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35 years back, an erstwhile king was killed in an encounter in Rajasthan for which 11 policemen were given life imprisonment. Rea

Raja Man Singh and his two associates were killed by a team of police force led by then DSP Kan Singh Bhati

USA orders China to shut down its Consulate in Houston, Texas within 72 hours, documents being burned

Videos were shared on social media in which documents appeared to be burning in the courtyard of the Consulate General of China in Houston.

Pakistani journalist who had criticised military kidnapped in broad daylight, released after public outrage

Matiullah Jan is a freelance journalist who has been criticising the military in his writings and social media posts.

Are Communist trolls from Kerala scared of the BBC?

Elite media's torrid love affair with 'Kerala model' for coronavirus containment has come to an end.

ED raids premises of Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot’s brother Agrasain Gehlot in connection with fertiliser scam

ED raided several premises of Ashok Gehlot's brother in connection with a fertiliser scam for selling fertiliser to middleman

Meerut: Dilshad posed as Hindu to trap Priya who moved with her daughter to live with him, mother-child found murdered after his identity revealed

Priya who was living with Amit Gurjar alias Dilshad in Meerut for the last 7 years, suddenly went missing, and her and her daughter's bodies found

Supreme Court issues show-cause notice to Prashant Bhushan in contempt of court case against him

Supreme Court starts hearing of contempt of court case against Prashant Bhushan for his tweets slandering CJI and SC justices

NDTV India’s Ravish Kumar goofs up, talks about ‘fertility rate’ in coronavirus analysis. Watch video

NDTV India journalist Ravish Kumar confuses between 'mortality rate' and 'fertility rape' in his Coronavirus analysis on TV

Remember when after denying Lord Ram’s existence they said that only Congress PM will build Ram Mandir and BJP will never as they’ll ‘run...

After years of waiting, the moment is here. When the process of building the grand Ram Mandir will begin in Ayodhya.

As deadline approaches, Priyanka Gandhi ready to vacate Lutyen’s bungalow, will shift to Gurugram temporarily

Priyanka Gandhi not to move her base to UP as speculated, will live in Gurugram for few months before shifting back to Delhi

Teenage Afghan girl picks up father’s AK-47, kills Taliban terrorists who had murdered her parents

Teenage Qamar Gul watched the Taliban terrorists kill her parents and picked up her father's AK-47. She reportedly killed two terrorists and injured several others.

Uttar Pradesh: Journalist Vikram Joshi’s family names one Kamal-ud-din’s son as the main culprit, says won’t take body till he’s arrested

Joshi's nephew has stated that Kamal-ud-din's son was the one who was harassing his sister with a group of other miscreants and he had shot and killed his uncle.

Did you know family of Santosh Koli, whom Kejriwal paid tribute for ‘fighting ration mafia’ wants CBI to probe his role in her murder

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, while announcing doorstep delivery of ration for Delhi, paid tribute to AAP worker, late Santosh Koli, who died after she was fatally injured in a road accident on 7th August 2013.

Kerala: Madarsa teacher arrested for raping minor daughter for two years with 6 other men, was on bail from earlier POCSO charges

The Nileshwaram police on Monday arrested a 50-year-old man, a madarsa teacher, for sexually abusing his 16-year-old daughter repeatedly over the past two years.

20-year-old Dilbar Singh Negi’s family hoped against hope that their son would return home this Rakshabandhan, but he never would

20-year-old Dilbar Negi's old parents, who hailed from in a small town, Pauri Garhwal in Uttarakhand, are still waiting for their son to return home.

Coronavirus fallout: Amarnath Yatra 2020 cancelled amidst raging COVID-19 outbreak

Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB) has decided that it is not advisable to hold and conduct this year’s Shri Amarnath Yatra.

‘If I can, any Indian can win’: Chetan Bhagat takes on the elitist ecosystem, calls out the snobbery of critics

Chetan Bhagat made the elitist ecosystem run for their money in a series of tweets exposing their hypocrisy.

