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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday expressed deep concern over reports regarding Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter flight and said India stands in solidarity with the Iranian people in this hour of distress. A helicopter carrying Raisi, the country's foreign minister and other...
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The Jammu and Kashmir election department has dismissed a government employee from services and suspended four others for violation of Model Code of Conduct, officials said on Sunday. The swift action against these employees of different departments of J&K has been initiated in response...
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Mercury soared to 47.5 degrees Celsius in Madhya Pradesh's Datia district, while Guna and Gwalior baked at 45.5 degrees on Sunday, an official from the India Meteorological Department said. IMD's Bhopal Centre meteorologist Prakash Dhawale said the maximum temperature was a notch less than...
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Gopi Thotakura, an entrepreneur and a pilot, on Sunday became the first Indian to venture into space as a tourist aboard Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin's NS-25 mission. Thotakura was selected as one of the six crew members for the NS-25 mission, making him the first Indian space...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will start his poll campaign in Punjab with his first rally in Patiala on Thursday, according to state Bharatiya Janata Party secretary.Punjab BJP general secretary Rakesh Rathour on Sunday said the prime minister will address three public rallies in the state on May...
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The Mumbai police control room received a bomb threat call in which the caller informed the cops that there would be a blast at McDonald's located in Dadar, the police said on Sunday. The police said the caller mentioned that while travelling in a bus, he overheard a conversation between two...
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More than 1,000 policemen in Mizoram were unable to cast their votes in the Lok Sabha polls held on April 19, officials of the state election department said.These personnel were deployed in other states for poll duty several days before April 19, the day when the northeastern state voted, they...
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The Kerala police, with the assistance of its Karnataka counterpart, have arrested a 29-year-old Congolese national, in connection with an international drug smuggling ring.Rengara Paul was apprehended in Madiwala, Bengaluru, by a team led by Ernakulam rural police chief Vaibhav Saxena and the...
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Two passengers and a sanitation staffer were injured after the head of a big drilling machine crashed into a moving train on the outskirts of Chhattisgarh's capital Raipur on Sunday, officials said. The incident took place around 10 am when the Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (Mumbai)-bound...
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The Telangana government will hold its cabinet meeting here on May 20 as the Election Commission has given its permission, after previously denying sanction for the meeting that was to be held on Saturday, official sources said. The meeting of the Council of Ministers will be...
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A government school teacher in Bihar has been arrested and sent to jail for allegedly telling children in his class nobody should vote for Modi, an official said on Sunday.According to Muzaffarpur SSP Rakesh Kumar, the teacher has been booked for violating the election model code of conduct,...
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A court in Pithoragarh has sentenced three people to six months' imprisonment for violating food safety standards in making Patanjali Elaichi Soanpapadi.Assistant prosecution officer Ritesh Verma said that Pithoragarh chief judicial magistrate Sanjay Singh on Saturday also imposed fines of Rs...
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Three men alleged to be overground workers of terrorists were detained under the Public Safety Act in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday.Terming the action necessary to maintain public order, police said the three men were were assessed to be posing a significant threat to the safety...
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The helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was involved in a hard landing on Sunday afternoon, The Jerusalem Post reported citing Iranian media. The details of the incident remain unknown as of now, however, initial reports suggest that the accident involved the...
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An advocate has stumbled upon a copy of an order pronounced by a court in Maharashtra's Thane 100 years ago in a case of theft of mangoes, providing a glimpse of the legal proceedings at that time.In the order dated July 5, 1924, the then magistrate TA Fernandes convicted four persons of mango...
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge
A day after he snubbed West Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury for questioning Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee's loyalty to the INDIA bloc, several posters and hoardings of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge were defaced with ink in front of the party's state headquarters...
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A forest fire that broke out three days ago in the 148th compartment of Dodaj village forests in Darhal block of Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir was set intentionally, according to a forest department official. However, with the unprecedented efforts of the department and various...
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A 37-year-old Central Industrial Security Force jawan hailing from neighbouring Karnataka died after the firearm he was carrying went off, the police said on Sunday.A probe has been initiated to ascertain whether the deceased Ravi Kiran shot himself or if the weapon went off by accident when he...
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Jailed radical preacher Amritpal Singh
Jailed radical preacher Amritpal Singh, who is contesting from the Khadoor Sahib seat in Punjab as an Independent candidate, has been allotted the poll symbol of 'mike'. He was among the 169 Independent contestants, out of total 328 candidates who have been allotted election symbols....
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More heavy rains in Afghanistan have triggered flash floods, raising the death toll to 47 in the country's north following weeks of devastating torrents that had already left hundreds dead and missing, a Taliban spokesman said Sunday.The new round of heavy rains and floods hit three districts in...
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Jhargram Bharatiya Janata Party MP Kunar Hembram joined the Trinamool Congress in the presence of party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee at an election meeting on Sunday. Soon after joining the TMC in West Bengal's Jhargram, Hembram said he will work for the development of the...
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Around 33,000 security personnel, including 102 companies of Central Armed Police Force and 66 platoons of Odisha Armed Police, have been deployed for the May 20 simultaneous Lok Sabha and assembly elections in the state. In the second phase, the fifth at the national level, five...
