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NCB makes 'largest-ever' LSD seizure, drugs trafficking network busted

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Tuesday said it has made the "largest-ever" single operation seizure of about 15,000 LSD blots in the country with the arrest of six people as it busted an international drugs trafficking network operating on the darknet

06 June,2023 07:54 PM IST | PTI
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Over 30 illegal farmhouses along Yamuna demolished in Noida

The authority's Officer on Special Duty Prasun Dwivedi said around 100 officials were deployed for the demolition drive in the 10,000 sq metres area

06 June,2023 06:54 PM IST | PTI
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Pak rejects TTP's talks offer following bitter experience in past: Report

The TTP, through various individual contacts, expressed its willingness to re-engage in talks in recent days but the government rejected the offer and instead urged the militants to surrender, The Express Tribune newspaper quoted sources as saying

06 June,2023 06:23 PM IST | PTI
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Delhi riots: Court orders framing of attempt to murder charges against accused

A court in Delhi has ordered framing of charges, including those for rioting, criminal conspiracy and attempt to murder, against 13 accused in a case of the 2020 northeast Delhi riots

06 June,2023 06:17 PM IST | mid-day online correspondent
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Nature's miracle: Man recovers his 'dead' son alive in Balasore makeshift morgue

Howrah resident Helaram Mallik travelled 235km to Balasore to recover his son alive from a makeshift morgue where he was kept with the bodies of those killed in the triple train accident

06 June,2023 05:59 PM IST | PTI
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Arunachal: Five arrested after shooting at border with Assam that killed two

Two persons died in Assam's Dhemaji district on Monday after alleged firing along the inter-state border

06 June,2023 05:45 PM IST | mid-day online correspondent
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31 West Bengal passengers still missing as death toll mounts to 288

Thirty one passengers from West Bengal who were on board the Coromandel Express train that was involved in Odisha train accident are still missing, the state’s chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday. The death toll in the accident has mounted to 288

06 June,2023 05:44 PM IST | mid-day online correspondent
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'Rich over-emitting nations owe India USD 1,446 per capita as compensation'

India is owed an annual compensation of USD 1,446 per capita until 2050 and a yearly compensation equivalent to 66 percent of its GDP in 2018, the study published in Nature Sustainability on Monday says

06 June,2023 05:31 PM IST | mid-day online correspondent
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Following poor Karnataka poll results, JD(S) plans to restructure party

The former chief minister said that JD(S) National President and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda has advised that a high-level committee be constituted with representation from all communities for strengthening the party

06 June,2023 04:57 PM IST | mid-day online correspondent
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EC should tell people why no elections in J&K: Omar Abdullah

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said that the Election Commission of India should muster courage to tell people why assembly elections in the erstwhile state are not being held

06 June,2023 04:47 PM IST | mid-day online correspondent
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Karnataka govt to set up special squad to check moral policing: Home Minister

Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara on Tuesday said that the government will set up a special squad to keep a check on moral policing, especially in Mangaluru, the district headquarters of Dakshina Kannada district

06 June,2023 04:29 PM IST | mid-day online correspondent
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WB CM Mamata Banerjee meets people injured in Odisha triple train crash

Banerjee visited the eye and surgery department of SCB Medical College and Hospital and interacted with the patients and assured them of all possible help

06 June,2023 04:27 PM IST | mid-day online correspondent
Akhilesh Yadav slams UP govt for not appointing full-time police chief

Akhilesh Yadav slams UP govt for not appointing full-time police chief

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav Tuesday took a swipe at the Bharatiya Janata Party over its "double-engine government" slogan, saying "This is the first time since Independence that Uttar Pradesh got its third acting Director General of Police in a row

06 June,2023 04:18 PM IST | Lakhimpur (UP) | mid-day online correspondent
Odisha tragedy: 40 Coromandel Express passengers may have died of electrocution

Odisha tragedy: 40 Coromandel Express passengers may have died of electrocution

An FIR registered at the Government Railway Police station at Balasore indicated that live overhead wires which snapped when the Odisha train accident occurred, entangled with a few coaches, electrocuting the passengers trapped in them

06 June,2023 04:06 PM IST | Bhubaneswar | mid-day online correspondent
India, Germany explore ways for joint development of military platforms

India, Germany explore ways for joint development of military platforms

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday stressed that India and Germany could build a "more symbiotic" defence relationship based on shared goals and complementarity of strength and invited German investments in defence corridors in Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu

06 June,2023 03:38 PM IST | New Delhi | mid-day online correspondent
Kuki insurgents kill BSF personnel, injure two others in Manipur's Serou

Kuki insurgents kill BSF personnel, injure two others in Manipur's Serou

Kuki insurgents have killed a Border Security Force (BSF) personnel and injured two Assam Rifles personnel in Manipur's Serou area early Tuesday

06 June,2023 03:37 PM IST | Imphal | mid-day online correspondent
BJP asks Congress to clarify its stand on cow slaughter issue in Karnataka

