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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Monday blamed the parents of the teenager allegedly involved in the Pune car crash saying they ignored his behaviour which resulted in the death of two young professionals.Pawar, also the guardian minister of Pune district, was speaking to reporters...
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The identities of nine bodies recovered from the fire-ravaged TRP Game Zone in Rajkot have been established through DNA analysis, said Gujarat Minister of State for Home Harsh Sanghavi on Monday.As many as 27 persons, including children, were killed in a massive fire at the recreation centre on...
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Dr Samir V Kamat
The Centre on Monday extended the tenure of Defence Research and Development Organisation chief Dr Samir V Kamat by one year, a personnel ministry order said. Distinguished scientist Kamat was on August 25, 2022, appointed as secretary of the department of defence research and development...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that Narendra Modi should be referred to as a Bharatiya Janata Party leader and not as the prime minister in the saffron party's campaign as he is a 'caretaker PM'. Addressing an election rally in Burrabazar area in Kolkata Uttar seat...
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Mumbai airport
An unidentified person on Monday threatened to blow up Hotel Taj Mahal and the Mumbai airport claiming bombs were planted at these places.It turned out to be a hoax after the police conducted a search but no suspicious object was found, an official said.The mobile number from which the message...
20:56
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's close aide Bibhav Kumar will approach the high court after a city court rejected his bail plea in Swati Maliwal 'assault' case, AAP said on Monday.A court in Delhi on Monday dismissed the bail plea of Kumar who is accused of assaulting AAP Rajya Sabha MP...
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Noted South Indian actor Fahadh Faasil said he was clinically diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) at the age of 41. ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects the brain's ability to regulate attention, behaviour, and impulse control. It is common in...
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Two days after a blaze killed 27 persons in a recreation centre in Gujarat's Rajkot, the state government on Monday transferred the city's police commissioner, two other IPS officers and the civic chief.Police Commissioner Raju Bhargava, Additional Commissioner of Police Vidhi Choudhary and...
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Senior bureaucrat Pradip Kumar Tripathi has been appointed as the Lokpal secretary as part of a secretary-level reshuffle effected by the Centre on Monday.Tripathi, a 1987-batch Indian Administrative Service officer (IAS), is currently secretary (coordination) in the Cabinet Secretariat.He has...
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The Supreme Court has said that commitments made by political parties in their election manifestos will not amount to corrupt practice under the election laws. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and K V Viswanathan made the observation while dismissing a plea by a voter hailing from the...
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A disc jockey (DJ) was shot dead at a bar in Ranchi, the police said on Monday.The incident took place on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday.CCTV footage of the incident went viral on social media platforms, in which it is seen that a man, with face covered and a rifle in hand, enters the...
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PM Modi in Bandipur last year
Karnataka Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre on Monday said the state government will pay the hospitality bill of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had come to Mysuru in April last year to commemorate 50 years of Project Tiger, which runs up to Rs 80 lakh. In a statement, the minister's...
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AAP MP Swati Maliwal
AAP MP Swati Maliwal assault case: Bibhav Kumar's bail application dismissed by Delhi's Tis Hazari court. A magisterial court on Monday had reserved till this evening its order on the bail plea of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar in the Swati Maliwal assault...
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TMC chief Mamata Banerjee
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) is unlikely to attend a meeting of the INDIA bloc on June 1, sources said, as it coincides with the last phase of voting in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls. According to sources, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has convened a meeting of the INDIA bloc...
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India likely to experience normal rainfall (92-108 per cent of long period average of 166.9 mm) in June, says IMD. Below-normal monsoon rainfall predicted in northeast India, normal in northwest, and above normal in central and south peninsular India.India's monsoon core zone comprising most of...
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Pune Police have arrested another individual in connection with the luxury car accident case where two motorcycle-borne persons were killed in Pune city, officials said on Saturday. The arrested person is a suspect over the alleged manipulation of the minor's blood sample, according to...
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Exactly a month after he left the country, Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, who is facing charges of sexually abusing many women, has said he will appear before the Special Investigation Team probing the cases against him on May 31. I will personally on Friday, May 31 at 10 am will come...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday had a close shave when a portion of the dais set up for one of his election rallies in Bihar caved in.Gandhi was at Paliganj, on the outskirts of the state capital, to canvass for RJD president Lalu Prasad's daughter Misa Bharti, who is contesting Patliputra...
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Launching a scathing attack on Prime Minister Modi and BJP, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi said on Monday that people are being misled that the country is progressing while the truth is that youth are unemployed and inflation is increasing.Addressing a rally in Kangra today, Priyanka said, PM is...
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge will lose his job after the Lok Sabha poll results are announced on June 4 but Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi will not be blamed for the defeat, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Monday. \ Shah said Rahul Gandhi's people will also do a press...
