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Four workers were killed and two others hospitalised after inhalation of nitrogen gas that leaked at a pharmaceutical company in Maharashtra's Palghar district on Thursday, officials said. The incident took place at Medley Pharma located on plot number 13 of Boisar Industrial Estate, some...
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The over two-week long strike by Telugu film workers over wage hike and others came to an end on Thursday following an agreement with producers. The workers and producers reached an understanding during the talks held in the presence of state labour department officials. Speaking to...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday touched base with Shiv Sena-UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray and NCP-SP supremo Sharad Pawar, seeking support for the candidature of CP Radhakrishnan, who has been named as the Vice Presidential candidate of NDA.The Vice Presidential elections...
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A court in Mumbai on Thursday remanded a contractor, arrested in the Rs 65-crore Mithi river desilting scam, in police custody till August 26, with the accused claiming he was being targeted for raising his voice against corruption in the system and for supporting a particular political...
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Four friends travelling from Meerut to Ambala to visit a temple had a narrow escape after their car, guided by Google Maps, plunged into a pond in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur district, the police said on Thursday. The incident took place under the Sarsawa police station limits when the...
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Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Thursday demanded that Aligarh be renamed Harigarh just like Ayodhya and Prayagraj. Addressing a 'Hindu Gaurav Diwas' ceremony to mark the death anniversary of Uttar Pradesh CM Kalyan Singh, Maurya said that it was his wish that Babuji, as Singh...
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A luxury hotel in Worli in Central Mumbai received an email threatening bomb blasts but it turned out to be a hoax, police said on Thursday. The email, written in English, was received by the hotel on Wednesday night. It claimed there would be blasts of Improvised Explosive Devices...
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A drug peddler was arrested on Thursday and a huge quantity of narcotic substance was recovered in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district, police said. Acting on specific and credible intelligence regarding the storage of narcotics, a team from Srigufwara police station conducted a...
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The Supreme Court is set to pronounce on August 22 the order on a plea to stay its August 11 direction to permanently relocate stray dogs from streets to dog shelters in Delhi-NCR. A three-judge special bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and NV Anjaria had on August 14...
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Chinese envoy Xu Feihong speaking in New Delhi on Thursday/ANI on X
China fully opposes the US move of imposing tariffs of up to 50 percent on India and Washington's threat to increase it, Chinese envoy Xu Feihong said in New Delhi on Thursday. In his address at an event, Feihong also said that tariff and trade wars were disrupting the global economic and...
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A case was registered after a threat email was received by the international airport in Hyderabad recently, which was subsequently found to be a hoax, police said on Thursday. A complaint was lodged on August 15 stating that an email was received to Airport Predictive Operation Centre at...
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Apple vendor Foxconn has elevated India Representative V Lee to the chairman's office with new responsibilities and has appointed Robert Wu as his successor to lead operations in the country. Wu was the CEO of Foxconn subsidiary Sharp Corp in Japan, and his appointment as India...
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Bangladesh on Thursday said it has decided to sign an agreement with Pakistan to allow government officials and diplomats from both sides to visit each other's country without visa for five years. The Pakistan government has already approved it. The development came ahead of Pakistani...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday met Russian President Vladimir Putin and is understood to have discussed ways to further expand India-Russia ties. The meeting came hours after Jaishankar held wide-ranging talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that largely...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday held a phone conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron focusing on resolution of the conflicts in Ukraine and West Asia. Modi described the conversation as very good. Macron was among the European leaders who accompanied Ukrainian...
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India has shipped Garhwali apples from Dehradun to Dubai for the first time in a bid to increase agricultural exports from the country. Commerce secretary Sunil Barthwal flagged off the first trial shipment of 1.2 tonnes of Garhwali apples from Dehradun to Dubai, the commerce ministry...
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Food regulator FSSAI has seized around 6,500 kg of adulterated ghee from a dairy unit in Rajkot, Gujarat. In a statement on Thursday, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) said it has seized approximately 6,500 kg of adulterated ghee, valued at around Rs 35 lakh, from...
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The Bombay high court on Thursday said it would watch a film purportedly based on the life of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath after the Censor board refused to certify it. The film, inspired by the book The Monk who became Chief Minister, hit a roadblock after the Central Board...
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The Central Drugs Laboratories found 46 drug samples manufactured by various firms to be 'not of standard quality' in its monthly drug alert for July, health ministry officials said on Friday. The State drug testing laboratories have identified 97 drug samples as NSQ, they further...
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The rupee pared initial gains and settled for the day lower by 18 paise at 87.25 (provisional) against US dollar on Thursday, on a strong American currency and a recovery in crude oil prices. Forex traders said, rupee opened on a positive note with the rise in risk appetite in the global...
