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At least five army personnel, including a couple of officers, were injured when an officer allegedly opened fire and exploded grenades inside a camp in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, official sources said. The incident took place near Thanamandi and efforts were on...
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Recounting how she was branded a 'chudail' or a 'witch' after she was accused of abetting her partner and film star Sushant Singh Rajput's suicide by his family, actor Rhea Chakraborty on Thursday said any woman who didn't subscribe to patriarchy is called such names. Chakraborty was...
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The Congress on Thursday expressed solidarity with AAP MP Sanjay Singh and said it rejects the use of government agencies to settle political scores, but also opposed the arrest of party leaders Sukhpal Khaira and O P Soni in AAP-ruled Punjab. Senior Congress leader K C Venugopal said...
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A British Sikh crossbow-armed intruder who pleaded guilty to committing treason after telling royal guards at Windsor Castle on Christmas Day 2021 that he was there to kill Queen Elizabeth II was sentenced to nine years imprisonment by a UK court on Thursday. Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, who...
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The Nanded hospital. Pic: Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Thursday directed collectors in the state to visit all the medical colleges, government hospitals, hospitals under civic bodies and primary healthcare centres in their respective districts and submit a report on the current status of the facilities.In a...
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The National Human Rights Commission has sent a notice to the Maharashtra government over death of a large number of patients at two state-run hospitals in Nanded and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar districts within 24 hours. Besides, the National Human Rights Commission has asked its...
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India on Thursday said it raised its concerns with the United States over American envoy to Islamabad Donald Blome's recent visit to Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and called on the world community to respect the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity. External...
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Senior Aam Aadmi Party leader Sanjay Singh promised favours to the beneficiaries of the Delhi excise policy 'scam' with the help of former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, the Enforcement Directorate Thursday claimed before a city court which remanded the Rajya Sabha MP in ED's custody for...
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Shabir Shah. Pic: Fayaz Kabli/Reuters
The Centre on Thursday banned jailed separatist Shabir Ahmad Shah's Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (JKDFP) for five years for its anti-India and pro-Pakistan activities, according to an official notification. The ban was ordered under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention)...
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The Enforcement Directorate has summoned comedian Kapil Sharma, actors Huma Qureshi and Hina Khan for questioning on different dates in connection with its money laundering probe linked to the Mahadev betting app case, officials said on Thursday. The federal probe agency had already...
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The Delhi police have registered a case against a man for allegedly creating a ruckus and abusing the flight crew on an Air India flight from New York to Delhi, officials said on Thursday. Officials said that a case has been registered against a passenger on the Air India flight for creating...
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A 23 year-old-woman who was working with a private company allegedly hanged herself in her rented accommodation in Sukhrali village in Gurugram, Haryana, the police said on Thursday. In a suicide note recovered from her room, she said a female employee of a credit card firm was responsible...
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Ajit with uncle Sharad Pawar. Pic: Sahil Salvi
Maharashtra minister and rebel NCP leader Hasan Mushrif on Thursday ruled out the possibility of returning to the party faction led by Sharad Pawar. Mushrif, who joined the Shiv Sena-BJP government in the state along with Ajit Pawar and a few other Nationalist Congress Party leaders in July,...
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The Madras high court on Thursday refused to grant bail to Youtuber TDF Vasan, who was arrested for causing an accident on the highway. Vasan was arrested on September 19 in a case filed by the Baluchetty Chatram police for driving a two-wheeler in a fast, careless, and dangerous manner on...
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A Delhi court Thursday sent senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh to the custody of the Enforcement Directorate for five days, a day after the anti-money laundering agency arrested him in the Delhi excise policy case.Special Judge M K Nagpal remanded Singh in ED custody till October 10 to enable the...
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China's assertiveness is more evident with its rise and India will have to take this aspect into account in its overall strategic calculus, Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan said on Thursday. Delving into disruptions in global geopolitical order, he also underlined the need for India...
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The government on Thursday approved the extension of tenure for State Bank of India (SBI) Chairman Dinesh Khara till August next year, sources said. The approval comes ahead of the end of his three-year tenure on October 6, 2023. As per the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC)...
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Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Thursday said a 190-km long tunnel has been proposed to ease traffic congestion in the city and within 45 days, the state government will be inviting public tenders for it. Addressing a press conference at Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru, he said...
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The Indian Air Force has put all measures in place to counter the threat of drones from across the Indo-Pak border in Jammu, a senior IAF official said, adding that it is prepared for all eventualities. The official added that most operations undertaken by IAF in the region have been...
