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Meta-owned WhatsApp has submitted its reply to the government's notice on the username feature and the response is being examined, sources said on Thursday.The Centre issued a notice to Meta last Wednesday, questioning the proposed username feature on WhatsApp, flagging concerns that it could...
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A 40-year-old man, deputy general manager of a private firm, was duped of Rs 1.42 crore by cyber fraudsters who lured him into investing in gold, oil and forex trading through a bogus online trading platform, police said on Wednesday.The complainant, a resident of Chembur, told police that he...
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A constable's 17-year-old daughter allegedly died by suicide after a shopping mart owner accused her of stealing cosmetics, confiscated her scooter and demanded money for its return in Chhattisgarh's Koriya district, a police official said on Thursday.The Class XI student was found hanging in the...
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Telangana Rakshana Sena president K Kavitha on Thursday ruled out returning to BRS, dismissing claims that she will eventually re-join the party led by her father K Chandrasekhar Rao.I will not join BRS again till I am alive. There is no question of joining hands, the TRS president told...
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The CBI on Thursday filed its first chargesheet related to alleged loss of over Rs 3,500 crore caused to banks by the Reliance Home Finance Limited (RHFL) by diverting funds, officials said.In its chargesheet filed before the Special Court, Mumbai, the agency has named four accused, including...
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay's highly anticipated film, 'Jana Nayagan,' has finally been granted an 'A' certificate by the CBFC, industry sources said on Thursday.The film, directed by H Vinoth - known for works such as 'Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru' and 'Nerkonda Paarvai' - received its...
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Former Trinamool MPs Sushmita Dev, Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, and Prakash Chik Baraik join BJP, in Kolkata/ANI Photo
Three former Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MPs, including Sushmita Dev and Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday and, within hours, were named the saffron party's candidates for the Rajya Sabha bypolls from West Bengal, underlining both their political rehabilitation...
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A parliamentary panel will next week discuss the functional proficiency of regulatory institutions under the ministry of health over the conduct of the NEET medical entrance examination.The Parliamentary Standing Committee on health and family welfare headed by Samajwadi Party's Ram Gopal Yadav...
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Opposition Nationalist Congress Party-SP's MLA Rohit Pawar on Thursday slammed the Maharashtra government's recently announced farm loan waiver, alleging it was a recovery scheme and not a loan waiver and will not cover nearly 70 percent of the cultivators.Initiating discussion on the...
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Continuous rainfall over the past 24 hours across Uttarakhand has raised river water levels and triggered landslides in hilly areas, disrupting traffic on 107 routes across the state.The meteorological department has issued a 'red alert' for very heavy rainfall in seven districts, including...
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Indian Navy's P-8I maritime surveillance aircraft at RIMPAC 2026/Courtesy Indian Navy on X
Indian Navy's P-8I maritime surveillance aircraft has assumed key anti-submarine warfare leadership role at the Rim of the Pacific Exercise - RIMPAC 2026 as the sea phase of the exercise begins.In a statement, the Indian Navy said that its P-8I LRMR aircraft and contingent of participating...
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Three labourers from Bihar were killed after a Scorpio SUV allegedly hit them while they were walking along a roadside in the Jewar area in Nodia, the police said on Thursday. According to police, a vehicle struck three pedestrians, killing them instantly. The accident occurred on...
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The police launched an investigation after a mobile phone and two SIM cards were seized from the possession of an inmate at the Cheemeni Open Jail in Kasaragod district, officials said on Thursday.Cheemeni police registered a case on Wednesday based on a complaint lodged by the jail...
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Thieves allegedly cut and stole an overhead electrical wire between Tehta and Jehanabad railway stations in Bihar, disrupting train services for nearly three hours in the Gaya-Patna section on Thursday, officials said.The Railway Protection Force has recovered the stolen material, and an...
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The rupee appreciated by 7 paise to settle at 95.41 (provisional) against the US dollar on Thursday even as crude oil prices firmed up and the greenback strengthened in the global markets.A recovery in the stock markets and dollar selling by state-run lenders supported the local currency amid...
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Telugu actor Swati Reddy's wedding/ANI Photo/Instagram
Telugu actor Swati Reddy, popularly known as Colours Swati, has started a new chapter in her personal life.The actor has married Month Of Madhu director Srikanth Nagothi in a private wedding ceremony. The couple shared the news with fans through a social media post on Wednesday.Swati and...
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West Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya welcome former Trinamool MPs Sushmita Dev, Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, and Prakash Chik Baraik to BJP, in Kolkata/ANI Photo
Former Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MPs Sushmita Dev, Sukhendu Sekhar Ray and Prakash Chik Baraik joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in Kolkata on Thursday.The three leaders were inducted into the party in the presence of state BJP president Samik Bhattacharya.Bhattacharya welcomed the former...
