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The Gurugram police demolished the house of one accused and sealed the residence of another, as part of action against habitual offenders, officials said on Tuesday.Both accused have a combined criminal record of 10 cases involving the NDPS Act, murder, attempt to murder, and the Excise Act,...
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The Andhra Pradesh police have arrested a butcher for allegedly murdering a 29-year-old woman and later disposing of her dismembered body parts in a canal here, a senior official on Tuesday.Durga Rao, assistant commissioner of police (ACP), Vijayawada West said Shaik Shafi (45), who runs a mutton...
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Collector of Maharashtra's Beed district Vivek Johnson on Tuesday relieved Bharat Gangawane, the Tehsildar of Kaij taluka, from his official charge for remaining absent from a critical drought-relief review meeting chaired by local MLA Namita Mundada, said officials.The additional charge of...
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and TVK founder C Joseph Vijay will campaign for the party's by-poll candidate for Dharapuram on September 30, with entry restricted to QR code passes, the TVK announced on Tuesday.Only 5,000 people who have been provided with entry passes containing QR code will be...
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The police arrested two men and detained two boys on charges of raping a woman in Jharkhand's Ranchi district, an officer said on Tuesday.The incident occurred on September 22 within the Ratu police station limits when the 20-year-old woman was returning home on foot from a Karam festival...
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Opposition members of Joint Committee on the FCRA Amendment Bill, have written to chairman Sanjay Jaiswal, seeking postponement of the JPC meeting scheduled for October 12 to enable detailed examination of the legislation. They have also said that time period to receive public opinion...
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A fire broke out at the historic Koder House, a landmark of Fort Kochi's Jewish heritage, on Tuesday evening, prompting fire and rescue personnel to rush to the iconic building.The fire broke out around 6.50 pm at the imposing three-storeyed, brick-red building on Tower Road, which was once the...
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Swiss President Guy Parmelin/Swiss govt/ANI Photo
Swiss President Guy Parmelin is likely to visit India next week, with a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi expected to be a key engagement.The proposed visit comes months after Parmelin travelled to New Delhi in February this year to participate in the AI Impact Summit 2026, where he held...
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The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam said on Tuesday that it would support in Parliament the Opposition's move seeking the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, though it is not part of the INDIA bloc.DMK spokesperson T K S Elangovan, speaking to reporters, said that whenever Opposition...
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Four CISF personnel including an assistant commandant were killed in an incident of fratricide in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, officials said.The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel were guarding Sewa-III power project at Mashka village of Basohli bordering...
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The ED on Tuesday told the Kerala high court that an FIR could be registered based on the report it had submitted to the state police seeking registration of a case under the anti-graft law against former Keralam chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and others in connection with the alleged CMRL...
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West Bengal police arrested two persons in connection with the murder of a BJP booth president in Bolpur, with a possible land-related dispute being probed as a motive, a senior officer said on Tuesday.The arrested persons have been identified as Sheikh Anarul and Dipankar Roy, both residents of...
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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan./Mike Segar/Reuters
India on Tuesday firmly rejected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's reference to Jammu and Kashmir during his address at the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), asserting that the issue pertains strictly to the country's territorial integrity and sovereignty.Responding to queries...
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A non-venomous snake was found on the premises of the government-run Maharaja Yashwantrao Chikitsalaya (MYH) hospital here on Tuesday.A video of the snake crawling near the window of the Out-Patient Department (OPD) went viral. Notably, MYH, one of the largest government hospitals in Madhya...
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26/11 govt counsel and senior lawyer Ujjwal Nikam/Photograph: ANI Photo
Amid tight police security, mediapersons crowd outside platform 7, 8 of Chhattapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus for the trailer launch of Prahaar: The Untold Story of Ujjwal Nikam, the public prosecutor, who fought for the conviction of Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, one of the 10 Pakistani terrorists who...
