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Himachal Pradesh CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu and ex-Union minister Anand Sharma (right)
Former Union minister Anand Sharma will definitely be a minister in an INDIA bloc government at the Centre, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said on Sunday. Sharma, who served as the Union minister for commerce and industry between 2009 and 2014, is the Congress...
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Four members of a family on a picnic, including a woman and her two sons, were swept away in the sea at Dandi beach in Gujarat's Navsari district on Sunday while three others were rescued, an official said.The missing persons have been identified as Sushila Gopalsinh Rajput (42), her sons Daksh...
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A total of 13 of the 40 candidates in fray for the five Lok Sabha seats in Odisha that are going to polls in the fifth phase on May 20 are 'crorepatis', according to a report. Sitting MP and BJP's nominee for Bolangir seat, Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo, is the richest candidate, with total...
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Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday alleged that a journalist was thrashed at Union Home Minister Amit Shah's rally for speaking to women who told him that they were paid to attend the programme. In a post in Hindi on X, Priyanka Gandhi said, @moliticsindia journalist Raghav...
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In an apparent bid to corner Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in his family stronghold of Rae Bareli, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday posed five questions before him and asked him to make his stand clear on those questions. I want to ask five questions publicly - triple talaq, which was...
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Two hospitals in Delhi received bomb threat emails on Sunday, an official said. As per the police officials, bomb threat emails were received at Burari Government Hospital and Sanjay Gandhi Hospital. The Delhi police swiftly acted upon receiving the information regarding the...
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One police officer was killed and more than 100 people, mostly policemen, injured in violent clashes between security forces and protesters agitating against high prices of wheat flour and electricity in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, media reports said on Sunday. The disputed region witnessed...
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Pro-Khalistani slogans were found written on pillars of Delhi metro stations on Sunday, prompting police to launch an investigation. The slogans were seen at Karol Bagh and Jhandewalan Metro Stations. Reportedly, the slogans were written by supporters of Sikhs For Justice, a...
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Special security arrangements have been made in polling booths located in left wing extremist affected areas of Odisha going to polls on May 13, director general of police Arun Sarangi said on Sunday. Voting will be held in four Lok Sabha and 28 MLA segments in nine districts in the first...
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People's Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday sought intervention of the Election Commission to stop the alleged harassment and arrest of her party workers, a day ahead of the polls in Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency. The PDP candidate for Srinagar Lok Sabha seat Waheed Para...
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a plea of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal challenging a Delhi high court order upholding the summons issued to him in a criminal defamation case for retweeting an allegedly defamatory video circulated by YouTuber Dhruv Rathee in May 2018. A...
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A couple has allegedly abandoned their three minor children, including a nearly two months old boy, at the Gwalior railway station in Madhya Pradesh, the police said on Sunday.The two girls, aged 6 and 7, and the boy, who had burn injuries, were found abandoned near the booking counter on Friday...
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YouTuber 'Savukku' Shankar, currently lodged in the Coimbatore Central prison, was on Sunday detained under the Goondas Act, Chennai city police said.Based on the orders of commissioner of police, Greater Chennai, Sandeep Rai Rathore, the detention order under the Goondas Act was served on...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying while the Bharatiya Janata Party has been counting the notes it got from tempo wale billionaires, his party will conduct a caste census to ensure equality.The former Congress president was reacting to Modi's...
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At least 28 people, including children, have died after flash floods and cold lava flew from a volcano hit western Indonesia, Al Jazeera reported, citing rescue officials. Basarnas Search and Rescue Agency said in a statement on Sunday, mentioning that the disaster hit Agam and Tanah...
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The Border Security Forces troops recovered a China-made drone with a packet of heroin in Punjab's Amritsar, officials said. On May 11, 2024, during the night hours, vigilant BSF troops on duty intercepted the movement of a drone in the border area of district Amritsar. As per the...
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The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Jharkhand Rural Development Minister and Congress leader Alamgir Alam for questioning in a money laundering case on May 14, official sources said Sunday. The federal agency had last week arrested Alam's personal secretary Sanjiv Lal and the latter's...
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Prajwal Revanna
Leaders of the Oppositon Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnataka on Sunday continued their demand for a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into sexual abuse charges against Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna and related cases, to ensure a fair investigation. The 33-year-old JD-S MP, who is grandson of...
