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Karnataka BJP President BY Vijayendra said on Tuesday accused actor Kamal Haasan of disrespecting Kannada in his effort to glorify his own mother tongue. The BJP leader also demanded that the actor issue an unconditional apology to Kannadigas immediately. He was reacting to actor Kamal...
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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Tuesday announced that the government would build a memorial at Baisaran in Pahalgam in memory of the 26 victims of last month's terror attack. He said suggestions would be sought to ensure that the memorial is not only magnificent, but also...
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The water quality of rivers and reservoirs has improved by nearly 70 percent in 2024 from 2023, the state government said citing a report by the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) on Tuesday.The UPPCB has undertaken a series of effective measures to enhance the water quality of rivers...
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Ghulam Nabi Azad undergoing treatment at a hospital in Kuwait/ANI Photo
Former minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, who is part of an all-party delegation, has been admitted to a hospital and is now under medical supervision, BJP MP Baijayant Jay Panda said on Tuesday. Halfway into our delegation's tour, Shri @ghulamnazad has had to be admitted to hospital. He is stable,...
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Internet sensation 'Khan Sir', whose classes on YouTube are raved about, claimed that he kept his marriage, solemnised earlier this month, a hush-hush affair because of the military conflict between India and Pakistan. The Patna-based teacher, who has been alleged to be the man behind the...
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A woman has sent a legal notice to Maharashtra minister Sanjay Shirsat's son Siddhant, accusing him of mental and physical harassment following their marriage three years ago. After several Marathi TV channels reported the news of her claims, the woman on Tuesday told reporters that...
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Telugu Desam Party general secretary Nara Lokesh on Tuesday unveiled six key resolutions or ideological pillars of the party at its three-day annual conclave (Mahanadu) here in Kadapa district. The six ideological pillars, include global recognition for the Telugu community, empowering the...
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The Travancore Devaswom Board, the apex temple body in Kerala's Travancore region, dissolved the advisory committee of a temple following the rendition of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh gana geetham (prayer song) during a recent musical concert held there. The action was taken against...
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A 34-year-old woman, a resident of Delhi's Vasant Kunj, has alleged that she was physically assaulted and given triple talaq by her husband, following a series of violent incidents, police said on Tuesday. They added that an FIR has been registered at Vasant Kunj South Police Station and...
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Gold plating the spires of the Ram temple in Ayodhya has begun and is expected to be completed in two to three weeks, chairman of the temple construction committee Nripendra Mishra said on Tuesday. We are ensuring that this work is carried out entirely according to the set procedures and...
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Former cricketer Anil Kumble will be nominated as the Forest and Wildlife Ambassador, Forest, biology and environment minister Eshwar B Khandre said on Tuesday. Addressing reporters, Khandre said Anil Kumble, who previously served as vice-president of the Karnataka Wildlife Board, is of...
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India's premier defence research agency Defence Research and Development Organisation is carrying out trials of the indigenously developed Kaveri jet engine in Russia and is planning to use it for powering the Made in India long range Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle. The Kaveri is undergoing...
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The Indian Coast Guard on Tuesday said no oil has made its way to the Kerala shores from the Liberian cargo ship that sank off the state's coast two days ago. A defence PRO, in a post on the social media platform X, said that efforts were currently underway by the ICG, with the assistance of...
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The rupee depreciated 27 paise to 85.37 (provisional) against the US dollar on Tuesday, tracking a recovery in American currency index, negative domestic equity market and muted foreign fund inflow. According to forex analysts, investors also moved cautiously awaiting domestic industrial and...
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Errol Musk, the father of billionaire Elon Musk/Esa Alexander/Reuters
Errol Musk, the father of billionaire Elon Musk, who has joined the global advisory board of homegrown Servotech, will visit the Ram temple in Ayodhya during his India tour in June, according to industry sources. Errol has scheduled to attend various business-related meetings during...
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India is likely to receive above-normal rainfall in June, which is expected to keep maximum temperatures in check in most parts of the country, the India meteorological department said on Tuesday. At a press conference, M Ravichandran, secretary in the ministry of earth sciences, said...
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An explosion rocked one of the largest chemical plants in China's Shandong province on Tuesday, generating a huge fireball and sending plumes of smoke hundreds of feet into the air. According to official media reports, the number of casualties was unknown as rescue efforts were underway at...
