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Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan on Monday appeared before the Lahore High Court which granted him protective bail in a case linked to violent protests outside the election commission, amidst high drama inside the court premises where hundreds of his supporters converged to show...
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Three more residential houses and a 33-kV power transmission line were damaged due to 'sinking' of land in the hilly Duksar Dalwa village in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district, officials said on Monday.A team of Geological Survey of India (GSI) is visiting the village on Tuesday to ascertain the...
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An Air India flight from New York to Delhi was diverted to London on Monday due to a medical emergency, according to an official. According to data available on the flight tracking website Flightradar24, the flight is being operated with a Boeing 777-337 (ER) aircraft. The...
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No one in India votes on the basis of the candidates' educational qualifications, the Supreme Court observed on Monday while dismissing a plea against the election of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Harsh Vardhan Bajpayee to the Uttar Pradesh assembly in 2017.A bench of Justices K M Joseph and B V...
20:40
Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar has asked a parliamentary committee to investigate the alleged breach of privilege by 12 opposition MPs from the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party for repeatedly entering the well of the House, shouting slogans and obstructing its proceedings. According to a...
20:24
The Karnataka government faced embarrassment on Monday as the continuing public spat between two bureaucrats reached the doorsteps of the chief secretary with both women officials levelling charges against each other, while the administration warned of disciplinary action against them. Home...
19:42
Fluctuations in Indian Rupee vis--vis US Dollar this week.
19:25
Reversing its early gains, the BSE Sensex on Monday closed lower by 311.03 points or 0.51 per cent at 60,691.54 as 18 of its scrips declined. The index opened higher at 61,112.84 and gained further 290 points to hit the day's high of 61,290.19. However, selling in index major Reliance...
19:22
The 67-day deadlock between the two Adani Group-owned cement plants in Himachal Pradesh and truckers' unions over freight charges ended on Monday with the two sides agreeing on new rates, the state government said. The cement plants at Barmana (Bilaspur district) and Darlaghat (Solan district)...
19:16
Former IAS officer B V R Subrahmanyam was on Monday appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Niti Aayog replacing Parameswaran lyer, who has been named as the executive director of World Bank. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved Subrahmanyam appointment for a...
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The Delhi government on Monday issued a public notice saying carrying passengers on two-wheelers would be a punishable offence in Delhi and that bike-taxi is a violation of the Motor Vehicles Act. The notice reads, It has been brought to the notice that two-wheelers having non-transport...
18:16
Video grab of Prithvi Shaw and Sapna Gill in an altercation
A court in Mumbai on Monday granted bail to social media influencer Sapna Gill and three other accused in a case pertaining to alleged manhandling of India cricketer Prithvi Shaw and attacking his car with a baseball bat in Mumbai last week. Earlier in the day, the court sent Gill, her...
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As preparations begin for the upcoming Char Dham yatra, fresh fissures have appeared on the road connecting Narasingh temple in subsidence-hit Joshimath and Badrinath, according to local activists.The road, which is a bypass of the Badrinath highway leading to the Himalayan temple, is used for...
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IndiGo on Monday said its flight from the national capital to Deogarh was diverted to Lucknow following a specific bomb threat.After following all necessary security protocols, the aircraft was later cleared for takeoff and the airline is following the rules of the security agencies in the...
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Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Monday said he has been called for questioning by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on February 26 in connection with the Delhi excise policy scam case.The CBI had on Sunday deferred his questioning after he sought time from the agency citing the...
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Indian students being evacuated from Sumy last year
BJP Chief JP Nadda in Udupi. Karnataka goes to the polls around April-May. You all see Joe Biden on television and he still wears a mask because in US, only 76% of vaccination has been done. But here, I can see that nobody is wearing a mask and all are sitting close to each other...
17:03
PM Modi with the German Chancellor in 2022
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will pay a State visit to India on February 25 and 26, his first trip to the country more than a year after he took charge of the top post. Announcing the German chancellor's visit, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Monday that Scholz will be...
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A day after Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray dubbed Union Minister Amit Shah as Mogambo, an iconic villain from the 1980s blockbuster film 'Mr India', the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday centred its retort around the film's lead character's ability to disappear. The EC had, on...
16:29
US president Biden with Ukraine president Zelenskyy in Kyiv
US Pres Joe Biden makes surprise visit to Kyiv, Ukraine. Biden met Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The Russian Federation will surely lose. Putin and his entourage will be tried. Ukraine will get all weapons it needs. There will be no compromises, says the US President. Putin...
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Passengers carried by Indian domestic airlines during January 2023 were 125.42 lakhs, as against 64.08 lakhs during the corresponding period of the previous year, Directorate General of Civil Aviation data showed.It registered an annual growth of 95.72 per cent. In its 2022 Commercial...
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BREAKING: US President Joe Biden is in the Ukraine capital, Kyiv. Air raid sirens ring out across Ukraine. Air raid alerts were turned on February 20 across the country after Russian military aircraft took off from Belarus airfields.This is the US president's first visit to Ukraine amid the...
