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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday greeted Sikhs on Baisakhi and Tamils on Puthandu, renewing his government's commitment to building a better, fairer, and more inclusive country for everyone. In separate statements issued by his office, Trudeau wished the Sikhs on the...
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The BJP will release its manifesto -- Sankalp Patra -- for the Lok Sabha polls on Sunday, with its planks of welfare and development besides a roadmap for 'viksit Bharat' expected to figure prominently in its election agenda. The party said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and its other senior...
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The Congress on Saturday announced a list of 16 more candidates for the Lok Sabha polls and fielded former Union minister Manish Tewari from the Chandigarh parliamentary constituency. The party also pitted Himachal Pradesh minister Vikramaditya Singh against BJP candidate and Bollywood actor...
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Disgruntled Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Ashfaq Karim on Saturday joined the Janata Dal-United headed by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, alleging discrimination against Muslims in the party headed by the latter's arch-rival Lalu Prasad. Karim, who was denied a second term in Rajya Sabha in...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said loans of farmers will be waived if his party comes to power at the Centre. Addressing a rally in Sakoli in Maharashtra's Bhandara district, he said the main issues plaguing the people of the country were unemployment and inflation, though these...
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The government has asked all the e-commerce companies to remove drinks and beverages, including Bournvita, from the health drinks category from their portals. National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, a statutory body constituted under section (3) of the Commission of Protection of...
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A Kashmiri Pandit outfit, All India Kashmiri Hindu Forum, merged with the Congress at the party headquarters in Jammu on Saturday. Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee president Vikar Rasool Wani welcomed AIKHF chairman Rattan Lal Bhan and other office bearers into the party...
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AIADMK leader Edappadi K Palaniswami
The AIMIM on Saturday announced its support to the Edappadi K Palaniswami-led AIADMK in Tamil Nadu for the April 19 Lok Sabha elections. AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi said on 'X' that the alliance would also continue for the Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, apparently referring to the...
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Seventeen Indians are on board an Israeli-linked container ship that has been seized by the Iranian military amid heightened tensions between Iran and Israel. Official sources said India is in touch with Iranian authorities through diplomatic channels, both in Tehran and in Delhi, to ensure...
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Rains hit parts of Delhi-NCR on Saturday evening, bringing respite from the heat. The India meteorological department attributed the rains to an active western disturbance over northwest India. It has also forecast light rain accompanied by gusty winds on Sunday. The maximum...
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The CBI has registered an FIR against Hyderabad-based Megha Engineering and Infrastructure Ltd, which was the second-biggest buyer of electoral bonds worth Rs 966 crore, in an alleged bribery case. Eight officials of the NISP and NMDC and two officials of MECON were also named in the FIR for...
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Rebel BJP leader and former Karnataka deputy chief minister KS Eshwarappa on Saturday dismissed reports that he would withdraw his candidature for the Lok Sabha elections. Eshwarappa on Friday filed his nomination papers as an independent candidate from Shivamogga Lok Sabha...
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NIA produces Rameshwaram café blast accused at a session court in Kolkata on Friday, April 12, 2024/ANI Photo
A special NIA court in Bengaluru on Saturday granted the national agency 10 days custody of two accused in the Rameshwaram Cafe blast case for further investigation. Mussavir Hussain Shazib and Adbul Matheen Ahmed Taahaa were produced before a National Investigation Agency special court...
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A crane engaged in the construction of an expressway collapsed in Maharashtra's Thane district on Saturday, an official said.No one was injured in the accident on the Mumbai-Vadodara expressway site at Chamtoli area in Ambernath taluka, the official said.Ambernath Tehsildar Prashanti Mane said...
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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy seized the Israel-linked MSC ARIES container ship near the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, The Times of Israel reported, citing Iranian news agency. The ship in question was the Portuguese-flagged MSC Aries, a container ship owned by Zodiac...
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A woman teacher of a government school in Odisha's Boudh has been suspended by the district election officer-cum-district collector for allegedly attending an election rally and procession, an official notification said on Saturday.The woman teacher of Government Nodal High School at Dahya had...
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A 22-year-old man was injured after he was attacked allegedly by a tiger at a village in Chamarajanagara district, the forest department said on Saturday. Mannu suffered injuries on his neck and hands. He is said to be in a stable condition and is currently undergoing treatment at a...
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The National Investigation Agency has filed a charge sheet against two accused, including the key conspirator, in last year's Manipur car bomb blast case in which three people were injured, an official statement issued on Saturday said. The agency filed the chargesheet before a special NIA...
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SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal
The Shiromani Akali Dal on Saturday announced its first list of seven candidates, fielding senior party leaders Prem Singh Chandumajra from Anandpur Sahib and Daljit Singh Cheema from Gurdaspur. Besides, the SAD also named former MLA N K Sharma from Patiala, former minister Anil Joshi from...
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The Film Employees Federation of Kerala on Saturday said that no Malayalam film will be given to any PVR owned screen or theatre till it compensates producers from the southern state for the loss suffered by them due to the multiplex company not showing films made by them across India. FEFKA...
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Ex-DMK functionary Jaffer Sadiq in NCB custody/ANI Photo
More than Rs 40 crore allegedly earned from drug trafficking was injected by now-sacked Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam functionary Jaffer Sadiq and his linked entities into sectors like film production, hospitality and real estate, the ED alleged on Saturday. The Enforcement Directorate made...
