100 million plus in India now diabetic, up 44% in 4 years: ICMR study

India now has more than 101 million people living with diabetes compared to 70 million people in 2019, according to an ICMR study published in the UK medical journal ‘Lancet’. While the numbers are stabilising in some developed states, they are increasing at an alarming rate in many others, “warranting urgent state-specific interventions”, the study notes.

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Indira float row not good for ties: EAM S Jaishankar to Canada

India hit out hard at Canada Thursday for allowing Khalistan separatists to celebrate the assassination of former PM India Gandhi with foreign minister S Jaishankar, saying Canada’s indulgence of such activities will not be good for the bilateral relationship.

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3 killed as ambulance set on fire in Manipur

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Rahul, Arvind, Mamata to attend Patna opposition meet

The Bihar capital will host on June 23 chief minister Nitish Kumar’s long-promised show of non-NDA solidarity, bringing to town a veritable who’s who of staunch BJP opponents such as Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and ex-MP Rahul Gandhi, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, her Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal, Tamil Nadu’s M K Stalin and Hemant Soren of Jharkhand.

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UP gangster shot dead in court by man in lawyer’s clothes

Jailed gangster Sanjeev Maheshwari Jeeva, an associate of don-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, and convicted for the murder of former UP minister Brahma Dutt Dwivedi, was shot dead outside a crowded courtroom in Lucknow on Wednesday. The assailant, Vijay Yadav, told cops that he had been promised Rs 20 lakh for the job by an unknown person. He was to be delivered the entire sum after killing Jeeva.

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Ahead of PM Modi visit, India & US hold strategic trade talks

Ahead of PM Narendra Modi’s visit to the US, the two countries held the inaugural meeting of India-US Strategic Trade Dialogue (IUSSTD). The talks focused on ways to facilitate development and trade in critical technologies like semiconductors, space, telecom, quantum, Artificial Intelligence, defence and bio-tech, according to the Indian embassy in the US.

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Cost of thali holds clues to food prices

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Delhi cops question Bhushan aides at Gonda home

A special investigation team of Delhi Police returned to the capital on Tuesday after recording the statement of at least 10 people and conducting an in-depth, two-day probe at the residence of former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in UP's Gonda district.

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Officer dissents, says train crash not due to signal failure

In what seems to be an inter-departmental disagreement over the cause of the Odisha train accident, a senior railway engineer who was among the signatories to the ‘joint inspection report’ on the mishap has given a dissent note. While the inspection report blamed signal failure for the crash, the officer referred to a ‘datalogger’ report to claim that the signal was green for Coromandel Express to take the main line and not the loop line.

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Berlin eyes sub project, Delhi seeks more defence investment

India on Tuesday asked Germany to get its companies to invest in the Indian defence production sector and help build resilient supply chains to reduce reliance on China, while also stressing that Pakistan cannot be trusted with high-end military technologies because of its deep-seated collusion with Beijing.

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3-year-old falls into borewell in MP; rescue ops under way

Massive rescue operations were on to save a 3-year-old girl who fell into a borewell in Sehore district on Tuesday. The incident took place at Mungaoli village at around 1.30pm.

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Nudity and obscenity not always synonymous: Kerala high court

The Kerala HC said Monday that “nudity and obscenity are not always synonymous”, as it discharged a suit against women’s rights activist Rehana Fathima, who’s facing multiple charges for uploading a video in 2020 of her young son and daughter painting on her bare torso.

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Fraudulent claim on body makes Odisha sound alarm

As several of the dead in the Bahanaga train tragedy continue to remain unidentified, a woman’s fraudulent attempt at claiming one of the bodies as that of her husband’s on Sunday has prompted the Odisha government to sound an alarm. Pradeep Kumar Jena, state chief secretary, on Monday asked the railways and the Odisha police to take action against such fake claimants, who may resort to fraudulent tactics to claim compensation.

