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The house and an eatery owned by a resident of Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, accused of raping a girl, were on Friday razed in an operation conducted under the supervision of the police and local administration, an official said. According to superintendent of police (Rural), Muzaffarpur,...
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Pro-Khalistan slogans were raised during a march organised by the radical outfit Dal Khalsa here on the eve of the 41st anniversary of Operation Bluestar on Thursday. Operation Bluestar was carried out by the Army in June 1984 to flush out armed militants from the Golden Temple. Dal...
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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday ordered the suspension of Bengaluru police commissioner B Dayananda and several senior police officials in connection with the stampede in front of Chinnaswamy Stadium here, which left 11 people dead. He also ordered the arrest of...
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Maharashtra Navnirman Sena workers attacked an auto-rickshaw driver here and forced him to apologise for allegedly using objectionable language against a Marathi-speaking passenger as well as party chief Raj Thackeray.The incident involving the passenger took place in Dadar area of central Mumbai...
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump had lengthy talks over phone on Thursday to iron out differences over their tit-for-tat tariffs and agreed to have more talks between their trade representatives to resolve the trade standoff. During the talks, Xi also asked...
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A woman was duped of Rs 2.89 crore by cyber criminals posing as important government authorities, though prompt action by Mumbai police managed to retrieve Rs 1.29 crore, an official said on Thursday. Between Monday and Wednesday, cyber criminals posing as Telecom Regulatory...
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A 65-year-old man in Davangere, who died of cardiopulmonary arrest, aspiration pneumonia in septic shock as well as uncontrolled diabetes mellitus on Thursday, has tested positive for Covid-19. His demise has pushed the Covid-related death toll in Karnataka to seven as of Thursday....
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Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has unleashed yet another assault on US President Donald Trump's flagship spending legislation, urging Americans to lobby Congress to KILL the BILL - mere days after departing his position within the Trump administration. The Tesla and SpaceX founder served...
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PM Narendra Modi plants Sindoor sapling presented to him by a group of Bhuj women who had shown exceptional courage in the 1971 war, on World Environment Day, at his residence in New Delhi/ANI Photo
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday led the World Environment Day celebrations by launching a major reforestation effort to revive the 700-km-long Aravalli mountain range, aimed at strengthening the region's ability to combat climate change, tackle air pollution and improve groundwater...
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A first-year MBBS student allegedly committed suicide on Thursday in Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh, officials said. Shivansh Gupta (20) allegedly jumped off the third floor of the boys' hostel number 4 of the government-run Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College & Hospital, its...
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All-party delegation led by Shashi Tharoor meets US Vice President JD Vance/Image courtesy Shashi Tharoor on X
A multi-party delegation of Indian parliamentarians led by Shashi Tharoor on Thursday met US Vice President JD Vance and had comprehensive discussions covering a wide array of critical issues, from counter-terrorism efforts to enhancing technological cooperation. Excellent meeting with Vice...
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Under-fire IPL champion Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Thursday said it will co-operate with all the legal proceedings after an FIR was registered against it in connection with the stampede outside Chinnaswamy Stadium in which 11 people were killed. The FIR has been lodged against RCB,...
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Maharashtra on Thursday reported 98 COVID-19 cases, taking the tally in the state since January 1 this year to 1,162, the health department said. Of these cases, 48 are from Pune district, 34 from Mumbai and six from Thane, an official said. Since January 1, a total of 14,565 COVID-19...
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The rupee snapped its two-day losing streak and closed 7 paise higher at 85.80 (provisional) against the US dollar on Thursday, supported by positive domestic equities and a rise in Asian currencies. Forex traders said overnight softening of crude oil prices favoured the rupee. However,...
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The National Investigation Agency carried out searches at 32 locations across Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday to probe a conspiracy hatched by Pakistan-based terror outfits, officials said. The locations were residential premises of hybrid terrorists and overground workers associated with...
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A fire broke out at a shop inside the busy Churchgate railway station in south Mumbai on Thursday evening, triggering panic among commuters during the peak hours. No one was injured in the incident that was reported around 5.25 pm by the Western Railway, an official said. The Mumbai...
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A Delhi court would on June 30 decide whether or not to accept a police report recommending closure of a case on the disappearance of former JNU student Najeeb Ahmed, who went missing on October 15, 2016. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Jyoti Maheshwari on Thursday posted the matter on...
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An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has acquitted 10 Muslim men, including the primary suspect, in connection with the arson attacks on churches and Christian homes in Punjab province in 2023, citing lack of evidence. The verdict, delivered by Judge Javed Iqbal Sheikh of the Anti-Terrorism...
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Altogether 63 stranded people, mostly tourists, were on Thursday evacuated by helicopters from Chaten in north Sikkim, which was hit by a landslide earlier this week, officials said. Sixty-four other tourists are still waiting at Chaten to be rescued by the army and local...