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Bharatiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dubey/File image
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dubey has filed a civil defamation suit in the Delhi high court against former finance secretary Subhash Garg for allegedly making defamatory imputations against him in a podcast.In his suit, Dubey has sought a permanent and mandatory injunction from making...
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The rupee settled on a flat note on Tuesday, just a tad over the psychologically important 96 per dollar level, driven by possible RBI intervention and a pull-back in oil prices following hopes of negotiations between the US and Iran.Forex traders said gains in the rupee were capped by US dollar...
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Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday said that there are concerns about the drought situation in Karnataka, Maharashtra, parts of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Rajasthan. The information received so far indicates concerns in Karnataka, Maharashtra, parts of Andhra...
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Jharkhand CEO K Ravi Kumar on Tuesday said the deadline for filing claims and objections against deletion of names from the electoral rolls under the SIR will end on September 30.The chief electoral officer's office, however, has sought an extension of the period for issuing notices and...
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The rising bond yields in the US and other economies are making it tougher for Indian equities to attract foreign portfolio investors.Higher US yields can also put pressure on the rupee, adding another headwind for Indian equities.The rise in US 10-year Treasury yield to high levels like 5.25%,...
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Tom Cruise's Digger saw a grand premiere in Los Angeles, days before its worldwide release on October 2. Directed by Mexican director Alejandro G Inarritu -- his first English film after The Revernant -- Digger is about 65-year-old oil tycoon Digger Rockwell, and also stars Emma D'Arcy,...
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Dario Amodei's $ 1 trillion AI startup Anthropic, known for Claude, in its long-awaited initial public offering prospectus, has formally warned that its technology may post 'existential risks to humanity,' reports the Financial Times.The prospectus, circulated with a select group...
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Shares of online insurance distributor companies PB Fintech and Turtlemint Fintech Solutions continued to remain under pressure, falling up to 7 per cent and hitting respective 52-week lows on the Bombay Stock Market (BSE) in Tuesday’s intra-day trades. In the past four trading days, these...
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Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty ended lower for the second day on Tuesday as elevated crude oil prices triggered by uncertainty over the West Asia situation and foreign fund outflows weighed on investor sentiment.The 30-share BSE Sensex dropped 242.65 points, or 0.33 percent, to settle...
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The police have arrested two alleged armed criminals after a brief gunfight in which seven rounds were fired in the Paharganj area in Delhi, and the suspects sustained bullet injuries to their legs, officials said on Tuesday.The accused, identified as Akash alias Matthi (27) and Mukesh alias...
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Akshaye Khanna as Rehman Dakait in 'Dhurandhar'.
Dhurandhar star Akshaye Khanna has bought an apartment in Mumbai's plush locality of Malabar Hill for Rs 33.26 crore.According to property registration documents reviewed by Square Yards on the IGR Maharashtra portal, the apartment is located at 30, Little Gibbs, Malabar Hill.The...
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Speaking at an event in Chennai while promoting his upcoming film Don't Trouble The Trouble, actor Fahadh Fasil, 44 who is married to Nazriya Nazim, 31, said: I am married to a child.Standing next to his co-star from the film Ssara Palekar, and addressing the audience, Fahadh...
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On Tuesday, September 29, shares of several information technology (IT) companies were under pressure with Infosys, Wipro, KPIT Technologies and Tata Elxsi recording respective 52-week lows on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) ahead of September 2026 quarter (Q2FY26) earnings.So far in September...
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This is carnage, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said while voicing its concern over a steep markup of ten times on cancer drugs by hospitals and batted for a uniform 16 per cent margin on all medicines.A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta asked the Centre to look into the issue of...
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I am an out-and-out capitalist, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Tuesday as the legislative assembly passed his ease of doing business bill.Speaking on the floor of the House during the ongoing Autumn session of the J-K Assembly, Abdullah said it is not the government's job...
