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A Lucknow court on Friday sentenced Bharatiya Janata Party MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi to six months' imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 1,100 for violating the code of conduct during the 2012 UP assembly elections. Joshi, the current BJP MP from Prayagraj, was convicted of holding a meeting...
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The NIA conducted searches at multiple locations in Tamil Nadu targetting LTTE-inspired group of people allegedly trying to raise an organisation in India mirroring the Sri Lankan terrorist organisation, officials said on Friday. The case, initially registered by the Tamil Nadu Police,...
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UPI formally launched at the iconic Eiffel Tower at the Republic Day reception/Courtesy Indian embassy on X
India on Friday formally launched UPI at the iconic Eiffel Tower here, terming it as taking Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of taking Unified Payments Interface global. Unified Payments Interface is an Indian instant payment system developed by the National Payments Corporation of...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party is likely to hold a meeting of its national council here on February 16-18, as it seeks to galvanise its cadre and lay down the agenda ahead of the Lok Sabha elections expected in April-May. The council is the BJP's largest national body and sources said more than...
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Rahul Gandhi during the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Panipat, January 7, 2023/ANI Photo
he Congress spent Rs 71.8 crore on its Kanyakumari to Kashmir Bharat Jodo Yatra which amounts to an average of more than Rs 49 lakh per day for the 145-day journey that culminated in Srinagar on January 30 last year. The party spent Rs 40,10,15,572 on pre-poll surveys in 2022-23, up from Rs...
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Government bodies have signed memoranda of understanding with Google, Facebook-owner Meta and IBM to foster innovation and investment in the country, Parliament was informed on Friday. Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar in a written reply to Rajya Sabha said that...
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Amid a series of departures from the Congress, Rahul Gandhi has said that leaders who are like Himanta Biswa Sarma and Milind Deora should part ways with the party, as they do not align with its ideology. Sarma who had defected to the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2014 is now the chief minister...
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Madhya Pradesh CM Mohan Yadav
Municipal corporations will be given more powers to make them financially self-reliant, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said here on Friday. Speaking after inaugurating the council hall of the Indore Municipal Corporation, Yadav said additional powers would include those needed to...
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Nepal's Supreme Court has issued a show-cause notice to the government about the recently signed long-term power deal with India, questioning whether the agreement requires endorsement by a majority of parliament members. Nepal signed the Power Trade Agreement to facilitate the export of...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Friday underwent cataract surgery at a hospital in Thane. He underwent operation for cataract in the right eye at a private hospital in the morning and was discharged after two hours, said an official in the Chief Minister's Office. The...
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In a scathing attack, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday challenged the Congress to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Hindi heartland states and said she has doubts whether the grand old party will secure even 40 seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Banerjee...
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India's security personnel the fishing vessel off Somalia coast/Courtesy Indian Navy on X
The Indian Navy foiled a piracy attempt on an Iranian-flagged, fishing vessel along the East coast of Somalia, officials said on Friday. Indian warship INS Sharda came to the rescue of the vessel FV Omaril with 11 Iranian and eight Pakistani crew members after it came under attack from...
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Congress leader DK Suresh
The Bharatiya Janata Party said on Friday Congress leader DK Suresh has no right to remain an MP even for a minute, as it accused him of openly talking of breaking India, thus violating his oath of protecting the country's unity and sovereignty. Will the country's unity and sovereignty be...
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Women personnel are being appointed onboard warships and also as special naval air operation officers in the Indian Navy, the government said in Lok Sabha on Friday. Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt said permanent commission is being granted to women officers in 12 arms and services...
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The Income Tax department on Friday said it has notified I-T return forms 2, 3 and 5 for filing tax returns for assessment year 2024-25. The ITR-1, which is filed by individuals having a total income of up to Rs 50 lakh, and ITR-6 for companies were notified earlier in December 2023, and...
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No new taxes were proposed in Gujarat's Rs 3.32 lakh crore budget for the next fiscal presented in the assembly on Friday as finance minister Kanubhai Desai announced a host of projects and schemes targeted at girls' education, women, the poor, youth and farmers. Desai presented the budget...
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The Law Commission has recommended that criminal defamation should be retained within the scheme of criminal laws in India. In its report on the law on criminal defamation, the panel asserted that it is important to keep in mind that the right to reputation flows from Article 21 of the...
