Bitterness in Punjab over Dera chief’s parole & e-satsangs

The Dera chief has significantly increased his online activity during his latest parole, his third this year. There have been a few incidents of Dera’s followers sent to invite people for gatherings being confronted by Sikhs. These indicate that things could take a turn for the worse in the state.

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Procession through runway, Kerala airport to stay shut for 5 hrs

The airport suspends its services twice a year — in March-April for Painkuni festival and in October-November for the Arattu procession, when Lord Vishnu is carried from the Sree Padmanabha Swamy Temple on a palanquin to Shanghumugham beach, located just behind the airport, for a ritual bath.

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‘Steel man of India’ J J Irani dies at 86

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'Guj negligence, misgovernance led to bridge collapse'

AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge said it was important to know what caused the bridge collapse as it was reopened just five days ago. “Why were so many people allowed? There should be an inquiry headed by a retired Supreme Court or high court judge,” he said.

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'Show little more gratitude': Biden lost temper with Zelenskyy in June

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Congress slams Kiren Rijiju for Nehru remarks

Rijiju recently said that Nehru's “blunders” like enacting Article 370 and approaching the United Nations for dispute with Pakistan hurt India’s interest and was the reason behind militancy and loss of lives in Jammu & Kashmir.

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Weekly Covid cases dip below 10k

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'Somalia car bombings kill at least 100'

​President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, at the site of Saturday's explosions in Mogadishu, told journalists that nearly 300 other people were wounded. “We ask our international partners and Muslims around the world to send their medical doctors here since we can't send all the victims outside the country for treatment," he said.

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'Probe, take action against Chinese loan apps'

Claiming a 12 times jump in loans on digital platforms between 2017 and 2020 and occurrence of 52 suicides due to blackmailing by these loan apps, Congress sought to know what the Narendra Modi government was doing to curb these practices.

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Maharashtra gives Y+ cover to all 41 MLAs from Shinde camp

The Z+ cover of Shinde, Fadnavis and governor B S Koshyari has also been been retained. There is no change in the Y+ cover of MNS chief Raj Thackeray, Uddhav’s wife Rashmi and son Tejas, and Shinde’s MLA son Shrikant. The security of Fadnavis’s wife Amruta has been increased to Y+ from X.

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Minors tied to truck & dragged over alleged cash, mobile phone theft in MP

A video of the incident went viral on social media prompting police to register a case against the accused. ACP Nihit Upadhyay said: “The incident was reported around 8am when two minors were tied to a truck and dragged on the road.

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HC orders judicial remand of accused in MLAs’ poaching case

Following a criminal revision petition filed by Cyberabad police challenging the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) court’s order, Justice C Sumalatha said the three accused should immediately surrender to the Cyberabad police commissioner and be sent to jail till the next time the police presents them before a court.

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Irish educator working in Kolkata for 62 years to leave over visa issues

MacCarthaigh recalled growing up in Ireland when Protestants and Catholics were at each other’s throats and his homeland was badly off on many fronts. “I got no love… I was one of 11 children. We were quite poor. My family would have been better off with two or three children. As with most people, one’s childhood becomes the primary source of one’s inspiration to become the person they are going to be.”

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Ladakh woman, Punjab teacher set to become Army officers

After her decision to join the Army was revealed, senior officers of the Army’s Northern Command had met and encouraged her. A social media handle of an Army corps had posted in December 2021: “We congratulate Mrs Rigzin Chorol (#VeerNari of Rfn Rigzin Khandap) of Zedang Sumpa Battalion, who has become an example of determination in Ladakh. She will be soon joining OTA, Chennai, to be the first Ladakhi woman officer of #IA.”

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Deny terrorists any safe haven: UN anti-terror meet

The declaration on countering the use of new and emerging technologies for terror purposes also underlined that terrorists getting opportunity to access safe havens continues to be a significant concern.

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Tata Trusts’ CEO to ‘retire’; Cyrus cousin named trustee

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#MeToo: Police refuse to record Sherlyn Chopra's statement

Sherlyn Chopra recently spoke to the media about #MeToo accused and Bigg Boss 16 contestant Sajid Khan and called him a habitual sexual offender and molester. She had also gone to the Juhu police station on October 19 to file a complaint against him.

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TN ‘suicide bomber’ planned to hit temple, homes: NIA sleuths

The hypothesis they are going by is that Mubin was radicalised after being exposed to IS literature, but hadn’t received training in terrorist tactics. Whatever he knew about handling explosives was by reading material available on the internet about bomb-making.

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Cost of educating doctors and nurses doubles in 10 years in India

The pattern was the same for nurses with the estimated expenditure per nursing graduate dropping across the world while it went up by 167% in China and doubled in India. The only other region where the per graduate cost went up was in North Africa, where cost per doctor went up by 47% and by 25% for nurses.

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Rash driving clause if human hurt, not pet: HC

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PM Modi cautions states and UTs against global ‘inimical forces’

Cautioning states and UTs of emerging threats, including cyberattacks, from inimical forces as India marches ahead on the path of economic growth and competes with global powers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday told their law enforcement agencies to anticipate and understand the challenges that may stem from a sense of global competition but eventually turn into enmity.

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SC didn’t agree with will of people: Rijiju on NJAC

The NJAC Act, unanimously passed by both the Houses of Parliament and ratified by more than half of all the states, was struck down by a Constitution bench of the apex court as unconstitutional in 2015, and the collegium system of appointing judges to high courts and the SC was upheld.

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Govt can overrule social media cos on removal of accounts

The measure — which comes into force immediately — will further tighten the controls on the social media giants (the majority of them American) who have increasingly been under regulatory heat in India over their content moderation practices, and due to their reluctance to follow government diktats on matters such as removal of posts or accounts.

