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Islamic terror group Jaish creates ‘Ghaznavi Force’ to carry out Pulwama-style terror attacks in India: Intel reports

The newly-created armed group, which is being called the "Ghaznavi Force" comprises fighters from other banned terror outfits like LeT, Hizbul Mujahideen, AuGH and Al Badr.

Income Tax Department clarifies that PM Narendra Modi was correct when he said only 1.5 crore people pay income tax

To dispel false allegations against PM, the Income Tax department has clarified that only 1.5 crore people paid income tax

Remembering Pulwama bravehearts: Soil collected from each martyr’s house to be placed at CRPF’s Lethpora camp, memorial to be inaugurated

Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist Adil Dhar had rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into a CRPF convoy on February 14 last year.

Muslims force Hindu women to apologise for dancing on ‘choli ke peechhe kya hai’ while wearing a burqa in viral TikTok video

Two women, dancing while wearing a burqa, were forced to apologise for 'insulting' burqa.

Missionaries of Charity baby selling case: Child Rights body moves to Supreme Court, seeks SIT probe into all such charity-run shelter homes

The NCPCR plea, filed through lawyer Swarupama mentioned cases of child trafficking and child rights violation in Jharkhand and alleged that authorities neglected to protect these children.

Gujarat: 25-year-old man booked under Parents and Senior Citizen Act for forcing grandmother to beg on street

Ahmedabad police books man with charges of forcing his 70-year-old grandmother to beg on streets every day

Yogendra Yadav’s ‘five finger’ fearmongering video on NPR-NRC-CAA calling to not give data during census is full of lies

Yogendra Yadav peddles lies about Census, NPR, NRC, CAA, asks people to not give census data

Late Sheila Dikshit’s daughter Latika slams Congress’ PC Chacko for blaming the party’s election loss on the former CM

Congress had based its 2020 assembly election campaign on Sheila Dikshit's legacy of developing the national capital.

Specify reasons for selecting candidate with pending criminal cases against them: SC tells political parties

Supreme Court directs political parties to justify their selection of a criminal candidate on their website.

Cricket bookie Sanjeev Chawla, accused in 2000 match fixing scandal, extradited to India from UK

Both Chawla and Cronje were named in a 70-page charge sheet by the Crime Branch for "fixing matches played between India and South Africa from February 16, 2000, to March 20, 2000, in India".

Kashmir: Hurriyat issues notice from Pakistan, asks to prepare for SAS Geelani’s funeral, internet snapped in valley

Syed Ali Shah Geelani is the chairman of the All-Party Hurriyat Conference. The 90-year-old has reportedly been struggling with a chest infection and has not been responding well to treatment.

EAM Jaishankar gives befitting reply to ‘historian’ Ram Guha as Nehru-Gandhi loyalist goes bonkers over Nehru’s criticism

Ramachandra Guha, the ultra-left self-proclaimed historian, seems to have not learnt any lesson despite being getting fact-check on social media every single day.

India Today peddles fake news about 3,000 Dalits converting to Islam after wall collapse, here is the truth

India Today publishes a fake report about Dalits converting to Islam which was already debunked two months ago

Uttar Pradesh police denies attack on AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan’s relatives, says permission was denied earlier

After the announcement of the result of Delhi polls on Tuesday evening, AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan's relatives celebrated his victory which was allegedly stopped by the police.

Mamata Banerjee fear-mongers, spreads lies to scare people against NRC and NPR

the West Bengal CM claimed that the central government is using organisations like banks, and post offices to 'collect data for the NPR and NRC'.

Maths for Dummies: Former AAP leader and journalist Ashutosh’s mathematical equations leave netizens in splits

Former AAP core member and now a journalist again, Ashutosh took to Twitter to send out cryptic mathematical equations as his analysis of recently concluded Delhi assembly elections.

Did PM Modi actually claim only 2200 people declared income over 1 crore? Or some people just did not listen properly?

