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Impact of US tariffs will be felt on India, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal visiting USA for talks with Trump admin: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

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Nirmala Sitharaman stated that the tariffs are likely to increase with the decision of the US President
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AGI Greenpac’s Review Petition after SC struck down resolution plan to acquire HNG: An attempt to further delay the longest running IBC case, causing...

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AGI Greenpac, with its review petition, wants to restrain the CoC to consider other resolution plans which already had CCI approval, including the INSCO’s bid
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News Reports

Karnataka DGP’s daughter Ranya Rao, caught in Gold smuggling case, visited Dubai 30 times in past year, her father was earlier embroiled in Hawala...

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DGP Rao insisted that he had no connection to his daughter Ranya Rao’s gold smuggling activities. However, he has also been investigated in the past in Hawala case.
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News Reports

‘Jumma comes 52 times a year while Holi comes only once’: Sambhal CO Anuj Chaudhary advises Muslims to stay indoors if they think colours...

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A meeting of the peace committee was held at the Sambhal Kotwali police station on Thursday as part of the efforts to maintain peace during the festival of Holi.
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News Reports

AMU denies permission for “Holi Milan” event, Jamaat chief Maulana Shahabuddin says Hindu event should not be held in Muslim majority institution

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The Hindu students have stated that they would write to PM Modi if the permission is not granted for the Holi event.
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News Reports

From jail sentence in murder case to ‘prophet’ of faith healings: All you need to know about Pastor Bajinder Singh and his many controversies

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From hearing disabilities to HIV-AIDS, paralysis to even Cancer, Prophet Bajinder Singh claims to have healed people with these conditions using his ‘Hallelujah’ miracles in his Changai Sabhas (healing congregations).
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News Reports

Professional Congress leader-run queer group Mist LGBTQ was getting funds from USAID, appeals for donation after Trump’s fund freeze

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Mist LGBTQ, founded and run by Shyam Konnur, LGBTQ affairs coordinator of the All India Professionals' Congress in Maharashtra, has been receiving funds from USAID
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News Reports

Nigerian military attacks the office of electricity supply company after their power supply was disconnected due to unpaid bills

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The armed personnel assaulted the staff and forced them to kneel. The incident has instilled fear in the staff members some of whom decided to avoid going to the office.
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News Reports

“Nobody has right to raise finger on him”: Muslim Personal Law Board member Khalid Rashid defends Mohammed Shami on Roza controversy

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AIMPLB member Maulana Khalid Rashid Farangi Mahli said that since Mohammed Shami is playing he had an option to not observe Roza
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Crime

Tamil Nadu: 22-year-old Abdul Hafeez, his girlfriend, and her friend murder Hafeez’s other girlfriend, 35-year-old Loganayagi, after converting her to Islam

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Abdul Hafeez was having an affair with Dhaviya Sultana while he was in a four-year relationship with Loganayagi.
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Crime

Do you remember the Walayar rape and suicide case in Kerala: Turns out, the parents of the girl have been indicted by CBI in...

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The chilling details in the charge sheet in Walayar rape and suicide case reveal that the parents of the victims facilitated the victims' sexual exploitation by the accused and even witnessed it.
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News Reports

Banned PFI funded and guided its front organisation SDPI to advance Islamic movement by endorsing principles of Jihad: Enforcement Directorate

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ED said that saying that the SDPI is one of the front organisations formed by the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) to pursue ‘all principles of jihad.’
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News Reports

Terrorist Tahawwur Rana plays religion card: One of the masterminds of 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai that killed 175 people says he fears torture...

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It is pertinent to recall that in August 2024, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit stated that Tahawwur Rana is “extraditable to India” under the extradition treaty between India and the US.
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News Reports

‘Grave sin’, ‘Guilty as per Sharia’: Jamaat President Shahabuddin Razvi accuses cricketer Mohammed Shami of committing serious crime by taking energy drink during Ramzaan

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Maulana Shahabuddin Razvi has criticised cricketer Mohammed Shami for not observing the Roza during Ramazan
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News Reports

‘Eradicate Sanatan Dharma’ remarks: Supreme Court orders no further FIRs against Udhayanidhi Stalin without permission

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On March 4 last year, the apex court frowned upon Stalin over his remarks calling for the eradication of 'Sanatana Dharma' and told him that he is "not a layman but a minister" and he should know the consequences of his remarks.
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News Reports

Shocking and wrong signal: Supreme Court criticises UP govt for demolishing properties of Atiq Ahmed’s aides in Prayagraj, says govt will have to reconstruct...

