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A Delhi court on Monday sent a woman, who allegedly drove the BMW car involved in the crash that killed a senior finance ministry official and left his wife injured in Dhaula Kuan, to two-day judicial custody. Duty magistrate Akanksha Singh sent Gaganpreet Kaur (38) to judicial custody after...
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An FIR was registered against three inmates of the Nagpur Central Jail for allegedly threatening to kill a female security guard, the police said on Monday. The incident occurred on September 13 when the trio created a ruckus in the meeting room for family members and lawyers at the...
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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah
The Karnataka government is mulling inclusion of the Kurubas, the community to which Chief Minister Siddaramaiah belongs, under the Scheduled Tribes (ST) list. A meeting is likely to be held under the chairmanship of the Karnataka Scheduled Tribe Welfare Department Secretary on Tuesday in...
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The Mumbai police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) on Monday recorded the statement of Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty's husband and businessman Raj Kundra in connection with a Rs 60-crore cheating case, officials said. Kundra (50) was questioned by EOW personnel for more than five hours in...
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A man wanted in an alleged illegal religious conversion case was arrested in Lucknow on Monday and also booked under charges of molestation and cybercrime, the police said. Superintendent of police Vikrant Veer said Usman Gani was arrested by a joint team of Kotwali police and the Special...
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The Delhi poll panel has begun preparations for the possible launch of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the national capital soon, though no date has yet been decided, officials said on Monday. Preparations are underway for the exercise, with officials being...
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A two-year-old boy died after falling into a manhole in Gurugram's Sector 65 near IFFCO Chowk on Monday, police said. There was a fiber lid on the manhole. However, it was just partially covered due to which the child fell inside, they said, adding that the boy has been identified as...
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Intermittent rains since midnight inundated several areas across Mumbai, affecting traffic on roads and local train as well as monorail services on Monday. Amid rains, a monorail train came to an abrupt halt on tracks between the Antop Hill Bus Depot and GTBN station in Wadala due to a...
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The criminal law ought not become a platform for the initiation of vindictive proceedings to settle personal scores and vendettas, the Supreme Court said on Monday while quashing an FIR against two persons in a cheating case. A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and R Mahadevan referred to a...
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Heavy rains pounded several areas in Maharashtra, including Pune and Mumbai, causing widespread inundation, necessitating the airlifting of 11 villagers by an IAF chopper and the evacuation of 40 others by an Army unit in Beed district on Monday. Four people have died in rain-related...
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Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Hardeep Singh Puri, on Monday said that ethanol-blended petrol does not adversely affect vehicles and dismissed claims of controversy surrounding the government's ethanol blending programme. Addressing reporters in Varanasi, Minister Puri said,...
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The rupee witnessed range-bound trading and settled higher by 6 paise at 88.20 (provisional) against the US dollar on Monday, as the domestic unit was caught between worries over US trade tariffs and hopes of a FED rate cut. Forex traders said, likely intervention of the RBI has helped in...
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Nepal President Ramchandra Paudel in conversation with interim PM Sushila Karki (R) during the oath ceremony on Monday./ANI Photo
Three newly-appointed ministers, including former electricity board CEO Kulman Ghising, in the Sushila Karki-led interim government in Nepal took the oath of office on Monday. President Ramchandra Paudel administered the oath of office to the new ministers at a ceremony at the President's...
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The State Transport Authority in Maharashtra has granted approval for provisional licences to the parent firms of app-based taxi aggregators Ola, Uber, and Rapido for bike taxi services in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region and fixed a minimum fare of Rs 15 for 1.5 km, officials have said. As...
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The Income Tax Department on Monday said more than 7 crore I-T returns have been filed so far as the filing deadline closes in, amid netizens complaining of glitches on the portal and demanding an extension. The e-filing portal faced huge traffic as the deadline for filing returns ends on...
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The expatriate community from Kerala, living in various parts of the world, will soon get a comprehensive health and accident insurance scheme, a first-of-its-kind initiative in the country. The scheme titled 'Norka-Care' is implemented by Norka-Roots, the state's welfare agency for...
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday assured Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he will remain in the NDA, while regretting short-lived alliances with the RJD-Congress combine, which always indulged in mischief when we shared power. Kumar was speaking at a rally in Purnea in the...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday directed the state medical education and drugs department to prepare a comprehensive policy to provide inclusive cancer treatment facilities across the state. Fadnavis chaired a meeting during which he stressed the need to establish...
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A civil society forum focusing on bank issues on Monday staged a protest outside State Bank of India's (SBI) circle headquarters in Kolkata, opposing the lender's decision to shift its Global Market Unit (GMU) out of the city. The Bank Bachao Desh Bachao Manch (BBDBM) alleged that the move...
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The Supreme Court on Monday said it was presuming that the Election Commission, being a constitutional authority, was following the law during the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar and warned that the entire exercise would be set aside in case any illegality is found at...
