A suspected Maoist, who is an accused in the 2005 Venkatammanahalli massacre, was arrested by the police in Bengaluru on Wednesday. Kottagere Shankara was nabbed in a coordinated operation with the help of internal security division at Goripalya in Bengaluru, the police said. He was...
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Jamia Millia Islamia on Wednesday appointed Mohammad Shakeel as its officiating vice chancellor, hours after the Delhi high court quashed the appointment of Eqbal Hussain and directed the varsity to make a fresh appointment within one week. The high court quashed the appointment of Hussain...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday called the Calcutta high court decision of striking down the OBC status granted to '77 classes' in West Bengal since 2010 a 'tight slap' to the Opposition and alleged that the INDIA bloc's 'obsession with appeasement' has crossed every limit. The...
The Delhi high court on Wednesday permitted former BharatPe MD Ashneer Grover and his wife Madhuri Jain Grover to travel to the United States of America. They were stopped from boarding a flight in November 2023. A look out circular was issued by the Economic Offences Wing. They...
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America will send an Indian astronaut to the International Space Station by the end of the year, US envoy to India Eric Garcetti said on Wednesday. He said the NISAR project, a joint Earth-observing mission between US space agency NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation, is also...
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday said the law must take its own course in the alleged assault of Rajya Sabha member Swati Maliwal, as he refused to be drawn drawn into the row over the arrest of Arvind Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar in the matter. I do not want to get into...
British PM Rishi Sunak
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday ended frenzied speculation by announcing that the country's general election will be held on July 4. In an address from the lectern on the steps of 10 Downing Street on a rainy London evening, the country's first prime minister of Indian...
BJP's Pankaja Munde
BJP's Beed Lok Sabha candidate and former Maharashtra minister Pankaja Munde and the NCP (SP) nominee for the seat have been served notices over alleged irregularities in their poll expenses, an official said on Wednesday. District Election Officer and Collector Deepa Mudhol Munde issued the...
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The situation in Bishkek has returned to normal, the Indian embassy in the Kyrgyzstan capital said on Wednesday, days after mobs targeted foreigners in the city triggering concerns over Indian students there. Last week, India asked its students in Bishkek to stay indoors following the...
The crime branch wing of the Kerala police on Wednesday filed a charge sheet against Perumbavoor MLA and Congress leader Eldhose Kunnappilly in the case of rape of a woman. In the charge sheet filed before the Neyyattinkara Additional sessions court, the crime branch has also named two of...
Following an outcry, the Juvenile Justice Board here on Wednesday cancelled the bail granted to a 17-year-old youth allegedly involved in a car accident and remanded him to an observation home till June 5. The board had on Sunday granted bail to him hours after the accident in which two...
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The Mumbai civic body has set up an eight-member panel that includes experts from IIT Bombay for developing comprehensive guidelines concerning billboards and outdoor advertising in the city, an official said on Wednesday. The guidelines will balance the aesthetic, economic, and regulatory...
A special CBI court in Lucknow on Wednesday sentenced an IIT alumnus to life imprisonment in the murder of Mumbai-based fashion designer Adesh Bajpai in 2008. The probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation showed that Bajpai had come to Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh on August 10, 2008, to meet...
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The corporate affairs ministry on Wednesday slapped fines on Microsoft-owned LinkedIn India, Satya Nadella and eight other individuals for violation of the significant beneficial owner norms under the companies law. Nadella is the chief of Microsoft, which acquired the professional...
A final-year student of National Institute of technology, Hamirpur died after falling from the top of his rented house, the police said on Wednesday. The incident took place at Panyala village of the district in the early hours of Wednesday around 3 am when he was going to take a nap with...
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan was admitted to a hospital in Ahmedabad on Wednesday after suffering from a heat stroke, the police said. He was admitted to multi-speciality KD Hospital, they said. Khan was in Ahmedabad on Tuesday to attend an Indian Premier League match of his...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday asserted that she will not accept' the Calcutta high court order scrapping the Other Backward Class status of several classes in the state. Addressing a poll rally at Khardah under the Dumdum Lok Sabha constituency, Banerjee said the...
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The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has invited INDIA bloc leaders for an event to pay tributes to former Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi on his birth centenary on June 3 at the party office in Delhi, sources said on Wednesday. The event will take place a day before the announcement of...
Former Republican presidential candidate and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has purchased a minority stake in Buzzfeed, the digital publishing company that shut down its media outlet last year. Shares of the company skyrocketed more than 50% before the market open on Wednesday....
A man died in police custody here allegedly after being beaten by policemen, an officer said on Wednesday. Angry villagers gathered at the police post and set a sub-inspector's motorcycle on fire. The incident happened in a village under the Barhaj Police Station jurisdiction and police have...
