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Bike stunt by 4 youths kills Kanpur woman | India News

KANPUR: A bike stunt by four youths on Thursday claimed the life of a 23-year-old woman on the Ganga Barrage in Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh. Bhavika Gupta, the victim, had gone to the barrage with her friend on a two-wheeler on Thursday evening. Her family said she was just a few metres away from the […]

J&K HC upholds detention of a woman accused of having contact with Lakhvi’s nephew | India News

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir high court upheld on Thursday the detention of a woman under the Public Safety Act. The woman is accused by government of being an “overground worker (OGW) who had close contact with Musaib Lakhvi, the nephew of Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi”, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks mastermind and LeT co-founder.Appellant Shaista Maqbool […]

‘Sin’: BJP accuses Nehru of dropping Maa Durga stanzas from Vande Mataram in 1937; takes ‘pungent echo’ dig at Rahul | India News

NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday accused India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of committing a “historic sin” by truncating certain parts of Vande Matram which hailed Goddess Durga.In a social media post on X, BJP spokesperson CR Kesavan said that Congress, under Nehru’s presidentship, adopted only a truncated Vande Mataram as the party’s […]

Maharashtra orders probe into land sale to Ajit son’s company | India News

PUNE: A major political row erupted in Maharashtra on Thursday over alleged transfer of a 40-acre ‘Mahar Watan’ land belonging to the state in Pune’s Mundhwa area for Rs 300 crore in favour of Amadea Enterprises LLP, a company in which deputy CM Ajit Pawar’s son Parth is one of two partners, prompting Mahayuti government […]

Garhwal takes a vow: 3 pieces of gold jewellery, no booze at weddings | India News

A meeting at Lodara decided on a fine of Rs 51,000 and social boycott of families that flout the ban on alcohol at weddings and ‘mundan’ ceremonies DEHRADUN/UTTARKASHI: Villages in Uttarakhand’s Garhwal region have begun enforcing new wedding norms – limiting women to wearing only three gold ornaments and banning alcohol – as part of […]

‘For medical treatment’: Gujarat HC grants 6-month bail to Asaram; serving life sentence in 2013 rape case | India News

NEW DELHI: The Gujarat high court on Thursday granted six months’ bail to self-styled godman Asaram in a 2013 rape case in which he is serving a life sentence — nearly a week after the Rajasthan high court granted him bail in a separate, similar case.A division bench of Justices Ilesh Vora and RT Vachhani […]

‘Send special force’: Bihar dy CM Sinha after convoy attacked; takes shot at ‘coward’ police | India News

BJP’s Lakhisarai candidate Vijay Kumar Sinha casts his vote for first phase of Bihar Assembly elections NEW DELHI: Bihar deputy chief minister Vijay Kumar Sinha was seen reprimanding the Lakhisarai Superintendent of Police (SP) and demanding deployment of a “special force” after his convoy was attacked by people he claimed were supporters of the opposition […]

The OG ‘Jan Nayak’: Why Karpoori Thakur is the flavour of Bihar elections 2025 | India News

NEW DELHI: In Bihar’s charged election season, everyone wants to be a ‘Jan Nayak’.When Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the NDA’s campaign earlier this month by visiting Karpoori Gram, the native village of socialist icon Karpoori Thakur, and paying floral tribute at his memorial, it was more than a symbolic gesture. It was the first […]

‘Who is this woman?’ Rahul Gandhi says Brazilian model voted 22 times in Haryana; changed names from Sweety to Saraswathi | India News

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday dropped the ‘H-bomb’, alleging a large-scale voter fraud during the Haryana elections. The leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha alleged that 1 in 8 voters in Haryana are fake, pointing to unexplained differences between postal and booth votes.The presser was held at Congress headquarters in […]

Enumeration for Phase-II of SIR in 12 states/UTs gets under way | India News

NEW DELHI: Enumeration for Phase II of the SIR exercise spanning a dozen states and UTs commenced Tuesday, with around 5.3 lakh booth level officers (BLOs) undertaking the first round of house-to-house visits to distribute enumeration forms to electors.The enumeration period for SIR in nine states – Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, MP, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, […]