https://ift.tt/9Qpfm0T Mumbai team of 6 cyber cops is foiling suicide bids and saving lives

A team of six from the Cyber Police has been acting on alerts shared by Meta about Facebook or Instagram users posting suicidal thoughts. Meta closely monitors text, videos and images — ranging from a ceiling fan to a knife to poison or pills — that may signal a user’s intention to take the drastic step. Between January and April 2023, the Cyber Police has thus averted 31 suicide bids across India. This work of tackling alerts is done alongside their regular job of solving online crimes.

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https://ift.tt/pqXFxiy edition of Mann Ki Baat: BJP turns milestone episode into mass outreach event

On the day when most senior BJP leaders along with their followers were glued to radio sets listening to the 100th episode of ‘Mann Ki Baat’, the party’s creative team shared these inspiring stories of unsung heroes, who have been mentioned by PM Narendra Modi in different episodes of the monthly broadcast. BJP celebrated the occasion on a large scale making it a mass outreach programme.

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https://ift.tt/OXUW1P2 killed, 43 hurt as lightning strikes during TMC meeting

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https://ift.tt/TQCaJj4 leave Badrinath pilgrims stranded for 8 hours

The Badrinath national highway — NH-58 — remained blocked due to recurring landslides near Pinola and Tayapul in Chamoli district since Sunday morning, leaving hundreds of pilgrims en route to the holy shrine stranded for over eight hours. The highway was opened up only after 1pm, according to the district emergency operation centre.

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https://ift.tt/yf1PWb3 a void, gave people connect: PM Narendra Modi on episode 100 of 'Mann Ki Baat'

Addressing the 100th edition of ‘Mann Ki Baat’ on Sunday, an emotional PM Modi said the radio broadcast had allowed him to worship the positives in people he had met with or spoken to. He also said it filled the “emptiness” that he felt when he first moved to the capital from Gujarat in 2014. He described ‘Mann Ki Baat' as a great medium to learn from the qualities of others, adding that it allowed him to connect with the people of India like he used to when he was Gujarat CM.

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https://ift.tt/VCPqEBe launches drive to help detect demography change

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https://ift.tt/N5S2kvs episode of Mann Ki Baat today: The nation’s talk show that celebrates ordinary Indians

PM Modi’s Mann Ki Baat completes its 100th episode today. Writing on the occasion, the BJP president says the programme demonstrates the connect Prime Minister Narendra Modi has with millions of Indians and shows how radio can become an effective tool of communication.

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https://ift.tt/HNFs1il Tomy becomes 1st Indian to sail solo around the world, comes second in global race

Cries of “bravo”, “shabbash”, and “congratulations” rang out in the French town of Les Sables d’Olonne Saturday morning, as throngs gathered to watch Indian adventurer Abhilash Tomy take his first wobbly steps on land after 236 days out at sea. Locals and expat Indians, both young and old, were in awe of the 44-year-old who refused to give up, and came to be known by the Golden Globe Race (GGR) organisers as Mr Fix-it.

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https://ift.tt/KYWh1gf case not serious, courts erred: Rahul Gandhi’s lawyer

The defamation case against Rahul Gandhi is not serious enough to warrant his disqualification from contesting elections for eight years, his counsel Abhishek Manu Singhvi said Saturday in the Gujarat high court that is hearing a plea to stay a lower court’s conviction of the former Congress MP.

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https://ift.tt/SEx1zuw for JEE(Advanced) at four-year high in general category, five-year high for reserved

The qualifying percentile in JEE (Main) to be eligible for JEE (Advanced), the gateway to 23 Indian Institutes of technology (IITs), registered a five-year high for the reserved category and a four-year-high for the general category candidates this year. The minimum cutoff for the general category this year is 90.7 percentile, up from 88.4 in 2022. The cutoff for the OBC category rose to 73.6 percentile this year from 67 in 2022 and 68 in 2021.

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https://ift.tt/2vpRoTS ganglord Mukhtar Ansari gets 10-year jail for BJP MLA’s murder

Ghazipur court on Saturday sentenced jailed ganglord Mukhtar Ansari to 10 years’ imprisonment and his BSP MP brother, Afzal Ansari, to four years following their conviction in separate cases registered under the UP Gangsters Act in 2007. Additional sessions judge-I (MP-MLA court) Durgesh also fined Mukhtar Rs 5 lakh and Afzal Rs 1 lakh. The sentencing of Afzal paves the way for his automatic disqualification from the Lok Sabha. He represents Ghazipur in Parliament.

