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Negotiations between India and the US on the proposed trade agreement, which began in March, are progressing in a positive atmosphere and both the countries are satisfied with the progress, Commerce and Industry Minister Piysuh Goyal said on Thursday. He said that in February this year,...
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With two more deaths, the toll in the Punjab floods climbed to 55, according to official data. Relief operations are underway across the state and special measures are being taken to prevent the outbreak of diseases as floodwaters have started receding, officials said on Thursday.One...
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Actor Siddharth will feature alongside Freida Pinto in Unaccustomed Earth, the upcoming series adaptation of author Jhumpa Lahiri's short story collection of the same title. Described as an epic, soapy, and culturally vibrant drama about a tight-knit Indian American community navigating...
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Two Tejas Mark-1A fighter jets will be delivered to the Indian Air Force next month by state-run aerospace major Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), officials said on Thursday. HAL said it received one jet engine from American defence major GE Aerospace and another engine will be...
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Miscreants clashed with security forces at two places in Kuki-majority Churachandpur district of Manipur on Thursday evening, days ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the northeastern state, officials said.They tore apart banners and cut-outs installed on roads, and vandalised...
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Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Thursday urged Muslim countries to unite against Israeli aggression as he met the Qatari emir and expressed solidarity following Tel Aviv's recent attacks targeting residential areas in Doha.Shehbaz Sharif, who travelled to Qatar on a day-long visit, held a...
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Coastal security was stepped up on Thursday and a search operation was conducted after the police received a call warning of a blast in the sea off Mumbai coast, an official said. The call was received at 112 helpline control room situated at Mahape in Navi Mumbai in the morning, said...
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Former spinner Harbhajan Singh on Thursday said relations between India and Pakistan must improve before the two nations face off against each other on the cricket field. Traditional rivals India and Pakistan are set to clash in Dubai for the first time since Operation Sindoor, which...
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IT services giant Infosys on Thursday said its board has approved the company's largest-ever share buyback programme worth Rs 18,000 crore. Infosys will buy 10 crore fully paid-up equity shares of a face value of Rs 5 each, representing up to 2.41 per cent of the total paid-up equity...
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday released picture of 'person of interest' in Charlie Kirk's assassination, seeking public's help in identifying the suspect.The two photos released show a person wearing a cap, sunglasses and a long-sleeve black shirt.We are asking for the...
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Automaker Mahindra & Mahindra on Thursday said it has issued an advisory to customers and dealers asserting its petrol engines are fully compliant with standards and all petrol vehicles can be operated safely with E20 fuel.In a statement, Mahindra said it will honour all warranty commitments...
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India is a strategic partner whose trajectory will shape the region and beyond, United States ambassador-designate to Delhi Sergio Gor said on Thursday, underlining that he is committed to advancing America's interest in this important partnership.Last month, President Donald Trump promoted Gor,...
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The rupee slumped 24 paise and closed for the day at an all-time low of 88.35 against the US dollar, as ongoing tariff issue between India and the US weighed heavily on the domestic currency's vulnerability. Forex traders said a recovery in the US dollar ahead of the inflation data and...
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The Namo Bharat train, operating at its highest speed of 160 kmph on the 55-km section of Delhi-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System, has become the fastest running train in the country. Earlier, Gatiman Express, launched in 2016, was the country's first semi-high speed train, which...
20:45
United States President Donald Trump has announced the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States, for slain right-wing activist and influencer Charlie Kirk.Charlie Kirk, 31, was shot dead when he was speaking at an event in Utah on Wednesday.Charlie was a...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to lay foundation stones and inaugurate various development projects worth Rs 8,500 crore in Manipur on September 13, officials said on Thursday.This will be his first visit to the state after ethnic violence broke out between Kukis and Meiteis in May...
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A 12-year-old boy allegedly died by suicide in his house in Jharkhand's Dumka district on Thursday over refusal by his mother to buy him a smartphone, police said.The incident took place at Mathakesho village under Seraiyahat Police Station. The boy used to frequently quarrel with his...
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A teacher and another individual were detained in Doda on Thursday after a low-intensity explosion occurred at his house, triggering fresh panic in a district already on edge from political unrest. Police and forensic experts are investigating the blast, which is believed to have been caused...
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday sacked his Ambassador to the United States, Lord Peter Mandelson, over scandalous emails linking him to convicted American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.In a statement in the House of Commons, Foreign Office Minister Stephen Doughty informed members...
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The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on September 12 bail pleas of activists Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and Gulfisha Fatima after failing to get the reprieve from the high court in the UAPA case related to the alleged conspiracy behind the February 2020 riots in the national capital. ...
