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Uttarakhand forest minister Subodh Uniyal on Tuesday ordered a high-level inquiry into the accident in which four people, including two forest rangers, were killed while Rajaji Tiger Reserve's wildlife warden went missing. Chief wildlife warden Samir Sinha has been entrusted with the probe...
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Maharashtra cabinet minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha on Tuesday said Mumbai civic schools will organise competitions to showcase the importance of Lord Ram to students between January 10 and 17 ahead of the Ram temple consecration ceremony in Ayodhya. Competitions on writing essays, poetry, and...
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A view of airport in Ayodhya./ANI Photo
The Union home ministry has sanctioned a more than 150 personnel strong Central Industrial Security Force anti-terrorist cover for the Ayodhya airport, days before the high-profile consecration ceremony at the Ram temple on January 22, official sources said on Tuesday. The 'Maharishi Valmiki...
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Senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla takes charge as Maharashtra DGP./ANI Photo
Senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla on Tuesday took charge as Maharashtra director general of police, becoming the first woman top cop of the state. Addressing a press conference after taking charge of the office from Mumbai police commissioner Vivek Phansalkar, Shukla said ensuring the safety...
22:51
Accused Suchana Seth
The father of the four-year-old boy who was killed by his mother in Goa, returned to India from Jakarta on Tuesday evening on learning about his child's murder, the police said. The man, Venkat Raman, arrived at Chitradurga in Karnataka, and gave his consent to the local authorities to...
22:31
Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu
Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu on Tuesday appealed to China to intensify efforts to send more tourists to his country, amid a spate of cancellation of reservations by Indian tourists after a diplomatic row erupted over the derogatory remarks by his ministers against Prime Minister Narendra...
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Customs sleuths at the Cochin International Airport in Kochi on Tuesday seized nearly half kg of smuggled gold concealed inside the wallet of a Japanese national who came from Bangkok. The officials have seized 472.40 grams of gold with an estimated worth of Rs 26.62 lakhs based on specific...
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Lal Salaam, starring Rajinikanth, will now hit the screens on February 9. Directed by Aishwarya Rajnikanth, the film was previously scheduled to be released during the Pongal festival in January. Production house Lyca Productions shared the new release date on its official X...
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Water supply in several areas in western part of the national capital will not be available for around 12 hours on Thursday so that the leakage in a pipeline can be fixed, the Delhi Jal Board said Tuesday. Residents are advised to store sufficient quantity of water in advance according to...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday said numbers were stacked in favour of the Shiv Sena led by him as assembly speaker Rahul Narwekar is set to give ruling on disqualification petitions filed by the two warring Sena factions. Even the Election Commission has recognised that...
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Actor Kangana Ranaut
Actor Kangana Ranaut's petition for a stay on proceedings of a defamation complaint filed against her was only a delaying tactic, lyricist and complainant Javed Akhtar submitted to the Bombay high court on Tuesday. Akhtar urged the high court to dismiss the petition filed by the Queen...
20:47
An 18-year-old boy was shot dead by his friends in a drunken brawl in Maharashtra's Thane district, the police said on Tuesday. The incident occurred in the Surya Nagar area of Kalyan around 11.15 pm on Monday, an official said. The victim, Rajan Yerkar, was consuming alcohol with four...
20:31
The municipal corporation on Tuesday passed a proposal for renaming Ghaziabad, officials said. Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation mayor Sunita Dayal said the three names -- Harnandi Nagar, Gaj Prastha and Doodheshwernath Nagar -- will sent to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath who will take a final...
20:18
'Ugram', an assault rifle developed by the Defence Research & Development Organisation in collaboration with a private firm was launched on Monday, officials said. The weapon, developed at the Armament Research and Development Establishments, the DRDO's Pune-based laboratory, is designed...
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The Centre has approved repatriation of senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla to her cadre state Maharashtra, where she has been appointed as the chief of the state's police force.Shukla, a 1988 batch Indian Police Service officer, was posted as the director general of the Sashastra Seema Bal in New...
19:27
The Union home ministry has sought a report from the West Bengal government on attacks on Enforcement Directorate teams in the state on January 5, sources said New Delhi on Tuesday. In a communication, the ministry of home affairs has asked the West Bengal government to send a detailed...
19:20
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan embarked on a roadshow in Ahmedabad on Tuesday evening. Before their roadshow, Modi welcomed the United Arab Emirates president on the latter's arrival at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in...
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There will be no change of guard ceremony between January 13 and 27, due to the rehearsals for the Republic Day parade and the Beating Retreat ceremony, the Rashtrapati Bhavan said on Tuesday. The change of guard ceremony is a military tradition that is held every week to enable a fresh...
