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New Delhi, Jul 17 (PTI) The US has deported a total of 1,563 Indian nationals since January and the latest batch was sent back last week, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday. MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said most of the Indians were sent back on commercial flights. From January 20 to July 16, some 1563 Indian nationals have been deported from the United States, he said, adding most of these Indian nationals have come by commercial flights. The deportations take place ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar, July 17 (UNI) The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Odisha police on Thursday arrested two fraudsters on the charge of cheating Rs 1.56 crore from a woman in Odisha's Cuttack district on the pretext of higher returns in online gaming platforms. The CID sleuths acted on a complaint filed by Mamata Rout (38), a native of Balisahi village under the Salipur police station jurisdiction of Cuttack, alleging that she was cheated to the tune of Rs 1.56 crore by the accused persons ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 17 (PTI) The Delhi High Court on Thursday quashed 16 cases against 70 Indian nationals for housing foreign attendees of Tablighi Jamaat congregation in March 2020 allegedly in violation of COVID-19 norms. Justice Neena Bansal Krishna said, "Chargesheets quashed." Also Read | BJP Blasts Rahul Gandhi's Stealing Charge of 'Election Chori' at EC Regarding 'SIR' Exercise in Bihar, Scoffs at Jail Swipe on Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma. The court passed the judgment on 16 petitions rel ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 17 (PTI) The Delhi High Court on Thursday quashed 16 cases against 70 Indian nationals for housing foreign attendees of Tablighi Jamaat congregation in March 2020 allegedly in violation of COVID-19 norms. Justice Neena Bansal Krishna said, "Chargesheets quashed." The court passed the judgment on 16 petitions relating to 70 Indians, who were represented by advocate Ashima Mandla, seeking quashing of FIRs registered against them. A detailed verdict is awaited. Delhi Police previo ...Read More >
In recent weeks and months, several Bengali migrant workers on suspicion of being illegal Bangladeshi nationals have been detained, and some of them pushed into Bangladesh. Flagging the detention and deportation of migrant workers from West Bengal during drives against illegal Bangladeshi nationals in several states of the country, senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Sunday urged President Droupadi Murmu to intervene. In a letter to the President, the former Congress MP wrote: "It ...Read More >
Kolkata: Trinamool on Saturday strongly protested Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma's statement about the picking of Bengali as mother tongue in census documents and said it was BJP's agenda to brand Bengalis Bangladeshis, declare them stateless and dump them in detention camps. Sarma had said on Thursday that the number of people mentioning Bengali as their mother tongue would help quantify foreigners living in Assam. In response, Trinamool said, "It is disgraceful that people of a state in the Indi ...Read More >
Bengaluru: A physics lecturer from a private college in Dakshina Kannada and two of his friends have been arrested by Bengaluru police for allegedly blackmailing and raping a student.When the mental torture by the trio became intolerable, the girl narrated to her parents how she was being exploited. Subsequently, she went to Marathahalli police station along with her parents on July 5 and lodged a complaint seeking action against the perpetrators. Acting swiftly, the cops arrested the trio the f ...Read More >
Guwahati: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday accused Trinamool of portraying his govt's firm stance against illegal infiltration of Bangladeshi Muslims as anti-Bengali. He claimed TMC's alleged attempt was nothing but a desperate ploy to shield Muslim infiltrators from the neighbouring country.In a post on his X handle, Sarma said, "Assam has been waging a relentless war against illegal infiltration of Bangladeshi Muslims for several decades. The recent attempt by the @AITCofficial to disto ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 15 (ANI): In a major push to promote healthier lifestyles and combat the rise of obesity and Non-Communicable Diseases like diabetes and heart disease among others, the Union Health Ministry has proposed to prominently display boards indicating the amount of oil and sugar content in popular snacks, such as pizzas and burgers as well as samosas, vada paav, kachori among others, in schools, offices, institutions, Departments/Offices/autonomous bodies and organisations. Als ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 15 (UNI) The execution of Nimisha Priya, the Kerala nurse who is on a death row in Yemen, has been postponed following efforts by Government of India, official sources said here today. Nimisha, 37, was to be executed in Yemen tomorrow on charges of murdering her business partner -- a Yemeni national -- in 2017. Three years later her appeal against the conviction was rejected by the Yemeni Supreme Court. "In the case of Ms. Nimisha Priya, it has been learnt that the local author ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, July 14 (Xinhua) -- Indians were elated on Monday as the news of undocking of spacecraft "Axiom-4" from the International Space Station (ISS) spread on social media. Indian Air Force's Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla and three other astronauts completed their 18-day stay at the ISS, and they were expected to return to Earth on Tuesday. Hailing from Lucknow, the capital city of India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh, Shukla piloted the Axiom-4 mission. Media reports quoted the Indi ...Read More >
