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The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday served notices on its eight leaders in Jammu and Kashmir for indiscipline and sought unconditional apology from them. On September 11, the BJP had served a show-cause notice on its Jammu and Kashmir unit vice president Sofi Yousuf for indulging in...
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A total of 15,000 stray dogs will be vaccinated in Mumbai during a 10-day drive to make the metropolis rabies free, a civic official said on Friday. A release from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said 15,000 dogs will be vaccinated in P-North, R-South, R-Central, R-North, S and T...
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The Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday said a review petition will be filed before the Cauvery Water Management Authority and the Supreme Court on September 30, stating that we do not have water and therefore cannot release water. Earlier in the day, the CWMA endorsed the direction of its...
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Maruti Suzuki India on Friday said it has received a show cause notice from the GST Authority proposing to demand interest and impose penalty, besides appropriating tax already paid, amounting to Rs 139.3 crore. The notice pertains to the matter of tax liability under reverse charge basis on...
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A woman panchayat president in Tamil Nadu was prevented from assuming office merely because she hailed from the Scheduled Caste community, Governor RN Ravi said on Friday. The woman, P Indumathi (of Navakkaneri village panchayat, Tirupattur district), could not take the oath of office,...
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A massive fire broke out at Asia's largest wholesale vegetable market Azadpur Mandi on Friday, with officials saying it has been brought under control. A call was received at 5.20 pm about the blaze and 11 fire tenders were rushed to the spot. The fire was brought under control by 6.30...
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The Maharashtra government is thinking of launching its own weather satellite to get advance intimation of cyclones, cloud bursts, landslides and similar events, a state minister said here on Friday. The project can, however, take off only after getting necessary approvals from the Union...
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Russian flag carrier Aeroflot on Friday announced the resumption of its direct flight to Goa from Moscow and Ekaterinburg from September 30. The services will be operated to Goa's Dabolim International Airport, Aeroflot said in a statement. Besides Goa, the Russian carrier will also...
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More than 20 Aam Aadmi Party leaders and office-bearers from Northeast Delhi joined the Congress on Friday, with more expected to follow suit in the coming days, party officials said. More than 20 people, including former Delhi Congress secretaries Kuldeep Bhati and Yogendra Bhati and block...
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The Rs 2,000 denomination banknote will cease to have its value after Saturday and will be just another piece of paper if one does not get it exchanged in any bank, the Reserve Bank of India clarified on Friday. The RBI had earlier fixed September 30, 2023 as the last date for...
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A special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Mumbai on Friday granted bail to former policeman Sachin Waze in connection with a 2021 extortion case filed on the complaint of a hotelier. Waze had approached the special court in August this year after being denied bail by a metropolitan...
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The Bombay high court on Friday granted an interim stay till October 6 to an order issued by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board asking Rohit Pawar, an MLA of the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party, to close a unit of his firm Baramati Agro Ltd. A division bench led by Justice...
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At least a dozen persons including two police personnel were injured when miscreants pelted stones at a religious procession taken out by the Vishva Hindu Parishad in Gujarat's Narmada district on Friday, the police said. Stones were hurled at the VHP's `Shaurya Jagran Yatra' near a mosque...
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The century-old Roshanara Club in Delhi was sealed by the Delhi Development Authority on Friday, officials said. The action was taken in the early hours and comes nearly six months after an eviction notice' was served on the club by the DDA, a senior official said. The action took place...
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Benchmark Sensex rose by 320 points while Nifty closed above the 19,600 mark on Friday after value-buying in metal, financial and energy stocks aided by positive trends in the US and European markets. The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 320.09 points or 0.49 per cent to settle at...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday said that the Canadian allegations with regard to the death of a Khalistani separatist were discussed during his meeting with the Secretary of State Antony Blinken a day earlier, and noted that the two delegations came out better informed after the...
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The rupee appreciated 14 paise to settle at 83.05 (provisional) against the US dollar on Friday, boosted by a firm trend in equity markets and a sharp correction in the greenback against major rivals overseas. However, selling pressure from foreign equity investors and rising crude oil...
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A passenger onboard an Air India flight from the national capital to San Francisco earlier this month suffered burns after a cabin crew member accidentally spilled coffee on her, and the airline has apologised for the incident. The passenger took to social media to narrate her experience,...
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The Union ministry of home affairs has now allowed foreign tourists to stay overnight in Hanle, a remote high-altitude village in Ladakh's Changthang plateau, an official said on Friday. Hanle, known for India's first dark sky reserve, offers excellent stargazing conditions due to its...
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President Droupadi Murmu has given her assent to the women's reservation bill which seeks to provide 33 per cent reservation to women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies. According to a law ministry notification issued on Friday, the president gave her assent on Thursday. Now, it will...
