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A special screening of filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra's 12th Fail was held for chief justice DY Chandrachud and other judges at the Supreme Court. The film's screening on Wednesday was attended by the CJI, judges and over 600 officials of the Supreme Court and their families. It was...
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PM Narendra Modi with Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu during the COP28 Summit in Dubai/ANI Photo
Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has said that he is planning to visit India as soon as possible. He also praised the very strong bilateral relationship between the two countries. I am planning to visit (India) as soon as possible...We have a very strong bilateral...
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Leading stock exchanges BSE and NSE on Friday revised their transaction fees for cash and futures and options trades after markets regulator Sebi mandated a uniform flat fee structure for all members of market infrastructure institutions. The revised rates will be applicable from October 1,...
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British luxury auto-maker Rolls-Royce cars on Friday launched its ultra-luxury Cullinan Series II in Chennai, with price starting from Rs 10.50 crore, a company official said. The company, in a statement said the first local client deliveries would commence from the fourth quarter of...
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Two persons were killed as a portion of the boundary wall of the Maharajwada school opposite the famous Mahakal temple in Ujjain collapsed due to heavy rains on Friday evening, an official said. Four persons were trapped under the debris and two of them died, Ujjain collector Neeraj Kumar...
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A court in Ranchi on Friday disposed of the Rs 2.5-crore cheque bounce case against Bollywood actress Ameesha Patel after she paid the entire amount to the complainant. The court of judicial magistrate DN Shukla disposed of the case after Jharkhand-based filmmaker Ajay Kumar Singh filed an...
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A woman has vandalised the name plate of Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis outside his office at `Mantralaya' in south Mumbai. The incident which took place on Thursday evening raised questions about the security at the state government's headquarters. Fadnavis, a...
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Noted economist Bibek Debroy on Friday resigned as chancellor of the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, a day after the Bombay high court extended interim relief to vice-chancellor Ajit Ranade, who was earlier removed from his post. Debroy, who is also chairman of the Economic...
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The Bombay high court on Friday quashed an order passed by a special court granting permission to former media executive Indrani Mukerjea, accused of killing her daughter Sheena Bora, to travel abroad. A single bench of Justice Shyam Chandak allowed a petition by the Central Bureau of...
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The Lokayukta police on Friday registered a first information report against Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and others in the Mysuru Urban Development Authority site allotment case, following the court order. Congress president M Mallikarjun Kharge, meanwhile, came to Siddaramaiah's...
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Dame Maggie Smith. Pic: Peter Nicholls/Reuters
Dame Maggie Smith, celebrated for her roles in Harry Potter and Downton Abbey, has passed away at the age of 89, reports BBC. A renowned figure in British theatre and film, she won two Academy Awards during her career -- for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in 1970 and California Suite in...
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RG Kar Medical College and Hospital ex-principal Sandip Ghosh/File image
A designated Central Bureau of Investigation court, denying bail to former RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh, has observed that the nature and gravity of the accusation against him is grave and it can attract capital punishment if proved. The CBI had arrested Ghosh...
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The Namakkal police gunned down a man among a gang of seven suspected to have been involved in the ATM heist in Kerala's Thrissur and detained six of them, when they brazenly attempted to flee after ramming into cars and two wheelers at Kumarapalayam in the district on Friday, a senior police...
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Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty retracted from lifetime highs to settle lower on Friday due to profit-taking in frontline stocks HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank. The BSE Sensex declined 264.27 points or 0.31 percent to settle at 85,571.85. During the day, it climbed 142.13 points or...
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Sending out a stern message, the Election Commission on Friday sought an explanation from the Maharashtra chief secretary and the state's police chief for failing to fully implement its orders on the transfer of officials ahead of the upcoming assembly polls. In a strongly-worded letter, the...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will virtually inaugurate the Metro line between Shivajinagar District Court and Swargate in Pune on September 29 (Sunday), local MP and Union minister Murlidhar Mohol has said. Besides inaugurating the corridor, PM Modi will also lay the foundation of the...
