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Hyderabad to receive light to moderate rains for next two days
Hyderabad: Parts of the city received heavy rainfall on Saturday similar to the rest of the days this week. Even though it had been gloomy since the morning, a sunny afternoon gave…
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SCR to run special trains between Secunderabad and Yesvantpur
Hyderabad: The South Central Railway (SCR) is operating special trains between Secunderabad and Yesvantpur to alleviate the additional traffic during the current holiday season. The special trains are therefore the Secunderabad-Yesvantpur (07151)…
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Mahsa Amini protests: Tehran fountains sinking in blood
Tehran: The public squares fountains in Iran’s capital, Tehran, have reportedly been smeared red on Friday after an artist dyed their water red to reflect the bloody three-week crackdown on protests over…
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SC to hear plea seeking direction for appointment of Law Commission chief
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday would hear a plea seeking a direction to the Central government to make appointment to the post of Chairman, Law Commission of India, which has…
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NYT fires journalist post support for ‘Palestinian resistance’
The American newspaper The New York Times has dismissed Palestinian photographer Hosam Salem from his job allegedly due to comments supporting the Palestinian resistance on the social networking site Facebook. Hosam Salem,…
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‘Mahakal Lok’: Scindia, MP ministers, collectors, state depts change profile pic on Twitter
Ujjain: Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, many Madhya Pradesh ministers, district collectors and various state departments have changed their profile photographs on Twitter to a common thematic picture ahead of the opening of the…
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BJP’s ‘Tantrik’ remark: Bed at Erragadda hospital ready, retorts KTR
Hyderabad: Telangana IT minister KT Rama Rao on Saturday reacted to BJP chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar’s ‘Tantrik’ claim and said that a bed at Erragadda Government Health Care Hospital is ready for…
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Oman’s Sultan pardons 325 prisoners on occasion of Prophet’s birthday
Muscat: The Sultan of Oman, Haitham bin Tariq Al Said, on Saturday pardoned 325 prisoners, including foreigners on the occasion of the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday. The Sultan issued a special pardon for…
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Telangana: First-year engineering classes to begin from first week of Nov
Hyderabad: The first week of November is likley when classes for undergraduate first-year first-semester engineering courses for the academic year 2022–23 will start. It was initially scheduled to start during the final…
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Telangana: Komatireddy Rajgopal Reddy is BJP’s candidate for Munugode by-poll
Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday announced that Komatireddy Rajgopal Reddy will be its candidate for the Munugode assembly by-poll. Earlier, Reddy challenged the state IT minister K T Rama Rao…
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Karnataka Cabinet okays hike in SC/ST quota, to issue govt order
Bengaluru: The Karnataka Cabinet on Saturday accorded its formal approval to increase the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SC/STs) quota in the State. The State government would issue an order with which quota…
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17-yr-old girl gang-raped in Bengaluru
Bengaluru: A 17-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped in Bengaluru by a group of boys known to her, the police said on Saturday. The parents of the victim have lodged a complaint with…
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Anti-Uyghur Muslim crackdown: China silent on India’s abstention in UNHRC vote
Beijing: China on Saturday maintained silence on India’s abstention at the voting at the UNHRC on the human rights situation in Xinjiang, but defended its crackdown against Uyghur Muslims, saying it was…
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Despite being large part of population, Muslims not getting due share: Pawar
Nagpur: Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday said members of the Muslim community have a feeling they were not getting their due share despite being a large part of the…
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CBI questions Tejashwi Yadav’s close aide in land-for-jobs ‘scam’
New Delhi: The CBI on Saturday questioned the private secretary of Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav in connection with alleged land-for-jobs scam in the Railways when his father Lalu Prasad was…
