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Veteran journalist Kuldip Nayar passes away; Prez Kovind, PM Modi condole | Amid ruckus, government suspends Australian parliament; Turnbull resignation on cards | Rahul Gandhi links unemployment, demonetisation, GST to lynchings in India | Two dead, 13 injured in fire at Mumbai's high-rise building | Andhra teacher beaten up, stripped, paraded naked for allegedly raping student | BJP worker killed by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama | 7.3 earthquake hits Venezuela, no casualty | Narendra Modi greets nation on Id-ul-Zuha | Assam: Police arrest hospital employee for allegedly molesting patient | Asian Games: Saurabh Chaudhary wins gold in 10m Air Pistol

Assam CM Sonowal directs Food & Civil Supplies department to take steps for controlling essential commodity prices

Sep 21, 2019, at 08:02 pm

Guwahati,: Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has directed the state Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs department to take effective and immediate steps for controlling the spiraling prices of the essential commodity in the state.

By-elections in four assembly constituencies of Assam to be held on Oct 21

Sep 21, 2019, at 07:55 pm

Guwahati: The by-elections in four assembly constituencies of Assam will be held on Oct 21.

Rape accused man garlanded with shoes, paraded in Assam’s Kathiatoli

Sep 21, 2019, at 06:46 pm

Guwahati, Sep 21 (IBNS): A rape accused man was thrashed, garlanded with shoes and paraded for allegedly raped his own niece in Assam’s Nagaon district on Saturday.

5800 numbers WY tablet worth Rs 17.40 lakh seized in Manipur’s Moreh

Sep 21, 2019, at 06:26 pm

Guwahati, Sep 21  (IBNS): Manipur police have seized huge quantity of contraband drugs worth Rs 17.40 lakh and arrested a youth in Manipur’s Moreh town.

Maharashtra: Two teenage boys die due to drowning in Aurangabad

Sep 21, 2019, at 06:05 pm

Aurangabad, Maharashtra, Sep 21 (UNI) Two teenage boys died due to drowning in a pond of the Banshendra village of the Kannad taluka of this district, informed police on Saturday.

Uttar Pradesh: Woman shot dead in Etawah

Sep 21, 2019, at 05:57 pm

Etawah, Sep 21 (UNI) A woman, who was attending her father's 'shraddh,' was shot dead by her husband's friend in the Gaurapur village situated in the Friends Colony area of this Uttar Pradesh district, police said on Saturday.

Bihar: Brahamputra Mail catches fire near Sarobag Halt

Sep 21, 2019, at 05:56 pm

Munger, Sep 21 (UNI) The train services on Jamalpur-Kiul section of East Central railway were affected today when the generator car of 14055 UP Brahamputra Mail caught fire near Sarobag Halt in the district.

BJP MP Babul Supriyo threatens to file defamation suit against CPI(M) leader Md Salim on JU remarks about girls

Sep 21, 2019, at 05:52 pm

Kolkata, Sep 21 (UNI) Union Minister Babul Supriyo today threatened to file a defamation suit against CPI(M) leader Md Salim for the latter's "filthy" remark on him during his visit in the Jadavpur University campus on Thursday where a section of Leftist students gheraoed the minister for over five hours before the state Governor Jagdeep Dhankar rescued him in his car and got him into Raj Bhawan.

Maharashtra: Two teenage Rajasthan runaways traced in Thane

Sep 21, 2019, at 05:49 pm

Thane, Sep 21 (UNI) The Crime Branch have traced a pair of minor boy and girl,both of whom,fled their houses in Rajasthan back in 2018,informed police on Saturday.

Houston gears up for 'Howdy Modi' event tomorrow

Sep 21, 2019, at 05:44 pm

New Delhi, Sept 21 (IBNS); Prime Minister Narendra Modi is currently on his way to the US for his week-long tour when he will attend the United Nations General Assembly meeting as well as address the 'Howdy Modi' event in Houston.

Admiral Karambir Singh visiting Bangladesh

Sep 21, 2019, at 05:42 pm

New Delhi: Admiral Karambir Singh, PVSM, AVSM, ADC,Chief of the Naval Staff will be visiting Bangladesh from Sept 21 to 24.

Kovind hosts Khaltmaagiin Battulga, says India, Mongolia are not just 'Strategic Partners' but 'Spiritual Neighbours'

Sep 21, 2019, at 04:32 pm

New Delhi, Sept 21 (IBNS): President of India Ram Nath Kovind received Khaltmaagiin Battulga, the President of Mongolia, at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday.

JU protester's ailing mother urges Babul Supriyo to forgive son, Minister responds with compassion

Sep 21, 2019, at 03:12 pm

Kolkata: Union Minister Babul Supriyo, who was heckled at the Jadavpur University on Thursday, responded with compassion to one of the protester's ailing mother who urged the politician to forgive her son.

Saradha case: Former Kolkata top cop Rajeev Kumar might get killed, says Congress' Somen Mitra

Sep 21, 2019, at 02:30 pm

Kolkata: Amid the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)'s hunt for former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar in the Saradha chit fund case, West Bengal Congress president Somen Mitra feared Kumar might get killed.