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Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said the social media rage over blending of 20 per cent ethanol in petrol fuel was a 'paid campaign to target him politically. There has been clarity on the E20 (20 per cent ethanol blended petrol) with the stakeholders,...
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At least eight Naxalites were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh's Gariaband district on Thursday, a police official said. The gunfight broke out in the forest under Mainpur police station limits when security personnel were out on an anti-Naxalite...
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Batting legend and former India captain Sachin Tendulkar on Thursday rejected speculation that he is in contention to be the next BCCI President with his management firm describing all such talk as unfounded. The 52-year-old's management firm issued the statement on his behalf to put...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced a financial assistance of Rs 1,200 crore for flood and rain-affected areas of Uttarakhand. He also announced an ex gratia of Rs 2 lakh for the families of the deceased and Rs 50,000 for those left injured in a series of natural calamities...
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Youth-led Gen Z group, which spearheaded the anti-government protests in Nepal, Thursday said that Parliament must be dissolved and the Constitution should be amended to reflect the will of the people, as the death toll from the demonstrations increased to 34.The Gen Z protesters organised a...
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A group of armed men posing as Income Tax officers on Thursday looted jewellery and cash worth a total of Rs 5 lakh from a house in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, police said.The incident took place barely 200 metres from the local police station.Around 5.20 am, six men came in an SUV and entered...
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is only medically alive but brain dead, and imposing him on the people of Bihar would be an insult to them, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Sudhakar Singh said, expressing confidence over the Mahagathbandhan getting a two-thirds majority in the upcoming Bihar...
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Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann was discharged from Fortis Hospital in Mohali on Thursday, days after he was hospitalised following exhaustion and low heart rate. On Wednesday, the hospital authorities said Mann had shown significant improvement and doctors were evaluating the...
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Vice-President-elect C P Radhakrishnan will be administered the oath of office by President Droupadi Murmu on Friday, officials said. Former Maharashtra Governor Radhakrishanan will be sworn in as the next VP at a ceremony scheduled to be held at 10 am at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, they...
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A 57-year-old retired woman was duped of Rs 3.75 crore by fraudsters who allegedly used an AI-generated deepfake video of spiritual leader Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev to trick her into investing in an online trading platform, police said on Thursday. The woman, a resident of C V Raman...
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At least 43 BJP members on Thursday resigned in Phungyar constituency of Manipur's Ukhrul district, days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi's likely visit to the northeastern state, a party functionary said. Those who stepped down from the party's Phungyar Mandal in the Naga-majority...
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A man committed suicide allegedly after hanging his three-year-old daughter to death in Beed district of Maharashtra, apparently as a result of a family dispute, police said on Thursday. His body was recovered from Imampur village in Beed on Tuesday, while the minor daughter was...
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Benchmark BSE Sensex climbed 123 points while broader Nifty settled above 25,000 on Thursday, tracking a rally in global peers amid Fed rate cut hopes.Rallying for the fourth day in a row, the 30-share Sensex climbed 123.58 points or 0.15 per cent to settle at 81,548.73. During the day, it...
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The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast heavy rainfall across several parts of Himachal Pradesh in the coming days, as light showers followed by fog enveloped the state's capital, Shimla, on Thursday.The IMD has issued a warning for rainfall across Himachal Pradesh over the next...
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Charred remains of a bus in Kathmandu
Amid ongoing unrest in the country for the past several days, Nepal President Ram Chandra Paudel on Thursday appealed to maintain peace, asserting that he is making every effort to find a way out of the current situation.President Paudel said, Respected Nepali brothers and sisters, I am making...
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Telangana BJP President N Ramchander Rao on Thursday slammed Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge for his remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.Speaking to ANI, Rao claimed that Kharge is making objectionable remarks due to his growing age.Due to growing...
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The Baisaran meadow where the attack took place
A special court in Jammu has rejected the NIA's plea for a polygraph test and narco analysis of the two men arrested in connection with the Pahalgam terror attack, ruling that the scientific techniques would violate the right against self incrimination. The National Investigation Agency,...
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The Nepal Police has urged the public to return any weapons, vehicles, communication devices, body armor, uniforms, or other items that were seized or found during the protests held from September 8-10, reports the Himalayan Times. Officials have requested that such items be handed over to...
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Several truck operators were stranded at the West Bengal-Nepal border at Panitanki, Darjeeling district, on Thursday. A truck driver who is stranded at Panitanki, said that they are facing a huge monetary loss. I have been here for the last three days. The load of poultry food and...
