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PM Modi chairs meeting to review Operation Ganga: Seeks update on evacuation processes with top officials and ministers

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External affairs minister S Jaishankar, minister of commerce and industry Piyush Goyal, foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla, NSA Ajit Doval, and a few other senior officials also attended the meeting
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Chhattisgarh: Journalist Nilesh Sharma arrested for his political satire after Congress accuses him of spreading ‘fake news’

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Nilesh Sharma ran a political satire series that used fictional characters resonating with Congress leaders and MLAs in Chhattisgarh.
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News Reports

Cancel culture reaches space: Germany switches off its black hole telescope on Russian satellite, halts all scientific projects with Russia

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Germany has stopped all science cooperation with Russia over its invasion in Ukraine
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News Reports

FIR registered against family member of former VP Hamid Ansari and son of gangster Mukhtar Ansari for threatening police during an election rally in...

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While taking cognisance of the video, the Additional Director General of Police (ADG) Prashant Kumar ordered a probe against Abbas Ansari
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News Reports

Russian forces seize Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant after an intense fight, days after capturing surrounding areas

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The Russian troops seized the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant days after capturing the areas surrounding the nuclear power plant.
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News Reports

‘Godhra carnage a lie, nobody saw anyone setting railway coach on fire,’ says Siddharth Varadarajan: Longstanding effort of the Left to blame Hindus

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The Wire founder Siddharth Varadarajan insinuated that Godhra train burning was a conspiracy to target the Muslim community
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News Reports

VHP welcomes the Haryana Govt decision to bring anti-conversion law, lauds CM Manohar Lal Khattar for proving his resolve to fight menace of ‘Love...

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VHP said that the organisation heartily welcomes the decision of the Haryana Govt to introduce a bill in the Vidhan Sabha to stop illegal conversions in the state
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News Reports

Russia-Ukraine war: Canada detains chartered flight carrying Russian nationals, holds Russia ‘accountable’ by harassing civilians

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A charter plane carrying Russian foreign people en route to the High Arctic was grounded at the Yellowknife airport in Canada
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Crime

‘Your sister is lying in the forest, go and get her’: Sahil in Saharanpur poisons a minor Dalit girl for resisting rape, victim dies

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The girl was rushed to the hospital after her family found her lying in half-dead position with froth coming out of her mouth in Bijopuri forest. She was declared dead.
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News Reports

As the Australian Cricket Team is in Pakistan after 24 years, here is how the Sri Lanka team had come under attack on a...

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No major team has played in Pakistan since the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in 2009.
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News Reports

Bhagalpur: Massive explosion leaves 7 dead, cause of blast believed to be illegal firecrackers. Here is what we know so far

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A massive explosion rocked a 3-storey residential building in the Kajwalichak area in the Bhagalpur district of Bihar.
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News Reports

Russia Ukraine war: Indian student shot while trying to escape from Kyiv, hospitalized

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Indian students are being evacuated via Poland, Hungary, and Romania.
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Government and Policy

Indian Railway designed ‘Kavach’ to be tested: Two trains, one with Minister Vaishnaw and other with Railway Board Chairman, will hurtle towards each other...

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Kavach is a system that automatically stops a train when it detects another train on the same track within a certain range.
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News Reports

‘Let them fly on their broomsticks’: Russian space agency to stop delivery of rocket engines to USA after US sanctions

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"In a situation like this we can't supply the United States with our world's best rocket engines. Let them fly on something else, their broomsticks, I don't know what", said ROSCOSMOS chief Dmitry Rogozin.
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News Reports

13,000 Indians moved out of Ukraine under Operation Ganga: CNN News 18 anchor asks why Indian students were not evacuated ‘earlier’. What Jyotiraditya Scindia...

