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Five workers died due to suffocation while cleaning a septic tank in Maharashtra's Parbhani district, the police said on Friday. Another worker accompanying them was in serious condition and admitted to a hospital in the district, located around 500km from Mumbai, an official said. The...
23:35
The West Bengal government on Friday formed a 14-member committee to explore the possibility of coming up with a diploma course in medicine with three years of classroom and practical training, a senior official said. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had on Thursday proposed the introduction...
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A special PMLA court in Mumbai on Friday granted bail to businessman Haroun Yusuf, arrested in 2019 in connection with a money laundering case also involving late gangster and drug smuggler Iqbal Mirchi, holding he had no knowledge regarding the latter's source of money. The Enforcement...
22:56
An eight-year-old schoolgirl died after allegedly being run over by a speeding jeep of a Congress leader's son in the Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh, the police said on Friday. The accused was identified as Tushar Chauhan son of Congress leader Naresh Chauhan who unsuccessfully contested...
22:34
A firing incident was reported outside Islamabad high court as former Prime Minister Imran Khan awaits safe passage, Dawn.com reported. Confirming reports of the firing incident, Islamabad police said there were no casualties. All policemen were safe. Search teams...
22:05
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Linda Yaccarino, the chair of global advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal, has been named by Elon Musk as the chief executive of Twitter. Last month, Yaccarino interviewed Musk onstage at an advertising event in Miami. Earlier on Thursday, Musk said he had selected a chief...
21:41
Tamil Nadu Governor has issued a clarification over an alleged fake information pertaining to action under National Security Act against an individual from Bihar. The governor has not approved any National Security Act against any individual himself. We request the citizens not to...
21:29
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Two children and a woman have died after the battery of an e-rickshaw exploded inside their rented accommodation in the Niwazpurwa area in Lucknow, the police said on Friday. The e-rickshaw driver's wife was sleeping in the house along with her daughter Siya (8), sons 3-year-old Kunj and...
21:23
Superstar Ajay Devgn is set to collaborate with filmmaker Vikas Bahl for a supernatural thriller film, the makers announced on Friday. The untitled feature will be produced by Devgn, Kumar Mangat Pathak and Abhishek Pathak under the banner Ajay Devgn Ffilm and Panorama Studios, respectively,...
21:13
Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her daughter and AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra arrived in Shimla on Friday on a private visit. They were welcomed by Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu at Kalyani helipad in the Chhabra suburb of the city. The chief minister...
20:45
The Reserve Bank of India on Friday said it has imposed a penalty of Rs 2.92 crore on Canara Bank for violation of various norms, including linking interest rates to external benchmark, and opening savings accounts of ineligible entities. The Reserve Bank of India conducted a statutory...
20:34
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The Gujarat Anti- Terrorist Squad has seized heroin worth Rs 217 crore from Rajkot district and arrested a Nigerian national for alleged smuggling, an official said on Friday. The ATS had detained the man a few days ago on suspicion that he had recently smuggled heroin into the state through...
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Nana Patole
Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole on Friday met former party chief Rahul Gandhi and is learnt to have discussed the political situation in the state in the wake of the Supreme Court judgement on last year's political crisis that led to the fall of the MVA government. A five-judge...
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A 17-year-old NEET aspirant from Bihar was found hanging from the ceiling fan in his room in Kota on Friday, the police said, in the third suspected suicide case within four days in the coaching hub. Navlesh, from Patna city, allegedly hanged himself in his PG accommodation in Krishna Vihar...
19:30
A special court here has allowed Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut, an accused in a money laundering case, to renew his diplomatic passport. Raut, who belongs to the Shiv Sena-UBT, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in July 2022 in the case. He is now out on bail. RN Rokade,...
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The Delhi police on Friday filed an over 500-page charge sheet against six people, including Sahil Gehlot who is accused of killing his girlfriend Nikki Yadav and stuffing her body in a fridge in southwest Delhi. Gehlot was arrested on February 14 while his father Virender Singh, cousins...
18:33
Three incidents of fire in two weeks in Shimla city have once again raised concern over safety in the Himachal Pradesh capital. Two shops, one house, and a Himachal Road Transport Corporation godown were gutted in a massive fire that broke out in Dhalli in the suburbs of Shimla around 12.05...