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The Centre on Friday said it will sell 'Bharat Rice' in the retail market at Rs 29 per kg from next week to give relief to the common man and has also directed traders to disclose rice/paddy stock, as part of its efforts to control prices that have risen by around 15 per cent in the last one...
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On his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam says, I met PM Modi for the first time. I have no hesitation in saying that the PM definitely has the blessings of a divine power. With what I felt after meeting him, I can say that he is the symbol of...
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The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Friday claimed that the Varanasi district court decision allowing Hindu prayers in a cellar of the Gyanvapi mosque was taken in haste and said it would pursue the matter right up to the Supreme Court to get justice.Muslim organisations under the...
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The Congress on Friday hit out at the government after a video clip purportedly showed Indian shepherds confronting Chinese soldiers after being stopped from grazing their animals in an area in eastern Ladakh, and asked the home minister if there has been any effort to protect them from Chinese...
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Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel on Friday said the establishment of Rashtra Mandir in form of the magnificent Shri Ram Janmabhoomi temple stands as profound realisation of the unwavering resolve and deep-seated faith of the Indian people. Addressing the joint sitting of the...
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Bombay High Court dismisses the writ petition filed by actor Kangana Ranaut seeking a stay on the defamation case filed by veteran lyricist Javed Akhtar against her Details awaited.
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The Champai Soren-led coalition government in Jharkhand will seek trust vote on February 5, minister Alamgir Alam said on Friday after a Cabinet meeting. JMM legislature party leader Champai Soren took oath as the chief minister earlier in the day. The floor test to prove...
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In 2022, India had more than 14.1 lakh new cancer cases and over 9.1 lakh deaths due to the disease, and breast cancer was the most common, according to the latest estimates of the disease's global burden by the World Health Organization (WHO). Cancers of lip, oral cavity and lung were...
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday attacked the BJP, saying if it can rig the Chandigarh mayoral polls, it could go to any extent in assembly and Lok Sabha elections. He was addressing Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders and workers at a protest at the party's office in...
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The Allahabad High Court on Friday adjourned till February 6 hearing on an appeal filed by the Anzuman Intezamia Masjid Committee challenging an order of the Varanasi court allowing Hindu devotees to offer prayers in the cellar of Gyanvapi mosque. Justice Rohit Ranjan Agrawal passed...
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Top Tamil actor Vijay on Friday announced launching a political party, Tamizhaga Vetri Kazhagam, and said he will contest the 2026 Assembly polls in the state. Politics was not yet another vocation but holy public service, he said in a statement. Tamizhaga Vetri Kazhagam would loosely translate...
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Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren was on Friday remanded to five days' Enforcement Directorate custody by a special PMLA court in Ranchi in connection with a money laundering case linked to an alleged land fraud, lawyers said.Soren was arrested on Wednesday night after a...
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Social activist Harsh Mander
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case of alleged violation of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act against human rights activist Harsh Mander and his NGO and searched his premises on Friday, officials said.The home ministry had stated that Section 3 of the FCRA...
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Hardeep Singh Nijjar
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has launched an investigation into an overnight shooting incident at the South Surrey residence of Simranjeet Singh, a friend of India-designated Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Canada-based CBC news has reported. In a statement,...
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Dimple Yadav will contest from Mainpuri
Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav on Friday said the Congress and the Akhilesh Yadav-led party have finalised their seat-sharing agreement in Uttar Pradesh. SP will declare more candidates soon for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Asked whether the Congress can go with the...
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JMM legislature party leader Champai Soren sworn in as chief minister of Jharkhand. Soren was appointed to the chief minister's post on Thursday after he urged the governor to accept his claim to form the government at the earliest as there was confusion in the state which was without a chief...
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Nifty hits all-time high level; Sensex nears life-time peak of 73,427.59.
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Actor and model Poonam Pandey passed away on Friday at the age of 32 due to cervical cancer, according to her media manager. A post on Pandey's official Instagram account read, This morning is a tough one for us. Deeply saddened to inform you that we have lost our beloved Poonam to cervical...
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So far, Nitish Kumar was the BJP's barrier in Bihar, now that he is accommodated, the BJP can fill the Nitish vacuum with its own face.It will be a two-party fight in Bihar -- the BJP vs RJD, Dr Rajiv Kumar, who has just retired as head of the department of politics, Mahatma Gandhi Central...
