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Fact-Check The Verdict: Fake Speaking to Logically Facts, Bharatiya Janata Party’s National General Secretary, Arun Singh, called the viral letter "fake". Claim ID: d5153e60 What is the claim? An image of a purported press release by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) dated May 22, 2024,...

Bengaluru: Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda Thursday issued a stern warning to his fugitive grandson and JD-S MP Prajwal Revanna, the prime accused in the alleged sex video scandal in Karnataka. Taking it to social media, Deve Gowda said, “I have issued a warning...

Narayanpur: Two Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security personnel in a forest along the Narayanpur-Bijapur districts border in Chhattisgarh Thursday, police said. The gunfight broke out around 11am when a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-Naxal operation, which is...

New Delhi: The voter turnout in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha polls held May 20 has now climbed to 62.2 per cent, the Election Commission said Thursday with women outnumbering men. According to an EC statement, 61.48 per cent of the registered male voters...

Shahjahanpur: Three decades after they raped and impregnated a 12-year-old girl, two brothers were sentenced to 10 years in prison in a case that surfaced after the victim's son enquired about his father. Government counsel Rajiv Awasthi Thursday said, "The court of Additional Sessions Judge...

Jamshedpur: Kaamya Karthikeyan, a 16-year-old mountaineer, has become the youngest Indian to climb Mt Everest from Nepal side, the Tata Steel Adventure Foundation (TSAF) said Thursday. An official of the TSAF, which supported her endeavour, said Kaamya was accompanied by her father, Commander S Karthikeyan...

Thane: At least six workers were injured after a major fire broke out following a boiler blast at a chemicals factory at Dombivli in Thane district of Maharashtra Thursday, an official said. The explosion occurred in the boiler of Amudan Chemical Company located in Phase...

New Delhi: A low-pressure system over the Bay of Bengal will intensify and reach Bangladesh and adjoining West Bengal coasts as a severe cyclonic storm by Sunday evening, the IMD said Thursday. This is the first cyclone in the Bay of Bengal this pre-monsoon season...

Pune: Following the gruesome killing of two persons with a speeding Porsche May 19, the Pune Police started grilling three generations of the city’s realtor family, Agarwals, here Thursday. They include -- Vishal S. Agarwal, his father Surendra Kumar Agarwal, and his minor son --...

New Delhi: The Delhi Police may not visit Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence Thursday to question his parents in connection with AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal ‘assault’ case, sources said. Kejriwal Wednesday had said police were going to question his elderly and ill parents...