In the deadliest incident, a house and barn were swept into the sea on the island of Reinoya.
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Friday 31 March 2023
March 31, 2023
Automatic Fitness testing deadline extended by 18 months
The ministry has extended the timeline considering that so far only seven automated testing stations (ATS) have been set up, which is inadequate to meet the countrywide requirement. The earlier deadline was April 1, 2023.
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March 31, 2023
Two Punjab-based interstate narco-suppliers nabbed with Rs 16.71 lakh cash and heroin in Samba
Two Punjab-based interstate narcotics suppliers were held along with Rs 16.71 lakh cash believed to be proceeds of narcotics sale and contraband worth Rs 20,000 during a naka checking in J&K’s Samba district on Friday, a senior police officer said.
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March 31, 2023
March 31, 2023
PM Modi to flag off first 8-coach Vande Bharat; railways to get 64 such trains
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to flag off the first Vande Bharat train with eight coaches on April 8. The Chennai-Coimbatore train will have one executive coach and would accommodate 530 passengers. All other Vande Bharat trains have 16 coaches.Sources said the railways will manufacture 64 such trains with eight-coach configuration, which will help the national transporter to expedite the roll out of trains.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/uFPs9lB
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Thursday 30 March 2023
March 30, 2023
Lost in translation: Why sarkar is taking away Sarkars' lands
The land holdings of some 727 Bengali Hindu refugees in three rehab camps in Raichur district, Karnataka, in 1971 — carrying thesurname ‘Sarkar’ — have been marked government or ‘sarkari’ land, in a bungle over the surname.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/QyAgCqa
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March 30, 2023
March 30, 2023
Udhampur IED blasts: NIA files chargesheets against 2 LeT men
Two civilians were injured in two separate IED blasts in parked buses within eight hours on September 28 and 29 in Udhampur district, barely four days ahead of a visit by Union home minister Amit Shah to J&K.
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March 30, 2023
March 30, 2023
Wednesday 29 March 2023
March 29, 2023
Disqualified NCP MP reinstated in Lok Sabha hours before SC hearing
Two months after the order of the Kerala high court's January 25 order staying P P Mohammad Faizal's conviction, the Lok Sabha secretariat restored the membership of the disqualified Lakshadweep MP (of NCP) - just hours before the Supreme Court was set to take up his petition against the delay.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/E2mHF7M
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March 29, 2023
March 29, 2023
Wasteful expenditure: CAG pulls up J&K Bank for hiring Broadway hotel for ops
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has pulled up the Jammu and Kashmir Bank for incurring a wasteful expenditure of Rs 5.28 crore by hiring hotel Broadway in Srinagar, which was not used at all for its operations.
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March 29, 2023
J&K Police seek dismissal of Iltija Mufti’s writ petition for passport issuance
Seeking dismissal of a writ petition filed by PDP president Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter, Iltija Mufti, for the issuance of a passport, the criminal investigation department of J&K Police has informed the J&K high court (HC) that Iltija’s final verification report was forwarded to the department concerned last month.
