearing an application of the Uddhav...
15:36
India and Pakistan are both partners of the US with different points of emphasis, the Biden administration has said, a day after visiting External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar questioned the rationale behind Washington's USD 450 million F-16 security assistance to Islamabad. Referring...
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its verdict on a batch of pleas challenging the validity of the 103rd Constitution amendment providing 10 per cent reservation to economically weaker sections (EWS) persons in admissions and government jobs. A five-judge Constitution bench headed...
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PM Modi tweets, When I was in Tokyo earlier this yr, little did I imagine I would be back for solemn program of former PM Abe's state funeral. He was a great leader, a phenomenal individual & someone who believed in India-Japan friendship. He shall live on in hearts of millions.
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President Droupadi Murmu has given her assent to a legislation of Haryana under which every child marriage that has been solemnised will be considered as void ab initio (having no legal effect from inception), thus making a marital relationship between a man and a girl aged between 15 and 18...
14:54
Swedish defence products company Saab will manufacture its Carl-Gustaf M4 weapons system in India. Production in its new facility in India is expected to start in 2024. We haven't done this in any other country, said Company's Senior Vice President. The Carl-Gustaf recoilless rifle is...
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Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday moved a confidence motion in the state assembly. Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit on Sunday gave his nod to convene the House on September 27 after days of squabble between the Raj Bhavan and AAP government over holding a session of the...
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Update on the situation in Rajasthan: Congress MLA Sachin Pilot refutes news agency ANI's tweet that he has told the Congress high command that Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot should not remain CM if he decides to contest for the party president post and that it is his responsibility to bring MLAs...
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Amid suspense over who could take on Shashi Tharoor in the Congress president polls, party's central election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry on Tuesday said AICC treasurer Pawan Kumar Bansal has got nomination forms collected, adding that it may be for someone else. Mistry also said a...
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President Draupadi Murmu inaugurates the integrated cryogenic engine manufacturing facility of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd in Bengaluru. She also laid the foundation stone for the zonal institute of virology.
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Congress MLA Sachin Pilot is in constant touch with other MLAs apart from supporting MLAs, reports news agency ANI. He has asked his supporters to wait for the high command's decision on the party's presidential elections. Pilot has told the Congress high command that Rajasthan CM Ashok...
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Veteran actor Asha Parekh will be honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke award for 2020, the highest recognition in the field of Indian cinema, Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur said on Tuesday. The 79-year-old actor, best known for films such as Dil Deke Dekho, Kati...
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Congress president-hopeful, Shashi Tharoor tweets, Caught up with @RahulGandhi on the #BharatJodoYatra before it left my home state of Kerala, & that too in my ancestral district of Palakkad! What he's achieved already with the Yatra is amazing & it just seems to keep on gathering...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays homage to former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo. Modi was seen along with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the funeral.
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Jamia Millia Islamia has asked its students and teachers not to assemble in and around the campus as police have imposed restrictions under section 144 of the CrPC in the entire Okhla area. In a notice issued on Monday, the chief proctor of the university said the SHO of the Jamia...
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Justice Dipankar Datta
The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended elevation of Chief Justice of Bombay High Court, Justice Dipankar Datta, as a judge of the apex court. According to a statement uploaded on the top court's website, a meeting of the Collegium headed by Chief Justice of India Uday Umesh Lalit...
12:19
Hussain, termed the mastermind of Delhi riots, used to host over 1,000 guests every Holi and Diwali. Would a communal person do that, asks his son, standing in his father's office -- now a museum of innocence. Read the column here.
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In a first, the Supreme Court on Tuesday began live-streaming its constitution bench proceedings. On September 27, 2018, the then Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra had delivered the landmark judgement on the live telecast or webcast of important proceedings in matters of...
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Tokyo was under maximum security today, with angry protests opposing the funeral.
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PM Narendra Modi attends state funeral of former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe.Abe's widow, Akie Abe, in a black formal kimono, walked slowly into the Budokan hall venue carrying an urn containing her husband's ashes, placed in a wooden box and wrapped in a purple cloth with gold stripes. Defence...
11:19
TIME's new cover: Inside the Ukrainian counterstrike that turned the tide of the war.
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Assam: Twenty-five Popular Front of India (PFI) activists were arrested from different districts of Assam in a fresh crackdown against the outfit on Tuesday, police said. The highest number of 10 PFI activists were held in Goalpara, five in Kamrup (Rural) and three in Dhubri, followed...
10:26
From India to the United States to Hong Kong, democratic societies have seen movements that have brought about change. They have one thing in common: large scale participation by civil society and individuals and the absence of organised political parties. How can individuals make their...
10:20
Antony Blinken with Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari at the State Department on Monday and said that America had provided USD 56.5 million in aid to Pakistan for flood relief and humanitarian assistance this year. Blinken expressed his sorrow over...
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Benchmark indices rebounded in early trade on Tuesday after falling in the last four sessions amid partial recovery in Asian markets. After a positive beginning, the 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 461.82 points to 57,607.04 in initial trade. Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty advanced 144.15...
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PM Modi with Japan PM Fumio Kishida
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday extended his heartfelt condolences to his dear friend Abe San, late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. In his opening remarks to Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida in Tokyo, he conveyed his personal loss as Abe was his dear...
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The open rebellion by MLAs close to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has put a question mark on whether he would still run for the Congress president's post or someone else will replace him as a candidate supported by the current leadership. Congress President Sonia Gandhi had on...
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A special NIA court in Mumbai has rejected Telugu poet and Elgar Parishad accused Varavara Rao's plea to go to Hyderabad for three months to undergo cataract surgery. The court rejected the request stating it has to frame charges against the accused within the next three...
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Amid the ongoing military deployment along the China front, Indian Air Force's only female Weapon System Operator in the deadly Sukhoi-30 fighter fleet on Tuesday said pilots in the eastern sector were ready to respond to any eventuality in the area and prove their mettle in real...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida in Tokyo. Modi on Monday emplaned for Japan to attend the state funeral of his dear friend and former PM Shinzo Abe, which will be held today.He will also meet Mrs Abe during this visit. PM Modi will hold a bilateral...
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Pakistani terrorist linked with the proscribed terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) was killed during the Kulgam encounter, informed Kashmir Zone Police on Monday. The terrorist has been identified as Abu Hurarah. The Police also recovered incriminating materials, arms and...
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NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) -- the world's first planetary defence technology demonstration -- successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday, the agency's first attempt to move an asteroid in space.'IMPACT SUCCESS! Watch from #DARTMIssion's DRACO Camera, as the vending...
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Four persons including a girl and an Army official arrested in connection with the Chandigarh University 'leaked objectionable videos' case were sent to five days police remand by a court on Monday. Earlier on Saturday, an Indian Army official identified as Sanjeev Singh was arrested in...
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The Kerala police on Monday said they were continuing raids on various places, including shops and other establishments, connected to the Popular Front of India in Kannur district. On Monday, the raids were conducted at Mattannur and Kannur regions, the police said. But, no arrests were...
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