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A Border Security Force constable, who had been absconding for over a year, was arrested here for allegedly duping a woman of Rs 29 lakh by luring her into a relationship and promising to help her purchase a petrol pump, a senior police officer said on Thursday. Accused Gautam Halder, a...
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The subsidiary of Turkiye-based airport ground handling services major Celebi on Thursday withdrew its plea in the Bombay high court against revocation of its security clearance by Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) in the aftermath of Operation Sindoor. A bench of Justices B P...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a two-day visit to Gujarat from August 25, during which he will inaugurate 1,449 houses and 130 shops built under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) Ahmedabad at a cost of Rs 133.42 crore, officials said. Inauguration of houses under the PMAY will...
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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday ordered an FIR to be filed against his MLA, B Rajasekhar Reddy, for allegedly assaulting a forest department employee, a government source said. According to the FIR registered at Srisailam One Town police station on Wednesday,...
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Delhi Police are probing the attack on Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, which occurred on Wednesday, from every angle and are coordinating with Rajkot Police, sources said. Central agencies, including the Intelligence Bureau (IB), are also involved in the investigation. According to...
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Parliament's Monsoon session, which concluded on Thursday, saw frequent disruptions that overshadowed legislative business, with the House losing over 84 hours to forced adjournments, the highest in the 18th Lok Sabha.The month-long session that started on July 21 had 21 sittings with 37 hours...
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Maharashtra Dy CM Eknath Shinde shares this image on X yesterday on the occasion of former PM Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary yesterday. The post translated from Marathi says: On the occasion of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary today, I humbly paid my respects by offering a...
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Stock markets extended the winning run to the sixth consecutive day on Thursday, with benchmark Sensex closing higher by nearly 143 points on buying in blue-chip shares ICICI Bank and Reliance Industries. The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 142.87 points or 0.17 per cent to settle at 82,000.71...
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Priyanka Gandhi Vadra posts this image on X saying: Met @JPNadda to request him to expedite some health projects in Wayanad and to apprise him of the severe difficulties being faced by the local population in the absence of the Medical College in Mananthavadi which is yet far from functional....
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782 passengers were rescued from a monorail train on Tuesday
A Monorail train came to a halt for 12 minutes at Acharya Atre Chowk station in the city on Thursday morning, with officials stating that it was halted for offloading passengers and not because of any technical issue. The incident followed Tuesday's crisis situation when two Monorail trains...
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Bangladesh Chief of Army Staff
Bangladesh Chief of Army Staff General Waker-Uz-Zaman on Thursday left for an official visit to China aimed at strengthening bilateral military cooperation. The Army Chief will hold courtesy meetings with senior civilian and military officials of China and will exchange views aimed at...
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Retail inflation for farm and rural workers eased to 0.77 per cent and 1.01 per cent in July from 1.42 per cent and 1.73 per cent, respectively, in June, according to data released by the Labour Ministry on Thursday. The All-India Consumer Price Index for Agricultural Labourers increased by...
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Union Minister Kiren Rijiju and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge were engaged in a brief altercation on Thursday during the passage of 'The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill' in the Upper House. Opposition MPs were protesting and raising slogans while Union...
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The multi-agency search operation to trace 33 missing persons in cloudburst-hit Kishtwar district in Jammu and Kashmir entered the eighth day on Thursday, officials said. The death toll in the natural calamity that struck the last motorable village en route to the Machail Mata temple on...
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India and Pakistan won't engage in any bilateral sporting clash but the cricket team will not be stopped from playing the multi-lateral Asia Cup next month, the Sports Ministry said on Thursday. The ministry unveiled the new policy with regards to India's international engagements with...
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Pakistan's Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi Thursday held strategic consultations during which they reviewed the entire gamut of bilateral ties and discussed important regional and global issues.We held fruitful and substantive discussions today covering diverse...
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Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor on Thursday elaborated on his recent remarks regarding the trajectory of the BJP leadership of becoming increasingly 'hardline', suggesting that in the future Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership could appear softer by comparison.He mentioned the...
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Security forces have captured a pigeon carrying a threat note to blow up the Jammu railway station in the border area of RS Pura in Jammu district, prompting police to beef up security in the region, officials said. Pakistan has been known to send balloons, flags and pigeons to the India...
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The Supreme Court on Thursday said it was impossible that in a continuing marriage a husband or a wife could say they want to be independent of their partner. If anybody wanted to be independent, they ought not enter matrimony, a bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and R Mahadevan...