PM Modi mentioned that in a country of more than 130 crore people, only 1.5 crore people pay Income Tax. Even from the 1.5 crore people, the number of people announcing income of over 50 lakhs is just 3 lakhs.

Is APJ Abdul Kalam ‘acceptable Muslim’ hero for right wing because he gave great phallic symbols to nation? Outlook India calls former President a...

In its 17th February 2020 print edition, Outlook magazine has given space to one Omair Ahmed who has declared that former President APJ Abdul Kalam was no 'hero' of the country as he 'merely obeyed his political masters'.

Why every Indian must know about Round 23 in Mustafabad seat in Delhi

Every Indian needs to know what happened in Round 23 in Mustafabad in Delhi. Because it tells us what really lurks under the surface of Indian secularism.

Madhya Pradesh: Police officer charged with kidnapping and rape after he assaults his wife when she confronts him about illicit affair

A case of kidnapping and rape has been registered against Madhya Pradesh's Gadhwani Police station in charge Narendra Suryawanshi after a video of him assaulting his wife went viral on social media.

Nirbhaya’s mother breaks down in court, says convict will continue to use delay tactics after court offer legal aid to one of the convicts

Unprecedented delay in the execution of the four gangrape convicts has left Nirbhaya's mother and her family shattered

CIA spied on more than 100 countries including India and Pakistan for decades through its company that supplied rigged encoding devices

CIA spied on several countries for decades using rigged encoding devices made by its secretly owned company.

Madhya Pradesh: Removal of Shivaji’s bust in Sausar by administration causes outrage, protesters block highway

The Congress-led administration in Madhya Pradesh used a JCB to remove Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj’s bust

Tirupati Tirumala Devasthanams to construct Sri Venkateswara Temple in Jammu and Kashmir

J&K government will soon allocate 100 acres of land to build a replica of the famous Tirupati temple near Jammu

DHFL Scam: ED finds customised software used to create fake accounts for money laundering

The ED discovered a software system used d the DHFL to make fake accounts to siphon money.

India Today refers to country’s ace badminton coach Pullela Gopichand as “little known”, social media schools the media group

India Today trolled on Twitter for saying that badminton coach Pullela Gopichand is little known

Delhi Airport: Foreign currency worth Rs 45 lakhs stuffed in peanuts, meatballs seized by CISF

CISF caught Murad Alam from Delhi Airport who had stuffed foreign currency in peanuts, meatballs, biscuit packets

Ahead of the FATF plenary meet, Pakistan court convicts 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed, orders jail term in two terror funding cases

Saeed was arrested by the Pakistan government in July last year, following immense pressure from global powers and facing the prospect of a FATF blacklist.

Assam may consider ‘ethnic tribe’ nomenclature to 40 lakh Assamese-speaking Muslims of Brahmaputra valley: Report

The new proposal is yet to receive the approval of Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal. The nomenclature is expected to be approved before the start of the socio-economic census.

Congress does not have a leader to project: Kapil Sibal on the party’s poor performance in Delhi assembly election

We do not have a leader to project. This is the issue within the party: Kapil Sibal

Karnataka: Congress MLA’s out on bail son Mohammad Nalapad rams his luxury car on Bengaluru road, flees the spot leaving four injured

Mohammad Nalapad, son of Congress MLA NA Harris, was the general secretary of the Bengaluru District Youth Congress in 2018. He was expelled from the party for 6 years following his involvement in an assault case.

Congress leader Milind Deora slams Delhi Congress chief PC Chacko for blaming late Sheila Dikshit for Delhi debacle

PC Chacko, the Delhi Congress chief resigned from his post after passing the buck of the embarrassing defeat in Delhi polls on Sheila Dikshit

Mudra Yojna: Over 15 crore loans have been distributed to women borrowers, totalling 4.78 lakh crores

15 crore Mudra Loans, totalling over Rs 4.78 lakh crores, have been issued so far to women borrowers, said Anurag Thakur in the parliament.

