Thane, Aug 23: An assistant inspector attached to Kolsewadi police station in the district was arrested on Friday for taking Rs 1,000 bribe, an Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) official said. The accused officer, Sandeep Borade (34), had earlier accepted Rs 9,000 from the complainant, against whom a non- […]
Vadodara, Aug 23: A lioness gave birth to four cubs, three females and one male, in a wildlife sanctuary in Gujarat, but two of them died later, a forest official said on Friday. The lioness, Sarita – kept at the Barda Wildlife Sanctuary in Porbandar district under a […]
Raipur, Aug 23: A Class I student of a government school in Chattisgarh’s capital Raipur was raped allegedly by three 10-year-old schoolmates, police said on Friday. The incident took place on August 20 in a school located in Khamtarai police station limits, an official said. The parents of the […]
With interest in the Rohingya refugees fading two years after fleeing their homeland, the World Food Programme has found a new weapon to maintain awareness, one with a wet nose and a wagging tail. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees have fled a military crackdown in Myanmar into […]
Russia will launch the world’s first floating nuclear reactor and send it on an epic journey across the Arctic on Friday, despite environmentalists warning of serious risks to the region. Loaded with nuclear fuel, the Akademik Lomonosov will leave the Arctic port of Murmansk to begin its 5,000 […]
Many high-profile figures seeking to denounce the fires in the Amazon — from Madonna and Cristiano Ronaldo to Leonardo DiCaprio and Emmanuel Macron — have unwittingly ended up misleading millions on social media, either sharing photographs of the region that are years old or images taken in other […]
MUMBAI – The rupee fell to its lowest in more than eight months on Friday morning tracking weakness in other regional currencies, while concerns over flagging domestic growth also weighed on sentiment. Foreign portfolio outflows from the equity markets are also hurting the rupee. By 0352 GMT, the […]
MUMBAI – When Prime Minister Narendra Modi was re-elected in May with a sweeping majority, Indian stock markets jumped to all-time highs as investors anticipated big bang pro-business reforms to revive a flagging economy. But sentiment is souring in the country’s boardrooms after a much-anticipated budget in July […]
New Delhi, Aug 23: The Asia Pacific Group of the FATF, a global watchdog for terror financing and money laundering, has put Pakistan in a terror ‘blacklist’ for its failure to curb funnelling of funds to groups responsible for scores of attacks in India, officials here said on […]
Berhampur (Odisha), Aug 23: The in-charge of a government school in Odisha’s Ganjam district has been suspended for promoting 87 students to Class 10 without evaluating their examination answer sheets, an official said on Friday. Three other teachers were also issued show-cause notices over the incident. It came to […]
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