18:23
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday conducted searches at the premises of former Narcotics Control Bureau officer Sameer Wankhede after filing an FIR against him and four others for allegedly seeking Rs 25 crore bribe for not framing Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan in the...
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The Allahabad high court on Friday ordered authorities to determine the age of the Shivling-like structure inside the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi using modern technology. It set aside an October 14 order of the Varanasi district court that rejected a plea for scientific investigation,...
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The CBSE on Friday declared the Class 12 results with 87.33 per cent of students clearing the exam, a dip of 5.38 percentage points from last year. There will be no merit list to avoid unhealthy competition, the board announced. The board has also decided to scrap awarding first, second...
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BJP MP and senior lawyer Mahesh Jethmalani Friday made light of the Congress and its Maharashtra allies' claim of victory following the Supreme Court verdict on the political upheaval in the state last year, saying it amounted to these parties clutching at straws from...
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Over 100 people fell ill after eating at a wedding feast at a village in Rajasthan's Jhunjhunu district, health officials said on Friday. The suspected case of food poisoning took place at a wedding function in the Udaipurwati area on Thursday, they added. Until Friday morning, over a...
16:31
The Supreme Court said on Friday it may consider granting three more months to SEBI for concluding its probe into the allegations of stock price manipulation by the Adani group and lapses in regulatory disclosure, and listed a batch of PILs and plea by the market regulator on May...
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Jayant Patil with Sharad Pawar
NCP leader and former Maharashtra minister Jayant Patil on Friday did not appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) here for recording statement in the the alleged IL&FS money laundering case. The ED had summoned him on Friday. Patil, who heads the Maharashtra unit of the...
16:07
On the complaint of the protesting wrestlers, a Delhi Police team went to Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka and Haryana to collect all the evidence against Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.Several women wrestlers came out against the WFI chief, accusing him of...
15:54
Islamabad High Court grants two-week bail to Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan in corruption case. Imran Khan appeared before the Islamabad High Court on Friday for pre-arrest bail amid tight security as his party announced a rally on the occasion and asked followers to gather nearby...
15:45
Update: The Supreme Court on Friday sought replies of the West Bengal and Tamil Nadu governments on a plea of the producers of The Kerala Story challenging the ban in the two states. A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha questioned the West Bengal government...
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Update: The Maharashtra government has dropped all charges against former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh and revoked his suspension order issued in late 2021, an official said on Friday. At least four FIRs related to extortion were registered against Singh in Mumbai...
15:31
Maharashtra government drops all charges against former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh. The state government also quashed the suspension orders issued in December 2021 and said that he was on duty during the period of suspension.
15:17
A day before the counting of votes of the recently-concluded Assembly elections in Karnataka, the Janata Dal (Secular) national spokesperson Tanveer Ahmed on Friday said that they have already decided which party they would support in forming the government after the results are...
15:09
The Central Board of Secondary Education has declared the results for the CBSE Class 10 students. Of the total students who appeared for CBSE Class 10 board exam this year, 93.12 per cent have qualified. The overall pass percentage in Class 10 results this year is 93.12 per cent, which is...
15:01
Supreme Court issues notice to the West Bengal government on the plea of makers of the movie, 'The Kerala Story' challenging the decision of the government to ban the screening of the movie in the state. The Supreme Court also issues notice to Tamil Nadu on a de facto ban on the movie in the...
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Top leaders in the Congress' Rajasthan unit went into a huddle on Friday to chalk out a strategy to tackle the challenge thrown by Sachin Pilot, who has launched a foot march against corruption in the state. Senior party leaders, including the Congress' Rajasthan in-charge Sukhjinder Singh...
14:35
A team of Lahore police has left for Islamabad to arrest Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan in a number of cases registered against him in Punjab province, according to a media report on Friday. The police team is headed by the deputy inspector general (investigation), the...
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A city council in Sydney has cancelled a Khalistan propaganda event planned for next month due to security reasons, a media report said on Friday. Acting on security agencies' advice, permission for the event organised by the 'Sikhs For Justice' group in Blacktown City was revoked by...
13:29
The Delhi High Court on Friday directed certain media houses and social media platforms, including Twitter and Google, to block the links of news reports and videos claiming that a Muslim man allegedly forced a woman to convert to Islam. Justice Prathiba M Singh passed the order after...
