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New Delhi: Jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi has admitted that his gang was responsible behind the brutal killing of acclaimed Punjabi singer Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, popularly known as Sidhu Moosewala, sources said on Friday. Moosewala, 28, was shot dead on May 29 while he was travelling in a car and around a dozen assailants fired over […]
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New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been issued a fresh summon by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to join the investigation in connection with the National Herald case. T 4303 – जया और मेरी, विवाह जयंती पे जो स्नेह और आदर प्रदान किया गया है उसके लिए हाथ जोड़ कर प्रणाम करता हूँ । धनयवाद […]
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New Delhi: Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Thakur launched a nationwide ‘Fit India Freedom Rider Cycle Rally’ on Friday from Major Dhyan Chand Stadium, Delhi on the occasion of World Bicycle Day 2022. Anurag Thakur, along with 750 young cyclists, covered a distance of 7.5 km during the cycle rally that started […]
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New Delhi: All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Friday confirmed that she has tested positive for COVID-19, just a day after the Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi got tested positive. Though she confirmed that she has mild symptoms as of now, she asserted that she’s in quarantine.Taking to social media, Priyanka […]
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New Delhi: Reiterating that the principles outlined during the 1972 Stockholm conference remain relevant even today, India has said the world needs to ensure that when the Stockholm conference turns 75, it can look back with satisfaction of our collective action — to leave no one behind. This was Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav making […]
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday congratulated Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami for victory in the Champawat bypoll by a margin of over 55,000 votes. This was a much-needed victory for Dhami to continue to remain as the chief minister as he had lost the state Assembly polls held earlier this year […]
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New York: An Indian-origin girl has won the US National Spelling Bee championship regaining the title for the community after two breaks in the streak of victories going back to 2008. Wow! Watch 14-year-old Indian-American Harini Logan, 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion: Spelled random 21 words correctly during a 90-second tie-breaker spell-off.pic.twitter.com/yWYnoD9YcH — John […]
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Kalaburagi: At least seven people were charred to death after a Hyderabad-bound private bus caught fire in the early hours of Friday in Kalaburagi district of Karnataka. Sources said all the victims hailed from Kompally, Bolarum and other parts of Hyderabad. About 12 passengers who were injured have been admitted to a hospital in Kalaburagi. […]
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Mumbai: The rupee appreciated 13 paise to 77.47 against the US dollar in opening trade on Friday, supported by a fall in the dollar index and positive domestic equities. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 77.47 against the American dollar, registering a rise of 13 paise from the last close. On Thursday, […]
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New Delhi: The single day rise in new coronavirus infections were recorded above 4,000 after 84 days, taking India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,31,68,585, while the active cases rose to 21,177, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. A total of 4,041 new cases were recorded in a span of […]
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United Nations: Responding to Islamabad’s attack on New Delhi at the UN Security Council over Kashmir, India has reminded Pakistan of its “shameful history” of committing the genocide of hundreds of thousands of people in Bangladesh for which it has not apologised or even acknowledged. “The reign of terror unleashed by Pakistan on the population […]
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Lucknow: Former Bharatiya Janata Party MP Vinay Katiyar, once known to be a firebrand Hindutva leader, is back in action after a long hiatus. Talking about the Gyanvapi mosque dispute, Katiyar said, “Things that are taken away forcefully, should be taken back forcefully. If the Hindus support us, we will resolve the dispute — with or […]
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Hyderabad: If the National Medical Commission (NMC), the regulatory body for medical education in India, has its way, the day is not far when all doctors at government and private hospitals will start wearing their ubiquitous white coats in khadi. The Under-Graduate Medical Education Board (UGMEB), the autonomous board of the NMC, has urged doctors […]
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Hyderabad: Customs officials at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here on Thursday seized gold valued at Rs 1.65 crore from a passenger who arrived from Dubai. The officials apprehended a male passenger who arrived by AI-952 from Dubai and a private employee working at the Covid Testing Centre at the airport. According to Custom officials, the passenger […]
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Hyderabad: Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana on Thursday lauded the Telangana government’s efforts to ensure decentralisation of not only judicial services but also governance in the State through various initiatives. Chief Justice Ramana was addressing a gathering after inaugurating 32 new district courts along with Chandrashekhar Rao at a virtual function here. Extending […]
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Mumbai: A “tremendous” rise in the number of COVID-19 cases in Mumbai is driving a surge in new infections in Maharashtra over the last few days, data showed, with a top official expressing fear that the approaching monsoon could herald a spate of symptomatic cases. Maharashtra had recorded 169 new cases on May 1, while […]
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Aurangabad: The All India Majlis E Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has urged the Maharashtra government to name a 400-bed hospital in Aurangabad after late BJP leader Gopinath Munde. AIMIM MP Imitiaz Jaleel on Thursday wrote to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray in this regard ahead of Munde’s death anniversary on June 3. A 400-bed hospital is under […]
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Kolkata: Renowned Bollywood singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, popularly known as KK, had several heart blockages and he could have been saved if CPR was administered on time, a doctor who conducted autopsy said on Thursday. KK died on Tuesday night due to a massive cardiac arrest after a live performance at Nazrul Mancha in Kolkata. “He […]
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London: Salman Rushdie, the Mumbai-born author of the Booker Prize-winning novel ‘Midnight’s Children’, leads a list of over 40 professionals and community champions of Indian-origin to be honoured in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Rushdie is named a Companion of Honour, an exclusive club with membership limited to just 65 people at any given time, […]
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Jammu: In the wake of targeted killings of Kashmiri Pandit and non-local government employees in the Valley, hundreds of government employees took out a march on Thursday to demand their immediate transfer to their respective home districts in J&K’s Jammu city. The protesting Kashmiri Pandit employees and others posted in the Valley carried placards with […]
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Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who attended a special screening of period action drama “Samrat Prithviraj” with his cabinet colleagues, on Thursday declared the movie tax-free in the state. The screening of the movie was held at Lok Bhawan here, and Bollywood star Akshay Kumar, female lead Manushi Chillar and director Chandra Prakash […]
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New Delhi: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday said the Centre is planning to set up “PM Shri Schools” which will be aimed at preparing students for future and will be the laboratory of new National Education Policy (NEP). Pradhan was addressing the two-day National Education Minister’s Conference in Gujarat. “School education is the […]
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New Delhi: The Railway Protection Force (RPF) has arrested 7,000 persons for travelling unauthorisedly in coaches reserved for women and also rescued 150 girls from becoming victims of human trafficking during a pan India drive. The drive between May 3 and May 31 was carried out under “Operation Mahila Suraksha”. With an objective of providing […]
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New Delhi: Close on the heels of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recent hike in repo rate by 40 basis points, besides giving indications it would raise further in the upcoming monetary policy review meets, several Indian lenders too have raised their lending rates. On Wednesday, lending major HDFC and PNB Bank raised their […]
