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In a bid to ease travel during the festival season, the Railways have pressed into service 1,700 special trains, making available 26 lakh additional berths. A Railways official said these additional services are being operated to ease the heavy rush of passengers on account of Diwali and...
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The Election Commission on Friday removed three poll observers from duty for misconduct and violation of the code of ethics, sources said. The action was taken against two general observers deployed in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh and an expenditure observer in Mizoram, they said. In...
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Hardeep Singh Nijjar
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday called on India to cooperate with an investigation by Canada into the killing of a Sikh separatist in June that has triggered a major diplomatic row between New Delhi and Ottawa. The ties between India and Canada came under severe strain...
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A 95-year-old woman died after a fire broke out at a 12-storey building in suburban Vile Parle in Mumbai on Friday evening, officials said. The fire erupted in a second-floor flat in the Vile Grand Residency building on Nariman Road in Vile Parle (East) around 7.30 pm. At least ten fire...
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RJD chief Lalu Prasad and Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav
The Enforcement Directorate on Friday detained Amit Katyal, an alleged associate of RJD chief Lalu Prasad and his son Tejashwi Yadav, in connection with a money-laundering investigation into the land-for-jobs scam case, official sources said. They claimed that Katyal has been evading the...
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Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Friday met Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar in Pune, prompting speculation in state political circles. Sharad Pawar's daughter and NCP Lok Sabha member Supriya Sule said the meeting was not a political one. This is the second...
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West Bengal Advocate-General Soumendra Nath Mookherjee on Friday mailed his resignation to Governor Dr CV Ananda Bose, a Raj Bhavan official said. Mookherjee is currently abroad, the official added. We received a mail from Mookherjee in which he tendered his resignation, the official...
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Union Ports, Shipping and Waterways Minister Sarbananda Sonowal
All 23 Indian seafarers onboard vessel ADVANTAGE SWEET (Marshall Island Flag), which was seized in the Gulf of Oman, have been safely repatriated to India from Iran, an official statement said on Friday. This was a result of continuous efforts of the ministry of external affairs, embassy of...
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Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar and NCP MP Praful Patel meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah, in Delhi/ANI
Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and senior NCP leader Praful Patel on Friday met Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi. The meeting took place amid the ongoing political crisis in Maharashtra over the demand for reservation by the Maratha community and the hearing before the...
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Three members of the banned CPI-Maoist outfit have been arrested and materials used for making Improvised Explosive Devices seized from their possession in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district on Friday, the police said. Acting on a tip-off, the police conducted a raid in Rengra village in...
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President Droupadi Murmu is set to receive a new voter identification card as the process to change her address to Delhi has begun, officials said on Friday. The address in her current voter ID card is of Mayurbhanj, Odisha, a senior official of the Delhi Chief Electoral Officer's office...
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Tunisha Sharma with Sheezan Khan/Courtesy Tunisha Sharma/Instagram
The Bombay high court on Friday refused to quash the first information report registered against television actor Sheezan Khan for abetting the suicide of his co-actor Tunisha Sharma in December 2022, noting that the investigation prima facie reveals his complicity. A bench of Justices Ajey...
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The Change of Guard ceremony will not take place on November 11 and 18 at Rashtrapati Bhavan due to preparations for the 250 years celebrations of the President's Bodyguard, said a statement issued by the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday.
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Lok Sabha's Ethics Committee chairman Vinod Kumar Sonkar has submitted the report of the panel on the 'cash-for-query' allegation against Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra to the office of Speaker Om Birla, sources said on Friday. The committee, at a meeting on Thursday, had adopted by...
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Vijayendra Yediyurappa
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday appointed Vijayendra Yediyurappa, the son of former Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa, its state unit president, a surprise move that underscores the party leadership's acknowledgement of the veteran Lingayat leader's enduring influence on its...
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A man was arrested on Friday for allegedly making a hoax bomb threat to a police station in Ernakulam district, the police said. The control room received a threat call this morning claiming that there was a bomb planted at the Kothamangalam police station, around 53 kms from in...
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The Bombay high court on Friday modified its earlier order and said firecrackers can be burst only between 8 pm and 10 pm during Diwali in view of the air pollution situation. A division bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice GS Kulkarni had on November 6 permitted the bursting of...
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has sought a report from the vigilance minister on a complaint alleging chief secretary Naresh Kumar's son was employed by a relative of a landowner who received an enhanced compensation for land acquired for a road project, official sources said on...