The police arrested a man and detained two girls for allegedly killing a 52-year-old Mauritian national on a hill in Navi Mumbai's Belapur area, an official said on Wednesday. The victim, whom the accused had befriended, had been staying in Belapur with his son since the past few months and...
Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna
Janata Dal-Secular leader HD Kumaraswamy on Wednesday once again appealed to his nephew and Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, who is facing charges of sexually abusing women, to return from abroad and face the investigation. The former CM said there are no differences between his party and its...
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A bomb threat has been received by the North Block, which houses the home ministry, according to an official of the Delhi Fire Service. The threat was received through an email, according to the official.The DFS official said a dog squad and bomb disposal and detection teams along with...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the SP and the Congress will undo the work done by him, taking away houses built by the government, closing people's Jan Dhan accounts, cutting off their power connections and removing water taps. Stating that the INDI alliance is a...
The 'Lord Jagannath' remark made by BJP's Puri candidate Sambit Patra has hurt the faith of millions of people, Trinamool Congress leader Sagarika Ghose said on Wednesday, as she accused the ruling party of using religion for political gains. Patra on Monday had said that Odisha's most...
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Domestic air travel in India. How the figures hold up... See the image alongside.
The Reserve Bank on Wednesday approved the highest-ever dividend payout of Rs 2.11 lakh crore to the central government for 2023-24, a decision which will help better manage the fiscal deficit. The dividend or surplus transfer by the RBI to the Centre was Rs 87,416 crore for the...
Mt Everest
A British climber and a Sherpa mountaineer guide have been missing since Tuesday morning after they fell while returning to the lower camps after summiting Mount Everest, according to media reports on Wednesday. The victims have been identified as Daniel Paul Peterson from the UK and Pas...
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said Wednesday the Agniveer military recruitment scheme will be scrapped and thrown in the dustbin if the INDIA bloc comes to power, as he slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for turning Hindustan ke jawan into labourers. In his first election meeting in...
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge has rubbished Prime Minister Narendra Modi's charge that the Congress will run a bulldozer on the Ram temple if it comes to power, saying it is a complete lie and the party respects all sects, religions and honours everyone's faith. He also asserted that the...
The JD(S) on Wednesday complained to Karnataka DGP Alok Mohan against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for allegedly claiming that Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, who is facing charges of sexual abuse, has raped 400 women. In a complaint, H M Ramesh Gowda, a former MLC and party's Bengaluru...
The Election Commission on Wednesday asked the BJP and the Congress to desist from campaigning along caste, community, language, and religious lines, asserting that India' socio-cultural milieu cannot be made a casualty to elections. Nearly a month after it issued notice to BJP...
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The Congress on Wednesday attacked the Modi government over a media report that claimed that the Adani Group passed off low-quality coal as far more expensive cleaner fuel in transactions with a Tamil Nadu PSU, and said that a JPC will be set up within one month of an INDIA bloc government taking...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday took a swipe at Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over their claim of winning 79 seats in Uttar Pradesh and said that on June 4, the people of UP will wake them from their sleep. Both the 'Shehzadas' of Congress...
Veteran Bangladeshi MP Anwarul Azim Anar, who went missing in India, was found murdered in Kolkata and three people have been arrested, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan announced in Dhaka on Wednesday. Awami League MP Anwarul Azim Anar, who went missing in India, was murdered at a Kolkata...
Can Rahul Gandhi lead the country as a PM?
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday launched a blistering attack on the corrupt INDI alliance and said the opposition bloc doesn't have any leader who can become Prime Minister. While addressing a rally at Ghatal, Shah said the INDIA bloc leaders just want their dynasty to move ahead...
The banged up Porsche after the accident
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday asserted that the Pune police have taken every possible action on the rash driving case and there has been an attempt to politicise the incident by the opposition.There is an attempt to politicise the Pune case. The police acted...
Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik
Biju Janata Dal MLA Jyotiprakash Panigrahi on Wednesday resigned from the regional outfit. Panigrahi submitted his resignation letter to BJD president and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. I do hereby tender my resignation from the primary membership of Biju Janata Dal with...
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said that by repeatedly raising the issue of AAP MP Swati Maliwal, the BJP does not want to discuss the issues of unemployment and inflation and the law will take its course. His remarks came as the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is facing heat amid the ongoing Swati...
Shashi Tharoor takes a auto ride in Thiruvananthapuram
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor termed the BJP's 'Abki Baar 400 Paar' a complete fantasy and said due to the Balakot airstrike following the Pulwama terror attack before the 2019 general elections, the BJP maxed out in a number of states. He also said that the previous elections, which...