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Trump says he’s ‘very happy’ about Musk’s Twitter takeover

The possibility of Trump’s return to Twitter — he was banned after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol — has been the subject of much speculation since Musk announced his intentions to buy the company and take a less heavy-handed approach with users who post objectionable and provocative content.

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At UN meet, India plays clip of Pak terrorist directing 26/11 hit

The 2-day CTC meeting started in Mumbai with all UNSC member-states participating in a wreath-laying ceremony at the 26/11 Memorial at the Taj hotel, one of the main targets of the Mumbai attacks.

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Aim is to ensure progress of far-flung areas to fulfil country’s security needs: Rajnath

In a statement, a defence spokesperson said, "These 75 projects — 45 bridges, 27 roads, two helipads and one carbon neutral habitat — are spread across six states and two Union Territories (UTs). Twenty of these projects are in Jammu & Kashmir; 18 each in Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh; five in Uttarakhand and 14 in other border states of Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Rajasthan.”

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Lying unconscious for 7 months in hosp, woman delivers baby girl

According to doctors, the woman wasn’t wearing a helmet when the two-wheeler she was riding pillion on with her husband met with an accident on March 31 this year. She suffered multiple serious head injuries and though she has survived, she remains unconscious.

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2nd blow to Maha: Tata-Airbus’ `22k cr IAF deal flies off to Guj

While the project, which promises thousands of jobs, comes as a boost for Gujarat ahead of the assembly polls there, for the four-month-old Balasahebanchi Sena-BJP government in Maharashtra, it is yet another blow, that too after industries minister Uday Samant of the Shinde Sena said on September 15 that though the state had lost the Vedanta project, it would secure the Tata-Airbus project to produce military aircraft in Nagpur.

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5 stabbed in supermarket attack in Italy, one killed

A supermarket employee died en route to the hospital, according to the ANSA news agency. The wounded included a Spanish soccer player, Pablo Mari, who is on loan to the Serie A club Monza from Arsenal, Lapresse reported.

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Army man injured in Baramulla encounter succumbs; terrorist killed in Kulgam

In a statement, a police spokesman said that acting on specific information regarding presence of terrorists in Wanseeran Taripora jungle under Sheeri police station, a joint team of police, Army 52 RR, 46 RR and 53 Bn CRPF launched a cordon-and-search operation in the area on Wednesday.

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Narayana Murthy told me I could have more impact on the world through politics than business: Rishi Sunak

Narayana Murthy is the billionaire founder of Infosys who has now devoted his life to philanthropy. Sunak worked for Goldman Sachs, gained an MBA from Stanford and then worked for a hedge fund before becoming an MP. Many wonder why he left such a well-paid career to enter the sparring world of politics.

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Pics: Zimbabwe further dent Pakistan’s hope of qualifying for semis

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Mehbooba sent final notice to vacate CM bungalow

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With Rs 4-5k crore biz, TN fireworks hub sees a crackling Diwali

A hub for fireworks manufacturers, Virudhunagar contributes to nearly 90% of the country's production. There are over 1,000 fireworks units in the district and nearly eight lakh employees are directly and indirectly dependent on this industry for their livelihood.

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Cervical cancer self-sampling test kits could replace pap smears

The HPV self-sampling kit, similar in principle to the home-testing kits for the Covid-causing SARS-CoV-2 virus, is at the moment being tested by various institutes and hospitals in India to find out the acceptance among women and its efficiency.

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CCI fines Google 936 crore for monopoly abuse

In its latest order, Competition Commission of India (CCI) asked Google to "cease and desist" from practicing policies that supposedly give it powers to abuse its dominant position in running Play Store, which houses millions of apps that Android phone customers can download. "... practices followed by Google result in leveraging its dominance in market for licensable mobile OS (operating system) and app stores for Android OS, to protect its position in the downstream markets," CCI said.

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'Musk informs he plans to close Twitter deal by Friday'

The banks that committed to fund Musk's buyout of Twitter have finished putting together the final debt financing agreement and are in the process of signing the necessary documents, according to a Bloomberg News report.

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A PIO at No. 10 soon, Cameron had told Modi barely seven years ago

This meant the Conservative leadership race was over, and Sunak, the youngest UK PM since 1812 at 42, automatically became the Conservative leader. Although Mordaunt thought many of former PM Boris Johnson’s supporters would switch to her after he bailed out, in fact many of them, including Priti Patel, on Monday morning switched to backing Sunak.

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Rishi Sunak appoints backers of leadership rivals in Cabinet

Many of the faces he appointed were well-known MPs who had previously held Cabinet posts — an indication that he wants to have people with experience at the helm to steady the ship during turbulent times in the UK, unlike his predecessors who appointed loyalists regardless of competence. There is speculation Sunak has done this to ensure that he does not inadvertently create a group of disgruntled rebel MPs denied cabinet posts who subsequently plot to oust him, as has happened in the past.

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Pakistani scribe, critic of Sharif government, killed in Nairobi

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‘Eatery to refund service charge, pay Rs 10k to patron’

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In special hearing, Kerala HC allows 9 V-Cs to continue

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Mumbai: Toddler following mom dragged away, killed by leopard

In the second incident the leopard reportedly tore off the seats of several bikes parked in the neighbourhood, said Mallikarjuna. "From the description we have received from the locals we have zeroed in on a young adult who may be responsible for these attacks. We are increasing the number of camera traps in the area," he said.

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Bombay HC ups aid to Rs 1cr for man left with 100% disability

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‘Colour, race no bar to success’ in UK: British Indians

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Min aspirants in Shinde group may get state board posts

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Live: Ahead of Diwali, weekly Covid cases at 6-month low

After a marginal rise last week, Covid cases in India fell steeply again ahead of Diwali, falling to the lowest weekly count in over six months. Deaths saw a sharper decline of over 50% in the week ending Sunday and the seven-day TPR dropped to under 1% for the first time since early June. Stay with TOI for the latest updates.

