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Customs officers at the Indira Gandhi International Airport have booked a case of alleged drug smuggling after seizing marijuana worth Rs 11.63 crore from three Sri Lankan passengers arriving from China, officials said on Tuesday.The three passengers, who had arrived from Pudong, China, on April...
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An elderly man allegedly molested his nine-year-old granddaughter at a slum dwelling in Parvati area of Pune city on Tuesday, following which the police detained him, officials said.The incident occurred in the evening, following which a large crowd gathered and blocked a road near Parvati Hill,...
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The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday issued a notification for the constitution of a new assembly in West Bengal following the completion of the electoral process in the state.The notification has been sent to the governor of West Bengal, formally marking the end of the election cycle and...
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Following the Bharatiya Janata Party's stunning performance in the West Bengal assembly elections, senior BJP leader and MLA-elect from Kharagpur Sadar, Dilip Ghosh, stated that the party has an abundance of experienced leadership to take the role of chief minister, and the decision of the party...
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Kerala Bharatiya Janata Party chief Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Tuesday said that winning three seats in the Assembly polls was only a beginning before it captures power in the state as the party started with only five MLAs in West Bengal and now it will be forming a government there.Chandrasekhar...
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United States chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, on Tuesday attacked Iran in a sharply worded statement and said that global supply chains are being weaponised as the IRGC holds the global economy hostage.He made the remarks during a press conference along with Secretary of...
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Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary on Tuesday ordered that his official residence be, henceforth, known as 'Lok Sewak Awas', the house of a servant of the people.According to a statement issued by the chief minister's office, the change shall be with immediate effect.The move comes days after...
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A man allegedly strangled his wife to death after she refused to give him money for alcohol and tried to pass it off as a natural death, but was arrested after a post-mortem revealed the cause, police said Tuesday.The police said that on May 2 they received information from a hospital that a...
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Several students were injured in a clash between ABVP and the Left-wing DSO near the College Street campus of Calcutta University, officials said Tuesday.DSO state secretary Biswajit Roy alleged that ABVP activists unleashed violence following the declaration of the assembly...
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US President Donald Trump has congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his historic and decisive election victory, a White House spokesman said on Tuesday.Just last month on their phone call, President Trump expressed to Prime Minister Modi his admiration and how lucky India is to have him...
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Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam chief Vijay on Tuesday thanked the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, for a call conveying wishes, and said his party would stay focused on public service and safeguarding Tamil Nadu's cultural ethos. In a post on X, he stressed the need for...
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The Congress on Tuesday indicated it is open to supporting actor-politician Vijay's TVK in Tamil Nadu, following a request from the party to help form the government.AICC general secretary (organisation) K.C. Venugopal said the electoral mandate favours a secular...
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Five flights were diverted at the Delhi airport on Tuesday evening due to inclement weather conditions, according to an official.Many parts of the national capital witnessed rain and thunderstorms.The official said five flights that were to land at the Delhi airport were diverted due to the bad...
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Four minors were rescued and two persons arrested on charges of trafficking from a railway station in Jharkhand's Sahibganj district, officials said on Tuesday.Following a tip-off that four minors were being taken out of the state for manual labour, the RPF conducted a search at platform 1 of the...
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Trinamool Congress (TMC) general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday said that a fact-finding committee will be formed to examine the alleged discrepancies in the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) used in the assembly polls. He added that EVMs can be swapped even though they may not be...
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Three labourers were killed after a tubewell boring machine, which was being reversed, ran them over while they were asleep in a village in Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district on Tuesday, police said.The accident occurred in the wee hours of the day in Gawla village, Pithampur Sector 1, about 50 km...
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Two persons, including an eight-year-old boy, went missing after a boat capsized in the Mahi River in Rajasthan's Banswara on Tuesday, police said, adding that rescue efforts have been launched.The incident occurred near Bhainsau village in the Arthuna police station area when the boat, carrying...
