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Actor-politician Kamal Haasan on Friday delivered a strong message against language imposition, saying that love for one’s language should never turn into hatred for another, and that no language should be forced on people.
Confident Group chairman CJ Roy died by suicide on Friday after allegedly shooting himself at his office in Bengaluru while Income Tax raids were underway, police said. He was 57.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sunetra Pawar is likely to take oath as Maharashtra’s new Deputy Chief Minister on Saturday, media reports said.
New Delhi/IBNS: Palestine’s Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian has said that India will take an independent decision on whether to join the proposed Gaza “Board of Peace,” guided by its own understanding of peace and international law.
India and Bangladesh have concluded the exchange of fishermen detained for inadvertently crossing the International Maritime Boundary Line, even as bilateral ties remain under strain.
Kolkata/IBNS: Two employees of Wow! Momo have been arrested in connection with the deadly fire that broke out at warehouses in the Anandapur area of Kolkata, media reports said.
New Delhi/IBNS: V. Srinivasan, the husband of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president and Rajya Sabha MP P. T. Usha, passed away in the early hours of Friday, media reports said. He was 67.
A meeting held in Baramati just hours after the funeral of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has sparked intense speculation over the future leadership of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), following the senior leader’s death in a plane crash earlier this week.
Hyderabad/IBNS: The large-scale killing of street dogs in Telangana has continued unchecked over the past month, with animal welfare activists estimating that more than 1,200 dogs have been killed, primarily through poisoning.
New Delhi/IBNS: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday met Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi and party president Mallikarjun Kharge in Parliament, seeking to dispel persistent speculation about internal discord within the party.
Mumbai/IBNS: Investigators probing the fatal plane crash in Maharashtra’s Baramati have uncovered chilling final cockpit audio, with crew members heard exclaiming “oh sh*t” moments before impact, officials confirmed on Wednesday.
New Delhi/IBNS: The Delhi High Court on Thursday rejected Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer Sameer Wankhede’s defamation suit against a Netflix series allegedly inspired by the Aryan Khan case, citing lack of jurisdiction, media reports said.
New Delhi/IBNS: India and Canada are poised to reset strained bilateral ties with a landmark 10-year uranium supply agreement, expected to be the centrepiece of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s proposed visit to India in the first week of March.
New Delhi/IBNS: In a major setback to the Modi government, the Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the newly notified University Grants Commission (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, 2026, amid widespread student protests across several states, media reports said.
New Delhi/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the recently signed India–European Union (EU) Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is for an “ambitious India” and urged the manufacturers to draw benefits from new markets, two days after what the “mother of all deals” was delivered in the national capital.
Baramati/IBNS: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar was laid to rest on Thursday in Baramati, following a tragic plane crash on Wednesday morning that claimed his life along with four others onboard.
New CCTV footage has emerged showing the Learjet 45 carrying Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar tilting sharply to the left moments before it crashed near the runway at Baramati airport on Wednesday morning, killing all five people on board.
India and the United States have made “very significant progress” in their ongoing trade deal negotiations and are “very close” to a positive outcome, government sources told NDTV, even as New Delhi concluded the political phase of its free trade agreement with the European Union.
An emotional Sharad Pawar on Wednesday ruled out any conspiracy in the plane crash that killed his nephew and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, calling it a “pure accident” and urging people not to politicise the tragedy.
Indian and US officials have reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening bilateral cooperation to dismantle the illegal production and trafficking of illicit drugs and their precursor chemicals that threaten communities in both countries. The resolve was underscored during the inaugural Drug Policy Executive Working Group meeting held in Washington, DC, on January 20–21.
New Delhi/IBNS: Amid a massive stir over the Centre’s newly introduced and controversial UGC regulations aimed at curbing caste-based discrimination in educational institutions, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday assured that the rules would not be misused and that no individual would be treated unfairly.
New Delhi/IBNS: Students across several universities—particularly in Uttar Pradesh—have launched widespread protests against the Modi government over the Centre’s newly announced and controversial UGC regulations aimed at addressing discrimination faced by students from reserved categories, media reports said.
New Delhi/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday mourned the demise of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who was killed in a plane crash at Baramati earlier in the day, media reports said.
Mumbai/IBNS: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar died in a plane crash in Maharashtra’s Baramati on Wednesday, media reports said. He was 66.
Mumbai/IBNS: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and five others died in a plane crash that occurred in Baramati on Wednesday, media reports said.
A food vendor allegedly kidnapped a 23-year-old woman by forcing her into a borrowed Scorpio SUV in Gurugram on Sunday. The woman was abducted from Leopard Trail, a popular picnic spot in the Aravalli hills.
A 32-year-old woman working as an HR manager with a private firm in Agra was allegedly murdered and dismembered by her office colleague and romantic partner, media reports said on Friday.
The standoff between Shankaracharya Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has escalated after a senior Ayodhya-based bureaucrat resigned from service, citing support for the chief minister, the Prime Minister and the Constitution.
On Tuesday (January 27), India and the European Union (EU) formally concluded negotiations on what leaders have dubbed the “mother of all deals”—a comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (FTA) paired with a mobility framework and a new security-defence partnership.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday said that a “successful India” contributes to a more “stable, prosperous and secure” world, as New Delhi and the European Union prepare to finalise a landmark free trade agreement.
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