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Sanjay Singh clambers on the gate to talk to Farooq Abdullah
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor Arvind Kejriwal took a jibe at the Centre after former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah was not allowed to meet MP Sanjay Singh, who went to Srinagar to protest AAP MLA Mehraj Malik's arrest. Sharing an X post, Kejriwal called the Jammu and...
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Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt in a scene from the film
Now that she's named her successor as Vogue's top editor, Anna Wintour seems a bit more relaxed. At the very least, she's more willing to talk about the hit 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada.Based on the 2003 bestselling novel of the same name by Lauren Weisberger, who had previously worked as...
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Security personnel outside the former Nepal PM's home
The rescue operation initiated by the Andhra Pradesh Government continues to gain momentum, as 154 boarding passes were issued to Indian tourists in Kathmandu on Thursday. From Simikot, the charter plane carrying 12 Telugu tourists has successfully landed in Nepalganj, where the arranged cars...
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Inside the SpiceJet flight
SpiceJet's Kathmandu-bound plane faced a suspected tailpipe fire at the Delhi airport on Thursday and returned to the bay. The airline said the aircraft underwent detailed engineering checks and no abnormalities were found. The flight SG041 was being operated with a Boeing 737-8 aircraft,...
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Gen-Z leader Diwakar Dangal
Voices from Nepal: Gen-Z leader Anil Baniya says, We did this movement after getting fed up with the old-aged leaders. We had called for a peaceful protest, but the political cadres caused the arson and then vandalised the infrastructure. Through online surveys, the Gen-Z leaders voted for...
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Vice-President CP Radhakrishnan demitted office today
Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan demits office due to his election as Vice-President. Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat to discharge functions of the Governor of Maharashtra.
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Security was upped at the Indo-Nepal border
The Sashastra Seema Bal that guards the India-Nepal border has caught about 60 persons from various locations along the international front, officials said. Most of them are Nepalese who are suspected to have escaped in jailbreaks during the unrest in their country. SSB troops caught...
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The Change of Guard Ceremony will not take place on September 13, 20, and 27 at the Forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan, as the Ceremonial Battalion will be engaged in rehearsals for the presentation ceremony of the diamond jubilee Silver Trumpet and Trumpet Banner to the Presidents Bodyguard.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with his Mauritian counterpart, Navinchandra Ramgoolam on Thursday where the two leaders held a bilateral meeting and exchanged several documents. PM Modi highlighted the special relationship between India and Mauritius and reiterated how the Indian Ocean...
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Security measures have been tightened in Imphal and Churachandpur district headquarters town ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's likely visit to Manipur on Saturday, officials said. Both state and central forces personnel have been deployed in large numbers in and around the nearly...
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E-commerce major Amazon on Thursday said it has expanded its 10-minute delivery service, Amazon Now, to select parts of Mumbai, following successful rollouts in Bengaluru and Delhi. Amazon has opened more than 100 micro-fulfilment centres across the three cities to enable faster deliveries and...
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An inside view of the former PM's gutted home.
The wife of former Nepalese PM Khanal, who reports said was burnt alive when her house was set on fire by protestors, is in fact alive but critical. The Kathmandu Post reported that despite earlier reports stating that she was killed in the arson attack, Ravi Laxmi Chitrakar, the wife of...
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Nepali army patrol the VVIP Singha Durbar office complex
The death toll from the ongoing Gen Z protests in the Kathmandu Valley has climbed to 31, The Kathmandu Post reported, citing officials from the Department of Forensic Medicine at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, where the deceased have been brought for postmortem examinations.As per The...
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Activist Ramesh Gaichor, accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, has been released from jail, pursuant to the temporary bail granted to him, the prison authorities informed the Bombay High Court on Thursday. Gaichor, who was granted three-day temporary bail by the HC on August 26 to...
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Prisoners burn furniture at a jail in Kathmandu to escape
The Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) has apprehended 35 inmates who escaped from various prisons in Nepal in recent days, officials confirmed on Thursday. Of these, 22 were caught along the India-Nepal border in Uttar Pradesh, 10 in Bihar, and three in West Bengal. Officials, privy to the...
11:51
The PM with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin at the SCO
Senior journalist and columnist Nitin Gokhale writes on X on the thaw in the relationship between India and the US:More than 48 hours after the Trump-Modi exchange on X lowering the heat in India-US relations, many questions remain on why and how it happened, who were involved and what...
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The Supreme Court on Thursday refused urgent listing of a plea seeking cancellation of the cricket match between India and Pakistan in the upcoming Asia Cup. The matter was mentioned before a bench of Justices J K Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi by a lawyer for urgent listing. What is the...
