'Guj negligence, misgovernance led to bridge collapse'

AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge said it was important to know what caused the bridge collapse as it was reopened just five days ago. “Why were so many people allowed? There should be an inquiry headed by a retired Supreme Court or high court judge,” he said.

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Microsoft's has not offered any remedies to EU antitrust regulators reviewing its proposed $69 billion (nearly Rs. 5,71,400 crore) bid for Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard ahead of an expected full-scale EU probe, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday. The US software company is betting on the acquisition to help it compete better with leaders Tenc...

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9 held as Gujarat footbridge collapse toll rises to 134, search to resume today

Government hospitals in the town treated 56 people, of whom 15 are still to be discharged. Till late afternoon, people were spotted dashing in and out of hospitals with pictures of loved ones in the hope of either finding them alive.

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Microsoft's has not offered any remedies to EU antitrust regulators reviewing its proposed $69 billion (nearly Rs. 5,71,400 crore) bid for Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard ahead of an expected full-scale EU probe, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday. The US software company is betting on the acquisition to help it compete better with leaders Tenc...

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The aftermath of a large star's explosive death is seen in an image released on Monday by the European Southern Observatory, showing immense filaments of brightly shining gas that was blasted into space during the supernova. Before exploding at the end of its life cycle, the star is believed to have had a mass at least eight times greater than our sun. It was located ...

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'Show little more gratitude': Biden lost temper with Zelenskyy in June

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Will campaign for candidates of BJP in Bihar bypolls: Chirag

“I had a long meeting with Amit Shah last night. After the Chhath Puja and bypolls, we will have more meetings with the him and PM Narendra Modi,” Chirag Paswan said in Patna. Responding to a question whether his party will be a part of the NDA, Chirag said the decision was only confined to the upcoming polls.

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Brazil's Lula defeats Bolsonaro to win presidency again

​​​​The vote was a rebuke for the fiery far-right populism of Bolsonaro, who emerged from the back benches of Congress to forge a novel conservative coalition but lost support as Brazil ran up one of the worst death tolls of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Queen Camila's flight suffers bird hit, lands safely

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'Probe, take action against Chinese loan apps'

Claiming a 12 times jump in loans on digital platforms between 2017 and 2020 and occurrence of 52 suicides due to blackmailing by these loan apps, Congress sought to know what the Narendra Modi government was doing to curb these practices.

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Maharashtra gives Y+ cover to all 41 MLAs from Shinde camp

The Z+ cover of Shinde, Fadnavis and governor B S Koshyari has also been been retained. There is no change in the Y+ cover of MNS chief Raj Thackeray, Uddhav’s wife Rashmi and son Tejas, and Shinde’s MLA son Shrikant. The security of Fadnavis’s wife Amruta has been increased to Y+ from X.

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Gujarat bridge reopened last week, did not have fitness certificate

"The bridge was given to Oreva company for operation and maintenance for 15 years. In March this year, it was closed for the public for renovation. It reopened after renovation on the Gujarati New Year day celebrated on October 26," said chief officer of Morbi Municipality Sandeepsinh Zala.

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Minors tied to truck & dragged over alleged cash, mobile phone theft in MP

A video of the incident went viral on social media prompting police to register a case against the accused. ACP Nihit Upadhyay said: “The incident was reported around 8am when two minors were tied to a truck and dragged on the road.

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Irish educator working in Kolkata for 62 years to leave over visa issues

MacCarthaigh recalled growing up in Ireland when Protestants and Catholics were at each other’s throats and his homeland was badly off on many fronts. “I got no love… I was one of 11 children. We were quite poor. My family would have been better off with two or three children. As with most people, one’s childhood becomes the primary source of one’s inspiration to become the person they are going to be.”

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Deny terrorists any safe haven: UN anti-terror meet

The declaration on countering the use of new and emerging technologies for terror purposes also underlined that terrorists getting opportunity to access safe havens continues to be a significant concern.

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Tata Trusts’ CEO to ‘retire’; Cyrus cousin named trustee

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#MeToo: Police refuse to record Sherlyn Chopra's statement

Sherlyn Chopra recently spoke to the media about #MeToo accused and Bigg Boss 16 contestant Sajid Khan and called him a habitual sexual offender and molester. She had also gone to the Juhu police station on October 19 to file a complaint against him.

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Trump says he’s ‘very happy’ about Musk’s Twitter takeover

The possibility of Trump’s return to Twitter — he was banned after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol — has been the subject of much speculation since Musk announced his intentions to buy the company and take a less heavy-handed approach with users who post objectionable and provocative content.

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Google is planning a legal challenge to block a ruling by India's antitrust watchdog to change its approach to its Android operating system, concerned that it will restrict how it promotes the platform, sources with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters. The Alphabet unit has been fined $275 million (nearly Rs. 2,300 crore) in two Indian antitrust decisions...

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Aim is to ensure progress of far-flung areas to fulfil country’s security needs: Rajnath

In a statement, a defence spokesperson said, "These 75 projects — 45 bridges, 27 roads, two helipads and one carbon neutral habitat — are spread across six states and two Union Territories (UTs). Twenty of these projects are in Jammu & Kashmir; 18 each in Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh; five in Uttarakhand and 14 in other border states of Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Rajasthan.”

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Google is planning a legal challenge to block a ruling by India's antitrust watchdog to change its approach to its Android operating system, concerned that it will restrict how it promotes the platform, sources with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters. The Alphabet unit has been fined $275 million (nearly Rs. 2,300 crore) in two Indian antitrust decisions...

