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An FIR has been registered against three Congress leaders, including former Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh, accusing them of sharing an old video of Ramniwas Rawat, BJP candidate for the bypoll to Vijaypur Assembly seat in Madhya Pradesh. 

The AAP-led Delhi government is involved in a scam of Rs 8,500 crore in the name of cleaning the Yamuna River whose water quality has not improved after the party’s decade-long rule, BJP MP Bansuri Swaraj said on Saturday.

India on Saturday said that it remains "deeply concerned" by the evolving escalation in West Asia and its ramifications for peace and stability in the region and beyond.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez will jointly inaugurate the TATA Aircraft Complex for manufacturing the C-295 aircraft, during his visit to Gujarat’s Vadodara on Monday.

India will have its own space station by 2035, which will be known as "Bharatiya Antriksh Station", Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology, Dr Jitendra Singh, said on Saturday. 

Amid the unabated hoax bomb threats to airlines via global Internet platforms, the Centre on Saturday directed social media intermediaries like Elon Musk-headed X and Meta to ensure due diligence and promptly remove misinformation that affects public order and security of the state.

Senior Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who is making her poll debut, has large investments in mutual fund (MF) schemes and holds 13,200 units of Franklin India Flexi Cap Fund, valued at around Rs 2.24 crore, as per her election affidavit submitted for the Lok Sabha by-election in Kerala's Wayanad.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday hailed the entire spectrum of bilateral relations with India - a key strategic partner in the Indo-Pacific - emphasising that his government wants to continue the success story, especially after the adoption of a key policy document 'Focus on India' by his Cabinet, last week.

The limit of Mudra loans under the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) has been enhanced from the current Rs 10 lakh to Rs 20 lakh in keeping with the announcement by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Union Budget 2024-25, a statement said on Friday. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said this is the right time to join India's growth story, as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz met the Prime Minister in the national capital with a business delegation.

One soldier injured in a terrorist attack on an Army vehicle on Thursday in Botapathri area of J&K’s Gulmarg succumbed to his injuries in the hospital on Friday, taking the toll in the terrorist attack to five. 

Cyclone Dana has significantly impacted Jharkhand after it hit the coast of Odisha on Thursday midnight. Heavy rains have lashed various regions in Jharkhand, especially in the Kolhan division, which has seen consistent downpours since Thursday evening.

Flight services at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata resumed on Friday morning an hour before the end of the scheduled 15-hour closure period.

Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Friday said that the state has achieved ‘Zero Casualty’ by successfully tackling the impact of severe cyclonic storm Dana that hit Odisha coast on Thursday midnight.

Even though he has yet to fully recover from his father Baba Siddique’s death, Zeeshan Siddique, who was visibly emotional on Friday, chose to start a new innings by joining the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party, reiterating that the “fight is far from over.”

Adopting the safe path, the Maharashtra Congress has chosen to rely mostly on political veterans, incumbents, plus a few defectors, in the first list of 48 candidates for the upcoming state Assembly elections, officials said here on Friday.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday at the PM's official residence, Lok Kalyan Marg, ahead of their participation in the 18th Asia-Pacific Conference of German Business (APK 2024). 

The NCP on Friday released its second list of seven more candidates for the Maharashtra Assembly elections fielding former minister Nawab Malik's daughter Sana Malik and former minister Baba Siddique's son and former Congress legislator Zeeshan Siddique.

In a major terrorist attack, two soldiers and two civilian porters were killed and three other soldiers were injured when an Army vehicle came under fire in J&K's Baramulla district on Thursday, officials said.

As cyclonic storm Dana made landfall in Odisha, it is showing its impact in the neighbouring states of Bihar and Jharkhand, where Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued alerts for heavy rain and strong winds.

Tension erupted in Bhilwara city of Rajasthan after some miscreants stabbed a Councillor's husband for bursting crackers in front of his shop.

Flight operations at Bhubaneswar's Biju Patnaik International Airport, resumed on Friday morning after being suspended as a precautionary measures due to cyclonic storm Dana. Flight operations have also resumed at Kolkata’s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport.

Through the use of technology, India has taken a great leap forward not only in terms of bridging the digital divide but also ensuring gender inclusion, the government has stressed.

In a historical judgment, a Karnataka court has convicted 98 persons to life imprisonment in an atrocity case reported in the Koppal district of the state. Judge C. Chandrashekar passed the judgment in the case.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived in India on Thursday to attend the seventh Intergovernmental Consultations and the 18th Asia Pacific Conference of German Business (APK 2024).