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NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will fulfil its promise of making the country free of infiltrators.Speaking at a programme in Guwahati on the birth centenary of Assam’s first non-Congress chief minister, Golap Borbora, Shah said the high-power demography mission announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi…

NEW DELHI: Nearly three lakh electors in Bihar have been served notices over “doubtful citizenship” during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls, officials said on Friday.The flagged names are part of the 7.24 crore voters listed in the draft rolls published on August 1. Many of those under scrutiny are suspected…

US President Donald Trump has cancelled the Secret Service protection that had been given to former vice president Kamala Harris by Joe Biden before leaving office, CNN reported.As per US law, Harris was entitled to six months of Secret Service protection after leaving office in January. Biden had extended this protection for another year through…

NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said that the Sambhal report, which the judicial commission submitted, revealed how a conspiracy for riot unfolded in 2024. The three-member panel met the CM on Thursday and submitted its report concerning the violence that erupted near the Shahi Jama Masjid on November 24 during…

The Redmond police department has at least two current and three former Microsoft employees – as well as two other tech workers for illegally entering Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters, breaking into the office of President Brad Smith. According to reports, the police placed the protesters in full-body harnesses and carried them out of the building. The…

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Friday escalated its battle with the Election Commission, claiming that a Right to Information (RTI) response has exposed “serious contradictions” in the poll body’s stance over the ongoing row over recently conducted special intensive revision (SIR) in poll-bound Bihar.Taking to X, the Congress asserted that its RTI query revealed “no…

Asaduddin Owaisi (ANI image) NEW DELHI: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday questioned why Prime Minister Narendra Modi appears “scared of the US,” while slamming the government over the imposition of a 50 per cent tariff on Indian exports by the United States.Speaking to reporters, Owaisi questioned: “US’ Peter Navarro is making statements. Had the…

NEW DELHI: India is ready to advance bilateral relations from a strategic and long-term perspective based on mutual respect, mutual interest, and mutual sensitivity, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday. PM Modi, who is in Japan for a two-day visit, will be traveling to China’s Tianjin to take part in the SCO Summit. The…

Image: Instagram@/thelasthournews A video from Birmingham has gone viral after capturing a woman, identified online as an Indian student, demanding £20 (about Rs 2,300) from a car owner after wiping his window.The clip shows the student approaching a parked vehicle, cleaning the glass, and insisting on payment. Surprised by the demand, the car owner recorded…

A migrant boat sank off Mauritania’s coast earlier this week, leaving at least 49 people dead and around 100 missing, news agency AFP reported.“One of our patrols was able to rescue 17 (people). So far, 49 bodies have been recovered and buried, and the search is continuing,” a senior coastguard official was quoted as saying…