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At least 40 on Coromandel Exp may have died due to electrocution

At least 40 bodies retrieved from the derailed bogies of the Coromandel Express rake involved in the three-train crash in Odisha’s Balasore may have been electrocuted by snapped overhead cables as they didn’t have any external injury, a police officer who oversaw the rescue operation said on Monday. His statement echoes the FIR that mentions electrocution as the cause of many deaths after live overhead cables fell on the compartments.

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Rail denies cut in safety bill, says Rs 1 lakh crore spent in 5 years

Dismissing the opposition charges about the railways cutting spending on rail safety, the national transporter on Monday said it had spent more than Rs 1 lakh crore on safety measures between 2017-2018 and 2021-22. It cited records to show a steady growth in expenditure on track renewal.

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Some hope for wrestlers, but no ‘immediate arrest' of WFI chief

In a dramatic turn of events, the protesting wrestlers have reengaged with the government for a resolution of the standoff over their demand for arresting former Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, leading to a de-escalation in the agitation, at least for now. According to sources close to them, agitating wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Sakshee Mallikh, along with a group of coaches and others, had a two-hour meeting with Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday evening.

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Deliberate interference with system caused train crash; CBI to identify guilty, motive: Rail officials

As the CBI on Monday started its probe into the Balasore train accident, top railway officials once again stressed that the crash took place because of “deliberate interference” with the electronic interlocking system. ​​Late in the evening, a CBI team reached the crash site to begin the investigation which, among other things, is expected to reveal whether the derailment of the Coromandel Express was due to negligence or sabotage.

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Opposition unity meet in Patna likely to be postponed by 10 days

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Gauhati HC ex­-CJ to head panel to probe Manipur violence

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Kin scour train crash site, hospitals, morgues praying for miracle

The window for rescues has closed in the three-train accident in Odisha’s Balasore, given the length of time that has passed, but many families clutched at straws and kept searching Sunday for “missing” relatives — at the site of the tragedy and in hospitals. Desperate, they visited the morgues too, reluctantly.

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Rs 1,710 cr Bihar bridge collapse a second in 14 months

In a major setback to the ongoing construction of the four-lane Sultanganj-Aguani Ghat bridge across the Ganga in Bihar, its super structure connecting Sultanganj in Bhagalpur with Khagaria collapsed Sunday evening. According to sources, at least 30 slabs of several pillars, including pillar nos. 9, 10 and 11, measuring around 100ft, collapsed. The estimated cost of the bridge is Rs 1,710 crore.

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'Strict action against those giving train crash communal tint'

Odisha Police warned of strict action against those behind communally provocative posts on social media regarding the train accident, saying the focus should instead have been on how volunteers from the area responded to the tragedy, irrespective of community or faith. “... We appeal to all concerned to desist from circulating false and ill-motivated posts. Severe legal action will be initiated against those who are trying to create communal disharmony by spreading rumours," Odisha Police said.

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Odisha train tragedy: Initial investigation finds signal ‘interference’, CBI to probe criminal angle

In an unusual move, the Centre on Sunday announced a CBI probe into the rail accident in Odisha as the railways’ preliminary investigation singled out “interference” with the ‘electronic interlocking system’ and ‘points’, which ensure safe movement of trains, as the “root cause” of the crash. T​he railway ministry ruled out any fault of the loco driver of the Coromandel Express and failure of signals.

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No therapeutic basis for ingredients in 14 banned drugs: Panel

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Court denies bail to woman YouTuber who groped minor

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SC nixes Allahabad HC order seeking help of astrology in rape case

The Supreme Court on Saturday nixed a bizarre attempt by a judge of the Allahabad HC to mix law with astrology in deciding the bail plea of a man, who facing rape charges, had reached a purported settlement with the rape survivor to marry her but wriggled out of it alleging that her birth chart suffered an astrological blemish — ‘mangal dosh’.

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India’s worst train tragedy since '95: Survivors recount horrors

The death toll in the three-train accident at Bahanaga Bazar station in Odisha’s Balasore rose to 288 on Saturday and left over 1,000 injured, with a preliminary probe implying human error in the deadliest railway tragedy in 30 years. Search and rescue was called off 18 hours after the accident, and authorities mounted a multi-agency probe to ascertain how a superfast train veered from its original path into the loopline and rear-ended a parked freight train, causing a fatal domino effect.