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https://ift.tt/mpo3xih Calcutta high court judge’s TV interview, Supreme Court takes away Abhishek Banerjee case from him

The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Calcutta HC acting Chief Justice to assign the case in which Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay had ordered the CBI and ED to inquire into the alleged role of TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee in the teacher recruitment scam to another HC judge but refused to quash the probe directive.

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https://ift.tt/N8zQPj1 launches ‘heat index’ to give ‘real feel’ information

There was no heatwave warning for the Navi Mumbai area of Maharashtra on April 16. The temperature wasn’t expected to cross heatwave thresholds, and it didn’t. The maximum recorded at the nearest station, Thane, was 38 degrees Celsius. Yet, 14 people died of heatstroke at an open-air state government event in the city that day and scores of others were taken ill.

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https://ift.tt/LVyYGFR Court: Why were Atiq Ahmad and his brother paraded before media?

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to “look into” the sensational murder of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed while in custody and also the encounter killing of Atiq’s son just two days before it even as it asked the UP government to file a status report.

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https://ift.tt/cWyegZ2 harassment complaints: 2 FIRs registered against Wrestling Federation of India chief, 1 of them under Pocso

Delhi Police on Friday registered two separate FIRs against Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on complaints of sexual harassment levelled by some female wrestlers. The first FIR pertains to allegations levelled by a minor victim which is registered under the Pocso Act. The second FIR was registered to carry out a comprehensive investigation into the allegations by the adult complainants.

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https://ift.tt/RBroLe6 swiftly against hate speech or face contempt, Supreme Court tells states

Terming hate speech as a “serious offence” which could affect the secular fabric of the country, the Supreme Court on Friday directed police in all states and UTs to take suo motu action and register cases against those making such speeches irrespective of their religion without waiting for a formal complaint.

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https://ift.tt/AQbEzld cops book 1,700 in Kanpur for offering Eid namaz on roads

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https://ift.tt/kUftYni kids, eerie silence: Red flags missed before Naxalite attack in Dantewada that killed 10 jawans, driver

A blow-by-blow account of one of the drivers who escaped the Dantewada IED blast by seconds indicates ominous signals were missed before the Maoist ambush that left 10 men of Chhattisgarh police and a civilian driver dead on Wednesday. Even in the Burkapal massacre of April 2021, villages on the CRPF jawans’ route had emptied out when they were returning, and there was an eerie silence before the Maoists engaged the forces with assault rifles.

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https://ift.tt/yzrgh8j slams Mallikarjun Kharge for calling PM Modi ‘poisonous snake', Congress chief ‘clarifies’

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday stoked a political row by likening PM Narendra Modi to a “poisonous snake”, drawing a strong riposte from BJP which said such statements reflect “hate” for the PM and sought an apology from the opposition party. ​​Kharge later sought to clarify that his remarks were not aimed at the PM but at his party, while BJP trained its guns at the Congress chief.

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https://ift.tt/MeR0vg7 Court: If not marriage, how can lives of same-­sex couples be bettered?

With the Union government driving home the judicial impossibility of disentangling the Special Marriage Act from the web of personal laws for legalising same-sex marriages, the Supreme Court asked the Centre what administrative measures could be taken to improve the day-to-day lives of same-sex couples. “Short of marriage rights... what can the government do for long cohabiting couples? They need some recognition for creating conditions for their social security and welfare," the SC said.

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https://ift.tt/Bkno4D6, Assam government, last rebel tribal group in state sign peace pact; 168 cadres agree to shun violence

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https://ift.tt/qR7ezBy, and Ram chants, as 367 passengers from war­-torn Sudan land at IGI Airport in Delhi

As many as 367 passengers arrived at Delhi airport on a special flight from Jeddah under Operation Kaveri, the Saudi port city where they had arrived from Port Sudan. Sudan is witnessing intense clashes between military and main parliamentary forces. After the flight landed at 9.11pm, many passengers exited chanting “Jai Shri Ram”.

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https://ift.tt/9SM6wI7 to same-­sex marriage will ruin Special Marriage Act’s intent: Govt to Supreme Court

The Union government told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that recognising LGBTQIA+ community members’ marriage rights would destroy the legislative intent to permit only man-woman marriage under the Special Marriage Act and pointed out that the court neither had the wherewithal to gauge who among them were males or females nor the competence to create a regulatory framework for same-sex marriages.

