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The new Tata Sierra unveiled./Rajesh Karkera/Rediff
Remember the 90s classic? The Tata Sierra, with its dominant SUV looks, aggressive grille, and those signature, sprawling rear windows. This was unlike anything else on Indian roads. Today, November 15, 2025, the legacy continues! Tata Motors has officially unveiled the brand-new...
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Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan penned a lengthy note on his social media on Saturday expressing his gratitude for getting a commercial tower in Dubai named after him.The commercial tower is called Shahrukhz and is slated to be completed by 2029. It will feature a statue of the actor at the...
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Maruti Suzuki India is recalling 39,506 units of Grand Vitara to replace faulty fuel indicator part. The company is recalling the affected lot of the model manufactured from December 9, 2024 to April 29, 2025, according to a regulatory filing. It is suspected that the fuel level...
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Security forces recovered an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district on Saturday, and later destroyed it in a controlled explosion, officials said.A house was partially damaged in the explosion which was carried out in Upper Bangai village of Thanamandi...
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West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose
West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Saturday defended the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, calling it an essential step to clean up the election process and ensure free and fair polls in the state. Bose said the process was designed to remove discrepancies and restore public...
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The police on Saturday claimed to have busted a Pakistan-linked narcotics racket with the arrest of two peddlers in Jammu with three kg of heroin, valued at around Rs 15 crore. Senior superintendent of police, Jammu, Joginder Singh, said a patrol party led by sub-divisional police officer,...
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J-K LG Manoj Sinha pays tribute to the 9 cops and officials killed in accidental blast in police station./Umar Ganie
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Saturday announced an ex gratia of Rs 10 lakh for the family of each of the deceased in the accidental blast in Nowgam police station. The compensation will be provided from the Chief Minister's Relief Fund. Those severely injured will get Rs 1 lakh each,...
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Veteran actor Prem Chopra has been discharged from the Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai after being admitted for chest congestion on November 8.According to the actor's family, Prem Chopra has reached home after treatment at the Lilavati Hospital on Saturday.Actor Prem Chopra has carved a niche for...
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Former Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party chief Annamalai on Saturday termed Bihar Assembly election result as a turning point in the country's political history. Speaking to reporters here on the side lines of a training programme organised for the party's booth level agents in the...
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RJD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav with his son Tejashwi Yadav/ANI Photo
The NDA's stupendous victory in the Bihar assembly polls will help it bag all Rajya Sabha seats from the state in the coming years, while the Rashtriya Janata Dal will have no representation in the upper house when the next assembly elections are held there. The RJD currently has five seats...
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A court in Maharashtra's Thane district on Saturday adjourned till December 6 the hearing of a defamation case filed against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi by a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh worker. Bhiwandi Joint Civil Judge, Junior Division, P M Kolse, is hearing the case at...
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Grammy-nominated popstar Akon, who is in India for his music tour, was spotted exiting Mumbai airport on Saturday. The singer, known for tracks such as Smack That and Lonely, came to India earlier this month. He first performed in Delhi on November 9, followed by his performance in...
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Security forces on Saturday detained two British passport holders -- a man and a woman, both doctors -- for allegedly entering India illegally from Nepal at the Rupaideha border in Bahraich district, officials said. Following preliminary interrogation, the duo was handed over to the police...
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The Delhi police registered two separate FIRs against Haryana's Al-Falah University, following red flags raised by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), an official said on Saturday. The FIRs have been registered by the Crime...
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Legendary actor Rajinikanth
Legendary actors Rajinikanth and Nandamuri Balakrishna will be honoured during the closing ceremony of the upcoming International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Panaji for completing 50 years in cinema. Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Dr L Murugan gave this...
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Actor Rana Daggubati on Saturday appeared before the SIT in Telangana in connection with a case related to alleged promotion of an online betting app, the police said. The Telangana government has constituted the SIT under the overall supervision of the additional director general of police,...
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United States President Donald Trump has declared that he intends to proceed with legal action against the BBC despite the British public service broadcaster apologising to him for the way his speech was edited for one of its news documentaries aired last year. We'll sue them. We'll sue them...
