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The Centre's pollution watchdog on Saturday invoked curbs under Stage 4 of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) in Delhi-NCR as the capital's air quality deteriorated to enter the 'severe' category, according to officials. The AQI of Delhi, which was recorded as 400 on Saturday at 4 PM,...
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The story of India's past, particularly Partition, is essential for children to understand, said celebrated author Sudha Murty, adding that she consciously addresses the sensitive topic in her latest book, The Magic of the Lost Earrings, to help young readers realise it was a mistake that must...
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A group of students of University of Hyderabad (UoH) boycotted classes and took out a march on the varsity campus here on Saturday to mark the 10th death anniversary of research scholar Rohith Vemula.Vemula hanged himself in a hostel room on the UoH campus on January 17, 2016.His suicide rocked...
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Two men were apprehended allegedly for duping an elderly couple of Rs 14.85 crore in a digital arrest scam in south Delhi, an official said on Saturday. The accused, Divyang Patel, 28, and Krutik Shitole, 26, residents of Gujarat, were apprehended from Vadodara on Thursday and brought to...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday said the people have not rejected Deputy CM Ajit Pawar but accepted the leadership of PM Modi and the BJP, a day after the saffron party defeated the NCP factions in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad civic polls.Responding to a query on who would...
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The Shiv Sena has decided to move its newly elected corporators to a luxury hotel as the race to pick the next Mumbai mayor heats up. The Eknath Shinde-led outfit contested 90 seats and won 29 in the Mumbai civic polls, results of which were announced on Friday.A senior party leader...
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Factions of the Nationalist Congress Party led by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and his uncle Sharad Pawar will contest the upcoming Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections together, an NCP-SP leader said on Saturday.The announcement has come in the wake of the severe drubbing the two...
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Delhi ranked third among states and Union territories in adopting electric vehicles, with EV penetration in the national capital reaching 11.6 per cent in the financial year (FY) 2024-25, according to a study. Chandigarh topped the list with 12.1 per cent EV penetration in the...
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The Maharashtra cabinet on Saturday extended toll relief extension for electric vehicles at Atal Setu by another year and cleared a slew of decisions related to infrastructure and urban transport, a day after the BJP-led Mahayuti scored a decisive victory in the civic polls.The cabinet, chaired...
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Madhya Pradesh Congress MLA Phool Singh Baraiya has sparked a row after allegedly linking women's beauty to rape and associating sexual crimes against women from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes with what he described as teerth phal (rewards of pilgrimage).Baraiya's statements came to the...
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Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar has cancelled his scheduled visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, citing official engagements in New Delhi and Bengaluru. The Deputy CM has a series of meetings lined up with AICC functionaries regarding Assam assembly...
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Shiv Sena-UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday said if God is willing, the party could have its mayor in Mumbai, remarks coming a day after the BJP-Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena combine won the civic elections in the financial capital. A day after the BJP-Sena combine wrested the Mumbai...
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As many as 19 government bills remain pending in the Rajya Sabha, with the oldest, pertaining to population control, dating back to 1992. The Rajya Sabha is a permanent House which is never dissolved, with one-third of its members retiring every two years. While the bills pending in...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday made infiltration the central plank of his attack on the TMC government in West Bengal, alleging that large-scale illegal migration altered the state's demography, triggered riots, and thrived due to the ruling party's patronage and syndicate raj.Amid the...
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HDFC Bank on Saturday said its consolidated profit jumped 12.17 per cent to Rs 19,807 crore in the December quarter. The Mumbai-headquartered lender had reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 17,657 crore in the year-ago period and Rs 19,611 crore in the preceding September...
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A day after the Congress logged its historically lowest tally in the Mumbai civic polls, a chronic factionalism resurfaced on Saturday, with a demand being raised for the resignation of the city unit president Varsha Gaikwad on moral grounds.Gaikwad has come under fire after the Congress's tally...
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Thanking the people of Maharashtra for electing 125 of its candidates as corporators in various Municipal Corporations in the western state, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday said the parties that lost the polls should introspect.Addressing a press conference, Owaisi said the AIMIM party...