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Heavy rains in Sikkim over the last three days have triggered multiple landslides in several areas and caused significant damage to the old Rang-Rang bridge, considered the gateway to the northern part of the state, officials said on Friday. With the bridge down, Mangan district headquarters...
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Opposition YSRCP chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy/File image
Opposition YSRCP chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has cancelled his planned trip to the Tirupati Lord Venkateshwara Temple, sources close to him said on Friday. His much hyped Tirumala tour was announced as part of the YSRCP's call for prayers in temples to atone for Telugu Desam Party supremo and...
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Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty retracted from lifetime highs to settle lower on Friday due to profit-taking in frontline stocks HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank. The BSE Sensex declined 264.27 points or 0.31 per cent to settle at 85,571.85. During the day, it climbed 142.13 points or 0.16...
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A man who allegedly defrauded thousands of people in Maharashtra of more than Rs 300 crore was nabbed after he was found living in the guise of a seer in Mathura to evade his arrest, police said Friday. Baban Vishwanath Shinde was held near the Krishna Balaram Temple in Vrindavan in a...
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BJP spokesperson CR Kesavan on Friday slammed Rahul Gandhi, comparing him to Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister for Hitler. Kesavan called Gandhi the deceptive and dishonest Goebbels of Indian politics, accusing him of spreading misinformation.He said, Yesterday, you saw how Mr. Rahul...
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Asserting that the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls are being held peacefully and without any violence, BJP president J P Nadda on Friday said the people of the Union Territory have rejected bullets and chosen ballots, focusing on peace and development.Addressing a press conference in Jammu,...
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If Congress wins, who will Mallikarjun Kharge pick?
Predicting a massive mandate for the Congress in the Haryana Assembly polls, former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Friday said the final decision on the chief ministerial pick would be taken by the party high command and it would be acceptable to him. Dismissing talk of...
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The police in Madhya Pradesh's Indore on Friday registered a case against a woman following an outcry from various quarters over her roaming in skimpy clothes at the famous food street '56 Dukaan'. A first information report under section 296 (obscene act in a public place) of the...
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A Bangladeshi cricket fan was allegedly heckled in the stands and taken to a medical facility during the opening day of the second Test against India in Kanpur on Friday but there was no clarity on what triggered the incident. The man, who calls himself super fan Roby, was dressed in a...
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The Bombay High Court on Friday directed the police to identify a secluded spot for the burial of the body of Akshay Shinde, accused in the Badlapur sexual assault case, who was killed in a police shootout. A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and M M Sathaye said once the...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday trained his guns on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, asking if he knew the full form of MSP as he underlined that the BJP government in Haryana was procuring 24 crops at the minimum support price. Addressing a poll rally in Rewari, Haryana, Shah...
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Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) to the Union government, V Anantha Nageswaran, on Friday said that the Indian economy is expected to grow at a rate of 6.5-7 per cent in the current financial year on a steady state basis. He said the growth rate is commendable given the current global scenario....
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The Supreme Court on Friday deferred hearing on a plea of Delhi Chief Minister Atishi and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal challenging the high court order refusing to quash a defamation case over their remarks on alleged deletion of names of 30 lakh voters belonging to some communities from electoral...
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Friday. DMK sources said their leader was likely to make the demand for early release of funds for several projects such as the Chennai Metro and universal education initiatives in the state. Stalin...
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... Union minister Kiren Rijiju. The minister shared this image alongside as well writing, A nostalgic feeling! Nice meeting my old College days friend Bhupender Chaudhary after decades!
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An 11-year-old child was killed as part of an alleged sacrificial ritual performed by the owners of his school in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras to make it more prosperous, police said on Friday. Besides the owner and director of the school, the principal and two teachers were also arrested for...
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Tissue saris are having a major fashion moment. With their mesmerising lustre and elegant flow, they transcend mere fashion statements and embody a redefined celebration of grace. Made with lightweight fabric -- usually a gorgeous mix of silk and metallic threads -- they give a shimmering, almost...
