Odisha thief regrets temple heist after 9 years, returns jewellery

Nine years after stealing expensive ornaments from a temple in Gopinathpur on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar in Odisha, the thief returned the booty on Monday and expressed regret for his actions in two anonymous apology notes written in English.

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Teacher held for sex assault bid on 15 schoolgirls in UP

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Delhi riots: Court slams investigation officer, refers case to top cop

Deeming the conduct of an investigation officer "casual and unprofessional" in a case related to the February 2020 Delhi riots, a Delhi court has referred the matter to the police commissioner.

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HC: Can’t recover extra pension mistakenly paid to ex-armyman

“Excess pension” cannot be taken back from a military veteran who retired nearly 50 years ago merely because the amount was “erroneously” paid, the Punjab and Haryana HC has held.

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National register of doctors in works to foil malpractice

All medical practitioners in the country will now have to register with the National Medical Commission (NMC), in addition to registering with state medical councils, and the data will be updated in the National Medical Register (NMR) — a central repository of information about all medical practitioners in the country.

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IPL: KKR crack Chepauk code to keep playoffs hopes alive

A spin show from Varun Chakaravarthy and Sunil Narine was followed by impressive fifties from skipper Nitish Rana and Rinku Singh as an all-round Kolkata Knight Riders eased past Chennai Super Kings by six wickets to grab two crucial points and keep their playoffs hopes alive on Sunday.

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Congman marries to field wife from reserved seat, she gives AAP victory

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Plea to repossess 2 more SpiceJet planes

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NCP MLA booked for activist's killing

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Karnataka polls: Congress fielded 46 Lingayats, 37 won

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British cinemas cancel ‘Kerala Story’ screening

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IPL: Prabhsimran, Brar keep PBKS alive, DC out of playoffs race

Prabhsimran Singh is a project that has seen Punjab Kings invest four years and crores of rupees. It has finally paid off in a match that helped them stay alive in the IPL, as he calmly steered Khaleel Ahmed down to the third boundary to bring up his maiden IPL hundred here at the Ferozeshah Kotla on Saturday evening. The 22-year-old, standing barely at five and a half feet, stood tall in an innings where he scored 103 off 65 balls in Kings’ emphatic 31-run win after arduously putting up 167/6.

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Four elephants electrocuted

Four elephants were killed when they came in contact with an electricity transformer in Andhra near the Odisha border Friday. The elephants included a male, two females and a calf. The electrocution took place near Katragedda village in Bhamini mandal.

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El Nino shadow grows, 'very likely' in 2 months: US agencies

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Parachute gets entangled in power line, Navy paratrooper dies

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Aryan case: Ex-­NCB man booked for ‘extorting Rs 50 lakh from SRK’

The CBI has registered a corruption case against Sameer Wankhede, the former western region head of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), and three others for allegedly extorting Rs 50 lakh from actor Shah Rukh Khan in the October 2021 cruise drug case involving his son Aryan Khan.

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Imran gets bail for 2 weeks, blanket protection from arrest till May 15

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Custody movie review highlights: Naga Chaitanya's cop drama is an interesting ride so far

Custody movie review highlights

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EPS higher pension calculation: Bigger provident fund balance or higher pension? Watch video to decide now

Higher pension under EPS: Wondering whether you want a big Provident Fund corpus at the time of retirement or a better monthly pension? Watch this video to understand in simple terms and make a decision.

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Elon Musk says new Twitter chief has been hired

Elon Musk on Thursday said he has hired someone to replace him as boss of Twitter and its newly named X Corporation parent. Twitter users in December voted to oust owner Musk as chief executive in an unscientific poll he organized and promised to honor, just weeks after he took charge of the social media giant.

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Militants kidnap 3 Meiteis, kill a cop in Manipur

Suspected Kuki militants killed a cop and allegedly kidnapped three Meiteis in separate incidents Thursday even as the overall situation in violence-hit Manipur improved further with curfew relaxations in 11 of its 16 districts, including restive Churachandpur.

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Nitish's ‘unity tour’ takes him to Pawar, Uddhav in Maharashtra

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and deputy chief minister Tejashwi Prasad Yadav have met NCP president Sharad Pawar and Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray to discuss opposition unity at the national level. To mobilise anti-BJP parties, Kumar had recently met AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress politician Rahul Gandhi and New Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal of AAP.

