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A youth leader of a right-wing cultural group and a candidate at the February 12 general elections was on Friday shot at by unidentified gunmen in Bangladesh capital. Chief adviser Muhammad Yunus expressed deep concern over the shooting and serious injury of Sharif Osman Hadi, spokesperson...
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After nearly three years of investigation, Badlapur police in the district has arrested a man and three others for allegedly murdering his wife using a poisonous snake. Neerja Rupesh Ambekar died at her residence in Ujwaldeep Society, Badlapur East, on July 10, 2022, said a police...
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The police arrested a government school principal for his alleged involvement in converting a Surat-based woman to Christianity with the help of his son, officials said on Friday. Ramji Chaudhary, principal of Pipalvada Primary School, was arrested after investigations confirmed the...
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Maharashtra Minister of State for Public Works Meghna Bordikar on Friday said the government will soon set up a trauma care centre on the Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi Expressway, and a proposal to start an air ambulance service is also ready. In a calling attention motion, MLC Milind Narvekar...
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Security forces arrested an alleged terrorist associated with the Jaish-e-Mohammad in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district and recovered a grenade from his possession, police said on Friday. Jammu and Kashmir police in Awantipora, along with security forces, arrested a terror associate --...
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The air quality index (AQI) in at least seven cities of Bihar slipped to the poor' category on Friday, with Arrah topping the list at 266, officials said. According to the Central Pollution Control...
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Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif reportedly waited more than 40 minutes for Russian President Vladimir Putin before entering a separate meeting the Russian leader was holding with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Russia Today has reported. Sharif was in Kazakhstan for the summit...
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The Allahabad high court on Friday fixed January 30 for the next hearing in the Krishna Janmabhoomi and Shahi Idgah mosque dispute at Mathura. Justice Avnish Saxena today verified the documents regarding some amendments in pleadings. Earlier, the court had observed, The record is...
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RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Friday stressed the importance of placing the nation above everything and emphasised that it's time to live for Bharat and not die for it. Addressing a programme here to commemorate the 115th anniversary of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar's song 'Sagara Praan Talamala',...
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InterGlobe Aviation, which operates the IndiGo airline, on Friday approached the Delhi high court seeking refund of more than Rs 900 crore paid as Customs duty on aircraft engines and parts re-imported into India after overseas repairs. The plea came up before a bench of Justices Prathiba M...
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Light snowfall is likely in higher reaches of Lahaul and Spiti, Chamba and Kullu districts in Himachal Pradesh over the weekend, weather officials said on Friday. Kukumseri, located in the Lahaul and Spiti district, registered the coldest night temperature at a low of minus 5.9 degrees...
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Of the 1.16 lakh drug samples tested in 2024-25, 3,104 were declared not of standard quality while 245 were found to be spurious or adulterated, Union Health Minister J P Nadda told the Lok Sabha on Friday. Responding to a question, Nadda also informed that of the 1.06 lakh samples tested in...
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The rupee depreciated by 17 paise to close at an all-time low of 90.49 against the US dollar on Friday, as uncertainty over the India-US trade deal and persistent foreign fund outflows dented investor sentiment. Forex traders said the rupee is under pressure, largely due to aggressive dollar...
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The Union cabinet on Friday approved a Bill to rename the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and increase the number of work days, sources said. According to the sources, the scheme will now be renamed as 'Poojya Bapu Grameen Rozgar Yojna', and the number of workdays...
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Seeking to ensure greater transparency, the Election Commission has deployed 'special roll observers' in eight states to oversee the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls. The observers have been appointed in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya...
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Hundreds of people offered Friday prayers at the site of the proposed 'Babri Masjid-style' mosque in West Bengal's Murshidabad district. Suspended Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir laid the foundation for the mosque at Beldanga on December 6, the day Ayodhya's Babri Masjid was demolished...
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UPDATE: At least 35 people were rescued after a fire broke out at a hotel located in a commercial complex in Ahmedabad on Friday afternoon, but no casualties were reported, officials said.The blaze started at around 3 pm at Hotel Citizen Inn, located on the second floor of the Parishram Elegance...
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IndiGo said it is operating over 2,000 flights on Friday as per its revised 'scaled down' schedule.Under the winter schedule, which commenced in the last week of October and will run through the last week of March next year, IndiGo was allowed to operate 15,014 flights per week, or 2,144 per day,...
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Just In: 35 people rescued after fire at hotel in Ahmedabad; no casualties reported, say officials.Details soon.
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India's forex reserves jumped by $1.033 billion to $687.26 billion during the week ended December 5, the Reserve Bank of India said on Friday.In the previous reporting week, India's forex reserves had dropped by $1.877 billion to $686.227 billion.For the week ended December 5, foreign currency...
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IndiGo on Friday cancelled around 160 flights from two key airports, Delhi and Bengaluru, on Friday amid the on-going disruptions at the airline, sources said.On Thursday, the airline had cancelled over 200 flights from these two airports.IndiGo has cancelled 159 flights on Friday from Delhi and...
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Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday said the government has approved Rs 11,718 crore for the conduct of the Census of India 2027.The Union Cabinet, at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved the proposal to conduct the Census which will be the first digital exercise of...
