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BBC presenter accused of paying over £ 35,000 to a teen for sexually explicit images – Here is what we know so far

The family complained to the BBC on 19th May, and an investigation by the corporation was launched headed by a cyber-crime expert. However, the presenter stayed on air and was allegedly sending money until the family approached The Sun.

Won’t travel to India for World Cup if they don’t come here for Asia Cup: Pakistan Sports Minister

Government of Pakistan has established a high-profile committee led by Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari to deliberate on the country's involvement in the upcoming ICC Cricket World Cup 2023.

Gujarat ATS arrests one electric worker of BSF for leaking information to Pakistan’s ISI, officers say that he was honey-trapped

The accused, Nilesh Walia, fell prey to a honey trap and subsequently leaked crucial information of BSF to Pakistan in exchange for money.

New look of Vande Bharat Express train revealed, Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw says its Saffron colour is inspired by the tricolour

A new livery for the Vande Bharat Express train has been revealed by the Railways, with a theme of Saffron and Grey colours

Violence in WB Panchayat polls: State BJP President Sukanta Majumdar writes to Home Minister Amit Shah to intervene and restore democracy

WB BJP President Sukanta Majumdar has written a letter to Amit Shah to intervene following violence in panchayat polls in the state

Delhi anti-Hindu riots: Six persons Dinesh, Sahil, Sandeep, Tinku, Vikas and Sonu acquitted by Delhi court, says charges not proved

A Delhi Court acquitted six persons accused of rioting, vandalism, and destroying property during the Delhi riots in 2020

Congress means Loot Ki Dukaan and Jhooth Ka Bazar: PM Modi in Bikaner takes a jibe at Rahul Gandhi’s Mohabbat Ki Dukaan campaign

PM Narendra Modi on Saturday slammed Rajasthan's Ashok Gehlot government and said that the meaning of Congress is "A shop for looting and a market of lies".

Goons brandishing guns, crude bombs, people running away with ballot boxes: visuals from West Bengal during voting for Panchayat polls

Panchayat polls in West Bengal have witnessed large-scale violence, with several cases of murders, booth capturing, and various other kinds of violence.

Maharashtra: Viral video shows Muslims offering namaz at Panvel railway station, MNS demands permission to perform Maha Aarti but denied

A video showing namaz being offered by some Muslims at Panvel railway station in Navi Mumbai went viral on Twitter

Three dreaded sharpshooters of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang arrested by Delhi police

Three dreaded sharpshooters of the Lawrence Bishnoi syndicate were arrested on Saturday, said Special Cell of Delhi Police.

Canada: Bharat Mata Mandir in Brampton defaced with anti-India posters ahead of pro-Khalistan rally

The Bharat Mata Mandir in Brampton in Canada was defaced with anti-India posters by Khalistannis

Prominent Jain monk Muni Kamkumar Nandi Maharaj murdered in Karnataka, accused say the body was cut into pieces and thrown away

Jain monk Muni Kamkumar Nandi Maharaj of was murdered in Chikkodi in Belagavi district in Karnataka

I have become a Hindu, I would be killed if sent back to Pakistan: Pakistani woman Seema Haider who came to India illegally for...

"I want to appeal to the Indian authorities that I don't want to go back to Pakistan, I have become a Hindu and my children have also embraced Hinduism. Please allow me to stay here. If I will return to Pakistan, they will kill me", Seema said.

From objections raised over his appointment as judge to calling the judicial system a farce, here is what retired Justice PN Prakash said in...

Retired Justice PN Prakash reveals his appointment was opposed because he is a Brahmin, says current judicial system was forced on Indians by British

Uttar Pradesh: Sack full of meat found near temple in Shahjahanpur area, police launches probe

A sack containing meat remains was found near a temple in Uttar Pradesh's Shahjahanpur area on Friday night

ISI agent arrested in Gujarat: Honeytrapped BSF personnel had leaked crucial information to Pakistan

Arrested BSF personnel Vishal Badia was honeytrapped by Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI. He was providing information to a virtual online person Aditi.

