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The UK's Opposition Labour Party, hoping to win a mandate to form a government after the July 4 general election, has committed itself to stamping out anti-India sentiments within its ranks and building a strong strategic partnership with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led administration. The party's resolution during an annual conference under former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in favour of international intervention in Kashmir was widely seen as having cost it British Indian votes in the 2019 general election. There have also been concerns over some Labour councillors espousing pro-Khalistan views. At a ‘Political Hustings' event for Britain's South Asian community organised by ‘Asian Voice' in partnership with City Sikhs and City Hindus Network in London on Friday evening, Labour Party chair and shadow secretary of state for women and equalities Anneliese Dodds claimed that the party led by Keir Starmer is confident of having cleansed its ranks of any member

A court in Bengaluru on Saturday remanded former JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna, who is facing charges of rape and sexual abuse of several women, to judicial custody till July 8. He was produced before the 42nd Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court judge after his four-day Special Investigation Team (SIT) custody ended today. On Monday, Prajwal Revanna was remanded to judicial custody till July 8. But, he was later sent to SIT custody till June 29 by the Magistrate court judge, after the police sought a body warrant through the Special Public Prosecutor (SPP). Four separate cases have been registered against the 33-year-old grandson of the former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, all of which are being investigated by the SIT. Prajwal had failed in his bid to retain the Hassan constituency in the recently concluded LS polls. The cases of sexual abuse came to light after pen-drives containing explicit videos allegedly involving Prajwal Revanna were reportedly circulated in Hassan,

The preparations for the next India-Russia summit are underway, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Friday. "We have a very well established arrangement of bilateral summits with the Russian Federation. Twenty-one such meetings have happened so far," external affairs ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said. "We are preparing to hold the next summit. We will share the dates with you as soon as we can," he said. Mr Jaiswal's comments at a media briefing came days after a Kremlin official in Moscow said active preparations are underway for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Russia. "I can confirm that we are preparing a visit by the prime minister of India. We cannot (say) the dates as yet, because the dates are announced by the parties in agreement," Yuri Ushakov, an assistant to the Russian president, said on Tuesday. "But we are actively preparing. I will emphasise once again, this visit will take place," he told r

A woman died after falling into a gorge while taking a selfie from a hill in Pithoragarh district in Uttarakhand on Thursday, police said. The woman's husband was also with her when the incident happened. Sonal Payal (37), a resident of Roorkee in Haridwar district, worked as chief pharmacist at a hospital nearby. She apparently lost balance while clicking a picture of herself and fell into a 100-metre-deep gorge, the disaster control room said. She died on the spot. Her husband went down the hill to search for her but lost his way in the dense bushes. It took the State Disaster Response Force personnel several hours to reach the bottom of the gorge with the help of ropes. The woman's body was retrieved and her husband was rescued, SDRF Assistant sub inspector Mahipal Singh, who led the rescue operation, said. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday took a swipe at Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray for his statement that the monsoon session beginning June 27 will be the farewell session of the MahaYuti government. "Shouldn't he (Uddhav Thackeray) be in the House to give a farewell? Or will he say goodbye from a Facebook Live? The people will decide whether to bid a farewell," Shinde said, asserting that those sitting in the government are connected to the people and have done a slew of works for their betterment. The obvious reference was Uddhav Thackeray's regular use of Facebook Live during the Maha Vikas Aghadi government's tenure, instead of coming to the Mantralaya. Shinde, who chaired the state Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, also criticised the opposition for its move to boycott the customary tea meeting convened by him on the eve of the monsoon session. "This is the last session of the present state Assembly. So we thought that the oppo

Maharashtra Government on Tuesday suspended IPS officer Quaiser Khalid for allowing a giant hoarding - whose collapse last month claimed 17 lives – without the approval of the DGP office. The 140x120 ft hoarding in Mumbai's Ghatkopar area collapsed on May 13 during gusty winds and unseasonal rains. A notification issued by the state Home Department on Friday said the IPS officer, as the then Government Railway Police (GRP) commissioner, permitted the erection of the hoarding without obtaining mandatory permission from the office of Maharashtra Director General of Police (DGP). Mr Khalid committed administrative lapses and irregularities in sanctioning the hoarding on his own, the notification said. The hoarding size also deviated from the approved norms, it added. The suspension comes amid reports of Mumbai police probing a series of money transactions allegedly linking the company that owned the hoarding, and a business associate of the wife of the IPS officer. “A preliminary

