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The police on Friday arrested a Congress councillor and one more person in Madhya Pradesh's Indore after a video purportedly showed 'Pakistan Zindabad' slogans being raised during a protest here to condemn the Pahalgam terror attack, an official said. The case in this connection was...
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One person was feared dead, while four others were rescued after two boats overturned in the waters of Dal Lake here due to high-speed winds on Friday, officials said. Two boats, carrying five passengers, overturned in the lake on Friday evening after high speed winds swept Srinagar and...
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The Ordnance Factory Chanda in Maharashtra's Chandrapur district on Friday cancelled the leaves of all its employees in the interest of national security and operational urgency. A circular issued by the deputy general manager of the factory said as per the directions received from the...
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Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's official YouTube Channel banned in India. When searched for his account, YouTube displays an error message. The message reads, This content is unavailable in the country because of an order from the government related to national...
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Traffic was disrupted in Delhi on Friday as several roads in the city were flooded with water and blocked by uprooted trees following rains and dust storms in the early hours. Commuters, including office goers and school children, were stuck in slow-moving traffic due to the...
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The Economic Offences Unit of the Bihar police warned the public and aspirants against rumours and fraud calls by cyber fraudsters to aspirants and parents luring them to provide answer sheets ahead of the NEET-UG, scheduled to be held on May 4 across the country. The EOU, on Friday, issued...
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An earthquake of magnitude of 7.3 jolted the southwest of Stanley, Falkland Islands on Friday, as reported by the National Center of Seismology (NCS). According to the NCS, the earthquake occurred at Drake Passage, at a depth of 10 kilometres. As per the NCS, the earthquake...
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Leaves of more than two days of officers and employees at Ordnance Factory Khamaria (OFK) in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh were cancelled on Friday. The leave of more than two days of officers and employees has been cancelled with immediate effect to meet the production target,...
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The University Grants Commission has set up a fact-finding committee to look into consecutive student suicides at KIIT-Bhubaneshwar, officials said on Friday. The panel was constituted after a 20-year-old Nepalese student of the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) in Odisha's...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced that he will lead the International Yoga Day celebrations on June 21 in Andhra Pradesh, following an invitation from Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu. The Prime Minister highlighted that this year marks the 10th anniversary of June 21 being...
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Security personnel at the Pahalgam attack site
India will be asking global multilateral agencies, including the IMF, to have a relook at funds and loans provided to Pakistan, as New Delhi seeks to corner the neighbouring state diplomatically following the dastardly terror attack in Pahalgam last month which killed 26 tourists. We will be...
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Nirmal Kapoor, mother of Anil Kapoor, Sanjay Kapoor and Boney Kapoor, passed away at Kokilaben Ambani Hospital in Mumbai on Friday. She was 90 years old. According to Dr Santosh Shetty, CEO and executive director of Kokilaben Ambani Hospital, Nirmal passed away peacefully at the...
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BJP MLC C T Ravi
The Karnataka high court on Friday dismissed BJP MLC C T Ravi's petition seeking to quash criminal proceedings initiated against him for allegedly making a derogatory remark against Minister Laxmi Hebbalkar inside the Legislative Council in Belagavi last year. Justice M Nagaprasanna,...
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The Bairabi-Sairang broad gauge railway line project, connecting Mizoram with the rest of the country, will be commissioned in July, an official said on Friday. Bairabi is near the Assam border while Sairang is around 21 km from the state capital Aizawl. The 51.38-km long railway track...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh chief adviser Muhammad Yunus/@ChiefAdviserGoB/X
A former Bangladesh army officer and close aide of chief adviser Muhammad Yunus has suggested that Dhaka should collaborate with China to occupy India's northeastern states if it attacks Pakistan in response to the Pahalgam terror attack. Yunus' interim government on Friday distanced itself...
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The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a decision of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) suspending Dalit PhD scholar Ramadas KS for his alleged misconduct and anti-national activities but relaxed it to the period already undergone. A bench comprising Justices Dipankar Datta and...
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The rupee on Friday hit a seven-month high and rose past the 84 per dollar level on sustained foreign fund inflows and stronger domestic data, but pared the gains and settled for the day higher by just 1 paisa at 84.53 against the greenback.In a highly volatile trade, the rupee on Friday touched...
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India's forex reserves increased $1.983 billion to $688.129 billion during the week ended April 25, the RBI said on Friday. This is the eighth consecutive week of a rise in the kitty, which had jumped 8.31 billion to $686.145 in the previous reporting week. The forex reserves had...
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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday said he has received threat calls, and has asked the police to find out those behind it and to take action against them. I too get threat calls, what to do? We have informed the police. We have asked the police to find those making threat calls...
