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Swatantra Bharadwaj detained; NSE gets Sebi nod for mega IPO Swatantra Bharadwaj detained in Bulandshahr over Jantar Mantar assault Army kills one terrorist in Budgam, search for another continues Belgium backs India partnership as PM De Wever flags trade dependency risks Sebi clears NSE IPO, proposed issue could be worth Rs 30,000 crore Russian strike … Read more

​Meloni hails ‘stronger than ever’ India-Italy ties. NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Friday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for congratulating her on becoming Italy’s longest continuously serving PM in the postwar period, saying the relationship between the two countries was “stronger than ever”.Sharing a post on X, Meloni said, “Thank you, dear Narendra … Read more

NEW DELHI: Swatantra Bharadwaj, accused of assaulting the father of student activist Nishu Azad during a protest at Jantar Mantar, has been taken into custody, news agency PTI reported quoting Delhi Police.The development came hours after representatives of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), along with MPs Chandrashekhar Azad and Pappu Yadav, met officials at Parliament … Read more

NEW DELHI: The West Bengal fire department has ordered the evacuation of the basement, sixth and seventh floors of a high-rise building in central Kolkata that houses TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee’s office, citing a “lack of fire safety measures”, an official said on Friday.The order came a day after Banerjee’s Camac Street office was ransacked, … Read more

NEW DELHI: One terrorist was killed on Friday in a joint operation by the Army, J&K Police and CRPF in Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said, according to news agency PTI.The operation was launched following intelligence inputs about the movement of a suspected group of terrorists from Pakherpora in Pulwama district towards Yousmarg … Read more

Vijay’s national ambitions: Can the TVK chief succeed where Kejriwal failed? The honeymoon period between Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) and its coalition partner, the Congress, appears to be over. Barely months after the two parties came together to form the government, they are already sparring over a question … Read more

Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge (R) (File photo) NEW DELHI: Congress will stage a massive demonstration and march to the chief minister’s residence in Dehradun on September 7, the Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee said on Friday.The protest follows a call by the All India Congress Committee (AICC).The protest will begin at Parade Ground and focus … Read more

The finding relates to the Pilot-In-Command of the Air India flight that was operating from Phuket to Delhi on August 4. The aircraft suddenly lost around 300 feet in altitude while flying over Odisha, injuring 20 passengers and four cabin crew members. NEW DELHI: A preliminary report by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has … Read more

ECI rejects Patiala MP Dharamvira Gandhi’s claim NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday rejected Congress leader and Patiala MP Dharamvira Gandhi’s claim that his name and those of his family members were missing from Punjab’s draft electoral roll published on August 13.According to an ECI statement, the Lok Sabha member and … Read more

The final report will tell what caused the extremely rare instance of all three hydraulic systems on an A320 failing one after the other in a matter of seconds — whether it happened due to something going wrong with the hardware or software or due to some manual intervention. NEW DELHI: The Aircraft Accident Investigation … Read more