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PM Modi inspects new Parliament building during surprise visit
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise visit to the new Parliament building on Thursday evening. Sources said that the Prime Minister spent more than an hour inside the new…
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Air India Express launches Goa-Dubai direct flights
Panaji: Air India Express, India’s first international budget airline, on Monday said it has commenced operations from Goa International Airport, with four weekly direct flights on the Goa-Dubai route. The first flight IX…
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70-yr-old visually impaired woman ‘raped’ by former landlord in Jharkhand
Dhanbad: A 70-year-old visually impaired woman was allegedly raped by her former landlord in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad district, police said on Thursday. The alleged incident took place in a colony in Sudamdih area,…
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13 dead, girl still missing after stepwell collapse in Indore temple
Bhopal: At least 13 people, a majority of them women, were killed after they fell into a deep steepwell at a temple in Indore on Thursday, while one minor girl was also…
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Israeli forces detained 115 Palestinians during Ramzan: Report
Jerusalem: The number of Palestinians detained by the Israeli occupation forces, during the first week of holy month of Ramzan reached 115. In a report, the Palestinian Center for Prisoner Studies said…
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Israeli missile attack near Damascus wound 2 soldiers
Damascus: Two soldiers were wounded in an Israeli missile attack near the Syrian capital Damascus on early Thursday morning. “At around 1.20am, the Israeli enemy carried out an aerial aggression from the direction of the occupied…
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2 Indian-origin men arrested for stealing $109K from elderly woman in US
New York: Two Indian-origin men have been arrested for allegedly stealing over $100,000 from a 78 year-old woman in Massachusetts via a computer virus scam, police said. Nikit S Yadav, 22, and…
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Violence over Ram Navami procession in Bengal’s Howrah
Howrah: Violence broke out between two groups when a Ram Navami procession was taken out in West Bengal’s Howrah city, where several vehicles were torched and shops were ransacked on Thursday evening.…
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Israel launches Ofek-13 spy satellite
Tel Aviv: Israel has successfully launched the “Ofek-13” spy satellite into space at dawn on Wednesday. The Ofek-13 satellite, manufacutured by state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). It is the latest in a…
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Kuwait denies residency permit renewal of 5000 expats
Kuwait: Kuwait’s Interior Ministry has denied residency permit renewal applications for 5,000 expatriates who have stayed abroad for more than six months. The expatriates reportedly submitted their renewal applications online, citing “illness,…
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Nine US servicemen of elite unit killed in chopper collision
Washington: Nine US servicemen of the elite 101st Airborne Division – the US Army’s sole air assault formation – were killed when two Black Hawk helicopters crashed during a “routine training mission”…
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Assam woman raped in car by ‘friend’ in Gurugram
Gurugram: A 34-year-old woman from Assam was allegedly raped by a “friend” in a car near Hero Honda chowk here, police said on Thursday. According to the woman, a private firm employee,…
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MP Navneet Rana needles Thackeray, proclaims herself as ‘Hindu Sherni’
Mumbai: On Ram Navami day, independent MP from Amravati, Navneet Ravi Rana attempted to needle her bete-noire, former Chief Minister and Shiv Sena (UBT) President Uddhav Thackeray, here on Thursday. Almost a…
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2 Indian expats take home Rs 22 lakh each in UAE’s Big Ticket draw
Abu Dhabi: Two Indian expatriates won the grand prize of 100,000 Dirhams (Rs 22,36,540) each in the Big Ticket Abu Dhabi weekly draw held on Friday, March 24. The winner of the…