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Nitish's ‘unity tour’ takes him to Pawar, Uddhav in Maharashtra

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and deputy chief minister Tejashwi Prasad Yadav have met NCP president Sharad Pawar and Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray to discuss opposition unity at the national level. To mobilise anti-BJP parties, Kumar had recently met AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress politician Rahul Gandhi and New Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal of AAP.

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IPL points table after Chennai Super Kings vs Delhi Capitals match

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Santiniketan set to get Unesco World Heritage Site tag

A decade-long campaign to get Santiniketan recognised as a Unesco World Heritage Site looks set to finally pay off, with the International Council on Monuments and Sites, an international advisory body to the UN, recommending the inclusion of Rabindranath Tagore’s “abode of peace” in the prestigious global list.

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Budding boxer, 12, runs 15km to safety in Manipur

Mangminmgam was separated from his parents, who were hiding in their native village of Saikul in Kangpokpi, a district north of Imphal.

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After Asean drill, India & Thailand team up for patrol

After the first Asean-India naval exercise in the contentious South China Sea, which riled China to no end, India has now conducted a bilateral maritime coordinated patrol (Corpat) with Thailand in the Andaman Sea. It saw the two navies deploying warships and maritime patrol aircraft along the international maritime boundary line in the Andaman Sea from May 3 to 10.

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Budding boxer, 12, runs 15km to safety in Manipur

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Microsoft will not give employees salary raise this year: Report

Microsoft will not raise salaries for full-time employees this year and is reducing budget for bonuses and stock awards, Insider reported on Wednesday, citing an internal email by CEO Satya Nadella."Last year, we made a significant investment in compensation driven by market conditions and company performance, nearly doubling our global merit budget...this year the economic conditions are very different across many dimensions" the report quoted Nadella saying.

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SP MLA booked for assaulting BJP leader’s husband

Samajwadi Party MLA Rakesh Pratap Singh, who was staging a dharna at Gauriganj police station in UP's Amethi, allegedly thrashed the husband of a BJP candidate for the nagar palika chairperson post inside the police station campus on Wednesday.

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Can DC tweakers top Chennai Super Kings' spin power?

When in Chennai, you must beat the Chennai Super Kings at their own game. Teams have learnt this the hard way, and the scenario will be no different for the Delhi Capitals, who have to win on Wednesday to stay in contention for a playoff berth.

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Hardeep Singh Puri vs Piyush Goyal? Shots fired over Rera

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1st gang rape conviction in Muzaffarnagar riots: 2 sentenced to 20 years’ jail

A local court in Muzaffarnagar has sentenced two men — Maheshvir and Sikander Malik — to 20 years in jail for the gangrape of a woman from the minority community during the 2013 communal riots in the western UP district that left over 50,000 homeless and claimed 60 lives. The third accused, Kuldeep Singh, had died during the course of the trial in 2020. The case had gained pace after the Supreme Court’s intervention.

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Hardeep Singh Puri vs Piyush Goyal? Shots fired over Rera

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IPL: Surya storms hits Wankhede as Mumbai jump from eighth to third

Swashbuckling Suryakumar Yadav was in beast mode as his whirlwind 35-ball 83 powered Mumbai Indians to a crushing six-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bangalore in a crucial IPL encounter in Mumbai on Tuesday. The Surya storm hit the Wankhede as he along with Nehal Wadhera (52 not out) made light work of the 200 chase. Taking the Bangalore bowlers to the cleaners on a batting beauty, Surya and Nehal added a fiery 140-run stand off just 66 balls for the third wicket to mow down the visitors.

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'If my marriage had been conventional, I would have been nobody'

She’s the OG Dream Girl of Bollywood. At 75, her beauty, grace and poise are striking and unmatched. Hema Malini, actress, danseuse, director, and politician keeps her creative passion alive more through her dance ballets than cinema.

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Manipur clashes left 60 dead, 200 wounded, 35,000 displaced, says CM Biren Singh

Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh said Monday that 60 “innocent” lives were lost and over 200 wounded in the ethnic clashes in the state that displaced 35,000 people, while around 1,700 houses were burned down, and 1,041 weapons and 7,460 rounds of ammunition looted from police armouries.