Supreme Court initiates suo moto contempt of court proceedings against ‘PIL Activist’ Prashant Bhushan and Twitter India

The Supreme Court has initiated suo moto contempt of court proceedings against 'PIL activist' Prashant Bhushan and Twitter India.

Chopragaj murder: WB police arrest deceased victim’s kin after family of accused Feroze Ali pins blame of his murder on girl’s family

BJP alleged that the death of the accused in the Chopragaj rape and murder case is an attempt to cover up girl's death

Kandahar: 14 Taliban terrorists neutralised, Pakistan ID cards recovered from them

Earlier, the deputy leader of the Taliban Sirajuddin Haqqani has said that despite the peace negotiations to repeal the conflict in Afghanistan, the militant group will continue to move further on the path of jihad and will strengthen its military power.

NCP’s Majeed Memon miffed with alliance partner, says Uddhav Thackeray should not attend Ram Mandir Bhoomi Puja

Shiv Sena spokesperson Sanjay Raut has claimed that Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray will definitely attend the bhoomi pujan ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya

NIA tells Bombay HC ‘Urban Naxal’ Varavara Rao attempting to take undue advantage of Coronavirus to get bail

The NIA has accused 'Urban Naxal' Varavara Rao of attempting to take undue advantage of the Coronavirus outbreak.

Movie critic Rajeev Masand who wrote ‘blind items’ against Sushant Rajput called by Mumbai police for questioning

Reprehension on Bollywood's 'powerful and influentials' got many movie critics like Rajeev Masand to defame Sushant

The Indian Newsroom: Book by former NDTV employee exposes the strange nexus between NDTV and Congress

Bhushan has detailed in his book that NDTV had formed a dedicated team and run a long and elaborate campaign 'exposing' Natwar Singh's alleged corruption with the sole aim to remove him from the cabinet. But strangely, the successful campaign finds no mention in the organisation's 'untold stories'.

Chetan Bhagat accuses Vidhu Vinod Chopra of bullying him to an extent where he contemplated suicide

Chetan Bhagat, writer, and Anupama Chopra, film critic got into an ugly spat on Tuesday on Twitter where Bhagat alleged that Chopra's husband, filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra bullied him so much that he contemplated suicide.

Ukraine: Armed man seizes a bus, takes 20 people hostage claiming fight against ‘system’

Media reports say that the man has claimed to have seized another bus. It is yet to be confirmed whether the gunshots have injured any hostages.

Ranvir Shorey’s tweet on ‘independent film crusaders turning mainstream Bollywood flunkies’ triggers Anurag Kashyap’s elaborate meltdown

Ranvir tweets independent-film-crusaders turning mainstream-Bollywood-flunkies, Anurag had meltdown assuming it is about him

Sharjeel Imam tests coronavirus positive, may delay police’s exercise to bring him back to Delhi

Sharjeel Imam will be kept in Guwahati till he recovers from coronavirus.

Maharashtra: Thackeray govt approves Rs 50,000 annually to each Bombay HC judge as ‘spectacle allowances’

In a resolution, the MVA government in Maharashtra has approved an allowance of Rs 50000 annually for the spectacles of judges and their family members.

PETA tries to apologise for their Hinduphobic billboard that connected Rakhi with leather, peddles more Hinduphobia in the process

PETA India, in a recent press release, has 'apologised' for its recent billboard connecting the Hindu festival of Rakshabandhan with leather consumption.

Dear liberal media, please promise to be respectful no matter how Covaxin trial goes

As India begins human trials of coronavirus, the liberal media needs to learn its lessons from its own conduct on how to be respectful, should we not succeed at first go.

Uttar Pradesh: 8 persons arrested for attacking, critically injuring journalist in Ghaziabad, 1 policeman suspended

CCTV footage shows Joshi being stopped, dragged and assaulted by some miscreants while he was returning on a motorcycle with his daughters on Monday night.

