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• 5 Jul 2023, 09:24:00 PM IST

  Manipur govt extends suspension of internet for another 5 days

  Manipur govt says it has extended suspension of internet services in state for another 5 days till 3 pm of July 10 “to prevent any disturbance of peace and public order

• 5 Jul 2023, 09:10:12 PM IST

  Goa government declares school holiday for tomorrow amid rain alert

  Directorate of education of the Goa government declared a holiday for school students from Std I to XII on July 6 in view of incessant rain & alert issued by IMD

• 5 Jul 2023, 08:48:36 PM IST

  External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar arrives in Tanzania's Zanzibar on a four-day official visit 

  External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar arrived in Tanzania's Zanzibar on a four-day official visit.

• 5 Jul 2023, 08:00:59 PM IST

  Union Home Minister & BJP leader Amit Shah arrives at Chhattisgarh's Raipur airport on a two-day visit to the state

  Union Home Minister & BJP leader Amit Shah arrived at Chhattisgarh's Raipur airport on a two-day visit to the state

  During his visit, he is expected to hold meetings with senior leaders of BJP in the poll-bound state.

• 5 Jul 2023, 07:25:43 PM IST

  Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Chief Sharad Pawar calls the party's National Executive meeting in Delhi amid Maharashtra crisis

  Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President Sharad Pawar called for the party's National Executive meeting in Delhi tomorrow.

• 5 Jul 2023, 07:21:26 PM IST

  Union Cabinet approves draft of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill 2023

  Union Cabinet has approved the draft of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill 2023. Govt is planning to bring this bill in the upcoming Monsoon session of Parliament.

• 5 Jul 2023, 07:20:47 PM IST

  NIA files third supplementary chargesheet in case related to seizure of high-quality fake Indian currency notes in Bihar

  National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday filed its third supplementary chargesheet in the terrorist conspiracy case relating to the seizure of high-quality fake Indian currency notes from East Champaran in Bihar.

• 5 Jul 2023, 07:18:53 PM IST

  Supreme Court Collegium recommends appointment of justices to the SC

  Supreme Court Collegium recommends the appointment of Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, Chief Justice of Telengana High Court and Justice S Venkatanarayana Bhatti, Chief Justice of Kerala High Court to the Supreme Court.

• 5 Jul 2023, 06:41:45 PM IST

  UK Sells Government Bonds at Highest Yield Since 2007

  The UK sold £4 billion ($5.1 billion) of gilts at the highest yield in 16 years on Wednesday, underscoring the elevated returns governments must offer to lure investors after more than a year of interest-rate hikes.

• 5 Jul 2023, 05:52:04 PM IST

  Defence Min Rajnath Singh to preside over 'Chintan Shivir' in Capital on July 6

  Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will preside over a day-long 'Chintan Shivir' of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in the national capital on Thursday.

• 5 Jul 2023, 05:42:02 PM IST

  BJP National President JP Nadda meets Head of Mission at BJP headquarters

  BJP national President JP Nadda met Head of Mission at BJP headquarters in Delhi on Wednesday.

• 5 Jul 2023, 05:13:42 PM IST

  Bombay High Court extends interim relief from arrest to former Mumbai NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede

  Bombay High Court extended interim relief from arrest granted to former Mumbai NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede, till 20th July.

• 5 Jul 2023, 05:01:15 PM IST

  Boundary wall of Kannur Central Jail in Kerala collapses due to continuous rain in the area

  Boundary wall of Kannur Central Jail in Kerala collapsed due to continuous rain in the area on Wednesday.

• 5 Jul 2023, 04:45:37 PM IST

  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar inspects construction work near JP Ganga Path in Gaighat, Muzaffarpur

  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday inspected the construction work near JP Ganga Path in Gaighat, Muzaffarpur.

• 5 Jul 2023, 04:28:39 PM IST

  BJP Mahila Morcha workers in Jaipur hold protest against Ashok Gehlot-led Rajasthan government over 'atrocities against women' in the state.

  BJP Mahila Morcha workers in Jaipur held protest against Ashok Gehlot-led Rajasthan government on Wednesday over growing 'atrocities against women' in the state.

• 5 Jul 2023, 04:27:35 PM IST

  Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan writes to Minister for Civil Aviation & Steel Jyotiraditya Scindia requesting his urgent intervention on exorbitant airfares to Kerala

  Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan wrote to Jyotiraditya Scindia “requesting urgent intervention on the exorbitant airfares to Kerala.”  “As it will badly affect NRKs planning to visit home, requested him to take steps to resolve the issue, even by authorising the operation of chartered flights from UAE,” Vijayan tweeted.

• 5 Jul 2023, 04:12:58 PM IST

  Manipur: 96 schools currently involved in relief efforts exempted from reopening

  Around 96 schools in Manipur, which are currently involved in relief efforts in the violence-hit state, have been excused from reopening after the Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh announced that students from classes 1 to 8 will be able to return to schools on July 5.

