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The Sports Ministry on Saturday suspended Wrestling Federation of India’s (WFI) assistant secretary Vinod Tomar, a fallout of the grapplers’ allegations of sexual harassment and corruption against the sports body’s chief, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. It has decided to suspend Tomar, “with immediate effect, to ensure proper functioning of WFI”. The ministry said it has […]
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BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh will step aside from India’s wrestling body for four weeks during which an oversight committee will look into allegations of sexual harassment against him, Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur told reporters. After a meeting that lasted seven hours, Thakur, flanked by some of India’s most celebrated wrestlers, in a […]
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The Congress marked the beginning of the Jammu and Kashmir leg of Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ criticising the central government’s decision to revoke the special status of the former state, calling it a “grave insult” to the people of the region. The statement was made by senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, who called for […]
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British police issued Prime Minister Rishi Sunak with a fine on Friday for riding in a car without wearing his seat belt in order to film a clip for social media. Sunak, who apologised on Thursday for what he called a “brief error of judgement”, filmed a video in the back seat of his car […]
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Defending Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the British Parliament, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak distanced himself from the BBC documentary series, saying he “doesn’t agree with the characterization” of his Indian counterpart. Sunak made these remarks on the controversial documentary that was raised in the British Parliament by Pakistan-origin MP Imran Hussain. “The UK government’s […]
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The Reserve Bank of India has alerted the states against the old pension system. In its latest report on state finances, the central bank said that there was a major risk to the sub-national fiscal horizon because some states have returned to old pension schemes. Subnational fiscal horizon means all fiscal affairs of states and […]
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Tuesday accused the BJP and the RSS of capturing institutions and putting pressure on the Election Commission and the judiciary, and also declared that he will not visit an RSS office even if someone slits his throat. Answering a question, at a press conference here, on the possibility of reaching out to […]
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Farooq Abdullah, former Chief Minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, today said terrorism will continue in Jammu and Kashmir until India initiates dialogue with its “neighbour”. “I am sorry to say, terrorism will stay unless we talk to our neighbour and find a solution,” Abdullah said without naming Pakistan. His remark came […]
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Rahul Gandhi has been advised by security agencies to not walk certain stretches during the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kashmir, NDTV has learnt. “A detailed plan has been put in place to secure him and it has been advised that he should avoid travelling certain stretches on foot and instead travel in car,” a senior […]
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A man killed, allegedly by two arrested terror suspects in Delhi, was also beheaded, police sources have told NDTV. The identity of the victim is yet to be established. The police have recovered several body parts — among them his hand, which had a Trushul tatoo. The man, aged around 21, was apparently a drug […]
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A day after an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) report revealed that Uttarakhand’s Joshimath saw a rapid sinking of 5.4 cm in just 12 days, the National Disaster Management Authority has barred government institutions from interacting with the media and sharing data on social media regarding ground subsidence. It said the organisations’ “own interpretations” of […]
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A threat call was received at the office of Union Minister Nitin Gadkari in Maharashtra on Saturday, the Nagpur Police said. An unknown person called thrice and threatened to kill him. He also threatened to blow up the office. The police are investigating the matter after a complaint from Nitin Gadkari’s office. “Speech analysis of […]
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Delhi Police today found a dismembered body in North Delhi based on the information provided by two men arrested on terror charges. According to eyewitnesses, the body found had been chopped up in more than three pieces. Delhi Police’s Special Cell had arrested two men from the Bhalswa Dairy area for suspectedly having links with […]
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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is carrying out raids at Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s office, the AAP leader claimed. “Today again CBI has reached my office. They are welcome. They raided my house, raided my office, searched my locker, even conducted an investigation in my village. Nothing has been found against me […]
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It will be “impossible” for the BJP to replicate its 2019 electoral triumph in 2024, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor claimed on Friday, and added that it is “conceivable” that the ruling party can lose “50 seats” in the Lok Sabha. The Thiruvananthapuram MP, who was speaking at the Kerala Literature Festival here, said while […]
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Congress MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary died of a heart attack during Bharat Jodo Yatra in Punjab this morning. He was 76. Santokh Singh Chaudhary, the party’s MP from Jalandhar, collapsed during the foot march in Punjab’s Phillaur. He was rushed to a hospital in Phagwara where he died later. Rahul Gandhi also rushed to the hospital where the […]
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A Dalit man was allegedly assaulted by a group of people and singed with burning sticks when he entered a temple to offer prayers at Salra village in Mori area of Uttarkashi district, police said on Thursday. The incident took place on January 9 when 22-year-old Ayush, a resident of Bainol village, visited the temple, […]
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today flagged off MV Ganga Vilas, the world’s longest river cruise, in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi through video conferencing. 32 Swiss tourists will take the maiden journey to reach Dibrugarh in Assam via Bangladesh. The PM inaugurated a ‘Tent City’, developed on the lines of similar setups in Gujarat’s Kutch and Rajasthan, […]
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah today said the Britishers have left India and it is time to write history from the Indian perspective. “In line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intention of getting rid of any remnants of the colonial past, the most important is freeing history from that. Veer Savarkar tried it for the […]
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Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has been served notice by its own government in Delhi for Rs 163.62 crore spent allegedly on political advertisements passed off as government messages. AAP has to pay up within 10 days, warns the recovery notice issued by the Directorate of Information and Publicity (DIP), or its office will […]
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Amid fears in the wake of land subsidence in the Joshimath area in Uttarakhand, sudden cracks in a few houses in the Kanwariganj area of Aligarh have caused panic among locals. “For the last several days, cracks have appeared in some of our houses due to which we are forced to live in panic. We […]
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday launched a veiled attack on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and dubbed them as “21st century Kauravas”. Addressing a street-corner meeting after the Bharat Jodo Yatra led by him reached Ambala district Monday evening, Mr Gandhi said Haryana is the land of the Mahabharata and went on to take […]
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The buildings that have developed cracks and are badly damaged in Uttarakhand’s Joshimath will be demolished, so they don’t harm the nearby buildings, officials have said. The demolition of the damaged buildings will begin today. Joshimath has been divided into three zones – ‘Danger’, ‘Buffer’, and ‘Completely Safe’ – based on the magnitude of possible […]
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A day after the Bombay High Court termed her arrest illegal and ordered that she and her husband be freed, former ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar today walked out of jail. She, along with her husband Deepak Kochhar, was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on December 23 in a case linked to […]
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