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The first batch of women cadets of the National Defence Academy will participate in the passing out parade along with their male counterparts this year, an official said on Saturday. The parade of...
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The Madhya Pradesh assembly polls may have concluded but elements tied to it continue to amuse citizens, particularly those on social media. A video of the Congress candidate from Ratlam, Paras Saklecha, gladly taking slipper slaps doled out by a fakir is being widely shared on the...
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The remains of a tiger have been found in the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve in eastern Maharashtra's Chandrapur district, a senior forest officer said on Saturday. Tigress T-12, popularly known as Maya, had gone missing from the reserve in August, and the report of DNA tests were awaited for...
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Two minors injured in the blaze that gutted a makeshift firecracker market set up for Diwali here died during treatment, taking the death toll in the incident to eight, police said on Saturday. Jatin (15)...
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The Israel defence forces forces continued with their operations in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, during which more weapons and other terrorist-related items were found in a school. This was yet another example of how Hamas hides its terror bases and supplies in civilian...
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Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India S Venkitaramanan passed away here on Saturday, due to brief illness, sources said. He was 92....
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Security forces on Saturday detected three powerful improvised explosive devices planted by Maoists in a forest in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district, the police said. The IEDs which weighed 5 kg each, were defused by the bomb...
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New President of Maldives Mohamed Muizzu
Less than 24 hours after taking oath as the President of Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu on Saturday formally requested the Government of India to withdraw its military personnel from his country, saying the Maldivian people have given a strong mandate to make this request to New Delhi. Muizzu's...
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Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday said the process of finalising alignment of the proposed Nagpur-Goa expressway would soon be complete. The laying of a gas pipeline along the Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi expressway too was in the final stages, he said, speaking to...
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The Himachal Pradesh cabinet on Saturday decided to convene a five-day winter session of the assembly from December 19-23 in Dharamshala, and sent its recommendation to the governor. The cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu gave its approval to adopt the criteria...
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Just in: The Bharatiya Janata Party will implement Uniform Civil Code if it comes to power in Telangana, said Union Home Minister Amit Shah at a rally in Telangana on Saturday. The BJP would scrap 'religion-based reservations' and extend benefit to backward communities and STs, he...
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A Non-Resident Indian woman has filed a complaint at a police station in Indore district in connection with being molested on a flight from Udaipur, Rajasthan to Indore. She was molested by a fellow passenger on the flight and after reaching Indore, she lodged a complaint at Aerodrome...
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Ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLC in Telangana K Kavitha on Saturday felt slightly unwell during her assembly election campaign but resumed after a short break. Kavitha, daughter of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, felt unwell due to dehydration, her office sources said, adding that the...
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More than 6,000 security personnel will be deployed in Ahmedabad city and the Narendra Modi stadium during the World Cup final between mighty India and five-time champions Australia on November 19, a senior police official said on Saturday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Australian Deputy...
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A primary school teacher in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district was suspended after a video showing him in an inebriated state while on duty surfaced online, officials said on Saturday. A video of highly intoxicated Dalair Singh, the teacher on duty at a school in Dharidhar village of...
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A man was injured after he was shot at in Mazgaon in central Mumbai in the early hours of Saturday, the police said. The incident occurred at around 3 am on Chapsi Road when the victim was chatting with his friends. A two-wheeler carrying two men approached them and one of them fired a...
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The Varanasi district court on Saturday gave 10 more days to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to submit its scientific survey report of the Gyanvapi mosque complex. The ASI was earlier given time till November 17 to submit the report but on Friday, its counsel sought 15 more days...
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The British era .303 rifles, which remained a part of the Delhi Police for decades, will soon be retired from the force, according to a senior officer. According to the Delhi Police, at least 7,000 such firearms, better known as three-nought-three rifles, are set to be dismantled by the...
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The government on Saturday said 27 companies, including Dell, HP, and Foxconn, have been granted approval under the new production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for IT hardware.The move comes at a time when India is wooing IT hardware players with policy sweeteners and incentive schemes, making a...
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Mumbai Police registered a case against Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray and a few others on Saturday for allegedly `inaugurating' a part of a bridge in Lower Parel area of the city without the civic body's permission, an official said.Thackeray, a former Maharashtra minister, claimed that...
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A 25-year-old woman died while being taken to a rural hospital on a charpoy by her family after ambulances and local vehicles denied service due to the poor condition of a road connecting her village in West Bengal's Malda district with the medical establishment, officials said on Saturday. ...
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The government will soon meet social media platforms on the deepfake issue, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday, asserting that the safe harbour immunity clause will not apply if platforms do not take adequate steps to remove deepfakes. Vaishnaw told reporters that the government...
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The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh has quashed several charges including that of terror conspiracy against an editor of a news portal while granting him bail after 21 months in jail. We are following the procedures set in the bail. It will take some time before Fahad Shah walks...
