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NSA Ajit Doval on Monday held wide-ranging talks with his Iranian counterpart Ali Shamkhani in Tehran focusing on economic, political and security ties between the two countries. The National Security Advisor is on a day-long visit to Iran. The two officials discussed economic,...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday hit out at the Congress after its leader Priyank Kharge called Narendra Modi nalayak, with ruling party president J P Nadda saying opposition leaders have been using such language against the prime minister to please their masters, a reference to Sonia and...
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Madhya Pradesh Congress president Kamal Nath on Monday asserted he is proud to be a Hindu, but he is not a fool and claimed Indian culture is facing attack and the Constitution going into wrong hands, in remarks aimed at the Bharatiya Janata Party in a state where assembly polls are due by the...
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Lending support to same-sex marriage, actor Kangana Ranaut has said people's preferences do not matter when their hearts are one.The National Award winner further described marriage as a bond of love.Marriage is a bond of love. When people's hearts are one... what their preference is, what can we...
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The Rajasthan high court on Monday granted bail to self-styled godman Asaram in a case pertaining to furnishing a forged RTI reply in the Supreme Court in support of his bail plea.Granting bail to Asaram, Justice Kuldeep Mathur of the high court's Jodhpur bench observed that no direct role was...
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Meta-owned WhatsApp banned over 4.7 million accounts in March, higher than the number of accounts it barred in the preceding month, and it received and complied with three orders from the Grievance Appellate Committee during March. WhatsApp banned over 4.5 million accounts in February, 2.9...
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Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal V R Chaudhari arrived in Colombo on Monday on a four-day official visit to Sri Lanka during which he will meet the country's political and military leadership and discuss ways for enhancing bilateral defence cooperation, amid China's growing influence in the...
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Jock Zonfrillo, judge on MasterChef Australia, celebrity chef and author, has died. He was 46.In a statement shared on his official Instagram account, Zonfrillo's family said the Scottish restaurateur died in Melbourne on Sunday.With completely shattered hearts and without knowing how we can...
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GST collection grew by 12 per cent in April to Rs 1.87 lakh crore, the highest monthly mop-up since the rollout of the indirect tax regime. The gross GST revenue collected in the month of April 2023 is Rs 1,87,035 crore of which CGST is Rs 38,440 crore, SGST is Rs 47,412 crore, IGST...
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Keralites have every right to state that The Kerala Story is a misrepresentation of our reality, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said on Monday, stressing that he was not calling for a ban on the film as freedom of expression does not cease to be valuable just because it can be...
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Intermittent snowfall and rain continued at the Himalayan temples of Badrinath and Kedarnath in Uttarakhand on Monday, prompting authorities to issue an appeal to Chardham pilgrims to proceed on their journey only after taking necessary precautions. In view of the weather, the...
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A farmer in Nashik in Maharashtra protested the loss he suffered due to unseasonal rains by crushing 200-300 quintals of onions under a tractor and then performing funerary rituals. The video of the act of farmer Yogesh Sonawane, a resident of Dangsaundane village in Satana taluka, went viral on...
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Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh said on Monday that all activity in the sport had come to a standstill in the last four months due to protests by the country's top wrestlers. The WFI chief added that he is ready to be hanged but wrestling activity,...
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SpiceJet on Monday said it plans to operate more flights from Saudi Arabia to different Indian cities to bring back people evacuated from Sudan under 'Operation Kaveri'. The no-frills airline operated a flight from Jeddah to Kochi on April 30 and brought back 184 Indians under Operation...
16:25
United States President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris over the weekend met top 150 donors, including an Indian-American entrepreneur, to develop a successful strategy to raise funds for their 2024 re-election campaign, participants of the meeting said. During the event, Biden...
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National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Monday attacked the government, saying it is unfortunate that G20 meetings were scheduled in Ladakh and Kashmir but not in Jammu, and slammed BJP leaders for not raising the issue. He also opposed the settlement of non-locals in Jammu...
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Days after Congress president M Mallikarjun Kharge's venomous snake barb at Prime Minister, his son and former minister Priyank Kharge, has called Narendra Modi 'nalayak'. Priyank, who is seeking reelection from Chittapur in Kalaburagi district in the May 10 Assembly polls, said the Prime...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday held a massive roadshow in Karnataka's Gubbi, waving at a large enthusiastic crowd along the route, as he sought people's support, ahead of the May 10 assembly polls in Karnataka.Shah, standing on a specially designed vehicle accompanied by Tumakur Member...
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Police stopped a concert of Oscar-winning musician A R Rahman in Maharashtra's Pune city as it went on after the 10 pm deadline, an official said on Monday. After the concert was held in Pune on Sunday, a video went viral on social media platforms in which a...
15:31
Hitting out at the Prime Minister over his charge that he was abused 91 times, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said Narendra Modi should understand that the Karnataka election was not about him.Asking the Prime Minister to speak about the BJP government's work and future programmes for...