Indian Railways to slash ticket prices of AC chair cars and executive classes of less occupied trains by up to 25%

Ministry of Railways introduces discount scheme in AC chair car and executive classes of all trains having AC sitting accommodation

Kejriwal’s ‘my way or highway’ politics will not be accepted: Congress slams AAP for putting up conditions for attending opposition meet

Congress leader accused AAP of acting “immaturely” and asserted that Kejriwal’s 'My way or highway' politics won't be accepted.

Mid-day meal scheme fund from centre used for state elections: Union Education ministry seeks report from West Bengal govt over “serious financial anomalies”

Centre has said that West Bengal govt is using funds for mid-day meal scheme under centre's PM-POSHAN are being used for other purposes

Not possible to conduct Common Law Admission Test in Indian languages, Consortium of National Law Universities tells Delhi High Court

The Consortium of NLUs has said that it is impossible to hold law admission test in Hindi and other regional languages.

Declare war on Sweden to end blasphemy: TLP leader Maulana Saad Rizvi wants Pakistan to go to war with Sweden over Quran burning incident

Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) leader Saad Hussein Rizvi said that Pakistan should declare war against Sweden in order to stop blasphemy against Islam.

Amritpal Singh writes a letter from jail seeking ‘martyr’ status for Khalistani terrorists Hardeep Singh Nijjar and Avtar Khanda

Amritpal Singh in his four-page letter made an appeal to the Sikh community to bestow the status of "Quomi Shaheed" (community martyrs) upon dreaded Khalistani terrorists Avtar Khanda and Hardeep Singh Nijjar

BBC documentary on PM Modi: Delhi Court issues fresh summons to BBC, Wikimedia Foundation and Internet Archive

They were served the summons through the Department of Legal Affairs under the Union Ministry of Law and Justice in connection with a defamation lawsuit brought by Bharatiya Janata Party leader Binay Kumar Singh

Technical staff at Delhi government-run Lok Nayak Hospital working without salaries for 7 months, hospital says salary is under process

"The Delhi government simply does not acknowledge our services while we continue to work tirelessly every day," an OT Technician said.

Maharashtra: BRS leader Qadir Maulana calls Aurangzeb his role model, Hindu activists deface KC Rao posters in Ahmednagar in protest

Qadir Maulana said, "Aurangzeb was a king who ruled undivided India for more than 50 years. So of course I idolise Aurangzeb."

Madhya Pradesh: Sidhi urination incident victim Dashmat Rawat seeks release of accused Pravesh Shukla, says Shukla has realised his mistake

Dashmant Rawat has urged the state government to release Pravesh Shukla, the acussed in the urination incident.

‘Now China is changing. The Chinese want to contact me’: Dalai Lama says he is open to talks with China over problems of Tibetans

Dalai Lama said that he is open for talks with China over the problems of Tibetans and the Chinese, officially or unofficially, wanted to contact him.

“It doesn’t undermine our reputation of being human rights defenders:” White House on decision to supply cluster munitions to Ukraine

USA will provide cluster munitions to Ukraine as part of the $800 million aid package in Ukraine's fight against Russia.

Was ready to become a suicide bomber: Father of Ghaziabad Hindu victim whom Rahil groomed to accept Islam

Ghaziabad police said that the arrested Rahil was running the conversion racket since 2017

Bengal panchayat polls violence: At least eight killed amidst widespread violence in the state, poll booths vandalised

Governor CV Ananda Bose has taken stock of the situation on the ground amid rampant violence largely in Coochbehar, Murshidabad, and North 24 Paraganas districts.

DRDO scientist attracted to Pakistani agent ‘Zara’, revealed missile secrets to her: Maharashtra ATS

Pradeep Kurulkar talked with the Pakistani spy about missile systems among other classified defence projects.

UP: ATS arrests Mohammad Tariq for spreading ISIS ideology on social media platforms

The Gujarat ATS informed the UP ATS that Mohammad Tariq was spreading ISIS ideology across multiple social media platforms.

