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A group of tourists from Hyderabad drove into a stream swollen with water near Kuruppanthara in this south Kerala district, apparently after using Google maps, police claimed on Saturday.The incident occurred late Friday night when the four-member group, including a woman, was going towards...
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A team of the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police will visit India to investigate the brutal killing of Bangladeshi lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar, who was found murdered in Kolkata earlier this week.Mohammad Harun-or-Rashid, chief of the Detective Branch, told a press conference...
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Police have booked a priest of a temple for allegedly putting up a camera over a roofless women's bathroom in Ghaziabad, police said on Saturday. According to police, the said temple is located adjacent to the Muradnagar Ganga canal. People usually offer prayers...
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At least 16 persons, including children, were killed and three others injured in a massive fire that broke out in a crowded game zone in Gujarat's Rajkot city on Saturday evening, police said.Rescue operations are underway at the affected TRP game zone and officials feared the count of casualties...
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Six persons including four women suffered minor injuries in a clash between supporters of two candidates outside a polling station in Mendhar sub-division in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Saturday, officials said. However, the voting at the polling station in the Shahpur sector...
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The Election Commission on Saturday came out with Lok Sabha constituency-wise data on the number of votes cast in the first five phases of the elections and asserted that there is a pattern in creating false narratives and mischievous design to vitiate the electoral process.It said that any...
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A court in Maharashtra's Thane district on Saturday remanded in police custody till May 29 the owner of the chemical factory in Dombivli where an explosion killed nine persons and injured more than 60.The accused, Malay Mehta (38), owner of Amudan Chemicals, was produced before the magistrate...
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Welcoming the Supreme Court's decision to not pass any direction on a plea seeking the uploading of Form 17C data, the Election Commission of India on Saturday said that nobody can change data of votes polled, shared on poll day with polling agents of all candidates through Form 17C.The poll body...
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The Congress and the Samajwadi Party Saturday alleged that SP's Ambedkar Nagar Lok Sabha constituency candidate Lalji Verma has been put under house arrest at the behest of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.Polling is underway in Ambedkar Nagar in the sixth phase of elections.The district...
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A tribal woman from Tripura's Dhalai district, grappling with dire poverty following her husband's death five months ago, sold her newborn for Rs 5,000, an official said on Saturday.The four-day-old girl was fortunately rescued from a couple in Hezamara, West Tripura district, and reunited with...
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A senior citizen died on the spot after she was allegedly knocked down by a speeding car inside a civic hospital in central Mumbai, a police official said on Saturday. The accident occurred on the premises of Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital, also known as Sion hospital, on Friday night,...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday vowed to thwart alleged attempts to rob Dalits and backward classes of reservations by the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) which he accused of 'enslavement' and performing 'mujra' for Muslim vote bank.The PM launched the blistering...
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President Droupadi Murmu cast her vote at an all-women polling booth in New Delhi constituency in New Delhi on Saturday in the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha polls, officials said.Murmu reached the booth, which was decorated in pink and white colours, inside the President's Estate, around 9 am,...
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People's Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday staged a protest outside a police station in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district, where polling is underway in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections, against alleged detention of her party workers and polling agents.She also...
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The ongoing spell of heavy rains in Kerala has affected normal life, with scores of houses suffering damage, roads being submerged, trees uprooted, flood water entering houses and trains running late as a result of the steady downpour that continued to lash the state on Saturday.Flood water...
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A deep depression over the Bay of Bengal is likely to concentrate into a cyclonic storm by Saturday evening and make landfall on May 26 night along the adjoining coasts of West Bengal and Bangladesh, the Met office said.The cyclone is likely to make landfall with a wind speed of 110-120 km per...
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Police and local people throng outside the factory after blast/ANI on X
Six persons were injured in a blast at an explosives manufacturing factory in Chhattisgarh's Bemetara district on Saturday, officials said. The explosion occurred in the unit located near...
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Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar and his wife Sudesh cast their votes in the Lok Sabha elections on Saturday. Dhankhar reached the polling station at the CPWD service centre in Delhi's North Avenue to exercise his franchise. He and his wife stood in queue and awaited their turn before casting...
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Voters line up to cast their votes outside a polling station in Sonipat, Haryana, May 25, 2024. Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters
Haryana recorded a voter turnout of 8.31 percent in the first two hours of polling for its 10 Lok Sabha constituencies. Polling is also underway for the bypoll to the Karnal assembly seat where Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini is in the fray. The bypoll was necessitated by his...
