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Hindustan Times Delhi
Mamata allowed Kolkata mayor to resign, says Ghosh
Senior Trinamool Congress leader Firhad Hakim is set to resign as the mayor of Kolkata after party chief Mamata Banerjee accepted his request to step down, party spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said on Wednesday.
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June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
DKS sworn in as Karnataka CM
DK Shivakumar was on Wednesday sworn in as the chief minister of Karnataka, formally taking charge of the state government alongside deputy chief minister G Parameshwara and a 12-member ministerial team, ending his long-drawn leadership tussle with his predecessor Siddaramaiah.
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June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
‘I work more on the board than computer like Magnus’
Javokhir Sindarov spent a good chunk of last year working 10 hours a day on chess with his coach Roman Vidonyak in Munich.
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June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
FATHER HELD FOR MURDER OF U.P. MAN FOUND IN CAR
Police have arrested a man for killing his 25-year-old son allegedly over a dispute involving 40 bighas of land in Uttar Pradesh’s Hapur district, officers said.
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June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times
Safety gaps spark another Delhi tragedy as 21 die in B&B blaze
Owner arrested for lapses: 26 rooms instead of the six allowed, no fire exit | Police say 12 foreigners among victims | Locals heroic first responders, use most travelled to Capital for treatment | mattresses, bedsheets to save lives
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June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Locals saved lives with mattresses, bedsheets
As smoke billowed out of Flourish Stay on Wednesday morning and cries for help from upper-floor windows filled the narrow lane in Hauz Rani, the first people to respond were not firefighters or disaster personnel.
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June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
State-owned banks asked to build buffers
The finance ministry has asked public sector banks (PSBs) to build additional provisioning buffers against emerging stress in retail, MSME (micro, small and medium enterprises) and agriculture loans, as rising early-warning accounts and uncertainty from the West Asia war could trigger higher provisioning burdens under the proposed expected credit loss (ECL) regime, according to three people familiar with the matter.
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June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times
TMC rift widens; Ritabrata states he has LoP status
Fifty-eight Trinamool Congress lawmakers disowned the party's general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, pleaded with chairperson Mamata Banerjee to become their adviser, and staked claim on Wednesday to become the principal opposition party in the West Bengal assembly, with the leader of the rebel unit, expelled legislator Ritabrata Banerjee, announcing after a meeting with the speaker that he had been appointed leader of the Opposition, plunging the party into an existential crisis.
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June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Family in hiding as Dipke's political steps spark worries
Police stand guard at a private residence in Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar, even though no one’s home.
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June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
WOMAN ALLEGES CONFINEMENT IN TOILET, TORTURE BY HUSBAND, IN-LAWS
Police in Dehradun have launched a probe after a woman accused her husband and in-laws of confining her inside a toilet for nearly 10 months, assaulting her repeatedly and cutting her off from her family, officers said on Wednesday.
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June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Dipanshi hopes to shine on Asian Games debut
The just-ended women's Asian Games wrestling trials was focussed on the drama around a failed comeback attempt of Vinesh Phogat.
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June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
GTB hospital newborn kidnapping: Woman held
Three days after a six-month-old boy was kidnapped from Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital in east Delhi, police on Wednesday said they had arrested a 45-year-old woman and rescued the infant safely from her custody.
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June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Can the goal-machine lift the World Cup again?
The goals have come for Real but not the trophies generating noise that only a World Cup can silence
3 min |
June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
ED summons Abhishek Banerjee in PMLA case
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday served summons to Trinamool Congress’ (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, asking him to appear before it on June 15 in connection with its money laundering probe in the primary teachers’ recruitment scam in West Bengal, people familiar with the matter said.
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June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Indian-Americans face tough night in US primary elections
Indian American politicians faced a tough night in primary elections in key states like California and New Jersey with rising challengers losing their bids to represent their parties in the forthcoming general elections in November.
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June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Tanker overturns, spills diesel on Dwarka E-way
Hundreds of litres of diesel spilled onto the Dwarka Expressway after an oil tanker overturned on a flyover near Goyla Dairy in southwest Delhi's Chhawla area on Tuesday night, police said on Wednesday.
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June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
MHA updates visa manual, does away with dual approval process
The Centre has done away with the requirement of separate Prior Reference Category (PRC) clearance for foreign nationals who have already been granted security clearance through the Security Clearance Portal (SCP), officials in the ministry of home affairs (MHA) said on Wednesday.
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June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Mix of castes, minority faces in cabinet
The cabinet led by new Karnataka chief minister DK Shivakumar has the stamp of social engineering, featuring a mix of important castes and two minority faces—a Muslim and a Christian - but no women.
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June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
200K opt to pay $100K for faster H1B visa
At least 200,000 people have opted to pay the $100,000 H-1B visa application fee to ensure faster processing of their applications, US Homeland Security secretary Markwayne Mullin said on Tuesday.
1 min |
June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
‘Trump can’t force the Abraham Accords’
Normalisation of the Arab world’s relationship with Israel, if it is to be meaningful and lasting, cannot bypass Palestine and cannot be bundled into geopolitical horse-trading
4 min |
June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Dodgy licences among raft of violations
The fire that killed at least 21 people at a Hauz Rani bed-and-breakfast on Wednesday has exposed a web of violations that investigators, officials and locals said appeared to have effectively transformed the building into a death trap.
3 min |
June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
British Sikh man's trial for murder leads to anti-police protests in UK
A British Sikh man’s conviction for the murder of a teenager triggered violent clashes targeted at the police in the UK, after body-worn camera footage showed officers handcuffing the victim in his final moments over racism allegation.
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June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
INDIA AHEAD OF U.S. IN SOLAR CAPACITY ADDITIONS IN 2025
India has become the world’s second-largest solar growth market, overtaking the USA in annual solar capacity additions in 2025, new and renewable energy minister Pralhad Joshi said on Wednesday.
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June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Centre clears ₹9k-cr scheme to replace BS-IV trucks, buses
The Union government on Wednesday approved a ₹9,585-crore scheme to replace around 200,000 BS-IV heavy vehicles, including 191,000 trucks and 16,329 buses, in Delhi-NCR with vehicles operating on cleaner BS-VI emission standards or CNG or battery, to curb air pollution in the region.
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June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
3 arrested after ‘Khan Sir’ coaching institute vandalised, guard assaulted
Three people, including the director of a coaching institute, have been arrested after a violent clash outside the coaching centre of educator Faisal Khan, popularly known as ‘Khan Sir’, in Patna’s Kadamkuan area, police said.
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June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
DUAC seeks revisions to proposal for new DTC headquarters at ITO
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June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Unnao hospital owner held for killing woman
A private hospital owner and his nephew from Unnao have been arrested for allegedly abducting and killing a 21-year-old woman, who had gone missing two days after lodging a sexual harassment complaint against the hospital owner, police said on Wednesday, adding the accused dumped her body nearly 450km away in Bulandshahr.
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June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
SEBI flags Rajesh Exports financials
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) alleged that Rajesh Exports Ltd misrepresented nearly all of its revenue over five financial years, raising serious questions over the accuracy of the jewellery maker's financial statements.
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June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
Couple found dead locked in embrace
When Delhi Fire Services (DFS) personnel finally forced their way into the smoke-filled Hauz Rani building on Wednesday, they encountered scenes of devastation.
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June 04, 2026
Hindustan Times Delhi
GZB AUTHORITIES RAZE MADRASA BUILT ON GOVT LAND IN DASNA
The Ghaziabad district administration on Wednesday demolished an allegedly illegal madrasa built on government land in Kallugarhi near Dasna, officials said.
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