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The probe into a theft case has led the Kerala police to two hitherto undiscovered murders, including that of a toddler, the police said in Idukki on Sunday. The authorities on Sunday exhumed one of the bodies from a room of a rented house at Kattappana near here in connection with the...
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The Communist Party of India on Sunday parted ways with the Opposition bloc INDIA, announcing that it will contest in eight of the 14 Lok Sabha seats in the upcoming elections. The CPI has no representation in the Lower House of Parliament from Jharkhand. We have decided to contest the...
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Four leaders from Bharat Rashtra Samithi and one from Congress joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday in the presence of party's general secretary Tarun Chugh in New Delhi. The four BRS leaders who joined the BJP are former MP Godam Nagesh, former MLA Saidhi Reddy, former MP...
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Assam Rifles has recovered a huge amount of Myanmar and Indian currencies from Mizoram's Lawngltai district. Seven persons were also apprehended along with the vehicle and recoveries, said officials. The personnel recovered Myanmar currency worth 4,79,55,000 Kyat and Indian...
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Residents of Lucknow's Akbar Nagar on Sunday allegedly clashed with police and administration officials and pelted them with stones during an anti-encroachment drive in the locality, officials said. The alleged incident occurred in the evening when a team of the Lucknow Development Authority...
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said political parties could lose their registrations if they called bandhs in violation of court orders. He said any Opposition to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act of 2019 should be taken to the Supreme Court and protesting on the streets...
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Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday offered prayers at Sri Venkateswara Swami Temple in the hills of Tirumala at Tirupati. In the Mandapam of Ranganayakas, Vedic scholars honoured Chouhan with a cloth of Lord Balaji and also presented him with Srivari...
19:47
Two election commissioners are likely to be appointed by March 15 to fill the vacancies created by the retirement of Anup Chandra Pandey and the surprise resignation of Arun Goel, sources said on Sunday. Days before the poll panel is expected to announce the schedule for the Lok Sabha polls,...
19:29
Manpreet Singh Badal
Former Punjab finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal suffered a heart attack on Sunday and was admitted to a hospital. The 61-year-old leader underwent an angioplasty as there was a blockage in one of his arteries, a doctor attending to him said, adding his condition is...
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Edtech major Think and Learn, which owns BYJU's brand, has released the full salary of 25 percent of employees in the lower pay scale while it has made partial payment to the rest of the workforce, according to sources. BYJU's management wrote two sets of letters to employees on Sunday,...
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Five people suspected of killing gangster Rajesh Dogra in Mohali were arrested by a team of Punjab police from Pilibhit district of Uttar Pradesh, local police officials said. According to them, the accused, residents of Jammu, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh's Meerut and Pilibhit districts, were...
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A man-eater tigress captured in July 2022 died at a rescue centre in the Corbett Tiger Reserve, an official said on Sunday. The 11-year-old tigress died of old age at the Sanwaldeh rescue centre on Saturday night, the Reserve's deputy director Diganth Nayak said. It was declared a...
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Cheetah 'Gamini' on Sunday gave birth to five cubs in Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, taking the total number of the big cats in the country to 26, Union Minister Bhupender Yadav said. Taking to social media platform X, the Union Minister of Environment, Forests and Climate Change...
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Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday took oath as Pakistan's 14th President, a day after the veteran politician was overwhelmingly elected as the next head of state. Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa administered the oath to the 68-year-old Zardari at Aiwan-e-Sadr, the Presidential...
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Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu
The Himachal Pradesh police on Sunday registered a case against an independent MLA and the father of a Congress rebel and others over electoral offences related to the recent Rajya Sabha polls in which six party MLAs voted for the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from the state. The case...
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A single lemon fetched Rs 35,000 at an auction held at a private temple at a village near Erode, the temple authorities said. As per custom, the lemon and other items including fruits offered to Lord Shiva during the Mahasivarathiri festivities observed on Friday night at the Pazhapoosaian...
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A person who had fallen into a 40-foot-deep borewell at a Delhi Jal Board water treatment plant in Delhi was pulled out after a nearly 12-hour-long rescue operation on Sunday, officials said. The person has been rushed to a hospital and word on his condition is awaited, they added. The...
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The Basirhat sub-divisional court on Sunday sent suspended Trinamool Congress strongman and Sandeshkhali-accused Sheikh Shahjahan to four-day CBI custody in connection with the January 5 attack on the Enforcement Directorate team in Sandeshkhali. Earlier on Sunday, Shahjahan was...
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Soon after the TMC declared candidates from all Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, the Congress on Sunday said its doors are open for an alliance till the withdrawal of nominations and maintained that any agreement has to be finalised through negotiations and not by unilateral...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the poison of appeasement was weakening with Uttar Pradesh touching new heights of development, as he slammed nepotism in politics in a constituency often linked with the Mulayam-Akhilesh Yadav family. Addressing a rally in Azamgarh, he slammed the...
15:20
The Border Security Force and the Punjab police, in a joint operation, recovered a packet of suspected heroin of gross weight, approximately 500 gms, in Punjab's Amritsar on Sunday, officials said. On 10th March 2024, during morning hours, based on specific information of BSF, a joint search...
