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A #Bangladeshi student studying at the National Institute of Technology, Silchar in Assam was sent back to her country after she reacted with a 'love' emoji to an anti-India post on social media, police said on Tuesday.
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Brazil's ex-president Jair Bolsonaro takes his legal woes to the street on February 25, calling for a mass protest from supporters amid accusations he plotted a coup to stay in power.
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Legendary playback singer #SPBalasubrahmanyam , known popularly as #SPB , passed away at a private hospital at 1:04 p.m. in Chennai on Friday, at the age of 74 #RIPSPB
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Watch | On Saturday, the Andhra Pradesh Forest Department authorities cut the bark of an Indian laurel tree in Papikonda National Park to find that the tree stores water in the summer. This knowledge was shared with the Forest department by the Konda Reddi tribe, a Particularly
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A Railway Protection Force constable jumped out of a moving MRTS train at Park station in Chennai, got into the adjacent compartment of the train and rescued a woman from the clutches of a 26-year-old man who was attempting to rape her.
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Deputy CM #PawanKalyan along with his daughter Aadhya Sri offer prayers at Kanaka Durga temple on Mula Nakshatram day in Vijayawada on Wednesday. 📸G N Rao
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The Prime Minister’s Office has denied a Right to Information request related to the PM-CARES Fund on the grounds that providing it would “disproportionately divert the resources of the office.”
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Just In | Congress drops Sanjay Jha as party spokesperson. Mr Jha had recently written an opinion piece where he had questioned the party leadership and had said Congress is heading towards political obsolescence.
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#JustIn | Ratan Tata, Tata Sons Chairman Emeritus passes away at 86, Tata Group confirms.
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In 2023, India recorded 668 documented hate speech events that targeted Muslims, according to a report released by India Hate Lab, a Washington DC-based group that documents hate speech against India’s religious minorities.
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JUST IN | #Electoralbonds is the world’s biggest extortion racket run by Prime Minister Narendra Modi: #RahulGandhi , @iAbhinayD reports
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JUST IN | Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union has called for an all night protest outside police headquarters condemning violence #JamiaProtest #JNU
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Fakeerappa, a septuagenarian farmer, had gone to a mall in #Bengaluru with his son to watch a movie at a multiplex. However, he was denied entry owing his attire — a panche (also called a dhoti) and a white shirt. Read the story here:
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Profile | The actor-turned-politician’s bet to bring the BJP and the TDP into an alliance, along with his JSP, has paid off as the NDA swept the State in recent elections. Sumit Bhattacharjee writes.
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#UN | #Journalists should not be jailed for what they write, tweet and say, a spokesperson for UN chief Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday in response to the arrest of Alt News co-founder Mohammed #Zubair in #India .
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#RelianceIndustriesLimited announced that it would set up India’s first dedicated COVID-19 hospital, special quarantine facilities, import additional test kits and enhance production capacities to produce 1,00,000 face-masks per day #CoronavirusOutbreak
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JUST IN | In-flight announcements being made aboard all Tata Group airlines. This video is of Air India Express. @jagritichandra reports. 📹Special arrangement.
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Exclusive: The Defence Ministry had protested against PMO undermining #Rafale negotiations, reports @nramind #RafaleDeal
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Former Chief Minister and YSRCP president YS Jaganmohan Reddy consoling the flood victims at Old Rajarajeswaripeta in Vijayawada. #AndhraFlood #AndhraRain 📸G.N. Rao
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#AbhijitBanerjee , recipient of #NobelPrize2019 for Economics, founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), which has carried out 568 field experiments, or Randomised Control Trials (RCTs), in 10 years in several countries, including India.
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Exclusive | How a decision by Prime Minister Modi caused the price of Rafale jets to go up by 41%
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2 years
JUST IN: #NaatuNaatu from #RRR wins #GoldenGlobe for Best Original Song
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#VineshPhogat through finals at #Paris2024 📸PTI
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Amid allegations made by the parents of late Captain Anshuman Singh against their daughter-in-law Smriti Singh, Army sources clarified that the AGIF of ₹1 crore was split between his wife and parents while the pension goes directly to the spouse. @dperi84 reports.
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#IndiaAt75 | Here's a glimpse of The Hindu's Page One on #IndependenceDay in 1947. #IndependenceDay2022
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4 years
Railway Department will be charging ₹50 extra per passenger travelling in the special trains being operated
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#ElectionsWithTheHindu | Ammunni, an 87-year old voter from Payyanakkal, gets a helping hand from her best friend Ayishabi at a polling station in Kozhikode Lok Sabha constituency, Kerala.