RummyCircle’s online social card game dominates the million-dollar market

One of the main genres fueling the mobile gaming industry is the online card games. Many Indian gaming companies have transferred the traditional and social card games to mobile.

Congress spokesperson Sharmishtha Mukherjee slams P Chidambaram for ‘gloating over AAP victory’, asks if Congress state units should ‘shut shop’

Sharmishtha Mukherjee says Congress state units should shut shop if party has outsourced job of defeating BJP to regional parties

Two men from West Bengal loot 1.34 crore from Merit-cum-Means Scholarship in Jammu and Kashmir by creating fake beneficiary accounts

Jammu and Kashmir Crime Branch probes fraud of Rs 1,34,21,168 in merit-cum-means scholarship scam

Pakistan Minister celebrates AAP victory in Delhi elections, tries to mock PM Modi

The dull-witted Pakistani Minister has a strange habit of poking his face into India’s internal matters and deliberately getting mocked and embarrassed for his deranged acts, especially on social media. 

Shiv Sena MP introduces a Constitution Amendment Bill to check population growth

The Shiv Sena MP has introduced a Constitutional Amendment Bill to introduce a new provision - Article 47A into Part IV of the Constitution of India to incentivise people who keep their family limited to two children and seeks to withdraw every concession from people who fail to adhere to the small family norm. 

NRC: Centre says excluded children won’t be sent to detention camps, provided their parents feature in the list

The Minister of State clarified that there are approved standard operating procedures in place to deal with cases of children who have been excluded from the NRC while their parents feature in the list.

Delhi: Shots fired at AAP MLA Naresh Yadav’s convoy, 1 party volunteer dead

Naresh Yadav, who was accompanied by volunteers, was returning from a temple visit from Mehrauli when the incident happened. Naresh Yadav had won from Mehrauli assembly seat.

Dalit man converted to Christianity alleges girlfriend’s family made him convert to Islam and undergo circumcision as a precondition for marriage, later disown him

25-year-old Dalit man who had embraced Christianity, Bobbili Bhaskar, has alleged that his girlfriend's family made him convert to Islam, undergo circumcision and changed dietary habits only to have his marriage proposal turned down by girl's father.

Pictures of ‘Baby Kejriwal’ donning AAP’s white cap and muffler take internet by the storm

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) tweeted a photo of a toddler dressed as Party chief, Arvind Kejriwal describing him as 'Mufflerman'

Indian Railways launches “wake-up call” facility to alert passengers 30 minutes before reaching destination

Indian Railways will now alert passengers 30 minutes before scheduled arrival at destination so that they don't miss their stop.

Despite losing, BJP candidate from Hari Nagar Tajinder Bagga pledges to fulfil his poll promises to voters

Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga had promised to open a free self-defence coaching centre for girls in Hari Nagar constituency.

Delhi Elections 2020: The BJP’s vote-share has increased and so has its number of seats, the results cannot be extrapolated to fit larger anti-BJP...

Some intellectuals, however, have lost their sense of proportions and are attempting to portray a completely different picture from what the results actually represent.

Matthew Cherry’s prophesy about winning Oscars came true 8 years later, through ‘Hair Love’

Cherry won his first Oscar on Sunday for the animated short film 'Hair Love', which narrates a story of a black father learning to style his daughter’s hair.

The Metamorphosis of Arvind Kejriwal: From calling Narendra Modi a psychopath, he hasn’t attacked the PM once on Twitter since 2019 results

Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal has undergone a huge transformation since he was elected as the Chief Minister of Delhi in 2016.

Rajdeep Sardesai dances with psephologist Pradeep Gupta on air as AAP wins Delhi elections

Axis My India's Pradeep Gupta broke into a jig as his prediction of AAP's landslide came through. Rajdeep Sardesai joined him in his happy dance.

Maharashtra: Congress magazine ‘Shidori’ mocks Veer Savarkar, calls him ‘maafiveer’

In the February edition of the Congress' Marathi newspaper, Shidori, the party had published two articles belittling freedom fighter Veer Savarkar.