The Lok Sabha witnessed a display of linguistic diversity on Monday, with the newly-elected MPs taking their oaths in English and Indian languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, Dogri, Bengali, Assamese, Gujarati and Odia. Prime Minister Narendra Modi took his oath in Hindi amid slogans of "Jai Shri Ram" from the treasury benches. Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, Women and Child Development Minister Annapurna Devi, Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia and Urban Development Minister ML Khattar were among those who took oath in Hindi. Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, the MP from Odisha's Sambalpur, took oath in Odia. As Pradhan proceeded to take his oath, members of the opposition raised "NEET, NEET" slogans, amid a controversy over alleged irregularities in competitive exams, including the medical entrance exam National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET-UG).

Haryana Government on Sunday took multiple decisions for the benefit of the Other Backward Classes in the state. Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini announced these decisions. The state government has increased the upper income limit for the creamy layer to Rs 8 lakh per year. The reservation for backward classes has been increased from 15 percent to 27 percent in Group-A and Group-B government posts. Creamy layer is a term used in Indian politics to refer to some members of a backward class who are highly advanced socially as well as economically and educationally. The Government has announced that the backlog of jobs for Backward Classes A and B will be filled on priority basis, for which a special recruitment campaign will be run. Meanwhile, on the preparations for upcoming Haryana Assembly elections, Nayab Singh Saini said, "Today, we have welcomed our Union Minister and Haryana Assembly election in-charge Dharmendra Pradhan; Haryana Assembly election co-in charge B

The NEET-PG scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed and fresh dates will be announced soon, the Health Ministry said in a statement today. The government alluding to the huge row over alleged irregularities in NEET-UG and UGC-NET said it decided to "undertake a thorough assessment of the robustness of processes of NEET-PG, conducted by the National Board of Examination for medical students." "It has accordingly been decided, as a precautionary measure, to postpone the NEET-PG scheduled to be held tomorrow (June 23). Fresh date of this examination will be notified at the earliest," the Health Ministry said, adding it "sincerely regrets the inconvenience caused to students". The government said the decision was taken in the best interests of students and to maintain the sanctity of examination. An hour before the announcement of the exam postponement came, the government issued an order that said it has replaced the chief of the National Testing Agency

The Calcutta High Court directed the West Bengal government today to take steps to ensure that people displaced in the alleged post-poll violence in the state return to their homes. The court also extended the deployment of central forces in the state till June 26, when the matter would be listed for hearing again. "We cannot shut our eyes to the spate of complaints as disclosed and the allegation on the role of the police administration for which we feel that the deployment of the central forces may continue for a limited period," the court observed. A division bench presided by Justice Harish Tandon directed the West Bengal government to take immediate action to ensure that people displaced due to the alleged post-poll violence in the state return to their homes. The court directed the police administration to ensure the safety and security of such displaced persons and keep a constant vigil in the area of their residence and ensure that no threat perception or any kind

A 32-year-old man being taken to Goa after his arrest from Uttar Pradesh dashed out of Mumbai airport and fled despite a chase by a cop from the coastal state, police said on Thursday. Imad Wasim Khan made the daring escape around 6 am on Wednesday after a Goa police team arrived with him at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, an official said. Khan is an accused in a case registered at Mapusa in Goa for alleged wrongful confinement, voluntarily causing hurt, and personating a public servant, he said. Based on inputs, Goa recently police visited Khan's hometown in UP's Saharanpur and took him into custody with the help of their local counterparts. The two-member police team boarded a flight to Mumbai and arrived at T2 (terminal 2). As one of the cops was asking the airport staff about T1, from where they were to take a flight to Goa, Khan escaped from the clutches of the other. The policeman gave chase, but Khan sprinted out of the airport and got into a car

