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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Wednesday that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will succeed in its ‘400 paar’ mission and said that the ‘emerging trends’ after five phases of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections are an affirmation of this target.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah, on Wednesday, said that the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has already crossed the 310 mark at the end of the first five phases of the ongoing Lok Sabha polls.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s former personal secretary (PS) Bibhav Kumar, who is accused of assaulting AAP Rajya Sabha member and former DCW chief Swati Maliwal, was taken to three locations in Mumbai, said police sources privy to the probe.

At least six villagers were missing and feared drowned, while one swam ashore after a motorboat overturned in a sudden storm at Solapur’s Ujani dam waters, officials said here on Wednesday.

AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal on Wednesday alleged that party leaders were being pressured to speak against her and do certain things to defame her.

The body of a Bangladeshi MP, Mohd Anwarul Azim was recovered under mysterious circumstances from an apartment in a posh residential complex at New Town on the northern outskirts of Kolkata on Wednesday morning. 

The National Investigation Agency (NIA), probing the blast at the Rameshwaram Cafe in Bengaluru, is questioning a software engineer and his brother from Hubballi city for their alleged links with the arrested suspected bomber and the mastermind, according to sources.

On Monday, innovators and technocrats said that initiatives such as Atal Innovation Mission, Start-up India, Stand-Up India and Digital India have resulted in the transformation of the Indian economy.

The J&K Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has booked senior separatist leader, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and an IAS officer, among others, in an illegal and unauthorised custodian land allotment case, officials said on Tuesday. 

More than a week after polling in Andhra Pradesh, video footage of an MLA of the ruling YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) damaging an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) in a polling booth has emerged. 

Nikesh Arora, the India-born CEO of Palo Alto Networks, has been ranked America’s second-highest paid CEO in 2023. A total of 17 Indian-descent CEOs are in the top 500 rankings, according to an analysis published by The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.

Political observers felt that Bhagwat's visit to the northeastern state ahead of the counting of Lok Sabha votes on June 4 is significant as the RSS has been expanding its bases in the northeastern states.

In an attempt to give a facelift to Tripura's attractive Neermahal Palace, the government has decided to uproot and clear the water hyacinth covering the Rudrasagar Lake to ease the tourists.

Opposing the implementation of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) here in the state of Tripura, a delegation of the state Pradesh Adivasi Congress on Tuesday met the Chief Secretary and sought his intervention over halting the implementation of CAA in the state.

He highlighted that Prime Minister Modi is very sincere in the implementation of various central public schemes and criticized the Trinamool Congress for not allowing the introduction of such schemes in Bengal.

In a heart-wrenching turn of events, a four-year-old girl named Ananya Karmakar met with a tragic fate as she drowned in a pond adjacent to her house in the Khilpara Taltala area of Udaipur. The sorrowful incident unfolded while Ananya was innocently playing near the water's edge.

The Tripura Board of Secondary Education (TBSE) is set to release the results for Madhyamik (Secondary) and Higher Secondary examinations in the last week of this month. This announcement was made by TBSE President Dhananjay Gan Choudhury during a press conference held today.

A Delhi court on Tuesday formally framed charges related to sexual harassment and intimidation against Wrestling Federation of India's (WFI) former President Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in a case filed by female wrestlers.

Saxena said that although Maliwal has been "vociferous, hostile and blatantly partisan" towards him and his office, often criticising him unjustifiably, any physical violence and hounding perpetrated on her is inexcusable and unacceptable.

One person died and more than 48 others fell sick after drinking contaminated water in K. Salundi village, located in Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s native Mysuru district.

Tension gripped the Medinipur Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal on Tuesday after an attack on a roadshow by BJP leader and actor Mithun Chakraborty in support of party candidate and fashion designer turned-politician, Agnimitra Paul.

In yet another major crackdown on illegal infiltration, the police of GRP and Railway Protection Force on Sunday last detained at least 3 Bangladeshi women from Agartala Railway Station while attempting to board a train for Ahmedabad.

The state food and civil supplies department minister Sushanta Chowdhury on Monday claimed that the government has ensured adequate stock of fuel and daily essential commodities.

The individuals arrested were identified as Panna Kar Chowdhury, Ajay Pal, Arjun Pal, Pritush Sarkar, and Abhijit Saha. They were operating a drug distribution network in and around Agartala city.

Chief Minister Prof. Dr. Manik Saha on Monday urged the voters of West Bengal to come out of their homes as the time has arrived to oust the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and save Bengal from misrule.