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New Delhi, Feb 24 (PTI) The government on Tuesday blocked five OTT platforms for streaming obscene content, officials said. They said the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has blocked MoodXVIP, Koyal Playpro, Digi Movieplex, Feel, and Jugnu following due procedure. Under the procedure, the government directs internet service providers to block access to OTT platforms under the Information Technology Rules 2021 and the laws against obscenity. These rules aim to maintain public decency, ...Read More >
Mumbai, Feb 24 (PTI) Up to 30 per cent of India's top-100 unlisted companies have the right business models and growth potential, making them candidates for listing on stock exchanges, a top official from Hurun India said on Tuesday. None of these companies identified in the 'JM Financial' - Hurun India Unlisted Gems 2026' have formally announced IPO plans yet. "I think some of them could (list). I think around 25-30 per cent has a potential to get listed, but they don't have IPO plans announc ...Read More >
Panaji, Feb 24 (PTI) Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Tuesday failed to persuade RGP MLA Viresh Borkar to end his fast-unto-death demanding the repeal of a provision in the Town and Country Planning Act that allows the conversion of land in tribal areas into 'settlement zone'. Sawant met the Revolutionary Goans Party leader at Azad Maidan, the site of the protest, and requested him to call off the fast. "I am concerned about Viresh Borkar's health. I have told him that all his demands would ...Read More >
New Delhi: Civic authorities in Gujarat's Rajkot demolished more than 1,300 houses on Tuesday in a large scale operation to remove illegal settlements along the Aji River. The Rajkot Municipal Corporation led the drive with tight security arrangements in place, PTI reported. Deputy Municipal Commissioner Mahesh Jani told PTI that notices were issued to about 1,500 propertiesm which includes nearly 681 houses located directly on the riverbank. By 2 pm on Tuesday, around 1,350 houses had been cle ...Read More >
BJP MP Anant Maharaj was honoured with the Banga Bibhushan by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. ShowQuick Read Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed * The Rajbanshis are a scheduled caste community concentrated in North Bengal * The Rajbanshis hold sway in over 15 Assembly seats, where how they vote can affect results * BJP MP Anant Maharaj was honoured with the Banga Bibhushan by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Did our AI summary help? Let us know. Switch To Beeps Mode Kolkata: The ...Read More >
ITANAGAR, 21 Feb: Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Friday said hydropower will anchor the state's next phase of economic transformation, with projects worth around Rs 2 lakh crore set to take off in the coming years. Addressing the Statehood Day celebrations at IG Park here, Khandu said his government has declared 2025-2035 as the 'Decade of Hydropower', and underscored the sector's central role in shaping Arunachal Pradesh' future. "Currently, 1.2 gw of projects is operational and 4.8 gwis under ...Read More >
CHANDIGARH: A portion of the frontal section of Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira's house in Bholath, Kapurthala, was demolished on Monday by the office of the Block Development and Panchayat Officer (BDPO). Khaira, a strong critic of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, condemned the move, calling it the dangerous introduction of "bulldozer (Pila-Panja) politics" in Punjab by Mann under directions from AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, aimed at silencing criticism and democratic dissent. As the de ...Read More >
Mumbai, Feb 23 (PTI) In a special behind-the-scenes video released on Monday, Aamir Khan, who visited Arijit Singh's hometown Murshidabad for the recording of "Ek Din" title track, appears shocked to know that the singer's break from playback is permanent. In the video, Aamir and Arijit are seen chatting while casually sitting on the floor at the singer's home when the superstar asks the singer, "You are not taking on any projects. For sometime you want to take a break or you don't want to sing ...Read More >
New Delhi, Feb 23 (PTI) Delhi remained warmer than usual on Monday, with no rainfall reported across key weather stations, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). According to the IMD, Safdarjung, the city's base station, recorded a maximum temperature of 30.5 degrees Celsius, clocking five degrees above normal temperature, while the minimum settled at 11.8 degrees Celsius. The Ridge area was the warmest at 31 degrees Celsius, followed by Ayanagar at 30.4 degrees Celsius and Lod ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Feb 23 (PTI) A day after two police personnel were found shot dead at a checkpost in Gurdaspur near the Indo-Pak border, a Pakistan-based gangster posted on social media a purported video showing an unidentified shooter firing at one of the cops at point-blank range. The same unverified video, posted by gangster Shahzad Bhatti, was also shared by an outfit calling itself Tehreek-e-Taliban Hindustan, which had claimed responsibility for the killings on Sunday. Punjab police remained ...Read More >
