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- India
Rajasthan: Dalit student thrashed for touching teacher’s water bottle dies
Jaipur: A third standard Dalit student, who was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Ahmedabad after being beaten up at a school in Rajasthan’s Jalore district for touching a water container, died on…
- Hyderabad
GHMC organises rally as part of Swatantra Bharata Vajrotsavalu
Hyderabad: A big rally was carried out by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) from head office to Vivekananda statue on Tank bund Road as a part of the Swatantra Bharata Vajrotsavalu…
- Delhi
Delhi: Man wanted in Jahangirpuri violence case arrested
New Delhi: A 38-year-old man wanted in the Jahangirpuri violence case was arrested in northwest Delhi on Saturday, police said. Sheikh Sikandar, a resident of Jahangirpuri, was absconding since the violence in…
- Delhi
Farmers jam Delhi-Jaipur e-way to protest low compensation for land
Gurugram: Thousands of farmers of Kasan, Mokalwas, Sehrawan and other adjoining villages on Saturday blocked the National Highway in Gurugram’s Panchgaon Chowk demanding more compensation for the land acquired in their villages…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: SCR introduces special trains from August 13 to 15
Hyderabad: The South Central Railway (SCR) announced that they will operate three special trains from Narsapur- Secunderabad, Secunderabad to Narasapur, Secunderabad to Tirupati and Tirupati to Secunderabad. The trains will run from…
- World
Sri Lanka allows controversial Chinese ship to visit port
Colombo: Amidst controversy and a diplomatic tussle between India and China, Sri Lanka on Saturday announced that it has allowed controversial Chinese vessel ‘Yuan Wang 5’ to dock at the island’s southern-most…
- Pakistan
Pak to attend counter-terror drills in India for 1st time
Islamabad: Pakistan has confirmed that it will attend the international counter-terrorism exercises in India later this year despite simmering tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. The counter-terrorism exercises are scheduled to be…
- India
Karnataka: Cop suspended for thrashing villager, departmental inquiry ordered
Bellari: A police sub-inspector (PSI), identified as Manikanta, was suspended from his duty after a video surfaced of him thrashing a villager in Karnataka’s Ballari district, the police said. According to Bellari…
- Delhi
Delhi reports 5th monkeypox case
New Delhi: Delhi on Saturday reported the fifth monkeypox case, a 22 year-old-woman who is currently under observation. Speaking to IANS, Suresh Kumar, MD, Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital, said the woman…
- India
Muslims, Christians barred from voting in constitution of ‘Hindu Rashtra’
A group of 30 Hindu seers and experts prepared the first draft of the constitution for the proposed ‘Hindu Rashtra.’ Haridwar Dharam Sansad seer Anand Swaroop released a preamble for the constitution,…
- India
UP: Three booked for raping 14-year-old Dalit girl in Amethi
Amethi: Three youths have been booked for allegedly raping a 14-year-old Dalit girl in a village in the Gauriganj police station area here, police said on Saturday. According to the police, the…
- India
Mathura Bar Association president, secretary suspended from practising in court for 1 year
Mathura: The Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh has suspended the president and the secretary of the Bar Association of Mathura from practising in court for one year for professional misconduct. According to…
- News
India reports nearly 16,000 new COVID-19 cases, 68 deaths
New Delhi: India reported nearly 16,000 new COVID-19 cases and 68 fatalities, including 24 reconciled by Kerala, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Saturday. The 8-am data also showed…
- Sports
Meet the twins from Kashmir who won medals for India at International Wushu Championship
Srinagar: Twin sisters Ayra and Ansa Chisti have made Jammu and Kashmir and the country proud by clinching gold and silver medals respectively in the women’s 56 kg category at the International…
- India
‘Every 8 minutes, a woman succumbs to breast cancer in India’
Hyderabad: Every eight minutes a woman succumbs to breast cancer in India and with 165,000 new cases being annually reported, breast cancer has overtaken cervical cancer to become the commonest cancer affecting…