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The action has been taken against builders who reportedly shared close ties with late gangster Atiq Ahmed.
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News Reports

Rajasthan HC rejects petition of man who wanted the right to have a live-in relationship with his married sister

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Jodhpur bench of the Rajasthan HC rejected the plea of alleging that his live-in partner, who is his sister, is being harassed by her in-laws
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News Reports

Muslim man says he opposes UCC because it bans cousin marriage: Here is a list of relationships that the Uttarakhand law prohibits

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Speaking to journalist Aditi Tyagi, a Muslim cleric claimed that UCC has been brought to end the supposed status. The Maulana expressed his discontent over the provision in UCC which bans marriages among cousins. The Muslim cleric asserted that cousin marriages are common among the Muslim community and permitted in Shariah.
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News Reports

UK almost allows attack on EAM Jaishankar: Watch how Khalistani mercenary attempts to heckle during Chatham House visit

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Jaishankar was attacked in front of security personnel who were unbothered regarding the serious security breach.
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News Reports

Sambhal: UP Police to construct police posts from the stones that were pelted on them by Muslim rioters during Jama Masjid survey

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Sambhal Police have also launched a project named 'Safe Sambhal' to make the region safe. Under this project, the police are planning to install hundreds of CCTV cameras across the city.
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News Reports

Amid Trump’s calls to reclaim Panama Canal’s control from China, American financial giant buys 90% stake in ports of the canal from Hong Kong...

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Hong Kong-based conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings has agreed to sell its controlling stake in Panama Ports Company (PPC) to a consortium led by U.S. asset management giant BlackRock.
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News Reports

US: Divided Supreme Court rejects Trump administration’s plea to freeze foreign aid

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A divided SC of the US on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration's request to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid approved by Congress frozen, CNN reported.
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News Reports

Biden administration paid climate NGOs created just months ago billions of dollars ahead of elections

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As the details of the Biden administration funding newly-created climate groups emerged, the FBI and the Justice Department under the Trump administration have launched an investigation and frozen the linked bank accounts wherein billions of dollars of EPA-allocated funds are kept.
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News Reports

White House rejects Arab plan to rebuild Gaza, sticks to Trump’s vision of reconstructing it into a beach destination after depopulating it

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The Egyptian Plan was dismissed by the US for not addressing the "reality that Gaza is currently uninhabitable and residents cannot humanely live in a territory covered in debris and unexploded ordnance."
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News Reports

Gujarat: Hindu family assaulted for bursting crackers in temple courtyard during Ramzan; abuses hurled at Hindu God and family threatened with death

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A Hindu family in Khambhalia was attacked for bursting crackers in a temple courtyard during Ramzan. The accused allegedly assaulted them and hurled insults at the deity.
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News Reports

From Beawar to Bhilwara: Uncovering the chillingly similar pattern of rape, blackmail, and conversion by the many grooming gangs of Rajasthan

Rukma Rathore -
Multiple grooming gangs in Rajasthan are deliberately targeting Hindu women and girls, deceiving them into their trap, subjecting them to gang rape, and using blackmail to continue their exploitation.
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News Reports

Adani Foundation at Mundra celebrates women empowerment, honours 1,000 ‘Lakhpati Didis’ ahead of International Women’s Day

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The Adani Foundation reaffirmed its commitment to gender inclusivity by celebrating 614 women at Adani Solar, who have played key roles in engineering, HR, manufacturing, and production.
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News Reports

Leftist goons fight clash with TMC at Jadavpur university, ABVP and BJYM join hands to fight both of them: What happened

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After SFI and other left-wing student groups attacked TMC minister, ABVP and BJYM removed SFI flags and posters from Jadavpur University
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News Reports

Gujarat: Two Muslim groups Al Addis and Shias clash near mosque in Ahmedabad over calling for Azan first in the month of Ramzan

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The police said that the video is from 2nd March 2025 and was recorded when two caste groups of the Muslim community, Al Addis and Shia resorted to violence after a dispute arose over performing Azan first in the Ahmadi and Bismillah mosques.
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News Reports

Tension grips Delhi’s Brahmpuri over mosque expansion near Shiv Temple, Hindu families put up ‘house for sale’ posters: All you need to know

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Notably, the show-cause notice issued by the MCD to the mosque clearly states that the map was approved by concealing facts. It further stated that the map was approved under the residential category.
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News Reports

All-party meeting led by Stalin rejects delimitation, demands status quo for 3 decades, says delimitation, if necessary, be based on 1971 census

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The parties in the all-party meeting said that the southern states should not be penalised for successfully controlling their population.
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News Reports

Union Cabinet approves Kedarnath ropeway project, travel time to be reduced from 8-9 hours to 36 minutes

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The Kedarnath ropeway, with a total length of 12.9 kilometres, will come up with a monetary outlay of about Rs 4,081 crore
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Bengaluru restaurant forced to remove Odia language signage despite prominent Kannada board: How politics over ‘Kannada pride’ is fuelling hooliganism and hatred

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Despite this, the man issues a warning to the Odia restaurant owner asking him to remove the Odia language board and that he would come back in a week to check. The Kannada language goon asserted that in Karnataka, the Kannada language and Kannada people should get first priority.
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Biju Patnaik birth anniversary: Read why Odisha’s former CM was awarded Indonesia’s highest honour, ‘Bhoomi Putra’, and their honorary citizenship

