The recent raids by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Rajasthan, as well as the summons to Chief Minister Gehlot’s son, have sparked a political controversy. The Congress party accuses the BJP of misusing the central agency for political gain ahead of the state assembly elections. However, the BJP defends the action, stating that it...
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Apple has introduced a new double tap gesture for its Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 models. The feature allows users to perform common actions by tapping their index finger and thumb together twice. While the gesture looks cool, there is some skepticism about its reliability. Apple claims to have ensured that the...
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Eight former Indian Navy personnel have been sentenced to death by a Qatari court on charges that have not been made public. The men, who were working with a firm involved in training Qatari defense forces, were accused of spying. The Indian government expressed shock at the verdict and said it would raise the...
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A personal sword belonging to Tipu Sultan of Mysore failed to sell at a Christie’s auction. The sword, which was gifted to former British governor-general Charles Cornwallis, had an estimated value of £1.5 million to £2 million. The sword was expected to be bought by a museum in the Middle East but did not...
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Two days after the brutal assault and death of a 24-year-old daily-wager from the minority community for allegedly brushing his bike past a Dussehra reveller at Babugarh in UP’s Hapur, police have arrested one more accused in the case. Additional SP (Hapur) Raj Kumar Agarwal, said on Thursday the postmortem report confirmed that Mohd...
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The Election Commission on Thursday directed the central government not to undertake any activities requiring the involvement of its senior officers as ‘district rath prabharis’ in the proposed ‘Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra’ starting next month in the five poll-bound states until December 5, when the elections are scheduled to be completed. Earlier in the...
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A family from Suffolk, England, has a unique connection to a bakery in Kannur, Kerala. The Brown family’s ancestors ran a cinnamon plantation in Kannur in the 1800s and had a special Christmas cake made by a local bakery. The cake, known as the ‘Brown Family Cinnamon Christmas Cake’, was made with local ingredients...
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Kerala’s education minister, V Sivankutty, has stated that the state government will publish separate textbooks if the proposal to replace ‘India’ with ‘Bharat’ in some NCERT school textbooks is imposed on them. The minister accused the recommendation of being an attempt to “saffronise” education and alter India’s history. The proposal, made by an advisory...
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