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The National Investigation Agency on Friday filed the third chargesheet in gangster Lawrence Bishnoi and Babbar Khalsa International terror gangster network case. The second supplementary chargesheet has crucial details of the involvement of the accused persons in the terror-related...
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At least 10 devotees fainted as a heavy rush of visitors thronged inside the Shree Jagannath temple in Puri on Friday, the police said. The devotees who fell ill were taken to the ditrict hospital, officials said. The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration chief administrator Ranjan Kumar Das...
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A Delhi court on Friday extended till November 24 the judicial custody of AAP leader Sanjay Singh, arrested in a money laundering case related to the alleged Delhi excise scam. Special judge MK Nagpal also allowed Singh to sign some documents related to development work as a Member of...
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The Kerala police have summoned actor-politician Suresh Gopi in a case pertaining to a complaint filed by a woman journalist stating that he misbehaved with her during his interaction with reporters here last month. A police officer said the former Rajya Sabha MP was asked to appear before...
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India and the US will co-produce an infantry combat vehicle as part of defence industrial cooperation, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Friday. He said this while speaking to a small group of journalists after the '2+2' defence and foreign ministerial dialogue in...
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Karnataka: Seventeen people were hospitalised on Friday after allegedly being hit by an electric shock while standing in queue for darshan at Hasanamba temple in Hassan district, police said. Several people were standing in between the barricades used to manage the crowd and suddenly a...
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Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty rebounded on Friday to close with marginal gains due to fag-end buying in auto, IT and tech shares amid weak global trends.After remaining in the negative territory for most part of the session, the 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 72.48 points or 0.11 per...
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The Rouse Avenue court on Friday allowed former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia to meet his ailing wife on Saturday.He sought permission to meet his ailing wife for five days.Special judge M K Nagpal allowed Sisodia to meet his ailing wife at his home between 10 am and 4 am under...
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India on Friday conveyed to the US its serious concerns over increasing activities of pro-Khalistani elements in Canada. India flagged its concerns at the '2+2' foreign and defence ministerial meeting.We have made our concerns very very clear, Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra said at a media...
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Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Friday announced that the state government would delay the proposed implementation of the odd-even car-rationing scheme in the city. An improvement is seen in the pollution level. The AQI which was 450+ has now reached around 300. The decision to...
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Not just Congress, BJP workers too vote for Gehlot here, said Hardev Ram Bishnoi in Sardarpura constituency, a long-standing bastion of Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. In Sardarpura, we vote for the chief minister and not just an MLA, Bishnoi added, confident of a sixth encore by...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh and said PM wears suits worth lakhs of rupees but I wear this white t-shirt only.Addressing a rally at Satna, Rahul said I heard PM Modi's speech, he used to say everywhere that I belong...
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A suva fish caught by Pakistani fishermen. File pic
A fisherman in Pakistan's Karachi city became a millionaire overnight after auctioning a haul of rare fish which has many medicinal properties. Haji Baloch, who lives in the impoverished Ibrahim Hyderi fishing village, and his workers caught the fish known as Golden Fish or Sowa in the local...
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The World Health Organization has updated its guidance on treatments for patients with COVID-19, providing latest, trustworthy advice on the management of the disease to help doctors make better decisions. The new recommendations published by The BMJ are part of a living guideline, developed...
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The Supreme Court on Friday said that crop residue burning in Punjab and some other states adjacent to Delhi have to be stopped and solution has to found to reduce the pollution level in the national capital region (NCR). While hearing a matter relating to the debilitating air...
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The Supreme Court on Friday granted protection from arrest to two journalists who have challenged the summons issued to them by the Gujarat Police in connection with an article allegedly written by them on Adani Group. A bench of Justices B R Gavai and P K Mishra directed the journalists to...
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Citing CCTV footage purportedly showing a man grabbing a woman's neck in a bid to snatch her chain, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal launched a blistering attack on the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab, alleging a complete breakdown in law and order under the...
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Commemoration of the Hamas attack in Berlin. Fabrizio Bench/Reuters
US President Joe Biden has said that there is no possibility of a ceasefire in Gaza. Biden said that the US government will not stop until it gets the hostages out.Speaking to reporters about the chances of a Gaza ceasefire, Biden said, None, No possibility.Asked about an update on getting...
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Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Friday said she will be back with a bigger mandate in 2024, a day after the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee recommended her expulsion from the House in the cash-for-query matter. In a post on X, the TMC MP said, Proud to go down in parliamentary history as...
