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Assam: Former BPF MLA Hitesh Basumatary arrested for keeping illegal weapons, was allegedly attempting to float a new terror group

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Hitesh Basumatary, a Bodoland People's Front candidate, triumphed in the 2011 Assembly elections from the Chapaguri constituency. Additionally, he held the position of Executive Member of the Bodoland Territorial Council.
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News Reports

Kolkata: Two men including a mechanical engineering student arrested for suspected links with ISIS, were allegedly radicalising youths

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Special Task Force of the Kolkata police arrested two men with suspected ISIS links, Mohammad Saddam and Syed Ahmed
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News Reports

Chhattisgarh: IED weighing 25 kg recovered in Bijapur; was planted by Naxals to damage vehicles

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A joint team of local police and security forces recovered an IED bomb weighing 25 kg near Munda pond in Bijapur.
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News Reports

Shah Rukh Khan’s NGO Meer Foundation donates to Delhi hit and drag victim Anjali Singh’s family

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SRK's NGO, Meer Foundation, donated an undisclosed amount to Delhi hit and drag victim Anjali Singh's family.
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News Reports

Two minor Hindu girls threatened by Wahid and Aman to marry and become Muslims, case registered in Indore

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In Mhow near Indore, police have registered a case against two Muslim youths. These youths threatened two Hindu girls and asked them to get married and become Muslims.
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News Reports

Disturbing statistics of forced conversions, murders, and rapes of religious minorities in Bangladesh: Reports

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The annual report of atrocities on minorities in Bangladesh said that about 319 families and temples were looted while 173 businesses were vandalised in 2022.
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News Reports

Flight service between Bhubaneswar and Rourkela begins ahead of Hockey World Cup, CM Patnaik thanks PM Modi and Civil Aviation Minister

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Flagging off the first flight to Rourkela Airport from Biju Patnaik International Airport, Bhubaneswar this morning, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said that this new air connectivity would help Odisha and its people.
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News Reports

Air India peeing case: Accused Shankar Mishra sent to 14-day judicial custody

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Shankar Mishra is accused of urinating on a female co-passenger in an inebriated state while onboard Air India flight AI-102 on November 26 travelling from New York to Delhi
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News Reports

FIR filed against Congress’ Afzal Lakhani for pretending to be a ‘Thakkar’ to create enmity within the Hindu community on social media: Details

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Afzal Lakhani had reportedly created a fake ID in the name of 'Jigar Thakkar' to malign Hindus, Brahmins, and RSS.
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News Reports

Bengaluru school gets bomb threat on email, turns out to be hoax by a student of another school who did it for fun

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A bomb threat mail sent to National Academy for Learning (NAFL) in Bengaluru was sent by a minor boy for fun
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News Reports

Telangana: Brothers Azmath and Akbar Ali repeatedly rape a minor Hindu girl for 6 months, arrested

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Azmath Ali and Akbar Ali raped the minor Hindu girl, living in Mills colony in Warangal, Telangana, several times during the last six months
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News Reports

Kanjhawala hit and run case: Eyewitness Nidhi was arrested in 2020 in a drug smuggling case

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Delhi Police said on Friday that Nidhi has been asked to join the investigation and clarified that she has not been arrested.
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News Reports

Air India peeing case: The airline de-rosters a pilot and 4 cabin crew members after urination incidents

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Air India chief executive officer (CEO) Campbell Wilson on Friday asked the airline staff to report any instances of any improper behaviour on board to authorities at the earliest
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News Reports

Bhavnagar: Hindus organise a massive rally demanding Disturbed Areas Act, submit a memorandum to Collector over changing demography

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Over 5,000 Hindus participated in the rally organised to demand the implementation of Disturbed Areas Act in Bhavnagar.
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News Reports

‘I had it the worst in terms of verbal, sexual, and physical abuse’: Somy Ali claims Salman Khan had ‘tons of flings’ while dating...

