The fire in a plywood factory in west Delhi’s Mundka area on Saturday morning has been brought under control, officials said, which was reported nearly a week after 43 people were killed in the massive blaze in Anaj Mandi. Twenty fire tenders were rushed to the area near the Mundka […]
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Curfew relaxed in Guwahati for 9 hrs as protests against citizenship law ebb
The curfew, imposed in Guwahati amid protests against the new citizenship law was relaxed for seven hours on Saturday from 9 am to 4 pm, police said according to PTI. Citizens thronged shops to buy supplies and motorists queued up at fuel stations to fill up tanks before the curfew resumes shortly […]
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2 minors in Delhi held for murdering teen over ‘area supremacy’: Police
Two minor boys, aged 15 and 16 years, were apprehended for allegedly killing another teenager after inviting him to a liquor party at an abandoned building in central Delhi’s Desh Bandhu Gupta Road and stabbing him with a broken liquor bottle when he was drunk last week, the police said. […]
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Amid ongoing Assam violence, Guwahati comes out of life under curfew
Continuing their protest against the citizenship law, hundreds of people gathered at the Chandmari field in Guwahati on Friday morning to take part in a mass hunger strike against the new Act. The 10-hour-hunger strike has been called by All Assam Students Union (AASU) as part of its protests against the […]
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Curfew relaxed in Dibrugarh, but rest of Assam reeling under protest over citizenship law
The authorities have relaxed curfew in Assam’s Dibrugarh for five hours today – from 8am to 1pm. The state has been reeling under a raging protest over citizenship law, which came into existence after presidential assent on Thursday. The curfew was clamped in various cities of Assam shortly after the […]
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Odisha govt gears up for renovation of historic Lingaraj Temple
After Puri’s Jagannath temple, the Naveen Patnaik government on Thursday announced a special package for the development and beautification of the 11th century Lingaraj Temple, the largest temple in Bhubaneswar. After a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, officials said a 66-acre Ekamra Khetra Yojana has been launched as […]
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‘Not worried over slow rate of GDP growth’: Pranab Mukherjee
Former President Pranab Mukherjee said on Wednesday that he was not worried over the economic slowdown as “certain things” that are happening would have its impact. Mukherjee, who also served as the finance minister in the UPA government, further said there is nothing wrong in public sector banks needing capital […]
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Pregnant minor allegedly set ablaze by boyfriend, dies
The 19-year-old pregnant girl, who was allegedly set ablaze by her boyfriend at a village in Bihar’s West Champaran district, died on Tuesday late evening. According to police, the victim, who had 70% burn injuries died near Hajipur, when being brought to the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) from […]
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Will move Supreme Court over bail to 6 accused: Tabrez Ansari’s widow
A day after the Jharkhand high court granted bail to six of the 13 men allegedly involved in the lynching of 24-year-old Tabrez Ansari in Saraikela-Kharsawan district in June, Ansari’s wife has said she will approach the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the bail. Expressing her shock on the […]
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Muzaffarpur student, burnt for resisting rape attempt, still critical; shifted to Patna hospital
A 20-year-old girl from Bihar’s Muzaffarpur, who was set on fire for resisting rape bid on December 7, was shifted to Apollo Burn Hospital in Patna on Tuesday for specialised treatment. “Muzaffarpur district administration will bear all the medical expenses,” said district magistrate Muzaffarpur, Alok Ranjan Ghosh . The college student was […]
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Delhi air quality slips to ‘severe’, AQI touches 403
The sun is out and air quality apparently appears to be good but in fact air quality index in Delhi has been in “severe” category on Wednesday morning. According to Central Pollution Control Board’s data, the AQI is 403 in Delhi. It was in “very poor” category for the past […]
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Central Railway’s first AC suburban local will be run by two women
Central Railway (CR) on Tuesday said its first air-conditioned (AC) suburban local will be operated by two motorwomen – Mumtaz Kazi and Manisha Maske. “The two motorwomen will be trained along with 100 other employees to operate the new local, which will be functional by mid-January after trial runs. The […]
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NEET registration: 11 more centres set up in Srinagar
Eleven more centres have been set up in Srinagar to facilitate trouble-free registration of aspirants for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), an official spokesman said on Tuesday. The facilitation centres have been set up at Gandhi Memorial College at Shamswari with 50 computers, Women’s College at MA Road with […]
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Army men guard water body in Madhya Pradesh district to check overdrawing
The army cantonment in Sagar, 186 km from Bhopal, and residents of around 12 villages in the same district have been locked in a dispute over water from the Chitora stop dam. Matters have reached a stage where half a dozen army men have been deployed to guard the stop […]
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‘No safety gear, fire alarm, escape route’, says Delhi Police’s FIR
There was no firefighting equipment, panic alarm, accessible emergency exit, or other safety measures at the old Delhi building gutted in a devastating inferno that killed 43 workers of an illegal factory, the Delhi Police’s FIR said on Monday, even as the victims’ families tried to come to terms with […]