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A 10-year-old Class 6 student was allegedly sexually assaulted after her hands and legs were tied inside a shop in Delhi's Sadar Bazar area, police said.According to police, the girl had gone out to purchase stationery items, including a notebook and pen, when the alleged incident took...
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A 10-year-old Class 6 student was allegedly sexually assaulted after her hands and legs were tied inside a shop in Delhi's Sadar Bazar area, police said.According to police, the girl had gone out to purchase stationery items, including a notebook and pen, when the alleged incident took...
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The White House has removed CNN from its scheduled role as the television pool representative for Monday, escalating a dispute that began after US President Donald Trump announced a ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House.CNN had been scheduled to serve as the TV pool network on...
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Most Tata Group stocks remained under pressure during the early hours of Monday's trading session as the dispute between Tata Trusts and Tata Sons over the leadership and future structure of the conglomerate escalated, with investors closely watching the possibility of legal proceedings and...
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IIT Bombay on Monday suspended the deanship of Professor Suryanarayana Doolla with immediate effect and issued a formal apology retracting its earlier characterizations of the incident. The decision on suspension was taken by IIT Bombay Director Shireesh B. Kedare. The insititute also clarified...
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The India-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement will come into force on October 20, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday.The two countries had on April 27 signed the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to boost two-way commerce in goods and services and promote investments.The agreement...
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Authorities on Monday launched a demolition drive along the Satbari Gaushala Road in south Delhi's Chhatarpur area as part of a road-widening exercise, officials said.The action was carried out on orders of the district magistrate (South), with bulldozers deployed to raze several 'unauthorised'...
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IIT Bombay says its director has not resigned and rubbishes reports in connection with student's suicide. IIT Bombay says it regrets earlier communication concerning circumstances surrounding student's death.An earlier report by news agency PTI had said that the institute's director, Prof...
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The Congress on Monday claimed the effect of GST rate cuts on various commodities is being neutralised by galloping inflation, and said headline quarterly GDP numbers may give momentary elation to the ruling establishment but there are many faultlines in the India growth story that are not being...
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In view of protests over the suicide of an IIT Bombay student, the institute's director, Prof Shireesh Kedare, has said he will resign on Monday, but noted he must follow the process.The Board of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay is scheduled to meet on Monday to discuss the...
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BJP legislators recited the full version of Vande Mataram at the beginning of the Legislative Assembly and Council proceedings on Monday, when the recording that was officially played in the House ended after two stanzas.The Karnataka government convened a three-day special legislative session to...
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The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to list for urgent hearing a plea by former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee challenging the Election Commission's decision to freeze the Trinamool Congress' name and party symbol amid a dispute between two rival factions of the TMC.Senior advocate...
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A man was allegedly beaten to death in Bihar's Nalanda district following a dispute over an outstanding payment of Rs 1,000, with the deceased's wife alleging that the couple were abducted from their home, tied to a tree and subjected to electric shocks.The wife of the deceased, Surendra Manjhi,...
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A dispute broke out between two groups in Thane's Titwala over which group's Ganpati idol would proceed first during the immersion procession, escalating from a verbal exchange to shoving and physical assault, police said.Following this, the Kalyan Taluka Police registered a case against 70 to 80...
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The Mumbai Police has officially transferred the case of the alleged suicide of a second-year BTech student at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay to the Mumbai Police Crime Branch. The student allegedly died by suicide on Friday evening. The deceased's father filed a formal...
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Two Indian students have been killed in a tragic air accident in Canada during their flight training, the Indian mission has said.Manoj Sivakumar from Tamil Nadu and Srisaran Thirugnanasambantham from Puducherry died while they were on their flight training.The Consulate General of India in...
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Indian benchmark indices opened higher on Monday despite muted cues from GIFT Nifty, as easing oil prices supported sentiment, with the Sensex gaining over 400 points and the Nifty holding above 23,360.Sensex opened at 74,535.18 and was trading at around 74,718.49, up 423.53 points or 0.57%...
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The finance ministry has called a meeting of chief executives of public sector banks (PSBs), regional rural banks (RRBs), the Indian Banks' Association (IBA) and Nabard on Monday to take stock of preparations ahead of a three-day nationwide bank strike beginning September 28.The meeting, chaired...
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The death toll in the Rasuwa floods has risen to 1,451, Nepal's National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) said on Sunday, as search, rescue and relief operations continued in the affected areas.Providing an update on the operations as of 7 PM on Sunday, the NDRRMA said a...
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A 49-year-old teacher accused of sexually assaulting children died after jumping from the third floor of the Bengaluru South district Superintendent of Police's office complex, police said on Monday.The deceased was identified as Shashidhar, a native of Vijayanagara district. He worked as a...
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An orange alert has been issued in six districts of Keralam, with heavy to very heavy rainfall and thunderstorms likely at isolated places on Monday, officials said.The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued the orange alert at 7 am in Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, Kottayam, Idukki, Ernakulam...
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Iran has ruled out reopening the Strait of Hormuz or returning to the previous framework of negotiations with the United States until Washington, DC meets Tehran's conditions, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said, as tensions between the two countries continue to...
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has announced plans to prohibit face coverings such as burqas and niqabs in schools, while also proposing a legal cap on the number of foreign students permitted in each classroom.Speaking at Fenix, a youth event organised by her Brothers of Italy party in...
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The United States has issued a fresh travel warning for Iran, urging American citizens not to travel to the country 'for any reason' and asking those already there to leave immediately amid rising tensions and the possibility of further escalation across West Asia.The US Virtual Embassy in Iran,...