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March 29, 2023
March 29, 2023
NGT recalls Aug '22 order over Mumbai Coastal Road noise levels passed without hearing HCC
The August 2022 order by NGT was in an application filed by a south Mumbai resident Dileep Nevatia who had sought orders to direct the government and civic administration to “maintain air and noise quality level for construction of the Coastal Road (South) project within limits’’ specified under the Noise Pollution rules.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3auw6Qi
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Tuesday 28 March 2023
March 28, 2023
UP villagers attack Haryana cops on murder accused's tail
A seven-member special task force (STF) from Haryana's Sonipat on a quiet mission to nab a murder accused at a village in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district was attacked by locals with sticks and stones on Sunday. Some STF men were injured and their weapons were snatched before a UP police squad reached the spot and rescued them.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/db2ahsg
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March 28, 2023
March 28, 2023
March 28, 2023
Supreme Court to examine validity of two PMLA provisions
The petitioner, MP leader of the opposition Govind Singh, alleged that the unbridled power given to the agency was being misused to silence opposition leaders across the country.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/qiLZSy1
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March 28, 2023
Monday 27 March 2023
March 27, 2023
March 27, 2023
Prices of essential drugs set to increase from April
The government is all set to allow drug companies an increase in line with the change in the annual Wholesale Price Index (WPI). The annual change in WPI, as notified by the government, works out to 12.12% during 2022, the drug prices regulator National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) said on Monday.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/p0btefv
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March 27, 2023
Sunday 26 March 2023
March 26, 2023
March 26, 2023
March 26, 2023
March 26, 2023
March 26, 2023
March 26, 2023
Saturday 25 March 2023
March 25, 2023
March 25, 2023
Private hospitals in Rajasthan oppose right to health bill, shut for 6th day
In a grim reminder of the initial days of Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, private hospitals are wearing a deserted look, with even emergency services coming to a standstill. Services in multispeciality hospitals as well as smaller healthcare facilities have been paralysed. Desperate patients are rushing to government-run health facilities, which are overburdened, but doctors are working overtime.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/akRIAXZ
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March 25, 2023
Steep fines not enough to cut road deaths, government data shows
While the fines collected through e-challans by the traffic and transport rule enforcement agencies across states have increased 450% in the past three-and-a-half years since the penalties were hiked, there has been barely 3% decline in road deaths during this period. Experts said better and scientific enforcement of rules is key to reducing road crashes and fatalities rather than focusing on slapping challans and fines.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/gucC1Q4
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March 25, 2023
March 25, 2023
Friday 24 March 2023
March 24, 2023
14 Opposition parties move Supreme Court against ‘misuse’ of probe agencies
Congress and 13 other parties jointly filed a petition in the Supreme Court on Friday accusing the NDA government of misusing CBI and ED to raid, harass and arrest political opponents to stifle dissent, and requested the court to lay down pre- and post-arrest guidelines for the probe agencies.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/qyIm1Ti
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March 24, 2023
Rahul Gandhi disqualified as MP, can’t contest polls for 8 years if conviction not stayed
Rahul Gandhi was on Friday disqualified as an MP from the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in compliance with the Surat trial court order, which had on Thursday convicted him in a criminal defamation case and sentenced him to two years, in a development which escalated BJP's confronation with Congress and widened its arc with many others in the opposition rallying for the Congress leader.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/ImsoYn9
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Thursday 23 March 2023
March 23, 2023
Rahul Gandhi's disqualification 'immediate & automatic' despite bail: Legal experts
NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification has come into “immediate and automatic” effect upon his conviction and sentencing despite the grant of bail and suspension of his sentence for a month, say lawyers who have closely worked with EC on such cases. The only scenario where the disqualification shall not take effect is if the trial court itself or an appellant court stays his conviction as well as sentence or the appellant court reduces the quantum of his sentence.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/fxIev4G
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March 23, 2023
Rahul Gandhi gets 2 years in jail for 2019 Modi remark; his future as MP at stake
