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A 19-year-old first-year MBBS student allegedly died by suicide by jumping from a building, the police said on Sunday.The deceased was a student of Osmania Medical College.Some local residents noticed his body in the early hours of Sunday in an area under Uppal police station limits and informed...
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The Jharkhand government has invited students agitating over alleged irregularities in recruitment examinations for a fresh rounds of talks on Monday, an official said. The decision came after the Sub-Divisional Officer and ADM, Law and Order held a meeting with the students at the Jaipal...
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A 25-year-old man riding a motorcycle was seriously injured on Sunday after Chinese 'manjha' -- a banned variant of the kite string -- got entangled around his neck in Faridabad, police said on Sunday.The injured man, identified as Pankaj Kumar, a resident of the Palla Power House area, has...
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The National Testing Agency on Sunday announced re-test for three papers of the UGC-NET examination -- English, Commerce and Sociology -- following complaints about several errors in these papers.The English paper will be held on September 9 from 9 am to 12 noon in Shift 1, while the Commerce...
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A case was registered against nine persons following a complaint alleging moral policing and assault in Dakshina Kannada district, the police said on Sunday.The incident occurred in the Konalu Kolpe area of Kadaba, under the Uppinangady police station limits, they said.According to a complaint...
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A complaint has been filed with the Delhi police seeking registration of an FIR against Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi over alleged obstruction during the singing of the national song Vande Mataram at the Independence Day function at the Congress headquarters here.The...
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Six people, including three students, have been killed in two separate road accidents in Jharkhand, the police on Sunday said.Three youths were killed in a head-on collision between two scooties near Sengra Toli in Lohardaga district on the night of August 15, a police officer said.The victims...
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Four people were booked for allegedly assaulting and body-shaming a 33-year-old woman police sub-inspector and threatening her while she was on duty, the police said on Sunday.The incident occurred on August 12 when the PSI attached to K R Puram Traffic Police Station was on duty, they...
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A man died after allegedly being assaulted during a dispute in a village under the Gajraula police area in Amroha, the police said on Sunday. The death has sparked tensions in the village, as the incident involved members of two separate communities.The police said the deceased was...
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The Amritsar rural police on Sunday claimed to have thwarted a terror plot to target a police establishment with the recovery of a 690-gram IED, along with an electronic detonator.The seizure was made on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday.Amritsar rural police averts a terror plot...
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Europe emerged as the top destination for Indian electric motor car shipments in the first quarter of 2026-27, with the United Kingdom ranking as the second-largest market and recording imports worth $78.7 million, compared with negligible shipments in the corresponding quarter of the previous...
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A 13-year-old girl died after being electrocuted while ironing a dress at her house in North Paravur near Kochi on Sunday, the police said.The deceased was identified as Swathi, daughter of Saneesh and Neethu, who lived in a rented house in Thattukadavu, North Paravur.According to police, the...
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Students affiliated with ABVP and NSUI have clashed at the English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) campus in Hyderabad, resulting in injuries to at least seven students and the registration of cases, the police said on Sunday.The clash occurred on August 14 following an argument between...
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As many as 11 people, among them seven children, were hospitalised due to suspected food poisoning after eating a birthday cake that allegedly contained a dead lizard in Maharashtra's Palghar district, the police said on Sunday.The local authorities and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have...
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Security forces in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday launched a joint cordon-and-search operation in the Ramnagar forest area of Udhampur district after receiving inputs about the suspicious movement of two unidentified persons there, officials said.A joint team comprising the Jammu and Kashmir Police,...
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Activist Manoj Jarange Patil on Sunday held a meeting with experts and researchers to chalk out a strategy for the Maratha reservation agitation planned on August 29 in Maharashtra's Jalna district.The meeting held at Jarange's village, Antarwali Sarati, focused on the demands previously...