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BJP banks on Modi magic in Karnataka: 19 rallies, 6 roadshows in 7 days

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EC asks Cong to ‘clarify, rectify’ Sonia’s sovereignty comment

The Election Commission on Monday asked Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge to “clarify and rectify” the party’s social media post based on Sonia Gandhi’s purported remark on the “sovereignty” of Karnataka. The EC’s letter to Kharge followed a complaint by BJP regarding a tweet which appeared on the official Twitter handle of the Congress on May 6.

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Sharad Pawar failed to create NCP successor: Saamna editorial

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IPL: Kolkata edge Punjab to keep playoffs hopes alive

A gritty half-century from skipper Nitish Rana was followed by a 'Russell' mania as Kolkata Knight Riders pipped Punjab Kings in a last-ball thriller to keep their playoffs hopes alive in the ongoing 16th edition of the IPL on Monday. KKR finally cracked the Eden Gardens code after three straight defeats at home, registering a thrilling five-wicket win in chase of a tricky 180.

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Rise in heatwaves, fall in coldwaves in Gujarat: Report

In December 2022, none of the weather stations in Gujarat recorded minimum temperatures below 10 degrees celsius or cold waves. Termed 'warm winter,' the trend continued till early January.

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Tamil Nadu cinemas drop ‘Kerala Story’, cite fear of damage

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Now, two Buddhist Stupas found in Bandhavgarh

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Tillu Tajpuriya murder: TN cops on duty in Tihar sent back, to be suspended

In a major action against the personnel of the Tamil Nadu Special Police Force (TNSP), who reportedly were mute spectators to the killing of Sunil Tajpuria in Tihar Jail, seven of them were sent back to Tamil Nadu. Their suspensions will follow. The action comes in the wake of the director general of prisons' letter to the TNSP DG.

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Tamil Nadu cinemas drop ‘Kerala Story’, cite fear of damage

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Kerala boat capsize: Many of the deceased are children, say officials

At least 18 people were killed and several more were feared dead when a boat carrying families on an outing capsized at Parappanangadi in Kerala's Malappuram district on Sunday evening. The boat was conducting trips past evening, flouting regulations.

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IPL: SRH stun RR after dramatic last ball no-ball call

A re-jigged batting order fired in unison as Sunrisers Hyderabad stunned Rajasthan Royals at their home to clinch a high-scoring last-ball IPL thriller in Jaipur on Sunday. Leveraging on a crucial last-ball no-ball from Sandeep Sharma, Sunrisers snatched the cliffhanger to register for their fourth win of the season. As Sunrisers shot down a challenging 215 target, Aiden Markram and co. registered the joint third highest successful chase in the history of the competition.

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Nine dead in Texas mall shooting

A gunman stepped out of a silver sedan and began shooting people at an outlet mall in Allen, Texas, on Saturday, sending hundreds of shoppers fleeing in panic in the latest gun violence to strike the country.

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Jamtara hacked, cyber crooks log in from Asansol

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Prices of imported soybean, sunflower oils fall by 46-57%

Prices of imported crude sunflower and soybean oils in India have fallen by 46-57% in the past one year after the opening of the supply chain from war-hit Ukraine. However, the drop in retail and wholesale prices of these two edible oils are barely in the range of 16-17%.

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30 killed in Manipur clashes, official says; hundreds flee

Ethnic clashes in Manipur since May 3 claimed at least 30 lives, according to the first official death toll given out Saturday by the new security adviser to the state government, although unconfirmed reports put the count at more than 100.

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Dhruv fleet grounded again after crash; call for probe

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Manipur violence: Toll rises to 54; CM chairs all-party meeting

Violent clashes broke out between tribals and people belonging to the majority Meitei community in Manipur on Wednesday, displacing thousands of people and killing at least 54.

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Rs538cr fraud: CBI searches 7 sites linked to Jet Airways

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700 pilots seek Air India jobs amid Go First crisis

Air India has received application from 700 pilots to join the Maharaja amid the exodus from Go First. ​​Go First has close to 740 pilots on the Airbus A320 family of planes and they are trying to get jobs as lessors have lined up to repossess planes and the airline faces an uncertain future.

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Covid-19 no longer a global health emergency: WHO

Covid-19, which claimed millions of lives around the world over the past three years, is no longer a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), WHO declared on Friday. The virus, instead, is now an established and ongoing health issue, it said. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva that the decision was taken following a recommendation from the UN agency's emergency committee that met Thursday.

