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Punjab Police seize two Israeli Uzi guns and 34 kg heroin in Amritsar Rural crackdown
Sixteen people were arrested as Border Range officers said the weapons were the first Uzi submachine guns recovered in the state and pointed to foreign-based handlers.
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Two dead, several feared trapped as under-construction building collapses in Old Delhi’s Chawri Bazar
Police say the three-storey structure came down while a slab was being poured, that the construction was unauthorised, and that they had already flagged…
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Delhi Police file FIR against Meta India over child sexual abuse material on its platforms after NHRC push
The case follows months of pressure from the government and child rights bodies over paid Instagram ads that allegedly steered users towards abuse material,…
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Bavaria’s deputy premier Hubert Aiwanger found dead in Berlin hotel room; prosecutors open death inquiry
The 55-year-old Free Voters leader had skipped a party event in the German capital after feeling unwell. Police and prosecutors say they want to…
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NIA, ATS join probe after blast rips through rail track near Pakistan border in Rajasthan’s Sri Ganganagar
The explosion on the Anupgarh-Suratgarh line shattered two concrete sleepers less than an hour after a passenger train had passed. Investigators say sabotage cannot…
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US sanctions Chandigarh couple’s network for selling fake ship flags to Iran’s oil ‘shadow fleet’
Treasury says Suniel Kumar Sharma and Jaspreet Preeti Shahid ran bogus flag registries in the names of countries from Guyana to Eswatini; four Indians…
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Delhi High Court shields Kriti Sanon from deepfakes but says ‘personality rights’ can’t justify blanket bans
The court ordered takedowns of AI-generated obscene images, fake accounts and chatbots posing as the actor, while warning that celebrities must spell out each…
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Cabinet gives Agniveers a two-year ‘second tour of duty’ and a route to permanent enrolment
The 75% of Agniveers who were due to start leaving the forces this month can now serve six years and then seek regular enrolment,…
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Democrats seize both houses of US Congress; Trump says Iran war was ‘a piece of’ Republican defeat
Senate flips in Texas, Ohio, Kansas, Iowa and both Carolinas hand Democrats a check on Trump’s last two years, while the President insists he…
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Kerala orders Vigilance inquiry into ₹2-crore bribe claim against CEC Gyanesh Kumar from his PWD days
A former contractor alleges Gyanesh Kumar, then Kerala’s PWD Secretary, held back road project bills for a bribe, a demand he links to a…
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Delhi Police book Prashant Bhushan over fake Lavrov video that the MEA and Russian Embassy called fabricated
The Special Cell case invokes forgery, defamation and public-mischief provisions after the lawyer shared a manipulated clip of Russia’s foreign minister attacking India over…
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US midterms: Democrats flip North Carolina Senate seat and hold Georgia and New Hampshire in early results
Roy Cooper’s win over a Trump-picked Republican is the first Senate pickup of the night, but Democrats still need a net gain of four…
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Protest sites can’t be occupied indefinitely, says Supreme Court; bench to examine protesters’ privacy
Hearing traders’ plea over losses from weeks of Delhi agitations, CJI Surya Kant’s bench said protests need fixed time slots, while Delhi Police defended…