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Mere hours after Elon Musk kicked off a new era at Twitter, the billionaire owner was deluged with pleas and demands from banned account holders and world leaders. The flood of requests underscore the challenge the CEO of electric car maker Tesla faces, balancing a promise to restore free speech while preventing the platform from descending into a "hellscape," as he...

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Army man injured in Baramulla encounter succumbs; terrorist killed in Kulgam

In a statement, a police spokesman said that acting on specific information regarding presence of terrorists in Wanseeran Taripora jungle under Sheeri police station, a joint team of police, Army 52 RR, 46 RR and 53 Bn CRPF launched a cordon-and-search operation in the area on Wednesday.

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Global police agency Interpol said it was preparing for the risk that online immersive environments — the "metaverse" — could create new kinds of cybercrime and allow existing crime to take place on a larger scale. Interpol's member countries have raised concerns about how to prepare for possible metaverse crime, Madan Oberoi, Interpol's executive director for te...

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Narayana Murthy told me I could have more impact on the world through politics than business: Rishi Sunak

Narayana Murthy is the billionaire founder of Infosys who has now devoted his life to philanthropy. Sunak worked for Goldman Sachs, gained an MBA from Stanford and then worked for a hedge fund before becoming an MP. Many wonder why he left such a well-paid career to enter the sparring world of politics.

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Global police agency Interpol said it was preparing for the risk that online immersive environments — the "metaverse" — could create new kinds of cybercrime and allow existing crime to take place on a larger scale. Interpol's member countries have raised concerns about how to prepare for possible metaverse crime, Madan Oberoi, Interpol's executive director for te...

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Messaging platform WhatsApp has submitted its report to the IT ministry on the service outage that happened on Tuesday, according to government sources. The ministry had asked the Meta-owned messaging platform to share reasons for the service disruption.

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Minister of State For Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Wednesday said he has spoken to Apple on reports of stores in the national capital running out of stock of the firm's latest phone offering iPhone14 Pro. The minister also said there has been a surge in demand for iPhone 14 Pro and Apple is addressing the supply constraints.

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Pak security overdrive as Imran plans 8-day ‘freedom’ march to capital

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's Asad Umar, a former minister, said Imran and his supporters would cover nearly 400km in a week.Former PM and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif alleged that the proposed long march was meant to create a situation where the next army chief would be of Imran's choosing rather than any noble goal.

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Minister of State For Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Wednesday said he has spoken to Apple on reports of stores in the national capital running out of stock of the firm's latest phone offering iPhone14 Pro. The minister also said there has been a surge in demand for iPhone 14 Pro and Apple is addressing the supply constraints.

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The global PC shipments of Q3 2022 has once again faced double-digit fall, according to a Counterpoint report. For the third quarter, the global PC shipments declined 15.5 percent YoY and reached 71.1 million units. This comes a quarter after the shipments faced the largest YoY decline since Q2 2013.

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'Greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere hit record high'

"The increase in carbon dioxide levels from 2020 to 2021 was larger than the average annual growth rate over the last decade. Measurements from WMO’s Global Atmosphere Watch network stations show that these levels continue to rise in 2022 over the whole globe," said the WMO, referring to its latest GHG Bulletin.

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Live: 'India is an important manufacturer of vaccines for the world'

India is an important manufacturer of vaccines for the world, the White House said, acknowledging the crucial role the country played in supplying vaccines against Covid-19 globally. Stay with TOI for the latest updates --

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With Rs 4-5k crore biz, TN fireworks hub sees a crackling Diwali

A hub for fireworks manufacturers, Virudhunagar contributes to nearly 90% of the country's production. There are over 1,000 fireworks units in the district and nearly eight lakh employees are directly and indirectly dependent on this industry for their livelihood.

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Cervical cancer self-sampling test kits could replace pap smears

The HPV self-sampling kit, similar in principle to the home-testing kits for the Covid-causing SARS-CoV-2 virus, is at the moment being tested by various institutes and hospitals in India to find out the acceptance among women and its efficiency.

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CCI fines Google 936 crore for monopoly abuse

In its latest order, Competition Commission of India (CCI) asked Google to "cease and desist" from practicing policies that supposedly give it powers to abuse its dominant position in running Play Store, which houses millions of apps that Android phone customers can download. "... practices followed by Google result in leveraging its dominance in market for licensable mobile OS (operating system) and app stores for Android OS, to protect its position in the downstream markets," CCI said.

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A PIO at No. 10 soon, Cameron had told Modi barely seven years ago

This meant the Conservative leadership race was over, and Sunak, the youngest UK PM since 1812 at 42, automatically became the Conservative leader. Although Mordaunt thought many of former PM Boris Johnson’s supporters would switch to her after he bailed out, in fact many of them, including Priti Patel, on Monday morning switched to backing Sunak.

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'Musk informs he plans to close Twitter deal by Friday'

The banks that committed to fund Musk's buyout of Twitter have finished putting together the final debt financing agreement and are in the process of signing the necessary documents, according to a Bloomberg News report.

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4 NE states put on red alert for cyclone Sitrang

A red alert was sounded across Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura on Monday in view of the impending Cyclone Sitrang. It is likely to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm, the IMD said.

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In special hearing, Kerala HC allows 9 V-Cs to continue

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‘Eatery to refund service charge, pay Rs 10k to patron’

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Bombay HC ups aid to Rs 1cr for man left with 100% disability

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‘Colour, race no bar to success’ in UK: British Indians

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Min aspirants in Shinde group may get state board posts

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Five labourers feared drowned as sand-laden boat sinks

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Non-lab method can assess heart attack risk: Study

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​XBB cases double in 1 week, set to be dominant Covid strain

Covid infections caused by Omicron’s newly identified XBB strain have nearly doubled in the past week in India, experts said on Sunday

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UK live: Boris Johnson pulls out of PM race

Former prime minister Boris Johnson pulled out of the contest to become Britain's next leader on Sunday, saying he had the support of enough lawmakers to progress to the next stage but well behind front-runner former finance minister Rishi Sunak. Stay with TOI for the latest updates.