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Jailed 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana on Tuesday moved a court here seeking permission to speak to his family. The application, moved through Rana's counsel, is likely to be taken up Wednesday before Special Judge Chander Jit Singh. The 64-year-old...
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The Income Tax department on Tuesday extended the due date for filing ITRs for Assessment Year (AY) 2025-26 to September 15 from July 31. Individuals and entities, who do not need to get their accounts audited, were required to file income tax returns (ITR) by July 31. In a statement,...
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Quick commerce platform Instamart has dropped parent Swiggy from its name, in a strategic move aimed at carving a standalone brand identity. The move comes days after rival Zomato, which also owns Blinkit, rebranded as Eternal on the stock exchanges, with quick commerce becoming a...
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Snapping the two-day gaining streak, benchmark Sensex tumbled nearly 625 points on Tuesday due to profit-taking in banking, IT and auto shares. The 30-share BSE Sensex dropped 624.82 points or 0.76 percent to settle at 81,551.63 in a volatile session. During the day, the barometer...
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The Bombay high court on Tuesday granted bail to a 19-year-old student from Pune arrested for her social media post on Indo-Pak hostilities and ordered her immediate release while rebuking the Maharashtra government for its radical reaction to her post. A vacation bench of Justices Gauri...
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BSF displays Anti-Material Rifle 'Vidhwansak' used in Operation Sindoor
Border Security Force (BSF's) Assistant Commandant Neha Bhandari commanded a forward post along the International Border (IB) during Operation Sindoor. She described the high spirits of the personnel during the operation on Tuesday, saying, The josh was high... Bhandari's company was...
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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee shares this picture with Rabri Devi and Tejashwi Yadav in Kolkata. Delighted to share in the joy of Tejashwi Yadav and Rajshri Yadav as they welcome a beautiful baby boy. My warmest wishes and heartfelt blessings to them, to Lalu Ji, and to the entire family....
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Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty tumbled nearly 1 per cent on Tuesday, snapping the two-day rally after profit-taking in banking, IT and auto shares. The 30-share BSE Sensex dropped 624.82 points or 0.76 per cent to settle at 81,551.63, in a volatile session. During the day, the...
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J-K CM Omar Abdullah shares this picture from Pahalgam writing, In Pahalgam to chair a cabinet meeting. We came to express solidarity with the local population. We've also come to thank all the tourists who are slowly making their way back to Kashmir & to Pahalgam.Omar Abdullah on Tuesday...
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Delhi Police has apprehended 92 Bangladeshi nationals for illegally staying in the country in two different operations during a special drive in southwest Delhi, an official said on Tuesday. With this, the total number of Bangladeshi nationals detained in the district since December 26,...
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A 48-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly trespassing into actor Aditya Roy Kapur's house in the western suburb of Khar here, police said on Tuesday. The accused woman, Gazala Siddique, who resides in UAE, arrived in the city on Monday and reached the actor's apartment building on...
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Congress leader Pawan Khera on Tuesday slammed the Centre for not nabbing the persons involved in the major terrorist attacks in the country in the recent years including in Pahalgam and wanted to know the conditions on which the recent ceasefire between India and Pakistan reached. So far,...
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The Centre has asserted that the NGOs engaged in publication-related activities and receiving foreign contribution, will not be able to publish any newsletter and must get a certificate from the Registrar of the Newspaper for India that it does not circulate any news content. The new rules...
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It's been 20 years since Bunty Aur Babli released in theatres on May 27, 2005.The film saw a casting coup with Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan starring together for the first time, Rani Mukerji joining in.It got even better when Aishwarya Rai joined in for a blockbuster item...
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A Treasury of Life: Indian Company Paintings, c. 1790 to 1835, an ongoing show in New Delhi put together by DAG, an art gallery in the national capital, features over 200 works that once lay on the margins of mainstream art history. It is India's largest exhibition of Company paintings,...
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Sister Anupama
Sister Anupama, who was the face of protests against former Jalandhar Bishop Franco Mulakkal in a rape case, has renounced nunhood and gone back to ordinary life, leaving the Catholic convent. For several years, she had been an inmate of a Kuravilangad-based convent, which is functioning...
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National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday appealed to tourists to return to Jammu and Kashmir, saying that the region wants peace, not war, and lamented the impact of recent terror attacks on livelihoods tied to tourism, particularly in Pahalgam, ahead of the annual Amarnath...
