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Elaborate safety arrangements, which may inconvenience visitors, are in place in Parliament to ensure that incidents such as last year's security breach do not recur, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said on Tuesday. Two persons had jumped into the Lok Sabha chamber on December 13 and released smoke...
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The Gujarat police have arrested one more partner of the Rajkot-based TRP game zone where a devastating fire last week killed 27 persons, an official said on Tuesday. The arrested accused, Dhaval Thakkar, is the proprietor of Dhaval Corporation, which ran the TRP game zone along with five...
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The National Investigation Agency on Tuesday arrested a wanted accused involved in trafficking of Bangladeshi nationals and Rohingyas into India through the north-eastern borders. Jalil Miah, a resident of the north-eastern state of Tripura, has been arrested by the NIA team, an official...
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Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar on Tuesday unreservedly apologised for mistakenly using the word 'alleged' for the Chinese invasion in 1962. According to a purported video of an event at the Foreign Correspondents Club this evening, Aiyar while narrating an anecdote said, ...In October 1962,...
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The department of telecom has allocated a separate 10-digit numbering series starting with 160 for service and transactional calls made by government, regulators and financial entities, according to an office memorandum issued on Tuesday. The 10-digit number series has been designed by the DoT in...
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar/File image/ANI Photo
Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday predicted yet another volte-face by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, claiming that the Janata Dal-United president would take a big decision once Lok Sabha poll results were out. Talking to reporters, Yadav, who had lost his job as deputy CM...
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The Kota police tied up with Meta to identify students exhibiting suicidal tendencies on the company's social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram, allowing for their timely intervention. Since the collaboration a week back, the police claim they have already prevented a student from Jhunjhunu...
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Malayalam film director Omar Lulu/Courtesy Facebook
The Kerala police registered a rape case against Malayalam film director Omar Lulu based on a complaint filed by a woman. An officer of the Ernakulam Rural police said on Tuesday that an investigation has been launched after registering an FIR against the director based on the complaint of the...
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Seven wagons of a goods train derailed at Palghar railway station in Maharashtra on Tuesday evening, affecting the traffic of Mumbai-bound trains coming from Gujarat, a railway spokesperson said in Mumbai. The incident took place around 5.10 pm and no casualties were reported, he said. Efforts...
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Payal Kapadia with her Grand Prix award, May 25, 2024/Sarah Meyssonnier/Reuters
Actor-politician Gajendra Chauhan on Tuesday extended congratulations to Cannes winner Payal Kapadia, saying he is proud of the filmmaker who studied at the institute when he served as its chairman. Last week, Kapadia became the first Indian filmmaker to win the Grand Prix award, the second...
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The Special Investigation Team probing charges of sexual abuse against Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, on Tuesday arrested two people who had allegedly distributed pen drives containing explicit videos of the said abuse of several women allegedly perpetrated by the Janata Dal-Secular leader. According...
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Suspended TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh/File image
The Central Bureau of Investigation has charged suspended Trinamool Congress leader Shahjahan Sheikh, his brother and five others with criminal conspiracy and attempt to murder in connection with a mob attack on an Enforcement Directorate team in Sandeshkhali on January 5, officials said on...
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Heat conditions intensified in Rajasthan, with Churu recording the highest temperature at 50.5 degrees Celsius, 7.5 degrees above normal and the highest of the season, the local weather office said on Tuesday. According to the Meteorological Centre, Jaipur, Churu saw its highest temperature at...
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar (second from left)
A court in Delhi on Tuesday granted three days to Delhi police for custodial interrogation of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar, who has been accused of assaulting AAP Rajya Sabha member Swati Maliwal. Maliwal was allegedly assaulted at the chief minister's official residence on...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday said the second phase of the coastal road between Worli and Marine Drive will be opened by June 10. Shinde also inspected a leakage at the southbound tunnel at Marine Drive end, which is a part of the first phase of the coastal road inaugurated...
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Telangana deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka/ANI Photo
An unidentified person on Tuesday allegedly made a call stating that a bomb will explode at Praja Bhavan, the official residence of Telangana deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka in Hyderabad, prompting the police to carry out searches, official sources said. They said that an...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday held a roadshow in support of Trinamool Congress candidate Saugata Roy in Dum Dum Lok Sabha constituency near here. The TMC supremo walked from Birati Banik More to Airport gate number two on Jessore Road, a distance of nearly four kilometres,...
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AAP minister Atishi
Arvind Kejriwal posts on X saying, I had said earlier that they will arrest Atishi next. They are planning to do so now. Complete dictatorship. In completely flimsy, frivolous and false cases, they are arresting ALL leaders of AAP one by one. Every single opposition leader will be arrested if...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday flayed the TMC government in West Bengal for snatching the rights of OBC youths to facilitate its appeasement politics and vote jihad. Addressing an election rally in Barasat, Modi, without naming West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, criticised her...
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A Pune court on Tuesday remanded the father of a juvenile allegedly involved in the Porsche car crash in police custody till May 31 in a case of alleged kidnapping and wrongful confinement of the family driver. The court also extended the police custody of the juvenile's grandfather till May 31...
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Shraddha Walkar
The Delhi police have filed a supplementary chargesheet containing more digital and forensic evidence reports to nail Aaftab Amin Poonawala, who stands accused of killing his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar and dismembering her body, court sources said on Tuesday. The nearly 3,000-page...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Monday that an INDIA bloc government will end the 50 per cent cap on reservation while asserting that the alliance will protect the Constitution with dil, jaan aur khoon.Addressing an election rally in Uttar Pradesh's Bansgaon with Samajwadi Party chief...
