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March 14, 2025

Putin says open to US ceasefire idea for Ukraine, but sees 'many questions' over how it will work

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia supported a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine in principle, but that any truce would have to address the root causes of the conflict and that many crucial details needed to be sorted out.

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FIR against Brigadier for harassing Colonel's wife

A senior Army officer has been booked for allegedly sexually harassing the wife of his junior at the Officers' Mess in Shillong, police officials said on Thursday.

1 min

British tourist raped by Insta 'friend'

THE WOMAN WAS RAPED IN A DELHI HOTEL, WHERE A STAFFER ALSO MOLESTED HER

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Pak strike: BLA claims it still holds hostages

The militant group behind the hijack of a train in Pakistan refuted on Thursday the military's stance that the standoff had ended, claiming that the \"battle\" was continuing and it still held hostages even as forces maintained that they killed all the rebels involved in the ambush.

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Yamuna pollution level worst in four years: DPCC study

The water quality in the Delhi stretch of the Yamuna River has deteriorated significantly in the past month, with pollution indicators in February reaching their highest levels since 2020, according to a report by the Delhi Pollution Control Committee.

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Hindi row takes new turn as TN replaces

Tamil Nadu on Thursday replaced the rupee symbol (₹) with a Tamil alphabet (translated as Ru) for the logo of the state budget 2025-26, a symbolic move that triggered a political storm and ratcheted up the already simmering tensions between the state and the Centre over language.

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India's Ragging Menace: Horror Stories From Across Campuses

Despite strict anti-ragging rules, the problem still haunts Indian universities. HT takes a look at five prominent cases across the country over the last 2 years, some of which resulted in the deaths of junior students

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World Will Breach 1.5°C by Sept 2029 If Trend Continues

The world could cross the 1.5°C long-term global warming threshold by September 2029 if current warming trends continue, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday, a timeline that is significantly sooner than the \"early 2030s\" projection that was widely agreed upon by scientists.

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UP Told To Deliver 14 Projects In Three Yrs

Allahabad HC Directed Yeida To Seize Control, Complete And Deliver These Projects, Unfinished For Over 15 Years

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Metro Red Line services hit for over six hours due to theft of signal cable

Services on the Delhi Metro's Red Line (Rithala to Shaheed Sthal) were affected for more than six hours on Thursday after the theft of signalling cable along a stretch between the Seelampur and Welcome stations, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) officials said.

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Prez nod for probe against Satyendar Jain and Sisodia

President Droupadi Murmu has granted Delhi's Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) approval to formally investigate Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders and former Delhi ministers Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain over alleged irregularities in the construction of school rooms and buildings, people familiar with the development said on Thursday.

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MoU for Centre's Ayushman Bharat Plan to be Signed on March 18

The Delhi government is likely to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the National Health Authority (NHA) on March 18 to implement the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY), people familiar with the matter said.

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Yamuna water worsens, faecal coliform 6,400 times safe level

The water quality in the Delhi stretch of the Yamuna has worsened significantly in the past month, with faecal coliform levels and biological oxygen demand (BOD) reaching alarming heights in February, according to a report by the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC).

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PWD Will Install Height Barriers to Protect Century-Old Mangey Bridge

The public works department (PWD) of Delhi will install protective height barriers to safeguard the historic Mangey Bridge connecting Red Fort with Saleemgarh Fort on the Outer Ring Road (ORR), officials aware of the development said, citing repeated damage to arches due to heavy traffic movement.

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Gr Noida: Father, brother kill woman over marriage

POLICE SAID THE HATE CRIME TOOK PLACE AS THE WOMAN'S FAMILY DISAPPROVED OF THE MARRIAGE — HER HUSBAND IS A PICKUP TRUCK DRIVER.

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6 Staffers Injured as Blaze Erupts at Restaurant in CP

Six people were severely injured in a fire that broke out inside a restaurant in Connaught Place on Thursday morning.

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Woman, 80, Donates Kidney to Save Son With Renal Disease

An 80-year-old woman gave a new lease of life to her 59-year-old son, who was battling end-stage renal disease, by donating him her kidney, said doctors who conducted the transplant.

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$2,500 stolen from bag at IGI, staff held

Two staff members at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) were arrested for allegedly stealing $2,500 from a bag in the lost & found department, police said on Thursday.

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Cop killed, 4 hurt in 3 back-to-back crashes on ORR

A 57-year-old Delhi Police assistant sub-inspector was killed and four others, including a traffic police officer, were injured in three back-to-back road crashes near the Burari flyover on Outer Ring Road (ORR) between 12.30 a.m. and 2 a.m. Thursday, police said.

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Notes on city colours

On the occasion of Holi

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Badarpur Triple Suicide: Cops Say Mother Was In Jail For Murder

A 42-year-old woman, who died by suicide along with her daughters at their Badarpur flat, was out on bail after being incarcerated for the murder of her former boyfriend, officers said on Thursday.

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Taking steps to decongest Delhi, Gadkari tells LS

Union minister of road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha, has outlined the projects and steps being taken to ease traffic congestion in Delhi including a series of projects expected to be completed in the next two years.