BJP asks Congress to clarify its stand on cow slaughter issue in Karnataka

BJP leader and Union Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Minister Parshottam Rupala said Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and senior leader Sonia Gandhi should speak on the issue. He was responding to a related question at a BJP press conference where he highlighted the Modi government's achievements

06 June,2023 03:15 PM IST | New Delhi | PTI
Uttar Pradesh: Advertisement hoarding falls on car at Ekana stadium, killing 2

Uttar Pradesh: Advertisement hoarding falls on car at Ekana stadium, killing 2

Two people were killed on Monday after an advertisement hoarding at Ekana stadium fell on a car due to strong wind in Lucknow, the police said

06 June,2023 02:31 PM IST | Lucknow | ANI
Smoke from coach AC halts Secunderabad-Agartala Express in Odisha's Brahmapur

Smoke from coach AC halts Secunderabad-Agartala Express in Odisha's Brahmapur

Though the smoke was controlled immediately, the panic-stricken passengers refused to travel in the coach fearing another electrical breakdown. They demanded a replacement for the coach

06 June,2023 02:18 PM IST | Bhubaneswar | PTI
Odisha train accident: Ashwini Vaishnaw holds meetings with railway officials

Odisha train accident: Ashwini Vaishnaw holds meetings with railway officials

Ashiwini Vaishnaw returned to Delhi from Balasore after reviewing the rescue and restoration work following the triple train accident in Odisha

06 June,2023 02:00 PM IST | New Delhi | mid-day online correspondent
Gujarat: Clash between two communities over use of road in Godhra; 10 held

Gujarat: Clash between two communities over use of road in Godhra; 10 held

One person was injured in the clash which took place on Monday evening and the police arrested 10 persons on Tuesday in connection with the incident, an official said

06 June,2023 01:49 PM IST | Godhra | PTI
BJP President JP Nadda hits back at Rahul Gandhi’s ‘nafrat ki dukan’

    BJP President JP Nadda hits back at Rahul Gandhi’s ‘nafrat ki dukan’

    Launching a scathing attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s remarks that he came up with ‘Nafrat Ke Bazaar Mein Mohabbat Ki Dukaan’ during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Bharatiya Janata Party National President JP Nadda on June 05 during the book launch of 9 years of achievement of Modi government, said that Rahul Gandhi says that they are running a shop of love, but he is opening a mega mall of hatred. “Whenever people believe in India’s leadership, then Rahul Gandhi has a problem with it. The world is ready to take India’s vaccine, and you question India’s vaccine and praise about world’s vaccines. On one hand, you raise questions about the surgical strike and talk about dividing Hindu-Muslim. On another hand, you say that you are running ‘Mohabbat ki dukaan’. But, you are opening a mega shopping mall of hatred”, said BJP President JP Nadda. 

    06 June,2023 05:23 PM IST | Mumbai
    Lahore High Court confirms Imran Khan's pre-arrest bail in murder case

    Lahore High Court confirms Imran Khan's pre-arrest bail in murder case

    According to PTI, in March, the Punjab Police booked Imran Khan, also the chief of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, in the murder case, accusing him of "concealing facts and evidence" about the death of Ali Bilal alias Zille Shah, a party worker

    06 June,2023 03:55 PM IST | Islamabad, Pakistan | mid-day online correspondent

    Iran unveils 'hypersonic missile' able to beat air defences

    The new missile -- called Fattah, or "Conqueror" in Farsi -- was unveiled even as Iran said it would reopen its diplomatic posts on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia after reaching a détente with Riyadh following years of conflict

    06 June,2023 03:42 PM IST | Dubai | mid-day online correspondent

    Turkish forces arrive in Kosovo to bolster NATO-led peacekeepers

    Violent clashes with ethnic Serbs last Monday left 30 international soldiers - 11 Italians and 19 Hungarians - wounded, including fractures and burns from improvised explosive incendiary devices

    06 June,2023 08:17 AM IST | Istanbul | Agencies
    Kapil Sibal slams government over Odisha train accident

    Kapil Sibal slams government over Odisha train accident

    The deadly accident involving two passenger trains and a goods train in Odisha's Balasore district killed at least 288 people and injured more than 1100, in one of the worst railway tragedies in the country

    04 June,2023 11:55 AM IST | New Delhi | mid-day online correspondent

    WHO advises against use of sugar substitutes for weight loss

    The World Health Organization (WHO) has advised against the use of non-sugar sweeteners to control body weight or reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases

    16 May,2023 01:14 PM IST | New Delhi | PTI

    Mother's Day: How different religions honour mothers

    We occasionally take for granted the unselfish care that our mothers provide. Mother's Day is an opportunity to express our love and appreciation to them as well as to acknowledge our debt to them

    12 May,2023 03:59 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
    Who will protect the ‘protected monuments’?

    Who will protect the ‘protected monuments’?

    The recent vandalism of a memorial stone at the historic Vasai fort is an uncomfortable reminder of how our heritage monuments and sites are under constant threat from irresponsible citizens

    05 June,2023 08:16 AM IST | Mumbai | Fiona Fernandez
    04 June,2023 08:02 AM IST | Mumbai | Meenakshi Shedde
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