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A 19-year-old passenger was arrested allegedly with 5.368 kilograms of hydroponic marijuana valued at more than Rs 5.36 crore after he landed at Ahmedabad airport from Thailand capital Bangkok, officials said on Thursday.Prem Prajapati, a resident of Churu district in Rajasthan, had concealed the...
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Stock markets recovered on Thursday, with the benchmark Sensex closing higher by 238 points on broad-based buying by investors after a heavy correction in the previous session.The 30-share BSE Sensex opened higher and jumped further 823.05 points, or 1.07 percent, to hit a high of 77,326.65 later...
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Around 22 lakh voters have been left out of the draft electoral rolls in four states, where Phase 3 of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists is underway.According to data made available in the public domain in the last few days by chief electoral officers of Mizoram, Odisha, Manipur...
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Former DMK minister E V Velu (right)/ANI Photo
The Madras high court on Thursday stayed the Look Out Circular issued against former Dravida Munnetra Kazhgam minister E V Velu in connection with the highways scam case, subject to the condition that he should appear before the investigating officer of DVAC on July 15.Directing the prosecution...
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hiv Sena corporator Ramesh Sukrya Mhatre and five others were booked for allegedly assaulting two doctors at a Kalyan hospital./Courtesy X
The two doctors, who were allegedly assaulted by a Shiv Sena corporator and his aides at a civic-run hospital in Thane district, have resigned from service, an official said on Thursday.The two doctors, including a woman, were under immense psychological trauma following the physical assault,...
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Continuous rainfall over the past 24 hours across Uttarakhand has raised river water levels and triggered landslides in hilly areas, disrupting traffic on 107 routes across the state.The Meteorological Department has issued a 'Red Alert' for very heavy rainfall in seven districts, including...
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India's largest IT services company TCS on Thursday reported a 4.61 per cent increase in its net profit to Rs 13,349 crore for the June 2026 quarter.The Tata group company had reported a net profit of Rs 12,760 crore in the year-ago period, as per a company filing.In a media statement, the...
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Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, whose powerful hit Total Eclipse of the Heart became one of the biggest songs of the 1980s, has died at the age of 75.According to The New York Times, Tyler passed away on Wednesday at a hospital in Portugal after battling an illness, according to a post shared on her...
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Missile alert sirens sounded across Jordan on Thursday as Iran launched retaliatory attacks across the Middle East following US airstrikes on the country.The sirens were heard in the capital, Amman, while Jordanian media reported alerts in several other parts of the kingdom. Authorities did not...
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Danish pharma major Novo Nordisk on Thursday launched in India its once-weekly basal insulin injection, 'Awiqli' indicated for treatment of diabetes in adults.The company is introducing Awiqli in two pen representations of 700 units and 2,100 units, with per unit cost of Rs 3.73, Novo Nordisk...
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The southwest monsoon has further advanced into the remaining parts of Rajasthan, Haryana, and Punjab, covering the entire country, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Thursday.The department said that there has been a delay of a day in the monsoon, covering the whole country, as it...
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Two members of a family died while two others are battling for their life as they allegedly consumed poison due to a domestic dispute linked to financial matters, police said on Thursday.The deceased were identified as Vikas Batish (45), a private bank employee, and his daughter Khushi Batish...
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A pilot jumped out of the door of a moving plane to his death, leaving the student he was teaching to fly to land the aircraft by herself.Flight instructor Leandro Andrés Bertazzo, 42, was found dead following the incident, which took place in Toledo, central Argentina, on Saturday, according to...
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As it granted bail to a pregnant Nida Khan in a Nashik TCS case, a local court observed that the trauma of giving birth in prison is unbearable for any woman, drawing a comparison with the circumstances surrounding the birth of Lord Krishna.In his order, Additional Sessions Judge (Nashik Road...
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US President Donald Trump has repeated his claim of settling the conflict between India and Pakistan, adding that 11 jets were shot down during the four-day hostilities in May last year.Speaking on board Air Force One on Wednesday, Trump said he should have won the Nobel Peace Prize more than...
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In a significant diplomatic shift following days of intense friction at the NATO summit, US President Donald Trump on Thursday praised Spain for making a major financial commitment, signalling an end to a standoff that had threatened to fracture bilateral trade and security relations.Speaking to...
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Ram temple trust treasurer Govind Dev Giri on Thursday said Champat Rai is not upset after resigning as its general secretary in the wake of the alleged donation theft and is fully supportive of the new temple management system being put in place.I met Champat Rai ji yesterday mainly to check on...
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The death toll following the Wayanad landslide rose to six on Thursday with recovery of three more bodies from the disaster site, district officials said.The three bodies recovered have been identified as those of migrant workers -- Azharuddin Ansari (surveyor) who hailed from Uttar Pradesh,...
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Global crude oil prices could revisit the highs seen earlier this year if tensions between the United States and Iran continue to escalate, although Asian refiners are now better prepared to deal with supply disruptions than they were at the beginning of the conflict, June Goh, Senior Oil Market...
