Women empowerment key to economic growth too: President

President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday said women empowerment was not just an issue of social justice but it was also crucial for economic development. Highlighting that the low participation of women in the workforce is a major hindrance in the overall development of the country, she said India, the fifth largest economy in the world, is now moving towards becoming a five trillion dollar economy and a more active role for women would be helpful in achieving this goal.

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Govt in SC for open-court hearing of review of Benami law judgment

The SC agreed to consider the Centre’s submissions for an open court hearing of its plea seeking review of the judgment by which several provisions of the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Act, 2016 were struck down. The court had struck down section 3(2) and section 5 of Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 1988, and one of the provisions which provided for the punishment of a maximum jail term of three years or a fine or both for those indulging in ‘benami’ transactions.

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Study: More cold wave days in India in recent decade

India may have seen a number of record-breaking warm years in the recent decades, but there has been no let-up in the extreme cold waves in the country despite global warming, an IITM study has indicated. The analysis, led by IITM scientists Raju Mandal and Susmitha Joseph, took into account the number of cold wave events in the last seven decades, 1951–2022, and found that more cold wave days are occurring in the recent decades than in the previous ones.

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President’s speech is like BJP manifesto for 2024: Opposition

Opposition parties on Tuesday criticised the President’s address alleging that the speech was like the “first chapter” of BJP’s manifesto for 2024 and key issues related to controlling prices, communal harmony and women were “missing”.

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In a first, Andhra siblings study together in RIMC

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10,918 vs 10,340: Local patent filings beat overseas ones

Patent filings by Indian applications were estimated at 10,918 during the December quarter, compared with 10,340 applications lodged by non-domestic entities, marking the second time during 2022 when quarterly filings by domestic players were higher.

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Asked why she was out late, UP woman throws acid on hubby

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'I understand pain of violence; Modi, Shah and Doval can’t'

Clubbing PM Narendra Modi, home minister Amit Shah, NSA Ajit Doval and the RSS as “perpetrators of violence”, Rahul Gandhi on Monday said those who indulge in violence without suffering it personally cannot understand the pain it causes, projecting himself as the person who has witnessed killings in the family and carries the message of peace and amity.

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1/3rd of undergraduate students in India doing BA: Survey

Over 78.9% of 4.1 crore students in higher education are enrolled at the undergraduate level, and of the total enrolled students over one crore are pursuing BA. Another 17 lakh (4.2%) of the students are doing BA (Hons) from various higher education institutions. This was revealed in the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2020-21 released on Sunday by the ministry of education.

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SC to hear plea on documentary on PM Modi; waste of court’s time, says Rijiju

The SC on Monday agreed to hear a plea challenging the government’s decision to block the BBC documentary on 2002 Gujarat riots, leading law minister Kiren Rijiju to target petitioners for “wasting the precious time of SC”. The joint petition alleging that criticism of the government or its policies does not tantamount to violating sovereignty and integrity of the country and blocking critical views is unconstitutional. The court posted hearing on February 6.

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Adani Group loses 29% market value in 3 days

The massive sell-off in Adani Group stocks continued for the third consecutive session on Monday, wiping out nearly Rs 1.4 lakh crore worth of investors’ wealth. In all, about 29% of the group’s market capitalisation, or about Rs 5.6 lakh crore, has been eroded in the last three trading sessions.

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Adani bets on big funds for Rs 20,000 cr FPO

Institutional investors are fully backing the Rs 20,000-crore follow-on public offer (FPO) for Adani Enterprises (AEL) even though the stock is below the offer price. However the company is not sure how retail investors will look at the issue at the current market price. However, it is confident some high net worth and ultra-high net worth investors (UHNIs) will participate in it.

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No tie-up with Nitish at any cost in future: Bihar BJP

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Domestic patent filings now more than overseas ones: PM Modi

PM Modi said on Sunday that for the first time in 11 years the number of domestic patent filings exceeded overseas filings, pointing to an increased drive towards innovation in the country. While detailed data was not readily available, Modi said that India now ranked as the 7th highest on the list of countries for patent filing and 5th on trademarks and had made significant gains on the Global Innovation Index.

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Rahul must thank PM for Lal Chowk flag feat: BJP

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50,000 years on, 'green comet' comes visiting again

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), popularly known as the "green comet", which last visited Earth's neighbourhood 50,000 years ago when the Neanderthals were still roaming its surface, can now be viewed in India with a pair of binoculars from a dark location. It may further brighten in the next few days and become visible to the naked eye as it makes its closest pass of the Earth on February 2.

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Growth indicator: India's night lights up 43% in 10 yrs

Decadal Change of Night Time Light over India from Space (2012-2021), released by Isro’s National Remote Sensing Centre — shows that overall at the national level, normalised NTL radiance increased by 43% in 2021 compared to 2012. Significant increase was observed in Bihar (474%), Manipur (441%), Ladakh (280%) and Kerala (119%), while good increase was observed in Arunachal Pradesh (66%), MP (66%), UP (61%) and Gujarat (58%).