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Election Commission officials on Saturday said three lakh voters were added to Bihar's electoral roll after the publication of final list post the special intensive revision. They were responding to a social media post by Congress which pointed out that while the EC's statement announcing...
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Maharashtra minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ashish Shelar on Saturday mocked the Congress' statement of fighting the Mumbai civic polls alone and asked if the grand old party had the guts or vote base to take such a decision.Earlier in the day, Mumbai Congress president Varsha Gaikwad...
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Union minister Chirag Paswan on Saturday said his Lok Janshakti Party-Ram Vilas was looking forward to joining the new government in Bihar and he personally felt that Janata Dal-United president Nitish Kumar should continue as chief minister.Addressing a press conference a day after the NDA...
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In a sign of a possible strain within the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), Congress leader Varsha Gaikwad on Saturday said the party is preparing to contest the upcoming polls to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation independently.Addressing a party meeting, Mumbai Congress president Gaikwad called on...
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Bharatiya Janata Party Kerala Chief Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Saturday said the NDA's massive victory in the Bihar assembly polls reflects the impact of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voters' list and the removal of fake voters. Speaking to reporters in Thiruvananthapuram,...
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A day after the Rashtriya Janata Party was drubbed in the Bihar assembly polls, party president Lalu Prasad's daughter Rohini Acharya on Saturday announced that she was quitting politics and severed ties with the family. Acharya, a doctor by qualification, who chose to become a homemaker and...
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Twenty eight blackbucks have died under mysterious circumstances in the Kittur Rani Chennamma Zoo in Karnataka's Belagavi in the past three days, a zoo official said on Saturday.The zoo had 38 blackbucks of which 28 have died, which has alarmed the authorities.Karnataka Forest Minister...
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Delhi Police has detained three persons, including two doctors from Haryana's Al Falah University who were known to Dr Umar Nabi, the driver of the car that exploded near the Red Fort, officials said on Saturday. The detentions were made during coordinated raids conducted on Friday night by...
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The Uttar Pradesh government has moved to withdraw charges against all those accused in the 2015 mob lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq in Greater Noida's Dadri, a case that had sparked nationwide outrage. Additional District Government Counsel Bhag Singh Bhati told PTI on Saturday that the state...
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Former Union minister Raj Kumar Singh, who has been in the news for his outbursts against the ruling NDA in Bihar, was on Saturday suspended from the BJP for anti-party activities, a party leader said. Singh, who has been served with a suspension order by the BJP headquarters in the state,...
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State Investigation Agency Inspector Israr Ahmad Shah was among the nine people who were killed in the massive explosion at the Nowgam police station in Jammu and Kashmir. Shah, who joined the police force in 2011, is survived by a wife, two young children, and elderly parents.Hailing from...
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Former poll strategist Prashant Kishor's Jan Suraaj, which failed to open its account in the Bihar assembly, on Saturday expressed disappointment over its poll debacle, and said cash transfer to the accounts of women played an important role in the NDA's victory. The party was unable to...
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Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi met party president Mallikarjun Kharge in New Delhi to discuss the Bihar assembly election result on Saturday, a day after the opposition party faced a drubbing in the state. The two were joined by AICC general secretary, organisation, K C Venugopal,...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday visited the under-construction bullet train station in Gujarat's Surat to review the progress of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail Corridor (MAHSR).The Prime Minister landed at the Surat airport in the morning and reached the Antroli area, where a...
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At least three Bihar assembly seats witnessed a winning margin of less than 100 votes, while the closest contest was decided by below 250 votes in three other constituencies. The Sandesh seat in Bhojpur district saw a neck-and-neck fight with JD(U) nominee Radha Charan Shah winning it by a...
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Three persons, including two bodyguards of the principal district judge in Jamshedpur, drowned and one went missing after their car fell into a dam in Jharkhand's capital Ranchi, police said on Saturday.The incident occurred at Ranchi's Hatia dam under the Nagri police station limits late on...
