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Bharatiya Janata Party leader Varun Gandhi on Thursday addressed his first rally in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls in support of Maneka Gandhi, and said his mother has a close connection with the people of her Sultanpur constituency. Elections are going on everywhere in the country...but there is...
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Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait
Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait appealed to people on Thursday to vote for those candidates who are capable of defeating the ruling BJP's nominees in the two final phases of the Lok Sabha polls on May 25 and June 1. The national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, which is part of the...
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Local authorities on Thursday pulled down the house of a man, accused of raping an 11-year-old girl in Sendhwa town of Madhya Pradesh's Barwani district, after they found that it was built on encroached land, an official said. In a similar action in Burhanpur, located around 170 km from Sendhwa,...
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Air India on Thursday announced annual salary increments for its staff, and also introduced an annual target performance bonus for pilots, according to sources. This is the first appraisal process after Tata Group took over the loss-making airline a little over two years ago. On Thursday, Air...
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Internet major Google will partner with Foxconn to produce its ultra-premium Pixel smartphones for the first time in Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister MK Stalin said on Thursday. According to sources, Google's partnership with Foxconn is in addition to its plan to make Pixel smartphones at Dixon...
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Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, along with his wife Gauri Khan and kids Suhana and AbRam, returned to Mumbai on Thursday after being discharged from Ahmedabad's KD Hospital. Earlier in the day, his manager Pooja Dadlani shared a post on her X account giving health updates to Shah Rukh Khan...
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The Pune police on Thursday questioned the grandfather of a 17-year-old boy who allegedly crashed his high-end car into a motorbike killing two persons earlier this week. The accused teenager's friend and a driver who were accompanying him in the car during Sunday's fatal accident in Kalyani...
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday termed the tragic Komagata Maru incident as a dark chapter' in the country's history and asked Canadians to work together to build a better, fairer, and more inclusive country for everyone. One hundred and ten years ago, the steamship Komagata Maru...
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday claimed to have been taken for a ride, by his helicopter, while campaigning in adjoining Bihar. The Bharatiya Janata Party strongman addressed two back-to-back rallies in two constituencies of Bihar on the final day of campaign for sixth...
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Shiv Sena-UBT leader Abhishek Ghosalkar (right)
A bodyguard whose pistol was allegedly used in the murder of Shiv Sena-UBT leader Abhishek Ghosalkar has again sought bail from a sessions court in Mumbai, contending that the chargesheet filed in the case doesn't say that he hatched any conspiracy. This is the second bail attempt by Amarendra...
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Music director Ilaiyaraaja
Malayalam hit Manjummel Boys is the latest to receive a legal notice by legendary music director Ilaiyaraaja for unauthorised use of his hit song, Kanmani Anbodu from the film Gunaa. A sleeper hit, Manjummel Boys, produced by Soubin and Babu Shahir, and Shawn Anthony under Parava Films, is based...
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Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who was admitted to a private hospital in Ahmedabad after suffering from a heat stroke, was discharged from the facility on Thursday evening, a police official said. Khan has been discharged from the hospital this evening. He left for the airport from the...
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The blood samples collected from those who attended the rave party at a farmhouse in Bengaluru recently have revealed that 86 people, including a Telugu film actress, tested positive for narcotics, police sources said on Thursday. According to sources, a total of 103 people had participated in...
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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee greets during an election campaign, at Dum Dum/ANI Photo
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday walked for over 2 km in a colourful roadshow in support of Trinamool Congress candidate for Dumdum Lok Sabha seat, Saugata Roy. Banerjee, who was accompanied by Roy, the sitting Dumdum MP, and state minister Sujit Bose, waved at crowds as...
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Seven Maoists were killed in an encounter with security personnel in a forest along Narayanpur-Bijapur inter-district border in Chhattisgarh on Thursday, the police said. The gunfight broke out around 11 am when a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-Maoist operation and the...
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Bharatiya Janata Party MP Jayant Sinha, who was asked by the party to show cause for not taking part in campaigning, on Thursday said he was being unjustly targeted and the public notice amounted to demoralising dedicated workers like him. Replying to the showcause notice, Sinha said it was...
