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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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/pru42J3

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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/GWv492n

After 20 agonising hours of being trapped under the debris following the Bhiwandi building crash, labourer Sunil Pisal (32) was safely rescued on Sunday, which was also his birthday. When NDRF and Thane Disaster Relief Force personnel extracted Pisal from the rubble around 8am, he was conscious and thanked them with folded hands for giving him a second life. His relatives and friends cheered on as he was taken to hospital. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/fvjmb8V

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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/dNqF0IB

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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/qrI6JYU

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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/dYqbh4y

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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/QvgrnBF

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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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/cVBOp7j

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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/5zSjpHv

Two brothers were arrested by the Haryana Police Special Task Force (STF) on Saturday for their involvement in a multi-crore heist in Gurugram in 2021. The police also seized Rs 1.84 crore from the accused. from Delhi News: दिल्ली समाचार - Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/DWC35uY

An area that has gained notoriety as ‘new Jamtara’ for being one of the epicentres of cyber fraud in the country got its first major shakedown this week with Haryana Police detaining 125 suspects over Thursday and Friday. The raids at 300 locations in 14 villages of Nuh were its largest field operation against cybercrime, carried out by 102 police teams involving more than 5,000 cops. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/V1Gvwn6

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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/uoZM90q

Hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, a division bench presided by Acting Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam directed for the transfer of investigation to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) from the West Bengal Police. In the PIL, Adhikari sought an NIA probe into the violence, during which it was alleged that bombs exploded. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/Kje3xHi

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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/6yIric5

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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/jWyDXuq

Greater Noida Police on Friday arrested Manoj alias Aase, one of the most wanted gangsters in western Uttar Pradesh, along with his accomplice Jeetendra alias Jeetu, after an encounter, a senior officer said. from Delhi News: दिल्ली समाचार - Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/JdWGr39

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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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/lA3wqTU

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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/2i6ohU0

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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/DfQKoyH

Doctors at Fortis Hospital, Faridabad, successfully treated a 63-year-old man, who had developed ‘Aortic Dissection’ — a crack in his main artery, due to irregular medication of high blood pressure. from Delhi News: दिल्ली समाचार - Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/1uhUM7C

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”. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/ODlz8vM

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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/5fb8nwp

The Delhi Police on Wednesday informed the Supreme Court that it was ready to register an FIR, based on the sexual harassment complaint filed by seven national-level women wrestlers, against Wrestling Federation of India president and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/9dPxKST

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). from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/Y1P2Nk0

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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/xp75ZjI

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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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/02tAPZG

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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/YURwpA9

The banned People’s Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF), an offshoot of Pakistan-backed terrorist outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed, claimed to have released Tuesday a series of captioned photos on social media that the group said is from the Poonch ambush that left five soldiers of the Rashtriya Rifles dead last Thursday. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/nXV5oPY

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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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/whY0BOm

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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/F7AUWKJ

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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/CelX8D1

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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/VhGriuT

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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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/kBeAbQs

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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/9mzoejW

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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/UThVjKw

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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/7zk3DA2

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The Army has now stepped-up efforts to train women officers for “command and leadership roles” as Colonels and beyond, even as the first five female cadets are set to be commissioned into frontline artillery regiments after passing out of the Officers’ Training Academy (OTA) in Chennai on April 29. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/5UTMqSe

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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/lesXgt6

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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/V1mTzf5

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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/4oDKb3r

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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/SjOCBEv

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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. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/eEVK4GF

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