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US President Biden signs debt ceiling bill

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Odisha train crash: Seat swap saves lives of father, daughter

The father-daughter duo boarded the train at Kharagpur and were supposed to get down at Cuttack as they had an appointment with a doctor on Saturday. Though they had the tickets to travel in a third AC coach, the child insisted on sitting near a window.

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Jobs scam: Supreme Court frown on West Bengal bid to stall probe

The ED on Friday tracked 10 bank accounts that may have been used by Sujay Krishna Bhadra alias ‘Kalighater Kaku’ in his role as a “banker” in the alleged West Bengal school recruitment scam, reports Rohit Khanna. ED sources hinted that some of these bank accounts belong to his associates, whose homes had been searched on May 20. Some of them may be summoned for questioning alongside Bhadra.

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Arrest WFI chief by June 9: Khap meet serves ultimatum to govt

Turning up the heat on Friday, a sarvjatiya khap mahapanchayat held at Kurukshetra served an ultimatum to the government to arrest Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, accused of sexual harassment by the protesting grapplers, and resolve the issue through a dialogue.

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Ready to take on China at any time: IAF, navy chiefs

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‘Touching not coaching’: 5-year rigourous imprisonment to coach

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Law Commission backs sedition law, govt says not bound by it

The Centre on Friday swiftly distanced itself from the Law Commission’s recommendation to retain sedition as a penal offence, emphasising that the view was not binding on the government which would take a final decision after consulting all stakeholders. The commission, while recommending that Section 124A of IPC, which treats sedition as a criminal offence be retained, called for safeguards and amending the law, which has been prone to misuse.

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Chargesheet soon, want justice for protesting wrestlers: Anurag Thakur

Denying allegations that action was not taken against WFI ex-chairman Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh for allegedly sexually harassing women wrestlers because he is a BJP MP, minister of sports and youth affairs Anurag Thakur said Friday the Centre favoured an early resolution of the row.

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Smugglers send officials on gold hunt in Palk Strait

The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) and Department of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) have been on a gold hunt in the Palk Strait after smugglers from Sri Lanka threw the contraband into the sea on spotting a patrol boat. After two days of underwater searches, Coast Guard divers retrieved 11.6 kg of gold on Thursday from the seabed near Mandapam.

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China minister in attendance, EAM asks Brics meet to fight terror

Describing terrorism as a key threat to international peace and security, foreign minister S Jaishankar on Thursday called upon all nations to take resolute measures against it, including its financing and propaganda. It must be combated in all its forms and manifestations and never be condoned under any circumstances, the minister said while speaking at the Brics foreign ministers’ meet in Cape Town.

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38 medical colleges derecognised, 102 more face action

After derecognising 38 medical colleges, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has also issued show cause notices to 102 medical colleges for failing to fulfil mandatory requirement of marking attendance by all registered faculty members and staff. The apex body for medical education took the action after it was found that these colleges weren’t following the NMC regulations for mandatory biometric attendance.

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Changing names a fundamental right, says Allahabad HC

The Allahabad high court has ruled that the right to keep a name of choice or change it according to personal preference comes within the ambit of fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution of India. Allowing a writ petition, the court quashed an order passed by the regional secretary, Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (UP Board), regional office, Bareilly, UP, and directed the respondents to allow the application of the petitioner to change his name.

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300 tourists stuck after landslide in Pithoragarh

More than 300 people, mainly tourists and pilgrims on the Adi Kailash yatra, were stranded in Dharchula and Gunji areas of Pithoragarh district near the India-China border on Thursday, 48 hours after a massive landslide on Tuesday evening blocked access to the critical Lipulekh-Tawaghat border road near Lakhanpur in Uttarakhand.

