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A government employee was arrested on Thursday for uploading a hateful post on his social media account in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. Amrik Singh, a resident of Beoli village and a Class IV employee in the office of chief education officer Doda, was booked for uploading...
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Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Thursday asked his party workers to prepare for the coming civic elections in Maharashtra. He was speaking at a function to mark the 17th foundation day of his party in Thane. Addressing the large gathering, he said MNS workers should...
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An assistant sub-inspector of the Mumbai police has been dismissed from service on administrative grounds, officials said on Thursday. ASI Sunil Toke, who was dismissed earlier this month, had filed a Public Interest Litigation in the past alleging large-scale corruption in the traffic...
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Anupam Kher at the Versova crematorium
Family members and friends bid a tearful adieu to actor Satish Kaushik, who passed away following a heart attack, on Thursday. The last rites of the multi-faceted artiste were held at the Versova crematorium in Mumbai around 8.30 pm in the presence of his family members and close friends,...
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The state Election Commission of Nagaland on Thursday announced that it will hold polls to 39 urban local bodies (ULB) after almost two decades on May 16 with 33 per cent reservation of seats for women, one of the contentious issues blamed for the situation. The newly formed Nagaland cabinet...
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Kerala which experienced extreme rain a few months ago is now battling severe heat conditions with the temperatures shooting up to unprecedented levels. The summer clock in the coastal state has just started ticking and already the daily heat index is showing an alarming...
21:25
BJP MLC Puttanna/ANI
Sitting BJP MLC Puttanna on Thursday tendered his resignation from the party citing personal reasons. In his letter to the Speaker of the legislative council, Puttanna said, I am a member of Vidhan Parishad from the teachers' field and am resigning from the membership of Vidhan Parishad due...
20:57
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met Governor CV Ananda Bose at the Raj Bhavan on Thursday, officials said. The two leaders held a closed-door meeting for about 40 minutes, they said. It was a courtesy meeting. There is nothing to read into it, an official said. Banerjee...
20:32
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Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance re-launched the 50-year-old iconic beverage brand Campa Cola in a new contemporised avatar as it looks to ramp up its own consumer goods offering to take on competition from Adani, ITC and Unilever. In January this year, Reliance Consumer Products Ltd,...
20:09
Former Delhi deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Thursday penned an open letter on 'politics of education' vs 'politics of jail' while in custody alleging that BJP's problem with politics of education is that it builds nations, not leaders. He wrote, It is much easier to throw political...
19:50
Imran Khan
A Pakistani high court on Thursday quashed the federal government's ban on the broadcast of the speeches and press meetings of ousted prime minister Imran Khan from satellite channels. The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority banned the speeches of the chief of the Pakistan...
19:25
The rupee pared its initial gains and settled for the day lower by 7 paise at 82.02 (provisional) against the US currency on Thursday tracking a muted trend in domestic equities. At the interbank foreign exchange market, the rupee opened at 81.93 against the greenback and closed at 82.02...
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The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday arrested Aam Aadmi Party leader and former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia on money laundering charges in connection with alleged irregularities in the Delhi excise policy, official sources said. The 51-year-old was placed under arrest under the...
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As much as 50 km of metro network will be added in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region in 2023-24, Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Thursday. He made the announcement while presenting the 2023-24 Budget in the state assembly. Projects including the Mumbai Metro...
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Chirag Paswan meets migrant labour from Bihar, Chennai, March 6, 2023/LJP4India/Twitter
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal-United on Thursday charged the Bharatiya Janata Party with spreading rumours' of attacks on migrant workers in Tamil Nadu with an eye on electoral gains. JD-U national president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan also said that though his party did...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the third session of the National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in New Delhi on Friday in which stakeholders will share know-how and experiences as well as discuss the latest developments and trends in disaster risk reduction. The main...
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Ram Chandra Poudel of Nepali Congress was on Thursday elected as the third president of Nepal. Poudel, a common candidate of eight-party alliance that included Nepali Congress and the CPN-Maoist Center, received the vote of 214 lawmakers of parliament and 352 provincial assembly...