‘With folded hands, I extend my unconditional apology’: Manoj Muntashir apologises for ‘Adipurush’

Manoj Muntashir tweeted, "I accept people's emotions have been hurt by Adipurush. With folded hands, I extend my unconditional apologies."

US: 14 Indian-origin business owners charged in a $53 million COVID relief program-related fraud

They are accused of submitting at least 29 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan applications that fraudulently inflated payroll expenses by altering bank statements and Internal Revenue Service tax forms to falsely reflect business income.

Take firm action against Khalistani terrorists: Ajit Doval to UK NSA

The meeting follows multiple recent incidents where pro-Khalistani terrorist groups have incited violence against Indian diplomats through posters in several countries, including the US, Canada, Australia, and the UK.

Delhi Excise Policy Scam: ED attaches assets worth Rs 52 crore of Manish Sisodia, his wife and others, total attachment now at Rs 129...

ED has provisionally attached assets worth Rs 52.24 crore belonging to jailed AAP leader Manish Sisodia, his wife Seema Sisodia and others

UP: Roshan Ali pretended to quit Islam and embrace Hinduism to marry Hindu woman, later forces her to convert to Islam and performs Nikah

Roshan Ali, a resident of Hardoi in UP, pretended to quit Islam and embrace Hinduism to trap a Hindu woman

BJP accelerates election preparations, appoints union ministers and senior leaders as in-charges for assembly elections in 4 states

BJP announced election in-charges of assembly polls for Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Telangana.

Balasore Train Accident: CBI arrests 3 Railway employees under charges of culpable homicide and destruction of evidence

Senior Section engineer Arun Kumar Mohanta, section engineer Mohammad Amir Khan and technician Pappu Kumar have been arrested in Balasore Train accident case

Another setback for Uddhav Thackeray: Legislative Council Dy Chairperson Neelam Gorhe quits party and joins Eknath Shinde faction of Shiv Sena

In yet another setback to the Shiv Sena (UBT), party leader and Deputy Chairperson of Maharashtra Legislative Council Neelam Gorhe joined the Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde

As Gujarat Samachar copies OpIndia report except for the exclusive identity of Muslim culprit, know how mainstream media shields Islamists and crimes committed by...

Gujarat Samachar copied OpIndia report of a man who reverted to Hinduism after converting to Islam, but didn't mention Muslim or Islam in the report

Manoj Muntashir removed as judge from India’s Got Talent on Sony after Adipurush controversy, claims journalist

Reportedly, Manoj Muntashir has been removed as judge from India's Got Talent on Sony TV due to the Adipurush controversy

Madhya Pradesh: ‘Bulldozer action’ for Ajmat, Arif, and others who assaulted 2 Dalit men and paraded them with garland of shoes

The police have booked the accused under sections 323, 294, 506, 328, 342 of the Indian Penal code and under sections 147, 355, 270 of the SC/ST Act. The accused persons raised false alarm that victim Dalit boys were harassing some girls from their village.

India joins the Champions Group of the Global Crisis Response Group at the invitation of the UN Secretary-General

India has joined the Champions Group of the Global Crisis Response Group (GCRG) set up United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres

This West Bengal panchayat election, I sense the beginning of the end of TMC

This time around, the people of West Bengal are resisting, and this has left the TMC leadership extremely worried

FIR against Neha Singh Rathore for defaming RSS over the Sidhi urination case

Neha Singh Rathore made it to the news with her songs 'Bihar me ka ba?' and 'UP me ka ba?' in which she criticised the governments in the respective states over various issues.

Mumbai: Bharat Jain, the world’s richest beggar continues to beg even after having a net worth of Rs 7.5 crore

Jain at present has amassed a net worth of 7.5 crore. His monthly income from begging fluctuates between Rs 60,000 and Rs 75,000.

Kanpur: Lucky Khan befriends minor Hindu girl on Instagram, rapes and forces her to convert, arrested along with accomplice Suhaib Khan

Lucky Khan and his friend Suhaib Khan were arrested at the Sarita Palace Hotel in Kanpur, where they had forcefully taken the victim and gangraped her