Time to choose new PM to correct politics: Priyanka

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Time to choose new PM to correct politics: Priyanka

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Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of bringing down the dignity of the office he holds through his speeches during the election campaign, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday said that it is time to choose a new PM to correct the politics of the country.   At an election...
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2 lynched in Meghalaya after teen alleges rape attempt

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Two persons were lynched in Meghalaya's Eastern West Khasi Hills district for allegedly trying to rape an 18-year-old woman, police said on Saturday.The incident happened on Friday afternoon at Nongthliew village near district headquarters Mairang, they said.The woman alleged that she was in her...
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5 soldiers injured as terrorists attack vehicles in JK

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Five security personnel were injured after terrorists opened fire on two vehicles, including one belonging to the Indian Air Force (IAF), in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Saturday, officials said.  The attack took place near Shashidhar in the evening when the vehicles were moving...
19:57

JD-S MLA Revanna taken into custody by SIT

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Janata Dal-Secular MLA H D Revanna, whose son Prajwal is facing sexual abuse allegations was taken into custody on Saturday, police said.He was picked up by a Special Investigation Team after a court rejected his anticipatory bail plea. -- PTI 
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Maulvi held in Guj for plot to kill Hindu leader

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A man was arrested in Surat in Gujarat on Saturday for allegedly planning to murder the leader of a Hindu organisation and threatening the chief editor of Sudarshan television channel as well BJP's Telangana MLA Raja Singh and the party's former spokesperson Nupur Sharma in connivance with...
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Cong calls Lovely an 'opportunist' after BJP switch

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Delhi Congress' interim chief Devender Yadav on Saturday described former party unit president Arvinder Singh Lovely, who joined the BJP, as an opportunist.The Congress does not care about such people. It was strong before and will remain strong in the future, he said.A week after he resigned as...
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Air India reduces cabin baggage allowance to 15 kg for lowest fare segment

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Loss-making Air India has reduced the free cabin baggage allowance to 15 kilogram from 20 kilogram for the lowest economy fare segment on domestic flights.  The changes have been made in the menu-based pricing model fare families that were introduced by the Tata Group-owned Air India last...
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After 2 phases, Modi is unable to sleep: Cong

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Congress leader Pawan Khera on Saturday claimed the 2024 Lok Sabha polls were giving sleepless nights to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Addressing a press conference in Bhopal, Khera said this was because the Union government had nothing worthwhile to show after being in power for 10 years.After...
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Cheetah from Kuno National Park strays into Rajasthan's Karauli, rescued

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A cheetah strayed out of the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh and was spotted in a village in Rajasthan's Karauli on Saturday, a forest department official said.    Karauli Wildlife Deputy Conservator of Forest Piyush Sharma said, Information was received about a wild animal in...
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Mamata accuses BJP of scripting Sandeshkhali incident

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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday accused the BJP of scripting the Sandeshkhali incident and questioned why Prime Minister Narendra Modi was silent on the issue of a woman alleging sexual molestation by Governor C V Ananda Bose.The entire Sandeshkhali incident was preplanned....
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Cong's Indore candidate's exit surprising: Sumitra

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Former Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan has expressed surprise over the last-minute exit of the Congress' Indore Lok Sabha candidate, calling it unfair and stressing that voters have the right to decide in a democratic set-up. In a major setback to the Congress in Indore, its candidate...
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Onion prices rise at Maha market after export ban lifted

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Onion prices at the Lasalgaon market in Maharashtra's Nashik district went up by average Rs 200 per quintal after the Union Government on Saturday lifted the ban on exports.  The Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) at Lasalgaon is said to be the biggest wholesale onion market in...
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Parties need Muslim votes, but...: AIMIM MP

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All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) MP Imtiaz Jaleel has said all political parties need votes from the Muslim community but do not want their leadership.Addressing an election rally in Sajapur in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Jaleel claimed that no one from the Muslim community was...
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Ex-Delhi Cong chief Arvinder Singh Lovely joins BJP