Sushant Singh Rajput’s death: Mid-Day cites unnamed ‘sources’ to claim he had bipolar disorder, changes it to ‘depression’ after being called out

The article in Mid-day had cited unnamed sources from a leading hospital in Mumbai to claim that Sushant Singh Rajput was suffering from 'bipolar disorder' before quietly changing it to 'depression'.

India’s first Chinese coronavirus vaccine, COVAXIN, undergoes human trials: Here are the details

Human trials of indigenously prepared covid-19 vaccine COVAXIN starts across 12 trial centres in India

CBI summons OSD to Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot and Congress MLA Krishna Poonia for questioning in SHO Vishnudutt Vishnoi suicide case

The Vishnudutt Vishnoi suicide case was handed over to the CBI after Rajasthan Congress govt was pressurised from all quarters

HC orders for detailed report from Punjab govt after sons allege father was alive after body swap amid coronavirus outbreak

Body of 92-year-old man gets swapped with that of 37-year-old woman in Punjab amid coronavirus outbreak

N-95 masks may not stop the virus if worn by an already infected person, govt issues advisory against its use

The central government has asked states and union territories to encourage their citizens to use homemade cloth masks instead of valved N-95 masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

NCW urges NCPCR to look into the rape and murder of BJP leader’s minor sister in Dinajpur, WB

While family claimed that the minor was raped, WB police said that there was no rape and the girl died due to poisioning

700 Sikhs, Hindus from Afghanistan to be allowed to come and live in India: Reports

Earlier, a 55-year-old Nidan Singh Sachdeva, an Afghan Sikh community leader was abducted by extremist groups and was released after much effort by Indian and Afghan authorities.

This Rakshabandhan, people go vocal for local, willing to pay little more for made in India Rakhis

Ahead of Rakshabandhan, Indians go vocal for local and support made in India products by ditching Chinese Rakhis

‘The way Urban Naxals protect terrorists, they now protect movie mafia’: Kangana Ranaut hits out on Anurag Kashyap, Swara Bhaskar

Kangana Ranaut is now being attacked from all sides by many Bollywood personalities after she openly criticised the mafia-gangs of the industry and their operation of systemic exploitation of talented artists.

Pakistan threatens to ban Chinese app TikTok over ‘obscene and immoral’ content, suspends PUBG temporarily

Pakistan's telecom regulatory authority bans Big, threatens to ban TikTok too.

Did you feel sympathy for Pakistan after watching Raazi? ‘Calling Sehmat’ author exposes how that was done by Bollywood

'Calling Sehmat' author Harinder Sikka on Monday took to Twitter to expose how Raazi, the Alia Bhatt film based on the book, had a different ending than his book.

Karnataka: ‘Drone boy’ Prathap arrested for breaking quarantine rules

After travelling from Bihar to Hyderabad to Bengaluru, 'Drone boy' Prathap violated 14-day home isolation quarantine rules.

Carryminati fundraiser for Assam and Bihar floods collects over a million rupees, YouTuber to add Rs 1 lakh to the contribution

YouTuber CarryMinati has announced that he will add Rs. 1,00,000 to the Rs. 10,31,137 was collected during the charity live stream on his YouTube channel

Chopragaj murder case: Questions raised over a post mortem report made in ‘hurry’ and the mysterious discovery of a corpse. Read details

The Chopragaj murder case has led to a chaotic schene in the region of West Bengal with a mysterious dead body recovered.

Khalid Saifi’s child who’s asking ‘will daddy come home for Eid’ should know about his daddy’s crimes

It becomes imperative to remind Rana Ayyub about the allegations against Khalid Saifi, whom she tries to project as the victim.

BJP stalwart LK Advani likely to accompany PM Modi to Ayodhya for Ram Mandir’s Bhumi Pujan

PM Narendra Modi, along with LK Advani and others, is set to visit the Ram Janmabhoomi on August 5 for Bhumi Pujan.