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Somy Ali said that she was ‘provoked’ by Salman Khan to speak out against him as the actor approached Discovery Plus channel to ban her show ‘Fight of Flight’.
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News Reports

Shraddha Walkar murder: Aftab Poonawala wants his credit cards back to buy winter clothes; court extends judicial custody by 4 days

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Aftab Amin Poonawala is currently lodged in Tihar jail for the brutal murder of his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar
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News Reports

West Bengal minister alleges that the old train was painted and given the name Vande Bharat amid stone-pelting attacks on it

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Udayan Guha said, "The old train has been painted and given the name Vande Bharat. An attempt is being made to fool the common people by naming the old train Vande Bharat."
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Politics

MLA poaching case: Telangana Congress wants CBI inquiry into defection of 12 party MLAs to KCR’s party

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Telangana Congress demanded a CBI investigation into the alleged poaching of its MLA by the erstwhile TRS between 2014 and 2019
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News Reports

Former BSP minister Yakub Qureshi and his son arrested for running an unlicensed meat business

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BSP Yakub Qureshi arrested with charges of running an unlicensed business of meat packaging and processing
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News Reports

Delhi Kanjhawala hit and drag case: Anjali and Nidhi fought over money before the accident, alleges the victim’s friend

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A friend of Anjali claimed that both the deceased and Nidhi had an altercation over money while partying at a hotel.
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Politics

Did you get 2 crore jobs: Mallikarjun Kharge left red-faced as the crowd responded with a resounding ‘yes’

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The Congress supporters, who had gathered to listen to Mallikarjun Kharge, cheered in affirmation when asked if they got jobs under BJP government
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News Reports

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi registered as a voter in two different assembly constituencies: Congress

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Telangana Congress alleged that AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi is registered as a voter in two separate assembly constituencies
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Social Media

‘He is Vijender, not a dog’: Netizens react after Congress shares Rahul Gandhi’s pictures with a dog, boxer Vijender Singh as BJY enters Haryana

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Congress shared pictures of Rahul Gandhi walking along with a dog, boxer Vijender Singh, and others.
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Opinions

‘Dear Suniel, rotten apples have ruined the industry, and it’s not 1%’ – A Stupid Common Man

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Many of your colleagues think it is a sinister plot against the film industry. As if some Asuras in the form of fanatics have risen from Narak to boycott Bollywood as part of some evil plan.
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News Reports

ISIS operative arrested by NIA turns out to be Karnataka Congress leader Thajuddin Sheikh’s son: Details

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NIA has confirmed that one of the ISIS operatives arrested on Thursday, Reshaan Sheikh is the son of Karnataka Congress leader Thajuddin Sheikh
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News Reports

First phase of Bihar caste census begins, CM Nitish Kumar says it will allow government to work for the development of all

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As per an estimation, nearly five lakh government employees will be required to complete the caste survey by May this year. 
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World

Jack Ma to relinquish control of fintech giant Ant Group

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Jack Ma is said to have exercised control over the company through related entities, according to Ant's initial public offering (IPO) prospectus filed with the exchanges in 2020.
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News Reports

‘Nafrat ki Zameen’: RJD leader says Ram Mandir in Ayodhya is being built on the land of hatred

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"Ram will not remain in our hearts but inside the four walls (of the temple). This is beyond my understanding," Jagadanand Singh said.
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News Reports

Air India peeing case: Accused Shankar Mishra arrested from Bengaluru

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This comes after accused Shankar Mishra, who was absconding since the incident came to light, issued a statement through his lawyers claiming that he had paid ‘compensation’ to the victim and the lady displayed no intention of lodging a complaint.
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News Reports

Twitter data leaked, leaves 23.5 crore users vulnerable to hackers: Reports

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Alon Gal added that hackers will also attempt to compromise political accounts and crypto Twitter accounts using the leaked data.
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‘I think I’m in trouble’: Accused Shankar Mishra told co-passenger after urinating on a female passenger on the Air India flight

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Sugata Bhattacharjee, a US-based doctor of audiology and Mishra’s co-passenger on the Air India flight said that the accused had downed four glasses of single malt during lunch.
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News Reports

‘Leave BJP or we will kill you and your family’: Lashkar-e-Khalsa sends messages to BJP leaders, threatens to target BJP, RSS and Indian Army

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Lashkar-e-Khalsa sends messages to BJP leaders threatening kill them and their families, says they will target BJP, RSS and Indian Army
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News Reports

‘Former Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar and her family were involved in forgery case’: BJP leader Kirit Somaiya

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Kirit Somaiya said Kishori Pednekar submitted false documents to register her son's company Kish Corporate.
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News Reports

