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Transport unions from across the country will join a protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Wednesday against the new penal law on hit-and-run cases. Kishan Verma, president of the All Dilli Auto-Taxi Transport Congress Union, said the government should have consulted the stakeholders...
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Delhi BJP Yuva Morcha president Shashi Yadav was expelled from the party on Tuesday for alleged involvement in anti-party activities. Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva expelled Yadav from the party on disciplinary grounds. A letter issued by Sachdeva said Yadav had announced...
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People throng a market in Kandivali at 10 pm on Tuesday.
The Mumbai police on Tuesday evening urged the people not to throng fuel and CNG pumps and indulge into panic buying following the strike by a section of truck drivers. Don't believe in rumours. There is enough stock available in Mumbai and we are providing adequate security to the tankers...
22:59
The Madhya Pradesh high court on Tuesday issued notices to the state and the Centre after hearing two PILs seeking its direction to both governments to ensure an adequate supply of essential commodities including fuel and foodgrains, in view of the strike by truckers. The Public Interest...
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Maharashtra on Tuesday recorded 105 fresh coronavirus positive cases and zero fatalities, the health department said. So far, the state has reported a total of 32 cases of the JN.1 sub-variant of the virus, it said. With the fresh cases, the state's overall case tally rose to...
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A case has been registered against a 27-year-old man for allegedly giving triple talaq to his wife through a voice note on WhatsApp in Indore, the police said on Tuesday. The man has been booked under the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act on the complaint lodged by his...
22:08
After a meeting with Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla on Tuesday evening, the president of All India Motor Transport Congress Amrit Lal Madan told the striking truck drivers, You are not just our drivers you are our soldiers...We do not want you to face any inconvenience... Union Home Minister...
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The Supreme Court will pronounce its verdict on Wednesday on a batch of petitions on the Adani-Hindenburg row over allegations of stock price manipulation by the Indian corporate giant. A bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud had on November 24 reserved its verdict on the...
21:30
DMK Lok Sabha MP Dayanidhi Maran
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Lok Sabha MP Dayanidhi Maran on Tuesday apologised for his comments on workers, an issue in which he faced flak on social media. He said his words had been misunderstood. The former union minister said he was sorry if his remarks offended anyone, putting an end...
21:10
Social activist Sandeep Pandey/Courtesy X
Social activist Sandeep Pandey on Tuesday said he has decided to return the Ramon Magsaysay award conferred on him in 2002 in protest against the role of the US in the Israeli attack in Gaza. Pandey, who has been associated with the Socialist Party (India), has also decided to return the...
21:01
The three new criminal-justice laws -- the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam -- will be notified by January 26 and implemented across the country within a year, a senior government functionary said on Tuesday. The three laws were...
20:25
The mortal remains of five persons who died in a car accident recently in the US -- relatives of Andhra Pradesh's Mummidivaram MLA P Venkata Satish Kumar -- were repatriated to their hometown Amalapuram in Konaseema district on Tuesday, a police official said. The bodies reached Amalapuram...
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Union Home Secretary is currently meeting protesting truckers amid a stir by drivers against the new law on hit-and-run cases, and the issue is likely to be resolved amicably, sources said on Tuesday. Sources also said that truckers' body The All India Motor Transport Congress has so far not...
19:42
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren
Amid speculations of a possible anoinment of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren's wife, the ruling JMM-led coalition has convened a meeting of its legislators in Ranchi on Wednesday. The speculations were triggered by the Enforcement Directorate's recent summons to Chief Minister Hemant...
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The Ram temple trust is yet to take a final decision on which of the three Ram Lalla idols being sculpted over the past months will be installed at the temple in Ayodhya, those associated with the trust said on Tuesday. On Monday, Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Karnataka...
19:16
The Gujarat high court has orally remarked that after looking at the records, it is not inclined to quash the first information report registered against social activist Teesta Setalvad in a 2006 case of exhuming bodies of the victims of the 2002 post-Godhra riot. When the matter came up for...
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Truck drivers protesting against a provision in the new penal law on hit-and-run road accidents, called off their strike in Nashik district of Maharashtra on Tuesday after the local authorities assured to look into their demands. The agitation by truck drivers, which was launched in...
