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The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine a vexatious question whether there can be different age of superannuation for the allopathic doctors in comparison with the practitioners of Ayurveda and others working in the government hospitals and clinics. Taking note of the shortage of...
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The Election Commission on Friday said it has doubled up its voter participation interventions to overcome the small dip in turnout in the first two phases of the Lok Sabha polls.The turnout stood at 66.14 per cent in the first phase and at 66.71 per cent in the second phase. Compared to the...
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Security forces busted a militant hideout in Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora district and recovered arms and ammunition, the police said on Friday.In a joint operation, Indian Army-13 RR, Bandipora police and 3rd BN CRPF busted a terrorist hideout in Changali forest Aragam (in the north Kashmir...
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The city police have registered a case against Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Bharatiya Janata Party Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency candidate K Madhavi Latha and other BJP leaders for allegedly using minors in a poll campaign in Hyderabad recently. In a complaint to the Telangana chief...
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Senior Congress leader Naseem Khan, who quit as a member of the party's campaign committee to protest against the Maha Vikas Aghadi not fielding any minority community candidate in Mumbai, on Friday said Rahul Gandhi was fighting a battle of justice to all. After the grand old party named...
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An inmate was stabbed to death by another prisoner in Delhi's Tihar jail on Friday, the police said.The incident took place in jail number 3 at around noon when the lunch was being served to the inmates, they said.According to deputy commissioner of police (west) Vichitra Veer, an argument broke...
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Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Jitu Patwari (left)/ANI Photo
Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Jitu Patwari was booked on Friday for his alleged derogatory remarks about state Bharatiya Janata Party leader Imarti Devi, which sparked a controversy and prompted criticism from the ruling party. The FIR against Patwari, who has since apologised for the...
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Seven persons were booked in connection with the death of a man after he was assaulted inside a suburban train last month, a railway police official said on Friday. Datta Dunda Bhoir (55) was attacked inside a train on April 27 between Titwala and Vasind stations during an argument between a...
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The police have filed a closure report before a local court following a probe into the death of Rohith Vemula, a student of University of Hyderabad, claiming he was not a Dalit and died by suicide as he feared that his real identity would be discovered. The Cyberabad police, who investigated...
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Actor and TMC's Ghatal MP Deepak Adhikari had a close shave on Friday when his helicopter caught fire soon after taking off from Malda helipad forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing, the police said. Adhikari, popularly known as Dev, was unharmed and later travelled by road to reach...
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Former Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam joined the Shiv Sena led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Friday. The former Mumbai MP had left the undivided Shiv Sena nearly two decades ago. Having been expelled from Congress last month for anti-party activities, Nirupam joined the...
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Arun Reddy handles the 'Spirit of Congress' account on 'X'/Courtesy X
The Delhi police on Friday arrested a Congress member for allegedly uploading and circulating a fake video of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, an official said in New Delhi. Arun Reddy handles the 'Spirit of Congress' account on 'X', the official said. The Delhi police special cell...
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The Central Board of Secondary Education Class 10 and 12 results are likely to be announced after May 20, officials said on Friday. The clarification came amid speculation about announcement of the exam results. CBSE class 10 and 12 results are likely to be announced after May 20, the...
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Four persons were injured in a fire that broke out and spread to a few shops following a leak in a gas pipeline in the western suburb of Juhu in Mumbai on Friday, a civic official said. A leak in the gas pipeline of the Mahanagar Gas Limited triggered a blaze around 11.55 am, the official...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who filed his nomination from the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat on Friday, declared assets of over Rs 20 crore in his papers. Gandhi has declared movable assets to the tune of Rs 9,24,59,264, including shares worth Rs 3,81,33,572, a bank balance of Rs 26,25,157 and...
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A senior journalist was killed and seven other people were injured in a bomb attack in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province on Friday, the police said. Muhammad Siddiq Mengal, a senior journalist and also the president of the Khuzdar Press Club, was killed when a remote-controlled bomb...
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Societal norms dictate that sexual relations should ideally be within the confines of marriage but there is no wrongdoing if these happen between two consenting adults regardless of their marital status, the Delhi high court has said, while granting bail to a married man accused of raping a woman...
