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Another mass shooting in the USA: Gunman enters Tulsa hospital and kills 4, later kills himself

Four people killed by gunman in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Gunman kills himself later.

Sourav Ganguly’s much anticipated big announcement: He is launching a worldwide educational app

Sourav Ganguly had on Wednesday evening posted a cryptic tweet, raising speculations over his continuance as BCCI president.

Karnataka: VHP demands court-appointed survey of a mosque in Malali near Mangaluru after remains of Hindu temple appeared, court starts hearing the case

When a mosque at Malali near Mangaluru was partially demolished for renovation, remains of a ancient were found

Rajasthan: Jodhpur Police use a garbage van to transport a dead body to the hospital

The Jodhpur Police transported the body of a daily wager crushed under a bus to the hospital by a garbage van.

“Didn’t take a single penny”: Assam CM’s wife Riniki Bhuyan Sarma rubbishes The Wire claim of receiving ‘illegal supply order’, informs PPE kits were...

Riniki Bhuyan Sarma clarified she had donated PPE kits, not received 'illegal work order' as alleged by The Wire

Punjab: Gunshots fired, clashes erupt outside Amritsar’s Khalsa College leave two brothers injured, police call it a ‘routine crime’

A group of 10 armed people attacked the two brothers with sharp-edged weapons outside the Khalsa College in Amritsar.

Rajasthan: Protests in Chittorgarh after former BJP councilor Jagdish Soni’s son Ratan killed in a brutal attack, three detained

Aassive protests broke out in Chittorgarh in Rajasthan after a youth named Ratan Soni was brutally murdered by some miscreants

‘Maharashtra will be shocked if I play a CD’: MVA minister Dhananjay Munde’s second wife levels serious allegations against her husband

Karuna Sharma said, "We have evidence that Dhananjay Munde has illicit relations with other women as well."

Kashmir murders: Hindu employees to be shifted to ‘safer locations’, LG sets June 6 as deadline

Due to several attacks on Hindu govt employees in Kashmir, the Hindu employees will be relocated to safer locations

Arvind Kejriwal raises ‘concerns’ for Kashmiri Hindus, weeks after mocking their genocide while ridiculing ‘The Kashmir Files’

"I request the Central Government that we are ready to help you in the process of re-establishing Kashmiri Pandits to their homes in Kashmir. We are together in this," Kejriwal said.

ED freezes bank accounts of Islamist organisation PFI in connection with money laundering case

The ED has alleged that PFI laundered money received in donation to fund its radical activities.

Rajya Sabha? BJP? TMC? Sourav Ganguly triggers speculations over cryptic tweet on ‘new chapter’ of his life

Some media reports even suggested Sourav Ganguly has resigned as the BCCI chief, but there is no confirmation on it yet.

Maharashtra: CBI court approves ex-cop Sachin Vaze’s plea to turn approver against Anil Deshmukh and others in corruption case

Vaze is also under investigation for the case of explosive loaded car near Ambani's house and the murder of businessman Mansukh Hiren.

UP: FIR registered against Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair for derogatory remarks against Mahant Bajrang Muni Udasin, Yati Narsinghanand and Swami Anand Swaroop

Up Police registered FIR against Alt News' Mohammed Zubair for using derogatory remarks against Mahant Bajrang Muni Udasin

Tamil Nadu: State Health Minister blames ‘North Indian students’ for spreading covid on the campus as VIT reports 74 cases

At present, there are 542 active Covid cases in the state. On Tuesday, 98 new Covid cases were reported from the state with Chengalpet and Chennai accounting for the majority of cases, 46 and 44 respectively.

Gujarat: Ruckus in residence of Bharatsinh Solanki, video of the Congress leader, his wife, and his alleged girlfriend’s scuffle goes viral

A video of Gujarat Congress leader Bharatsinh Solanki, his wife and his purported girlfriend gone viral on social media

Ex-Amnesty India head tries to paint Gujaratis communal for not voting Congress to power since three decades, here is how he is wrong

A generation of first time voters have never seen a non-BJP government in the state. But, they have also seen the development which Congress mocks at every given opportunity.

German woman sexually attracted to planes wants to marry Boeing replica which she says ‘completes her’, was earlier in love with a train

She says she has dated men in the past but it is Dicki who has made her feel complete. Rodo said been attracted to objects since she was a teenager. At the age of 14, she realised she was in love with ICE 3, which is an express train.

The New Indian Express uses the term ‘racial purity’ to make false claims about research on genetic ancestry, Rahul Gandhi furthers the propaganda

Experts in the field of Genetics and History have heavily criticised the TNIE report as a classic case of deliberate misinformation.

Gujarat: 13-year-old boy beaten, sodomised by two clerics at Madani Madarsa in Ahmedabad, POCSO case registered

A 13-year-old boy was raped by two clerics at Madani Madrasa in Bapunagar. The police are on the lookout for the accused.

“Is it true”: Smriti Irani lashes out at Arvind Kejriwal for giving clean chit to money laundering accused Satyendra Jain, asks 10 questions

Smriti Irani tabled ten questions for Arvind Kejriwal over arrest of Satyendra Jain by ED in money laundering case

Tamil Nadu: BJP chief K Annamalai, 5000 others booked by police for protests demanding cut in fuel prices as per DMK’s poll promise

Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai said party will hold a satyagraha demanding that DMK fulfil its poll promise of cutting fuel prices

ED summons Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi over National Herald case

Senior Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi are prime accused in the National Herald case.

“Our history books have only 2-3 lines on Prithviraj Chauhan, but there is a lot mentioned about invaders”: Akshay Kumar

In an exclusive interview with ANI, Akshay Kumar lamented the lack of mention of Indian culture and kings in history books.

