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Independent Lok Sabha MP Navneet Rana, who was recently granted bail by a Mumbai court in connection with Matoshree-Hanuman Chalisa case, on Wednesday filed a complaint with Delhi police alleging that she received multiple life threatening calls, officials said. According to the complaint...
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A special court here on Wednesday convicted the son and nephew of fugitive gangster Guru Satam in connection with an extortion case registered in 2014. Satam's son Bhushan and nephew Narhari were found guilty by the court of offences committed under relevant provisions of the IPC and the...
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A special court here on Wednesday granted exemption from personal appearance for the day to former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa in an alleged corruption case. The Bharatiya Janata Party veteran's counsel submitted a medical certificate saying the 79-year-old was advised bed rest...
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With several countries reporting monkeypox cases, the Union health ministry has advised all states to direct hospitals to watch out for symptomatic patients who have travelled to these countries recently and isolate them at designated healthcare facilities. According to sources, so far only...
22:45
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Gujarat on May 28 and take part in public functions in different parts of the state, the government said. Gujarat minister and the state government's spokesperson Jitu Vaghani informed reporters about the visit in...
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President Ram Nath Kovind arrived in Thiruvananthapuram on a two-day state visit on Wednesday. Upon his arrival here by a special air force flight, Kovind was received by a host of dignitaries, including Governor Arif Mohammad Khan, Transport Minister Antony Raju and city mayor Aryan...
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Terrorists gunned down a woman and shot at and injured her 10-year-old nephew at their house in Chadoora are of Budgam district in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, said the police. The deceased has been identified as Amreen Bhat. Terrorists fired upon Amreen Bhat at her residence in...
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The by-election to three Lok Sabha and seven assembly seats across six states will be held on June 23, the Election Commission said on Wednesday. The three Lok Sabha seats are Azamgarh and Rampur in Uttar Pradesh -- vacated by Samajwadi Party leaders Akhilesh Yadav and Mohd Azam Khan...
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The Allahabad high court on Wednesday quashed the FIR lodged against The Wire editor Siddharth Varadarajan and another journalist over a news report on a man who died during the farmers' protest in Delhi last year. Justices Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Rajnish Kumar passed the order on a...
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Mobile internet was suspended in Kashmir as a precautionary measure after a court awarded life imprisonment to separatist leader Yasin Malik in a terror funding case on Wednesday, officials said. They said the mobile internet has been suspended across all network service providers in the...
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An Army jawan was injured in a landmine blast along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Wednesday, officials said. The incident took place in Krishna Ghati sector, they said.The injured jawan has been hospitalised, the officials said.Further details are...
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With an eye on the 2024 parliamentary elections, the BJP kick-started a week-long campaign on Wednesday to strengthen the organisation and boost outreach activities in around 74,000 electoral booths across the country where it is relatively weak. BJP president J P Nadda on Wednesday...
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The Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration on Wednesday termed 'unfortunate' the life imprisonment awarded to Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik by a Delhi court in a terror funding case and said it is a 'setback' to the efforts for peace. The court verdict will only fuel more...
19:12
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday issued another apology over partygate after top civil servant Sue Gray's damning report into breaches of coronavirus lockdown rules at Downing Street concluded leadership failures were behind a culture of rule-breaking within UK government...
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Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar on Wednesday demanded a caste-based census, saying such an exercise was necessary to ensure social equality. Addressing a meeting of the NCP OBC cell, Pawar said everybody should get what is rightfully due to them.We are not asking...
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The rupee recovered 3 paise to settle at 77.54 (provisional) against the US currency in a restricted trade on Wednesday as interventions by banks supported the local unit while a stronger dollar in overseas markets restricted the gains.
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Uttar Pradesh minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jitin Prasada on Wednesday took a swipe at Kapil Sibal after he quit the Congress and filed his nomination for a Rajya Sabha seat from UP as an Independent backed by the Samajwadi Party, asking him how's the 'prasad', in an apparent...
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Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik was today sentenced to life in prison by a special Delhi court. The National Investigation Agency had demanded the maximum punishment, the death penalty, while the defence pleaded for life imprisonment.Malik had earlier pleaded guilty to all the charges...
17:52
The BSF launched a search operation in the creeks at Kutch and found one abandoned Pakistani fishing boat at Harami Nala Creek Border (Kutch).
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Yasin Malik produced in the courtroom in NIA court, Delhi ahead of the sentencing order.The National Investigation Agency on Wednesday urged the court to award the death penalty to Yasin Malik, while the Jammu and Kashmir separatist leader said he will not beg for anything and left the decision...
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Update: A dog squad checks the court room and thermal scanning takes place before presenting Yasin Mailk at the court room in Delhi. The court to pronounce the quantum of sentence shortly.
17:11
Deepika Padukone has knocked it out of the park with every appearance at the Cannes Film Festival. Here she is, attending the screening of Louis Garrel's French film L'Innocent (The Innocent), in a gorgeous orange gown custom-made by Syrian designer Mohammad Ashi. The unusual...
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AG Perarivalan went to meet former AIADMK leader VK Sasikala, at her T Nagar residence in Chennai today. Perarivalan was released by the Supreme Court on May 18 in ex-PM Rajiv Gandhi's assassination matter.
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The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh on Wednesday granted bail to PDP leader Waheed Para, who was arrested by the NIA in a terror conspiracy case in November 2020. While granting bail to Para against a surety of Rs 1 lakh, a division bench of the High Court comprising Justice...
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday urged the court to give the death penalty to Yasin Malik, a separatist leader from Jammu and Kashmir while the latter said that will not beg for anything and left the decision on court. The lawyer who attended the court proceeding said, in...