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Two men, including a Delhi University graduate, were arrested in Haryana's Panipat for allegedly robbing a businessman's employee of Rs 60 lakh at gunpoint in central Delhi's Hauz Qazi area, the police said on Friday. The robbers were identified as Amit, 34, and Ravi Gupta, 40 -- the latter...
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The holy relics of Lord Buddha, enshrined at a vihara in Uttar Pradesh's Sarnath, reached Ho Chi Minh City on Friday in an IAF aircraft for an exposition during the gala celebrations of the United Nations Day of Vesak being hosted by Vietnam. Union Minister of Minority Affairs and...
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Gold prices climbed Rs 1,080 to Rs 96,800 per 10 grams in the national capital on Friday due to fresh buying from jewellers amid a firm trend overseas, according to the All India Sarafa Association. On Thursday, the precious metal of 99.9 per cent purity plunged Rs 2,830 to Rs 95,720 per 10...
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Jairam Ramesh shared this picture with his post on X
Shashi Tharoor responds to his party colleague Jairam Ramesh on the Vizhinjam International Seaport. I have been recalling your visit, @Jairam_Ramesh, in my interactions with local media on the #VizhinjamInternationalSeaport. Your approval, after due studies of weather and wave patterns over...
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BSE benchmark index Sensex ended 260 points higher on Friday amid optimism surrounding a potential India-US trade deal, record high GST collection in April, and continuous foreign fund inflows. Moreover, a firm trend in global markets also added to the optimism in equities. After a sharp...
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A group of citizens led by Goa Legislative Assembly Speaker Ramesh Tawadkar on Friday filed a complaint against unidentified persons after Pakistan's flag was found painted on a road in Canacona town. Tawadkar, MLA from Canacona, mentioned in the complaint that the neighbouring country's flag...
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In a continued wave of cyber offensives, Pakistan-sponsored hacker groups such as Cyber Group HOAX1337 and National Cyber Crew made unsuccessful attempts to breach some websites yesterday. These hacking efforts were promptly identified and neutralised by cybersecurity agencies. Among the...
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Black, White & Gray -- Love Kills has a unique take on the standard murder mystery that may not be perfect but is very entertaining nonetheless, discovers Mayur Sanap. Read the review here.
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About 21 Pakistani nationals stranded at the Attari-Wagah border following the expiry of the Indian government's deadline for them to leave the country crossed over into Pakistan through the land route of the Integrated Check Post on Friday, officials said. In wake of last week's Pahalgam...
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Uyghur human rights advocates are expressing their criticism of Harvard University for providing training to officials from a Chinese paramilitary organization that the US government has sanctioned for human rights violations, which include mass detention and forced labour in the Xinjiang Uyghur...
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US Vice-President J D Vance has called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a tough negotiator and accused New Delhi of taking advantage of America, while predicting that India could be among the first countries to strike a trade deal to avert reciprocal tariffs. In an interview with Fox News on...
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Commuters use tractor on a waterlogged road in Ghaziabad
Power cuts hit homes across Delhi after an early Friday downpour uprooted several trees and electrical installations. A Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (TPDDL) spokesperson said it received 22 power cut complaints, which were restored within a few minutes to one hour.The thunderstorm,...
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The Congress on Friday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his sleepless nights to many swipe, saying they will continue to hold him accountable for issues like the Pahalgam terror attack and caste census.Modi, while commissioning the Vizhinjam International Seaport in Kerala in the...
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A Delhi court on Friday issued notices to Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald money laundering case. Special judge Vishal Gogne said their right to be heard was available at the time of cognisance of the chargesheet. Right to be heard at any stage breaths...
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The high value Rs 2000 notes worth Rs 6,266 crore are still in circulation after two years of the Reserve Bank withdrawing the currency, according to official data. The Rs 2000 banknotes continue to be legal tender. On May 19, 2023, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced the withdrawal...
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The Indian Air Force (IAF) carried out a flypast on the Ganga Expressway in Uttar Pradesh on Friday. The Air Force conducted take-off and landing exercises on a 3.5-kilometre-long airstrip in Shahjahanpur, part of the under-construction Ganga Expressway in Uttar Pradesh. It showcased...
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President Trump's daughter, Ivanka, shares this picture of the her son, Theo, at the Oval office. She writes on X, A few moments that made April one to remember.There is an iconic photograph of John F Kennedy Jr. playing under the same desk during his father's presidency, has long been...
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S&P Global Ratings on Friday cut India's growth projections by 0.2 percentage points to 6.3 per cent for the current fiscal year citing uncertainty over the US tariff policy and downside risks from its spillover to the economy.In its report titled Global Macro Update: Seismic Shift In US...
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Sajjad Hussain, PTIPakistan on Friday announced that it would continue to allow the use of the Wagah border crossing for its citizens stranded in India, following New Delhi's decision to revoke visas in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror incident.The Attari-Wagah border, located near Amritsar...