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Police officers make way for an ambulance following a stampede at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, India, June 4, 2025. Stringer/Reuters
An FIR has been registered against RCB, event management firm DNA entertainment networks, Karnataka State Cricket Association and others in connection with the stampede near Chinnaswamny stadium here that claimed the lives of 11 people and injured 56, the police said on Thursday. According...
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Kerala reported the highest 1,487 active Covid cases followed by Delhi with 562 cases on Thursday.
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A court in Maharashtra's Thane on Thursday remanded mechanical engineer Ravindra Verma, arrested for allegedly spying and sharing sensitive information about warships and submarines to Pakistan, to 14-day judicial custody. The 27-year-old junior engineer who worked with a defence technology...
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With the Bihar state assembly elections slated for October-November this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is intensifying his focus on the state. He is scheduled to visit Siwan district on June 20 to address a rally, marking his third visit to Bihar in the last three months and fifth in...
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Karnataka high court on Thursday directed the state government to file a status report on the stampede outside the cricket stadium in Bengaluru that led to 11 deaths and injuries to over 50 people. The court, after taking suo motu cognisance of the matter, issued notice to the state, and...
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A massive insurance scam involving fraudulent policies, fake documents and even killings carried out to claim insurance money has surfaced in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal district, with the estimated fraud amount crossing Rs 100 crore, officials said on Thursday. The Enforcement Directorate has...
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Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty ended higher on Thursday, driven by buying in blue-chip stocks ICICI Bank and Reliance Industries amid fresh foreign fund inflows and firm global market trends.Rising for the second straight day, the 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 443.79 points or 0.55 per...
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RCB fans outside the Vidhana Soudha
Following the stampede incident near the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, Karnataka Minister MB Patil said on Thursday that lapses that led to the incident will be unearthed in 15 days, and strict action will be taken against them. Speaking with the media, Patil urged the BJP not to...
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The recent conflict between India and Pakistan was among the issues figured during a phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, according to a Kremlin aide. During their conversation on Wednesday, the two leaders discussed Ukraine and also touched on...
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RCB fans clambered on to the car and damaged it
IPL champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru announced a financial assistance of Rs 10 lakh each for the families of the 11 supporters, who lost their lives in a stampede outside the Chinnaswamy Stadium during the team's IPL victory celebrations in Bengaluru. Lakhs of people turned out to catch...
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RCB fans at Vidhana Soudha
Karnataka HC takes suo moto cognizance of the Bengaluru stampede incident ahead of the RCB victory celebrations. The management of Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) will face official scrutiny over a social media post announcing a public victory parade, made just hours before a...
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On Vande Bharat train from Katra, J&K CM Omar Abdullah says, If I tell you that I have been waiting for this moment for a long time, it will still not be enough. This rail project began when I was in the 7th or 8th class. Now, even my children have started working after completing school and...
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RCB fans outside the Vidhana Soudha yesterday
The Karnataka High Court on Thursday began hearing a case relating to a stampede near the Chinnaswamy Cricket Stadium. Eleven people died and 56 were injured in the incident on Wednesday, as a large number of people thronged to the stadium to participate in the RCB team's IPL victory...
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RCB fans outside Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Thursday turned emotional over the loss of lives due to the stampede near the Chinnaswamy Stadium and said that Bengaluru has lost its image due to the incident that claimed 11 lives. Reacting to allegations by the opposition that police had...
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High-net worth individuals (HNIs) in India aspire for early retirement, entrepreneurship, and foreign education for children, but lower savings, lack of personalised planning, and financial discipline pose challenges to their plans, according to a survey by Marcellus Investment Managers and Dun...
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Calcutta HC grants interim bail to influencer Sharmistha Panoli, arrested for allegedly posting video on social media with communal comments. Panoli was arrested by Kolkata Police in Gurugram on Friday for allegedly hurting religious sentiments with a video on Operation Sindoor. The...
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Two-time Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra is learnt to have quietly tied the knot on May 3. You can call it the other operation sindoor, because the party and the MP herself have been totally hush-hush about the Krishnagar MP's wedding, reports the Telegraph.Asked about the wedding, a...
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A 25-year-old IT professional died by suicide by jumping from the 21st floor of a residential building in Pune, an official said on Thursday. Abhilasha Bhausaheb Kothimbhire took her life in the Hinjawadi area on May 31, and an accidental death report was registered on Wednesday night, the...
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NCP (SP) MP Supriya Sule on Thursday said there has been no discussion or proposal on the two rival Nationalist Congress Party factions coming together. There is no storm in a teacup, as is being made out, Sule told reporters in Mumbaiu when asked about the buzz in political circles about the...
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Karnataka CM, ministers visit the injured
Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje on Thursday demanded immediate resignation of Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar and urged for formation of an inquiry committee led by a sitting High Court judge to probe the stampede near the Chinnaswamy stadium that claimed 11 lives.She accused the...