• 5 Jul 2023, 03:42:11 PM IST

  Sidhi viral video | Accused Pravesh Shukla's illegal encroachment was bulldozed by the UP administration on Wednesday

  Sidhi viral video | Accused Pravesh Shukla's illegal encroachment was bulldozed by the UP administration on Wednesday.

  HM Narottam Mishra had said that CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that NSA will be registered against him.

• 5 Jul 2023, 03:08:32 PM IST

  Rajasthan Congress leaders will meet with party president Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Rahul Gandhi tomorrow in Delhi

  Rajasthan Congress leaders will meet with party president Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Rahul Gandhi tomorrow in Delhi tomorrow to discuss election preparation in the state.

• 5 Jul 2023, 03:02:25 PM IST

  Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy arrives at the residence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, in Delhi

  Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy arrived at the residence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, in Delhi on Wednesday.

• 5 Jul 2023, 02:37:33 PM IST

  Maha: 3 labourers killed in fire at textile unit in Solapur

  Three labourers were killed after a fire broke out at a textile unit in Maharashtra's Solapur district on Wednesday, fire officials said.

  The incident took place at the unit located in the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) area on Solapur-Akkalkot road, they said.

• 5 Jul 2023, 02:09:28 PM IST

  India will put retaliatory barriers on green hydrogen trade: Energy minister

  India will put up barriers in green hydrogen trade in response to other nations imposing restrictions, the nation's renewable energy ministry said at a conference on Wednesday.

  "Some countries are putting barriers on green hydrogen (trade and technology). If they are putting up barriers we will also put up barriers, then you will be losing out on our market," Power and Renewable Energy Minister R K Singh said at the International Conference on Green Hydrogen.

• 5 Jul 2023, 01:55:37 PM IST

  Firing incident at Delhi court 

  An incident of firing reported at Tis Hazari Court premises in Delhi. No injuries reported. This happened due to an argument among lawyers over some issue. Police present at the spot, said Delhi Police officials.

• 5 Jul 2023, 01:49:18 PM IST

  BJP's anti-Dalit, anti-tribal face exposed with urinating incident: Rahul Gandhi

  Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that atrocities on tribals and Dalits are increasing under the BJP rule as he decried the incident in Madhya Pradesh where a tribal was urinated upon by a man, alleged to be a BJP leader.

• 5 Jul 2023, 01:47:40 PM IST

  Fewer arrests in France as riots ease

  Clashes between French police and rioters de-escalated again overnight, the government said Wednesday, eight days after the killing of a teenager by police sparked the worst urban violence in years.

• 5 Jul 2023, 01:20:17 PM IST

  Man detained at Delhi airport for carrying 19 live cartridges

  A man travelling from Delhi to Bengaluru on an Air India flight was caught at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport after 19 live cartridges were recovered from his possession on Tuesday, officials said.

• 5 Jul 2023, 12:54:48 PM IST

  Andhra CM Jagan Mohan Reddy reaches Delhi

  Andhra CM Jagan Mohan Reddy in Delhi, likely to meet PM Modi, Amit Shah

• 5 Jul 2023, 12:50:28 PM IST

  AIADMK clears stand on UCC

  Our stand on the Uniform Civil Code is the same as that of the 2019 Election Manifesto. We have explained everything there briefly: AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi Palaniswami on 'Uniform Civil Code.

  "AIADMK will urge the Government of India not to bring any amendments to the constitution for a Uniform Civil Code that will adversely affect the religious rights of minorities of India, reads party's election manifesto.

• 5 Jul 2023, 12:43:43 PM IST

  SC extends interim bail for Teesta Setalvad

  Supreme Court extends interim bail for Teesta Setalvad until further orders in case linked to Gujarat riots, fixes case on July 19 for a detailed hearing.

• 5 Jul 2023, 12:18:43 PM IST

  Torrential rains kill at least 15 in southwest China

  Fifteen people are dead and four are missing after torrential rain lashed the Chinese metropolis of Chongqing, local officials and state media said Wednesday.

• 5 Jul 2023, 12:17:35 PM IST

  Only Mehul Choksi, Nirav Modi and Vijay Mallya left to be inducted into BJP: Shiv Sena (UBT) mouthpiece

  Days after NCP leader Ajit Pawar joined the Maharashtra government, the Shiv Sena (UBT) on Wednesday claimed that only alleged economic offenders Mehul Choksi, Nirav Modi and Vijay Mallya were left to be inducted into the BJP.

  An editorial in the Sena (UBT) mouthpiece 'Saamana' dubbed the political situation in Maharashtra a movie, called "One (doubt) full and two half", a reference to Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and two Deputy CMs Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar.

• 5 Jul 2023, 12:04:08 PM IST

  Mumbai: Several vehicles trapped as road caves in

  A huge portion of a road caved-in on Wednesday morning in Mumbai's Chunabhatti area, trapping several vehicles parked there, officials said.

  There was no report of any casualty, a fire brigade official said.

• 5 Jul 2023, 12:01:39 PM IST

  Jacqueline Fernandez arrives at Delhi court in connection with money laundering case

  Actor Jacqueline Fernandez arrives at Delhi's Patiala House Court for appearance in a money laundering case, involving conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar.

