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The Congress Monday slammed as outrageous and unacceptable Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi's remark that secularism is a European concept and demanded his immediate sacking. Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh claimed that Ravi is only a trial balloon floater and...
23:45
Accused Akshay Shinde
The mother and uncle of Badlapur sexual assault case accused Akshay Shinde, who was shot dead by police on Monday evening, termed the incident as an encounter and sought justice. Shinde was killed near Mumbra Bypass around 6:15pm when he allegedly snatched the gun of a policeman while...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and his deputy Devendra Fadnavis on Monday said police shot dead Badlapur school sexual assault case accused Akshay Shinde in self-defence.Akshay Shinde, accused of sexually abusing two minor girls in the school where he worked as an attendant, was being...
22:25
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday addressed the United Nations Summit of the Future at the UN General Assembly in New York and called for reforms in the global institutions and termed reforms the key to relevance. He also called the African Union's inclusion as a permanent member in the...
21:56
Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged terrorism and new theatres of conflict in areas like cyber, maritime and space at the UN on Monday, saying global action on these issues must match global ambition. His address at the UN's landmark Summit of the Future comes against the backdrop of...
21:47
A Maharashtra labour department official on Monday inspected the office of Ernst & Young (EY) in Pune on the directions of the central government over the death of a woman chartered accountant.Anna Sebastian Perayil (26) allegedly died due to work stress four months into joining the firm in...
21:17
In the wake of Tirupati Laddu adulteration allegations, the FSSAI has issued a show cause notice to a Tamil Nadu-based firm for supplying substandard ghee to Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam, official sources said on Monday. In the notice, the food regulator asked A R Diary Food...
20:53
Three railway employees were arrested in Gujarat's Surat district on Monday for alleged track tampering and then alerting authorities about a sabotage attempt to take credit for averting a possible tragedy, a police official said. The three, identified as Subhash Poddar (39), Manish...
20:42
A 23-year-old woman slipped into a coma after she was seriously injured when the scooter driven by her husband on which she was riding pillion crashed into a big pothole on an Indore road, a police official said on Monday. Following the accident on the Bus Rapid Transit System...
20:18
Amid controversy over adulteration in Tirupati laddus, Samajwadi Party MP Dimple Yadav has alleged that shops in Mathura are selling adulterated 'khoya' and demanded an inquiry. Talking to reporters during an event here on Sunday, Yadav said adulteration in Tirupati Laddu prasad is a...
19:35
A man arrested for sexually abusing two girls at a school in Badlapur town of Maharashtra's Thane district fired at a policeman and was injured in retaliatory firing, police said on Monday. An official said Akshay Shinde, who worked as a cleaner at the school, was being taken to...
19:14
Eight persons, including five boys, were killed in a lightning strike near a village in Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon district on Monday amid heavy rains, police said.The incident, in which a man was also injured, took place at around 2 pm near Joratarai village under the Somni police station area...
19:04
A 24-year-old man's sacred thread was cut and thrown away here by three motorcycle-borne men and they mocked at him for wearing it and a case has been registered, the police said on Monday. The incident occurred at Palayamkottai in Tirunelveli on the evening of September 21,...
18:45
Israeli strikes on Hezbollah strongholds in southern Lebanon killed over 100, according to the Lebanese health ministry, in the deadliest attack since war erupted in Gaza on October 7 when the Palestinian group Hamas carried out the worst-ever attack on Israel.Thousands of Lebanese fled the...
18:31
Shiv Sena-UBT MP Sanjay Raut on Monday claimed the Bharatiya Janata Party and Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena are systematically working to oust Ajit Pawar-led NCP from the Mahayuti alliance ahead of the assembly elections.Mahayuti allies BJP and NCP rejected Raut's claims and accused the opposition...
18:27
A bag containing Rs 20 lakh cash was found abandoned in a coach of a local train in Mumbai, police said on Monday.Some passengers spotted a bag lying unattended in a second-class compartment of the Asangaon-CSMT local train at 10 PM on Sunday, an official said.A woman member of a group of...
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The Maharashtra government on Monday approved a proposal to name to name Pune airport as Jagadguru Sant Tukaram Maharaj Pune International Airport. The decision was taken at a state cabinet meeting, an official said, adding the proposal will be sent to the Centre.The state cabinet...