A Noida-based YouTuber was issued a notice today by the Karnataka Police to join its probe over a video featuring Congress MP Rahul Gandhi. "The video, titled 'Rahul Trying Hard To Fuel Fire, Naseer Wants Modi in Skull Cap' allegedly intends to create feelings of enmity, hatred, and ill-will between communities," the police notice issued to YouTuber Ajeet Bharti read. The action came after one BK Bopanna filed a complaint at the High Grounds Police Station in Bengaluru on June 15. Based on his complaint, an FIR was lodged under Sections 153 (promoting enmity between different groups) and 505(2) (statements creating or promoting enmity) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the notice said. The police directed Mr Bharti to appear before the investigating officer at the High Grounds Police Station at 11 am within seven days of receiving the notice. The Karnataka Police team landed at the YouTuber's home in Noida's Sector 57 around 1 pm, a local police officer sai

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said his party would have won 20 to 22 Lok Sabha seats alone in Maharashtra had its name and original symbol not been "snatched away" after the 2022 coup. The party will approach the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the July 12 biennial elections to the Maharashtra Legislative Council as MLAs of ruling coalition parties Shiv Sena and the NCP who will vote in the polls face the prospect of disqualification, he said. Sanjay Raut dared the Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde to contest the assembly polls in October on a different name and symbol. "Everything was snatched away from us. The party's name, symbol, our MLAs, and MPs. Still, we put up a fight and got nine MPs elected. If we had the name and (original) symbol of our party, Shiv Sena (UBT) would have won 20-22 Lok Sabha seats," the Rajya Sabha member maintained. Maharashtra has 48 Lok Sabha seats, the second highest after Uttar Pradesh (80). After the 2022 s

Preparations for the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir have begun and the Union territory will regain its statehood too, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today in Srinagar. Addressing an event after laying the foundation stone and inaugurating 84 developmental projects worth Rs 1,500 crore in the Valley, PM Modi said the Centre has taken the recent terror attacks in the Union Territory very seriously and the enemies of Jammu and Kashmir will be given a befitting reply. He praised the young men and women of Jammu and Kashmir for the high turnout in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls and said they have ensured a victory of democracy. PM Modi said the wall of Article 370, which was scrapped in August 2019, collapsed and the fruits of the Indian Constitution were ensured in Jammu and Kashmir. "Today the Indian Constitution has truly been implemented in Jammu and Kashmir," he said. The Prime Minister said the forces inimical to peace and development are making last

A man has been arrested in Maharashtra's Latur district for allegedly cheating four ASHA (accredited social health activist) workers of more than Rs 24 lakh by promising to get them jobs in the state health department, police said on Wednesday. While Sudhir Karbhari was arrested and remanded in police custody till Saturday, co-accused Shrikant Dasrao Shinde and Rajratan Ramrao Suryawanshi were absconding, said a police official. As per the complaint filed by Surekha Choudhary, an ASHA worker posted at Honali village in Deoni tehsil, between March 2021 and June 2024, the three accused collected a total of Rs 24.3 lakh from her and three other ASHA workers, promising to provide them jobs in the sub-divisional health department. They accused also provided them fake appointment letters, she claimed. Deoni police are conducting further probe. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

An obscene video of a 14-year-old girl from a village in the Campierganj area of the district has gone viral on social media, police said on Tuesday. It is a deepfake video which was posted on social media platforms allegedly by some young men from the same village, police said. The accused allegedly took photos from her social media account, edited them, and created an obscene video, they added. On the basis of a complaint by the girl's mother, police have registered a case against the accused. The girl's family was stunned when they discovered the video. When the family confronted the accused, they were allegedly met with threats and warnings, police said. In her complaint, the girl's mother said that her daughter had uploaded her photo on social media, which was then misused by Akhtar Ali, Karan Yadav, Shani Yadav, and Rahmat Ali. The accused allegedly took screenshots, added obscene songs, and shared the edited photos on Facebook and Instagram. The case has been

