Election Commission orders FIR against BJP’s Pragya Thakur for remark on Babri Masjid demolition

The BJP’s Bhopal candidate for the Lok Sabha polls had expressed ‘extreme pride’ about her role in the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in 1992.

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Navjot Singh Sidhu banned from campaigning for 72 hours after communal remarks

The Election Commission said the Congress leader’s speech has the tone and tenor to aggravate existing differences between different religious communities.

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‘Unfortunate and irresponsible’: Pakistan rebukes Modi’s remark on Indian nuclear capability

Islamabad referred to the prime minister’s statement as ‘rhetoric for short-term political and electoral gains’.

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Lok Sabha polls: BJP fields Gautam Gambhir from East Delhi, Meenakshi Lekhi from New Delhi

The BJP’s Delhi unit chief Manoj Tiwari has been pitted against Congress’s Delhi unit chief Sheila Dikshit.

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Full text: Arundhati Roy, Medha Patkar and others seek independent inquiry in CJI harassment case

The group said Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi’s decision to constitute a special bench, headed by himself, went against ‘just and settled principles of law’.

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‘Rahul Gandhi should be tied to a bomb and sent to another country,’ says BJP minister Pankaja Munde

The Maharashtra minister’s comments were in response to Opposition parties, including the Congress, questioning India’s strike on Balakot, Pakistan.

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The big news: Eight Indians killed in Sri Lankan blasts, and 9 other top stories

Other headlines: The US ended sanction waivers on Iranian oil imports, and the Congress named six Lok Sabha candidates for Delhi.

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US removes sanction waivers to India, seven other countries importing oil from Iran

Donald Trump had re-imposed sanctions on Iran last November after he pulled out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

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Odisha: Biju Janata Dal MLA arrested after alleged attack on Election Commission officials

Maharathy and his supporters had allegedly attacked a polling team who were conducting a raid at his farmhouse in Puri.

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Ukraine: Comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy wins presidential elections in landslide victory

Zelenskiy is best known for playing the role of a president in a TV series.

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Lok Sabha elections: AAP, BJP candidates file nominations for seats in Delhi

The BJP and the Congress are yet to name candidates for some seats even as the last day for filing nomination papers is Tuesday.

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Sri Lanka blasts: High Commission says three more Indians dead, taking toll to eight

At least 290 people were killed and around 500 people were wounded in eight blasts that took place at churches, hotels and a guest house.

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