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Delhi recorded 293 fresh COVID-19 cases on Monday, with the positivity rate rising to 18.53 per cent which meant nearly one out of every five people tested turned out to be positive, according to data shared by the city health department.Two Covid-related deaths were reported. The health...
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Former US president Donald Trump, facing arraignment on criminal charges, has left Florida for New York. Trump, the first former US president facing criminal charges, will appear in a courtroom in Manhattan on Tuesday. Trump's legal troubles stem from the hush money he allegedly paid to...
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A mahant at the Hanumangarhi Mandir in Ayodhya on Monday invited Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to stay on the temple premises after he vacates the government bungalow allotted to him as member of Parliament.Gandhi was recently served a notice to vacate the bungalow following his disqualification...
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The country's largest lender SBI's online banking services were impacted for a few hours due to a technical glitch on Monday, inconveniencing scores of customers. SBI, which serves nearly a fourth of the over 130 billion Indians, admitted to a technical glitch on Monday. Many customers...
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Uddhav addresses a rally in Aurangabad
Some Bharatiya Janata Party workers on Monday sprinkled cow urine at the venue of the Maha Vikas Aghadi rally held a day earlier in Aurangabad in Maharashtra.Shiv Sena founder late Bal Thackeray used to speak about fighting the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party, while Uddhav Thackeray...
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D K Shivakumar
A case was registered by the police against Karnataka Congress chief D K Shivakumar on Monday for allegedly distributing cash during a poll campaign. The action comes days after the police had registered a non-cognisable offence against Shivakumar following a complaint alleging that he...
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A sessions court in Mumbi on Monday dismissed a petition filed against a magistrate's order discharging Shilpa Shetty in the 2007 obscenity case over Hollywood star Richard Gere kissing her at a public event.The revision application against the magistrate court's order was dismissed by additional...
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Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi
The fresh mayoral poll in Delhi is likely to be held later in April, and incumbent Shelly Oberoi will continue to hold charge of the top post till a new mayor is elected, official sources said on Monday.Oberoi, an Aam Aadmi Party councillor, was elected as the mayor of Delhi on February 22.She...
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In the run-up to the keenly contested battle for Karnataka, the Bharatiya Janata Party is keen to brighten its prospects on the popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is the party's biggest face.We are hoping that PM Modi holds between 15-20 rallies in Karnataka ahead of May 10 polling,...
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Bholaa, starring Ajay Devgn, has earned Rs 44.28 in the first weekend of its release, the makers said on Monday.Directed by Devgn and also starring Tabu, the film released in cinema halls on March 30. It is produced by Ajay Devgn FFilms, Reliance Entertainment, T-Series Films, and Dream Warrior...
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A Chinese spy balloon that flew across the United States was able to gather intelligence from several sensitive American military sites and transmit it back to Beijing in real-time, despite the Biden administration's efforts to block it, a media report said on Monday.A suspected Chinese spy...
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The new COVID variant poses less risk and is unlikely to result in increase in hospitalisations but people need to remain vigilant, according to a top Union health ministry official.New strains keep coming after mutation..this is a new variant which has come..this would not lead to increase in...
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With overall positive investor sentiment in the domestic market, the 30-share BSE Sensex on Monday rose 114.92 points or 0.19 per cent to close at 59,106.44 points, with 22 of its components ending in the green and eight closing in the red. The broader 50-share NSE Nifty climbed 38.30 points...
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China has released a third set of names in Chinese, Tibetan and pinyin characters for Arunachal Pradesh, as part of its efforts to reemphasise its claim over the Indian state. China's ministry of civil affairs on Sunday released the standardised names of 11 places for Arunachal Pradesh,...
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In view of the ongoing construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, two teams of Bomb Disposal and Detection Squad (BDDS) were deployed separately for security, officials said on Monday. Five new BDDS teams have been set up at the high court of Allahabad, high court of Lucknow bench, Varanasi...
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The Uttarakhand high court on Monday ordered to reinstate senior Indian Forest Service officer Rajiv Bhartari as the principal chief conservator of forest (PCCF). Bhartari was removed from the post in November 2021 as part of a major reshuffle in the forest department following allegations...
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An idol of Lord Hanuman was vandalised in Sahibganj town of Jharkhand in the early hours of Monday and a person has been detained in connection with the incident, an official said.The one-and-half-feet tall idol is housed in a temple under a tree in Sahibganj town police station area, 425 km from...
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In the wake of rising COVID cases in India, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday said that Omicron's sub-variant which is circulating in the country has not led to the increase in hospitalisations and there is no need to worry.The Minister said that there is a need to remain...
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Amid rising coronavirus cases, the Serum Institute of India has written a letter to the Union health ministry seeking the inclusion of its COVID-19 vaccine Covovax on the CoWIN portal as a heterologous booster dose for adults, official sources said on Monday. The letter was written by...
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Soon after a Surat court granted bail to Rahul Gandhi in a 2019 defamation case, the Congress leader on Monday said this is a fight against Mitrkaal to save democracy and truth is his weapon in this struggle. Gandhi was convicted by a lower court here and sentenced to prison for two years...
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Jairam Ramesh shared this image of detained Congress workers
Senior Congress leader and former Maharashtra minister Balasaheb Thorat on Monday claimed vehicles of party workers, who were on way to Surat to extend support to Rahul Gandhi, were stopped by Gujarat Police. Gandhi filed an appeal at a sessions in Surat against his conviction in a...
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Update: A Surat court on Monday granted bail to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case over his 2019 remark about the surname Modi. The sessions court will hear the matter on April 13, an official said. The 52-year-old Congress leader reached Surat in the afternoon via a...