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'What more must the CEC do to deserve impeachment? I had asked in this column ('The move to impeach the CEC, though symbolic, matters', IE, March 17), supporting an Opposition-led motion of impeachment against Gyanesh Kumar.'I was wrong. The exposé by The Indian Express, among the finest pieces...
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The road to Lake Towada cuts through the wooded hills of Aomori prefecture, passing rice terraces, scattered farmhouses and stretches of dense green woodland. It is the sort of quiet rural landscape many visitors associate with Japan.Then, after the village of Shingo, something rather less...
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An Assam Rifles jawan was killed and four others injured after a patrol team came under suspected militant attack along the India-Myanmar border in Arunachal Pradesh's Changlang district on Tuesday, officials said.The incident took place around 6.30 am near Nampong Nallah under Nampong circle...
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Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Tuesday said his party and the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) will take out a morcha against the Election Commission in Mumbai on October 4.Raj Thackeray said that the march from Byculla to the BMC Headquarters is aimed at uniting all...
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A special NIA court on Tuesday granted bail to former policeman Sachin Waze in the 2021 Antilia bomb scare and Mansukh Hiran murder case, saying the prosecution failed to establish a prima facie case of terrorism under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) against him.Special Sessions...
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Forty-seven days after both Houses of Parliament were adjourned sine die on August 13, the Monsoon Session has still not been prorogued. Normally that formality is over within a week.The Opposition suspects the government is short of the two-thirds majority it needs to revive the...
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The common man's hero: Tukaram Mundhe
The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has seized more than 50 tonnes of food products worth nearly Rs 1.20 crore during a statewide crackdown carried out between September 23 and 27 ahead of the festive season, officials said on Tuesday.According to the FDA, a total of 50,601.78 kg...
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The elixir of life. AI-generated image
The search for a way to slow ageing is hardly new. For centuries, people have dreamed of finding something that could keep the effects of time at bay. but today that ambition is firmly on the agenda of modern medicine. Yet the answer may not lie in an expensive new drug or cutting-edge...
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Two ancient runestones in Jelling offer a glimpse into the reign of the Viking king who helped shape Denmark - and whose nickname lives on in Bluetooth.The next time you connect your phone to a pair of headphones or link your laptop to another device, the name Bluetooth may seem like an...
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A potential listing of Tata Sons and a leadership transition at Tata group are unlikely to have an immediate impact on the credit ratings of group companies, but could reshape the assessment of group support and financial policy over the longer term, S&P Global Ratings said on Tuesday.S&P...
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Flash floods in Nepal last week
At least 27 people have been killed in incidents triggered by heavy rainfall across Nepal over the past few days, officials said on Monday.Four people remain missing, while eight people were injured in the monsoon-induced incidents from September 24 to 28, according to the Nepal Home Ministry.The...
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Here is an uncomfortable finding for the Office-going professional. A large pooled analysis of over a million adults, published in The Lancet in 2016, found that people who sat for around eight hours a day carried a higher risk of early death unless they were also doing roughly 60 to 75 minutes...
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Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Tuesday warned the US and other countries over the Strait of Hormuz, saying that if Iran's security is not ensured, no infrastructure will be safe.Ghalibaf made the remarks during a public video conference on Tuesday, referring to recent...
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Lok Sabha Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday backed student-led protests demanding greater safety for women and urged young women, particularly those from Gen Z, to participate in larger numbers.In a post on X, the Congress leader said women should not be subjected to restrictions...
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Fat does far more than sit beneath the skin. It helps produce hormones, insulates the body and plays a role in regulating temperature. So what happens when we try to get rid of too much of it?For decades, fat has had a bad reputation. Diet culture has made burning fat a goal in itself, while food...
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear next week a petition which raised doubts over the decisions taken by the Election Commission of India led by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.The matter was mentioned before a bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V...
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For Ritika Chopra, the revelations that would go on to trigger a much broader crisis of credibility for the Election Commission of India were the product of more than a decade spent covering the poll panel. The Indian Express's investigation into the Commission's Special Intensive Revision...
