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Gangster Sunil Sardhania, the main accused in the firing on Haryanvi singer Rahul Fazilpuria and he murder of property dealer Rohit Shaukeen, was arrested from the Delhi International Airport in the early hours of Sunday, police said. The accused had returned to India from Costa Rica and was...
21:41
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and senior leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Kanhaiya Kumar and Independent MP Pappu Yadav are among the party's 40 star campaigners for the first phase of the Bihar assembly polls. AICC in-charge of Bihar Krishna Allavaru, Bihar...
21:35
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar visited the residence of Union minister Chirag Paswan on the celebration of the Chhath pooja festival, in Patna./@iChiragPaswanX/ANI Photo
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday drove down to the residence of Union minister Chirag Paswan to partake 'kharna prasad, which devotees consume before embarking on a gruelling 36-hour-long fast as part of Chhath Puja. Pictures of the Janata Dal-United supremo at his Shri Krishna...
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The wife of banned CPI-Maoist commander Ravindra Ganjhu was arrested from Jharkhand's Lohardaga district on Sunday for allegedly being involved in criminal activities, the police said. Lalita Devi, wanted in several cases, registered under the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, in Latehar and...
21:15
The ISRO on Sunday said its LVM3 launch vehicle is scheduled to lift off with the CMS-03 communication satellite on November 2, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. India's LVM3 launch vehicle is scheduled to launch the CMS-03 communication satellite in its fifth operational...
21:10
A militant belonging to the banned United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent) outfit has been nabbed in Arunachal Pradesh's Namsai district, a defence spokesperson said on Sunday. Acting on a tip-off, a joint operation by Assam Rifles and Arunachal Pradesh police was launched in...
20:03
Unseasonal rains lashed several parts of Gujarat on Sunday due to a depression over the east-central Arabian Sea, officials said, predicting more rains during the next four days.Due to the depression, south Gujarat and the Saurashtra region received heavy to very heavy rainfall, including 157 mm...
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Seven persons, including a woman, were injured when a group of men allegedly attacked a family over an old panchayat election rivalry in Balrampur, the police said on Sunday.The incident occurred in Sekhuya Bhay village under the Nagar Kotwali area on Saturday, the police said.One of the injured,...
19:24
US President Donald Trump once again claimed that India is going to stop buying oil from Russia, emphasising that India is cutting back Russian oil purchases completely while China will cut back very substantially. Talking to reporters onboard Air Force One on his way to Malaysia, on...
19:21
Family members, friends, and colleagues from the film and television industry bid a tearful adieu to veteran actor Satish Shah, who was cremated in Mumbai on Sunday afternoon. Industry veteran Naseeruddin Shah, his wife Ratna Pathak Shah, who was also Satish Shah's co-star in Sarabhai vs...
19:11
Shiv Sena-UBT leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday met NCP-SP president Sharad Pawar ahead of the joint morcha of the opposition parties against the Election Commission to protest alleged irregularities in the electoral rolls. Raut met Pawar at the latter's Silver Oak residence...
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Madhya Pradesh minister Kailash Vijayvargiya
Amid an outrage over the alleged molestation of two Australian women cricketers in Indore, Madhya Pradesh minister Kailash Vijayvargiya on Sunday said cricket players must keep the local authorities informed while stepping out, as they are very popular in India. The two women players, who...
18:31
A total of 21 Maoist cadres, including 13 women, surrendered with 18 weapons in the Kanker district on Sunday, Bastar inspector general P Sundarraj said.The cadres were part of the Kuemari/Kiskodo Area Committee of Keshkal Division (North Sub Zonal Bureau), he said.According to the senior police...
18:07
A 25-year-old man, driven by jealousy and resentment towards his stepbrother, allegedly defrauded his own father of over Rs 26 lakh by exploiting his digital inexperience, an official said on Sunday.According to the police, the accused, Shivam Sharma, executed the fraud over four months after...
17:59
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Cracking down on rebellion in the party ahead of the assembly elections, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal-United expelled 16 leaders, including a sitting MLA and two former ministers, most of whom have entered the fray against official NDA candidates.The expulsions have been...
17:54
The Election Commission will hold a press conference to announce pan-India Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters' list on Monday evening, officials said. While complete details were still awaited, the poll authority is likely to announce the first phase of SIR in which 10 to 15 states...
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The scramble to move the seat of power to Jammu has begun after a four-year hiatus enforced by the Lt Governor's administration. The 'Darbar Move' from the summer capital of Srinagar will be completed on November 3 with the opening of government offices in Jammu. The practice, halted in...
17:05
A deep depression over the Bay of Bengal, which isin the process of intensifying into a cyclonic storm, will bring heavy rain in some districts of West Bengal from October 28-31, the IMD said on Sunday. It advised fishermen not to venture into the sea along and off the West Bengal coast from...
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A 35-year-old Dalit man was allegedly beaten to death by his neighbours following a dispute in Madhya Pradesh's Bhind district, prompting the authorities to deploy police as the situation turned tense in the village, an official said on Sunday. The victim's death led to tensions in the...