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The National Investigation Agency on Friday chargesheeted four cadres of CPI-Maoist in a case related to firing at the commandos of the Special Operations Group in Thalapuzha area of Wayanad district in Kerala last year, according to an official statement. The incident occurred on November...
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Central agencies have issued a red alert for kallakkadal, warning of sudden sea swells causing rough waves in coastal areas of Kerala and the south Tamil Nadu coast on Saturday and Sunday. This marks the first time a red alert has been issued for the phenomenon of kallakkadal -- the sudden...
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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has said he should have parted ways with his uncle Sharad Pawar in 2004 itself when the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) gave up its claim on the chief minister's post while forming a government in the state in alliance with Congress.Speaking at a...
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Dr CV Ananda Bose with Mamata Banerjee
A day after a contractual employee of the Raj Bhavan accused him of molesting her, West Bengal Governor Dr CV Ananda Bose on Friday said that he expects more such allegations are in the offing. Describing the allegations as absurd drama, Bose, in an apparent reference to the ruling...
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Equity benchmark Sensex plummeted over 700 points to sink below the 74,000 level and Nifty retreated from a record high on Friday as investors pared exposure to telecom, capital goods and tech stocks.Heavy selling pressure in Reliance Industries, L&T and HDFC bank counters also pulled indices...
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Mamata Banerjee with a TMC candidate
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Friday lashed out at Governor C V Ananda Bose for his alleged misconduct with a woman employee of Raj Bhavan. Speaking at a public rally in Purba Bardhaman district, Banerjee said my heart bleeds for the woman...
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Claiming that Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was deliberately denied a ticket to contest the Lok Sabha elections after the party announced Rahul Gandhi and KL Sharma as its candidates from Raebareli and Amethi, expelled leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam on Friday said she was a...
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Mocking Rahul Gandhi as someone who runs away from the battlefield, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday targeted him for shifting his Lok Sabha constituency to Rae Bareli and said he could not gather the courage to contest from Amethi.People like him want to lead the country, the senior BJP...
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Former Karnataka minister H D Revanna and his son Prajwal Revanna face fresh troubles as a case has been lodged based on a youth's complaint alleging that his mother was abducted after a video of her being allegedly tied and raped by Prajwal emerged. The case was registered on Thursday...
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma claimed that Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra are irrelevant in this North Eastern state and they are past expiry date. He dismissed Vadra's allegations that there is a 'mafia raj' in Assam and claimed that there was peace...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is contesting the Lok Sabha elections from Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh after running away from Amethi and predicted that he will lose the polls there against the BJP candidate by a huge margin. He also said...
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And another image of Rahul Gandhi filing his nomination papers from the Rae Bareli constituency. Accompanying him today are Sonia Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Robert Vadra and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi files nomination from Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat. The Rae Bareli seat was held by Rahul Gandhi's mother Sonia Gandhi for the last two decades. Kishori Lal Sharma, a close aide of the Gandhi family, has been fielded from the Amethi Lok Sabha seat, the Congress said in a...
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The Congress on Friday said it has taken a decision to field Rahul Gandhi from Rae Bareli after a lot of deliberation and strategy, and that the constituency is not just a legacy but also a responsibility. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said it is a long election process and there...
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Congress leader Kishori Lal Sharma today filed nomination for the Lok Sabha elections from Amethi, a few hours after the party announced his candidature from the key seat.Kishori Lal Sharma, a long-time associate of the Gandhi family, will be contesting from Amethi against BJP's Smriti Irani,...
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Amethi MP and Union Minister Smriti Irani reacts to the Gandhis not contesting from her constituency. No member of the Gandhi family contesting from Amethi in itself is an indication that Congress has accepted its defeat from Amethi even before the elections, says Irani.If development was...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's scheduled visit to Rayagada in Odisha on Friday stands cancelled as he has rushed to Rae Bareli to file nomination papers from there, party sources said. Congress Koraput Lok Sabha constituency candidate and sitting MP Saptagiri Ulaka said preparations are on to...