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More than 700 private members' bills, several of which seek to amend penal provisions and electoral laws, are pending in the Lok Sabha. While several of these bills were introduced in June 2019, when the present Lok Sabha was formed after the parliamentary polls, some were tabled as...
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Actor-turned politician Vijayashanthi on Saturday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of failing to initiate action against Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao despite labelling him as corrupt and indicated that both the BRS and the saffron party are together.Addressing reporters in...
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A 'Garud Commando' of the Indian Air Force (IAF) allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service pistol while on duty at the Air Force Station near Bhuj in Gujarat's Kutch district, police said on Saturday. The incident occurred in the early hours of November 16...
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English football legend David Beckham concluded his maiden trip to India, thanking superstar Shah Rukh Khan and actor Sonam Kapoor for their gracious hospitality. The football superstar posted photos with Shah Rukh on Instagram after the 58-year-old actor invited him for a dinner party at...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that he is delighted that legendary rockstar Mick Jagger enjoyed his stay in India and shared the title of one of his famous songs in a post on X. 'You Can't Always Get What You Want', but India is a land brimming with seekers, offering solace...
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Cash worth Rs 40.18 crore, narcotic drugs valued at more than Rs 17 crore, liquor, jewellery and other items cumulatively worth over Rs 280 crore were seized in Madhya Pradesh since the model code of conduct for the state assembly polls came into force on October 9, a top official has said.Polls...
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Australian dy PM Richard Marles
Australian Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles will pay a two-day visit to India beginning Sunday to attend the second edition of the 2+2 ministerial dialogue between the two countries. Announcing Marles's visit, the defence ministry said he will also attend the Cricket World Cup final...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday lambasted the Congress government in Rajasthan, alleging the party sent the state to the top in the number crimes and riots by letting anti-social elements loose with its policy of appeasement. Addressing a rally in Bharatpur, Modi taunted state...
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With cyclone Midhili weakening into a depression, Tripura and Mizoram, which were battered by heavy rain the previous day, did not experience showers on Saturday, officials said.According to the latest IMD (India Meteorological Department) update, the cyclonic storm, after crossing the Bangladesh...
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Chris Cooper, a micro tunnelling expert arrived at the Silkyara tunnel incident site on Saturday to monitor the rescue operation. Chris Cooper is a Chartered Engineer with an experienced track record for delivery of Major International key civil engineering infrastructure, Metro tunnels,...
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In a first-of-its-kind arrangement, the high court of Karnataka has allowed a candidate appearing for the Civil Judge mains exams to write the test in her hometown of Mangaluru as she was 8.5 months pregnant and was unable to travel to Bengaluru. The HC issued notification for...
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Indian-American Republican presidential aspirant Nikki Haley has lent her support to an extreme abortion ban at six weeks after conception when many women don't yet know they are pregnant, drawing a strong reaction from the Biden-Harris campaign which called her an anti-abortion extremist.If you...
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Saturday moved a resolution in the state assembly to take up for reconsideration, 10 bills passed earlier by the House and returned by State Governor R N Ravi.Stalin, moving the resolution, said without giving any reasons, Ravi had returned the Bills,...
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Police have registered an offence against a man and his two relatives at Digha in Navi Mumbai for allegedly beating up his wife as they were against her wearing fashionable bangles, an official said on Saturday. The Rabale MIDC police filed the case based on a complaint lodged by...
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The operation to rescue 40 workers trapped inside an under-construction Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi came to a halt 'due to failure of an equipment'.The rescue operations were halted due to failure of an equipment which was earlier utilised to create a passage, New agency PTI reported quoting a...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to release the BJP's manifesto for upcoming Telangana assembly polls during his visit to the state on Saturday.After launching the manifesto, Shah will address poll rallies in Gadwal, Nalgonda and Warangal. Amit Shah will...
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West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose, who is also the Rector of the Visva-Bharati, on Friday sought a report from the university on installing new plaques with founder Rabindranath Tagore's name on it, as directed by the Centre. Bose also decided to rename the North Gate of Raj Bhavan as...
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OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT a year ago, said Friday it had dismissed CEO Sam Altman as it no longer had confidence in his ability to lead the Microsoft-backed firm.Altman, 38, became a tech world sensation with the release of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot with...
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In a road rage incident, a man allegedly bit and dismembered the portion of a finger of a 56-year-old person in the Khayala area of west Delhi, the police said on Friday. The police have registered an FIR against the accused and started probing the matter, they added. In his police...
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The naked bodies of a couple from Russia were found at a small pond near the holy town of Manikaran in Himachal Pradesh's Kullu district, the police said on Friday. The bodies found on Thursday bore some injury marks. The police said it appeared to be a case of suicide as the bodies...
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Israeli authorities said they have completed the distribution of hundreds of weapons to civilian standby security units in Sderot and other communities near the Gaza Strip. The defence ministry and Israel defence forces announced that they are now preparing to distribute hundreds of...
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