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https://ift.tt/Rfyl5Am security focus on ‘core’ areas, Dantewada was Maoist soft target

Maoists on Wednesday blew up a vehicle carrying 10 personnel of the District Reserve Guard in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada, which is not quite their ‘core’ area and has seen few attacks since the ambush of 2010 that killed 75 CRPF jawans. They avoided strongholds like Sukma or Bijapur, where CRPF has been making deep inroads and setting up forward operating bases (FOBs).

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https://ift.tt/BwCeJ1o, Tejashwi Yadav faces criminal defamation complaint for calling Gujaratis 'thugs'

A criminal defamation complaint was filed against Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav in a court here on Wednesday over his alleged remark suggesting "only Gujaratis can be thugs in the current situation". The complaint was filed against the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader by social worker and businessman Haresh Mehta.

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https://ift.tt/r42yBjT should’ve been careful, Gujarat court had said

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https://ift.tt/wOU0Zsl to punish adversaries: Army, IAF chiefs

India has the capability, and more importantly the will, to respond to an adversary at a level that it deems appropriate and to impose its own escalation matrix, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal V R Chaudhari said on Tuesday. Army chief General Manoj Pande, in turn, said the armed forces will also continue to be operationally prepared to fight a two-front war if required, though India’s attempt would be to avoid such a situation.

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https://ift.tt/zUcPoln Kaveri: First batch of 278 Indians evacuated from Sudan to Jeddah

On the first day of ‘Operation Kaveri’, India evacuated 278 citizens from Port Sudan by INS Sumedha and brought them to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.The government said it had deployed another naval ship, INS Teg, to bring more Indians who have arrived at the port from different parts of Sudan to Jeddah, from where they will be flown back to India in military aircraft.

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https://ift.tt/JPAMQfh in Texas, gay Indian couple seeks rights in India

In a gay relationship since 2012, Vaibhav and Parag got married in Texas in 2017 and with a recently-adopted four month old baby in hand, they through senior advocate Geeta Luthra on Tuesday pleaded with the Supreme Court to make Foreign Marriage Act gender neutral.

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https://ift.tt/sagCVGq private lunar mission loses contact just before landing on moon

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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/photo/99741253.cmsCentre’s fact-check rule has no guard rails, says Bombay high court

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https://ift.tt/OaHgxjn bishops urge PM Modi to act to end attacks on churches

The leaders of eight church denominations raised their concerns at a half-hour meeting with PM Narendra Modi about increasing attacks on places of Christian worship across the country and sought steps to end these atrocities. They also demanded that converted Christians be given scheduled caste (SC) status, sources associated with the church heads said after the meeting.

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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/photo/99741464.cms‘Operation Kaveri’ kicks off to evacuate 3,000 Indians from Sudan

The government on Monday launched ‘Operation Kaveri’ to evacuate close to 3,000 Indian citizens stranded in Sudan, the African country that remained on edge because of fierce fighting between the army and a paramilitary force. Foreign minister S Jaishankar said about 500 Indians had reached Port Sudan and that the government is working to bring them home in ships and aircraft.

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https://ift.tt/WVUgQ3o CM Nitish Kumar talks opposition unity with Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and deputy Tejashwi Yadav Monday took their renewed mission for a united anti-BJP opposition to Kolkata and Lucknow, first meeting Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee to push for a conclave of non-NDA parties in Bihar and then SP chief Akhilesh Yadav to clarify that what mattered was the cause and not the mantle of leadership.

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https://ift.tt/2r6d0J4 last month of FY 22-23, highways min appraised projects worth Rs 85,033 crore

Racing against time to approve National Highway (NH) projects, the road transport and highways ministry appraised projects for approval with a total capital cost of Rs 85,033 crore only in March, the last month of the financial year. This was nearly 74% more than the cost of the projects appraised for approval during March 2022.

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https://ift.tt/4WaBod7 73,873 cases, last week’s Covid tally highest in eight months

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https://ift.tt/srjEISf official on Kedarnath inspection beheaded by copter blade

The finance controller of Uttarakhand Civil Aviation Development Authority (UCADA), Amit Saini, was killed after being hit by a helicopter’s tail rotor blade while he was in the process of boarding the chopper on Sunday afternoon at Kedarnath. The incident occurred at the Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam (GMVN) helipad at 2:15pm, N K Rajwar, district disaster management officer of Rudraprayag district, said.

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https://ift.tt/Hvr4mgL Modi to meet 8 top church leaders in Kochi today

In a significant move that is expected to give an impetus to BJP’s outreach to the Christian community in Kerala ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold discussions with various church leaders in Kochi on Monday, when he starts his two-day visit of the state.

