63 lakh cases pending in lower courts due to ‘lack of counsel’, says National Judicial Data Grid

Of the over four crore cases pending in lower courts in the country, about 63 lakh cases remain undecided because of non-availability of counsel, according to the National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG), as of January 20. At least 78% of such cases are criminal and the rest civil.

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‘Missing’ ponds responsible for Joshimath subsidence?

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9 hurt in twin blasts on Jammu outskirts

At least nine people were wounded in two synchronised explosions that police suspect were set off by IEDs planted in two vehicles parked in the busy industrial area of Narwal on the outskirts of Jammu city between 11am and 11.20am Saturday.

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No extra student visas for India in FTA: UK trade secretary

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9 hurt in twin blasts on Jammu outskirts

At least nine people were wounded in two synchronised explosions that police suspect were set off by IEDs planted in two vehicles parked in the busy industrial area of Narwal on the outskirts of Jammu city between 11am and 11.20am Saturday.

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Peegate: AI body mulls legal action over pilot suspension

Air India pilots’ body IPG is considering legal recourse and other options, regarding aviation regulator DGCA suspending the licence of the pilot-in-command of the flight where a passenger allegedly urinated on a female co-passenger onboard last November. A senior member of the Indian Pilots Guild (IPG), which represents the airline’s pilots who fly wide-body planes, said it will take up the issue of suspension of the pilot concerned strongly.

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Government blocks online links to ‘divisive’ BBC documentary on PM Modi

The government on Friday ordered the blocking of multiple YouTube videos and nearly 50 tweets that shared the first episode of the BBC documentary — “India: The Modi Question”— on grounds that senior officials of various ministries found it to be an attempt to “cast aspersions” on the authority of the Supreme Court and make “unsubstantiated allegations” regarding the actions of foreign governments in India.

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Centre sacks WFI assistant secretary for backing chief

A day after brokering a peace deal and asking Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh to ‘step aside’ pending inquiry into the allegations of sexual harassment and intimidation against him, Union sports minister Anurag Thakur on Saturday dismissed WFI’s assistant secretary Vinod Tomar with immediate effect for his public remarks in Gonda defending Singh, a BJP strongman and six-time Lok Sabha MP.

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Sena vs Sena: Uddhav’s term as prez ends before EC hearing

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Govt sets disclosure norm for influencers endorsing brands

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In a first, SSC to hold exam in 13 regional languages too

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Wrestlers end protest after assurances, WFI chief Sharan to step aside

The aggrieved grapplers called off their protest late on Friday night after getting assurances from the government that their grievances would be addressed, the first step of which was the stepping aside of under-fire Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. The wrestlers, decided to end their protest after a breakthrough was achieved during a second round of talks with union sports minister Anurag Thakur.

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Cyber security, data theft new-age policing challenges: Amit Shah

Home minister Amit Shah on Friday said challenges to policing have now drastically transformed: from tackling geographical problems like terrorism and unrest in J&K, Left-wing extremism and unrest in the northeast to countering new-age “thematic” threats of cyber security and data theft, with problems becoming multi-dimensional as narco-terror and fourth-generation warfare catch on.

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More girl wrestlers are coming forward to report abuse: Vinesh Phogat

Vinesh, who is spearheading the campaign for Singh's removal as the WFI chief over charges of sexual harrasment, also alleged that several complaints of sexual abuse and mistreatment of boys wrestlers were reported to the federation's higher-ups but no action was taken on them.

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BJP to go ‘solo’ in Meghalaya polls, retains Nagaland ally

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‘They won’t impinge on candidate’s integrity’

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'$200 million worth of deals sealed between Big Tech and media outlets’

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Uttarakhand CM says 70% of Joshimath residents leading ‘normal lives’

During his meeting with home minister Amit Shah in Delhi on Wednesday, Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami said “65% to 70% of Joshimath residents were leading a normal life and only 30% have been affected by land subsidence”. Dhami reiterated his remark in Dehradun on Thursday.

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Government slams BBC documentary for ‘bias, colonial mindset’

India on Thursday slammed the controversial BBC documentary on PM Narendra Modi and the Gujarat riots, saying it lacked objectivity and betrayed a colonial mindset. While noting that the documentary had not been screened in India, the foreign ministry said it was a propaganda piece designed to push a particular "discredited" narrative.

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Call on holding Kashmir polls ‘at the right time’, says CEC

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Joshimath crisis keeps tourists away from Auli

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8 cold wave days this January, highest in 15 years

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8-yr-old daughter of diamond baron to embrace monkhood

An eight-year-old heir to a diamond empire with roots in this Gujarat city is set to embrace monkhood on Wednesday after what may have been her last tryst with ostentation - song, dance, finery and a grand procession involving ornamented elephants, horses and camels.