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Two hundred people were booked for allegedly causing traffic congestion by offering namaaz on a road in Meerut, the police said on Saturday. The crowd moved to the road to offer Eid namaaz as the space inside the nearby mosque was filled. They allegedly had an altercation with the...
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Pasighat West MLA Ninong Ering received minor injuries when his car collided with another vehicle in Arunachal Pradesh's East Siang district, a police officer said on Sunday. The MLA's car collided with another vehicle near Sille village in East Siang district on Saturday, Pasighat...
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Monson Mavunkal
The Kerala high court has dismissed a petition filed by controversial self-styled antiques dealer Monson Mavunkal seeking suspension of the life sentence given to him for repeatedly raping a minor girl, saying that the heinous nature of the offence committed by him cannot be ignored. The...
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At least four people were reported to be dead after a man entered a mall in Sydney's eastern suburbs on Saturday afternoon and began randomly shooting and stabbing people, local media reported. The toll of casualties at Bondi Junction's Westfield shopping centre may extend further,...
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Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh claimed that Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma would have been nowhere without the grand old party which had given him identity and position during its rule in the state. The Congress general secretary, in an interview with PTI in Guwahati, claimed...
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Efforts to rescue the six-year-old boy from a borewell in Madhya Pradesh's Rewa district continued for more than 20 hours on Saturday, with a team from the State Disaster Emergency Response Force and local administration working overnight, an official said.Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said he was...
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Women of Sandeshkhali welcome BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari/ANI Photo
In a spot inquiry into the Sandeshkhali case in West Bengal, the NHRC has flagged several instances of atrocities, saying it indicates that there was a violation of human rights due to negligence in the prevention of such incidents. The National Human Rights Commission, in its report, also...
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Bade Miyan Chote Miyan, headlined by Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff, has grossed Rs 55.14 crore at the worldwide box office in two days, the makers said on Saturday.The Hindi-language action film, directed by Ali Abbas Zafar of Sultan and Bharat fame, was released in theatres on Thursday on the...
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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday thanked the National Investigation Agency and the state police over the arrest of the accused in the Rameshwaram Cafe blast case. He maintained that the truth would come out after interrogation. I thank the NIA and the Karnataka police. They...
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Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal being brought to Rouse Avenue Court in New Delhi/ANI Photo
Senior AAP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh on Saturday claimed that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was not being allowed to meet his family at mulakat jangla' in Tihar jail. Addressing a press conference, Singh said, There is an attempt to break the morale of CM Kejriwal. His...
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Veteran Congress leader Digvijaya Singh
Veteran Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has accused the BJP and the AIMIM of being hand in glove with each other, and sought to know the source of funding of Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi. He alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party instigates Hindus, while the All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul...
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Known for his flamboyant style, veteran Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli has passed away. He was 83. The famous fashion designer had been ill for a long time, leaving and entering the hospital more and more often for ritual checkups, his family told The Hollywood...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that India was committed to respond to any act of terrorism perpetrated from across the borders, and asserted that since terrorists do not play by rules, there cannot be any rules in the country's answer to them. Attacking the United...
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The Delhi traffic police issued an advisory on Saturday in view of the Baisakhi celebrations at Guruji ka Ashram (Bade Mandir), informing commuters about the traffic regulations in certain areas of the city. In a post on X, the traffic police said: In view of Baisakhi celebrations at Guru Ji...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday interacted with top Indian gamers on a host of issues relating to the gaming industry.In a free-wheeling interaction regarding the future as well as the challenges before the e-gaming industry, the prime minister posed curious questions to the gamers while...
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam president M K Stalin on Saturday said the INDIA alliance will deliver a sweet victory on June 4. Stalin who was pleasantly surprised over receiving Mysore Pak from Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during the latter's visit to the...
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Police have registered two cases against senior Congress leader and the party's Bastar Lok Sabha seat candidate Kawasi Lakhma in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district for allegedly violating the model code of conduct through his alleged objectionable remarks, officials said on...
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Two prime accused in the Rameshwaram cafe blast case were brought to the city by the National Investigation Agency from Kolkata on transit remand, police sources said on Saturday. Both will be taken for a routine medical test, after which they will be produced before the NIA court in...
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The Central Bureau of Investigation has told a special court here that Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K Kavitha had allegedly threatened Aurobindo Pharma promoter Sharath Chandra Reddy to pay an amount of Rs 25 crore to the AAP for the five retail zones allotted to his firm under the Delhi...
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The defence ministry has issued a tender to state-run aerospace major Hindustan Aeronautics Limited for procurement of 97 light combat aircraft (LCA Mk-1A) Tejas for the Indian Air Force, officials said on Friday. The fighter jets are expected to cost around Rs 67,000 crore.The Tejas...
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A case was registered after confidential data of textile major Welspun Living Limited was allegedly wiped out after its systems were subjected to an unauthorised entry, a Mumbai police official said on Friday. The incident, in which data, daily operation reports and the firm's dashboard have...
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Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram is enduring heavy rainfall, and the Kerala State Disaster Management Authority on its official X handle posted that the Central Meteorological Department has announced yellow alert in four districts and advised to refrain from fishing on the coast of...
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Days after withdrawing its call for 'border march' amidst imposition of restrictions by the administration, Leh Apex Body on Friday said a small group of their representatives would undertake a foot march to Changthang near the China border. The march would show the reality of farmers losing...
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