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An 11-year-old boy wandering the streets with his hands chained in this district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday caught the attention of people, prompting intervention by the police and the child protection wing. The hapless boy told the police that he had escaped from a madrassa in Palullian...
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A delegation of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-linked Muslim Rashtriya Manch on Sunday called on Law Commission chairman Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi and submitted its suggestions on the proposed Uniform Civil Code. The delegation, jointly led by the MRM's functionary Shiraz Quraishi and its...
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A 33-year-old man has been arrested in Gaziabad for allegedly raping and forcing his live-in partner to convert to Islam, the police said on Sunday. The Dalit woman, who moved in with Khalid Chaudhary in September 2022, was also forced to undergo an abortion by him, they said. Chaudhary was...
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Security was beefed up across Mizoram on Sunday ahead of state-wide protests by Mizo organisations against violence in Manipur and amid reports of Meiteis leaving the state after a statement by an ex-militant group, the police said. While 78 people flew to Manipur on Sunday in three flights, 65...
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An earthquake of magnitude 3.2 on the Richter scale hit Uttarakhand's Pithoragarh on Sunday evening, according to the National Center for Seismology. According to the NCS, the earthquake occurred at 6.34 pm at a depth of 5 kilometres. Earthquake of Magnitude:3.2, Occurred on 23-07-2023,...
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A team of mountaineers from the army's Dagger Division has achieved a historic feat by climbing the 7,077-metre high Mount Kun in record seven days to mark Kargil Vijay Diwas celebrations. The journey commenced on July 8 when the team was flagged off from Baramulla by Maj Gen Rajesh Sethi, GOC,...
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Two labourers died on Sunday after an under-repair beam in a cinema hall collapsed on them in Amroha, Uttar Pradesh, the police said. Circle officer (city) Vijay Kumar Rana said that one of the beams in the 'Madhav Palace' cinema hall suddenly collapsed around 11 am, burying several...
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A group of kanwariyas was pelted with stones near a mosque in Jogi Nawada area in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, the police said. As many as 12 of them got injured in the pelting and were admitted to a hospital. The kanwariyas were on their way to Budaun to get water from the Ganga River...
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Days after the Pune police arrested two suspects for their alleged involvement in terror-related activities, the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad took over the investigation into the case, an official said on Sunday. The police apprehended the duo, who were wanted by the National Investigation...
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The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee launched its YouTube channel on Sunday for the broadcast of gurbani from the Golden Temple in Amritsar even as its president Harjinder Singh Dhami slammed the AAP government in Punjab for hatching conspiracies to weaken the Sikh body. The channel,...
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Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday said finance minister Ajit Pawar hasn't given any preferential treatment to Nationalist Congress Party MLAs backing him, while allocating funds to legislators for development work in the supplementary demands tabled in the state...
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Child being rushed to a hospital in Bihar after rescuing from borewell/ANI
A three-year-old boy, who fell into a 40-ft borewell in Kul village in Bihar's Nalanda district on Sunday, was pulled out alive by National Disaster Response Force personnel. Teams from the NDRF, which were deployed at the site, led the rescue mission that lasted a few hours. ...
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The chief of a gurdwara at a village in Hoshiarpur in Punjab was arrested on Sunday for allegedly molesting a 13-year-old girl, the police said. The incident took place on July 20 when the girl went to the gurdwara in her village in the Chabbewal area of Hoshiarpur, Garhshankar deputy...
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An Air India Express flight from the Kerala state capital to Dubai returned, on Sunday, barely a couple of hours after take off due to an issue with the air conditioning system of the aircraft, Thiruvananthapuram airport officials said. The flight, IX 539, which took off with 178 people onboard...
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A team of the National Security Guard on Sunday visited the eatery on Mall Road where a gas leak apparently led to a blast, killing one person and injuring 13 others. The blast occurred on Tuesday evening at Himachali Rasoi restaurant, known for serving Himachali cuisines, located in Middle...
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The National Disaster Response Force has finally called of its search-and-rescue operation in Wednesday's landslide in Irshalwadi in Maharashtra's Raigad district, state minister Uday Samant said on Sunday. Addressing a press conference, Samant, who is guardian minister of Raigad, said the...
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The Punjab police foiled a trans-border smuggling attempt and arrested two persons with 20 kg heroin in Fazilka district, they said on Sunday. The accused were nabbed after collectting the consignment from Hastan Kalan village where it was air-dropped through drones, the police said. In a major...
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Some Maharashtra Navnirman Sena workers allegedly ransacked a toll plaza in Nashik in the early hours of Sunday after party leader Amit Thackeray was stopped at it earlier, an official said. He is the son of MNS founder Raj Thackeray and was reportedly stopped at...
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Two Chinese nationals have been arrested in Bihar by immigration officials who noted that they had sneaked into the Indian territory, through Nepal, for the second time in less than a month. They were arrested on Saturday night at the Raxaul border outpost falling in East Champaran district,...
