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Top Stories Over 6,000 policemen have lost their life in Jammu and Kashmir since 1989
SRINAGAR: As many as six thousand policemen have been killed while fighting militants in Jammu and Kashmir where the separatist campaign burst into a major violence in 1989. Thirteen such deaths took place in past one year. Director General of Police, Dilbag Singh, said on Wednesday that thirteen J-K policemen are among over forty security personnel who have laid down...
- 30 min ago
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Top Stories After Ziva Dhoni, Vijay Sethupathi's daughter threatened
Chennai, Oct 20: The Cyber Crime Wing of the Chennai Police has registered a case against a Twitter user who issued a threat of physical violence to actor Vijay Sethupathi's minor daughter. The Twitter user, who goes by the name Rithik, tweeted with the pictures of the actor and his minor daughter and said she should be assaulted in order for her father to understand the difficult lives...
- 4 hrs ago
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Top Stories India COVID count falls; Under 50K a day after 3 months
New Delhi: A sharp drop in daily new novel coronavirus infections was reported in India after the fresh detections dropped below 50,000 for the first time in three months. On Tuesday, the new cases were 46, 790 taking India's overall COVID-19 cases to close to 76 lakh. The daily fatalities too are coming down and the total death toll reached 1.15 lakh with 587 new deaths registered in the...
- 5 hrs ago
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Top Stories Assam to Mizoram: Leave camps, pull back forces
Guwahati: Despite the intervention of the Union home ministry, tension continued on the Assam-Mizoram border with Mizoram's security forces refusing to go back to the barracks, provoking Mizo miscreants to set at least three shops on fire in Lailapur on Monday night. Assam's border protection commissioner Gyanendra Tripathi asked the Mizoram government on Tuesday to withdraw its security forces...
- 5 hrs ago
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National Low pressure area persists, heavy rainfall for AP, TS
Visakhapatnam, October 21: The low pressure area over central parts of Bay of Bengal and neighbourhoods associated with cyclonic circulation extending up to 7.6 km above mean sea level persists. It is likely to become a well marked low pressure area over west central Bay of Bengal off Andhra Pradesh coast during next 24 hours. It is likely to move north northeast towards northwest Bay of...
- 6 hrs ago
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Top Stories Pre-poll survey indicates NDA is set to win in Bihar
New Delhi: As Bihar prepares to vote in the first phase of the three-phased electoral battle on October 28, a pre-poll survey by India Today-Lokniti has projected the Nitish Kumar-led NDA securing a clear majority, with 133-143 Assembly seats and a vote share of 38 per cent. Prime Minister Narendra Modi remains the most popular political figure in the state, where the BJP has already made it...
- 6 hrs ago
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Top Stories Prabhas donates Rs 1.5 crore for Telangana flood relief
Hyderabad is reeling under flash floods as heavy rains have devastated the lives of many. Adding to the woes, the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed many people into a financial crisis. In the wake of these hardships, Telangana chief minister KCR has requested everyone to chip in and contribute as much as they can to help flood relief. Incidentally, Tollywood is coming forward to help those in...
- 7 hrs ago
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Top Stories Pharma sector may post Covid-induced rise in Q2 earnings
Mumbai: After the IT sector, it is the pharma sector that is expected to reap benefits of Covid induced business environment in their July-September quarter earnings. Pharma sector's outlook for the second quarter earnings season is quite optimistic given domestic demand, new launches in the US markets and savings on regular expenditure due to Covid related restrictions like travelling,...
- 7 hrs ago
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Top Stories Dubbak people will teach TRS a lesson: Uttam
Hyderabad, Oct. 20 State Congress party president Uttam Kumar Reddy said on Tuesday that Congress was all set to win the Dubbak Assembly by-elections with a huge majority. The ruling TRS party would suffer a severe shock in Dubbak by-elections as ruling party leaders have failed in their attempts to mislead people, he said. 'People have realised that the TRS government has failed on all fronts and...
- 8 hrs ago
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Telangana NGT says environmental clearance for Kaleshwaram violates law
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has held that the environmental clearance (EC) accorded to the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme (KLIS) stands in violation of the law. 'We are unable to accept the stand of the project proponent that primarily the project is for water supply and water management and that irrigation is subsidiary or incidental part of the project so as to hold that...
- 8 hrs ago
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