Mumbai, Feb 23 (PTI) Glowing tributes were paid to Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar by politicians of all hues, his colleagues, and prominent industrialists on Monday, remembering their association with the Baramati leader whose death in a plane crash last month created a void in state politics. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis led leaders cutting across party lines in expressing condolences for Pawar on the first day of the Budget session of the legislature, saying he was "the best CM the state ...Read More >
New Delhi, Feb 23 (PTI) A total of Rs 30.52 crore stuck in over seven lakh inoperative accounts of the retirement fund body EPFO will soon be returned to the account holders or their legal heirs, a labour ministry source said on Monday. The Ministry of Labour & Employment, in a review meeting, decided to settle 7.11 lakh inoperative accounts of the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), each having a balance of up to Rs 1,000, the source said. The provident fund account, which has not ...Read More >
New Delhi, Feb 23 (PTI) Multiple institutions, including the Delhi Secretariat, Delhi Assembly, Red Fort and two schools in the national capital, received bomb threats via email on Monday, which were later declared hoax, officials said. An official of the Delhi Fire Services confirmed that Delhi Secretariat, Delhi Army Public School in Dhaula Kuan and Air Force Bal Bharti School on Lodhi Road received bomb threats. The threat emails were also received on the official ID of the Delhi Assembly a ...Read More >
Singapore/Lucknow, Feb 23 (PTI): Singaporean companies will scale up their presence in Uttar Pradesh, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong emphasised after he met Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday and the Indian leader secured investment pledges amounting to Rs 6,650 crore on the first day of his visit to the Southeast Asian nation. Companies from his country were investing in Uttar Pradesh in various sectors, particularly logistics, connectivity, and infrastructure development, and there was po ...Read More >
New Delhi, Feb 23 (PTI) Days after a Tejas jet of the Indian Air Force sustained some damage at a frontline airbase, its manufacturer Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) on Monday described the incident as a "minor" one. The state-run aerospace major, however, did not give specific details of the incident involving the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA). "There has been no reported crash of the LCA Tejas. The event in question was a minor technical incident on ground," a spokesperson for HAL said. "LCA ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Feb 23 (PTI) A discussion has begun in Karnataka over ban on mobile phones in schools and college campuses, with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah mooting the idea. Addressing vice-chancellors and senior education administrators at the Vice Chancellors' conference in the presence of Karnataka Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot on Saturday, the chief minister said the government was seriously examining the proposal in the backdrop of growing concerns over social media addiction and its impact on ...Read More >
Gurugram, Feb 23 (PTI) Leading domestic professionals representing six city-based franchises will compete in a new team match-play format as PGTI's '72 The League' gets underway at the Classic Golf and Country Club here on Tuesday. The tournament will see the return of match-play format as six franchises -- Charminar Champions, Kolkata Classics, Mumbai Aces, Nava Raipur, Rajasthan Regals and UP Prometheans -- each team featuring 10 PGTI players, vie for honours. Ajeetesh Sandhu-led Rajasthan R ...Read More >
New Delhi, Feb 23 (PTI) The telecom department has written to Noida International Airport asking it to take necessary steps to enable installation of telecom infrastructure by private operators, as it cited the Telecom Act and other rules under which the airport qualifies as a 'public entity'. The Telecom Act, alongside Telecom (Right of Way) Rules, offers a statutory framework for the grant of Right of Way permissions to facility providers, including licenced telecom service providers for the ...Read More >
New Delhi, Feb 23 (PTI) The Congress on Monday condemned the arrest and detention of its youth wing leaders in connection with the shirtless protest at the India AI Impact Summit last week and demanded that their "harassment" must stop. "Peaceful dissent" should not be treated as a crime or a threat, the party said. Seven MPs of the Congress, including Sasikanth Senthil, held a press conference at the party's 24, Akbar Road headquarters here and expressed solidarity with those facing police ac ...Read More >
Lucknow, Feb 23 (PTI) Five people were killed and at least 14 injured when a double-decker bus overturned near the toll on the Purvanchal Expressway here on Monday evening after the driver lost control of the vehicle, police said. According to officials, 80-85 passengers were onboard the bus, which was going from Ludhiana in Punjab to Motihari in Bihar, when the accident took place. Deputy Commissioner of Police (South), Lucknow, Nipun Agarwal, said after information about the accident was rec ...Read More >