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The much-awaited survey of the other backward classes (OBCs) started across Odisha on Monday, an official said. The survey is being conducted by the Odisha State Commission for Backward Classes in both online and offline mode and will continue till May 27.It is being carried out in...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday launched an indefinite dharna near Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's official residence following a controversy over the Rs 45-crore renovation on the premises.The BJP urged the chief minister to open the gates of the 6, Flagstaff Road, Civil Lines...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Monday paid tributes to martyrs of the Samyukta Maharashtra movement, on the occasion of the 63rd anniversary of the state's formation.Shinde visited the martyrs' memorial at Hutatma Chowk in south Mumbai and offered floral tributes.Earlier, Shiv Sena...
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The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear on May 8 a plea challenging the Bihar government's decision to prematurely release former MP Anand Mohan who was serving life term in the 1994 murder case of then Gopalganj district magistrate G Krishnaiah. A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud...
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Price of commercial LPG, one which is used by business establishments like hotels and restaurants, on Monday was cut by a steep Rs 171.5 per cylinder and rates of jet fuel (ATF) were reduced by by 2.45 per cent on softening international oil prices. A 19-kg commercial LPG now costs Rs...
12:48
As The Kerala Story rakes up a political debate in the state over its factual basis and the issue of freedom of expression, a Muslim lawyer, who remarried his wife recently under SMA for financial security of their daughters, offered Rs 11 lakh for proof of 32 women from Kerala who converted and...
12:14
India's border with Nepal will be sealed on Tuesday, 48 hours before urban local body polls Maharajganj, to prevent anti-social elements from crossing the boundary and vitiating the election atmosphere, officials here said on Monday. The movement at transit points will be stopped on Tuesday...
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A 21-year-old man died of burn injuries after he accidentally fell into a cauldron of hot rasam in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvallur district, police said on Monday. The victim is a college student who was working part-time in a catering firm. He was serving food to guests at a marriage...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party today promised the implementation of Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the poll-bound Karnataka in its manifesto.BJP's national president JP Nadda releases party's manifesto in Bengaluru.The saffron party said it will implement Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in Karnataka...
11:06
Supreme Court's five-judge Constitution bench has held that it can dissolve a marriage on the ground of irretrievable breakdown of marriage. Supreme Court said that it can invoke special power granted to it under Article 143 of the Constitution and that the mandatory waiting period of...
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Three workers were injured after a fire broke out at a polyester yarn manufacturing unit in Daman Union Territory, a fire official said Monday. The blaze erupted late Sunday night at Rawalwasia Yarn Dyeing company located in Dabhel...
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Maoists on Monday torched two tipper trucks engaged in construction work in the Ittapara area of Sukma district in Chhattisgarh, said SP Sukma, Sunil Sharma. The incident took place in the jurisdiction of the Phulbagdi police station. Upon receiving the...
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India on Monday reported 4,282 coronavirus infections, while the number of active cases dropped by over 1,750 to stand at 47,246, according to the latest Union health ministry data. The death toll has increased to 5,31,547 with 14 more fatalities, which includes six reconciled by Kerala, the...
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Paraguayans, on Sunday, elected Santiago Pena, a 44-year-old conservative economist, as their new president, The New York Times reported. This keeps the South American nation in control of the right-wing Colorado Party that has run the country for all but five of the past...
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After getting inputs from intelligence agencies, the Centre has blocked 14 messenger mobile applications that were largely used in Jammu and Kashmir for spreading terror, sources said. According to sources, these mobile applications were used by terrorists in Kashmir to...
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There will be no movement on the Indian stock exchanges on Monday as they will be closed on account of Maharashtra Day. Normal trading activities will resume on Tuesday. On Friday, the domestic stock extended gains for the seventh consecutive session, tracking strong...
09:39
A fire broke out inside the food court of a private university in Greater Noida early on Monday, officials said. No person was injured in the fire that was reported from the Galgotias University at 3.24 am, chief fire officer Pradeep Kumar Choubey said. Upon receiving information, three...
09:38
Two more bodies were recovered on Monday from the debris of a two-storey building which collapsed in Bhiwandi town of Maharashtra's Thane district, raising the death toll to eight, officials said. The work of clearing the debris was underway for the third day, they said. The building,...
09:05
Petroleum and oil marketing companies have slashed the price of commercial LPG cylinders by Rs 171.50 with immediate effect, according to sources on Monday. After the move, the latest retail price of a 19 kg LPG cylinder in Delhi now stands at Rs 1,856.50. ...
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Two persons have been injured after a massive fire broke out on Pune-Satara Road and spread to three different shops, fire department officials said. According to officials, the fire broke out near Dmart around 2.30am, on Pune-Satara Road. On...
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Union Minister G Kishan Reddy has been admitted to the critical cardiac unit at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in the national capital after complaining of chest tightness on Sunday night, sources said. According to sources, the minister was admitted to the...
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As Operation Kaveri is underway, the Kochi-bound ninth flight departed from Jeddah in Saudi Arabia with 186 passengers. 9th outbound flight departs from Jeddah. 186 passengers onboard this flight are flying to Kochi, ministry of external affairs spokesperson Arindam...
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