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11:43 AM

News update: Hearing on NEET-UG 'irregularities' case begins in Supreme Court

 There is urgency in the matter and lakhs of students are waiting for an outcome in this matter, the Supreme Court Bench said today.

 

11:07 AM

Another batch of devotees leave for Amarnath shrine

A new batch of 4,383 pilgrims left a base camp here for the Amarnath shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas early Thursday, officials said. The 21st batch of pilgrims, which included 1,086 women and eight children, left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp in a convoy of 157 vehicles at 3.15 am, they said.

11:02 AM

Supreme Court attains full strength as 2 judges take oath; top court gets first judge from Manipur

Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court, Justice N Kotiswar Singh on Thursday took oath of office and became the first judge to have been elevated to the Supreme Court from Manipur. Acting Chief Justice of Madras High Court R Mahadevan was also sworn in as judge of the apex court.

10:38 AM

Puja Khedkar's mother, seen threatening farmers with pistol, taken into custody

Manorama Khedkar, mother of controversial IAS probationer Puja Khedkar, was seen berating a farmer with a pocket pistol in her hand over a land dispute in Pune's Mulshi tehsil.

10:35 AM

Resolving disagreements on key issues require political direction, says COP29 president

Political direction is required to resolve disagreements on a new financial target to support developing countries' climate actions post-2025, the president of this year's UN climate summit has stated. "There are disagreements on key elements that will require political direction and we must focus high-level discussions on these points," COP29 President-Designate Mukhtar Babayev said in a letter to nearly 200 countries that are signatories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

10:23 AM

Mumbai Hoarding tragedy: Top official didn't take action on complaints, says suspended cop to SIT

Suspended IPS officer Quaiser Khalid has claimed before an SIT investigating the Ghatkopar hoarding crash that incumbent GRP commissioner Ravindra Shisve neither acted on complaints about the illegal billboard's huge size and nor checked its structural stability. Khalid, who was Government Railway Police (GRP) commissioner when the hoarding crashed on a petrol pump in Mumbai's Ghatkopar area in May this year killing 17 persons, also claimed that these complaints were raised before Shisve through office notes.

10:01 AM

Rainfall affects parts of Mumbai, IMD issues yellow alert till Friday

Rainfall affected parts of Mumbai today as the Indian Meteorological Department issued a yellow alert for the city. 

9:51 AM

Money laundering probe: Enforcement Directorate raids Haryana Congress legislator Rao Dan Singh

The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday searched locations of Haryana Congress MLA Rao Dan Singh, a metal fabricating company and its promoters as part of a money laundering probe linked to an alleged Rs 1,392 crore worth bank loan fraud case, official sources said.

About 15 locations, including those in Mahendragarh, Bahadurgarh and Gurugram in Haryana, Delhi and Jamshedpur, were being searched by the central agency's Gurugram office.

9:36 AM

Ukraine's remarks on meeting between Presiden Putin, PM Modi 'insulting' in nature: Russia foreign minister

India is a great power that determines its national interests and chooses its partners, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said, describing as “completely unjustified” the “enormous pressure” on New Delhi due to its energy cooperation with Moscow.  Lavrov also termed as "insulting" Ukraine's remarks on the recent meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Moscow.

9:28 AM

US cop who mocked Indian student Jaahnavi's death dismissed

A Seattle police officer, whose insensitive behavior after the death of an Indian student had caused outrage, has been fired. In bodycam footage released by the Seattle Police Department, Officer Daniel Auderer was seen mocking the deadly crash.

9:26 AM

India at UN calls for ceasefire in Gaza strip, urges release of hostages

India at the United Nations has reiterated its call for an immediate and complete ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and called for the release of the hostages without any conditions.

9:02 AM

Complaint seeks open inquiry by ACB against Puja Khedkar's father

The Pune ACB has received a complaint seeking an open inquiry against Dilip Khedkar, a retired government officer and father of controversial IAS probationer Puja Khedkar, in connection with alleged disproportionate assets, a senior official said. As there is already an inquiry underway by the Anti-Corruption Bureau's Nashik division against him into the alleged disproportionate assets, the Pune unit of the anti-graft agency has sought directions from the ACB headquarters.

8:45 AM

2 security personnel killed in IED blast in Chhattisgarh

Two security personnel were killed and four injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast by Naxalites in Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh on Thursday.