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The Pune police are on Thursday questioning the grandfather of the 17-year-old boy, who allegedly crashed his high-end car into a motorbike killing two persons in the city, an official said. The boy's grandfather was summoned by the police in connection with an offence registered against the...
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Five members of a family allegedly died by suicide in Thiruthangal near Sivakasi in the district on Thursday reportedly over huge debts, the police said.Their neighbours became suspicious when the family members did not step out of the house for a long time, and informed the police who rushed to...
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After uncle HD Kumaraswamy, former prime minister HD Deve Gowda has warned grandson and Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna to return to India and face probe over sexual abuse allegations. Prajwal should be given harshest punishment under law if found guilty,' said Deve Gowda. I will ensure there will be...
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Shah Rukh Khan is doing well, his manager Pooja Dadlani said on Thursday, a day after the Bollywood superstar was admitted to a hospital in Ahmedabad due to a heat stroke. Shah Rukh was on Wednesday admitted to multi-speciality KD Hospital in Ahmedabad, where he had attended the Indian Premier...
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At least three persons died after an explosion took place at a chemical factory in Maharashtra's Thane district on Thursday afternoon, officials said. A major fire broke out after a boiler exploded at Amudan Chemical Company located in Phase 2 of Dombivli MIDC area, near Mumbai, around 1.40...
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The voter turnout in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha polls held on May 20 has now climbed to 62.2 per cent, the Election Commission said on Thursday with women outnumbering men. According to an EC statement, 61.48 per cent of the registered male voters turned up at the polling stations as...
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Recounting her ordeal of May 13, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal on Thursday said that she was assaulted by Bibhav Kumar, personal aide of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal adding that she is not giving clean-chit to anyone.In an exclusive interview with ANI, AAP Rajya Sabha...
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Highlighting the dire situation in drought-affected regions, the Maharashtra Government has written a letter to the Election Commission requesting a relaxation in the code of conduct applied in the state during the Lok Sabha elections. Notably, this request for drought mitigation comes after...
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Two days before polling in Delhi, former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi Thursday said these are very important elections to save democracy and the Constitution, and urged the people here to play their part in this fight and make INDIA bloc candidates victorious on all seven seats. In a video...
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Sharpening his attack on the opposition's INDIA bloc, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday questioned the alliance's choice for Prime Minister if they succeed in getting a majority in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.Addressing a public meeting in Domariaganj Lok Sabha constituency today,...
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After Prime Minister Narendra Modi predicted a historic win for the BJP in the upcoming election and forecasted record highs for the stock markets on June 4, the benchmark Nifty index crossed the 22,800 mark for the first time during Thursday's session.The Nifty index reached a new high of...
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A cyclonic storm developing in the Bay of Bengal is likely to reach near the coasts of West Bengal and adjoining Bangladesh on May 26 as a severe cyclone, the Met department said on Thursday. In its wake, light to moderate rain in many areas with heavy rain at isolated places is likely to...
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Union Minister and BJP candidate from Amethi Lok Sabha seat Smriti Irani launched a scathing attack on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) following recent revelations in the Delhi High Court regarding corruption allegations against Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister, Manish Sisodia.The Delhi High Court on...
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BJP leader Varun Gandhi lent his support to his mother and party candidate, Maneka Gandhi, in the Sultanpur constituency, and spoke of the unique bond between the representative and the electorate. In our country, elections are being held in 543 constituencies. In many places, experienced and...
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Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal posts this image writing, I am waiting for the police with my parents and wife. Yesterday, the police called my parents and asked for time for interrogation. But they have not given any information yet whether they will come or not.
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Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal with his parents in 2021
AAP leader and Delhi minister Atishi raised concerns over the scheduled questioning of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's parents by the Delhi Police on Thursday, in connection with the Swati Maliwal assault case and questioned whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stooped so low as to persecute...
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Bangladesh MP Anwarul Azim Anar
The initial probe into the murder of Bangladesh MP Anwarul Azim Anar revealed that one of his friends had paid around Rs 5 crore to kill the neighbouring country's parliamentarian, a senior police officer said on Thursday. Anar, who went missing in Kolkata since May 13, was found murdered and...