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Among Sensex firms, Tata Steel, Eternal, UltraTech Cement, Larsen & Toubro, Maruti and Bharti Airtel were the major gainers.However, Hindustan Unilever, Sun Pharma, ITC and Asian Paints were among the laggards.
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Benchmark stock index Sensex rallied nearly 450 points while broader Nifty closed above the 26,000 level on Friday following buying in metal shares and positive global trends.Rising for the second day, the 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 449.53 points or 0.53 per cent to settle at 85,267.66.During...
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The consumer price index (CPI)-based retail inflation had fallen to a record low of 0.25 per cent in October, mainly due to lower prices helped by GST rate cuts and a favourable base.According to data released by the National Statistics Office (NSO), deflation in food items was 3.91 per cent in...
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Retail inflation inched up to 0.71 per cent in November on rising prices of vegetables, protein-rich items, and fuel, government data showed on Friday. The Reserve Bank, earlier this month, significantly lowered the inflation projection for the current fiscal to 2 per cent from 2.6 per cent...
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The Delhi police has registered an FIR against an unidentified individual for allegedly posing as Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva to seek favours from senior government officials, an official said on Friday. The complaint was filed by Brijesh Rai, office secretary of the Delhi BJP...
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A court in Bareilly on Thursday granted conditional bail to Ittehad-e-Millat Council chief Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan and one another, accused of instigating violence in Uttar Pradesh's over 'I Love Muhammad' posters, on furnishing a bond of Rs 1 lakh each.Sub-inspector Komal Kundu of the Mahila...
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Danish pharma major Novo Nordisk on Friday launched its blockbuster type 2 diabetes treatment injection Ozempic, globally popular for its weight-loss benefits. Ozempic is now available in India as 0.25 mg, 0.5 mg and 1 mg in 'FlexTouch Pen' - an easy-to-use, once-weekly pen device, at a...
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Maharashtra Public Health Minister Prakash Ambedkar said on Friday that the state recorded a slight increase in deaths linked to COVID-19 complications this year despite fewer reported infections.In a written reply to a question by NCP legislator Sachin Patil, he said that 35 people died of...
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IndiGo's board on Friday announced the appointment of an external aviation expert to carry out a root-cause analysis of recent flight disruptions.Chief Aviation Advisors LLC, led by Captain John Illson, veteran aviation expert, to conduct an independent expert review and assessment of the recent...
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The rupee depreciated by 9 paise to close at an all-time low of 90.41 against the US dollar on Friday, as uncertainty over the India-US trade deal and persistent foreign fund outflows dented investor sentiment. Forex traders said the rupee is under pressure, largely due to aggressive...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Friday unveiled a statue of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar at Beodnabad in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The statue has been installed in a park in the South Andaman district.After the unveiling event at 3.15 pm, Shah and Bhagwat...
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Several schools here received bomb threat emails on Friday, triggering the evacuation of students and prompting the authorities to launch anti-sabotage checks. Panic-stricken parents rushed to schools to pick up their children while the district administration ordered the closure of all...
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India's imports of Russian crude oil rose 4 per cent in November to a five-month high of Euro 2.6 billion, with a large part of the refined fuels produced from it being exported to Australia, a European think tank said. India remained the second-largest buyer of Russian fossil fuels in...
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People's Democratic Party (PDP) supremo Mehbooba Mufti on Friday said Jammu and Kashmir lost over 7,000 registered Waqf properties in a year, terming it as the latest blow against Muslims. The PDP chief took to X, Over 3.55 lakh Waqf properties are missing nationwide, with Jammu and...
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BJP MP Anurag Thakur on Friday lodged a written complaint with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, demanding action against a TMC lawmaker for allegedly smoking an e-cigarette inside the House. Thakur had on Thursday raised the issue in Lok Sabha without naming the TMC MP.In his...
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Fair trade watchdog CCI is examining whether the country's largest airline, IndiGo, violated competition norms, a senior official said on Friday amid the carrier facing regulatory scrutiny over significant flight disruptions. IndiGo, which has a domestic market share of over 65 per...
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Star Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat on Friday announced that she would be coming out of retirement to take another shot at an elusive Olympic medal at the 2028 Los Angeles Games as the the fire never left her and was merely buried under exhaustion and noise. The 31-year-old had walked away...
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A high-level panel has recommended the names of five people belonging to disadvantaged sections for filling vacancies in the CIC, sources said, dismissing opposition leader Rahul Gandhi's reported claim that the finalised list lacked names from SC, ST, OBC and minority communities. The...
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A Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing into the death of singer Zubeen Garg, submitted its chargesheet in the case at the Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court in Assam's Guwahati on Friday. The over 3,500-page chargesheet, along with the evidence, were brought to the court in four...
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Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Friday raised the issue of air pollution in major cities of the country and sought a discussion on it in the Lok Sabha. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Gandhi said the discussion on the issue can be framed in an interesting manner where the...
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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor skipped the meeting of Congress LS MPs chaired by Rahul Gandhi. According to party sources Tharoor had already informed the party about his unavailability. Another senior Congress leader and Chandigarh MP Manish Tiwari was also absent in the...