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‘Good effort’: PM Modi’s praise for TOI’s Tiger Anthem

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Amit Shah announces judicial probe into Manipur crisis

Home minister Amit Shah on Thursday announced a judicial probe into the ethnic violence that has rocked Manipur, the creation of a unified command for overseeing the security in the state, a CBI inquiry into the six specific incidents of violence and a peace committee under the governor for holding reconciliation talks between the warring Meitei and Kuki communities. Shah said that the judicial inquiry will trace out reasons for the violence and identify the persons responsible for it.

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Chappal in CCTV footage helps cops trace Rs 2 lakh stolen phone

When the railway police scanned the images closely, they got a close look at his gait and footwear-chappals with a loop to slip in the big toe. Two days of some clever sleuthing helped nab a person who has admitted he had lifted the phone from the train.

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Saas-bahu fights erupt in K'taka over govt Rs 2,000 subvention plan

Instances of disputes between 'saas' and 'bahu' have begun to surface as family members argue over who should receive the monthly cash incentive. The lack of clear eligibility criteria in the Congress' election manifesto, where they pledged to grant the monthly subsidy to the woman head of the family, has further contributed to the confusion among households.

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BrahMos has emerged as a Brahmastra: Defence chiefs

The next-generation BrahMos, a smaller and lighter version of the existing missile that flies almost three times the speed of sound at Mach 2.8, will also be fitted on to smaller fighters like the MiG-29s, Mirage-2000s and Tejas light combat aircraft. A 800-km range variant of the BrahMos has also undergone its maiden test, as was earlier reported by TOI.

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Prachanda arrives on 4-day trip, border, energy issues on agenda

Prachanda (68), who is visiting India for the third time as Prime Minister, will also call on President Droupadi Murmu and Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar. For India too, one of the main focus areas will be on finalising ways to deepen power cooperation through fresh initiatives. Nepal currently exports over 450 MW of electricity to India.

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3 terrorists arrested with 10kg IED, weapons, drugs along LoC in J&K

The recovery included an AK-56 rifle with balance 10 rounds in the magazine (rest of the ammunition had been fired by the terrorist who was injured), two pistols with two magazines, 70 pistol rounds, one IED weighing around 10-12kg, six Chinese grenades and 20 packets of narcotics, the Lt Col added.

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Don't take any step that undermines sports: Thakur tells wrestlers

Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Wednesday asked protesting wrestlers not to take any step that could undermine sports or hurt players and said they should wait for the probe to complete, even as political parties stepped up attacks on the government over the issue.

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Cross-border narco-terror root of Manipur violence: PIL

"The serious issues of narco-terrorism and external aggression posing threat to national security is prevalent in Manipur and the resultant fallout is the present human crisis wherein a large number of people have been displaced from their homes disturbing normal life in the state," said the petitioner - NGO 'People's Alliance for Peace and Progress, Manipur'.

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Amid strife in China, Pakistan ties, India to host virtual SCO meet

India had earlier invited leaders of all member-countries for the summit - the first under its presidency - that will be chaired by PM Narendra Modi. An in-person summit would have seen Modi coming face-to-face with both Xi and Sharif at a time ties with China have been wrecked by the boundary dispute and when the relationship with Pakistan is nearing rock bottom.

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Insurgency has nothing to do with Manipur violence: CDS

Gen Chauhan explained that before 2020, the Army and the paramilitary Assam Rifles had been deployed in Manipur for counter-insurgency operations. "Since the challenges of the northern borders were far more, we were able to withdraw the Army. We were able to do that since the insurgency situation had normalised." On the situation in the Eastern Ladakh sector, he the Chief of Defence Staff said, "China's PLA People's Liberation Army (PLA)

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SC comes down hard on challenges to PMLA by accused seeking relief

Dealing with a batch of petitions by accused in the purported 2,000 crore Chhattisgarh liquor scam case, an approach similar to what started in the year 2018 was noticed by a vacation bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and P K Mishra, which on Monday had pointed out the fallacy in filing of writ petitions challenging the validity of provisions of PMLA when these have been upheld by the SC and reiterated by a two-judge bench.