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Bibhav Kumar (left) is in jail since May 24
A magisterial court on Monday reserved till 4 pm its order on the bail plea of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar in the Swati Maliwal assault case. Kumar is accused of assaulting the AAP Rajya Sabha member at the chief minister's residence on May 13. Bibhav Kumar's...
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The BSE benchmark Sensex hit the historic 76,000-mark for the first time on Monday and the NSE Nifty hit its new all-time peak in tandem with a rally in global markets and optimistic investors' sentiment days ahead of the results of the Lok Sabha polls announcement. The 30-share BSE...
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The only purpose of BJP leaders, starting from Prime Minister Modi, is to grab power at any cost and they indulge in corrupt practices, use money power, bribe legislators and mislead people in the name of God to achieve their purpose, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi said on...
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said the Modi government has reshaped the Union budget in the last 10 years from a mere record of expenditures to a strategic blueprint for equitable distribution. The minister asserted that the government would continue to maximise the...
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Top leaders of the opposition INDIA bloc are likely to meet on June 1 to assess their performance in the Lok Sabha elections and chalk out their strategy ahead of the results. Sources said the proposed meeting will be convened in Delhi on the afternoon of June 1 when the last phase of...
12:28
The enormity of Bharatiya Janata Party made me pull the lever for Aam Aadmi Party. But the calculus of the lesser evil as a guide to political action isn't available to everyone equally, writes Mukul Kesavan. Read the column here.
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Sending a tough message, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said that no family member of any terrorist nor close relatives of stone pelters will get government jobs in Jammu and Kashmir. Shah also said that the Narendra Modi government has not only targeted terrorists but also...
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Three persons were injured and vehicular movement was disrupted as trees lay uprooted in several parts of Kolkata in the aftermath of Cyclone Remal, which made landfall in West Bengal and neighbouring Bangladesh, officials said on Monday.Reports of uprooting of trees have been received from...
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This government has gone to an extreme level by giving incentives and benefits to only cronies who have been allowed to take over everything, from natural resources to ports, airports, etc, Jayati Ghosh, the well known economist and professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts,...
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Twelve people injured, with eight taken to hospital, due to turbulence on a Qatar Airways flight, aboard a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, from Doha to Dublin. This comes a week after passengers in a Singapore Airlines flight was hit by turbulence. One person died, while 22 have spinal cord injuries and...
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The mangled Porsche car
Pune car crash: Juvenile's blood sample was thrown into dustbin, another person's sample replaced with it, say police. Blood samples of juvenile were replaced on instructions of Dr Taware and Dr Halnor of Sassoon Hospital, claim police. As juvenile's blood samples were replaced, Sassoon...
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The deserted Kolkata airport
Flights services from the Kolkata airport resumed on Tuesday after remaining suspended for 21 hours in view of the cyclone Remal, an official said on Monday. The first plane to depart on Monday was IndiGo's Kolkata-Port Blair flight at 8.59 am, while the first one to land in Kolkata was...
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In a suspected case of human sacrifice, a mentally unsound man has allegedly killing his four-year-old son by slitting his throat in Chhattisgarh's tribal-dominated Balrampur district, police said on Monday. The man's family members informed the police that he had claimed to be having...
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Shashi Tharoor posts this image writing, And of course I couldn't leave Amritsar without sampling the famous kulchas at Kulcha Land!Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Shashi Tharoor on Sunday promised the businessmen of Amritsar that if the Congress-led INDIA bloc formed its...
10:18
Kejriwal in Jamshedpur with his wife and Mrs Soren
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking an extension on medical grounds of his interim bail by seven days in connection with the alleged liquor policy, the Aam Aadmi Party said on Monday.Kejriwal was released from Delhi's Tihar Jail on May 10, fifty...
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Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj has called for a meeting on Monday to discuss the east Delhi hospital fire that killed seven newborns, officials said. The meeting will be held at the Delhi Secretariat and Health department officials will be present, they said and added that there...
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Severe cyclonic storm 'Remal' weakened into a cyclonic storm on Monday morning, sustaining wind speeds of 80-90 kilometres per hour, following landfall around midnight of Sunday, the Met Department said.The weather system, which lay 150 km northeast of Sagar Island at 5.30 am, brought torrential...
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The Pune police have arrested two doctors of the Sassoon General Hospital in Pune for alleged manipulation of blood samples and destruction of evidence in the case of a car accident involving a 17-year-old boy, officials said on Monday.Those arrested include head of the forensic department of the...
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A Bangladesh police team, which arrived in Kolkata on Sunday afternoon, said they will seek cooperation from West Bengal CID and conduct a thorough probe into the murder of MP Anwarul Azim Anar.The team expressed its desire to interrogate the arrested suspects and visit Baranagar, where Anar...
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Widespread devastation is visible across coastal areas of West Bengal on Monday, a day after severe cyclonic storm 'Remal' made landfall packing winds up to 135 kilometres per hour. The cyclone ravaged adjacent coasts of the state and Bangladesh between Sagar Island and Khepupara, near the...
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