Congress’s Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi faces possible disqualification from Lok Sabha and a six-year bar on contesting elections after a district court in Gujarat’s Surat on Thursday sentenced him to two years in jail in a 2019 criminal defamation case filed by a BJP MLA over his remark at a poll rally in Karnataka’s Kolar: “How come all thieves have the Modi surname?”from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/jwzyZud
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March 23, 2023
Appropriation Bill: Lok Sabha clears Rs 45 lakh crore spend in 9 minutes, without discussion
The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed the Appropriation Bill in less than nine minutes, without any discussion in the House, paving the way for the Centre to spend over Rs 45 lakh crore in the next financial year. The proceedings of the House were conducted amid din, with PM Modi, defence minister Rajnath Singh and other ministers in attendance, and opposition members shouting slogans of “Modi-Adani Bhai Bhai” while demanding a JPC on the Adani issue.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/2gli3sH
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March 23, 2023
March 23, 2023
March 23, 2023
Wednesday 22 March 2023
March 22, 2023
2 get drunk on Dubai-Mumbai flight, abuse crew; arrested
Two inebriated flyers were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly creating a ruckus and hurling abuses at the crew and co-passengers on board an IndiGo Dubai-Mumbai flight. Sahar police, who registered an FIR on the airline staff’s complaint, said John G Dsouza (49) from Nalasopara and Dattatray Bapardekar (47) from Manbet in Kolhapur told them that they had downed half a bottle of alcohol each mid-air to celebrate their return to India after a year of working in Dubai.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/dr4Q3nq
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March 22, 2023
March 22, 2023
Tuesday 21 March 2023
March 21, 2023
CBI urges Interpol to restore Mehul Choksi's Red Corner Notice
CBI has asked the Commission for Control of Interpol’s Files (CCF) for restoration of Red Notice against Mehul Choksi wanted in bank fraud cases to the tune of over Rs 13,900 crores. The agency said the CBI had taken up the “serious shortcomings, procedural violations, over reach of mandate and mistakes committed by CCF” in the manner of reaching this unfounded and perfunctory decision.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/QkG6Evb
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March 21, 2023
March 21, 2023
India needs to develop both offensive and defensive space capabilities: IAF chief
India needs to develop “both offensive and defensive space capabilities to safeguard our assets”, Air Chief Marshal V R Chaudhari said on Tuesday, in the backdrop of China furiously building and deploying anti-satellite weapons from direct ascent missiles and co-orbital killers to directed-energy laser weapons and electronic jammers.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/0atGdNb
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Monday 20 March 2023
March 20, 2023
March 20, 2023
March 20, 2023
March 20, 2023
Sunday 19 March 2023
March 19, 2023
Fugitive Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal hits country roads, shakes off police pursuers
Fugitive Khalistan sympathiser and self-styled preacher Amritpal Singh dodged Punjab Police’s dragnet for the second successive day on Sunday, changing vehicles more than once and knocking down several bike riders along the way as his convoy sped through narrow country lanes in a bid to throw off teams tracking the Mercedes in which he had been last spotted.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/lpLaCMh
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March 19, 2023
March 19, 2023
Saturday 18 March 2023
March 18, 2023
Training plane crashes in MP, both pilots killed
A training aircraft crashed in Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh on Saturday afternoon, killing both pilots — captain Mohit Thakur from Himachal Pradesh and V Maheshwari, a trainee from Gujarat. The plane, a Diamond DA-40, operated by the National Flying Training Institute (NFTI), had taken off from Birsi airport in Gondia district of Maharashtra, and crashed approximately 40km away in a dense forest in Balaghat.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/rq6z3XC
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March 18, 2023
Women paid less than men for same work in towns and villages
Market determined wages for similar work are significantly lower for women compared with those of men in both rural and urban India. What is worse is that the gap has widened in rural areas over the last decade though it has narrowed in the towns. These are survey findings just released by the National Statistical Office in the form of a report, Women and Men In India 2022.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/1EHwybB
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March 18, 2023
Mismatch in policeman’s version cast doubt in 2014 Morani case: Court
A special MCOCA court, while acquitting 12 accused in the firing at the Juhu bungalow of producers Karim and Ali Morani in 2014, has observed that it appeared one of the cops investigating the case cooked up a story regarding certain aspects and discrepancies appearing in his evidence create a shadow of doubt about the happening of the incident. While 12 accused, including alleged gangster Obaid Radiowala, were acquitted on Thursday, the judgment was made available on Friday.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/ltNVvYJ
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March 18, 2023
