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US Backs UN Reform, Biden Official Responds To Musk On India UNSC Seat

The US supports much needed reform of the United Nations, including the Security Council, to make it reflective of the 21st-century world, a senior Biden administration official has said, amidst growing calls for inclusion of India as the permanent member of the powerful organ of the world body.

BCCI HOSTS 12K CANCER, THALASSEMIA PATIENTS AS ₹SPECIAL INVITEES' FOR GT VS DC IPL MATCH

In a novel gesture, BCCI has hosted 12,000 cancer and thalassemia patients as \"special invitees\" during the IPL match between Gujarat Titans and Delhi Capitals here.

TWO INDIAN-ORIGIN MEN AMONG SIX ARRESTED IN CANADA'S $22.5 MN GOLD, CASH HEIST

At least two Indian-origin men are among six persons arrested in connection with a brazen multimillion-dollar gold heist at Toronto's main airport last year, the biggest gold theft in Canada's history.

Sri Lanka govt and Opposition trade barbs over failure to reach bondholder agreement

Sri Lanka continues to engage all debt restructuring negotiations in good faith, within principles of equitable treatment among creditors with maximum transparency, the government has said as it faced criticism from the Opposition for maintaining secrecy over the debt restructuring process.

PAKISTAN SHOULD NOT FIGHT WITH ITS NEIGHBOURS, SAYS MARYAM NAWAZ

Chief Minister of Pakistan's Punjab province Maryam Nawaz on Thursday met a group of Sikh pilgrims, mostly from India, and recalled that her father Nawaz Sharif had said that the country should not fight with its neighbours.

INDIGENOUS TECHNOLOGY CRUISE MISSILE SUCCESSFULLY FLIGHT-TESTED BY DRDO

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) conducted a successful flight-test of Indigenous Technology Cruise Missile (ITCM) from the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur off the coast of Odisha on April 18, 2024. During the test, all subsystems performed as per expectation.

HC orders expert panel's medical service improvement measures

Delhi High Court has directed the chief secretary and the principal health secretary to implement within 30 days the \"immediate measures\" recommended by a six-member expert committee for improving medical services in the national capital.

BJP's Sirsa accuses Kejriwal of eating sweet things for medical bail

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, who is diabetic, is deliberately eating sweet things in jail so that his sugar level goes up and he can get bail on medical grounds, alleged BJP leader Majinder Singh Sirsa, who cited the remarks made by the Enforcement Directorate in court.

Indian crew members free to go: Envoy

Iranian envoy to India, Iraj Elahi, has said that the Indian nationals, crew members of MSC Aries, are not detained and that they are free to go.

'Cowardly': J&K LG on killing of civilian

Tammu and Kashmir (J-K) Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha condemned the terror attack in the Bijbehara area of South Kashmir's Anantnag district on Wednesday, where terrorists shot dead a civilian from Bihar.

Mamata accuses BJP of fomenting violence during Ram Navami

A day after several people were injured in a clash during a Ram Navami procession in Murshidabad district's Shaktipur town, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of instigating violence during Ram Navami celebrations on April 17.

AS TAMIL NADU BRACES FOR LS POLLS, KEEN CONTESTS ON CARDS ON SEVERAL SEATS

Tamil Nadu will go to polls for all its 39 parliamentary constituencies on Friday in the first phase of Lok Sabha polls with a triangular contest on the cards in the southern state.

Congress doing appeasement and divisive politics: Om Birla

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, who is contesting from the Kota Lok Sabha constituency, accused the Congress party of doing appeasement and divisive politics.

People need to vote for BJP to keep Manipur's territorial integrity intact: CM Biren Singh

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh has said that the work needed to be done by the Centre under the leadership of PM Modi to keep Manipur's territorial integrity intact has started, and to complete the process, people need to vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Lok Sabha polls.

