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Pro-Congress YouTuber Ajit Anjum runs away after suffering a meltdown over uncomfortable questions by journalists; video goes viral: Watch

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Pro-Congress YouTuber Ajit Anjum appeared rattled after journalists questioned him how much money he received for defaming a girl, a video of which has gone viral.
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News Reports

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan slams Congress for not promising to repeal CAA in manifesto, accuses it of following RSS policies

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CM Pinarayi Vijayan said that people have understood that there is no point in voting for the Congress party from their experience in the last five years.
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News Reports

Woman entitled to maintenance on breakup after a live-in relationship: Madhya Pradesh High Court

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In a major development in Live-in relationship, Madhya Pradesh HC ruled that maintenance cannot be denied if there is “evidence of cohabitation” between the couple.
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Muslims of Amroha protest Congress candidate Danish Ali while going to namaz; hundreds gherao the MP and attempt to vandalise the car

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The irate crowd demanded answers from Danish Ali regarding his performance over the past five years as MP.
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News Reports

Guardian article claims India was inspired by Jamal Khashoggi murder to kill terrorists in Pakistan, here is how this proves it is a work...

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The Guardian article claims that R&AW was inspired to kill enemies abroad after the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey
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Crime

Kerala: Migrant worker Ashok Das of Arunachal Pradesh beaten to death by a mob for visiting a female co-worker; 10 arrested

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Ashok Das had come to Kerala in search of a job and was living in rented accommodation in Valakam, Muvattupuzha. He worked as a cook.
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Tech

China could deploy Artificial Intelligence including AI anchors and memes to disrupt 2024 Lok Sabha poll in India: Microsoft

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China wants to ensure the victory of its preferred candidates in the 2024 Lok Sabha election that will start on 19th April.
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Opinions

2-minute interview with MK Stalin after 3 years of wait: ‘Neutral journalist’ Rajdeep Sardesai, who had danced on AAP victory, now plays drums for...

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'Neutral' Rajdeep Sardesai cannot hide his appreciation for the opposition leaders even as he could secure only a 2-minute interview with DMK's MK Stalin.
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Law

Gross misuse of power by Police machinery: Supreme Court expresses shock over Police tutoring witnesses, asks Tamil Nadu DGP to take action against erring...

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After slamming the Police, the apex court directed Tamil Nadu's Director General of Police (DGP) to initiate a probe and take action against the erring police officials in accordance with the law.
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News Reports

‘NIA orchestrated the attack, case being probed involved chocolate bomb blast’: Mamata Banerjee downplays assault on NIA by TMC supporters

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"Tell me who orchestrated the attack? The women in the village did not carry out the attack. The NIA engineered it," Mamata Banerjee brazened out.
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News Reports

“Baseless”: India rubbishes Ottawa’s allegations of ‘election interference’ in Canadian elections

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While India has rejected the allegations describing them as “baseless”, the Canadian intelligence agency’s director had also stated that the intelligence can’t be necessarily treated as “fact”. 
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News Reports

Enforcement Directorate files complaint after AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan skips six summons in Delhi Waqf Board money laundering case

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The AAP MLA from Okhla allegedly acquired “huge proceeds of crime” in cash through illegal recruitment of staff.
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News Reports

“Congress manifesto reflects the same mindset of the Muslim League”: PM Modi lambasts Congress for corruption, ‘fighting against Shakti’

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PM Modi lambasted the I.N.D.I. Alliance over Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Shakti remark.
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News Reports

Officer injured, vehicle damaged: NIA issues statement after mob attacked its team in West Bengal while arresting 2 TMC leaders in blast case

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NIA officials were attacked by a mob in WB after arresting two local TMC leaders in connection with a bomb blast case.
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News Reports

Punjab: 55-year-old woman assaulted, paraded semi-naked by daughter-in-law’s family; were angry over their daughter’s love marriage

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The victim has accused the Punjab Police of negligence and not taking action despite repeated complaints.
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News Reports

Haryana: AAP requests permission to hold campaign rally, election commission officials reject it with abusive comment, 5 employees suspended

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AAP candidate Sushil Gupta demanded strict action against the administrative officials for not following the code of conduct.
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Politics

‘You bloody fool’, Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate goes on an abusive rant against Shehzad Poonawalla in a live TV debate

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Shehzad Poonawalla said that Supriya Shrinate had misnamed the Director General of Military Operations in Northern Command. He attempted to correct her with the information as to who was on that post in 2020 and who is heading it now in 2024.
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News Reports

Bricks pelted on cars, windshield broken, officials gheraoed: NIA team comes under attack from supporters of TMC leader in West Bengal

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In a video of the incident that was widely shared on social media, locals were purportedly seen gathering around a vehicle, trying to stop the NIA team from taking the suspect along with them.
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News Reports

Ties to Jamaat-e-Islami and ISI, support for Tablian and more: Meet Pinaki Bhattacharya, a neo-convert to Islam spearheading the ‘India Out’ campaign in Bangladesh

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Pinaki Bhattachraya has also been supportive of Pakistan-sponsored terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir as well as other parts of India.
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World

Tensions escalate in Middle East: Israel and US prepare for a potential attack by Iran as it vows to retaliate following attack on its...

