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J&K cloudburst: Death toll reaches 61 as search for survivors continues on Day 4

Chisoti: The death toll due to a cloudburst in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district rose to 61, as rescuers continued operations for the fourth day on Sunday, effecting three more blasts to…
Verbal duel between BJP, Congress over Dharmasthala excavation

Bengaluru: The ruling Congress and opposition BJP traded charges on Sunday, August 17, over the ongoing excavation in Dharmasthala, based on allegations of multiple murders, rapes and burials, particularly of young women…

Maharashtra tehsildar suspended for singing Amitabh Bachchan song

Latur: A tehsildar from Maharashtra has been suspended after he was filmed singing a Bollywood song while seated in his official chair at his send-off function following transfer, officials said on Sunday.…
After Kishtwar, another cloudburst hits J&K’s Kathua; 7 dead

Jammu: At least seven persons were killed and five others injured in two separate incidents of cloudburst and landslide in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir early Sunday, officials said. The calamity…
EC ‘stealing’ elections in collusion with BJP, will not allow that: Rahul

Bihar: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday claimed the whole country now knows that the Election Commission is “stealing” elections in collusion with the BJP and asserted that the INDIA bloc will…
‘We will cut you with jhatka’: Elderly man attacked in Uttarakhand; 3 held

A group of inebriated men attacked a Muslim man, forced him to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram‘ and threatened to cut off his beard in Uttarakhand’s Pauri Garhwal region. A video of the…
EC dismisses Opposition’s ‘vote chori’ charge; calls SIR transparent

The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday, August 17, have categorically dismissed the Opposition charge over alleged irregularities in the special intensive revision (SIR) exercise in poll-bound Bihar. Addressing a much-anticipated…

PM Modi inaugurates two major highways in big push to Delhi-NCR infra

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated two major highway projects — the Delhi sections of the Urban Extension Road-II (UER-II) and the Dwarka Expressway, built with an investment of…
Modi urges states to cooperate in implementing proposed GST reforms

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the Centre has circulated the draft of the next-generation GST reforms among states and sought their cooperation to implement the proposal before Diwali.…
Savarkar first propagated two-nation theory: Priyank Kharge

Bengaluru: Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge has claimed that the concept of two nations in India was first articulated by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, much before it was adopted by Muhammad Ali Jinnah and…
Prevailing situation in country worse than time of Emergency: Lalu

Patna: RJD president Lalu Prasad on Sunday alleged that the situation prevailing in the country under the BJP-led central government was worse than the time of the Emergency. The former Bihar chief…
Man walks into police station, confesses to killing wife in Delhi

New Delhi: A 24-year-old woman’s body was recovered from a slum in northeast Delhi’s Seelampur area on Sunday after her husband walked into the local police station and confessed to killing her,…
TN Governor doing ‘cheap politics’ than opposition: CM Stalin

Dharmapuri: Chief Minister M K Stalin on Sunday mounted a scathing attack on Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi, accusing him of doing “cheap politics” than the opposition and charged him with…
BTech students hangs self in Greater Noida hostel room

Noida: A second year engineering student at a private university in Greater Noida allegedly committed suicide by hanging at his hostel room, police said on Sunday. In his suicide note, Shivam Dey…
EC to hold press conference on Sunday amid ‘vote theft’ allegations

New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) will hold a press conference on Sunday amid allegations of “vote theft” levelled by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and relentless protest by opposition parties over the…