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A district court in Varanasi on Wednesday transferred a petition seeking permission to worship a Shivling claimed to have been found in the Gyanvapi complex during a videography survey to a fast-track court for hearing on May 30. District court judge A K Vishevesh ordered the transfer...
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday said his country will not give up its land to end Russia's war. Speaking by video link at a Ukrainian breakfast during the World Economic Forum's gathering in Davos, Zelenskyy said he didn't believe Russian president Vladimir Putin...
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Reacting to former Union Minister Kapil Sibal quitting the Congress, party General Secretary KC Venugopal said that people come and go from our party and did not blame anyone for the move. He had already written a letter to the Party President. The letter says that he firmly believed...
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Justifying the decision to cap sugar exports at 10 million tonnes this year, Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey on Wednesday said the government took a timely and precautionary measure to ensure an adequate availability of the sweetener during the festival season in October-November and to maintain...
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The NIA on Wednesday sought the death penalty before a Delhi court for Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik, who had earlier pleaded guilty to all the charges, including those under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), in a terror funding case, court sources...
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The Mumbai traffic police on Wednesday issued a notification making helmets mandatory for pillion riders as well and warned of action against those who violate the rule. The rule will come into effect after 15 days, following which the traffic authorities will start taking action...
14:08
Ex-Congress leader Kapil Sibal refuses to comment on his former party. I'll not say anything about Congress. I've resigned, so it's not appropriate for me to say anything about the Congress. It's not easy to leave a relationship of 30-31 years, Sibal said after filling nomination of the Rajya...
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Former Congress leader Kapil Sibal has filed nomination for Rajya Sabha elections, with the support of SP, in presence of party chief Akhilesh Yadav and party MP Ram Gopal Yadav.He says, I've filed nomination as Independent candidate. I have always wanted to be an independent voice in the...
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Kashmiri Separatist leader Yasin Malik produced before NIA Court in Delhi. A Delhi court is likely to pronounce on Wednesday its judgment on the quantum of punishment for Yasin Malik, who had earlier pleaded guilty to all the charges including those under the stringent Unlawful Activities...
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Filmmaker Hansal Mehta tied the knot with his longtime partner, Safeena Husain, in an intimate ceremony in San Francisco, California. On May 25, Hansal took to social media to post some pictures from the beautiful wedding ceremony. While Hansal has delivered several award-winning films, Safeena...
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A plea was filed in the Supreme Court on Wednesday challenging the constitutional validity of certain sections of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act 1991, saying that it barefacedly violates the principles of secularism and rule of law. The plea filed by Swami Jeetendranand...
12:11
Senior West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee abiding by the CBI summons appeared before the investigation agency on Wednesday morning for interrogation in the alleged irregularities in recruitment in government run and aided schools by West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC).This is the...
11:58
Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was appointed Finance Minister of the debt-ridden country on Wednesday by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, an official statement said.Wickremesinghe, 73 was sworn in as the Minister of Finance, Economic Stability and National Policies.The five-time...
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US President Joe Biden was briefed on the shooting during his return flight from Japan where he attended the Quad Summit. In a prime-time address on Tuesday, a visibly emotional Biden asked what it would take to convince fellow lawmakers that it's time to act. President Biden again tried to...
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People mourn outside the Sgt Willie de Leon Civic Center.
In one of the worst school shootings in American history, an 18-year-old gunman in body armour massacred at least 21 people, including 19 children and two adults at an elementary school in Texas state, with an emotional President Joe Biden urging lawmakers to turn this pain into action to control...
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India saw a single day rise of 2,124 new coronavirus infections, taking the infection tally to 4,31,42,192, while the active cases rose to 14,971, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Wednesday. The Covid-19 death toll has climbed to 5,24,507 with 17 more fatalities, the...
10:10
Equity benchmark indices bounced back on Wednesday after declining for two days, with the Sensex climbing 327 points in early trade, helped by buying in index major Reliance Industries and positive trends in the Asian markets. The 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 326.98 points to 54,379.59...
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Section 144 has been imposed within 500-meter area of Malali Juma Masjid, Mangaluru on Tuesday.According to Mangaluru authorities, Section 144 will be in place from 8 pm of May 24 to 8 am of May 26.A Hindu temple-like architectural design was discovered underneath an old mosque on the outskirts...
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As a mark of respect for the victims killed in the Texas school shooting, United States President Joe Biden ordered on Tuesday that the flags will fly at half-mast at the White House and other public places until Saturday.'I hereby order that the flag of the United States shall be flown at...
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In an emotional address following the school shooting incident in Texas, the US Vice President Kamala Harris condemned the attack on Wednesday while calling for 'action and taking a stand'.'Enough is enough. As a nation, we have to have the courage to take action and have the courage to take a...
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US President Joe Biden asked Americans to stand up to the gun lobby and urged the members of the Congress for an immediate gun control legislation as he highlighted that the 'sensible gun laws' need to be passed in the wake of Texas school shooting in which 21 were killed including 18...
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In one of the worst school shootings in American history, an 18-year-old gunman has killed 21 people, including 18 children, and rendered several other grievously injured at an elementary school in Texas state, before the assailant was eliminated in police firing.Gunshots rang out of Robb...
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A Delhi court is likely to pronounce on Wednesday its judgment on the quantum of punishment for convicted Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik, who had earlier pleaded guilty of all the charges including those under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, in a terror funding...
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Delhi on Tuesday logged 418 fresh COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 2.27 per cent, while two more people succumbed to the viral disease, according to data shared by the city health department. With this, Delhi's COVID-19 tally increased to 19,04,240 and the death toll climbed to...
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The government on Tuesday imposed restrictions on sugar exports from June 1, a move aimed at increasing availability of the commodity in the domestic market and curbing price rise. Export of sugar (raw, refined and white sugar) is placed under restricted category from June 1, 2022 onwards,...
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