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UP: Five of family killed as car rams into stranded container truck

Five persons of a family were killed when the car they were travelling in rammed into a stranded container truck near Khajhaula police outpost in Munderwa area of Basti district on late Sunday evening.

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Pakistan: Imran moves court against bar, HC to hear plea Monday

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Job quota for 15 more groups as J&K expands its social caste list

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72.8k seats allotted in DU in 1st round

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1 5 die on way home for Diwali from Hyderabad to UP

Fifteen migrant workers died while 40 others were injured, many of them critically, when the bus they were travelling in crashed into a truck on a ghat road in MP's Rewa district late Friday. From Hyderabad, the workers were heading home to UP's Gorakhpur - a 1,500km journey - for Diwali.

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Taxpayers resent money wasted on freebies: PM Modi

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Mehbooba asked to vacate government bungalow

The Jammu and Kashmir administration has asked former CM and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti to vacate the government bungalow she has been occupying for over a decade and a half, the second such notice to leave the sprawling premises in over two years.

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Crack down on hate-mongers, no plaint needed: SC to states

The Supreme Court on Friday directed police and state governments to initiate suo motu action against those accused of making hate speeches without waiting for a formal complaint and expressed concern over people spreading hatred and targeting communities in the name of religion.

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Pakistan poll tribunal disqualifies Imran as MP in assets case

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was dealt potentially the biggest blow of his political career on Friday when the country's Election Commission disqualified him as an MP and barred him from holding any public office after holding him guilty of "intentionally" making "false statements and incorrect declaration of assets".

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Punjab cabinet gives in-principle nod to old pension plan

In a move that is likely to benefit about 1.6 lakh Punjab government employees who joined service after 2004, the state cabinet on Friday decided in principle to restore the old pension scheme (OPS).

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Maharashtra techie gets life term for conspiring to kill children

In the first cyberterrorism conviction in Maharashtra, computer engineer Anees Ansari was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday for conspiring to kill children at the American school in Bandra Kurla Complex in 2014.

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Military has lost 50 personnel in air crashes in 5 years

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Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited will announce the launch of 5G services in Rajasthan from the famous Shrinathji temple in Nathdwara town of Rajsamand on Saturday, a company official said. Company chairman Akash Ambani will dedicate the services to Srinathji — the deity of the Ambani family. The commercial launch will take place later. "The launch of 5G services wil...

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10 arrested for selling fake platelets in Prayagraj

Ten members of a gang allegedly selling fake platelets to patients were arrested here on Friday, police said. Senior Superintendent of Police Shailesh Kumar Pandey said the accused used to take plasma from different blood banks and then put it in pouches and sell the plasma as platelet.

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Competition tougher than ever in DU

The competition at Delhi University this year is tougher than ever. Seats for several popular courses have been allotted to those who scored the maximum CUET score of 800.

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Girl pips twin to top UP board after paper recheck

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Meta Platforms' independent oversight board said on Thursday that starting this month, it can decide on applying warning screens, marking content as "disturbing" or "sensitive". The board, which already has the ability to review user appeals to remove content, said it would be able to make binding decisions to apply a warning screen when "leaving up or restoring quali...

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Truss falls, new UK PM likely in days

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Meta Platforms' independent oversight board said on Thursday that starting this month, it can decide on applying warning screens, marking content as "disturbing" or "sensitive". The board, which already has the ability to review user appeals to remove content, said it would be able to make binding decisions to apply a warning screen when "leaving up or restoring quali...

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Europe will commission two rocket launches from Elon Musk's SpaceX after the Ukraine conflict barred access to Russia's Soyuz, the European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed on Thursday. The launches include the Euclid space telescope and the Hera probe, a follow-up mission to NASA's DART spacecraft which last month succeeded in altering the path of a moonlet in the first ...

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Court allows ED to seize Nirav Modi's assets worth Rs 500cr

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'India's responsibility to shape global human rights'

"As an elected member of the Human Rights Council, India has a responsibility to shape global human rights, and to protect and promote the rights of all individuals, including members of minority communities," said UN secretary general Antonio Guterres in Mumbai on Wednesday.

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Kharge sweeps Congress president poll, gets 7,900 to Tharoor's 1,000 votes

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China again blocks bid for UN ban on LeT terrorist

For the fourth time since June this year, China has put on hold a US-India proposal for a UN ban on a Pakistan-based operative of terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba. The proposal came days before the ongoing FATF meeting which may see Pakistan exiting the grey or increased monitoring list of the global terror-financing watchdog.

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Elon Musk's SpaceX is expanding its satellite internet unit's foray into in-flight WiFi services with the rollout on Wednesday of Starlink Aviation, offering customers a $150,000 (nearly Rs. 1.2 crore) airplane antenna amid mounting competition for airborne connectivity. Starlink, SpaceX's growing network of thousands of internet satellites, will charge customers seek...

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Elon Musk's SpaceX is expanding its satellite internet unit's foray into in-flight WiFi services with the rollout on Wednesday of Starlink Aviation, offering customers a $150,000 (nearly Rs. 1.2 crore) airplane antenna amid mounting competition for airborne connectivity. Starlink, SpaceX's growing network of thousands of internet satellites, will charge customers seek...