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MHA cancels FCRA licences of Sonia-led trusts

The MHA has cancelled the foreign funding licences of two trusts linked to the Gandhi family - Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF) and Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust (RGCT) - citing violations of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010.

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Non-lab method can assess heart attack risk: Study

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Quit by 11.30am today, Kerala governor tells 9 V-Cs

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Kohli's back as king, lights up T20 World Cup with cracker of an innings

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Far behind Sunak, Boris Johnson pulls out of UK PM race

Former prime minister Boris Johnson pulled out of the contest to become Britain's next leader on Sunday, saying he had the support of enough lawmakers to progress to the next stage but well behind front-runner former finance minister Rishi Sunak.

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​XBB cases double in 1 week, set to be dominant Covid strain

Covid infections caused by Omicron’s newly identified XBB strain have nearly doubled in the past week in India, experts said on Sunday

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Rishi Sunak declares candidature for UK PM, leads with backing of over 131 MPs

Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy’s son-in-law Rishi Sunak officially threw his hat into the ring on Diwali-eve to be in the race to succeed Liz Truss as leader of the Conservative party and the next UK prime minister.

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UP: Five of family killed as car rams into stranded container truck

Five persons of a family were killed when the car they were travelling in rammed into a stranded container truck near Khajhaula police outpost in Munderwa area of Basti district on late Sunday evening.

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Pakistan: Imran moves court against bar, HC to hear plea Monday

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'2 Indians missing in Kenya killed by cops'

Two Indians who went missing in Kenya in July have been killed by the disbanded directorate of criminal investigations unit, a close President's aide said.

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Woman who claimed gang rape held for 'fake case'

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Homegrown CAR-T cells 'cure' 8-year-old's leukemia

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UK Queen Consort Camilla slips into Bengaluru on wellness visit

The United Kingdom’s Queen Consort Camilla landed in Bengaluru on a private visit for her first overseas tour. She came by a British Airways flight Thursday, travelled by road for nearly 40 km from Kempegowda International Airport to Soukya, a tony holistic health and wellness centre near Whitefield. She’ll be undergoing rejuvenation therapies during her nearly 10-day visit.

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Taxpayers resent money wasted on freebies: PM Modi

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Home minister Shah: Need common definition of terror

Home minister Amit Shah Friday stressed that cross-border propagation of terrorist ideologies through online radicalisation can't be considered a "political problem" and said all countries must come together to have a common definition of terror and terrorists.

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Hyderabad school to be shut over 4-yr-old's rape

A school in Hyderabad's upscale Banjara Hills where a four-year-old girl was allegedly sexually abused by the principal's driver will lose its licence and its 500-odd students will be transferred to other schools.

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Mehbooba asked to vacate government bungalow

The Jammu and Kashmir administration has asked former CM and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti to vacate the government bungalow she has been occupying for over a decade and a half, the second such notice to leave the sprawling premises in over two years.

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Pakistan poll tribunal disqualifies Imran as MP in assets case

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was dealt potentially the biggest blow of his political career on Friday when the country's Election Commission disqualified him as an MP and barred him from holding any public office after holding him guilty of "intentionally" making "false statements and incorrect declaration of assets".

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Punjab cabinet gives in-principle nod to old pension plan

In a move that is likely to benefit about 1.6 lakh Punjab government employees who joined service after 2004, the state cabinet on Friday decided in principle to restore the old pension scheme (OPS).

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Maharashtra techie gets life term for conspiring to kill children

In the first cyberterrorism conviction in Maharashtra, computer engineer Anees Ansari was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday for conspiring to kill children at the American school in Bandra Kurla Complex in 2014.

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10 arrested for selling fake platelets in Prayagraj

Ten members of a gang allegedly selling fake platelets to patients were arrested here on Friday, police said. Senior Superintendent of Police Shailesh Kumar Pandey said the accused used to take plasma from different blood banks and then put it in pouches and sell the plasma as platelet.

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No takers for boosters, 100m Covishield doses dumped: SII

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Feed stray dogs in homes, not elsewhere: Bombay HC

In a warning to all animal lovers, the Nagpur bench of Bombay high court on Thursday directed all city authorities, including the police, to register cases against those obstructing civic officials from acting against menacing stray dogs.

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SC plugs key loopholes in NDPS Act on narco drug test

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Competition tougher than ever in DU

The competition at Delhi University this year is tougher than ever. Seats for several popular courses have been allotted to those who scored the maximum CUET score of 800.

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Girl pips twin to top UP board after paper recheck

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After 62-name first HP list, murmurs of discontent in BJP

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53% in state pollution boards linked to 'polluters': Report

Individuals representing potential polluters (local authorities, industries and public sector corporations) account for 53% of the board members in the State Pollution Control Boards (SPCBs), raising questions on conflict of interest, whereas scientists, medical practitioners and academics constitute only 7% of the members, said Delhi-based think tank Centre for Policy Research (CPR) in its report.

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Court allows ED to seize Nirav Modi's assets worth Rs 500cr

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New Gujarat airbase near Pak to enhance security: PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday laid the foundation stone of a new airbase at Deesa in north Gujarat's Banaskantha near the Pakistan border. Modi said Indian armed forces' increasing reliance on made-in-India equipment is as much a nod to 'Atmanirbhar Bharat' as it is a testimony to India's improved standing in a global defence sector dominated by a few.

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'India's responsibility to shape global human rights'

"As an elected member of the Human Rights Council, India has a responsibility to shape global human rights, and to protect and promote the rights of all individuals, including members of minority communities," said UN secretary general Antonio Guterres in Mumbai on Wednesday.