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French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday appointed 34-year-old Gabriel Attal to become the country's next prime minister. Attal will be the country's youngest prime minister since the founding of the French Fifth Republic in 1958, CNN reported. Attal will also be the first openly gay...
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has given instructions to declare a holiday in all educational institutions across the state on January 22, in view the Ram temple pran pratishtha ceremony in Ayodhya. The CM has also said that liquor shops will remain closed in the state on the...
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Union Minister Smriti Irani at the inaugural session of the third Haj and Umrah Conference in Jeddah/Courtesy X
Union Minister for Minority Affairs Smriti Irani on Tuesday attended the inaugural session of the third Haj and Umrah Conference in Jeddah and discussed with deputy governor of Makkah Region and minister of Haj and Umrah the scope for further close cooperation to improve facilities and services...
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Brig (retd) AJS Behl, who fought valiantly in the 1962 India-China war, has died at the age of 82, sources said on Tuesday. Born in April 1941, the war veteran, breathed his last on Monday at Command Hospital, Chandimandir in Haryana. He was suffering from age-related issues, they...
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Music maestro Ustad Rashid Khan, who has been undergoing treatment at a Kolkata-based hospital for prostate cancer, died at a city hospital this afternoon, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said. He was 55. We tried our best but failed. He passed away at around 3:45 pm, an...
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The Shiv Sena-UBT leader Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday said his party has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court, objecting to the meeting between Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and state Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar before the verdict on the Shiv Sena MLAs' disqualification...
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The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has kept its stand on contesting in an alliance with the Congress in five states, including Punjab, and the discussion has so far been positive, party's Delhi convener Gopal Rai said on Tuesday. The AAP and the Congress are part of the INDIA bloc and held...
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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday said the Shiv Sena-BJP government will remain stable, remarks coming a day ahead of the verdict to be pronounced by the assembly speaker on disqualification petitions against CM Eknath Shinde and other MLAs of Shiv Sena. The...
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A chlorine gas leak in the Jhajhra area of Dehradun triggered panic on Tuesday morning, forcing people to leave their homes, officials said. The gas leaked from cylinders kept in an open field, they said, adding that security officials rushed people to safety immediately after being informed...
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Sovandeb Chattopadhyay during Holi. File pic
West Bengal minister Sovandeb Chattopadhyay on Tuesday courted controversy with his comments that the recent attack on ED officers during a raid in North 24 Parganas was a result of explosion of public grievance.Chattopadhyay, the state's agriculture minister, also claimed that such attacks will...
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The tourism sector in the Maldives is experiencing a downturn following the controversy surrounding Prime Minister Modi's visit to Lakshadweep. The fallout has been analysed across various aspects of the industry.Madhav Oza, Director of Blue Star Air Travel Services, sheds light on the impact,...
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Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman escorted back to India
Former Diplomat Ajay Bisaria has talked about coercive diplomacy that took place after the Balakote strikes that resulted in Pakistan repatriating Wing Commander Abhinanandan whose flight had crash landed in Pakistan territory. In an interview with ANI, Bisaria stated that Pakistan had...
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Nineteen persons have tested positive for JN.1 sub-variant of coronavirus in Mumbai, an official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said on Tuesday.Out of 22 samples found positive for JN.1 subvariant in Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) analysis, 19 were from Mumbai, Daksha Shah,...
12:57
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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday filed a prosecution complaint (charge sheet) in the Land for a job scam money laundering case. The charge sheet consists of a total of 4751 pages.ED has named Bihar's former CM Rabri Devi, her daughters Misa Bharti and Hema Yadav, Hridyanand...
12:54
A 39-year-old Bengaluru start-up founder allegedly murdered her four-year-old son in Goa and travelled to Karnataka with his body before she was caught, reports NDTV.Suchana Seth, CEO of artificial intelligence start-up Mindful AI Lab, was arrested in Karnataka's Chitradurga on Monday with her...
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Franz Beckenbauer
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday expressed grief over the demise of football legend Franz Beckenbauer, and said millions of fans in India will miss him. Beckenbauer, who won the World Cup as a player and a coach, and became one of Germany's most beloved...
12:08
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan was calling India's PM a fascist and deploying all social media assets for a new war against Hindutva, according to a new book by Ajay Bisaria, the former High Commissioner to Pakistan, detailing the desperate all-out diplomatic campaign launched by...
