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Exit polls in Germany's national election Sunday show opposition leader Friedrich Merz's Christian Democratic Union leading, with Alternative for Germany heading for the strongest showing for a far-right party since World War II, Associated Press reported on Sunday evening. The polls, issued...
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An American Airlines flight from New York to New Delhi has been diverted to Rome, according to information on a flight tracking website.American Airlines flight AAL292 departed New York's JFK International Airport on February 22 and was scheduled to arrive in Delhi, but it has been diverted to...
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed his willingness to step down as president in exchange for peace and the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO) membership for Ukraine. Kyiv School of Economics President Tymofiy Mylovanov shared a video of Zelenskyy responding to a...
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A tiger cub was found dead on Sunday in the core area of Bandhavgarh Tiger in Umaria district of Madhya Pradesh, an official said. Khitauli range officer Swasti Shri Jain told PTI the cub, in the 8-10 month age group, was found with a broken neck and was possibly killed by a big...
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Six Bangladeshis, some of whom worked in Mumbai as masons earlier, have been apprehended by the BSF personnel in Meghalaya, officials said on Sunday. The incident happened on Saturday after they crossed over from Bangladesh to Meghalaya once more to go to Mumbai again in search of...
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Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar
Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Sunday said it was still unclear who was the target of Eknath Shinde's remark that he should not be taken lightly. Addressing the valedictory session of the 98th Akhil Bhartiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan in New Delhi, Pawar wondered whether...
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Nine members of the banned CPI-Maoist from Chhattisgarh surrendered to the police in Mulugu district, Telangana on Sunday, the police said. The Maoist cadre, including women, decided to lay down their arms after learning about the welfare initiatives of the police and CRPF for tribal...
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All India Power Engineers Federation on Sunday gave a call for nationwide strike on June 26 to protest against privatisation in the power sector.The National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees and Engineers decided to resort to a nationwide strike on June 26 to protest against the...
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A woman votes in general elections at Steglitz-Zehlendorf district postal ballot polling station in Berlin/Reuters/ANI Photo
Voting started for the general election in Germany on Sunday, which opinion polls suggest will bring a new chancellor and a new governing coalition, CNN reported. Earlier in November, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the Social Democratic Party fired his finance minister. He then lost a...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive here on a two-day visit to Assam on Monday, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.During the visit, the PM will inaugurate the 'Advantage Assam 2.0 Investment and Infrastructure Summit' on Tuesday, Sarma said.Addressing a press conference here on Sunday,...
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The Punjab police Sunday said they have arrested two key operatives of the proscribed outfit Babbar Khalsa International having direct links to Pakistan-based terrorist Harwinder Singh Rinda and US-based gangster Happy Passian. The accused, Jagdish Singh alias Jagga and Shubhdeep Singh...
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Elon Musk
Bangladesh interim government's chief adviser Muhammad Yunus has invited top US businessman and chief executive officer of SpaceX Elon Musk to visit the country and launch Starlink satellite internet service in the country. In a letter on February 19, Yunus told Musk that his visit to...
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Elon Musk
Bangladesh interim government's chief adviser Muhammad Yunus has invited top US businessman and chief executive officer of SpaceX Elon Musk to visit the country and launch Starlink satellite internet service in the country. In a letter on February 19, Yunus told Musk that his visit to...
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Elon Musk
Bangladesh interim government's chief adviser Muhammad Yunus has invited top US businessman and chief executive officer of SpaceX Elon Musk to visit the country and launch Starlink satellite internet service in the country. In a letter on February 19, Yunus told Musk that his visit to...
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Bangladesh will play against New Zealand in Group B match on Monday at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium in Pakistan. The match will start at 2.30 pm.
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At least three persons, including a woman, died and four others were injured when a jeep carrying pilgrims from the Maha Kumbh in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj collided with a truck in Bihar's Kaimur district, the police said on Sunday. The incident took place in Chilbili area of the...
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Telangana irrigation minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy visits the SLBC tunnel/ANI Photo
As eight persons got trapped around 14 km inside the tunnel of the Srisailam Left Bank Canal project after part of its roof collapsed on Saturday, a rescue team made headway and reached the spot where a tunnel boring machine was working during the incident, Nagarkurnool district collector B...
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An earthquake of moderate intensity hit Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district at 8.42 am on Sunday. Tremors were felt in parts of the district, though no loss of life or property was reported, officials said.According to the MeT office, the earthquake was of 3.7 magnitude, and the epicentre was...
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Amidst reports that all is not well between him and the Congress following backlash from within the party. on his apparent praise recently for the Kerala Left Democratic Front government's industrial policy and also for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, MP Shashi Tharoor on Sunday refused to comment...
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Sri Lankan authorities on Sunday arrested 32 Indian fishermen and seized 5 fishing boats for allegedly venturing into the territorial waters of the island nation, the Navy said. The Sri Lankan Navy in a statement said the arrests occurred during a special operation in the sea area north of...
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A view of the SLBC tunnel mishap site/ANI Photo
The Telangana government is working with the Indian Army, Navy, NDRF and all other tunnel experts in the country to try and save the eight persons who remained trapped for the past 30 hours inside a tunnel after a section of it collapsed in the SLBC project, minister Uttam Kumar Reddy said on...