Research explains how climate change can trigger extreme weather conditions in the Indian Ocean

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Researchers studied how climate change can cause seawater temperatures on one side of the Indian Ocean to be so much warmer or cooler than that on the other side.
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News Reports

‘Deeply disturbing’: US-based company Wells Fargo sacks VP Shankar Mishra for urinating on a woman on an Air India flight

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Shankar Mishra, accused of urinating on a woman on an Air India flight from New York to New Delhi in November 2022, has been fired from his US financial services firm Wells Fargo
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News Reports

DGCA recommends ‘handcuff-like devices’ to control unruly passengers on board

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The DGCA has advised airlines to have restraining devices such as handcuff to control unruly passengers.
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News Reports

‘Non-Muslims are our enemies, our children should understand this’, says radical Canadian cleric Sheikh Younus Kathrada in a viral video

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Sheikh Younus Kathrada said, "I want our children to understand this well. The non-Muslims are the enemies of Allah therefore they are your enemies."
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Crime

Bhopal: Faizan Abbas poses as Shaan Pandit to trap a Dalit minor, rapes and converts her to Islam; arrested along with a doctor who...

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In another case of love jihad, a man named Faizan Abbas trapped a Dalit minor by posing as a Hindu, and later raped her.
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News Reports

DGCA issues guidelines to handle ‘unruly passengers’ over mid-air urination incidents

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The DGCA issues guidelines to airlines in the wake of back-to-back two urination incidents on Air India flights.
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Pakistan: Hindu youth killed for resisting his sister’s abduction, Sindh-based activist says police protecting the accused

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A 35-year-old Hindu man was killed by a group of Islamists in Sindh in Pakistan for resisting his sister's abduction
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News Reports

‘Population is less in countries where markets shuts down at 8 pm’: Pak Minister’s bizarre justification of ‘energy conservation plan’

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Khawafa Asif made the remarks while trying to rationalise Pakistan’s 'National Energy Efficiency and Conservation Plan'.
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News Reports

So my number is 25: Prince Harry reveals the number of Talibs he took out during his military deployment in Afghanistan

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Prince Harry said that he felt no guilt for taking out 25 Talibs because he did not forget the horrors of the 9/11 attack
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News Reports

West Bengal: Islamists attack Hindus renovating a Shiva temple in Panskura

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The Islamists attacked Hindus gathered to renovate a century-old Shiva temple in Panskura.
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Air India case: Accused says he paid ‘compensation’, the victim narrates how she was coerced into a ‘settlement’ with man who urinated on her

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The Air India 'urinating' incident occurred on November 26, 2022, but it only came to the fore after the media reported about it on January 4, 2023.
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Non-bailable warrant issued against Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut in defamation suit filed by Medha Somaiya

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Mumbai court warrant issues non-bailable warrant against Sanjay Raut for not appearing in court in defamation case filed by Medha Somaiya
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News Reports

Sammed Shikharji row: Another Jain monk on indefinite fasting against Jharkhand govt’s decision dies in Jaipur

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This is second such death after protests erupted against Jharkhand government’s decision on Shri Sammed Shikharji.
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News Reports

Conversion attempt using grape juice as the blood of Jesus foiled in Pune, case registered against three people

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Case filed against Sudhakar Baburao Suryavanshi and others for attempting conversion by using grape juice as blood of Jesus
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Afghan refugees, most of them women and children, languish in Pakistani jails after escaping from Taliban

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Regarding Afghan refugees' plight, PTM's leader Manzoor Pashteen tweeted, "Afghan girls are deprived of knowledge in Afghanistan and innocent Afghan girls are imprisoned in Pakistan". In response to this tweet, a Sindh Government Minister questioned these claims.
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News Reports

Israeli minister visits Al Aqsa mosque, built on holy Jewish site: Here is how UN, Palestine and ‘liberals’ lost their mind

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The Israeli Minister also drew the ire of the Foreign Ministry of Jordan, which condemned him for violating the 'sanctity' of the mosque.
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Iraq: 17-year-old girl attacked by dozens of Muslim men in Kurdistan for coming to watch a bike race and causing ‘distraction’

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Kurdistan Watch described the Hwana suburb, where the attack took place as one of the most unsafe areas in Sulaimani adding that the place is known for the widespread use of drugs.
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