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West Bengal registered a voter turnout of 16.54 percent till 9 am in the eight Lok Sabha constituencies that went to polls in the sixth phase on Saturday, an official said. Polling began at 7 am in Tamluk, Kanthi, Ghatal, Jhargram, Medinipur, Purulia, Bankura and Bishnupur...
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Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra wait outside a polling booth in New Delhi/ANI on X
Senior Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi cast their votes in New Delhi constituency in the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha elections on Saturday. They reached the polling station set up at Nirman Bhawan around 9.30 am. The Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party, constituents of the...
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A police station was vandalised in Channagiri town in the district and several vehicles were set on fire by a violent mob over an alleged custodial death, during the small hours of Saturday. Adil (30) was detained on May 24 for his alleged involvement in gambling activities in the district,...
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President Droupadi Murmu cast her vote in the New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency on Saturday, officials said. Murmu reached the polling booth at Dr Rajendra Prasad Kendriya Vidyalaya, inside the President's Estate, around 9 am, they said. After voting, Murmu held up her inked finger as she...
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The grandfather of the 17-year-old minor who allegedly fatally knocked down two persons with his Porsche in Pune city has been arrested for wrongful confinement' of their family driver, an official said on Saturday. The teenager's father Vishal Agarwal has also been named in this case, he...
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Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik's sculpture with 500-kg mangoes on voting awareness/Courtesy X
Renowned sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has created a sculpture using 500 kg of mangoes at Puri beach, with an appeal to voters to exercise their franchise in the ongoing elections. Pattnaik created the sculpture on a 2,000 sq ft area with texts on sand that reads Chunav ka Parv Desh ka Garv'...
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Four students, including two women, of a medical college in Ahmedabad have been suspended for allegedly ragging juniors, an official has said. The college, located in the Maninagar area of the city, is run by AMC Medical Education Trust, an entity of the Ahmedabad Municipal...
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PDP president Mehbooba Mufti/Umar Ganie for Rediff.com
People's Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday claimed that outgoing calls on her mobile number have been suspended without any explanation. I am not able to make any calls since morning. There is no explanation for this sudden suspension of services on the day of polling in...
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge urged people to cast their ballot in the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha polls on Saturday and vote against the politics of hatred, rhetoric and distraction. Kharge said that in the last five phases, the dictatorial forces were deeply shaken. Voting is...
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Tension gripped Katol town in Maharashtra's Nagpur district, around 40 km from Nagpur, following the arrest of a leader of Peasants and Workers Party on Friday after he allegedly called for social boycott of a particular community after the death of a woman, the police said. The PWP leader,...
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People's Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti alleged on Friday that the polling agents and workers of her party are being asked to report to police stations ahead of the voting for the Lok Sabha polls on Saturday. Mufti is contesting the election from the Anantnag-Rajouri seat, which...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked people on Saturday to vote in large numbers in the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha election, saying every vote counts. Democracy thrives when people are engaged and active in the electoral process, he said in a post on 'X'. I urge all those who are voting...
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BJP East Delhi MP and ex-cricketer Gautam Gambhir after casting his vote at a booth in New Delhi/ANI on X
Voting for the sixth phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections began on Saturday morning across 58 parliamentary constituencies spread over six states and two Union Territories amid tight security and arrangements. The voting started at 7 am and will continue until 6 pm, with those in...
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Passengers of a San Francisco-bound Air India flight from the city had a tough time on Friday as they had to wait inside the aircraft for more than five hours. The flight was later rescheduled for Saturday. An airline official said the Boeing 777 plane, which was scheduled to take off...
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As many as 27 youngsters from Visakhapatnam and its vicinity who were trafficked to Cambodia reached here on Friday, said a top police official. Visakhapatnam joint commissioner of police Fakkeerappa Kaginelli said a batch of 10 returnees arrived at the port city's airport at 5.30 pm and another...
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The helicopter after hard-landing in Kedarnath, Uttarakhand/ANI Photo
Six Kedarnath pilgrims had a narrow escape Friday as their helicopter developed a technical snag that made it go into a tailspin before a hard-landing meters below the helipad in the mountainous region. Online videos showed the helicopter with six pilgrims from Tamil Nadu and a pilot onboard...
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The Andhra Pradesh police arrested four men on Friday for filming the alleged rape of a girl by a juvenile and circulating the video, the police said on Friday. The incident allegedly took place on May 15 but came to light recently, leading to the arrest of Bale Balasubrahmanyam (22),...
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