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The local administration demolished the house of a man accused of raping a woman in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara district, citing that the structure was constructed illegally on government land, an official said on Sunday.The house of the accused, Mohammed Nafees, was demolished on Saturday, said...
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Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva with 5 AAP councillors, who joined the saffron party/Courtesy BJP Delhi on X
In a setback for the Aam Aadmi Party, five of its councillors in Delhi joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday. Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva welcomed them into the party. Sachdeva stated that the councillors left AAP due to the party's corruption and its failure to contribute to...
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Four powerful IEDs were found on Sunday during an anti-Maoist operation in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district, the police said.The seizure was made during a combing operation launched jointly by Central Reserve Police Force, Jharkhand Jaguar and district armed police in Maoist-affected forest...
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One of the 22 workers injured in a boiler blast in a steel factory in Jalna in Maharashtra succumbed to burn wounds at a private hospital in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar on Sunday, an official said. The blast took place in Gaj Kesari Steel Factory in Jalna's MIDC area on Saturday afternoon,...
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In the wake of many women actors narrating their horrific sexual assault experiences in the cinema industry, the Kerala government on Sunday formed a special team to probe the atrocities faced by them. The government on Sunday formed a seven-member team after a high-level meeting of senior police...
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The Delhi police arrested a 25-year-old man for allegedly opening fire at a sweets shop in New Delhi, officials said on Sunday.The police nabbed accused Vishu alias Kranti (25) after a brief exchange of fire, they said, adding he is believed to be a shooter of the Kapil Sangwan alias Nandu...
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The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on August 27 the bail plea of former Aam Aadmi Party communication in-charge Vijay Nair in a money laundering case related to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam.A bench of justices Hrishikesh Roy and SVN Bhatti issued a notice to the Enforcement...
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The Democratic Progressive Azad Party Sunday released its first list of 13 candidates for the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir. This will be the maiden assembly elections for the party floated by the former chief minister of the erstwhile state of J-K Ghulam Nabi Azad. The party's general...
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Ishak Ali Khan Panna, a former general secretary of the Bangladesh Chhatra League and a member of the Pirojpur district Awami League, died on Saturday while attempting to flee to Meghalaya, according to the Dhaka Tribune. Panna suffered a heart attack after slipping from a hill in Shillong, his...
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A total of 41 village panchayats in Maharashtra's Thane district have been declared tuberculosis-free, officials said on Sunday. Among these villages, 13 are from Shahapur taluka, 9 from Murbad, 7 from Kalyan, and 6 each from Bhiwandi and Ambernath. They were declared TB-free under the...
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A 30-year-old man was thrashed to death in Punjab's Gurdaspur district allegedly by a pastor and eight others in an attempt to get his body rid of the devil.Samuel Masih, a resident of Singhpura village in Dhariwal in Gurdaspur, was suffering from seizures and used to scream, the police said.His...
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At least four more murder cases have been filed against Bangladesh's deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her former cabinet ministers and aides, media reports said on Sunday. A murder case was filed on Sunday against 76-year-old Hasina, former director general of Border Guard of Bangladesh Gen...
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A 24-year-old man allegedly committed suicide here after he could not perform well in the Police Constable Recruitment Exam, the police said on Sunday.Yogesh Kumar from Saidpur Manjha village of Fatehganj East area hanged himself to death late Saturday, Faridpur police circle officer Gaurav Singh...
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Union minister Chirag Paswan was on Sunday re-elected as Lok Janshakti Party-Ram Vilas president for five years at its national executive meeting in Ranchi. The decision was taken unanimously at the meeting, Paswan said. The national executive, in its meeting here, has re-elected me for the next...
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MoS for defence Sanjay Seth (L), state BJP chief Babulal Marandi (C), ex-Union minister Arjun Munda/ ANI Photo
An FIR was registered on Saturday against 12,000 unnamed, and 51 identified individuals, for allegedly being involved in a clash with police personnel during a Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha rally in Ranchi, officials said. FIR registered against 12,000 unnamed, and 51 identified individuals, for...
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A pistol without magazine was recovered from a schoolbag of a 10-year-old student in Delhi's Najafgarh, the police said on Sunday. The boy thought it to be a toy and carried with him to the school, they said. According to a a senior police officer, the incident took place at a private school in...
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Horror comedy Stree 2, starring Rajkummar Rao and Shraddha Kapoor, has earned over Rs 500 crore worldwide in gross box office collections, the makers announced on Sunday.Directed by Amar Kaushik and produced by Dinesh Vijan of Maddock Films, the Hindi film is the sequel to 2018's Stree. The...
