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Prez Poll: Ailing ex-PM Manmohan Singh came on a wheelchair to cast vote
New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday arrived on a wheelchair to cast his vote in the election of the country’s 15th President. The visuals of the 89-year-old senior Congress…
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US govt ‘tracking’ millions of people with cell phone location data
Washington: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) used huge volumes of people’s cell phone location information quietly extracted from smartphone apps to track their movements on a scale not previously known, the…
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Sanjay Raut junks claims of Sena MPs joining Shinde camp
New Delhi: The Shiv Sena on Monday refuted reports claiming that around a dozen party MPs were planning to join the group led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, and dismissed it as…
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Santhali Trinamool MLA questions Draupadi Murmu’s tribal status
Kolkata: When the BJP announced Draupadi Murmu’s candidature as the National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) presidential candidate, people said that fielding a woman candidate and that too with a tribal background was a…
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Oman: Expatriates banned from working 207 professions
Muscat: The Omani Minister of Labor, Mahad Baween, has issued a decision to ban the non-Omani workforce from practicing 207 professions, as part of the authorities’ plans to localize many jobs, local…
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16 Palestinians arrested in West Bank raids by Israeli forces
The Israeli occupation forces at dawn on Monday launched a large-scale campaign of raids, during which they arrested 16 Palestinian citizens from the governorates of Ramallah, Hebron, Bethlehem and Nablus in the West Bank. According to Palestinian News…
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Trump aide Bannon goes on trial on Monday
Washington: The trial begins on Monday of Steve Bannon, an adviser to former US President Donald Trump, for refusing to testify before a congressional select committee investigating the January 6 riots. The…
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Presidential Poll: Over 99% polling recorded across the country
New Delhi: A total of 11 states and one union territory including Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Puducherry, Sikkim, Mizoram and Tamil Nadu recorded 100 percent voting…
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158 dengue cases in Delhi so far this year
New Delhi: As many as 158 dengue cases have been reported in the national capital so far this year, including at least 15 cases in July, a civic body report said on…
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NEET exam racket busted, 8 held: CBI
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday said it busted an interstate NEET racket and arrested eight members of a gang who were appearing in the exam as proxy…
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Prophet row: Nupur Sharma files new application in Supreme Court
Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Nupur Sharma filed a new application in the Supreme Court of India to revive her withdrawn writ petition. On July 1 she had withdrawn her petition…
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Jharkhand: Teenaged husband killed for asking wife not to wear jeans
Jamtara: The police on Monday detained a teenage girl following a complaint by her in-laws that she killed her 18-year-old husband during a fight over her wearing jeans, an officer in Jharkhand’s Jamtara…
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Debunking fake news is not crime: Amnesty India on Zubair case
New Delhi: Human rights group Amnesty India has demanded immediate and unconditional release of fact-checking website Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair, saying debunking fake news is not a crime. Separate FIRs have…
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Ukraine war: Zelenskyy suspends security chief, top prosecutor
Kiev: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has suspended the head of Ukraine’s spy agency (SBU) and the prosecutor general in the wake of treason cases in the two organisations. President Zelenskyy on Sunday…
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Minor raped, blackmailed in Gujarat; three booked
Palanpur: The Gujarat police have registered a case against three youths over allegations that they blackmailed and threatened to release the nude video clip of a minor girl who was raped by one…