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Man believed killed is now main accused in murder

A Telangana man who supposedly died in an accident turned out to be a key accused who staged his own death using another man's body to claim Rs 6 crore insurance. He was arrested.

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Telangana, Bengal units draw PM Modi's praise for 'bold fight'

BJP units of Telangana and West Bengal came in for specific appreciatory references from the PM for consolidating and expanding the party's footprint in the erstwhile unfriendly geographies despite opposition from hostile dispensations.

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BJP beats AAP, gets mayor post in Chandigarh

The Bharatiya Janata Party won the Chandigarh municipal corporation's mayor seat for eight time in a row.

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India No. 1 ? China's population dips for first time in 60 years

China's National Bureau of Statistics reported a drop of roughly 850,000 people for a population of 1.41175 billion in 2022, the first dip since 1961, the last year of China's great famine. That possibly makes India the world's most populous nation.

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First since March, 2020: Under 100 Covid cases in a day

No Covid death was reported in India for 4 days at a stretch, again a first since 2020. India reported 83 fresh cases on Monday, down from 114 on the previous day. India had first reported over 100 cases in a day on March 27, 2020, & the daily tally hadn't fallen to double digits since then.

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London cop pleads guilty to 24 counts of rape

The Metropolitan Police apologised on Monday and said it should have spotted the pattern of abuse after David Carrick, 48, pleaded guilty to a total of 49 charges relating to 12 victims, including 24 counts of rape between 2003 and 2020.

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Govt now wants MoP finalised

The Centre's insistence on the early finalisation of the 'memorandum of procedure' (MoP) that guides appointment of judges in the Supreme Court and high courts, pending with the apex court collegium since August 2017, has triggered a fresh controversy.

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Delhi, Gujarat cops 'seized' Banga Bhavan footage: Didi

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee accused the Delhi and Gujarat police on Monday of entering Banga Bhavan, the primary accommodation of state seniors and guests in Delhi, on Saturday and taking away CCTV footage.

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BBC under fire from PIOs over new series attacking PM Modi

The series description states: “A look at the tensions between Indian PM Narendra Modi and India’s Muslim minority, investigating claims about his role in 2002 riots that left over a thousand dead.”

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BJP identifies 160 Lok Sabha seats for special campaigns

Citing a string of SC verdicts as vindication of PM Modi and banking on his leadership, BJP on Monday set an aggressive foot forward expressing confidence about its prospects in the state elections scheduled in the lead-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

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After hotels, damaged homes in Joshimath colony to come down

This would be the second major demolition exercise after the administration a few days ago began to raze two of Joshimath's biggest hotels. There are over 30 houses in the colony, many of them with large cracks, which a resident said "seem to be getting bigger."

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Book babus for poll conspiracy: Sisodia to LG

Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia has written to lieutenant governor VK Saxena, demanding action against some officers of Delhi government for allegedly stopping funds of mohalla clinics ahead of the MCD polls to “influence” voters.

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6.2-magnitude quake hits off Indonesia's Sumatra

The epicentre of the quake was 48 kilometres (30 miles) south-southeast of the city of Singkil in Aceh province, at a depth of 37 kilometres, USGS said.

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Govt writes to CJI, wants its representatives on SC collegium

Law minister Kiren Rijiju's letter to the CJI is the latest in the series of criticism by constitutional authorities, including the Vice-President and Lok Sabha Speaker, who have also accused the SC of often encroaching into the domain of the legislature.

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Narrow escape for Surpiya Sule as saree catches fire

NCP MP Supriya Sule's saree accidentally caught fire during an event in Pune on Sunday. In a statement, Sule later said that she is safe and there was no reason to worry.

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Nepal plane crash: 3 victims on way home from funeral in Kerala

Three Nepali nationals - Raju Thakuri, Rabin Hamal and Anil Shahi - who had come to attend the funeral of Christian evangelist Mathew Philip in Pathanamthitta were among the 68 people who died in the crash.

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72 years on, India's oldest pending case finally settled

India's oldest litigation at 72 years was disposed of last week by a bench of the country's oldest high court, whose current Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava was born a full decade after the case had been filed in 1951.

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Arsenic in water raises risk of gallbladder cancer: Study

A two-year study carried out in large tertiary care hospital settings suggests that chronic arsenic exposure in drinking water even at low-moderate levels may be a potential risk factor for gallbladder cancer.

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UP constable 'molests' varsity student in train, sent to jail

A constable has been arrested for allegedly molesting a 17-year-old student of Allahabad University in a moving train as she was on her way to Pilibhit from Prayagraj Friday. The cop fled with her luggage.