Punjab: Armed robbers loot driver, conductor and passengers of a PRTC bus near Phillaur, angry passengers block Highway

A Punjab Roadways Transport Corporation bus on Ludhiana-Jalandhar main road was robbed by 3 armed robbers

Maharashtra: Congress leader Somnath Kadam assaults elderly farmer and son, then goes to the hospital with goons to attack them again

Congress leader Somnath Kadam in Maharashtra assaulted elderly farmer and son with iron rods over a minor dispute

“In music, he lived life, in music he met death”: KK’s college bandmate pens a heartfelt note after his demise

Singer KK passed away on Tuesday night from a cardiac arrest, hours after performing at a concert in Kolkata.

Bihar: Two Muslim groups get into hand to hand combat, kick each other, throw chairs at one another ahead of namaz

The two Muslims groups used batons, pelted stones and threw chairs at each other.

Hyderabad: ‘Open Charminar mosque for Namaz, Bhagya Lakshmi temple is an illegal structure’, says Congress leader Rashed Khan

Congress leaders also called for the shut down of the Bhagya Lakshmi temple near Charminar if the government had no plans to allow Namaz in the mosque located inside the Charminar.

Kerala High Court allows lesbian couple Adhila Nassrin and Fathima Noora to live together, they still fear family

Kerala High Court said consenting adults can live together, allowed Fathima Noora to leave with her partner Adhila Nassrin

Hyderabad: BJP’s Nupur Sharma faces another FIR for her remarks on Prophet Muhammad, third since AltNews’ Zubair dog-whistled against her

A week since the debate on Times Now, BJP's Nupur Sharma continues to be inundated with threats and FIRs for stating Islamic scriptures on Prophet Muhammad.

Singer KK passes away shortly after performing at a concert in Kolkata

Singer KK passed away hours after he performed at a concert in Kolkata’s Nazrul Mancha auditorium.

Bangladeshi woman swims across the Sunderbans to meet her lover in West Bengal, arrested for entering India illegally

Krishna Mandal, 22, swam across the Sundarbans and crossed the India-Bangladesh border to meet her online boyfriend in Bengal.

‘Maharanas: A Thousand Year War For Dharma’ by Omendra Ratnu chronicles the proud legacy of Rajputs who resisted Islamic invasions

Dr Omendra Ratnu in his book demolishes the lies peddled by leftist historians about the Islamic invasions of India

UK: Sperm donor fathered 15 children for lesbian mothers without telling them he had an inheritable ‘low-IQ’ illness

Sperm donor James MacDougall fathered 15 kids to lesbian mothers without telling them about his incurable genetic illness.

Oxford Union cancels Vivek Agnihotri’s Humanity Tour a day before the event, filmmaker says he will fight it legally

Oxford Union cancelled Humanity tour event of filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri a day before the scheduled date

Assam: Madarsas challenge govt’s order to convert them into regular schools, reach SC with petition after HC rejects it

The Assam Repealing Act, 2020 repealed Assam Madrassa Education (Provincialization) Act, 1995 and the Assam Madrassa Education (Provincialization of Services of Teachers and Reorganization of Educational Institutions) Act, 2018. The Governor of Assam had granted his assent to the bill on January 27, 2021.

Karnataka: Idols of Hindu deities vandalised by miscreants in Hassan; probe ordered

According to police, 10 idols of Hindu deities at the Exhibition Centre in Hassan were vandalised by the miscreants.

Maharashtra: NCP workers join Islamists to outrage against BJP’s Nupur Sharma, demand her arrest over remarks on Prophet Muhammad

The NCP workers also chanted slogans such as "Nupur Sharma Murdabad" during the demonstration.

Case of contempt of National Flag registered against ‘comedian’ Kunal Kamra for insulting the Indian Tricolor with a morphed image

Kamra in November 2020 had tweeted a morphed picture of the Supreme Court and had replaced the Indian tricolor atop the SC building with the flag of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

From Pitchers to Panchayat, how ‘Jeetu Bhaiyya’ has become the most bankable star in the Indian web series industry

TVF has done many good things for the world of Indian web series, maybe the best thing they did out of them all was to introduce Jitendra Kumar to the Indian audience.

Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain sent to ED custody till June 9 in money laundering case

The ED had arrested Delhi Health minister Satyendar Jain yesterday in connection with a money laundering case.

Times of India gives a platform to paedophilia-accused British journo Hasan Suroor to mouth platitudes on ‘secularism’ over Gyanvapi

Hassan Suroor had allegedly sent sexually explicit messages to a 14-year-old girl during a sting operation set up by an anti-paedophile group called Unknown TV.

Sidhu Moosewala’s father removes turban as a mark of respect for attendees at son’s funeral, seeks justice in murder case

Sidhu Moosewala's father removed his turban as mark of respect to attendees at son's cremation

BJP leader Gopichand Padalkar barred from entering Ahilyabai Holkar’s birthplace to celebrate her birth anniversary, Fadnavis says it is an attempt by NCP to...

"The whole of the politics of these people has been anti-Hindu, then what gives them the right to enter birthplace of Ahilyabai Holkar?" BJP MLA Gopichand Padalkar asked

AAP apes Congress in insulting PM Modi, calls him “chor” after ED arrested Satyendar Jain in money laundering case

AAP Himachal Pradesh tweeted a derogatory poster demeaning PM Modi and referring to him as a 'Chor.'

Panchayat strikes a chord with the Indian audience because it shows India for what it is – flawed but fabulous

Success of works such as Panchayat, Kota Factory, Aspirants and Gullak testify how the audience is identifying with a changing, progressing India.