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Mohan Bhagwat in Kolkata tomorrow

Kolkata, July 31: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat will be in the city on Thursday and will meet RSS functionaries to discuss organisational issues. RSS sources said on Wednesday that Bhagwat will be in the city for a brief period on his way to Odisha from Jharkhand. The RSS, the […]

Retired cop, another man get bail in prostitution case

Mumbai, Jul 31: A court here on Wednesday granted bail to a retired police inspector and another man who were arrested earlier this month for allegedly forcing three rescued girls back into prostitution. According to the prosecution, Inspector Qalandar Shaikh had in 2004 rescued three girls, aged between 13 […]

Coffee tycoon found dead, cremated

Mangaluru/Bengaluru, July 31: Billionaire coffee tycoon V G Siddhartha, whose body was fished out of a river two days after he went missing, was Wednesday cremated at his estate in his home district of Chikmagalur after hundreds of people paid a tearful adieu to him. Amid a sombre atmosphere, […]

Thousands take holy dip on “Aadi Amavasai” day

Rameswaram/Nagapattinam(TN), Jul 31: Thousands of people took a holy dip in the sea in Rameswaram and Vedaranyam in Nagapattinam district on Wednesday in connection with the “Aadi Amavasai” festival. Devotees performed rituals in memory of their forefathers as it is believed that they would help them reach the […]

‘India Ashamed’: Outrage grows over BJP lawmaker accused of rape

NEW DELHI – Protesters stepped up demands on Tuesday for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to sack Uttar Pradesh lawmaker Kuldeep Singh Sengar accused by a young woman of raping her, holding several demonstrations just days after the accuser was critically injured in a highway collision. Opposition groups […]

India protesters angry as alleged rape victim hurt in crash

NEW DELHI — Protesters took to the streets of India’s capital on Tuesday demanding a fast-track probe into a highway crash that killed two people and seriously injured two others, including a woman who has accused a ruling party lawmaker of rape. Opposition parties and women’s organizations claimed […]

India’s Parliament OKs ending instant divorce for Muslims

NEW DELHI — Indian lawmakers on Tuesday approved a bill to end the Muslim practice of instant divorce two years after the Supreme Court ruled that it violated the constitutional rights of Muslim women. Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the bill’s approval by the upper house of […]

Dr Harsh Vardhan inaugurates new laboratory complex andnew NVBDCP building on the occasion of 110th Annual Day of NCDC

NCDC has contributed phenomenally in elimination and eradication of several diseases of public health importance: Dr Harsh Vardhan open view news desk “National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has contributed phenomenally in elimination and eradication of several diseases of public health importance such as smallpox, polio, guinea-worm and […]

BJP extending patronage to rape-accused MLA Sengar: Opposition

Lucknow, Jul 30: Opposition Congress, BSP and SP on Tuesday accused the ruling BJP of “extending patronage” to party MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who has been accused of raping a minor girl. Jailed BJP MLA Sengar and nine others were booked for murder on Monday, a day after the […]

Two SDF MLAs defy party line, attend budget session

Gangtok, Jul 30: In a jolt to the opposition Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF), two of its MLAs attended the assembly proceeedings defying party lines on Tuesday, the second day of the ongoing budget session in defiance of the party line. SDF MLAs G T Dhungel and Em Prasad Sharma, […]

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