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Tamil Nadu governor’s office goes to cops over DMK video

DCP (cyber crime cell) DV Kiran Shruthi has communicated to the governor's office that a video of DMK orator Shivaji Krishnamoorthy's remarks cited by the latter was legally scrutinised and was found to be defamatory in nature.

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Delhi cop dies in road mishap 15 days before retirement

Two weeks before he was scheduled to retire, a Delhi Police sub-inspector, Latoor Singh, lost his life after a car allegedly mowed him down in central Delhi's Daryaganj on Friday evening. The cop was on duty and was on his way to deliver a summons in east Delhi's Laxmi Nagar when the incident took place. The driver of the errant vehicle has been arrested.

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Terror act: Police seize grenades from rented Jahangirpuri house

The two alleged terrorists arrested by Delhi Police's special cell on Thursday had murdered a man, chopped his body into pieces and filmed the act, including the beheading, the police have claimed. They also sent the video to their foreign-based handlers, including an ISI operative, to prove their worth, claimed sources.

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Congress suspends Bharat Jodo Yatra for a day after MP's death

Congress MP from Jalandhar, Chaudhary Santokh Singh (76), collapsed and died just as Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra crossed Phillaur in Jalandhar district of Punjab on Saturday morning.

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Chanda Kochhar now faces tough breach of trust charge

A CBI plea to invoke the serious offence of criminal breach of trust against former ICICI Bank CEO and MD Chanda Kochhar in a loan fraud case was accepted by a special court on Friday. The charge under section 409 of the Indian Penal Code attracts a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

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Kanjhawala case: 11 cops suspended for 'negligence'

Acting on the recommendation of the Union home ministry, Delhi Police has suspended 11 cops, including six officers, deployed at PCRs and pickets along the route taken by a car that hit Anjali Singh (20) before fatally dragging her under its wheels for several kilometers early on January 1.

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LG Saxena just refused to accept SC order on powers: Delhi CM

The much-awaited meeting between chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and lieutenant governor V K Saxena on Friday failed to bring about a detente and only led to more acrimony.

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CBI gets nod to prosecute Lalu Yadav in rail jobs scam

CBI has received sanction from the Centre to prosecute RJD chief and former Union railway minister Lalu Prasad Yadav in connection with the "land-for-job scam."

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Rajasthan twins die in similar manner 900km apart

A pair of 26-year-old twins from Rajasthan's Barmer living 900km apart in different states died within hours of each other in bizarrely similar circumstances - one falling to his death from the terrace of a house in Surat and the other fatally slipping into a water tank after being called home from Jaipur.

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Uttarakhand govt on Joshimath: Probing NTPC project role

Following an Uttarakhand cabinet meeting, chief secretary S S Sandhu said on Friday that "eight institutes are studying the reasons behind land subsidence in Joshimath and the role of NTPC's Tapovan-Vishnugad project is included in their probe."

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1st op in Joshimath, govt starts razing 2 big hotels

Out of fear that one hotel is tilting dangerously and may collapse on the other, owners of the two establishments in Joshimath who had been protesting for three days against the planned demolition of the buildings finally agreed to it on Thursday. It set the stage for the first demolition in Joshimath, where hundreds of houses and roads have developed cracks and are crumbling.

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In message to courts, presiding officers say respect boundaries

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J'khand HC cites ED findings, rejects bail plea of Soren aide

The Jharkhand high court on Tuesday rejected the bail application of Prem Prakash, a close associate of Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren, while validating the findings of the Enforcement Directorate, which is probing the money trail in alleged illegal mining worth Rs 1,000 crore.

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Former Union minister Sharad Yadav passes away at 75

Former Union minister and senior Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Sharad Yadav passed away on Thursday. He was 75. His daughter Subhashini Yadav shared the news of his demise on Facebook. "My father is no more," she said on Facebook.

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U'khand increases Joshimath aid 30x to 1.5L per family

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No amount of alcohol is safe for drinking, warns WHO

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'Role of armed struggle in getting Independence ignored'

Armed struggle for India’s Independence, including the First War of Independence in 1857, was as important an ingredient as the Congress-led non-violence movement in liberating India from British rule, home minister Amit Shah said here on Wednesday. However, he added, there were attempts by historians to overlook or undermine the contribution of armed struggle and revolutionaries in securing the country’s Independence.

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‘People of snow can’t live in the plains’

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Urination case: Court dismisses Mishra’s bail plea

Terming the alleged act of Shankar Mishra urinating on an elderly woman on board an Air India flight last November under the influence of alcohol “utterly disgusting and repulsive”, and “sufficient to outrage the modesty of any woman”, a Delhi court on Wednesday dismissed his bail plea.