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Meta on Wednesday said that it built an artificial intelligence system that translates Hokkien into English even though the Taiwanese language lacks a standard written form. The Silicon Valley tech titan that owns Facebook and Instagram billed the work at its Universal Speech Translator project as an effort to enable users from around the world to socialise regardless...

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Hope Kharge acts independently: NV Subhash

Telangana BJP spokesperson and former PM PV Narsimha Rao's son NV Subhash on Wednesday expressed hope that veteran Congress leader Mallikharjun Kharge will act independently as the new Congress chief without being influenced by the Gandhi family.

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EAM counters China's claims of normalcy

Amid claims by China that the LAC situation in eastern Ladakh is starting to get normal, foreign minister S Jaishankar said peace and tranquillity in the border areas "clearly remains the basis for normal relations between India and China". While emphasising that continuation of the current border impasse will not benefit either India or China, he also warned that "new normals of posture will inevitably lead to new normals of responses".

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Live: Ukraine's power, water supplies under Russian attack again

Ukraine's state nuclear energy agency on Tuesday accused Russia of detaining two senior employees at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine. Stay with TOI for the latest developments

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HC links rising Bihar crime to 'ineffective' prohibition move

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Sterlite firing: Panel indicts collector, cops

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Kedarnath chopper crash: Pilot switched to hill-flying only last month

The Uttarkhand helicopter crash which killed seven people on Tuesday and the Pawan Hans offshore accident near Bombay High that killed four people four months ago have quite a few similarities, pointed out industry experts. Both the accidents involved senior pilots who had recently moved on to flying a new aircraft type and so were low on experience on the machine that crashed.

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How Tatas are rebuilding Maharaja’s empire brick by brick

From finding components for seats that are no longer being manufactured to making “Christmas Tree” Air India aircraft long cannibalised for spares fly again, the Tata Group has embarked on unarguably the most challenging aviation turnaround of contemporary times.

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415 million exited poverty in India in 15 years: UNDP

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1/3 of Vidyapith trustees resign over chancellor's RSS background

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Will try to make all litigants feel they've got justice: Next CJI

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Kharge vs Tharoor: Congress votes for its first non-Gandhi president in 24 years

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A Plague Tale: Requiem review: the sequel to 2019’s critically acclaimed A Plague Tale: Innocence enthrals you with its captivating narrative. A Plague Tale: Requiem released October 18 on PC, PS5, Xbox Series S/X, and Nintendo Switch (Cloud).

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Urvashi Rautela chops her hair in solidarity with Iranian women

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In last 3.5 months, consumer panels cut pendency by 11%

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TV actress ends life, accuses former BF of harassment

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Gujarat rolls out DNA test to confirm if meat is beef

Gujarat has become the first state in the country to roll out a rapid test that can confirm within an hour if meat seized on suspicion of being beef is from a cow. the Lamp DNA method - introduced in limited capacity in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar - is a better alternative to conventional methods like serological analysis and DNA analysis that take more than a day.

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Security threat to India is threat to Lanka too: Envoy

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CBI to quiz Sisodia today, AAP says it fears arrest

The CBI has summoned Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia for questioning in connection with its investigation into alleged corruption in framing and implementation of the state’s excise policy. Sisodia, who is the main accused in the case, has been asked to appear before the agency at the CBI headquarters here at 11am on Monday.

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PL: Liverpool end City's unbeaten start to season

A superb second-half goal from Mohamed Salah earned Liverpool a 1-0 victory over Manchester City on Sunday as the champions lost their unbeaten start to the Premier League season in a heated thriller that saw home coach Juergen Klopp red-carded. After an opening period that failed to live up to the game's blockbuster billing, the second half began at a ferocious pace, with Egypt international Salah denied by a superb save from City goalkeeper Ederson moments after the break.

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Gambia deaths: India seeks more details from WHO

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India to stay on course for 7% growth in FY23: Sitharaman

The Indian economy will stay on course and is projected to grow at 7% in fiscal 2022-23 despite the global headwinds and this has been possible due to the conducive domestic policy environment and the government's focus on key structural reforms to boost growth, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said.

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Amit Shah slams Cong in 1st rally in poll-bound Himachal

A day after the Election Commission announced the poll schedule for Himachal Pradesh, home minister Amit Shah on Saturday, while addressing a rally in Sirmaur in the state, said PM Narendra Modi believes in development whereas Congress incites and divides people. Shah said, "Himachal Pradesh is going to set a new custom that is 'ek baar BJP, baar baar BJP'.

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Amul milk prices up, Guj spared; Mother Dairy too hikes rates

Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, which markets milk under the Amul brand, has hiked the prices of Amul Gold (full cream) and buffalo milk by Rs 2 per litre each across all markets except for Gujarat. Mother Dairy also announced an increase in prices of full-cream milk and cow milk by Rs 2 per litre in Delhi-NCR and some other markets in North India with effect from October 16.

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Apple promises a whole new way to interact with your phone, but the iPhone 14 Pro isn't a revolutionary upgrade.

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Irdai fines Max Life ₹3 crore for Axis Bank deal

Insurance regulator Irdai has imposed a Rs 3-crore penalty on Max Life for its share sale deal with Axis Bank, which the regulator said circumvented regulations on commission limits. The penalty is against three charges - misrepresentation to the regulator, higher-than-permitted compensation to the corporate agent, and not following fair market value in share transactions.

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Apple promises a whole new way to interact with your phone, but the iPhone 14 Pro isn't a revolutionary upgrade.