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IndiGo on Saturday announced that it will start flight operations from the newly-constructed Navi Mumbai International Airport from December 25 with domestic air services to 10 cities. IndiGo also said it plans to expand its operations, progressively from the Mumbai Metropolitan...
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The huge cache of explosives which exploded at Nowgam police station in Jammu and Kashmir was brought from Haryana's Faridabad in a Tata 407 pickup truck in small bags and was being examined by experts when the accident took place. A top official said investigators were still trying to find...
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Jammu and Kashmir Police chief Nalin Prabhat on Saturday said the massive explosion at Nowgam police station that left nine dead and 32 injured was accidental and ruled out sabotage as the cause of the incident. Prabhat, the Director General of Jammu and Kashmir Police, said the explosives...
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Saturday congratulated veteran Janata Dal-United leader Nitish Kumar for his decisive victory and wished him well in fulfilling the expectations of the people of Bihar.Also, he appreciated young leader of RJD Tejashwi Yadhav for his tireless campaign.The...
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A CCTV footage sourced from inside the Red Fort metro station offers a stark glimpse of the moments immediately before and after the car blast that killed 13 people and injured several others, an official said on Saturday. The visuals extracted from internal surveillance cameras show...
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As the ruling NDA decimated the Mahagathbandhan in Bihar to retain power, all but one of the 25 state ministers in the fray won their respective seats.Deputy Chief Ministers Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, both from the BJP, won Tarapur and Lakhisarai assembly seats.Chief Minister Nitish...
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Bihar BJP in-charge Vinod Tawde took an indirect jibe at Congress leader and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi after the National Democratic Alliance delivered a commanding victory in the Bihar assembly election by issuing an apology for upsetting the national child on Children's Day. We...
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The Supreme Court on Friday declined to entertain challenges brought by Bata India, Liberty Shoes and several other footwear makers against a Delhi high court ruling that revived Crocs Inc's passing off suits over its signature footwear design.Justices Sanjay Kumar and Alok Aradhe upheld the high...
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Actors Rajkummar Rao and Patralekhaa are blessed with their first child, a baby girl.In a joint post, the couple announced the news, celebrating their daughter's arrival on their fourth wedding anniversary, which was on November 15.'We are over the moon. God has blessed us with a baby girl....
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The Gujarat Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) has apprehended a man wanted by the Punjab police for his alleged involvement in smuggling arms for a gang working at the behest of Pakistan-based terrorist networks to carry out grenade attacks in the country, an official said.The ATS, in a release on...
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Delhi woke up to dense smog on Saturday morning as the Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 386 at 8 am, falling under the 'very poor' category, according to data released by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). India Gate was barely visible this morning, shrouded by a thick layer of...
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An accidental explosion ripped through Nowgam police station in Srinagar, killing eight people and injuring 27 others. The blast occurred while authorities were extracting samples from a large cache of explosives confiscated in the 'white-collar' terror module case, officials said on...
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Jammu and Kashmir director general of police Nalin Prabhat on Friday evening conducted a hybrid security review of the Union Territory. This step follows a high-intensity explosion that ripped through a slow-moving car driven by a Kashmiri doctor at a traffic signal near the Red Fort Metro...
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Fugitive Jagdish Punetha who is wanted for allegedly defrauding people of crores of rupees through fake investment schemes was extradited from the United Arab Emirates, police said on Friday. The Crime Branch-Crime Investigation Department (CB-CID) branch of the police successfully brought...
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A team of the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad visited a private hospital here on Friday to gather information about Dr Adil Ahmed, who is under scrutiny in investigations initiated following the Delhi blast. A Jammu and Kashmir native, Adil was arrested from Saharanpur last week. He...
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A woman pilgrim, who was part of a 'jatha' (group) visiting Pakistan for the 556th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev, did not return from the neighbouring nation, according to sources in the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC).The woman, identified as Sarbjit Kaur, is a...
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An accidental blast occurred on the premises of the Nowgam police station in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday night while personnel were taking samples of explosive material seized from Faridabad in connection with a 'white-collar' terror module case, officials said.At least eight personnel were...
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