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Kharge sweeps Congress president poll, gets 7,900 to Tharoor's 1,000 votes

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EAM counters China's claims of normalcy

Amid claims by China that the LAC situation in eastern Ladakh is starting to get normal, foreign minister S Jaishankar said peace and tranquillity in the border areas "clearly remains the basis for normal relations between India and China". While emphasising that continuation of the current border impasse will not benefit either India or China, he also warned that "new normals of posture will inevitably lead to new normals of responses".

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NIA raids: 5 states target terrorist-trafficker-gangster nexus

Taking forward its crackdown on the growing nexus between terrorists, gangsters and drug traffickers based in India and abroad, the National Investigation Agency on Tuesday conducted searches at 52 locations across Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and the Delhi NCR region.

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'Charges prima facie true': HC denies bail to Umar Khalid

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US gives to India 307 antiquities worth $4m

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HC links rising Bihar crime to 'ineffective' prohibition move

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Sterlite firing: Panel indicts collector, cops

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Kedarnath chopper crash: Pilot switched to hill-flying only last month

The Uttarkhand helicopter crash which killed seven people on Tuesday and the Pawan Hans offshore accident near Bombay High that killed four people four months ago have quite a few similarities, pointed out industry experts. Both the accidents involved senior pilots who had recently moved on to flying a new aircraft type and so were low on experience on the machine that crashed.

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HC order on Muslim minor at odds with Pocso? SC to decide

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415 million exited poverty in India in 15 years: UNDP

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Kerala row worsens, governor threatens to sack ministers

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1/3 of Vidyapith trustees resign over chancellor's RSS background

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Will try to make all litigants feel they've got justice: Next CJI

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Kharge vs Tharoor: Congress votes for its first non-Gandhi president in 24 years

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Urvashi Rautela chops her hair in solidarity with Iranian women

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TV actress ends life, accuses former BF of harassment

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Gujarat rolls out DNA test to confirm if meat is beef

Gujarat has become the first state in the country to roll out a rapid test that can confirm within an hour if meat seized on suspicion of being beef is from a cow. the Lamp DNA method - introduced in limited capacity in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar - is a better alternative to conventional methods like serological analysis and DNA analysis that take more than a day.

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Security threat to India is threat to Lanka too: Envoy

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Kharge vs Tharoor: Congress set to elect non-Gandhi president after 24 years

Congress veteran Mallikarjun Kharge is the frontrunner to take over the party presidency from Sonia Gandhi and become the first non-Gandhi AICC leader in 24 years, as the voting in the 'Kharge vs Shashi Tharoor' clash takes place on Monday. Over 9,000 state delegates will vote in the much-awaited election across 67 voting booths in states and at the AICC headquarters.

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PL: Liverpool end City's unbeaten start to season

A superb second-half goal from Mohamed Salah earned Liverpool a 1-0 victory over Manchester City on Sunday as the champions lost their unbeaten start to the Premier League season in a heated thriller that saw home coach Juergen Klopp red-carded. After an opening period that failed to live up to the game's blockbuster billing, the second half began at a ferocious pace, with Egypt international Salah denied by a superb save from City goalkeeper Ederson moments after the break.

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Raj Thackeray urges BJP not to contest Mumbai bypolls

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Thousands take to the streets of Paris to protest soaring prices

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Gambia deaths: India seeks more details from WHO

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India to stay on course for 7% growth in FY23: Sitharaman

The Indian economy will stay on course and is projected to grow at 7% in fiscal 2022-23 despite the global headwinds and this has been possible due to the conducive domestic policy environment and the government's focus on key structural reforms to boost growth, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said.

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Amul milk prices up, Guj spared; Mother Dairy too hikes rates

Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, which markets milk under the Amul brand, has hiked the prices of Amul Gold (full cream) and buffalo milk by Rs 2 per litre each across all markets except for Gujarat. Mother Dairy also announced an increase in prices of full-cream milk and cow milk by Rs 2 per litre in Delhi-NCR and some other markets in North India with effect from October 16.

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Kashmiri Pandit killed in J&K's Shopian, 7th since 2020

A terrorist shot dead 43-year-old Kashmiri Pandit farmer Puran Krishan Bhat outside his home in Choudharygund village of south Kashmir’s Shopian district Saturday morning, triggering protests in Jammu against the latest targeted attack on the community. DIG Sujit Kumar said Kashmir Freedom Fighter (KFF), the proxy name of a terrorist outfit, claimed responsibility for the attack on Bhat.

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NGT fines K'taka Rs 2,900cr for lapses in waste management

Coming down heavily on the Karnataka government for failing to check environmental pollution by ensuring effective solid waste and sewage management systems, the National Green Tribunal ordered it to pay Rs 2,900 crore as compensation. The amount may be utilised to restore the environment in the next six months. The chief secretary is responsible to ensure compliance.

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Top 5 safest cars in India as rated by Global NCAP

Take a look at the top 5 safest cars and SUVs currently available in the Indian market, as rated by Global NCAP.

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Parents employed to build road to village of U-17 soccer skipper

Gorratoli in the Maoist hotbed of Jharkhand's Gumla district has more than one reason to be indebted to its daughter Astam Oraon, currently captaining India in the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. If it was the 17-year-old's exploits on the football field that got the road to the nondescript tribal village sanctioned, it was her parents' sweat that helped build the 2,380ft lifeline.

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Startup funding hits 2-year low: PwC

Indian startups are facing a funding winter. Total funding touched a two year low in the September quarter, at $2.7 billion, across 205 deals, says a PwC India study. The decline was the least in early-stagedeals, which contributed around 21% of the total funding by value in the quarter, compared to approximately 12% in the June quarter.