India and the US on Monday said they concluded the Strategic Framework for Human Spaceflight Cooperation to deepen interoperability in space and are working toward commencing advanced training for ISRO astronauts at the NASA Johnson Space Center. A fact-sheet issued by the US and India after the iCET Dialogue between US National Security Adviser (NSA) Jake Sullivan and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval said the two sides are also exploring opportunities to participate in the Lunar Gateway Programme. The Lunar Gateway Programme aims to build a space station around the moon as part of the collaborative Artemis programme spearheaded by the US. The fact-sheet said the talks between the two NSAs explored opportunities for India's participation in the Lunar Gateway Programme, as well as joint avenues for collaboration in other space technologies. The two leaders also exchanged views on securing a carrier for the first-ever joint effort between NASA and Indian Space Research Organi

A day after 15 tourists died in a road accident in Uttarakhand's Rudraprayag, officials said there is a need for greater focus on the "hill endorsement" in drivers' licences accompanied by a physical test. Joint Transport Commissioner Sanat Singh said this check was required for all tourist vehicles, including those that are a part of the Char Dham Yatra and the Hemkund Sahib Yatra, to reduce road accidents in the hilly regions. Many tourist vehicles come to Uttarakhand, but due to the greater volume of cars of Char Dham Yatra, checking of other vehicles is ignored, Mr Singh said. "Now we will need to focus on tourism apart from Chardham Yatra. We will now focus on hill endorsement of driving license," the official said. 'Hill endorsement' of a driver's license is necessary for driving on mountainous roads, he said. Earlier the state did not have the facility for physical "hill endorsement" tests. So they were offered online, Mr Si

The devotees coming to Kashi Vishwanath Temple here in Uttar Pradesh will now get not only physical darshan, they will also get 'virtual' darshan. The temple administration has introduced 11 minutes and 50 seconds of virtual reality Darshan.  This will allow the devotees to avoid standing in a long queue in the scorching heat to get the darshan. The temple administration said that the service is now on a trial basis and will be implemented permanently after getting feedback from the devotees. Speaking about the new initiative, Kashi Vishwanath Temple Chief Executive Officer Vishwa Bhushan Mishra said, "3D virtual reality is a new technique which has been implemented in various temples like Ujjain's Mahakaleshwar and Mata Vaishno Devi temple. The company providing 3D technology in those temples contacted Kashi Vishwanath Temple Trust for the same." "Between May 5 to June 4, a total of 363 of our employees and priests watched the movie. They gave positive fe

An 18-year-old died of self-immolation after she was allegedly gang-raped here, police said on Friday. The police have detained two of the victim's cousins and are on the lookout for three other accused in the case, they said. Superintendent of Police Kota (Rural) Karan Sharma said that they received information on Friday morning that a woman was admitted to the hospital with burn injuries. The victim's father narrated the incident to the police and said that the accused had kidnapped her daughter from their house on Thursday night and taken her to a shop. One of the accused sat outside while the rest raped the woman. "When her uncle got up to drink water at night, he noticed that his niece was not in the house. He went outside to look for her and heard her screaming from a shop. When he tried to open the door, the other accused sitting outside, beat him up. After the commotion, the shop's door was opened, and the woman came out crying," he said. After the in

A woman from Bihar has been frantically calling up her son since she heard about the fire that killed 49 people, mostly Indians, in a building in Kuwait. But she has failed to get any information about her son, who was to get married next month. Madina Khatoon said her eldest son Kalu Khan has been living in that building, and was about to return home for the wedding. "I spoke to him over the phone at around 11 pm on Tuesday. He told me he would come to Darbhanga on July 5 as his marriage is scheduled for next month," she told media persons. A resident of the Naina Ghat area in Bihar's Darbhanga district, Ms Khatoon said her son has been in Kuwait for several years. According to villagers, he was working as a skilled labourer in Kuwait. When she found out about the fire in the building where her son lived, she frantically tried to contact him. "But he is not responding to my calls. We have no information about his whereabouts," the inconsolable mother said,

Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Wednesday said the security forces and police will not rest till they eliminate all terrorists and their supporters from Jammu and Kashmir. Addressing a folk festival organised by the Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages at Tagore Hall here, Sinha said the Reasi terror attack has angered all sections of society including artists. "Three days ago, terrorists carried out a cowardly attack on humanity in Reasi which has caused anger in all sections of the society including artists," Sinha said. "I want to assure the people that the security forces and police will not rest till they eliminate terrorists and their supporters in Jammu and Kashmir," he said. Nine pilgrims were killed while 33 others sustained injuries when the bus carrying them to Shiv Khori temple in Reasi fell into a gorge after terrorists opened fire on the vehicle. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is pu

Delhi sweltered under intense heat as the city's maximum temperature settled at 43.8 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, the weather department said. The Narela weather station recorded the highest temperature in the city at 47.1 degrees Celsius, they said. The Safdarjung observatory, considered the official marker of the city, noted a high of 43.8 degrees Celsius, four notches above the normal average. Delhi's other weather stations, such as Najafgarh recorded a high of 46.6 degrees Celsius while Aya Nagar recorded 44.8 degrees C, Ridge 45 degrees C and Palam 44.1 degrees C, the bulletin said. The capital was on "orange" alert, which stands for "be prepared" in the colour codes of the India Meteorological Department (IMD(. The relative humidity oscillated between 22 per cent and 37 per cent, according to the IMD bulletin. The MeT has forecast a partly cloudy sky accompanied by strong surface winds and a heatwave at isolated places on Wednesday. The national

The elections are over and the focus should now shift to nation-building, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat said today, in a speech peppered with criticism about the way the campaign was conducted on both sides of the political divide. Speaking at an RSS programme in Nagpur, Mr Bhagwat also had advice for the new government and the Opposition, indicating that the approach to both election and governance should be tweaked. "Election is a process of building consensus. Parliament has two sides so that both aspects of any question can be considered... Every issue has two sides. If one side is addressed by one party, the Opposition party should address the other dimension, so that we reach to the right decision," Mr Bhagwat said in words that were seen as underscoring the importance of having an Opposition. In this election, the Congress has bounced back, hiking its 2019 score from 52 to 99.  The mandate, while cutting down then BJP numbers to 240 -- way below th

First-time MP from Pune and BJP leader Murlidhar Mohol was inducted as a minister of state in the Narendra Modi government this evening. The former Pune Mayor defeated Congress's Ravindra Dhangekar, who incidentally had wrested BJP bastion Kasba in a recent Assembly bypoll. Mr Mohol (49) is a Maratha leader and his victory over Mr Dhanegkar by over 1.23 lakh votes helped the BJP retain Pune, Maharashtra's second-largest city and one of the country's premier industrial and commercial hubs, for the third consecutive time. He is from the district's Mulshi tehsil and is a graduate of Kolhapur University. He also took wrestling lessons there. Mr Mohol, who has attended RSS ' shakhas ', became a Corporator for the first time in 2002 and headed the standing committee of the Pune Municipal Corporation before becoming Mayor in 2019. He lost the Assembly polls from the Khadakwasla seat in Pune in 2009. "I feel fortunate that I got the opportunity to be part of

Nine Maoists were arrested from different places in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, police said on Sunday. Of them, eight were arrested from separate locations in Usoor police station area, while one was held under Naimed police station limits, the official said. "All arrested cadres were active as militia members of the outlawed Maoist movement and were allegedly involved in incidents of planting IEDs to target security personnel, damaging roads and putting up posters and banners," a statement from the police said. A joint team of the 196th battalion of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), 205th battalion of Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA- an elite unit of CRPF), as well as local police, was involved in the action in Usoor, it said. "Those held from Usoor are Sona Kunjam (40), Anda Kadti (30), Mangu Madkam (24), Santosh Kadti (25), Sona Muchaki (22), Hadma Kadti (27), Suresh Madkam (28) and Devendra Muchaki (25). These eight are allegedly involved