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Intelligence agencies on Saturday issued an alert ahead of Republic Day, warning of a possible attempt by proscribed Khalistani outfits and Bangladesh-based terror organizations to target New Delhi and several other cities across the country. According to sources from the Intelligence...
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Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Saturday acknowledged the party's below-par performance in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation elections, and vowed to continue his fight for the Marathi manoos.Raj Thackeray, in a post on X, described the BMC elections as a fight between Shiv...
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On the 10th death anniversary of Dalit student Rohith Vemula on Saturday, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said the reality for youngsters from the community has not changed on campuses and stressed the need for an anti-discrimination law.Vemula, a 26-year-old Dalit student of the University of...
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Riding on the momentum from its strong showing in the November 2024 assembly elections, the BJP has further expanded its footprint in Maharashtra even as the political bases of other parties are shrinking, a party office-bearer said on Saturday. The assessment by the BJP's chief...
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The Rashtrapati Bhavan (Circuit 1) will remain closed for the general public from January 21 to 29 in view of the upcoming Republic Day Parade and the Beating Retreat ceremony, an official statement issued on Saturday said. Circuit 1 takes the visitors on a tour of the main building of the...
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A Hindu man was crushed to death in Bangladesh after he tried to stop a vehicle from leaving a petrol pump without paying for fuel, police said. The incident, which took place on Friday in Rajbari district, marks the latest in a spate of violence targeting Hindus in...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday flagged off the country's first Vande Bharat sleeper train between Howrah and Guwahati (Kamakhya) from Malda Town station in north Bengal.He also virtually flagged off the return GuwahatiHowrah Vande Bharat sleeper train from Malda.Developed to meet the...
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A study has found no evidence that taking paracetamol during pregnancy increases the risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disabilities in the child, confirming findings from studies with rigorous methodologies. The study is published in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Women's Health...
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The National Stock Exchange of India on Friday announced that it will conduct a live trading session on Sunday, February 1, 2026 on account of the presentation of the Union Budget. In a circular issued by the Futures & Options Department, NSE said the live trading session will be held in...
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Two Naxalites were gunned down in an encounter with the security forces in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Saturday, police said.The gunfight broke out in the morning hours in the forested hills of the district's northwest region, where a joint team of security forces was out on an...
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Shiv Sena-UBT leader Sanjay Raut on Saturday said that Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's betrayal of the Marathi manoos paved the way for the Bharatiya Janata Party to win the Mumbai civic elections and install its mayor. The BJP has officially maintained that the next...
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A Kerala court on Saturday declined to grant bail to expelled Congress MLA Rahul Mamkootathil in the third sexual assault case against him in which he was arrested last week. The detailed order of the Thiruvalla Judicial First Class Magistrate court is awaited.The Kerala high court and...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday met patients and families affected by the vomiting and diarrhoea outbreak linked to water contamination in Madhya Pradesh's Indore city.He visited four patients undergoing treatment at Bombay Hospital, a private facility, enquired about their health and...
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The Congress on Saturday took a swipe at the Modi government and said the joint training exercise by American and Pakistani troops was yet another blow to the self-proclaimed Vishwaguru's self-boastful diplomacy. US and Pakistani troops concluded a joint training at the National...
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The Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray on Saturday gave its first reaction following the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation elections, striking a defiant tone and signalling that the political fight in Maharashtra is far from over. In a post shared on social media platform X, Shiv...
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Delhi Assembly Speaker Vijender Gupta on Saturday said that a forensic science laboratory report on the veracity of the video related to Leader of Opposition Atishi's alleged remarks disrespecting Sikh gurus stated the clip to be original and without any tampering.Earlier, police in AAP-ruled...
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The administration in Maharashtra's Jalna district has imposed prohibitory orders in view of the Dhangar community's agitation to seek inclusion in the Scheduled Tribes (ST) category, an official said on Saturday. District collector Ashima Mittal issued an order under section 163 in the...
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An earthquake of 4.1 magnitude shook Gujarat's Kutch district in the wee hours of Saturday, causing panic among locals, though no casualties were reported, officials said. The quake was recorded at 1.22 am with its epicentre about 55 km north northeast (NNE) from Khavda in the district, the...