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Army plans integrated battlefield surveillance centres

The Army is slowly but surely cranking up capabilities to fight in the increasingly digitized battlefields. The force is now going for integrated battlefield surveillance and intelligence centres, which will get feeds from a wide array of sensors ranging from satellites and drones to radars and troops on the ground, to provide a composite operational picture for commanders on both the China and Pakistan fronts.

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Neeraj begins Diamond League title defence with win in Doha

Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra kicked off his new season in an emphatic manner by winning the opening leg of the Diamond League with a world leading and fourth career-best effort in Doha on Friday.

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IPL: Gujarat crush Rajasthan by 9 wickets to consolidate top spot

Defending champions Gujarat Titans came back to winning ways on Friday, demolishing Rajasthan Royals by nine wickets in their Indian Premier League match at Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur. Titans consolidated their top spot in the standings with the win as they now have 14 points from 10 games, three more than the second-placed Lucknow Super Giants.

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Violence spirals, orders to shoot on sight in Manipur

An order to shoot rioters on sight in extreme cases was issued Thursday in Manipur after overnight violence in tribal areas to resist any attempt by the government to include the majority Meitei community in the scheduled tribe list continued to spread, forcing authorities to call out the Army at midnight.

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Astronomers spot Sun-like star devouring planet

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IMD: April 2023 nights coolest in 5 years

April managed to shed its "cruellest" tag this summer in India as the country not only witnessed its coolest nights of the month in the past five years but also the coolest and wettest days after 2020, IMD data showed. Experts said the unusual weather pattern of April and May this year has been an outlier. The April pattern seems to continue in May, too, with the first few days of this month witnessing a repeat of the unseasonable cool.

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SCO bilaterals: Focus on border with China, ‘trust-­based’ talks with Russia

The Sino-Indian border strife in eastern Ladakh again dominated foreign minister S Jaishankar’s second bilateral with his Chinese counterpart Qin Gang as the former reiterated India’s position that bilateral ties will return to normal only after the situation along the LAC is fully resolved. In another bilateral meeting on Thursday, Jaishankar had "trust-based" exchanges with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on bilateral and "topical" global and regional issues.

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Violence spirals, orders to shoot on sight in Manipur

An order to shoot rioters on sight in extreme cases was issued Thursday in Manipur after overnight violence in tribal areas to resist any attempt by the government to include the majority Meitei community in the scheduled tribe list continued to spread, forcing authorities to call out the Army at midnight.

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Wrestlers ready to explore legal options to ensure proper probe

They had hoped for a favourable ruling from the Supreme Court, but the protesting wrestlers, already incensed over alleged police high-handedness on Wednesday night, suffered another roadblock in their fight for justice against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh as the apex court decided to close proceedings on the plea of sexual harassment allegations against the sidelined WFI chief, a BJP-strongman and six-time Lok Sabha MP.

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Airfares shoot up on routes with strong Go First presence

Air fares for the next few days on tourist routes with strong Go First presence have shot up after its bankruptcy announcement, leaving those who had booked the airline's tickets from Mumbai/Delhi to places such as Srinagar, Leh and Phuket till May 5-the airline has suspended all its flights till Friday-staring at costly alternatives.

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Court summons BBC in suit over Modi documentary

A Delhi court issued summons on Wednesday to BBC, Wikimedia Foundation and Internet Archive in a defamation suit filed by BJP functionary Binay Kumar Singh, who's seeking a permanent restraint order to disallow the three organisations from publishing a controversial and banned BBC documentary on PM Narendra Modi and any material tied to RSS and VHP.

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SC junks pleas against 'Kerala Story', asks petitioners to move HC

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Cops caught in scuffle with wrestlers at Delhi's Jantar Mantar

The Delhi Police got into a scuffle with the protesting wrestlers at Jantar Mantar late in the night on Wednesday. As witnessed by TOI, the wrestlers wanted to bring in extra mattresses and wooden benches to the protest site since rains in the national Capital in the evening had made their old mattresses wet and soggy.

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G20 meet: Jammu division on high alert over possible terror attack

A high alert has been sounded in Jammu division following inputs about a possible terror attack in the region. All Army installations, especially, and even Army schools along the Jammu-Pathankot national highway, are on alert. "Terrorists are planning a Poonch-type terror attack to make their presence felt and disrupt the G20 meeting," officials said on condition of anonymity.

