India
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IPL 2026 final: Confident RCB captain says team is ready for Gujarat Titans
Ahmedabad: Skipper Rajat Patidar on Saturday, May 30, placed trust on his robust bowling unit led by Bhuvneshwar Kumar to help Royal Challengers Bengaluru land their second consecutive IPL title. The Royal…
- India
Income metre has come to a halt, govt remains deaf: Rahul on auto drivers’ woes
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi attacked the Modi government on Saturday, May 30, over the plight of autorickshaw drivers, saying the “income meter” has ground to a halt, the “brakes on…
- India
NTA announces one-time opportunity to reappear for CUET-UG after glitch
New Delhi: More than 3,700 CUET (UG) 2026 candidates who left their examination centres after a technical glitch delayed the start of Shift 1 of the test on Saturday, May 30, will…
- Hate Crime
UP: Elderly Muslim man held for calling Yogi, Modi ‘gunda’
Meerut: An elderly Muslim man from Meerut was arrested within 24 hours after he made inflammatory comments against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Prime Minister Narendra Modi by calling them…
- India
Abhishek Banerjee called ‘Bangladeshi,’ attacked with stones, eggs; Mamata fumes
Kolkata: All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee was roughed up on Saturday, May 30, allegedly by locals, when he visited West Bengal’s Sonarpur area to meet families of…
- India
Man calls police over bag of meat, CCTV reveals he placed it himself
Meerut: A Hindu man deliberately placed a bag of meat outside his house in Uttar Pradesh‘s Meerut on Friday, May 29, and called the police to file a false report. Puneet, son…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad firm at centre of CBSE marking row had messed up 2019 Inter results
Hyderabad: A Hyderabad-based company at the centre of a controversy over the Central Board of Secondary Education’s digital answer sheet processing system had earlier faced a scathing government inquiry following a results disaster…
- India
Armed forces ready for Operation Sindoor 2.0 if need arises: Army chief
Pune: The armed forces are fully prepared for ‘Operation Sindoor 2.0’ if the need arises, Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi said on Saturday, May 30, asserting that all three services…
- Hate Crime
Arunachal Pradesh: Shutdown in capital forces Muslims to spend Eid indoors
Itanagar: An indigenous youth group called for a 24-hour shutdown in Arunachal Pradesh’s capital of Itanagar on Friday, May 29, to “prevent illegal immigrants,” a label used to target Bangladeshi-speaking Muslims, from…
- India
CUET-UG delayed at some centres; NTA revises afternoon schedule
New Delhi: The CUET-UG 2026 for admissions into undergraduate degree programmes across India was delayed at some centres on Saturday, May 30, due to a technical glitch, the National Testing Agency said.…
- Hate Crime
Promised to return in ten minutes, man fatally stabbed on Eid; 3 minors held
New Delhi: A 26-year-old man was stabbed to death allegedly following a dispute over a cigarette in northwest Delhi’s Jahangirpuri on Eid night, with police apprehending three juveniles in the matter on…
- India
Tobacco quitline receives nearly 1 cr calls in a decade, helps 2.32 lakh quit
New Delhi: India’s National Tobacco Quitline Services (NTQLS) has received nearly one crore calls and has helped more than 2.32 lakh people quit over the last 10 years, according to data released…
- India
Hygienic menstrual protection rises marginally to 79.2 pc among Indian women
New Delhi: Use of hygienic methods of menstrual protection among women aged 15-24 years increased from 77.6 per cent in 2019-21 to 79.2 per cent in 2023-24, according to the National Family…
- Sports
WFI relents, gives Vinesh Phogat nod to compete in 53kg Asiad trials
New Delhi: Former world championships medallist Vinesh Phogat was on Saturday, May 30, allowed to compete in the women’s 53kg category at the Asian Games selection trials after the Wrestling Federation of…
- India
50 per cent of newborns in India breastfed in first hour: Survey
New Delhi: The percentage of children under three years of age who were breastfed within an hour of birth increased by nearly 10 percentage points, rising from 41.8 per cent in 2019-2021…
