Three Noida schools receive hoax bomb threat emails; UP Police launch probe

Noida- Panic gripped Noida in Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Buddha Nagar district, as several prominent educational institutions received threatening emails warning of bomb blasts in their premises. The e-mail bomb threat, received by the Step by Step School in Sector-126, triggered an alarm in the school administration, leading to the evacuation of children and teachers, followed…

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CM Mamata to rename Bengal job scheme after Mahatma Gandhi amid NREGA row

Kolkata- Criticising the BJP-led government at the Centre for seeking to replace the 20-year-old Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MGNREGA) scheme with the VB-G RAM G scheme, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday announced that her government would rename its rural job guarantee programme after Mahatma Gandhi. Speaking at a…

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Karnataka Hate Speech Bill: Govt reduces maximum punishment from 10 to 7 years; Minister Parameshwara says it will bring a big change

Belagavi – The Congress-led government in Karnataka, on Thursday, has reduced the punishment for hate crimes prescribed in the controversial Karnataka Hate Speech and Hate Crimes (Prevention and Control) Bill, 2025, from 10 to seven years. Karnataka Home Minister G. Parameshwara made the statement while explaining the Bill in the State Assembly after the House…

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India targets Rs 3 lakh crore defence production by 2029: Mansukh Mandaviya

New Delhi- India has set an ambitious target of achieving Rs 3 lakh crore in defence production and Rs 50,000 crore in defence exports by 2029, Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Thursday, underscoring the country’s push towards Aatmanirbharta in the strategic sector. Addressing a press conference in the national capital, the Union Minister for…

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Housing fraud case: Ajit Pawar accepts NCP minister Manikrao Kokate’s resignation, forwards it to CM

Mumbai- Amid a chorus from the opposition, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP chief Ajit Pawar on Thursday accepted the resignation of party minister Manikrao Kokate, against whom an arrest warrant has been issued in a housing fraud case. Kokate had submitted his resignation to DCM Pawar on Wednesday after a sessions court sentenced him…

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BSF arrests 2 smugglers along India-B’desh border, seizes gold valued at over Rs 67 lakh

Kolkata- The Border Security Force (BSF) has arrested two smugglers and seized gold biscuits valued at over Rs 67 lakh from their possession along the Indo-Bangladesh border in Nadia district of West Bengal, an official said on Thursday. “Troops of the 32 Battalion BSF, posted at the Maluapara Border Outpost, had received intelligence inputs about…

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‘Democracy reduced to mob rule’: Shivraj Singh Chouhan blasts INDIA Bloc over VB-G RAM G Bill ruckus

New Delhi- Minutes after Parliamentary proceedings in the Lok Sabha were disrupted on Thursday after Opposition members, including MPs from the Congress and the INDIA Bloc, created a ruckus during the discussion on the Viksit Bharat–G RAM G Bill, 2025, which proposes to replace the existing MGNREGA framework, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan strongly…

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