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27 Apr

Deepika Padukone to take part in Cannes Film Festival

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Actor Deepika Padukone will be part of the competition jury at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, organizers said. French actor Vincent Lindon will lead the jury at the 75th edition of the coveted festival, which will run from May 17-28, the festival's official Twitter account announced on Tuesday evening. Padukone is part of the eight-member jury that will award one of the 21 films in competition with the Palme d'Or during the closing ceremony on Saturday, May 28. Other jury members include actor-filmmaker Rebecca Hall, Swedish actor Noomi Rapace, Italian actor-director Jasmine Trinca, acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, French filmmaker-actor…

27 Apr

Man, wife both killed over old rivalry

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Three men stabbed a couple to death here over an old enmity, police said on Wednesday. Harpal Saini (50) and his wife Koshal (48) were returning from the Muzaffarnagar court to Khalwada village when three men on a bike dragged them from an e-rickshaw and killed them, they said. Harpal Saini and his two sons Rahul and Shubham were arrested in June last year for killing a resident of Johra village, they said. Saini was out on bail while her sons were in jail. A case has been registered and four teams have been formed to arrest them, the police…

27 Apr

Kant’s statement on green hydrogen

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NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said on Tuesday that India could be the cheapest producer of green hydrogen in the world due to its climatic conditions. In an interactive session at Raisina Dialogue, Kant mentioned that India has brought down the consumption of renewable energy. “India has size and scale. India can be the cheapest green hydrogen producer in the world … India is the only climate-blessed country that can do that,” he said. Pointing out that China does not have the climatic conditions to be the cheapest producer of green hydrogen, Kant said that India will have to compete…

27 Apr

Family died in Kerala

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Four people, including a 12-year-old boy, were killed and another seriously injured in a collision with a lorry on the national highway near Payalkulanga in the coastal district on Wednesday. Police said the vehicle came from the opposite direction. The car was completely harmed in the collision. Four people died on the spot and one with serious injuries was taken to a nearby hospital, they added.

26 Apr

30 new Covid cases in Telangana

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Telangana recorded 30 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday taking the tally to 7,91,857. A health department bulletin said 24 people have recovered from the infection taking the total number of recoveries to 7,87,508 so far. The recovery rate is 99.45 percent.

26 Apr

Mamata calls emergency meeting

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Western and southern parts of West Bengal faced extreme heat wave, prompting Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to call an emergency meeting. Bankura topped the maximum temperature chart at 43.7 degrees Celsius, while Panagarh in West Burdwan district followed closely at 43.5 degrees Celsius, the Met office said. Five districts of sub-Himalayan West Bengal - Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar and Alipurduar - are likely to experience cool weather with the Met Office forecasting light to moderate rains over the next three days. Other places that recorded above 40 degrees Celsius are Asansol (43.3), Purulia (42.8), Burdwan (42.4), Kalaikunda (42.1), Sriniketan…

26 Apr

Auto-rickshaw driver arrested

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An autorickshaw driver was arrested in Pimpri-Chinchwad area for allegedly making obscene gestures towards a 12-year-old girl, police said on Tuesday. Sachin Shendage (33) allegedly made obscene gestures to the girl on April 22 when she was on her way to her home in Bavadhan area, asking for directions. His father then filed a complaint. Shendge was arrested and booked under relevant IPC sections on Monday.

25 Apr

Arrest of Gujarat MLA Mevani

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The Goa Congress on Monday condemned the arrest of Gujarat independent MLA Jignesh Mevani and said the way he was being treated showed that the country was under an "undeclared emergency". Mevani was re-arrested on Monday for assaulting Assam police officials after a court in the northeastern state of Kokrajhar granted him bail in a case related to his tweets against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Gujarat MLA was arrested on April 19 from Palanpur city in Gujarat after an FIR was registered against him in Kokrajhar.

25 Apr

Cops launch probe for fire case

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Police on Monday started an investigation into the fire incident at the office of the Chief Medical Officer in Gautam Buddha Nagar on April 22 in which several documents, including birth and death registration certificates, were destroyed, officials said. Three days after the fire broke out at the CMO's office, a First Information Report (FIR) of the incident was lodged at the Sector 39 police station on the complaint of Fire Station Officer (Noida Phase I) Sanjeev Kumar Singh, they said. Although the CMO office and related branch officials were present at the scene, some documents, computers; The furniture was…

25 Apr

Kovind to visit Mizoram soon

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President Ram Nath Kovind will visit Mizoram on May 5 to attend a university convocation ceremony. Kovind will be in the northeastern state for the convocation of Mizoram University (MZU) at Tanharil in Aizawl, he said.