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An IndiGo plane flying from Jaipur to Dehradun was diverted to the national capital on Tuesday evening due to a technical issue. In a statement, the airline said the aircraft will be back in operations after necessary maintenance. A source said there was an engine issue but it could not...
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A 20-year-old woman was killed in a fire that broke out at an electric vehicle showroom in Rajajinagar on Tuesday, the police said. The incident occurred at around 5.30 pm at My EV Store, an electric bike showroom near Navrang Junction. Four fire tenders were dispatched to the scene,...
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Election officials have registered a case against the woman principal of a school in Akola over alleged delay in handing over the room on its premises designated as a polling booth for the November 20 Maharashtra assembly elections, an official said. Assistant returning officer of Akola West...
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Bollywood actor Deepika Padukone, along with her husband Ranveer Singh, has taken on lease an apartment in Mumbai for Rs 7 lakh per month, Square Yards said on Tuesday. In a statement, real estate consultant Square Yards said Padukone and her husband recently took on lease an apartment in...
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Renowned music director and singer AR Rahman's wife Saira has reportedly announced separation from her husband, according an India Today report. Saira's counsel Vandana Shah issued a statement in this connection, said the report. After many years of marriage, Mrs Saira has made the...
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Anil Deshmukh
Former Maharashtra home minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar leader Anil Deshmukh, injured in a stone attack on his car a day earlier, was discharged from hospital on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters in Nagpur, Deshmukh said the BJP will be taught a lesson. I...
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Air India will fly back at the earliest around 30 remaining passengers who were among those stranded in Phuket since last three days after the flight from the Thailand's city to Delhi was cancelled due to a technical issue, according to sources. Some Air India passengers took to social media...
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A coach of a passenger train derailed after being hit by a truck in Jharkhand's Deoghar district on Tuesday, an official said.However, there were no reports of any injury due to the incident, which took place at Rohini Nawadih railway crossing on the Madhupur-Jasidih section around 2 pm, he...
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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday reviewed arrangements and facilities in the Parliament House complex ahead of the Winter session beginning November 25. Birla inspected the Lok Sabha chamber, corridors, lobbies, waiting rooms, media facilities and other key areas, the Lok Sabha...
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The Manipur government has conditionally lifted the suspension on broadband services three days after imposing it, considering the hardships faced by common people, healthcare facilities, educational institutions and other offices.Mobile internet services, however, remained suspended, according...
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Congress leader P Chidambaram
Manipur Congress leader and former CM Okram Ibobi Singh opposed a post made by senior Congress leader P Chidambaram regarding Manipur which later got deleted after the intervention of party president Mallikarjun Kharge. Okram Ibobi on Tuesday said he talked to Kharge and emphasised that the...
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Aryan Khan
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan will be coming out with his maiden series on Netflix in 2025, the streamer announced on Tuesday. Produced by Gauri Khan under the banner Red Chillies Entertainment, the yet-to-be-titled series marks Aryan Khan's debut as a creator and...
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A Delhi court is likely to pronounce on Wednesday its order on Jammu and Kashmir Lok Sabha member Engineer Rashid's regular bail application in a terror-funding case.Additional sessions judge Chander Jit Singh, who was scheduled to pass order on Tuesday, deferred the matter till November 20.The...
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The police on Tuesday registered a case against Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary Vinod Tawde and party candidate Rajan Naik in connection with the alleged distribution of cash to voters at a hotel in Palghar, an official said. Hours before the Maharashtra assembly polls, BVA leader...
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In a jolt to the Bahujan Vikas Aghadi, its candidate Suresh Padvi from the Dahanu assembly constituency in Maharashtra's Palghar district, joined the ruling BJP on Tuesday on the eve of the state polls. Padvi crossed over to the BJP and announced his support to the saffron party nominee...
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Brazilian authorities have arrested five officers suspected of involvement in a coup plot aimed at overthrowing the government and assassinating President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva following the 2022 elections, reports Associated Press.The investigation revealed that the plotters also intended to...
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The district authorities in Palghar on Tuesday said that a police team comprising senior officials recovered Rs 9.93 lakh cash and some incriminating documents from the hotel where some Bharatiya Janata Party activists were allegedly distributing money. The statement has come in the wake of...