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Sarath Babu not dead he is alive and recovering, says family

Sarath Babu was born in Amadalavalasa, Andhra Pradesh with the name Satyanarayana Dixit.

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Beta blockers may not be mega life-savers: Study

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Railway cancels tender for New Delhi station revamp

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Arun Gandhi, author & Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, dies

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Marine, NSG commandos to secure G20 meet in Kashmir

Marine and NSG commandos will be deployed as part of a strong security cover for the upcoming G20 working group meeting scheduled in Kashmir later this month. "The ADGP Kashmir shared with all stakeholders that NSG teams will be used for counter fidayeen attack along with SOG and specialise NSG teams to counter drones will be deployed at all venues," a police spokesperson said on Tuesday.

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NIA raids 12 locations in J&K in terror conspiracy case

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IPL: Delhi Capitals beat Gujarat Titans by 5 runs

Delhi Capitals kept themselves alive in the Indian Premier League 2023 as they eked out a hard-fought five-run victory over table-toppers Gujarat Titans at Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad on Tuesday. The Capitals posted a below-par 130 for 8 after opting to bat first, but their bowlers managed to stop the Titans for 125 for 6 in their 20 overs.

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GST collections surge 12% in April to touch Rs 1.87L cr

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Consultation at advanced stage on sedition: Govt

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'Remission by Bihar govt in teeth of SC judgments'

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'Head of civic body will be liable if manual scavenging takes place'

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Rahul, Unadkat injuries give Team India a scare for WTC final

The Indian cricket team think tank has a lot to ponder after their two key players of the World Test Championship (WTC) final squad got injured in a span of two days, giving them a big scare ahead of the high-profile final against Australia slated to be held at The Oval in London from June 7-11.

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186 Indians take off from Jeddah, 3k leave Sudan so far

As Operation Kaveri is underway, the Kochi-bound ninth flight departed from Jeddah with 186 passengers. "9th outbound flight departs from Jeddah. 186 passengers onboard this flight are flying to Kochi," Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi tweeted. Earlier, EAM Jaishankar, on Sunday, said that nearly 2300 evacuees Indians have reached India.

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MKB@100 : BJP turns milestone episode into mass outreach event

On the day when most senior BJP leaders along with their followers were glued to radio sets listening to the 100th episode of ‘Mann Ki Baat’, the party’s creative team shared these inspiring stories of unsung heroes, who have been mentioned by PM Narendra Modi in different episodes of the monthly broadcast. BJP celebrated the occasion on a large scale making it a mass outreach programme.

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After 20 hours under rubble, man rescued on birthday

After 20 agonising hours of being trapped under the debris following the Bhiwandi building crash, labourer Sunil Pisal (32) was safely rescued on Sunday, which was also his birthday. When NDRF and Thane Disaster Relief Force personnel extracted Pisal from the rubble around 8am, he was conscious and thanked them with folded hands for giving him a second life. His relatives and friends cheered on as he was taken to hospital.

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Filled a void, gave people connect: PM Modi on episode 100 of 'Mann Ki Baat'

Addressing the 100th edition of ‘Mann Ki Baat’ on Sunday, an emotional PM Modi said the radio broadcast had allowed him to worship the positives in people he had met with or spoken to. He also said it filled the “emptiness” that he felt when he first moved to the capital from Gujarat in 2014. He described ‘Mann Ki Baat' as a great medium to learn from the qualities of others, adding that it allowed him to connect with the people of India like he used to when he was Gujarat CM.

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IPL: Mumbai pip Rajasthan in a high scoring thriller

Tim David's unbeaten 14-ball 45 blitzkrieg trumped Yashasvi Jaiswal's dazzling maiden IPL ton as Mumbai Indians pipped Rajasthan Royals in a high-scoring last-over thriller at the iconic Wankhede in Mumbai on Sunday. Making the 1,000th match of the Indian Premier League a blockbuster, Mumbai shot down the 213-run target with three balls to spare.

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'I have worked a lot on my batting': Yashasvi Jaiswal

Yashasvi's maiden century powered Rajasthan Royals to 212/7 against Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium on Sunday. Yashasvi, who scored a brilliant 124 off 62 balls, has become the 'Orange Cap' holder in the IPL 2023.

