Month: November 2024

Gujarat Family Honours ‘Lucky’ Car With Burial Ceremony, 1,500 People Attend

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Gujarat Family Honours ‘Lucky’ Car With Burial Ceremony, 1,500 People Attend

The family bid farewell by performing puja and showering rose petals as priests chanted mantras. Amreli, Gujarat: A farmer’s family in Gujarat’s Amreli district has become the talk of the town after they held a grand burial event for their “lucky” car. Nearly 1,500 people, including seers and spiritual leaders, attended the function organised by…

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Byelection: Will another Bommai make it again in Shiggaon?

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Byelection: Will another Bommai make it again in Shiggaon?

Bharath Bommai, BJP candidate | Photo Credit: SANJAY RITTI Calculations around castes and sub-castes tend to play a big role in the electoral arena in India, barring some exceptions. One such could be the Shiggaon Assembly constituency in Haveri district of Karnataka, where the Lingayat Panchamasali community is numerically strong followed by Muslims. However, former Chief…

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Trump asks protectionist Lighthizer to be U.S. trade chief, FT reports

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Trump asks protectionist Lighthizer to be U.S. trade chief, FT reports

File picture of Robert Lighthizer, AFPI Chair of the Center for American Trade | Photo Credit: Reuters Robert Lighthizer, a firm supporter of tariffs, has been asked to return as U.S. Trade Representative in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, the Financial Times reported on Friday (November 8, 2024), citing several people familiar with talks in the…

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Why Chief Justice-Designate Sanjiv Khanna Had To Give Up His Morning Walks

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Why Chief Justice-Designate Sanjiv Khanna Had To Give Up His Morning Walks

Justice Khanna will take oath as the Chief Justice on Monday. New Delhi: Justice Sanjiv Khanna will take oath as the 51st Chief Justice of India on Monday and has already had to stop an activity that was dear to him – his solitary morning walks. Sources said, every morning, Justice Khanna would walk for…

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The Hindu Morning Digest, November 9, 2024

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The Hindu Morning Digest, November 9, 2024

The Isak-Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland has issued a statement threatening to “resume violent armed resistance against India”. File photo | Photo Credit: PTI NSCN-IM threatens armed violence for first time after signing framework agreement in 2015 For the first time since signing a framework agreement in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2015,…

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Pappu Yadav Receives Threat From Lawrence Bishnoi Gang, Again

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Pappu Yadav Receives Threat From Lawrence Bishnoi Gang, Again

Addressing the media in Purnia on Friday, Pappu Yadav expressed frustration (File) Purnia MP Pappu Yadav has once again received a threat from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang. His personal secretary, Mohammad Sadiq Alam, has received intimidating WhatsApp messages in Delhi. Sadiq Alam has lodged an FIR at Connaught Place police station in Delhi, detailing that…

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Pentagon Lifts Ban On Contractors Fixing US-Supplied Weapons In Ukraine

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Pentagon Lifts Ban On Contractors Fixing US-Supplied Weapons In Ukraine

In its final months, President Joe Biden’s administration has decided to allow US defense contractors to work in Ukraine to maintain and repair Pentagon-provided weaponry, US officials told Reuters on Friday, in a significant policy shift that aims to aid Kyiv’s fight against Russia. A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the contractors…

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Rapper Diddy Proposes $50 Million Bail Package After Being Denied Thrice

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Rapper Diddy Proposes Million Bail Package After Being Denied Thrice

Sean “Diddy” Combs on Friday proposed a new $50 million bail package backed by his Florida mansion that the music mogul hopes will win his release from the Brooklyn jail where he has been held for eight weeks on criminal sex trafficking charges.  Combs has been denied bail three times since his arrest, with multiple…

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Justice Department brings criminal charges in Iranian murder-for-hire plan targeting Donald Trump

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Justice Department brings criminal charges in Iranian murder-for-hire plan targeting Donald Trump

The Justice Department disclosed an Iranian murder-for-hire plot to kill Donald Trump. File photo | Photo Credit: BRIAN SNYDER The Justice Department on Friday disclosed an Iranian murder-for-hire plot to kill Donald Trump, charging a man who said he had been tasked by a government official before this week’s election with planning the assassination of…

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Vaccine Skeptic Robert Kennedy Jr’s New Mission Is To “Make America Healthy Again”

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Vaccine Skeptic Robert Kennedy Jr’s New Mission Is To “Make America Healthy Again”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime conspiracy theorist and opponent of vaccines, now has the ear of President-elect Donald Trump to promote what he’s calling the “Make America Healthy Again” agenda. It’s something of an unlikely alliance between the Kennedy family scion, once a celebrated environmental champion who called for prosecuting climate change deniers, and…

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