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A Maoist couple, each carrying a reward of Rs 55.10 lakh on their heads, and 17 other red rebels surrendered before the Odisha Police on Friday, following which Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi claimed the state would turn 'Naxal Free' by March 31. The surrendered couple is CPI-Maoist's...
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The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday declared Hindi feature film Godaan, which centres on cow protection and conservation, tax-free in the state.According to a press statement, the film, produced and directed by Vinod Chaudhary, was released in theatres nationwide on Friday. The decision,...
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AICC general secretary in-charge of Punjab Bhupesh Baghel on Friday said Navjot Kaur Sidhu has been expelled from the Congress, days after she said she had quit the party. Asked to throw light on Navjot Kaur Sidhu's status in the Congress, Baghel told reporters in Amritsar that the party had...
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A controversy broke out after posters bearing Quranic verses were allegedly found displayed on the walls of a government school here, triggering protests by Hindu right-wing groups like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Bajrang Dal.Following the incident, the basic education department...
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The third day of the West Bengal Assembly's Budget session witnessed chaotic scenes on Friday after TMC MLAs protested their BJP counterpart Agnimitra Paul's alleged comment that budgetary allocations for madrasas might foster the growth of anti-national elements. Trinamool legislators...
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Two persons, believed to be owners of illegal coal mines linked to the deadly blast in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district that has claimed 25 lives so far, were produced before a court in Khliehriat on Friday and remanded to three days of police custody, SP Vikash Kumar said....
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Seven Maoists including top leader Prabhakar were killed in encounters with police in eastern Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district while a police jawan also succumbed to the injuries suffered during a gunfight, officials said on Saturday. The anti-Maoist operation was going on in the area for...
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A Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) functionary has claimed that an employee of a nationalised bank bearing the state's name, refused to speak in Marathi after an argument over delay in approving loan to a woman in Mumbai. Maharashtra Navnirman Kamgar Sena (the workers wing of the MNS)...
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A viral video showing a leopard hunting a stray dog outside a residential society in Mulund in north east Mumbai triggered concern among residents, following which forest department teams and wildlife experts visited the locality as part of a primary response, an official said on...
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At least 50 activists of the ultra-right Inqilab Mancha were injured on Friday in a clash with the police in Bangladesh when they tried to defy a ban during a protest demanding immediate justice over the killing of their leader Sharif Osman Hadi last year. Dhaka police used batons, sound...
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Twenty five are still left, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a leader who had called to greet him on his 75th birthday. Sharing an anecdote during his interaction with students at the Pariksha Pe Charcha programme, which was telecast on Friday, Modi said a leader had called him on his 75th...
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Stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra has moved the Bombay high court against the government's 'Sahyog' portal, calling it an unconstitutional and unreasonable assault on freedom of speech, as it allows officials to take down social media content. The comedian, in his petition filed on Wednesday,...
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India's forex reserves jumped by another $14.361 billion to a new all-time high of $723.774 billion during the week ended January 30, the Reserve Bank said on Friday. In the previous reporting week, the forex kitty had increased by $8.053 billion to $709.413 billion, surging past the earlier...
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The rupee declined 36 paise to settle at 90.70 (provisional) against the US dollar on Friday, weighed down by geopolitical uncertainty over the US-Iran talks, and a sharp rise in global crude oil prices. The currency gained in the first half of the session after the Reserve Bank announced a...
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A 60-year-old man was killed after being hit by an ambulance while crossing the road near Ponkunnam in Kottayam on Friday morning, the police said. The victim, a native of Theni district in Tamil Nadu, was attempting to cross the road at a zebra crossing when the accident occurred at around...
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A deputy chief of Russia's military intelligence agency was shot and wounded in Moscow on Friday, an attack the Kremlin suggests was a terrorist act aimed at undermining recent peace negotiations, reported AP.Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev, 64, was hospitalised after being targeted at an apartment...
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Stock markets closed higher on Friday after the Reserve Bank of India kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged as expected and proposed allowing banks to lend to Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) with certain prudential safeguards to deepen the financing pool for the real estate...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday said the Centre has asked OTT platform Netflix to remove the teaser and other promotional contents of the film, Ghooskhor Pandat, from social media. The announcement of the film earlier this week had sparked a storm on social media, with many users...
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A 50-year-old woman on Friday claimed that she fought off a leopard with a coconut petiole near Pookkottumpadam in Malappuram on Friday. The woman, Janaki, said she was sitting outside her home when she heard a loud sound behind and on turning around, saw the leopard. She said the...
