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A comic book aimed at educating students about crimes, helplines, and laws has been created by Latur Police in Maharashtra, probably such initiative in the state. The comic book, Inspector Damini, was conceptualised by superintendent of police Somay Munde to create awareness about safety...
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The Election Commission on Sunday rejected the analysis by a citizens' platform about unusually big difference between voter turnout figures declared initially and the final figures in the Lok Sabha elections, and said a false campaign is being run to discredit the polls. The development...
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An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 struck the Taplejung district in eastern Nepal on Sunday, authorities said. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, they added. According to the National Earthquake Monitoring Centre, the epicentre of the quake was at Ankhop. The...
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The Middle Vaitarna dam that supplies drinking water to Mumbai reached its capacity on Sunday morning, an official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said. This is the fifth dam out of the seven reservoirs supplying drinking water to the city that has reached its capacity, he...
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The Delhi police arrested Sanjeev Jain, the director and CEO of a subsidiary of realty firm Parsvnath Developers, officials said on Sunday. Jain was arrested on Saturday by the STF team of Shahdara from the IGI airport following non-bailable warrants issued against the CEO for his inability...
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The government is all set to bring a Bill in Parliament to amend the 1995 law governing Waqf boards to ensure more accountability and transparency in their functioning and mandatory inclusion of women in these bodies, sources said. They claimed that the move comes in the backdrop of demands...
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President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday left for a six-day visit to Fiji, New Zealand and Timor-Leste. According to officials, she will visit Fiji from August 5-7 at the invitation of its President Wiliame Maivalili Katonivere. Murmu will hold bilateral meetings with Fiji's Katonivere and...
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Twelve Bangladeshi citizens who entered Tripura without valid documents were arrested from different parts of the state, the police said on Sunday.Acting on intelligence inputs about the presence of Bangladeshi nationals, police, in coordination with BSF personnel, conducted raids at Lankamura,...
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A total of 87 roads are closed in Himachal Pradesh due to incidents of cloudbursts, flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains in the past five days. The local meteorological office has issued a yellow alert of heavy showers, thunderstorm and lightning at isolated places in...
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Three coaches of an empty local train derailed while it was taken to the washing shed from the Saharanpur railway station on Sunday, officials said. Divisional railway manager of Ambala division Mandeep Singh Bhatia told reporters that the MEMU train was empty and no one was...
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The body of a 26-year-old Indian IT professional who drowned in the famous Glacier National Park in the US state of Montana last month has been recovered by park rangers, media reports said on Sunday. Siddhant Vitthal Patil drowned while hiking above a gorge on July 6 on Avalanche Lake Trail...
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Army personnel were deployed at an inundated residential area in Pune amid heavy downpours and water discharge from Khadakwasla dam, officials said on Sunday.In view of the discharge of water from the Khadakwasla, Mulshi, Pavana and other dams in the Pune region, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath...
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The police on Sunday arrested two persons after a 19-year-old resident of Thane city was allegedly kidnapped, assaulted and robbed, an official said.A group of six persons on Saturday allegedly demanded money from the complainant after showing him a screenshot, claiming the transfer of...
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said his government will soon introduce a law for life imprisonment in cases of 'love jihad'. Speaking at the state BJP executive meet in Guwahati, he said, We spoke about 'love jihad' during the elections. Soon, we will bring a law, which...
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Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has rejected her Republican rival Donald Trump's offer to shift the presidential debate to the Fox News channel, media reports said on Sunday. Trump, 78, and President Joe Biden -- who was then in the race to the White House -- agreed in May to...
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The administration in Maharashtra's Nashik district has appealed to citizens to stay alert amid a rise in the water level of the Godavari river due to heavy rains, officials said on Sunday. An official said that in the wake of incessant rains in the district, the authorities released 4,000...
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The Trinamool Congress on Sunday asked West Bengal jails minister Akhil Giri to resign and apologise to a woman officer of the state forest department following a controversy over video clips showing him threatening and verbally abusing her. Speaking to reporters at Kanthi in Purba Medinipur...
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Eight persons who got trapped in a temple on a hillock after the water level of a stream rose in Madhya Pradesh's Shivpuri district have been rescued, an official said on Sunday. The incident took place at Kedareshwar temple near Pohri town in Shivpuri on Saturday evening, sub...
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Pakistan has reported the twelfth polio case of the year, double last year's total, jolting the country's efforts to eradicate the crippling disease, media reports said on Sunday.The latest case was reported in Punjab province's Chakwal district on Saturday, the Dawn newspaper reported.The victim...