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Janata Dal-United (JDU) leader Upendra Kushwaha, who is at loggerheads with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, is all set to form a new political party in Bihar and an announcement for the same is likely to be made today afternoon in Patna. Kushwaha convened a two-day open session...
15:39
Tony Jesudasan, a key lieutenant of Anil Ambani's Reliance group and a high profile corporate communications and corporate affairs professional, died early on Monday morning. He was 71. Earlier this month, Jesudasan had suffered a heart attack just as he took a flight from Bhopal,...
15:21
Reacting to the raids by the Enforcement Directorate against Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh, senior party leader Jairam Ramesh on Monday said that these raids worked as a booster dose for Congress and prompt them to be more aggressive against the Prime Minister's vendetta politics. I...
15:11
The name 'Shivsena' now belongs to the Eknath Shinde faction
Terming the Election Commission's decision that the Eknath Shinde-led faction is real Shiv Sena, Uddhav Thackeray on Monday demanded that the poll panel be dissolved. What was the need to give the decision in such a hurry, Thackeray said at a press conference at Sena Bhavan in Mumbai. We...
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Days ahead of the Congress' crucial plenary session, senior leader P Chidambaram on Monday said half of the CWC members should be elected as per the AICC constitution and batted for younger leaders' inclusion in the party's top decision-making body. In an exclusive interview with PTI,...
13:54
Major Beena Tiwari served as the medical officer in quake-hit Turkey
The Indian Army's medical team deployed under Operation Dost touched down in India on Monday at Ghaziabad's Hindon Airport after 12 days of the operation and treating over 3,500 patients in earthquake-hit Turkey. Major Beena Tiwari, the Indian Army Major who served as the Medical Officer in...
13:22
One of the 12 cheetahs at Kuno National Park
Twelve cheetahs brought from South Africa to the Kuno National Park (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh two days ago have been served their first meal in their new home, an official said on Monday. The seven male and five female felines, brought as part of the Indian government's ambitious cheetah...
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Prime accused Sahil Gehlot
Nikki Yadav's live-in partner Sahil Gehlot during interrogation has claimed that his initial plan was to show the murder as a road accident, Delhi Police sources said on Monday. Sahil further claimed that he had decided to push Nikki out of the car. However the plan could not be...
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Nikki Yadav
The Delhi Police took Sahil Gehlot, accused of killing his first wife Nikki Yadav and keeping her body in a refrigerator, to the Arya Samaj Mandir in Greater Noida where they had solemnised the marriage, sources said on Sunday. According to the sources, police have recorded the...
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The Gujarat government on Monday told the Supreme Court that it will press for a death penalty to 11 convicts whose sentences in the 2002 Godhra train burning case were commuted to life imprisonment by the state's high court. A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and...
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The Haryana police has formed an SIT to probe allegations of negligence against its Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) team of Ferozepur-Jhirka in connection with the Bhiwani incident where charred bodies of two Rajasthan men were found in a car recently. The charred bodies of Nasir (25) and...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde called a meeting of Shiv Sena MLAs at Balasaheb Bhavan on Monday. This meeting has been called after Election Commission allotted the party name Shiv Sena and the symbol Bow and Arrow to Shinde's faction. Speaking to media persons, Shiv Sena MLA...
11:56
The lawyer of the Uddhav Thackeray faction mentions a plea before the Supreme Court, challenging the Election Commission's move to allot the party name Shiv Sena and the symbol Bow and Arrow to the faction led by Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde. Supreme Court asks the lawyer to mention it...
10:42
Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has called an important meeting today at the party headquarters in Mumbai, officials said.He is likely to discuss the future course of action after the election commission recognized the Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde-led faction as the...
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KC Venugopal
Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal on Monday while reflecting on the need for Opposition unity said that Congress alone cannot fight the Narendra Modi government in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.He emphasized that to minimize the chances of splitting of anti-BJP votes, the unity of the opposition...
09:37
The sports department of Meghalaya denied permission to the BJP to host an election rally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the PA Sangma Stadium in Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma's home constituency of South Tura, citing construction work at the venue. The BJP, fuming over the development,...
09:23
Few houses were damaged due to a landslide at Rezin, Gagangeer area of Sonamarg in Ganderbal district yesterday. Residents were moved to safe locations. No loss of life reported. Visuals from the spot this morning.
09:17
A Japanese tourist has complained to Goa Police that a gang of persons posing as cops robbed him of his credit and debit cards, mobile phone as well as Indian and Japanese currency during his vacation in the coastal state in December last year, an official said. The robbers used the debit...
09:05
Unidentified miscreants pelted stones at the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi's residence in the national capital, damaging windows on Sunday evening, the police said. The incident occurred at Owaisi's residence at Ashoka Road area in New Delhi at around...
08:42
India's climate change documentary All That Breathes on Sunday lost the best documentary award to Navalny at the 2023 BAFTA Film Awards. Directed by Daniel Roher, Navalny details the 2020 assassination attempt on Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny who was poisoned...
08:27
The Gujarat government-appointed Special Investigation Team has found in its preliminary probe that corrosion on nearly half of the wires on a cable and welding of old suspenders with new ones were some of the major faults that led to the collapse of the suspension bridge in Morbi last year in...
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