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The BJP on Tuesday termed outgoing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's refusal to resign after her party TMC's defeat in assembly polls as constitutional blasphemy and accused her of undermining the concept of peaceful transfer of power.Addressing a press conference in Kolkata a...
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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday attributed the BJP's West Bengal win to a significant role played by the Election Commission, alongside a consolidation of Hindu votes and a fractured minority mandate.Abdullah also said the INDIA bloc needs to define its role in the...
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Shiv Sena-UBT MP Sanjay Raut on Tuesday said outgoing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee committed a big mistake of not listening to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and not holding alliance talks with him, or else the assembly poll results would have been different.The BJP secured a decisive...
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The power bank of a passenger onboard a stationary IndiGo aircraft caught fire at the Chandigarh airport on Tuesday, and all passengers and the crew were evacuated, according to a source.In a statement, the airline said that when IndiGo flight 6E 108 from Hyderabad to Chandigarh was stationary...
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Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam chief Vijay scheduled to take the oath of office as the state's new Chief Minister on May 7, sources said. The swearing-in ceremony is expected to take place at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor stadium in Chennai.In an unprecedented election results, Vijay's...
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A digital conman who used a fake 'Truecaller' profile to impersonate as an aide of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and swindle crores of rupees from ticket-seekers in multiple states was arrested here, police said on Tuesday.The scam came to light after Uttarakhand Congress leader Bhavana Pandey...
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A prolonged West Asia conflict characterized by significant shipping disruptions and elevated energy prices poses a serious threat to India's economic growth momentum and may pull down the country's GDP growth to less than 6.5 per cent, CII President Rajiv Memani said on Tuesday.According to...
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Barricades outside Mamata Banerjee's residence that had been a permanent fixture on the Harish Chatterjee Street in South Kolkata for more than a decade were partially removed a day after her TMC lost power in the state and she was defeated in the Bhabanipur seat. On Tuesday, police...
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Outgoing West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday ruled out stepping down after her party's defeat in the assembly polls, claiming that the verdict was not a genuine public mandate but the result of a conspiracy.Banerjee also alleged that the TMC's contest in the...
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Outgoing West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee says, After first round of counting, they started saying that BJP is getting 195-200. You didn't wait for the final result. You didn't even wait for 5-6 rounds. After that campaign with the press media, BJP went inside the polling station and they started...
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Assam Congress president Gaurav Gogoi says, As the captain, I am taking responsibility for this defeat. People have not accepted this result. We thought that the fight would be neck to neck. But the result in many seats is thinkable. On Saturday (May 9), we will call every newly elected MLA...
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Mamata Banerjee's press conference: We did not fight BJP, we fought EC which worked for the saffron party: Mamata Banerjee at press conference in Kolkata. Sonia ji, Rahul Gandhi, Arvind Kejriwal, Uddhav Thackeray, Akhilesh Yadav, Tejashwi Yadav, Hemant Soren rang me up. All the allies...
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Outgoing West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee says, Sad to say, CEC became the villain of this election to loot the democratic rights of the people and to loot the EVM. Can you tell me that after voting EVM has 80-90% charge? How is it possible? Two days before the election, they started arresting our...
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BJP supporters celebrate the win in West Bengal
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday said that the West Bengal voters verdict in favour of BJP must be respected and the so-called secular parties will not be able to stop the saffron party's expansion.Owaisi, who responded to the assembly election results, thanked voters who cast their votes...
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Aam Aadmi Party National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of hijacking and murdering democracy, raising an alarm over the latter's decisive win in West Bengal and Assam.Reflecting on his defeat in the 2025 Delhi Assembly election, the AAP supremo accused the...
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The end of an era
The TMC government's massive defeat in West Bengal shows deep anti-incumbency and unpopularity as out of 35 ministers who contested the assembly elections, 22 have been defeated, including Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in her constituency.A staggering 63 per cent of the cabinet ministers could...
