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Suspected militants triggered a bomb explosion in Imphal West district near the Imphal airport on Sunday, the third anniversary of ethnic conflict between Meitei and Kuki communities in the state, officials said.No casualty or damage to property was reported in the blast that occurred near a...
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State Disaster Response Force personnel rescued 30 tourists from drowning in Dobra-Chanti lake area here after a fierce thunderstorm snapped the axle joints of their floating huts, causing the structures to tilt dangerously.The incident took place on Saturday evening.An SDRF team from Koti Colony...
19:56
Canada's intelligence agency has declared Khalistani extremists a 'national security threat', adding that the group uses institutions to promote its 'violent extremist agenda' in the country.Canadian Security Intelligence Service, in its 2025 Public Report, highlighted that involvement of...
19:25
A 45-year-old man who had recently returned from the US died allegedly by suicide after jumping from the eighth floor of a high-rise building in Sector 65 here, police said on Sunday.The deceased, Nishant, a resident of M3M Emerald Hills Society, had come to Gurugram on April 28 after allegedly...
18:52
India's Ambassador-designate to China Vikram Doraiswami on Sunday arrived in Beijing to take up his new assignment, and was accorded a warm welcome by senior Chinese and Indian officials.Deputy Director, Asia Department of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Li Jianbo and Charge d'Affairs of the Indian...
18:49
Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, is getting a facelift ahead of the 'Darbar Move', a 150-year-old practice of bi-annual shifting of the administrative capital, with workers busy sprucing up roads and walkways.Roads with potholes are being repaired and getting a fresh coat of...
18:46
The Election Commission has deployed 432 counting observers (COs) across all the 294 assembly constituencies in West Bengal to ensure transparent and smooth counting of votes on Monday.The poll panel, in a statement, said that several districts have been assigned additional observers in view of...
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A day before the counting of votes for the West Bengal assembly elections, two persons were arrested on Sunday for allegedly being involved in a firing incident outside the residence of a Bharatiya Janata Party leader in North 24 Parganas district, police said.BJP leader Kundan Singh lodged a...
16:48
Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Shashi Panja on Sunday criticised the Election Commission of India (ECI) over its response to allegations of irregularities in strong rooms, stating that the party had highlighted 'loopholes in the system' that cannot be dismissed as baseless.Addressing the issue...
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A five-year-old boy was mauled to death by stray dogs in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district, police said on Sunday.The incident happened on Friday at Yadav Basti in Bholanath Baseria, within the Goududih police outpost, when the boy stepped out to play, they said.The victim boy was mauled to death...
14:55
Nepal's new government has effectively cancelled more than 1,500 major public appointments through a sweeping ordinance issued by President Ramchandra Paudel, local media reported.These appointments were made before March 26 - the date marking leadership change in the country.The Balendra...
14:21
The counting centre at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Bhabanipur assembly constituency witnessed a ruckus a day ahead of the counting of votes, with Trinamool Congress workers alleging two cars bearing the BJP's flag were allowed entry to the compound where EVMs are kept.The...
13:46
Senior politician and Bharatiya Janata Party candidate P C George on Sunday said he was confident of a resounding victory from the Poonjar Assembly constituency in Kerala, even offering to place a bet of Rs 1 crore to back his claim.I will win by a massive majority. If anyone has any doubt, they...
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pradeep Bhandari on Sunday said that the party's counting agents in West Bengal are 'fully ready' as the state awaits 'mukti' from Trinamool Congress (TMC) on May 4.In an X post, Bhandari shared visuals from a training session of BJP's polling agents in Darjeeling...
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Ahead of the result day of West Bengal assembly elections, security was heightened outside several strongrooms in Kolkata.Heavy force was deployed outside the strongrooms in Kolkata, which included Sakhawat Memorial Government Girls' High School in Bhabanipur, Netaji Indoor Stadium, and several...
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Tension prevailed for a while when a passenger opened one of the emergency exit doors while the flight was taxiing at Chennai International Airport.An Air Arabia flight carrying 231 passengers arrived in Chennai from Sharjah early on Sunday morning.As the aircraft was moving along the taxiway-the...
10:31
The EC has released the voter turnout figure of 4.8 crore for the April 23 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections.A late Saturday night release from the Election Commission of India said that 4,87,98,833 votes were polled.Of these, 2,52,59,596 were female voters, and 2,35,34,720 were male voters, it...
09:56
The body of a 5-year-old boy was recovered from the Bargi Dam in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur district on Sunday morning, taking the death toll in the cruise boat tragedy to 12, while search continued for one missing person, police said. The boat, around 20 years old and operated by the state...
09:13
At least nine people were killed after a fire broke out in a residential building in east Delhi's Vivek Vihar early Sunday, officials said.The incident was reported around 3.48 am at a four-storey building in Vivek Vihar Phase-I, following which police, fire and disaster management teams rushed...
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A total of 58 people, including 27 children, had to be hospitalised as they fell ill after allegedly consuming a local delicacy at a village in Odisha's Jajpur district, police have said.The incident occurred in Patapur village under the Dasarathapur block on Friday. They had eaten 'Cuttack...
08:17
United States President Donald Trump said military strikes against Iran could resume if they misbehave even as he said that he was reviewing a fresh proposal from Tehran to end the now paused war. Trump, on his way to Miami from Palm Beach, said he was reviewing a fresh proposal from Iran to...
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