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Phone in dam: Babu fined Rs 53,000 for draining out water

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Hyd pub lets revellers dance with exotic reptiles; 7 booked

Based on a Twitter complaint by wildlife enthusiast Ashish Chowdhury, sleuths of the Hyderabad Commissioner's Task Force, along with forest officers, on Tuesday raided a private pet store, booked 7 people, and seized various exotic animals, birds and reptiles, many of which were displayed at the pub.

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LeT leader who indoctrinated 26/11 terrorists who attacked Mumbai dies in Pakistan jail

A court in Pakistan had sentenced him to prison time along with two other JuD leaders, Malik Zafar Iqbal and Hafiz Abdul Rehman Makki, in August 2020 for financing terror, ahead of a September 2020 deadline for Pakistan to avoid being blacklisted by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global financial watchdog, for failing to curb “terror financing”.

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'Around 100 medical colleges may lose recognition'

Around 30 medical colleges across the country have lost recognition over the past two months allegedly for not following standards set by the National Medical Commission (NMC), official sources said on Tuesday. About 100 more medical colleges in Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Assam, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry and West Bengal may also face similar action, they said.

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Tollywood director Pijush Saha arrested for fraud

According to reports, director Pijush Saha who's also a producer took Rs 20 lakh from young actor Akshay Gupta, a resident of Rampurhat in Birbhum, and promised him that he will be Pijush's next film's hero. But he didn't keep his promise and didn't even return that money.

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Mantris fan out to highlight Modi govt's 9-year feats

The central leaders who addressed press conferences on Monday include - Nirmala Sitharaman in Mumbai, Anurag Thakur in Ahmedabad, Meenakshi Lekhi in Bengaluru, Hardeep Singh Puri in Lucknow, Ashwani Vaishnaw in Guwahati, Bhupendra Yadav in Bhopal, Arjun Ram Meghwal in Hyderabad, Jitendra Singh in Chennai, Gajendra Singh in Patna, Mansukh Mandaviya in Kolkata, Piyush Goyal in Jaipur and Smriti Irani in Rohtak.

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WATCH: How Jadeja guided CSK to fifth IPL title

The phrase 'cometh the hour cometh the man' perfectly fits for Chennai Super Kings (CSK) all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, who snatched victory from the jaws of defeat against Gujarat Titans (GT) in the final in Ahmedabad to guide CSK to a record-equalling fifth IPL title in the wee hours of Tuesday.

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Maharashtra: 53 years on, project to be opened tomorrow, cost up 655 times

The project was initially approved at Mhaladevi village in Ahmednagar in 1970 at an estimated cost of Rs7.9 crore. The dam was supposed to have a holding capacity of 11 TMC. Nine years on, in 1979, the project was relocated to Nilwande and the capacity was reduced to 8.5 TMC. With all the delays, the final cost of the project went up to Rs 5,177 crore - around Rs 5,169 crore more than the initial budget.

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3 months after bypoll win, lone Congress MLA in West Bengal joins TMC

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9 of a family among 10 killed in Karnataka SUV-bus collision

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Onboard WiFi & brand new interiors on Air India planes soon

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Grandpa not made mantri, 7-year-old girl writes to Rahul Gandhi

In her letter, seven-year-old Aarna Sandeep said: "Dear Rahul Gandhi, I am TB Jayachandra's granddaughter. My grandfather was not made a minister. Therefore, I am very disturbed. He must be made minister because he is hardworking, and love to people and helps them. He should be made a minister."

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Opposition netas to meet in Patna on June 12: Nitish Kumar

Addressing a meeting of JD(U) functionaries at the party's state office here, Nitish said when he dumped the BJP in August last year and formed a new government in alliance with the RJD, Congress and "leaders of many other political parties from across the country congratulated me".

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Unfazed by violence, over 3,000 appear for UPSC exams in Imphal

Sources said 4,051 candidates had registered for UPSC prelims in Imphal but after UPSC provided them an alternative to choose from exam centres in a few other states, about 700 opted to appear from outside Manipur.

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'Indelible signature of history': PM opens new Parliament building

"This new building will see the fulfilment of the resolutions of a developed India. This new building is also an ideal for the coexistence of the new and the old," he said.