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SC nixes Maha plea for stay on Saibaba relief, hearing today

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The Crown season 5's first look have been released by Netflix, featuring a brand new cast. The stills from the latest season depict a despondent-appearing Princess Diana (played by Elizabeth Debicki, who replaced Emma Corrin in the previous season), dressed in a sparkling gown and bowing her head as she enters a lavish evening engagement.

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Ballistic missile test fired from nuclear submarine INS Arihant

India on Friday successfully tested a nuclear-capable ballistic missile from its solitary nuclear-powered submarine INS Arihant, and promptly declared that having an `assured retaliatory capability’ was in tune with the country’s `credible minimum deterrence’ against the first-use of nuclear weapons by an adversary.

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Gopal Italia is a serial offender, also abused PM's mother: BJP

Union minister Smriti Irani launched a scathing attack on Gopal Italia and called him a "gutter mouth" for making derogatory remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his mother Hira Ba. Sharing a video, Irani came down heavily on Italia and said, "AAP shall be decimated electorally in Gujarat". In the clip, Italia can be heard making "derogatory" remarks against Hira Ba and abusing her.

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BJP lashes out at Rahul for 'lies on GST' on fertilisers, tractors

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ED arrests IAS officer, 3 others; intimidation tactics: Baghel

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday arrested Chhattisgarh IAS officer Sameer Vishnoi and three others following searches at 40 locations in the state over the past three days. CM Bhupesh Baghel called it 'intimidation tactics' and accused BJP of misusing central agencies.

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The Supreme Court on Thursday asked how can there be a pre-screening committee for web series, films or other programmes which are directly released on online platforms. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India UU Lalit observed that it always felt pre-censorship is impermissible.

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The Supreme Court on Thursday asked how can there be a pre-screening committee for web series, films or other programmes which are directly released on online platforms. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India UU Lalit observed that it always felt pre-censorship is impermissible.

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The US Federal Communications Commission is set to ban approvals of new telecommunications equipment from China's Huawei Technologies and ZTE in the United States on national security grounds, according to a document posted by the agency. In 2019, the United States placed Huawei, Hikvision and other firms on its economic blacklist.

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Simple One electric scooter deliveries to start from Q1 2023

Simple Energy today announced that it will start the deliveries of the Simple One electric scooter in the first half of 2023. The manufacturer states that the delay in deliveries is due to the recent battery safety guidelines issued by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH). Customers can pre-book the Simple One electric scooter at an initial amount of Rs 1,947 on the official website.

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Stop invoking Section 66A of IT Act: Supreme Court to states

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SpaceX plans to announce two new space tourists slated to fly on the Starship rocket: Dennis Tito, the world’s first-ever space tourist in 2001, and his wife, Akiko. The couple paid an undisclosed amount to fly around the moon on Starship once the vehicle is complete. They will travel with 10 other undisclosed passengers on a roughly week-long journey.

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Nirav Modi's appeal against extradition concludes in London HC

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SpaceX plans to announce two new space tourists slated to fly on the Starship rocket: Dennis Tito, the world’s first-ever space tourist in 2001, and his wife, Akiko. The couple paid an undisclosed amount to fly around the moon on Starship once the vehicle is complete. They will travel with 10 other undisclosed passengers on a roughly week-long journey.

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The government is likely to start approving proposals to set up electronic chip and display manufacturing plants in the country in next 30-60 days, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Wednesday. Speaking at IESA Vision Summit, Chandrasekhar said there has been a tremendous progress in the development of the semiconductor ecosystem in ...

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Surface Laptop 5 was announced officially today at Microsoft Surface October event. The new become the first Surface Laptop to feature Thunderbolt 4. The laptop is officially set to release on October 25. However, Microsoft has already started pre-orders on all variants.

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Budgets have been reduced on OTT platforms: Sudhanshu Pandey

Sudhanshu Pandey on how everyone across the globe went through pay cuts.

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'Atmanirbhar Bharat is neither isolationism nor protectionism'

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Apple will reportedly introduce 5G update to iPhone 12 and other compatible smartphones by December. This may come combined with a new iOS update. Moreover, Google Pixel 5G-compatible devices could also receive 5G services by December with a new software update.

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Canine soldier takes two bullets, flushes out hiding LeT men

Military combat dog Zoom, a sprightly Belgian Malinois with a black-and-tan coat, was gravely wounded as he took two bullets while pursuing and flushing out two heavily armed Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists hiding in a house at Tangpawas in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district early Monday. Two-and-a-half-year-old Zoom was attached to the assault unit of the Army’s 15 Corps for around 10 months.

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Apple will reportedly introduce 5G update to iPhone 12 and other compatible smartphones by December. This may come combined with a new iOS update. Moreover, Google Pixel 5G-compatible devices could also receive 5G services by December with a new software update.

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Adani Data Network has been granted unified licence for access services, which enables it to provide all telecom services in the country, according to two official sources. Adani Group entered the telecom sector after buying spectrum in the recent auction. "Adani Data Networks has been granted UL (AS)," an official source said. Another official said that the permit wa...

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IndiGo to operate widebody aircraft this winter

India’s largest airline by passenger carriage, IndiGo, will finally be operating wide body aircraft this winter. The airline will take on wet lease — take planes with operating crew — twin aisles that will operate medium to long range routes with both business and economy cabins. As of now, Air India and Vistara are the only two Indian carriers that use wide bodies for operating passenger flights.