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Vote for double-­engine govt, not reverse-­gear one: Shah

Union home minister Amit Shah attacked Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and his sister, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, describing their poll campaign in Karnataka as “electoral tourism”. “The siblings have been planning to make Karnataka their ATM again,” Shah claimed while addressing party workers at Katapadi, in Udupi district. He urged voters to choose between the double-engine government of Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi’s “reverse-gear government”.

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ED searches Byju's CEO's office, residence over FEMA violations

The ED on Saturday said it conducted “searches and seizure action” at three places belonging to Bengaluru-based edtech giant Byju’s, including its head office and founder Byju Raveendran’s city residence. The ED said this was done under provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (Fema).

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Defamation case not serious, courts erred: Rahul’s lawyer

The defamation case against Rahul Gandhi is not serious enough to warrant his disqualification from contesting elections for eight years, his counsel Abhishek Manu Singhvi said Saturday in the Gujarat high court that is hearing a plea to stay a lower court’s conviction of the former Congress MP.

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Assembly election: Congress abused me 91 times, Karnataka voters will reply, says PM Modi

PM Narendra Modi, who launched the second and final leg of his campaign in poll-bound Karnataka on Saturday, said: “Someone made a list of all the 91 different abuses and sent it to me. Had Congress people put the same effort into good governance and boosting the morale of their workers instead of wasting time on this dictionary of abuses, the party wouldn’t have been in such a pathetic state,” Modi said at a public rally at Humnabad, in Bidar district, about 700km from Bengaluru.

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Mukhtar Ansari gets 10-year jail for BJP MLA’s murder

Ghazipur court on Saturday sentenced jailed ganglord Mukhtar Ansari to 10 years’ imprisonment and his BSP MP brother, Afzal Ansari, to four years following their conviction in separate cases registered under the UP Gangsters Act in 2007. Additional sessions judge-I (MP-MLA court) Durgesh also fined Mukhtar Rs 5 lakh and Afzal Rs 1 lakh. The sentencing of Afzal paves the way for his automatic disqualification from the Lok Sabha. He represents Ghazipur in Parliament.

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IPL: Abhishek, Klaasen shine in Sunrisers' third win of season

Abhishek Sharma, back at the top of the order for Sunrisers Hyderabad, was an anomaly for the first 12 overs of a match played between two equally unsure teams at the Ferozeshah Kotla on Saturday evening. His uncluttered intent fetched him 67 runs off 36 laid the foundation for Heinrich Klassen’s blazing unbeaten 27-ball 53 for SRH to post 197/6 and secure a nine-run win against a beleaguered Delhi Capitals.

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Fix accountability for terror aid, India says while Pak skips meet

India on Friday called upon the eight member states of the SCO to collectively work towards eliminating terrorism in all its forms, and fix accountability on those who aid or fund such activities, even as Pakistan defence minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif skipped the meeting.

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Paucity of evidence: Court acquits Sooraj in Jiah Khan case

Calling Jiah Khan, who died by suicide 10 years ago, a “victim of her sentiments”, a special court on Friday acquitted actor Sooraj Pancholi of the charge of abetting the suicide of his girlfriend. It also doubted the suicide note and said Jiah’s mother Rabia could not explain the delay in lodging a complaint. Twenty-five-year-old Jiah, also an actor, was found hanging in her Juhu house on June 3, 2013. She was a US citizen.

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'Why were Atiq and his brother paraded before media?'

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to “look into” the sensational murder of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed while in custody and also the encounter killing of Atiq’s son just two days before it even as it asked the UP government to file a status report.

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BJP ex-minister likens Sonia Gandhi to ‘vishkanya’, Congress fumes

Karnataka BJP MLA and former Union minister Basanagouda Patil Yatnal likened ex-AICC chief Sonia Gandhi to a “vishkanya” (poison maiden) at a poll rally late Thursday, hours after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s “poisonous snake” barb at PM Narendra Modi had stoked a row over political propriety and forced him to clarify that the remark was directed at the latter's ideology.

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Wrestlers won't leave protest site till WFI chief is arrested

Welcoming the filing of an FIR against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the group of protesting wrestlers led by Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat and Sakshi Malik, on Friday, said that they will continue with their sit-in at Jantar Mantar till the time the Wrestling Federation of India's (WFI) sidelined president is not arrested and put behind bars by the Delhi Police.

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