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Maharashtra: SIT formed to probe sexual abuse of 2 school girls amid protests
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government on Tuesday ordered the setting up of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the alleged sexual abuse of two female students of a school in Badlapur in…
- India
Founding member of J&K Apni Party resigns, set to join Congress
Srinagar: J&K Apni Party vice president and founding member Zafar Iqbal Manhas on Tuesday resigned from the primary membership of the party to join the Congress party. He was the party’s candidate…
- India
Waqf Bill: Jamiat meeting Oppn leaders, parliamentary panel members
New Delhi: The Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind is holding meetings with opposition leaders as well as members of the Parliament’s joint committee on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill to impress upon them that the proposed…
- India
Rahul highlights gig workers’ plight, posts video of Uber cab ride
New Delhi: Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Monday highlighted the plight of gig workers and asserted that the Congress governments in states would make concrete policies to…
- India
Nirbhaya’s mother slams Mamata Banerjee, says CM failed, demands resignation
Ballia: Amid protests against the alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor in West Bengal, the mother of Nirbhaya, the victim of the 2012 Delhi gang rape case, on Saturday demanded…
- India
Mall in Noida gets hoax bomb threat on email
Noida: People were evacuated from DLF Mall of India in sector 18 here on Saturday, following a bomb threat email, with police later saying that nothing was found following anti-sabotage checks. Additional…
- Middle East
PM Modi stresses need to deescalate situation in call with Netanyahu
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, August, 15 stressed the need for de-escalation of the situation in West Asia during a telephonic conversation with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu and…
- India
BJP allies hesitant on UCC, back simultaneous polls
New Delhi: Most BJP allies have kept their cards close to their chests on the issue of the Uniform Civil Code, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi strongly backed in his Independence Day…
- India
Health officials urged to screen for Mpox at airports in India
New Delhi: Amid reports of Mpox cases in Sweden and Pakistan, an infectious disease expert on Friday, August ,16 urged health authorities to begin screening for the deadly infectious disease at key…
- India
Man bites off father’s thumb in property dispute in Thane
Thane: A man allegedly bit off a part of his father’s thumb during a property dispute in Wagle Estate in Thane, Maharashtra, a police official said on Friday, August,16. The incident took…
- India
Two ‘IED-like devices’ found in Guwahati: Police
Guwahati: Two ‘IED-like devices’ were found in Guwahati on Friday, August,16, taking the total number of ‘bomb-like substances’ seized across Assam in the last 24 hours to 10 after the banned ULFA…
- India
Sensex gains over 1,300 pts led by IT, auto stocks
Mumbai: India’s equity indices closed higher on Friday as global markets rallied after the latest economic data from the US faded out chances of recession in the world’s largest economy. At closing,…
- Bangalore
Bengaluru faces traffic surge with 2000 new vehicles added each day
Bengaluru: The Bengaluru city is grappling with a severe traffic crisis as the number of vehicles continues to surge at an alarming rate. With an estimated one lakh vehicles entering and leaving…