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NC chief Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar Abdullah
The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Thursday allowed the National Conference to hold public rallies on May 12 in the Sopore police district, which is part of the Baramulla Lok Sabha seat that goes to polls on May 20. The move comes within hours of the NC vice-president and candidate for...
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In a diplomatic breakthrough, five of the Indian sailors on board an Israeli-linked vessel seized by Tehran were released on Thursday and have departed from Iran, the Indian embassy in Iran said. The Indian Embassy, while sharing details of their release, thanked the Iranian authorities for...
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A 23-year-old Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur alumnus allegedly committed suicide in his flat in Mahim in Mumbai, a police official said on Thursday. Rohan Kumar Jha, a IIT Kanpur graduate and an MBA, hanged himself from a ceiling fan in the kitchen of his flat near Sithladevi Temple...
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Eight people were injured, two of them severely, in an explosion on Thursday at a scrap dealer's shop in the Raipur area of the city, the police said. The blast occurred when a partially exploded mortar shell went off, Dehradun senior superintendent of police Ajai Singh said. The scrap...
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A court in Delhi has granted bail to former AAP councillor Tahir Husain in one of the 2020 Delhi riots cases, saying his role in it was remote in nature and he has already spent over three years in custody. Hussain will, however, continue to be behind bars as he is an accused in other...
21:46
PDP candidate Waheed Para/Courtesy X
The Jammu and Kashmir poll body has asked PDP candidate Waheed Para to explain his statement urging Kashmir's youngsters to consider the general elections as a referendum to send New Delhi a message, and asked him refrain from making utterances that may aggravate differences among...
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The Congress's West Bengal president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Thursday defended Sam Pitroda's racist comment by stating that India too has dark-skinned people akin to the N****es. The senior Congress leader and party's nominee from Baharampur Lok Sabha seat resonated with Pitroda who...
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The sessions court here on Thursday convicted Parvez Tak for the 2011 murder of his step-daughter and actor Laila Khan, her mother and Laila's four siblings. Tak was found guilty of murder and destruction of evidence among other offences under the Indian Penal Code. The court will hear...
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A man has been arrested in Bharuch district of Gujarat for allegedly spying for a Pakistani intelligence agency, police said on Thursday. Pravin Mishra, the accused, had allegedly collected highly confidential information about the Indian Armed Forces and defence-related R&D firms, said...
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A senior journalist and two former judges have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to participate in a public debate on the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. Former Editor of The Hindu newspaper N Ram, former Supreme Court judge Madan Lokur and former Delhi...
20:12
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Amid Lok Sabha polls, the Nashik unit chief of Shiv Sena-UBT Sudhakar Badgujar was on Thursday issued an externment notice by the police, an official said. He had refused to accept it at his home initially but later relented and also met deputy commissioner of police Monica Raut, the...
19:55
President Droupadi Murmu presents Padma Vibhushan to Vyjayantimala Bali/Courtesy Presiden of India on X
Yesteryear actor Vyjayanthimala Bali, Telugu star Konidela Chiranjeevi, the first woman judge of the Supreme Court late M Fathima Beevi and Bombay Samachar owner Hormusji N Cama were among the eminent persons conferred Padma awards by President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday. BJP leader O...
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A section of Air India Express cabin crew has decided to withdraw strike and join back for duty after the airline assured to look into all the issues raised by the cabin crew, sources said on Thursday. Besides, the airline has agreed to withdraw the termination letters issued to 25 cabin...
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A Bharatiya Janata Party leader in Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh was booked for allegedly taking his minor son to a polling booth in Berasia on May 7, making him press the EVM button and videoing the process, an official said on Thursday. Taking cognisance of the incident, Bhopal collector...
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The Pune police registered a case against a female engineering student from the city for allegedly clicking pictures of girls in her hostel and sharing them with her male friend, an official said on Thursday. The girl and her male friend have been booked for voyeurism, the official. The...
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The toll in a blaze at a fireworks-manufacturing unit in Sivakasi on Thursday rose to eight, with one more worker succumbing to his burns, the police said. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, who expressed condolences over the incident, directed the district authorities to provide...
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Temples under the Travancore Devaswom Board in Kerala on Thursday made a significant change to their offerings by discontinuing the use of Arali flowers (oleander) in their sacred rituals. This decision comes after concerns arose about the toxic nature of these flowers, which could harm...
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Karnataka MP Prajwal Revanna
No victim has come forward to register a complaint against Karnataka MP Prajwal Revanna, and one woman complainant who reached out to the women's body alleged that she was forced to register a fake complaint against the Janata Dal-Secular leader, the National Commission for Women said on...
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The Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotri temples of Uttarakhand will be opened for devotees on Friday after remaining closed during the winter season. The famous temples situated in the Garhwal Himalayas are closed with the onset of winter every year as they remain snowbound during the period...
17:25
KBK Infographics
Indian stock indices slumped sharply Thursday intraday after a broad sell-off in all sectoral indices. Sensex slipped 1,062 points to close at 72,404 points, and Nifty slipped 345 points to close at 21,957 points. Among sectors, almost all the major sectoral indices witnessed profit booking at...
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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday opposed in the Supreme Court the grant of interim bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a money-laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam, saying the right to campaign in elections is neither fundamental nor...
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TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday referred to Congress leader Sam Pitroda's recent remarks and said reducing people's identities to their appearances is shameful, regressive and racist. The Andhra Pradesh opposition leader said there is no place for such divisive and racist...
