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As Operation Kaveri is underway, the Kochi-bound ninth flight departed from Jeddah with 186 passengers. "9th outbound flight departs from Jeddah. 186 passengers onboard this flight are flying to Kochi," Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi tweeted. Earlier, EAM Jaishankar, on Sunday, said that nearly 2300 evacuees Indians have reached India. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/TWMKjoF

After 20 agonising hours of being trapped under the debris following the Bhiwandi building crash, labourer Sunil Pisal (32) was safely rescued on Sunday, which was also his birthday. When NDRF and Thane Disaster Relief Force personnel extracted Pisal from the rubble around 8am, he was conscious and thanked them with folded hands for giving him a second life. His relatives and friends cheered on as he was taken to hospital. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/jdWmPS1

The current Covid-19 surge in the country appears to have peaked, with cases in the last seven days down 27% as compared to the preceding week's tally, marking the first decline in the seven-day case count in 13 weeks since the beginning of February. Other indicators such as fatalities, active cases and the positivity rate too registered a drop. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/1bG8iuC

Following the security breach during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's roadshow in the poll-bound Karnataka's Mysuru, police said that they have located the person who threw the phone on the vehicle and stated that the person had "no ill intentions" behind it. ADGP, law and Order, Alok Kumar said "The person who threw the phone on the vehicle of PM had no ill intention and was thrown in excitement. The phone belongs to a BJP worker. We have traced the person." from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/yWBx6U9

Addressing the 100th edition of ‘Mann Ki Baat’ on Sunday, an emotional PM Modi said the radio broadcast had allowed him to worship the positives in people he had met with or spoken to. He also said it filled the “emptiness” that he felt when he first moved to the capital from Gujarat in 2014. He described ‘Mann Ki Baat' as a great medium to learn from the qualities of others, adding that it allowed him to connect with the people of India like he used to when he was Gujarat CM. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/Eksb1HP

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Cries of “bravo”, “shabbash”, and “congratulations” rang out in the French town of Les Sables d’Olonne Saturday morning, as throngs gathered to watch Indian adventurer Abhilash Tomy take his first wobbly steps on land after 236 days out at sea. Locals and expat Indians, both young and old, were in awe of the 44-year-old who refused to give up, and came to be known by the Golden Globe Race (GGR) organisers as Mr Fix-it. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/9bsguLz

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The qualifying percentile in JEE (Main) to be eligible for JEE (Advanced), the gateway to 23 Indian Institutes of technology (IITs), registered a five-year high for the reserved category and a four-year-high for the general category candidates this year. The minimum cutoff for the general category this year is 90.7 percentile, up from 88.4 in 2022. The cutoff for the OBC category rose to 73.6 percentile this year from 67 in 2022 and 68 in 2021. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/yGzO2Ti

Ghazipur court on Saturday sentenced jailed ganglord Mukhtar Ansari to 10 years’ imprisonment and his BSP MP brother, Afzal Ansari, to four years following their conviction in separate cases registered under the UP Gangsters Act in 2007. Additional sessions judge-I (MP-MLA court) Durgesh also fined Mukhtar Rs 5 lakh and Afzal Rs 1 lakh. The sentencing of Afzal paves the way for his automatic disqualification from the Lok Sabha. He represents Ghazipur in Parliament. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/EoxD2Vh

Two brothers were arrested by the Haryana Police Special Task Force (STF) on Saturday for their involvement in a multi-crore heist in Gurugram in 2021. The police also seized Rs 1.84 crore from the accused. from Delhi News: दिल्ली समाचार - Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/34XzY0w

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There was no heatwave warning for the Navi Mumbai area of Maharashtra on April 16. The temperature wasn’t expected to cross heatwave thresholds, and it didn’t. The maximum recorded at the nearest station, Thane, was 38 degrees Celsius. Yet, 14 people died of heatstroke at an open-air state government event in the city that day and scores of others were taken ill. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/S2Qujl4

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The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to “look into” the sensational murder of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed while in custody and also the encounter killing of Atiq’s son just two days before it even as it asked the UP government to file a status report. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/OplwvND

Terming hate speech as a “serious offence” which could affect the secular fabric of the country, the Supreme Court on Friday directed police in all states and UTs to take suo motu action and register cases against those making such speeches irrespective of their religion without waiting for a formal complaint. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/zdRUwZA

