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The Supreme Court will deliver its verdict on Thursday on a batch of pleas relating to the tussle between former Chief Ministers O Panneerselvam and Edappadi K Palaniswami over AIADMK leadership. On January 11, the apex court bench reserved its verdict on a batch of pleas relating to the...
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Just a day after a 5-year-old boy was mauled to death by a pack of stray dogs in Hyderabad, another incident has come to the fore where a 4-year-old boy was attacked by stray dogs where he sustained minor injuries. The incident took place in Maruti Nagar Colony,...
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At least seven flights were cancelled across the Northeast on Wednesday due to poor visibility and bad weather conditions, a senior official of the Airports Authority of India said. The flights from Guwahati to Tezu and Tezu to Guwahati were cancelled due to low visibility, mainly over...
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A fire broke out in a bus belonging to the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport undertaking in suburban Andheri on Wednesday evening, in the third such incident this year, an official said. No one was injured in the accident, said the official. The fire started around 6.55 pm when...
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The police arrested three men on charges of killing a cow in Bhopal, an official said on Wednesday, as local authorities demolished illegal constructions at the house of one of them and moved to invoke the stringent National Security Act against the trio. The alleged incident occurred on...
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Amit Shah
Union Home Minister Amit Shah is likely to meet former Janata Dal-United leader Upendra Kushwaha, who recently launched a new political party 'Rashtriya Lok Janata Dal'. According to party sources, the speculation has intensified regarding the home minister meeting Kushwaha as the former...
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A vast portion of an outdoor opencast mine in China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region collapsed on Wednesday, killing at least two persons and leaving 53 missing, local officials said.The incident happened in Inner Mongolia autonomous region's Alshaa Left Banner and the authorities were at work...
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Bihar deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav
Bihar deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday asserted that he was in no hurry' to replace his boss Nitish Kumar, rubbishing speculations that his Rashtriya Janata Dal wanted to elbow out the ageing Janata Dal-United leader. Yadav, who is in his early 30s, also deftly rebuffed...
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Trains services were delayed for half an hour on Wednesday morning on Blue Line following a technical glitch in a train at Uttam Nagar Metro Station, the DMRC said in an official statement. According to...
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Maoist leader Jalumuri Srinu Babu alias Sunil, prime accused in the 2018 twin murder case of the then Araku Telugu Desam Party MLA and a former legislator, has been arrested from a forest area along the Andhra Pradesh-Odisha border following a shootout, the police said. The Maoist top gun,...
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The Mumbai police has contacted Bollywood actor Alia Bhatt after she took to social media to complain about paparazzi invading her privacy. The actor, however, did not lodge any formal complaint, said an official in Mumbai on Wednesday. In her Instagram post, Alia had lashed out at...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday continued his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his relationship with the Adani group, claiming that whenever the PM goes abroad, the conglomerate gets a gift. Addressing an election rally in Shillong, Gandhi asserted that the group has...
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If the prevailing high temperatures continue through March, then the rabi wheat crop will be impacted and yields will at best be on a par, or even lesser marginally, than last year's low, warns a report. In Uttar Pradesh, which accounts for around 30 per cent of wheat production, the...
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The Uttar Pradesh government in its budget presented on Wednesday allocated Rs 2,500 crore for the preparations of Maha Kumbh Mela 2025 against Rs 621.55 crore for the financial year 2022-23.The religious fair is held after every 12 years. A state government official said the work on...
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A 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck western Nepal Wednesday afternoon.The Nepal Earthquake Monitoring Centre said the quake struck at 1.45 pm and it was recorded in the Bajura district, 450 km west of Kathmandu.However, there were no reports of any damage from the earthquake yet, officials...
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Popular American boy band Backstreet Boys, known for their songs such as Quit Playing Games, As Long As You Love Me and Shape of My Heart, on Wednesday announced that they are set to return to India after 13 years with their DNA World Tour in May. 'The Backstreet Boys: DNA World Tour' will...