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Traffic movement will be restricted at several key crossings in Delhi on January 17, 19, 20 and 21 due to rehearsals for the Republic Day parade along Kartavya Path, the police said on Friday. According to an advisory, the rehearsals will be held from Vijay Chowk to India Gate, with the...
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Actor Ben Affleck recently opened up about a challenging experience on the set of the 1998 blockbuster 'Armageddon', revealing that he was suffering from food poisoning while filming one of the movie's most emotional scenes, according to People. Affleck, who played AJ Frost, described the...
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Posters hailing Maharashtra CM as 'Dhurandhar Devendra' put up across Mumbai./ANI Photo
Posters hailing Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis as Dhurandhar Devendra were put up across several parts of Mumbai on Saturday, a day after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections results were announced. The posters were displayed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...
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Security forces arrested four militants belonging to various proscribed outfits in Manipur for their alleged involvement in extortion activities, the police said on Saturday. In separate operations, nearly 65 acres of illicit poppy cultivation were destroyed in parts of Kangpokpi and...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party has swept the 2026 civic polls, winning 1,425 of 2,869 seats across 29 municipal corporations, and wresting control of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation from Uddhav Thackeray, ending his family's three-decade-old dominance in the cash-rich civic body. The BJP...
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A Class 12 student died after falling from the second floor of a school in Rajasthan's Sri Ganganagar district, the police said on Saturday. Ramandeep Kaur, 18, had come for a practical examination at SD Girls School when the incident happened on Friday evening, they said. Acting...
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The elections to the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) saw a neck-and-neck contest between the Shiv Sena and BJP, with the former edging out its Mahayuti ally by one seat. According to the final tally on Friday, the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena won 52 seats in the 122-member civic...
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SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia./Courtesy @bsmajithia/X
The Shiromani Akali Dal on Friday met Punjab Governor in Chandigarh, alleging that the state government had done nothing concrete to safeguard the life of jailed party leader Bikram Singh Majithia despite intelligence inputs indicating a threat to his life. The SAD appealed to Governor Gulab...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit West Bengal on Saturday, during which he will attend a government programme and address a rally, amidst a political slugfest over the SIR of electoral rolls and the recent ED raids on the consultancy firm I-PAC. The prime minister is scheduled to...
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US President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on countries opposing Washington's plans to acquire Greenland for national security reasons.I may put a tariff on countries if they don't go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security, he said.Trump has repeatedly...
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US President Donald Trump on Friday (local time) said that the Iranian government has cancelled the hanging of over 800 people and added that he greatly respects the fact as the regional tensions rise.Speaking to the reporters on the South Lawn, Trump said, Iran cancelled the hanging of over 800...
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The Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar city police on Friday resorted to lathi-charge at a counting station, resulting in injuries to former mayor and Shiv Sena leaderVikas Jain and some others. A video of the incident went viral. After this incident, Shiv Sena leader and Maharashtra Minister for...
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Rehearsals for the 77th Republic Day parade underway at Kartavya Path in New Delhi on Saturday./ANI on X
As cold wave conditions continued to prevail in the national capital, dense fog enveloped large parts of Delhi on Saturday morning, leading to reduced visibility and delays in several flights at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport.Passengers are advised to check flight statuses with their...
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Indians return from Iran at Delhi airport./ANI Photo
Several Indian nationals arrived at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi from Iran late Friday evening amid rising regional tensions.This comes after the Indian government advised its nationals in Iran to leave the country due to the volatile security situation, with the ministry of...
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BJP workers allegedly ransacked an office of a Shiv Sena leader in Nerul, following which more than a dozen persons have been booked, a police official said on Friday. No arrest has been made so far in the case, he added. Civic poll results were declared during the day. The Shiv...
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Shiv Sena-UBT leader Sanjay Raut on Friday said Mumbai would not have seen a BJP mayor had Maharashtra deputy Chief Eknath Shinde not betrayed the party. In a post on X, Raut drew parallel to Jaichand, a historical character reviled for betrayal.Had Eknath Shinde not been a Jaichand to...
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Scuffles and incidents of unlawful assembly were reported from several parts of Maharashtra on Friday amid announcement of results of polls to 29 municipal corporations, the police said. In Mumbai's ward no. 146, Satish Rajguru, a candidate of Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi, was beaten up by...
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