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Security forces on Monday arrested a suspected over-ground worker with terror links and recovered arms and ammunition in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district, the police said.Aijaz Ahmad Parry, resident of Kunan Poshpura area of the north Kashmir district, was arrested at a checkpoint in general...
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Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday met Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray at the latter's residence in Mumbai's Dadar area on the eve of counting of Lok Sabha votes.The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief had backed the ruling alliance in Maharashtra,...
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Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Delhi high court's verdict dismissing his bail pleas in cases lodged by the ED and CBI in connection with the alleged liquor policy scam. As per the cause list uploaded on the apex court website, a vacation bench of...
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Several rivers in Assam continue to flow above the danger level amid incessant rain, according to the Central Water Commission. The commission's latest bulletin highlights critical water levels at various monitoring sites, indicating severe and above-normal flood situations. Three sites in Assam...
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Two groups clashed in the early hours of Monday in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur during which stones were hurled and three vehicles were torched after an altercation between two boys, a police official said. In the incident that took place under Omti police station limits, some people sustained minor...
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The blood samples of the mother of the juvenile allegedly involved in the May 19 Pune Porsche crash case were collected on Monday for DNA testing, a police official said. This is to confirm if the samples of the woman, who has been arrested, were used in place of the juvenile at Sassoon General...
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Citing the Conduct of Election Rules, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Monday said the count of postal ballots will start first across all counting centres and asserted that there was no doubt about it. Responding to questions at a press conference in New Delhi, he said after...
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The district administration on Monday imposed prohibitory orders around the designated vote counting centre for the Kozhikode and Vadakara Lok Sabha constituencies in North Kerala. These measures, effective from Monday on the premises of JTD Group of Institutions at Vellimadukunnu, were...
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Two persons, including a hotel waiter, have been arrested in Navi Mumbai for allegedly cheating people of more than Rs 3.70 crore on the pretext of online share market investment, police said on Monday. The duo, Salman Nizamuddin Khan (35), a hotel waiter, and Prakash Karamsi Bhanushali (39),...
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The Central Crime Branch probing the Bengaluru rave party case arrested Telugu film actress Hema following interrogation on Monday. The rave party was organised on May 19 at a farmhouse near Electronic City. The Central Crime Branch had summoned Hema to its office on Monday. Sources said she...
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Leaders of the INDIA opposition bloc would meet here on Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning to assess the Lok Sabha poll results, sources have said. They said top leaders of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance have been asked to be in Delhi by Tuesday evening, once the counting...
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Taj Express train caught fire in New Delhi/ANI Photo
Three coaches of the Taj Express train caught fire in southeast Delhi's Sarita Vihar on Monday, officials said. No one was injured in the incident as passengers managed to get out of the affected coaches in time, they said. The cause of the fire was not known immediately. We received a call at...
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Lawrence Bishnoi (left) in Delhi police custody/ANI Photo
Lawrence Bishnoi and Goldie Brar gangs allegedly considered employing minors to carry out the killing of Bollywood actor Salman Khan, according to the police. The Navi Mumbai police uncovered a plot to kill the actor during their investigation disclosing a video call conversation between Lawrence...
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The Reserve Bank of India on Monday said 97.82 percent of the Rs 2000 denomination banknotes have returned to the banking system, and only Rs 7,755 crore worth of the withdrawn notes are still with the public. On May 19, 2023, the RBI announced the withdrawal of Rs 2000 denomination banknotes...
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The Mumbai police have traced four siblings from Andheri who went missing in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior last week and reunited them with their family, an official said on Monday. The police on Sunday traced three girls and a boy, in the age group of eight to 18 years, to a children's home in...
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AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh
Aam Aadmi Party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh on Monday demanded a ban on exit polls in this country, claiming they have been proven wrong several times. Several exit polls on Saturday predicted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will retain power for a third straight term, with the...
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The names of Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party chief G Kishan Reddy have been dropped from an FIR, filed on a complaint relating to the alleged use of minors in a poll campaign of the saffron party in Hyderabad last month, the police said on Monday. In the...
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A 42-year-old man collapsed and died while playing cricket at a ground in Thane district of Maharashtra, police said on Monday. An official of the Kashigaon police station said the man, Ramakrishnan Thevar, was batting during a cricket match between local teams at a ground in the Kashimira...
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A marketing professional's car was allegedly damaged by a motorist while he was driving on Vibgyor High School Road in Bengaluru, the police said on Monday. The incident was captured by a dashboard camera installed on the car, they said, and added that they were looking for the motorist to find...
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Modi 3.0 tomorrow?
Senior BJP leaders, including Union ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh, held a meeting on Monday to discuss the party's performance in the Lok Sabha polls and its preparation for the counting of votes scheduled to take place on June 4. The meeting, presided over by BJP chief J P Nadda, was...
