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Dawood Ibrahim’s nephew Sohail Kaskar manages to escape to Pakistan, was wanted by Mumbai Police

Kaskar and his associate Danish Ali were arrested in Spain in 2014.

Radio Pakistan launches another anti-India propaganda, supports banned Khalistani terrorist organisation SFJ

Radio Pakistan started propaganda against India to support Khalistan terrorist organization Sikhs For Justice.

Comedy of Errors: Twitter user gets inundated with calls, messages after AAP announces #JantaChunegiCM campaign, here is what happened

#JantaChunegiCM campaign by Aam Aadmi Party has led to a harrowing experience of a Twitter user who had similar number

Congress releases first list of 125 candidates for UP assembly elections, ticket allotted to mother of the Unnao rape victim

Priyanka Gandhi has announced 125 Congress candidates in UP. In the first list, 40 percent women have been given tickets.

Karnataka: Congress suspends Mekedatu padayatra after High Court slammed state govt for not stopping “super spread” event and BBMP cancelled permission

Congress Padayatra was scheduled to enter Bengaluru tomorrow cancelled after the BBMP cancelled the permission given

Rajasthan: Raped and left to die, specially-abled minor girl undergoes surgery, minister assures justice

Health Minister Parsadi Lal Meena has assured that an SIT has been formed to probe the matter and The accused will be arrested and brought to justice at the earliest.

Harish Rawat gets his rival out, former Uttarakhand Congress president Kishore Upadhyay removed from all posts for ‘hobnobbing with BJP’

Days after Uttarakhand Congress leader Kishore Upadhyay met some BJP leaders, party removed him from all posts for anti-party activities

Uttar Pradesh: Muslim girl marries Hindu boy in Bareilly’s Agastya Muni Ashram, seeks police protection from her family

The Muslim girl has stated that she is 21 and the marriage with Sachin is her choice.

Congress uses 2010 image from Kashmir protests to claim youth are unemployed under Modi government

Congress has used misleading or fake images three times already in its campaign in 2022.

SBSP’s OP Rajbhar calls BJP ‘enemy of OBCs’ but fails to list even one thing that his alliance partner Akhilesh did for non-Yadavs

Sushant Sinha of Times Now Navbharat asked Rajbhar to list 10 things that the Samajwadi Party, his new alliance partner, has done for the OBCs and especially non-Yadavs in their years in power. Rajbhar was seen fumbling and making obscure allegations.

Bihar Congress shares manipulated media of UP Deputy CM Maurya

In the manipulated video, Bihar Congress made it appear like Uttar Pradesh Deputy CM KP Maurya was being critical of PM Modi

Arjun Kapoor and Malaika Arora overturn the rumors of break-up

There were speculations that Arjun Kapoor and Malaika Arora have broken up after four years after making their relationship official.

Chhattisgarh: Hindu man files complaint against Muslim wife and in-laws for converting minor son to Islam by forcibly circumcising him, case registered

A Muslim woman and her family members arrested for forcibly circumcising their minor son without the knowledge of Hindu husband

Liberals selectively quote Swami Vivekananda to “secularise” the Hindu icon, but here’s how he continues to inspire a billion youth

Liberals cited a quote by Swami Vivekananda to claim that the Hindu icon had asked youth to chose football over Bhagavad Gita

Congress leader Rita Yadav, who was shot in Sultanpur, had planned the attack herself to get a ticket in the UP elections

Sultanpur Congress leader Rita Yadav had got herself shot by her associates to raise her political status so that she is given a ticket by the party

BJP MLA asks UP Police to book Rohini Singh under IT act for conspiring to defame him: Details

In a tweet, Ravindra Nath Tripathi asked UP police to book Rohini Singh for spreading rumours and conspiring to defame him

Turkmenistan President orders officials to find a way to extinguish the fire at ‘Gateway to Hell’, the gas grater that is burning for half...