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Citing expunction of remarks and suspension of an MP, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday alleged that the government has made Parliament a rubber stamp with members not allowed to raise voice of the people and demand a JPC probe into the Adani-Hindeburg issue. He...
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The United States embassy in south London was on Wednesday briefly placed under lockdown as a suspicious package was investigated by armed security officials.Embassy staff within the sprawling complex in the Nine Elms area of the city were asked to stay indoors as security measures were...
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India and China on Wednesday discussed proposals for disengagement in the remaining friction points along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh in an open and constructive manner and agreed to hold the next round of military talks at an early date. The two sides discussed...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party was like a class bully that respects no one as it thinks that it knows everything.Addressing his first election rally in Shillong, Gandhi also attacked the Trinamool Congress, alleging that the party was fighting...
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Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar said on Wednesday that the Bharatiya Janata Party's attempt to form a government with his nephew and NCP leader Ajit Pawar had one benefit as it ended the President's Rule in Maharashtra in 2019. His remarks prompted Deputy Chief Minister...
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A metropolitan court in Delhi on Wednesday remanded Sahil Gehlot, accused of killing his secretly married wife Nikki Yadav and stuffing her body into a fridge, in 12-day judicial custody. Meanwhile, the Delhi Police have invoked fresh charges against Gehlot and others in the case, his...
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The Congress on Wednesday hit out at External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, calling him a failed minister and alleging that his remarks on the China issue have demeaned the valour of India's armed forces. Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate also alleged that foreign policy has...
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The Ministry of Education has directed all states and Union Territories to fix the minimum age for admission in Class 1 as six years, officials said on Wednesday.According to the new National Education Policy (NEP), the foundational stage consists of five years of learning opportunities for all...
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The domestic equity market suffered losses on Wednesday, tracking weak global cues. Growing concerns over the anticipation that US Federal Reserve might keep interest rates higher for longer kept investors on their toes.The key indices in the domestic market -- BSE Sensex went down 927 points and...
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Supreme Court refuses to stay Election Commission's order recognising the Eknath Shinde faction as the real Shiv Sena. The SC says, We cannot stay an order at this stage. The SC clarifies that the Uddhav Thackeray camp can pursue other remedies of law if any action is taken which is not...
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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and a former contender for the party president's post, tweets this image with Mallikarjun Kharge and Mukul Wasnik, saying, Touchdown Dimapur Airport, Nagaland. With our leader @incIndia President @kharge ji and my friend & senior colleague @mukulwasnik ji. While...
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The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday directed clock manufacturing firm Oreva Group, the company that maintained the Morbi suspension bridge which collapsed killing 135 people in October last year, to pay Rs 10 lakh as interim compensation to the kin of each deceased and Rs 2 lakh to each injured...
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Reacting to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's remark that a Congress-led alliance would come to power at the Centre after 2024 elections, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said that his party accepts Congress' leadership.Congress is a big party, let them lead. We...
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India continues to remain a relative bright spot in the world economy, and will alone contribute 15 per cent of the global growth in 2023, International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Kristalina Georgieva said. While digitisation pulled out the world's fifth-largest economy from...
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Salary is the most important factor for job selection for more than 60 per cent of respondents, according to a survey by property consultant CBRE India. Trust in the company's management has also become an important criterion while selecting a job, it added. CBRE has come out with...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar for three days beginning Thursday during which he will participate in an interactive session in Bengaluru, a tribal congregation in Satna and address a meet of farmers and labourers in Patna, officials said on...
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McKinsey and Co plans to eliminate thousands of positions, adding the consulting giant to a wave of companies that are cutting corporate jobs, according to The Wall Street Journal.The firm, which is known for helping companies streamline their operations, could shed as many as 2,000 jobs in what...
