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The Enforcement Directorate on Friday said it has attached assets worth more than Rs 72 crore of former Uttar Pradesh MLA Vinay Shankar Tiwari and his family members as part of a money laundering probe against them linked to an alleged Rs 750-crore bank loan fraud. Twenty-seven immovable...
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A 14-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide in Jalna in Maharashtra reportedly seeking reservation for the Maratha community, a police official said on Friday. She hanged herself in a room in her house in Someshwar area on Thursday and left behind a chit in which she had purportedly...
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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Friday said he would have no hesitation in begging for donations for the improvement of society and for greater good. Underlining the necessity of financial resources for societal progress, Bhagwat said generous donations play an important...
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Governments in various northeastern states sounded alerts following heavy rain on Friday, as a deep depression over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a cyclonic storm, officials said. The first day of Meghalaya's Cherry Blossom Festival suffered a setback due to the bad weather, while...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Australian deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles will attend the World Cup cricket final between India and Australia to be played in Ahmedabad on Sunday, officials said. An official release said Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel held a high level meeting...
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Haryana CM ML Khattar
In a setback to the Haryana government, the Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday quashed a state government law that provided 75 per cent reservation in private sector jobs to the residents of the state. The verdict was pronounced by Justices G S Sandhawalia and Harpreet Kaur...
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Cyrus Poonawalla (left)
Cyrus S Poonawalla, the managing director of the Serum Institute of India, suffered a mild cardiac arrest on Thursday and has been admitted to a hospital in Maharashtra's Pune. According to the advisor of Ruby Hall Clinic, Poonawala is now stable after he underwent an angioplasty. He...
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The BJP on Friday chose former deputy chief minister R Ashoka as the leader of opposition in the Karnataka Assembly. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, BJP national general secretary Dushyant Kumar Gautam, BJP state unit president BY Vijayendra, and former chief ministers BS...
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Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have begun replacing Kerala, which was a significant contributor of blue-collar workforce, from India to the Gulf Cooperation Council region, a report said on Friday. Over the last decade, there was a notable shift in migration patterns with Kerala witnessing 90 per...
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CM Ibrahim
Senior Janata Dal-Secular leader CM Ibrahim was on Friday suspended by the outfit's president HD Deve Gowda for anti-party activities. Gowda had replaced Ibrahim as the party state president on October 19 and appointed his son HD Kumaraswamy in his place. Ibrahim had raised a banner of...
20:29
Mohamed Muizzu took oath as the eighth President of the Maldives on Friday at a ceremony attended by a multitude of foreign dignitaries, including India's Union Minister Kiren Rijiju. The eighth President of the Republic (of Maldives) Mohammed Muizzu was sworn in as President today, local...
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The Election Commission of India on Friday ordered the suspension of a top official of Telangana Tourism Development Corporation and removal of another official from his post, for allegedly accompanying minister Srinivas Goud in Tirupati during the latter's visit. In a communication to the...
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The rupee declined by 4 paise to 83.27 (provisional) against the US dollar on Friday as a firm greenback in the overseas markets and losses in domestic equities weighed on investor sentiment. Fresh FII inflows and crude oil prices trading near four-month lows helped the rupee restrict...
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Senior IPS officer Alok Sharma was on Friday appointed director of the Special Protection Group, which is entrusted with the task of providing security to the prime minister. Sharma, a 1991-batch Indian Police Service officer, is currently working as additional director general in the...
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Voting for 230 assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh ended at 6 pm on Friday, though those persons still in queue would be allowed to exercise their franchise, an official said. A total of 2,533 candidates are in the fray, among them heavyweights like Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the...
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Anjuman Auqaf, the management body of the Jamia Masjid in Nowhatta in Srinagar, said the Jammu and Kashmir administration did not allow the Friday prayers for the sixth consecutive week. The administration's decision to disallow Friday prayers at the valley's largest place of worship ' the...
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Ahead of the Telangana assembly polls, former MP and veteran actor Vijayashanthi who resigned from the BJP, rejoined the Congress party on Friday in the presence of AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge, party sources said. Kharge offered her a tricolour scarf and formally invited her to join...
