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The Karnataka high court on Thursday criticised the state government for permitting a protest against the Waqf (Amendment) Act while the matter is still under consideration by the Supreme Court. Justice M Nagaprasanna observed that allowing such a demonstration was inappropriate given the...
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The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday said it has taken possession of 60 rooms and a vacant piece of land of a resort, worth Rs 30 crore, in Tamil Nadu's Rameswaram town as part of a money-laundering probe against its promoters. The property belongs to Seven Hills Pamban Island Resort and...
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Days after diamantaire Mehul Choksi was arrested in Belgium, the CBI approached a court here seeking a Non-Bailable Warrant against him in another case where he and others are accused of cheating a Canara Bank-led consortium of Rs 55.27 crore. Choksi, a prime accused in the alleged...
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Five children were injured when an unclaimed bomb-like object exploded at Kaliachak in Malda district on Thursday, a senior police officer said.The five children -- aged between eight to 12 years -- were playing in the courtyard of an abandoned building in Dirganagar area under the jurisdiction...
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Bangladesh raised historically unresolved issues and sought a public apology from Pakistan over the 1971 atrocities as the two countries held their first foreign secretary-level talks in 15 years here on Thursday. Dhaka also asked Pakistan to pay $4.3 billion as its share from the combined...
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The police in Maharashtra's Jalna district on Thursday claimed to have solved the murder of a one-month-old girl with the arrest of her parents, who allegedly committed the act as they already had a daughter and did not want to raise another one. The child's body was found in a well...
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A special cabinet meeting that was convened to discuss the contentious Socio-Economic and Education Survey report, popularly known as 'caste census' in Karnataka on Thursday, ended without any major decision, official sources said. Minister Ramalinga Reddy, speaking to reporters after the...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been invited for the Victory Day celebrations in Moscow on May 9, but there has been no response from New Delhi, a top Kremlin aide said Thursday.On May 9, Russia celebrates victory in WWII over Nazi Germany and this year has invited leaders of select friendly...
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The West Bengal police arrested one of the masterminds behind the brutal murder of a father and son at Jaffarabad in Murshidabad district during violent anti-Waqf Act protests, taking the total number of arrests to three, a senior officer said on Thursday.Inzamul Haque, a resident of the...
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After the deputy commissioner's office in Mandi received a bomb threat email on Wednesday, Himachal Pradesh Chief Secretary Prabodh Saxena said on Thursday that a similar threat mail was sent to his office in Shimla on the same day.The email referred to the chief secretary's office located inside...
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In a recently-filed chargesheet in the Associated Journals Limited-Young Indian-National Herald money-laundering case, the Enforcement Directorate has sought confiscation of assets worth Rs 661 crore that it has attached during the course of the investigation, according to official...
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Heavy rain accompanied by thunderstorms and hailstorms lashed several parts of Himachal Pradesh, uprooting trees and disrupting power supply as several areas in Shimla remained without electricity for hours. Pine and other trees fell on the huts of the migrants due to heavy storm at night in...
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Heat wave conditions continued to affect normal life in Rajasthan where Bikaner recorded the highest temperature of the season at 45.1 degrees Celsius on Thursday. Barmer recorded 45 degrees Celsius, Jaisalmer and Phalodi 44.8 degrees Celsius, Churu and Chittorgarh 44.2 degrees Celsius,...
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An Indian official team is likely to visit Washington next week to iron out differences on certain issues before formally launching negotiations for the proposed India-US bilateral trade agreement (BTA), an official said. The visit, which comes within weeks of a high-level US team visiting...
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The rupee strengthened for the fourth consecutive session and closed 27 paise higher at 85.37 (provisional) against the US dollar on Thursday, hitting the April 3 closing level, on the back of foreign fund inflows in domestic equities and broad weakness in the greenback. The unit has pared...
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Maharashtra Navnirman Sena workers had a heated argument with members of a housing society in suburban Ghatkopar for allegedly insulting their Marathi-speaking neighbours for eating non-vegetarian food, prompting police to intervene. A video of workers of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena...
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Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty surged nearly 2 percent on Thursday, registering their fourth day of rally as investors turned buoyant after foreign investors returned to domestic equities amid expectations of a breakthrough in US-Japan trade negotiations over reciprocal tariffs. The...
