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After years of pain, Manipuri judoka's perseverance pays off
AMIDST ongoing administrative turmoil, judoka Inunganbi Takhellambam has quietly broken the nation’s 13-year-old drought for an Asian medal.
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April 30, 2026
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BRACING FOR THE ASCENT
THE pilot’s announcement comes before the descent.
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April 30, 2026
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Step into the 2,000-year-old caves of Odisha
These caves offer a multi-layered experience that combines history, spiritual atmosphere and one of the best viewpoints in Bhubaneswar...
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April 30, 2026
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Rains, storms wreak havoc in parts of NE
HEAVY rains, accompanied by gusty winds, have wreaked havoc in parts of the Northeast.
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April 30, 2026
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‘Existing laws enough to curb hate speeches’
THE SC on Wednesday said the existing framework of criminal law adequately addresses the issue of hate speeches and no “legislative vacuum” exists warranting intervention.
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April 30, 2026
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Mastermind of Bihar govt officer’s murder killed in encounter in Bhagalpur
AFTER a senior government officer’s murder and injuries to another at the Sultanganj municipal corporation office in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district on Tuesday evening, the main accused, Ramdhani Yadav, was killed in a police encounter on Wednesday.
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April 30, 2026
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States put on notice on compensatory afforestation norms
THE Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has tightened compliance on penal compensatory afforestation by violators under the Van (Sanrakshan Evam Samvardhan) Adhiniyam, 1980, or the Forest Conservation Act.
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April 30, 2026
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Baptiste ends Sabalenka's title defence
HAILEY Baptiste ended Aryna Sabalenka’s title defence in Madrid on Tuesday and halted the world number one’s 15-match winning streak with a 2-6, 6-2, 7-6 (6) quarterfinal victory to deliver the biggest shock of the tournament so far.
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April 30, 2026
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‘No forced sale of nano fertilisers’, Centre says move to protect farmers
THE Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare has issued a notification prohibiting forced sales of nano-ferti-lisers.
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April 30, 2026
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Epic night in Paris: PSG edges Bayern in nine-goal thriller in S/F 1st leg
KHVICHA Kvaratskhelia and Ousmane Dembele scored twice each as Paris Saint-Germain beat Bayern Munich 5-4 in an epic first leg of their Champions League semifinal on Tuesday — an extraordinary encounter that was the highest-scoring match ever at this stage of the competition.
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April 30, 2026
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Split in MVA as Sena names nominee for lone MLC seat
CRACKS appeared in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) with Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena announcing its candidate on Wednesday and its ally Congress saying that it would also field a nominee for the lone seat the opposition can win in the Maharashtra legislative council elections scheduled on May 10.
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April 30, 2026
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Political map redrawn: BJP rules cities, Cong holds on to rural base
GUJARAT’S 2026 local body election vote-share data shows BJP retaining a statewide lead above 50% across every tier and tightening its grip across urban Gujarat.
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April 30, 2026
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NC drops Urdu language from exam, sparks row
THE Omar Abdullah government is facing sharp criticism from Kashmir-based opposition parties for dropping Urdu, one of the official languages of J&K mandatory for qualifying for revenue services, from the newly amended draft recruitment rules for revenue posts.
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April 30, 2026
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‘Who is claiming this right?’ SC on Sabarimala
ON the 10th day of hearing in the Sabarimala reference case, the Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the petitioners how can a nonbeliever in north India claim the right of entry to the Sabarimala temple.
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April 30, 2026
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Modi to make brief UAE stop before heading to Europe
AMID heightened geopolitical churn in West Asia and shifting global energy dynamics, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to make a stopover in the UAE in mid-May en route to a four-nation European tour.
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April 30, 2026
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Rahul slams Great Nicobar project, calls it a crime against nature, tribes
CONGRESS leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday lashed out at the Great Nicobar project, describing it as “one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against the natural and tribal heritage of the country.”
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April 30, 2026
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Tribal languages removed from J’khand teachers’ exam
THE BJP has termed the passing of the new rules for the Jharkhand Teacher Eligibility Test (JTET) during the Cabinet meeting held on April 28 an “injustice” to millions of people in the state.
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April 30, 2026
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BJP sweeps local body polls, Cong crashes and AAP shrinks in Gujarat
THE ruling BJP on Tuesday swept Gujarat local body polls dealing a blow to the Congress and AAP, an outcome analysts see as the first major political signal before the 2027 Assembly elections.
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April 29, 2026
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Reservoirs dry, water cut in Mumbai from May 15
THE Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Asia’s richest civic body, has announced a 10% water cut from May 15, as drinking water-supplying reservoirs of the city are speedily depleting.
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April 29, 2026
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4 wild buffaloes from Kaziranga in Assam released at MP’s Kanha
THE Asiatic Wild Water Buffalo, which went locally extinct from Madhya Pradesh around a century ago, has been successfully reintroduced in the Kanha Tiger Reserve’s (KTR) Supkhar forests — the dense forest area which, tillsome months back, had served as a safe interstate corridor-shelter for armed Naxal cadres.
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April 29, 2026
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Ex-SC judge who heads C’garh panel will also draft UCC report in MP
THE Madhya Pradesh government has constituted a sixmember committee to draft a bill on Uniform Civil Code (UCC), a move that came 12 days after Chhattisgarh, also under BJP rule, formed a similar panel.
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April 29, 2026
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Oral cancer in men rising in India: ICMR study
ORAL cancer in men, driven largely by persistent tobacco use, ison the rise in India, which is among several G20 countries showing an increasing trend, a recent global analysis by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has said.
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April 29, 2026
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Modi inaugurates projects worth ₹1K crore in Varanasi
PRIME Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday delivered two strong messages from different parts of the country, combining asharp political attack on women’s reservation with a development-focused pitch highlighting Sikkim’s success in organic farming.
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April 29, 2026
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'Religious institution must have norms'
ON the ninth day of hearing in the Sabarimala case on Tuesday, the Supreme Court’s nine-judge Constitution bench said the right to manage a religious institution cannot mean absence of structure and there has to be a modality and norms devised for its functioning and there cannot be anarchy.
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April 29, 2026
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No place for double standards, terror epicentres no longer immune: Rajnath
DEFENCE Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday declared that “terrorism epicentres are no longer immune to justifiable punishment” and asserted there could be “no place for double standards” in combating terror.
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April 29, 2026
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Bengal row over UP ‘encounter’ cop
TMC accuses Ajay Pal Sharma of intimidating voters, warns of action @ BJP praises IPS officer
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April 29, 2026
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GUARD AGAINST MYTHOS BRAHMASTRA
N the Mahabharata, after the war at Kurukshetra, Ashvatthama and Arjuna each unleash the Brahmashirastra, a weapon of such power that Vyasa himself must intervene.
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April 29, 2026
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Bench quashes ED case on minister Periyasamy in housing plots scam
THE Madras High Court has quashed a money laundering case registered by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2022 based on a 2011 FIR by the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) against Minister I Periyasamy over alleged irregularities in the allotment of housing plots under the government’s discretionary quota.
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April 29, 2026
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South panchayats outperform North on multiple parameters: Govt data
A new study has revealed that the South outperformed northern states in rural local governance across various parameters, including health, education, poverty alleviation, water and sanitation, and developments focused on women and children.
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April 29, 2026
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IIT-Kgp: Second student suicide within 10 days
ANOTHER student of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, in West Bengal, died by suicide on campus on Tuesday.
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