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For people previously infected with Covid-19, their risk of hospitalisation or death is 88 per cent lower for at least 10 months compared to those who had not been previously infected, according to a study published in The Lancet journal. The analysis also suggests that the level and...
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Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday congratulated the people of Delhi over AAP councilor Shelly Oberoi's win in the mayoral poll and hit out at the BJP saying the public won and the goons were defeated. Oberoi defeated BJP councilor Rekha Gupta by 34 votes in the election to the top...
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The British government has strongly defended the BBC and its editorial freedom in Parliament after the Income-Tax department's survey operations on the United Kingdom-headquartered media corporation's New Delhi and Mumbai offices over three days last week.A Foreign, Commonwealth and Development...
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Shelly Oberoi flashes the victory sign
Aam Aadmi Party's Shelly Oberoi elected as the new mayor of Delhi. Voting began today to elect the new mayor of Delhi as the municipal House met after three previous failed attempts to hold the election to the top post. BJP MPs Meenakashi Lekhi and Hans Raj Hans were among the...
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A metropolitan court in New Delhi today remanded Sahil Gehlot, accused of killing his girlfriend Nikki Yadav and stuffing her body into a fridge, to 12-day judicial custody. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Archana Beniwal passed the order. Earlier on Monday, a court had extended the...
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Indian-American tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has launched his 2024 presidential bid with a promise to put merit back and end dependence on China, becoming the second community member to enter the Republican Party's presidential primary after Nikki Haley. Ramaswamy, 37, whose...
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The Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday presented a Rs 6,90,242.43 crore Budget, including new schemes worth Rs 32,721.96 crore, for the financial year 2023-24. The total receipt is estimated at Rs 6,83,292.74 crore, which includes revenue receipts of Rs 5,70,865.66 crore and capital...
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Adani Power has clarified the stock exchanges that it has called off its plan to acquire a coal plant project in central India and there is no further development in this matter.In August 2022, Adani Power agreed to take control of DB Power at an enterprise value of Rs 70.2 billion ($850...
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The Mumbai Police has contacted actor Alia Bhatt and asked her to file a complaint in the matter where a photographer clicked her private pictures posted them online. The actor has told police that her PR team is in touch with the concerned portal.
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A day after Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut alleged his life was under threat, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday said police will check the claim and act accordingly. We will also check if this (Raut's claim) is based on facts or is a stunt, Shinde said. Raut on...
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Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone has repaid Rs 1,500 crore loan and will repay another Rs 1,000 crore in commercial papers due in March. The Adani Group firm paid Rs 1,000 crore to SBI Mutual Fund and Rs 500 crore to Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund on commercial papers that matured on...
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A packet left behind by a passenger at a bus terminal in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur triggered panic among people on Wednesday morning, officials said. Bomb and dog squads were summoned after the packet was found lying unattended. However, nothing suspicious was found in it, they...
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Shares of Adani Group firms fell sharply in morning trade on Wednesday in line with an overall weak trend in the equity market. Adani Enterprises stock tumbled 9.31 per cent on the BSE. Shares of Adani Power declined 5 per cent, Adani Transmission fell 5 per cent, Adani Total Gas (5...
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A memorial to celebrate the life and works of renowned Gujarati journalist and columnist Kanti Bhatt was inaugurated Tuesday at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in the Khanpur area of Ahmedabad.Gujarati author and playwright Madhu Rye unveiled the Kanti Bhatt Memorial and Reading Room that has around 1,600...
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Voting began on Wednesday to elect the new mayor of Delhi as the municipal House met after three previous failed attempts to hold the election to the top post. BJP MPs Meenakshi Lekhi and Hans Raj Hans were among the firsts to cast their votes. The proceedings of the municipal House...
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will take a call on listing a plea to allow girls to sit for exams in Karnataka government schools while wearing the hijab. Following the apex court's split verdict on the issue of the ban on wearing the headscarf, girls in hijab are not being...