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BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari said politics of polarisation is being done
Prohibitory orders continued, internet services remained suspended overnight in some areas of the violence-hit Hooghly district in West Bengal and the BJP state president was stopped from entering Rishra by the police on Monday.Police said the situation in Rishra and Srerampore areas in Hoogly...
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Bhutan King Jigme Wangchuk arrived in India on Monday for a three-day visit at the invitation of President Droupadi Murmu. External Affairs Minister who received him at the airport said the visit will further strengthen the close and unique ties between the two countries. Taking to...
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Rahul Gandhi files appeal in Surat sessions court against his conviction in defamation case. The 52-year-old Congress leader reached Surat via a scheduled commercial flight along with sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. He was convicted by a in Surat and sentenced to prison for two years last...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday alleged that the BJP was deliberately taking out rallies in minority areas of the state without permission. Banerjee's comments come a day after clashes broke out between two groups during a Ram Navami procession in Rishra and Serampore in...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi reached Surat on Monday to file an appeal against a lower court ruling convicting him in a defamation case over his 2019 remark about the surname Modi. The 52-year-old Congress leader reached Surat via a scheduled commercial flight along with sister Priyanka...
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Six trains have been cancelled due to a rail roko protest of farmers' group Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC) that entered its second day on Monday at the Batala railway station in Punjab's Gurdaspur district. The farmers launched their indefinite protest on Sunday in support of...
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The Rouse Avenue Court in New Delhi extends the judicial custody of Delhi's former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia till April 17. Sisodia is in jail in a CBI case related to alleged irregularities in the now-scrapped excise policy. A Delhi court on Friday refused bail to the AAP leader...
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Arson and violence in Howrah during Ram Navami
Apex child rights body NCPCR has issued a notice to the Howrah Police Commissioner over the use of children for pelting stones during violence that erupted in West Bengal on Ram Navami. Clashes broke out between two groups during a Ram Navami procession in West Bengal's Howrah district...
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India recorded a single-day jump of 3,641 fresh COVID-19 cases as the active caseload rose to 20,219, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. The toll has risen to 5,30,892 with 11 deaths -- three from Maharashtra and one each in Delhi, Kerala, Karnataka and Rajasthan --...
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Building a developed India is not possible without professional and efficient institutions and the CBI therefore has a huge responsibility, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday. Addressing the diamond jubilee celebrations of the Central Bureau of Investigation, the prime minister termed...
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The Calcutta High Court on Monday directed the West Bengal government to file a comprehensive report on violence at Shibpur in Howrah during and after the Ramnavami procession there on March 30. Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari moved a PIL seeking an NIA...
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Yasin Bhatkal
A Delhi court has ordered framing of charges against banned terrorist organisation Indian Mujahideen's (IM) co-founder Yasin Bhatkal and several of its operatives, including Mohammad Danish Ansari, in a case of conspiring to wage war against India in 2012. Additional Sessions Judge...
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The Congress is trying to exert undue pressure on the Judiciary, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju claimed on Monday, questioning the plan by members of the opposition party to accompany Rahul Gandhi to a Surat court. Gandhi will be in Gujarat's Surat city on Monday to file an appeal in a court against...
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Ron Malka
Ron Malka, former envoy of Israel to India, has said that he has assumed charge as the Executive Chairman of the Haifa Port Company (HPC) owned by a consortium led by the ports-to-energy conglomerate Adani Group. A consortium of Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) and...
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The Delhi riots of 2020
Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Monday termed as another jumla Home Minister Amit Shah's remarks that riots don't take place under BJP rule, and cited the number of instances of communal violence under a BJP government at the Centre and in some states. At a public meeting in Hisua...
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Four days after the stepwell roof collapse at a temple in Indore claimed 36 lives, the local administration on Monday morning launched a drive to remove encroachments from the religious complex and moved the deities to another shrine. The operation was launched at the Beleshwar Mahadev...
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Priyanka Gandhi will accompany Rahul today in Surat
Congress MPs are set to meet ahead and chalk out their strategy on Monday ahead of Rahul Gandhi's appeal against his conviction and jail term by a Surat court for his 'Modi surname' defamation case.Parliament is set to resume today after a four-day break and Congress MPs will hold a meeting at...
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The fenced border between US and Mexico
A family of four from a village in Mehsana district was among the eight people who had drowned in a river on the Quebec-New York border while they were illegally trying to enter the US from Canada by boat. The deceased include a couple and their two adult children. A total of eight...
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Prohibitory orders are in force in West Bengal's Hooghly district, where clashes broke out between two groups during a Ram Navami procession, police said on Monday. Internet services have also been suspended in some parts of the district till 10 pm on Monday, they said. Two Ram Navami...
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Global Pharma Healthcare is recalling 50,000 tubes of eye ointment in the US market due to bacterial contamination, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA).As per its latest Enforcement Report, the US health regulator noted that the Chennai-based drug firm is recalling the...
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Three persons, including a one-year-old child and a woman, were found dead on the tracks near the Elathur railway station in Kozhikode, hours after a man allegedly set afire a co-passenger and injured eight others on board an express train. A senior police official from the district...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will be in Gujarat's Surat city on Monday to file an appeal in a court against his conviction in a criminal defamation case over his Modi surname remarks. Senior Congress leaders, including Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, chief ministers of...
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As clashes broke out between two groups during a Ram Navami procession in West Bengal's Hooghly district on Sunday evening, Governor CV Ananda Bose, who is at present in Darjeeling, said those behind the violence will be booked tonight itself and put behind bars.The miscreants, the hooligans, and...
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