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Monetary panel members differ on future rate hikes

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Life of struggle & controversy shadows prof's love of teaching

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Sitharaman calls for collective int'l responsibility to tackle risks

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Irdai fines Max Life ₹3 crore for Axis Bank deal

Insurance regulator Irdai has imposed a Rs 3-crore penalty on Max Life for its share sale deal with Axis Bank, which the regulator said circumvented regulations on commission limits. The penalty is against three charges - misrepresentation to the regulator, higher-than-permitted compensation to the corporate agent, and not following fair market value in share transactions.

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SC nixes Maha plea for stay on Saibaba relief, hearing today

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Ballistic missile test fired from nuclear submarine INS Arihant

India on Friday successfully tested a nuclear-capable ballistic missile from its solitary nuclear-powered submarine INS Arihant, and promptly declared that having an `assured retaliatory capability’ was in tune with the country’s `credible minimum deterrence’ against the first-use of nuclear weapons by an adversary.

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Airline staff grab wheelchair from passenger flying with rival carrier

An unpleasant scene unfolded at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) in Bengaluru around 4am Wednesday when the ground staff of IndiGo allegedly forced a 57-year-old disabled passenger out of a wheelchair owned by the airline because he was flying rival carrier Go First to Kolkata with his wife and son to attend the family patriarch's funeral.

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Wounded 'Zoom' dies in Army veterinary hospital

Military canine soldier Zoom died in the line of duty at the Army’s veterinary hospital in Srinagar at noon Thursday, unable to survive gunshots he took in his face and rear right leg while pursuing two heavily armed Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists hiding in a house at Tangpawas in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on October 10.

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'No decision on which crown Camilla will wear at coronation'

Buckingham Palace has not taken a decision on whether Camilla, queen consort, will wear the consort crown, which holds the priceless Kohinoor diamond, at her coronation next May. The diamond was taken as war booty after the defeat of the Sikhs in the Second Anglo Sikh war in 1849 and was presented to Queen Victoria by Lord Dalhousie.

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Gopal Italia is a serial offender, also abused PM's mother: BJP

Union minister Smriti Irani launched a scathing attack on Gopal Italia and called him a "gutter mouth" for making derogatory remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his mother Hira Ba. Sharing a video, Irani came down heavily on Italia and said, "AAP shall be decimated electorally in Gujarat". In the clip, Italia can be heard making "derogatory" remarks against Hira Ba and abusing her.

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ED arrests IAS officer, 3 others; intimidation tactics: Baghel

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday arrested Chhattisgarh IAS officer Sameer Vishnoi and three others following searches at 40 locations in the state over the past three days. CM Bhupesh Baghel called it 'intimidation tactics' and accused BJP of misusing central agencies.

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BJP lashes out at Rahul for 'lies on GST' on fertilisers, tractors

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Simple One electric scooter deliveries to start from Q1 2023

Simple Energy today announced that it will start the deliveries of the Simple One electric scooter in the first half of 2023. The manufacturer states that the delay in deliveries is due to the recent battery safety guidelines issued by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH). Customers can pre-book the Simple One electric scooter at an initial amount of Rs 1,947 on the official website.

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₹22k crore grant for govt oil companies to bridge LPG losses

The Centre will pay Rs 22,000 crore as a one-time grant to state-run fuel retailers to compensate them for keeping price of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) supplied as cooking fuel to households - in check in spite of a surge in the benchmark rates. The proposal was cleared by the Cabinet on Wednesday.

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Taj Palace to host UN counter-terror meet

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Dhankhar cites NHRC remark, raps Bengal on post-poll violence

Lauding the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) for propagating a philosophy that human rights blossom in regimes governed by the 'Rule of Law', Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday referred to the commission's report on the post-poll violence in West Bengal in which it had observed that the "Law of the Ruler, not Rule of Law is the bane of human rights in the state".

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311 Char Dham pilgrims dead in 2022, 80% due to medical reasons

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As CJI, DY Chandrachud will head 6-member collegium

Justice DY Chandrachud, after assuming office of the CJI on November 9, will preside over a 6-member collegium instead of the usual 5-member one. At present, there are four vacancies in the sanctioned strength of 34 SC judges, including the CJI. When Justice Chandrachud becomes CJI, his collegium would include Justices Sanjay K Kaul, S Abdul Nazir, KM Joseph and MR Shah.

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Stop invoking Section 66A of IT Act: Supreme Court to states

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Nirav Modi's appeal against extradition concludes in London HC

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Budgets have been reduced on OTT platforms: Sudhanshu Pandey

Sudhanshu Pandey on how everyone across the globe went through pay cuts.

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Braved abuse from oppn, but cured Guj of many ills: PM Modi

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Verdict on petition seeking carbon dating of 'shivling' on Oct 14

The Varanasi district judge on Tuesday fixed October 14 as the date to deliver its order on the demand of four Hindu women plaintiffs for carbon dating of a purported 'shivling' claimed to have been found in the ablution pond of Gyanvapi mosque during a court-ordered survey on May 16 this year.

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SC rejects ED plea to cancel HC-granted Anil Deshmukh bail

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'Atmanirbhar Bharat is neither isolationism nor protectionism'

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In veiled dig at AAP, PM Modi says Gujarat will defeat ‘urban Naxals’

PM Narendra Modi made a veiled attack on AAP by appealing to people, particularly tribal villagers of his native state Gujarat, to stay alert and away from “urban Naxals” and foreign agents who he said were creating roadblocks in development and pursuing a malicious agenda to wreck the country.

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Mulayam Singh Yadav: ‘Netaji’ of heartland politics exits akhada

Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, the beating heart of heartland politics for nearly four decades of his 55-year-long political journey, died of multiple age-related ailments at a private hospital in Gurgaon on Monday morning — a month and two weeks shy of his 83rd birthday on November 22.

