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The cyber cell of Maharashtra police on Tuesday registered an FIR against an X user for allegedly uploading a `deepfake' or manipulated video where actor Ranveer Singh appeared to be making an appeal to vote for Congress.The First Information Report was registered on a complaint filed by the...
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Biju Janata Dal MLA Simarani Nayak on Tuesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party after being denied a nomination from her Hindon constituency. State BJP president Manmohan Samal welcomed her to the party. The BJD on Monday named Dhenkanal MP Mahesh Sahoo as its candidate for the Hindol...
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PM Narendra Modi addresses a public meeting in Rajasthan/ANI on X
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his speeches at recent election rallies, saying the language he used suggests that he is not a Vishwa Guru but a Vish Guru. Ramesh also said a person who never respected the mangalsutra is now saying...
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Seventeen officers have been appointed as joint secretaries or at equivalent posts in different central government departments and organisations, as part of a bureaucratic rejig effected on Tuesday.Rajeev Kumar, a 2000-batch Indian Ordnance Factories Service officer, has been appointed as joint...
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Two minor sisters died and several others were injured in a fire that broke out in nearly 20 shanties in a slum area of Oriya Basti here on Tuesday, officials said.Fire tenders were pressed into service and it took them around three hours to douse the flames, they said.Meera (7) and her...
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Gunfights broke out between village volunteers of the two warring communities in Imphal West district of ethnic violence-hit Manipur on Monday evening, the police said. No casualties were reported so far in the incidents but sophisticated firearms were being used in the gun-battles by both...
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India on Tuesday carried out a successful test firing of a new version of a medium-range ballistic missile.The defence ministry said the user launch has proven the operational capability of the missile with new technologies.The test firing was conducted under the aegis of the strategic forces...
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The Kerala high court on Tuesday dismissed a plea for directions to the returning officer of Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency to pass a reasoned order on two complaints which sought rejection of BJP leader Rajeev Chandrasekhar's nomination for allegedly filing a false affidavit. A...
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Some flights were diverted and some delayed at the Delhi airport on Tuesday evening due to bad weather as the national capital witnessed gusty winds and light rains. Vistara said two of its flights from Pune and Ranchi that were to land at the airport were diverted. In a post on X, IndiGo...
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The S-400 air defence missile systems/Reuters
India is set to receive the remaining two regiments of S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile systems from Russia by next year under a new timeline that was firmed up following some delays in the supplies in view of the war in Ukraine, authoritative sources said on Tuesday. Russia has already...
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As many as 1,351 candidates from 12 states and union territories are in the fray for the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections on May 7, the Election Commission said on Tuesday. These include eight candidates from Betul seat of Madhya Pradesh, where the election was to be held in the second...
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader Vijay Sampla's relative Robin Sampla on Tuesday joined the Aam Aadmi Party in Chandigarh in the presence of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann. Robin Sampla, believed to be a close confidant of Vijay Sampla, was the vice president of Punjab BJP Scheduled Caste...
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The strategic Manali-Leh (National Highway 3) which was closed since November last year following snowfall was opened by the Border Roads Organisation, officials said on Tuesday. The entire snow clearance operations were executed by Project Deepak in Himachal Pradesh and Project Himank in...
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The Delhi police had briefly detained an eatery owner following a complaint that he had sold biryani on disposable plates purportedly having a picture of Lord Ram on them in northwest Delhi's Jahangirpuri, officials said on Tuesday. During investigations, it was found that the shopkeeper had...
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Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan/ANI Photo
Janasena founder and actor Pawan Kalyan has declared that his family has assets, both movable and immovable, worth Rs 164.53 crore even as his income for the last four years stood at nearly Rs 60 crore.According to an affidavit filed with the election authorities, the actor-politician has...
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In response to recent action by food regulators in Singapore and Hong Kong, India's commerce and industry ministry initiated an inquiry into the alleged banning of certain spices manufactured by Indian companies such as MDH and Everest, according to sources familiar with the...
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Another worker who was injured in an explosion at a firecracker factory last week died during treatment at a hospital in Madhya Pradesh's Indore on Tuesday, an official said. With this, the toll in the blast that took place in the factory near Indore on April 16 has risen to three, the...
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Train passengers travelling in unreserved compartments are now getting hygienic meals and snacks at affordable prices at stations under a new initiative by the Railways, an official said. These meal counters are operational at over 100 stations and nearly 150 counters across Indian Railways,...