• 5 Jul 2023, 11:18:29 AM IST

  Woman's decomposed body found in gunny bag at Mumbai shore

  The decomposed body of an unidentified woman has been found stuffed in a gunny bag at Worli Sea Face in Mumbai, police said on Wednesday adding they suspect it to be a case of murder.

• 5 Jul 2023, 11:18:02 AM IST

  Thai parliament to vote for prime minister on July 13

  Thailand's parliament will vote for its prime minister on July 13, house speaker Wan Muhamad Noor Matha told reporters on Wednesday.

• 5 Jul 2023, 11:17:46 AM IST

  IMD's rain forecast for Mumbai, Delhi

  Light rains in Mumbai; IMD issues 'orange' alert. Delhi may witness light to moderate showers.

• 5 Jul 2023, 11:06:10 AM IST

  Mallikarjun Kharge's ‘maaf toh kya…’ warning for Modi govt as vegetable prices skyrocket

  Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge hits out at Modi govt over rising prices and unemployment, says people will not buy into 'hollow slogans' of BJP and will remove it from power this time. Read more

• 5 Jul 2023, 10:23:54 AM IST

  MP home minister assures strict action against Sidhi urination incident accused

  Sidhi urination video: Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra, says "The accused (Pravesh Shukla) was arrested last night. He is in the lock-up and strict action has been taken against him. CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that NSA will be registered against him. Bulldozer does not work according to Congress, it works according to law."

• 5 Jul 2023, 10:14:17 AM IST

  Indians report rise in stress levels post pandemic: Report

  Saridon, the headache relief brand from Bayer's Consumer Health Division in India has released the second edition of its national headache survey. The report revealed that 1 in 3 people felt that their stress levels had increased post pandemic.

  Among the tier 1 towns, Mumbai is the only city with over 90% incidence of headache while Chennai follows closely at 89%; among tier 2 towns, 99% in Ahmedabad and Bhubaneswar claimed that they experienced headache, followed by Madurai (96%) and Indore (94%).

• 5 Jul 2023, 09:28:24 AM IST

  Supporters of Ajit Pawar meet him at his residence

• 5 Jul 2023, 09:27:15 AM IST

  Man arrested for urinating on tribal youth in Madhya Pradesh

  Pravesh Shukla, who was caught on camera urinating on a tribal man in Madhya Pradesh, was arrested late on Tuesday night after chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan ordered to invoke the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against him following an online outrage. Read more

• 5 Jul 2023, 08:49:40 AM IST

  AP CM Jagan Mohan Reddy may meet PM Modi today

  Andhra Pradesh CM Jagan Mohan Reddy likely to meet PM Modi, Amit Shah in Delhi on Wednesday.

• 5 Jul 2023, 08:48:51 AM IST

  Mayawati condemns Sidhi urination incident

  BSP supremo Mayawati condemns the Sidhi incident as "inhuman", calls for confiscation and demolition of the property of the accused Pravesh Shukla, who was seen urinating on a tribal youth in the viral video.

• 5 Jul 2023, 08:28:26 AM IST

  Tomato prices soar to ₹129 per kg in Delhi

  Tomato prices soared to ₹129 per kg in Delhi's Safal store adn ₹150 in Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad.

• 5 Jul 2023, 08:27:45 AM IST

  4 die, 5 injured in Rajouri car crash

  Four died and five sustained injuries after a car met with an accident in the Thanamandi area of Rajouri. The injured are under treatment at Government Medical College & Associated Hospital in Rajouri, reported ANI

• 5 Jul 2023, 08:05:36 AM IST

  Jaishankar to embark on four-day visit to Tanzania today

  External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is all set to embark on a four-day official visit to Tanzania on Wednesday to hold high-level talks and co-chair the 10th Joint Commission Meeting with his counterpart, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in a release.

• 5 Jul 2023, 08:05:15 AM IST

  Putin says Russian economy faring better than expected

  President Vladimir Putin said late on Tuesday that the Russian economy was performing better than expected after Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin reported to him that gross domestic product growth and inflation have been surprisingly positive.

  GDP growth may exceed 2% this year and consumer price inflation may not rise above 5% in annual terms, Mishustin told Putin at a meeting at the Kremlin. The International Monetary Fund expects the Russian economy to grow 0.7% this year.

• 5 Jul 2023, 08:04:18 AM IST

  One killed, four injured in July 4 fireworks accident in Texas

  Fireworks being prepared for a Fourth of July spectacular ignited in a Texas warehouse on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring four and destroying the building where they were stored, officials said.

• 5 Jul 2023, 07:21:13 AM IST

  1 killed, 3 hurt in crash of small plane shortly after takeoff in Southern California

  One person was killed and three others were injured when a single-engine plane crashed Tuesday in Southern California, authorities said.

• 5 Jul 2023, 07:01:40 AM IST

  UP: 6 people killed due to lightning strikes in Azamgarh

  Six people were killed and one child got injured after being struck by lightning in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh district on Tuesday.