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Congress leader Arvinder Singh Lovely today joined the Bharatiya Janata Party at the party headquarters in Delhi in the presence of Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri.Arvinder Singh Lovely resigned from the position of Delhi Congress president on April 28.After joining BJP, Lovely said, We have...
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Jaishankar reacts to Biden 'xenophobic' remark

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Reacting to United States president Joe Biden's 'xenophobia' remark against India, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that India's society has always been open to people from other societies. He said the Central government's Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) opens doors for people who...
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CBI may issue 'Blue Corner Notice' against Prajwal: SIT

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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday was informed by officials of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged sex scandal involving Prajwal Revanna that there is a possibility of the CBI issuing a Blue Corner Notice, against the Hasssan MP.Siddaramaiah held an important...
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Pak leaders want Cong 'shehzada' to become PM: Modi

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asserted his government's surgical and air strikes had shaken Pakistan, and the neighbouring country's leaders are now praying that the Congress shehzada becomes India's PM.Modi, addressing a poll rally in Palamu, took a dig at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi...
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Fresh lookout notice issued against Revanna, his son

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Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara on Saturday said a lookout notice has been issued by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) against Holenarasipur Janata Dal-Secular MLA H D Revanna, who is facing sexual abuse allegations along with son and MP Prajwal Revanna, with two FIRs registered against...
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Support Prajwal's victims: Rahul writes to K'taka CM

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has written to Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, urging him to extend all possible help to the victims of Janata Dal-Secular leader Prajwal Revanna's exploits.In a letter to Siddaramaiah, Gandhi condemned the actions of Revanna, an MP from the southern state, and...
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Mumbai to witness high sea waves till Sunday night, BMC issues advisory

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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Saturday issued an advisory cautioning people against entering the Arabian Sea amid warnings about high tide till Sunday night.    According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD) and Indian National Centre for Ocean Information...
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No funding from Cong, Puri nominee returns ticket

Congress Puri LS candidate Sucharita Mohanty
Congress Puri LS candidate Sucharita Mohanty
Congress candidate for the Puri Lok Sabha constituency Sucharita Mohanty has declined to contest the elections and returned the party ticket alleging lack of funding from the party.Mohanty, daughter of former Congress MP Brajamohan Mohanty in a mail to AICC general secretary (organization) K C...
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Govt lifts ban on onion exports; imposes minimum export price

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The government on Saturday lifted the ban on onion exports but imposed a minimum export price (MEP) of USD 550 per tonne.   The decision assumes significance as the commodity is politically sensitive and general elections are going on in the country.The export policy of onions is...
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Online radicalisation continues to pose significant challenge: India

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Underlining that there can be no distinction between good terrorism and bad terrorism, India has said online radicalisation continues to pose a significant challenge to global security.  Heading the Indian delegation at the recently-concluded 19th Interpol Conference of Heads of National...
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Injustice: Rahul's Wayanad opponent on Raebareli move

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After Congress leader Rahul Gandhi filed his nomination from Uttar Pradesh's Raebareli, his opponent in Kerala's Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency, CPI candidate, Annie Raja, said that it is an injustice to voters of Wayanad. Annie Raja said that it is about political morality and by not...
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Amit Shah fake video: Cong leader in 3-day police custody

Congress leader Arun Reddy/Courtesy X
Congress leader Arun Reddy/Courtesy X
Congress leader Arun Reddy, who handles the 'Spirit of Congress' X account and is the national coordinator for social media of the party, has been sent to three-day police custody in connection with Union Home Minister Amit Shah's doctored video case. After the IFSO unit of the Delhi police...
10:59

Will Rahul apologise to Dalits: Malviya after police report on Vemula's death

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BJP leader Amit Malviya/File image
Invoking the closure report filed by the Telangana police in the Rohith Vemula death case, absolving Union Minister Smriti Irani and three others; BJP leader Amit Malviya on Saturday said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi politicised the incident for political gains.  He also questioned if...
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Snake venom use: ED books YouTuber Elvish Yadav

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The Enforcement Directorate has filed a money laundering case against YouTuber Siddharth Yadav alias Elvish Yadav and some others under the charge of suspected use of snake venom as a recreational drug in parties he hosted, official sources said Saturday. The central agency has pressed...
10:25

