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An Indian Civil Account Services (ICAS) officer was shot dead by his father-in-law, a retired assistant inspector general of the Punjab Police, at a mediation centre in the district court complex in Chandigarh on Saturday, officials said.The deceased was identified as Harprit Singh. His...
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The India Meteorological Department on Saturday issued a red alert for Maharashtra's Palghar, Pune and Satara districts for August 4.The IMD has also issued an orange alert for Thane, Mumbai, Raigad, Sindhudurg and Nashik.Heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places with extremely heavy rainfall...
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Our school has been washed away and eight students are missing and we don't know where we will study and how will we participate in tournaments to be held in September, lament the distraught students of Government Senior Secondary School, Samej, who are yet to reconcile with the awful...
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Bharatanatyam veteran Yamini Krishnamurthy died at the Apollo hospital in New Delhi on Saturday. She was 84.She was suffering from age-related issues and was in the ICU for the last seven months, Krishnamurthy's manager and secretary Ganesh told PTI. Krishnamurthy's mortal remains will...
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A case was registered by the police against Congress MLA Channareddy Tannur and his son Pampanagouda Tannur on Saturday after a Dalit sub-inspector allegedly died by suicide, following his transfer within seven months of posting.The MLA and his son were booked on charges of intentional insult...
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A 14-year-old boy was apprehended for allegedly sending a bomb threat to his school in south Delhi's Greater Kailash area to 'avoid' going to classes, police said on Saturday.Panic gripped a private school when its administration received a bomb threat email on Friday at around 12.30 am.The...
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A mob of villagers allegedly vandalised and set on fire the house of a Muslim man here, accusing him of kidnapping a woman of their community, police said on Saturday.The angry locals also allegedly attacked the cops who reached the spot on information about the incident, which took place on...
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A police officer was allegedly shot dead in Ranchi in the early hours of Saturday, officials said.The body of Anupam Kachchap, a sub-inspector posted with the Special Branch, was found around 2 am from the Ring Road in Kanke police station area, they said.When taken to the state-run Rajendra...
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Union minister Chirag Paswan on Saturday opposed the Supreme Court judgement allowing states to create sub-groups within Scheduled Castes for a slice of the 15 per cent quota, and declared that his Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) will appeal against it.Addressing a press conference in Patna,...
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Year wise data of consequential train accidents since the year 2000, as told by the ministry of railways in reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha.
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Authorities in Ayodhya on Saturday razed the bakery of a man accused of raping a 12-year-old girl and recording the act on camera, according to an official.The bakery of Moid Khan has been demolished, Ayodhya's District Magistrate Chandra Vijay Singh told PTI.The bakery had one big room and...
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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday announced that Karnataka will construct 100 houses for victims in landslide-hit Wayanad. Taking to the social media post 'X', Siddaramaiah said in light of the tragic landslide in Wayanad, Karnataka stands in solidarity with...
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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Saturday that search and rescue operations in disaster-hit Wayanad are in their final stages, but 206 people remain missing.Addressing the media in Thiruvananthapuram, Vijayan said there is difficulty in identifying the dead bodies and parts...
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A court in New Delhi on Saturday disposed of the bail plea of the four co-owners of a coaching centre's basement where three civil services aspirants drowned last month, noting the prosecution's submission about the transfer of the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).On Friday,...
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The Centre has denied political clearance to Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann for his visit to Paris to support the Indian Hockey team at the Olympic Games, an official source said on Saturday.Mann, who holds a diplomatic passport, was scheduled to visit Paris from August 3 to 9 for the Indian...
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Well-known actor Mohanlal, who is also a Lieutenant Colonel in the Indian Territorial Army, on Saturday reached landslide-hit Wayanad, donning his army uniform and pledged Rs 3 crore for the rehabilitation works of the disaster-hit region.The actor, who reached the Army camp at Meppadi, held a...
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The Trinamool Congress's students' wing TMCP gheraoed interim vice-chancellor of Calcutta University Shanta Dutta for over nine hours, claiming that she chaired a meeting of the varsity's highest decision-making body, the syndicate, even as her term has ended.The gherao began at 3 pm on Friday...
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The search and rescue operations in Kerala's Wayanad entered the fifth consecutive day on Saturday as several people are still feared trapped in the debris. The death toll in the massive landslides that occurred on July 30 in Chooralmala and Mundakkai of Wayanad stands at 308 as of...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said India has become a food surplus country and is working to provide solutions for global food and nutritional security. Addressing a gathering after inaugurating the 32nd International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE), which is being...
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Shots were fired and an abandoned house was torched in Manipur's Jiribam, triggering fresh tensions within a day of the Meitei and Hmar communities reaching an agreement to make efforts to restore normalcy in the district, officials said on Saturday.An abandoned house in Lalpani village was...
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Well-known actor Mohanlal, who is also a Lieutenant Colonel in the Indian Territorial Army, on Saturday reached the landslide-hit Wayanad donning his army uniform.The actor, who reached the Army camp at Meppadi, held a brief discussion with the officers and left for the landslide-hit zone along...
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Search operations started early Saturday with more than 1,300 rescuers, heavy machinery and sophisticated equipment being deployed to look for survivors from the ravages of the landslides that have killed more than 200 people. Private companies specialising in the field of search and...
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A total of 53 people are still missing and six bodies were recovered so far as on Saturday after a cloudburst followed by flashfloods wreaked widespread destruction in Kullu, Mandi and Shimla regions of Himachal Pradesh, as per the District Disaster Management Authority. Special Secretary DC...
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Former United States president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said that the Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently called him to apologise for censoring him and assured that he would not support a Democrat.So, Mark Zuckerberg called me. First of all, he called...
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Indian Mujahideen operative Aijaz Shaikh, who was sentenced to death for the February 2013 Hyderabad terror attack, was on Friday acquitted by a Mumbai court in a 2010 case related to sending an email on behalf of the banned outfit and warning about terror strikes in New Delhi. Special MCOCA...
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Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale on Friday strongly opposed any move to apply creamy layer criteria to reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, comments coming in the backdrop of a historic Supreme Court verdict on sub-classifications within...
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