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Live: Ukraine not 'intimidated' by Russian strikes, says Zelenskyy

Ukraine vowed to strengthen its armed forces after Russia launched its biggest aerial assaults on cities since the beginning of the war, forcing thousands to flee to bomb shelters and prompting Kyiv to halt electricity exports to Europe. Stay with TOI for all updates:

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Why ‘Mullah Mulayam’ tag didn’t hurt

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More women attempt suicide, more men die by it: HDR data

Drawing from available data, the latest Human Development Report 2021/22 highlights with much concern that estimates show that more than seven lakh people die by suicide each year, predominantly in low- and middle-income countries, accounting for 1 in 100 deaths globally and is cited to be the second leading cause of death among those aged 15–29 years.

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22% international OECD students from China, 10% India

The number of foreign nationals acquiring citizenship in Oecd-member countries in 2021 is the highest ever recorded at 23 lakh, based on preliminary and partial data, according to the International Migration Outlook – 2022 Report, which was released in Paris today.

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Amitabh Bachchan: The voice that launched a thousand dreams

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Muslims use condoms most, numbers on decline: Owaisi

In a sharp riposte to RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s recent remarks on community-based population imbalance, AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi said the Muslim fertility rate was on the decline and Indian Muslims use condoms the most.

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Gujaratis blessed me for 2 decades, caste didn’t matter: PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the people of Gujarat have reposed trust in him and blessed him for the last two decades irrespective of his caste and political background. Beginning Sunday, PM Modi is on a three-day visit to poll-bound Gujarat.

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Shinde camp to submit symbols list to EC today

While CM Ekanth Shinde on Sunday expressed belief that his group will get ‘Shiv Sena’ name and the bow-and-arrow symbol, insiders at the meeting of rebel MPs and MLAs said they have shortlisted tutari (trumpet), gada (blunt mace) and talwar (sword) as poll symbols.

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Rains claim 9 lives in UP; several schools to remain shut

Heavy rains lashed several parts of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, claiming at least nine lives and throwing common life out of gear. Authorities of a dozen districts, including Lucknow, Aligarh, Meerut, Gautam Buddh Nagar, and Ghaziabad, ordered closure of schools on Monday in the wake of heavy rains. In Aligarh, all schools up to class 12 will remain closed till October 12, officials said.

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Govt upbeat on tax mop-up despite growth moderation

The government remains hopeful of tax collections remaining robust despite a moderation in growth rates in recent weeks, which is partly due to full data not being captured as well as some impact of the base effect. Latest direct taxes data released by the finance ministry indicated that the growth rate in gross collections had slowed from nearly 40% in June to 23.8% during the fiscal year up to October 8, when the mop-up rose to just under Rs 9 lakh crore. Net of refunds, collections were 16.3% higher at around Rs 7.5 lakh crore.

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When ‘remote’ employees top in appraisals

Some organisations are debunking the concept of remote work. But, Axis Bank has said that the lender’s cohort of remote workers, or ‘work-from-anywhere’ (WFA) employees, was awarded higher performance ratings and promotions as compared to its overall population.

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Parl panel suggests Hindi, local languages in higher edu institutes

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2nd ODI: Fight for backup fast bowlers gets intense

As the day progressed on the eve of the second One-Day International here, the conditions gradually became overcast from a bright sunny morning. And about two hours before Team India was scheduled to hit the ground for the practice session early evening, the JSCA International Stadium groundstaff had to draw the covers to protect the playing area from a light drizzle.

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Kishor asked me to merge JD(U) with Congress: Bihar CM

Bihar CM and JD(U)’s de facto leader Nitish Kumar on Saturday said that the election strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor was making a “false” claim that he (Nitish) offered him to lead the JD(U) as his successor. He also revealed that Kishor had once asked him to merge his JD(U) with the Congress.

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Nehru gave up on Assam during ’62 war: Shah

Union home minister Amit Shah attacked Congress here on Saturday, claiming that the party had virtually written off the entire Northeast as a part of India ever since the country’s first PM, Jawaharlal Nehru, gave up on Assam during the 1962 Chinese invasion, while PM Narendra Modi has worked to bridge the gap between the Northeast and the rest of India.

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Wheel jams in Vande Bharat Express cruising at 100kmph, probe ordered

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Wheel jams in Vande Bharat Express cruising at 100kmph, probe ordered

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Prez candidates persons of stature, can’t be ‘remote controlled’: Rahul

Weighing in for the first time on the debate that the coming non-Gandhi president in Congress would be a proxy for the Gandhi family, Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said both Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor are persons of stature and understanding, and neither can be a “remote controlled” leader of the party.

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Happy Valmiki Jayanti: Wishes, messages, quotes, images and more

Happy Valmiki Jayanti is celebrated to mark the birth anniversary of the sage Maharishi Valmiki. This day is also popularly known as Pargat Diwas. Valmiki Jayanti is celebrated every year on the full moon day during the Ashwin month. Maharishi Valmiki has great importance as he was the first poet of Sanskrit literature.

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T-90 tank barrel blows up during exercise in Jhansi, kills 2 soldiers

Two Army personnel — a junior commissioned officer and a jawan — died while another sustained injuries when the barrel of a T-90 Bhishma tank burst during a field firing exercise in Babina area of Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday.

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K'taka eyes Schedule 9 route to breach 50% quota ceiling

With an eye on polls next year in Karnataka, the state government decided on Friday to increase quotas for the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SC/STs) by 2% and 4%, respectively, after seeking a constitutional amendment. This would take reservations in the state beyond the 50% quota cap to 56%.

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8 dead, several injured as bus catches fire in Nashik

Those injured have been taken to hospital, police said.

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RBI’s concept paper seeks offline feature in e-rupee

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India wants UK trade pact to boost services

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Amid Ukraine war, peace Nobel for rights champs

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Heroin worth Rs 1,200cr seized from Iranian vessel

Pakistan-based Haji Salim drug cartel was behind the trafficking of 200kg-heroin which was seized from an Iranian vessel in the high seas through a coordinated operation of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and Indian Navy, senior officers of the NCB said here on Friday.