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FIR lodged over religious slogans in AMU on R-Day

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Centre set to integrate forensic probe with justice system: Shah

Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday said the Centre will integrate forensic science-based investigation with the justice system to increase the conviction rate which is around 50% currently. Shah said the conviction rate in Canada is 62%, Israel 93%, UK 80% and the US 90%. He was in Dharwad on Saturday to lay the foundation stone for the ninth off-campus facility of the National Forensic Sciences University.

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Court sets aside order on summons to Shetty sisters

Observing that the order against them was not proper or legal, in a relief to actor Shilpa Shetty Kundra and her sister Shamita Shetty, a Mumbai court recently quashed and set aside a 2022 magistrate court order issuing summons to them in a Rs21 lakh cheating case. The court, however, said the proceedings will continue against their mother Sunanda after finding that a prima facie case was made out against her.

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HC: Merely naming caste not an offence under SC/ST Act

Merely taking the name of the caste of the victim would not make it an offence under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, unless it is with an intention to insult the person belonging to that caste, the Karnataka high court observed recently.

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Govt forms 3 panels to address plaints against social media cos

The Centre has notified three grievances appellate committees that will address users' complaints against social media and other internet-based platforms. According to a notification, each of the three GACs (grievances appellate committees) will have a chairperson, two whole-time members from different government entities and retired senior executives from the industry for a term of three years.

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EPFO to review cases of extra pension payment

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7 dead in shooting outside east Jerusalem synagogue

A gunman killed seven people at an east Jerusalem synagogue on Friday, Israeli police said, in a dramatic escalation of violence that followed a deadly raid in the West Bank a day earlier. The shooting in the Neve Yaakov neighbourhood of Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem came even as international calls for calm mounted after Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip traded missile fire earlier Friday.

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India modernising nuke arsenal with eye on China: US report

India continues to modernise its nuclear arsenal and operationalise its nascent triad, and the country's nuke strategy, traditionally focused on Pakistan, now appears to place increased emphasis on China, says a 2022 report of the Federation of American Scientists. At least four new weapon systems are under development to complement or replace the country's existing nuclear-capable aircraft, land-based delivery systems and submarine launched missiles, it said.

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India now home to 70% of world’s tigers, govt tells SC

The Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that there is an annual growth of 6% in tiger population, which offset natural losses. India achieved the target of doubling the tiger population in 2018, four years ahead of schedule of the St Petersburg Declaration on tiger conservation, it said. and is now home to 70% of world’s tigers.

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Adani Group stocks hammered, investors lose Rs 4.2L cr in 2 days

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Indus Waters Treaty amendment: India sends notice to Pakistan

Citing Pakistani "intransigence" and unilateral actions related to the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), India has sent a notice to Islamabad for its modification.

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Gender Gap Report should record women in local govt bodies: WEF

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Egypt plans to allot land to Indian industries in spl eco zone

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Offal meat in burger? New tech to spot 'adulteration'

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Telangana CM KCR, governor hold separate R-Day events

Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao followed the high court's orders and ensured that the official Republic Day parade took place at Raj Bhavan on Thursday. But he did not turn up for the flag-hoisting nor send any of his cabinet colleagues for the event, further straining the relationship between him and governor Tamilisai Sounderarajan.

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No backchannel talks with India by Sharif govt: Pak minister

Pakistan had no backchannel diplomacy with India since PM Shehbaz Sharif's govt took office, junior foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar said. PM Sharif had said last week that PM Modi should hold serious talks to address all "burning points", including Kashmir. A day later, the PM's office changed its position and stated that talks with India can happen only after it reverses its action of abrogating J&K's special status.

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Meta to restore Trump's Facebook, Instagram accounts

Meta Platforms Inc said on Wednesday it will restore former US President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks, following a two-year suspension after the deadly Capitol Hill riot on January 6, 2021. Trump has 34 million followers on Facebook and 23 million on Instagram.

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Students plan to screen BBC docu at TISS Mum, Kol varsities

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ED can't probe any offence other than laundering: HC

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Google changes India app store policy after CCI order

Google has started to make changes to its policy dealing with apps and digital ecosystem, after it failed to get any immediate relief from the courts against the CCI order, which found it abusing dominance and engaging in anti-competitive practices in India. Now, the US tech giant will allow smartphone makers to license its apps individually, instead of the entire bouquet.

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Constitution source of unity, reflects spirit of India: President Murmu

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Mulayam Singh, Zakir Hussain, Dilip Mahalanabis among 6 Padma Vibhushan awardees

ORS (oral rehydration solution) pioneer Dilip Mahalanabis will receive the Padma Vibhushan (posthumous) in the field of Medicine (Pediatrics), the Centre announced on Wednesday. A total of 25 other personalities across various walks of life will be awarded the Padma Shri.

