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K Kavitha, the daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, has been summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to appear as a witness in the Delhi liquor policy case on Tuesday. Ms Kavitha, a former MP and now a Member of Legislative Council, has been given a choice of appearing either at […]

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The Congress today saw another “gaddar” (traitor) jibe thrown around as its communications in-charge, Jairam Ramesh, went for some bite when asked if Jyotiraditya Scindia, a former Congress “young turk” who is now a BJP minister, could come back to the party. “Scindia is a gaddar (traitor), true gaddar, real gaddar and 24-carat gaddar,” Ramesh […]

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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma asserted today that “love jihad” is a “reality” and has been established by the grisly murder of Shraddha Walkar in Delhi. Sarma has earlier spoken of the issue in the context of the murder, insisting that the country needs a strict law against “love jihad” — a term coined […]

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Several buildings on Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus were defaced on Thursday with anti-Brahmin slogans, photos of which were shared on social media. Students claimed that the walls in the School of International Studies- II building were vandalised with slogans against Brahmin and Baniya communities. There was no immediate reaction from JNU Administration on the […]

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Gangster Goldy Brar, one of the main conspirators of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala’s murder, has been detained in US, sources told NDTV. A member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, Goldy Brar had recently moved to the US from Canada, where he was based since 2017. The gangster was detained in California around November 20, […]

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A total of 89 seats are voting in the first phase of assembly polls in Gujarat today, in which the BJP is hoping for a seventh consecutive term. Its big challenger is the Aam Aadmi Party, which has managed to push aside the Congress in terms of visibility. The 89 seats are spread across 19 […]

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China may station aircraft carriers, large warships and submarines in its first overseas military base in Djibouti, a move that would have profound security ramifications for the Indian Navy. Details of the base feature in the US Department of Defence’s annual report on China, which is submitted to the US Congress. The report, released on […]

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The Islamic State jihadist group said Wednesday that its leader Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi has been killed in battle and announced a replacement. A spokesman for the group said Hashimi, an Iraqi, was killed “in combat with enemies of God”, without elaborating on the date of his death or the circumstances. Speaking in an audio […]

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The names of 10 judges recommended for elevation by the Supreme Court Collegium have not received a go-ahead from the Central government. The files, returned on November 25, also include the name of senior advocate Saurabh Kirpal, the son of former Chief Justice of India BN Kirpal. Sources say some names that were reiterated by […]

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A scuffle broke out between supporters of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday during Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s roadshow in Surat city in poll-bound Gujarat. The incident occurred in Katargam locality in the evening after BJP workers chanted ‘Modi, Modi’ when the convoy of vehicles in Kejriwal’s […]

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Hundreds of people took to the streets in China’s major cities on Sunday to protest against the country’s zero-Covid policy, in a rare outpouring of public anger against the state. China’s hardline virus strategy is stoking public frustration, with many growing weary of snap lockdowns, lengthy quarantines and mass testing campaigns. A deadly fire on […]

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In one of the biggest data breaches ever, phone numbers of nearly 500 million WhatsApp users have been leaked and are up for sale. The database, up for sale on a popular hacking forum, contains the private information of WhatsApp users from 84 countries, according to a report by Cybernews. The person who put up […]

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The Congress vowed to take legal action over a “doctored” video clip and threatened the BJP with “payback” after the ruling party’s top leaders shared the clip with a claim that “Pakistan Zindabad” slogans were heard during Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra that’s currently in Madhya Pradesh. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was […]

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The Supreme Court on Friday took umbrage at a litigant calling a judge of the court a “terrorist” and directed the registry to issue him a show cause notice as to why he should not be prosecuted for criminal contempt for “scandalising” the judge. “You have to be sent inside the jail for a few […]

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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will be considering “all options”, including reducing the number of foreign students, in his bid to bring down the rising net migration in the United Kingdom, according to a report by the BBC. Sunak will be looking into imposing curbs on foreign students pursuing so-called “low quality” degrees and bringing […]

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah has asked historians to rewrite history in the Indian context and assured them that the government will support their efforts. “I am student of history and I hear a lot of times that our history has not been presented properly and is distorted. Maybe that is correct, but now we […]

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Congress’s Rahul Gandhi, face of the party’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, launched one of his strongest attacks on the BJP till date. The venue was Madhya Pradesh, the state where the party’s government crashed in 2020 after Jyotiraditya Scindia — one of the its senior leaders and Rahul Gandhi’s closest aide – crossed over to the […]

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The Union labour ministry has summoned Amazon India to appear before the deputy chief labour commissioner in Bengaluru on Wednesday, in connection with the alleged forced terminations by the company, according to news agency IANS. “You (Amazon) are therefore requested to attend this office with all relevant records in the matter either personally or through […]

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In a new twist to the row over viral videos of Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain getting massages in jail, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s claim that these were “physiotherapy” has been denied by official sources who say the “masseur” in the video is a prisoner in a rape case. The man giving the AAP minister a […]

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Gujarat will today witness high voltage campaigning ahead of Assembly elections scheduled for next month, as all top leaders of the top three parties staking claim to power will address several rallies across the state. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address three back-to-back ‘Vijay Sankalp Sammelan’ rallies of his party BJP, Union Home Minister Amit […]

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The autorickshaw blast in coastal Karnataka’s Mangaluru Saturday was not accidental but an “act of terror with the intention to cause serious damage”, the state police chief confirmed today. While confirming the news on Twitter, Karnataka DGP Praveen Sood also added that the state police is “probing deep” into it along with central agencies. Karnataka Home […]

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Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, who has agreed to meet lawyers of the Gujarat High Court striking over a judge’s transfer, on Saturday said that the strike makes “consumers of justice suffer”. Speaking at the felicitation function organised by the Bar Council of India (BCI), he backed the collegium system of judicial appointments, […]

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Retired bureaucrat Arun Goel has been appointed as an Election Commissioner ahead of the crucial assembly election in Gujarat. The third post in the country’s top poll body has been vacant for nearly six months. A communique from the law ministry this evening read, “The President is pleased to appoint Shri Arun Goel, IAS (Retd.) […]

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Maharashtra Governor B S Koshyari on Saturday said Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was an icon of “olden days” even as he referred to B R Ambedkar and Union minister Nitin Gadkari while talking about “icons” in the state, drawing criticism from NCP. Governor Koshyari made the remarks after conferring D.Litt degrees on Mr Gadkari, a senior […]

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