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The father of the accused in the Badlapur sexual assault case, who was killed in an alleged police shootout earlier this week, on Friday moved the Bombay High Court seeking a burial spot for his son. The father's advocate mentioned the application before a division bench of Justices...
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Debt-ridden SpiceJet on Friday said it has cleared all its Goods and Services Tax (GST) dues. The airline, which raised Rs 3,000 crore through the Qualified Institutional Placement (QIP) route last week, had GST dues worth over Rs 145 crore. In a release, the carrier said it has...
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While on Saif Ali Khan, the actor recently called Congress MP Rahul Gandhi a 'brave and honest' politician and appreciated how he had turned his image around.Speaking at the India Today Conclave, Saif picked Rahul as his choice among the 'brave' politicians of the country and credited him for...
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This picture was shared on X today, where the man on the left shared a throwback picture saying the person on the right was his school friend and shared another picture of them, now. Clue: The man on the left works for the Government of India.
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The Odisha government has decided to grant maternity and paternity leaves to employees opting for surrogacy, an official notification said. According to the notification issued by the state Finance Department on Thursday night, female employees can avail of 180 days of leave while male...
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Actor Saif Ali Khan said social media can consume a person into negativity and can be dangerous for the person like him. Khan, who is absent from popular social media platforms like X and Instagram, said they consume too much time of a person that can be utilised for doing something more...
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Rahul Gandhi in Haryana
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, ahead of the upcoming Haryana elections, on Thursday slammed the state government in a public rally for the lack of employment opportunities that cause youth to migrate. During his address, the Congress leader used examples from the struggles of children whose...
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The rally in Indian stocks continued on Friday as both indices, Nifty and Sensex, maintained their upward trend, with the Sensex nearing the 86,000 mark.The Nifty 50 index opened at 26,226 points, registering a surge of 0.04 per cent, while the BSE Sensex opened at 85,897 points with a gain of 57...
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It is not just new smartphone launches that will highlight festival-season sales this year; refurbished mobile phones are also seeing a demand surge.Platforms that sell refurbished smartphones, such as Flipkart, Cashify and Grest, are reporting strong demand, particularly for high-end devices...
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A cop on duty in Assam
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a key accused in a United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent (ULFA-I) case related to the planting of IEDs across multiple places in Assam. Girish Barua, alias Gautam Baruah, was nabbed from the outskirts of Bengaluru, where he...
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On orders from the ministry of defence (MoD), the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has established collaborative research facilities called DRDO-industry-academia Centres of Excellence (DIA-CoE), at premier academic institutes in the country.These include 'directed research...
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The Union Health Ministry has released an advisory for all states and union territories on the Mpox disease after India became the third non-African country to report a case of clade 1b Mpox infection recently. The Department of Health and Family Welfare on September 26 in its advisory has...
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In a significant blow to Hezbollah, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) announced the elimination of Muhammad Hussein Srour, Commander of the organisation's Aerial Command, in a precision airstrike in Beirut.Sharing a post on X, the IDF wrote, Eliminated: Commander of Hezbollah's Aerial Command,...
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Two young men aged between 20 and 22 years were arrested and two minors detained on charges of raping a 16-year-old girl studying in a Pune-based college, whom they befriended on social media, said police on Thursday. According to the police, the four accused do not know each other...
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The Delhi police arrested a 32-year-old woman for allegedly stealing gold jewellery worth lakhs of a social media influencer while taking taking pictures with him, an officer said on Thursday. The woman was apprehended from Manali in Himachal Pradesh with her husband and gold ornaments...
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A domestic help was arrested for allegedly stealing Rs 10 lakh cash from Telugu actor Mohan Babu's residence in Jalpally in Hyderabad, the police said on Thursday. The actor's personal secretary visited the house on Sunday and the domestic help allegedly stole the cash from his bag kept in a...
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The Enforcement Directorate has attached assets as part of its ongoing money laundering investigation against YouTuber Siddharth Yadav alias Elvish Yadav and some others, official sources said Thursday. A provisional order under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act has been issued, they...
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