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Rural folks have equal right to healthcare as city dwellers: SC

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India's first passenger drone to be showcased by Navy on Republic Day

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MCD House adjourns once again without electing mayor, deputy

Delhi may have given its verdict and elected a new corporation in the first few days of December but it seems set for an agonising wait before the corporators can get down to business. After the House was adjourned on January 6 amidst unprecedented scenes, it reconvened on Tuesday but once again failed to elect the mayor, deputy mayor and standing committee members.

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On parole, Dera chief cuts cake with sword, says ‘should cut five’

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Rishi Sunak under pressure over BBC and party chairmen appointments

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Assam cops told to round up men who’ve married underage girls

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Many NCR projects in bankruptcy court, IBC changes key for homebuyers

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Power restoration underway in Pakistan, government says

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A 1st this R-Day: Only ‘Made in India’ weapons on display

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Is Joshimath route only option for this year’s Badrinath yatra?

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Army chief reviews Arunachal LAC preparedness

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Police to act against parents of kids using Chinese string in Punjab

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Now, Swami Prasad Maurya targets Ramcharitmanas, calls for ban

Close on the heels of the statement by Bihar education minister Chandra Shekhar, claiming that ‘the Ramcharitmanas promoted social discrimination and spread hatred in society’, Samajwadi Party MLC Swami Prasad Maurya on Sunday said that certain verses of the Tulsidas’s book were casteist in nature and derogatory to backwards and Dalits, and should be removed.

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India preparing for big leap in quantum tech: Jitendra Singh

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How Gonda strongman’s career soared before wrestlers’ move

The footnote to six-time MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh's political CV would be a long chronology of criminal cases — at one point totalling 30 FIRs, including one filed under the erstwhile Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act.

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‘Sane view’, says Rijiju of high court ex-judge’s collegium criticism

Amid the ongoing wrangle between the Centre and the judiciary over appointment of judges through the collegium system, Union law minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday cited in his Twitter handle an interview of Justice RS Sodhi (retd), a former judge of the Delhi high court. Sodhi had remarked that the Supreme Court “has for the first time hijacked the Constitution” to such an extent that judges have decided to appoint judges, negating the role of the government.

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Youth stabbed to death trying to stop duo, from snatching his mobile

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63 lakh cases pending in lower courts due to ‘lack of counsel’, says National Judicial Data Grid

Of the over four crore cases pending in lower courts in the country, about 63 lakh cases remain undecided because of non-availability of counsel, according to the National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG), as of January 20. At least 78% of such cases are criminal and the rest civil.

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Ever-evolving ‘tech allies’ help cops follow e-footprints to nab criminals

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‘Missing’ ponds responsible for Joshimath subsidence?

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9 hurt in twin blasts on Jammu outskirts

At least nine people were wounded in two synchronised explosions that police suspect were set off by IEDs planted in two vehicles parked in the busy industrial area of Narwal on the outskirts of Jammu city between 11am and 11.20am Saturday.

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9 hurt in twin blasts on Jammu outskirts

At least nine people were wounded in two synchronised explosions that police suspect were set off by IEDs planted in two vehicles parked in the busy industrial area of Narwal on the outskirts of Jammu city between 11am and 11.20am Saturday.

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‘Missing’ ponds responsible for Joshimath subsidence?

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Centre sacks WFI assistant secretary for backing chief

A day after brokering a peace deal and asking Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh to ‘step aside’ pending inquiry into the allegations of sexual harassment and intimidation against him, Union sports minister Anurag Thakur on Saturday dismissed WFI’s assistant secretary Vinod Tomar with immediate effect for his public remarks in Gonda defending Singh, a BJP strongman and six-time Lok Sabha MP.

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Fraud in MBBS admissions: Bombay HC stays acquittal

The Bombay high court has granted interim stay on a magistrate's order of acquittal in a cheating case against former president of the Satara-based Shri Chhatrapati Shivaji Education Society Mahadev Deshmukh and five others who allegedly defrauded around 350 students of Rs 29 crore by promising MBBS admissions. In November 2022, the magistrate had acquitted the accused after one of the 95 victims reached a compromise with them before the Lok Adalat.

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Cops call in divers to trace body of medic killed by Mumbai lifeguard

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Sena vs Sena: Uddhav’s term as prez ends before EC hearing

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Wrestlers end protest after assurances, WFI chief Sharan to step aside

The aggrieved grapplers called off their protest late on Friday night after getting assurances from the government that their grievances would be addressed, the first step of which was the stepping aside of under-fire Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. The wrestlers, decided to end their protest after a breakthrough was achieved during a second round of talks with union sports minister Anurag Thakur.

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Cyber security, data theft new-age policing challenges: Amit Shah

Home minister Amit Shah on Friday said challenges to policing have now drastically transformed: from tackling geographical problems like terrorism and unrest in J&K, Left-wing extremism and unrest in the northeast to countering new-age “thematic” threats of cyber security and data theft, with problems becoming multi-dimensional as narco-terror and fourth-generation warfare catch on.

