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New Delhi/IBNS: An Indian minister on Thursday said Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama can only decide his successor inviting wrath from hostile neighbour China, media reports said.
Kolkata/IBNS: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered the shut down of all college union rooms across West Bengal until fresh elections, in the wake of a 24-year-old law student's alleged rape on the campus of her institution, media reports said.
Indian PM Narendra Modi was welcomed in Trinidad and Tobago with a traditional Bhojpuri Chautaal performance on Thursday.
Bearing a chilling resemblance to the recent Meghalaya murder, a woman in Maharashtra's Aurangabad allegedly conspired her husband's murder just 45 days after their wedding, believing he was a hurdle in her illicit relationship with her uncle, media reports said.
A 14-year-old boy allegedly died by committing suicide in Mumbai after a disagreement with his mother, who is an actor and worked in popular Hindi and Gujarati TV shows, media reports said.
Nineteen days after a British F-35B stealth fighter jet made an emergency landing at Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram International Airport and has remained stranded since then, the United Kingdom is now exploring the option of airlifting the jet aboard a C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft, media reports said.
A Pune court has rejected a petitioner's request to obtain a copy of a book that Congress MP Rahul Gandhi cited during his speech in March 2023, which led to a defamation case against the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, media reports said.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his US counterpart Pete Hegseth have agreed to finalise a new 10-year defence framework to strengthen the strategic and military partnership between India and the United States, according to a PTI report.
Kolkata: The West Bengal Medical Council has suspended Trinamool Congress leader and physician Dr Shantanu Sen for two years after finding him guilty of using a fake medical degree, media reports said.
Mumbai/IBNS: A Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) worker has justified his assault on a shopkeeper, named Babulal Khimji Chaudhary, for not speaking Marathi saying "it was his attitude that led us to slap him".
Washington DC: India is engaging with American lawmakers over a proposed Russia sanctions bill introduced in the US Congress that seeks to impose steep tariffs on countries continuing trade ties with Moscow, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Wednesday.
New Delhi: Brazil has formally expressed interest in acquiring India-made defence platforms, including the Akash missile system and support for its Scorpene-class submarines, just as Prime Minister Narendra Modi prepares to visit the country later this week, media reports said.
Kolkata/IBNS: In less than a year to go for the next West Bengal assembly elections, Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya was on Thursday elected as the state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president unopposed.
Pune/IBNS: A woman in a posh society in Pune was allegedly raped by a man who posed as a courier delivery boy, media reports said.
Mumbai/IBNS: Junior Maharashtra Home Minister Yogesh Kadam has backed Marathi as the language to be spoken in the state in response to the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) workers' assault on a shopkeeper for not speaking in the dialect, media reports said.
Pune/IBNS: A woman in a posh society in Pune was allegedly raped by a man who posed as a courier delivery boy, media reports said.
Kolkata/IBNS: The Bar Council of West Bengal on Wednesday removed 31-year-old Monojit Mishra, the prime accused in the gangrape of a law student at a Kolkata college, from its membership, media reports said.
Accra/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Wednesday (local time) conferred with 'The Officer of the Order of the Star of Ghana' during his historic visit to the country.
New Delhi/IBNS: Three Indian nationals have been abducted in an Al-Qaeda-linked extremist group's attack on several Malian Army positions, media reports said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Accra on Wednesday on a historic state visit to Ghana as a part of his five-nation tour.
An IT professional working with Infosys in Bengaluru has been arrested for allegedly recording videos of a woman inside the office toilet, media reports said.
Jammu/IBNS: An encounter broke out between the Army and terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Chatroo area on Wednesday, media reports said.
Following the crash of the London-bound AI-171 flight in Ahmedabad on June 12, at least three Air India training pilots on the airline's Boeing 787 fleet tried to recreate likely scenarios in Mumbai that may have resulted in the accident, which killed 260 people, media reports said.
The UAE's envoy to India has said the expanded visa-on-arrival policy for Indian nationals is a key milestone in advancing bilateral cooperation and people-to-people engagement between the two nations.
A school teacher in Mumbai was arrested for allegedly repeatedly raping her student over the course of a year, media reports said.
Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama has cleared that his institution will continue and his successor will be recognised solely by members of the Gaden Phodrang Trust.
Mumbai/IBNS: In an ugly face of the language row, some workers from Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) have thrashed a shopkeeper in Maharashtra's capital city Mumbai for not speaking in regional language Marathi, media reports said.
Washington DC/IBNS: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday (US local time) spoke about India's right to defend its people against terrorism in reference to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack.
Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the sidelines of the QUAD foreign minister's meeting in Washignton when they discussed bilateral partnership between the two nations.
Indian PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday said India and Brazil will discuss ways to advance the priorities of the Global South.
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