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Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha adjourned sine die, Monsoon Session of the Parliament concludes. The Rajya Sabha on Thursday agreed to send the Constitution (One Hundred & Thirtieth Amendment) Bill, 2025, Government of Union Territories (Amendment) Bill, 2025, and The Jammu & Kashmir...
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The ruin that was Gaza
Fighters from the IDF's (Israel Defense Forces) Kfir Infantry Brigade eliminated about ten terrorists in Gaza in hand-to-hand combat and in cooperation with the Air Force. Deputy Company Commander in the Kfir Brigade: Thanks to the alertness and vigilance of the battalion's fighters, we were...
14:22
Speaker Om Birla with CP Radhakrishnan
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis called Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray and sought support for the NDA's vice-presidential candidate C P Radhakrishnan, party leader Sanjay Raut said on Thursday. The BJP-led National Democratic...
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Congress MLA from Kerala, Rahul Mamkootathil, who faces an internal party inquiry over a misbehaviour allegation by an actress, on Thursday announced his resignation as state Youth Congress president. He announced this while speaking to reporters at his residence in Adoor near...
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Astronaut and Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla met Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday in Delhi after a successful mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Earlier on Monday, Shukla also met Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Shukla was the pilot of the Axiom-4 Space Mission to the...
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A man out on bail for his brother's murder in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich has been arrested for killing his widowed sister-in-law and her three daughters by allegedly pushing them into a river with the help of an associate, police said on Thursday. Anirudh Kumar, a resident of Ramaipurva...
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Union Minister G Kishan Reddy said on Thursday that new bills allowing the removal of elected representatives arrested on serious criminal charges and held in custody without bail for more than 30 days will be welcomed by the whole country as before there was no law to act against corrupt...
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Opposition nominee for the vice-presidential polls B Sudarshan Reddy on Thursday asserted that the election is not merely about one individual but about reaffirming the idea of India where Parliament functions with integrity, dissent is respected and institutions serve the people with...
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After the shocking murder of a Class 10 student by his junior at a Gujarat school, investigations have revealed an Instagram chat in which the boy appears to confess to his friend, reports NDTV.Nayan Santani died after being stabbing on Tuesday following an argument with the junior. The killing,...
12:32
US celebrity judge and social media star Frank Caprio has died aged 88, his family has said.His death following a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer was announced on his official Instagram account, where he was remembered for his warmth and unwavering belief in the goodness of people.David Caprio,...
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782 passengers were rescued from a monorail on Tuesday
A day after two overcrowded monorail trains got stuck on elevated tracks, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority on Wednesday announced a series of immediate and long-term measures to strengthen the safety of passengers and operational efficiency. In a statement, MMRDA said it...
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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Thursday downplayed the meeting between MNS president Raj Thackeray and CM Devendra Fadnavis, saying that maintaining communication is a tradition in the state.Talking to reporters in Wardha, Pawar said, Many leaders meet one another as well as with...
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An Israeli tank manoeuvres in Gaza. Reuters/Amir Cohen
The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) announced on Wednesday that since the renewal of ground operations of the IDF troops in Gaza, there has been an elimination of 2000 terrorists, strikes on approximately 10,000 terror targets and establishment of control corridors so as to create conditions to...
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India has overtaken China in smartphone exports to the United States, marking a major milestone in the country's manufacturing journey, according to a social media post by PIB citing research firm Canalys. As per the post, schemes such as Make in India and the Production Linked Incentive...
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A woman in Ghaziabad has filed a police complaint alleging that her husband and in-laws subjected her to harassment and mental torture for dowry, and demanded that she maintain a body like Bollywood actor Nora Fatehi, officials said. The woman also accused her in-laws of forcing her to take...
10:51
Vihar lake overflows
Following a week of significant rainfall, the seven primary water supply lakes for Mumbai are nearing full capacity. According to data from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) recorded at 6 AM today, the water reserves in these lakes currently stand at 95.17%. This figure...
10:37
Chinese refineries have placed new orders for Russian crude that will be shipped from ports that typically supply India, as demand from the South Asian country for Moscow's crude slips following US President Trump's tariffs, reports CNN.At least 15 cargoes of Russian oil have been secured by...
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A Lake Tahoe area resident has tested positive for plague, California health officials said Tuesday. Officials said they believed the resident was infected after being bitten by an infected flea while camping in the South Lake Tahoe area, reports CNN.The person is recovering at home and under the...
10:26
The FBI has arrested a woman on the agency's '10 Most Wanted Fugitive' list who is accused of killing her six-year-old son and fleeing to India to evade prosecution, according to officials. Cindy Rodriguez Singh, 40, was wanted on state charges of killing her son, Federal Bureau of...
