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Belagavi: Tense situation prevailed after some miscreants hoisted a saffron flag on a mosque in a village in Karnataka’s Belagavi district on Wednesday. According to police, the miscreants climbed to the mosque tower and hoisted the flag in the wee hours. The incident came to light in the morning, causing tension in the region. The incident […]
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New Delhi: Demolition drive against illegal encroachment is currently underway at several parts of the national capital on Wednesday. JCB bulldozers have been employed to demolish all illegally constructed temporary structures. The places where the demolition will be carried out are Tilak Nagar, Dwarka, Lodhi Road, Seelampur, Najafgarh, Aya Nagar, among several other areas. Wherever the […]
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New Delhi: Top cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase quit India operations owing to “informal pressure” from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), its CEO Brian Armstrong has revealed for the first time. The US-based and Nasdaq-listed exchange had halted payments via unified payments interface (UPI) mode on its app in India last month. In the company’s earnings call […]
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New Delhi: The Vice-President and Prime Minister on Wednesday expressed gratitude to the country’s brilliant scientists and their efforts that led to the successful Pokhran tests in 1998. In a series of tweets, Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu said, “Greetings on National Technology Day! As we mark the anniversary of the 1998 Pokhran nuclear tests, I […]
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Mumbai: The rupee appreciated 17 paise to 77.17 against the US dollar in opening trade on Wednesday as the American currency retreated from its elevated levels. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 77.24 against the American dollar, then gained further ground to quote at 77.17, registering a rise of 17 paise from […]
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Mumbai: The Indian stock market’s benchmark Sensex was trading 222.03 points down on Wednesday dragged by heavy selling pressure in the index heavyweight Asian Paints. The 30 stock S&P BSE Sensex was trading 222.03 points or 0.41 per cent down at 54,142.82 points at 10:05 am. The broader Nifty 50 of the National Stock Exchange […]
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New Delhi: With 2,897 coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India’s tally of cases rose to 4,31,10,586, even as active cases have decreased to 19,494, according to Union health ministry data updated on Tuesday. The death toll has climbed to 5,24,157 with 54 fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases […]
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New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Pandit Sukh Ram passed away on Wednesday. He was admitted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after he suffered a brain stroke. “He was admitted to AIIMS and was undergoing treatment for the brain stroke,” his son Anil Sharma told ANI. His grandson Aashray […]
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Hyderabad: With major drug seizures becoming frequent across the country, the price of cocaine, one of the highly addictive drugs, has shot up, touching a staggering Rs 10 crore a kilogram in the international drug market. A couple of years ago, cocaine, originating mainly from South American provinces, was sold for Rs 7 crore a […]
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Ujjain: Two of three sisters ended up being with the wrong grooms as power failure shrouded the auspicious muhurat in darkness in an Ujjain village in Madhya Pradesh. Ghoonghat and darkness conspired in the mix-up, but family members quickly realised the blunder. The priests re-chanted some mantras and got the brides and grooms to re-take […]
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Hyderabad: Passengers of a Delhi-Visakhapatnam Air India flight on Monday had a harrowing experience, with many of them continuing to suffer even 24 hours later. The trauma for them began when the flight, AI451, which took off at 3 pm from Delhi, had to be diverted without landing at Visakhapatnam due to inclement weather. They […]
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Panaji: Citing an example that during the recent visit of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, when he asked for Himalaya mineral water and the bottle cost Rs 850, Goa Civil Supply Minister Ravi Naik said that in future water will be as expensive as gold and diamonds. Naik, who also holds the agriculture portfolio, was […]
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Hyderabad: Swiggy has temporarily shut its pick-up and drop-off service Genie, as the company reportedly struggles to hire a delivery workforce and keep up with the demand. According to media reports, the Genie service has been unavailable for the past few days, mainly in major metro cities of Hyderabad, Benguluru and Mumbai. “Due to operational […]
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Hyderabad: iHUB DivyaSampark at IIT Roorkee and Imarticus Learning have joined hands to launch a certificate programme in Data Science and Machine Learning. Designed to make aspirants and professionals industry-ready, the course enables them to leverage Data Science and ML for effective decision-making. The course would be delivered through live, instructor-led sessions by an accomplished faculty […]
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New Delhi: The Indian Railways introduced a separate ‘Baby Berth’ (seats for newly-born children) in trains on Mothers’s Day on February 8 where the infants will now be able to sleep alongside their mother. The lower berths already reserved for women have been placed next to baby berths so that young children can travel with […]
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Mumbai: Santoor virtuoso Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma, who took the stringed instrument to the global stage and successfully straddled the worlds of classical and film music, died here on Tuesday following a heart attack. He was 84. Sharma, one of India’s most well known classical musicians, died between 8 and 8.30 am at his Pali […]
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Hyderabad: Singapore on Monday banned ‘The Kashmir Files’, saying that the film’s one sided portrayal of a particular community could disrupt religious harmony in the country. “The film will be refused classification for its provocative and one-sided portrayal of Muslims and the depictions of Hindus being persecuted in the ongoing conflict in Kashmir,” said a […]
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Srinagar: Sanna Irshad Mattoo, a local freelance photojournalist has won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize award in feature photography category for 2022. Sanna has shared the award with the Reuters team, including late Danish Siddiqui, Amit Dave and Adnan Abidi for the coverage of Covid-19 crisis in India. “Congratulations to @adnanabidi, @mattoosanna, @AmitDav46549614, the family and […]
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New Delhi: Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Tuesday said a three-member team under the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) will conduct a fact-finding enquiry and collect the evidence within a week from today into the IndiGo barring a specially-abled child from boarding a flight incident. The Civil Aviation Minister said that the team […]
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Chandigarh: Taking swift cognizance of an explosion that occurred at the headquarters of Punjab Police Intelligence wing in Mohali, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday directed the Director General of Police (DGP) to immediately probe the entire incident thoroughly so as to get to the bottom of the case. Chairing a high-level meeting of senior […]
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New Delhi: India on Tuesday registered 2,288 fresh Covid cases, a considerable decline against previous day’s 3,207, as per the Union Health Ministry data. In the same period, 10 Covid fatalities were recorded taking the nationwide death toll to 5,24,103. Currently, the active caseload stands at 19,637 cases, accounting for 0.05 per cent of the […]
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Mysuru: A white Tigress in Mysuru’s Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens has given birth to three cubs. Animal activists and wildlife lovers are celebrating the moment as the pictures of the tigress with her cubs went viral on social media. According to the official communication by the zoo authorities, the cubs are born to the tigress […]
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New Delhi: The Severe Cyclonic Storm Asani over westcentral and adjoining southwest Bay of Bengal moved west-northwestwards at a speed of 5 kmph through the night bringing heavy rainfall at places along the Andhra Pradesh coast. On Tuesday, at 5:30 a.m., it lay centred over west central Bay of Bengal about 300 kms southeast of […]
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New Delhi: As thousands of commuters find themselves at the mercy of Uber and Ola drivers via ride cancellations, cancellation charges, random surge pricing and long waiting times, the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) was set to grill cab aggregators over their algorithms on Tuesday. The regulator, under its Chief Commissioner Nidhi Khare, was set […]
