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The fire raging in the forests of Uttarakhand intensified on Tuesday with 68 new incidents reported over the last 24 hours while two fire watchers were injured trying to extinguish the flames. According to the daily bulletin on forest fires issued by the forest department in Dehradun, most...
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Australia expelled two Indian spies in 2020 for allegedly trying to steal secrets about sensitive defence projects and airport security, the Australian media reported on Tuesday. While The Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald said two Indian spies were booted out, the Australian...
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Two minor girls engaged in rag-picking in Navi Mumbai have gone missing and police suspect they have been kidnapped, an official said on Tuesday. The girls, aged 17 and 15, were engaged in rag-picking to earn a livelihood in Nocil Naka and Rabale areas and were missing since April 28,...
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The Congress on Tuesday appointed former MLA Devender Yadav as interim president of its Delhi unit, days after Arvinder Singh Lovely resigned from the post while criticising the alliance with AAP and statements of Congress candidates in the national capital. Yadav, who won from the Badli...
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Janata Dal-Secular MLA HD Revanna and his son Prajwal Revanna, the incumbent MP from Hassan, who have been booked for alleged sexual harassment, have been issued notices by the Special Investigation Team on Tuesday, official sources said. They have been asked to appear before SIT for...
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Air India is likely to extend the suspension of flights to and from Tel Aviv till May 15 amid tensions in the Middle East, airline sources said on Tuesday.On April 19, the airline said Tel Aviv flights will remain suspended till April 30. It operates four weekly flights between the national...
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The Congress on Tuesday announced the candidature of senior party leader Raj Babbar from the Gurgaon Lok Sabha seat.With this, the Congress has announced candidates for all the nine seats it is contesting in Haryana, which sends 10 members to the Lower House of Parliament.The Kurukshetra seat is...
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The elections to the redrawn Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat, which was slated to go to polls on May 7, was postponed to May 25 by the Election Commission.This comes after several leaders including Jammu and Kashmir BJP unit chief Ravinder Raina, Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party chief Altaf Bukhari,...
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The West Bengal state secretariat, Raj Bhavan and the Indian Museum here on Tuesday received emails threatening to blow off the buildings using explosives, a senior official of the state Home department said....
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Congress workers in Amethi in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday held a sit-in, demanding that the party name a member of the Gandhi family as its candidate from the Amethi Lok Sabha seat.The constituency goes to polls on May 20 in the fifth round of the seven-phase general elections.Only three days are...
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Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik
Ruling Biju Janata Dal president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday filed his nomination papers for the Odisha assembly elections from Hinjili seat in Ganjam district.Accompanied by ministers and party leaders including his close aide VK Pandian, the chief minister reached the...
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The Delhi high court on Tuesday remarked that the functioning of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, was worse than that of a government department as it failed to properly respond to media group TV Today Network's plea against the blocking of its Instagram page Harper's...
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Countering the argument Muslim side in the Krishna Janmbhoomi-Shahi Idgah dispute at Mathura in the Allahabad high court, the Hindu side on Tuesday said the provisions of Waqf Act will not apply as the property in dispute is not a waqf property. It said the suit is maintainable and its...
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Former Punjab MLA Dalvir Singh Goldy quit the Congress on Tuesday, days after expressing displeasure over being denied the party's ticket from the Sangrur Lok Sabha seat. In his resignation letter to the Congress' Punjab chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, Goldy said he was upset by the state...
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The Delhi high court on Tuesday reserved order on a plea by former Popular Front of India chairman E Abubacker seeking his release in an UAPA case being probed by the National Investigation Agency. Abubacker, who was arrested by the agency during a massive crackdown on the banned...
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The Army was stopped from taking away the arms and ammunition they seized in Manipur's Bishnupur district on Tuesday by women-led protestors, officials said. During patrolling in the Kumbi area in the early hours, personnel of the Army's 2 Mahar regiment intercepted two SUVs, they...
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Villagers in Punjab will be mobilised for opposing BJP candidates who come to campaign for the Lok Sabha elections, Samyukta Kisan Morcha leader Harinder Singh Lakhowal said on Tuesday. Farmers will continue to ask questions BJP leaders and show them black flags for not agreeing to their...
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Eleven Congress workers were taken into preventive custody on Tuesday following an altercation between them and JD-S cadres here in connection with the alleged sex scandal involving Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, police said. The Congress workers staged a protest in front of Denissons Hotel...
