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A 96-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary who fled hours before the opening of her trial in Germany has been found, a court said Thursday in a dramatic start to the proceedings. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3urnzWg

Chris Gayle has decided to leave the IPL's bio-secure environment due to "bubble fatigue", his team Punjab Kings said on Thursday. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3kVUmjf

ISSF Junior Shooting World Championship: Manu Bhaker shot 241.3 in her event to win gold on Thursday. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3omnD8X

Chennai Super Kings produced a convincing performance against Sunrisers Hyderabad to maintain their remarkable consistency this season and sail into the Indian Premier League play-offs in Sharjah on... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/39PnCSt

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday said he felt "hurt and helpless" by the attack on his colleague Kapil Sibal's home by some supporters of the party for questioning its leadership. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3ASpTIl

Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, the world’s two richest businessmen, are set to take on Airtel’s Sunil Mittal and Reliance Jio’s Mukesh Ambani in the high-speed broadband and internet space as they have approached the Indian government with separate plans to offer satellite-based internet connectivity.

India has added five billionaires every month in the last 12 months as the value of businesses such as chemicals, software and pharmaceuticals soared. Among the traditional billionaires, Gautam Adani (59) and family, with Rs 5.1 lakh crore (a 261% surge), for the first time has become Asia’s second-richest. His family has added Rs 1,000 crore a day over the last year.

The four-month summer monsoon ended as ‘normal’ rainy season on Thursday by bridging the earlier deficit and its withdrawal from northwest India will start from October 6 - the second most delayed withdrawal after 1960, said India Meteorological Department (IMD) while predicting ‘normal’ winter (October-December) monsoon rainfall that occurs in south Peninsular India.

As many as 31 states and UTs have covered more than 60% of their adult population above 18 with at least one dose of Covid vaccines and 25% of this cohort has received the full two doses. Overall, 69% of the total adult population of the country has received at least one dose of vaccine. As a share of the entire population, the coverage works out to 46% and India has administered 889 million shots.

The Supreme Court on Thursday asked Adani Power to respond within three weeks to Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam’s curative plea seeking reversal of the SC’s 2019 judgment upholding Adani’s decision to terminate its Mundra plant’s power purchase agreement (PPA) with Urja.

The Centre has to look to put in place certain systems to boost long-haul international flights of Indian carriers to places such as Europe and South America, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3F36lU6

Meenakshi Gupta, wife of Kanpur businessman Manish Gupta, who was killed in a police raid in Gorakhpur on Monday, has asserted that she will seek justice for her husband at any cost. UP Chief Minister... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3AXNbwx

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat arrived in Jammu on Thursday on a four-day visit to the union territory during which he will address a group of intellectuals and meet prominent... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2YeokX5

Maharashtra DGP Sanjay Pande and Chief Secretary Sitaram Kunte have been called by the CBI in connection with its corruption probe against former minister Anil Deshmukh, officials said on Thursday. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3ol5UOW

Driven by the past memories of the Taliban, Afghan artists have been finding difficulties in practising their art as the outfit oppose the idea of westernisation in the strife-torn country. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3D1lEe9

"Ibrahim is assisting on a Karan Johar movie and sharing that, and talking about what his ideas and dreams are," said Saif Ali Khan from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/39UF33O

A knee-high celebrity cow that became a sensation in Bangladesh has won posthumous recognition as the shortest on the planet just weeks after its untimely demise from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3zUh2V5

Chennai Super Kings captain MS Dhoni turned back the block as he smashed a six in the final over to secure a six-wicket win for his side against SunRisers Hyderabad on Thursday. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2Y2qrwT

ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) on Thursday announced that it has started exploration of a well in an offshore block in Bangladesh. OVL has become the first Indian entity to search for oil and gas in the... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3AZrA6H

The threat of a cyclonic storm hitting Gujarat appeared to have receded by Thursday evening as remnants of cyclone Gulab which had turned into a depression moved away westwards. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3imeTvB

Creating political ground in an already politically heated state of Punjab with the Congress leadership in crisis, the AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday embarked on his 2-day visit to Ludhiana. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3AX0i0R

The last of 39 miners trapped one kilometer underground in eastern Canada for nearly three days climbed to the surface early Wednesday and were greeted by family, officials said. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/39NLMMS

Britain is nearing a deal with France's EDF to force China to offload its stake in the Sizewell C nuclear power station in eastern England, the Financial Times reported Wednesday. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2ZCh7jP

US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has expressed solidarity with India and called for strengthening economic ties between the two countries. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3okBeh2

Royal Challengers Bangalore seamer Harshal Patel, who currently holds the Purple cap, achieved a huge milestone as he broke the record for most wickets by an uncapped player in an Indian Premier... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3ok5AjM

Bajaj Auto and Pierer Industrie AG on Wednesday finalised a stake swap deal with PTW Holding to simplify the shareholding pattern in the Austrian bikemaker KTM AG. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3F42ZQz

The Bhabanipur legislative constituency of south Kolkata will today vote in a bypoll in which West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is contesting. She must win this election to retain her chair.... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3um5xot

The Assam government will acquire the assets of two defunct paper mills of Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited and provide Rs 570 crore to its employees as part of a relief package according to an... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3ofGz9e

The National Investigation Agency has raised the reward against the five cadres of the Isak Muivah faction of National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-IM), involved in the killing of Arunachal... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3ifFlak

A middle-aged woman was seen fighting off a leopard with her walking stick which was about to attack her in Mumbai's Aarey this evening. This is second such attack in the area in three days. The whole... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3zSTRKU

