Iran Prez dies in chopper crash after stinging Israel
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s Foreign Minister and several other officials were found dead on Monday, hours after their helicopter crashed in a foggy, mountainous region of the country’s northwest, state media reported. Raisi was 63. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hours later announced Iran’s first vice president, Mohammad...
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Two rounds to go, Nadda takes stock of BJP poll fortunes
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AAP’s trouble mounts over foreign donations
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Polling goes south as mercury heads north
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Drug recall from US hits big firms
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SC to hear plea opposing three criminal laws
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Maliwal assault could have been fatal: Cops
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Delhi roads clock four deaths a day so far in 2024
20 May 2024 | Saumya Shukla
EC shifts focus to urban voters today
Amid the sweltering heat and high-pitch political rhetorics and promises by contestants in the fray, over 8.95 crore voters in 49 Parliament constituencies spread in Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal will cast their vote in the fifth phase of polling on Monday....
Star-studded lineup for tomorrow’s vote
From santustikaran (ensuring to satisfaction ) to tustikaran (appeasement ), plotting to send Ram Lalla to tent again and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's retirement age to scrapping of Citizenship Amendment Act, these issues dominated during campaigning for the fifth phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha to be held on May...
Five women among nine killed in Nuh as running bus catches fire
At least nine people, including five women, were burnt alive and 15 injured in a fire incident near Tauru in Haryana's Nuh district in the early hours of Saturday. The bus was carrying around 60 people, all residents of Punjab's Hoshiarpur and Ludhiana, who were returning from the pilgrim towns...
Aide nabbed, kejriwal throws the gauntlet
Minutes before his anticipatory bail was rejected, the Delhi Police on Saturday arrested Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's controversial aide Bibhav Kumar in connection with the alleged assault on AAP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal on Saturday. Kumar was picked up from the Chief Minister's official residence by the...
Caste a big factor in Ram Janmabhoomi
The grand inauguration of the Ram Mandir by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 22 has thrust Ayodhya into the international spotlight. However, the electoral dynamics in this Lok Sabha constituency, still commonly referred to as Faizabad, are far more complex, deeply influenced by intricate caste equations alongside temple politics. In...
Giving you my son, says mother Sonia
In her first public rally for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Friday attempted to strike an emotional chord with the voters of the Raebareli constituency. She asked them to consider her son, Rahul Gandhi, as their own, as he is now contesting from the...
Historic taint on AAP, Kejriwal
For the first in the country's jurisprudence, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has named Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as well as its convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal as an accused in the supplementary charge sheet filed in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise scam. This is the...