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Kamal Gavai, Chief Justice of India Bhushan Gavai's mother, on Wednesday said she would not attend a centenary program of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) here on October 5.She decided not to attend the programme as chief guest in view of the controversy the news generated and the...
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The Allahabad high court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife in 1982.Forty-three years after the incident that was reported from Jalaun district of Uttar Pradesh, the court has reversed the trial court's order of acquittal and sentenced main accused Awadhesh Kumar,...
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The rupee recovered 9 paise from its all-time closing low to settle at 88.71 against US dollar on Wednesday, as the Central Bank in its monetary policy decision announced a host of measures to support exporters and bring stability to the domestic unit.Forex traders said the rupee advanced against...
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From the Sensex firms, Tata Motors jumped the most by 5.54 per cent, followed by Kotak Mahindra Bank, Trent, Sun Pharma, Axis Bank, and ICICI Bank.However, Bajaj Finance, State Bank of India, UltraTech Cement and Tata Steel were among the laggards.
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Market benchmarks rebounded sharply on Wednesday after an eight-session losing streak, with Sensex jumping 715 points, propelled by bargain hunting in bank and financial stocks after the RBI left interest rates unchanged and revised upward its growth estimates to 6.8 per cent for the current...
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Ladakh Lt Governor Kavinder Gupta on Wednesday reviewed the prevailing law and order situation in the Union Territory (UT), assuring people of lifting in a phased manner of restrictions imposed in the aftermath of last week's violence.Gupta has been holding high-level meetings twice daily, one in...
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India's largest IT firm Tata Consultancy Services has allegedly forced around 2,500 employees in Pune to resign from their jobs, the IT employees' body Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES) said in a letter to Maharashtra chief minister on Wednesday. However, TCS said,...
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The Delhi Police on Wednesday took self-styled godman Chaitanyanand Saraswati, accused of sexually harassing 17 students of a private institute in New Delhi, to the campus for the second time and seized 'pornographic' material, a senior officer of the force, who is privy to the investigation,...
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A live mortar shell was found in a forward village near the Line of Control (LoC) and was subsequently defused by the experts in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district on Wednesday, officials said.The shell was noticed by some villagers in an open field at Naka Panjgarian who promptly informed the...
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An Indian-origin couple who were charged with the murder of their three-year-old daughter nearly two years ago by the Metropolitan Police have been accused of 'deliberately starving' the toddler at a court hearing in London. Manpreet Jatana, 34, and Jaskiret Singh Uppal, 36, appeared at the...
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Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran.
Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran met Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Wednesday, during which the two held discussions on various projects aimed at the state's overall development.The talks with Chandrasekaran focused on several initiatives, including education and school...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday released a special postage stamp and a commemorative coin, which features first-ever depiction of Bharat Mata on Indian currency, to mark the centenary celebrations of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).The Rs 100 coin features the national emblem on one...
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Two policemen of Tiruvannamalai East police station have been arrested and suspended from the service for allegedly raping a woman hailing from Andhra Pradesh, the police said on Wednesday. The incident occurred near the Tiruvannamalai bypass on Tuesday in which the two police constables,...
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Days after winning his first-ever National Award in a career spanning over three decades, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has now officially joined the billionaire club. Yes, you read it right. King Khan's name has been featured in the 2025 M3M Hurun India Rich List. He topped the M3M...
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Gross GST collection rose 9.1 per cent to over Rs 1.89 lakh crore in September on the back of increased sales due to rate rationalisation, as per government data released on Wednesday. Gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) mop-up was Rs 1.73 lakh crore in September 2024. Last month, the...
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Jammu and Kashmir recorded the second-lowest rate of reporting murder cases among all the states and Union territories in 2023, with less than one case per one-lakh population, data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has revealed. The data has also revealed that Jammu and...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday offered condolences after a massive earthquake of magnitude 6.9 hit the Philippines. He underscored that India stands in solidarity with the Philippines and offered prayers to the bereaved families.In a post on X he said, Deeply saddened to learn about...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to visit India in the first week of December for the 23rd annual India-Russia bilateral summit, sources told Rediff. The dates are tentatively December 4, 5.The high-level visit was first discussed during National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval's...
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The Reserve Bank of India expectedly left its key interest rates unchanged on Wednesday as it waited for greater clarity on the impact of US tariffs as well as playout of earlier rate cuts and recent tax reductions.
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Cases registered under dowry-related crimes saw a 14 per cent increase in 2023, with more than 15,000 cases recorded across the country and over 6,100 deaths reported through the year, according to the latest report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). The NCRB's 'Crime in India 2023'...
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A case was registered in connection with an incident where a 16-year-old girl was allegedly forced into marriage at a mosque in Anepalya Bengaluru recently, police said on Wednesday. The marriage is said to have taken place on September 26, they said. Based on the complaint of a government...
