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The Delhi Police has made elaborate arrangements with checking at every gate and deployment of paramilitary personnel in and around the Ramlila Maidan for Indian National Development Inclusive Alliance's (INDIA) 'Maharally' organised by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on March 31, officials said on...
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Enforcement Directorate on Saturday questioned suspended Trinamool Congress leader Shajahan Sheikh in the Basirhat Correctional Home in connection with cases involving land grabbing in Sandeshkhali.A team of ED officers interrogated him inside the jail for over four hours after getting permission...
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Jammu and Kashmir administration has convened an officers meeting here next week to discuss 'protection, conservation and restoration' of an eighth-century old Martand Sun temple in Anantnag district.The temple located at village Kehribal area of Mattan, some 63-km south of Srinagar, is...
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Four people have been arrested for allegedly abusing and assaulting a man for allegedly moving around with a woman belonging to another community here a few days ago, the police said on Saturday.The case was registered based on an undated video clip of the incident that circulated on social...
19:39
A day after rescuing a hijacked Iranian fishing vessel and its 23-member Pakistani crew under an anti-piracy operation at sea, the Indian Navy on Saturday said the nine surrendered pirates are being brought to India for further legal action.The legal action will be taken against them under the...
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Former Union minister Pashupati Kumar Paras on Saturday made it clear that he will 'continue to support the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)' in the Lok Sabha polls but fell short of calling a truce with nephew Chirag Paswan. Paras, who has been avoiding the press ever since he came back...
18:28
Noted Tamil film actor 'Daniel' Balaji, popular for his villain roles and on-screen aggression, died due to heart attack, a hospital source said here on Saturday. He was 48.The actor, who was living in Thiruvanmiyur, complained of chest pain and was immediately rushed to a private hospital in...
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The Telugu Desam Party has named M Srinivasulu Reddy, father of Raghava Magunta, who is an accused-turned approver in the Delhi excise policy scam case, as candidate for Ongole Lok Sabha seat.Srinivasulu Reddy was elected from the Ongole Lok Sabha constituency on a Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress...
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The Delhi Police filed a chargesheet on Saturday in connection with a case lodged under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) against news portal NewsClick, which is accused of receiving a huge amount of money to peddle pro-China propaganda through its stories, sources said on...
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Peeved over delay on part of Speaker Kuldeep Singh Pathania in accepting their resignations, the three Independent MLAs sat on a dharna at the Vidhan Sabha in Shimla on Saturday.Three Independent MLAs, Hoshiyar Singh from Dehra, Ashish Sharma from Hamirpur and K L Thakur from...
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National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah will participate in the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance's (INDIA) 'Loktantra Bachao Rally' at the Ramlila Maidan in Delhi on Sunday, his son and party vice president Omar Abdullah told reporters. There is a programme of the...
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Archana Patil, daughter-in-law of senior Congress leader and former Union home minister Shivraj Patil, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday.She joined the ruling party in the presence of Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and BJP's state president Chandrakant...
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A court in Kasaragod on Saturday acquitted three Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh activists in a case relating to the murder of a Madrassa teacher inside a mosque in the district in 2017.Kasaragod Principal Sessions court judge K K Balakrishnan acquitted Akhilesh, Jithin and Ajesh, all residents of...
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The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday alleged connection between one of the witnesses in the alleged excise policy scam and the Bharatiya Janata Party, and challenged the enforcement directorate (ED) to conduct a probe into it.Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy, whose son Raghava Magunta Reddy was...
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Karnataka Governor Thawarchand Gehlot
A protocol officer of the Madhya Pradesh Health Department was suspended after it was found that no doctor was marked for duty in the ambulance attached to Karnataka Governor Thawarchand Gehlot's convoy to attend to a medical emergency, an official said on Saturday. The absence of a doctor...
13:01
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed its first chargesheet in connection with a money-laundering probe linked to alleged irregularities in the Delhi Jal Board (DJB), official sources said on Saturday.The prosecution complaint was filed by the federal agency before a special Prevention of...
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Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari was laid to rest at the Kali Bagh burial ground in Ghazipur on Saturday.The body was brought to the family's ancestral burial ground, about half a km from their residence, where a grave was dug on Friday.The local administration made elaborate security...
10:52
The Congress lost income tax exemption in 2018-19 due to extensive use of cash in the electoral process, sources said, justifying that Rs 135 crore tax recovery from the party was consistent with the provisions of the Income Tax Act. Based on incriminating material seized by the Income Tax...
10:28
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Delhi minister Kailash Gahlot for questioning on Saturday in connection with a money-laundering case linked to the now-scrapped excise policy for the capital, official sources said.Gahlot, 49, an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA from Najafgarh, is the...
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Reuters
Only nine of the 34 bodies which had been recovered were identifiable on Friday from the horrific crash that saw 45 Easter pilgrims from Botswana dead in a bus crash in South Africa's northern province of Limpopo. An eight-year-old child is the sole survivor of the Thursday's accident when...
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Maharashtra Congress leader Naseem Khan has said the unilateral announcement of candidates by the Shiv Sena-UBT had angered his party workers and the state unit was keen on friendly fights in six Lok Sabha constituencies in the state.The Congress, Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena-UBT and the...
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Security arrangements have been strengthened outside the residence of Mukhtar Ansari in Ghazipur and a burial ground in the Uttar Pradesh district ahead of the last rites of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari on Saturday.The last rites of Mukhtar Ansari, who died due to a cardiac arrest on...
09:04
The Election Commission has issued a notification banning the conduct, publication or publicising of exit polls between 7.00 am of April 19 and 6.30 pm of June 1 when votes will be cast for the Lok Sabha and four state assembly polls. The notification issued on Thursday also made it clear...
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The daughter-in-law of former Lok Sabha speaker and Congress stalwart Shivraj Patil will join the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday, party functionaries said.Dr Archana Patil Chakurkar met Maharashtra met Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis at his official residence 'Sagar ' in south Mumbai...
08:57
The post-mortem on gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari confirmed that he died of cardiac arrest, a hospital source said on Friday. Ansari, a former MLA who had been booked in more than 60 cases, died Thursday night after he was rushed to the Rani Durgavati Medical College in Banda from...
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The Indian Navy on Friday rescued a hijacked Iranian fishing vessel and its crew of 23 Pakistani nationals, after more than 12 hours of intense coercive tactical measures as part of an anti-piracy operation at sea, officials said. Indian naval specialist teams are presently undertaking...