10:15
Twelve bills were passed by the Lok Sabha and 14 by the Rajya Sabha during the month-long Monsoon session of Parliament, which has witnessed repeated disruptions, adjournments and walkouts. Barring discussions on Operation Sindoor in both House, the session has seen little business ever...
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The Centre has accorded Z category CRPF security to Delhi CM Rekha Gupta after she was attacked at her home during the Jan Sunwai meeting. Delhi Minister Kapil Mishra on Thursday said Chief Minister Rekha Gupta had serious physical injuries and was in a state of shock after the attack but...
09:59
The 2,000-kilometre-long undersea cable project between India and the United Arab Emirates, part of the One Sun One World One Grid (OSOWOG) initiative launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is economically viable and could allow large-scale cross-border power trade, Ashish Khanna, director...
09:57
Aerated beverage makers are quietly sweetening the deal for consumers, offering more volume at the same price as competition in the cola aisle heats up.PepsiCo India has increased its Rs 40 PET bottle to 740 millilitres from 600 ml. Coca-Cola India has rolled out similar increases across its...
09:50
This is what Mumbaikars had to go through for over 5 days. Pic: Reuters
Mumbai got a break from rains on Thursday morning, with parts of the city seeing sunlight almost after a week. Rainfall has reduced significantly in the metropolis since Wednesday, with no overnight showers reported.On Wednesday, the Mumbai unit of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) had...
09:31
The man accused of attacking Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta during a 'Jan Sunwai' programme at her Camp Office in Civil Lines on Wednesday has been sent to five days of police custody, court sources said. They said the accused, Sakriya Rajeshbhai Khimjibhai (41), was produced at the house...
09:23
A flooded road in Banaskantha
A man was rescued while four others, including his wife and child, went missing after the car they were travelling in was swept away in Desai Creek in Gujarat's Valsad district on Wednesday, officials said. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), along with local residents, launched an...
09:11
'IndiGo expects 30-40 per cent of its fleet to be on finance lease by 2030, reflecting a shift away from its long-standing reliance on sale-and-leaseback deals, Chief Financial Officer Gaurav Negi told shareholders at the airline's annual general meeting on Wednesday.As of June 30, IndiGo had 416...
08:56
Apple Inc's latest super-premium model, the iPhone 16, was the most exported smartphone from India, accounting for 18 per cent of total export volumes in the first half of calendar year 2025, according to Counterpoint Research. The data indicates that the Cupertino-headquartered company is...
08:54
Infosys has handed out a generous 80 per cent of the performance pay to most of its employees for the first quarter of the financial year 2025-2026 following stronger-than-expected growth during the period, according to an internal memo.The payout percentages are linked to performance ratings at...
08:53
Himachal Pradesh's cumulative monsoon death toll since June 20 has climbed to 276, of which 143 people have died in rain-related incidents such as landslides, flash floods, and house collapses, while 133 lost their lives in road accidents, according to the Himachal Pradesh State Disaster...
08:49
Parents outside the BSG school
At least six schools in the national capital received bomb threats on Thursday through e-mail, prompting police and other emergency agencies to launch a search operation, an official of the Delhi Fire Services said.Calls regarding the bomb threat were received between 6.35 am and 7.48 am in six...
08:37
The Yamuna River in the national capital is flowing close to the danger level. Visual from Loha Pul on Thursday showed the water close to the 205 m mark. The opening of all 18 gates of Hathinikund Barrage was opened after 1.78 lakh cusec of water came into the river due to heavy rainfall,...
08:14
Amid the United States imposing a 50 per cent tariff on India, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has pushed to increase trade with Russia, encouraging Russian companies to engage 'more intensively' with their Indian counterparts.Noting India's rapidly growing economy and initiatives like...
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Leader of the Opposition in Odisha assembly, Naveen Patnaik was on Wednesday evening discharged following three days of hospitalisation. The BJD chief was admitted to a private hospital in Bhubaneswar on Sunday evening due to dehydration, and he has been discharged after full recovery, party...
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The Punjab and Haryana high court received a bomb threat email on Wednesday, prompting the Chandigarh Police to conduct a search operation, officials said.Nothing suspicious was found in the search, they said.The police deployed a bomb disposal squad, an anti-sabotage team and sniffer dogs after...
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A 25-year-old IT professional was allegedly found murdered with multiple injuries at a secluded spot near Katraj tunnel on Pune-Satara road, police said on Wednesday. The police suspect some previous enmity could have triggered the murder of Saurabh Swami. On Tuesday morning, the body...
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