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The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday dissolved its Goa executive committee, a senior AAP leader said. The move is aimed at revamping the party's state unit, AAP's Goa president Amit Palekar said. Palekar said AAP's national general secretary Dr Sandeep Pathak has issued the orders dissolving...
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Adheenams handing over the Sengol to Prime Minister Narendra Modi/ANI
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met Adheenams at his residence and took their blessings a day before he inaugurates the new Parliament building. The Adheenams, who arrived from Tamil Nadu earlier in the day, met Modi at his residence and handed him special gifts including Sengols...
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Four people were arrested on Saturday in connection with the attack on senior Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee's convoy, in which state minister Birbaha Hansda's vehicle was vandalised, the police said. The accused were identified as Ajit Mahato, Anit Mahato, Manmohit Mahato and...
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A court in Delhi on Saturday sent gangster Lawrence Bishnoi to four days' custody of Delhi police's Special Cell in an illegal arms supply case. The court passed the order on an application moved by the Delhi police seeking Bishnoi's custodial interrogation in a case related to the recovery...
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The National Investigation Agency has seized a huge cache of ammunition from a Maoist hideout in a forest area in Jharkhand, an official said on Saturday. The seizure of 1,245 rounds of 7.62 MM and 271 rounds of 5.56 MM ammunition from a dense forest in the Kamdara area of Gumla district on...
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A court in Bhopal on Saturday sent three alleged members of an ISIS-linked terror module, arrested during overnight raids in Jabalpur city of Madhya Pradesh, in the custody of the National Investigation Agency till June 3. Syed Mamoor Ali, Mohammad Adil Khan and Mohammad Shahid were produced...
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Mild tremors of 3.3-3.5 magnitude were reported in Maharashtra's Palghar district on Saturday, an official said. The first tremor of 3.3 magnitude was recorded at 5.15 pm, while the second one of 3.5 magnitude followed in less than 15 minutes at 5.28 pm, said Vivekanand Kadam, chief of the...
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The police in Jaunpur registered an FIR against a college professor on Saturday, officials said, a day after a video of him speaking indecently to a girl student went viral on social media. However, Pradeep Singh, who teaches ancient history at TD College, denied any...
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A man was detained for flying a 'suspicious' drone at the Hazratganj intersection in Lucknow late on Friday night, the police said on Saturday. The accused was identified as Ankit Singh, a resident of the Hazratganj intersection in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. ...
18:35
A 16-year-old NEET aspirant allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan at her uncle's house in Kota Thermal Power Plant colony in Kota on Saturday, the police said. The deceased has been identified as Sakshi Choudhary, a class 11 student, they said. In a suicide...
18:11
The Haryana police on Saturday said they have arrested an interstate arms smuggler from Madhya Pradesh along with the recovery of 14 illegal pistols and as many magazines. The accused has been identified as Gurudev Singh Barnala, a resident of Umrati village in Madhya Pradesh, who was living...
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A Delhi court summoned Delhi's former deputy CM Manish Sisodia and other accused on June 2 after the supplementary chargesheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the Delhi excise policy case. The Rouse Avenue court took cognisance of the supplementarycharge sheet...
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Over 250 people stranded with their light vehicles and motorbikes at Baralacha La and Lahaul and Spiti district following a snowfall have been rescued after a multi-agency nightlong operation, the police said on Saturday. They said the focus of the joint operation of the Lahaul and Spiti...
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The Mumbai police arrested a Right to Information activist for his derogatory remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP leader Kirit Somaiya among others, the police said on Saturday. The accused identified as Ghulam Qazi is an RTI...
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A man filed a complaint against an employee of a petrol pump in South Extension Part-1 in New Delhi after the attendant allegedly refused to accept a Rs 2,000 note, the police said on Saturday. A complaint regarding the matter was received at Kotla police station on Friday, a senior police...
15:48
Amid the row over the Centre's ordinance on control of administrative services in the national capital, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday met his Telangana counterpart K Chandrashekhar Rao in Hyderabad. The Aam Aadmi Party national convenor sought the...
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An aerial view of the new Parliament House in New Delhi/ANI
The Delhi police has beefed up security around the new Parliament building ahead of the inauguration ceremony on May 28, with around 70 policemen deployed in the area. Delhi police special CP Deepender Pathak told ANI that enough police deployment will be made for...
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All meat shops in Sikkim will remain closed till June 4 as the state government on Saturday banned animal slaughter to mark the observance of 'Saga Dawa', an auspicious month in the Buddhist calendar followed by Tibetan people. The decision to ban animal slaughter for a week till June 4 was...
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Amid the recent spurt in violence in Manipur, the Indian Army and the Assam Rifles on Saturday launched massive combing operations in sensitive flash points to track down armed insurgents. The Indian Army said that the operation was launched in the higher reaches...