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Uddhav camp may misuse poll symbol: Shinde faction to EC

The Eknath Shinde faction has filed an application before the Election Commission (EC) saying Shiv Sena’s bow and arrow symbol may be “misused” by the Uddhav Thackeray group and requested EC to take an immediate decision on the symbol issue in view of the November 3 Andheri (East) assembly byelection.

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Twitter lawsuit halted so Elon Musk can close deal by Oct 28

A Delaware judge ordered a halt to Twitter Inc's lawsuits against Elon Musk on the eve of trial to give the billionaire time to finance his $44 billion takeover of the social media platform, according to a Thursday court filing.

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India’s heaviest rocket to make maiden global foray this month

Making its maiden foray into the global satellite launch market, Isro’s heaviest rocket GSLVMK III will launch 36 satellites of London-headquartered global communication company OneWeb in the second half of this month that will help the Bharti Airtel-backed company move towards completion of its constellation of satellites for providing high-speed satellite-based internet across the world.

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Tamil icon vs Hindu identity: Telangana guv joins Raja Raja Chola debate

National award-winning director Vetrimaran’s remark that there were attempts to appropriate Tamil icons like saint-poet Thiruvalluvar and emperor Raja Raja Chola and give them a Hindu religious identity has sparked a fierce debate over the mighty Chola’s religious identity.

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Uddhav camp may misuse poll symbol: Shinde faction to EC

The Eknath Shinde faction has filed an application before the Election Commission (EC) saying Shiv Sena’s bow and arrow symbol may be “misused” by the Uddhav Thackeray group and requested EC to take an immediate decision on the symbol issue in view of the November 3 Andheri (East) assembly byelection.

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Messi says 2022 World Cup will 'surely' be his last

Argentina captain Lionel Messi said Thursday that the 2022 World Cup in Qatar will "surely" be the last of his career. Messi made his international debut in 2007 and has since won 164 caps for Argentina.

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India top sugar producer again, also the 2nd-largest exporter

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Apple looks to India for manufacturing of AirPods, Beats?

Apple Inc is asking its suppliers to move some AirPods and Beats headphone production to India for the first time, Nikkei reported on Wednesday, in what could be an another win for New Delhi in its push for local manufacturing. Apple iPhone assembler Foxconn is preparing to make Beats headphones in India and hopes to eventually produce AirPods in the country as well, the report said, citing sources.

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WHO alert on 4 Indian cough syrups as 66 Gambian kids die

The WHO on Wednesday issued a medical product alert on four ‘cough & cold’ syrups made by an Indian pharmaceutical firm — Maiden Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Sonipat, Haryana — warning they could be potentially linked with acute kidney injuries and the death of 66 children in Gambia.

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Chemistry Nobel for trio who make molecules click

Americans Carolyn R Bertozzi and K Barry Sharpless, and Danish scientist Morten Meldal were jointly awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a way of “snapping molecules together” — click chemistry — that can be used to map DNA and design drugs that can target diseases more precisely.

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45 Indians trapped in fake job rackets in Myanmar rescued

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5 killed as SUV rams vehicles on Mumbai sea link

Five people, including four Bandra-Worli Sea Link toll plaza employees and an ambulance driver, were killed and nine others were left injured, one critically, after a speeding SUV rammed into three stationary cars and an ambulance on the bridge around 2.53am on Wednesday.

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J&K polls after revised voter list is ready: Amit Shah

Assembly polls in J&K will be held with “full transparency” after the Election Commission publishes the final voter list, Union home minister Amit Shah said Wednesday at a public rally in north Kashmir’s Baramulla, where he asserted that the Narendra Modi government will wipe out terrorism from the region and there will be no dialogue with Pakistan.

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Uttarakhand: 15 avalanche-hit climbers rescued, 27 still missing

A day after a massive avalanche barrelled into a group of 61 mountaineers of Uttarkashi-based Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) during a training expedition to the Draupadi ka Danda peak in Garhwal Himalayas, 15 of them were rescued by a joint team of ITBP and SDRF on Wednesday. However, 27 others, including climbers from across the country, still remain missing.

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Fresh buzz in Raj Cong as Pilot meets Gehlot’s key loyalist

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Live: Delhi to dismantle last 3 Covid care centres

Authorities have stressed on the need to keep a continued vigil against Covid-19 in view of the festival season, even as they gave their nod to dismantle three remaining Covid care centres in the city and vacate the land. Stay with TOI for more updates

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J&K Paharis to get ST quota: Amit Shah

Union home minister Amit Shah announced Tuesday that J&K’s linguistic minority Pahari-speaking people will get reservation benefits along with Gujjars and Bakerwals in accordance with the Justice Sharma commission’s recommendations that all three communities qualify for scheduled tribe (ST) status.

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3 physicists share Nobel for work on quantum science

Frenchman Alain Aspect, American John F Clauser and Austrian Anton Zeilinger were cited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for discovering the way that unseen particles, such as photons, can be linked or “entangled”, with each other even when they are separated by large distances, a field that unsettled Albert Einstein himself, who once referred to it in a letter as “spooky action at a distance”.

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Election Commission wants political parties to spell out poll promises

The Election Commission on Tuesday proposed changes to its manifesto guidelines under the model code of conduct regarding poll promises, requiring political parties to specify how they would find resources for implementation of the pledges, the estimated impact on financial sustainability, and the number of beneficiaries expected to be targeted by schemes promised.

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Keeping close eye on Chinese activity along LAC: IAF chief

Rejecting China’s recent claim that the border situation is now returning to a “normalised” state, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal V R Chaudhari on Tuesday said Beijing should first withdraw troops from all friction areas in eastern Ladakh and restore status quo ante along the Line of Actual Control.