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A jawan of the Indo Tibetan Border Police was killed in a blast triggered by Maoists in Chhattisgarh's Gariaband district where polling for the second phase of assembly elections took place on Friday, the police said. The incident took place near Bade Gobra village under Mainpur police...
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MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan
The Election Commission (EC) said on Friday that the tentative voter turnout till 5 pm was 67.34 per cent in Chhattisgarh and 71.11 per cent in Madhya Pradesh. The voting percentage is likely to go upwards when reports from all the polling stations, including those in the interiors, are...
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A Punjab police assistant sub-inspector was shot dead by some unidentified assailants on Friday. The police said the body of ASI Saroop Singh was found at Khankot village with a bullet injury mark on his head. Singh left his home on Thursday night with some official documents for...
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Maharashtra minister Chhagan Bhujbal on Friday reiterated that the existing reservation for the Other Backward Classes should not be curtailed while giving reservation to the Marathas, and also hit out at Maratha activist Manoj Jarange over his recent statements. Speaking at a rally of OBC...
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Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Defence Minister Richard Marles are set to visit India to take part in the two-plus-two ministerial dialogue on Monday that is likely to focus on further shoring up strategic ties between the two countries, people familiar with the matter said. It...
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Urban India has a telecom growth of 0.98 per cent.
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PM Modi reacts to a video of 'him' doing the garba: ...There is a challenge arising because of Artificial Intelligence and deepfake... a big section of our country has no parallel option for verification... people often end up believing in deepfakes and this will go into a direction of a big...
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In a volatile trade, equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty declined on Friday, dragged down by heavy selling pressure in banking, financial and energy stocks amid mixed cues from global markets. However, lower global crude prices and fresh foreign capital inflows helped the indices...
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The pace of national highway construction in the country stood at 20.78 kilometre a day during the first seven months of the current financial year, according to official data. Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has put in place plans to maintain the pace of highway...
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Mick Jagger, the lead singer of the British rock band The Rolling Stones, is currently in India. He tweeted this image alongside, writing, Thanks India Got away from it all here! The icon did not disclose the location. In a recent interview with The Times Of India, Jagger disclosed the...
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Hotel room tariff in Gujarat's Ahmedabad and airfares to the city have skyrocketed in view of the soaring demand from people who want to witness the cricket World Cup final match between India and Australia to be played at the Narendra Modi Stadium here on the coming Sunday. As the fever...
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Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said on Friday that the BJP is scattered in Rajasthan and it does not have a chief ministerial face in the upcoming state Assembly polls. The Congress general secretary also took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's frequent visits to the...
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A resident clears debris in Kibbutz Beeri. Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters
The Israel Defense Forces said on Friday morning that five Palestinian terrorists were killed during an overnight counter-terror raid in Jenin. The military said several terrorists were chased to a local hospital where they were arrested while trying to hide. During the raid, an Israeli...
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Corporal Noa Marciano
The IDF said it has recovered the body of Corporal Noa Marciano of the Combat Intelligence Collection Corps 414th unit from the Gaza Strip, The Times of Israel reported. Troops of the 7th Armored Brigade's 603rd Battalion recovered Marciano's body from a building adjacent to Shifa...
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The economic offences wing (EOW) of Delhi Police on Thursday late night stopped BharatPe co-founder Ashneer Grover and his wife Madhuri Jain at terminal 3 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport as a lookout circular (LoC) was issued this week against the two by the EOW, officials said on...
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Writer William Dalyrmple shares the loss of a historian. Devastated to hear of the death of my beloved friend and mentor, BN Goswamy, India's greatest art historian and one of the most wisest and most brilliant men I ever met. He was a kind friend, a generous mentor, a rigorous scholar, a...
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The deep depression over the Bay of Bengal on Friday intensified into cyclonic storm and will graze past the Sunderbans before making landfall on Bangladesh coast with a maximum wind speed of 80 kmph, India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in a bulletin. The cyclonic storm 'Midhili'...
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The Bombay High Court has refused to grant bail to an aide of gangster Chhota Rajan convicted in the 2011 killing of journalist Jyotirmoy Dey and to suspend the sentence of life imprisonment handed to him. A division bench of Justices N W Sambre and N R Borkar on November 6 dismissed...