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Rahul Gandhi with KL Sharma
Congress's Amethi candidate Kishori Lal Sharma on Friday said he would rather a Gandhi fight from the seat, but he cannot refuse the party's order which asked him to fight the election. Sharma, a close aide of the Gandhi family, has been fielded by the Congress from the Amethi Lok...
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Congress 'shehzada' is so afraid that he is now contesting from Rae Bareli, PM Modi says on the party fielding Rahul Gandhi from the seat.Uttar Pradesh's Amethi has long been synonymous with the Gandhis but it would be the first time in 25 years that a Gandhi family member will not be contesting...
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Priyanka, Rahul and Sonia at the Fursatganj airport this morning
Uttar Pradesh's Amethi has long been synonymous with the Gandhis and it would be the first time in 25 years that a Gandhi family member will not be contesting election from the Lok Sabha seat. Considered a citadel of the Gandhi family since its creation as a constituency in 1967,...
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The Gandhis arrive at Fursatganj airport to file Rahul's nomination
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday hailed the candidature of Kishori Lal Sharma from the Amethi Lok Sabha seat, saying the Gandhi family has had a longstanding association with him. Sharma, a close aide of the Gandhi family, has been fielded from the seat to take on the BJP's...
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Actor Sanjay Dutt shares this loved-up post on his mother Nargis Dutt's death anniversary. Miss you, Maa! Even though you're not here, your presence is felt in every moment. We hold you close in our hearts and memories Maa. Love you (heart emoji).The actor shared this image among other images...
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After the Congress decided to field Rahul Gandhi from the Rae Bareli seat, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Amit Malviya on Friday said that it is not surprising that Wayanad MP has abandoned the Amethi Lok Sabha seat, adding that it is an admission by Rahul Gandhi that he cannot win Amethi.In a...
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Shortly before the Congress announced its candidates for Amethi -- KL Sharma and Rae Bareli -- Rahul Gandhi, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya exuded confidence in his party winning the seats irrespective of the stature of any candidate from the other side.Speaking to ANI,...
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Sakshi Mallik posted this image of Brij Bhushan and his son
Ace Indian wrestler and Olympic medalist Sakshi Malik on Thursday criticised the BJP for giving a ticket for the Lok Sabha elections to former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Shahran Singh's son, Karan from the Kaiserganj seat in Uttar Pradesh. In a post on X, Malik said that the decision of the ruling...
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Nationalist Congress Party (SP) president Sharad Pawar has said that victory for his daughter Supriya Sule, his party's Lok Sabha candidate from Baramati, would reduce support for Prime Minister Narendra Modi by one MP in Parliament. Campaigning on Thursday for Sule in Pune district's...
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The United States is a country of immigrants, the White House has said, defending President Joe Biden's remarks calling two of his QUAD partners -- India and Japan -- as well as Russia and China xenophobic nations, asserting that none of these countries, unlike the US, welcome...
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A teenage boy was caught for allegedly sending an email to the Delhi Police headquarters saying that a bomb was planted in the outer Delhi's Nangloi area, police said on Friday. After a thorough checking in the area, the sender, who turned out to be a teenage boy, was caught. He was...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will contest the Lok Sabha elections from the Rae Bareli seat, the constituency held by his mother Sonia Gandhi earlier. Kishori Lal Sharma, a close aide of the Gandhi family, has been fielded from the Amethi Lok Sabha seat, the party said in a...
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The Reserve Bank of India has lifted restrictions on Bajaj Finance on sanctioning and disbursal of loans through eCOM and Insta EMI Card, the company said in a regulatory on Thursday. In November last year, the central bank had directed Bajaj Finance to stop sanction and disbursal of loans...
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Birla Estates, the real estate venture of the Aditya Birla Group, on Thursday said it has sold 72 apartments for Rs 2,500 crore in a residential tower of its luxury project in the city. The residential tower, Silas, is part of the luxury residential project Birla Niyaara and the company has...
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The Special Task Force of the Uttar Pradesh police on Thursday arrested a Noida-based businessman in connection with a probe into the alleged Chhattisgarh liquor scam, officials said. An FIR was lodged at the Kasna police station in Greater Noida in July last year on the complaint of a...
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