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India on Thursday said there is a possibility of resumption of the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra soon and a public notice could be issued over it. India and China have been looking at resuming the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra as part of efforts to improve ties after the two countries completed...
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Acclaimed actors Anupam Kher and Kajol Devgn will be conferred the Maharashtra government's prestigious Raj Kapoor Film Awards for this year, state Cultural Affairs Minister Ashish Shelar announced on Thursday. Kher has been selected for the Raj Kapoor Lifetime Achievement Award, while Kajol...
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Indian Premier League cricket team Royal Challengers Bengaluru moved the Delhi high court on Thursday and accused an YouTube advertisement of disparaging its trademark. Justice Saurabh Banerjee, after hearing submissions of parties on Royal Challengers Bengaluru's interim plea for...
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Union Minister Nityanand Rai on Thursday said that Nitish Kumar will be the chief minister of NDA if it returns to power after the 2025 Bihar assembly elections.Nitish Kumar will be the CM of NDA after polls, Rai, a senior BJP leader, considered close to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, said.Rai's...
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sambit Patra on Thursday termed the National Herald money laundering case a robbery case, saying that Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi are modern dacoits. Addressing a press conference in Bhubaneswar, Patra attacked Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi...
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The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Thursday demanded imposition of President's rule in West Bengal over the recent communal violence in Murshidabad district in the state following protests against the new Waqf law. Addressing a press conference in Panaji, VHP general secretary Milind Parande...
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MNS chief Raj Thackeray posts an open letter on X on the imposition of Hindi in Maharashtra. He writes: According to the State School Curriculum Framework 2024, Hindi has been made mandatory in Maharashtra from the first grade itself. I state clearly that the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena will...
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India's covert support for pro-monarchy movements in Nepal reflects the BJP's broader Hindutva agenda, a dangerous mix of ideology and interventionism that undermines regional stability. Read the column here.
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In a suspected food-poisoning case, 31 students of different educational institutes were admitted to a government hospital in Maharashtra's Nanded city early on Thursday as they fell ill after consuming 'pani puri' at a roadside stall, officials said. The affected students belong to three...
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A senior faculty member of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) here has been dismissed over charges of sexual harassment involving a foreign researcher, an official said on Thursday. The alleged incident took place a few months ago during a university event, according to JNU sources....
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The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Centre to file its stand within a week in the challenge to Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 after it was assured by the union government that 'waqf by user' or 'waqf by deed' properties won't be denotified till the next hearing. A bench comprising Chief...
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A man was killed allegedly by his wife and her lover who later placed a venomous snake near his body to cover the crime, police said on Thursday. The post-mortem report blew the lid off their plot as it showed that the man had been strangled. The woman, Ravita (30), and her lover Amardeep...
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Voicing concern over a recent Supreme Court ruling prescribing a timeline for the President to decide on bills, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday said India had not bargained for a democracy where judges will legislate, perform Executive functions and act as a super Parliament. Last...
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Supreme Court begins hearing on a batch of petitions challenging validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025. Allow a week to me to place preliminary reply with some materials, solicitor general Tushar Mehta, for Centre, asks SC. If SC will say something about 'waqf by user', what will...
14:28
The Supreme Court has allowed the teachers whose appointments have been cancelled due to irregularities in the recruitment process to continue until the fresh selection process is completed. However, a bench led by CJI Sanjiv Khanna clarified that the aforesaid relief is only for teachers...
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Amid a controversy over his new book 'The Chief Minister and the Spy', former RAW Chief Amarjit Singh Daulat, on Thursday dismissed claims that former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah supported the abrogation of Article 370, stressing that the leader was deeply pained by the move...
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The Supreme Court on Thursday granted three more weeks to the Election Commission to respond to the pleas of Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh and others against the recent amendments to the 1961 election rules. A bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar...
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Indian stock markets turned around on Thursday after a negative start in the morning session. The markets surged around 1 per cent by mid-session due to a strong domestic structural story and FPI buying.The Nifty index gained more than 250 points to 23,707.45 or 1.15 per cent up after opening...
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A team of researchers led by Indian-origin astrophysicist Dr. Nikku Madhusudhan claimed on Thursday to have found the strongest indication yet of extraterrestrial life, not in our solar system but on a massive planet, known as K2-18b, that orbits a star 120 light-years from Earth, New York Times...