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China's 1st home-grown passenger plane completes its maiden commercial flight

The C919 plane, built by the Commercial Aviation Corporation of China (Comac), carried about 130 passengers on the flight, according to state-owned newspaper China Daily. The jet took off Sunday morning from Shanghai Hongqiao Airport and landed less than two hours later in Beijing.

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Erdogan declares victory in Turkey run-off election

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared victory Sunday in a historic run-off election that posed the toughest challenge of his two-decade rule.

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Govt highlights its pro-poor policies to observe 9th anniversary

With industry bigwigs and domain experts from academia to sports in attendance, industrialist Sunil Bharti Mittal lauded the existing ecosystem that allowed India to be the fastest in rolling out 5G network by March, 2024.

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Throwing woman out of joint property domestic violence: Court

The victim, who had moved back to her parents’ home after her divorce 23 years ago, told the court after her brother married in 2016, his wife and he began to physically assault her and repeatedly threw her out of their home.

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False caste slur charge can’t deprive one of liberty: Court

The judge pointed out that while Virkar had complained to the cops on April 12 alleging that the informant and others assaulted them, the informant’s FIR was lodged only on April 21.

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Rahul can get passport with 3-year validity, says court

A Delhi court granted Friday a no-objection certificate for ex-Congress MP Rahul Gandhi to get an ordinary passport with a validity of three years in lieu of the diplomatic passport that he surrendered following his March 26 disqualification from Parliament. Rahul had sought the court’s NOC for the issuance of an ordinary passport for 10 years as he is an accused in the National Herald case filed by BJP veteran Subramanian Swamy in 2012.

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NIA seeks death penalty for Yasin Malik

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SC gives medical bail to Satyendar Jain till July 10

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Why inaction over offensive tweet against Zubair: HC

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IPL: Gill ton scripts Mumbai's exit as Gujarat set up final with Chennai

A belligerent Shubman Gill ton lit up the Narendra Modi Stadium as the defending champions Gujarat Titans stormed into a second straight IPL final, brushing aside five-time champions Mumbai Indians in a lop-sided Qualifier 2 in Ahmedabad. Firing his third century of the season, Gill's explosive 60-ball 129 proved to be too much for Mumbai as the Titans became the third team in the history of the tournament to make it to two successive finals after Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai.

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Injury scare for Kishan and Green ahead of WTC final

Both India and Australia faced injury concerns as Ishan Kishan and Cameron Green suffered nasty blows during the IPL Qualifier 2 match between Mumbai Indians and Gujarat Titans on Friday, casting doubts over their availability for the upcoming World Test Championship final.

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Praveen Sood takes over as CBI director, meets agency brass

Praveen Sood, a 1986-batch Karnataka cadre IPS officer, took charge as the new director of the Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday, replacing Subodh Kumar Jaiswal. He will have a fixed tenure of two years. Sood, who served as director general of police of Karnataka before his new assignment, held an interaction with the CBI brass soon after taking charge.

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Shinde’s Sena plans to fight 22 Lok Sabha seats

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Jaishankar likely to attend Brics meet in South Africa

Foreign minister S Jaishankar will travel to Cape Town next week to participate in the BRICS foreign ministers’ meeting that will look to firm up the agenda for the summit that South Africa will host in August. The foreign ministers’ meeting is an important forum for focus on political and security cooperation among the member-states and Jaishankar will likely use it to stress the need for all to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of States without making any exception.

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As 2 more die, just 1 of 4 Kuno cheetah cubs left

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Modi’s veiled dig: ‘Australia opposition MPs, ex-PM attended Sydney function’

Amid an escalating fight over who should inaugurate the new Parliament building on Sunday, PM Narendra Modi cited the presence of his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese and the latter’s predecessor Scott Morrison at the event organised by the Indian community in Sydney this week to suggest that partisan differences should not take precedence over matters of national importance.