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The growth momentum in the Indian manufacturing sector improved in April, with output increasing at the fastest pace since June 2024, on the back of another strong expansion in order books, a monthly survey said on Friday. The seasonally adjusted HSBC India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers'...
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Following Former Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto's acknowledgement of the country's tango with terror operatives, saying that Pakistan has a past, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) IT department in charge, Amit Malviya said that the fear is palpable.Following former Pakistani Foreign...
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Apple will source the majority of the iPhone sold in the US from India in the June quarter while China will produce the vast majority of the devices for other markets amid uncertainty over tax tariffs, a top official said on Friday. During the company's second-quarter earnings call, Apple...
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Himanshi Narwal was on a honeymoon to Pahalgam
The letter from Lalita Ramdas to Himanshi Narwal is a must read...Dear Himanshi, My name is Lalita Ramdas. I am a Navy daughter and a Navy Wife. My father and my Husband were both Chiefs of the Naval Staff....the first and the thirteenth! This is a personal tribute from possibly one...
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The Vances were in India when the terror attack happened
Vice President JD Vance has said that US hopes that India will respond to the Pahalgam terrorist attack in a way that does not lead to a broader regional conflict and expects Pakistan to cooperate with New Delhi to hunt down militants sometimes operating from their soil. Vance made these...
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Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday for spending nine hours with film stars without any trace of worry amid the rage in the country over the Pahalgam attack.Raut said that there is anger in the country, and the credit goes to the Indian Army, which...
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Filmmaker Sujoy Ghosh shares this story: Let me tell you a story of rejection. bang after my university, like most of us, i had no clue what to do. all I knew was that i loved loved loved his illustrations and the stories he wrote and told. so computer science degree gaye tel lene -- i wrote to...
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Six weekly flights of Pakistan airlines will be impacted after India shut its airspace for Pakistan flights from Thursday. Pakistan International Airlines' Islamabad-Kuala Lumpur and Lahore-Kuala Lumpur services will be affected due to the Indian airspace ban, according to aviation analytics...
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Former Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto has acknowledged the country's tango with terror operatives, saying that Pakistan has a past. This follows the Defence Minister Khwaja Asif admitting Pakistan's involvement in backing and funding terrorist groups.Bhutto acknowledged Pakistan's...
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Tamil Nadu-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) major Zoho Corporation has shelved its plan to build a $700 million compound semiconductor fabrication plant, the company's founder Sridhar Vembu said.On our semiconductor fab investment plan, since this business is so capital intensive it requires...
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Rahul Gandhi meets Shubham Dwivedi's family
Ten days after the deadly terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam that claimed the lives of 26 people, including her husband Shubham Dwivedi, Ashanya on Thursday said no effective action has been taken against the perpetrators so far. Shubham Dwivedi, 31, was among the victims killed...
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Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions in April this year fell by 2 per cent to 17.89 billion, while the transaction value decreased by 3 per cent to 23.95 trillion, following a strong performance in March 2025 due to year-end sales. In March, the volume reached 18.3 billion and the...
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Lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar urged the central government to take strict action against Pakistan for their alleged connections to the recent inhumane terror attack on innocent civilians in Pahalgam, Kashmir. Javed Akhtar was invited to inaugurate the 'Glorious Maharashtra...
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The United Nations Security Council could meet 'sooner rather than later' to discuss the situation between India and Pakistan, the President of the world's topmost diplomatic body has said, noting that this would be an opportunity to express views and to help diffuse tensions between the...
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Akshara Srivastava and Shiva Rajora, Business StandardThe terror attack in Pahalgam has sparked concern among thousands of pilgrims who make the annual journey to the Amarnath temple, with some already cancelling plans for the July-August yatra this year. The tourist economy in the Union...
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Three flights were diverted and over 100 flights were delayed at the Delhi airport on Friday morning as thunderstorms and gusty winds disrupted operations.An official said two flights that were to land at the Delhi airport were diverted to Jaipur and one to Ahmedabad.More than 100 flights were...
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Three children and a woman died when a house collapsed in Delhi's Najafgarh following heavy rains in the national capital Friday morning, officials said.We received a call regarding a house collapse in Kharkari Nahar village in Najafgarh at 5.25 am. We deployed multiple teams on the spot and four...
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Roshni Shekhar, Business StandardYouTube CEO Neal Mohan on Thursday called India as the powerhouse in entertainment as the company announced investment of Rs 850 crore in the next two years to accelerate the growth of India's creator economy.The company has paid Rs 21,000 crore to Indian...
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The United States stands strong with India against terrorism and Prime Minister Narendra Modi 'has our full support', the State Department said underlining that Secretary of State Marco Rubio urges India and Pakistan to work towards a responsible resolution that maintains long-term peace and...
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