16:40
A mild earthquake measuring 2.9 on the Richter scale was recorded in Bidar district on Sunday morning, according to the Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre. The tremor occurred at 3.42 am with its epicentre located 2.4 km northwest of Bhaskarnagar village in Chittaguppa taluk,...
16:39
Eight persons were rescued after a fire broke out in a flat in a high-rise in Mumbai's Kandivali West area on Sunday, three of whom had to be admitted to the ICU after suffering suffocation due to smoke inhalation, officials said. The blaze broke out in a room on the second floor of Agarwal...
15:30
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Senior BJP MP from Bihar, Sanjay Jaiswal, allegedly received an extortion call with the threat that his son would be killed if he did not cough up Rs 10 crore, the police said on Sunday. Jaiswal, who is currently the BJP chief whip in Lok Sabha, received the call on Friday, said SDPO...
15:14
Direct flights between India and China have officially resumed after more than four years, marking a major step forward in restoring normal ties between the two neighbours.On Sunday, the spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in India confirmed the development. Direct flights between China and...
14:56
Senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
Senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Sunday took a swipe at the opposition alliance in Bihar, and said it will collapse under the weight of its own conflicts and contradictions. Naqvi said alliances succeed not through feudal whims but through political understanding. The frustrated...
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The South Central Railway has approved the change of name of Aurangabad Railway Station of Nanded Division over South Central Railway to Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, said A Sridhar, chief public relations officer, South Central Railway, in a statement on Saturday.According to the statement, the...
14:11
A Customs officer was injured when a mob allegedly barged into his residence and beat him up, following a reported altercation with an autorickshaw driver over rash driving in Rajpur area near Kolkata, the police said. One person has been apprehended in connection with the alleged assault on...
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Two pistols, two drones, and a packet of heroin were recovered along the India-Pakistan border in Punjab's Ferozepur and Amritsar districts, a BSF official said on Sunday. Acting on a tip-off, BSF troops launched a search operation near the border area in Ferozepur and recovered a pistol...
13:26
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In a major breakthrough in its sustained campaign against organised crime, the Special Task Force of Haryana has arrested a close associate of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi.The accused has been identified as Lakhwinder Singh, alias Lakha, a resident of Titram village in Kaithal district and a close...
13:16
A 40-year-old patient died after allegedly jumping from the third floor of a hospital in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district on Sunday, the police said. The deceased, identified as Pradhan Honhaga, was undergoing treatment at the Sadar Hospital for the past few days, they said. He...
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India will host the Asia-Pacific region's aircraft accident investigators' meeting for the first time in the national capital from October 28-31. Around 90 aircraft accident investigators are expected to participate in the Asia Pacific Accident Investigation Group (APAC-AIG), an official...
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The Supreme Court is slated to hear on Monday bail pleas of activists Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, Gulfisha Fatima and Meeran Haider in the UAPA case related to the alleged conspiracy behind the February 2020 riots in Delhi. A bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and N V Anjaria is likely to hear...
11:53
The CBI has taken over the probe of the Karur stampede, in which 41 people were killed during a political rally of actor-politician Vijay's Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), officials said Sunday. A special team of the CBI has already visited the site at Velusamypuram in Karur, Tamil Nadu,...
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Heavy rainfall is expected over Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coasts in the next 24 hours as the depression formed in the Bay of Bengal has intensified into a deep depression on Sunday and moving at a speed of 10 km per hour, the Regional Meteorological Centre said. It is likely to move...
11:31
Security has been beefed up in all water bodies across Jharkhand where devotees will offer Chhath puja prayers on Monday evening, a police officer said. Additional forces, drones and CCTV cameras have been deployed in major cities, including Ranchi, Jamshedpur and Dhanbad, to keep an eye on...
11:09
Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashiw Yadav on Sunday said allowances of the representatives of Bihar's panchayati raj system will be doubled if the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) comes to power in the state.He also announced Rs 50 lakh insurance cover and pension for...
11:07
The depression over the Bay of Bengal on Sunday intensified into a deep depression and was slowly moving towards the east coast, prompting the Odisha government to put all 30 districts on alert, officials said.The Indian Meteorological Department has stated that the cyclonic storm is very likely...
10:15
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah hinted at a cabinet expansion after November, when his government completes half term.Speaking to reporters here on Saturday, the chief minister said the Congress high command told him four months ago to take up cabinet expansion but he told them that the...
10:06
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal-United has expelled 11 leaders, including a former minister, for anti-party activities and 'defying its ideology' in the run-up to the assembly elections.The expelled members have also been suspended from the party's primary membership, according to...
09:50
Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has warned that Islamabad will enter into an 'open war' with Kabul if the ongoing peace talks in Istanbul fail, TOLO News reported.The meetings aim to solve the dispute and rising tensions along the Afghan-Pak border after weeks of deadly clashes and...
09:29
United States President Donald Trump arrived in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday to attend the biannual Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit.He was greeted by Malaysian officials upon landing at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.The US President was received by Malaysian Prime Minister...
08:55
Police sub-inspector Gopal Badane, an accused in the alleged suicide of a woman government doctor in Maharashtra's Satara district, was arrested on Saturday evening, an official said.Badane, who was absconding after a case of abetment of suicide was registered against him and another person,...
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