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A joint team of central intelligence and anti-terrorism officers arrested a suspect on Wednesday in connection with a train fire that killed three people and injured several others in Kerala on Sunday night, officials said. The suspect, identified as Shahrukh, was caught in Ratnagiri district in Maharashtra, about 1,000 kilometres north of Kerala after a […]

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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has said India is moving towards ‘Ram Rajya’ with the government making every effort to work for the welfare of farmers, labourers, women and youths. Speaking at a function here for the release of Hindi poetic translation of ‘Ramcharitmanas’ by former bureaucrat Dhiraj Bhatnagar on Tuesday, Singh said the government is […]

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Three people were killed and many suffered burn injuries after an unidentified person poured petrol on co-passengers and set them afire inside the D-1 coach of the Alapuzha-Kannur Express around 9.50 pm on Sunday after the train left Kozhikode railway station. Police has police recovered the assailant’s visuals recovered from a CCTV footage of a […]

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will appear in a Gujarat court today to appeal against his conviction and two-year sentencing in a 2019 defamation case. Rahul Gandhi is likely to move a plea in Surat’s sessions court to set aside the Magistrate order convicting him in the defamation case for a remark seen as an insult […]

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Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu is set to walk out of Patiala jail today, 10 months after serving sentence in a road-rage incident in which a man was killed 34 years ago. A tweet from his official account this morning said that the 59-year-old cricketer-turned-politician will address the media outside jail around noon. Will […]

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The Hindu festival of Ram Navami marking the end of the nine-day Chaitra-Navratri celebrations remained largely incident-free, but communal clashes and disturbances were reported in a few states. Peace and calm now prevail in West Bengal’s Howrah which saw communal clashes and violence after alleged incendiary slogans and stone pelting during a Ram Navami procession. […]

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Eight people have been arrested for putting “Modi Hatao, Desh Bachao” posters in different areas of Ahmedabad, reports news agency ANI. The arrests come just a day after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) launched a nationwide poster campaign against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. According to the Ahmedabad Police, a case has been registered and further […]

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Delhi government has called for an emergency meeting today over the alarming rise of coronavirus cases in the national capital. Yesterday, Delhi’s COVID-19 cases climbed to 300 for the first time since August 31 last year, while the positivity rate climbed to 13.89 per cent, according to data shared by the city health department. In […]

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Twitter has blocked the Pakistan government’s account from being viewed in India in response to a legal demand, according to a notice on the social media platform on Thursday. The company’s guidelines compel it to withhold entire accounts in response to a valid legal demand, such as a court order. The account, @GovtofPakistan, remained available […]

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The United States is watching Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s case in Indian courts, US Department of State Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel said on Monday (local time), adding that the US engages with the Indian government on a shared commitment to democratic values, including freedom of expression. “Respect for the rule of law and judicial […]

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China skipped a confidential G20 meeting held in India on Sunday, sources said. The meeting was held in Itanagar, the capital city of Arunachal Pradesh, a northeastern state that China claims is a part of Tibet. India has rejected such claims in the past and maintains Arunachal is its integral part. Over 50 delegates attended […]

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The Congress has planned a nationwide “save democracy” movement to protest against the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as the member of parliament, a day after a court convicted him of defamation for comments that many considered insulting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The decision was taken at a strategy meeting on Friday attended by top […]

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Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from the Lok Sabha is a “deep betrayal” of Gandhian philosophy, an influential Indian-origin Congressman said on Friday. Rahul Gandhi, the former Congress president, was on Friday disqualified from the Lok Sabha, nearly 24 hours after a court in Surat convicted him in a defamation case. “The expulsion of […]

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Radical Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh, who is still on the run, may be headed to Delhi after his last location was traced to neighbouring Haryana, sources have said. Sources say the police have stepped up vigil across the national capital after Amritpal sneaked out of Punjab and was last spotted in Haryana. An alert has been issued in Dehradun, […]

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In a huge setback for the Congress party, its former president Rahul Gandhi has been disqualified from the Lok Sabha because of his conviction in a 2019 criminal defamation case. The Lok Sabha Secretariat also declared his constituency vacant. The Election Commission can now announce a special election for the seat. Congress has called it […]

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As Amritpal Singh continues to be on the run, the police have arrested a woman who sheltered the Khalistani leader and his associate Papalpreet Singh at her home in Haryana Baljeet Kaur sheltered Amritpal Singh and his aide Papalpreet Singh at her house in Kurukshetra’s Shahabad on Sunday night, officials have said. She told police that […]

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Khalistan supporters protesting against the crackdown on Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh on Wednesday, shouted slogans, threw water bottles and ink at the London Metropolitan police, who kept them confined to the other side of the road, a safe distance from the Indian High Commission. For the protesters, the immediate provocation was the bigger Indian flag […]

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The Delhi Police today registered 44 cases and arrested two people after thousands of posters seeking the ouster of Prime Minister Narendra Modi were found in the national capital. Two of the four arrested own a printing press. In a massive operation on Tuesday, police took down nearly 2,000 ‘anti-Modi’ posters from several places in […]

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India’s High Commissioner to the UK Vikram Doraiswami while summarizing the situation in Punjab, on Wednesday said “there is no truth to sensationalist lies being circulated on social media”. The Indian High Commissioner was talking about the law enforcement action against Waris Punjab De. “The situation for travel is normal and visitors including from the […]

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With the hunt for Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh entering the fourth day, his uncle Harjit Singh was flown to Dibrugarh in Assam this morning. On Sunday, his other four arrested associates were also taken to Dibrugarh Central Jail. Amritpal Singh’s uncle and six other aides have been charged under the stringent National Security Act (NSA), […]

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The name of fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi wanted in a Rs 13,000-crore scam in the Punjab National Bank is understood to have been removed from the Interpol database of Red Notices on the basis of his plea to the Lyon-headquartered agency, people in the know of the development said. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) […]

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Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh, who is on the run from the Punjab Police, has been declared a fugitive, officials have said. A massive operation has been launched to catch Amritpal Singh who, sources say, was last seen speeding away on a motorcycle last evening. Police have arrested 78 members of his outfit ‘Waris Punjab De,’ while […]

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As the chase for Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh entered Day 3, his uncle and driver surrendered today. His uncle Harijit Singh and driver Harpreet turned themselves in at Punjab’s Mehatpur. Amritpal Singh’s uncle Harijit Singh was driving a Mercedes when the police were chasing the Khalistani leader and his aides on Saturday. Harijit Singh said he […]

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Security agencies had raised a red flag after intelligence inputs suggested that pro-Khalistan preacher Amritpal Singh was using drug de-addiction centres and a gurdwara for stockpiling weapons and preparing youths to carry out suicide attacks, officials said on Sunday. A thick dossier prepared with inputs from various security agencies claimed that Singh, who returned from […]

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