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More girl wrestlers are coming forward to report abuse: Vinesh Phogat

Vinesh, who is spearheading the campaign for Singh's removal as the WFI chief over charges of sexual harrasment, also alleged that several complaints of sexual abuse and mistreatment of boys wrestlers were reported to the federation's higher-ups but no action was taken on them.

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‘They won’t impinge on candidate’s integrity’

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Collegium picks 20 for judge posts in 3 high courts

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Let CMs recommend names to collegium for HC judge posts: Rijiju

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As EC announces polls, violence rocks Tripura

A 44-year-old worker of Tripura royal scion Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarma’s tribal TIPRA Motha party was dragged out of his vehicle in Dhalai district late Wednesday and fatally assaulted, coinciding with the announcement of assembly polls on February 16 and the Election Commission’s warning of zero tolerance towards violence.

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Railways earnings jump 28%, set to cross budget target in weeks

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Uttarakhand CM says 70% of Joshimath residents leading ‘normal lives’

During his meeting with home minister Amit Shah in Delhi on Wednesday, Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami said “65% to 70% of Joshimath residents were leading a normal life and only 30% have been affected by land subsidence”. Dhami reiterated his remark in Dehradun on Thursday.

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Adani’s ₹20k crore FPO to help lower debt

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PhD scholar killed by car near IIT gate

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Joshimath crisis keeps tourists away from Auli

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Harsh riders amount to denying bail, says SC

Observing that harsh and excessive conditions for bail amount to denying bail, the Supreme Court disapproved of the practice of imposing such conditions resulting in the accused languishing in jail. A bench of Justices Krishna Murari and V Ramasubramanian said that jail is the exception and grant of bail is the rule and in such a scenario, the conditions imposed on bail must not be unreasonable.

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Steepest drop in reading skills in Kerala, HP, Haryana

Children’s basic reading ability has dropped to pre-2012 levels, reversing the slow improvement achieved in the intervening years, while the basic maths skills have declined to 2018 levels nationally. This emerged in the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2022 released on Wednesday, according to which the decline in learning outcome has reversed to the levels of a decade ago.

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Centre vs Delhi: SG makes late plea for larger SC bench

On the final and fifth day of arguments, prior to the SC reserving its verdict on the dispute between the Centre and Delhi government over control on ‘services’, solicitor general Tushar Mehta told a bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices MR Shah, Krishna Murari, Hima Kohli and PS Narasimha that the issue is crucial for governance of the national capital and so that “history may not remember us as having handed over the capital of our nation to complete anarchy”.

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CMs of Delhi, Punjab, Kerala to attend BRS meet

Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will begin his battle against the BJP ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections by sharing the stage with three other chief ministers and a former chief minister at a public rally in Khammam on Wednesday.

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Chhattisgarh BJP neta out for morning walk found dead

The secretary of BJP's Jagdalpur district unit in Bastar was found dead under mysterious circumstances after going out for his daily morning walk on Tuesday.

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As China lifts hold, UNSC lists Makki as global terrorist

Pakistan-based leader of UN proscribed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) Abdul Rehman Makki, who is also the brother-in-law of most wanted Hafiz Saeed, was designated a global terrorist by the UN Security Council after China dropped its technical hold over a proposal to list him under the UNSC's ISIL (Da'esh) and Al Qaida Sanctions Committee.

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Joshimath sinking: Question mark hangs over Badrinath yatra

Joshimath is regarded as the gateway and the only route to the holy town of Badrinath. But after several places in Joshimath were put under the "danger zone" category, questions are now being raised on the road to be taken to the popular shrine. The state had recently said the yatra would not be affected. Under the Char Dham road project, authorities are preparing a "by-pass to Badrinath" but the project is still halfway through.

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India No. 1 ? China's population dips for first time in 60 years

China's National Bureau of Statistics reported a drop of roughly 850,000 people for a population of 1.41175 billion in 2022, the first dip since 1961, the last year of China's great famine. That possibly makes India the world's most populous nation.

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'RRR' actor Jr NTR to star in a Marvel film? Here's what we know

We all know that 'RRR' star Jr NTR was present at the Golden Globe Awards ceremony in the US recently. During an interaction with international media there, Jr NTR said that Iron Man is his all-time favourite character when asked what kind of Hollywood movies he would star in if he gets a chance. He also said that he would love to do a Marvel film and is awaiting a call from Marvel Entertainment.

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SC to consider live-streaming hearings in imp cases

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BBC under fire from PIOs over series attacking Modi

The series description states: “A look at the tensions between Indian PM Narendra Modi and India’s Muslim minority, investigating claims about his role in 2002 riots that left over a thousand dead.”

