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New York: Salman Rushdie is still in a critical condition, but his usual feisty and defiant sense of humour remains intact, his son has said, as the Mumbai-born author battles severe, life-changing injuries. Rushdie, 75, was taken off a ventilator on Saturday and could talk after he was stabbed on stage at a literary event […]
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Mangaluru: A Mangaluru-Mumbai flight was delayed by six hours after a woman passenger raised an alarm about a suspicious text message received on the mobile phone of a fellow traveller here. All the passengers were asked to alight from the aircraft and their luggage was thoroughly checked for any sabotage before the IndiGo flight was […]
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New Delhi: India is celebrating its 75th year of Independence and is at the crossroads of realising a resilient economic growth for its people during the next 25 years – what the government terms the country’s “Amrit Kaal”. Keeping other aspects of the economy aside, let us have a glance at how the Indian currency […]
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday called on the people of India to take “panch pran” (five pledges) for a developed nation and aim to fulfil the dreams of the freedom fighters by the year 2047- the 100th year of India’s Independence. The Prime Minister while addressing the nation on the 75th Independence […]
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New Delhi: With 14,917 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India’s case tally rose to 4,42,68,381, while the active cases increased to 1,17,508, according to data updated by the Union Health Ministry on Monday. The death toll has climbed to 5,27,069 with 32 fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. In the […]
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New Delhi: As India marks its 75th Independence Day, the Indian Navy, Indian Army and Indian Air Force are celebrating the day with zeal and fervour. As part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav (AKAM) to celebrate 75 years of India’s Independence, commemorative visits are being undertaken by Indian Navy ships to foreign ports on every […]
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New Delhi: A day after the BJP blamed first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for the partition, Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned his name in his speech while paying tributes to the freedom fighters who fought for the nation during his Independence Day speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort. Prime Minister Modi said, “We […]
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New Delhi: As India celebrates the 75th Independence Day with patriotic fervour and enthusiasm, police in the national capital have made stringent security arrangements, especially at the Red Fort, from where Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered his address to the nation. The police have installed over 1,000 high-resolution CCTV cameras in the vicinity of the […]
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New Delhi: As India is celebrating 75 years of Independence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hoisted the Tricolour at the Red Fort amid a 21-gun salute by the indigenously developed howitzer gun, ATAGS on Monday. Addressing the nation from the Red Fort, Prime Minister Modi said that the citizens are thankful to Bapu, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, […]
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Hyderabad: Farmer leaders and industrialists from Tamil Nadu appreciated the Telangana government’s policies for agricultural growth, and strongly supported their implementation in other States to improve income levels of farmers. The numerous schemes being implemented for farmers’ welfare in Telangana have become a topic of discussion at a joint meeting of farmers unions and industry […]
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New Delhi: India has helped the world discover the true potential of democracy and the keyword for the country today is compassion for the downtrodden, needy and those on the margins, President Droupadi Murmu said on Sunday. In her maiden address to the nation on the eve of the 75th Independence Day, Murmu said major […]
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Hyderabad: In a ground-breaking research, for the first time in India, researchers from Hyderabad have successfully 3D-printed an artificial cornea and transplanted it into a rabbit eye. In the major collaborative effort, researchers from L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI), Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad (IIT-H), and the Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), have […]
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Hyderabad: Tomorrow, on 15th August 2022, the whole nation will rejoice as the country marks its 75th Independence Day. Leading up to this special occasion, the Prime Minister of India has urged people to hoist the tricolour at their homes from August 13 to 15 to celebrate this glorious milestone. In addition, the State government […]
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Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Police have arrested a minor boy from Karuvassery in Kozhikode district of Kerala, who was engaged in theft of bikes and other two-wheelers from in and around Kozhikode, Wayanad, and Malappuram districts of north Kerala. Police sources told IANS that several bike thefts were reported from Elathur, Puthiyara, Kakkur, Pantheeramkavu, Atholi, Kakkur police […]
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New Delhi: Indian Commonwealth Games contingent expressed their delight at being honoured by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for their excellent performance at Birmingham 2022. PM Modi felicitated the Indian contingent for the Commonwealth Games (CWG) 2022 in New Delhi on Saturday. The felicitation was attended by both athletes and their coaches. Union Minister for Youth […]
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Ballia: A man slit the throat of his sister’s sister-in-law in Baheri village in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district and later, surrendered to the police. Dilshad’s sister was in love with Noor Alam and had married him last month despite opposition from the family. Noor Alam’s cousin sister Armana, a local politician, had slapped Dilshad over […]
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Raigad: Veteran politician and President of Shiv Sangram Party Vinayak — who espoused the cause of the Maratha community for over 3 decades — was killed in a road accident on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway here on Sunday morning, officials said. Mete, 52, was coming from Beed via Pune to Mumbai in his SUV to attend […]
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Kolkata: As protests on the issue of corruption are on the rise in West Bengal and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee being targeted in many cases, top leaders of Trinamool Congress have started losing control over the use of words against the protesters in public forums. The use of abuses is no more restricted to those […]
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New Delhi: Among the few Muslim women who had actively participated in the Indian Independence movement, Abadi Bano Begum (Bi Amma) was a prominent face. Her active participation in the struggle to liberate the country from the British Raj, even led Mahatma Gandhi to call her his mother. Bi Amma was born in 1850 in […]
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid homage to all those who lost their lives during partition to mark the ‘Partition Horrors Remembrance Day’. In a tweet, the Prime Minister said, “Today, on Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, I pay homage to all those who lost their lives during Partition, and applaud the resilience as […]
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Khargone: A 45-year-old man died of electrocution while putting up a tricolour on a shop in Madhya Pradesh’s Khargone district ahead of the country’s independence day, police said on Sunday. The incident took place on Saturday evening in Narmada Road area under Barwaha police station limits, some 80 km from the district headquarters, an official […]
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New Delhi: The BJP central leadership believes that the change of leadership in the party’s Chhattisgarh unit will end the infighting and factionalism ahead of next year’s assembly polls. Last week, the BJP appointed Lok Sabha Member Arun Sao as new president of its Chhattisgarh unit. He will replace Vishnu Deo Sai. The BJP central […]
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New Delhi: Indian athletes expressed their elation at being honoured by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for their superlative showing at Birmingham Commonwealth Games with Nikhat Zareen gifting him her boxing gloves and sprinter Hima Das giving the traditional Assamese gamocha. Modi, on Saturday, hosted the Indian contingent at his residence to felicitate the players. The […]
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New Delhi: India reported 14,092 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, a marginal decline from the previous day’s count of 15,815 Covid, said the Union Health Ministry on Sunday. In the same period, the country has reported 41 more Covid deaths, taking the nationwide death toll to 5,27,037. Meanwhile, the active caseload has marginally […]