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BJP Candidate and sitting MP from Sultanpur Maneka Gandhi voiced her desire to see her son, Feroze Varun Gandhi, happy amidst political upheavals.On being asked about the speculation surrounding Varun Gandhi's anti-BJP stance since 2019 and his exclusion from the BJP ticket list for the 2024 Lok...
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Prajwal Revanna fled to Germany in April
Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to cancel the Diplomatic Passport of JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna who is facing an SIT probe over the allegation of sexual harassment along with prompt and concerted actions to secure his return to India.Siddaramaiah...
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SRK at the KKR match in Ahmedabad
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, undergoing treatment at a hospital in Ahmedabad after suffering from a heat stroke, is likely to be discharged today, a police official said. The private hospital has not yet issued any statement on Khan's health condition. The actor was admitted to the...
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The PM campaigning for Prajwal Revanna
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) is processing a request of the Karnataka government seeking cancellation of the diplomatic passport of suspended Janata Dal (Secular) MP Prajwal Revanna, who is accused of sexually harassing several women. Official sources said that the MEA has received a...
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Crowds at rally by PM Modi in Delhi
Election cell of Delhi Police, Sanjay Sehrawat on Thursday said that 33,000 policemen of Delhi Police, 51 paramilitary companies, and 17,500 Home Guards who have come from Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, and Madhya Pradesh will be deployed in the national capital in view of the Lok Sabha polls to be...
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The Goa airport
Six flights have been diverted after lightning struck the Manohar International Airport (MIA) in Goa and caused damage to the runway edge lights, an official said. Lightning struck the airport, located at Mopa in North Goa, at around 5.15 pm on Wednesday, a spokesperson of the MIA said in a...
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Inside a US ally's secret war on its American critics. A foreign government is trying to silence US critics of its authoritarian turn -- and it's succeeding. Read more here.
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Taking a swipe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, former party leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam called him a Mahapurush and said that the former is finishing off Congress and fulfilling his responsibility.Krishnam said that the Congress will win the least number of seats in the ongoing Lok Sabha...
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Farmers have assembled at Shambhu and other border points to mark the completion of 100 days of the ongoing protest to press the Centre to accept their demands, which includes a legal guarantee of MSP for crops. The farmers are camping at the Shambhu and Khanauri border points since February...
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An 11-year-old boy drowned in a swimming pool run by the wives of two police officers in outer-north Delhi's Alipur area, police have said. Family members of the boy alleged foul play in the incident and held a protest outside Alipur Police Station on Wednesday, police said.Investigations so...
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Ripudaman Singh Malik
The Royal Canadian Mount Police (RCMP) has issued a warning to Hardeep Malik, the son of Ripudaman Singh Malik, who was acquitted in connection with the Air India bombing of 1985.Hardeep Malik, a Surrey-based businessman, received an official letter cautioning him about potential threats to his...
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Former Union Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party MP Jayant Sinha on Wednesday said that he was surprised to receive the BJP's show cause notice asking him why he didn't vote in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections and did not take part in election campaigning.In response to BJP's Jharkhand general...
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Former Republican Party presidential candidate Nikki Haley said on Wednesday she will vote for former United States President Donald Trump over President Joe Biden in November. In her remarks at the Hudson Institute, Haley stated she prioritises a president who will hold enemies to account,...
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Kanhaiya Kumar
A court in Delhi has granted bail to the 41-year-old man arrested for allegedly assaulting and splashing Congress Lok Sabha candidate Kanhaiya Kumar with ink, saying it has to balance the state's interest of maintaining public order with the accused's right to personal liberty. On May 17, when...
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A day after a person was killed and two others were injured in post-poll violence in Bihar's Saran district, the police on Wednesday conducted flag marches in several areas of the district to maintain law and order. Speaking to PTI on Wednesday, Saran DM Aman Samir said, Security personnel are...
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As cricket fans are eagerly waiting to witness the thrilling finale of Indian Premier League 2024 adding to the excitement and musical touch renowned international music band Imagine Dragons are all ready to set the stage on fire with their electrifying performances. Dan Reynolds and his band...
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Four people were killed as torrential rains lashed several parts of Kerala, with the India meteorological department on Wednesday sounding a red alert in five districts that were likely to receive heavy rainfall. According to the weather department, the red alert was issued for Pathanamthitta,...