17:52
India has reported the first case of the Mpox strain, which led to the WHO declaring it a public health emergency last month, in a patient from Kerala who had tested positive last week, official sources said on Monday. They said Clade 1b strain has been detected in the 38-year-old man from...
17:35
Investors' wealth climbed Rs 8.30 lakh crore in three days of record-breaking market rally amid continued optimism over the US Fed rate cut. Rallying for the third day running on Monday, the 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 384.30 points or 0.45 per cent to settle at an all-time high of...
17:24
The Chief of the General Staff approves strikes on Hezbollah targets. Pic: @IDF
At least 50 people were killed and more than 300 others were injured in Israeli attacks across Lebanon since this morning, Al Jazeera reported, citing Lebanon's Health Ministry.It further said that children, women and paramedics were among those who were killed in the attacks, according to...
17:20
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman clarified after Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi's victim shaming allegation over her remarks on the death of a 26-year-old woman Chartered Accountant, Anna Sebastian Perayil, who died due to alleged extreme work pressure at Ernst & Young...
16:53
Kumari Selja with Rahul Gandhi. File pic
Rejecting speculations that she is set to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), AICC general secretary and Sirsa MP Kumari Selja on Monday said that she owes the Congress for whatever she is today and that she will soon join the campaign for the party for the October 5 Haryana Assembly...
16:49
From the 30 Sensex firms, Mahindra & Mahindra, State Bank of India, Bharti Airtel, Hindustan Unilever, Kotak Mahindra Bank, UltraTech Cement, Adani Ports, and Tata Steel were the biggest gainers. ICICI Bank, IndusInd Bank, Asian Paints, Tech Mahindra, Infosys, HCL Technologies, Tata...
16:25
Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Monday promised to be the voice of the people of Jammu and Kashmir in Parliament, reiterating the Congress party's commitment to put pressure on the BJP-ruled Centre to restore J-K's statehood. Whenever you need me, you just have to give...
16:03
Domestic equity indices Sensex and Nifty scaled their new record closing high levels on Monday, helped by strong foreign fund inflows and a largely firm trend in Asian markets. Rallying for the third day running, the 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 384.30 points, or 0.45 per cent, to settle at...
15:31
A Sikh student was thrashed and his turban forcibly removed by some students during a clash with another group at a college here, triggering criticism as the video went viral on social media. The incident occurred at Sri Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College under Delhi University on Saturday, days...
15:11
Growth-oriented investors will get the best long term return in India, highlighted a report by Jeffries.The report emphasized that Indian equities remain attractive in the long term, both on a five-year and ten-year investment horizon.This remains the best long-term opportunity for...
14:46
In a sarcastic remark, the Calcutta High Court on Monday said the West Bengal government may consider giving Rs 10 lakh as dole to each Durga Puja committee, maintaining that the current Rs 85,000 appears to be meagre. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee recently announced that the dole for...
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Former Union minister Sharad Pawar on Monday said that he and nephew Ajit Pawar are together as a family, but made it clear that the latter was heading a different political party. Gharat tari ekatrach ahet (we are together at home least), the veteran politician said at a press conference at...
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An 85-year-old man's grave was dug up and the skull taken away from Bijnor in UP, with police launching a probe on Monday into the suspected black magic case. The incident came to light when locals came to the cemetery in Khari village of Haldaur to offer 'fatiha' (Islamic...
13:57
National Commission for Women has directed the Karnataka police to expedite the arrest of all involved in the gruesome murder of a woman whose body parts were found chopped up and stuffed into a refrigerator.NCW has come across a media post titled 'Woman's Body Chopped Into 30 Pieces Found Inside...
13:32
Former BJP MP Smriti Irani is on vacay doing a culture stop. She posts this on X, writing, Just hanging out with my new friend @smithsonian. We both agree : leadership requires thick skin and a huge presence #elephantintheroom #leadershipgoals #smithsonianadventures.
13:10
Kiran Rao's Laapataa Ladies has been picked as India's official entry for Oscars 2025, the Film Federation of India announced in Chennai on Monday. The Hindi film, a light-hearted satire on patriarchy, was chosen from a list of 29 films, including Bollywood hit Animal, Malayalam National...
