NAYABANS, India – Muslims in Nayabans, an unremarkable village in northern India, say they remember a time when their children played with Hindu youths, and people from either faith chatted when they frequented each other’s shops and went to festivals together. Such interactions no longer happen, many say, […]
New Delhi, May 21: Leaders of as many as 22 opposition parties met the Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday and demanded verification of VVPAT slips of randomly-selected polling stations before the counting of the votes polled in the just-concluded Lok Sabha election begins on May 23 They also […]
Hardoi (UP) ;Â Three men were killed when their motorcycle rammed into a stationary pick-up van on the Lucknow-Hardoi road here, police said Tuesday. The accident took place near Pankutiya Sunni Mahri village under the Baghauli police station area on Monday night, they said. According to police, the victims […]
Jodhpur :Â Â Rescue workers Tuesday pulled out dead the four-year-old girl, who had slipped into a 440-feet deep borewell at a farm in Melana village of Jodhpur, officials said. Seema fell into the borewell at 5:30 pm on Monday and was stuck at a depth of 260-feet. The body […]
Mumbai :Â Several post-graduate medical students withdrew their protest on Tuesday after the Maharashtra governor signed an ordinance to provide quota to the Maratha community members under the Socially and Economically Backward Class (SEBC) category. Around 250 students were sitting on a protest at the Azad Maidan here […]
Jaipur :Â A man allegedly committed suicide at a public park in front of the collectorate in Hanumangarh of Rajasthan, police said Tuesday. Surjaram, aged 50, allegedly hanged himself from a tree, police said. Local resident spotted the body and informed police on Tuesday morning. The body was shifted […]
Anand :Â Three women and a 12-year-old boy drowned while taking a bath in a river in Gujarat’s Anand district on Tuesday, police said. The victims, all hailing from the state’s Kheda district, had come to Pratappura village here to attend a wedding, an official at Khambholaj police station […]
Kota :Â Â An 18-year-old IIT aspirant allegedly committed suicide in her hostel room in Rajasthan’s Kota city, police said Tuesday. The girl, hailing from Uttar Pradesh, was taking coaching for IIT entrance exam here, they said. The girl allegedly hanged herself from a ceiling fan of her hostel room […]
Five years ago, British street artist Banksy adorned the side of a once uninspiring white brick building in Bristol with the familiar image of a girl gazing out solemnly. The dank courtyard beneath the stencil has, like many other spots the mysterious artist has decorated in his […]
Thousands of soldiers fanned out across Jakarta on Tuesday after the surprise early announcement of official results in Indonesia’s election showed Joko Widodo re-elected leader of the world’s third-biggest democracy. The election commission had been due to give the final tally of the divisive poll on Wednesday, […]
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