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The Supreme Court has dismissed a batch of petitions seeking review of its December 11, 2023 verdict that unanimously upheld the Centre's decision to abrogate provisions of Article 370 bestowing special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. A five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice...
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The India meteorological department on Tuesday issued a red alert for Pathanamthitta and Idukki districts in Kerala, predicting extremely heavy rainfall on May 22. These districts already have orange alerts in place and are expected to see very heavy rainfall in isolated areas, it said. Earlier...
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In an apparent security lapse, a standby passenger in place of a confirmed ticket holder boarded the Varanasi-bound IndiGo flight at the Mumbai airport on Tuesday and was later deboarded before the plane took off.Generally, an airline staff who can take a flight in case there is a vacant seat is...
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The Delhi police probing the graffiti incident targeting Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said a man has been captured in CCTV cameras scribbling the messages. The police on Monday registered an FIR and started a probe after graffiti bearing the AAP national convenor's name was found...
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The National Investigation Agency on Tuesday carried out multi-state raids in connection with its probe in Bengaluru's Rameshwaram Cafe blast case, officials said. Several customers and hotel staff members were injured, some of them grievously, in the blast that caused extensive damage to the...
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A 55-year-old contractual worker allegedly died by suicide by hanging himself inside the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus in southwest Delhi, the police said on Tuesday. According to the police, the deceased, Vijay, worked as a safai karamchari on private contract at the university. A PCR call...
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Two polling booths in the Jhansi Lok Sabha constituency, where elections were held in the fifth phase on May 20, have recorded 100 percent voter turnout, officials said on Tuesday. According to an official statement issued by district election officer and district magistrate Akshay Tripathi, all...
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The luxury car that hit a motorcycle killing two in Pune, May 19, 2024/ANI Photo
The father of a 17-year-old boy allegedly involved in a car accident that killed two software engineers in Pune was placed under arrest on Tuesday evening hours after he was detained from Maharashtra's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, the police said. The car, a Porsche, allegedly driven by the boy,...
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BJP candidate Jagdambika Pal/Courtesy Facebook
Bharatiya Janata Party's Domariyaganj candidate, Jagdambika Pal, suffered a fall on the stage on Tuesday while rushing to welcome Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath who had come here to address an election rally. The people on the stage helped him get up while Adityanath reached him and made him...
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Mithun Chakraborty
Stones were hurled by some persons during a roadshow of actor-turned-Bharatiya Janata Party leader Mithun Chakraborty in Midnapore town on Tuesday, following which a clash broke out, the police said. Agnimitra Paul, BJP candidate for Midnapore Lok Sabha seat where polling will be held on May 25,...
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Delhi police stand guard outside a school in Delhi after a bomb threat/ANI Photo
The bomb threat emails received by around 150 schools in Delhi-NCR early this month are suspected to have been sent from Hungary's capital Budapest, Delhi police officials said on Tuesday. According to an official, the IP address of these emails has been traced to Budapest and Delhi police will...
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A businessman abducted from Haryana's Faridabad was rescued by police in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida, officials said on Tuesday. The police were able to rescue the businessman after a chase, during which the car holding the hostage rammed into a divider, they said. Rajiv Mittal, a resident of...
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A car owner has paid Rs 25.5 lakh to get a fancy registration number of '9999' for his vehicle in a bidding held in Hyderabad, Telangana State Road Transport Authority officials said on Tuesday. Hyderabad joint transport commissioner C Ramesh said in the online auction for fancy registration...
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The European Commission has announced a global increase in short-stay Schengen visa fees, effective from June 11. This decision will see the cost of Schengen visas (visa type C) rise by 12 percent, impacting travellers planning to visit Europe. Under the new fee structure, the cost for adult...
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Bangladesh MP Anwarul Azim Anar/Courtesy Facebook
An MP of Bangladesh, Anwarul Azim Anar, has been missing for the last few days after he arrived in the city for medical treatment on May 12, a senior official of the Bangladesh deputy high commission in Kolkata said. Anar, an MP of Bangladesh's ruling Awami League, has been missing since May 13,...
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Music composer AR Rahman will be returning to Singapore in August with his first concert performance in the country in 10 years. The Oscar and Grammy-winning musician will perform at the National Stadium on August 31. Maestro Productions, the company behind the singer-songwriter-musician's...
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Hollywood actor Scarlett Johansson has accused OpenAI of ripping off her voice for the new ChatGPT AI named Sky', even though she had declined the company's offer. The artificial intelligence company on Monday announced that it has decided to pause the Sky feature after questions were raised over...
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The Maharashtra State Board for Secondary and Higher Secondary Education on Tuesday declared the Higher Secondary Certificate, or Class 12, results with 93.37 percent students passing the exams. As per results announced by the board's chairperson Sharad Gosavi, 95.44 percent girls cleared the...
