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A 30-year-old man died after allegedly being thrashed by a few Border Security Force (BSF) personnel in Assam's Cachar district, triggering protests by locals, an official said on Sunday.The incident took place on Friday night near the India-Bangladesh border in Katigorah, and the man succumbed...
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The Election Commission on Sunday said no political party in Bihar has so far approached it for inclusion or removal of names from the draft electoral roll published on August 1.The EC said that between 3 pm on August 1 and 3 pm on August 3 (Sunday), no demand under claims and objections has been...
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After a senior Army officer allegedly assaulted four SpiceJet ground staff members at Srinagar Airport on July 26, the Indian Army on Sunday issued a statement saying it is fully cooperating with the authorities in the investigations into the case.The Army said it is aware of the incident and...
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A Bangladeshi criminal, who had entered India and had been hiding in West Bengal under the guise of a monk, was arrested from Nadia district, police said on Sunday.Acting on a tip-off, sleuths of the West Bengal STF, along with the local police, conducted a raid in the Tehatta area on Saturday...
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Senior Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi on Sunday alleged that the neutrality of the Election Commission is questionable, and that is why the opposition parties want a discussion on the revision of the voter list in Parliament. Speaking to reporters before the start of the Extended...
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Air India on Sunday cancelled its flight from Singapore to Chennai due to a technical issue.The flight AI349 was to be operated with an Airbus A321.In a statement on Sunday, the airline said the flight AI349 scheduled to operate from Singapore to Chennai has been cancelled due to a maintenance...
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A 16-year-old Class X student was beaten to death at a coaching centre allegedly by two of his classmates in Maharashtra's Nashik city over a previous fight on seating arrangements in their school, a police official said on Sunday.The incident took place late Saturday night in Satpur and the...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday called on President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.The meeting came hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on the President.It was not known the reasons behind the subsequent meetings of the prime minister and the home minister...
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In an alarming escalation, the Pakistani federal government has ordered the expulsion of over one million Afghan nationals legally residing in the country with Proof of Registration (PoR) cards.According to Dawn News outlet, the Ministry of Interior issued a Special Regulatory Order (SRO) on July...
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M I Khan in Patna In a major setback to the Congress in Bihar, senior party leader Ashok Ram resigned on Sunday and joined the ruling Janata Dal-United led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.Ashok Ram, a Dalit leader, former minister, and five-time MLA, said he quit the Congress because it had...
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The Election Commission on Sunday asked Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav to 'hand over for investigation' a voter ID card that he claimed to be in possession of despite having been 'not issued officially'.The leader of the opposition in the Bihar assembly had on Saturday demonstrated an...
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Pakistan on Sunday supported Iran's right to develop nuclear capability for peaceful purposes, as the two sides signed several agreements to expand cooperation in multiple fields.Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who arrived in Islamabad on Saturday, met Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif at his...
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SpiceJet on Sunday said a senior Army officer, who was to board a flight to Delhi, assaulted four airline ground staffers at the Srinagar airport on July 26, and one of them suffered a spinal fracture.An FIR has been registered with the local police, and the airline has initiated the process to...
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Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Sunday said India's first bullet train service will commence very soon, and it will cut the travel time between Mumbai and Ahmedabad to two hours and seven minutes.The Union minister was at Bhavnagar terminus from where he virtually flagged off the Ayodhya...
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An animal rights activist from the Idukki-based animal rescue team filed a complaint against the Munnar panchayat authorities, alleging they had recently culled hundreds of stray dogs.Following the complaint, police registered a case under relevant sections of the law.A video showing stray dogs...
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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday condemned the alleged poisoning of drinking water at a government school in Hulikatti village of Belagavi district reportedly to force the transfer of a Muslim headmaster. In a post on 'X' Siddaramaiah termed it a 'heinous act' driven by...
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The Bharatiya Janata Party alleged on Sunday that Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav has committed a crime by keeping two voter IDs, noting that his Election Photo Identity Card (EPIC) number he cited at a presser was different from the one he officially carries.A day after the Elections...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday called on President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi amid a logjam in Parliament and fresh trade tensions with the United States.Although official details were not released, senior government sources said the 40-minute meeting is understood...
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More than 2,42,000 candidates on Sunday appeared for the NEET-PG exam, which is conducted by the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) for admission to various post graduate medical courses. The exam was conducted in a single shift on the computer-based platform across...
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The anti-terrorist operation in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir entered the third day on Sunday as security forces tightened the noose around the ultras engaged in the gun battle with them.The encounter has entered third day as intermittent exchange of firing has been going on since Sunday...
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A case has been registered after a group of right-wing activists allegedly threatened a pastor over accusations of religious conversion.The police initiated the action on their own, without a formal complaint. Sources said the incident is believed to have taken place a few months back, and the...
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An SUV fell into the Saryu canal in Gonda district on Sunday, leaving 11 people dead and four others critically injured, police said.Station House Officer (SHO), Itiathok police station, Krishn Gopal Rai, said the victims were going from Sihagaon village to offer holy water at the Prithvinath...
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An uneasy calm prevailed in Bayabar village in Odisha's Puri district on Sunday, with most of the villagers staying indoors, a day after the 15-year-old girl succumbed to her burn injuries at AIIMS Delhi. Police personnel are standing guard near the deceased girl's house under the Balanaga...
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A 25-year-old pregnant woman was allegedly stabbed to death by her husband in a village in Meerut, the police said on Sunday. Sapna, a resident of Jatav Gate, married Ravishankar (28) in January this year. However, due to marital discord, Sapna had been staying with her sister for the...
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Activists of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena launched an attack at a dance bar in Navi Mumbai and vandalised the premises, the police said on Sunday. The incident occurred in Panvel late on Saturday night, an official said. A group of MNS workers stormed into Night Riders Bar on the...
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An earthquake of magnitude 3.0 struck New York on Sunday, a statement by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said.As per the EMSC, the earthquake occurred at a shallow depth of 10km, making it susceptible to aftershocks.In a post on X, the EMSC said, M3.0 occurred 11 mi NW of New York...
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Security forces continue their operation in the Akhal Devsar area of south Kashmir's Kulgam district. So far, one terrorist has been neutralised in the operation.On Saturday, security forces neutralised one terrorist during a gunfight that continued overnight in the Akhal area of south...
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India has dramatically increased its crude oil imports from the United States since President Donald Trump returned to the White House for his second term, according to sources familiar with the trade data.The surge represents a significant shift in India's energy procurement strategy, with...
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Amritpal Singh, a 23-year-old farmer from Punjab's Ferozepur district, who inadvertently crossed over to Pakistan, has been sentenced to one-month imprisonment by a court in the neighbouring nation, his father Jugraj Singh said on Saturday. Jugraj Singh urged the Centre and the Punjab...
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Four prisoners facing trial in rape and POCSO Act cases escaped from a district jail in Chhattisgarh's Korba district on Saturday, a police official said. He identified the four as Dashrath Sidar (19), Chandrashekhar Rathia (20), Raja Kanwar (22) and Sarna Sinku (26). Between 3pm and...
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Grief-stricken parents of the RG Kar medical college victim on Saturday said they were reaching out to different political parties to join the August 9 Nabanna Abhijan (march to West Bengal secretariat) demanding justice for the medic who was raped-murdered at her workplace exactly one year...
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A nine-year-old child was allegedly killed in Deoria in Uttar Pradesh as sacrifice in occult practices by four relatives, the police said on Saturday. One of the accused allegedly believed that his wife was possessed by a deity and needed a human sacrifice to cure her. They allegedly...
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