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People killed in Israeli strikes. Mohammed Salem/Reuters
Israel on Thursday refuted US claims of four-hour daily 'humanitarian pauses' that will allow people to flee hostilities and for deliveries of humanitarian aid in Northern Gaza. Israel is reportedly planning daily four-hour halts in military operations in northern Gaza, as per CNN's report...
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Death and destruction in Gaza. Mohammed Al-Masri/Reuters
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says at least 10,812 people, including 4,412 children, have now been killed in the enclave since Israel began its air strikes. The strikes began in retaliation to the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October, which killed 1,400 people and 240 others were...
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The UK government has announced that it will add India to a list of safe states, which would speed up the process of returning people who have travelled from India illegally.With this addition, all asylum claims from Indian nationals who arrive on small boats or illegally on other routes will be...
10:17
Israeli soldiers operate inside the Gaza Strip
Israel's Ministry of Defense reported that a cargo ship carrying approximately 2,500 tons of equipment for IDF use was received in Israel on Thursday. At least 123 cargo planes and seven ships carrying more than 7,000 tons of military equipment arrived in Israel since the beginning of the...
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Benchmark equity indices declined in early trade on Friday due to weak trends in global markets and unabated foreign fund outflows. The 30-share BSE Sensex fell 251.25 points to 64,580.95, extending its previous day's decline. The Nifty declined 65.85 points to 19,329.45. Among the...
09:59
As many as 50,000 Palestinians have moved from northern to southern Gaza through the humanitarian corridors set up the Israel, the UN Office for the Coordinator of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has announced, The Times of Israel reported. Palestinians have been able to evacuate northern Gaza...
09:42
A farmer burns stubble in Patiala
With continuous stubble burning, the city of Bathinda remained veiled under a blanket of smoke on Friday morning. The air quality index (AQI) in Bathinda has been in the 'very poor' category for the past two weeks. As per the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the Air Quality Index...
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Overnight rain led to a visible improvement in Delhi's air quality on Friday morning after more than a week of hazardous pollution.The improvement is expected to be reflected in the air quality index as the day progresses -- the AQI at any given time is the average of readings taken in the last...
09:20
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Delhi on Thursday night primarily to attend the India-US 2+2 foreign and defence ministerial dialogue. The 2+2 dialogue will take place on Friday. US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has already reached Delhi.The Indian side at the...
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Three people were killed and six others injured on Thursday night after a speeding SUV rammed several vehicles at the toll plaza on Bandra Worli Sea Link in Mumbai, police said.The 5.6 kilometre long, eight-lane Bandra-Worli Sea Link which connects Bandra in west Mumbai to Worli in south Mumbai,...
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Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has declared movable assets worth over Rs 17.83 crore and immovable assets whose total of current value is about Rs 8.50 crore.According to the election affidavit submitted on Thursday while filing his nomination for the November 30 Legislative...
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A 30-year-old woman delivered a baby on a road in Mumbai's Kurla area on Thursday prompting the police to rush the mother and her newborn to a civic hospital, an official said. An official from VB Nagar police station said they were informed in the afternoon about a woman giving birth to a...
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was hospitalised on Wednesday in Mexico City on Wednesday, CNN reported citing sources. The source said Wozniak, 73, was taken to the hospital at 3 pm (local time) after he fainting minutes before his participation at the World Business Forum. Wozniak is...
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Four members of a family allegedly died by electrocution in the Kun area of Rajasthan's Salumber district on Thursday, the police said. The incident occurred when 68-year-old Unkar Meena, a resident of the Dhikiya village, was electrocuted when the iron gate of his home came into contact...
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Twelve people were arrested for allegedly creating a ruckus in front of the district jail in Nuh, the police said on Thursday. Nuh Sadar SHO Chanderbhan said he was on patrol duty with his team on Wednesday when they saw some youngsters creating a ruckus in front of the district jail...
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Amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president K Sudhakaran announced on Thursday that the Congress will organise a massive rally in Kerala's Kozhikode on November 23 to declare solidarity with the Palestinian people. Sudhakaran said that All India Congress...
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A petition has been filed in the Allahabad high court challenging the process of selection for the vice chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University after the acting VC's wife figured in a list of shortlist.Justice Vikas Budhwar fixed the hearing on the plea filed by Syed Afzal Murtaza Rizvi, a...
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