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| | Operation Sindoor was the embodiment of a new India that will strike at the heart of terror and make terrorists and their supporters pay a heavy price for spilling blood, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, adding that Islamabad can never win a direct fight against New Delhi. HT brings you a round-up of the most important and interesting stories, so you don’t miss your daily dose of news. | | | THE BIG STORY Modi blasts Pak: ‘Sindoor became our gunpowder’ Operation Sindoor was the embodiment of a new India that will strike at the heart of terror and make terrorists and their supporters pay a heavy price for spilling blood, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, adding that Islamabad can never win a direct fight against New Delhi. At a public meeting in Rajasthan’s Bikaner, Modi ruled out trade or talks with Pakistan on any issue other than Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir, said Islamabad will not get India’s share of water, and underlined that India was not going to be cowed by nuclear threats. “The world and the enemies of the country have seen what happens when ‘sindoor’ turns into ‘barood’ (gunpowder),” he said at the public meeting in Palana in Bikaner, which shares a border with Pakistan. Read more | THE BIG QUESTION Why SC said that ED is crossing all limits? The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) investigation into alleged financial irregularities at the Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC), the Tamil Nadu government’s liquor distribution body. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India BR Gavai and Justice Augustine George Masih expressed a serious concern over what it described as ED’s overreach and questioned the legality of the agency’s actions. The bench commented that ED was “crossing all limits,” not just in its probe against TASMAC but also in several of its other recent investigations. Read more. | STORIES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED |  Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli retired from Test cricket. Fans and the BCCI are panicking. In 2012, two batting megastars also retired from international cricket within a few months, causing similar panic. One was The Wall. The other was Very Very Special. Who are they? | FROM THE EDIT PAGE Facing the heat in Chhattisgarh The killing of Nambala Keshav Rao, alias Basavaraju, the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) in police action in Chhattisgarh is the biggest setback faced by the banned outfit in recent times. Reduced to a rump of armed guerillas and cornered by security forces in the jungles overlapping Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Jharkhand, and Maharashtra, the outfit now faces disintegration. According to government data, 401 Naxalites have been killed in the state while 1,355 surrendered between December 1, 2023, and May 21, 2025. The Vishnu Deo Sai government won office in Chhattisgarh in December 2023, and since then, there has been coordinated action from the Centre and the state government against Maoists in Chhattisgarh, reportedly their last bastion. Read more. | | | Infographic of the Day  (Click to expand) |  Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman | Photo of the Day Defence Investiture Ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan  President Droupadi Murmu presents Kirti Chakra to Major Malla Rama Gopal Naidu during the Defence Investiture Ceremony-2025 (Phase-I), at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, on Thursday. (PTI) | HT This Day: May 23, 1972 Republic of Sri Lanka is born  (Click to expand) The republic came into existence the moment Constituent Assembly President Stanley Tillekeratne signed a declaration before the assembled representatives of the people to signify that the Constitution had been duly passed. Read more. | Were you forwarded this email? Did you stumble upon it online? Sign up here. | | | | | | | | | Get the Hindustan Times app and read premium stories | | | | | | View in Browser | Privacy Policy | Contact us You received this email because you signed up for HT Newsletters or because it is included in your subscription. Copyright © HT Digital Streams. All Rights Reserved | | | | | 
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