Compensation paid in just 6% of hit-and-run cases since 2017-18
The government has paid claims in barely 5,036 hit-and-run cases — 3,209 for deaths and 1,827 for persons left grievously injured — since 2017-18, according to official data. This is only 6% of the number of persons killed and left injured every year in hit and run cases on Indian roads. On an average, 80,000 people either lose their lives or are left seriously injured in hit and run cases annually.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/lRo1IjG
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March 18, 2023
Friday 17 March 2023
March 17, 2023
Row over Rahul: Parliament's first week post recess one of least productive
Both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were adjourned for the day on Friday due to slogan-shouting by the opposition and protests by BJP over Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s recent “democracy under threat” remarks in London. The first week of the second leg of the budget session in Lok Sabha was one of the least productive as proceedings were stalled for five days in a row with BJP insisting on an apology from Rahul and the Opposition seeking a JPC probe into the Adani issue.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/ArO9YqI
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March 17, 2023
Congress files breach of privilege notice against Modi over Nehru remark
Congress MP K C Venugopal Friday filed a notice for breach of privilege against PM Modi, urging the Rajya Sabha to take action against him. The complaint pertains to the PM’s reply to the motion of thanks on the President’s address, in which he said the family members of Jawaharlal Nehru have desisted from using the Nehru surname.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/t0obe3s
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March 17, 2023
March 17, 2023
March 17, 2023
March 17, 2023
Thursday 16 March 2023
March 16, 2023
March 16, 2023
India welcomes Eric Garcetti’s appointment as US envoy
India on Thursday welcomed the US Senate’s much-delayed confirmation of the appointment of Eric Garcetti as ambassador, saying the government is looking forward to working with him. The confirmation finally came ahead of a state visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the US, likely starting June 21, and also the G20 summit in September that will see President Joe Biden travelling to India.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/FlfvxYE
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March 16, 2023
March 16, 2023
Tough to restore Uddhav govt even if we find governor wrong: Supreme Court
At the conclusion of the nine-day marathon arguments related to the validity of rebel Shiv Sena MLAs toppling the Maha Vikas Aghadi government last year, the Supreme Court on Thursday said it could be difficult to reinstate the Uddhav Thackeray government even if it finds then Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari’s decision to ask then chief minister (Uddhav) to face trust vote unconstitutional.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/wcxW1up
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Wednesday 15 March 2023
March 15, 2023
March 15, 2023
March 15, 2023
Maharashtra counters OPS stir, picks private agencies to supply workers
In a move that is viewed as a counterstroke to the employee strike, the state government has issued a directive appointing nine private agencies to fill vacant government and semi-governmental posts on contractual basis. The government resolution (GR) issued by state industries and the labour ministry to privatise skilled and unskilled labour supply to all government departments has come under attack from the opposition.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/L0bBXwY
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March 15, 2023
March 15, 2023
Tuesday 14 March 2023
March 14, 2023
March 14, 2023
March 14, 2023
J&K Budget 2023-24: BJP terms it development-oriented, NC calls it ‘disappointing’
J&K BJP on Tuesday termed the annual Budget of the Union Territory, presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, futuristic and development-oriented, even as main opposition party National Conference (NC) maintained that the Budget-2023-24 has disappointed the people of the UT as it has nothing new for them.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/GEQjRfl
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March 14, 2023
Flagging 'absence of advance planning' parliamentary panel calls for proper utilisation of budget for tribals
The Committee has stated that “it would expect that the funds are fully utilized for the purpose and are not subsequently revised for one or the other reason.” It notes that a significant part of the increased allocation this year is aimed at facilitating construction of additional Eklavya Model Residential Schools (EMRS) in the next two years to meet the target of 740 EMRS by 2025-26.
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Monday 13 March 2023
March 13, 2023
‘Seminal issue’: Five judge Supreme Court bench to hear same-sex marriage pleas
The Supreme Court on Monday referred a bunch of pleas seeking legal recognition for same-sex marriages to a five-judge constitution bench for adjudication, saying it is a “seminal issue” and an “important matter”. The apex court took the step despite the Centre’s insistence that Parliament alone should take a call on the subject whose intricacies could impact “how our society develops henceforth”.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/JCqLIAf
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