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JUST IN | #Manipur Police commandos lay down arms in protest against attack and abduction of a police officer on Tuesday. Around 200 armed miscreants had stormed the house of a police officer in Imphal East. ASP Moirangthem Amit and his escort were abducted, @vijaita reports.
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Political economist and husband of Union FM Nirmala Sitharaman, Parakala Prabhakar said if the BJP wins the upcoming Lok Sabha polls and PM Narendra Modi is re-elected again in 2024, then there will never be elections in the country again.
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Three days before the Balakot strike, Republic TV Editor Arnab Goswami told former Broadcast Audience Research Council CEO Partho Dasgupta ‘something big will happen’, indicating that he knew about the confidential military action.
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The Sadashivanagar police booked senior BJP leader and former Karnataka CM B.S. Yediyurappa under a section of the POCSO Act, acting on a sexual assault complaint made by the mother of a 17-year-old.
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JUST IN | P.V. Sindhu becomes first Indian to clinch Badminton World Championships gold with win over Nozomi Okuhara. #BWFWorldChampionships2019 #PVSindhu
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"I am putting up posters on my compound wall tomorrow. Come get me. @DelhiPolice @AmitShah ," tweeted Jairam Ramesh"
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Deputy Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Konidela Pawan Kalyan participated in a mega rally organised by his followers and Amaravati farmers on Tuesday, on his first arrival to the Secretariat. 📸: Giri KVS
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Breaking now | Actor Sushant Singh Rajput commits suicide. - PTI
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Police said the allegations against the vendor, Chand Ali, that he spat on the watermelons turned out to be ‘false and baseless’ after a probe and questioning of the locals
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3 years
Just in: #TokyoOlympics | Indian men's #hockey team enters #Olympic semifinals for first time in 49 years after beating #GreatBritain 3-1 in last-eight stage. Photo credit: Getty Images
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A day after The Hindu reported that ‘Passenger Trains’ were being re-designated 'Express' and charged higher fares, Indian Railways on February 27 restored the Second Class Ordinary Fares on these trains, reports @vijaythehindu .
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“I have never seen a more partial Election Commission, it did everything to help BJP....from allowing use of religion to scheduling poll and bending rules, EC did everything to help the BJP,” says #PrashantKishor
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#Infosys founder N.R. Narayana Murthy on Tuesday said that the death of 66 children in #Gambia due to an India-made cough syrup has brought unimaginable shame to the country and also dented the credibility of the country’s pharmaceutical regulatory agency.
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Rampukar Pandit, who became a snapshot of India’s #migrant tragedy with his photograph sobbing by a road in #Delhi , is back in Bihar, broken at not being able to see his son before he died.
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JUST IN | A statue of Maratha Warrior King Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled at a fort in Maharashtra's Sindhudurg district, collapsed on Monday. The 35-foot statue fell around 1 PM at Rajkot Fort in Malvan. @iAbhinayD reports.
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Former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and the Congress alone are the “root cause” of the Jammu and Kashmir “problem”, BSP chief Mayawati has said
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A BJP worker has been arrested for allegedly shouting a pro-Pakistan slogan during a protest held in Mandya in December 2022.
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#JustIn | Election Commission of India suspends official for checking PM's helicopter in Sambalpur, #Odisha
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JUST IN | Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary #SitaramYechury is no more.
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UP CM Yogi Adityanath interacting with media at Lucknow on Friday. Photo: @rajeeevbhatt
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Nine persons have been arrested in connection with posters that question Prime Minister #NarendraModi
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“As 75% of soldiers will become “unemployed” after four years and their total numbers will keep rising every year, it will give a rise to more disaffection among the youth,” Mr. Gandhi said. #AgnipathRecruitmentScheme
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Even before orbiting astronauts on India’s first manned mission to the space in December 2021, #ISRO will send #Vyomamitra , a lady robot, in unmanned #Gaganyaan spacecraft.
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The hotel where Prime Minister #NarendraModi stayed during his visit to Mysuru in April 2023 has threatened legal action for non-settlement of bills amounting to ₹80.6 lakh.
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#Congress on Friday alleged that over two lakh vacancies were pending in the #RRB & #SSC . Despite the authorities collecting over ₹1000 crore as exam fees, the fate of 2.5 crore applicants continues to hang in balance #RRBExamDates
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Just In: GDP India’s economic growth slows to 5% in April-June from 8% a year ago: Govt data (PTI)
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Trinamool Congress MP Saket Gokhale filed a complaint against PM Modi with the ECI for violating the Model Code of Conduct for using an Indian Air Force helicopter to attend an election rally in AC 96-Chilakaluripet in Palnadu, Andhra Pradesh
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Just in | Twitter CEO, top officials decline to appear before Parliamentary Committee on IT: panel sources - PTI
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4 years
Chinese troops have further transgressed into Indian territory and occupied positions in Finger 2 and 3 of the north bank of Pangong Tso (lake), former #BJP Member of Parliament Thupstan Chhewang, who represented #Ladakh , has claimed .