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TVK chief Vijay on Tuesday paid tributes to the party's ideological leaders and chaired a meeting of its newly elected legislators, a day after it secured victory with 108 seats in the April 23 Tamil Nadu Assembly election.He received a rousing welcome from party members and several MLAs who,...
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The Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam's election manifesto revolved around a mix of development projects and freebies aimed at women, youth and the vulnerable sections of society. However, fulfilling all the freebie promises might strain Tamil Nadu's fiscal position, which has remained largely stable...
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The BJP on Tuesday named Union Home Minister Amit Shah as the party's central observer for election of its legislative party leader in West Bengal.The party also appointed Union minister JP Nadda as its central observer for election of the legislative party leader in Assam.Haryana Chief Minister...
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Tamil Nadu Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar has accepted the resignation of Chief Minister M K Stalin and his council of ministers, the Lok Bhavan said on Tuesday.The CM had tendered resignation following his party, DMK's defeat in the April 23 Lok Sabha elections.According to a Lok Bhavan...
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Vandalism at the Asansol TMC office
West Bengal BJP President Samik Bhattacharya on Tuesday condemned incidents of vandalism during post-election celebrations and warned of strict action against party workers involved, even as he called for restraint following the BJP's sweeping victory in the state.Speaking to ANI here,...
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Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha on Tuesday accused the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Punjab government of indulging in vendetta politics and misusing the state machinery to target the MPs who recently quit the party and merged with the BJP in the Rajya Sabha.Chadha, along with three other MPs, met...
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The next WB CM?
The newly elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government in West Bengal will take oath on May 9 (Saturday), coinciding with the birth anniversary of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, said West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Samik Bhattacharya on Tuesday.The Prime Minister...
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TVK Chief Vijay pays floral tribute to Periyar at the TVK office in Chennai.TVK won 108 out of 234 seats in the Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections, becoming the single-largest party.
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Stalin addresses a rally last month
DMK President M K Stalin on Tuesday resigned as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, party sources said.The resignation letter has been forwarded to the office of the state Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, the sources added. DMK was defeated in the April 23 Assembly polls by Vijay-led TVK.DMK has won...
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In an election that has upended West Bengal's entrenched political arithmetic, the BJP's sweeping victory has drawn its decisive momentum not merely from traditional strongholds but from unexpected gains in Muslim-dominated districts, where a fractured minority vote quietly rewrote the script...
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The United Democratic Front's manifesto promises five 'Indira guarantees' to Kerala's voters, including Rs 1,000 monthly aid for college-going women, increasing monthly welfare pensions to Rs 3,000 and Rs 25 lakh health cover for each household.But Kerala's debt-to-Gross State Domestic Product...
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A day after the Trinamool Congress faced a drubbing by the BJP in the West Bengal assembly elections, TMC MP Mohua Moitra on Tuesday said her party respects the mandate as the will of the people is supreme.She also said that the party will continue the fight for a secular country.In a post on X,...
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AICC in-charge for Tamil Nadu, Girish Chodankar, on Tuesday admitted that the Congress party leadership's decision to stick with the DMK alliance went against strong grassroots sentiment favouring the TVK.The local leaders, the grassroots level leaders, they were suggesting, if Rahul Gandhi, who...
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The Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam's election manifesto revolved around a mix of development projects and freebies aimed at women, youth and the vulnerable sections of society. However, fulfilling all the freebie promises might strain Tamil Nadu's fiscal position, which has remained largely stable...
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MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal
India on Tuesday described the wounding of three Indians in an attack on the United Arab Emirates' port city of Fujairah as unacceptable and pressed for an immediate cessation of hostilities targeting innocent civilians.New Delhi's reaction came a day after the Indians were injured after a drone...
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TMC MP Sagarika Ghose's ode to her party chief and former West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee...She writes: TO DIDI, WITH LOVE & ADMIRATION.Redoubtable. Formidable. @MamataOfficial's remarkable courage, vibrant & irrepressible personality and tenacious determination is deeply inspiring...
