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At least 23 persons were killed after a minibus collided with a container truck in Assam’s Golaghat district on Friday, PTI reported. Twenty others were injured. The collision occurred near Kaziranga National Park. The minibus was allegedly speeding in violation of the…
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The consumer watchdog has ordered Ola to discontinue its pre-ride tip feature, which suggested extra payments could help passengers secure rides faster.
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On October 13, Parvinder Singh Jhota, an anti-drug activist from Mansa was shot dead while broadcasting live on Facebook his confrontation with a chemist. Jhota’s activism often involved sting operations on chemists who were allegedly selling prescription-only drugs to addicts…
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Patrick Mahomes and Brittany Mahomes’ foundation organised a rally to bring in changes in over 300 students' lives.
Times of India
Could your home be at risk from rising seas? Scroll is investigating coastal flooding in Mumbai and Kolkata, mapping vulnerable areas and examining whether developers and the authorities are accounting for the risks. Support this investigation and help us make this reporting…
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‘Zollywood’ director Trushant Ingle’s new film also stars Kishor Kadam, Mayur More and Rohit Kokate. The Marathi film will be out in cinemas on November 20.
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Morning struck me like a slap of sunlight. I shuffled onto the balcony, the sun already high and blazing in the sky. My body burned partly from oversleeping, partly from the four showers I’d taken in the span of four hours during the night. The stink just wouldn’t go away. I…
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “ political career will be over ” after a debate with him. In a social media post, Gandhi challenged Modi to bring a teleprompter and a judge of his choice to the debate. “The country wants to know…
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Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday alleged that 115 of 315 speakers scheduled to attend the Bharat Summit in Hyderabad were refused entry into India or had their visas cancelled “apparently on the instructions of the Ministry of Home Affairs”. Tharoor said that the…
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The Union government on Friday extended the ban imposed on Islamic preacher Zakir Naik’s non-governmental organisation Islamic Research Foundation for five years. In November 2016, the Islamic Research Foundation had been declared an “unlawful association” under the Unlawful…
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More than nine lakh Indians became citizens of countries that are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development between 2020 and 2024, according to the International Migration Outlook report published by the intergovernmental forum. The members of the…
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Activist Sonam Wangchuk on Thursday claimed that he had been placed under house arrest by the police ahead of planned protests against the upcoming council polls. The authorities did not provide any explanation, Wangchuk said. The activist alleged that his movement was being…
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Former Olympic track athlete PT Usha has kept her Indian Olympic Association chief re-election bid alive after being nominated on Thursday by the Ice Hockey Association of India as one of its two representatives to the general body, PTI reported. She was elected as the president…
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There was something not quite right about the place. Only a moment’s strangeness, but it thudded through Rishi as soon as he got out of the car, taking him by the scruff of his neck and knocking him off his feet. The phone fell from his hand, and he would have fallen too, flat…
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Directed by Rajendra Bagate and Vaibhav Kulkarni and starring Krushnaraj Waingade, Sejal Kore, Amruta Suresh and Prabhakar More. Out in cinemas on November 19.
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The number of voters increased by up to 3% in nine states and Union Territories in the first draft electoral rolls published after the special intensive revision, The Indian Express cited data released by the Election Commission on Thursday as having shown. The data was released…
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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have acquired Strancally Castle in County Waterford for €51.17 million. The historic estate spans 440 acres and includes a Gothic mansion overlooking the River Blackwater. Its prior owners expressed happiness about the sale and hope for its…
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Parivarik ManuRanjan is the story of a confirmed bachelor meeting a confirmed bachelorhood breaker. From the second that Helen (Aditi Rao Hydari) walks into the spacious home occupied only and entirely by Ranjan (Pankaj Tripathi), the Hindi film throws broad hints about where it…
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On the weekend, a debate ensued on social media after the emergence of a video showing Indian tourists having a community picnic in an airport terminal purportedly in Vietnam, plates of food spread out on the floor around them. “When will we learn to travel with civic sense?”…
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The actions and propaganda of Hindu communalists in the months after Partition leading up to Gandhiji’s murder were not a mere threat to law and order. They constituted a challenge to the very nature of the Indian state. The government communiqué dated February 4, 1948…
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The average Air Quality Index in Delhi worsened to the “severe” category on Friday. At 8.05 am, the average AQI in the national capital was 403, which is categorised as “severe”, according to data from the Sameer application, which provides hourly updates published by the…
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Peter Farrelly’s film I Play Rocky is out in theatres a few weeks after the publication of Sylvester Stallone’s memoir The Steps , about the Hollywood star’s journey until his blockbuster film Rocky (1976). Both the movie and the book are about the impossible becoming possible…
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Welcome to The India Fix by Shoaib Daniyal, a newsletter on Indian politics. As always, if you’ve been sent this newsletter and like it, to get it in your inbox every week, sign up here (click on “follow”). Have feedback, interesting links or think I am wrong? Write to me…
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is facing scrutiny over his frequent trips to Florida to watch his son play college football, with a Washington Post investigation estimating that 23 military aircraft journeys cost taxpayers more than $1.2 million. While Rubio is required to…
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