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The verdict in the case of rape and murder of an eight-year-old nomadic girl in Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir will be delivered by a special court in Pathankot on Monday.The in-camera trial in the case that shook the nation ended on June 3, when district and sessions judge Tejwinder Singh had...
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The Indian Air Force's investigation into the crash of its Mi-17V5 chopper near Srinagar on February 27 is in the final stage and two officers are likely to be court-martialed for the lapse.On February 27 morning when Pakistan counter-attacked in response to the Balakot air strikes, an IAF Mi-17...
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JUST IN: Security forces stop Bharatiya Janata Party leaders in Basirhat, West Bengal, while they were taking the remains of the deceased BJP workers to party office.Locket Chatterjee, BJP MP from Hooghly in Basirhat, said, Families of the deceased want to take the remains to party office but...
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Amid tight security arrangements, hundreds of displaced Kashmiri Pandit devotees left Jammu for Kashmir to take part in the annual Mata Kheer Bhawani mela, which is one of the biggest religious function of the displaced community, on Monday.Housing the shrine of Ragnya Devi, a revered goddess of...
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Several parts of Kerala received moderate rainfall on Sunday, a day after the southwest monsoon set in over the state, even as a low pressure area formed over the Arabian Sea.The Meteorological Department said the low pressure was expected to intensify into a depression in the next two days and...
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The Centre Sunday expressed 'deep concern' over continuing violence in West Bengal, saying the 'unabated violence' even after the Lok Sabha polls appears to be a failure on part of the state government.In an advisory to the West Bengal government, the Ministry of Home Affairs also asked it to...
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India has requested Pakistan to let Prime Minister Narendra Modi's aircraft fly over its airspace to Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan where he has to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit on June 13 and June 14, said a senior government official.Pakistan had fully closed its airspace on...
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Five persons were detained on Sunday for flouting prohibitory orders imposed in view of escalating tension over the brutal murder of a three-a-half-year-old girl in Tappal area of Aligarh.Contingents of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) and Rapid Action Force (RAF) have been deployed and...
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The body of an eight-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped, was found near a drain in Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh on Sunday, a police official said.Preliminary investigation revealed that she died of strangulation after being raped, he said.The girl had ventured out of her house in Kamla Nagar area...
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Editors Guild of India has condemned the arrest of Noida-based journalist Prashant Kanojia over alleged objectionable post against Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on social media.The Guild called UP Police's action against Kanojia 'high-handed, arbitrary and amounting to an...
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A terrorist hideout was busted in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district on Sunday and household stocks and ammunition were seized, an Army official said.The joint search and cordon operation was launched by the Army along with Special Operation Group (SoG) in Panthna forests of Keshwan belt, PRO...
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As even after seven days there is no clue about the whereabouts of An-32 aircraft, Union Minister General V K Singh (Retd) on Sunday assured that the government and defence forces are 'working tirelessly' to locate it.The aircraft with 13 IAF personnel on board went missing on Monday afternoon...
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JUST IN: Janata Dal-United will not be a part of National Democratic Alliance outside the state of Bihar.The JD-U will fight the upcoming elections alone in Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Haryana and Delhi.The decision has been taken in the party's National Executive Meet today. -- ANI
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Scaling down the fear of Nipah virus that gripped Kerala, four suspected cases of Nipah virus who had been kept in the isolation ward at Kalamassery Medical College, have been shifted to the observation ward in Kochi on Sunday.Of the 11 suspected cases of Nipah virus who were admitted in the...
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Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit this week at Bishkek where he would also meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the first meeting between the two leaders after the Bharatiya Janata Party's massive victory in the general elections.Xi will pay...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays tribute to victims at St Anthony's Church in Colombo.The church had come under terrorist attack in April this year.Modi arrived in Sri Lanka on Sunday on the second leg of his first foreign visit after re-election last month, reflecting the importance India...
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will hold her first pre-budget consultation meeting with farm bodies and agricultural experts on Tuesday amid delayed monsoon and drought in some states like Maharasthra.This would be the first interaction of Sitharaman, who took over as India's first...
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Union Home Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah arrives at party office in Delhi.Shah has called a meeting of Haryana, Maharashtra and Jharkhand core groups ahead of assembly elections in these states later this year. -- ANI
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As Prime Minister Narendra Modi left from the Maldives on Sunday, he said that he is humbled by the affection received in the island nation and added that the two-day visit will lead to stupendous outcomes.Dear citizens of the Republic of Maldives, I am humbled by the affection I have received in...
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Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday distanced his party from Prashant Kishor's decision to offer services as a poll strategist to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, saying the Janata Dal-United has nothing to do with it. Kishor's activities in West Bengal are not in...
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India and the Maldives on Saturday agreed to launch a ferry service connecting the two countries as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih emphasised the need to improve connectivity. The two leaders have directed officials to expeditiously work towards starting a...
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Police stopped a 19-year-old man, resident of Pune, from committing suicide on Saturday after his social media behaviour indicated that he was going to take the extreme step, an official said.The cyber cell of Maharashtra police was tipped off that there was a possibility that the man -- whose...
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The Indian Air Force on Saturday announced a reward of Rs 5 lakh to anyone providing information about location of the AN-32 transport aircraft which went missing six days ago around remote Mechuka in Arunachal Pradesh. Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Eastern Air Command Air Marshal R D...
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No new cases of Nipah virus has been reported in Kerala, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday. A case of Nipah was reported from Kerala's Ernakulum district on June 3 and the condition of the infected college student is stable.The state government has said a total of 318...
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Sri Lanka's national intelligence chief Sisira Mendis has stepped down from his post over Easter Sunday bombings that killed over 250 people in April.While testifying before the Parliament Select Committee last week, Mendis had claimed that President Maithripala Sirisena failed to hold regular...