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is threatening to strip Harvard University of its ability to enroll international students if it doesn't turn over records on international students' illegal and violent activities,' the agency said Wednesday, reports CNN.Noem wrote a scathing letter...
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The first phase of the Kochi Water Metro, a modern ferry-based, eco-friendly public transport system, became operational late 2024 in the Greater Kochi region, linking with the Kochi Metro. India's first water metro and one of the largest integrated water transport systems in Asia, a...
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As vicious as our hot season is, there's also a strange, sweet nostalgia about summer days too. India's seasons are so distinct and memorable, and when one season segues into the next, you begin to miss the sights and sounds of the previous few months. The hues of summer are fiercely...
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Pakistan Army Chief General Asim Munir has said Kashmir is Islamabad's jugular vein and will be so and that Pakistan won't forget it. He has also defended the two-nation theory that was the basis for the Partition in 1947, reports NDTV.Addressing a gathering of Pakistanis based abroad, General...
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The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to examine a contentious issue whether Muslims can be governed by secular Indian succession law to deal with ancestral properties instead of Shariat without renouncing their faith.A bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar took...
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An 11-year-old speech-and-hearing-impaired girl was brutally raped in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur district. She was found unconscious and with serious injuries. Police have arrested an accused after an encounter during which he suffered a bullet injury in his leg, reports NDTV.The girl had been...
11:31
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi will be on a visit to the US next week during which he will be giving a talk and interacting with faculty members and students at the Brown University. Congress' media and publicity department head Pawan Khera said Gandhi will be visiting Brown...
11:01
NDA's alliance partner JD(U) put up a large poster outside its party office here asserting that Nitish Kumar would continue in the post of the Bihar chief minister till 2030, after his Haryana counterpart Nayab Singh Saini said the BJP will win the polls in the eastern state under the leadership...
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Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has expressed his frustration over the censorship issues faced by the biographical drama 'Phule,' directed by Ananth Mahadevan.The film, starring Pratik Gandhi and Patralekha, was initially set to release on April 11, on the occasion of Mahatma Jyotirao Phule's birth...
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US President Donald Trump met with Patty Morin, the mother of Rachel Morin -- an American citizen brutally murdered by an illegal immigrant in 2023 -- at the Oval Office on Wednesday (US local time). Praising her resilient spirit, Trump told Morin, She's a beautiful woman, she's been through...
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Nozomu Hagihara, a Japanese man who is currently travelling around 2000 km dribbling football in India from Kolkata to Delhi, arrived in Varanasi yesterday. His journey began on March 3rd and is expected to end on May 15th at the Japanese Embassy in Delhi. Nozomu Hagihara says, My challenge...
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Days after violence in West Bengal's Murshidabad district over the Waqf (Amendment) Act, hundreds of displaced residents have not been able to return to their homes yet. The administration has been providing food and other essential relief to those who sought shelter in relief camps...
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Amid what appears to be a caste conundrum, the Karnataka cabinet will hold a special meeting on Thursday to discuss the contentious Socio-Economic and Education Survey report, popularly known as 'caste census'. According to official sources, the cabinet is considering referring the...
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Udisha Srivastava, Business StandardElectric ride-hailing firm BluSmart on Wednesday halted cab bookings in certain parts of Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, and Mumbai, the three cities where it operates.Even as the BluSmart app is available to download on the Google Play Store, users are unable to select...
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Deepak Patel, Business StandardThe central government was evaluating existing protocols for managing medical emergencies at airports after a pilot collapsed and died shortly after landing a commercial flight, a senior official said on Wednesday. On April 9, an Air India Express pilot...
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An important meeting of top Bharatiya Janata Party leadership was held on Wednesday in Delhi regarding the party's organisational elections, in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The meeting, held at the Prime Minister's residence, was attended by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence...
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Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna
The Supreme Court on Wednesday took strong note of an analogy drawn by the Centre in support of the inclusion of non-Muslims in waqf boards and the argument that by that logic, a bench of Hindu judges should not be hearing pleas related to waqf. The bench comprising Chief Justice of India...
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They are notorious for stealing valuables at marriage functions in various states and resisting arrest through violence, but, Madhya Pradesh Police turned the tables on the infamous Kadiya gang by apprehending four members at their weddings in Rajgarh district. The arrests were made amid...
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