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Patnaik flew in a Dakota aircraft and rescued Indonesian Vice President Mohammad Hatta and Prime Minister Sutan Sjahrir on July 21, 1947. The Dutch threatened to shoot down his aircraft but Patnaik replied that if his aircraft was shot down, no Dutch aircraft would be able to fly across Indian skies.
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‘Send him to UP, we will treat him’: Yogi Adityanath on Abu Azmi over comments praising Aurangzeb, the SP MLA suspended from Maharashtra assembly

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Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath came down heavily on Maharashtra MLA and Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Abu Azmi for praising Mughal tyrant Aurangzeb
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Fraudsters who ran a ₹3,558 crore ‘cloud space’ scam arrested: How the ED and UP government busted the data centre scam

Rukma Rathore -
The ED arrested Vuenow Group CEO Sukhvinder Singh Kharour and his wife, Dimple, for a ₹3,558 crore Ponzi scheme involving fraudulent "cloud particle" investments.
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US House Committee report says Chinese govt gives subsidies and grants for production and export of Fentanyl precursors, calls for urgent action

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A recent inquiry by the House Select Committee focused on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party has brought to light troubling information regarding the CCP's role in exacerbating the fentanyl epidemic in the United States.
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US announces reciprocal tariffs against India, China to be effective from April 2

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Justifying reciprocal tariffs, the US President said that other countries have been unfairly taxing the US and therefore now it is the turn of the US to tax them.
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Uttar Pradesh: Man booked under anti-conversion law in Shravasti for running conversion racket in the guise of prayer meetings

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The police suspect that Singh might have fled to Punjab. A team has been dispatched to locate him. Given Shravasti's proximity to the Nepal border, authorities are monitoring the area to prevent any possible cross-border escape.
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Madhya Pradesh: Hindu infant girl child abducted from hospital after mother’s death, converted to Islam

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The Muslim couple, who abducted the child, claimed that they had taken the orphaned infant out of compassion. They further asserted that they had even applied for legal adoption at the Collector's office in Sagar.
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CBI busts East Central Railway paper leak scam, 26 railway officials arrested

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Overall, 26 Railway officials have been arrested in this case so far, CBI said. Searches were conducted at 8 locations, which resulted in the recovery of Rs. 1.17 crore in cash.
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After targeting vulnerable Hindus, Christian missionaries embark on “Mission Muslim”: Evangelicals in UP intensify efforts to convert Muslims to Christianity

Shraddha Pandey -
The Christian Missionaries in UP have set their eyes on a new target: vulnerable Muslims, who could be lured into eschewing their faith for Christianity.
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Mahakumbh: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi shares story of boatman earning Rs 30 crores during the historic event

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Refuting the Samajwadi Party's claims of boatmen being exploited during Mahakumbh Mela, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath shared a success story of a boatman's family who earned Rs 30 crore in 45 days during the congregation in Prayagraj from January 13 to February 26.
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‘Punjab can’t be a dharna state’: AAP, which supported farmers’ dharna at Delhi border, now hits out at farmers for organising a dharna in...

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The farmers have organised a "Chandigarh Chalo" protest on 5th March against Punjab government. Bhagwant Mann wanted them to withdraw the protest but they refused.
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Economy and Finance

India’s historic breakthrough: Extreme poverty nearly eradicated, sharpest inequality decline in decades, reveals new study

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The recent household expenditure surveys for 2022-23 and 2023-24 released by the government of India reveal India has nearly eradicated extreme poverty.
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World

Serbian Parliament witnesses chaotic scenes as opposition politicians hurl smoke grenades and tear gas inside the house, several politicians injured

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The Serbian Parliament witnessed major chaos on Tuesday, March 4, after opposition deputies threw smoke grenades and tear gas inside the Parliament during a legislative session.
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News Reports

Bangladesh: Nephew of Hamid Mia attempts to encroach land of Hindu family, attacks with sharp weapon on resisting

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Vctim Pulak Kumar informed, "I and my brothers had been living on this land, which was purchased about 40 years ago. We have all the documents. Bitan and his aides trespassed into our land, created chaos and began a fight."
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News Reports

China, Canada retaliate to US tariffs by announcing counter-tariffs on US goods, Mexico prepares a backup plan

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Billionaire investor Warren Buffet has described Trump's tariffs as ' an act of war'. "Tariffs are actually-we've had a lot of experience with them-they're an act of war, to some degree," said Buffet. He said that tariffs are ultimately paid by consumers who purchase taxed goods. "The Tooth Fairy doesn't pay'em, " he added.
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Madhya Pradesh: Waqf Board lays claim to Hindu-majority village including Shivling; villagers outrage

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There are families that have lived in Makhni for generations. They have made it clear that they will not give up their land and are prepared to fight against the Waqf Board's actions. Notably, the claim over the Shivling has caused significant resentment among the locals, who have accused the board of overreach and wrongful encroachment.
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Muhammad Yunus lies through his teeth about ‘law and order’ situation in Bangladesh during BBC interview, human rights report exposes him

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On Monday (3rd March), BBC Bangla published a 17-minute interview of Muhammad Yunus wherein he claimed that the 'crime rate' in Bangladesh had not increased after his interim government came to power.
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