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Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus on Saturday condemned attacks on the minority communities in the violence-hit nation, terming them as heinous, and urged the youth to protect all Hindu, Christian, and Buddhist families from harm. Members of minority communities in Bangladesh faced...
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A two-storey banquet hall collapsed in northwest Delhi's Model Town area during heavy afternoon rain on Saturday afternoon, officials said. The incident took place in Mahendru Enclave where the old building, which was being repaired, collapsed around 2.45 pm, they said. Earlier in the...
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Members of a Hindu right wing outfit assaulted a group of people living near a railway station in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad and destroyed their shanties, claiming that they were Bangladeshi infiltrators, police said on Saturday. Officials said an FIR has been lodged against the leader...
20:25
Star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra is keeping his fingers crossed for wrestler Vinesh Phogat as she awaits a verdict on her appeal against disqualification from the Games but at the same time, he is also hoping that people don't forget what she did for the country if the decision is not in her...
20:16
Asserting that the idea of denying reservation to SCs and STs on account of the creamy layer concept is condemnable, the Congress Saturday said the government should have brought a legislation in Parliament to nullify that part of the Supreme Court judgement that talks about the issue.Congress...
19:20
Thirty-nine university students, some minors, were detained after police raided a rave party at a flat in Noida in Uttar Pradesh, an official said on Saturday. Information about the rave party at the Supernova residential society in Noida Sector-39 was received on Friday night,...
19:14
The Agniveer scheme is a golden opportunity for the youths to serve the nation, the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi has said.A total of 1,389 Agniveers, including 214 women, joined the service on Friday following 16 weeks of training, he said.It is a golden opportunity...
19:12
State-owned NHAI will have no other option but to cancel/terminate eight more severely-affected highway projects in Punjab with total length of 293 km costing Rs 14,288 crore, if the law and order situation does not improve, Union minister Nitin Gadkari wrote to Punjab chief minister Bhagwant...
19:08
Senior IAS officer T V Somanathan was on Saturday appointed Cabinet Secretary, succeeding Rajiv Gauba.A 1987-batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre, Somanathan is currently serving as Union Finance Secretary and Secretary, Expenditure.The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the...
17:47
Actor Arjun Rampal on Saturday requested his followers not to respond to any messages from his X account as it has been hacked. Rampal, 51, shared the news in a post on his official Instagram page. Not good news my X account been hacked. Please don't respond to...
17:24
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Saturday alleged Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray were trying to use the Maratha quota stir to trigger riots ahead of the state assembly elections, especially in Marathwada region.Addressing a news conference in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Raj...
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The Congress on Saturday said it is good that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Wayanad and hoped that he would find the time and the inclination to also visit Manipur which has been experiencing pain for more than 15 months now. The opposition party's remarks come on a day Modi is in...
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Heavy rains lashed parts of Himachal Pradesh as 128 roads remained closed in the state due to landslides and flash floods. The regional Met office has also issued an 'orange' warning for heavy to very rainfall, accompanied by thunderstorm and lightning, at isolated places on Saturday...
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Senior Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia on Saturday called upon party workers and people to fight against the dictatorship in the country, a day after he was released from jail in the Delhi excise policy case. Targeting the BJP, he also said these people are not more powerful than the...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday carried out an aerial survey of disaster-hit areas of this north Kerala district where landslides claimed hundreds of lives. Modi conducted aerial survey of the landslide-ravaged Chooralmala, Mundakkai, and Punchirimattom hamlets aboard an...
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Members of minority communities in Bangladesh faced at least 205 incidents of attacks in 52 districts since the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led government on August 5, according to two Hindu organisations in the violence-hit nation. The Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council...
12:02
Aam Aadmi Party leader and former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at the Rajghat memorial, a day after he was released from jail in the Delhi excise policy case. He reached the memorial after offering prayers at the Hanuman temple in...
11:59
India and Maldives have signed an agreement to introduce the Unified Payments Interface in the archipelago nation, which will have a very positive impact on its tourism sector, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed on Friday during...
11:41
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Kerala on Saturday to visit the landslides-hit areas of Wayanad district. Modi's flight landed at the international airport in Kannur at around 11 am.From the airport, he will depart to Wayanad by helicopter to visit certain areas that were struck by...