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Allegations of medical negligence continued to haunt the Government Medical College Hospital in Kozhikode, with a man lodging a complaint with the police on Sunday alleging that an implant meant for another patient was wrongly inserted into his broken hand. The fresh allegations...
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The India meteorological department on Sunday held out no immediate respite from the searing and scalding heatwave as it issued a red alert in Delhi informing that the temperatures can range between 28 to 44 degrees Celsius. Senior IMD scientist Naresh Kumar said that the current situation...
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A Delhi police team reached the official residence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal here on Sunday in connection with its investigation in the alleged assault on Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal, sources said. They said the police team collected electronic devices including CCTV...
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The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a petition challenging the enactment of three new laws that seek to overhaul India's penal codes claiming that they suffer from many defects and discrepancies. A vacation bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and Pankaj Mithal is likely to hear the...
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Rains continued to lash many parts of Tamil Nadu, as the regional weather office on Sunday forecast extremely heavy rain in Tenkasi, Tirunelveli and Theni districts. Jamunamarathur (Tiruvannamalai dt) and Pechiparai in Kanniyakumari received 12 cm and 10 cm rainfall, respectively, during the...
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Heroin worth Rs 105 crore has been recovered in Assam's Cachar district, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Sunday. The contraband weighing over 10 kg was being transported from a neighbouring state, he said. Massive drug haul of 105 cr. In a major crackdown on the drugs...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday asserted that Pakistan occupied Kashmir belongs to India, and we will take it back. Shah was addressing an election rally in Prayagraj to seek votes for BJP candidate Neeraj Tripathi. Farooq Abdullah and Mani Shankar Aiyar say give respect to...
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In a boost to the Bharatiya Janata Party in Odisha, Biju Janata Dal Nimapara MLA Samir Ranjan Dash on Sunday joined the saffron party after quitting the regional outfit.BJP Odisha unit president Manmohan Samal, party's Odisha in-charge Vijay Pal Singh Tomar and other leaders welcomed Dash at the...
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India Ratings and Research expects the country's GDP growth rate for the March quarter at 6.7 percent and around 6.9-7 percent for the 2023-24 fiscal, its principal economist Sunil Kumar Sinha said.The GDP numbers for the fourth quarter (January-March 2024) and the provisional estimates for the...
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A Delhi court allowed five-day custodial interrogation of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar in the Swati Maliwal assault case, sing the police remand was a necessity in the matter. Metropolitan magistrate Gaurav Goyal was hearing the application of Delhi police which was...
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Southwest monsoon, the lifeline of India's farm-based economy, on Sunday made its onset over the Nicobar Islands, the southernmost region of the country, the India meteorological department said in New Delhi. Southwest monsoon has advanced into some parts of the Maldives, and the Comorin...
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A day after a former panchayat official was shot dead by terrorists in South Kashmir's Shopian and a tourist couple from Rajasthan injured in a separate terror strike in Anantnag, former deputy chief minister of the erstwhile state, Kavinder Gupta, said on Sunday said the attack was aimed at...
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An elderly Dalit couple has been allegedly beaten up and made to wear garlands of shoes in Madhya Pradesh's Ashok Nagar district, police said on Sunday.The couple's son had allegedly been involved in an eve-teasing incident, they said.A case has been registered against 10 persons who were at...
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Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal, who has been accused by her party of being part of a conspiracy to frame Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a false case, on Sunday said her party colleagues once sought justice for Nirbhaya but today they are supporting a person accused of...
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Border Security Force foiled a gold smuggling attempt in West Tripura's Nischintapur area and arrested one person, an official said on Sunday.Based on specific inputs, BSF jawans laid a trap in different locations under the Nischintapur Border outpost on Saturday and observed the movement of two...
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As rains lashed many parts of Kerala, authorities on Sunday urged people, particularly those living in hilly and coastal areas, to exercise vigil. The meteorological department has issued red alerts for Pathanamthitta, Kottayam, and Idukki districts for Sunday and Monday, and sounded orange...
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A Trinamool Congress worker has been detained for allegedly molesting a minor girl in West Bengal's Sandeshkhali area, police said.According to the complaint lodged by the girl's mother, the accused 'somehow' entered their house on Friday night and molested the minor.The riverine Sandeshkhali...
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The Delhi Police has beefed up security at the Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters in New Delhi in view of a protest announced by Aam Aadmi Party's national convenor and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal there on Sunday, officials said.The traffic police has also issued an advisory in view of the...
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Security forces have launched a massive search operation after picking up movement of three suspicious persons, believed to be terrorists, near the International Border in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Sunday.A Special Police Officer (SPO) reported the movement of...
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A horse was injured and a few vehicles were damaged after a hoarding collapsed due to strong winds in Maharashtra's Pune city, police said.The billboard crashed to the ground between 5 pm and 6 pm on Saturday outside a wedding hall near Kavdi Pat toll booth on the Pune-Solapur Highway, an...
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An Air India Express flight from Bengaluru to Kochi made an emergency landing at Bengaluru after a fire was noticed in one of the engines, the Bangalore International Airport Limited said on Sunday.All the passengers and crew were evacuated and no one was injured, Air India Express said in a...
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A special court for MPs and MLAs in Bengaluru has issued an arrest warrant against Janata Dal-Secular MP Prajwal Revanna in the sexual assault case. The court issued the warrant in connection with the sexual assault case registered against Prajwal on Saturday in which his father and...
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