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Mumbai/IBNS: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Anand Dubey has slammed Mumbai Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Ameet Satam's remark which was passed in response to Zohran Mamdani's New York City Mayoral election win, saying the saffron party leader's "mental state has deteriorated".
Miami/IBNS: US President Donald Trump has repeated his claim of mediating peace between India and Pakistan — this time adjusting the number of fighter jets downed during their confrontation from seven to eight.
Patna/IBNS: The first phase of the Bihar Assembly elections began early Thursday (November 6), marking the start of polling across 121 of the State’s 243 constituencies.
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday dropped what he called 'H-Bomb' by alleging large-scale voter fraud in the last year Haryana assembly elections, expanding his series of 'vote chori' charges against the Modi government.
Patna/IBNS: Over 3.75 crore voters in Bihar will exercise their voting rights on Thursday (November 6) in the first phase of the Assembly election, covering 121 of the state’s 243 constituencies.
Inspired by Netflix’s hit thriller Money Heist, a gang in Delhi pulled off a massive online scam worth ₹150 crore, styling themselves after the show’s iconic characters, media reports said.
The historic mayoral victory of Zohran Mamdani, 34, the first South Asian, Muslim, and youngest in a century to lead New York City, is resonating across the globe in Mumbai, where civic elections are around the corner.
New Delhi/IBNS: Actor Celina Jaitly has expressed heartfelt gratitude after the Delhi High Court issued a notice to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in connection with her brother, Major (Retd.) Vikrant Kumar Jaitly, who has reportedly been in detention in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) since 2024.
New Delhi/Srinagar/IBNS: Fresh intelligence inputs point to a significant escalation in Pakistan-backed terror activity in Jammu and Kashmir, just six months after Operation Sindoor — India’s precision counter-terror offensive launched in response to the Pahalgam terror attack, according to an NDTV report.
The Minister of State for Commerce & Industry, Jitin Prasada, led the India Business Delegation at the India–Romania Business Forum on Wednesday, organised by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Brașov (CCIBv) in partnership with the Embassy of India in Bucharest and the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Government of India, to expand bilateral investment and industrial cooperation between the two nations.
Mumbai/IBNS: A 60-year-old man recently arrested by the Mumbai Police for impersonating a Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) scientist was allegedly attempting to sell sensitive nuclear-related designs to Iranian firms under the guise of “scientific collaboration” and “research partnership,” according to investigating agency sources.
New Delhi/IBNS: Unleashing what he called his much-awaited “H-bomb,” Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, on Tuesday, alleged large-scale voter fraud during last year’s Haryana Assembly elections.
New Delhi/IBNS: Fourteen Indian citizens, who were part of a group of pilgrims travelling to Nankana Sahib, were denied entry into Pakistan citing they were "Hindus" and "not Sikhs", NDTV reported.
At least eight people were killed and several others injured on Tuesday when a Korba passenger train rammed into a stationary freight train near the Lal Khadan area on the Bilaspur–Katni section of the South East Central Railway zone.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday stirred a political storm after claiming that the Indian Army is “under the control of 10 percent of the country’s population”, a reference widely interpreted as targeting so-called upper castes.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday took to the streets of Kolkata, leading a massive protest march against what she called the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s “silent and invisible rigging” through the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
Raipur/IBNS: At least six people lost their lives and several others were injured when a passenger train collided with a goods train in Chhattisgarh’s Bilaspur district on Tuesday.
The Indian government has sent an urgent consignment of 10,000 doses of rabies vaccine and 2,000 vials of rabies immunoglobulin to Timor-Leste to boost the nation's fight against the disease outbreak.
Coimbatore/IBNS: Three men were arrested for allegedly abducting and gang-raping a woman college student near the Coimbatore airport in Tamil Nadu on Sunday.
The Fourth Round of negotiations for the India-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (FTA) commenced on Monday in Auckland, marking another step toward a balanced, comprehensive, and mutually beneficial partnership between the two nations.
Faridabad/IBNS: In a chilling incident, a 17-year-old girl was shot in Faridabad by a man who had been following and stalking her for the past several days, media reports said.
In a major escalation of its probe against the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached over 132 acres of land belonging to the Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City in Navi Mumbai.
An Air India flight from San Francisco to Delhi made an unscheduled landing in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, after the crew detected a possible technical issue mid-air, the airline said on Monday.
Union Minister for Communications and Development of North Eastern Region Jyotiraditya Scindia on Monday inaugurated the North Eastern Science & Technology (NEST) Cluster at IIT Guwahati and laid the foundation stone for transformative development projects worth ₹635 crore across Assam.
India has delivered 16 tonnes of medicines to Afghanistan to help combat vector-borne diseases, a Taliban spokesperson said.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached assets worth over Rs 3,000 crore linked to Reliance Group Chairman Anil Ambani as part of its ongoing money laundering probe into his group companies, official sources said on Monday.
The Supreme Court on Monday said that it will soon issue an order—likely within the next few days—regulating the feeding of stray dogs within institutional premises, including government establishments where employees care for and feed stray canines.
Coimbatore/IBNS: A woman college student was allegedly raped by a three-member gang near Coimbatore Airport on Sunday late night, media reports said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday unveiled the Rs 1 lakh crore Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) Fund to catalyse private sector investment in cutting-edge research and development.
Hyderabad/IBNS: Heartbreaking scenes of bodies buried under the gravel screaming for help were seen after a gravel-laden truck rammed into a bus on the Hyderabad-Bijapur highway in the Rangareddy district of Telangana on Monday, media reports said.
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