The new battalion, numbered 241, was named Bastariya because it included recruits from Bijapur, Dantewada, Narayanpur, and Sukma districts.
A staff member at the town's hospital said 32 people were injured, five of them critically.
The explosion took place at a construction material dump in the Pan Bazar area when the four passersby, including a woman, were injured around 11.45 am, the sources said.
Commander Kasutubh Gosavi was given the honour for saving 15 lives.
The naval officer had circumnavigated the globe in 2012-13, and was a special invitee at the race, which commemorates 50 years of the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race 1968-69.
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'The unflappable temperament and nerves of steel under extreme pressure -- essential ingredients in space research -- were on full display in the rows occupied by the scientists still engrossed in their monitor screens,' says Minnie Vaid, author of Those Magnificent Women And Their Flying Machines, ISRO's Mission to Mars.
Trump said the Americans defied death and hatred with love and courage and thanked the first responders on the behalf of the "grateful nation".
Stalin has given due respect to seniority in the pecking order, but has also taken into consideration the demands of individual ministries and the suitability of individuals, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Violence continues to scorch south Kashmir following the killing of 'poster-boy' militant Burhan Wani with the death toll going up to 34.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi convened a high-level meeting at his residence on Tuesday morning to review the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.
When he ended his Test career, he held the following Test records: Most Tests (125). Most consecutive Tests (106). Most runs (10,122). Most hundreds (34). Most scores of 50 or more (79). Most hundred partnerships (58).
Two people at the scene were treated for injuries after the vehicle crashed into the large steel barriers erected around the Houses of Parliament complex.
A MiG-29 fighter of the Indian Air Force on Tuesday crashed near the airbase in Jamnagar shortly after taking off for a routine sortie, and the pilot ejected to safety.
Fresh clashes broke out between protesters and security forces in Kashmir, even as Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh is set to visit the Valley on Saturday.
No major clash was reported on Thursday from anywhere in Kashmir.
The horrific attack on the Peshawar school is the terrorists's retaliation for the Zarb-e-Azb military operation in North Waziristan.
Qatar Airways is recruiting Female Cabin Crew.
Top Taliban leader Mullah Omar was sheltered by Pakistan's powerful spy agency Inter-Services intelligence after the outfit's leadership fled from Afghanistan in 2001, according to an email received by former secretary of state Hillary Clinton during her tenure.
'India needs to do what India can do, which is to keep the number of cases down.' 'If it manages to keep the cases down, it will save lives.'
Lieutenant General (retired) Jacob Farj Rafael Jacob Jacob, who played a key role in the 1971 war which liberated Bangladesh from Pakistan, was laid to rest in New Delhi on Thursday.
The national flag will fly half-mast on the day of the funeral in Delhi.
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How China's all powerful Communist party bungled the response to the coronavirus crisis.
The mishap occurred at about 11:40 am.
Samawa is the capital of Muthanna and lies deep in Iraq's Shiite heartland and such attacks there are rare.
He will be cremated with full military honours including a 21-gun salute in his village, Pogarwadi.
Basit Mukhtar was injured by a tear gas shell in clashes on September 5.
The clashes in the Valley erupted after the killing of young Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani in an encounter with security forces on July 8.
'It is pure luck that we did not have any body bags, otherwise things could have been nasty.'
Britain reached the Davis Cup quarter-finals in bizarre circumstances on Sunday when Canadian Denis Shapovalov defaulted for inadvertently blasting a ball into the umpire's face.
Police expect that toll to rise significantly as the building is searched.
Media magnate Indrani Mukherjea, prime accused in the sensational murder case of her daughter Sheena Bora, on Sunday regained consciousness and is "out of danger", hospital authorities said.
She died at her Worli residence in central Mumbai on Monday following cardiac arrest.
With this death, the toll in the ongoing unrest in Kashmir has gone up to 69.
While K P S Gill was credited with rooting out insurgency in Punjab, international rights groups accused him of violating people's rights.
AIIMS doctors said the BJP stalwart and former external affairs minister died of a cardiac arrest.