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A direct attack by Iran on Israel is one of the worst-case possibilities that the Biden administration is preparing for.
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News Reports

Another Indian student dies in US, total incidents of unnatural death reach 10 since the beginning of 2024

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"Deeply saddened by the unfortunate demise of Mr. Uma Satya Sai Gadde, an Indian student in Cleveland, Ohio," the Indian Consulate in New York wrote in a post on X.
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News Reports

India permits the export of essential commodities at the request of the Maldives government

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The Indian government has agreed to allow export of essential commodities at the request of Maldives.
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News Reports

‘In Indian tradition, you refer to grandfather’s brother as grandfather’ – Bhagat Singh’s grandson tears apart opposition leaders questioning his relationship to the freedom...

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“My grandfather was Bhagat Singh's younger brother, so I call him my grandfather," Yadvinder Sandhu responds to opposition leaders
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News Reports

Congress leaders and media spread misleading report that BJP worker questioned as witness in Bengaluru cafe blast is an accused, NIA issues clarification

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BJP worker questioned by NIA because a phone he sold was later bought by Bengaluru café blast accused, media and Congress made him an accused
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News Reports

While Congress demands guarantee that BJP will not change the constitution, its own manifesto promises at least 6 major changes to the constitution

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In the manifesto Nyay Patra, Congress party has promised to made several changes to the constitution, on the same day the party demanded guarantee from PM of not changing the constitution
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News Reports

‘Illegal, erroneous and arbitrary’: Tribunal quashes Waqf Board’s order which declared Surat Municipal Corporation’s head office ‘Waqf property’

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In November 2021, the Waqf Board partially approved an application and declared the SMC Headquarters as waqf property.
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News Reports

Telangana: Hoard of Ikshvaku period lead coins unearthed during excavations at the historic Phanigiri site in Suryapet

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Around 3,730 coins, each weighing an average of 2.3 grams, all made of lead were recovered from Phanigiri in Telangana.
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News Reports

Nupur Sharma redux: ‘Sar Tan Se Juda’ slogans raised against a Hindu boy in Nashik after he responds to a derogatory post made by...

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The Muslims gathered in thousands and created chaos in the city of Nashik on 4th April. They raised the slogans of 'Sar Tan Se Juda' and also insulted Hindu Gods and Goddesses.
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News Reports

Rohith Vemula Act, caste census, more than 50% reservation: Congress manifesto eyes to divide India further along caste lines

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Despite being well aware that Rohit Vemula was not a Dalit and that his suicide had nothing to do with caste discrimination, the Congress party chose to politically exploit his untimely death in its manifesto.
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News Reports

How greed for an alleged ‘magic coin’ made an employee murder 2 businessmen in Bulandshahr: Read details

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Rajiv and Sudhir reportedly had a 'magic coin' and they used to talk about its alleged magical properties and rarity, boasting about its high value.
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News Reports

After promising Old Pension Scheme before assembly polls, Congress ignores it in Lok Sabha election manifesto, says ‘it’s in our minds’

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After strongly campaigning for reverting to Old Pension Scheme (OPS) in assembly elections, Congress party made no mention of OPS in its manifesto
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News Reports

Samina calls Sachin to meet and kills him by slitting his throat: ‘Khan Saab’ conspired murder over suspicion of an extramarital affair with his...

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Sachin was fired by Habib Khan from his factory in Delhi but he presumed that the victim was still talking to his wife.
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News Reports

Congress party promises to slow down India’s GDP growth in its manifesto Nyay Patra

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GDP will more than double in the next 6 years, but the Congress party is promising to achieve the same feat in 10 years.
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News Reports

Massive Covid scam in Italy to swindle EU recovery grant: 22 persons arrested for siphoning over 650 million USD for luxury cars, and villas

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Following the arrests from Italy, Austria, Romania and Slovakia and an investigation by the EU prosecutor, eight people were detained, 14 were placed under house arrest and two others were barred from practising their profession.
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News Reports

Election Commission sends notice to Delhi minister Atishi over her charge that BJP told her to ‘join BJP or face arrest’

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The Election Commission on Friday sent a notice to AAP leader and Delhi Minister Atishi over her claim that the BJP approached her for membership
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News Reports

Legitimising Love Jihad, control of investigation agencies and bail to accused like Umar Khalid: 7 points in Congress manifesto that point to dangerous times

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The Congress party on Friday released its manifesto ahead of the Lok Sabha polls slated to take later this year.
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“Saugandh mujhe iss mitti ki..”: Hours after the Guardian report, PM Modi says in a rally, “Even our enemies know this is new India,...