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The Bombay high court
The Bombay high court on Friday closed for orders a bunch of petitions challenging the recently amended Information Technology Rules against fake news pertaining to the government on social media. A division bench of Justices Gautam Patel and Neela Gokhale said it would try to deliver its...
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The Calcutta high court
The Calcutta high court on Friday ordered the immediate removal of Enforcement Directorate assistant director Mithilesh Kumar Mishra from the central agency's team probing the alleged primary teacher recruitment scam in West Bengal. The court said it was dissatisfied with answers to its...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Telangana on Sunday during which he will lay the foundation stone and dedicate to the nation multiple developmental projects worth more than Rs 13,500 crore, his office said. At around 2:15 pm on Sunday, the prime minister will reach Mahabubnagar...
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In what could be termed as one of the biggest pushes for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Make in India' in the defence sector, the Indian Air Force is going to place orders for 156 more Prachand light combat helicopters, with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, which would be deployed at both the...
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At least 12 persons were killed, including nine from drowning, during Ganpati idol immersions over the past 24 hours across Maharashtra, the police officials said on Friday. The immersions began on Thursday on the occasion of Anant Chaturdashi, marking the end of the 10-day...
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Actor-filmmaker Prithviraj Sukumaran on Friday said he has recovered from his knee injury and will soon return to work with 100 per cent energy. In an Instagram post, Sukumaran said it has been three months since he injured his knee while shooting for an action sequence for his upcoming...
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Bahujan Samaj Party MP Danish Ali
Amid a row over Ramesh Bidhuri's derogatory remarks in the Lok Sabha against him, Bahujan Samaj Party MP Danish Ali on Friday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make a public statement condemning Bidhuri's behaviour and ensure suitable punishment to the Bharatiya Janata Party MP. In a...
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A 25-year-old Maoist carrying a reward of Rs 14 lakh was killed in an encounter with an elite combat unit of the Madhya Pradesh police in the state's Balaghat district on Friday morning, a senior official said. The Maoist, identified as Kamlu, was an active member of the Maoist Dalam Tanda...
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the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) on Friday said it has sent a Rs 100-crore defamation notice to Bharatiya Janata Party MP Maneka Gandhi for questioning the religious organisation over its upkeep of cows in its gaushalas (cowsheds).An undated video of the former central...
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A 16-year-old boy ended his life by suicide in the north Kerala district of Kozhikode allegedly after he received a fake message in the name of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) seeking payment for accessing an unauthorised movie website, the police said on Friday.Adinath, a 11th standard...
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said the Aam Aadmi Party is committed to the opposition's Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) and will not break away from it.His comments assume significance against the backdrop of the Congress' Punjab unit accusing the Aam...
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The first part of Prabhas's action film series Salaar will hit the theatres on December 22, the makers announced on Friday, setting the stage for a box office clash with superstar Shah Rukh Khan's Dunki releasing on the same day. Producer Hombale Films shared the release date of the...
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A court in Varanasi has rejected the Gyanvapi mosque management committee's plea to stop the ongoing scientific survey of the complex by the Archaeological Survey of India. District government advocate Rajesh Mishra said that on the plea filed by the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid's committee,...
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Gangster Sachin Bishnoi alias Sachin Thapan, who was allegedly involved in the murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala, was remanded to Punjab police custody till October 6 by a court in Mansa on Friday. Bishnoi was extradited from Azerbaijan last month. On Friday, he was brought to...
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The Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) will take precautions to ensure that there are no disputes among its alliance partners in states like Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh where elections are due in a few months, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar said on Friday.He...
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Kamal Haasan in 'Nayakan'
As actor Kamal Haasan turns 69 on November 7, plans are afoot to re-release his best-known (though not necessarily best) film Nayakan, a tribute to The Godfather which director Mani Ratnam denied being a tribute to the Marlon Brando classic. However, Kamal...
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Two persons have been detained in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur in connection with a Rs 20-crore burglary from a jewellery shop in Delhi's Bhogal area, officials said on Friday.According to a senior police officer, interrogation of the accused persons is underway.At least three unidentified people were...
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The Gujarat police have registered an FIR against Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the chief of banned outfit Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), for threatening to turn the Cricket World Cup, starting on October 5 at Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad, into World Terror Cup, an official said on Friday. In the...
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Senior Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Friday said he will participate in the party's protest programme in New Delhi on October 3, a day after he was summoned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for questioning in connection with the school jobs scam in Kolkata on the same...