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Search operations are continuing in Chandil Dam for the sixth day on Sunday to trace the trainer aircraft that went missing after taking off from Jharkhand's Jamshedpur on August 20, officials said. Teams of the navy and the NDRF are engaged in the operations at Seraikela-Kharswan district to...
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Two people from Kanjar near Idukki have been arrested for allegedly causing the death of a newborn child after a circumcision procedure earlier this year. The accused were arrested on August 22, police said on Sunday. Both were, however, granted bail by a court in Idukki on Saturday....
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The lie detection test on Sanjay Roy, the main accused in the alleged rape and murder of a RG Kar Medical College trainee doctor, is underway at Kolkata's Presidency Jail where he is lodged, officials said on Sunday. Two more individuals will undergo the test at the CBI office in Kolkata during...
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Four people were arrested on Sunday over the alleged gang rape of a 15-year-old girl in Maharashtra's Dharashiv. The main accused in the case is still at large, an official said.According to the official, the incident took place on Saturday afternoon when the teenager was going to a grocery shop....
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At least 37 people, including 11 pilgrims, were killed and several others injured in two separate bus accidents in Pakistan on Sunday.The first accident occurred when a bus carrying 70 people, bringing Shia pilgrims back from Iran to Punjab province, veered off the Makran Coastal Highway in...
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The police have registered a case against nearly 300 people after alleged objectionable slogans were raised during a protest outside the Pune district collectorate, an official said on Sunday.A Sarvdharm Sambhav Mahamorcha' was organised on Friday to protest against the recent purported remarks...
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A 45-year-old woman died and four people were swept away by strong water currents due to heavy rain in Rajasthan's Jalore district on Saturday. The incident occurred when water from the mountain started flowing on the stairs of Sundha Mata temple in Jaswantpura area of the district, the police...
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About 100 Israeli Air Force fighter jets struck and eliminated thousands of Hezbollah rocket launcher barrels, aimed for immediate fire toward northern and central Israel, said Israel Defence Forces in an X post. More than 40 Hezbollah launch areas were struck, said the post. We will do whatever...
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Bangladesh's former textile and jute minister Golam Dastagir Gazi has been arrested in Dhaka as the police take stern measures against officials and ministers of the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina's Awami League government, according to media reports on Sunday.The 76-year-old leader was...
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Maharashtra Legislative Council Leader of Opposition Ambadas Danve was detained on Sunday after he protested outside the airport in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar against the Badlapur incident.Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to attend a programme in neighbouring Jalgaon on Sunday. PM Modi...
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An 18-year-old woman was allegedly raped and forced to convert to Islam in Amethi, the police said on Sunday.The police have arrested three people in the matter whose identities have not been disclosed.The incident took place in Ramganj police station area on July 5 and the woman lodged a...
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Two persons were killed in an explosion at a firecracker factory in Tamil Nadu's Dindigul district on Sunday, the police said. Two persons died in an explosion at a firecracker manufacturing factory at Natham in Dindigul district, Dindigul SP Pratheep said. The exact reason behind what caused...
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Malayalam filmmaker Ranjith
Acclaimed Malayalam filmmaker Ranjith on Sunday resigned as the chairman of Kerala Chalachitra Academy following allegations of misbehaviour levelled against him by a Bengali actor. In an audio clip sent to a television channel, Ranjith said he doesn't want to continue in the position as it would...
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
TMC leader Derek O'Brien has urged Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to urgently review and withdraw the 18 per cent GST on health and life insurance premiums during the upcoming GST Council meeting. O'Brien, in a letter dated August 24, demanded that the GST on health and life insurance...
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Israel has declared an emergency for the next 48 hours amid the country's escalating tensions with Lebanon, according to The Times of Israel.Israel's Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, declared an emergency.This comes as a 'special situation in the home front', which enables the IDF Home Front...
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At least 10 bogies of the Dhanbad-bound Ganga Sutlej Express train got uncoupled near Chakraj Mal area in Bijnor early on Sunday, officials said. No passenger was hurt in the incident.Additional Superintendent of Police, Dharam Singh Marchal told reporters that 'some bogies of a train headed to...
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Noted actor Siddique on Sunday resigned as the general secretary of the Association of Malayalam Movie Artists (A.M.M.A.) following sexual assault allegations raised by a woman actor on August 24. Talking to a television channel, the senior actor said he had sent his resignation letter to the...
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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday launched a search operation at the premises of former principal of RG Kar Medical College Sandip Ghosh in connection with alleged financial irregularities at the institute during his tenure, officials said.The central probe agency is also...
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Pavel Durov. Photo: Albert Gea/Reuters
The founder of the Telegram messaging app, Pavel Durov, who had an arrest warrant issued against him, was detained by the French authorities at an airport outside Paris, CNN reported.Officers from France's anti-fraud office, attached to French customs, took the French-Russian billionaire into...