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New MP chambers won’t be ready by March next year

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Delhi HC upholds dismissal of cop who probed Ishrat case

The Delhi high court upheld Wednesday former IPS officer Satish Chandra Verma’s dismissal from service a month before he was to retire on September 30, 2022. Verma was a member of the Gujarat HC-appointed special investigation team (SIT) that probed the police shooting of 19-year-old Ishrat Jahan and three others in Ahmedabad in June 2004, which he called a “fake encounter” in an affidavit to the court in 2011.

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Karnataka gets first Muslim Speaker

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2nd conviction still in force, Azam may stay disqualified

Samajwadi Party strongman Azam Khan’s acquittal by a Rampur court in the hate speech case that led to his disqualification from the UP assembly last year might have created a constitutional quandary requiring judicial intervention but for his recent sentencing by a Moradabad court in a 2008 case.

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Karnataka govt may withdraw circular banning hijab

The Congress government in Karnataka is seriously considering withdrawing the primary and secondary education department’s circular prohibiting hijabs in schools and pre-university colleges in the state. Senior state minister Priyank Kharge also said that his government would ban outfits like the Bajrang Dal if peace in the state was disturbed. “We have promised in our manifesto to turn Karnataka into a paradise" he said.

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Ron DeSantis confirms running for US Prez in 2024

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis entered the 2024 presidential race on Wednesday, stepping into a crowded Republican primary contest that will test both his national appeal as a cultural conservative firebrand and the GOP’s willingness to move on from former President Donald Trump. The 44-year-old Republican revealed his decision in a Federal Election Commission filing before an online conversation with Twitter CEO Elon Musk.

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IPL: Akash scripts LSG's rout, MI get closer to summit clash

Uttarakhand-born uncapped Akash Madhwal wreaked havoc with his maiden IPL fifer as five-time champions Mumbai Indians blew away Lucknow Super Giants in a one-sided Eliminator clash in Chennai. Demolishing the Krunal Pandya side by a mammoth 81 runs, Mumbai registered the third biggest margin of win in the playoffs and booked their flights to Ahmedabad where they will face defending champions Gujarat Titans in the Qualifier 2 on Friday.

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District court clubs all 8 Gyanvapi civil cases

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Indira, Rajiv too inaugurated buildings on Parl premises: BJP

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Forceful seizure of vehicles by recovery agents is illegal: HC

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All-round CSK brush aside defending champions GT to enter 10th IPL final

A crucial 44-ball 60 from Ruturaj Gaikwad at the top was followed by a spin show as an all-round Chennai Super Kings brushed aside defending champions Gujarat Titans to march into 10th IPL final, extending their remarkable consistency in the T20 cricket's biggest extravaganza. Securing an easy 15-run win over Hardik Pandya and co. in the Qualifier 1, MS Dhoni and co. became the first team to book their tickets for the Sunday's final in Ahmedabad.

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Jagan, Naveen crucial for govt to get Delhi services bill past RS

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has called upon opposition parties to block in Rajya Sabha the bill to replace the ordinance promulgated on Friday to neutralise the Supreme Court verdict that gave the Delhi government control over bureaucracy in the national capital, but the BJP leadership seems hopeful of clearing the numbers test in the Upper House with the support of YSR Congress and BJD.

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CBI questions Wankhede again for 5 hours in Aryan case

The CBI questioned former NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede for five hours on Sunday, in the corruption-extortion case connected to October 2021 Cordelia cruise drug bust case involving actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan. The Bombay high court has scheduled to hear Wankhede’s plea challenging the CBI FIR on Monday and has restrained the CBI from taking any “coercive action” against him till then.

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CUET sees 77% attendance on glitch-free Day 1

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I should take your autograph, Biden tells PM Modi

Ahead of next month’s India-US summit, US President Joe Biden launched into fulsome praise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, terming him an influence in the Indo-Pacific and complimenting him for his popularity in the US. Biden playfully complained about the loads of requests for invitations to the dinner he has scheduled to host in the honour of Modi during the PM’s visit to the US next month. "I should take your autograph

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Top Naxal absconding for 2 decades held in Delhi

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PM Modi condoles demise of veteran actor Sarath Babu

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday expressed grief over the untimely death of Veteran actor Sarath Babu and extended condolences to the late actor's family

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