12:56
A section between two pillars of connecting path of under-construction Bakhtiyarpur-Tajpur Bridge reportedly collapsed near Nandani Lagunia Railway Station in Samastipur, triggering a row.Manager Mohan Singh said that the incident that took place on Sunday was not a collapse but a dismantling...
12:39
1. In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 88 of the Finance (No. 2) Act, 2024 (15 of 2024), the Central Government has appointed the 1st day of October, 2024 as the date on which the Direct Tax Vivad Se Vishwas Scheme, 2024 shall come into force.2. Keeping in view the...
12:26
AAP leader Atishi takes charge as the eighth chief minister of Delhi. I will work as CM of Delhi for four months like Bharat did by placing Lord Ram's 'khadaun' on throne. Kejriwal has set example of dignity and morality in politics, BJP left no stone unturned to tarnish his image, she...
12:21
Waseem, a biryani outlet in Bangalore lends support to the doctors strike in Bengal after the RG Kar horror. @WazBLR posts on X: Our Biryani is ready to be distributed.
11:59
This column is about those whose name is Kamala. Many readers may groan and exclaim: has the man no sense of priorities? Absurd, they would say. But the human mind is notorious for being absurd, writes Gopalkrishna Gandhi. Read the column here.
11:50
A log was found on a rail track last week
Another day, another attempted mass murder:Nine iron rods were found on the tracks in Punjab's Bathinda district, disrupting railway traffic for a brief period, officials said on Monday. The rods were found on Sunday near Bangi Nagar on the Delhi-Bathinda route. A Government Railway Police...
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The Supreme Court on Monday set aside a Madras High Court ruling that had said that mere downloading and watching child pornography was not an offence under the POCSO Act and the information technology law. A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj...
11:27
MNS chief Raj Thackeray called on Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde at Varsha Bungalow, the CM's official residence, in Mumbai today. The dates for the Maharashtra polls are yet to be announced.
11:20
The 18th season of the popular reality show Bigg Boss, hosted by Salman Khan, is slated to premiere on October 6. The show will air on Colors TV and will also be available to stream on JioCinema. The channel announced the premiere date on Sunday night on its official Instagram handle....
11:14
In the ongoing war of words between Aam Aadmi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party, the latter's spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla has criticized the Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia for likening himself to Lakshman and the former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kerjiwal to Lord Shri Ram.It...
10:36
If MVA wins, will Uddhav be CM?
Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala on Monday asserted that the discussion for the Chief Minister's post among the coalition partners in Maharashtra will held after the elections, and added that their only aim is to remove the 'corrupt' government from power. Speaking to media persons,...
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Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka's ninth president on Monday, amid hopes that he will bolster the country's economy and eliminate corruption. Dissanayake, 56, was sworn in by Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya at the Presidential Secretariat. Dissanayake, the leader of the...
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The body of a premature baby has been found lying near the banks of a lake in Thane city of Maharashtra, police said on Monday. Some passersby spotted the body of the male child near the Siddheswhar Talao on Saturday and alerted the police. After receiving information, the police rushed to...
10:04
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena resigned from his post on Monday as part of a power transition in the country following the presidential election won by Anura Kumara Dissanayake. The resignation came ahead of the swearing ceremony of Dissanayake. Gunawardena, 75, was prime...
09:58
Domestic equity indices Sensex and Nifty scaled their new record high levels in early trade on Monday, helped by strong foreign fund inflows and rally in Asian markets. The 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 318.58 points to hit an all-time high of 84,862.89. The NSE Nifty surged 120.75 points to...
09:32
A four-hour Shanti Homam Panchagavya Prokshana (ritualistic sanitisation) to undo the alleged desecrations that occurred during the Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party regime at Tirumala temple is underway now, temple sources said on Monday.A Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) source...
09:20
The local administration in Jakhnidhar Tehsil of Uttarakhand's Pauri Garhwal district has announced that nine schools in Dwarikhal would be shut on September 23 and 24 in view of a tiger scare.According to the order issued by Pauri District Magistrate Ashish Chauhan, the decision was taken on a...
08:34
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas here and expressed deep concern at the humanitarian situation in Gaza, reaffirming India's support for the early restoration of peace and stability in the region.Modi is in New York on the second leg of his three-day US visit...
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