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Live: Ukraine not 'intimidated' by Russian strikes, says Zelenskyy

Ukraine vowed to strengthen its armed forces after Russia launched its biggest aerial assaults on cities since the beginning of the war, forcing thousands to flee to bomb shelters and prompting Kyiv to halt electricity exports to Europe. Stay with TOI for all updates:

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Why ‘Mullah Mulayam’ tag didn’t hurt

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More women attempt suicide, more men die by it: HDR data

Drawing from available data, the latest Human Development Report 2021/22 highlights with much concern that estimates show that more than seven lakh people die by suicide each year, predominantly in low- and middle-income countries, accounting for 1 in 100 deaths globally and is cited to be the second leading cause of death among those aged 15–29 years.

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22% international OECD students from China, 10% India

The number of foreign nationals acquiring citizenship in Oecd-member countries in 2021 is the highest ever recorded at 23 lakh, based on preliminary and partial data, according to the International Migration Outlook – 2022 Report, which was released in Paris today.

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Amitabh Bachchan: The voice that launched a thousand dreams

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Amazon Great Indian Festival Extra Happiness Days Sale is currently underway. Check out our list of some of the best deals currently available on cameras from popular brands like Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, Fujifilm and others.

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Govt upbeat on tax mop-up despite growth moderation

The government remains hopeful of tax collections remaining robust despite a moderation in growth rates in recent weeks, which is partly due to full data not being captured as well as some impact of the base effect. Latest direct taxes data released by the finance ministry indicated that the growth rate in gross collections had slowed from nearly 40% in June to 23.8% during the fiscal year up to October 8, when the mop-up rose to just under Rs 9 lakh crore. Net of refunds, collections were 16.3% higher at around Rs 7.5 lakh crore.

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When ‘remote’ employees top in appraisals

Some organisations are debunking the concept of remote work. But, Axis Bank has said that the lender’s cohort of remote workers, or ‘work-from-anywhere’ (WFA) employees, was awarded higher performance ratings and promotions as compared to its overall population.

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Rupee’s strong stand against dollar comes at forex cost

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SC to decide on validity of Karnataka hijab ban this week

The Supreme Court will pronounce this week its verdict on the validity of the February 5 Karnataka government circular banning students from wearing religious clothing, including hijab, to state-run educational institutions.

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Gujaratis blessed me for 2 decades, caste didn’t matter: PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the people of Gujarat have reposed trust in him and blessed him for the last two decades irrespective of his caste and political background. Beginning Sunday, PM Modi is on a three-day visit to poll-bound Gujarat.

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Shinde camp to submit symbols list to EC today

While CM Ekanth Shinde on Sunday expressed belief that his group will get ‘Shiv Sena’ name and the bow-and-arrow symbol, insiders at the meeting of rebel MPs and MLAs said they have shortlisted tutari (trumpet), gada (blunt mace) and talwar (sword) as poll symbols.

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Parl panel suggests Hindi, local languages in higher edu institutes

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67th Parle Filmfare Awards South 2022: Complete winners list

The 67 th Parle Filmfare Awards South 2022 with Kamar Film Factory took place in Bengaluru on October 9 to celebrate the finest of Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam film industries. Stars from across south India came dressed in their best to take him the coveted black lady in the best movies, actors and technical categories. Best of the films which hit screens in 2020 and 2021 were celebrated with the awards night hosted in Bengaluru for the very first time.

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Telangana: Man jumps in front of train, dies

A 45-year-old man was decapitated in Secunderabad railway station in the early hours of Saturday after he threw himself in front of a train. Police did not find any suicide note but suspect he could be a destitute.

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Wheel jams in Vande Bharat Express cruising at 100kmph, probe ordered

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Prez candidates persons of stature, can’t be ‘remote controlled’: Rahul

Weighing in for the first time on the debate that the coming non-Gandhi president in Congress would be a proxy for the Gandhi family, Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said both Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor are persons of stature and understanding, and neither can be a “remote controlled” leader of the party.

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Wheel jams in Vande Bharat Express cruising at 100kmph, probe ordered

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Happy Valmiki Jayanti: Wishes, messages, quotes, images and more

Happy Valmiki Jayanti is celebrated to mark the birth anniversary of the sage Maharishi Valmiki. This day is also popularly known as Pargat Diwas. Valmiki Jayanti is celebrated every year on the full moon day during the Ashwin month. Maharishi Valmiki has great importance as he was the first poet of Sanskrit literature.

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'Cleanest' Indore fails air quality test

Indore might be the cleanest city of India for the sixth time in a row this year since 2017 but it has flunked big time on the air quality front. Recent analysis of 132 cities by the environment ministry shows that Indore is among the 37 cities whose PM10 (respirable particulate matter) pollutant levels actually increased in 2021-22 over 2017.

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6 Indians held in Pakistan jails despite completing term dead: MEA

Describing the deaths of Indian prisoners in Pakistan as alarming, the government on Friday said it had taken up the issue with Islamabad. The ministry of external affairs confirmed that six Indian prisoners had died in Pakistan in the past nine months. All of them had completed their sentences. MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said among the dead were five fishermen.

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T-90 tank barrel blows up during exercise in Jhansi, kills 2 soldiers

Two Army personnel — a junior commissioned officer and a jawan — died while another sustained injuries when the barrel of a T-90 Bhishma tank burst during a field firing exercise in Babina area of Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday.

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Sena poll symbol: EC sets Saturday 2pm deadline for Uddhav’s reply

The ongoing dispute between the rival Shiv Sena factions regarding which one is the "real" party entitled to the use of its "bow and arrow" poll symbol acquired an urgency as the nomination process for the Andheri East byelection started on Friday.

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Amid Ukraine war, peace Nobel for rights champs

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Teen stabbed to death during brawl at birthday party in Israel

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Man sets woman afire for rejecting his love

A man here on Friday allegedly set a married woman on fire for rejecting his love and then attempted to kill himself, police said.

