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The Gujarat high court refused Tuesday to grant any interim relief to disqualified Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on his plea for a stay on his conviction by a Surat court in a criminal defamation case. The HC said it will give its final order after the court's summer vacation (from May 6 to June 5). from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/sl4UiEp

A Class 12 passout and a self-taught cybergeek has been arrested from Visakhapatnam by the Bangur Nagar police in a multi-crore cyber fraud spanning the length and breadth of the country. Investigators said he had been converting money that was defrauded from Indian citizens into cryptocurrency and transferring it to Chinese nationals. He was generating a turnover of anywhere between Rs 3 crore and Rs 5 crore everyday. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/vTXgMGZ

Marine and NSG commandos will be deployed as part of a strong security cover for the upcoming G20 working group meeting scheduled in Kashmir later this month. "The ADGP Kashmir shared with all stakeholders that NSG teams will be used for counter fidayeen attack along with SOG and specialise NSG teams to counter drones will be deployed at all venues," a police spokesperson said on Tuesday. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/l5IUqvr

Raja Harishchandra is a 1913 silent film, directed and produced by Dadasaheb Phalke. It is widely regarded as the first full-length feature film ever made in India, and it premiered on May 3, 1913, at the Coronation Cinema in Mumbai (then Bombay). The film tells the story of King Harishchandra, a legendary ruler from ancient India who was known for his honesty and integrity. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/cklK4QZ

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Ludhiana police Monday constituted a five-member special investigation team (SIT) to investigate the toxic gas leak in Giaspura that killed 11 people and landed four others in hospital the previous morning. Effluents illegally dumped into sewers are believed to have led to the spread of the poison gas. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/CkNOGwh

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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

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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