With this, the death count in the August 2 night tragedy has gone up to 28, while 12 people are still missing.
The Indian table tennis players had a bitter-sweet day at the Asian Games as the mixed doubles team of Achanta Sharath Kamal and Poulomi Ghatak crashed out while the women's doubles team got the better of arch-rivals Pakistan in a round-of-32 match in Incheon on Monday.
Luxury carmaker DaimlerChrysler said on Friday that it would wipe out its accumulated loss of Rs 280 crore
Flood and erosion is a serious issue in the state as more than 4.27 lakh hectares or 7.4 per cent of the state's total area have already been eroded by the Brahmaputra and its tributaries since 1950.
The tightening of traffic restrictions put in place to contain the spread of the coronavirus by Gurgaon and Ghaziabad administrations on their borders with Delhi led to chaos and traffic congestion on Friday.
Indian-American Ghazala Hashmi, a former community college professor, created history by becoming the first Muslim woman to be elected to the Virginia State Senate.
'The Street is divided on when we could recover from demonetisation.' 'The government believes it is a pain at best for two quarters.' 'Some analysts feel the impact could be felt for two-three quarters and some that it could last for 12 to 15 months.' 'Investors are stuck in a no-action zone.'
The incident is said to have occurred in the wee hours when a huge mound of earth fell on the 'row houses' and two children and five women were among the deceased, most of whom were plantation workers from neighbouring Tamil Nadu.
The resisting Jacobite Bishops and priests courted arrest after the district collector, who reached there amid their forceful evacuation from the church, held talks with top leaders.
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Founded in 1966 by Bal Thackeray, the Shiv Sena in its more than five decades long journey has allied with the Congress, formally and informally.
Two more bodies were on Sunday found in the search and rescue operations which continued for fourth day following the collapse of a bridge on Mumbai-Goa highway near Mahad in Raigad district, taking the death toll to 26.
Besides late Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray and former prime minister Indira Gandhi, NCP president Sharad Pawar also figured in the posters.
The letter was seized during nationwide raids conducted by the Pune police in connection with the case following which these activists were arrested, he said.
While on one hand the nation debates the delay in deciding mercy petition of death row convicts, here is an interesting case from Bihar where the mercy petitions have gone missing. The National Human Rights Commission is seized off a complaint filed by the Asian Centre for Human Rights on this issue.
A shocking fact revealed by a pan-India survey that was flagged at a seminar of Dalit intellectuals
The hit-and-run case involving actor Salman Khan did not commence on Monday as his lawyer could not come to court due to ill-health, but a key witness made an oral request for police protection which the judge said he would consider after a written submission is made.
In keeping with the trend seen elsewhere in the country so far, an all-time-high 76.82 percent of the voters exercised the franchise in the two Lok Sabha constituencies of Goa on Saturday.
Suhas Salgaonkar, a 47-year-old graduate who runs a PR agency in Mumbai, says Sachin Tendulkar is the biggest reason he watches cricket
The Hindi version of Rajinikanth's Kabali did not find much love outside Tamil Nadu
'It is less polarising than Hindutva.'
'If Rahul wants to pick up the sacred thread where his 'daadi' left it, especially when the BJP, which reduced his party to 44 in 2014, claims monopoly over Hinduism, it's smart politics.' 'Why cede your Gods to your rival?' asks Shekhar Gupta.
Samples taken from Yasser Arafat's body contained at least 18 times the normal levels of polonium, suggesting the Palestinian icon was poisoned with the radioactive material, Swiss scientists have said.
Analysts expect the indices to dip further if the global macros do not stabilise
The National Investigation Agency on Tuesday informed the Bombay high court that it cannot probe into the murder of anti-superstition activist Dr Narendra Dabholkar as the offence fell under the Indian Police Code and was not covered under the purview of NIA Act.
Of the 15 people who led the 132-year-old party post independence, four have belonged to the Gandhi-Nehru family.
'The problem lies in the popular perception that the Marathas are a rich, politically powerful and dominant caste in the state... The truth is different. The tragedy of this community is that only 137 Maratha families are the dominant players in state politics. The disparity is so wide, that the rest of the Maratha community isn't even half as rich, forget being powerful,' says N Suresh.
In an online chat with readers overseas education consultant NNS Chandra addressed queries related to international admissions.
In a case smacking of religious discrimination, a young MBA graduate was denied employment in a diamond export company in Mumbai for being a Muslim, prompting the police to register a case after the issue drew widespread condemnation.
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'It is difficult to imagine the BJP becoming the legatee of Ambedkar. Whichever way one looks at it, Ambedkar's thought and Hindu nationalism are not easy to reconcile.'