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Dhankhar, Birla oppose ‘overstep by judiciary’

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Golden Globe Awards 2023 live updates

The golden night of Hollywood is here – the Golden Globe Awards 2023 is on in full swing with Hollywood royalty and television’s greats coming together to celebrate the best in cinema. Glitz, glamour and grandeur are at its peak at this gala. Comedian Jerrod Carmichael will be hosting the entertaining evening. This year the Golden Globe Awards are extra special for India with RRR bagging a nomination in Best Picture (Non-English language) and Best Song categories. Top contenders for the night also include 'Avatar: The Way of Water', 'Top Gun: Maverick' and 'Elvis'. The Golden Globes also honours the best in television and are voted for by members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Keep watching this space for more updates.

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4 years after clean air mission, ‘marginal’ gain in some cities

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Govt to set up micro seismic observatories

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‘Can hit FDI’: SC questions govt on plea against Carbide

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Don’t convert single units in Chandigarh into apartments: SC

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Delhi India’s most polluted city, just 7% cleaner in 3 years

Delhi has earned the dubious tag of being India’s most polluted city, rising from rank 3 in 2019 and rank 2 last year in the worst-polluted list, as per the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) Tracker based on annual PM2.5 levels measured by the Central Pollution Control Board.

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DGCA issues notice to AI over unruly flyers on Paris flight

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‘CBI’s reasons for arrest casual’: HC gives Kochhars bail

The Bombay high court on Monday ordered the release of Chanda Kochhar, former CEO and MD of ICICI Bank, and her businessman-husband Deepak Kochhar on bail after holding that their arrest by the CBI four years following an FIR in a loan-fraud case was “unacceptable”.

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World listens to India, it can be global skill capital: PM

The world listens to India and the country has what it takes to become the global skill capital, PM Narendra Modi said Monday while inaugurating the 17th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas convention in Indore. “Today, the world listens to India. It can become the engine of development of the world,” he said. “India taking over the G20 presidency this year gives a great opportunity to make the world aware of India’s experiences to attain a sustainable future and learn from these experiences.”

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Supreme Court: No bar on states to set up panel for UCC

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Magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes Indonesia -EMSC

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Tejashwi’s cricket practice triggers ‘power’ play buzz

In this article, the deputy CM of Bihar, Tejashwi Yadav, is caught on camera playing cricket with budding cricketers at a local cricket ground. Tejashwi's passion for cricket is very much alive in his heart, and he enjoys practicing with young and bright players of Bihar. However, his cricket practice in the chilly winter has generated much heat in the political circles in the sense that whenever he picked up a bat, state's politics underwent a drastic change. In July last year, he was caught on camera playing cricket with housing staff at his mother Rabri Devi's official residence. The next month, he was part of the government as CM Nitish dumped BJP to form the Grand Alliance Ga Government with RJD and others. Chitranjan Gagan, RJD spokesperson, remarked that "sab kuchh thik hai" (everything is "fine").

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Over 6,900 domestic violence plaints filed by women in 2022

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PM dials Dhami, promises ‘all financial & technical support’

PM Narendra Modi had a telephonic conversation with Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Sunday morning. Dhami informed the PM about the situation in Joshimath as well as plans for rehabilitation and arrangements being made in light of several houses developing cracks amid fears that the town is ‘sinking’.

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Oldest cases started before current SC judges were born

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Govt to disband telecom body DCC

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1.9°C at main city station as Delhi faces extended cold wave

Delhi suffered its fourth consecutive cold wave day on Sunday, with the minimum at the city’s base station Safdarjung falling below 2 degrees Celsius for the first time in two years and the city experiencing one of its worst fog spells of the season with nine hours of lower than 200m visibility. Over 100 flights were delayed at IGI Airport due to dense fog and 42 trains were running late.

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7.0-magnitude quake strikes Pacific nation of Vanuatu

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India will be free from Maoist menace by 2024: Home minister Amit Shah

The strategy was to reach out to youths, who used to take up weapons, and provide them employment, roads, water, telephone, electricity and other basic facilities in the remote areas to help them join the mainstream of society, the Union minister said, adding that those who did not lay down their weapons were being given a befitting reply.

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'Reviving old pension scheme a bankruptcy recipe'

Several state governments such as Punjab, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Himachal Pradesh have decided to revert to the Old Pension Scheme that assures a defined pension which is 50% of the last drawn salary.