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The gutted Parliament building in Kathmandu
Negotiations are set to take place today between the Nepali Army, President Ram Chandra Paudel, and Gen Z youth representatives to decide the leadership of an interim government amid ongoing political turmoil, says the Himalayan Times. According to sources, Gen Z protest leaders have...
10:55
Fundamentum Partnership, the venture capital firm co-founded by Nandan Nilekani, said its flagship growth fund had been generating 35 per cent internal rate of return, performance that had prompted the firm to launch a dual-track investment strategy targeting the country's underserved scale-up...
10:53
Aiming at expanding capacity in election-bound Bihar, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved two major infrastructure projects -- a Rs 3,169 crore railway line and a Rs 4,447 crore highway.The doubling of the 177-kilometre Bhagalpur-Dumka-Rampurhat single railway line and the construction of an...
10:48
Charlie Kirk
Two people who were considered suspects in the shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk were later released as neither have current ties to the shooting, the Utah Department of Public Safety said in a statement.One person was charged with obstructing university police, as they previously...
10:29
The gutted house of the former Nepal PM
Around 12 to 13 inmates were injured after the Nepalese Army fired shots on Thursday morning to stop a mass escape attempt at the Ramechhap District Prison, The Kathmandu Post reported, citing officials.According to The Kathmandu Post, citing the Chief District Officer of Ramechhap, Shyam Krishna...
10:10
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has coordinated the return of Munawar Khan from Kuwait through INTERPOL Channels. Munawar Khan is a wanted subject of the CBI in the case of forgery and cheating. The International Police Cooperation Unit (IPCU), CBI, in collaboration with MEA and...
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US President Donald Trump has described the killing of right-wing political commentator and conservative activist Charlie Kirk a dark moment for America and accused the radical left of inciting such political violence across the country.In an address late Wednesday (local time), Trump paid...
09:46
Nepal Army on Thursday extended prohibitory orders in three districts of Kathmandu Valley while allowing public movement during specific windows even as the Himalayan nation gradually returned to normal after violent demonstrations forced Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli to resign.Even as the troops...
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Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Rajkumar Rai, also known as Aala Rai, was gunned down in Patna's Munna Chak area under Chitragupt Nagar police station, according to Parichay Kumar, SP East.According to police, Rai was shot by criminals who were chasing him in an ambush.The deceased, a resident...
09:31
Urban Company's Rs 1,900 crore IPO got lapped up within hours of launch.On the first day, the share sale -- through which the company is raising Rs 472 crore in fresh capital -- was subscribed more than 3x, with the retail portion already seeing over seven times more demand than shares on offer....
09:30
India's outward foreign direct investment (FDI) in August moderated to $2.1 billion from $3.4 billion in the same month a year ago.Sequentially, it declined sharply against $4.1 billion in July, according to RBI data.Outbound FDI, expressed as a financial commitment, comprises three components:...
09:28
Billionaire Sunil Mittal's family office has withdrawn from discussions to acquire a 49 per cent stake in Haier Appliances (India) after failing to reach an agreement on valuation.Haier India's Chinese parent company Haier group was seeking a valuation of about $2 billion (Rs 17,100 crore)....
09:24
More than 200 passengers on a Singapore-bound Air India plane had a harrowing time at the Delhi airport as they were first deboarded from the aircraft due to cabin temperature issue and were later flown to their destination after a delay of nearly six hours. The flight AI2380, to be operated...
09:13
A day after Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli resigned, leaving a leadership vacuum in the country amid heightened political tensions following violent protests, youth in Kathmandu voiced support for law and order.Amid the tense atmosphere, discussions have begun over who should lead the...
08:59
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has slammed the National Democratic Alliance government in Bihar after police baton-charged protesters in Patna. However, it was not clear whether he was referring to the reported baton charge of workers protesting the state government's move to suspend 16 land...
08:40
United States President Donald Trump announced on social media that conservative activist Charlie Kirk has died after he was shot in the neck while speaking at a Utah Valley University event.Trump said that Kirk 'was loved and admired by ALL.'In a post on his social media platform Truth Social,...
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Prime Minister of Mauritius, Dr. Navinchandra Ramgoolam, landed in the spiritual and sacred city of Varanasi on Wednesday, receiving a ceremonial welcome and Guard of Honour.He was warmly received by the Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Anandiben Patel.In a post on X, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal...
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Three people, including two children, were killed after a dilapidated house collapsed in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district on Wednesday evening following heavy rain, an official said. The incident occurred at a quarters in BCCL under the jurisdiction of Lodna police outpost. At least seven...
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The Manipur government on Wednesday banned air guns in Churachandpur district in view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's likely visit on September 13, according to an order. The order issued by District Magistrate Dharun Kumar S said the use, carrying and brandishing of air guns in...
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