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Mumbai-based Islamic preacher Mufti Salman Azhari was on Thursday taken under preventive detention by the Gujarat police soon after he was granted bail in a hate speech case registered against him in the state's Arvalli district. Earlier in the day, the court of Additional Sessions Judge HN...
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NCP founder Sharad Pawar
The Election Commission of India on Thursday allotted man blowing turha (a traditional trumpet) as the symbol of the Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar, the outfit's spokesperson Clyde Crasto said. Our candidates will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls on this symbol, he told...
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Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Manohar Joshi suffered a cardiac arrest and has been admitted in the ICU of PD Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai, the private medical facility said on Thursday. In a statement, the hospital said Joshi (86), a former Speaker of the Lok Sabha, was admitted to the...
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The role of a British national is being probed in connection with the recent seizure of 1,700 kilograms of mephedrone worth around Rs 3000-3500 crore in the illicit market, a police official said here on Thursday. The mephedrone was seized after operations in several cities, including New...
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YS Sharmila Reddy along with party workers and leaders protest against the state government/ANI Photo
Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president YS Sharmila was detained on Thursday on her way to the Secretariat in Guntur district, along with party leaders and activists as part of the 'Chalo Secretariat' protest walk to submit a representation, a police official said. Guntur district...
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A Class 12 student died after he allegedly jumped off the 22nd floor of a building at a group housing society in Noida Extension, within hours of taking the board exam on Thursday, the police said.While the exact reason for the extreme step was yet to be ascertained, the police said the student,...
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CEO Byju Raveendran
Edtech firm Think and Learn Private Ltd, owner of BYJU'S, on Thursday said neither the company's founder and CEO Raveendran Byju nor any other board member will attend the extraordinary general meeting called by some select investors. Shareholders at Byju's are set to vote on Friday on a...
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Dubai has introduced a five-year multiple-entry visa to boost travel between India and the Gulf nation, according to the Dubai department of economy and tourism. In 2023, Dubai welcomed 2.46 million overnight visitors from India, which is a 25 percent increase from the pre-pandemic...
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BBC's new chairman Dr Samir Shah/Courtesy BBC on X
India-born media executive Dr Samir Shah was on Thursday confirmed as the new BBC chairman after his selection cleared the stages of scrutiny to be approved by King Charles III this week. Shah, who has worked in UK broadcasting for over 40 years, was picked as the government's preferred...
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The Friday's proposed Delhi march of protesting farmers in Noida and Greater Noida has been called off after their meeting with the local administration and the police, a protesting group said. The Thursday's announcement comes a day after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ordered...
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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar will be on a day-long tour of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district on Friday during which he will attend events of Nationalist Congress Party and also chair an official review meeting. After landing in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar in central...
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Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar
A motion of no confidence brought by the Congress against the Bharatiya Janata Party-Jannayak Janta Party government in Haryana was defeated through voice vote after the Opposition party's MLAs walked out from the assembly. At the end of a four-hour-long discussion on the motion,...
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge/File image
Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has been granted Z-plus security across the country by the Union home ministry, official sources said Thursday. The decision was taken by the home ministry early this month based on the threat perception of Kharge, they...
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An MLA from the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena has claimed that he hunted a tiger 37 years ago and wears its tooth around his neck. A video of Sanjay Gaikwad, who represents the Buldhana constituency in Maharashtra's Vidarbha region, making the claim has gone viral on social media. In the...
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Former Janata Dal-United president Rajiv Ranjan Singh 'Lalan' on Thursday filed a defamation suit against a leading news channel and a Hindi daily for their reports regarding his relinquishment of the top party post. Lalan lodged the case at a court in Patna and shared the details on his...
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The Jalpaiguri Circuit Bench of the Calcutta high court on Thursday verbally observed that the naming of a lioness and lion as Sita and Akbar should have been shunned to avoid controversy. The bench also suggested that the West Bengal Zoo Authority take a prudent decision by renaming...
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The Central Board of Secondary Education is planning a pilot run of open-book exams in selected schools for classes 9 to 12 later this year, according to officials. The idea was floated in the last governing body meeting of the Board in December, 2023. Officials, however, said there is no...
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Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal
Aam Aadmi Party leader Atishi claimed on Thursday that the party's national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will be arrested in the next three to four days if the party enters into a seat-sharing agreement with the Congress for the Lok Sabha polls. Addressing a press...
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Defending champions Chennai Super Kings will take on Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 2024 IPL season-opener in Chennai on March 22, the BCCI announced Thursday while unveiling the schedule for only the first 17 days of the popular T20 league. The roster for the remaining matches will be...
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Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is set to join the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Moradabad on February 24 and will be part of it for the remainder of its Uttar Pradesh leg over the weekend, sources said Thursday. She was to participate in the yatra when it entered Uttar...
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The Allahabad high court will hear again on Friday a plea challenging maintainability of a suit seeking removal of Shahi Idgah mosque in Mathura which it claims has been built on 13.37 acre land of Katra Keshav Deo temple. After hearing counsels of the both sides, Justice Mayank Kumar Jain...
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Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi holds up a placard
The Congress on Thursday accused the Narendra Modi government of capturing democracy through extortion and financial terrorism, and claimed that at least 30 firms donated huge sums to the BJP following raids by probe agencies such as the CBI, ED and the Income Tax Department. The...
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A 14-year-old girl has been allegedly raped over a period of four months and impregnated by her grandfather at a village in Krishna district, police said on Thursday. According to Avanigadda DSP Muralidhar, the minor girl is studying in class 9 in Zilla parishad school in Mopidevi...
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A special court in Ranchi on Thursday denied permission to former Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren to participate in the state Budget session beginning Friday. Soren, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on January 31 in a money laundering case, had filed a petition before the special...
