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Sexual abuse case: BJP leader Devaraje Gowda taken to Holenarasipura

Chitradurga: BJP leader and advocate G Devaraje Gowda, arrested for alleged molestation and rape, was on Saturday taken to Holenarasipura, where the incident had allegedly taken place, for questioning, police said. An…
IMF doubts cash-strapped Pakistan’s repayment capacity

Islamabad: The IMF has said that Pakistan faces major debt-repayment challenges and expressed serious doubts over the cash-strapped country’s capacity to repay the global lender, according to a media report on Saturday.…

Lakhimpur Kheri: Farmers unhappy with BJP for renominating Ajay Mishra

Lakhimpur Kheri: “Political leaders promised many things but has anything changed,” asks Kamali Devi, who runs a small store in the Ghausina area here. This appears to be a common refrain in…
UN Secretary General warns Israel not to continue with Rafah assault

Gaza: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned the Israeli military against expanding its assault on the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip. “The situation in Rafah is on a knife’s edge,…
Telangana: BJP’s Bandi Sanjay slams Revanth over Pulwama remarks

Hyderabad: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar slammed Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy for his remarks that Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Centre “politically benefitting” from the 2019 Pulwama…
People of disputed Kotia to cast votes in both AP, Odisha polls on May 13

Kotia: Armed with two voter cards issued by two states, over 5,500 electors of the disputed Kotia region are eligible to exercise their franchise in both Andhra Pradesh and Odisha elections in…
No plan to launch Google search engine rival: OpenAI’s Sam Altman

New Delhi: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Saturday refuted reports that his artificial intelligence (AI) company is going to launch a search engine like Google. In a X post, Altman said that…

Ahead of LS polls, Cyberabad CP prohibits assembly of over five persons

Hyderabad: Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls in Telangana, Avinash Mohanty, IPS, Commissioner of the Cyberabad Police Commissionerate, has issued a directive prohibiting the assembly of more than five persons in the…
Modi tried to gain political benefit from Pulwama incident: Revanth

Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy remarked that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi tried to politically benefit from the surgical strike after the suicide bombing…
New Zealand supports UN Palestine resolution

New Zealand voted in favour of a resolution broadening Palestine’s participation at the United Nations General Assembly overnight, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “The resolution enhances the rights of Palestine to participate…
Voting ends in 2nd round of Iran’s parliamentary election

Tehran: Voting in the second round of Iran’s 12th parliamentary election ended at 10 p.m. local time after 14 straight hours, according to reports. The election was held on Friday at nearly…
IMF warns of high downside risks for Pakistan’s economy

Islamabad: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has issued a stark warning about Pakistan’s economic future, highlighting exceptionally high downside risks in its latest report. The report, released ahead of talks between the…
Dabholkar case: Chavan dubs Sanathan Sanstha ‘terrorist’ outfit

Mumbai: Former Maharashtra chief minister and senior Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan has said he was not happy with the court verdict in the Dr Narendra Dabholkar murder case and asserted that right-wing…
Singapore values IIT-IIM graduates as talented pool: PM Lee

Singapore: Singapore, which scouts talent globally, has the biggest concentration of graduates from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) and the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM), said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong,…
Arvind Kejriwal to address media, hold roadshow

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will visit the Hanuman Temple at Connaught Place today a day after he walked out of Tihar Jail after being granted interim bail by the…