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Missed flight costs WI player Hetmyer his place in T20 WC

West Indies' Shimron Hetmyer has been replaced by Shamarh Brooks in their squad for the T20 World Cup in Australia after he missed his rescheduled flight, the team said on Monday.

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UGC to universities: Interact with IT cos to develop courses

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It’s BJP vs estranged allies in Bihar and Maharashtra bypolls

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Study nails genetic region linked to strokes in Indians

A genetic region previously known to increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease in African Americans, has been linked to an increased risk of stroke. Also, a new study published in the journal Nature suggests, the frequency of this genetic region called COBL is higher in persons suffering from the neurological disease in south Asians, including Indian patients.

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Police detain filmmaker Kamaleshwar Mukhopadhyay

In a shocking turn of events filmmaker Kamaleshwar Mukhopadhyay and several other CPI(M) workers were detained by Kolkata Police while they were staging a protest near the Rashbehari crossing. It all started after an alleged attack on a Left party bookstall. The critically acclaimed filmmaker and the others were first taken to Lalbazar, but later in the evening they were released.

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'PK has undertaken padyatra as part of BJP's agenda in Bihar'

Janata Dal (United) national president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh on Monday slammed political strategist Prashant Kishor for the latter’s remark that 'there were no development works in the last 30 years in Bihar', and further alleged that Kishor has undertaken his 'Jan Suraj Padyatra' as a "part of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) agenda" as he (PK) has been working on behalf of the BJP in the state.

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In 2nd-worst football stadium disaster, 125 killed in Indonesia

At least 125 people were killed and more than 320 injured in a stampede at a football stadium in Indonesia on Saturday as police sought to quell violence on the pitch with tear gas, making it one of the world’s worst stadium disasters. Fans of the losing home side invaded the pitch after the final whistle and clashed with police, until the tear gas sparked a chaotic scramble for the exits.

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3 LeT men plotting to attack Dussehra rallies & saffron leaders held

Telangana police arrested on Sunday three Hyderabad natives and suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives who officers said had allegedly planned to bomb Dasara or Dussehra processions in the city, launch ISIS-inspired lone-wolf attacks this festive season, and “hurl grenades” at Sangh and BJP meetings.

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Coming soon: QR code to check if medicines are fake

In the first phase, 300 top selling drugs will print or affix barcodes or quick response (QR) codes on their ‘primary’ packaging labels. Primary is the first-level product packaging, such as the bottle, can, jar or tube that contains the saleable items. Widely sold antibiotics, cardiac, pain-relief pills and anti-allergics with an MRP of over Rs 100 per strip are expected to be included.

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RSS leader flags poverty, lack of jobs, inequality

RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale on Sunday said unemployment, poverty and economic inequality which have challenged India as demons for decades are persisting as problems despite the country having emerged as the sixth largest economy in the world.

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Bihar minister who hit out at Nitish ‘forced to resign’

Bihar agriculture minister Sudhakar Singh, whose pot-shots caused much embarrassment to the Grand Alliance (GA) government in general and CM Nitish Kumar in particular, resigned on Sunday, the second RJD minister to leave since September. Top sources said Sudhakar was forced to leave. “He didn’t resign on his own. Rather, he was forced to resign due to pressure from the chief minister,” said a source, requesting anonymity.

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Congress prez poll: Wanted consensus, Tharoor insisted on contest, says Kharge

As his underdog rival in the Congress presidential poll Shashi Tharoor sought a public debate on their visions, Mallikarjun Kharge, the frontrunner and putative successor to Sonia Gandhi, steered clear of the demand, saying the need of the hour is to fight RSS-BJP, and not each other.

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2nd T20I: David Miller ton in vain as India clinch series against South Africa

Indian batters were at their ruthless best with Suryakumar and opener Rahul leading the charge as they defeated South Africa by 16 runs despite David Miller's unbeaten century in the second T20I to clinch the 3-match series. Rahul (57 off 28) and Surya toyed (61 off 22) the Proteas attack with sensational fifties as the Indian top-four batters once again put up a superlative display to post 237/3. Chasing a massive target, the South Africans finished at 237 for 3 in their 20 overs.

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UP: Over 40 people suffer burn injuries as pandal catches fire

The puja pandal had become massively crowded when it caught fire. Within few minutes, flames engulfed the entire puja pandal made with clothes on the base of bamboos.

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Mouni Roy walks the ramp in style at Bombay TFW

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MiG-29 squadron replaces Abhinandan’s 51 Swordarms

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DRI seizes 200+kg drugs in Mumbai

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Mumbai, on Saturday seized 198 kg of 'high purity' crystal methamphetamine (ice) and 9 kg 'high purity' cocaine worth Rs 1,476 crore which had been smuggled by concealing the stuff among boxes of oranges.

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Auto sales on fast track, hit record monthly high in Sept

Buoyed by the continued surge in personal mobility and the rush for new cars and SUVs, the car industry recorded its highest-ever wholesales deliveries in a month, indicating the strong consumer sentiment for new purchases despite rising interest rates and inflationary pressures.

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India abstains from UNSC vote condemning Russia

While remaining "deeply disturbed" by the situation in Ukraine, India Friday joined China, Brazil and Gabon in abstaining from voting on a UNSC resolution which condemned "illegal" referendums held by Russia to annex 4 regions of Ukraine, and called upon Moscow to unconditionally withdraw troops from the country.

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‘Ponniyin Selvan’ records a bigger opening than Brahmastra

Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan-I released yesterday and has recorded the biggest ever opening day for Tamil cinema worldwide. The film collected 80 crore at the ticket window. Interestingly, the first-day global gross collection of the film is also higher than Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt’s Brahmastra: Part One - Shiva. The Ayan Mukerji’s directorial had collected Rs 75 crore gross worldwide on Day 1.

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