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People who fled Myanmar cross a bridge to India. Reuters/Stringer
Amid the clashes between the ruling military and anti-junta protesters in Myanmar, scores of refugees, who crossed over into India fleeing the violence, have found temporary refuge in the Zokhawthar area of Mizoram's Champhai district.The refugees said while they are longing to return to their...
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A fire erupted on the eighth and the 12th floor of a residential building in the Grant Road area of south Mumbai on Friday morning, and no casualties were reported, an official said. The fire brigade rescued several residents stranded on the 15th, 21st and 22nd floors of the building...
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Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said that apart from sending his greetings to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the President of the United States also acknowledged what India has been saying at various world forums.Goyal said that the US President acknowledged that the countries that were not...
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Five Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists have been gunned down in the ongoing firefight with security forces in the Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, Kashmir Police said on Friday. According to Kashmir police, the operation is in its final stages and the area is being...
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Osama bin Laden
Social networking site TikTok that allows users to share videos, has taken action against posts pertaining to Osama bin Laden's Letter to America, which was written by the commander of al Qaeda following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, CBS News reported. Bin Laden tried to defend...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today condemned the deaths of civilians in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war and highlighted the urgent need for unity and cooperation among the Global South in the face of escalating challenges rising in West Asia due to the conflict.Speaking at the e inaugural session of...
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Family members along with Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, Congress leader Pramod Tiwari and actor and Congress leader Raj Babbar attend the last rites of Sahara Group chief Subrata Roy in Lucknow today.
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Events proved that on every count the RBI had accurately predicted both the damage and the lack of benefit. What the RBI was hiding was the fact that Modi had ignored its concerns -- all of which turned out to be true -- and gone ahead anyway, asserts Aakar Patel. Read the column here.
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Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has said that a Hamas terrorist tunnel was uncovered in the Shifa Hospital complex in Gaza.According to IDF, IDF troops found another terrorist tunnel in the Rantisi Hospital. It further said that a large amount of weaponry and ammunition were found in the...
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Madhya Pradesh recorded a voter turnout of 11.19 per cent while neighbouring Chhattisgarh saw 5. 71 per cent polling in the second phase till 9.30 am on Friday, according to data shared by the Election Commission.Polling for the 230-member Madhya Pradesh Assembly and 70 seats for the...
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Israeli troops inside Gaza. Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters
Internet and telephone services collapsed across the Gaza Strip on Thursday for lack of fuel, the main Palestinian provider said, bringing a potentially long-term blackout of communications as Israel signalled its offensive against Hamas could next target the south, where most of the population...
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New equipment arrived at the site yesterday
Working overnight with a powerful machine, rescue workers had by Friday morning drilled up to 21 metres through the rubble in Silkyara tunnel, inching closer to the 40 labourers trapped there for five days. The workers need to drill up to 60 metres to insert 800 mm and 900 mm diameter...
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Delhi's air quality has deteriorated further and now stands closer to the severe plus category, a stage which might trigger the implementation of the odd-even car rationing measure in the capital. The city's air quality index stood at 437 at 7 am, worsening from 419 at 4...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged voters in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to use their franchise as the two states went to polls. On Friday, polling began for all seats in Madhya Pradesh and 70 of 90 assembly seats in Chhattisgarh in the second and final phase...
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The voting for Madhya Pradesh's all 230 assembly seats and Chhattisgarh's 70 seats, in the second phase of the election, begins.In both of these Hindi heartland states, the straight contest between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the opposition Congress.While in Madhya Pradesh, the...
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A fire broke out in an industrial estate in the Malad area of Mumbai on Thursday. The fire engulfed 5 to 6 godowns of the industrial estate. On receiving information, 6 fire vehicles rushed to the spot and took immediate measures to control the fire, according to...
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The last rites of Sahara Group chief Subrata Roy were performed at Baikunth Dham, on the banks of the Gomti river in Lucknow, on Thursday. A procession carrying the body left Sahara Shahar in Gomti Nagar for Baikunth Dham, where in the presence of Sahara Group employees and a number of...
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Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule meets ex-minister Pankaja Munde (right)/Chandrashekhar Bawankule on X
Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party president Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Thursday met party national secretary Pankaja Munde, who has been sidelined in state politics, at her residence in Mumbai. Bawankule posted pictures of his visit to the home of Pankaja Munde, the daughter of BJP...
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