Delhi's Tis Hazari Court has sentenced a 49-year-old man to 10 years of imprisonment in a child marriage and rape case. The court also ordered a compensation of Rs 10.5 lakh to a victim who was forced into a marriage due to her circumstances and raped when she was 13-year old. The Special POCSO court in Delhi had on April 30 this year convicted the 49-year-old accused, a resident of Bihar, under Section 376 (2) (i) and (n) of Indian Penal Code (IPC), Section 6 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act 2012 and Section 9/10 of Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006. Judge Ankit Mehta while pronouncing the quantum of sentence on June 7, 2024 in his verdict after examining all aspects of the case sentenced the accused to maximum sentences in child marriage and rape case respectively. Apart from the compensation of Rs 10.5 lakh, the court also imposed a fine of Rs 15,000 on the accused. The court noted that the prosecution had established that the child was a vict

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor hailed Rahul Gandhi as "the man of the match" of the Lok Sabha polls and said it would be fitting that he takes on the mantle of the Leader of Opposition in the Lower House. In an interview with news agency PTI after his fourth-straight Lok Sabha poll win, Shashi Tharoor said the message of the mandate was that the electorate has given a "comeuppance" to the BJP's "overweening arrogance" and its "my way or the high way attitude". "It will be a challenge for Mr (Narendra) Modi and Amit Shah who have not been used to consulting very much in running their government and I think this is going to test their ability to change their way of functioning and be more accommodative and more conciliatory within the government and also I hope with the Opposition," he said on the incoming coalition government of the NDA. The former Union minister said this time the NDA government could prove to be a ' m

A POCSO court here sent three people to 20 years in jail for abducting, trafficking and raping a 15-year-old girl, officials said on Thursday. The court further imposed a fine of Rs 2.25 lakh on the convicts Ashok alias Sukka (25), his wife Anita (27) and Ganwar Singh alias Ganwaria (20). According to police, the incident occurred on July 21, 2021, when Ashok and Anita abducted the victim from a village in Kota while she was playing at her home. They tempted the victim with marriage proposals in future. When the victim did not return home for a few days, her mother filed a complaint at the Railway Colony police station, Public Prosecutor, POCSO court Vijay Kachawa said. Both Ashok and Anita had befriended the victim's family and even gave them Rs 5,000 for her father's treatment, Kachawa said. The couple took the girl to their village in Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh where they sold her for Rs 50,000 to Ganwar Singh alias Ganwaria, who raped the girl, he said. Acting on the vi

Former Chief Ministers, film stars, political activists, and a former High Court judge are among the 280 first-term members of the Lok Sabha. Uttar Pradesh, the largest state that sends 80 members to the Lok Sabha, elected 45 first-term members to the Lower House, which include actor Arun Govil, who played Lord Ram on TV, from Meerut, Congress leader Kishori Lal Sharma, who defeated BJP's Smriti Irani in Amethi, and Dalit rights activist Chandrashekhar Azad of the Azad Samaj Party from Nagina. Maharashtra, where the BJP faced electoral reverses, elected 33 first-term Lok Sabha members, including school teacher Bhaskar Bhagre, fielded by Sharad Pawar's NCP from the tribal seat of Dindori. He defeated BJP leader Bharti Pawar. Also among first-term members from Maharashtra are BJP's Piyush Goyal, elected from Mumbai North, Congress leader Balwant Wankhede, who defeated BJP's Navneet Rana in Amravati, BJP's Anup Dhotre, the son of former Union Minister Sanjay Dhotre,

In a major upset, Congress veteran and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday lost Lok Sabha elections from his traditional Rajgarh seat to the BJP by a margin of 1,46,089 votes. BJP candidate and sitting MP Rodmal Nagar bagged 7,58,743 votes, while Singh, his nearest rival, got 6,12,654 votes, as per EC data. Nagar won from Rajgarh for the third time in a row. He was the winner in 2014 and 2019 also. Singh (77), who represented Rajgarh in the Lok Sabha in 1984 and 1991, contested from the seat after a long gap. Later, his brother Laxman Singh won from Rajgarh four times on a Congress ticket and once from the BJP side. The former CM belongs to the erstwhile Raghogarh princely state which is part of the Rajgarh Lok Sabha constituency.  (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

