Kareena Kapoor reveals she and Taimur will join Saif Ali Khan in Dharamshala for Diwali: ‘We plan to keep it very quiet’

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Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Taimur will have a low-key Diwali celebration in Dharamshala. She is looking forward to the ‘open air and sunshine’ in the mountains. As the coronavirus pandemic rages on, Diwali parties are being cancelled due to safety concerns, and many Bollywood celebrities will have a low-key celebration this year. […]Continue Reading

In TV studio after release from jail, Arnab Goswami dares Uddhav Thackeray

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Arnab Goswami also singled out Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh for his ‘illegal’ arrest on November 4 in a 2018 suicide abetment case. Back in the familiar environs of the TV newsroom after a week in judicial custody, journalist Arnab Goswami on Wednesday hit out at Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray for arresting him […]Continue Reading

Tejashwi Yadav is a very good boy, can lead after he grows older: Uma Bharti

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Calling former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, Kamal Nath, like her “elder brother”, she said the Congress leader tactfully fought the recently concluded bypolls. Praising RDJ leader Tejashwi Yadav, BJP leader Uma Bharti on Wednesday asserted that though age is on his side, he is not experienced enough to run a state and ultimately “Lalu […]Continue Reading

Nawaz Sharif crosses Army’s redline in battle with Imran Khan. Pushback begins

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Pakistan watchers in New Delhi believe the army tried to get back at Sharif via his daughter Maryam Sharif’s husband Mohammad Safdar when the military arm-twisted the police to arrest him from his Karachi hotel. Pakistan’s army, its most powerful institution that has directly ruled the country for large parts of its seven-decade history, has […]Continue Reading

Covid-19: What you need to know today

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A long career in India’s sprawling and bureaucratic health system, or a medical degree of some vintage, don’t matter as much as an open mind, the ability to read and understand current literature on Covid, and then synthesise what that means in the Indian context. There isn’t much information available on India’s Covid-19 vaccine game […]Continue Reading

Deficient rain may have added to pollution spike

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The northern plains have not seen substantial rainfall since last week of August. In September, rain deficiency in the region hovered between 80% and 92%, resulting in below normal monsoon rains , forcing farmers to harvest their crops early. Acute dryness of the ground due to almost nil rainfall in the northern India plains could […]Continue Reading

Decoding BJP’s game plan to win battleground Bihar

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BJP realised that it had to find ways to counter the anti-incumbency without it affecting the alliance, while, at the same time, expanding its own strength. Soon after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, following an initial internal survey, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) began getting a sense that there was a strong anti-incumbency sentiment building […]Continue Reading

Kerala chief minister’s office knew about gold smuggling: Probe agency

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The ED said the main accused in the Kerala gold smuggling case, Swapna Suresh, had divulged this information during her interrogation. Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s private secretary M Sivasankar and some officials at the CM’s office were aware of smuggling activities, the Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday informed the special court in Kochi. This is the […]Continue Reading

Thanked PM Modi for making Covid-19 vaccine a global public good, says WHO chief Tedros

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World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanon Ghebreyesus on Wednesday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his strong commitment to Covax — a global vaccine pool led by WHO and Gavi — and for making Covid-19 vaccines a global public good. “The pandemic is an unprecedented challenge for the world, and we agreed to work shoulder […]Continue Reading

ഗര്‍ഭിണിയായ യുവതി മൂന്നര വയസ്സുള്ള മകളേയും കൊണ്ട് കിണറ്റില്‍ ചാടി ജീവനൊടുക്കി

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മലപ്പുറം: അഞ്ച് മാസം ഗര്‍ഭിണിയായ യുവതി മൂന്നര വയസുകാരിയായ മകളേയും കൊണ്ട് കിണറ്റില്‍ ചാടി ജീവനൊടുക്കി. തിരൂര്‍ പുല്ലൂരിലാണ് സംഭവം. മൃതദേഹങ്ങള്‍ തിരൂര്‍ ജില്ലാ ആശുപത്രിയിലേക്ക് മാറ്റി. പുല്ലൂര്‍ വൈരങ്കോട് റോഡില്‍ വാടക വീട്ടില്‍ താമസിക്കുന്ന തസ്‌നി, മകള്‍ റിഹാന ഫാത്തിമ എന്നിവരാണ് മരിച്ചത്. ഭക്ഷണം കഴിക്കുന്നതിനിടയില്‍ തസ്‌നിയെ കാണാതാവുകയായിരുന്നു. തുടര്‍ന്ന് നടത്തിയ Continue Reading