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Russia is fourth biggest source of imports for India

Imports from Russia have jumped five times to $32.9 billion in Apr-Dec, making it India's fourth largest trading partner. Russia moved up from 20th place last financial year due to the surge in crude inflows. Overall, India's imports fell 3% to $58.2bn, exports fell 12% to $34.5bn in December 2022.

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Plane crash: Kin leave for Nepal to identify charred bodies

A family member each of the four young men from UP's Ghazipur killed in Sunday's plane crash in Nepal's Pokhara left for Kathmandu by road on Monday, hoping to quickly bring back their loved ones' bodies for cremation after a possibly difficult identification process that could require DNA sampling.

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After hotels, damaged homes in Joshimath colony to come down

This would be the second major demolition exercise after the administration a few days ago began to raze two of Joshimath's biggest hotels. There are over 30 houses in the colony, many of them with large cracks, which a resident said "seem to be getting bigger."

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PMO team in town; 2 more hotels tilting

A team from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), led by deputy secretary Mangesh Ghildiyal, reached Joshimath on Sunday and inspected affected areas around the town.

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Aware of middle class issues: FM Sitharaman ahead of Budget

Ahead of the Budget, FM Nirmala Sitharaman said that she was aware of the pressures of the middle class but also recalled that the government has not imposed any fresh taxes on them.

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Hordes of rodents invade Puri shrine, servitors raise alarm

The famous Jagannath temple in Puri has been invaded by hordes of rodents - nibbling away at the attires of sibling gods Jagannath, Balabhadra and goddess Subhadra - worrying shrine officials, who have raised an alarm.

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72 years on, India's oldest pending case finally settled

India's oldest litigation at 72 years was disposed of last week by a bench of the country's oldest high court, whose current Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava was born a full decade after the case had been filed in 1951.

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Most landslides on Joshimath road to Rishikesh ‘fresh’: Study

As many as 309 "fully or partially road-blocking landslides" were identified along the 247-km road between Rishikesh and Joshimath - an average of 1.25 landslides per km - according to a study by a team of Indian and foreign scientists, which was introduced for discussion at European Geosciences Union on January 10.

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Popular Telugu-Tamil writer Bala murugan passes away

Recently we have seen several film stalwarts passing away one after the other such as Krishna, Krishnam Raju, Kaikala Sathyanarayana and Chalapathi Rao. Now, there is yet another tragedy in the southern film industry. Popular Tamil-Telugu story writer Shri. Balamurugan, who wrote several films in Tamil film Industry besides writing a few Telugu cinema has passed away today. He was 86 years old and was unwell.

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''Surgical strike' a failure, commander Hidma alive'

A security force operation seems to have come close to Maoist military commander Hidma, mastermind of some of the most brutal massacres in Bastar, but he escaped yet again. A woman Maoist was killed in the operation near the Chhattisgarh-Telangana border on January 11 this year.

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UP constable 'molests' varsity student in train

A constable has been arrested for allegedly molesting a 17-year-old student of Allahabad University in a moving train as she was on her way to Pilibhit from Prayagraj Friday. The cop fled with her luggage.

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Terror act: Police seize grenades from rented Jahangirpuri house

The two alleged terrorists arrested by Delhi Police's special cell on Thursday had murdered a man, chopped his body into pieces and filmed the act, including the beheading, the police have claimed. They also sent the video to their foreign-based handlers, including an ISI operative, to prove their worth, claimed sources.

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Joshimath: After Isro report, NDMA gags govt organisations

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has directed government officials and institutions not to "interact with media and share data on social media regarding ground subsidence at Joshimath", reports Gaurav Talwar.

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Parts of Joshimath may have sunk over 2ft: Ground survey

Parts of Joshimath may have sunk by nearly 2.2 feet (70cm), sources told TOI on Saturday on the basis of ground investigation of affected areas carried out recently in the picturesque town, which is facing aggravated land subsidence since the beginning of January.

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Maha seeks to placate villages near Karnataka border

A day after representatives from 42 villages of Jat taluka in Sangli district bordering Karnataka met CM Eknath Shinde, the irrigation department on Friday floated a tender worth Rs 981 crore for works under the Phase III of Mhaisal Lift Irrigation Project.

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Lawyer carries polio-hit client to courtroom

The judiciary bears an onerous responsibility on its shoulders - Kerala lawyer Rayin KR believes he does so too, taking the proverb to its literal heights by carrying a physically challenged plaintiff to the first floor of a Kottayam court

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Amid Joshimath evacuation, fresh snowfall in Auli adds to woes

Amid evacuations and demolitions, the residents had to endure a sudden drop in temperature following a fresh spell of snowfall in Auli, around 10km from the town, on Friday.

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Gay rights voice Onir Dhar's lit fest talk scrapped

Onir was due to speak on "Making Literature LGBTQ Neutral" on Friday. Onir told TOI he was quite upset that his session was "arbitrarily cancelled". "I'm appalled that no official reason has yet been given," he said.