Yudhishthira had Ashoka's mind, image: Romila Thapar's startling video trends on Twitter, netizens mock

Sep 21, 2019, at 02:26 pm

New Delhi: Drawing widespread taunts from netizens, an old video showing historian and Padma Bhushan Romila Thapar claiming some historians say may be Yudhishthira in epic Mahabharat had the mind and image of King Ashoka has started trending on micro-blogging site Twitter.

Assembly elections in Maharashtra, Haryana on Oct 21, counting on Oct 24

Sep 21, 2019, at 01:52 pm

New Delhi: The assembly elections in two Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled states, Maharashtra and Haryana, will be held in a single phase on Oct 21, Chief Election Commissioner of India Sunil Arora announced on Saturday.

BREAKING: Polls in Maharashtra, Haryana on Oct 21

Sep 21, 2019, at 12:29 pm

New Delhi: The Election Commission on Saturday announced the state polls in Maharashtra and Haryana will be held on Oct 21.

Confident that my visit will present India as global leader, says Modi as he leaves for US

Sep 21, 2019, at 07:44 am

Washington, Sept 21 (IBNS): PM Narendra Modi on Friday left for the US where he will attend the UN General Assembly and said he is confident that his visit will present India as a  global leader.

Assam NRC: 19 lakh excluded people may have to wait till Nov to learn reason

Sep 20, 2019, at 10:24 pm

Guwahati, Sept 20 (IBNS): The 120-day window period for the people who were left out from the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) may have to wait till November to know the reason of exclusion and appeal before the Foreigners Tribunal.

Assam man arrested for allegedly raping his own minor daughter

Sep 20, 2019, at 08:40 pm

Guwahati, Sept 20 (IBNS): Police have arrested a person for allegedly raping his own minor daughter in Assam’s Kamrup district.

My clothes were torn off, alleges Agnimitra Paul in FIR on Jadavpur University assaults

Sep 20, 2019, at 07:48 pm

Kolkata, Sept 20 (IBNS): A day after facing agitation and protest at the Jadavpur University in Kolkata along with Union Minister and BJP MP Babul Supriyo, fashion designer-turned-politician Agnimitra Paul on Friday lodged an FIR where she alleged physical abuse and molestation by the students.

NRC to be implemented in Bihar too: BJP Minister

Sep 20, 2019, at 07:46 pm

Bhagalpur, Sep 20 (UNI) Senior BJP leader and Bihar revenue and land reforms minister Ram Narain Mandal on Friday created a flutter in NDA camp by asserting that National Register of Citizens (NRC) would be implemented in the state, a stand contrary to what had been taken by JD (U) and deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi.  

Prime Minister Modi and Mongolia President Khaltmaagiin Battulga jointly unveils Buddha Statue

Sep 20, 2019, at 05:41 pm

New Delhi, Sept 20 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Khaltmaagiin Battulga, President of Mongolia, jointly unveiled a statue of Lord Buddha and his two disciples, installed at the historic Gandan Tegchenling Monastery in Ulaanbaatar.

Nagpur: Pregnant woman, kid among 3 killed in wall collapse

Sep 20, 2019, at 05:16 pm

Nagpur, Sep 20 (UNI) Three members of a family were reportedly killed while as many sustained injuries on Friday when the wall of a building collapsed in the Imambada vicinity of the Mehkar area in the Buldhana district.

New Delhi: Twenty-year-old woman commits suicide in Tilak Nagar

Sep 20, 2019, at 05:08 pm

New Delhi, Sep 20 (UNI) A twenty-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself at her residence in West Delhi, police said on Friday.

Enforcement Directorate raids TMC MP KD Singh's premises at multiple locations

Sep 20, 2019, at 05:06 pm

New Delhi, Sep 20 (UNI) Enforcement Directorate carried out searches at seven locations in New Delhi and Chandigarh including registered offices of 14 group companies of Alchemist Group which is owned and controlled by Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP K D Singh.

Five Afghan smugglers swallow 370 heroin capsules, arrested in Delhi airport

Sep 20, 2019, at 05:01 pm

New Delhi, Sept 20 (IBNS): Five Afghans, who had ingested 370 high purity heroin capsules for smuggling into India, were arrested by Indian security officials from Delhi airport after they arrived in the nation from Kandahar, officials said.

There should be no imposition of any language, nor opposition to any language: Vice President Naidu

Sep 20, 2019, at 04:58 pm

New Delhi, Sept 20 (IBNS): Vice President of India M Venkaiah Naidu today called upon people to learn as many languages as possible and asserted that there should not be imposition of any language, nor should there be opposition to any particular language.

Student assault case: Three more arrested after Chinmayanand

Sep 20, 2019, at 04:56 pm

Shahjahanpur, Sep 20 (UNI) After the arrest of BJP leader and former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand from his ashram here on Friday morning on charges of sexual exploitation of a law student, police nabbed three more people for allegedly extorting five crore rupees from the self-styled godman.

Odisha: Fire breaks out in BSNL building in Cuttack, telecom services affected

Sep 20, 2019, at 04:52 pm

Cuttack, Sep 20 (UNI) A major fire broke out in the third-floor office of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd(BSNL office today seriously affecting telecom services in the twin cities of Cuttack, Bhubaneswar and some other parts of Odisha.