Greater Noida Police on Friday arrested Manoj alias Aase, one of the most wanted gangsters in western Uttar Pradesh, along with his accomplice Jeetendra alias Jeetu, after an encounter, a senior officer said. from Delhi News: दिल्ली समाचार - Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/C6QWFzd

With the election campaign in Karnataka witnessing a bitter war of words between the BJP and the Congress, both the parties rushed to the Election Commission Friday seeking ban on electioneering by top leaders of the other side. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/OBjy9r4

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IOA president P T Usha on Thursday criticised the wrestlers for going public with their protest demanding filing of an FIR and arrest of sidelined Wrestling Federation of India’s (WFI) president, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. Shocked by her comments, the protesting wrestlers, led by Olympians Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat and Sakshee Malikkh, hit back at Usha, demanding respect for their movement to protect the future generation of female wrestlers from facing sexual harassment. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/U4TqHLg

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday stoked a political row by likening PM Narendra Modi to a “poisonous snake”, drawing a strong riposte from BJP which said such statements reflect “hate” for the PM and sought an apology from the opposition party. ​​Kharge later sought to clarify that his remarks were not aimed at the PM but at his party, while BJP trained its guns at the Congress chief. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/uWOdRC6

With the Union government driving home the judicial impossibility of disentangling the Special Marriage Act from the web of personal laws for legalising same-sex marriages, the Supreme Court asked the Centre what administrative measures could be taken to improve the day-to-day lives of same-sex couples. “Short of marriage rights... what can the government do for long cohabiting couples? They need some recognition for creating conditions for their social security and welfare," the SC said. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/Q9eyk1N

Doctors at Fortis Hospital, Faridabad, successfully treated a 63-year-old man, who had developed ‘Aortic Dissection’ — a crack in his main artery, due to irregular medication of high blood pressure. from Delhi News: दिल्ली समाचार - Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/hszdcvm

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The fifth batch of 297 stranded Indians departed from Port Sudan for Jeddah in Saudi Arabia by INS Teg on Thursday. "#OperationKaveri INS Teg departs from Port Sudan with 297 passengers. This is the fifth batch of stranded Indians enroute to Jeddah," Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi tweeted. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/uE7mRIw

The Union government told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that recognising LGBTQIA+ community members’ marriage rights would destroy the legislative intent to permit only man-woman marriage under the Special Marriage Act and pointed out that the court neither had the wherewithal to gauge who among them were males or females nor the competence to create a regulatory framework for same-sex marriages. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/ytMfPwE

Maoists on Wednesday blew up a vehicle carrying 10 personnel of the District Reserve Guard in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada, which is not quite their ‘core’ area and has seen few attacks since the ambush of 2010 that killed 75 CRPF jawans. They avoided strongholds like Sukma or Bijapur, where CRPF has been making deep inroads and setting up forward operating bases (FOBs). from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/Oq4xnyc

At least 10 personnel of the District Reserve Guards (DRG) and their civilian driver were killed when Maoists detonated a powerful IED on a kuchha road and fired on the wounded jawans near Aranpur in Dantewada district of Bastar, about 400km south of Raipur, on Wednesday. Around 200 jawans were returning in a convoy when the blast was triggered around 1.30pm. Police believe 50kg of explosives was used. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/lkw7u4y

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The Akali stalwart, who as a politician had dealt with each one of India’s prime ministers — from Jawaharlal Nehru to Narendra Modi — after beginning his career as a village sarpanch, was admitted to a Mohali hospital on April 16 with “acute exacerbation of bronchial asthma” and was shifted to the medical ICU on April 18 as his respiratory condition worsened. A team of doctors led by Prof (Dr) Digambar Behera declared him dead at about 8 pm. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/yZhBWF5

In a gay relationship since 2012, Vaibhav and Parag got married in Texas in 2017 and with a recently-adopted four month old baby in hand, they through senior advocate Geeta Luthra on Tuesday pleaded with the Supreme Court to make Foreign Marriage Act gender neutral. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/mQP82fW

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Slamming the BMC over the Rs 6,080 crore mega Cement Concrete (CC) road contracts, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader and former minister Aaditya Thackeray on Tuesday alleged that the contracts were possibly a huge scam by the opaque administration, dictated by the Urban Development (UD) department headed by the ‘illegal’ chief minister himself. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines, Coronavirus News, BMC Elections 2022 Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/09CsQZG