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Ranbir Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor-starrer Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar has earned Rs 15.73 crore in net box office collection on the first day of its release, the makers said Thursday. Directed by Luv Ranjan, the romantic comedy released in theatres on Wednesday. It is produced by Luv Films...
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Atiq Ahmed
Former Bharatiya Janata Party MP Harinarayan Rajbhar on Thursday said gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed should be brought out of jail and killed in an encounter, adding that the gates of heaven will open for the policeman who does so. The provocative remark comes days after Ahmed's two...
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Snapping its three-day gaining streak, the 30-share BSE Sensex on Thursday opened strong but came under severe selling pressure to close 541.81 points or 0.90 per cent lower at 59,806.28. Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty declined 164.80 points or 0.93 per cent to 17,589.60. M&M was...
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AAP MLAs Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj take oath as Delhi ministers. Newly appointed Delhi minister Atishi allotted Education, PWD, Power and Tourism portfolios; Saurabh Bharadwaj gets Health, Water and Industries and Urban Development. They were sworn in in the presence of Delhi LG VK Saxena and...
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Top BRS leader K T Rama Rao on Thursday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP-led Centre, accusing it of crony capitalism and misusing agencies such as the Enforcement Directorate to harass opposition leaders. Rama Rao, who alleged that the central agencies...
15:53
Rahul Gandhi at Cambridge university
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday lashed out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, and said that he feels pity for the leadership of Congress.Rahul Gandhi is talking abroad because nobody listens to him in this country. He spoke such childish things that bowed the...
15:22
Karnataka CM Basavraj Bommai
A team of Election Commission officials led by the Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Thursday arrived in the city to assess the readiness for assembly elections in the state. The team comprising election commissioners Anup Chandra Pandey and Arun Goel is on a three-day visit to...
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BRS MLC K Kavitha
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC and Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao's daughter K Kavitha on Thursday said that a hunger strike will be held in the national capital on March 10 and that 18 political parties have said that they will participate in the protest launched to seek...
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Maha finance minister Devendra Fadnavis with CM Shinde
Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Ajit Pawar on Thursday alleged that a scam of Rs 500 crore took place in the state Information and Publicity Department during the tenure of the government led by Devendra Fadnavis. Government officials gave approval to...
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Manik Saha
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Thursday asserted that the BJP-led government will never support demand like 'Tipraland' or 'Greater Tipraland', a day after a high-level meeting between Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Tipra Motha supremo Pradyot Kishore Debbarma in Agartala. The...
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday asserted that all parties contesting polls in the northeast must understand that they will have to eventually support the BJP. Talking to reporters in Guwahati, Sarma also said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the tallest leader...
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The post-mortem report of Satish Kaushik has revealed that the sudden demise of veteran Bollywood actor was caused due to a cardiac arrest.As per sources, according to the initial post-mortem report, no injury marks were found on the body.Cardiac arrest for the cause of death of Satish Kaushik....
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Satish Kaushik with his family
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday condoled the demise of veteran actor Satish Kaushik stating that he was a creative genius who won hearts.The Prime Minister further said that the Bollywood actor's works will continue to entertain audiences. Pained by the untimely demise of noted film...
12:56
The mortal remains of actor-director Satish Kaushik has left the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, where an autopsy had been conducted. The mortal remains of actor, who passed away at 66, following a heart attack on Wednesday, will be brought to Mumbai today for his final rites.Kaushik's body...
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Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party chief K Annamalai on Wednesday slammed Chief Minister MK Stalin for extending support to AAP leader Manish Sisodia, who is currently in jail in Delhi excise policy case. Stating that the TN CM is afraid that the Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation...
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Australia PM Anthony Albanese was treated to Holi celebrations in Ahmedabad. He arrived in India yesterday on his first state visit.
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Anita Sharma, on the death of her uncle, Satish Kaushik: Wish I could do something to breathe back life into him. He was still young, he has an elder sister and a brother. How will they survive? He made a place for himself in hearts of people in real life. God takes away good people...
