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  • 11:51 PM (IST) Posted by Hritika Mitra

    UP: Couple, 3 children killed in accident in Baghpat

    A pregnant woman, her husband and their three daughters were killed as their motorcycle collided head on with a truck near Balauni toll plaza on the Meerut-Baghpat national highway here on Sunday, police said.

  • 11:50 PM (IST) Posted by Hritika Mitra

    6 children drown in Jharkhand amid heavy rains

    Six children drowned in Jharkhand's Palamu and Hazaribag districts on Sunday amid heavy rains, police said. In Palamu, four children, aged between 10 and 12, went to take bath in the stagnant water at an abandoned graphite mine in Satbarwa police station area in the afternoon, they said.

  • 11:50 PM (IST) Posted by Hritika Mitra

    Delhi hospital launches 'brain mapping device', claims it is first of its kind

    Combining research with cutting-edge technology, a Delhi-based hospital on Sunday launched a "brain mapping device" and claimed it was the first-of-its-kind gadget in the country.

  • 10:12 PM (IST) Posted by Hritika Mitra

    Rajasthan Police arrests man for spying for Pakistan

    A 46-year-old who got Indian citizenship in 2016 was arrested from Delhi by Rajasthan Police for allegedly spying for Pakistan. Bhagchand (46) was born in Pakistan and landed in the national capital along with his family in 1998. He got Indian citizenship in 2016 and started working as a taxi driver and labourer in Delhi, police said.

  • 10:11 PM (IST) Posted by Hritika Mitra

    Rajasthan records 402 COVID-19 cases, 4 deaths

    Rajasthan reported 402 fresh COVID-19 infections and four deaths in the last 24 hours, officials from the state health department said on Sunday. The deaths were recorded in Ajmer, Bharatpur, Jaipur and Karauli, taking the total fatalities due to coronavirus in the state to 9,610.

  • 10:11 PM (IST) Posted by Hritika Mitra

    3 children drown in stagnant water of abandoned mine in Palamu

    Three children drowned in stagnant water at an abandoned graphite mine in Jharkhand's Palamu district on Sunday, police said. Four children, aged between 10 and 12, went to take bath in the abandoned mine in Satbarwa police station area in the afternoon, they said.

  • 6:45 PM (IST) Posted by Hritika Mitra

    Kejriwal becoming next PM not individual's ambition but whole country wants it: Sisodia

    AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal becoming the next prime minister is not an individual's ambition but the whole country wants it, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said Sunday, days after the CBI raided his residence over alleged irregularities in the excise policy.

  • 6:42 PM (IST) Posted by Hritika Mitra

    Maha: Five of family drown in pond in Nanded

    Five members of a family drowned in a pond in Maharashtra's Nanded district on Sunday, police said. The incident occurred at around 2.45 pm in the Navrangpura area under the jurisdiction of Kandhar police station in the Nanded district, 630 km from Mumbai, an official said.

  • 5:03 PM (IST) Posted by Hritika Mitra

    Telangana minister KTR makes 'Parivarvad' jibe at Amit Shah

    TRS Working President and Minister K T Rama Rao on Sunday tweeted that the father of an "ace cricketer" is visiting Telangana, in an oblique reference to Union Home Minister Amit Shah who landed here to participate in various programmes including a public meeting in Munugode.

  • 5:02 PM (IST) Posted by Hritika Mitra

    Karnataka: 3 cops held for facilitating murder accused to spend time with woman

    Three policemen have been arrested and booked for facilitating a murder accused to stay with a woman companion at a hotel in Karnataka's Hubballi district. According to a police officer, Bachcha Khan (55) was brought from Ballari to Dharwad for trial on Saturday in connection with the murder of one Irfan Khan.

  • 5:02 PM (IST) Posted by Hritika Mitra

    China plans cloud seeding to protect grain crop from drought

    China says it will try to protect its grain harvest from record-setting drought by using chemicals to generate rain, while factories in the southwest waited Sunday to see whether they would be shut down for another week due to shortages of water to generate hydropower.

  • 5:01 PM (IST) Posted by Hritika Mitra

    Covid: Odisha reports 287 new cases, one more fatality

    Odisha's COVID-19 tally rose to 13,25,061 on Sunday as 287 more people, including 62 children, tested positive for the virus, a health department bulletin said.

  • 4:15 PM (IST) Posted by Hritika Mitra

    Chhattisgarh: Surrendered Naxalite killed in Bijapur

    Naxalites allegedly murdered a former colleague, who had surrendered before the police three months ago, in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, a senior official said on Sunday.

  • 4:14 PM (IST) Posted by Hritika Mitra

    Rajasthan Assembly session to resume on Sept 19

    The seventh session of the Rajasthan Assembly will resume on September 19, according to an official notification issued on Sunday.

  • 4:13 PM (IST) Posted by Hritika Mitra

    UP: Police exhume body of man for postmortem after family alleges he was murdered

    The police exhumed the body of a 25-year-old man for postmortem here after the family alleged that he was murdered, officials said on Sunday.