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Court dismisses man's suit against his lawyer for 'misrepresentation'

A Delhi court has dismissed a civil suit by a man seeking compensation from a lawyer for alleged misrepresentation, observing that dissatisfaction with legal strategy does not amount to a client's mental harassment.

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Sagarpur stabbing: Video shows crime in broad daylight

Police on Thursday said that a purported video of a brutal stabbing of a 17-year-old boy and his 15-year-old friend showed that the crime took place in broad daylight, around 4.30pm to 5pm in the presence of a group of people, including children, in Sagarpur, southwest Delhi.

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Noted Dalit thinker, writer Kochu dies at 76

Noted Dalit thinker and writer KK Kochu passed away Thursday at the Government Medical College Hospital in Kottayam. He was 76.

1 min

HC junks rules allowing changes to Goa green zones

THE COURT NOTED THAT AUTHORITIES HAD APPROVED 353 APPLICATIONS UNDER SEC 17(2), AFFECTING ABOUT 26.54L-SQM LAND

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Data: 59 foreign, 17 local terrorists active in J&K

At least 59 foreign terrorists from three different terror outfits and 17 local terrorists are active in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), officials familiar with the matter said, citing records maintained by security forces deployed in the Union territory.

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Ex-Judge, Whose Verdicts Stirred Row, to Be Given Pension on Par With HC Judges

The Bombay high court on Thursday said Pushpa Ganediwala, the former HC judge who was demoted over a series of controversial judgments in Pocso Act cases, was entitled to receive pension on par with a high court judge.

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600 GW non-fossil fuel capacity needed to meet power demand

STUDY PROJECTS THAT DEPLOYING 600 GW OF CLEAN ENERGY ACROSS STATES COULD REDUCE GENERATION COSTS BY 6-18 PAISE

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Congress, BRS, SAD back Mar 22 delimitation meet

The ruling Congress in the south Indian states of Telangana and Karnataka, as well as the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Thursday extended their support to the DMK over its opposition to the proposed delimitation of parliamentary constituencies, and agreed in-principle to attending a meeting on the issue called by Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin.

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Isro Achieves SpaDeX Satellites' De-Docking

Fifty-six days after satellites named Chaser and Target were docked as part of a so-called Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX), Isro on Thursday announced that at 9:20 a.m., the national space agency successfully undocked the two small satellites weighing 220 kg each in the first attempt, an important building block in the long-term goals of human spaceflight: a mission to the moon; and a space station.

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Quitting job to deny wife alimony is not appreciated in civilised society: Orissa HC

THE MAN FILED A PLEA AGAINST A LOWER COURT DECISION ORDERING HIM TO PAY MAINTENANCE WHERE HE SAID HE WAS UNEMPLOYED

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HC Denies Bail to Bizman in Case Linked to JKLF

The Delhi high court has denied bail to Dubai-based businessman Naval Kishore Kapoor, booked under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, or UAPA, in a 2017 terror funding case involving separatist leader and chief of banned Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Yasin Malik.

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No protection for misinfo: Govt in fact check unit plea

The central government has filed an appeal against the Bombay high court's September 2024 judgment that struck down the fact check amendment of Information Technology Rules, 2021, as unconstitutional.

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22-Year-Old Held for Killing 4 in Late Night Dehradun Crash

The Dehradun Police on Thursday arrested a 22-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh for allegedly mowing down four laborers with a speeding luxury SUV in the state capital's Rajpur area the previous day after a 24-hour hunt that led them to three states as the driver parked the car at an empty lot after fleeing the scene.

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Cong Leader Adhir Chowdhury's Ex-Assistant Held For Impersonation

A former assistant to Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has been arrested for allegedly impersonating as a Parliament joint secretary, police said on Thursday.

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Kuki-Zo council lifts blockade, but protest continues

The Kuki-Zo Council in Manipur on Thursday lifted the indefinite shutdown in the hill areas imposed since the midnight of March 9, it said in a statement, adding that it remains firm in opposing the free movement announced by Union home minister Amit Shah.

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Unknown caller under lens as CBI eyes gold smuggling racket

An unknown caller with an \"African American accent\", who allegedly asked Kannada actress Ranya Rao to collect gold bars from the Dubai international airport, is under the radar of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as the federal agency is looking for a larger international syndicate that uses high-profile individuals as smuggling \"mules\".

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Class 9 student rapes 12-year-old, detained

A 14-year-old boy has been detained for raping a 12-year-old girl in Ilakal taluk in Bagalkot district of Karnataka while three of his friends have been detained for recording the incident, police officials said on Thursday.

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Centre plans $1bn fund for content creator economy

The government will create a billion dollar fund in collaboration with the private sector to encourage the content creator economy, information and broadcasting minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced on Thursday.