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Fresh protests rocked parts of trouble-torn Sandeshkhali on Thursday afternoon as enraged locals took to the streets against local TMC leaders accused of sexual abuse of the women folk and forcible land grabbing in the area. Armed with sticks, they set ablaze a thatched structure near...
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On Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated in the golden jubilee celebration of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), which operates the popular dairy brand Amul, in Ahmedabad.Amul's entrepreneurial spirit has made it one of the strongest dairy brands in the...
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The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) team, which reached trouble-torn Sandeshkhali in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district on Thursday morning, has received over 23 complaints of forcible land grabbing and torture during their interaction with locals there, a senior official...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to address a women's rally in Barasat in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district on March 6, state BJP president Sukanta Majumdar said on Thursday. Majumdar said if the tortured women of Sandeshkhali express their willingness to meet the PM, the...
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Talks between the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress over seat sharing in Delhi for the Lok Sabha polls are in final stages and the two sides are likely to announce their tie-up soon, sources said on Thursday.Both sides have agreed on the seats to be contested by each party.The AAP will field...
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The Congress alleged on Thursday that democracy is being murdered in the country, after microblogging platform X voiced disagreement with the BJP-led Centre's order to block accounts and posts related to ongoing farmers' protests. X also called for extending freedom of expression to...
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The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday searches the premises of prominent real estate group Hiranandani on charges of foreign exchange violation, official sources said. About four-five premises in and around Mumbai are being covered. The probe pertains to alleged contravention of the Foreign...
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Update: OTT platform Netflix on Thursday told the Bombay High Court that it would not release the documentary series on Indrani Mukerjea, who is facing trial for allegedly killing her daughter Sheena Bora, till February 29. A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Manjusha...
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The Bombay High Court asks Netflix to allow the CBI to view the docuseries, Buried Truth - the Indrani Mukerjea Story.The docuseries will not go on air tomorrow.The release of the Netflix documentary on Indrani Mukerjea, a former media boss accused of murdering her 25-year-old daughter, has been...
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The Bombay High Court on Thursday quashed the Look Out Circulars (LOCs) issued against Rhea Chakraborty, her brother and father by the CBI in connection with its probe into the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Manjusha Deshpande...
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The Directorate of Enforcement on Thursday issued the seventh summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to appear before the agency. Sources say the Delhi CM has been asked to appear before the ED on February 26.On February 14, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had issued a sixth summons to...
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CJI DY Chandrachud inaugurates the AYUSH Holistic Wellness Centre at the Supreme Court premises.CJI Chandrachud says, I have been associated with AYUSH since Covid broke. I had a really bad attack of Covid and the Prime Minister called me up and said, 'I believe that you are down with Covid and I...
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So, the person skiing in the gorgeous snow-laden slopes of Gulmarg in Kashmir is its former chief minister -- Omar Abdullah.Abdullah has been camping in white, white Gulmarg for the last several days and shares amazing pictures of the hill station like the one alongside, every day.
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After the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs increased the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) of sugarcane, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday that the government is committed to fulfilling every resolution related to the welfare of our farmer across the country.Our government is...
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The BJP on Thursday released a documentary on its social media handles to highlight the alleged land grab and sexual exploitation of women at Sandeshkhali in West Bengal and attacked the state's Trinamool Congress government. The BJP said on X about the over 20-minute long video, A...
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A Pak drone that was downed in Punjab last year
The Border Security Force (BSF) found a drone-dropped improvised explosive device (IED) near the International Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district on Thursday, an official said. The IED was found in the Manyari post area, near the zero line, during a search operation...
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This is a video grab of a very well-known politician skiing in Gulmarg. Who is he/she?Answer in a bit.
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Social media platform X on Thursday expressed disagreement with the Indian government's order to block accounts and posts related to the ongoing farmers' protests and called for extending freedom of expression to the affected posts. The Ministry of Electronics and IT has ordered social media...
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Sandeshkhali women welcome BJP's Suvendu Adhikari
West Bengal DGP Rajeev Kumar on Thursday said that police will listen to the complaints of every individual in Sandeshkhali and strict action will be taken against those found guilty. Kumar, who went to Sandeshkhali on Wednesday and stayed there overnight to assess the situation in the...
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In a sudden turn of political events in Andhra Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh Congress Chief YS Sharmila Reddy spent the night in her party office at Vijayawada as in an attempt to avoid house arrest.Sharmila's move came a day ahead of 'Chalo Secretariat' protest by Congress cadre under her leadership...
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The Seattle police officer who struck and killed Indian student Jaahnavi Kandula while responding to an overdose call, will not face any criminal charges due to lack of 'sufficient' evidence, authorities said.On Wednesday, the King County Prosecutor's Office said they will not move forward with...
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Bharatiya Janata Party president JP Nadda on Wednesday called on Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde at the latter's official residence 'Varsha' in South Mumbai. Shinde's office described the meeting as a courtesy visit. The BJP president is on a two-day tour of Mumbai to interact...
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A Zimbabwean woman who was apprehended with drugs at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport two years ago was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment by a special court here on Wednesday.The 40-year-old woman was found guilty under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substance...
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At least nine people returning from a wedding were killed and five others were injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a tempo in Bihar's Lakhisarai district on Wednesday, the police said.Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar condoled the deaths.The accident took...
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Leader of Opposition in Bengal assembly and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari meets local people of Sandeshkhali /ANI Photo
A three-member National Commission for Scheduled Tribes team reached West Bengal Wednesday to investigate complaints of sexual harassment of tribal women in Sandeshkhali of North 24 Parganas district, sources said. Led by vice chairperson Ananta Nayak, the team will also inquire into the...
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