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DIG (Border Range) Satinder Singh
A suspected Khalistani terrorist died in a blast while retrieving explosive material from a vacant area on the Majitha road bypass in Punjab's Amritsar on Tuesday, police said. The intensity of the explosion, which took place around 9:30 am, was such that both arms of the man were blown off....
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The Bombay High Court on Tuesday came down heavily on the Maharashtra government for arresting a 19-year-old student from Pune for her social media post on Indo-Pak hostilities, calling its reaction radical.A vacation bench of Justices Gauri Godse and Somasekhar Sundaresan asked the teen's...
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The Allahabad high court has rejected an application impleading goddess Radha be made a party to one of the 18 suits pertaining to the Mathura Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Idgah title dispute.Rejecting the application, Justice Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra said, Puranic illustrations are considered...
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Hitting out at Pakistan and exposing their double standards post Operation Sindoor, PM Narendra Modi said that the terrorists killed in the aftermath of Operation Sindoor were given state honours in Pakistan.He asserted that the Pakistani flag was draped over their coffins and they were saluted...
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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor posts on X from Guyana: The delegation of MPs offered pushparchana at the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in a prominent park in Georgetown. It was fitting to pay tribute to the apostle of peace -- a reminder that India wants to focus peacefully on the well-being of its people...
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A significant milestone has been achieved by Assam government as it witnessed a sharp 81 per cent decline in child marriages across 20 districts between 2021-22 and 2023-24, following a strict legal crackdown by the state government, which vowed to eradicate child marriage in by 2026. Chief...
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Supreme Court dismisses a plea seeking directions that the name of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is not misused and his name be included in the Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act. The petitioner seeks directions that the Leader of Opposition, Rahul Gandhi to do community service...
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National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday asserted that the atmosphere of fear in Kashmir has significantly reduced and urged the tourists to visit the valley again to enjoy its beauty. The former chief minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir also urged the...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Gandhinagar: On 26th May 2014, I took the oath as the Prime Minister for the first time. At that time, India's economy was at the 11th position...Today, India has become the world's fourth-largest economy. It is a matter of pride for all of us that we have now...
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In Gandhinagar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says: I have been in Gujarat for the past two days, yesterday I visited Vadodara, Dahod, Bhuj, Ahmedabad and this morning, Gandhinagar. Everywhere I went, it felt like a wave of patriotism, like the roaring sound of a saffron sea. The roar of the...
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RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav shares this heartwarming image on X and writes: Proudly welcoming little grandson in our family!Tejashwi Yadav and his wife were on Tuesday blessed with a baby boy at a private hospital in Kolkata. Yadav, the Leader of the Opposition in the Bihar assembly, took to...
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A 51-year-old woman died after being struck by lightning in a village in Maharashtra's Thane district, officials said on Tuesday. The incident occurred in Chatu Budruk village in Shahpur on Monday afternoon, tehsildar Parmeshwar Kasule said. Sunanda Padwal was struck by lightning in the backyard...
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BSF IG Shashank Anand
Update: Stressing that India's response to the cross-border shelling from Pakistan was answered loudly and in an effective manner, the Border Security Force (BSF) on Tuesday reiterated that they were planned to also strike the terrorists launchpads near the Line of Control on the night of May 9...
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How Hillary and Tenzing survived the 'death zone' to conquer Everest. Read more here.
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Six members of a family were found dead inside a car parked in Haryana's Panchkula, while one more died on way to a hospital, police said on Tuesday, suspecting a suicide pact. Panchkula Deputy Commissioner of Police Himadri Kaushik, said, Prima facie, it appears to be a matter of suicide....
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday held a roadshow in Gandhinagar on the second day of his visit to Gujarat A large number of people gathered to catch a glimpse of PM Modi with many holding the national tricolour flag in their hands.Posters were put up all across the route of the road...
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BSF DIG SS Mand
BSF DIG SS Mand says, On 8th May 2025, our surveillance detected movement of 40-50 persons coming towards the border. We did pre-emptive strikes. Soon after, Pakistan started firing on BSF BOPs, to which we retaliated well. Inputs suggest that many terrorists, their supporters, Rangers and...