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Three youth have been detained for allegedly gang-raping a 19-year-old woman in the Sadar Kotwali area of Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri district, the police said on Sunday.Superintendent of police Dr Khyati Garg on Sunday said that the incident occurred on Saturday afternoon.One of the accused,...
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Actor Mandakini went down memory lane and shared a picture of her film Ram Teri Ganga Maili as it completed 41 years of release. The film was directed by Raj Kapoor and featured the actor in the role of Ganga Singh. It released in 1985 and revolved around an innocent hill girl and...
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Around 400 students, including 150 girls, were left stranded at a government-run residential school in Odisha's Kendrapara district after floodwater entered the campus on Sunday, an official said.The school is located in a low-lying area at Kulasahi village under Penthapala gram panchayat in...
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One student was killed and two others seriously injured when the auto in which they were travelling collided with a car in Assam's Karbi Anglong district, the police said on Sunday.The accident occurred on the Dhansiri-Diphu road on Saturday when the three students were going to attend the...
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Sunny Deol and Preity Zinta-starrer Batwara 1947 saw a big jump in its box office collection on Saturday, with the film earning Rs 12.65 crore on its second day, according to trade analyst Taran Adarsh.The film, which opened with Rs 5.25 crore on Friday, August 14, recorded a 140.95 per cent...
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Hours after West Bengal assembly's former deputy speaker Ashis Banerjee was found hanging at a TMC office, Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday expressed apprehension that corrupt elements within the opposition party might have threatened him.He said the purported suicide note, written on...
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The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) arrested three men carrying 3 kg of smuggled foreign gold worth Rs 4.72 crore following a violent confrontation that left two officials injured in Madhya Pradesh's Indore, an official said on Sunday.Acting on specific intelligence, DRI officers on...
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Torrential rains in Himachal Pradesh have led to the closure of 118 roads across the state, as the local meteorological office issued an orange alert for heavy to very heavy rains at isolated places in five districts on Monday and Tuesday.Moderate to heavy rains lashed parts of Kangra district...
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The India meteorological department (IMD) on Sunday issued a 'red warning' for extremely heavy rainfall in parts of Odisha as a fresh low-pressure area has formed in the Bay of Bengal. It advised fishermen not to venture into the sea along and off the West Bengal and adjoining Bangladesh,...
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Around 40 people on a steamer were briefly left stranded in the middle of the swollen Chambal River on Sunday morning after the vessel, operating without life jackets, ran out of fuel in Madhya Pradesh's Bhind district, officials said.The vessel drifted helplessly in the surging waters before...
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A 27-year-old MCD sanitation worker was allegedly stabbed to death in east Delhi's Kalyanpuri area, following which several of his colleagues staged a protest demanding the immediate arrest of the accused and compensation for his family.The deceased has been identified as Anil.According to...
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The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a plea of the Tamil Nadu government seeking directions to the Karnataka government for immediate release of the share of Cauvery water to it.According to the top court's cause list of August 17, the matter would come up for hearing before a bench...
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A Pune court on Sunday remanded alleged drug kingpin Virender Singh Basoya, who was recently extradited from the UAE, to the NCB's custody till August 21.A Delhi court on Friday allowed the Narcotics Control Bureau's (NCB) plea seeking three-day transit remand of Basoya, accused in a multi-crore...
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An Arunachal Pradesh native studying at an engineering college in Kothamangalam near in Kochi has been found dead in the room of a rented house, the police said on Sunday.Higher education minister Roji M John told reporters that a detailed probe will be conducted into the incident.The deceased...
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Congress leader Sonia Gandhi (R) during the Independece Day event at AICC headquarters in New Delhi on Saturday./ANI Video Grab
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders have lodged a formal complaint against Congress leader Sonia Gandhi at the Urwa Police Station in Karnataka on Sunday, following a controversy during the recitation of the national song Vande Mataram at the Congress headquarters in New Delhi on Independence...