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Supreme Court: Why no arrest in '21 Delhi hate speech case?

Petitioner Tushar Gandhi said there was an explicit call for violence at the Dharam Sansad and yet in flagrant violation of the SC's Tehseen Poonawala judgment directing expeditious action against hate-mongers, police has taken virtually no action.

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1st op in Joshimath, govt starts razing 2 big hotels

Out of fear that one hotel is tilting dangerously and may collapse on the other, owners of the two establishments in Joshimath who had been protesting for three days against the planned demolition of the buildings finally agreed to it on Thursday. It set the stage for the first demolition in Joshimath, where hundreds of houses and roads have developed cracks and are crumbling.

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Anushka moves HC against Maha's 1.2cr tax demand

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In message to courts, presiding officers say respect boundaries

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J'khand HC cites ED findings, rejects bail plea of Soren aide

The Jharkhand high court on Tuesday rejected the bail application of Prem Prakash, a close associate of Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren, while validating the findings of the Enforcement Directorate, which is probing the money trail in alleged illegal mining worth Rs 1,000 crore.

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PM: Global South must create new world order

PM Narendra Modi on Thursday exhorted developing countries to work towards redesigning global political and financial governance to remove inequalities, enlarge opportunities, support growth and spread progress and prosperity. Modi called for creating a new world order to ensure welfare of citizens of the developing countries, as he emphasised the next phase of global growth will come from countries in the South.

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CPM & Cong have agreed on Tripura pre-poll pact: Yechury

CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury said on Wednesday that the party has agreed to form a pre-poll alliance with Congress for the upcoming assembly elections in Tripura. The alliance is likely to jointly announced by Congress and CPM over the weekend. Congress leader Mukul Wasnik, the senior observor for Tripura polls, and Yechury were in Agartala, where the CPM chief made the announcement.

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U'khand increases Joshimath aid 30x to 1.5L per family

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No amount of alcohol is safe for drinking, warns WHO

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Urination case: Court dismisses Mishra’s bail plea

Terming the alleged act of Shankar Mishra urinating on an elderly woman on board an Air India flight last November under the influence of alcohol “utterly disgusting and repulsive”, and “sufficient to outrage the modesty of any woman”, a Delhi court on Wednesday dismissed his bail plea.

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Dhankhar, Birla oppose ‘overstep by judiciary’

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Golden Globe Awards 2023 live updates

The golden night of Hollywood is here – the Golden Globe Awards 2023 is on in full swing with Hollywood royalty and television’s greats coming together to celebrate the best in cinema. Glitz, glamour and grandeur are at its peak at this gala. Comedian Jerrod Carmichael will be hosting the entertaining evening. This year the Golden Globe Awards are extra special for India with RRR bagging a nomination in Best Picture (Non-English language) and Best Song categories. Top contenders for the night also include 'Avatar: The Way of Water', 'Top Gun: Maverick' and 'Elvis'. The Golden Globes also honours the best in television and are voted for by members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Keep watching this space for more updates.

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4 years after clean air mission, ‘marginal’ gain in some cities

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Govt to set up micro seismic observatories

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Collegium sends names to govt for appointment as HC judges

The Supreme Court collegium has recommended to the Centre names of eight persons for appointment as judges in five different high courts. The names included that of judicial officer Golmei Gaiphulshillu Kabui who, if cleared by the Centre, would be the first woman from the ST community to become a judge of Manipur HC. The collegium comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices S K Kaul and K M Joseph on Monday also recommended the names of two other women.

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Don’t convert single units in Chandigarh into apartments: SC

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All Omicron variants in air, but no rise in mortality: Survey

A community-based surveillance conducted by the government has found that all Omicron variants - from BA.2 and XBB to BQ.1 and their respective sub-lineages — are circulating in the country. However, on the brighter side, the surveillance report suggests that the presence of these variants has not led to any increase in either mortality or transmission of Covid-1.

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DGCA issues notice to AI over unruly flyers on Paris flight

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‘CBI’s reasons for arrest casual’: HC gives Kochhars bail

The Bombay high court on Monday ordered the release of Chanda Kochhar, former CEO and MD of ICICI Bank, and her businessman-husband Deepak Kochhar on bail after holding that their arrest by the CBI four years following an FIR in a loan-fraud case was “unacceptable”.

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Supreme Court: No bar on states to set up panel for UCC

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Magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes Indonesia -EMSC

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Live: Ukraine rejects Russian claim of 'retaliatory strike'

Russia's bombing of regions in eastern Ukraine killed at least two people, local officials said on Sunday, after Moscow ended a self-declared Christmas ceasefire and vowed to push on with combat until it reaches a victory over its neighbour. Stay with TOI for live updates-

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Over 6,900 domestic violence plaints filed by women in 2022

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PM dials Dhami, promises ‘all financial & technical support’

PM Narendra Modi had a telephonic conversation with Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Sunday morning. Dhami informed the PM about the situation in Joshimath as well as plans for rehabilitation and arrangements being made in light of several houses developing cracks amid fears that the town is ‘sinking’.