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Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has decided not to celebrate his birthday as a mark of tribute to NCP chief Ajit Pawar, who died in a plane crash last week. Shinde's birthday falls on February 9. A release issued by Shinde's office said, Maharashtra plunged into grief...
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Amid growing digital fraud, the Reserve Bank on Thursday said that banking customers will receive compensation of up to Rs 25,000 for a fraudulent transaction. A customer will be paid the compensation even in cases where the customer ends up sharing the one-time password (OTP) with the...
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A case has been registered against a dentist for allegedly molesting a 14-year-old girl at his clinic in the western suburbs in Mumbai, the police said on Friday. The police have launched a search for Dr Ravi Singh, who has been absconding since the incident that occurred at his clinic in...
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The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed an FIR against three customs officials previously stationed in Mizoram for allegedly taking bribes amounting to more than Rs 35 lakh from smugglers, the agency said in a statement. The accused, including a retired superintendent and two...
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Indian pacer Mohammed Siraj is likely to replace Harshit Rana following an injury to the latter, as per sources.Rana has been ruled out of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2026 due to an injury, said sources. Harshit Rana was injured during Team India's T20 WC 2026 warm-up match against South...
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The Allahabad High Court has ordered the immediate release of Abhay Kumar, director of MZ Wiztown Planners, after finding out that his arrest in connection with a techie's death in Noida was carried out without following mandatory procedures.A bench of Justices Siddhartha and Jai Krishna Upadhyay...
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MPs from the Congress and some other opposition parties staged a protest in the Parliament House complex on Friday over the trade agreement with the US, the controversy surrounding former Army chief MM Naravane's unpublished memoir, and the suspension of eight MPs. After the Lok Sabha...
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Three Delhi Jal Board (DJB) engineers have been suspended after a motorcyclist allegedly fell into a construction pit dug by the water agency, cabinet minister Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma said on Friday. Verma further said that strict action will be taken against the company involved in...
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UPDATE: At least 12 people were killed and several others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shia mosque during Friday prayers in Pakistan's capital, police sources said.The powerful explosion occurred at Tarlai Imambargah in the Shehzad Town area of the federal...
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A man committed suicide after allegedly raping his two-and-a-half-year-old niece in Pilibhit district of Uttar Pradesh, a police official said on Friday.Pilibhit Additional Superintendent of Police Vikram Dahiya told reporters that on Thursday, a 25-year-old man raped his niece and then...
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin unveiled a statue of German philosopher and political theorist Karl Marx in Chennai on Friday.He had announced in the state assembly in April 2025 that the Dravidian model government intended to honour and commemorate Karl Marx, whom he described as a...
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Multiple causalities are feared in an explosion at a religious centre in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, local media reports said. The explosion occurred at Tarlai Imambargah in the Shehzad Town area of the federal capital, the Dawn newspaper reported.Police and rescue services have reached...
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Two persons have been arrested in connection with a blast at an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district that claimed at least 18 lives, Director General of Police I Nongrang said on Friday.Another person has been identified in connection with the incident, and further...
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Police probing the death by suicide of three sisters in Ghaziabad have obtained the IMEI numbers of the phones they were using and later sold, and will now trace the devices to retrieve data and verify if the girls were playing any task-based online game, an officer said on Friday. The...
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The Tamil Nadu government on Friday sounded a high alert following reports of large-scale crow deaths in various parts of the state, triggering concerns over a potential outbreak of avian influenza.In a swift response to the mounting biosecurity threat, the Department of Animal Husbandry,...
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Goa Police have launched a crackdown against domestic tourists harassing foreign nationals on the state's beaches, warning that anyone found clicking photographs without consent or forcing selfies will be detained on the spot, a senior official said on Friday.The action has been initiated after...
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The Delhi government has ordered a probe into the death of a motorcyclist after falling into a pit dug by the Jal Board, Urban Development minister Ashish Sood said on Friday. A motorcyclist died on Friday morning after falling into a pit dug for construction work by the Delhi Jal Board in...
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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday submitted a chargesheet before a special court here in its probe into alleged money laundering in connection with a case of financial irregularities at the state-run R G Kar Medical College and Hospital.Former principal of the medical college, Sandip...