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A 20-year-old NEET aspirant allegedly hanged himself in Kota days before appearing for his third attempt at cracking the exam. Sorry papa, I couldn't do it this year as well, a note found in the room said. This is the ninth case of suspected suicide by a coaching student in Kota since...
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President Droupadi Murmu will visit Ayodhya on Wednesday, according to a PIB release issued on Tuesday. During her stay in Ayodhya, the President will have darshan and aarti at Hanuman Garhi Temple, Ram Temple, and Kuber Teela. She will also do the Saryu pujan and aarti, stated...
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Union minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday filed his nomination papers from the Mumbai North Lok Sabha seat. Accompanied by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Goyal submitted his nomination papers before the returning officer in Bandra. This is the first time that Goyal is contesting...
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AAP Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha
Delhi health minister Saurabh Bharadwaj on Tuesday said AAP Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha has undergone a major eye surgery in the UK and will join the party's Lok Sabha poll campaigning once he feels better. He added that the MP had developed a serious eye ailment which could have led to...
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A Delhi court on Tuesday dismissed the bail pleas of former deputy chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia in the corruption and money laundering cases lodged by the Central Bureau of Investigation and the ED in relation to the alleged excise scam. Special judge for CBI and...
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Rajnath Singh files his nomination papers from Lucknow
Congress is a sinking ship with a hole in the bottom, and no power in the world can stop it from sinking, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Tuesday.He was addressing public meetings in Khandwa and Badwani district of Madhya Pradesh.In a veiled dig at the Gandhi family, the Defence Minister...
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PM Modi with TN BJP chief K Annamalai
The BJP on Tuesday claimed that its performance in south India, a region where it has traditionally struggled outside Karnataka, will be historic and accused the Congress of running a campaign full of blatant lies and misinformation. BJP leader and Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar,...
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The Bombay High Court has denied bail to a man accused of repeatedly raping a girl since she was 10 years old, noting the victim has become a nymphomaniac due to the ordeal of the horrendous crime.A single bench of Justice Prithviraj Chavan in the judgment on Monday, while dismissing the bail...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said Indian government's approach on tackling terror has seen a sea change compared to what was followed during the Congress regime.During the Congress regime, the news headlines were of India handing over another dossier to Pakistan about terror...
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Congress holds a presser on the sex scandal
Prajwal Revanna's former car driver Karthik and BJP leader G Devaraje Gowda accused each other of leaking the alleged sleaze videos of the JD(S) Hassan MP which has caused a big embarrassment to the regional party.Prajwal is the grandson of former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda and nephew of...
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A day after terming Sharad Pawar as a wandering soul, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday continued his attack on the NCP (SP) leader, saying he did not do much for farmers while being the Union agriculture minister, and added that it was now time to punish him. He taunted the opposition...
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday asserted that polling held in the 191 Lok Sabha seats so far indicate another term for the Narendra Modi government, with 400 seats for the BJP-led NDA. He claimed that Uttar Pradesh will gift all 80 constituencies in the northern...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said rivals who are unable to take on the BJP-led government are misusing technology to circulate fake videos on social media. Now their condition is such that as their lies aren't working, they are using my face and with the help of artificial...
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I am here with the people of Thiruvananthapuram. I believe this term will be mine again. At the end of all of it, as far as returning to a Western country is concerned, that chapter is over. That train has left the station, says Dr Shashi Tharoor.I have no property in the world other than a...
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Ajit Pawar with his wife Sunetra, the candidate from Baramati
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Tuesday said that his decision to join the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance was not a compulsion or a compromise, adding that his idea of development aligns with the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.In a candid conversation with ANI during...
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the Uttarakhand State Licensing Authority for inaction in the misleading advertisements case involving Patanjali Ayurved Limited.Expressing dissatisfaction over the explanation offered by the body, a bench of Justice Hima Kohli and Justice Ahsanuddin...
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Janata Dal (Secular) and former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy alleged on Tuesday that Congress party was manipulating facts to destroy the image of his family amid the controversy over the 'obscene' video case against his nephew and Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna.On being asked if Revanna...
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Congress supporters protest against Prajwal Revanna
MP Prajwal Revanna, grandson of former PM HD Deve Gowda, suspended from Janata Dal (Secular) over sex scandal.Yesterday, JD-S leader HD Kumaraswamy said the party has decided to suspend Prajwal Revanna, his nephew and Hassan MP who is a Lok Sabha poll candidate in the current elections, over...
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RJD president Lalu Prasad's daughter Rohini Acharya, who is contesting the elections from Saran Lok Sabha seat as a Mahagathbandhan nominee, has movable and immovable assets worth Rs 15.82 crore, according to the affidavit filed by her. Her husband has movable and immovable assets...