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In a significant development, the Uttar Pradesh (ATS) has apprehended two individuals -- Amas alias Faraz Ahmed and Abdul Samad Malik--allegedly involved in setting up an ISIS module at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).The action comes under an ongoing investigation launched in November 2023...
11:54
A car of the ED team that was stoned during the attacks
In-charge ED Director Rahul Navin will review the probe into the alleged public distribution and paddy procurement scam and discuss security concerns of the local ED establishment in the backdrop of the attacks on the search teams of the central probe agency in West Bengal, official sources said...
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Idan Amedi. Pic courtesy: Avia Levi
Israeli actor-singer Idan Amedi, best known for starring in Netflix series Fauda, was seriously injured while fighting as a IDF reservist in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip.Israeli diplomat Avia Levi shared the news of Amedi's injury in a post on microblogging site X. Idan Amedi, one of...
11:26
Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Ravindra Waikar
The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday raided the premises of Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Ravindra Waikar and some of his linked entities in a money laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in construction of a luxury hotel in Jogeshwari area of the city, official sources said. About...
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Following the Pulwama terror attacks in 2019, former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, fearing an Indian missile attack, desperately attempted to speak with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the phone to avert a full-blown military crisis, according to a new book by Ajay Bisaria the former High...
10:42
An 85-year-old woman from Jharkhand will break her three-decade-long 'maun vrat' (vow of silence) after her dream comes true on January 22 with the inauguration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya. Saraswati Devi started her vow on the day Babri Masjid was demolished in 1992, promising to break it...
10:26
A day after Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's party emerged victorious at the polls, the US and UN voiced concern over violence and reports of irregularities on the day of elections, with Washington noting that the polls were not free or fair and regretted that not all parties...
10:23
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday extended greetings on Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas, hailing the dedication of the Indian diaspora worldwide towards preserving India's rich heritage and strengthening global ties.He said in a post on X, Greetings on Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas. This is a day to...
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The district administration has imposed prohibitory orders under CrPC Section 144 in three areas of Madhya Pradesh's Shajapur city after some people threw stones on participants of a religious procession following a dispute. One person was injured in the incident which took place in Magaria...
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Lakshadweep Lok Sabha MP Mohammed Faizal on Monday criticised Maldives ministers' statements against Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his social media post on the tourism potential of the archipelago, urging them to think twice before commenting on India's internal matters. The...
09:39
Amid the ongoing spat between the Maldives and India, the Maldives Association of Tourism Industry (MATI) has strongly condemned derogatory remarks made by officials in the tourism-dependent country against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Terming India as one of the closest neighbours...
09:31
Passengers will have to dole out up to Rs 2,000 for front seats having more leg room in IndiGo flights, with the airline hiking the charges. As per the fees and charges mentioned for various services on the airline's website, selecting a window or aisle seat in the front row of an A321...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has said if Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray had been alive, he would have patted Prime Minister Narendra Modi's back for the Ram temple construction in Ayodhya and scrapping of Article 370 that gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir.Shinde was addressing...
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The Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust has cancelled a procession scheduled for January 17 that would have allowed devotees catch a glimpse of the new idol of Ram Lalla across the Ayodhya city ahead of the consecration ceremony. Instead, the trust will arrange a tour of the new idol...
02:07
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh arrived in London on Monday for a three-day visit focusing on all aspects of the India-UK Defence Partnership and to hold high-level discussions covering a wide range of defence, security and industrial cooperation issues. Singh is accompanied by a Ministry of...
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Passengers will have to dole out up to Rs 2,000 for front seats having more leg room in IndiGo flights, with the airline hiking the charges. As per the fees and charges mentioned for various services on the airline's website, selecting a window or aisle seat in the front row of an A321...
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The Mumbai police began a probe into a fake letter that alleged sexual harassment of women drivers in the force by three senior officers, an official said on Monday. No such incident has taken place and the signatures on the letter, which has been mischievously circulated, are fake, the...
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will visit Ayodhya on Tuesday and hold a meeting with Ram temple trust officials and seers on the preparations for the January 22 consecration ceremony.He will also inspect the water works at Amani Ganj, the police control room and the tent cities...
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Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader O Rajagopal on Monday lavished praise on MP Shashi Tharoor, saying it would be difficult to defeat the Congress leader from the state capital. Rajagopal, the former union minister who was defeated by Tharoor in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from the...
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Rajasthan minister of state Surendra Pal Singh
Rajasthan minister of state Surendra Pal Singh resigned from his post after losing the election to the Karanpur assembly seat on Monday. Congress candidate Rupinder Singh Koonar won the seat with 94,950 votes as against Singh's 83,667. The Bharatiya Janata Party nominee was inducted...
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