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31 Maoists, two securitymen die in fierce Bastar gunbattle | India News

RAIPUR: At least 31 Maoist insurgents and two security personnel were killed Sunday in a fierce gunfight in the dense forests of Chhattisgarh’s Bastar ...

8 Kumbh pilgrims die in accidents; toll rises to 79 | India News

VARANASI/BHOPAL: Eight Kumbh pilgrims – four from Chhattisgarh’s Raipur, three from MP’s Satna district, and one from Odisha’s Kandhamal – were killed in separate ...

National-level powerlifter shot dead in Sonipat | India News

ROHTAK: A drunk man shot dead a 20-year-old national-level powerlifter, firing five bullets at him after an argument over the sportsperson’s parked motorcycle, which ...

Protest rallies, Abhaya clinics mark RG Kar victim’s b’day | India News

KOLKATA: The family of the RG Kar victim along with other protesters remained on the streets on Sunday, setting up Abhaya clinics and taking ...

Three women labourers, toddler killed as dumper falls on them | India News

PALANPUR/AHMEDABAD: An accident at a road construction site in Banaskantha district claimed the lives of three women and a toddler when a sand-laden dumper ...

Dalai Lama’s brother, a key figure in Tibet’s fight for freedom, dies in Kalimpong | India News

KALIMPONG: Gyalo Thondup, the Dalai Lama‘s elder brother who was a towering figure in Tibetan politics and fled China before his sibling did, died ...

UP demolishes portion of mosque ‘built on encroached government land’ | India News

LUCKNOW: A portion of a mosque in UP’s Kushinagar district, about 325 km from Lucknow, allegedly built on ‘encroached’ land, was demolished by bulldozers ...

Rape case fabricated, 3 get court relief after 4 years in jail | India News

DEHRADUN: A fast track court in Dehradun acquitted three men who spent four years in jail on rape charges under Pocso Act after finding ...

SC raps cops for ‘faulty probe’, acquits man on death row | India News

AGRA: Supreme Court has set aside death penalty awarded to an Agra man who was earlier convicted for murder of his brother, sister-in-law and ...

After Biren red card, all eyes on Delhi’s next pick for captain | India News

GUWAHATI: As former footballer N Biren Singh was shown the red card and sent off as Manipur CM, BJP now finds itself in extra ...

Meitei ‘saviour’ Biren appeals against separate tribal set-up | India News

GUWAHATI: N Biren Singh‘s attempts to project himself as the “saviour” of Manipur’s majority Meitei community throughout the 648 days of the ethnic conflict ...

Hostelites land in soup over pizza | India News

Ordering pizza to their hostel room almost led to the suspension of four girls at a government hostel in Pune’s Pimpri Chinchwad. The hostel, ...