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Several children were injured when an SUV rammed into groups of parents and students outside a primary school in China's Hunan province on Tuesday, the third incident of killing of civilians within a fortnight in the country.The incident took place in Changde city at around 7:30 am local...
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The Nitish Kumar government in Bihar has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah seeking the grant of classical language status to Maithili. The letter by state Education Minister Sunil Kumar, dated November 18, has been shared on X by Janata Dal-United working president Sanjay Kumar Jha, a...
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A government school principal, who recently cut the hair of some girl students for allegedly arriving late to the school here, has been suspended, an official said on Tuesday. B Srinivasa Rao, state project director of Samagra Shiksha, said the incident occurred recently and came to...
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Tuesday took strong exception to the use of Hindi language on the website of Life Insurance Corporation of India, and said that the website has been reduced to a propaganda tool for imposing Hindi.Posting a screenshot of the LIC of India webpage containing...
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The Madras high court on Tuesday restrained the Music Academy from conferring an award named after legendary vocalist MS Subbulakshmi on well-known Carnatic music singer TM Krishna, following a plea by her grandson. Justice G Jayachandran passed the order on a suit filed by V Srinivasan,...
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A date with democracy
More than 30,000 police personal have been deployed on security duty in Mumbai for the Maharashtra assembly elections to be held on Wednesday, officials said. Elaborate arrangements have been made to maintain law and order and ensure smooth conduct of the elections, a police official...
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200 people have been killed in ethnic violence in Manipur
Rights activist Irom Sharmila believes that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's direct intervention is essential to resolving the crisis in violence-hit Manipur, warning that the reimposition of the draconian Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act in six police station areas in the northeastern state could...
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Indian stock markets saw a strong recovery on Tuesday, with both the Sensex and Nifty surging over 1.25 per cent in early trade. The Nifty 50 rallied more than 300 points to reach 23,770, while the Sensex jumped over 1,000 points to 78,410 at the time of reporting. Market experts attributed...
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Actor Vikrant Massey, who has been busy promoting his film 'The Sabarmati Report', recently met with the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, in his residence in Lucknow. Yogi Adityanath shared a picture with the actor on X on Tuesday, writing, Today, film actor Shri Vikrant...
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Modi, Putin met in Moscow in July this year
Russian President Vladimir Putin may visit India next year as part of a laid down structure between the two countries for reciprocal annual visits by their leaders, diplomatic sources said on Tuesday. The two sides are looking at the possibility of the visit but nothing has been...
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Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty bounced back on Tuesday after days of downtrend on value-buying at lower levels and rally in blue-chip stocks HDFC Bank, Tech Mahindra and M&M. Continuous buying by domestic institutional investors also supported the indices, traders said....
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Domestic workers discuss the scheme
Has the Laadki Bahin scheme won over women workers in Mumbai?A meeting with one section of them, domestic workers belonging to the Mumbai-based NGO Prayas Ek Koshish, that has been working with them for the last 20 years, indicates that it has.We are happy that the money has come to us...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said the BJP-led government at the Centre has successfully brought down violence in Jammu and Kashmir, North-East and Naxal-hit areas by 70 per cent in the last 10 years.Speaking at the inaugural event of the 50th All India Police Science Conference...
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Hundreds of people took to the streets with empty coffins in Manipur's Churachandpur district on Tuesday, demanding justice for those killed in a gunfight with the security forces in Jiribam. Ten suspected militants were killed in the gunfight with security forces last week after...
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Bahujan Vikas Aghadi leader Hitendra Thakur on Tuesday, the eve of the Maharashtra assembly elections, alleged that senior BJP leader Vinod Tawde distributed money to voters in a constituency in Palghar district. The BJP has, however, rubbished the allegations, saying Thakur's claim was...
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cautioned public over deepfake videos of its top management being circulated over social media giving financial advice. In a statement Tuesday, RBI said it has come to their notice that fake videos of the Governor (Shaktikanta Das) are being...
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The Wright Brothers' plane at the Smithsonian museum.
Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel has claimed that Vedic-era sage Bharadwaj, not the Wright Brothers, conceptualised the idea of an aircraft. Addressing a convocation function at a university, Patel said students should study ancient Indian texts to appreciate the unparalleled research...