17:09
A monkey quenches its thirst
As many as 32 wild monkeys were suspected to have drowned in an irrigation well in Jharkhand's Palamu district during their bid to quench their thirst, a forest official said on Monday. It took place in Sorath village in Panki block and the corpses were found on Sunday, but officials were yet to...
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With scorching heatwaves gripping several parts of the country, at least 56 deaths from heatstroke have been confirmed in multiple states by the National Centre for Disease Control, sources said on Saturday.The Southwest Monsoon hit the coast of Kerala and advanced into parts of northeast India...
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Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Monday referred to various memes doing rounds on social media, describing the Election Commission as 'laapata gentlemen', asserting that he and fellow commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Sing Sandhu were never out and were always here. Social media...
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The Opposition will continue to be attacked through misuse of agencies, civil society will be force-marched towards extinction and India's plummeting on global indices will continue.Minorities and especially Muslims will continue to have open season declared on them. Institutions will continue...
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Delhi airport
Delhi police have imposed prohibitory orders banning drone and laser beam activities in the funnel area falling within the approach path of flights to the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI).Sources claimed that the prohibitory orders have been imposed due to VVIP aircraft movement at the...
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The big reveal tomorrow
Preparations were underway at the Congress headquarters in New Delhi on Monday for the June 4 counting day with many supporters seeing them as arrangements for celebration of the INDIA bloc's victory in the Lok Sabha polls despite exit polls suggesting otherwise.Tent-poles had been erected in the...
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The Election Commission on Monday refused to grant additional time to Congress leader Jairam Ramesh to back his claims that attempts were made to influence 150 district magistrates and collectors ahead of the June 4 vote count for Lok Sabha elections. Ramesh was asked by the poll panel to submit...
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Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty rallied more than 3 per cent to close at lifetime highs on Monday following across-the-board buying as exit polls predicted a massive win for the BJP-led NDA in the general elections. The 30-share BSE Sensex soared by 2,507.47 points or 3.39 per cent to...
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In line with most of the exit poll predictions, bookies in Delhi feel the ruling BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will get more than 340 seats in the Lok Sabha polls while the INDIA opposition bloc may secure around 200 seats. According to the calculations of bookies and punters in...
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BrahMos missiles
The Nagpur district court on Monday handed life imprisonment to former BrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd engineer Nishant Agarwal under the Official Secrets Act for spying for Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI. Agarwal will also have to undergo rigorous imprisonment (RI) for 14 years and was also fined...
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Consul General of Israel to India, Kobbi Shoshani, shares this image of Narendra Modi at a beach in Lakshwadeep and writes, Thanks to the Maldives Government's decision Israelis can now explore the beautiful beaches of #Lakshadweep.This comes after Maldives on Sunday announced its decision to...
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CEC Rajiv Kumar shows the finger
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Monday dared the opposition to share evidence of allegations that returning officers and district magistrates were influenced to vitiate the poll process so the panel could take action against them. The opposition should also tell the Commission about...
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Modi's post-poll Vivekananda Rock meditation
Shares of public sector enterprises as well as state-owned banks surged over 12 per cent on Monday as benchmark indices touched record highs a day after exit polls predicted a third term for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government. Public sector units' indices jumped to fresh peaks during...
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A day before the Lok Sabha poll results, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramiah claimed that the exit polls are a media creation and expressed confidence that the INDIA bloc will cross the 295-mark in the election. The exit polls on Sunday predicted a landslide victory for the BJP-led National...
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Edtech firm BYJU'S has processed employees' May salaries from the month's business collections, sources close to the company said on Monday. Last year, the founders of the edtech firm had to pledge their house to raise debt for paying employees' salaries. The salaries for the month of May...
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Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar gives details about the counting process to be followed to declare the results of Lok Sabha elections on June 4.The entire counting process is absolutely robust. It works similar to the precision of a clock, CEC Rajiv Kumar says. Postal ballot counting will...
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Nirav Modi
Businessmen involved in multi-million dollar scams, such as Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi and Vijay Mallya, were able to flee the country because probe agencies failed to arrest them at the proper time, a special court in Mumbai said recently. Special judge M G Deshpande made the remark while hearing...
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More from the EC presser: This is one of the General Elections where we have not seen violence. This required two years of preparation, says CEC Rajiv Kumar on Lok Sabha elections.Rajiv Kumar says, Due to the meticulous work of the election personnel we ensured fewer repolls -- we saw 39 repolls...
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EC presser begins. On the Lok Sabha elections, CEC Rajiv Kumar says, We have created a world record of 642 million voters. This is 1.5 times voters of all G7 countries and 2.5 times voters of 27 countries in EU. The Election Commission of India gives a standing ovation to all voters who took...
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The Supreme Court to hear on June 6, the Delhi govt's plea seeking direction to release surplus water. The water crisis in the national capital amid soaring temperatures has left residents scrambling with empty buckets after water tankers. Delhi's Okhla, Chanakyapuri's Sanjay Camp area and the...