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JUST IN: 44 flights including 22 arrivals and 22 departures have been cancelled today, says PRO of Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru.More details awaited. -- ANIIMAGE: Police detain members of pro-Kannada organisations, protesting over the Cauvery issue, at...
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Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has imposed a total ban on serving hookah in hotels, restaurants, bars and commercial establishments in Haryana. Teams will be formed to stop the serving hookah in bars, pubs and restaurants. Amit Bhatia, Deputy Excise Commissioner in the State said,...
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The situation in Manipur's Imphal valley was calm but tense on Friday morning after a night of violent clashes including an attempt to attack the empty ancestral residence of Chief Minister N Biren Singh.Authorities relaxed curfew in Imphal East and Imphal West districts from 5am to 11pm to help...
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Incessant rains since last night, caused waterlogging and traffic snarls in several parts of Kerala on Friday.In the wake of continuous rains, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued an Yellow alert warning in 10 districts-Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, Kottayam, Idukki, Ernakulam, Thrissur,...
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A group of eminent Indian-Americans has condemned the brazen hateful comments and a hostile environment against Hindus in Canada and asked Ottawa not to mix freedom of expression with freedom for terror and endorse hate crimes by being silent on the issue.The demand by Indian-Americans came after...
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Four people, including a nine-year-old boy, who were under treatment for Nipah in Kozhikode, have recovered, state Health Minister Veena George said on Friday. Sharing the 'good news', the minister said in a brief statement that they have tested 'double negative' (they were tested twice and...
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As the 10-day-long Ganeshotsav drew to a close on Thursday, thousands of idols of the elephant-headed god were immersed in water bodies, including artificial ponds, in Mumbai in the presence of a sea of devotees.Mumbai's famous Lalbaugcha Raja idol, whose procession started at 11.30 am on...
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The Karnataka bandh called by the 'Kannada Okkoota' to oppose release of water to Tamil Nadu received a good response in Bengaluru and other southern parts of the State on Friday, disrupting normal life.Authorities have clamped prohibitory orders under Section 144 of Criminal Procedure Code in...
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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said his government will ensure that the accused arrested for raping and brutalising a minor girl in Ujjain gets stringent punishment.The accused, identified as Bharat, was caught and he suffered injuries in the process. I was following...
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that Canada is still committed to building closer ties with India, despite 'credible allegations' of the Indian government's involvement in the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Canada-based National Post reported.Pointing to the...
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Former minister and seven-time MLA from Rajasthan's Kolayat, Devi Singh Bhati joined the BJP in the presence of Union Minister Pralhad Joshi in Jaipur on Thursday. In this regard, Rajasthan BJP took to X (Former Twitter) and said, Former minister and seven-time former MLA Devi Singh Bhati...
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The Afghan embassy in India has purportedly come out with a communication on closing down its operations and New Delhi is examining its authenticity, sources said on Thursday.The embassy has been headed by Ambassador Farid Mamundzay and it is learnt that he is currently in London.Mamundzay was...
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Hardeep Singh Nijjar
The killing of Khalistani separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar remains an active and ongoing investigation, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have said. Nijjar, the chief of the banned Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF), was killed in Surrey, British Columbia on June 18. India had designated...
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Five North Central Railway staff have been suspended pending an investigation after an EMU train climbed on to the platform at the Mathura station, officials said on Thursday. A video purportedly of the incident that occurred on Tuesday midnight has gone viral on social media, but the Indian...
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Ahead of the Telangana assembly polls, BRS leaders Mynampally Hanumanth Rao and Vemula Veeresham joined the Congress on Thursday in the presence of party chief Mallikarjun Kharge at his residence in New Delhi. While Rao is a sitting MLA from Malkajgiri, Veeresham is a former MLA. State...
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The Delhi police is hard on heels of the burglars who executed one of the biggest heists in the city making off with gold worth Rs 20 crore from a jewellery shop, an officer said on Thursday. A senior police officer said several people have been questioned in connection with the incident and...
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The opposition All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam on Thursday said it will not go back on its decision of severing ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party and reiterated that the party would cobble up an alliance for the 2024 Lok Sabha poll and the next assembly election too. The party's...
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A 14-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped by three men, including her uncle, in this district, the police said on Thursday. The incident took place in Dhampur police station area on Wednesday, they said. All the three accused have been arrested, station house officer Kiran Pal Singh...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday met US national security advisor Jake Sullivan and US trade representative Katherine Tie and discussed the progress in bilateral relations, including the trade and economic cooperation and ways to take it forward. Jaishankar, who arrived...
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Amid the ongoing diplomatic tussle between India and Canada over the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a group of hackers claiming to be Indian Cyber Force temporarily disabled the official website of Canadian army, The Telegraph, London, reported on Thursday. The...
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