18:38
Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Dunki has crossed Rs 400 crore mark in gross worldwide collection, the makers said on Tuesday. Directed by Rajkumar Hirani, the comedy drama opened to mixed reviews upon its release on December 21. Red Chillies Entertainment, one of the production houses behind Dunki,...
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The PM and TN CM at Tiruchirappalli today
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Tuesday requested the central government to consider the recent floods in various parts of the state a national disaster and provide adequate funds for it. The floods in Chennai and our southern districts have not only destroyed public...
18:03
The CAA protests in 2020
Rules for the Citizenship (Amendment) Act of 2019 will be notified much before the announcement of the Lok Sabha elections, a senior government functionary said on Tuesday. Under the CAA brought in by the Narendra Modi government, Indian nationality will be granted to persecuted non-Muslim...
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A petrol pump in Mumbai. Pic: Ashish Narasale/Rediff.com
Petrol pumps in many cities witnessed long queues on Tuesday as people came to fill up their vehicle tanks fearing shortage of fuel amid the protest by truck drivers against a provision in the new penal law on hit-and-run accident cases involving motorists. Some petrol pumps have stopped...
17:20
NHK TV says 5 crewmembers found dead on coast guard plane involved in crash at Japanese airport.In a shocking incident at Haneda Airport, Japan Airlines Flight 516, en route from New Chitose Airport, erupted into flames just after landing on Runway C at approximately 5:47 pm (local time) on...
16:50
The CBI has filed two separate charge sheets against five accused in connection with the case of two missing Manipuri students who were feared killed during ethnic violence in the state, officials said Tuesday. Photos purportedly showing their bodies surfaced on September 25, 2023, leading to...
16:26
A water train was sent to Latur in 2016
Latur city in Marathwada region of Maharashtra is getting water supply only once a week as the storage level in Manjara dam plummeted to 20 per cent of its capacity, an official said on Tuesday. Latur used to get water supply twice a week until December 2023 in view of scanty rainfall in the...
16:19
Benchmark Sensex declined by 379 points on Tuesday due to profit-taking in bank and IT shares after recent sharp gains and fresh foreign fund outflows. The 30-share BSE Sensex fell by 379.46 points or 0.53 per cent to settle at 71,892.48. During the day, it tumbled 658.2 points or 0.91...
15:35
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Major drama at Tokyo's Haneda airport today when a plane burst into flames on the runway. The plane is believed to have hit another aircraft after landing. All the approximately 400 passengers aboard are believed to have got out safely. The area around the wing caught fire.Local TV video...
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CM N Biren Singh
Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Tuesday claimed that foreign mercenaries from Myanmar are likely to have been involved in the attacks on security forces in Moreh town. Singh, after visiting the injured security personnel who are undergoing treatment at the Regional Institute of...
15:05
Moscow has assumed presidency of BRICS
The BRICS bloc of top emerging economies, including India, Russia and China, has announced induction of five full members into it as part of an attempt to expand its strategic heft against the backdrop of Western dominance in world affairs. As Moscow assumed the presidency of BRICS,...
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Japanese TV reports a plane has caught fire on the runway of Tokyo's Haneda airport.
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With the recent arrest of two BJP activists who had taken part in the Ayodhya agitation back in 1992 snowballing into a controversy, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday said a criminal is always a criminal unless acquitted by a court of law. Hitting out at Union Minister of Coal...
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A total of 263 cases of COVID-19 sub-variant JN.1 have been detected in the country so far, with about half of them recorded in Kerala, according to the INSACOG's data updated on Tuesday. Ten states and Union territories have so far detected the presence of the JN.1 sub-variant of the...
13:59
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India has recorded 573 fresh cases of COVID-19 and the number of active cases of the infection has increased to 4,565, the Union health ministry said on Tuesday. Two new fatalities due to the disease -- one each in Karnataka and Haryana -- were reported in a span of 24 hours, according to...
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Actor Madhuri Dixit visited Siddhivinayak Temple with her husband Dr Shriram Nene and sons Arin and Ryan to offer prayers and seek blessings of Bappa for her upcoming film Marathi film 'Panchak', ahead of its theatrical release. Madhuri can be seen wearing a floral anarkali suit while...