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True to its tradition of nonalignment, India has declined to join the U.S.-led effort to keep open shipping lanes in the Red Sea, where Houthi rebels have pummeled merchant traffic indiscriminately with drones and antiship missiles. At the same time, though, New Delhi has dispatched ships of war...
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The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider an AAP councillor's request seeking urgent hearing of his plea challenging a Punjab and Haryana High Court order that refused to grant any interim relief to the party seeking fresh mayoral polls in Chandigarh. The matter was mentioned...
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The arterial Jammu-Srinagar national highway remained closed for the second day on Friday due to landslip at various places, officials said. Authorities were trying to clear the landslip debris and restore the traffic on the road connecting Kashmir to rest of the country. More than...
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The Supreme Court on Friday refused to interfere with a plea of former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren challenging his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in money laundering case. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna, MM Sundresh and Bela M Trivedi asked senior advocates Kapil Sibal...
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The Mumbai police are on alert and have launched a probe after a message claimed that bombs have been planted in the city and they would be set off, an official said on Friday. The traffic control room at Worli received a message around 12.30 am on Friday, claiming that there would be...
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Opposition INDIA bloc on Friday decided to raise the issue of arrest of JMM leader Hemant Soren in both houses of Parliament. Sources said the decision was taken at a meeting of INDIA bloc leaders, who met this morning in the chamber of Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge in Parliament...
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will not appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday for questioning in an alleged money laundering case linked to the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy, according to the AAP. The ED on Wednesday had issued a fresh and the fifth summons...
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Police stop AAP MLAs, councilors from protests
AAP MLAs and volunteers coming to participate in the party's protest outside the BJP headquarters in Delhi against the cheating in the Chandigarh mayoral polls are being stopped or detained, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal alleged on Friday. Security has been stepped-up in Central Delhi...
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Harsh Mander interacting with people during his Karwan-e-Mohabbat yatra in 2017
The CBI has registered a case of alleged violation of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act against an NGO established by writer and human rights activist Harsh Mander and conducted searches at its premises on Friday, officials said.Mander, a former member of the Sonia Gandhi-led National...
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Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma tweets his reaction to RBI's mandate to the company. To every Paytmer, Your favourite app is working, will keep working beyond 29 February as usual. I with every Paytm team member salute you for your relentless support. For every challenge, there is a...
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Sharing details of the grounds for arresting former chief minister Hemant Soren, the ED on Friday said it recovered cash worth in excess of Rs 36 lakh from the possession of the JMM chief along with documents linked to the ongoing investigation into the alleged acquisition of land by...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will stage a dharna here from Friday to protest against alleged withholding of the state's dues by the Centre. The issue of the Centre withholding the dues, particularly under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act...
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Akla chalo re...
With the Opposition alliance threatening to fall apart amid rising differences over seat-sharing, West Bengal Chief Minister and ruling TMC supremo, Mamata Banerjee, on Thursday asserted that her party would form the government at the Centre along with like-minded regional partners after the Lok...
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A 15-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped by two men from her village in Fatehpur, police said on Thursday.The two accused, Dayashankar and Shami, were arrested on Thursday, they said.The girl had gone to her sister's house in a village in Kanpur a few days ago. Dayashankar and Shami went...
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Another Indian student in the United States named Shreyas Reddy has been found dead in Cincinnati, Ohio, making it the third such case within a week.The cause of his death, however, remains unknown as of now.According to reports, Reddy was a student at the Linder School of Business.The Indian...
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Four persons have been arrested so far in connection with the alleged threats made against the Mavelikkara additional sessions judge on various social media platforms after the verdict was pronounced in the murder of BJP OBC wing leader Ranjith Sreenivasan, the police said on...
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Lawyers will remain absent from work at the sessions court in Mumbai on Friday to protest the recent murder of an advocate couple in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district, their association has said. The Bombay City Civil and Sessions Court Bar Association on Thursday held an extraordinary...
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Champai Soren
Jharkhand Governor CP Radhakrishnan on Thursday nominated Jharkhand Mukti Morcha legislative party leader Champai Soren as chief minister and invited him to take oath. The governor's principal secretary Nitin Madan Kulkarni told PTI: We have invited him to take oath. Now they will decide...
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