11:24
In a tragic plane crash, all 61 people people onboard were killed in Sao Paulo Friday afternoon, CNN reported citing a statement issued by airline Voepass. The company regrets to inform that all 61 people on board flight 2283 died at the scene, Voepass said in a statement, revising the...
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The Border Security Force is on high alert along the Indo-Bangladesh border in Assam in response to the ongoing crisis in Bangladesh. District commissioner Mridul Yadav said that the Integrated Check Post has been closed since Monday and not just import-export, even the movement of people is...
10:59
The police arrested one person for his alleged involvement in the murder of a woman postgraduate trainee doctor at the state-run Kar Medical College and Hospital, a senior officer said on Saturday. The man was an outsider who had free access to the different departments of the hospital, he...
10:28
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Four persons were trampled to death by an elephant in Jashpur district of Chhattisgarh, officials said on Saturday. Jashpur divisional forest officer Jitendra Upadhyay informed that the tragic incident took place at Gamhriya ward-9 under Bagicha Nagar panchayat on...
10:03
Former US President Donald Trump's plane was diverted on Friday (local time) to Billings, due to a mechanical issue, CBS News reported citing airport officials. Trump's plane suffered the technical snag, details of which are unconfirmed as of now, ahead of a scheduled rally in Montana's...
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Manish Sisodia shares a picture of having morning tea with his wife/Courtesy X
A day after being released from Tihar Jail on bail, senior Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia shared a picture of having morning tea with his wife, captioning it the first tea of an independent morning... after 17 months. This is his first post on X after being granted bail on Friday by...
09:41
Protesters outside UN against violence on Bangladeshi minorities/ X@HinduACT/ANI Photo
A large crowd gathered outside the United Nations headquarters on Saturday, demanding protection for Hindus and other minorities in Bangladesh. HinduACTion, a Washington-based NGO, said that people from all walks of life showed up spontaneously. In a post on X, HinduACTion...
09:22
The Bihar Police have arrested three persons from Gopalganj district and recovered 50 gm of a radioactive substance worth crores from their possession, officials said. The Gopalganj police also intimated officials of the Department of Atomic Energy, they said on Friday. Acting on a...
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The Border Security Force has tightened security along the Indo-Bangladesh international border in response to the ongoing crisis in Bangladesh. Deployment at border outposts has also been increased, and all surveillance equipment is being utilized to ensure effective...
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President Droupadi Murmu
President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday reached Timor-Leste, on the last leg of her three-nation visit, after concluding her visit to New Zealand and Fiji. This will be the first-ever presidential visit from India to Timor-Leste, a Southeast Asian nation. In a post on X, MEA spokesperson...
08:32
Veteran comedian-actor Mitzi McCall is no more. According to Variety, McCall breathed her last on Thursday in Burbank. She was 93. McCall will always be remembered for her remarkable work with her her husband, actor and comedian Charlie Brill, as part of the comedy duo...
08:21
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow has arrested six individuals involved in a smuggling syndicate operating through Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport airport, as per official statement released on Friday. The arrested accused include two passengers,...
08:15
Sheikh Hasina's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy/ANI Photo
Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy said that while he has no evidence of direct US involvement in the student protests in the country, the support for Muhammad Yunus--whom he describes as a darling of the west-- indicates possible foreign influence. Wazed...
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The DRDO has developed a bullet proof jacket consisting of lightest front hard armour panel for which novel material along with new processes have been used, the Lok Sabha was informed on Friday. In a written response to another query, Minister of State for Defence Sanjay Seth said out of...
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Police examining the seized drugs in Assam's Karimganj/ANI
In a joint operation, the Special Task Force of Assam police and Karimganj district police seized a huge quantity of drugs worth Rs 115 crore and arrested four accused in Karimganj district on Friday. The team led by IGP (STF) Partha Sarathi Mahanta and SP Partha Protim Das, seized 3.5 lakh...
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The Kerala police on Friday arrested a YouTuber for allegedly making derogatory remarks against actor Mohanlal over his visit to the disaster-hit regions in Wayanad district donning army fatigues. The Thiruvalla police on Friday morning arrested Aju Alex, who is known for his Chekuthan...
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The plane crashes into residential area in Brazil's Sao Paulo state/Screen grab
Just In: A plane carrying as many as 62 passengers on board crashed into a residential colony in Brazil's Sao Paulo state on Friday, said a BBC report. The twin-engine turboprop plane was on its way to Sao Paulo city airport from Cascavel in the southern state of Parana when it crashed in...
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