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A 28-year-old man was killed and two others were seriously injured after they were attacked by a wild sloth bear in Chhattisgarh's Gaurela-Pendra-Marwahi district on Sunday, the police said. The incident took place this morning near Badraudi village when deceased Chhablal along with...
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A fire broke out on the Korba-Visakhapatnam Express (18517) train at Visakhapatnam railway station on Sunday morning, damaging four empty coaches, officials said. The fire, which occurred around 10 am, was quickly extinguished, and there were no casualties or injuries...
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A bill to provide reservation to Scheduled Tribes in the Goa legislative assembly is likely to be introduced in the Lok Sabha this week. As of now, the ST community has no seats reserved in the Goa assembly. Amid demands from the community, the 'Readjustment of Representation of...
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An Israeli woman was killed and three others were injured in a terror stabbing attack in Israel's Holon on Sunday morning, The Times of Israel reported, citing police and medics. The terrorist, a West Bank Palestinian stabbed three people at three different places before being shot by a...
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Kamal Haasan-starrer Indian 2 will start streaming on Netflix from August 9, the platform announced on Sunday.The Tamil film is directed by S Shankar and produced by Udhayanidhi Stalin and A Subaskaran. It is a sequel to Shankar's 1996 movie Indian, also starring Haasan. Netflix shared...
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Telugu superstar Allu Arjun is the latest film personality to make a donation to the Chief Minister's Distress Relief Fund for rehabilitation efforts in the landslide-hit Wayanad district in Kerala. The death toll from the catastrophic landslide, which hit the district in the early hours of...
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Six Tibetan organisations have lauded Sikkim's Rajya Sabha MP DT Lepcha for his call to refer to the Line of Actual Control as the India-Tibet border and not as the India-China border. Lepcha, while speaking in the upper House of Parliament earlier this week, had said that the border should...
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Nine children were killed after the collapse of a wall at a village in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar district on Sunday, a senior official said. The incident took place during a religious programme in Shahpur village under Rehli assembly seat, an official said. According to the information...
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A medical shop owner was allegedly cheated of Rs 1.27 crore by a Navi Mumbai-based doctor couple, the police said on Sunday. Based on a complaint, a case under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code was registered at the NRI police station on Saturday against Dr Dhaval Khanayalal...
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Nearly a year after a 20-year-old pregnant woman was stripped and paraded naked in Rajasthan, a district court has sentenced 14 men, including her husband, to seven-year imprisonment while noting that it was a heinous crime similar to the one committed in Manipur chief judicial magistrate,...
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The mother of the Ayodhya gang-rape victim has alleged that some people are asking her to reach a compromise in the case, a Bahujan Samaj Party leader has claimed. Vishwanath Pal said that the woman made the allegation after a delegation of the party visited her house. A delegation of...
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The Bihar police registered a case after the Chief Minister's Office in Patna received an email threatening to blow up the building, officials said on Sunday. On July 16, the CMO received an email from an unidentified account claiming to be associated with Al-Qaeda. The sender of...
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The police arrested two owners of a building in Madhya Pradesh's Rewa district where a wall collapse claimed the lives of four children, officials said on Sunday. The wall of the abandoned and dilapidated building collapsed on the children, aged 5 to 7, while they were returning home from...
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Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday accused the former ally-turned-foe Bharatiya Janata Party of doing power jihad by breaking political parties to form a government.Hitting back at Union Home Minister Amit Shah for his Aurangzeb Fan Club barb, Thackeray dubbed the senior BJP...
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Seven people were killed and 25 injured early Sunday when the bus they were on overturned on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway in the Usrahar area here, police said. Superintendent of Police Sanjay Kumar told reporters that a bus with Nagaland number plate was on its way to Delhi from Rae...
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Residents of landslide-devastated villages in Kerala's Wayanad district who were forced to flee their homes have reported thefts from their abandoned properties, prompting police to increase night patrols. The displaced residents suspect that thieves might be taking advantage of the...
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With the lead of Shiv Sena-UBT candidate falling to less than 7,000 in Worli in the recent Lok Sabha polls, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena senses an opportunity and is likely to field Sandeep Deshpande from this assembly seat currently held by Aaditya Thackeray. A home to some of India's...
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) have said that Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed by Israel using a short-range projectile with a warhead and plans to take revenge at the appropriate time. The statement by Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Saturday also accuses the criminal...
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