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An association of owners of hotels, restaurants and bars on Tuesday moved the Bombay high court, challenging the orders passed by the Mumbai city and suburban collectors, declaring the entire day of June 4, when the votes of the Lok Sabha elections will be counted, as a dry day. A dry day means...
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One person was killed and three others injured in post-poll violence in Bihar's Saran district on Tuesday morning, the police said. The incident happened in the Bada Telma area near Bhikhari Thakur Chowk, they said. An altercation broke out between two groups, said to be supporters of the...
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Labelling Prime Minister Narendra Modi as anti-tribal who put the tallest tribal leader of the country behind the bars, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday accused him of plotting to topple elected governments of AAP and JMM. He also launched a scathing attack on the BJP and its...
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An Emirates flight recently caused the deaths of approximately 39 flamingos in the Laxmi Nagar area of Pantnagar in Ghatkopar, Mumbai. The birds' bodies were scattered across various locations, even in the people's houses. The bodies of the birds have been sent for post-mortem to determine...
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One person has been killed and several others injured on a Singapore Airlines flight from London that was hit by severe turbulence, reports the BBC.The Singapore-bound Boeing 777-300ER was diverted to Bangkok and landed at 15:45 local (08:45 GMT).Flight SQ 321 was carrying a total of 211...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched a fresh attack on the Congress, accusing its top leaders, including first PM Jawaharlal Nehru, of having opposed reservations for deprived castes. Had it not been for Baba Saheb Ambedkar, Nehru would have never agreed to quotas for SCs, STs and...
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Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday accused Union Home Minister Amit Shah of referring to the people of Delhi as Pakistanis and asserted that they are his family and should not be abused. Addressing a virtual press conference, Kejriwal said with the completion of each phase of the Lok...
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The Guardian exclusive: Ads containing AI-manipulated images were submitted to Facebook by civil and corporate accountability groups. Read the report here.
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AAP MP Swati Maliwal
After the Delhi Police took Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's personal aide Bibhav Kumar to Mumbai, the police is likely to record statements of the people who Bibhav met during his visit to Mumbai.According to the sources, Delhi Police recorded the statements of all the staff present in Kejriwal's...
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India's elections are a glimpse of the AI-driven future of democracy. Politicians are using audio and video deepfakes of themselves to reach voters -- who may have no idea they've been talking to a clone. Read more
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PM campaigns for Prajwal Revanna
Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara on Tuesday said the state government has written to the Ministry of External Affairs to cancel the diplomatic passport of Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, who is facing charges of sexual abuse, on the basis of an arrest warrant issued against him by a court. The...
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The PM at the Jagannath temple in Puri
Ruling DMK President and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Tuesday took strong exception to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks that the missing keys of Lord Jagannath's treasury in Odisha have gone to Tamil Nadu, alleging it was an attempt at maligning Tamils for the sake of votes....
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Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court on Tuesday extended the judicial custody of former Deputy CM Manish Sisodia till May 31 in the Delhi liquor excise policy case. The court has asked the accused persons to give an estimate of time required for inspection of documents. It has also directed the ED to...
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Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Sanjay Singh confirmed on Tuesday that trials will not be held to select wrestlers for the Paris Olympics 2024, rather the players who secured the Olympic quota will travel to Paris and represent the tricolour at the multi-sport extravaganza.This news...
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP and national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi on Tuesday criticised the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for its handling of the assault allegation by its MP Swati Maliwal. The BJP said that the AAP's intentions had been exposed in the case. The events inside the Chief...
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A teen driving this Porsche killed two people
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis have instructed for stringent action in the case of a car accident allegedly involving a 17-year-old boy that killed two persons, Pune police chief said on Tuesday.The Porsche car, allegedly driven by the juvenile, who...
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One person is suspected to have died and many others fell ill after drinking contaminated water in a village in Mysuru district on May 20.The affected persons were admitted to the hospital, police said on Tuesday. Taking serious note of the incident, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today directed...
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Bibhav Kumar
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's aide Bibhav Kumar, arrested for allegedly assaulting AAP MP Swati Maliwal, is being taken to Mumbai for the retrieval of data from his formatted iPhone, the police said on Tuesday. Kumar is under a five-day judicial custody in connection with the alleged...
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Rahul Gandhi pays homage to his father Rajiv Gandhi's samadhi today
The Congress on Tuesday took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his promise of a transformative package for Bihar, saying that while he talked about changing the face and fate of the state, all that had changed was Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's alliances. Congress general secretary...