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PM Modi reiterated part of his speech he had given in Churu on 26th February 2019, the same day when India conducted Balakote air strikes
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News Reports

Sharia-compliant manifesto? Congress bends to AIMPLB, hints at repealing triple talaq law and enforcing communal violence bill

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The Congress promised to appoint more judges, belonging to the Muslim community, to the High Courts and the Supreme Court.
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News Reports

Supreme Court stays Allahabad HC order striking down UP Board of Madarsa Education Act, says prima facie HC misconstrued the act

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he Supreme Court on Friday (April 5) stayed the Allahabad High Court's March 22 order striking down the 'Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act 2004' as unconstitutional
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Editor's picks

Congress dedicates a section in their manifesto about how they will ‘fix’ the media: Are they trying to ensure cases like the Chinese-funded Newsclick...

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Congress has said that it will ‘protect’ journalists from coercive action by the State in its bid to ‘defend’ journalistic freedom. “This includes restricting the powers of the government for surveillance of journalists, seizure of their devices and exposure of their sources,” the manifesto reads.
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News Reports

Congress promises to introduce reservation in Judiciary, says it will appoint more women, SCs, STs, OBCs and minorities as judges in HCs and SC

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Congress manifesto promises, "More women and persons belonging to the SC, ST, OBC and minorities will be appointed as judges of the High Courts and the Supreme Court,"
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News Reports

Uttar Pradesh: Yogi Adityanath govt derecognises all 16000 madrasas in the state as per court orders, starts transition process

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Following the ruling by Allahabad HC declaring the Madarsa Education Act unconstitutional, the recognition of all madarsas in UP has been terminated
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News Reports

Sanjay Singh tries to slander approver in Delhi liquor scam case in press conference: Here is how he is violating his bail terms

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Not speaking about the case to the media was one of the terms imposed by the Supreme Court while granting bail to Singh
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News Reports

‘Keep the politics to yourself’: Bhagat Singh’s grandson tears into AAP for latest video with fake image of ‘jailed Kejriwal’ alongside freedom fighters

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AAP used fake image of jailed Arvind Kejriwal and displayed it with Bhagat Singh and Dr BR Ambedkar portraits in the video.
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News Reports

‘Chase away these 2% Brahmins and kill them, Muslims are your brothers’: Yuva Vichar Manch chief Rudra Pratap Kushwaha provokes SC-STs against Brahmins

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Yuva Vichar Manch chief Rudra Pratap Kushwaha appealed to the SCs and STs to chase away the 2 per cent Brahmins in the country and kill them all
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News Reports

The Guardian publishes dubious report based on Pakistani ‘sources’, claims India is using Jihadis to kill terrorists: How it tried to demonise PM Modi...

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The Indian voters are proud to see that the government elected by them is bullish on anti-terrorism, upholding the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the nation against external threats.
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News Reports

Congress promises to write off all due amounts in student loans, including interests, till March 15, 2024 in its manifesto

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The party has promised that the banks will be compensated by the government for writing off student loans. The write-off is mentioned as a one-time measure of relief "due to widespread unemployment".
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News Reports

UP: Mohammad Ansari poses as Kallu Yadav to trap a Hindu widow, threatens her to convert to Islam by blackmailing with her intimate pictures

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Another case of purported love jihad came to the fore from Rae Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh where a Muslim youth named Mohammad Ansari hid his religious identity and posed as a Hindu to trap a Hindu widow in his love affair.
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News Reports

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma sends legal notice to Indian Express for defamatory news report, says it makes false claims to target him politically

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Himanta Biswa Sarma in his legal notice to Indian Express sent through his lawyer Rajib Borpujari said that CM Sarma’s name appeared on the CBI’s chargesheet in the Sarada Chit Fund Scam case as a witness.
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News Reports

The Guardian’s ‘investigative article’ has glaring factual errors and picture of a ‘wrong’ terrorist, British publication makes corrections without admitting mistakes

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As the Indian readers called out the publication for its factual errors, The Guardian silently corrected the “Pannun’s death” to “Pannun plot”, and removed the wrong photo, without any acknowledgement of the errors.
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