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UP ex-minister, son arrested in city over illegal slaughterhouse

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Guj Harappan site reveals death rituals of 5k yrs ago

The digging began in 2019 at Juna Khatiya village, about 30km from Lakhpat in Kutch district, and archaeologists found rows of graves with skeletal remains, ceramic pots, plates and vases, beaded jewellery, and animal bones that piqued their interest. Over time, it emerged as one the biggest Harappan burial sites, with the possibility of 500 graves, of which about 125 have been found so far.

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Average work hours per week longest in S&E Asia: ILO

The occupational group with longest average hours of work was plant and machine operators and assemblers, who worked 48.2 hours per week on an average, followed by service and sales workers at 47.0 hours per week.

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Demolish worst affected Joshimath homes, expert panel tells Centre, state

A senior official, privy to the report submitted both to the Centre and state government, told TOI on Saturday: “Prima facie, it appears that at least 25% area of Joshimath, which has a population of about 25,000, has been affected by the land-subsidence problem. A survey to ascertain the intensity of damage (to buildings and sundry structures) is currently underway. It will be put in three categories: severe, moderate and slight.”

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Hanif Kureishi fears he may never be able to walk or write again following fall in Rome

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Centre: Will honour SC timeline for judge appts

Entrusted by the apex court to persuade the Centre to “follow the law” by complying with its verdicts on appointment of judges, attorney general R Venkataramani, at the outset , told a bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Abhay S Oka that all efforts were being made to conform to the timelines and names sent to the government by collegiums would be cleared expeditiously with decision on 44 out of 104 names decided in the coming two days.

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Should you break pandemic FDs to earn higher returns?

At the peak of the pandemic, rates had dropped to as low as 5.5% due to excess liquidity in the banking system and many had locked into 2-3-year deposits to make the best in a depressed market. Now with some private banks offering 8% and public sector banks giving over 7.5%, savvy elders are looking at premature withdrawals to make fresh deposits at higher rates.

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SC pushes for e-monitoring to check over-speeding

Cause-wise analysis of road accidents revealed 55.9% (87,050 out of 1,55,622 deaths) and 27.5% (42,853 out of 1,55,622 deaths) of fatalities were due to speeding and dangerous/careless driving or overtaking, respectively, in 2021.

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CJI takes foster daughters on tour of his workplace

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Akshata Murty's vision is to open up Downing Street to public to draw a line under Johnson 'fiefdom era'

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'Sinking' Joshimath: Uttarakhand readies choppers, plans to move residents

n an urgent and high-powered meeting called by chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Friday, the Uttarakhand government — shaken by reports of a "sinking" Joshimath and images of huge cracks on the town's buildings, roads and fields — has signalled "maximum alert" and put a slew of emergency measures in place, most of them to be implemented immediately.

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After Jain stir, Centre halts all tourism activities at Parasnath

Issuing an office memorandum on the Centre's decision, the environment ministry directed the state government to immediately take all steps necessary to ensure the ban on tourism and the other activities such as use of liquor, non-vegetarian food items, loud music, unauthorised camping and trekking in the Parasnath Sanctuary.

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Autonomous college, univ rating norms out

As TOI had reported on November 14, this is the first time that the NAAC has declared the highest marks called benchmarks that it has set aside for each of the parameters it grades institutes on, thus allowing every higher education institute to know the maximum achievable marks.

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Govt bans TRF, designates LeT launching commander as terrorist

According to a Union Home Ministry notification, The Resistance Front (TRF) is recruiting youth through the online medium for the furtherance of terrorist activities, recruitment of terrorists, infiltration of terrorists and smuggling of weapons and narcotics from Pakistan into Jammu and Kashmir.

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Ram temple to be ready by Jan 1, 2024, says Amit Shah

​​“Congress hindered the construction of the Ram temple in courts. ​​After the SC verdict, Modiji began its construction. Hopefully, the temple will be ready in a year and it will be open for the public at the beginning of 2024. The country is eagerly waiting for the Ram temple for many years, which will be over by January 1, 2024,” Shah said.

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UP CM Yogi Adityanath interacts with Bollywood members, pushes UP as film-making destination

Presenting Uttar Pradesh as a film-friendly state, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday invited prominent members from the entertainment industry to explore his state as a film-making destination.

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Kraken: What we know about the new Covid variant

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With old rifle, this man saved villagers from total annihilation

Known as Bala by fellow villagers, Krishan has been hailed as the local hero for stopping a total annihilation of the families living in an isolated cluster of three homes that came under attack. The terrorists killed four people that night and two kids died the next morning in an explosion triggered by an IED that the assailants had left behind. In all, 15 people were wounded—all of them recuperating and said to be stable now.

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