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A Delhi court on Tuesday dismissed the bail plea of former JNU student Umar Khalid who is accused in the alleged larger conspiracy behind the 2020 northeast Delhi communal riots. Khalid has been booked under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). Additional Sessions Judge...
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PFI is a banned organisation
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea by former Popular Front of India (PFI) Chairman E Abubacker seeking his release in the UAPA case being probed by the NIA. Abubacker, who was arrested by the anti-terror agency during a massive crackdown on the banned organisation in 2022 and is...
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The clashes happened over throwing gulal
A case has been registered against 25 persons after two groups clashed over a petty issue during a religious procession in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Tuesday. No arrests have been made in connection with the incident that occurred in Saravali village in Bhiwandi on Monday night,...
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Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi on Tuesday came out strongly against PM Modi over the '400 paar' slogan and said that earlier he used to speak about it but now he doesn't, adding that his mind keeps on changing. Earlier, he used to speak but now he doesn't speak. His mind keeps changing. What I...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday asserted that Naveen Patnaik will become former CM of Odisha after June 4, exuding confidence about the BJP forming the next government in the state by securing more than 75 seats in the 147-member assembly. Shah, addressing an election rally at Chandbali...
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Claiming that the tribal population was decreasing in the Santhal Parganas because of infiltration, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday accused the JMM-led ruling alliance in Jharkhand of patronising infiltrators, who he said were grabbing land and putting women at risk. Addressing an...
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Shahjahan Sheikh
The CBI has filed a charge sheet against suspended TMC leader Shahajahan Sheikh and six others in connection with the January 5 attack on an Enforcement Directorate team at Sandeshkhali, officials said on Tuesday. The agency filed its first charge sheet in the case on Monday before a special...
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A sessions court in Mumbai on Tuesday sentenced two former staffers of a salon chain to life imprisonment for killing their 28-year-old colleague Kriti Vyas in 2018. The body of Vyas has not yet been found. Additional sessions judge M G Deshpande on Monday held Siddhesh Tamhankar and his female...
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The income tax department on Tuesday asked taxpayers to link PAN with Aadhaar by May 31 to avoid tax deduction at a higher rate. As per income tax rules, if a Permanent Account Number (PAN) is not linked with biometric Aadhaar, TDS is required to be deducted at double the applicable rate....
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to allow an urgent hearing of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's plea for the extension of his interim bail by seven days on medical grounds in the Delhi excise policy case.The vacation bench of Justices JK Maheshwari and KV Viswanathan said the Chief...
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The Chief Justice of India will take a decision on the urgent listing of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's plea seeking extension of his interim bail by seven days for undergoing medical tests as the verdict in the main case is already reserved, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday. Refusing...
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Rejecting opposition allegations about the misuse of probe agencies against them, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the government has a zero-tolerance towards corruption and that it is better if these people read the Constitution, read the law of the country.In an exclusive interview with...
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At the end of the second season, two major events took place, Abhishek was transferred by the vengeful MLA, Chandrakishore Singh (Pankaj Jha), and Prahlad's soldier son was killed at the battlefront, which was a surprisingly tragic turn for the usually sunny series to take.Season 3 picks up from...
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Punjab and Haryana High Court acquits Dera Sacha Sauda Chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and others in the murder of Dera manager Ranjit Singh.Earlier in 2021, a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court had convicted Ram Rahim and other defendants in the case, sentencing them to life...
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If the Congress reached 90, it would have a pretty good chance of holding the BJP below the 272 mark, argues Shekhar Gupta. Read the column here.
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Taking on the opposition parties, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said they believe that they have the right to abuse and that he has become gaali-proof after being continuously abused for the last 24 years. In an exclusive interview with ANI, PM Modi said opposition parties have become so...
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With just days to go before the election process for the Lok Sabha ends, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed confidence that the BJP will emerge as the biggest gainer in West Bengal. He said the Lok Sabha election in the state is one-sided and Trinamool Congress leaders are frustrated. In...
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The site of the blast at the plant in Dombivli
Maharashtra Labour Minister Suresh Khade has said the blast in a chemical factory at Dombivli in Thane district last week occurred in a reactor and not a boiler. An expert team from New Delhi will conduct a probe to ascertain the exact cause of the blast, Khade told reporters after visiting the...
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Rescue ops in another stone quarry in Mizoram a few years ago
Five people died and several others were missing as a stone quarry collapsed in Mizoram's Aizawl district amid incessant rains on Tuesday morning, police said. The incident happened around 6 am in an area between Melthum and Hlimen on the southern outskirts of the Aizawl town, they said. Five...
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Prajwal Revanna released a video yesterday
Bhavani Revanna, mother of Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, who is accused in the obscene video case, has filed an anticipatory bail in the kidnapping case in which her husband was earlier arrested. Bhavani has moved Karnataka High Court seeking relief from arrest by SIT. SIT has filed a case...
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This is the second major car incident in Pune after the Porsche one
Police have detained a man after he allegedly tried to kill a person by hitting him with his car in the early hours of Tuesday in Maharashtra's Pune district, police said. The incident took place at around 1 am in Pimpri area after the accused found the victim was talking to the former's...
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The Maharashtra government has set up a three-member committee following the arrest of two doctors and an employee of Pune-based Sassoon General Hospital in connection with the alleged manipulation of the blood sample of the juvenile driver involved in the Porsche car crash.Medical Education...
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A Varanasi-bound IndiGo flight received a bomb threat at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on Tuesday morning, prompting authorities to evacuate its passengers and launch a search operation, officials said. They said the threat was received around 5.30 am when the flight was...
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Maharashtra minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party leader Chhagan Bhujbal on Monday demanded that his party be given 80-90 seats to contest in the assembly elections due this year.Bharatiya Janata Party is the largest party and will contest in more seats, said Deputy Chief Minister...
