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The Editors Guild of India on Saturday sought Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's support in raising issues of press freedom and right to information in Parliament and claimed the government has taken several legislative steps to regulate and control the media.In a letter to Gandhi, the Leader of the...
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Aam Aadmi Party leader Somnath Bharti on Saturday approached the Delhi High Court challenging Bharatiya Janata Party MP Bansuri Swaraj's election in the Lok Sabha polls 2024 on the grounds of alleged corrupt practices.Justice Manmeet P S Arora is scheduled to hear the election petition on July...
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Union Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Saturday asserted that he saw 'nothing wrong' with fruit sellers along the 'Kanwar Yatra' route in Uttar Pradesh being asked to display their names at their stalls.Manjhi was responding to journalists' questions about the controversial UP police directive, which...
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A local Samajwadi Party leader has been killed in Uttar Pradesh's Gonda district, and a Bharatiya Janata Party councillor and his three sons, among five, have been booked, police said on Saturday.Om Prakash Singh was attacked with sharp-edged weapons at his house on Friday night.A post-mortem was...
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A total of 778 Indian students have returned to India from Bangladesh through various land transit points, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Saturday as the neighbouring country continued to reel under deadly clashes over a controversial job-quota system.Indian missions in Bangladesh...
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The parents of an Agniveer soldier, who died in Kashmir earlier this week, have urged the president and prime minister to hold an inquiry into their son's death and give them justice.Nikhil Dhadwal, who was posted in Tanda area in Kashmir's Akhnoor died on Thursday. He was from the first batch of...
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Tamil Nadu Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin on Saturday played down reports of his possible elevation as Deputy Chief Minister and said Chief Minister M K Stalin has to take a call on the issue.In a brief chat with reporters Chennai, he said, It is the Chief Minister who has to decide.Udhayanidhi was...
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Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray chief Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday said the Dharavi slum redevelopment project tender awarded to industrialist Gautam Adani's firm will be scrapped if his party comes to power in Maharashtra.Addressing a press conference, Thackeray said his party will ensure...
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Kerala Health Minister Veena George on Saturday convened a high-level meeting to take steps to prevent a Nipah outbreak in the state.The meeting was convened in the wake of an outbreak of the virus infection that was suspected in northern Malappuram district.According to local media reports, a...
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A woman was killed and three others were injured after some portion of a balcony of a four-storey residential building located on Grant Road in south Mumbai came crashing down on Saturday, officials said.The building, Rubinnisa Manzil, where the incident occurred is located on Sleater road near...
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24 personnel from the armed forces, including ace javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra and two women participants, are among the 117 Indian athletes who are set to test their mettle at the upcoming Paris Olympics.The presence of these two women athletes in the contingent, marks the maiden participation...
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In an order that has left people surprised, the Uttarakhand high court has asked police to provide security to an interfaith live-in couple if they register their relationship within 48 hours under the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), which is yet to be implemented in the state.Disposing of a protection...
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India's forex reserves jumped by $9.699 billion to an all-time high of $666.854 billion for the week ended July 12, the Reserve Bank of India said on Friday.In the previous reporting week, the kitty had increased by $5.158 billion to $657.155 billion, surpassing the previous high of $655.817...
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A 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped in a moving car by a man she befriended on social media while another person shot a video of the act in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior district, police said on Saturday.Police have arrested two out of three accused in connection with the incident, an official...
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The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Saturday announced the centre and city-wise results for medical entrance exam NEET-UG, which is under the scanner over alleged irregularities.The results, which were initially announced on June 5, have been published in this format following an order of the...
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Airline systems across airports have started working normally from 3 am on Saturday, said the ministry of civil aviation. Flight operations are going smoothly now. There is a backlog because of disruptions yesterday (Friday), and it is getting cleared gradually, the ministry said. By...
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A Border Security Force officer and a jawan died during patrol due to extreme heat exposure at the 'Harami Nallah' creek area along the India-Pakistan international front in Gujarat, official sources said Saturday. The incident, in which assistant commandant Vishwadeo and head constable...