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India on Thursday said it is engaged in discussions with Canada on the issue of ensuring parity in its diplomatic presence in India. We sought parity in Canada's diplomatic presence in India and discussions are ongoing, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said.Our focus is...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said anti-terror agencies will have to adopt such ruthless approach that new terrorist organisations are not formed in the country. Addressing an anti-terror conference in New Delhi, Shah also said not only terrorism, but the entire ecosystem of the...
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The second phase of the Indian Army's recruitment rally for Agniveer and regular cadre will be held between November 1 and 7 in Mumbai, the defence ministry said on Thursday. The rally will be held at the Mumbai University Ground in Kalina. The second phase of Indian Army's...
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A Varanasi court on Thursday granted four more weeks to the Archaeological Survey of India to complete the scientific survey of the Gyanvapi mosque complex and submit its report, and added that the duration of the survey will not be extended beyond this. Government counsel Rajesh...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday congratulated the makers of The Vaccine War, saying the movie has made every Indian feel proud. The Vivek Agnihotri-directed movie, which released theatrically on September 28, is based on the true story of Indian scientists, their fight against the...
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The Swedish Academy on Literature Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse: ... has much in common with his great precursor in Norwegian Nynorsk literature Tarjei Vesaas. Fosse combines strong local ties, both linguistic and geographic, with modernist artistic techniques. He includes in his...
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The 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse, for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.
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Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi holds a placard outside Parliament. File pic
Enforcement Directorate seeks 10 days custody of arrested AAP leader Sanjay Singh. Sanjay Singh says his arrest is Modiji's injustice, and he will lose the election.The ED on Wednesday morning raided Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh's home in connection with a money laundering case...
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Priyanka Gandhi Vadra at a rally in Chhattisgarh
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra took on the Shivraj Chouhan government in an election rally in Dhar.Priyanka targeted the Shivraj government alleging that corruption was deep seated in the state. She alleged that no investigation has been conducted in Madhya Pradesh though...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair a review meeting on 'Left Wing Extremism (LWE)' here in the national capital on Friday. The meeting, to be held on Friday morning, is likely to be attended by Chief Ministers, Home Ministers or their representatives from states of Bihar,...
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A sessions court in Mumbai on Thursday convicted artist Chintan Upadhyay for abetting and conspiring to kill his wife wife Hema Upadhyay and her lawyer Haresh Bhambhani. The others accused - Vijay Rajbhar, Pradeep Rajbhar, Shivkumar Rajbhar and Azad Rajbhar - were convicted on charges...
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Gayatri Joshi and her husband Vikas Oberoi with their son
Actor Gayatri Joshi's husband Vikas Oberoi is under investigation after a high-speed crash involving two supercars -- a Laborghini and a Ferrari -- in Italy's Sardinia. According to several reports, Oberoi was driving the blue Lamborghini Huracan. The 54-year-old is in the list of suspects...
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Journalists hold a protest at the Delhi press club
The Delhi Police called journalist Abhisar Sharma for questioning on Thursday in connection with a case filed under anti-terror law UAPA, following charges that the NewsClick portal received money for spreading pro-China propaganda, officials said. According to the officials, the...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a dig at Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot over his absence at the official event here on Thursday in which projects of about Rs 5,000 crore were unveiled and said the Congress leader has confidence that when Modi comes, everything will be fine.PM Modi, who...
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Army trucks covered in the silt of the Teesta river
The troops of the Army's Trishakti Corps extend medical aid and telephone connectivity to civilians and tourists stranded in the areas of Chungthang, Lachung and Lachen in north Sikkim while the search operation for 22 missing Indian army personnel continues. Continued efforts are on...
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Actor Vishal
The CBI has lodged an FIR against three persons and unidentified officials of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) on the allegations of actor Vishal that he had to pay Rs 6.5 lakh to get a certificate for his film Mark Antony, officials said on Thursday. The action was followed by...
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France has been overwhelmed in recent weeks following the outbreak of bedbugs that have not only wreaked havoc in Paris and Marseille but also are spotted almost everywhere in the cities creating panic among locals, CBS News reported.Notably, the French capital has been invaded by the bedbugs...
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A 55-year old Andhra Pradesh police head constable allegedly shot dead three members of his family -- wife and two daughters -- and later shot himself to death, an official said on Thursday. The incident, which is entirely due to personal reasons, came to light on Thursday morning and...
