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All traffic to the train station, which hosts Eurostar trains as well as high-speed and local services, was closed as Paris police worked to disable the device. Traffic at Paris’ Gare du Nord train station has been halted after an unexploded World War II bomb was discovered on the tracks leading to France’s busiest rail terminal, officials confirmed. The explosive device was found in the middle of the tracks overnight during routine maintenance work in the suburb of Saint-Denis, according to the French national railway company, SNCF. The suburban RER B train service confirmed on X (formerly Twitter) that the…

Kannada Ranya Rao admitted that “17 gold bars” were found on her during her arrest from the Bengaluru airport. In the limelight for wrong reasons, Kannada actor Ranya Rao, the stepdaughter of senior IPS officer Ramachandra Rao, reportedly confessed to smuggling gold at the Bengaluru airport, from where she was arrested on Monday night. Her stepfather, Ramachandra Rao, the Director-General of Police for the Karnataka State Police Housing Corporation, has denied any involvement in the case as the matter triggered massive public and political discussion, with preliminary investigations suggesting that the actress may have attempted to use her connections to…

BJP state chief K Annamalai slammed the Tamil Nadu chief minister on Friday for “swinging” his “paper word against the delusional Hindi imposition”. The ongoing debate over the alleged imposition of a third language under the National Education Policy (NEP) in Tamil Nadu has escalated into a fierce political slugfest between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) alliance. On Friday, while Union home minister Amit Shah asked MK Stalin to commence engineering and medical education in Tamil in the state, BJP state chief K Annamalai slammed the Tamil Nadu chief minister for “swinging” his…

The content creators involved are YouTuber-podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia, Apoorva Mukhija aka ‘The Rebel Kid’, comedians Samay Raina among others. The content creators in soup over the controversial India’s Got Latent YouTube show appeared before the National Commission for Women (NCW) on Thursday and pledged to be mindful of their words, expressing regret over the statements made in the programme, NCW chairperson Vijaya Rahatkar said on Friday. The content creators involved are YouTuber-podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia, Apoorva Mukhija aka ‘The Rebel Kid’, comedians Samay Raina, who leads the India’s Got Latent show, and Jaspreet Singh along with Ashish Chanchlani. The episode of…

Police said the accused, 40-year-old Mohit Mishra, was furious after his daughter Tani visited neighbour’s house he had a dispute with. A shocking case has emerged from Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur, where a 40-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly strangling his five-year-old daughter to death and dismembering her body into four pieces. The accused Mohit Mishra was enraged that his daughter Tani visited the house of a neighbour with whom he had a dispute. The child was reported missing on February 25, with Mishra himself filing the complaint. “We registered a case and formed four teams to search for her.…

Karat alleged that India’s close ties with the US had positioned it alongside oppressors, citing arms exports to Israel during its war with Palestine. At the state party conference on Thursday, CPI(M) Politburo coordinator Prakash Karat accused the Narendra Modi-led government and former US President Donald Trump of promoting “far-right” ideologies. He called Trump an imperialist focused on American global dominance and described the Modi government as a “Hindutva Corporate regime” exhibiting “neo-fascist” tendencies. Karat alleged that India’s close ties with the US had positioned it alongside oppressors, citing arms exports and support to Israel during its war with Palestine.…

The NCP chief said that Mughals stayed in India for hundreds of years and are also buried here. National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Thursday accused the Uttar Pradesh government of erasing the history of Mughals. “They want to erase the history of Mughals, that won’t happen. They (Mughals) stayed here for hundreds of years and are also buried here,” Abdullah said. The National Conference chief was responding to a question on the controversy over Samajwadi Party MLA remarks on Mughal emperor Aurangzeb and the Uttar Pradesh government’s decision to change the names of cities and historical structures. A political…

Ramachandra Rao said he was “completely” unaware of Ranya Rao and her husband’s “business affairs”. Ramachandra Rao, the DGP of Karnataka State Police Housing Corporation, said on Thursday that he was “disappointed” and “dismayed” with the recovery of over 14 kg of smuggled gold from his stepdaughter, Kannada actress Ranya Rao. He said Ranya Rao got married to Jatin Hukkeri four months ago. However, since then, they never visited the police officer’s house. He also said he was “completely” unaware of Ranya Rao and her husband’s “business affairs”. “Ranya got married to Jatin Hukkeri 4 months ago. She never came…

A UK government spokesperson said that such attempts to “intimidate, threaten, or disrupt” public events are “completely unacceptable”. The United Kingdom on Thursday condemned the breach of security of external affairs minister S Jaishankar after a pro-Khalistan protester broke past a barrier and approached the minister’s motorcade at Chatham House in London on Wednesday evening. A Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) spokesperson said that such attempts to “intimidate, threaten, or disrupt” public events are “completely unacceptable”. “We strongly condemn the incident that took place outside Chatham House yesterday (Wednesday) during the External Affairs Minister’s visit to the UK,” the…

The convict’s lawyer argued that he comes from a humble Indian family and sought a seven-month jail for him. An Indian national was jailed for seven months in Singapore for trespassing into his neighbour’s condominium and harassing a woman, reported local news outlet Channel News Asia. The 26-year-old convict, identified as Erakkodan Abinraj, pleaded guilty to one count of molestation. One count of housebreaking was also taken into consideration to sentence Abhinraj to jail, the report added. The incident happened back in 2024 on September 22. Abhinraj was acquainted with the woman since the two were neighbours and had bumped…