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Chhattisgarh: Addressing a public rally in Mahasamund, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says, Voting for the Bastar seat was held in Chhattisgarh on 19th April. Voting was also held in other states of the country and the first phase of voting has made things clear. The mind of the country speaks to...
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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday said the INDIA bloc was not a front, but a system of opposition political parties that has come up as a platform against the ruling BJP at the Centre. The statement by Vijayan comes amidst an intense fight between the CPI(M)-led LDF and...
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The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) has hit out at Vice-Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit over her freeloaders on campus remark and accused her of failing to address slanderous narratives of certain films targeting the varsity. In an open letter to the VC, the...
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PM Modi at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on Jan 22
Like Ernest Hemingway's bankruptcy, the ruin of the Uttar Pradesh Police happened gradually, then suddenly.' The latest sign of the sudden and sharp collapse was the deployment of uniformed members of the state police in Hindu priestly attire in the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi. The eight...
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Sunita Kejriwal at a Hanuman temple
Delhi Cabinet minister Saurabh Bharadwaj participated in an event in his constituency to celebrate Hanuman Jayanti. A person dressed as Lord Hanuman was carrying vials of insulin with Bharadwaj carrying a mace ('gadaa') as they travelled in the area atop a vehicle. Vials of insulin were...
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From Kerala, a look at what's happening in Madhya Pradesh: Protesting against the Shipra river getting polluted, Congress party's Ujjain Lok Sabha candidate Mahesh Parmar sits in overflowing drain water entering the river, in Ujjain. He also took a dip in the river. Today, after taking...
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Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor chats with a local as Sachin Pilot looks on. Pilot is headed to Calicut from Thiruvananthapuram.
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Congress candidate Shashi Tharoor said earlier today that the only account that the BJP can open in Kerala is a bank account. This function at Kowdiar Park in Thiruvananthapuram helmed by Tharoor and Sachin Pilot is to flag off a 'scan and know your candidate' programme.
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Congress supporters at Shashi Tharoor's meeting at Kowdiar Park. If you want to know more about the Thiruvananthapuram candidate and what he has done for the constituency, all you need to do is scan the T-shirt.
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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor is joined by AICC general secretary Sachin Pilot in Thiruvananthapuram's Kowdiar Park. Pilot who has been camping in Kerala, which goes to the polls on April 26 in a single phase, will also be part of a bike rally today.
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Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's wife Sunita Kejriwal offered prayers at the Hanuman Temple in Connaught Place today, on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti. A Delhi court today ruled that Arvind Kejriwal will remain in jail till May 7.
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday made serious allegations against the Congress and said the grand old party has in its election manifesto expressed its intention to implement the 'Sharia law' in the country and redistribute people's property. Addressing an...
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Amid a debate on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks that Congress wants to snatch women's Mangalsutra, the Prime Minister reiterated on Tuesday that he had put the truth before the country that Congress is hatching a deep conspiracy to snatch your property and distribute it to its special...
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A Delhi court on Tuesday extended the judicial custody of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and BRS leader K Kavitha in a money laundering case related to the alleged excise scam till May 7. Special judge for CBI and ED matters Kaveri Baweja extended their custody after they were produced...
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Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah on Tuesday alleged that infiltration was continuing unabated in West Bengal under the TMC regime. Shah, addressing a roadshow in the Malda South constituency, also slammed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for opposing the Citizenship...
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Spotted at the NDA office in Thiruvananthapuram, a poster of Union Minister of State, Rajeev Chandrashekhar. Chandrashekhar is pitted against Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Panniyan Ravindran and Congress sitting MP Shashi Tharoor.
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An Australian journalist on Tuesday claimed that she was forced to leave India after the government refused to extend her work visa contending that her reportage had crossed a line. Avani Dias, the South Asia Bureau Chief of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, said she had to leave...
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Encounter specialist Daya Nayak (in blue T-shirt) was part of the recovery team
The Mumbai police's crime branch has recovered two pistols, magazines and bullets from the Tapi river in Gujarat during a search operation to recover weapons allegedly used in the firing outside Bollywood superstar Salman Khan's residence, an official said on Tuesday. The crime branch...
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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday defended his recent recollection of Rahul Gandhi's old name, stating that it was in response to certain statements made by the Congress leader during campaigning in the state, which according to the left leader, helped the BJP and agencies under...
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An unusual poster of former UN diplomat and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in Thiruvananthapuram shows all the books he has written.Tharoor will be seeking a fourth straight term from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency, as he is up against a two-front contest against Union Minister of State,...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday charged that the Congress wanted to extend reservation on the basis of religion and give the right given to Dalits, backward and tribals to Muslims. As soon as the Congress formed the government at the Centre in 2004, one of its first tasks was to...