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Former IAS officer Divya Mittal
Former IAS officer Divya Mittal on Tuesday announced her entry into politics independently, saying she would begin her political journey from Uttar Pradesh and strive to become the voice of people whose grievances often fail to reach government offices.In a video statement on X, Mittal, who...
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Pakistan has described its refusal to allow airspace for the transportation of nuclear fuel meant for Bangladesh's Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant as a technical issue.Pakistan maintains an unwavering commitment to international diplomatic norms and processes all requests for diplomatic flight and...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has firmly underscored that Washington's insufficient appreciation of New Delhi's core security priorities presents a major hurdle in bilateral ties, pointing directly to persistent cross-border terrorism orchestrated by Pakistan.Speaking at an event...
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Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty tumbled in early trade on Tuesday as elevated crude oil prices due to uncertainty over the West Asia situation and foreign fund outflows weighed on investors' sentiment.The 30-share BSE Sensex dropped 503 points to 72,260.09 in early trade. The 50-share...
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A 12-member expedition team from Kolkata-based mountaineering and adventure club 'Himalaya's Beckon' were stranded amid heavy snowfall during an expedition to Mount Leo Pargil-2 in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district, and were returned safely to Nako village.The rescue operation was carried out...
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For several schoolchildren in Chengajan Gowala village under Jonai Assembly constituency in Assam's Dhemaji district, the journey to school begins with a risky boat ride across the Lali river and Buri Sauti, with villagers saying the absence of a permanent bridge continues to expose children and...
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A 35-year-old woman head constable died after she was allegedly pushed to the ground while attempting to stop a violent clash between two groups at the government general hospital here, police said on Tuesday.The deceased officer was identified as Kannaki (35), who was attached to the Parthibanur...
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J-K National Conference president Farooq Abdullah attended a musical program in Srinagar on Monday and praised the performance, calling it a sign of change in Kashmir.The musical evening consisted of a performance by a group of children. Farooq Abdullah expressed his happiness after attending the...
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A fresh spell of snowfall has transformed the higher reaches of Manali into a picturesque winter landscape, with snow-covered peaks gleaming under the morning sun as temperatures dipped across the hill town.The weather took a turn in the popular tourist destination as fresh snow settled over the...
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In a major development for international trade, Washington has announced that select specialty medications and related components originating from India and 19 other partner jurisdictions will be exempt from import duties.The decision comes as the United States moves forward with a sweeping 100...
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US President Donald Trump with Essar Group co-founder Ravi Ruia and his son Rewant. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
United States President Donald Trump on Monday unveiled Essar Group's plans to build a massive steel plant in Iowa, at an investment of $15 billion.Trump made the announcement in the Oval Office with Essar Group co-founder Ravi Ruia and his son Rewant by his side.Today, we're thrilled to announce...
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Monday added gangster Satinderjeet Singh alias Goldy Brar to its list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and announced a reward of $1 million for information leading to his arrest.Satinderjeet Singh is wanted for his alleged involvement in the Lawrence Bishnoi...
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Two persons allegedly part of an international syndicate have been arrested in Andheri East in Mumbai with 12.39 kilograms of ketamine worth Rs 37.17 crore, a police official said on Monday.Adnan Ahmed Niaz Ahmed Siddiqui (35), a resident of Mazagon, and Saud Mushtaq Maniar (29) of Girgaon...
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To strengthen surveillance and ensure the safety of railway infrastructure, the Jammu and Kashmir Police, in coordination with the Government Railway Police (GRP), conducted a joint foot patrol along the railway track in Samba district on Monday, an official said on Monday.Senior Superintendent...
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The Odisha government has shifted around 1.4 lakh people to safer locations over the past four days, as a fresh wave of flood affected several districts, officials said on Monday.Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari said the government has evacuated 1.4 lakh people from...