12:44
NCP leader Ajit Pawar on Monday took a dig at Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde saying that he will not resign as Maharashtra Chief Minister on moral grounds following the Supreme Court verdict on last year's political crisis in the state and said the opposition MVA alliance will see what it...
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Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai on the results tomorrow: There is no chance of a hung Assembly. We are going to form the government comfortably. Let him (DK Shivakumar) be happy with his 141 seats till tomorrow. We will have a legislature party meeting to decide the CM's face, Bommai said.The...
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The Delhi Police says it has recorded the statement of WFI president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. The police have also asked for some documents from the WFI chief. Brij Bhushan denied the allegations levelled against him, the police said.A SIT has been formed with six police teams including...
11:51
The counting of votes polled for the May 10 Karnataka Assembly polls, which witnessed a fierce fight between archrivals BJP and the Congress, besides the JD(S) will be taken up on Saturday as the parties are waiting with bated breath to know their fate over the possibility of a hung...
11:42
Amid terror threats emerging ahead of the crucial G20 meeting, the top cop of the Kashmir Valley took a surprise round of the city during the night to check the preparedness of the police force and said night-and-day domination by security forces would be ensured to make the prestigious programme...
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Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) class 12 exam results announced. The overall pass percentage stands at 87.33%. Trivandrum region tops with 99.91 pass percentage. Girls outshine Boys by 6.01% with 90.68 pass percentage. CBSE will not award first, second and third divisions to its...
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The Delhi Public School in Mathura Road received an email about a bomb being planted on the premises that later turned out to be a hoax, police said on Friday. This is the second time within a month that the school has received a bomb threat via email. On Thursday, the police received...
10:42
The 1998 Pokhran nuclear tests sent a message to the world that although India is a peace-loving nation, it would not let anyone to harm its sovereignty, integrity and unity, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said yesterday on the 25th anniversary of the tests. India conducted five...
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Cyclone Mocha intensified into a very severe cyclonic storm today over the southeast and adjoining areas of central Bay of Bengal, officials said on Friday.As per the India Meteorological Department (IMD), which closely monitors the cyclonic storm said, The SCS Mocha intensified into a very...
10:19
The Assam government has constituted a four-member expert committee to examine the legislative competence of the state legislature to enact a law to end polygamy, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. The panel, headed by Justice (Retired) Rumi Phookan, has been asked to submit its report...
10:04
An Indian army patrol along the LoC
Amid an ongoing internal strike, the Pakistan army is maintaining a high number of terrorists in multiple launchpads along the Line of Control (LoC) with India.It seems that even the ongoing internal strike has not affected its sponsoring of terrorism as it is maintaining a high number of...
09:42
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The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has deployed 8 teams and 200 rescuers in West Bengal's Digha after warnings about cyclone 'Mocha' of intensifying into a severe storm. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted cyclone 'Mocha' of turning into a severe cyclone...
09:24
Rajasthan BJP president CP Joshi hit back at Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot for calling the BJP and the RSS fascist, saying the Congress leader has an RSS phobia and that is why he makes such statements. He said whenever there is any calamity, RSS workers are ready to help. The Congress...
09:02
The United States will continue to monitor the situation in Pakistan, the Biden Administration said on Thursday, maintaining that it does not have a position on one candidate or the other.The official's comments came in the wake of the arrest of former Pakistan premier Imran Khan in a corruption...
08:39
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has decided to step down from the post.The billionaire has decided not to function as Twitter CEO after a few weeks.Musk shared the development in a tweet on Friday, and said, 'Excited to announce that I've hired a new CEO for X/Twitter. She will be starting in ~6 weeks!.'He...
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Shiv Sena-UBT president Uddhav Thackeray will visit the famous Saibaba temple in Shirdi and also the nearby Shani Shingnapur shrine in western Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district on Friday, a party functionary said. The former chief minister's visit to the temples will take place a day after...
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Digvijaya Singh
Congress veteran Digvijaya Singh on Thursday expressed confidence his party will form the next government in Madhya Pradesh under the leadership of former CM Kamal Nath and mocked the ruling BJP, calling it a divided house in the central state, where assembly polls are due by the...
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Slain gangster Tillu Tajpuriya
The Special Cell of the Delhi police arrested two more inmates of Tihar jail in connection with the killing of gangster Tillu Tajpuriya inside the prison, officials said on Thursday. The accused, identified as Chavanni and Attar Rehman, were also lodged in jail number eight of Tihar prison...
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