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Beed Cops Get New Name Plates Without Surnames To Curb Bias

The Beed SP Had Earlier Directed Officers To Address Each Other By Their First Names, Without Giving Away Their Caste Identity

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7 Killed, 4 Injured After Tanker Collides With 2 Vehicles in MP

Police Said That The Gas Tanker Was Plying On The Wrong Side Of The Road When It Collided With 2 Vehicles Heading In The Other Direction

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5 Arrested After Tushar Gandhi Waylaid Over His Remarks On RSS

Kerala police arrested five people, including a BJP councillor, a day after the vehicle of Tushar Gandhi, the great grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, was waylaid and slogans were raised against him following his remarks critical of the RSS at a function in Neyyattinkara on the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram.

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Parl panel flags 'consequences' of halting Bengal's MGNREGS funds

IN MAR 2022, THE CENTRE HALTED THE RELEASE OF FUNDS FOR THE STATE ALLEGING IRREGULARITIES

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How Gandhi Was Changed By Two Events A Century Ago

Inventure to suggest to those who are professors of Hinduism, who hold Hinduism as dear as life itself, that Hinduism like every other religion has got to submit itself to the test of universal reason.

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A pact to secure the Indian Ocean region

The agreements signed with Mauritius during PM Narendra Modi's visit to bolster defence and security cooperation will help shore up maritime domain awareness and enable the Indian Ocean island-nation to more effectively police its exclusive economic zone of more than two million square kilometres.

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Rejuvenating the Yamuna

States in its basin must work together to restore environmental flow if the river is to be revived

2 mins

Gender parity: Gap between intent and implementation

STATE-CRAFTED LEGISLATIVE ADVANCEMENTS ARE OFTEN UNDERMINED BY INCONSISTENT IMPLEMENTATION AND SOCIETAL ATTITUDES

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Why MBAs Are Just a Waste of Time, Money

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NASA, SpaceX Delay Flight Set to Retrieve Stuck Astronauts

NASA and SpaceX on Wednesday delayed the launch of a replacement crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station that would have set in motion the long-awaited homecoming of US astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.

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ICC detains ex-Philippine prez for crimes against humanity

The International Criminal Court took custody of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday on a warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity for deadly anti-drugs crackdowns he oversaw while in office.

1 min

Doubts Over Climate Funding as Donors Squeeze Aid

There are growing doubts about a pledge by rich nations to provide more climate finance to poorer nations, as foreign aid budgets are slashed and the US guts environmental spending.

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BLA's Pak Train Siege Shows Changing Face of Baloch Insurgency

From hit-and-run strikes to the terrifying siege of Jaffar Express this week, the Balochistan Liberation Army has evolved into an outfit that can carry out audacious attacks with tactical precision, experts say.

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Russia Retakes Major Border Town as Ukraine Talks Loom

The area under Ukrainian control in Kursk has shrunk significantly since early February, based on data from the DeepState open-source map service

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Trump vows 200% tariff on EU wine

President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 200% tariff on wine, champagne and other alcoholic beverages from France and elsewhere in the European Union, the latest escalation in a brewing transatlantic trade war.

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Carney to be sworn in as Canada's PM on Friday

Former central banker Mark Carney will be sworn in as Canada's 24th Prime Minister on Friday by the country's Governor General Mary Simon.

1 min

Govt Launches Exploration Licence for Critical Minerals

Union Coal and Mines Minister G Kishan Reddy on Thursday launched nation's first-ever auction of Exploration Licences (ELs) for 13 exploration blocks for critical minerals.

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Tata Motors Turns to ICE as EV Growth Slows

Tata Motors Ltd, India's largest electric car maker, is considering new petrol and diesel models, besides extending the life of existing fossil fuel-driven variants, as the adoption of battery-powered mobility slows in key markets, including the US and the UK.

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Sebi Expands Unpublished Price Sensitive Info Scope

Markets regulator Sebi has widened the scope of Unpublished Price Sensitive Information (UPSI) by including any proposed fundraising activities agreements which can impact the management or control of the company, restructuring plans, and one-time bank settlements.

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Income tax update facility fetches govt ₹8,350-cr revenue

A recently introduced facility that allows income-tax assessees to correct past mistakes in computing tax without any hassle, has seen 8.35 million taxpayers update their returns, and earned the exchequer about ₹8,350 crore additional revenue since FY23, according to government data.

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IndusInd Derivatives See Bear Claws Since October End

While market has plunged, other bank stocks didn't see surge in open positions

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New captains face fresh challenges as franchises gear up for IPL 2025

Will change in leadership alter the fortune of franchises this IPL season?

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Batters take MI into WPL final; to face Delhi Capitals

Mumbai Indians set up a blockbuster rematch of the first season's Women's Premier League (WPL) final, sealing their place against three-time finalists Delhi Capitals with a clinical 47-run win over Gujarat Giants in the Eliminator at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai on Thursday.

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Agony for Atletico, as champions Real Madrid find a way, yet again

Ancelotti's boys win 4-2 on penalties to extend winning run in Champions League against Madrid rivals

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Lakshya ousts reigning champ to enter quarters

There is a special relationship Lakshya Sen shares with the All England Open.

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Lando Norris in McLaren favourite for 2025 F1 crown, says Villeneuve

F1 racing without rivalry is bound to get boring, simply because of the nature of the sport where one driver or team keeps dominating.

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