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Govt to disband telecom body DCC

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1.9°C at main city station as Delhi faces extended cold wave

Delhi suffered its fourth consecutive cold wave day on Sunday, with the minimum at the city’s base station Safdarjung falling below 2 degrees Celsius for the first time in two years and the city experiencing one of its worst fog spells of the season with nine hours of lower than 200m visibility. Over 100 flights were delayed at IGI Airport due to dense fog and 42 trains were running late.

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Joshimath sinking: Army base in town reports cracks

Not long ago, the Indian and US armies conducted the 18th edition of the ‘Yudh Abhyas’ bilateral exercise in Auli, just 6km from Joshimath, in November 2022. Moreover, Barahoti, which was in the news for a series of Chinese incursions in the past couple of years, is just under 50 km from Joshimath.

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‘Law, not public pressure, is key’: Mishra sent to judicial custody

Advocate Manu Sharma, representing Mishra, submitted that as per the FIR, only one of the sections invoked is non-bailable and rest are bailable. Mishra was booked under IPC Sections 354, 294, 509 and 510, and Section 23 of the Aircraft Rules, 1937. Mishra moved a bail plea in court, which scheduled it for hearing on January 11.

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UP ex-minister, son arrested in city over illegal slaughterhouse

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Average work hours per week longest in S&E Asia: ILO

The occupational group with longest average hours of work was plant and machine operators and assemblers, who worked 48.2 hours per week on an average, followed by service and sales workers at 47.0 hours per week.

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Hanif Kureishi fears he may never be able to walk or write again following fall in Rome

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Maha won’t charge premium for devpt of int’l airport land in Mum

The state urban development department has decided not to charge Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL) a premium for the commercial development of the international airport land around Sahar.

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Centre: Will honour SC timeline for judge appts

Entrusted by the apex court to persuade the Centre to “follow the law” by complying with its verdicts on appointment of judges, attorney general R Venkataramani, at the outset , told a bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Abhay S Oka that all efforts were being made to conform to the timelines and names sent to the government by collegiums would be cleared expeditiously with decision on 44 out of 104 names decided in the coming two days.

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Ahead of Bharat Jodo entering J&K, 17 Azad loyalists rejoin Cong

The 17 leaders, led by ex-deputy CM Tara Chand and former state Congress chief Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed, joined the party in the presence of AICC state incharge Rajani Patil at a press conference attended by party leaders KC Vengopal and Jairam Ramesh.

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SC pushes for e-monitoring to check over-speeding

Cause-wise analysis of road accidents revealed 55.9% (87,050 out of 1,55,622 deaths) and 27.5% (42,853 out of 1,55,622 deaths) of fatalities were due to speeding and dangerous/careless driving or overtaking, respectively, in 2021.

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Akshata Murty's vision is to open up Downing Street to public to draw a line under Johnson 'fiefdom era'

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SC slams UP for delay in releasing life-term convicts in jail for 16 years

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Cracks in houses, jittery locals block NH for 8 hrs

The district administration will earmark the land where the prefabricated houses will come up, a government order issued by additional district magistrate (ADM) Abhishek Tripathi said. Meanwhile, the situation in Joshimath is worsening every passing day with families leaving their houses and being shifted to identified buildings. Till date, 38 families have been shifted and relocated to safer places, officials said.

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Autonomous college, univ rating norms out

As TOI had reported on November 14, this is the first time that the NAAC has declared the highest marks called benchmarks that it has set aside for each of the parameters it grades institutes on, thus allowing every higher education institute to know the maximum achievable marks.

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AI gets DGCA notice over peeing incident

Air India officials will have to respond within two weeks, said Arun Kumar, director general, civil aviation. The airline’s accountable manager and director, inflight services, too got the notices. TOI was the first to report the incident on January 4, following which the DGCA sought a report from the Tata Group-owned airline.

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11 ‘O’ sub-variants found in flyers in 11 days

India started random screening of 2% of international passengers arriving in the country from December 24 onwards. in view of a surge in Covid-19 cases in several countries, especially China, Japan and South Korea among others.

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UP CM Yogi Adityanath interacts with Bollywood members, pushes UP as film-making destination

Presenting Uttar Pradesh as a film-friendly state, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday invited prominent members from the entertainment industry to explore his state as a film-making destination.

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Live: Biden says Bradley Fighting Vehicles are on table for Ukraine

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia was planning to call up more troops for a major new offensive, even as Moscow was facing some of its biggest internal criticism of the war over a strike that killed scores of fresh conscripts. Stay with TOI for live updates-

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With old rifle, this man saved villagers from total annihilation

Known as Bala by fellow villagers, Krishan has been hailed as the local hero for stopping a total annihilation of the families living in an isolated cluster of three homes that came under attack. The terrorists killed four people that night and two kids died the next morning in an explosion triggered by an IED that the assailants had left behind. In all, 15 people were wounded—all of them recuperating and said to be stable now.