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A convict serving life sentence in the 2002 Godhra train carnage case was arrested from Gujarat's Panchmahal district a year after he jumped parole, the police said on Sunday. Acting on a tip-off that Sattar was living in Limkheda, the parole furlough squad reached there on Saturday and arrested...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Gujarat on July 27 and 28 during which he will inaugurate the newly-built greenfield airport at Rajkot, officials said on Sunday. He will also inaugurate 'Semicon India 2023', an event in state capital Gandhinagar to highlight investment opportunities in...
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Mumbai Police Control room on Sunday received a threat call, in which the caller informed that a tanker filled with RDX and two Pakistani nationals were going from Mumbai to Goa, said the Mumbai police. The caller identified himself as Pandey. Investigation into the matter is underway, said the...
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Justice Sunita Agarwal was on Sunday sworn in as the 29th Chief Justice of Gujarat high court. She is the second woman CJ of the Gujarat high court. Governor Acharya Devvrat administered the oath of office at a ceremony at Raj Bhavan in Gandhinagar, which was attended by Chief Minister...
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Police with recovered cash and gold from house of accused in Nagpur/ANI
The Maharashtra police have registered a case against a Gondia-based international cricket bookie for allegedly luring a businessman to invest in doctored betting apps, and then duping him to the tune of over Rs 58 crore, the officials said on Sunday. According to officials, a team of...
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The authorities of Hirakud dam in Odisha's Sambalpur district on Sunday released the season's first floodwater to downstream of river Mahanadi, official sources said.The water was released following a steady rise in the water level in the reservoir due to heavy rain in upstream of river...
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A goods train derailed between Narsinghpur and Kareli stations in Madhya Pradesh, disrupting rail traffic on the route, an official said on Sunday. No one was injured in the incident which took place at around 11.30 pm on Saturday in Narsinghpur district, West Central Railway's chief public...
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The Gautam Buddh Nagar administration has issued a flood warning for low-lying regions along the Hindon as water discharge in the river increased, officials said on Sunday. Around 200 people from five villages have been evacuated and shifted to shelter homes after the alert was raised on...
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The government will soon conduct an e-auction of 808 FM radio stations across 284 cities to further increase the footprint of radio communication, Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur said on Sunday. Addressing the Regional Community Radio Sammelan (North) in New Delhi, Thakur...
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Former environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday hit out at the government over its handling of the Cheetah reintroduction programme, saying that if science rather than vanity had been put at the forefront of the project we may not have witnessed the current tragedy. A male cheetah Suraj,...
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Hollywood star Jamie Foxx thanked his family and well-wishers for being a continuous support in his road to recovery as he spoke publicly for the first time since his hospitalisation due to an unspecified health problem earlier this year. Foxx was admitted to an Atlanta hospital in April after...
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Incessant rainfall triggered a landslide near Arakot market and blocked the Arakot-Himachal Pradesh Road in the region, an official said on Sunday. Superintendent of police Uttarkashi Arpan Yaduvanshi said that the Arakot-Himachal Pradesh road was blocked due to a heavy landslide near...
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A bike taxi rider has been arrested for allegedly molesting a woman passenger during a trip in Bengaluru on July 21, the police said on Sunday. K Shivappa (23) from Haveri was arrested based on the complainant's post on social media tagging the city police. The victim told the police that she...
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Justice Alok Aradhe
Justice Alok Aradhe was on Sunday sworn in as Chief Justice of the Telangana high court. Aradhe, who was previously a judge of the Karnataka high court, was administered the oath of office by Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan at an event held at the Raj Bhavan in Hyderabad. Chief Minister K...
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More than 100 illegal structures erected on enemy property in Metropole hotel area in Nainital have been demolished, officials said on Sunday. An enemy property is an immovable asset left behind by people who have taken citizenship of Pakistan and China. The district administration had issued...
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A scene in Christopher Nolan's historical drama Oppenheimer has sparked controversy, with an organisation called Save Culture Save India Foundation demanding the Information and Broadcasting ministry to 'take action and punish those involved' in it.Released on July 21, Oppenheimer is the biopic...
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Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party for comparing the situation in Manipur to that of Bihar, West Bengal and Rajasthan, alleging that the government in the northeastern state has 'collapsed' while the Centre is in a 'self-induced coma'.The BJP has...
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The administration in Maharashtra's Raigad district on Saturday imposed prohibitory orders under section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) in Irshalwadi, where 27 people have died in a landslide.The order issued by sub-divisional officer Karjat Ajit Nairali prohibits the movement of...
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Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal alleged on Saturday that the Manipur government has denied her permission to visit the state to interact with survivors of sexual violence.Maliwal was supposed to visit the northeastern state, rocked by ethnic violence, on July 23.On Friday,...