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Filmmaker and producer Karan Johar on Monday approached the Delhi high court, seeking protection of his personality and publicity rights.The plea came up for hearing before Justice Manmeet PS Arora, who sought certain clarifications from the counsel for Johar and listed the matter for 4 pm for...
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All eyes on Purnea, Bihar: PM Narendra Modi flags off multiple trains in Bihar. The Prime Minister lays the foundation stone of the rail line between Bikramshila-Katareah worth over Rs 2,170 crore, providing a direct rail link across the river Ganga. Modi inaugurates the new rail line...
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Passenger vehicle dispatches from companies to dealers declined 9 per cent year-on-year to 3,21,840 units in August, as companies recalibrated supplies to adjust to low market demand. Passenger vehicle wholesales stood at 3,52,921 units in August 2024. Sales of passenger vehicles saw a dip...
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Benchmark Sensex dropped nearly 119 points while Nifty snapped its eight-day winning run in a volatile trade on Monday due to profit-taking in IT and auto shares ahead of the US Fed policy meeting. Ending its five-day rally, the 30-share BSE Sensex declined by 118.96 points or 0.15 per cent...
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Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday left for Qatar on a day-long visit to participate in an emergency meeting of Arab-Islamic nations in Doha to discuss a possible unified response to Israel's attack on the Hamas leadership in the Gulf country. The summit has been convened in...
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The last rites of four accident victims took a turn for the worse after three men drowned while taking bath in a river following the cremation rituals in Rajasthan's Bhilwara district on Monday. According to police, the victims had gathered at a cremation ground in Fuliya Kala village for...
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Amazon India on Monday announced a strategic partnership with the Army Welfare Placement Organization (AWPO) to create career opportunities for ex-servicemen, military spouses and war widows in the company. Amazon India has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with AWPO to this...
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Assistant US Trade Representative for South and Central Asia Brendan Lynch is coming to India tonight and will continue talks for a Bilateral Trade Agreement with the Indian counterpart, a government official said. US-India trade talks will he held on Tuesday, the official said.India's chief...
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Wholesale price inflation rose to a four-month high of 0.52 per cent in August as prices of food articles and manufactured items inched up, even though fuel and power basket witnessed easing. Reversing the deflationary trend of the past two months, (-) 0.58 in July and (-) 0.19 per cent in June,...
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Ahead of the peak tourist and festive season, the Union Home Ministry has directed that an adequate number of immigration counters and officials be made available round the clock at all international airports to minimise waiting time, officials said on Monday. The directive was given to the...
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India's wholesale inflation based on All India Wholesale Price Index (WPI) number in August is reported at 0.52 per cent (provisional), official data showed Monday. The wholesale inflation turned positive in August after remaining in the negative in the past two months, largely in line with a...
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The Supreme Court on Monday said it was presuming the Election Commission of India being a constitutional authority was following the law during the special intensive revision of electoral roll in poll-bound Bihar and cautioned in case of any illegality, the exercise would be set aside. A...
15:04
The woman who was driving the BMW was taken into custody
The couple whose car hit the motorcycle of a senior finance ministry official, killing him and injuring his wife, had allegedly insisted that all the victims be taken to a hospital nearly 22 kilometres away. Van driver Mohammed Gulfam, who had rushed all four injured people to the hospital...
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Job aspirants in Bihar held a protest in Patna on Monday to press their demand for the announcement of a date for the constable recruitment test in the state, and breached security barricades, prompting police personnel to baton-charge them. Protesters, carrying placards, gathered near Dak...
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Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Monday claimed gambling to the tune of Rs 1.5 lakh crore took place on the India-Pakistan Asia Cup cricket match played a day earlier, of which Rs 25,000 crore went to Pakistan. Talking to reporters, the Rajya Sabha MP said the Pakistan Cricket Board got Rs...
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India recently appointed new judges to the top court and some high courts. But the list has very few women.In September 2021, a photograph from the Indian Supreme Court of then chief justice NV Ramana flanked by his four female colleagues went viral.This was the highest-ever tally of female...
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The PM with Anant Ambani at Vantara
The Supreme Court-appointed SIT probing the affairs of Vantara has given a clean chit to the zoological rescue and rehabilitation centre in Gujarat's Jamnagar. A bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and P B Varale took the report on record and noted that authorities have expressed satisfaction on...
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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has expressed concern over the impact of American tariffs on the state's shrimp exports, saying it has caused a loss of Rs 25,000 crore to the sector and led to the cancellation of up to 50 per cent export orders. In separate letters...
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Two persons were swept away by floodwaters following heavy rainfall in Hyderabad's Habeeb Nagar area on Sunday night, officials said. A search operation is underway, with three Disaster Response Force (DRF) teams deployed to locate them.According to Habeeb Nagar police station officials,...
