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New Year High: Telugu states sell liquor worth Rs 300 cr
Hyderabad/Amaravati: The New Year celebrations in Telugu states saw liquor sales of nearly Rs 300 crore. In Telangana, tipplers guzzled liquor worth Rs 172 crore in a single day, while in neighbouring…
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‘Will only say Happy New Year’: Wankhede ducks question on NCB tenure
New Delhi: The extension given to Narcotic Control Bureau’s (NCB) Mumbai Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede ended on December 31, but it is understood that he will continue in the post till further…
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Jamia among 6000 entities whose foreign funding licence has ended
New Delhi: IIT Delhi, Jamia Milia Islamia, Indian Medical Association and Nehru Memorial Museum and Library are among nearly 6,000 entities whose FCRA registration deemed to have ceased on Saturday. These entities either…
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Afghan man sells 10-yr-old daughter to keep family from starving
Herat: A man in west Afghanistan’s Herat province sold his 10-year-old daughter for marriage without telling his wife, in order to keep his other children alive and fed. The desperate father took…
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Hyderabad: Customer complains of fungus in Karachi Bakery sweets
Hyderabad: A customer from the city has complained that the packaged sweets he purchased from the Karachi Bakery branch in Khajaguda have fungus formed on them. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC)…
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KTR urges Centre to transfer defence land for skyways in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Telangana’s minister for municipal administration and urban development K.T. Rama Rao on Saturday urged the Centre to transfer defence land for construction of two skyways and ministry of home affairs land…
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Customers contest Ola CEO’s claim ‘all electric scooters dispatched’
New Delhi: Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal on Friday claimed that the company has dispatched electric scooters to all its buyers. “Update on December deliveries: we have dispatched vehicles to all who purchased.…
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India supplies 5 lakh Covaxin doses to Afghanistan
New Delhi: India supplied humanitarian assistance consisting of 5,00,000 Covaxin doses to Afghanistan on Saturday, the Ministry of External Affairs said. The doses were handed over to the Indira Gandhi Hospital in…
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Indian Express slammed for Islamophobic front-page ad, contributors register protest
The Indian Express, a prominent nationwide English daily newspaper, is under fire for an ‘Islamophobic’ front page advertisement funded by the Uttar Pradesh government. The ad promoted the UP govt’s claim that…
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US knee-deep in pandemic chaos as New Year rung in
New York: The latest surge of coronavirus with the variants of Omicron and Delta combined has kept the US in complicated chaos of understaffed medical services as well as cancelled flights, while…
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US shatters daily Covid-19 cases record again
Washington: The US set a new record high of over 640,000 daily Covid-19 cases, according to latest data of Johns Hopkins University. A total of 647,067 new cases and 1,409 new deaths…
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Lockdown, night curfew no solution to deal with Omicron: Director Health Dept
Hyderabad: The Director of Health Department Dr. Srinivas Rao said that the lockdown or night curfew is not the solution to control coronavirus or its new variant “Omicron”. Speaking to the media…
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Harith Noah, India’s lone representative, hoping for good start in Dakar
Jeddah (Saudi Arabia): India’s Harith Noah is all set for a third innings in Dakar 2022 as the toughest and longest cross-country rally in the World acquires a double World Championship status…
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MP: Over 90 persons shave heads for no covid death in their village in 2021
Bhopal: Over 90 residents of a village in Madhya Pradesh’s Neemuch district got their heads tonsured and held a mass feast at a temple to thank the deity for ensuring “zero fatality”…
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No communal violence since the formation of Telangana: DGP
Hyderabad: The Director-General of Police M Mahendar Reddy on Friday said that his top priority will be to maintain law and order and keep the state free from criminals and Maoists. Addressing…