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The Enforcement Directorate is questioning former Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia at Tihar Jail in connection with its ongoing probe in the Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22 money laundering case.On Tuesday, the ED questioned and recorded Sisodia's statement. The probe agency has also made a fresh...
11:22
PM Narendra Modi and Australian PM Anthony Albanese watched the game on the first day of the final Test match of the BorderGavaskar Trophy2023 today, at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad. The PMs left the stadium a while ago.
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A man transporting cows in a truck sustained injuries after being shot at by some unidentified people in Para area here, police said on Thursday. The incident took place on Wednesday, Station House Officer, Para police station, TB Singh said. Prem Singh (50) had 13 cows in his truck...
10:42
Janata Dal (United) dissolves its Nagaland state committee with immediate effect stating that Nagaland State president of the party gave a letter of support to the Nagaland CM without consulting the central party. The party calls it high indiscipline and arbitrary.
10:17
An encounter took place between security personnel and Naxalites in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district on Thursday morning, police officials said. No casualty was reported to security personnel but some Naxalites have sustained bullet injuries in the firefight, they added. A joint team...
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PM Modi and Australian PM Anthony Albanese are watching the game on the first day of the final Test match of the BorderGavaskarTrophy2023 at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad. They met India's captain Rohit Sharma and Australia's stand-in captain Steve Smith before the match.Modi and...
09:57
Satish Kaushik tweeted this image from Shabana Azmi and Javed Akhtar's Holi party: Colourful Happy Fun #Holi party at Janki Kutir Juhu by @Javedakhtarjadu @babaazmi @AzmiShabana @tanviazmi.. met the newly wed beautiful couple @alifazal9 @RichaChadha.. wishing Happy Holi to everyone #friendship...
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Satish Kaushik tweeted this image at the holi bash of Shabana Azmi and Javed Akhtar in Mumbai. His photos and videos at the party were doing the rounds on the internet. He came to Delhi on Wednesday to attend a close friend's Holi party when he reportedly fell sick.
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Bollywood actor and director Satish Chandra Kaushik's postmortem will be done at Deen Dayal Hospital in Delhi on Thursday. The Bollywood actor passed away earlier this morning and his body was bought to the hospital at 5:30 am and has been kept at the mortuary. Kaushik's postmortem...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday arrived at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad to watch the first day of the final Test match of Border Gavaskar Trophy 2023, with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel,...
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Anupam Kher tweeted this picture with Satish Kaushik
Film personalities such as Hansal Mehta, Soni Razdan, Manoj Bajpayee, and Kangana Ranaut on Thursday remembered veteran actor Satish Kaushik as a kind man and gentle soul whose love for life was irreplaceable. Kaushik, who donned multiple hats of a director, producer and screenwriter,...
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CTR Nirmal Kumar, Tamil Nadu BJP IT wing chief who recently joined AIADMK on Thursday said that no one poached him after resigning from the party.It was a hardcore decision to leave the party. No one has poached me. It is my decision, he said. Aligning to a party is not poaching or it is not a...
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Actor-filmmaker Satish Kaushik passed away following a heart attack early on Thursday morning, said his close friend and industry colleague Anupam Kher. He was 66.According to Kher, Kaushik was at a friend's home in Delhi when he complained of uneasiness.He felt uneasy and he told driver to take...
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DRI seizes 7.6 kg of heroin from a passenger at Mumbai airport/ANI Photo
Heroin worth Rs 53 crore has been recovered from a passenger at the Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International airport in Mumbai, an official from the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence said on Wednesday. DRI had received intelligence about drugs being smuggled by a traveller coming from the...
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A major fire broke out at a shopping complex in Odisha's Puri on Wednesday night, the police said. The blaze was first spotted at a garments shop on the first floor of Laxmi Market Complex in Marichikot Chhak on Grand Road around 9 pm, they said. Some of the 40 shops at the shopping...
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