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Odisha's Chief Electoral Officer NB Dhal on Sunday said the next of kin of a government employee, who died during election duty, would get an ex-gratia of Rs 15 lakh as per the ECI guidelines. Alekh Randhari, a class-IV employee of a government school, died on Saturday in a road accident...
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Nepal's legendary mountaineer Kami Rita Sherpa made history on Sunday by breaking his record for the highest number of ascents of Mt. Everest as he scaled the world's highest peak for the 29th time. The 54-year-old veteran climber reached the 8,849-metre peak at 7:25 am local time on...
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Former CEO of Niti Aayog Amitabh Kant
Citing various macroeconomic parameters that are doing pretty well, India's G20 Sherpa and former CEO of Niti Aayog Amitabh Kant projected that the country is all set to overtake Japan as 4th largest economy in the world by 2025. The size of India's GDP is currently ranked 5th, after...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi can be scared of atom bomb but the BJP is not, and that Pakistan-occupied Kashmir belongs to India and we will take it. He was referring to Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar's remarks on Pakistan having an atom bomb....
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Security forces on Sunday unearthed a terrorist hideout in a forest area in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, recovering a huge cache of arms and ammunition, including nine Improvised Explosive Devices and three pistols, officials said. The hideout was unearthed by the joint troops of...
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Karnataka home minister G Parameshwara on Sunday said that the Special Investigation Team, probing into sexual abuse charges against Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, will not be going abroad to bring him back, and the Interpol will share information about him. He also cautioned political leaders...
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The MeT department in Dehradun on Sunday issued an orange alert for five districts of Uttarakhand warning of thunderstorms accompanied with lightning and hail in isolated places. Gusty winds at the speed of 40-50 km per hour are also predicted in these districts, which include Uttarkashi,...
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A leader of the Revolutionary Marxist Party, a key constituent in the opposition Congress-led UDF, has courted controversy for making an alleged sexist remark against senior CPI-M leader KK Shailaja and Malayalam film actress Maju Warrier. RMP leader KS Hariharan made the objectionable...
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The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a plea of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader and former chief minister Hemant Soren challenging his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case linked to an alleged land scam. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar...
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At least seven security personnel have been killed and two injured in two separate militant attacks on security forces in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, authorities said on Sunday. Local officials said five security personnel were killed and two injured during the first attack that...
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Shiv Sena-UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray has claimed the country will see 'black days' if the Modi government is not defeated. Speaking about the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, Thackeray, in an interview to his party mouthpiece Saamana which appeared in its Sunday edition, said the people of India...
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Opposition leaders are being targeted by poll officials, the Congress alleged on Sunday, claiming that while its chief Mallikarjun Kharge's helicopter was checked in Bihar's Samastipur, leaders of the BJP-led NDA were being allowed to move freely. Kharge on Saturday addressed back-to-back...
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After a hiatus of 15 days, a petroleum products-carrying train reached Dharmanagar railway station in North Tripura district as the railway tracks in a hilly section of Assam's Dima Hasao district were put to function post-restoration. The recent derailment incident between Jatinga...
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will hold a meeting with the Aam Aadmi Party MLAs in the national capital on Sunday. This will be his first meeting with legislatures after he walked out of Tihar Jail post the Supreme Court decision of granting him interim bail till June...
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The doors of the Badrinath temple in the Garhwal Himalayas in Uttarakhand opened for devotees on Sunday after remaining closed during the winter season. With the opening of the shrine, the Chardham Yatra to Badrinath, Kedarnath, Yamunotri and Gangotri has started. The doors of...
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Taking a dig at the Congress over its Indore Lok Sabha seat candidate withdrawing from the fray at the last moment, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav has said it was not his party's fault if the bridegroom fled before the wedding.The Congress received a jolt in Indore after its candidate...
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, questioning why his government did not take any action if, as per his allegation, industrialists Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani were sending black money to the opposition party.Addressing back-to-back...
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A fourth Indian national has been arrested by Canadian authorities in connection with the killing of Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in this country, a week after police arrested three Indians linked with the high-profile case that has severely strained India's relations with...
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