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The Vishva Hindu Parishad on Tuesday described Monu Manesar as an 'innocent gau-bhakt' and alleged that the Congress government in Rajasthan got him arrested ahead of assembly polls in the state with an eye on Muslim votes.Cow vigilante Monu Manesar, who was booked by the Rajasthan Police for the...
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A 35-year-old man in Gurugram allegedly died by suicide, recording and broadcasting the act through Instagram Live from a hotel room, the police said on Tuesday.The wife of the deceased Vikram, has accused a woman of blackmailing him and forcing her husband into suicide.According to the complaint...
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India had offered services of aircraft 'Air India One' to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after his special aircraft developed a technical glitch shortly before his departure from New Delhi after the G20 Summit, said sources.The Canadian side, however, declined the offer and chose to wait...
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Petrol pumps in Rajasthan will remain shut on Wednesday and Thursday between 10 am and 6 pm due to pump operators' protests.Rajendra Singh Bhati, State President of the Rajasthan Petroleum Dealers Association, said the protest will be held against high VAT on fuel in the state.The petrol pumps...
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Tech giant Apple is all set to unveil the much-awaited iPhone 15 series at its Wanderlust' event today. Apple will be livestreaming the event on their official YouTube handle and the grand event is scheduled to begin at 1 pm ET, ie, around 10.30 pm IST. According to The Verge, an...
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The Haryana Government has appointed actor Mita Vashisth as the chairperson of the governing council established to oversee the implementation of the Haryana Film and Entertainment Policy.The position of chairperson had become vacant after the sudden death of actor-filmmaker Satish Kaushik in...
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The Allahabad high court on Tuesday fixed September 18 for further hearing on a petition challenging the maintainability of a suit seeking 'restoration' of a temple where the Gyanvapi mosque stands in Varanasi, after neither the petitioner nor the defendant appeared in the case.The court of Chief...
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The Ahmedabad district authorities on Tuesday granted Indian citizenship to 108 Hindu refugees from Pakistan who have been living in Ahmedabad after arriving in India.Gujarat Minister of State for Home Harsh Sanghavi handed them citizenship certificates at the district collector's office, said a...
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Nine more people have died as heavy rains lashed Uttar Pradesh for the third day, taking the death toll to 28, while a red alert has been sounded on Tuesday in six districts including the worst-hit Barabanki and Gonda.A senior official said that in the past 48 hours, more than 100 mm of rainfall...
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Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe's LA residence, the only property she owned in her life, has been saved from demolition after a backlash from residents in the neighbourhood.Marilyn bought the palatial pad in the city's Brentwood area in 1962 after her divorce from Arthur Miller but was found dead...
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Watching pornographic photographs or videos in one's private time without showing it to others is not an offence under the law as it is a matter of personal choice, the Kerala high court has held.The high court said that declaring such an act as an offence would amount to intrusion of a person's...
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TMC MP and actor Nusrat Jahan was on Tuesday grilled by Enforcement Directorate (ED) sleuths for nearly six hours at its office in a case linked to alleged duping of senior citizens by promising them flats in New Town area here, a senior official of the probe body said.The 33-year-old actor, who...
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India's industrial production growth rose to a five-month high of 5.7 per cent in July, mainly due to good showing by the manufacturing, mining and power sectors, according to the official data released on Tuesday. The factory output growth measured...
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One terrorist was killed and three security personnel were injured in an ongoing search operation in a remote village in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, officials said. Additional Director General of Police, Jammu Zone, Mukesh Singh said an encounter broke out between...
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BJP workers locked up Union minister Subhas Sarkar in their party office in West Bengal's Bankura on Tuesday, alleging that he was being dictatorial in running the district unit.Sarkar, the MoS for Education and MP of Bankura, was chairing a meeting around 1 pm when a group of BJP workers...
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A local court in Vijayawada on Tuesday rejected a house custody petition filed by TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu, saying he would be safer in jail as his usual Z-plus security may not be provided to him under house arrest. The former chief minister was arrested for his alleged role in a...
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Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat has said anyone who speaks against the Sanatan Dharma would have his tongue pulled out and his eyes gouged out. A video of Shekhawat making the purported remarks went viral on social media. He was speaking at a public rally in Barmer district of...
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The vehicle in which the two men were burnt.
Monu Manesar, who was wanted in connection with the murder of two men from Rajasthan and for inciting the violence in Nuh in July, was arrested by the Haryana Police on Tuesday. He was produced in a court amid heavy security arrangements and sent to judicial custody for 14 days. Police...
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The Assam Assembly on Tuesday rejected by voice vote a private member's bill on preventing mob lynching as the state government said that offenders could be dealt with relevant sections of existing criminal laws and a new law is not needed. AIUDF legislator Aminul Islam had...
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About 40 per cent of sitting MPs have criminal cases registered against them out of which 25 per cent have declared serious criminal cases under charges of murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping and crimes against women, according to poll rights body ADR. The average worth of assets...
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Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in Himachal Pradesh
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday slammed the Centre over its decision to reduce customs duty on apples imported from the US, saying it will make import of American apples easier and the move has come at a time when apple growers were facing problems. Priyanka Gandhi,...
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A sheesham box
Visiting G20 Heads of State, leaders and their spouses were presented with handcrafted artefacts signifying India's rich culture by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Brazil: The Government of India presented a Kashmiri Pashmina Stole in a Papier Mache box to the spouse of Brazil President Lula da...
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The Congress Tuesday accused the BJP of making the Parliament a one-sided partisan thing amid reports that the ruling party's poll symbol 'Lotus' is being printed on the new uniform for Parliament staff. Congress whip in Lok Sabha Manickam Tagore questioned why the 'Lotus' was being...