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Punjabi singer-actor Guru Randhawa has been admitted to a hospital after he was injured while filming an action sequence for the upcoming film Shaunki Sardar. Randhawa on Sunday shared the news by posting a photo from the hospital on Instagram. In the photo, the singer is seen lying on a bed...
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Former Delhi chief minister and MLA from Kalkaji constituency Atishi was chosen as the Leader of Opposition in the Delhi assembly at a meeting of AAP MLAs in New Delhi on Sunday.AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal was also part of the meeting of the party's 22 MLAs.In a press conference, AAP's Delhi unit...
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Tamil superstar Ajith Kumar was involved in two car crashes during a high-speed racing event in the Spanish city of Valencia. Ajith's manager Suresh Chandra shared the news on social media platform X, posting a video which captured the moment when the actor's car rear-ended another racer's...
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Amid the language row in Tamil Nadu where the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has been alleging Hindi imposition by the Centre, pro-Tamil activists blackened the Hindi words painted in the nameboard at the railway station in Chennai on Sunday. In a viral video, the activists were seen...
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A high-level delegation led by Maharashtra cultural affairs minister Ashish Shelar is in Paris to seek UNESCO World Heritage status for 12 forts of Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, an official said on Sunday.As per an official statement from Shelar's office, the Maharashtra government...
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Making a strong pitch for fighting obesity, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged people to use less oil in food and also pass on the challenge of reducing oil intake by 10 percent to 10 others. In his monthly Mann Ki Baat radio broadcast, Modi said using less oil in food and dealing...
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The mouth of the Rushikulya river in Odisha's Ganjam district has emerged as a major rookery for the endangered olive ridley turtles with over 6.82 lakh such marine species assembling for mass nesting, officials said on Sunday.The mass nesting of the turtles in the Rushikulya river mouth...
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Maharashtra Forest Minister and BJP leader Ganesh Naik will on Monday hold a 'janata darbar' in Thane, a stronghold of deputy chief minister and Shiv Sena president Eknath Shinde. Naik, guardian minister for neighbouring Palghar district, last month said he would be holding public grievance...
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After a gap of over eight months, India and the UK will resume negotiations for a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) in New Delhi from Monday, an official said. UK's Secretary of State for Business and Trade Jonathan Reynolds will be in New Delhi for resumption of the talks. He will...
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US President Donald Trump is expected to appoint newly confirmed FBI director Kash Patel as the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), a law enforcement agency under the department of justice, The Hill reported. According to The Hill, despite...
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The police in Thane have registered a case against a man for allegedly raping a 34-year-old woman on multiple occasions under the pretext of getting her good acting offers in the film industry, officials said on Sunday. Another woman, her husband and their daughter have also been made...
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A 21-year-old man was beaten and stabbed to death by parents and relatives of a woman who accused him of stalking her in Maharashtra's Nanded district, the police said on Sunday. The police have arrested 10 persons in connection with the attack that took place in Hadgaon town of the district...
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An engineering student from Mizoram was allegedly stabbed to death by his college mate, who is also from the northeastern state, near their institute in this district, the police said on Sunday. The victim has been identified as V L Valentine (23), a fourth-year student of a private...
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US President Donald Trump has claimed that the Biden administration allocated $18 million in funding to India to help with its elections, arguing that the country doesn't need this money. His remarks during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday after he...
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Tension prevailed in Chooralmala in this hill district on Sunday morning as police blocked protesters from carrying out a march condemning the alleged delay in providing rehabilitation to the survivors of the July 2024 Wayanad landslides. The protest began with the protesters constructing...
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has called out the double standards of the global political Left wing while highlighting how world leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, United States President Donal Trump and Argentinian President Javier Milei are among those are now shaping...
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Bus services between Karnataka and Maharashtra have been affected due to attack on bus drivers from both sides amid the sudden flare-up of border row in Belagavi in the last two days.The decades-old dispute resurfaced on Friday when a bus driver and a conductor were beaten up for allegedly not...
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Rescuers have inched closer to the engineers and workers trapped inside a tunnel after a section of the Srisailam Left Bank Canal project collapsed 24 hours ago, with operations underway to extricate them, officials said on Sunday.The teams in the accident site at Nagarkurnool district, about 150...
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Amid a row over USAID funding for certain activities in the country, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said the information put out by Trump administration people is concerning and that the government is looking into it. During an interaction at an event in New Delhi,...
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The Pakistani government has prepared a 'master plan' for the renovation and beautifying of temples and gurdwaras in the country at a cost of PKR 1 billion. The decision was taken on Saturday in a meeting of the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) here under its chief Syed Attaur...
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The husbands of the two women whose bodies along with that of a girl were found in their Kolkata residence are likely to be arrested, a senior officer said.One of the two, Pranay Dey, was shifted to a state-run hospital on Saturday evening from a private healthcare facility where they had been...
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Pope Francis, who has been hospitalised for over a week, remains in critical condition after developing an asthmatic respiratory crisis earlier on Saturday, CNN quoted the Vatican as saying in a statement. This morning Pope Francis presented with an asthmatic respiratory crisis of prolonged...
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