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Rasna has entered the ready-to-drink (RTD) market by acquiring beverage brand Jumpin, which was independently valued at Rs 350 crore. Rasna is eyeing the Rs 1,000 crore share of the RTD business with the brand, and the company said that it was in line with its broader vision to diversify and...
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After being pummeled by heavy downpours at the start of the week, Mumbai witnessed a brief respite on Tuesday morning, with the island city recording an average rainfall of 106 mm in 24 hours, civic officials said.Public transport services, including suburban trains, were running with minor...
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Congress leader Anand Sharma, member of the all-party delegation led by NCP-SCP MP Supriya Sule, on Monday termed Pakistan as a sham of democracy and said that they not only train, fund, arm but also shelter and protect these terrorists organisation who claimed responsibility for the deadly...
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Bihar CM Nitish Kumar places a plant on the head of ACS Education and LN Mishra Institute for Social and Economic Change Director Dr. S. Siddharth at an event in Patna. Dr Siddharth had presented the plant to Nitish on stage.
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Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty tumbled in early trade on Tuesday, after two days of rally, dragged lower by IT stocks and weak Asian market trends.The 30-share BSE benchmark gauge Sensex dropped 460.38 points to 81,716.07 in early trade. The NSE Nifty declined 162.05 points to...
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US Congressman Shri Thanedar said on Monday that there was no basis for President Donald Trump to take credit for stopping the conflict between India and Pakistan, and accused him of seeking political mileage from the situation. In an interaction here at the Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Sangh,...
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Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, on Tuesday, paid tribute to India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his 61st death anniversary. In a post on X, Gandhi also remembered Nehru's visionary leadership in laying a strong foundation for independent India....
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The Securities and Exchange Board of India on Monday announced it will limit the expiries of all equity derivatives contracts to two days per week, either Tuesdays or Thursdays starting next month.This move is aimed at curbing hyper-activity on expiry days and reducing concentration risk in the...
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Heightened security in Pahalgam
To instill confidence in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack and encourage tourists to return to Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his cabinet will move out of the capital, Srinagar, to tourist resorts of Pahalgam and Gulmarg for two days, reports the Indian Express.On Tuesday, the...
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Rakesh Gangwal is likely to divest about 3.4 per cent stake in IndiGo for 6,831 crore via block deals. This is part of his long-term plan to gradually reduce his stake in India's largest airline, which he cofounded with Rahul Bhatia in August 2006. Sources said the floor price for the...
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The weather turned pleasant on Tuesday morning as light rain lashed parts of the city, and according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), a generally cloudy sky with heavy rain is expected to continue.As per the IMD's Local Weather Report and Forecast for Mumbai-Borivali issued on May...
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The ministry of earth sciences on Monday launched the world's most precise indigenously-developed weather forecasting model that can accurately predict climatic conditions in a 6-kilometre grid, a marked improvement from the existing systems that forecast weather patterns over a 12-kilometre...
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The Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) in Thane district has reported its first COVID-19 fatality with a woman succumbing to the virus while undergoing treatment at a hospital, an official said. Dr Deepa Shukla, the officer in charge of the KDMC's Medical Health Department,...
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In a heart-wrenching incident, seven members of a family from Dehradun were found dead in a car in Sector 27 of Haryana's Panchkula district on Tuesday.The deceased were identified as Praveen Mittal (42), his parents, wife, two daughters, and a son.All seven bodies were found inside a locked car...
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Former Dy CM Bihar and Lalu Prasad Yadav's son, Tejashwi Yadav is blessed with a baby boy. He tweets: Good Morning! The wait is finally over! So grateful, blessed and pleased to announce the arrival of our little boy. Jai Hanuman!
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Shehbaz Sharif with Turkiye president Reccep Erdogan
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that the country is ready to talk with India to find solutions to longstanding problems, including Kashmir, water-sharing and trade.He made the remarks during a joint press conference during his visit to Tehran. Addressing a joint press conference...
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Manoj Kumar Singh and director general of police Prashant Kumar on Monday reviewed preparations at the Chandrashekhar Azad Agricultural University ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's proposed visit to Kanpur on May 30. The two top officials inspected the...
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The Maharashtra government has issued a draft notification detailing the proposed rules for electric bike taxi services across the state and also invited objections and suggestions from stakeholders by June 5.Issued on May 22 as part of a government resolution (GR) titled the Maharashtra Bike...
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