Serious negligence on the part of the operators of the TRP game zone as well as officials of Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC), city police and Roads and Buildings Department caused the devastating fire on May 25 in which 27 lives were lost, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed by the Gujarat government to probe the tragedy said. The operators of the TRP game zone carried out welding works for the construction of the proposed "snow park" at the site despite knowing that the construction materials were highly inflammable, the SIT said in its preliminary report, which is part of the affidavit submitted on Monday by the state government to the Gujarat High Court hearing a suo motu PIL on the matter. The SIT also said in its report, which was submitted to the Gujarat government on May 27, that the infrastructure of the game zone was not ready to meet fire exigencies. Instead of separate entry and exit passages, there was only one way for both entry and exit and no sepa

A doctor was allegedly assaulted and verbally abused by a group of youths at GB Hospital in Tripura. He suffered injuries in the attack. The attack occurred while the doctor was on duty. The verbal spat started over a misunderstanding of the treatment process of a patient, according to the police. The police launched an investigation into the alleged incident of assault and detained several individuals involved in the incident. A case was also registered with GBP outpost as number 42/24 today and one accused was arrested in connection with the case. According to eyewitnesses, a group of men entered the hospital's emergency ward and heated words were exchanged. The situation escalated and the youths attacked the doctor, leaving him covered in blood. Hospital staff and security personnel intervened to restrain the attackers and save the life of the doctor. However, the doctor is in stable condition after receiving treatment. Meanwhile, Dr. Kanak Chaudhury, Deputy Medical Superi

Exit polls on Saturday projected that the 'Lotus' will bloom in Kerala as the BJP can win between one to three parliamentary seats in the coastal state. Times Now ETG survey showed the Trissur Lok Sabha candidate Suresh Gopi will win. The survey also projected one seat for the BJP, four for the ruling Left led by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan while the Congress-led UDF may win 14 to 15 seats. India Today-Axis My India has projected that the BJP will win two to three seats and also said that Minister of State Rajeev Chandrasekhar will upset three-time sitting Congress member Shashi Tharoor. ABP-C-Voter has also projected one to three seats for the BJP while India TV-CNX has also projected the same. The biggest shocker has come from the ABP C-Voter which has projected that the Vijayan-led Left will not win a single seat while the India Today-Axis My India has projected zero to one seat for the Left. However, all the agencies have projected that the Congress-led UDF will wi

Several parts of India grappled with unusually high temperatures this week, forcing schools to close and hospitals to create special units to treat heat-related illnesses, while workers on construction sites were given a "paid holiday" in the afternoon. Here is a look at what caused the unprecedented heat in the country. HOW UNUSUAL HAS THE SITUATION BEEN THIS YEAR? While every year temperatures in India tend to peak in the months of May and June, the number of heatwave days recorded over northwestern and eastern parts of the country this season have been more than double the normal, with eastern India also experiencing its hottest April on record. India declares a heatwave day when the maximum temperature in any given region is 4.5 -6.4 degrees Celsius higher than normal. Parts of the country have touched new highs in terms of the maximum temperature, including Delhi, which recorded the country's highest ever temperature at 52.9 C (127.22 degree F) on Wednesday. Wh

A case of attempt to murder was registered against Gujarat BJP MLA Geetaba Jadeja's son Ganesh Jadeja and others here on Friday for allegedly kidnapping and assaulting a local NSUI leader, police said. As complainant Sanjay Solanki, city unit chief of the National Students' Union of India, a Congress-affiliated organisation, is a Dalit, the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act too was invoked. "The incident took place in the early hours of Friday. We have registered an FIR against Ganesh Jadeja and his men. No one has been arrested yet," said inspector V J Savaj of Junagadh A Division police station. As per the First Information Report, 26-year-old Solanki asked Jadeja to drive carefully on Thursday night when the latter's car passed too close to Solanki's two-wheeler in Kalva Chowk area. Angered, Jadeja and his associates followed Solanki to his residence on Datar Road but left after Solanki's father, who knew Jadeja, i