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Amidst the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia informed that about 13,000 Indian students have been safely evacuated to the neighbouring countries
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News Reports

West sponsored foreign mercenaries in Ukraine will not be treated as Prisoners-of-War, warns Russian military: Read details

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The Russian Defense Ministry accused Great Britain, Denmark, Latvia, Poland, and Croatia of legally authorising their citizens to participate in the ongoing Ukraine war.
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News Reports

China reverts to its own currency in pursuing trade with Russia, opposes sanctions posed by the US, EU against Russia

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China has demanded that US should not harm the legitimate rights and interests of China and other parties when handling the Ukraine issue and its relations with Russia.
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News Reports

How Congress ally MK Stalin is using the Russia-Ukraine war to fan the North-South divide in India after Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Union of States’ remark

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Congress ally DMK using Russia-Ukraine war to fan the North-South divide in India by talking about Tamil students
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News Reports

Russia-Ukraine war: Fire breaks at Zaporizhzhia, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, which provides more than a fifth of electricity to Ukraine

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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba claimed that the Russian troops opened fire from all sides upon Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
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News Reports

Congress leader’s daughter evacuated from Romania claims evacuating from Ukraine borders is not evacuation, Rahul Gandhi uses it to attack Modi govt

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Congress leader's daughter evacuated from Romania said as she had left Ukraine on her own, it was not evacuation
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News Reports

PM Gati Shakti will be the next game-changer like UPI: Piyush Goyal says the world wants to emulate India’s story

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Piyush Goyal said that several countries have evinced interest in India's 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat' initiative and want to emulate its growth story
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News Reports

Surat: Societies raise banners saying they will not rent shops or houses to non-Hindus due to ‘love jihad’

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Banners have come up in societies in Surat saying they will not rent houses to non-Hindus due to love jihad cases
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News Reports

#MeToo: 18-year old girl accuses celebrity tattoo artist in Kochi of sexual assault, many others come forward to share their similar ordeal

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A Kochi-based celebrity tattoo artist is facing a string of sexual harassment charges on social media
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News Reports

‘I can’t be silenced’, says Vivek Agnihotri after one Intezar Hussain Sayed files petition to stall the release of ‘The Kashmir Files’

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Petition filed seeking to stall the release of The Kashmir Files alleging that the trailer hurts religious feelings of Muslims
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News Reports

Mamata Banerjee questions the need for emergency crisis meetings held by Modi govt on the Ukraine situation

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Mamata Banerjee questions Modi govt regarding necessity of emergency crisis meetings on Ukraine situation
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News Reports

Supreme Court to deploy ‘monkey scarers’ at judges’ bungalows due to monkey menace in Delhi

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Supreme Court invited tenders for deploying monkey scarers at bungalows of judges to tackle monkey menace in Delhi
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News Reports

After murders and rapes by TMC goons in West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee calls peaceful Hindus chanting Jai Shri Ram ‘cowards’

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Mamata Banerjee continues to display her anger with the Jai Shri Ram slogan by Hindus, rants against it in Varanasi
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News Reports

Luxury Russian yachts are the latest casualty of the Russian invasion of Ukraine: Read details

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European nations start to seize luxury yachts owned by Russian billionaires as part of sanctions against Russia
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News Reports

Gujarat police demolish illegal properties constructed on government land by history-sheeter Sajju Ghulam Mohammad Kothari

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The Gujarat police have demolished illegal properties made on government land by the notorious gangster Sajid alias Sajju Ghulam Mohammad Kothari.
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News Reports

Canada does not buy crude from Russia but Justin Trudeau bans the import, European nations continue gas and oil imports from Russia

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Even after imposing sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine, European nations continue to import gas and oil from Russia
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News Reports

Russia faces sports sanctions across the board while India continues to play with Pakistan: A contested diplomatic opportunity lies ahead

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When Europe and the West decide to go well beyond the supposed rules-based order to target Russia, maybe there is much reason for India to show Pakistan its place through Cricket.
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News Reports

Ex-Gujarat State Congress Pres Bharatsinh Solanki’s alleged audio clip goes viral, here is what he said

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Earlier in December 2021, Bharatsinh Solanki's estranged wife Reshma Solanki had written a letter to Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son and senior Congress leader Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi making explosive allegations against her husband.
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News Reports

Polish universities to allow Indian students to complete their education: Union Minister VK Singh

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The Union Minister indicated that the Polish universities might come to the rescue of Indian students affected by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis by allowing these students to complete their education out of goodwill towards India.
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News Reports

Worshipping climate saints like Greta Thunberg has made many NATO countries the slaves of Russian energy exports

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While big sanctions and big statements of condemnation were announced by leaders in Europe and USA against Russia, they have made sure that Russian oil and gas continues to flow into their countries.
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News Reports

Nawab Malik and Dawood Ibrahim: Decoding the links between the NCP leader and the 1993 Mumbai Blasts accused terrorist

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NCP leader Nawab Malik was arrested by ED in a money laundering case and for alleged links with Dawood Ibrahim
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News Reports

Donald Trump believes China may be emboldened to invade Taiwan soon because of the Biden administration’s failure in handling Russia-Ukraine war

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Given the Biden administration's failure in handling the US pullout from Afghanistan and Russia's invasion of Ukraine Donald Trump believes China might well be emboldened to invade Taiwan
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News Reports

‘Racist, sexist’: New York Times uses picture of her sister in place of Serena Williams, fails to even mention her name in an article...