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Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday termed as an absolute lie Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks that her party will put a Babri lock on the Ram temple in Ayodhya if it is voted to power, saying court judgements will be honoured.Prime Minister Modi had recently stated at a rally...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday while addressing a public rally in Telangana's Bhongir, claimed that if BJP comes to power, it will increase the reservation of SC, ST, and OBC and will end the Muslim reservation. While appealing to the public, Amit Shah said, Congress wants to...
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The share of the Hindu population decreased by 7.82 per cent between 1950 and 2015 in India, while that of Muslims increased by 43.15 per cent, suggesting that there is a conducive environment in the country to foster diversity, said a recent working paper by the Economic Advisory Council to the...
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Narendra Modi performs puja
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen leader Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday responded to the report of the Economic Advisory Council to the PM (EAC-PM) and called it a report from Whatsapp University. Asked about the declining share of the Hindu population, Owaisi said, Forward me the...
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In the backdrop of a woman employee of Raj Bhavan leveling molestation charges against him, West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Thursday showed CCTV footage of the premises of May 2 to around 100 common people.Footage from two CCTV cameras at the main (north) gate from 5.30 pm of May 2 were...
13:20
Robert Vadra
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's husband Robert Vadra has rubbished Sam Pitroda's 'racist' remark and expressing surprise at how such an educated person could make these types of comments. Vadra also said that he completely disagreed with what the former Overseas India Congress...
12:58
On Tagore's birth anniversary on May 7, an interesting thread. Read it here.
12:37
Navneet Rana
Reacting to BJP leader Navneet Rana's 15-second lagenge remark, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen leader Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to give her one hour instead of 15 seconds and asserted they are not scared of the BJP leader.I tell Modi ji - give her 15...
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PM Modi at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya
Amit Malviya, Bhartiya Janata Party's in-charge of the National Information and Technology Department on Wednesday targeted the Congress party over the report of Economic Advisory Council to the PM (EAC-PM) and said that if the country is left to Congress, then there would be no country for...
11:33
The BJP's Rae Bareli candidate Dinesh Pratap Singh has accused the Gandhi family of harbouring hatred for Rae Bareli-Amethi, and asked why they did not field a local leader but opted for Priyanka Gandhi's clerk to contest the Lok Sabha polls from Amethi. Singh, who is taking on Rahul...
11:24
Weekly briefing by spokesperson of Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova. Question (translated from Russian): I want to quote The Washington Post: 'India is part of an expanding list of countries using tactics previously associated with China, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and...
11:01
TMC strongman Shahjahan Sheikh
The Trinamool Congress on Thursday lodged a complaint to the Election Commission against the Leader of Opposition in West Bengal, Suvendu Adhikari, and others over the Sandeshkhali issue.The TMC has filed a complaint after leaders confessed on camera that the Sandeshkhali rape accusations were...
10:58
Rupesh Chandra Chintakindi
An Indian student has been reported missing in Chicago since May 2. The Consulate General of India in Chicago said it was in touch with the police and Indian diaspora to locate/reestablish contact with Rupesh Chandra Chintakindi.In a post on X, the Consulate General of India in Chicago stated,...
10:38
PM Modi condoles the death of Moosa Raza. In a post, the PM said, Shri Moosa Raza Ji was a veteran bureaucrat who served in various positions at the state and Centre. I used to interact with him and found his perspectives on various issues to be insightful. Post retirement, he worked extensively...
10:03
Navneet Rana
Invoking a provocative statement by AIMIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi from 2013, BJP leader Navneet Rana issued a veiled warning to the Owaisi brothers in their stronghold Hyderabad on Wednesday.To the AIMIM leader's statement that they would take them all of '15 minutes' to balance out the...
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Journalist Ahmed Ali Fayyaz writes: Sad to hear that Mr Moosa Raza, retd IAS 1960, Gujarat cadre, who was Chief Secretary Jammu and Kashmir in 1989-90, has passed away in Chennai. He was 87. May his soul rest in peace. Moosa Raza was lastly the Chairman of the South Indian Educational Trust...
09:33
Air India Express has terminated at least 25 cabin crew members, a day after hundreds of employees reported sick and failed to report to work that led to disruptions to flight operations. According to sources within the airline, the management on Wednesday terminated cabin crew members...
08:50
Rubbishing the allegations by the United States on India for a foiled assassination plot against pro-Khalistan radical Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Washington, DC has not yet provided any reliable evidence of the involvement of Indian citizens in the...
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Maldives FM Moosa Zameer after reaching New Delhi (left)/ANI
Amid a diplomatic standoff, Maldives Foreign Minister Moosa Zameer on Wednesday arrived in New Delhi on an official visit to India to discuss bilateral ties between the two countries. During his visit, the two sides will discuss bilateral and regional issues and seek ways to provide...
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The updated approximate voter turnout figures for polling in the third phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections stands at 65.68 percent, the Election Commission said on Wednesday. The figures were retrieved at 10 pm on Wednesday, it said. The figures will continue to be updated by the...
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The Mumbai police on Wednesday issued a Look Out Circular against drug supplier Salim Dola in connection with a Rs 252 crore mephedrone seizure in Maharashtra's Sangli district, an official said. Dola, once a close aide of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim, was found to be the main drug...
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The Anti-Corruption Bureau of Maharashtra police registered an offence against officials of IT major Cognizant Technologies, Larsen & Toubro and unknown government officials in an alleged $7,70,00 bribery case. On April 19, the sessions court here had directed the ACB to investigate...
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Nine Maoists, including two women, hailing from Chhattisgarh surrendered before the Odisha police on Wednesday, a statement said. The formal surrender took place at Boudh before Southern Range inspector general of police J N Pankaj and Boudh superintendent of police Raj Prasad. The...
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