14:55
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The Trinamool Congress on Sunday announced the candidate list for all 42 Lok Sabha seats of West Bengal, dropping at least eight sitting MPs and bringing in several new faces such as former cricketers Yusuf Pathan and Kriti Azad. The party renominated 16 sitting MPs and fielded 12...
14:18
Nepal's Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda'
Nepal's Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' is planning to seek a vote of confidence in Parliament by March 13, days after he forged a new alliance with the CPN-UML. The third round of vote of confidence comes after Prachanda, a former guerilla leader, dumped the Nepali Congress...
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Several Congress leaders in Rajasthan, including former ministers Rajendra Yadav and Lal Chand Kataria, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. Former Congress MLAs Ricchpal Mirdha, Vijaypal Mirdha and Khiladi Bairwa, former independent MLA Alok Beniwal,...
13:56
Three members of a family including two minor boys drowned while bathing in the Ib river in Odisha's Sundargarh district, police said on Sunday. The deceased were identified as brothers Muhammad Farhan (15) and Muhammad Rizwan (17), and their uncle Muhammad Sajid (35) of Sundargarh...
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Security forces on Sunday busted a terror hideout in a forest in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district and seized seven rusted improvised explosive devices and a wireless set, officials said. They said the hideout located inside a cave was uncovered during a joint search operation by police...
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The Punjab police on Sunday said they arrested nine members of an international drug smuggling cartel and seized 22 kg of opium. Six customs officials have also been booked in connection with the case. Director general of police Gaurav Yadav said 30 bank accounts holding Rs 9 crore have...
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One person was injured when an improvised explosive device exploded in the Punjabi Lane area in Shillong, the police said on Sunday. The blast took place at around 10.30 pm on Saturday, they said. There was a blast near the syndicate bus stand, Punjabi Lane at around 10.30 pm. The blast...
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Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Hisar Brijendra Singh on Sunday resigned from the party's primary membership due to compelling political reasons and joined the Congress. Soon after announcing his resignation on X, Bijendra Singh, the son of BJP leader Birender...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated 15 airport projects, including 12 new terminal buildings of almost worth Rs 10,000 crore in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh, marking the event to be the single biggest infra addition that will see a mix of new airports, expanded terminals, laying of...
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Seeking to intensify their ongoing protest over a raft of demands, farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher on Sunday said the farmers' unions will stage 'Rail Roko' protest across the country on Sunday. The call for a 'rail roko' protest, which will be held between 12 noon and 4 pm, comes...
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The Enforcement Directorate has arrested Subhash Yadav, a close aide of RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, in connection with its ongoing money laundering probe in the alleged illegal sand mining case. Subhash was arrested late Saturday night under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act...
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A child fell into a borewell in the Keshopur area of Delhi on Sunday, an official said. According to the Delhi Fire Service, the child fell into a borewell, about 40-50 feet deep, inside the Delhi Jal Board plant in the Keshopur Mandi area. Teams from the DFS, National...
11:21
Suspended Trinamool Congress strongman and Sandeshkhali-accused, Sheikh Shahjahan, was brought out of the CBI office at Nizam Palace in Kolkata on Sunday. He is to be produced before the Basirhat court, which will pronounce an order on his custody, on Sunday. Earlier, on the...
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Odisha Chief Minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik on Saturday said rumour and lies are the worst part of politics.Patnaik made the remark during a conversation with his close aide and 5T (Transformation) and Nabin Odisha chairman VK Pandian.Sir, rajanitire sabutu kharap jinisa kan (what is...
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The Trinamool Congress is all set to launch its Lok Sabha poll campaign with a grand rally on Sunday at Kolkata's famed Brigade Parade Grounds, where party supremo Mamata Banerjee is set to galvanise supporters and set the tone for the upcoming elections.Christened 'Jana Garjan Sabha', the mega...
10:06
Earth Sciences Minister Kiren Rijiju is upset over the delay in the delivery of two supercomputers by a French firm to Indian weather forecasting institutes and hopes that the French government will step in to hasten the process.The Earth Sciences Ministry had ordered two supercomputers worth USD...
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Growing up in a tough neighborhood of Dharavi in Mumbai, it has been a journey of overcoming life's many challenges for Lieutenant Umesh Keelu.Umesh, who was born and raised in the Sion Koliwada slum, on Saturday passed out of the Officers Training Academy in Chennai to begin his career as a...
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The Congress on Saturday expressed deep concern over Election Commissioner Arun Goel's resignation and said that if the systematic decimation of independent institutions is not stopped then democracy shall be usurped by dictatorship.Goel resigned on Saturday, days before the expected...
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Czech Republic's Krystyna Pyszkova on Saturday won the coveted Miss World 2024 title at a grand event here, which saw Indian contestant Sini Shetty only making it to the top 8.Miss Lebanon Yasmina Zaytoun was named the first runner-up.Reigning Miss World Karolina Bielawska from Poland crowned her...
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