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Indonesian rescue teams are frantically searching for scores of young students buried for two days under concrete rubble after their Islamic boarding school collapsed on them during afternoon prayers.In one pocket of the mangled concrete of the collapsed century-old Al Khoziny boarding...
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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres welcomed the United States-led Gaza peace proposal and gave a call for immediate action towards peace, Secy General's Spokesperson said on Tuesday.The Spokesperson for the Secretary-General said on the announcement of a plan for Gaza that Guterres welcomes...
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Post the Karur stampede in his rally that left 41 persons dead, actor and party chief Vijay's similar events planned over the next two weeks are being temporarily postponed, his party Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) said on Wednesday. Vijay has embarked on a meet the people initiative on...
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India's manufacturing sector activity eased in September, as new orders, output and input buying rose at the slowest rates in four months, while job creation retreated to a one-year low, a monthly survey said on Wednesday.The seasonally adjusted HSBC India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index...
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Superstar Shah Rukh Khan is set to return as a host for the Filmfare Awards after 17 years for its 70th edition, the organisers have announced. Shah Rukh will co-host the award show, to be held on October 11 in Ahmedabad, alongside Maniesh Paul and Karan Johar. From the first time I held...
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Democratic political figures began weighing in on the government shutdown early on Wednesday, largely placing blame on US President Donald Trump and Republicans for the federal government shutdown. Former Vice President Kamala Harris said that US President Donald Trump and Republicans wanted...
14:07
TV channels double as ad producers and norms are rewritten as a state with less than 1% of India's population spends around Rs 55 lakh a day on ads. Read the report here.
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The Congress on Wednesday took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi after US President Donald Trump's praise for Pakistan's Army chief, saying the time for sloganeering, grandstanding, bragging, and lecturing is over as far as Indian diplomacy is concerned. The self-styled Vishwaguru and...
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge is admitted to a hospital in Bengaluru for a planned procedure, as he was advised a pacemaker to be implanted, his son and Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge said on Wednesday. He said that his father's condition is stable and is doing well. Sri Kharge...
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The RSS works with different sections of society but there are never contradictions among its various wings as they work on the principle of nation first, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted on Wednesday. PM Modi, who released a postal stamp to mark 100 years of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak...
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Indian equities may be poised for a turnaround as the intensity of earnings downgrades slows, with the government pushing ahead with measures to support demand, according to domestic brokerage Motilal Oswal. After four straight quarters of significant downward revisions, the cut in earnings...
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As the clock has struck midnight in the US, the federal government officially shut down after a deadlocked Congress failed to pass a funding measure to keep the lights on -- and the Capitol is clueless as to what would follow, CNN reported. This is the first government shutdown since...
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Donald Trump shares some pictures from the banquet with the royals in Britain. It was great being with King Charles, Queen Camilla, and the Royal Family! the US president wrote on X.President Donald Trump visited the UK on a state visit over a week ago, and is just now sharing his...
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At a time when most people use keyboards to write, does handwriting really matter? Yes, say Indian courts, if the writer is a doctor.Jokes around the notoriously bad handwriting of many doctors that can only be deciphered by pharmacists are common in India, as around the world. But the latest...
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A garba celebration at the housing society in Thane was disrupted when eggs were allegedly thrown from an upper floor by a person, sparking anger among residents, police said on Wednesday. A case has been registered against the suspect, who is also a resident of the same complex, they said.The...
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Six children have died in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara district due to kidney-related complications between September 4 and September 26, an official said. According to the families of the affected children, initially the children suffer from colds, coughs, and fevers. After that, their...
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Fans pay tribute to Zubeen Garg.
Northeast India Festival (NEIF) chief organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta and Zubeen Garg's manager Siddhartha Sharma have been remanded to 14 days' police custody by the Kamrup Chief Judicial Magistrate in connection with the singer's death in Singapore, a senior police official said on Wednesday.The...
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Eleven police personnel were killed in Manipur by riotous mobs in 2023, according to a report published by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). A total of 24 civilians were killed by extremists during that year in the northeastern state, which witnessed ethnic conflict between Imphal...
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PM Modi shares this picture yesterday at a Durga puja pandal.Today, on the auspicious occasion of Maha Ashtami, I went to Delhi's Chittaranjan Park to take part in the Durga Puja celebrations. Chittaranjan Park is known for its strong association with Bengali culture. The celebrations truly...
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The Department of Financial Services has written to the corporate affairs ministry raising concerns around the limited number of benches of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), which it said was leading to piling up of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) cases, a senior official said.More...
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday kept its policy interest rate unchanged at 5.5 per cent for the second consecutive time, citing concerns over tariff uncertainties. Announcing the fourth bi-monthly monetary policy of the current fiscal, RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra said the...