Lengthy queues of vehicles snaked their way to gas stations in Britain on Saturday where an acute shortage of truck drivers has led to fuel rationing and some pumps running dry, and prompted the... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3zX8v3Q

Italian leader Mario Draghi announced Wednesday the G20 world economic powers will hold a summit on Afghanistan next month in a bid to avert a humanitarian disaster. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3AXk7p0

"Adding life to days, not days to life," wrote Rubina Dilaik from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3oqQSqS

Royal Challengers Bangalore dished out a clinical display with both bat and ball to record a comprehensive seven-wicket victory over Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League in Dubai on Wednesday from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3CYyie0

US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said they were not aware of any payments made to the Taliban by the US at any time during last month's... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3ieLNhC

Tipplers in Delhi may face problems in getting their favourite brands in the next one-and-half months as around 40 per cent of liquor vends in the national capital that are run privately will shut... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3ulYyvM

The United States on Wednesday declared 23 species extinct, including one of the world's largest woodpeckers, dubbed the "Lord God Bird." from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3umNGh7

Google Search is getting proprietary Multitask Unified Model (MUM) to enhance search experiences for users, the company announced at the Search On event on Wednesday. Google Lens is also coming to new... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/39Ml5Ir

Union Minister for Heavy Industries Mahendra Nath Pandey on Wednesday said India would become a manufacturing hub from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2Y1yIAR

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has announced to launch four new virtual postgraduate programmes. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3zNg7WA

After the central leadership completely owned the Punjab restructuring and felt it had settled the chaotic unit, the surprise resignation by state president Navjot Singh Sidhu caught everyone by surprise and threatened to destabilise its stronghold and cast the Gandhi leadership in poor light.

The north-eastern states generally have the highest ratio of female workers in managerial positions, with Meghalaya topping the chart with 34.1%, followed by Sikkim and Mizoram, according to the annual bulletin of the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS).​

Homegrown Covaxin was to play a major role in vaccination against Covid-19. But eight months after the vaccination drive began, only one in 11 Indians has managed to get the first indigenous vaccine. Bharat Biotech, which manufactures it, has failed to ramp up production at the pace it had envisaged.

In a switch hit that left Congress on a sticky wicket in Punjab again, cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu quit as PCC chief on Tuesday, followed by the resignation of new minister Razia Sultana “in solidarity” with him. Gulzar Inder Singh Chahal, who was made PCC treasurer soon after Sidhu took over, also put in his papers along with general secretary Yoginder Dhingra.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday said it has attached assets worth Rs 578 crore of a UK-based company owned by former DHFL promoters Kapil Wadhawan and his brother Dheeraj in connection... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3kO9wXF

Market regulator SEBI on Tuesday issued a collective penalty of Rs 75 lakh on Videocon's Venugopal Dhoot and two other entities for insider trading. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3kMmfKj

Hardik Pandya finally showed glimpses of his destructive self as he brought Mumbai Indians back in play-off contention with the defending champions beating Punjab Kings by six wickets in an IPL... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3zPSKvm

A former Punjab Congress chief has criticised his party colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu over "breach of trust", hours after Mr Sidhu resigned as Punjab Congress chief barely two months into the job. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3zIXfIk

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday urged the United Nations that post-pandemic policies must provide for adequate recognition of the mental wellbeing of vulnerable sections. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3zSWgFs

SEBI has approved a slew of measures like tightening of norms for related party transactions and delisting rules among others from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3obU4qt

A 41-year-old deputy commandant-rank official of Jharkhand Jaguar, an anti-Maoist force of state police, was killed in an encounter in Latehar district on Tuesday, a senior official said. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/39Jyilg

At least 13 people died in heavy showers, floods and lightning in parts of Maharashtra with the Marathwada region bearing the brunt of rain fury, while more than 40 stranded villagers were rescued. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3kMpkKs

India will engage with all member states in a "spirit of openness" towards realising a nuclear weapons-free world, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said on Tuesday, reiterating that the goal... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3B498Kx

A total of 77 people trapped in two villages in Beed district in Maharashtra amid heavy rains were rescued on Tuesday, officials said. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3zOIdAO

Mumbai Indians won their first game after three defeats as they beat Punjab Kings by six wickets in Abu Dhabi. Punjab Kings managed a below-par 135 for 6 which MI surpassed in 19 over with Hardik Pandya scoring unbeaten 40 off 30 balls while Saurabh Tiwary top-scored with 45. With the victory, Mumbai climbed to the fifth spot in the points table while Punjab are now at 6th spot.

A day after Dilip Ghosh demanded suspension of the upcoming by-poll for Bhabanipur constituency, BJP National General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya said that the possibility of a fair election in... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/39JDLIO

Aviation regulator DGCA has once again decided to extend the ban on scheduled international commercial flights amid the ongoing Covid-19 scenario. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/3zOId3G

A POCSO court in Ghaziabad on Tuesday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping and killing a seven-year-old girl, and imposed a pecuniary fine of Rs 1.5 lakh on the convict. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/39KttZ3

A couple was killed and three others were injured when the car in which they were traveling was hit by a tempo at Chillar Phata in Palghar district, police said on Tuesday. from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2ZtWB4T

Two West Bengal trekkers of an 18-strong team died of extreme weather conditions near Khemenger Glacier in Himachal's mountains while 14 others are on their way back to safety after staying stranded... from NDTV News - Special https://ift.tt/2ZEOYJ7