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Cricketer Rinku Singh's Facebook account has been hacked, police said on Friday, adding it is not yet clear whether any financial fraud has taken place. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Neeraj Kumar said Singh had earlier this week informed him over the phone about the alleged hacking of his...
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Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned for the day on Friday following unabated protests by opposition members over various issues. Friday was the second day when the House could not take up discussion on the Union Budget presented on February 1. As the House reassembled at 12 noon after...
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The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a petition filed by the Jan Suraaj Party, founded by former political strategist Prashant Kishor, seeking annulment of 2025 Bihar Assembly elections on the ground of violation of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) ahead of polls. The party...
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The RSS on Friday started a 'Dhwaj Yatra' (flag rally) from Kashmir to Kanyakumari to clear the misgivings about the outfit. The yatra symbolically began from the historic Lal Chowk and culminated at the Tourist Reception Centre, where the participants boarded vehicles for onward journey to other...
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Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Friday condemned the alleged insult to the Brahmin community in the film 'Ghooskhor Pandit' and demanded that the Centre immediately impose a ban on what she termed as a casteist movie. In a post on her official X handle, the former Uttar Pradesh chief...
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A motorcyclist died after falling into a pit on an under construction road in west Delhi on Friday morning, police said. A call regarding the incident was received around 7 am that took place in the Janakpuri area, following which police personnel rushed to the spot, they...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday advised students not to waste time on internet just because data is cheap in the country and focus on honing their life and educational skills. Education should not be a burden and everyone should be totally involved as half-hearted education does...
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Madras high court on Friday dismissed a writ petition of Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam chief Vijay challenging an order of the income tax department directing him to pay Rs 1.50 crore penalty.The matter pertains to alleged non-disclosure of additional income derived by the top-rated star during the...
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Bitter rivals, the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena-UBT, have come together to form a front in Barshi taluka of Maharashtra's Solapur district along with two Nationalist Congress Party factions ahead of the local polls.Elections to 12 Zilla Parishads (ZPs) and 125...
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A high-speed car allegedly rammed into multiple two-wheelers in Delhi's Dwarka, injuring several people including a woman, police said on Friday. The incident occurred Thursday evening when the speeding car lost control and ploughed into nearly five to six parked and moving two-wheelers near...
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The Congress on Friday took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi after US President Donald Trump repeated his claim that he stopped the conflict between India and Pakistan last year, saying the PM's good friend in Washington DC is fast moving to the century mark of stating that he had...
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After a 25 basis point rate cut in December, the RBI on Friday decided to pause on the policy rate front amid geopolitical uncertainties. This is the first monetary policy review after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the Budget for financial year...
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Punjab Aam Aadmi Party leader Lucky Oberoi was shot dead on Friday outside a gurdwara in Jalandhar's Model Town by unidentified assailants, police said. The incident took place in the morning, a senior police official from Jalandhar said over the phone. Oberoi had arrived at the...
09:53
An FIR has been registered at Hazratganj police station in Lucknow against the makers of the film Ghooskhor Pandat over allegations that its title and content hurt religious and caste sentiments and threaten public harmony. The action follows directions to take strict measures against...
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Dubai has launched fully autonomous RT6 taxi vehicles developed by Baidu Apollo Go as part of its smart mobility ecosystem. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince and Chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai, took a ride in the autonomous vehicle to the venue of the...
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Cognizant has given 100 per cent bonus to its employees after the company reported better-than-expected full year numbers, and said it has reached the winners circle earlier than it anticipated.The term, being frequently used over the last year by CEO Ravi Kumar, refers to top-tier revenue...
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United States President Donald Trump repeated twice in a single day the claim that he stopped the war between India and Pakistan last year.In one year, I've ended eight raging wars, such as (the war between) Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran, Armenia...
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Two persons were arrested after a 74-year-old woman, who retired as medical officer of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, was cheated of Rs 4.62 crore through threats of CBI action in a non-existent money laundering case, a police official said on Thursday. He said Narendra Sinha and...
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Five workers sustained burn injuries after a fire broke out in a gas pipeline at the North Central Railway's spring factory at Sithouli near Gwalior on Thursday evening, the police said.The injured workers were rushed to a nearby private hospital and their condition was stable, Jhansi Road police...
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The transport department has seized 12 motorbikes affiliated to ride-hailing platform Rapido for operating without necessary permissions in the city, and asked the company to stop ride-bookings through its mobile app, officials said on Thursday. In a press release, assistant regional...
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