CHENNAI: Senior BJP leader Nainar Nagendran, who is the legislative party leader of the party in the Tamil Nadu Assembly, said on Thursday that police were targeting him.

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BHOPAL: Accusing the Congress party of "tying the hands of soldiers" in the past, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Thursday, said that it is his government that has given full freedom to the armed forces to retaliate in a befitting manner.

SRINAGAR: An elderly tourist died of heart failure on Thursday, in Jammu and Kashmir’s ski resort of Gulmarg.

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has upheld Jawaharlal Nehru University's (JNU) admission policy allocating an 80 per cent quota for students, who have recently completed their Class 12 exams, in the First Year of the three-year B.A. (Hons.) programme in Foreign Languages.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A Kerala Government official on his way to poll duty, was knocked down by a speeding vehicle near Alappuzha.

NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) senior leader Sanjay Singh on Thursday attacked the BJP after the latter recently registered an uncontested victory in Gujarat’s Surat Lok Sabha constituency.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the high voltage election campaigns by political parties over, Thursday saw election officials engaged in their work to ensure smooth polling on Friday for 20 Lok Sabha constituencies in Kerala.

HYDERABAD: Four intermediate students, returning after a party to celebrate their success in exams, died in a tragic road accident in Warangal district of Telangana, police said.

ANDHRA PRADESH: YS Sowbhagya Reddy, wife of former minister, late YS Vivekananda Reddy who was murdered in 2019, wrote to Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, questioning his choice of candidate for the Kadapa Lok Sabha seat.

NEW DELHI: Chief Justice of India (CJI) D.Y. Chandrachud on Thursday announced the integration of WhatsApp messaging services with the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) services of the Supreme Court.

HYDERABAD: Six members of a family were killed and two injured when a car in which they were travelling rammed into a stationary truck on the Hyderabad-Vijayawada national highway in the early hours of Thursday, police said.

MUMBAI: A 70-year-old male citizen was killed when a major fire broke out in a grocery shop after two gas cylinders burst shortly before midnight of Wednesday-Thursday, the BMC Disaster Control said here.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will campaign in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh on Thursday for the Lok Sabha elections.

BENGALURU: Criticising Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over the 'distribution of wealth' issue, former Karnataka chief minister and BJP leader Basavaraj Bommai on Wednesday told the Wayanad MP to first distribute his 'benami' wealth.

NEW DELHI: Advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai assured the Delhi High Court on Wednesday that he would refrain from making any statements accusing BJD MP Pinaki Misra of conspiring against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

MUMBAI: The Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) said on Wednesday that the closure report submitted by the Economic Offences Wing of the Mumbai Police in the alleged Rs 25,000 crore Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank (MSCB) scam should be accepted by one and all.

ASSAM: Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Wednesday said that the bilateral trade between India and Bangladesh has increased many folds during the BJP-led government's tenure at the Centre.

HYDERABAD: Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Wednesday said that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi both are trained in "Aurangzeb school of thought" with democracy on their lips but "Shariah in their hearts and minds".

GUWAHATI: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said the minorities have been realising that they have been misled by the Congress just for the sake of votes.

GANDHINAGAR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to be in his home state Gujarat on May 1 and 2 to campaign for his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.

KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday informed the Calcutta High Court that the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) report on the voice sample test of Sujay Krishna Bhadra, a prime accused in the cash-for-school jobs case in West Bengal, is positive.

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police told the High Court that it has prepared a comprehensive standard operating procedure (SOP) for universities and colleges in the Delhi-NCR region to ensure the safety and security of students, particularly female attendees, during events and festivals, leading it to close its suo moto PIL.

CHANDIGARH: The Department-cum-Centre for Women’s Studies & Development, Panjab University, Chandigarh organised a Special Lecture on the theme, “Effective Search Strategy for Accessing E-Resources in Social Science Research”, for the faculty, guest faculty, research scholars, students of the university under the aegis of Special Lecture Series. Dr. Neeraj K. Singh, Deputy Librarian, A.C. Joshi Library, was the resource person for the session.

HYDERABAD: Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Wednesday claimed that his Congress is going to form the next government at the Centre.

SHAHJAHANPUR: Two people were killed and 20 injured when a tractor-trolley overturned here, the police said.

NEW DELHI: The religion-based ‘reservation push’ in Congress-ruled Karnataka has come under the lens of the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC), as it has red-flagged its reservation policy, observing that "categorising the whole Muslim population as a backward caste for reservation" will take away the rights of the Other Backward Classes (OBCs).

BENGALURU: The Election Commission said on Wednesday that it had made elaborate arrangements for Karnataka's first phase polling in 14 Lok Sabha constituencies on April 26.

NEW DELHI: A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking a probe by the Special Investigative Team (SIT) under the supervision of a retired judge of the apex into the “electoral bond scam”.

RAIPUR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday slammed the Congress, saying that the party seeks to destroy the ordinary people of India economically and is about to set a "dangerous precedent" by implementing an 'Inheritance Tax' if voted to power.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken 400 million (40 crore) people out of poverty and is doing an “unbelievable job” in India, Global banking giant JP Morgan Chase chief executive officer (CEO) Jamie Dimon has said.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: AICC President, Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday slammed the BJP and the Prime Minister during an interaction with the media at the Congress’ headquarters in Kerala.

NEW DELHI: Delhi Minister and AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj on Wednesday met incarcerated Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in Tihar prison.

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday observed that allegations of conspiracy against the Prime Minister cannot be made irresponsibly and need to be based on “cogent and substantial reasons.”

KOLKATA: A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Wednesday, directed the formation of a special committee to review the reported errors in the question papers of the written examination for the recruitment of primary teachers to different state-run schools in West Bengal.