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Following are the top stories at 1.15 pm: NATION ****ELN15 ELECTIONS-UP-MODI-MIRZAPUR Opposition alliance will change Constitution, give reservation to Muslims: PM Mirzapur (UP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday branded the opposition INDIA bloc as communal and casteist, and claimed they have decided to change the Constitution to give reservation to Muslims.**** ****DEL16 SHAH-INTERVIEW-KASHMIR Successful J-K polls success of Modi govt policy; next step Assembly polls, statehood, Amit Shah tells PTI New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said that the Modi government’s Kashmir policy has been vindicated by the successful polling in Jammu and Kashmir, where even separatists have voted “overwhelmingly”, as he assured that the assembly elections in the region will be held before September 30.**** ****DEL20 SHAH-INTERVIEW-NAXAL Naxal problem will be over in next 2-3 years, says Amit Shah New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said the Naxal problem in the country will end in the next two-to-three years, and except for a small pocket in Chhattisgarh the whole country is now free from the menace.**** ****DEL13 DL-FIRE-3RDLD HOSPITAL Seven newborns killed in fire at east Delhi hospital New Delhi: A massive fire broke out at a private children's hospital in east Delhi's Vivek Vihar, leaving seven newborns dead, officials said on Sunday.**** ****ELN19 ELECTIONS-HP-RAHUL-NAHAN PM waived loans of 22 people but couldn't give Rs 9,000 cr for HP monsoon disaster: Rahul Shimla: Prime Minister Narendra Modi waived loans worth Rs 16 lakh-crore of 22 people in the last 10 years but could not give Rs 9,000 crore to deal with the disaster caused by monsoon rains in Himachal Pradesh last year, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday.**** ****CAL3 WB-CYCLONE-LD REMAL Remal intensifies into severe cyclonic storm, to make landfall by Sunday midnight Kolkata: Cyclone 'Remal' intensified into a severe cyclonic storm and is likely to make landfall between Bangladesh and adjoining West Bengal coasts by midnight of Sunday with maximum sustained wind speed of 110-120 kilometres per hour gusting to 135 kmph, the Met department said.**** ****ELN9 ELECTIONS-SIBAL-PM Confession that probe agencies acting at his behest: Sibal slams PM for 'jail' barb at Tejashwi New Delhi: Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Sunday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his veiled 'jail' swipe at RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav and claimed that this was a ''confession'' that probe agencies were acting at the PM's behest.**** ****BOM7 GJ-HC-FIRE TRAGEDY Gujarat HC takes suo motu cognizance of Rajkot game zone fire, calls it man-made disaster Ahmedabad: A special bench of the Gujarat High Court on Sunday took suo motu cognizance of the fire incident at a game zone in Rajkot which left 27 persons dead and said it was prima facie a ''man-made disaster''.**** ****DEL12 UP-LD-MISHAP-BUS 11 dead in UP's Shahjahanpur as truck loaded with gravel overturns on their bus Shahjahanpur (UP), May 26 (PTI) Eleven pilgrims headed to the Purnagiri temple in Uttarakhand were buried to death when a gravel-loaded dumper truck overturned on their bus and emptied its content into their vehicle, a senior official said Sunday.**** ****ELN18 ELECTIONS-OD-BJP-ARREST Odisha: BJP candidate arrested for allegedly vandalising EVM Bhubaneswar: A BJP candidate was arrested in Odisha's Khurda district for allegedly vandalising an EVM as he had to wait in queue for a long to cast his vote because the machine malfunctioned, officials said on Sunday.**** FOREIGN ****FGN6 LANKA-POLITICS Rajapaksas to launch political comeback bid in Sri Lanka Colombo: Sri Lanka's powerful Rajapaksa clan, which suffered political battering due to the country's worst economic crisis in 2022, will launch its political comeback bid on Sunday by targeting the impending elections.****