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Update: Ramdev and Patanjali Ayurved Ltd managing director Balkrishna on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that they have issued an unqualified apology in newspapers for the lapses on their part in the misleading advertisements case. A bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Ahsanuddin Amanullah...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday sharpened his attack on the Congress, saying it is difficult to follow one's faith under the party and again accused it of hatching a deep conspiracy to snatch people's wealth and distribute it among select people. Referring to the...
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Hearing the misleading ads case against Patanjali Ayurved, the Supreme Court today asked if the size of an apology it put out in newspapers today was similar to its full-page advertisements of its products. Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for Patanjali founders Ramdev and...
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Congress leader Sachin Pilot slammed BJP stating that the party won't be able to win a single seat in Kerala or any southern state and expressed strong confidence in the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the INDIA bloc predicting a clean sweep for the coalition in the state. I think...
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The diamond packets inside the noodle packet
The Customs department has seized diamonds concealed in packets of noodles and gold hidden in the body parts of passengers and baggage, collectively valued at Rs 6.46 crore, at the Mumbai airport, an official said. Four passengers were arrested after the seizure of more than 6.815 kg of gold...
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AAP has said there is a conspiracy to kill Arvind Kejriwal in jail
Tihar Jail Director General (Prisons), Sanjay Beniwal, on Tuesday assured that food is provided on schedule to all inmates, and any delay is due to necessary checks. While speaking about the Aam Aadmi Party's claim that the Delhi Chief Minister is not being given insulin, he claims...
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Over 17,400 Indians wrote letters to the Election Commission on Monday seeking action against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks that the Congress would distribute citizens' property among infiltrators' if voted to power in the Lok Sabha elections, reports the Scroll.The prime minister,...
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Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Brinda Karat raised questions about the credibility of the Election Commission of India (ECI) following what she calls a shocking statement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. According to Karat, the Prime Minister's words violated Indian laws against...
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Grandmaster D Gukesh
Chess legend Garry Kasparov heaped praise on India's 17-year-old Grandmaster D Gukesh after his victory in FIDE Candidates and said that it was an Indian earthquake in Toronto. The 17-year-old Indian on Monday created history as he won the FIDE Candidates Chess Tournament 2024,...
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JP president J P Nadda on Tuesday attacked Congress leader and its Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat candidate Shashi Tharoor for his disdain, elitism and arrogance, claiming that people of Kerala will defeat him. Nadda tagged media reports showing the diplomat-turned-politician having...
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Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from Chevella Lok Sabha constituency K Vishweshwar Reddy has emerged as one of the wealthiest contestants in Telangana after he declared his family assets worth Rs 4,568 crore, according to an affidavit he filed with the election authorities.Reddy filed his...
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Two Indian students in the United States were killed in a traffic collision near Lake Pleasant in Arizona, police said.The victims have been identified as 19-year-old Nivesh Mukka and 19-year-old Goutham Parsi, both from India.They were enrolled as international students.According to the Peoria...
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Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal given insulin on Monday evening on advice of All India Institue of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) doctors, Tihar officials said.Earlier on Monday, a Delhi court had directed the AIIMS to constitute a medical board to examine Kejriwal to determine whether he needs insulin...
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Following a firing incident last evening, security forces have been put on high alert in Rajouri.A search and cordon operation is currently underway in Kunda village, located in the Shahdara Sharief area of Rajouri's Thanna Mandi tehsil.A man was shot dead by unidentified persons on Monday...
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A man was injured in a firing incident in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri on Monday evening, the police said. According to officials, the victim, identified as Mohammad Raziq, son of Mohammad Akbar and resident of Kunda Top, Shahdara Sharif in J-K's Rajouri, has been critically injured...
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A woman, arrested in connection with a murder case, was found hanging inside the premises of a police station in Bihar's West Champaran district on Monday, an officer said. The accused was arrested in connection with a dowry death case and she was lodged in the women's barrack at Shikarpur...
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The Congress on Monday came out with its second list of two candidates for Punjab for the Lok Sabha elections, including Amarjit Kaur Sahoke from Faridkot, replacing sitting MP Mohammad Sadique. Besides, the party has fielded Yamini Gomar from Hoshiarpur constituency. Sahoke is a former Moga...
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There were significant human rights abuses in Manipur after the outbreak of ethnic conflict, the US State Department said on Monday in its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has described the incident as shameful and urged action on the case, it...
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