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Uddhav camp may misuse poll symbol: Shinde faction to EC

The Eknath Shinde faction has filed an application before the Election Commission (EC) saying Shiv Sena’s bow and arrow symbol may be “misused” by the Uddhav Thackeray group and requested EC to take an immediate decision on the symbol issue in view of the November 3 Andheri (East) assembly byelection.

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India’s heaviest rocket to make maiden global foray this month

Making its maiden foray into the global satellite launch market, Isro’s heaviest rocket GSLVMK III will launch 36 satellites of London-headquartered global communication company OneWeb in the second half of this month that will help the Bharti Airtel-backed company move towards completion of its constellation of satellites for providing high-speed satellite-based internet across the world.

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Uddhav camp may misuse poll symbol: Shinde faction to EC

The Eknath Shinde faction has filed an application before the Election Commission (EC) saying Shiv Sena’s bow and arrow symbol may be “misused” by the Uddhav Thackeray group and requested EC to take an immediate decision on the symbol issue in view of the November 3 Andheri (East) assembly byelection.

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Reliance Jio on Thursday started beta trials of 5G services in the national capital along with three other cities — Mumbai, Kolkata and Varanasi — with users getting download speed of over 1Gbps. At Chanakyapuri, in Lutyens' Zone of New Delhi, the users got internet speed of over 1Gbps. During the trial, the company said, "Now 5G services will be available only on...

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1st ODI: Samson's unbeaten 86 in vain as India lose to SA by 9 runs

Below-par death bowling coupled with ordinary fielding and batting, except for Sanju Samson and Shreyas Iyer, hurt a second-string Indian team as it slumped to a nine-run defeat against South Africa in the rain-truncated first ODI of the three-match series on Thursday.

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Messi says 2022 World Cup will 'surely' be his last

Argentina captain Lionel Messi said Thursday that the 2022 World Cup in Qatar will "surely" be the last of his career. Messi made his international debut in 2007 and has since won 164 caps for Argentina.

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5 killed as SUV rams vehicles on Mumbai sea link

Five people, including four Bandra-Worli Sea Link toll plaza employees and an ambulance driver, were killed and nine others were left injured, one critically, after a speeding SUV rammed into three stationary cars and an ambulance on the bridge around 2.53am on Wednesday.

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WHO alert on 4 Indian cough syrups as 66 Gambian kids die

The WHO on Wednesday issued a medical product alert on four ‘cough & cold’ syrups made by an Indian pharmaceutical firm — Maiden Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Sonipat, Haryana — warning they could be potentially linked with acute kidney injuries and the death of 66 children in Gambia.

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RSS will continue its outreach to Muslims: Bhagwat

The “so-called minorities” face no danger and Hindutva organisations will continue to reach out to them to assuage their fears, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday said in his first public statement on the Sangh’s attempt to extend its outreach after his meeting with several clerics and visit to a mosque and a madrasa in Delhi this September.

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Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro will be launched by the tech giant today at the ‘Made By Google’ event scheduled to begin at 10am ET (7.30pm IST). The Google event will launch a number of other products, including the Google Pixel Watch which was first teased by the company in May.

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Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro will be launched by the tech giant today at the ‘Made By Google’ event scheduled to begin at 10am ET (7.30pm IST). The Google event will launch a number of other products, including the Google Pixel Watch which was first teased by the company in May.

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Audio-streaming service Spotify Technology on Wednesday said it had acquired Kinzen, a firm that has helped it identify harmful content on the platform. The acquisition is part of Spotify’s efforts to deal with harmful content on its service after a backlash earlier this year.

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Fresh buzz in Raj Cong as Pilot meets Gehlot’s key loyalist

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Help held for J&K prisons chief’s murder

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3 physicists share Nobel for work on quantum science

Frenchman Alain Aspect, American John F Clauser and Austrian Anton Zeilinger were cited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for discovering the way that unseen particles, such as photons, can be linked or “entangled”, with each other even when they are separated by large distances, a field that unsettled Albert Einstein himself, who once referred to it in a letter as “spooky action at a distance”.

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Election Commission wants political parties to spell out poll promises

The Election Commission on Tuesday proposed changes to its manifesto guidelines under the model code of conduct regarding poll promises, requiring political parties to specify how they would find resources for implementation of the pledges, the estimated impact on financial sustainability, and the number of beneficiaries expected to be targeted by schemes promised.

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Facebook parent Meta Platforms announced a series of new ad formats on Tuesday, aimed at creating new revenue streams for the short video and business messaging products that it has identified as key to growth this year.

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Keeping close eye on Chinese activity along LAC: IAF chief

Rejecting China’s recent claim that the border situation is now returning to a “normalised” state, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal V R Chaudhari on Tuesday said Beijing should first withdraw troops from all friction areas in eastern Ladakh and restore status quo ante along the Line of Actual Control.

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India’s female IMR drops to same level as males’

India, which had the ignominious reputation of being the only country in the world where a larger proportion of girls below the age of one died than boys, finally saw its male and female infant mortality rate (IMR) equalise in 2020. In 16 states, IMR remained higher for female babies than males, but the gap had reduced since 2011.

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Medicine Nobel goes to Neanderthal researcher

The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded on Monday to Svante Paabo, a Swedish-born scientist who spent decades trying to extract DNA from 40,000-year-old bones, culminating in the unveiling of the Neanderthal genome in 2010..

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Airtel 5G won’t work on some devices for now

Airtel may have launched 5G across eight cities, but users of Apple’s iPhone and a large device eco-system of Samsung and other companies such as OnePlus will not be able to access the high-speed services immediately as the smartphone companies need to carry out testing and a software upgrade.