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) Feb 23 (PTI) Senior AIADMK leader K P Munusamy on Monday announced that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami will jointly address an election campaign rally in Madurai on March 1. The rally, organised by the NDA, marks a significant show of strength for the coalition in southern Tamil Nadu ahead of the upcoming assembly elections. The AIADMK is heading the NDA in Tamil Nadu. The BJP, PMK (Anbumani faction) and AMMK are among the ...Read More >
Sheopur (MP), Feb 23 (PTI) Eight more cheetahs from Africa will be airlifted to Kuno National Park (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh on February 28, taking the number of these big cats in India to 46, officials said on Monday. The batch from Botswana, comprising six females and two males, will reach Gwalior on an Indian Air Force (IAF) plane and then be ferried by helicopters to KNP at around 9:30 am on February 28, MP Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (Wildlife) Subharanjan Sen told PTI. This is the ...Read More >
New Delhi, Feb 23 (PTI) British architect Edwin Lutyens' statue at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here was on Monday replaced with the bust of Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, the first and only Indian Governor General of independent India, as part of a move aimed at shedding the vestiges of colonial mindset. President Droupadi Murmu unveiled Rajagopalachari's bust at the Grand Open Staircase near Ashok Mandap opposite to the statue of Mahatma Gandhi, during an event attended by Vice President C P Radhakri ...Read More >
New Delhi, Feb 23 (PTI) Global tech giants Meta Platforms Inc. and WhatsApp told the Supreme Court on Monday that they will comply with the NCLAT's directions for extending the Competition Commission of India's (CCI) privacy and consent guidelines to advertising-related data. A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi was hearing appeals filed by the tech giants against the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal's (NCLAT) directions of December last y ...Read More >
Kolkata, Feb 23 (PTI) Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Sujoy Paul on Monday held an internal coordination meeting with West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) and senior administrative and police officials over the SIR work entrusted to judicial officers, officials said. Chief secretary, home secretary and DGP were among those present at the meeting. Speaking to reporters after the nearly hour-long meeting, CEO Manoj Agarwal described it as an "internal meeting". He said training of judici ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Feb 23 (PTI) Karnataka Minister for Large and Medium Industries M B Patil on Monday inaugurated Amazon's newly constructed, fully equipped 11 lakh sq ft corporate office near Yelahanka here. Built on a five-acre site approximately 15 kilometres from Kempegowda International Airport, Amazon said this is its second largest office in Asia. The 12-storey campus will support over 7,000 employees across ecommerce, operations, payments, technology, and seller services in India, Amazon said ...Read More >
New Delhi (PTI): Precious metal prices climbed 3 per cent in the national capital on Monday, with silver surging to Rs 2.7 lakh per kilogram and gold advancing to Rs 1.6 lakh per 10 grams, due to strong safe-haven demand amid growing global trade uncertainties after the US Supreme Court ruling against Trump's tariffs. According to the All India Sarafa Association, silver jumped Rs 8,000, or 3.03 per cent, to Rs 2,72,000 per kilogram (inclusive of all taxes) from Friday's closing level of Rs 2,6 ...Read More >
Jammu, Feb 23 (PTI) The BJP Mahila Morcha on Monday held a protest in Jammu and burnt an effigy of Rahul Gandhi, condemning the Congress for what they termed an "objectionable and irresponsible" protest by its youth wing at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi. On Friday, a group of Indian Youth Congress (IYC) workers staged a dramatic shirtless protest at an exhibition hall during the AI Impact Summit at the Bharat Mandapam, walking around holding T-shirts with slogans against the government and ...Read More >
Shimla, Feb 23 (PTI) Hundreds of truck operators on Monday took to the streets in Himachal Pradesh's Solan district against the hike in toll charges collected at entry points from vehicles registered outside the state and warned of blocking the national highway if the decision is not rolled back. The Congress government led by Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, during a cabinet meeting held on February 13, approved the toll tax barrier policy 2026-27, according to which the light motor vehi ...Read More >
Patna, Feb 23 (PTI) The Bihar Legislative Council on Monday passed a resolution congratulating cricketer Vaibhav Sooryavanshi for his stellar performance in the U-19 World Cup, which helped the Indian team clinch the title on February 6. BJP MLC Sanjay Prakash introduced the resolution in the House to congratulate Sooryavanshi, a day after the teen was felicitated by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. On Sunday, Kumar felicitated Sooryavanshi with a Rs 50-lakh cheque following his return to the stat ...Read More >
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