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BJP MP Varun Gandhi on Wednesday said political parties have encouraged an entitlement mentality and created a cradle-to-grave welfare state by offering freebies. Gandhi, who has been voicing concern about various governance issues, said there is a need to have a conversation about...
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Union minister Anurag Thakur has said the Election Commission's decision to recognise the Eknath Shinde-led faction as the real Shiv Sena has made things crystal clear and former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray should now understand who actually has the support of party...
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The devastating earthquake in Turkey
A leading weather scientist and geological expert has warned that the Indian tectonic plate is moving about 5 cm every year, leading to accumulation of stress along the Himalayas and increasing the possibility of major seismic events -- earthquakes -- in the coming days. Speaking to...
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In the wake of EAM Dr S Jaishankar's interview, where he talks, among other matters, about his father K Subrahmanyam, here is a selection of interviews with and columns on one of India's greatest security gurus. Read: The legend that is K SubrahmanyamKS was the doyen of strategic...
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In the internet age, instant reaction seems to be mandatory. Unfortunately, I found out about Tony Jesudasan's death after a day. Too late for a proper obituary which had already been written by better pens. In my case, perhaps one need not call it an obit, but a peep into the by-lanes of...
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Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia reacts to MHA sanctions: The more AAP will grow, the more cases will be filed against its leaders. Filing false cases against one's rival is a sign of a weak person.This morning, the Ministry of Home Affairs has given sanction to prosecute Delhi Deputy...
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In a shocking incident, the bodies of a newly married couple were found just before their wedding reception in Chhattisgarh's capital Raipur on Tuesday evening.The incident took place at Brijnagar under Tikrapara police station limits, Tikrapara Station House officer (SHO) Amit Beriya said....
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India is the United States' number one priority, US Visa officials said while adding that after the COVID pandemic, there has been a rise of around 36 per cent in visa processing across the country.While addressing a media interaction organised by Foundation for India and Indian Diaspora Studies...
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Seattle has become the first US city to outlaw caste discrimination after its local council passed a resolution, moved by an Indian-American politician and economist, to add caste to its non-discrimination policy. The resolution moved by Kshama Sawant, was approved by the Seattle City...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will be addressing his maiden election rally in poll-bound Meghalaya on Wednesday.The former Congress president's rally will be held at Malki Ground in Shillong. It will be Rahul Gandhi's first public appearance after Bharat Jodo Yatra. Pertinent to mention, the...
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Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP and former bureaucrat Jawhar Sircar called Prime Minister Narendra Modi asura while hitting out at External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar who on Tuesday had said that his father, Dr K Subrahmanyam was removed as Secretary of Defence Production by then Prime...
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Swami Prasad Maurya
Amid a controversy over Swami Prasad Maurya's remarks on the Ramcharitmanas, senior Samajwadi Party leader Shivpal Singh Yadav on Tuesday said he has been instructed not to indulge in such religious issues.All of us have said that we want to stay away from religious and communal issues. Swami...
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JUST IN: Ministry of Home Affairs has given sanction to prosecute Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia under the Prevention of Corruption Act in the 'Feedback Unit' alleged snooping case.More details awaited. -- ANI
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Ex-servicemen call on TN Governor RN Ravi over the killing of jawan/K Annamalai/Twitter
A group of ex-servicemen on Tuesday called on Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi over the killing of an Army jawan, allegedly by a DMK councillor and shared their anguish with him, the Raj Bhavan said. They also flagged the lukewarm response of the state law enforcement to the issue, the...
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Lalu Prasad Yadav
Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, who recently returned to India after a successful kidney transplant surgery in Singapore last December, will be requested to virtually address the Grand Alliance mega rally in Purnea on February 25, party state president Jagdanand Singh...
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The Dalai Lama, spiritual head of the Tibetan people/PTI Photo
Under the presidency of the European Research Council, some thirty senators from different political formations have created an interparliamentary group to support Tibet's autonomy from China, reported Europe Press. The alliance will be formally established this...
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