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Rainfall thrills sun burnt Hyderabad, here to stay for weekend
Hyderabad: After the India Meteorological Department – Hyderabad’s (IMD-H) predictions of light to moderate rainfall on Thursday and Friday, the city found much-needed respite from the heat in a surprise rainfall followed…
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Over 4.72 cr e-challans issued for traffic rules violation in 2022: Govt
New Delhi: The number of e-challans issued for traffic rules violation and the revenue collected from it has gone up during the last few years, showed the figures provided by the Centre…
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Telangana: Raja Singh taken into preventive custody, released later
Hyderabad: Now suspended BJP MLA T Raja Singh was taken into preventive custody by the Rachakonda police at Keesara when he was on his way to Yadadri Bhuvanigir to meet BJP state…
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WB: Post Ram Navami violence, VHP to hold 500 Hanuman Jayanti events
Kolkata: Amid the furore over violence during celebration of Ram Navami in West Bengal, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has decided to conduct 500 Hanuman Jayanti programmes across the state on Thursday.…
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Bob Lee, Cash App creator and ex-CTO of Square, stabbed to death
San Francisco: Bob Lee, founder of Cash App and current Chief Product Officer of cryptocurrency company MobileCoin, has been stabbed to death in a shocking incident here. MobileCoin confirmed to ABC7 News…
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UP BJP to invoke ‘guesthouse incident’ to woo Dalit voters
Lucknow: In the run-up to next year’s Lok Sabha elections, the ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh is set to invoke the infamous “guesthouse incident” of 1995 to woo Dalits. The UP BJP’s…
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Dawoodi Bohra succession row: Bombay HC reserves order on 2014 suit
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday completed its hearing and reserved order on a 2014 suit challenging the position and appointment of Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin as the leader of the Dawoodi…
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SP’s Swami Prasad Maurya booked for hurting religious sentiments
Rae Bareli: An FIR has been lodged against senior Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya for allegedly raising a slogan hurting religious sentiments of Hindus during a public programme attended by party…
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Padma awards conferred on late Mulayam, Mahalanabis, Sudha Murty, Keeravaani
New Delhi: Veteran socialist leader and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Late Mulayam Singh Yadav, and medical professional Dilip Mahalanabis, known globally for his work on Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS), were among…
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Reference to Gujarat riots dropped from NCERT class 11 Sociology book
New Delhi: A portion referring to the Gujarat riots has been dropped from the class 11 Sociology textbook by NCERT, months after it removed the reference to the 2002 communal violence in…
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‘Negative content’ needs to be removed from history textbooks: Maha BJP chief
Mumbai: Amid a row over the removal of certain references in NCERT’s new class 12 textbooks, BJP’s Maharashtra chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Wednesday said some people had deliberately written “negative content” in…
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Kim Cotton becomes first female on-field umpire in men’s international cricket
Dunedin: Kim Cotton of New Zealand made history on Wednesday, becoming the first female on-field umpire to stand in a men’s international match between two ICC full-member countries. Cotton officiated the second…
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‘Why I killed Gandhi’ may become moral lesson: Owaisi on NCERT row
Hyderabad: The All India Majilis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi warned on Wednesday that removing any references to the 2002 Gujarat riots from NCERT textbooks will ‘make our kids intellectually poorer and…
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Govt says no plan to use Aadhaar data for census
New Delhi: The government has no plan to use Aadhaar data for census, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar told Lok Sabha on Wednesday. “The Office of the Registrar…
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Johnson & Johnson willing to pay $9bn to settle talc claims: Report
London: US pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson has proposed to pay almost $9 billion to resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits the company faces in North America over claims that its baby…
