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From the latest on the Gyanvapi mosque dispute, to PM Modi’s warning to those creating “new controversies” over Indian languages – here are today’s top stories. 

A petition seeking videography of the Shahi Idgah Masjid adjacent to Krishnajanmabhoomi was recently moved in a local Mathura court for an assessment of the site “on the lines of (the) Gyanvapi mosque”.

From India’s historic win at the Thomas Cup to a $60-million scandal involving loans and grants by an UN agency, here are the top stories from today’s edition.

The Directorate of Estates under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has sent notices to the Foreign Correspondents’ Club and the Indian Women Press Corps to vacate the bungalows allotted to them as their tenures will soon end.

With China deciding to postpone the Hangzhou Asian Games, which were scheduled to be held from September 10 to 25, in the face of rising Covid-19 cases, the Olympic Council of Asia is staring at a narrow window where no major championships are already scheduled to conduct its flagship event.

With millions exiting Ukraine in face of the Russian invasion, we take a look at countries which have taken in the maximum number of refugees and how that might have an impact on the demography of the continent.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke to The Indian Express on India's position on Russia, "massacres against the civilian population" in Ukraine, and fixing accountability for "war crimes".

Ravindra Jadeja has relinquished Chennai Super Kings captaincy, handing it back to MS Dhoni, following the team’s last IPL match, which they lost by 11 runs.

India's drive against doping in sports has received a setback with two of its track-and-field Tokyo Olympians, a male and a female, failing dope tests for using banned anabolic steroids and facing bans up to four years.

The Indian Air Force needs to prepare itself for intense and short duration operations at a moment’s notice, and also be ready for short swift wars and long standoffs, like the one in Eastern Ladakh, Air Chief Marshal V R Chaudhari has said.

Government wheat procurement in Punjab is set to fall to a 15-year low, with private purchases likely to cross five lakh tonnes (lt) for the first time since 2007.

Assange has been wanted by the US since 2010 when WikiLeaks released nearly 4,00,000 documents called the Iraq War Logs from the US Department of Defense databases

A day after Future Group’s proposed Rs 24,713 crore deal to sell its assets to Reliance Retail was rejected by a majority of lenders to flagship Future Retail Ltd, Reliance Industries, in a stock exchange intimation, has said that as such, the scheme of arrangement “cannot be implemented”.

Hyderabad MP and All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi speaks to The Indian Express about recent incidents of communal violence across the country, the BJP, and Opposition parties such as the AAP and the Congress.

Election strategist Prashant Kishor had reportedly proposed to the Congress leadership last year that a non-Gandhi as party president would have a “high” impact although the “viability” of such an option is “difficult”.

An overheated job market in the software and BPO space has triggered a surge in attrition rates at TCS and Infosys, the top two IT companies in the country by revenue, prompting tech companies to fall back on unconventional tactics in an attempt to retain talent.

Underlining that India has remained “unshakeable and resolute” despite “changing circumstances over thousands of years,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that “our faith and culture is of harmony, equality and inclusivity”.

At least four major government decisions in poll-bound Gujarat, two of which were taken by the Centre, have been rolled back following protests.

Even as the government claims it is pulling out all the stops to avoid a nationwide power crisis, the worsening of fuel stocks at thermal stations is likely to cripple electricity supplies in the weeks ahead.

Shehbaz Sharif, the younger brother of Imran’s predecessor, Nawaz Sharif, runs the main opposition party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz.

Sri Lanka’s economic distress and its ruling Rajapaksa family have achieved what many thought was impossible: bringing Sinhalese, Tamil, and Muslim together and, at least for now, uniting them in one cry: “Go Gota go”.

For TMC leader Babul Supriyo, more than his political rivals, his past in the BJP is being talked about as a hurdle in his attempt to get elected from the Ballygunge Assembly constituency, where a by-poll will be held on April 12.

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, while Delivering the inaugural speech at the India Education Summit 2022, organised by The Indian Express, said the youth of the country needed to be prepared to become job creators instead of job seekers, who become “global citizens” in the future.

Pakistan has experienced four military coups, with at least as many unsuccessful attempts, and spent more than three decades under military rule.