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The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has extended the timeline for implementing its framework on the 'safer participation of retail investors in algorithmic trading', providing stock brokers additional time to align their systems. The framework, originally scheduled to...
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Monetary policy Committee decided to keep policy rate unchanged at 5.5 pc: RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra. The Monetary Police Committee (MPC) considered it prudent to wait for the impact of policy actions to play out and for greater clarity to emerge before starting the next course of...
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Mumbai, the financial capital of the country, topped the list of metropolitan cities in economic offences with 6,476 such cases registered in 2023, as per the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data. However, as compared to the number of economic offences Mumbai reported in 2022, it saw a...
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US President Donald Trump has said it will be a big insult to America if the Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded to him even though he has ended over seven global conflicts. Referring to his plan to end the Gaza conflict, Trump said Tuesday in remarks to military leaders in Quantico: We got it,...
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Shyam began his formal career in journalism at PTI in 1991 in New Delhi, where he also did a bit of photography. He later joined the Hindu Business Line, initially at the Kochi bureau and later at the Mumbai bureau, working there overall for over 15 years. He had a brief stint with Outlook...
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The federal government of the United States has officially shut down for the first time in six years after a deadlocked Congress failed to pass a funding measure to keep the lights on -- and no one inside the Capitol knows what will happen next, reports CNN. Republicans insist...
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Three workers died after getting trapped inside a hotel's waste tank in Kattappana, Idukki, as per police. The incident took place around 10 pm on Tuesday night. The deceased were identified as Jayaraman from Cumbum, Tamil Nadu, and Sundara Pandian and Michael from Gudalur. Despite...
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Hollywood actor Nicole Kidman has officially filed for divorce from Keith Urban, bringing an end to their marriage of 19 years, as per The Hollywood Reporter. The news came just a day after it was reported that the couple had separated and had been living apart since the beginning of summer....
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US President Donald Trump on Tuesday (local time) warned of an invasion within the country, which is not different from a foreign enemy. He said that it is difficult to trace such enemies as they do not wear uniforms, CNN reported. Trump was addressing a gathering of top US military...
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The Centre's fiscal deficit for the April-August period of FY26 widened to 38.1 per cent of Budget estimates (BE) or Rs 5.98 trillion, against 27 per cent of BE in the corresponding period last year, according to the data released by the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) on Tuesday.This comes...
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The Reserve Bank of India has asked all banks to beef up settlements of unclaimed funds -- deposits, dividends, interest warrants, pensions, etc -- over the next three months (October to December) to reduce such funds in the banking system.Balances in savings or current accounts that have not...
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A jawan of the CoBRA battalion died of snakebite during an anti-naxal operation in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district, a statement by the state police headquarters said on Wednesday. The victim was identified as Sandeep Kumar of 209 CoBRA battalion. Kumar was engaged in an operation against a...
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge was hospitalised as he developed fever, party sources said in Bengaluru on Wednesday. Doctors at the city's MS Ramaiah Hospital are treating the 83-year-old leader, they said. The leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha was taken to hospital on Tuesday as he...
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Former Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram has disclosed that he was inclined towards retaliatory action against Pakistan after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks but was ultimately persuaded against it. Speaking on an ABP News Podcast, Chidambaram recounted the decision-making process within...
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Mumbai, the financial capital of the country, topped the list of metropolitan cities in economic offences with 6,476 such cases registered in 2023, as per the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data.However, as compared to the number of economic offences Mumbai reported in 2022, it saw a dip in...
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Tension gripped Dehradun's Patel Nagar area after an alleged derogatory social media post against Prophet Mohammad triggered protests, prompting police to carry out a flag march on Tuesday night. Police said the people were asked to maintain peace and cautioned against any attempts to...
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Ladakh Administration on Tuesday rejected claims of a witch-hunt or a smoke-screen operation against activist Sonam Wangchuk, who was detained under the National Security Act last week. It asserted that the actions taken by law enforcement agencies were based on credible inputs and...
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North East India Festival (NEIF) chief organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta and Zubeen Garg's manager Siddhartha Sharma have been arrested in connection with the singer's death in Singapore, police said on Wednesday. Mahanta was arrested on his arrival at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in...
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Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday said the Shiv Sena will hold its annual Dussehra rally at the NESCO Exhibition Centre in Goregaon area here instead of the Azad Maidan in south Mumbai. The rally was earlier planned at the Azad Maidan, which has turned into a puddle...
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A man was arrested for allegedly making remarks that the Indian government can be changed like in Nepal, the police said in Ghaziabad on Tuesday. A purported video of his remarks surfaced online and police, taking cognisance of the clip, lodged an FIR. Three minors were also detained in...
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