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The Madhya Pradesh government on Tuesday decided to declare The Sabarmati Report, a film on the Godhra train burning incident of 2002, as tax free in the state. Chief Minister Mohan Yadav made this announcement and said he will also go to watch the movie. Helmed by Dheeraj Sarna, the...
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Bengaluru Police Commissioner B Dayananda on Tuesday said that an appeal will be filed in the Supreme Court soon challenging the interim bail granted to Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa, who is an accused in the Renukaswamy murder case. The 47-year-old had walked out of Ballari jail...
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In an attempt to boost voter turnout in Thane district, a one-click facility has been introduced for the November 20 Maharashtra assembly elections wherein voters only have to scan QR codes to find out about polling stations. Talking to reporters, Thane collector and election officer...
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A 37-year-old woman travelling from Kuala Lumpur was found dead upon the flight's arrival in Chennai on Tuesday and she had died of a heart attack, police said. The crew of the private carrier found the woman unresponsive upon the flight's arrival in Chennai, following which a team of doctors...
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Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna on Tuesday said all judges have been asked to allow virtual hearings wherever possible in view of the severe pollution levels in the national capital region. As soon as the bench comprising the CJI and Justice Sanjay Kumar assembled, lawyers, including Supreme...
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Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday criticised the central government over the severe air pollution in the national capital and said that Delhi is the most polluted city in the world, making it nearly uninhabitable from November to January and barely livable throughout the rest of the...
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According to the quarterly bulletin of the government's Periodic Labour Force Survey for April-June 2024, the unemployment rate for youths between 15 and 29 years in urban areas in the Current Weekly Status (CWS) was 16.8 per cent. Read more here.
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Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) Chairman Ravi Agarwal on Monday said taxpayers who have not disclosed their foreign income or assets in their Income Tax Returns (ITRs) have time till December 31 to file their revised return for financial year 2023-24. The tax department is in the...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi reviewed progress in the disengagement of troops in Demchok and Depsang in eastern Ladakh in a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit. It was the first high-level engagement between the two sides after...
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After the Competition Commission imposed a Rs 213-crore penalty on Meta in relation to WhatsApp privacy policy, the company said it disagrees with the watchdog's decision and plans to appeal. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Monday asked WhatsApp to refrain from sharing...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (local time) held a bilateral meeting with his Italian counterpart, Giorgia Meloni, on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Brazil.PM Modi stated that their discussions focused on strengthening ties in defence, security, trade, and technology. He...
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The air quality in the national capital remained in the the 'severe plus' category for the second consecutive day on Tuesday morning, with smog shrouding the city, reducing visibility and worsening air pollution to touch an alarmingly high level of poor AQI. According to the Central Pollution...
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The government has convened a customary all-party meeting on Sunday ahead of the Winter Session of Parliament. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said in a post on X on Tuesday that the meet has been convened on November 24 morning in view of the coming Winter session of...
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The Rajasthan government has rechristened the state tourism corporation's well-known Hotel Khadim in Ajmer as 'Ajaymeru' with an aim to preserve the cultural heritage of the city, according to an official order. The Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation (RTDC) issued the order on Monday...
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Elon Musk-owned Space X successfully launched the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s communication satellite GSAT-N2 from Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, USA on Tuesday.The advanced communication satellite was launched using SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.Named GSAT N-2 or GSAT 20,...
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United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced that trade talks with India would be relaunched in the new year, following a bilateral meeting with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Brazil.Following Starmer and Modi's meeting, Downing Street said...
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A Pune court ordered Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to appear in person before it on December 2 in connection with a defamation complaint filed against him by Hindutva icon V D Savarkar's grandnephew. Satyaki Savarkar had filed a complaint in a Pune court claiming Gandhi, in his speech in...
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A family has reported theft of gold ornaments valued at Rs 63 lakhs while travelling to Udupi on CST-Mangalore train, the police said on Monday. The theft came to light at Indrali railway station on November 16 when the family members found that their baggage was forced open and gold...
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A woman gave birth to a baby in a cab after she was allegedly referred to a superior hospital without a checkup by a primary health centre in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Monday. Deputy commissioner, Rajouri, Abhishek Sharma visited the PHC Teryath after the...
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An earthquake of 4 magnitude struck Kutch district on Monday night, the Institute of Seismological Research said. No casualty or loss of property was reported in the region due to the seismic activity, district officials said. The earthquake was recorded at 8.18 pm with its epicentre...
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