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JUST IN | Jana Sena Party president #PawanKalyan taking charge as the Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Panchayat Raj & Rural Development, Rural Water Supply, Environment, Forest and Science and Technology at his camp office in Vijayawada.
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Watch | The pre-monsoon rain that lashed Uttar Pradesh’s #Ayodhya has resulted in water logging incidents being reported from many areas.
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Just in: #TokyoOlympics | #PVSindhu wins #bronze medal at Tokyo Olympics, beating China's He Bing Jao 21-13 21-15 in third-place playoff. - PTI
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“If something happens during a Flap 3 landing, then the question would be asked to the pilot if he or she cares more about saving fuel or 180 passengers lives,” Captain Gaurav Taneja had said #AirAsia
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“India is a big country with a rich culture and heritage. Why does the PM regularly compare our nation with #Pakistan ?" #MamataBanerjee asks
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#PMModi lays foundation for Ram temple in #Ayodhya , bhoomi pujan completed. Updates: #RamMandir #RamMandirAyodhya
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A view of snow-covered train on railway track at Banihal, Jammu & Kashmir. Photos: Nissar Ahmad
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The #BJP spent at least ₹39,41,78,750 on around 80,667 political advertisements through Google between January 1 and April 11, according to statistics from Google’s Ads Transparency Center.
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Profile | #ShehbazSharif is known to have facilitated back channel talks with India for his brother, reportedly using his business connections with Indian steel magnate Sajjan Jindal, writes @suhasinih
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Watch: India's tallest waterfall is in full flow due to heavy rains in Karnataka.
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Solicitor General Tushar Mehta objects to Delhi CM writing to Industrialist Sajjan Jindal seeking Oxygen & tankers. Mr Mehta said any surplus Oxygen produced by industries in India has to go the central corpus for disbursement to States according to their needs. -via @rockysoibam
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This is a heritage #jackfruit tree in #Panruti , Tamil Nadu. The tree which is more than 200 years old, yields 150-200 fruits a year, weighing 3 kg to 12 kg. 📸: S.S. Kumar
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Smile of glory! 🌟🏅🏅 Manu Bhaker displays both of her medals from the #ParisOlympics2024 📸 Ritu Raj Konwar ( @RRKonwar )
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Cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni gets Padma Bhushan. #PadmaBhushan #Dhoni
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JUST IN | Hindenburg alleges Sebi head, husband had stakes in obscure offshore funds used in Adani money siphoning; No immediate comments from Sebi. Source: PTI
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“I cannot understand why the #police are repeatedly subjecting the children of 9 to 12 age group to mental torture. The #harassment will affect them in the long run,” Tauseef Madikeri, CEO of Shaheen Group of Institutions, said. #sedition
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Just in | The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court takes suo motu cognisance of #Hathras incident and issues notices to the Uttar Pradesh government. (PTI)
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Just in: #ElonMusk overtakes Amazon's Bezos to become world's richest person. | Reuters
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. #UkraineRussiaCrisis | A video shared by a parent shows students at the Shehyni border crossing between #Ukraine and #Poland being attacked by Ukrainian police and soldiers.
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Leading Tamil film actor Ajith Kumar categorically stated that he will not enter politics either “directly or indirectly”. #Ajith
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Just in: #AirIndia Express aircraft from Dubai to Calicut with 191 passengers crashes after overshooting the runway and going into the valley. Fire tenders and ambulances rushed to the spot. - @jagritichandra reports Courtsey- Airport source
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A group of #UnitedNations experts on Friday issued a statement in Geneva, urging India to release the “human rights defenders who have been arrested for protesting against changes to the nation’s #citizenship laws”.
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"Not all battles are fought for victory. Some are fought simply to tell the world that someone was there on the battle field," #RavishKumar said as he received the 2019 #RamonMagsaysayAward .
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi hit out at PM-designate Narendra Modi over the NEET-UG medical entrance row, saying the alleged "irregularities" in the examination have devastated more than 24 lakh students even before he takes oath for a new term in office.
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If #Gandhi were alive today, he would have launched a satyagraha in #Kashmir asking the Union government to retract the repealing of #Article370 , says freedom fighter Freedom fighter H.S. Doreswamy
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