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Twenty-one Adheenams have left for Delhi from Chennai to participate in the inauguration ceremony of the new Parliament building. Dharmapuram Adheenam, Palani Adheenam, Virudhachalam Adheenam, Thirukoyilur Adheenam were among the Adheenams who left for Delhi from Chennai to attend the...
13:25
Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' will be on a four-day official visit to India beginning May 31, his first visit abroad since assuming office in December last year. Dahal, who will be in New Delhi at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will be accompanied by a...
13:08
A leader of the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena was stabbed to death by a group of about six people in Maharashtra's Thane district, a police official said on Saturday. No arrests have been made yet, he said. Shabbir Shaikh (45) was attacked with sharp weapons at Jai Janata Colony in...
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A complaint has been filed against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and others for making inciteful statements citing caste of President Droupadi Murmu regarding the event of the inauguration of the new Parliament building with the intent to promote...
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NITI Aayog's eighth governing council meeting, which will deliberate on several issues including, health, skill development, women empowerment and infrastructure development, with an aim to make India a developed nation by 2047, began in New Delhi on Saturday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is...
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Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande will visit Manipur on Saturday to review the situation in the violence-hit state, officials said. The Eastern Army commander Lt Gen Rana Pratap Kalita will also accompany the Army chief during his two-day visit to the state. A senior Army official told PTI...
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A total of four flights coming to Delhi from different cities were diverted to Jaipur due to heavy rain and bad weather, Airport officials informed on Saturday. Meanwhile, flight operations at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport were also affected on Saturday due...
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Congress leaders HK Patil takes oath as minister in Bengaluru/ANI
Congress leaders HK Patil and Krishna Byregowda took oath as Karnataka ministers as part of the cabinet expansion of the Siddaramaiah-led government. Congress MLAs namely N Chaluvarayaswamy, K Venkateshtake, Dr HC Mahadevappa Eshwar Khandre also took oath as Karnataka ministers. -- ANI
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The National Investigation Agency on Saturday conducted raids at 13 locations in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur in its ongoing probe into a terror conspiracy case. The case is linked to the Bhopal terror funding case involving the proscribed organisation, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen...
11:48
The Jammu and Kashmir police arrested a terror associate of the banned terror outfit Lashkar-e-Tayiba during an operation in Nagbal Chandoosa area of Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district, a statement said on Saturday. According to the Jammu and Kashmir police, the...
11:43
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and deputy CM DK Shivakumar arrived at Vidhana Soudha on Saturday morning in Bengaluru ahead of the cabinet expansion. A week after assuming power, the Congress government led by Siddaramaiah will carry out the cabinet expansion by inducting 24...
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JPMorgan Chase is letting go of about 500 employees this week across the bank, a spokesperson confirmed to CNN on Friday (local time). The layoffs, first reported by CNBC, are taking place company-wide but will focus mostly on technology and operations, JPMorgan...
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Deepak Patel/Business StandardThe aviation ministry has suggested airlines keep airfares at a moderate level as it has observed that ticket prices on certain routes are rapidly rising after Go First's exit, a senior official has stated.Go First stopped operating flights from May 3 onwards. The...
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Rain and gusty winds lashed Delhi and the National Capital Region on Saturday morning lowering temperature to 19.3 degrees Celsius, seven notches below the season's average, the weather department said.Uprooted trees and waterlogging led to traffic snarls in several parts of Delhi, including at...
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India saw a single day rise of 425 new coronavirus infections, while the number of active cases has decreased to 5,259, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Saturday.The death toll has increased to 5,31,859 with three fatalities, which includes one death reconciled by Kerala,...
10:40
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday paid tributes to Jawaharlal Nehru on his death anniversary.India's first and longest-serving prime minister, Nehru, died in office in 1964. Modi tweeted, 'On his death anniversary, I pay tributes to our former PM Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.' -- PTI
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The Indian Army and Assam Rifles have intensified domination across Manipur amid the reports of fresh violence in the state.Both the security teams in Imphal East and Churchandpur prevented the firing incidents between the two communities, where some armed miscreants opened fire and ran towards...
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A prominent American lawmaker has introduced a bill in the United States Congress to declare Diwali, the festival of lights, a federal holiday, a move welcomed by different communities from across the country.Diwali is one of the most important days of the year for billions of people across the...
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A week after assuming power in Karnataka, the Congress on Friday released a list of 24 legislators who will be sworn in as ministers on May 27, according to party leaders.The Karnataka government can have 34 ministers.Ten of them, including Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy D K...
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The Sengol was handed over to Lord Mountbatten and then it was presented to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in 1947 to symbolise transfer of power from British and wrong claims made in this respect by some people caused sadness, the head of a Tamil Nadu monastery said here on Friday.Speaking to reporters...
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