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Moreover, the New York Times has also avoided mentioning the name 'Serena Williams' in the headline and has just written 'Tennis star'.
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News Reports

Rajasthan: Govt school teacher distributes ‘Hinduism: Dharm ya Kalank’ booklet to students, parents hold protests, inquiry ordered

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The teacher, Nirmala Kamad, on the other hand, has accused villagers of discrimination and harassment because of her caste.
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News Reports

Procedural lapses in investigation, evidence tampering, inconsistency in police statements, police concealing facts: What NCPCR report in Lavanya suicide case says

Jhankar Mohta -
The NCPCR report submitted in M Lavanya suicide case confirmed that there might exist a possibility of tampering with evidence in the absence of proper compliance with the due procedure of law
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News Reports

British Journalist tries to shame India over ‘aid’ for not towing UK’s line on Ukraine issue, gets reminded of his country’s dark colonial history

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Netizens slam British journalist Alastair Stewart for trying to shame India for abstaining from vote against Russia in UN
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News Reports

Hindu group stopped from cleansing Shivalinga inside Dargah premises stating ‘urs’ on Maha Shivratri in Karnataka’s Aland, 167 arrested

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As per reports, human faeces were thrown on the Shivalinga which is in the shared dargah premises and hence the Hindu groups had called for purification.
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News Reports

Delhi Police opposes bail plea of sedition accused Sharjeel Imam, say he may threaten witnesses, re-engage in riot-like activities

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Delhi police said that if Sharjeel Imam is granted bail, he may evade the process of law and jump, threaten witnesses
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News Reports

Biden administration mulling whether to apply or waive sanctions against India over S-400 deal with Russia: US Diplomat

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A USA diplomat has said that the Biden administration has yet to decide whether or not to impose sanctions on India under CAATSA
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Opinions

The repeated attacks against Sara Ali Khan by Islamists: What it means and why the Hindu community would be remiss to dismiss it

Nupur J Sharma -
On Mahashivratri, when Hindus worship Lord Shiva, Sara Ali Khan, the daughter of Saif Ali Khan and Amrita Singh, was abused and attacked on social media by Islamists
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News Reports

‘Leave no one behind’: Indian students allowed to bring pet animals along in evacuation flights. Watch visuals

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As GoI relaxes conditions to bring pets from war-hit Ukraine, Indian students were seen boarding flights with their pet animals.
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News Reports

‘Wanted Dead or Alive’: Russian Businessman announces $1million bounty on President Vladimir Putin

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Russian-born entrepreneur Alex Konanykhin offered $1 million to any military officer who catches Russian President Vladimir Putin "dead or alive" for allegedly committing "war crimes" in his invasion of Ukraine.
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News Reports

Ukraine: Russian forces take control of Kherson in the south, mayor says there are no Ukrainian troops in the city

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Kherson, one of the major Ukrainian cities, has come under Russian control.
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Ukraine holding Indian students hostage in Kharkiv to use them as human shield, Russian President Putin informs PM Modi

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Russian President Putin also assured India that their military was doing everything possible to ensure the safe evacuation of Indians from the conflict zone. Russia has provided safe passage to Indians on the govt's request.
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News Reports

Varanasi: Members of Hindu Yuva Vahini welcome Mamata Banerjee with Jai Shri Ram chants and black flags

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Mamata Banerjee was greeted with Jai Shri Ram slogans and black flags after she reached Varanasi to campaign for SP
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News Reports

Russia removes US, UK, Japan flags from rocket carrying OneWeb satellites but keeps Indian flag, puts conditions for the launch

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Russia puts condition on launch of OneWeb satellites, removes UK, US, Japan flags from rocket but keeps Indian flag
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