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2 extortionists held after encounter
Two wanted extortionists were arrested after an encounter in Jalandhar’s Shahkot area on Monday morning. Both of them were hospitalised after they suffered bullet injuries in the encounter.
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July 08, 2025
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STARGAZING FACILITY IN SPITI VALLEY TO BOOST ASTRO-TOURISM
Night sky observation is now set to be an added attraction for tourists visiting the Spiti Valley in Himachal Pradesh.
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July 08, 2025
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AFTER 239 RACES, HULKENBERG FINDS A PLACE ON THE PODIUM
Immediately after the British Grand Prix ended, a Mercedes staffer ran across the paddock carrying a large paper bag with the contents in it clinking.
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July 08, 2025
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All Indian languages are national ones: RSS
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological fount of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, on Monday sought to quell the row over languages, and protests against the imposition of Hindi by asserting that all Indian languages are national languages and education should be imparted in the mother tongue.
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July 08, 2025
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Ashwani Sharma named Punjab BJP’s working prez
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday appointed senior leader and two-time Pathankot MLA Ashwani Sharma, 56, as the working president of the party's Punjab unit.
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July 08, 2025
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NIA gets 10 more days to grill 2 Pahalgam accused
A special court in Jammu on Monday granted the National Investigation Agency (NIA) 10 more days’ remand of the two accused arrested for allegedly harbouring Pakistani terrorists involved in the deadly Pahalgam terror attack in April, officials said.
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July 08, 2025
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Punjab cabinet withdraws nod to deploy CISF at Bhakra
2021 consent by Cong govt to Centre against state’s interests, resolution against deployment to be brought in assembly session: FM Cheema
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July 08, 2025
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MNS leader's son booked amid row over video of him abusing woman
The 26-year-old son of a Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) leader was booked on Monday for allegedly threatening and abusing a woman social media influencer in an inebriated state, police said.
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July 08, 2025
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Bihar: 5 killed, burnt on suspicion of witchcraft
Five members of a tribal family, including three women, were allegedly hacked to death and their bodies burnt on suspicion of practising witchcraft in Purnea district of Bihar, police said on Monday, adding that two people have been detained for questioning.
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July 08, 2025
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Crews search for the victims of Texas floods as toll rises to nearly 90
Crews trudged through debris and waded into swollen riverbanks Monday in the search for victims of catastrophic flooding over the July Fourth weekend that has killed nearly 90 people in Texas, including more than two dozen campers and counsellors from an all-girls Christian camp.
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July 08, 2025
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'PEACETIME AN ILLUSION, MUST STAY READY FOR ANY UNCERTAINTY'
Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said peacetime is an illusion and the country must stay prepared for uncertainty, adding that the performance of locally made weap’ons and systems during Operation Sindoor has spurred the global demand for India-made military hardware.
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July 08, 2025
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Indian Oil works on fresh strategy for N-reactors
Indian Oil Corp. Ltd is preparing a new strategy to build small modular reactors (SMR) and large nuclear power plants in the country, chairman Arvinder Singh Sahney said.
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July 08, 2025
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Blackstone, 3 more PE firms circle Axis Finance
Global and domestic private equity firms including Blackstone, Kedaara Capital, Advent International and Warburg Pincus are in talks to acquire 40-100% stake in Axis Finance, the non-banking financial arm of Axis Group, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said.
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July 08, 2025
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MP CM woos Punjab investors, gets proposals worth ₹15,000 crore
ASSURES THEM OF A STABLE POLICY FRAMEWORK THAT PROMOTES EASE OF DOING BUSINESS
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July 08, 2025
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GOVT PLANS TO BEGIN HELI SHUTTLE SERVICE TO BADRINATH
The state govern- ‘ment has sent a proposal to the Union civil aviation ministry to operate a chopper shuttle service from Jyotirmath (earlier Joshimath) to Badrinath in Chamoli district, a senior official said on Monday.
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July 08, 2025
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Officials in a fix on how to map uncontacted, secluded tribes
The recent notification for the national census has left officials in the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar seeking answers to three questions: One, how to count the Sentinelese, given the administration’s decision to stay at least 5km away from the North Sentinel island that is their home?
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July 08, 2025
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Trump letters unveil new deadline for trade deals
President Donald Trump said on Monday the US would impose a 25% tariff on imports from Japan and South Korea beginning August 1 as he unveiled the first two of what he has said will be a wave of letters to trading partners outlining the new levies they face.
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July 08, 2025
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Rains bring much-needed relief from scorching heat in Kashmir
Climate change, less precipitation behind summer sizzle in Kashmir
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July 08, 2025
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India will redefine Brics during its chairmanship: PM in Brazil
India’s presidency of the Brics grouping next year will focus on building resilience and using innovation for sustainability while simultaneously giving priority to the issues of the Global South, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the Brics Summit in Rio de Janeiro on Monday.
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July 08, 2025
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Russian ex-minister kills self hours after being fired by Putin
Russia's former transport minister Roman Starovoit killed himself on Monday hours after being dismissed by President Vladimir Putin, Russian news agencies reported.
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July 08, 2025
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‘We must secure supply chain of critical minerals, tech’
Brics member states should work together to make the supply chains for critical minerals and technology secure and reliable and ensure that no country uses these resources as “a weapon” against others, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the Brics Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
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July 08, 2025
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BANGLADESH LAWYERS SEEK TO QUASH EX-PM'S MURDER TRIAL
State-appointed defence lawyers sought on Monday to throw out the charges against Bangladesh's convicted ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina in her crimes against humanity trial.
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July 08, 2025
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Toll rises to three; 6 water samples fail potability test
70-year-old man, undergoing treatment at Govt Rajindra Hospital, succumbs
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July 08, 2025
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Mulder stops short of Lara Test record before Zim collapse
Wiaan Mulder denied himself the chance of making a world record Test score before leading a dominant South Africa performance on the second day of the second Test against Zimbabwe at Queens Sports Club on Monday.
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July 08, 2025
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1993 BLASTS: HC TELLS ABU SALEM TO APPROACH SC ON REMISSION
The Bombay high court on Monday directed gangster Abu Salem to approach the Supreme Court for clarification on whether he is entitled to remission while serving a life sentence in two Terrorist and Disruptive Activities ‘Act (TADA) cases, including the 1993 Mumbai serial bombings.
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July 08, 2025
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APPLE TAKES FIGHT AGAINST $587MN EU ANTI-TRUST FINE TO COURT
Apple took a challenge against EU regulators to Europe's 2nd highest court on Monday after they fined it €500 million earlier this year for breaching landmark rules aimed at curbing the power of Big Tech.
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July 08, 2025
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Army to test locally made gun that shoots, scoots in 85 secs
The Indian Army is set to conduct trials to assess the performance of a locally made mounted gun system that can shoot and scoot in 85 seconds —a capability that allows the 30-tonne weapon to swiftly relocate and evade counter-battery fire, senior Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) officials said on Monday.
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July 08, 2025
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RUSSIAN FORCES CLAIM 1ST VILLAGE CAPTURED IN NEW UKRAINE REGION
Russia said on Monday it captured its first village in Ukraine's central Dnipropetrovsk region after grinding towards the border for months, dealing a psychological blow to Kyiv as its worries mount.
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July 08, 2025
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Pace show on a lifeless turf
The India skipper's assessment about the Edgbaston pitch as \"loses its essence\" was blunt, although his bowlers ended on top
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July 08, 2025
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WANTED CRIMINAL SHOT DEAD IN JIND
A 28-year-old criminal was shot dead and a kabaddi player injured after four unidentified assailants opened fire near Pauli village in Jind on Sunday night, police said on Monday.
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