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West Bengal's Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari has felicitated the three men arrested for allegedly assaulting two chicken patty vendors at the Gita recital event in Kolkata, after they were released on bail.Adhikari said he stood by them as a Hindu performing his duty.The three persons,...
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It's a double bonanza for the fans of Superstar Rajinikanth. Their legend celebrates his 75th birthday on Friday, which, incidentally marks his 50 years in cinema as well.Not surprisingly, the day turned into a carnival for fans and the film industry alike, with special film re-releases, music...
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Rajya Sabha proceedings on Friday were briefly adjourned for 10 minutes after it was noted that no Cabinet Minister was present in the House. Soon after the House paid homage to those who valiantly fought terrorists and foiled their attack on Parliament on December 13, 2001,...
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Sports technology platform Dream11 is 'pivoting' from the fantasy gaming space to becoming a second-screen sports entertainment platform allowing fans to connect with creators, Co-founder and CEO Harsh Jain said.The company, which has a total base of over 250 million registered users and about 30...
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A National Investigation Agency (NIA) team raided a man's house in Jharkhand's Hazaribag district in connection with his alleged link with the ISIS terror network, officials said here on Friday.The NIA team raided the house of Shahnawaj Alam in the Ansar Nagar area on Thursday and seized a...
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Aviation watchdog Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has suspended four flight operation inspectors (FIOs), responsible for overseeing airline safety, operational compliance, over mass cancellations of IndiGo flightsSince last week, IndiGo cancelled thousands of flights nationwide after...
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Worli has become India's ultra-luxury housing hub, logging Rs 5,500 crore in home (priced over Rs 40 crore) sales in two years, according to a report by Anarock and 360 One Wealth.In the last three years, Worli has seen 40 such deals worth Rs 7,500 crore, over 20 deals each worth over Rs 100...
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The Supreme Court has ruled that statutory corporations cannot claim a 40 per cent tax deduction under Section 36 (1) (viii) of the Income Tax Act for income earned from activities other than providing long-term finance for industrial, agricultural, or infrastructure development.A Bench of...
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Arpora-Nagoa Sarpanch Roshan Redkar has appeared before Anjuna police in Goa after getting interim protection from a local court against arrest in connection with the deadly fire at 'Birch by Romeo Lane' nightclub that killed 25.Redkar and then panchayat secretary Raghuvir Bagkar had moved to the...
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The Reserve Bank of India on Thursday issued revised norms to provide greater flexibility to banks for opening and maintaining three types of accounts: Cash credit, current, and overdraft.These accounts are predominantly used for business and commercial transactions.The revised direction has a...
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Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar and over 30 Congress legislators, including some ministers, met for a dinner late on Thursday night, party sources said.Ministers K H Muniyappa, Mankal Vaidya, Dr M C Sudhakar, MLAs N A Haris, Ramesh Bandisiddegowda, H C Balakrishna, Ganesh Hukkeri, Darshan...
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Microsoft announced it partnered with TCS, Infosys, Wipro and Cognizant to deploy over 50,000 Copilot licences, collectively surpassing 200,000, to redesign workflows around human-agent collaboration and improve productivity and efficiency across delivery, sales, finance, HR, and customer...
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The White House on Thursday (local time) stated that United States President Donald Trump is extremely frustrated with both Russia and Ukraine over the slow progress toward ending the ongoing war and is unwilling to engage in meetings just for the sake of meeting. During a press briefing,...
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A parliamentary panel is likely to summon top officials of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), ministry of civil aviation (MoCA) and Airports Authority of India (AAI) to discuss the recent crisis that has hit India's civil aviation sector due to flight cancellations by the countrys...
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At least nine people died and 22 were injured after a bus fell off a road and turned turtle here in Alluri Sitaramarajud district in the early hours of Friday, police said. They said the bus, which was headed to neighbouring Telangana from Chittoor, was carrying 37 people, including the...
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Senior Congress leader and former Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil passed away at his home town Latur in Maharashtra on Friday.Patil, 90, passed away at his residence after a brief illness, family sources said.He was a former Speaker of the Lok Sabha and held key portfolios in the Union...
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Former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia's health condition deteriorated on Thursday night and she was placed on ventilator support, doctors said. Her breathing difficulties increased, her oxygen level fell, and carbon dioxide levels rose, according to a statement by the chief of the...
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Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and state BJP president Ravindra Chavan met on Thursday night in Nagpur to discuss the upcoming municipal corporation elections, including in Mumbai and Thane. The meeting between Shinde, who heads the Shiv Sena, and Chavan started at 9 pm at...
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A number of artefacts from India dating back to the British colonial era are among over 600 high value' items stolen in a burglary at a museum in Bristol, south-west England, the police said on Thursday. The Avon and Somerset Police said the items were stolen from Bristol Museum's British...
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A Pune court has declared fugitive gangster Nilesh Ghaywal a proclaimed offender in a cheating case. Ghaywal, who is believed to be in the UK, has more than 25 cases registered against him, including 10 filed since September 17 this year when his associates allegedly shot a man in the city...
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