Delhi on Tuesday reported 1,095 fresh Covid-19 cases and six fatalities, with the total case tally reaching 20,35,156. from Delhi News: दिल्ली समाचार - Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/CW5SN09

India, overtaken by Russia over the past one year, is now the world’s fourth-largest military spender, while China continues to spend almost four times and the US more than 10 times its defence budget, as global defence spending grows for the eighth consecutive year to reach an all-time high in 2022. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/aWFDBQ0

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and deputy Tejashwi Yadav Monday took their renewed mission for a united anti-BJP opposition to Kolkata and Lucknow, first meeting Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee to push for a conclave of non-NDA parties in Bihar and then SP chief Akhilesh Yadav to clarify that what mattered was the cause and not the mantle of leadership. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3nNu7IK

There was no concrete breakthrough yet again in defusing the three-year-long troop confrontation with China in eastern Ladakh despite the top-level military talks being held after a gap of over four months, though the two sides agreed to continue dialogue and maintain “security and stability” along the frontier. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/NJPkhRS

Racing against time to approve National Highway (NH) projects, the road transport and highways ministry appraised projects for approval with a total capital cost of Rs 85,033 crore only in March, the last month of the financial year. This was nearly 74% more than the cost of the projects appraised for approval during March 2022. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/t9rMZ2n

NIA sources said the US District Court in the Central District of Los Angeles, California, had recently indicated that a verdict on Rana’s extradition would be out by May 20. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/IlN5Ud6

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BJP president JP Nadda is confident that his party will retain office in Karnataka and break the trend of no party winning two consecutive terms since 1985. In conversation with TOI, Nadda takes up issues on Karnataka and underplays rebellions in the state. Excerpts from the interview: from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/v0JZFqw

The hunt for fugitive Khalistan sympathiser and Waris Punjab De head Amritpal Singh ended Sunday morning with Punjab police arresting the 30-year-old preacher outside a gurdwara in slain militant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale’s native village of Rode in Punjab’s Moga district. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/gNnqDHb

General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C), Northern Command, Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi on Sunday said that necessary action is underway against the terrorists responsible for April 20 attack on an Army truck in J&K’s Poonch district that left five soldiers dead. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/2qUoAHa

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The Army has now stepped-up efforts to train women officers for “command and leadership roles” as Colonels and beyond, even as the first five female cadets are set to be commissioned into frontline artillery regiments after passing out of the Officers’ Training Academy (OTA) in Chennai on April 29. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/RlCY8kB

Despite the SC making it mandatory for all staff to wear masks because of rising Covid cases, Justice S R Bhat is said to have been infected with the virus which forced the five-judge Constitution bench hearing the petitions for same-sex couples’ marriage rights to cancel proceedings on Monday. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/r3wFzHl

US President Joe Biden is looking forward to travelling to India in September, his administration’s point person for South and Central Asia has said, observing that 2024 is going to be a “big year” for the India-US relationship. India’s leadership in the G20 further broadens its capacity to stand as a force for good in the world, the official said. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/HTnu0bU

Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu will also attend the SCO defence ministers’ meet on April 27-28, at a time when there are growing concerns in India over the tightening Moscow-Beijing strategic embrace and the fallout of the ongoing war in Ukraine. Pakistan defence minister Khawaja Asif will, however, participate virtually in the meet. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/4DfBsm1

For petitioner daughter of the deceased politician and former minister, senior advocate Sidharth Luthra said the HC order tantamounts to directing the CBI to treat Avinash Reddy as a house guest as not only he was protected from arrest but the agency was told to give him a questionnaire in writing to answer. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/PXlDeFp

A major operation with special forces, regular troops, helicopters and drones is under way by the Army to hunt down the 5-7 terrorists who attacked an Army truck in a well-planned ambush in Poonch district of J&K on Thursday afternoon, killing five Rashtriya Rifles soldiers and grievously injuring a sixth. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/pQrx13b

The Supreme Court has refused to re-examine its decision by which it had declared a Maharashtra law to grant reservation to Marathas unconstitutional, and said that there was no error in its 2021 verdict. In a unanimous decision, a five-judge Constitution bench had on May 5, 2021 set aside the Maharashtra State Reservation for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) Act on various grounds, which include breaching of the 50% quota rule. I from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/5rwLMlX