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https://ift.tt/DtfKFNm arrested outside Bhindranwale village gurdwara. Surrendered, he says

The hunt for fugitive Khalistan sympathiser and Waris Punjab De head Amritpal Singh ended Sunday morning with Punjab police arresting the 30-year-old preacher outside a gurdwara in slain militant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale’s native village of Rode in Punjab’s Moga district.

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https://ift.tt/EAfO5lQ attack perpetrators will soon face consequences: Army

General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C), Northern Command, Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi on Sunday said that necessary action is underway against the terrorists responsible for April 20 attack on an Army truck in J&K’s Poonch district that left five soldiers dead.

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https://ift.tt/8IUVbDM, China hold another round of top-level military talks on border standoff

India and China on Sunday held another round of top-level military talks in a bid to defuse the three-year-long troop confrontation in eastern Ladakh, ahead of Chinese defence minister general Li Shangfu’s visit to Delhi for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting this week.

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https://ift.tt/nvYFMTL the 30-day public notice invites trouble for interfaith, intercaste couples

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https://ift.tt/UgZior3 in dilemma over 3 Nirav Modi flats locked for 5 years

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https://ift.tt/5i6Vg0M in trays for airport check may go by year-end

Air travellers could be spared the hassle of removing personal electronic devices (PEDs) like mobile phones and laptops from cabin/hand bags and hunt for separate plastic trays to keep them on, at pre-embarkation security checkpoints (PESC) of busy Indian airports by this year-end.

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https://ift.tt/1ojHQF8 President Joe Biden to visit in September, ’24 to be big year for India ties: US

US President Joe Biden is looking forward to travelling to India in September, his administration’s point person for South and Central Asia has said, observing that 2024 is going to be a “big year” for the India-US relationship. India’s leadership in the G20 further broadens its capacity to stand as a force for good in the world, the official said.

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https://ift.tt/2k6wjpA conducts maiden test of sea-based ballistic missile defence system

The test of the `endo-atmospheric interceptor missile’ from a warship was conducted by the DRDO and Navy off the Odisha coast in the Bay of Bengal on Friday. “The trial’s purpose was to engage and neutralize a hostile ballistic missile threat, thereby elevating India into the elite club of nations having naval BMD capability,” the defence ministry said on Saturday.

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https://ift.tt/aRQESs2, Russian defence ministers to come for SCO meet in Delhi next week

Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu will also attend the SCO defence ministers’ meet on April 27-28, at a time when there are growing concerns in India over the tightening Moscow-Beijing strategic embrace and the fallout of the ongoing war in Ukraine. Pakistan defence minister Khawaja Asif will, however, participate virtually in the meet.

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https://ift.tt/teZfJNr and Kashmir: Hunt on for terrorists who killed 5 soldiers in Poonch

A major operation with special forces, regular troops, helicopters and drones is under way by the Army to hunt down the 5-7 terrorists who attacked an Army truck in a well-planned ambush in Poonch district of J&K on Thursday afternoon, killing five Rashtriya Rifles soldiers and grievously injuring a sixth.

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https://ift.tt/y532xh9 defends fact-check, says false info can intensify conflict

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https://ift.tt/3prKWol invoke NSA against YouTuber, Supreme Court asks Tamil Nadu government

The Supreme Court told the Tamil Nadu government not to move YouTuber Manish Kashyap from Madurai jail till further orders as multiple FIRs have been filed against him and asked the state government to justify invocation of the National Security Act (NSA) against Kashyap who was arrested for allegedly circulating fake videos of migrant labourers being attacked in TN.

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https://ift.tt/Z9FGvQl invited ‘father of atomic bomb’ Oppenheimer to immigrate to India, reveals Bhabha’s biography

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https://ift.tt/YPTn59v nabs postman for smuggling Phensedyl bottles along India-Bangla border in Bengal

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https://ift.tt/OS4WNiB wager finds buried treasure, hands it to cops after a sleepless night

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https://ift.tt/iSnLZGA JPC row, NCP president Sharad Pawar holds a two-hour-long meeting with industrialist Gautam Adani

The meeting assumes importance in view of the Congress’s demand for a joint parliamentary probe into allegations made against the Adani Group and Pawar’s recent statements opposing such a probe and saying that the Adani Group was being targeted. Pawar had also raised questions about the credentials of the international shortseller Hindenburg Research, which had put out a report making charges against the business group.

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