Congress' policy was to isolate Northeast...: BJP chief JP Nadda

Bharatiya Janata Party president JP Nadda on Thursday said that Congress had a policy to isolate the Northeast part of the country adding that it was Prime Minister Narendra Modi who connected the Northeast to the remaining part of India.

Punjab woman gets death penalty for burying toddler alive in 2021

A Ludhiana court on Thursday handed down the death penalty to a 35-year-old woman, Neelam, for the brutal murder of a two-anda-half-year-old girl, Dilroz Kaur, in 2021.

Amritsar-Dubai flights cancelled for 2nd day, flyers left stranded

As Dubai is grappling with severe flooding disrupting daily life and international travel, the Amritsar-Dubai flight has been cancelled for the second consecutive day leaving passengers frustrated and inconvenienced.

'Western media reports on democracy in India fake'

Sources in the government have dismissed reports in the Western media that have appeared in American and British media outlets, raising concern on what they have termed the down sliding of democracy in India which will become more pronounced post 4 June as 'fake and a part of a sustained misinformation campaign going on for years now'.

Crew member back home in Kerala from ship seized by Iran

In a major diplomatic win for New Delhi, Ann Tessa Joseph from Thrissur, Kerala, one of the 17 Indian crew members of the Israel-linked cargo ship 'MSC Aries' that was seized by Iran on April 13, returned safely to her homeland, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) informed through an official statement on Thursday.

SC reserves judgement on EVM-VVPAT

The Supreme Court has reserved the verdict on a plea for cross-verifying votes between electronic voting machines (EVMs) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) systems.

STAGE SET FOR OVER 16 CR ELECTORS TO CAST VOTE IN 1ST PHASE OF POLLS TODAY

Voting begins at 7 am and ends 6 pm , Fate of 1,625 candidates will be sealed

CAMPAIGNING ENDS IN 102 LS SEATS IN 21 STATES, UTs

Voting in the first phase of polls is on Friday

Cong raises doubts, later congratulates forces

A day after 29 Naxals were killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh the Congress has cast aspersions on the encounter claiming that during the BJP tenure several innocent villagers had been labelled Naxals and killed.

Poll body asks Bengal Guv to stay out of polling areas

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has advised West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose to not tour Cooch Behar on April 18 and 19 since the “silence period” for the first phase of the Lok Sabha polls commences on Wednesday evening.

Trinamool dons saffron to blunt BJP's Ram Navami edge

In an effort to blunt efforts of the Bharatiya Janata Party to gain mileage from Ram Navami, the Trinamool Congress today went all out to proclaim its faith in Lord Ram, even as the BJP circulated videos of a Ram Navami procession being pelted with stones in the Muslim-dominated district of Murshidabad.

Ghulam Nabi Azad not to contest from Anantnag-Rajouri

The Democratic Progressive Azad Party on Wednesday announced that former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and DPAP chairman Ghulam Nabi Azad will not contest the Lok Sabha elections from the Anantnag Rajouri seat.

Banga, Nadella, Alia, Sakshi figure in Time's 100 most influential people

World Bank President Ajay Banga, Bollywood actor Alia Bhatt, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Olympian wrestler Sakshi Malik and actor-director Dev Patel are among the Indians who have made it to the prestigious Times’s list of 100 most influential people in the world released on Wednesday.

Rahul predicts 150 seats for BJP, calls Modi 'champion of corruption'

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that the electoral bonds scheme was the biggest \"extortion scheme\" in the world and Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the \"champion of corruption\".

Will root out Naxal terror from country very soon: Amit Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah came out in praise of the joint security forces a day after 29 Naxals were gunned down during an encounter with the Left-wing outlaws in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district, saying that Red Terror will soon be rooted out of the country under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

SHARIF CONFIDENT SAUDI DELEGATION'S VISIT WILL BOOST INVESTMENTS IN PAKISTAN

Sharif had met with the crown prince in Mecca to boost economic cooperation. It was said after the meeting that an investment of USD 5 billion was expected in the initial phase.