AAP campaign song gets poll body approval

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The Delhi chief electoral officer's office has approved Aam Aadmi Party's Lok Sabha elections campaign song after the party made modifications to it, officials said on Friday.AAP MLA Dilip Pandey, who penned and voiced the song, confirmed that the song has been approved.The party had claimed on...
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Child killed, 5 injured as fire breaks out in Maha house

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A 3-year-old child was killed and five were injured after a fire broke out in a house in Maharashtra's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, an official said on Saturday.The incident took place around 8.30 pm on Friday at Sharif Colony in the Kiradpura area of the city.Forensic teams deployed by the police...
09:49

Modi to address election rallies in Odisha on Monday

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president JP Nadda are scheduled to visit Odisha over the next few days to campaign for the simultaneous Lok Sabha and assembly elections. Modi is slated to address two political rallies in Berhampur and Nabarangpur Lok Sabha constituencies on Monday, a...
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Canadian politician alleges India hand in Nijjar killing

Hardeep Singh Nijjar/File image
Hardeep Singh Nijjar/File image
Canada's New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh has again alleged an Indian government hand in the killing of India-designated terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar despite police personnel not giving any evidence of any link to India's involvement in the killing of Nijjar.  Jagmeet Singh's...
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98 polling booths of Daman to be videographed, livestreamed

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To ensure free, fair and transparent elections, all 98 polling booths in Daman will be videograped, and livestreaming will be broadcast to the Election Commission of India and collector office in the district, Daman's deputy collector Priyanshu Singh said on Friday.  Daman's deputy...
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ED conducts raids at several locations in Maha in Rs 100-cr ponzi scam

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The Directorate of Enforcement conducted search operations at several locations in Pune, Nashik, and Kolhapur on Thursday in connection with the Ponzi schemes and illegal forex trading platforms operated by businessman Vinod Tukaram Khute, his family members, and associates from Dubai, according...
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UK ex-PM Boris Johnson turned away from polling station for forgetting ID

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Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was turned away from a polling station during the United Kingdom's local elections due to his forgetfulness regarding ID, a requirement he himself had introduced while in office, CNN reported.  Polling station officials had to refuse Johnson's...
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Vemula suicide: Family to challenge police's closure report

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Rohith Vemula/File image
The family of University of Hyderabad student Rohith Vemula on Friday said it will legally contest the Telangana police's closure report in his 2016 suicide case. His brother Raja Vemula claimed the district collector has to decide on the family's SC status, prompting the police to say that...
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Air India to restart Delhi-Tel Aviv flights on May 16

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Air India on Friday said it will resume flight services between Delhi and Tel Aviv on May 16. The airline has temporarily suspended flights to and from Tel Aviv amid tensions in the Middle East. In a post on X, Air India said it will resume services between Delhi and Tel Aviv with five...
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Angered by Raj woman's love marriage, her family cut off husband's nose

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Family members of a woman, angered by her love marriage to a man, allegedly thrashed her husband and cut off his nose on Pali-Jodhpur highway in Rajasthan, the police said on Friday. The woman's family allegedly took the couple in their car, thrashed the man near Jhanwar village and...
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Rebel Uddhav Sena candidate files nomination in Nashik

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Shiv Sena-UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray/File image
In a setback for Shiv Sena-UBT, its district chief Vijay Karanjkar on Friday filed nomination as an independent candidate for the Nashik Lok Sabha constituency in north Maharashtra. Friday was the last day of filing nominations. Karanjkar was disgruntled after the Uddhav Thackeray-led party...
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Tesla sues Indian firm for trademark breach; HC issues notice

esla Motors CEO Elon Musk/Stephen Lam/Reuters
esla Motors CEO Elon Musk/Stephen Lam/Reuters
Elon Musk's carmaker Tesla Inc. has filed a suit against an Indian battery maker for alleged infringement of trademark and unfair trade competition by using the brand name Tesla Power to promote its products. The suit seeks an injunction and damages against the company. Elon Musk's...