Nagpur: The income tax (I-T) department has detected as many as 9,000 returns that were filed to claim fake exemptions from tax liabilities and refunds in Nagpur zone alone. The estimates so far indicate that exemptions to the tune of Rs100 crore were claimed. A large number of such returns were filed by policemen, railway employees, zilla parishad staffers, even as the list includes some private employees too.A sizeable number of filers claimed exemptions by misrepresenting their status as fore ...Read More >
New Delhi: Recently, Bigg Boss 16 contestant, Abdu Rozik made headlines after various reports of the social media influencer being arrested surfaced online. Following allegations of theft, Abdu's management team, S-Line Project, has clarified the situation. In a statement quoted by India Today, the team denied the arrest claims, saying, "First of all, he is not arrested, he was only detained by the police. Abdu Rozik gave his explanations and was released. Today he will participate in the award ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: BJD president Naveen Patnaik on Monday expressed concern over an alleged incident of egg hurling at devotees during the Rath Yatra of Lord Jagannath in Toronto, Canada. In a post on X, Patnaik said, "Deeply disturbed to know about the reports of eggs being hurled at devotees during #RathaJatra celebrations in Toronto, Canada. Such incidents not only grievously hurt the sentiments of Lord Jagannatha's devotees worldwide, but also cause deep anguish to the people of #Odisha, for whom ...Read More >
Guwahati, Jul 14 (PTI) Amidst protests by opposition parties over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, BJP's Assam unit on Monday extended full support to the exercise, stating that it is necessary to weed out illegal voters from the rolls. The state unit of the ruling party maintained that such an exercise was needed in the northeastern state to detect illegal voters included in electoral rolls allegedly by the Congress. "Assam BJP has extended its full su ...Read More >
Guwahati, Jul 14 (PTI) Amidst protests by opposition parties over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, BJP's Assam unit on Monday extended full support to the exercise, stating that it is necessary to weed out illegal voters from the rolls. The state unit of the ruling party maintained that such an exercise was needed in the northeastern state to detect illegal voters included in electoral rolls allegedly by the Congress. Also Read | India Hopes Zero Tolera ...Read More >
New Delhi: With the Bihar elections approaching, the Election Commission has directed Chief Electoral Officers (CEOs) across all states to initiate preparations for a Bihar-like Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls. However, Opposition parties have criticized the move, questioning the "hurry" of implementing a nationwide SIR without consulting political parties. Parties across the Opposition spectrum, including the Congress, Trinamool Congress, and the Left, said on Sunday that the Ele ...Read More >
Ranchi: JMM president and chief minister Hemant Soren on Sunday said the official X account of his party has been hacked, prompting him to order a police investigation into it.Apart from expressing concern over the breach, the chief minister appealed to the Elon Musk-owned social media giant to take cognisance of the matter.Party members said at 12:12 am on Sunday, the hackers posted a suspicious link along with an image of a rodent on the JMM's X account, which was immediately flagged by Hemant ...Read More >
Guwahati (Assam) [India], July 13 (ANI): Amid criticisms of the eviction drive carried out by the BJP-led Assam government to evict the encroachers from the government lands, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that there is a concerted effort to change the demography of the state constituencies. From our recent eviction experience, we have seen that people originally from districts 400 km away have encroached upon lands in predominantly Hindu constituencies. There is a concerted effo ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 13 (PTI) Days after power supply was discontinued at Jai Hind Camp in Delhi's Vasant Kunj area, a delegation of Trinamool Congress MPs on Sunday visited the camp and accused the ruling BJP of discrimination against Bengali-speaking migrants living there. The TMC delegation comprising Rajya Sabha MPs Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, Sagarika Ghose, and Saket Gokhale interacted with the slum dwellers, who said they have been without electricity connection for the last five-six days. Situated ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 13 (PTI) Days after power supply was discontinued at Jai Hind Camp in Delhi's Vasant Kunj area, a delegation of Trinamool Congress MPs on Sunday visited the camp and accused the ruling BJP of discrimination against Bengali-speaking migrants living there. The TMC delegation comprising Rajya Sabha MPs Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, Sagarika Ghose, and Saket Gokhale interacted with the slum dwellers, who said they have been without electricity connection for the last five-six days. Also Read ...Read More >