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The Pakistan Navy provided humanitarian assistance to the crew of an Indian offshore tug and supply vessel stranded in the Arabian Sea, according to a media report.The navy was assisted by the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) in the rescue and support operation, the Dawn newspaper...
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BJP leader and Bihar Minister Ram Kripal Yadav on Tuesday hailed the Bharatiya Janata Party's performance in the recently concluded Assembly elections, stating that the party registered a big victory in three out of five states.Targeting Mamata Banerjee, Yadav said, There was so much public...
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A vandalised TMC office in Jalpaiguri
Stray incidents of arson and vandalism at offices of the Trinamool Congress were reported across West Bengal on Monday as BJP workers celebrated their landslide victory in the state.Police said TMC offices in Tollygunge, Baruipur, Kamarhati, Baranagar, Baharampur, Howrah, and Kasba were...
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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor emphasised the need for the party to reflect deeply on its strategies after its performance in the recently concluded assembly elections in four states and one Union Territory.Tharoor acknowledged the success of the Congress-led UDF's victory in Keralam, marking a...
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The Reserve Bank of India has reshuffled portfolios among its deputy governors following the appointment of Rohit Jain, who assumed charge on Monday.Jain succeeded T Rabi Sankar who demitted office last week. Jain took charge as deputy governor on Monday for a period of three years. A career...
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The victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party in the West Bengal assembly elections will be positive for market sentiment in the short-term, suggested analysts. The state, they added, could garner higher investments amid stable and investor-friendly policies.However, in the medium-term,...
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The US Secret Service on Monday said it shot an armed individual involved in a shooting incident near White House, warning the public to avoid the area as emergency crew worked the scene.In a post on X, the agency's Office of Communications stated, 'US Secret Service personnel are on the scene of...
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader Suvendu Adhikari collected his victory certificate after winning from the Bhabanipur and Nandigram assembly constituencies in West Bengal on Monday.Speaking to ANI after his win, the Bharatiya Janata Party leader said the Hindu people of Nandigram made him win the...
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After West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's defeat in the Bhabanipur constituency, state Bharatiya Janata Party president Samik Bhattacharya said that the loss was inevitable, emphasising that the constituency has traditionally favoured the BJP.Speaking to the reporters, Bhattarcharya...
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As Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) is poised to become the single largest party in the Tamil Nadu assembly, DMK MP Kanimozhi said on Monday accepted the people's mandate and extended congratulations to the winning candidates.This is the democracy. We accept it (people's mandate). I congratulate...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday congratulated Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) led by actor-turned politician Vijay over its impressive performance in the Tamil Nadu assembly polls.He also expressed gratitude to the voters of Tamil Nadu who supported the National Democratic Alliance in the...
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US President Donald Trump on Monday said Iran will be blown off the face of the Earth if they attack US vessels escorting stranded ships through the Strait of Hormuz.Trump's statement to Fox News came as Iran reportedly attacked some ships being guided through the Strait of Hormuz under 'Project...
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Rain and thunderstorms lashed the national capital late at Monday night, as the India meteorological department placed the city under an orange alert, with hail, lightning and gusty winds likely in the next few hours.According to the IMD, an orange alert translates to be prepared, indicating the...
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As the Congress-led United Democratic Front sealed victory in the Kerala assembly polls, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday said real welfare and economic empowerment would begin in the state now.He thanked voters for electing the UDF government, and said it is committed to restoring...
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Three Indian nationals were injured on Monday after a fire broke out on the Fujairah Petroleum Industries Zone (FOIZ) in the UAE following a drone strike, officials and reports said.In a post on X, the Indian Embassy in the UAE confirmed that three Indians sustained injuries in attacks in...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged on Monday that Assam and West Bengal are clear cases of polls being 'stolen' by the Bharatiya Janata Party with the support of the Election Commission (EC).Gandhi said his party agrees with Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee that more...
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