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Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar tweets, On behalf of PM Narendra Modi and my colleagues in Govt, I was at the airport today to thank Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada for his presence at the G20 Summit and wished him and his entourage a safe trip back home. He had also...
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Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar and Shiv Sena (UBT) head Uddhav Thackeray held a meeting on Tuesday at the NCP leader's Silver Oak residence in Mumbai. The meeting lasted for about 90 minutes, but its details were not yet known. Maharashtra NCP president Jayant Patil and...
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's aircraft takes off from Delhi airport after being stranded for two days. In a statement today, the Trudeau's office said the plane has been cleared to fly. Trudeau and his delegation, who were to leave Delhi after the G20 summit on Sunday, are...
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned for four weeks the hearing of the bail plea filed by former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Umar Khalid in a UAPA case related to the alleged conspiracy behind the North-East Delhi riots in February 2020.A bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Bela...
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Union Minister Nitin Gadkari clarifies: There is an urgent need to clarify media reports suggesting an additional 10% GST on the sale of diesel vehicles. It is essential to clarify that there is no such proposal currently under active consideration by the government. In line with our...
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Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, on Tuesday said it has signed Bollywood diva Katrina Kaif as its brand ambassador. This is the second time in more than a decade the Gulf-based airline has collaborated with the Bollywood star. As the brand...
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Cow vigilante Monu Manesar, wanted in connection with the murders of two men from Rajasthan and for inciting the violence in Nuh in July, has been detained by the Haryana Police. Manesar is a key accused in the murder of two Muslim men from Rajasthan, whose bodies were found in a car in...
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Canada PM Justin Trudeau with PM Modi
The technical issue with the Canadian PM's plane has been resolved. The plane has been cleared to fly. The Canadian delegation is expected to depart this afternoon, says Mohammad Hussain, Press Secretary of Canada PMO. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been tranded along with his...
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday referred to a Constitution bench of at least five judges a batch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of the colonial-era provision of sedition under the Indian Penal Code (IPC). A bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud declined the...
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A meeting of Congress Observers for all 29 Lok Sabha seats in the state is underway at the residence of state Congress chief Kamal Nath in Bhopal. The meeting is being chaired by the party's general secretary K C Venugopal.The Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh hold great importance as they provide...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's flight to Dubai was delayed by at least three hours due to technical glitches, an official said on Tuesday. Banerjee and her team were scheduled to leave for a 12-day tour of Spain and Dubai from Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport at...
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Union minister V K Singh has said that Pakistan Occupied Kashmir will become a part of India on its own. Addressing a press conference as part of the BJP 'Parivartan Yatra' in poll-bound Rajasthan's Dausa, Singh said India has proved its mettle to the world by successfully hosting the...
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The ministry of power and energy in Sri Lanka has moved a cabinet-level memorandum to categorise the wind power projects awarded to Adani Green Energy Ltd (AGEL) as a 'government-to-government' deal between Colombo and New Delhi.The 500 Mw wind energy projects would become part of the memorandum...
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Three tribals belonging to the Kuki-Zo community were shot dead on Tuesday morning allegedly by militants of banned terror groups in Kangpopki district in Manipur, officials said here. They said the assailants came in a vehicle and attacked the villagers between the Ireng and Karam...
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The income tax department issued intimations to an estimated 5,00,000 taxpayers between April and August this year over 'zero' and 'lower advance tax payment'. The department sent these intimations after analysing 'significant transaction' data for the previous financial year and the first...
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A 43-year-old man from Maharashtra's Palghar district allegedly killed his live-in partner after she filed a rape complaint against him, police said on Tuesday. The incident took place between August 9 and 12 and the body of the 28-year-old victim is yet to be found, they...
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Equity benchmark indices continued their winning momentum on Tuesday early trade, climbing for the eighth day running, with the Nifty scaling its fresh all-time high level. A largely firm trend in global markets and fresh foreign fund inflows also added to the positive trend in equities in...
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The PM with his Chinese counterpart at the G20
India has imposed an anti-dumping duty on some Chinese steel for a period of another five years, according to an official gazette by the Ministry of Finance.An anti-dumping duty of USD 613 per tonne has been imposed on flat-base steel wheels from China, according to a notification on Monday. Such...
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The channel's Mumbai bureau chief quit after the chief editor allegedly told him to disrupt Rahul Gandhi's press meet. If you haven't read this report already, do read it here.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday morning left for an 11-day tour of Spain and Dubai, during which she will attend business summits to attract investments to the state. Banerjee flew for Dubai from Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose international airport at 9.40 am. She...
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At least 12 people, including a police officer and two other personnel, were injured in a clash between workers of the ruling BJP and opposition Tipra Motha in Tripura's Sepahijala district, police said. The incident took place in tribal-dominated Jampuijala area when BJP workers took out a...
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The Kerala Health Department sounded a health alert in Kozhikode district on Monday following two unnatural deaths suspected to be due to the Nipah virus infection. State Health Minister Veena George held a high-level meeting and reviewed the situation, the health...
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As many as 685 farmers have committed suicide this year till August 31 in Maharashtra's Marathwada region, according to an official report, with the highest deaths at 186 reported from Beed, the home district of state Agriculture Minister Dhananjay Munde. The arid region in central...
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The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on Monday said that the dogs picked up for sterilisation, immunisation, and observation are being released in their areas, an official statement said. The entire process is being carried out in consonance of the Animal Birth Control Rules, 2023, it...
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