Guwahati, Jul 12 (PTI) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday claimed that there could be a "conspiracy" behind erosion-hit and landless people moving 200-300 kms away from their native places to settle in areas where "Hindus or Assamese Muslims" are in the majority. Sarma also asserted that demographic balance is being threatened due to such migration of people in places where his government carried out eviction drives to clear encroached land. Also Read | Maharashtra Language R ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 12 (UNI) India is now being counted among the countries with the highest levels of equality, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said, citing a recent World Bank report which had said that India has emerged as the fourth most equal country in the world. He attributed this progress to the wide-reaching impact of welfare schemes and sustained employment generation over the past decade. The Prime Minister was addressing the nation virtually at the 16th edition of the Rozgar Mela, w ...Read More >
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that in the last four years as many as 25,000 acres have been cleared of illegal encroachment. The Assam government has initiated a series of eviction drives. Some organisations claimed that this drive is targeted towards Bengali speaking Muslim. Sarma announced that eviction in Goalpara district will start soon. In Goalpara, the district administration is likely to carry out the eviction drive to clear around 1,040 bighas of land in Paika ...Read More >
Guwahati, Jul 10 (PTI) Asserting that eviction drives will continue in Assam, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said that over 25,000 acres of land have been cleared of encroachment across the state in the last four years. Addressing a press conference after a cabinet meeting here, Sarma announced that an eviction drive will take place in Goalpara on Saturday to clear forest land from alleged encroachment. Also Read | Bengaluru Peeping Tom Case: CM Siddaramaiah Condemns Man Filmin ...Read More >
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has once again stirred controversy within the party by strongly criticising the Emergency period and directly targeting the Nehru-Gandhi family. In a recent article that has gone viral, Tharoor described the Emergency as a "dark period" in India's democratic history and called out the "unspeakable atrocities" committed during that time. Tharoor did not mince words as he blamed former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for enforcing harsh meas ...Read More >
Kolkata/Bhubaneswar: The TMC Wednesday alleged that the BJP government in Odisha has illegally detained Bengali-speaking migrant workers on the pretext of identifying unauthorised immigrants, despite the labourers possessing 'valid documents'. The ruling party of West Bengal demanded their immediate release and warned of a larger political movement if such 'targeted harassment' continues. A senior Odisha Police officer, however, said the detained people lack valid documents to establish their r ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 9, 2025 -- As Indians gear up for Prime Day 2025, a new report by McAfee highlights growing consumer concern over AI-driven scams. According to McAfee's 2025 Global Prime Day Scams Study, 71% of Indian shoppers are worried about falling prey to AI-generated frauds during major retail events, with cybercriminals using increasingly sophisticated methods to exploit online buyers. McAfee Labs uncovered over 36,000 fake Amazon websites and 75,000 Amazon impersonation scam texts in th ...Read More >
Srinagar, July 8: In a significant departure from its traditional investment-linked residency system, the United Arab Emirates has launched a nomination-based Golden Visa scheme, allowing eligible Indian nationals to obtain lifetime residency by paying a one-time fee of AED 100,000 (approximately ₹23.3 lakh). The new model eliminates the need for property or business investments. Previously, Indian citizens could access the UAE's Golden Visa primarily through substantial investments, including ...Read More >
Navi Mumbai: Raigad police beefed up security along the coastline after the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) Delhi informed the ICG at Murud in Raigad district that a suspicious 'Pakistani' fishing boat has been spotted in the Arabian Sea about 3 nautical miles near Korlai Fort in Murud taluka on Sunday around 9pm. However, after a police probe, it was learnt that it was not a boat but a fishing net buoy or floater, which is attached to a fishing boat to keep the net afloat. The buoy had accidentally de ...Read More >
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