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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 […]
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Bengaluru: Rani Abbakka, the great Tulu queen regarded as the first female freedom fighter of India, is not only known for her valour who repulsed the Portuguese army, but also her strength to unite people of different faiths against the armed forces of a foreign state. The queen hails from Karnataka, which is, currently, communally divided. […]
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Bengaluru: Apart from the 75th anniversary of India’s freedom, Independence Day this year will also mark the 49th anniversary of a unique ‘Sunday Clinic’ that serves the people of around 50 villages on the outskirts of Karnataka’s capital city – Bengaluru. It’s no mean achievement, especially considering that Dr Ramana Rao’s Sunday Clinic has served […]
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New Delhi: Syed Fazal-ul-Hasan, popularly known as Hasrat Mohani was born in 1875 in Mohan, a town in Unnao district of the United Provinces of British India. He proposed complete independence for the first time before the Congress in 1921. He also proposed the abolition of foreign goods, the idea which Gandhiji later developed into […]
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Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday expressed grief on the sudden passing away of ace stock market investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala. “Rakesh Jhunjhunwala was indomitable. Full of life, witty and insightful, he leaves behind an indelible contribution to the financial world. He was also very passionate about India’s progress,” prime minister Modi tweeted “His passing […]
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New Delhi: With Independence Day being just a day, away there is zeal and enthusiasm echoing the streets and nooks of the country, let’s have a look at interesting facts about the Indian national flag. The first Indian national flag was hoisted on August 7, 1906 at Parsee Bagan Square in Kolkata. The flag had […]
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Mumbai: Ace stock market investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, often referred to as India’s own Warren Buffet passed away at the age of 62. He was not keeping well for the past few days and breathed his last today in Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai, as per the hospital sources. Jhunjhunwala was born on July 5, 1960. […]
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New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu will address the nation on Sunday on the eve of 76th Independence Day. Droupadi Murmu was elected President last month. The address will be broadcast from 7 pm on the entire national network of All India Radio (AIR) and telecast over all channels of Doordarshan in Hindi followed by the […]
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New Delhi: Just two days ahead of the 75th Independence Day, the national capital was on Saturday engrossed in patriotic ardour with people placing flags atop their houses and major buildings getting illuminated with tricolour lights. Among the buildings that were illuminated were Rashtrapati Bhavan, Parliament, North Block, South Block, LIC Building etc. Drenched in […]
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Jodhpur (Rajasthan): A nine-year-old Dalit boy died on Saturday allegedly after he was beaten up by a teacher for touching a drinking water pot in a private school in Jalore district of Rajasthan, police said. Police have arrested the teacher, Chail Singh, 40, and charged him with murder and under sections of the Scheduled Caste […]
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New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has received 31 bids from manufacturers showing interest in developing vaccine against the monkeypox virus after the medical body floated the Expression of Interest (EOI) for the development of vaccine and diagnostic kits, a source said on Saturday. According to the source, of the total 31 […]