For economic and environmental reasons, Turkmenistan President ordered officials to extinguish the fire at 'Gateway to Hell'

Hyderabad: FIR against Tamil actor Siddharth on the complaints of Hindu Jana Shakti for his crass comments on Saina Nehwal

Actor Siddharth has been booked by Hyderabad Police station and Cyber Crime City Police for his comments against Saina Nehwal

Anti-China sentiments in Nepal rising over Beijing’s interventionist and expansionist policies: Report

The report, published in Khabarhub, said protests against Chinese hegemony has been a daily affair in Nepal

Ladakh: Revenue Dept scraps Urdu as mandatory language for govt jobs after BJP MP wrote to Amit Shah

Ladakh administration replaces graduation with Urdu knowledge as qualification for several govt jobs with just graduation

UP: Arrest warrant issued against Swami Prasad Maurya, a day after he resigned from cabinet minister post

An arrest warrant against Maurya has been made over alleged objectionable statements made by him on Hinduism and Brahmins in 2014.

Another UP Minister Dara Singh Chauhan resigns from Yogi Adityanath cabinet, Akhilesh Yadav welcomes him to SP

UP Minister Dara Singh Chauhan resigned a day after minister Swami Prasad Maurya resigned to join the Samajwadi Party.

Doctors in USA successfully transplant a genetically modified pig heart onto a human patient: All you need to know

“It was either die or do this transplant. I want to live", said David Bennett before the surgery.

Bulli Bai creator Niraj Bishnoi belongs to a family of Congress supporters, media misinformation leads villagers to believe he bought and sold women

The father of Bulli Bai app creator Niraj Bishnoi said that while the family is Congress supporter, his son's political views are different

Omicron spreading: Health Ministry instructs states to stock medical oxygen, keep life support equipment ready in hospitals

As the third wave rises in India, union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan has written a letter to various states and union territories to ensure that all the hospitals have sufficient stocks and supplies of medical oxygen.

Home Ministry releases advisory to ensure safety and rights of Transpeople in prisons

The MHA guidelines ask states to ensure rights of Transgenders including right to self-identity, safety and healthcare in prisons.

Devdutt Pattnaik has a meltdown after his National Youth Festival session could not be streamed due to ‘technical difficulties’

Devdutt Pattnaik event had become unavailable after netizens demanded the Centre to drop him as a speaker from Youth Festival

‘Sneaky a**hole’ – Journalists criticise Djokovic for hiding COVID info in declaration form in a viral clip

The newsreaders' rant was a reaction to the reports that Djokovic has admitted there were errors in his travel documents for the Australian Open.

‘Pakistan wants peace with India, but not under Modi govt’: Pakistan to unveil its first-ever National Security Policy

While Pakistan says it does not want hostility with India for 100 years, it says rapprochement with India not possible when Modi govt is in power

Devdutt Pattnaik event goes missing and unavailable after netizens outrage over govt invitation to him for Youth Festival

Netizens highlighted abusive tweets by Devdutt Pattnaik after he was invited as a speaker at National Youth Festival

SSB raises concern over increase in mosques and madrasas along Nepal border in UP, months after reports of their terror links

According to SSB , construction of mosques and madrasas has seen an increase of about 26% in last 3 years along Nepal border in UP

PM security breach: Justice (retd) Indu Malhotra to lead SC appointed panel, NIA chief, DG(security) of Punjab included

The Judicial Panel will probe causes of security breach, people responsible for it and measures that need to be taken for preventing security lapses of VVIPs in future.

Devdutt Pattnaik invited by Govt to speak at Youth Festival, Netizens share screenshots of his vile, abusive tweets

Sharing screenshots of his abusive and sexually derogatory tweets, Netizens urged Union Minister Anurag Thakur to remove Devdutt Pattnaik from the speakers' panel at the Youth Festival.

“Rayta” vs “Trad”: The power of disunity and how liberals bent to forces beyond their control

The “trad” vs “rayta” debate should go mainstream, and occupy the center of the political discourse. Move over, liberals and watch from the sidelines.