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Navy Chief Admiral Dinesh Tripathi
Navy Chief Admiral Dinesh Tripathi received the Guard of Honour at the South Block in Delhi. He took charge as the new Indian Navy chief today from Admiral R Hari Kumar.
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0ut and about for a morning stroll by the Sukhna Lake, former Union Minister and the Congress' Lok Sabha candidate from Chandigarh, Manish Tewari caught up with locals, engaged with them and also exchanged greetings as part of his campaign for the general elections on Tuesday.Speaking to ANI on...
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The Congress on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of ignoring the plight of farmers in Marathwada, and also asked what is his vision to address water scarcity in that region. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh posed questions to the prime minister ahead of his rallies...
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An international study published in Lancet Discovery Science a year ago has suddenly became a hot topic of discussion in India.The study was conducted using the health surveys across 92 low-income and middle-income countries at various times between 1993 and 2021.The study says India...
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This time Modi has no emotive message to take to the stump.Muscular nationalism doesn't work against the backdrop of China's successive inroads into Indian territory.Rising prices is a sore point that cuts across class and caste barriers; unprecedented levels of unemployment has the youth in a...
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Ramadev, with the MD, Balkrishna
Patanjali Foods has been served a show cause notice by the GST intelligence department, asking the company to explain why input tax credit worth Rs 27.46 crore should not be recovered from it. The Ramdev-led Patanjali Ayurved Group firm, which is mainly into the edible oil business,...
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A 17-year-old girl from Maharashtra's Palghar district was allegedly raped by two persons on different occasions under the pretext of marriage following which she became pregnant and had two children, police said on Tuesday. Based on the girl's complaint, the police on Sunday...
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Rahul Gandhi in Wayanad
In 2019, after the Congress' second consecutive debacle in the Lok Sabha election, Rahul Gandhi wrote an open, four-page letter, explaining his decision to resign as party president. Numerous people will have to be made accountable for the failure of 2019, he wrote, adding how he...
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Sikh extremist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun
A day after The Washington Post named an Indian official for allegedly plotting to eliminate Sikh extremist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, India on Tuesday said the report made unwarranted and unsubstantiated imputations on a serious matter. The newspaper, citing unnamed sources, named a...
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The International Monetary Fund has approved an immediate disbursal of USD 1.1 billion to Pakistan as part of a bailout package and said the country needs to take tough measures to bring its economy back on track. A decision in this regard was taken by the International Monetary Fund...
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Congress leader P Chidambaram on Tuesday said that the manifesto of the BJP for the Lok Sabha polls has vanished without a trace after it was announced. On the other hand, Congress manifesto received popularity because of its welfare promises.In a post on X, P Chidambaram said, Congress'...
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Jitu Patwari. Photograph: ANI Photo
Congress' Indore Lok Sabha candidate Akshay Bam was 'threatened and tortured' following which he withdraw his nomination, the opposition party's Madhya Pradesh chief Jitu Patwari has claimed while targeting the Bharatiya Janata Party.Bam withdrew his nomination on Monday, which was the last day...
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India is taking the allegations regarding the assassination plot of Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in the United States seriously, the White House has said but refrained from commenting on the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) probe into the matter and the criminal case filed...
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Madhya Pradesh police on Monday registered a case in connection with an email sent to Raj Bhoj airport in Bhopal and other airports with a threat to blow up flights, a police official said. On the complaint of Bhopal airport authorities a case under Indian Penal Code section 507 (criminal...
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At least 23 Naxalites, including seven women, surrendered before the security forces in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada on Monday, a senior police official said. The Maoists, who were part of the Bhairamgarh area committee of the Maoists in south Bastar, laid down arms before the police and...
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The Election Commission of India and the Income Tax department officials made seizures worth Rs 1,309.52 crore in Tamil Nadu since the Model Code of Conduct came into force on March 16 for the April 19 general elections, Chief Electoral Officer Satyabrata Sahoo said on Monday. Of the...
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The police on Monday registered a case against Madhya Pradesh Congress president Jitu Patwari and party MLA Vikrant Bhuria for allegedly disclosing the identity of family members of a 11-year-old victim of gang rape by posting their pictures on social media, an official said....
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The manufacturing licence of 10 Patanjali's Divya Pharmacy products has been suspended, according to an order issued by the Uttarakhand drug licensing authority. The order was issued earlier this month taking cognisance of complaints about misleading advertisements of these products by the...
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