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Latest news on June 29, 2024: everal landslides were reported in Sikkim earlier this month too when the area was battered by heavy rains. (File Photo)
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June 29, 2024 7:06 PM
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Cities Live Updates: NH10 shut down as heavy rains hit north Bengal triggering fresh landslides
- The India Meteorological Department has warned of heavy to very heavy rains in some areas in the hills of north Bengal and Sikkim over the next five days
June 29, 2024 6:55 PM
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India News Live Updates: Sharad Pawar on Udhhav as CM face of Oppn in Maharashtra: ‘One person can’t…’
- Sharad Pawar also criticised Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla’s reference to the Emergency, saying it was not appropriate and did not suit the speaker’s position.
June 29, 2024 6:45 PM
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World News Live Updates: Sunita Williams could be in space for months; NASA reiterates astronauts are ‘not stranded’
- With NASA officials focussed on completing their new test campaign in New Mexico, there’s no date for Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore’s return on the horizon.
June 29, 2024 6:21 PM
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India News Live Updates: Evening brief: Pradhan reiterates govt open to discuss NEET; Mamata’s request to judiciary, more news
- A shortlist of the biggest headlines, recommended stories, and a special collection of news items that you should check out.
June 29, 2024 6:10 PM
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Cities Live Updates: Rajkot airport canopy collapses amid heavy rains
- The incident follows a tragic event at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport Terminal-1 on Friday and a similar incident at Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur airport earlier in the week
June 29, 2024 6:01 PM
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Cities Live Updates: BJP will be wiped out from Jharkhand after assembly polls, says Hemant Soren
- Hemant Soren was released from the Birsa Munda Jail on Friday hours after the Jharkhand high court granted bail to him in a money laundering case.
June 29, 2024 5:53 PM
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World News Live Updates: US: Minivan slams into nail salon in New York’s Long Island, killing 4 and injuring 9
- A minivan slammed into a Long Island nail salon Friday, killing four and injuring nine people inside the business at the time.
June 29, 2024 5:53 PM
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India News Live Updates: NEET-UG row: Congress alleges BJP Minority Morcha VP’s involvement in paper leak
- Gujarat Congress President Shaktisinh Gohil on Saturday made the allegations based on an affidavit purportedly filed by the deputy superintendent of police (DySP) of Godhra in the sessions court
June 29, 2024 5:47 PM
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World News Live Updates: Donald Trump takes brutal dig at Michelle Obama amid calls to replace Biden: ‘I would be very happy if…’
- Donald Trump took a pot shot at former First Lady Michelle Obama amid calls for her to announce her candidacy for the presidential elections.
June 29, 2024 5:36 PM
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Cities Live Updates: Gurugram signs MoU for new waste-to-charcoal plant
- MCG will provide the land and the waste collected from across the city. The plant will produce 200 metric tons of green charcoal daily
June 29, 2024 5:08 PM
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World News Live Updates: Mary Trump tears into ‘cruel’ Donald Trump for ‘dangerous lies’ during debate, but admits it would be absurd to…
- Mary Trump has commented on Donald Trump’s debate with Joe Biden, calling her uncle’s performance “apocalyptically disastrous” in a Substack post.
June 29, 2024 5:04 PM
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India News Live Updates: Meghalaya must create robust SOP for coal transportation: Justice Katakey (Rtd)
- Stakeholders, including representatives from cement factories, ferroalloy plants, and coke oven factories, have been consulted, with their written submissions expected by next Monday
June 29, 2024 4:49 PM
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Cities Live Updates: Ensure there’s no political bias in judiciary, Mamata Banerjee tells judges
- West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee said judiciary must be absolutely pure, honest and sacred
June 29, 2024 4:43 PM
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World News Live Updates: NASA is paying Elon Musk’s SpaceX $843m to destroy the International Space Station
- NASA has awarded SpaceX an $843 million contract to intentionally destroy the ISS after its retirement in 2030.
June 29, 2024 4:41 PM
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India News Live Updates: Arvind Kejriwal sent to judicial custody for 14 days in excise policy case
- Arvind Kejriwal was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the excise policy case on June 26.
June 29, 2024 4:27 PM
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India News Live Updates: ‘Indira Gandhi put us in jail, but never abused us’: Lalu Prasad on Emergency
- “The year 1975 is a stain on our democracy, but let’s not forget who doesn’t respect the Opposition in 2024,” RJD chief Lalu Prasad wrote
June 29, 2024 4:20 PM
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India News Live Updates: ‘Congress only wants chaos, confusion’: Education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on NEET controversy
- On Friday, Rahul Gandhi urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to hold a “respectful” and good discussion in Parliament on the NEET issue
June 29, 2024 4:16 PM
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India News Live Updates: 7 killed, 3 injured as two vehicles collide on Samruddhi Expressway near Jalna
- Around 160 people have so far been killed on the Expressway in accidents since its first phase from Nagpur to Shirdi was inaugurated in December 2022 by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi
June 29, 2024 4:09 PM
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India News Live Updates: ‘Speak about Muslims’: National Conference Lok Sabha MP Ruhullah Mehdi to INDIA bloc partners
- Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi said the INDIA bloc partners can speak freely about other minorities but not about Muslims, and they need to change this.
June 29, 2024 4:00 PM
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Cities Live Updates: ‘Yediyurappa, aides paid money to sexual assault victim, mother to buy their silence’: Chargesheet
- The CID has alleged in the chargesheet that he and three other accused paid money to the alleged victim and her mother to buy their silence.
June 29, 2024 3:57 PM
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India News Live Updates: TN hooch tragedy: MK Stalin tables bill to strengthen prohibition act, proposes tough penalties
- Bill aims to strengthen the provisions of TN Prohibition Act, 1937, which aims to ensure stringent punishment for manufacturing and selling illicit liquor.
June 29, 2024 3:46 PM
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India News Live Updates: ‘BJP will be wiped out of Jharkhand’: Ex-CM Hemant Soren
- JMM leader Hemant Soren said “BJP has expertise in destroying the social fabric of India; people taught them a lesson in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
June 29, 2024 3:29 PM
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Cities Live Updates: Tamil Nadu: Ramanathapuram fishermen to protest against state govt’s new fishing laws
- Association claimed the laws harm fishermen, highlighting provision allowing only one of a person’s boats to get subsidised diesel if they own multiple boats.
June 29, 2024 3:18 PM
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Cities Live Updates: BSF seizes over 6kg of heroin in border villages of Amritsar
- The first consignment of 560g was recovered from Mahawa village and the second of 5.570 kg from Kakkar village
June 29, 2024 3:17 PM
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World News Live Updates: Reformist Pezeshkian and Hard-liner Jalili to face-off in Iran’s Presidential run-off polls
- Initial counting the top candidates not securing an outright win. As per law, top two candidates will advance to a runoff, if none secure a majority of votes.
News india news Latest News, Live Updates Today June 29, 2024: NH10 shut down as heavy rains hit north Bengal triggering fresh landslides