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A fresh gunfight broke out on Tuesday morning between security forces and suspected militants at Moreh town in Manipur's Tengnoupal district, police said.The gunbattle started in Chavangphai area, around 107 km from the state capital Imphal this morning, after two persons, during a search...
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A top police officer was found dead in the Jalandhar district of Punjab, officers informed on Tuesday. The mortal remains of Dalbir Singh, who held the rank of the deputy superintendent of police in the district, were recovered from the Basti Bawa Khel Canal on the intervening night of...
12:57
PM at the bhoomi poojan of the Ram temple in Ayodhya in 2020
This new year, 2024, will be significant as Ram Lalla will be seated in the sanctum sanctorum of the Ram temple in Ayodhya and the general elections will be held, and both will be shubh (propitious), the Ram temple's chief priest Acharya Satyendra Das said. Speaking to PTI at his residence...
12:31
Sonia, Rahul make marmalade
Describing secularism as a foundational pillar of India's democracy, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi said the word secular is being used as a pejorative by those now in power, resulting in increased polarisation in the society. They say they are committed to 'democracy', but at the same...
12:06
In a video released by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), former Hamas operatives confirmed that Hamas was using civilians as human shields and in several other ways as cover for their operations, as reported by The Times of Israel.The IDF released a video on Monday showing new interrogation of...
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There was no respite for the national capital from bone-chilling cold, as the city woke up to another icy morning on Tuesday, with the minimum temperature in the Ridge area of the national capital dropping below the freezing point, at -0.3C. There were no signs of the prevailing cold...
11:39
PM Modi with Xi Jinping
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has reiterated that India should deal with China on the basis of realism and asserted that the relationship should be based on the three mutual understandings -- respect, sensitivity, and interest.In an interview with ANI, Jaishankar reassessed India's...
11:28
Burnt down buildings after the earthquake in Wajima. Pic: Reuters
RRR star Jr NTR on Tuesday morning said he had returned from Japan and wished for its swift recovery after a series of powerful earthquakes hit the island country. The quakes struck the western region of Japan, leaving at least eight people dead and damaging buildings, vehicles and...
11:16
India-Canada relations are strained
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has affirmed that Canadian politics have given space to Khalistani forces and also allowed them to indulge in activities that adversely impact bilateral relations between India and Canada. He expressed concern that these actions are not in the interest...
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The new terminal building at Tiruchirappalli International Airport to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today. Developed at a cost of more than Rs 1,100 crores, the two-level new international terminal building has the capacity to serve more than 44 lakh passengers annually.
10:53
PM Modi arrives at Tiruchirappalli to inaugurate multiple development projects worth more than Rs 19,850 crores. He was received by Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi, Chief Minister MK Stalin and MoS L Murugan.Tiruchirappalli has been decked up with heightened security in place to welcome the...
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PM in Ayodhya on Saturday
Congress leader former Karnataka minister, H Anjaneya, stoked a major controversy on Monday, equation Chief Minister Siddaramaiah with Lord Ram.Further ruffling feathers in the saffron camp amid the feverish anticipation around the grand opening of the Ram Temple on January 22, the Congress...
10:15
Equity benchmark indices declined in early trade on Tuesday amid weak trends from Asian markets and fresh foreign fund outflows. Investors also opted to book profits after the recent sharp rally in the markets.The 30-share BSE Sensex fell 202.76 points to 72,069.18. The Nifty declined 42.9...
09:36
A man allegedly killed his 23-year-old wife here and left their two-year-old son locked in a room with the body lying in a pool of blood before jumping to death from a metro station in Ghaziabad, police said on Monday.Gaurav Sharma (30) allegedly slit his wife Laxmi's throat with a sharp-edged...
09:30
Eleven men were arrested for allegedly raping a minor girl hailing from Odisha on different occasions in Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, police said on Monday.Under the pretext of celebrating the girl's birthday on December 17, 2023, a migrant labourer from Jharkhand, with whom the girl got...
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A 6-month-old girl was killed and her mother was hurt in a firing between security forces and Naxalites in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, on Monday, which also left two District Reserve Guard jawans injured, an official said.The mother, who was also injured in the incident, has been rushed to the...
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At least six people have been killed after a powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.5 rattled Japan on Monday, NHK World reported.The United States Geological Survey reported that the earthquake occurred on the Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa prefecture around 4.10 pm local time, with a depth of 10...
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