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Atul Dodiya's painting of the Mahatma with Pt Nehru, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Maulana Azad
Marking Gandhi Jayanti 2023, MVIA in collaboration with INTACH Greater Mumbai Chapter will hold a talk on 'Gandhi - An Artist of Non-Violence' by one of India's foremost contemporary artists -- Atul Dodiya.Born in 1959 in Mumbai, Atul Dodiya trained at the Sir JJ School of Art, in 1982, and cole...
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Fresh violence broke out in Manipur's Imphal West district where at least two houses were set on fire and several rounds of bullets were fired, police said on Thursday.The incident happened in New Keithelmanbi in Patsoi police station area around 10 pm on Wednesday, they said. After the attack,...
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Two terrorists were killed in an ongoing encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam district, yesterday. According to officials, the bodies of killed terrorists are being retrieved from the site of the encounter. 2 terrorists killed. Bodies of the killed terrorists...
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Historian Ramachandra Guha tweets this image writing, "My friend Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, indomitable as ever."
The Delhi Police on Thursday opposed the applications filed for the supply of a copy of the FIR by NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and human resources department head Amit Chakravarty, arrested in a case lodged under anti-terror law UAPA following allegations that the news portal had...
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Pigs roam outside the hospital. Pic: Reuters
A case has been registered against the Dean and doctors of the Delivery Department of the Dr Shankarrao Chavan Medical College and Hospital following the deaths of patients in the facility within a span of two days. A FIR has been registered against them under Sections 304 and 34 of the IPC,...
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Dr Kafeel Khan, who says he was made a scapegoat in the 2017 Gorakhpur hospital deaths case, has written a letter thanking actor Shah Rukh Khan for portraying the incident in his latest film, the blockbuster Jawan. In the action drama, a character played by Sanya Malhotra goes...
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Mishti Haldar, 28, woke up on Wednesday morning to find that the Teesta was flowing almost within touching distance from her porch at Matigara near Siliguri. The fast-flowing river, which is normally about 250 metre away from her house, was carrying with it camps, utensils and animal...
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Janasena TDP chief Pawan Kalyan
Actor and politician Pawan Kalyan on Thursday said that he has come out of BJP-led NDA to support TDP during difficult times.He said that Janasena TDP is needed for good governance and development of Andhra Pradesh.TDP is a strong party and Andhra Pradesh needs the Telugu Desam Party for good...
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Khadi on the ramp
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday expressed delight at the record-breaking sale of Rs 1.52 crore at 'Khadi Bhawan' in Delhi's Connaught Place and said that the purchase of the hand-woven cloth across the country shows how it has become a symbol of public sentiment.The new record of the...
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In the list of 10 key regulatory institutions in India, a development has emerged. For the first time in 20 years, two chairpersons, both in the financial sector -- namely the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) and the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) --...
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As Typhoon Koinu's storm encircled Taiwan between 6 am Wednesday (October 4) and 6 am Thursday (October 5), its defence ministry (MND) tracked one Chinese military aircraft and three navy vessels across the nation, Taiwan News reported. The People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF)...
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The Madhya Pradesh government has issued a notification for providing 35 percent reservation in recruitment to women, barring the Forest department in the state.The state government has made an amendment to the Madhya Pradesh Civils Services (Special Provision for Appointment of Women) Rules,...
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Accused Ashish Mishra
Lawyer for victims' kin says the prosecution has 171 pieces of documentary evidence linking the crime to accused Ashish Mishra. Read the report here.
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A Congress Working Committee meeting is likely to be held on October 9 in Delhi, to discuss various issues from the Women Reservation Act to the caste-based census, sources said on Wednesday.The meeting is likely to discuss the current political situation in the country, the Caste-based census,...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit Rajasthan and poll-bound Madhya Pradesh on Thursday to lay the foundation stones of a slew of projects, including rail and road works and a memorial dedicated to Rani Durgavati, said an official statement. At around 11:15 am, the PM will lay the...
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The Sikkim Government has confirmed that 14 people have died so far in the flash floods that occurred in Sikkim in the early hours of Wednesday.The 14 deceased are all civilians while 102 people are still missing.Over 3,000 tourists are feared to be stranded in different parts of the State. 12-14...
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Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Wednesday said he was not contesting the coming Madhya Pradesh assembly elections only to become an MLA, and the party will give him some important responsibility. The ruling party sprang a surprise last month when it...
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The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Wednesday said the possible cause of the flash flood in Sikkim could be a combination of excess rainfall and a Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) event at South Lhonak lake in North Sikkim. In a statement, the NDMA also said the Himalayan...
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