‘Punjab Police knew that PM’s convoy will be blocked, villagers were called from Gurudwara: India Today investigation

Intelligence inputs were forwarded on time about the possible road blockage but no action was taken, a DSP has informed India Today.

United Nations experts ask USA to close Guantanamo Bay detention centre, call out ‘relentless human rights violations’

“Twenty years of practising arbitrary detention without trial accompanied by torture or ill-treatment is simply unacceptable for any government, particularly a government which has a stated claim to protecting human rights,” the statement by the UN experts has said.

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Twitter account compromised, briefly changes name to that of Elon Musk

Ministry of Information & Broadcasting Twitter account has since been restored.

Rajasthan: Minor, specially abled girl gang-raped, left bleeding on flyover in Alwar

Few men drove down the flyover on Tuesday night and dropped off the minor girl who was left bleeding and in unconscious state.

Actor Siddharth ‘writes a letter’ to Saina Nehwal for ‘subtle cock’ joke, calls himself ‘staunch feminist’

Siddharth has since deleted his distasteful tweets on Saina Nehwal as well as Times Now's Navika Kumar

Filmmaker Manish Mundra comes out to help Zomato executive Salil Tripathi’s family after his death in an accident by police car

Salil Tripathi, a Zomato delivery executive, died on Saturday, January 8, after an SUV driven by a police constable rammed into him

“Exposed to a cocktail of pathogens”: IIT professor slams BMC for poor facilities and hygiene at a quarantine centre

The professor accused the BMC of taking the Omicron variant lightly, adding that he was not tested for the latest COVID-19 variant

Today it is 12, tomorrow it can be 120: SC slams Maharashtra govt for suspending 12 BJP MLAs, leaving constituencies unrepresented

The Supreme Court slams that Maharashtra govt over suspension of 12 BJP MLAs for one year saying allowing such a precedent would put democracy in jeopardy

UP: Cabinet minister Swami Prasad Maurya resigns, Akhilesh Yadav welcomes him into SP

Reports have stated that Swami Prasad Maurya wanted an MLA ticket for his son Utkrusht Maurya.

BCCI ends association with Chinese mobile maker Vivo as IPL title sponsors, finds new partner in Tata group of companies

BCCI has decided to exit the partnership with Chinese mobile manufacturer Vivo as the title sponsor of IPL once and for all and instead collaborate with the Tata Group

Tamil Nadu: DMK Govt demolishes Anjaneyar temple citing it was ‘illegally constructed’; 20 protesters detained

The DMK govt in Tamil Nadu demolished Anjaneyar Swamy temple in Chennai citing encroachments on Adyar riverbed

A letter to those from IIMs who wrote a letter to the PM about ‘hate-filled voices’: Do you not hear these voices?

An article in the Indian Express from 8th January, 2022 caught my attention. It was titled “Your silence emboldens hate voices: Faculty, students of IIMs to PM”. 

Patriotic Pakistanis are hating Saudi Arabia, and they have solutions for all problems: Nukes and opium

Patriots of cash-strapped Pakistan are full of hatred against about Saudi Arabia, for asking a loan payback.

The Left’s refusal to condemn Siddharth and Kanhaiya Kumar for their innuendos reveals their hollow commitment to feminism

Even as the Left fashions itself as the champion of "feminism", their silence on innuendos by Siddharth and Kanhaiya Kumar betrays their hypocrisy

Fugitive arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari suing French company over unpaid commission of Rs 92 crores for UPA era deal

Sanjay Bhandari has claimed that the French company owes over 92 crores to him for a defence transaction signed in India a decade ago, during the UPA regime.

Delhi High Court issues notice to Twitter and Govt over Arti Tikoo’s petition: Read details

The court requested a response from the Centre and Twitter, while also providing three weeks to file a counter-affidavit