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The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Sunday released the provisional answer keys for 84 subjects of the UGC-NET June 2026 examination.In a post on X, the NTA said the challenge window is open and it will remain open from August 16 to 18 till 11:59 PM.Candidates will have to pay a processing fee...
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge hoists the National Flag at party headquarters on 80th Independence Day, in presence of CPP chairperson Sonia Gandhi and other./ANI Video Grab
Sumitro Chatterjee, Bharatiya Janata Party MLA and a direct descendant of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, has sought an unconditional apology from Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi over an alleged incident at the AICC headquarters on Independence Day, where he claimed there was...
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An Indian Navy sailor, his wife and two minor children were found dead at their residence in the Navy Nagar area of south Mumbai, the police said on Sunday.According to the Cuff Parade police, the sailor was found hanging at his house on Saturday night, and the bodies of his wife and children,...
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The licensed pistol of a passenger at the Varanasi airport went off during security screening, leaving a female staff and another person injured on Sunday morning.Both the injured have been admitted to a hospital for treatment.A passenger identified as Kamlesh Rai -- a resident of Azamgarh...
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A man, who rushed to help pilgrims after a canter truck carrying them came in contact with a high-voltage power line in Haryana's Karnal, was electrocuted while over 20 people in the vehicle were injured, the police said on Sunday.The incident occurred late Saturday night when the canter...
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The Maharashtra FDA has issued a show-cause notice to actors Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn and Tiger Shroff over their advertisement for Vimal Elaichi, claiming it prima facie amounts to indirect or surrogate promotion of prohibited pan masala and tobacco-related products.The use of the expression...
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Actor Emraan Hashmi's film Awarapan 2 has earned over Rs 50 crore on the second day of release at the domestic box office.The film is directed by Nitin Kakkar and is a sequel to the 2007 cult film Awarapan, which featured the actor in the role of Shivam. Besides Hashmi, Awarapan...
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Two suspected criminals were shot and injured during an encounter with the police in the Dankaur area of Greater Noida after they allegedly held two passengers hostage inside a car and extorted money from them via online transfers.The incident unfolded on August 15 when a Police Response Vehicle...
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Ahead of Union Home Minister Amit Shah's programme in Alwar on Sunday, police detained some students, saying they were allegedly planning to hold a protest and show black flags over a range of issues, including the demand for restoration of student union elections.Shah, accompanied by Rajasthan...
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State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has secured a licence from the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), allowing it to resume full operations in Venezuela after years of limiting activity because of sanctions-related risks, a senior company official said.The US approval...
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A video showing a live rat inside an ice cream storage crate at a quick-commerce delivery hub in Kalyan's Godrej Hill area has gone viral on social media, igniting sharp criticism over public health standards and safety protocols in online food deliveries.The footage, captured inside the local...
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A Bharatiya Janata Party leader has been arrested in West Bengal's Cooch Behar district for allegedly extorting money from goods-laden vehicles and abducting a businessman's son after the latter's family failed to pay a demanded amount, police said.The accused, identified as Biswajit Talukdar, is...
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E. coli bacteria has been found in drinking water samples picked up from water coolers at several railway stations, a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General has said.Unhygienic conditions were also found in railway washrooms, the auditor said.Water sample from water cooler was positive for...
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Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his 'Maoist mentality' remarks, saying 'proud to be dimagi naxal!'In a post on X, Chidambaram took a jibe at the prime minister a day after his 80th Independence Day address from the Red Fort, where...
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Qatar on Saturday categorically denied reports claiming that Iranian pilots were detained, stating that the allegations were misleading and came at a sensitive time amid ongoing diplomatic efforts to de-escalate regional tensions.Qatar's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Majed Mohammed Al-Ansari,...
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Former deputy speaker of West Bengal Assembly, Asish Banerjee, was found hanging at a Trinamool Congress party office in Birbhum district on Sunday morning, police sources said.A purported suicide note was also recovered from the party office located near his residence in Rampurhat, they said.The...