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Shanti Ekambaram, deputy managing director of Kotak Mahindra Bank, leads the list of the top 10 women professionals in India, with the company being valued at 3.8 trillion, according to the 2025 Candere Hurun India Women Leaders List. The inaugural report analysed 97 women across nine...
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On World Environment Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi planted a Sindoor sapling at his 7 Lok Kalyan Marg residence. The sapling was presented to him by a group of women who had displayed exceptional courage during the 1971 war. Over 300 women had gathered at Indian Air Force airstrip in...
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Even as Pakistan's delegation, seeking to put its point across after India's action against terror during Op Sindoor, arrived in Washington on Wednesday, India's outreach delegation, led by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor decimated Pakistan's copycat outreach effort. This (Pakistan) delegation is...
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A 27-year-old man died after his neck got stuck in the iron fencing while alighting a local train from the wrong side at a platform of the Mumbai Central railway station on Thursday morning, officials said. The incident took place at around 9.45 am at the station located on the Western...
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Karnataka Dy CM meets the family of a victim
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sambit Patra claimed that the Bengaluru stampede, which claimed the lives of 11 people, was government-manufactured, claiming that there was a rift between Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy CM DK Shivakumar. Questioning the coordination between the police...
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Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said anybody who considers that working in the national interest is a sort of anti-party activity needs to question themselves rather than us. Tharoor is leading an all-party parliamentary delegation to the US to convey India's stance against terrorism...
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Coconut is an important component of the cuisines south of the Vindhyas, although Gujarat likes a bit of it too, in Undhiyos, petis (pattice) and garnish for khandvi. Take a bite
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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, while addressing the Indian diaspora in Washington, DC, recalled the harrowing moment during the recent Pahalgam terror attack when a woman, horrified after watching her husband die, screamed out -- kill me too, but the terrorists said no and told her to go back and...
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The flood situation in Manipur improved significantly on Thursday with water receding from major rivers as the intensity of the rain decreased, officials said. The Assam Rifles and Army continued rescue and relief work under Operation Jalrahat-II across the state, which has been battered by...
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India has enormous respect for the American presidency but New Delhi has never particularly wanted to ask anyone to mediate and no one needed to tell us to stop, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said, amid repeated claims by US President Donald Trump of mediating in the recent military conflict between...
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From The New York Times: President Trump's on-and-off tariffs have created deep uncertainty about the cost of imported goods. The largest U.S. imports from many countries are oil and gas, electronics, cars and pharmaceuticals. But there's another way to look at what Americans import: trying...
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Faced with growing global isolation on the issue of terrorism, Pakistan is making an all-out effort to seek the help of US President Donald Trump to try and achieve peace with India.Addressing an event at the US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif praised Trump for his...
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Acharya Jonas Masetti, also known by his Indian name 'Vishwanath', is a Vedanta teacher who has spent the last 12 years spreading Vedic knowledge abroad.A former lieutenant in the Brazilian army, the mechanical engineer left the army after seven years and built a successful career in the...
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BJP MP Tejasvi Surya has strongly criticised the state government over the stampede in which 11 people were killed near the Chinnaswamy stadium during RCB's IPL win celebration in Bengaluru. Surya alleged that the Chief Minister's decision to invite fans to join the celebration without...
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In a late-night encounter on the BRT corridor near the Sheikh Sarai Red Light in New Delhi, two criminals were injured after a shootout with the Delhi Police.The criminals, riding a motorcycle, opened fire at the police personnel, prompting an exchange of gunfire. The police fired multiple rounds...
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The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has suspended insolvency proceedings against Reliance Infra after the company argued that it has cleared the entire outstanding amount of 92.68 crore owed to Dhursar Solar Power Pvt Ltd (DSPPL), the company informed the exchanges on...
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Group 5 of the all-party Indian parliamentary delegation, led by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, held a high-level interaction with the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) in Washington, D.C., as part of its diplomatic outreach following Operation Sindoor. The delegation, which met with...
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The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has softened its position on approving initial public offerings (IPOs) by companies with a large number of public shareholders, resolving a grey area that had stalled several high-profile listings.As a result, five such companies -- including HDB...
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Union Minister G Kishan Reddy on Thursday blamed the Karnataka government for the stampede that broke out outside the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru following Royal Challengers Bengaluru's win in the IPL final and claimed 11 lives and injured 30 others. This is due to the complete...
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Sanket KoulThe Centre will conduct facility-level mock drills on June 5 to check the preparedness of hospitals to tackle COVID-19 as the number of active cases crossed 4,000 in the country, according to official sources in the ministry of health and family welfare.This comes after a series of...
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Confusion over the victory parade, free passes, over crowding and limited seats at the Chinnaswamy Stadium are said to be some of the major reasons that led to stampede that left at least 11 people dead and over 30 injured. The initial chaos that later turned into a stampede began as...
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India was on Wednesday elected to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations for the period from 2026-28.The council is at the heart of the UN's mechanism to advance the three dimensions of sustainable development -- economic, social and environmental.'India was elected to the...
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