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U.S. airstrikes in Iran over the past two days have killed at least 14 people and injured 78 others, according to Iran's Health Ministry.Health Ministry spokesperson Hossein Kermanpour announced the casualty figures in a post on X on Thursday.The figures mark the first overall casualty toll...
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Over 611 million Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions were authorised by biometric authentication such as fingerprints or facial recognition, processing a total transaction value of Rs.25,416 crore in June.This represents 2.7 per cent of the total UPI transactions in the same month. The...
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As Amazon deepens its investments in artificial intelligence (AI), the ecommerce giant is seeing a measurable impact on shopping behaviour and customer engagement.According to Kishore Thota, director of shopping in India and emerging markets at Amazon, customers who use generative AI-powered...
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Torrential rainfall and severe flooding in the Khalapur area of Raigad district have triggered a major industrial emergency, with approximately 3,000 gas cylinders from an HPCL bottling plant being swept away into the Patalganga River, officials said on Thursday.The incident occurred at the...
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The death toll following the Wayanad landslide rose to five on Thursday with recovery of two more bodies from the disaster site, Kerala Ministers A P Anil Kumar and T Siddique said.The ministers told reporters here that one of the bodies was recovered from zone 1 of the search area in the morning...
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Monsoon-related incidents have claimed three lives and forced the evacuation of nearly 800 persons across Thane district in the past week, while a lightning strike in the latest weather-related incident left two persons injured, officials said on Thursday.The district administration said in an...
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Elevated methane levels and falling oxygen concentration are posing fresh challenges to rescue teams searching for people trapped under the debris of a collapsed building at Moshi in Pune, even as personnel from multiple agencies continued round-the-clock operations for the second consecutive...
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A 12-year-old girl died and three others were hospitalised after a venomous snake bit them while they were sleeping in the hostel room of a private school in Jharkhand's Lohardaga district, police said on Thursday.The incident took place at Sanvasira Higher Secondary Residential School in Rocho...
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The Aerospace Force of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has struck key infrastructure at four US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain in retaliation for American strikes in Tehran.According to Press TV, the IRGC detailed the retaliation in a statement on Thursday, identifying the targeted...
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India has flagged inconsistencies in the US approach to tariffs at a public hearing on the US Trade Representative's (USTR) proposal to impose levies on goods linked to forced labour.Testifying before a USTR panel on Wednesday, Brij Mohan Mishra, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Commerce,...
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A US hit on an Iranian target. @CENTCOM
The US military said Thursday it had concluded its latest round of airstrikes on Iran after striking about 90 targets, according to a statement from US Central Command.The military released black-and-white footage that appeared to show strikes on an airport runway and missile launchers.US forces...
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Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has suspended the license of a renowned ice-cream outlet of Mumbai, 'Rustom', after finding serious food safety and hygiene violations, including live rats, houseflies, and expired food items stored at the outlet.A press note of the FDA briefs says...
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Uttarakhand on Wednesday became the country's sixth fully literate state under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and the 'ULLAS' (Understanding Lifelong Learning for All in Society) programme, officials said.The state achieved the significant milestone after meeting the prescribed adult...
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Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar president Sharad Pawar met MLAs of his party in Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's office at the Vidhan Bhavan complex in Mumbai on Wednesday, a party leader said.Pawar was at the state legislature premises to attend a meeting as a...
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The death toll in the building collapse in northwest Delhi's Rohini climbed to three, with two more bodies pulled out from the rubble during the rescue operation that went on through the night, Delhi Fire Service (DFS) officials said on Thursday.Five people were rescued during the operation,...
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United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed that Iran wants to strike a deal with Washington, DC 'badly', while expressing uncertainty over Tehran's willingness to honour the deal.Speaking with the reporters aboard Air Force One at RAF Mildenhall in the United Kingdom, Trump claimed...
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A Travelling Ticket Examiner (TTE) has been suspended for allegedly allowing an unauthorised decorator to enter a First AC coach of Nandigram Express and decorate a coupe for a couple, a South Central Railway (SCR) official said on Wednesday.A couple travelling in a First AC coupe had hired a...
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Tremors were felt in Nanded, Hingoli and Parbhani districts of Marathwada region in Maharashtra on Thursday, an official said.The tremors were recorded between 1.37 am and 3.23 am, the official said, adding they measured between 3.6 and 4.6 on the Richter scale. -- PTI
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A case under the POCSO Act was registered against a man at Borabanda here for sexually harassing his daughter, the police said on Wednesday.The man had allegedly been harassing his daughter, now 19, since she was a minor, over the last three years, and his wife and son confronted him on Tuesday...
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The US on Wednesday launched an investigation into alleged fraud in the H-1B and PERM work visas by several companies, with a federal labour official saying that Indian IT firm Cognizant is among the companies under scrutiny.The office of the inspector general under the department of labour has...
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