  • 4:13 PM (IST) Posted by Hritika Mitra

    Official: Flooding in eastern Afghanistan kills at least 9

    Heavy flooding from seasonal rains in eastern Afghanistan overnight left at least nine people dead, swept away homes and destroyed livestock and agricultural land, a provincial official and a villager elder said Sunday.

  • 4:12 PM (IST) Posted by Hritika Mitra

    Woman detained for manhandling security guard at Noida society

    The police on Sunday detained a woman for allegedly manhandling a security guard of a private agency outside a group housing society in Noida, officials said. An FIR was also registered against the woman over the incident whose purported video surfaced on social media, they said.

  • 4:12 PM (IST) Posted by Hritika Mitra

    Elephant mysteriously dies after straying into Alipurduar tea garden

    An adult elephant was found dead at a tea garden in West Bengal's Alipurduar district, officials said on Sunday. The elephant strayed into Nimti tea garden in Kalchini block on Saturday morning, they said. 

  • 2:14 PM (IST) Posted by Poorva Joshi

    Turkey: Crashes at emergency sites kill at least 35 people

    Turkish authorities on Sunday investigated a pair of secondary crashes at emergency sites that killed at least 35 people the previous day.
    In both cases, first responders tending to earlier collisions were among the dead. Saturday's tragedies happened just 250 kilometers (155 miles) apart in southern Turkey.

  • 2:14 PM (IST) Posted by Poorva Joshi

    Three killed as vehicle, truck collide head-on in Assam

    At least three persons were killed and four others injured on Sunday after a vehicle collided head-on with a truck in Assam's Cachar district, police said. The accident occurred at around 2 am in the Katigorah area of the district when the collision between the truck and the vehicle, carrying personnel of the Jeevan Misson work, took place, a senior officer said.

  • 2:13 PM (IST) Posted by Poorva Joshi

    Anand Sharma quits as chairman of Steering Committee of Himachal Cong

    In a jolt to the Congress ahead of assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh, its senior leader Anand Sharma on Sunday resigned from the chairmanship of the party's steering committee for the state. Sharma, in a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, is learnt to have said that his self-respect is "non-negotiable" and he has resigned from the post, sources said.

     

  • 11:48 AM (IST) Posted by Poorva Joshi

    Jharkhand: Four bodies recovered from Nalkari river

  • 11:48 AM (IST) Posted by Poorva Joshi

    Enquiry committee constituted in the Mathura incident

  • 11:47 AM (IST) Posted by Poorva Joshi

    2 suspected terrorists with Al-Qaeda links arrested in Assam's Goalpara

    Two suspected terrorists linked with the Al-Qaeda Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) terror groups were arrested by the Assam police in the Goalpara district on Saturday. The arrested persons have been identified as Abdus Subhan, Imam of Tinkunia Shantipur Mosque under Mornoi police station and Jalaluddin Sheikh, Imam of Tilapara Natun Mosque under Matia police station in Goalpara, after they were grilled by the police for several hours.

  • 10:24 AM (IST) Posted by Poorva Joshi

    Uttarakhand: Some people trapped in Aranyam Resort in Mohanchatti area

  • 10:23 AM (IST) Posted by Poorva Joshi

    Noida: Heavy police force deployed as Tyagi community assembles for the Mahapanchayat

  • 9:29 AM (IST) Posted by Poorva Joshi

    COVID-19: India reports 11,539 fresh cases in last 24 hours

  • 9:29 AM (IST) Posted by Poorva Joshi

    AAP leader Manish Sisodia reacts to LOC issued against him by CBI

  • 9:06 AM (IST) Posted by Poorva Joshi

    Deep Depression over Northwest Chhattisgarh

  • 9:06 AM (IST) Posted by Poorva Joshi

    Water from overflowing Ganga-Yamuna rivers enters residential areas in Prayagraj

  • 8:15 AM (IST) Posted by Poorva Joshi

    6th edition of Ageas Federal Life Insurance Mumbai Half Marathon flagged off

  • 8:15 AM (IST) Posted by Poorva Joshi

    Punjab: Bridge over Chakki Dariya closed due to strong flow of water

  • 8:15 AM (IST) Posted by Poorva Joshi

    Upward Yatra to Vaishno Devi has resumed now

  • 7:45 AM (IST) Posted by Poorva Joshi

    Telangana: KCR kickstarts campaigns for Munugode bypolls

    Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday went to Munugode Assembly constituency to launch Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) campaign for the upcoming Munugode by-election. Addressed a public meeting in here, KCR lambasted on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Modi government at the Centre.

  • 7:44 AM (IST) Posted by Poorva Joshi

    Major reshuffle in Gujarat cabinet before polls

    With a few months left for the Assembly elections in Gujarat, the state government made a major rejig in the cabinet on Saturday night. The Revenue Department has been taken away from Rajendra Trivedi while Road and Building Ministry has been taken away from Purnesh Modi. Both Ministries will now be held by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel.

  • 6:37 AM (IST) Posted by Poorva Joshi

    J&K: Flash-flood-like situation as Darhali river

  • 6:37 AM (IST) Posted by Poorva Joshi

    MP: Arms smuggler apprehended in Gwalior

  • 6:36 AM (IST) Posted by Poorva Joshi

    17 people fall ill after eating contaminated food