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Mumbai and its suburbs received intermittent heavy spells of rain on Saturday, which led to waterlogging in some areas, but the local trains are operating normally, officials said. The India Meteorological Department said Mumbai received 91 mm rainfall in the 24-hour period ending 8 am on...
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The Enforcement Directorate has arrested Haryana Congress MLA Surender Panwar in an illegal mining-linked money-laundering case, official sources said on Saturday. The federal agency had raided the premises of the 55-year-old legislator in January. It had then arrested former Indian...
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UPSC chairman Manoj Soni/Courtesy UPSC online
UPSC chairman Manoj Soni has resigned citing personal reasons before the expiry of his tenure in May 2029, official sources said on Saturday. His resignation is not in any way connected to controversies and allegations surrounding the Union Public Service Commission after probationary IAS...
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A Maoist was killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district on Saturday, the police said. The encounter took place in a jungle area on a hill near Tumar Gatta and Singavaram villages under Jagargunda police station limits in the morning when a team of the...
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Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi will visit Jammu on Saturday to review the security situation, officials said. He will be briefed by the formation commanders on the areas being taken by the security forces. A security review meeting with other security agencies is also likely...
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The families of the three youths, who were killed in an alleged encounter by the Assam Police, on Friday filed a police complaint demanding a probe into the circumstances leading to their deaths.Lalthavel Hmar, Lalremsang Hmar and Lalchunghnung Hmar, the relatives of the three youths, filed a...
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Police and protesters clash in Dhaka, Bangladesh/Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters
Over 360 more citizens of India, Nepal and Bhutan crossed over to Meghalaya from violence-affected Bangladesh, taking the total number of people taking refuge in the state to over 670, officials said. A senior home department official said that 363 people reached Meghalaya through the Dawki...
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Budget carrier Akasa Air said late on Friday it successfully navigated a daylong system outage due to the Microsoft Azure technical issue that affected operations across the global aviation industry.While the global systems downtime of reservations, check-in and boarding systems posed an...
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Friday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on being the most followed leader in the world on social media platform X. Congratulations PM @NarendraModi on being the most followed world leader! Musk, also the owner of X Corp., formerly Twitter, said in a post on...
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An Air India relief aircraft for passengers of its Delhi-San Francisco flight stranded at Russia's Krasnoyarsk Airport has now departed from there for the US city, the airline has said. The flight AI 1179 departed Krasnoyarsk at 0002 hours local time (20 July) for San Francisco, carrying all...
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US President Joe Biden, who has been under self-isolation at his Delaware residence after he tested positive for COVID-19 early this week, has completed his fourth dose of PAXLOVID on Friday morning, his physician said. President Biden completed his fourth dose of PAXLOVID this morning. His...
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At least 40 people were killed after the boat they were on board caught fire off the coast of Haiti earlier this week, the International Organisation for Migration has said, citing local authorities, CNN reported. The vessel carrying more than 80 migrants departed from Haiti on...
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BJP leader Pankaja Munde on Friday said her party has prepared a detailed strategy for the Maharashtra assembly elections, due in October. Talking to reporters here after a meeting of the state BJP's core committee, attended by Union ministers Bhupendra Yadav and Ashwini Vaishnaw, she said...
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A special MP-MLA court in Lucknow has declared former minister Swami Prasad Maurya and his daughter, former MP Sanghmitra Maurya, absconding in a case of harassing and threatening a person. The court has fixed the date of next hearing of the case on August 27. While the Special Judge...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday filed an appeal before a division bench of the Calcutta high court challenging a single bench order restraining her and three others from making any defamatory or incorrect statement against Governor CV Ananda Bose. The single bench of the...
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A major fire has broken out on a merchant vessel reportedly carrying hazardous cargo about 102 nautical miles southwest of Goa, the Indian Coast Guard said late Friday evening. An ICG ship is carrying out firefighting operations while battling inclement weather and rough sea, and two more...
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