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The Election Commission is yet to release the final data for Phase VII, which was held on Saturday, of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Estimates indicate at least 644.08 million voters cast their votes from April 19 to June 1, out of an estimated 981 million electors.In 2019, 614.7 million of total...
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Will India bloc win?
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi on Monday said her party is very hopeful that the results of the Lok Sabha elections will be totally opposite to what has been shown in the exit polls. We have to wait, just wait and see, Sonia Gandhi told PTI when asked about her expectations from the results...
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A Kolkata-bound IndiGo flight from Chennai was delayed by two hours on Monday morning following a call which warned that a bomb would get exploded in that flight, officials said. Following the receipt of the call at the IndiGo Call Centre located at Thuraipakkam, the flight was moved by...
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Mamata Banerjee at a campaign for Mahua Moitra
To manage post-election violence, nearly 400 Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) companies (over 40,000 personnel) will remain in West Bengal until June 19, sources said. A significant portion of the CAPFs will consist of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), said a source privy to the...
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Uddhav Thackeray and his family on voting day, May 20.
Amravati MLA Ravi Rana has claimed Shiv Sena (UBT) head and former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray will join the Modi government in 15 days after the Lok Sabha election results come out on Tuesday. Ravi Rana's wife Navneet Rana, the sitting MP from Amravati, contested the Lok Sabha...
11:02
The 1993 bomb blasts killed 257 people
A 70-year-old convict serving a life sentence in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts was beaten to death by five inmates inside the Kalamba Central Jail, located in the Kolhapur district of Maharashtra.The incident took place on Sunday, at around 7.30 am when the deceased identified as Munna alias...
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The Delhi CM went back to jail yesterday
Today in 2024, the BJP jails its opponents during an election and still believes, or at least wants us to believe, that it is only following the rules of democracy, asserts Aakar Patel. Read the column here.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for the nation to reassess outdated thinking and beliefs and free our society from the pressure of professional pessimists, asserting that the foundation for a Viksit Bharat must be laid in the 25 years in the run up to the centenary of India's...
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A 23-year-old Indian student is missing in the United States state of California since last week and police have sought the public's help in finding her, the latest case in the country as the community grapples with a string of such incidents involving students.Nitheesha Kandula, a California...
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A total of 14 people have died in floods that inundated parts of Assam, according to official estimates.Three more deaths were reported on Sunday which took the tally of deaths to 14 since May 28 according to a bulletin by the State Disaster Management Authority.On June 1, the death toll stood at...
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As the exit polls predict Modi 3.0, for lakhs of Indians the basics of life: food, clothing, shelter, is still not a reality. Rajasthan: Water crisis in Ajmer's Balwanta village affects marriage prospects. Villagers struggle to make themselves heard even after boycotting the 2024 General...
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Residents of Geeta Colony wait at a water tanker
As India's capital city faces a severe water crisis, different parts of the city witness people waiting in long queues to collect water from the water tanker. In Chilla Gaon situated in Mayur Vihar Phase 1, people can be seen standing in long queues amidst the water crisis. Water is being...
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After taking part in the INDIA bloc meeting, former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren's wife Kalpana Soren asked everyone to wait till June 4, when everything will be cleared. When you have waited so long, wait for 4th June. You will get to know everything on the 4th of June, Kalpana said....
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First-time voters in Mizoram
More than 2,000 personnel would be deployed for counting of votes for the lone Lok Sabha seat in Mizoram, a senior official said on Monday. Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Madhup Vyas said a three-tier security arrangement has been made in all the 13 counting centres across the state.There would be...
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The stock market opened with an unprecedented uptick on Monday, reaching an all-time high after exit polls forecast a decisive victory for the BJP-led NDA coalition, sparking widespread investor optimism. The Sensex surged by 1859.88 points, opening at a record 75,821.19. Similarly, the Nifty...
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Voting is underway on Monday in the biennial elections to six seats in the Karnataka Legislative Council from teachers' and graduates' constituencies. Seventy-eight contestants are in the fray.Counting of votes will be held on June 6. In the 75-member Upper House, the Congress has 29 members.The...
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The European Union (EU) has upheld its decision to maintain the ban on Pakistani air carriers, including Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), as reported by ARY News.Following a recent meeting, the EU found no compelling reasons to revise its existing list of prohibited air carriers operating...
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Local train services on the Western Railway network were disrupted on Monday morning due to technical issues after a cable being cut at the Borivali station in Mumbai, officials said.Borivali is one of the busiest railway stations in north Mumbai, with a large number of commuters and office-goers...
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The Election Commission has ordered repolling at one polling station each in the Barasat and Mathurapur Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal on Monday, a day before the counting of votes.As per the order from the poll body, repolling will be conducted at 61 Kadambagachi Saradar Pada FP School,...