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PM at a rally in Jhargram, Bengal
Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the Congress and its allies of ruining 60 years of the country and destroying the lives of three to four generations. Addressing a public rally in East Champaran, PM Modi said, ...Congress and its allies together have ruined 60 years of the country and...
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Victim Ashwini Koshta's brother, Sampreet
Pune car accident case: In Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, Sampreet Koshta, the brother of Ashwini, who was killed in the accident, says, She turned 24 in January. She was in Pune for the last six years. We received a call from her friend regarding this accident. Action should be taken as per law....
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Mumbai has been intensely hot and humid
A 62-year-old polling booth agent of Shiv Sena (UBT) was found dead inside the toilet of a polling booth in Mumbai's Worli area on May 20, said police on Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Manohar Nalge. According to the police, the incident took place in the evening, when Manohar...
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Sonia Gandhi pays homage to her husband and former PM Rajiv Gandhi on his death anniversary.
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Mehbooba Mufti is fighting a lone battle in Jammu and Kashmir.The supremo of the Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party (JKPDP, better known as PDP) is going from one corner of the Union Territory to another to ensure victory for her candidates in the Lok Sabha elections.The PDP is...
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Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal holds a press conference. The chief minister has come under fire with the Swati Maliwal assault case. He begins his presser targeting Home Minister Amit Shah.Kejriwal says, Yesterday Amit Shah ji came to Delhi and less than 500 people were present in his public meeting....
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The amoeba affects the brain causing death
A five-year-old girl afflicted by amoebic meningoencephalitis, a rare brain infection caused by a free-living amoeba found in contaminated waters, in Malappuram district of Kerala died, official sources said on Tuesday. The a microscopic amoeba is commonly called a brain-eating amoeba.The child...
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Rajiv Pratap Rudy votes
A day after peaceful elections were held in the Saran parliamentary constituency in Bihar, a violent clash took place this morning leaving one person dead and two seriously injured.According to police officials, violent clashes took place in Chhapra, the district headquarters of Saran, between...
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday asserted that the response of the people towards his party and INDIA bloc has changed significantly and there is a big undercurrent in favour of the alliance which will be able to stop the BJP from getting the majority numbers in Lok Sabha polls....
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Odisha: Around 1,100 villagers in Balangir boycott the polling over their demand for a school and a hospital. Booth 15 Presiding Officer, Runu Meher says, We wanted to conduct the mock poll and wanted some polling agents to do the same, but we did not find any agent. We waited for our electors,...
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People in the area fetch water from an almost-dry pond
India in the 21st century: Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh: Amid the rising temperature, locals yearn for clean water as the water crisis deepens in the Bundelkhand area. A resident of Maharkhuwa village, Gajraj Singh says, There is no arrangement of water. This area is suffering due to the water...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, remembering his late father and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 33rd death anniversary, shared a post and referred to his father's dreams as his own. Rahul also shared a childhood photograph of him with his father. In the post, Rahul said, Father, Your...
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Sambit Patra's pinned image on his X feed from 2019
The controversial remarks made by BJP leader Sambit Patra that Lord Jagannath is a devotee (bhakt) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has triggered a political row, with the Congress accusing the ruling party of not even sparing our Gods and said that hero-worship is a road to eventual dictatorship....
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sambit Patra, who was in the soup for his 'controversial' remarks relating to Lord Jagannath, cleared the air around his statement, saying that he was apologetic for his 'slip of the tongue', and that he would offer penance in the name of Lord Jagannath as an...
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People wait in a queue to vote in Baramulla
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday hailed the people of Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency as it recorded its highest-ever voter turnout, and said such active participation is a great trend. The Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency, which was once militancy-infested, recorded its highest-ever...
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A war of words broke out between Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party candidates in Leh on Monday during polling in Ladakh as the BJP alleged that slogans against the party were written on the walls of a polling booth.A heated argument was witnessed between BJP candidate Tashi Gyalson and Congress...
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A Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been formed to investigate the Swati Maliwal case, a week after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP accused Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's former personal secretary Bibhav Kumar of assaulting her, police officials said.The SIT is headed by North...
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Over 68 percent polling was recorded in Ladakh on Monday in the election to decide the fate of three candidates in the fray for the lone Lok Sabha seat in the Union territory, polling officials said in Leh. They also said that the voter turnout in Kargil was 74 percent and 62.50 percent in Leh....
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Shiv Sena-UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday wrote to the Election Commission of India alleging that Shiv Sena-UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray violated the model code of conduct by holding a press conference in Mumbai even as voting for the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha elections was underway in Mumbai and...
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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal
Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal on Monday alleged that Delhi government ministers were spreading lies about her and threatened to take them to court. In a post on X, Maliwal refuted allegations by AAP leaders that she had filed the assault complaint against Chief Minister Arvind...