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Heavy rains lashed Mumbai on Monday morning, causing water-logging in low-lying areas and slowing down traffic during the office rush hour. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a 'red alert' at 8.30 am, predicting very heavy showers in the city and neighbouring areas for three hours,...
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The Supreme Court on Monday said it would pass on September 23 its order in a suo motu matter concerning issues relating to ecology and environmental conditions prevailing in Himachal Pradesh.List on September 23 for order. We will give you a brief order after summarising everything so that you...
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A tempo traveller stuck in the middle of the Manalsu drain in Kullu
Himachal Pradesh continues to reel under heavy monsoon disruption, with the cumulative toll climbing to 404 since June 20 and road connectivity, power, and water supply severely impacted, according to the State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA). In its morning bulletin on Monday, the SDMA...
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Acharya Devvrat on Monday took oath as the governor of Maharashtra. President Droupadi Murmu last week appointed Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat to discharge functions of the governor of Maharashtra, in addition to his own duties, after C P Radhakrishnan demitted office due to his election as...
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Sushila Karki, Nepal's interim PM
Residents in Nepal's capital said the city is struggling to return to its usual rhythm, adding that businesses have also suffered in the aftermath of violent anti-corruption protests. The condition is still not back to normal pace. The people's movement has reduced. People are still...
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Update: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the Waqf law, saying there was a presumption of constitutionality in its favour, but stalled the operation of certain provisions, including the one which said only those who are practising Islam for the last five years can create a...
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Puja Khedkar
A truck driver, allegedly abducted after a road rage incident in Navi Mumbai, has been rescued from the house of former IAS probationer Puja Khedkar in Pune, police said on Monday. Khedkar has been accused of cheating and wrongly availing OBC and disability quota benefits in the civil...
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At least three Naxalites, carrying a combined bounty of Rs 1.35 crore, were neutralised in the Pati Piri forest of Jharkhand's Hazaribagh district, Superintendent of Police Anjani Anjan informed on Monday. According to the Hazaribagh SP, Sahdev Soren (alias) Parvesh, a member of the Central...
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The Supreme Court puts on hold the provision in the Waqf Amendment Act 2025 that a person should be a practitioner of Islam for five years to create a Waqf. Supreme Court says the provision will be stayed till rules are framed on determining whether a person is a practitioner of Islam. Supreme...
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Mumbai rain update: Due to heavy rains since last night, local trains are delayed by 10 minutes on the main line and the harbour line of the Central Railway. There is water accumulation at some spots, but trains are still running with all precautions: CPRO, Central Railways.After heavy rains...
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Pakistan have lodged a protest with the Asian Cricket Council over the Indian players' refusal to shake hands with them following their Asia Cup game here, labelling it unsporting and escalating the tension between the two sides. In a statement late on Sunday night, Pakistan Cricket Board...
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The Netflix drama 'Adolescence' has added more glory to its name at this year's Emmy Awards. Actress Erin Doherty, who played psychologist Briony Ariston in Episode 3, won her first Emmy for Supporting Actress in a Limited Series. This is not only her first win but also her first...
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US President Donald Trump said the future of TikTok in the United States remains uncertain, noting that China will ultimately play a key role in deciding the app's fate as negotiations continue. I may, I may not. We're negotiating TikTok right now. We may let it die, or we may, I don't know....
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The Emmy Awards have truly turned special for Stephen Graham as he walked away with two trophies, including the award for Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for his role in Netflix's hit drama 'Adolescence.' Earlier in the evening, Graham had already won an Emmy for writing...
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The Emmy Awards made history this year as 15-year-old Owen Cooper became the youngest male actor ever to win an Acting Award. The teenager, who stars in the Netflix drama 'Adolescence', won the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or TV Movie. The...
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Mumbaikars woke up to a rain-soaked Monday morning, with traffic slowing down during the office rush hour due to water-logging in low-lying areas across the city and suburbs.After heavy showers overnight and in the morning, water accumulated on tracks at Kurla station on the Central Railway route...
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Monorail with passengers onboard stops on tracks due to technical fault in Mumbai; 17 persons rescued. At about 7 am today, the monorail experienced a technical glitch at Mukundrao Ambedkar Road junction. The monorail was going from Gadge Maharaj station to Chembur. Monorail technical team...
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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel is preparing to face congressional scrutiny over his handling of the investigation into the killing of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, amid early missteps including a mistaken social media post claiming that 'the subject' in the...
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A monorail came to a halt in the Wadala area of Mumbai due to technical glitches on Monday morning.No casualties were reported in the incident, and all passengers were evacuated and transferred to another monorail, said Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority.Speaking to ANI, Ward...
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The Income Tax Department on Sunday clarified that the due date for filing Income Tax Returns (ITRs) has not been extended beyond September 15, rejecting claims circulating on social media about a further extension.In a statement, the I-T department said that fake messages were being circulated...
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