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Russian hacker, ‘mastermind of JEE(M) leak’, held in Delhi

The CBI on Monday apprehended an expert Russian hacker who is supposedly the mastermind of the JEE (Mains) paper leak reported last year. Mikhail Shargin had a look-out circular against him and was detained at Delhi airport immigration upon arrival from Kazakhstan. He was brought for questioning to the agency’s headquarters and was likely to be arrested later in the night, sources said.

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Study nails genetic region linked to strokes in Indians

A genetic region previously known to increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease in African Americans, has been linked to an increased risk of stroke. Also, a new study published in the journal Nature suggests, the frequency of this genetic region called COBL is higher in persons suffering from the neurological disease in south Asians, including Indian patients.

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Police detain filmmaker Kamaleshwar Mukhopadhyay

In a shocking turn of events filmmaker Kamaleshwar Mukhopadhyay and several other CPI(M) workers were detained by Kolkata Police while they were staging a protest near the Rashbehari crossing. It all started after an alleged attack on a Left party bookstall. The critically acclaimed filmmaker and the others were first taken to Lalbazar, but later in the evening they were released.

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'PK has undertaken padyatra as part of BJP's agenda in Bihar'

Janata Dal (United) national president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh on Monday slammed political strategist Prashant Kishor for the latter’s remark that 'there were no development works in the last 30 years in Bihar', and further alleged that Kishor has undertaken his 'Jan Suraj Padyatra' as a "part of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) agenda" as he (PK) has been working on behalf of the BJP in the state.

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'Agencies being used to weaken Congress'

Telangana Congress president A Revanth Reddy has charged Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP government of misusing the enforcement directorate, Income tax and Central Bureau of investigation to weaken the Congress in Telangana and also create hurdles for the Bharat Jodo yatra of Rahul Gandhi.

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PM to address UN World Geospatial Congress in Hyd on Oct 11

PM Modi will address on October 11 the second United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC), which is scheduled to start in Hyderabad from October 10 and will go on till October 14. The international conference, convened by the UN committee of experts on global geospatial information management and hosted by the Department of Science & Technology, will be attended by over 2,000 delegates, including 700-plus delegates from about 120 countries.

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Accused in Sidhu Moose Wala killing flees from custody

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3 men chase, stab 19-year-oldto death in public in Delhi

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Twenty minutes HIV self-test kit likely to be in India by December

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Bihar minister who hit out at Nitish ‘forced to resign’

Bihar agriculture minister Sudhakar Singh, whose pot-shots caused much embarrassment to the Grand Alliance (GA) government in general and CM Nitish Kumar in particular, resigned on Sunday, the second RJD minister to leave since September. Top sources said Sudhakar was forced to leave. “He didn’t resign on his own. Rather, he was forced to resign due to pressure from the chief minister,” said a source, requesting anonymity.

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Congress prez poll: Wanted consensus, Tharoor insisted on contest, says Kharge

As his underdog rival in the Congress presidential poll Shashi Tharoor sought a public debate on their visions, Mallikarjun Kharge, the frontrunner and putative successor to Sonia Gandhi, steered clear of the demand, saying the need of the hour is to fight RSS-BJP, and not each other.

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Mouni Roy walks the ramp in style at Bombay TFW

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Four in the race to be next vice-chancellor of Nalsar

Former vice-chancellor Faizan Mustafa and current in-charge VC V Balakista Reddy are being seen as front-runners among the four names being considered for appointment as the next VC of one of India's prominent law schools, Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad.

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DRI seizes 200+kg drugs in Mumbai

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Mumbai, on Saturday seized 198 kg of 'high purity' crystal methamphetamine (ice) and 9 kg 'high purity' cocaine worth Rs 1,476 crore which had been smuggled by concealing the stuff among boxes of oranges.

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Auto sales on fast track, hit record monthly high in Sept

Buoyed by the continued surge in personal mobility and the rush for new cars and SUVs, the car industry recorded its highest-ever wholesales deliveries in a month, indicating the strong consumer sentiment for new purchases despite rising interest rates and inflationary pressures.

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India abstains from UNSC vote condemning Russia

While remaining "deeply disturbed" by the situation in Ukraine, India Friday joined China, Brazil and Gabon in abstaining from voting on a UNSC resolution which condemned "illegal" referendums held by Russia to annex 4 regions of Ukraine, and called upon Moscow to unconditionally withdraw troops from the country.

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‘Ponniyin Selvan’ records a bigger opening than Brahmastra

Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan-I released yesterday and has recorded the biggest ever opening day for Tamil cinema worldwide. The film collected 80 crore at the ticket window. Interestingly, the first-day global gross collection of the film is also higher than Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt’s Brahmastra: Part One - Shiva. The Ayan Mukerji’s directorial had collected Rs 75 crore gross worldwide on Day 1.

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Live Updates: Bigg Boss 16 Premiere

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan has kickstarted a brand new season of Bigg Boss. With contestants finally entering the house, fun and frenzy is about to begin. Bigg Boss 16 has some exciting twists this time and it includes the shift in Weekend Ka Vaar days from Sat-Sun to Fri-Sat. The house is circus-themed and looks stunning. This time there are extra features in the house including 4 bedroom, captain's room with jacuzzi and more. The contestants will stay here for more than 100 days. Popular names being locked inside BB 16 include Nimrit Kaur Ahluwalia, Sajid Khan, Tina Datta, Sreejita De, Ankit Gupta, Gautam Vig, Adu Rozik among others. The performances, conversations of contestants with Salman Khan and the new look of the house are going to keep you hooked. Stay tuned here to catch all the action...

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