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New Delhi: Actor-turned-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ravi Kishan on Friday said he was going to introduce a private member’s bill on population control in the Lok Sabha. A Member of Parliament from Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur constituency, Kishan has four children, three daughters and a son, with his wife Priti. “We can be Vishwa Guru […]
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New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 tally climbed to 4,38,68,476 on Saturday with 21,411 fresh cases, while the number of active cases increased to 1,50,100, according to Union health ministry data. The death toll climbed to 5,25,997 as 67 more people succumbed to the viral disease, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases comprise […]
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New Delhi: Isn’t it fulfilling to see your parents’ hearts swell with pride when they watch you do good in life? Everyone waits for that one opportunity in life to show their parents that they’ve made it in life. An Indian pilot recently shared a video on his Instagram account that went viral and made […]
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New Delhi: The body of a 50-year-old man was found stuffed in a refrigerator at his house in Northeast Delhi’s Seelampur area on Friday, Delhi police said. According to the police, a caller informed them on Friday around 7.15 pm that her relative was not attending phone calls. When the caller reached Gautampuri, she found […]
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New Delhi: Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Friday called upon countrymen to join the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav by hoisting the tricolour from their homes. Shah appealed to citizens to hoist the Tricolour from their homes from August 13 to […]
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Hyderabad: Senior IAS officer K Siva Prasad, Financial Commissioner, Rural Development and Panchayats, Govt. of Punjab, Chandigarh has written an amazing and worth reading book on Bhagavad Gita. The book is titled “Gita Acharan- A beginner’s perspective”. It is also translated in Hindi as Gita Acharan – ek sadhak ki drishti se. A copy of […]
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Puducherry: As many as 160 rats and mice that were illegally bred and used for unauthorised experimentation have been rescued from the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Puducherry. The animals were removed from the JIPMER animal facility Thursday, and handed over to animal rights organisation PETA India for rehabilitation in a sanctuary […]
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Hyderabad: The Aviation Ministry on Thursday announced that airlines cannot charge an additional amount for issuing boarding passes at airport check-in counters. At present, Airlines including IndiGo, SpiceJet, and Go First charge a fee of Rs 200 if a passenger wants the boarding pass to be issued at the check-in counter. “It has come to […]
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New Delhi: Strong likelihood of a sharp rise in interest rates by the US Fed and other central banks to rein in the red-hot inflation has melted international gold prices to a nearly one-year low. In India too, the prices of the yellow metal in physical markets fell to a multi-month low and breached the […]
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New Delhi: Akasa Air, the airline promoted by billionaire investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, is set to launch its commercial operation with its first flight on August 7 on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad route. The airline said that it will deploy a Boeing 737 Max plane on the route for commercial operation. Flight operations will be conducted on two […]
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Pratapgarh: A ‘terahvin’ ceremony was organised as a part of the post-death rituals of a pet rooster that had died trying to save his master’s lamb from a stray dog. The rooster, Lalji, was kept in the backyard of the house on July 7 and the family was sitting out. Lali’s owner Dr Saligram Saroj said, […]
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Thiruvananthapuram: A laboratory report from Bhopal, which was received here on Friday, has confirmed the presence of African Swine fever at a pig farm in Mananthavady in Kerala’s Wayanad district. It was early this week that the samples collected from dead pigs were sent to Bhopal. Now that the results have turned positive for African Swine […]
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New Delhi: Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Friday met and congratulated Droupadi Murmu for being elected as the 15th President of the country. The Vice-President met Murmu at her residence on Umashankar Dikshit Marg in the national capital and spent around 15 minutes there. Later, the official twitter account of the Vice President tweeted: “The […]
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New Delhi: Online hospitality major Airbnb Co-founder Joe Gebbia has announced to step down after 14 “wild years” and is set to open a new chapter. Gebbia, who formed Airbnb more than a decade ago, wrote a letter to employees, saying he will remain on the board of directors but transition to an advisory role, supporting […]
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Mumbai: The rupee depreciated 7 paise to 79.92 against the US dollar in opening trade on Friday tracking the strength of the dollar in the overseas market and firm crude oil prices. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 79.90 against the US dollar, then fell to 79.92 against the greenback, registering a […]
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Dakshina Kannada: Karnataka police have booked eight students under Pocso Act (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act) in connection with hosting a kissing challenge at a private residence in Mangaluru city, police said on Friday. A video of minor students of a reputed college smooching in the presence of others at a private residence […]
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New York: Two Indian brothers and their Indian-American friend have been charged in the US in the first-ever cryptocurrency insider trading scheme in which they made illicit profits totalling over a million dollars. Ishan Wahi, 32, and his brother Nikhil Wahi, 26, are citizens of India and were residing in Seattle while Sameer Ramani, 33, […]
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New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education on Friday declared its class 12 results in which 92.71 per cent students have cleared the exam. Girls have outperformed boys by 3.29 per cent, the CBSE said. Over 33 thousand students have scored marks above 95 per cent while 1.34 lakh students have scored above 90 […]
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New Delhi: India saw a single day rise of 21,880 coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,38,47,065, while the active cases rose to 1,49,482, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. The death toll climbed to 5,25,930 with 60 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. […]
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Fatehpur: A resident of Fatehpur district in Uttar Pradesh has tested positive for swine flu. The man, identified as Rambabu, was admitted to Kanpur’s Regency hospital on Thursday. He was suffering from fever, cold, cough and back pain for about 10 days. Kanpur Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Alok Ranjan sent a report to the Fatehpur administration […]
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Srinagar: Over 2.29 lakh devotees have performed the ongoing Amarnath Yatra since it started on June 30. However, the authorities on Friday stopped another batch of pilgrims in Jammu due to blockade of Jammu-Srinagar highway. Officials said that due to incessant rain along the over 300 km long Jammu-Srinagar highway, shooting stones and landslides have occurred […]
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New Delhi: NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu secured victory in the Presidential poll on Thursday after the third round of counting as out of the 3,219 valid votes counted so far, she bagged 2,161 while Opposition’s nominee Yashwant Sinha got 1,058. “I heartily congratulate Droupadi Murmu on her victory in the Presidential Election 2022. I hope […]
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Hyderabad: The Central government on Thursday made it clear that the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project was not eligible for inclusion under the National Project (NP) status in the absence of investment clearance. This was stated by the Minister of State for Jal Shakti, Bishweswar Tudu in Lok Sabha while replying to a question raised by […]
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Dakshina Kannada: The video of students of a reputed college kissing in the presence of other students at a private residence has gone viral on social media stirring a hornet’s nest in Mangaluru city in the coastal district of Dakshina Kannada in Karnataka. N. Shashikumar, Mangaluru Commissioner of Police, stated on Thursday that the incident […]