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BJP expels Bhojpuri film star Pawan Singh for contesting as an independent candidate against official NDA candidate in the Karakat seat. The Bhojpuri film star was expelled by the BJP from the party on Wednesday for anti-party activities.Two days ahead of PM Narendra Modi's election rally in...
The Congress on Wednesday raised questions over the big difference between the real time voter turnout data and the final figures released by the Election Commission, and said voters are worried over the strange goings-on in the poll body. Congress leader and head of media and...
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal
Delhi Cabinet Minister Atishi on Wednesday alleged the BJP has hatched a new conspiracy to target AAP and through its Haryana government has stopped water supply to the national capital. There was no immediate reaction from the BJP Or Haryana government. Addressing a press conference,...
The Porsche that was damaged in the crash
The 17-year-old boy, who allegedly crashed his high-end car into a motorbike killing two persons in Pune, was granted bail on a surety of Rs 7,500 and an assurance from his grandfather to keep him away from bad company, as per the order. The Porsche car, allegedly driven by the...
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After the deadly Singapore flight incident, which killed one person and injured many, Singapore Airlines CEO Goh Choon Phong shared a video message on Wednesday, apologising for the traumatic experience that everyone on board went through. Singapore Airlines CEO offered his deepest...
The interior of the SQ flight. Pic: Reuters
Of the 211 passengers onboard the Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight that took the life of a 77-year-old, three Indians were also on board the SQ321 flight, the airlines confirmed in a social media post. There were a total of 211 passengers and 18 crew on board SQ321. A Singapore...
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A woman allegedly killed her three-year-old daughter after a fight with her husband in Maharashtra's Nagpur city and roamed around 4 km on streets with the body before informing police about the incident, officials said on Wednesday. The incident took place on Monday evening in the...
The accused has been identified as Ankit Goyal
One person has been arrested on Wednesday for writing threatening graffiti against Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal inside the national capital's Rajiv Chowk and Patel Nagar metro stations, police said.According to the Delhi Police, the accused has been identified as Ankit Goyal (33). As per police...
Swati Maliwal
Delhi Minister Atishi claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is hatching a new conspiracy before the Lok Sabha polls in Delhi which she is going to reveal on Wednesday at 10 am.The BJP is hatching a new conspiracy before voting in Delhi...I will be revealing it today at 10 am, Atishi said...
Famine is widespread in Gaza
Amid high levels of hunger and acute shortage of food in Gaza, the United Nations has suspended food distribution in Rafah due to a lack of supplies and insecurity in the densely populated area, Voice of America (VOA) reported.Stephane Dujarric, a UN spokesperson on Tuesday, said, the...
Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar
Four Indian nationals accused of killing Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year in Surrey were ordered by a Canadian court to have no contact with several people in the community, as they made their first joint appearance before it in the case that has severely strained ties between...
An assistant teacher posted as a polling officer in Hamirpur for the Lok Sabha elections has been suspended for clicking a selfie inside the polling booth. Ashish Kumar Arya, an assistant teacher at Girls Primary School, Umri in Muskara Development Block in Hamirpur district in...
Ghatkopar hoarding collapse incident: One more person succumbs to his injuries during treatment. Death toll climbs to 17, says the BMC. The Mumbai Crime Branch has formed a six-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the Ghatkopar hoarding collapse incident, officials said on...
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Six persons, including two children, drowned after their boat capsised in the Ujani dam backwaters in Maharashtra's Pune district, officials said on Wednesday.The incident took place on Tuesday evening following strong winds and rains, they said.The victims included three men, a woman and two...
Samie Modak/Business StandardIndia's market capitalisation (mcap) hit the $5-trillion milestone on Tuesday, with the buoyant domestic markets adding $1 trillion in market value in under six months.This makes India the fifth country/region to join the exclusive $5-trillion m-cap club, alongside...
BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia
MyMandi, a grocery app startup of Mahanaaryaman Scindia, son of Union minister and BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia, has lodged a complaint of cheating against its own manager at Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh for allegedly embezzling funds, the police said. MyMandi app's account manager Utkarsh...
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The Tamil Nadu health department on Tuesday issued a notice to YouTuber and food vlogger Irfan for violating the PCPNDT Act, 1994, by revealing the sex of his unborn child in videos posted on his YouTube channel. Also, the department has asked the Tamil YouTuber to remove the videos about...
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Several parts of Maharashtra on Tuesday recorded temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius with Jalgaon clocking 45.2 degrees Celsius, the India Meteorological Department said. Santacruz and Colaba, the two meteorological observatories for suburbs and the island city of Mumbai respectively,...
The Maharashtra excise department on Tuesday sealed the two restaurants, where the 17-year-old boy involved in a fatal car crash was allegedly served liquor, on orders of the Pune district collectorate, said the local administration. The car, a Porsche, allegedly driven by the 17-year-old,...
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