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'Will conduct 6 test launches before manned mission': Isro chief

Addressing the media on the sidelines of the Indian Science Congress, the Isro chief said that of the total six test missions, there will be four abort missions and two uncrewed missions. “Two abort missions and one uncrewed mission will be conducted this year in April-May. The remaining three will be conducted next year. And if all are successful, the final crew mission will be launched next year itself,” he said.

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Semen quality of Covid patients takes a hit: Study

The study is based on semen analysis, also known as sperm count test, of 30 men between 19 and 43 years admitted for Covid-19 treatment at AIIMS Patna between October 2020 and April 2021. The first analysis was done immediately after the infection and a second test carried out on semen collected after a gap of two and a half months.

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FIR against bizman who peed on AI female co-passenger

The FIR was filed on Wednesday on the complaint of the woman which she had earlier submitted to the airline. Cops claimed they were informed about the incident in brief on December 28 by the airline, after which they had contacted the victim and the airline seeking details of the passenger and a complaint.

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VHP, Bajrang Dal activists tear posters of Shah Rukh Khan starrer 'Pathaan' at Ahmedabad mall

Members of the right-wing outfits Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal on Wednesday created a ruckus at a mall in Vastrapur area here and tore up posters and other publicity material of the upcoming film "Pathaan" starring Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone.

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Minister says PSUs to be roped in to build N-plants

The Modi government is also expected to make a big announcement in the atomic energy sector in the coming days on the lines of the “unlocking of the space sector in 2020”. However, keeping in view the criticality of nuclear fuel and its potential misuse, the government will tread a very cautious path in tune with IAEA guidelines and conventions of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, a ministry source told TOI.

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Minor raped in MP, accused BJP member on run

Infuriated, the girl’s relatives and around 200 neighbours marched to Gulhane’s house. Seeing the mob outside, the BJP leader fled through the rear door, Betul additional SP Neeraj Soni told TOI. While the child’s parents went to file a police complaint, teams from several police stations sped to Gulhane’s house to tackle the mob. The protesters torched his car.

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All conversions cannot be illegal, says SC on MP law

The SG said that the law in question did not prohibit either marriage or conversion, its ambit restricted to requiring people to inform district magistrate 60 days in advance about their decision to convert. He said that provision for prior notice was there in also in the 1968 Act also that was upheld by a constitution bench of the apex court.

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Sonam Kapoor Ahuja sells BKC flat for 32.5 crores

The real estate market is booming with celebrity activity. Everyone from Vivek Agnihotri to Janhvi Kapoor have acquired plush properties in recent months in Mumbai. But this time, it's a big sale. Sonam Kapoor Ahuja has sold her prime property nestled in the heart of Mumbai for a hefty price.

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For 2nd week, India sees slight rise in Covid cases

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Bill for NMC-like regulator for dentists likely in

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Student stabs girl to death in B’luru college, tries to kill self

A 19-year-old girl was stabbed to death by her friend inside the classroom at a private college in Bengaluru on Monday afternoon.

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Day 1 of Ashram closure: Chaos till east Delhi

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2 kids killed in IED blast in Rajouri, day after Jan 1 massacre

A four-year-old boy and a teenage girl were killed in an IED explosion Monday in a sinister continuation of the targeted terrorist attack on three Hindu homes in the mountainside village of Upper Dhangri in Jammu’s Rajouri district that were sprayed with bullets on New Year’s Day, leaving four villagers dead and six gravely wounded.

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Army to boost 'tooth-to-tail' ratio, shed flab

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UPI transactions hit record 782 crore in December

Transactions on the UPI platform hit a record of 782 crore in December 2022, with the value touching a new high of Rs 12.8 lakh crore. In terms of number of transactions, the December figure is 7% higher than November's.

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Popn mustn't be sole delimitation criterion: Assam chief minister

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India eyes MacBook production, may boost incentive scheme

After the success of iPhone production in India, the government is set to sweeten the deal to kickstart the coveted manufacturing of MacBooks and iPads in the country, looking to broad-base the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for IT hardware to nearly Rs 20,000 crore against the existing outlay of Rs 7,350 crore which failed to receive much response from the industry.

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Delhi air improved in 2022, was 2nd cleanest in 6 years

The annual average PM2.5 concentration of Delhi in 2022 fell below 100 micrograms per cubic metre for only the second time since 2017, making the year gone by the second cleanest in the last six years. However, the 2022 average was still 2.5 times higher than the annual national ambient air quality standard of 40 micrograms/cubic metre and 20 times higher than WHO’s safe limit of 5.

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Live: Magnitude-3.2 earthquake in West Karbi Anglong, Assam

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