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Gangster Vainket Garg extradited from Georgia
WANTED gangster Venkatesh Garg alias Vainket Garg was extradited from Georgia to India on Thursday in a coordinated operation carried out by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in association with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and Haryana Police, officials said.
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June 12, 2026
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Manu to lead India at Asiad
Olympic medallist Manu Bhaker will compete in two events at the upcoming Asian Games as the NRAI announced the Asian Games squad on Thursday.
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June 12, 2026
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2 dead, several houses torched in Manipur
VIOLENCE broke out in Manipur’s Senapati district on Wednesday night after the remains of six Naga hostages were recovered by police.
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June 12, 2026
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‘ENFORCEMENT OF PCPNDT ACT MUST BE DONE STRICTLY’
‘THE Supreme Court has come down heavily on the socially entrenched patriarchal bias for a male child and covert use of sex-selection methods. On Thursday, it said that the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act must be strictly enforced until societal mindset changes.
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June 12, 2026
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Dinos long gone... will their footprints survive?
NEARLY 200 million years after dinosaurs left their footprints in what is now Telangana, researchers fear the marks may not survive the next four to five years.
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June 12, 2026
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Gym operator murdered, Bishnoi gang owns act
A gym operator was shot dead after motorcycle-borne assailants opened fire on him near Fawwara Chowk in Hansi town of Haryana on Thursday morning.
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June 12, 2026
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Climate wild card El Nino is here, experts warn of costly spell
EL NINO, Nature’s chaotic climate agent, has formed in a warmed-up Pacific Ocean and is expected to grow to historic strength, meteorologists announced on Thursday.
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June 12, 2026
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5.4 lakh homes' delivery expected to get delayed
A record 540,400 housing units, scheduled for completion across the top 7 cities in 2026, face execution risk as the West Asia crisis continues to disrupt global trade routes, commodity markets, and supply chains.
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June 12, 2026
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CM highlights Swarna Andhra Vision
CHIEF Minister N Chandrababu Naidu presented Andhra Pradesh’s ambitious vision for Swarna Andhra @2047, aligned with the national objective of Viksit Bharat @2047, at the 11th Governing Council Meeting of NITI Aayog in New Delhi on Thursday.
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June 12, 2026
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1 Lakh prizes named after literary figures, social reformers
AWARDS carrying a cash prize of ‑1 lakh each include the Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya Hindi Sahityakar Samman, Baba Jorawar Singh Samman for children’s literature, Swami Vivekanand Yuva Pratibha Samman, Vidya Niwas Mishra Samman for Hindi journalism and the Dr Vijay Kumar Malhotra Hindi Sevi Samman for promotion of the Hindi language.
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June 12, 2026
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5 VISUALLY IMPAIRED DENIED BOARDING AT B'LURU AIRPORT
THE wee hours of Thursday turned into a nightmare for five visually impaired musicians at Bengaluru airport after they were denied boarding on a Cathay Pacific flight to Boston.
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June 12, 2026
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Trump shifts gears on Iran strikes, says deal ‘approved’
Tehran has yet to comment officially on a possible deal with the US
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June 12, 2026
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12 cops hurt, 16 held as Belfast unrest branded ‘racist thuggery’
POLICE arrested 16 people during a second night of disorder in Northern Ireland sparked by a brutal Belfast stabbing, a senior minister said Thursday, condemning rioters for “racist thuggery”.
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June 12, 2026
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No more arbitrary fee for coaching
Govt starts work on policy to regulate industry with focus on students’ mental health, rights
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June 12, 2026
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‘If released, I’ll kill again,’ says murder convict after getting death sentence
A 33-year-old man in Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh, facing capital punishment in connection with a murder case, vowed to repeat the offence if freed from prison.
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June 12, 2026
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Centre extends excise duty relief to petrol blended with higher ethanol
THE government on Thursday extended central excise duty exemptions to petrol blended with 22%, 25%, 27% and 30% ethanol.
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June 12, 2026
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Homemakers are ‘nation builders’: SC
Fixes domestic care loss at ₹30,000 monthly in accident claims @ Slams entrenched patriarchal bias for male child
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June 12, 2026
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Trump plans to nominate Jay Clayton for US intel chief post
DONALD Trump said on Thursday that he plans to nominate Jay Clayton, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York and a former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, as director of national intelligence.
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June 12, 2026
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MAKING ENGINEERS WHO CAN ENGINEER NATION'S SUCCESS
The reason India fails to build deep-tech titans despite having a huge talent pool lies in how we train our engineers. Four simultaneous reforms can put us on the map
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June 12, 2026
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PUBLISHING IN POST-TRUTH WORLD
IN 2014, Penguin Random House India (hereafter, Penguin for convenience) settled out of court with Dinanath Batra, the ageing general secretary of RSS school network Vidya Bharati and founder of an organisation committed to purging Indian education of foreign influences.
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June 12, 2026
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43-year-old man from Kerala Nipah positive
THE state health department has stepped up surveillance and containment preparedness in Kozhikode district after the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, confirmed Nipah virus infection in a 43-year-old man from Ramanattukara.
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June 12, 2026
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Deep technology firms getting bigger cheques
Deep tech startups raised $1.23 bn in 120 funding rounds in 2026
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June 12, 2026
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MHA warns against rising fraud, AI deepfake targeting banks, fintechs
THE Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), operating under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), has issued a fresh advisory warning citizens, banks and fintech companies about a surge in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered deepfake fraud targeting India’s digital financial systems.
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June 12, 2026
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GOVT MUST EXPEDITE TEJAS, NOT MERELY PENALISE HINDUSTAN AERONAUTICS
HINDUSTAN Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has come under increasing scrutiny for its continued inability to deliver the Tejas Mk1A fighter aircraft to the Indian Air Force (IAF) on schedule.
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June 12, 2026
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Making US men's football great
The world’s most popular sport has struggled to become mainstream in the US. While their women’s team are renowned, the men aren't elite. Swaroop Swaminathan takes a look at why they will be desperate to leave an imprint at this home World Cup...
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June 12, 2026
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Modi heads to France, Slovakia as India pushes innovation & tech ties
PRIME Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a five-day visit to France and Slovakia beginning June 13, with the trip expected to deepen India’s strategic partnership with France, boost technology and innovation cooperation, and expand engagement with Europe amid a rapidly evolving global geopolitical landscape.
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June 12, 2026
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After college, ₹1.77 cr found in Bengal school
BUNDLES of notes of ₹500, ₹200 and ₹100, amounting to 1.77 crore, were recovered from an English-medium school in the North 24-Parganas district of West Bengal on Thursday, days after a similar incident in a college.
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June 12, 2026
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Cong rules out 'merger' talks with Mamata
THE Congress on Thursday dismissed reports of a merger with Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) and termed it ‘baseless rumours’.
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June 12, 2026
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UK defence min quits, cites low military fund allocation
UK Defence Secretary John Healey unexpectedly quit on Thursday, saying the government is unwilling to spend enough on the military at a time of “rising threats.”
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June 12, 2026
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Tehran shuts Strait of Hormuz and threatens vessels after fresh blasts
IRAN’s military command on Thursday warned that any ship transiting the Strait of Hormuz would be targeted, after reporting fresh explosions across the country’s south and accusing the United States of violating a fragile ceasefire.
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