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San Francisco, Aug 11: An airline employee "conducted an unauthorized takeoff" of an airplane without passengers at the Seattle-Tacoma airport in the northwestern US state of Washington late Friday, airport officials said on Twitter. An airline employee conducted an unauthorized takeoff without passengers at Sea-Tac; aircraft has crashed in south Puget Sound. Normal operations at Sea-Tac Airport

Muzaffarnagar, Aug 11: A 23-year-old gang rape victim allegedly tried to commit suicide over 'police inaction' at a village in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district. The woman attempted to end her life by consuming poison on Friday, Station House Officer (SHO), Jhinjhana, Rajkumar Sharma said. Two people are accused in the case and one of them was arrested yesterday. The woman is undergoing treatment in

Raipur, Aug 10: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday questioned as to why Prime Minister Narendra Modi continued to remain silent over incidents of alleged rapes in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Gandhi, who was addressing a rally here after inaugurating a new party office, said "The prime minister does not utter a word when girls are raped in Uttar Pradesh

Mumbai, Aug 10: The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested a member of a right wing group and seized huge quantity of explosives from his residence at Nallasopara in Palghar district of the state, police said today. Vaibhav Raut, a member of 'Hindu Govansh Raksha Samiti', was arrested from Bhandar Aali in Nallasopara West late last night, an official said. "ATS sleuths raided his

New Delhi, Aug 10: A verbal duel broke out between Congress’ Mallikarjun Kharge and Finance Minister Piyush Goyal with the latter challenging the Congress leader to contest an election against him from Mumbai. Goyal, during his 45-minute speech while moving the amendments to GST laws in the Lok Sabha, had said that Congress would be reduced to just four seats in the 2019 general elections. Kharge

New Delhi, Aug 10: The Centre today told the Supreme Court it does not concur with the Tamil Nadu government’s proposal to release seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, saying remission of their sentence will set a “dangerous precedent” and have “international ramifications”. A bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi, Navin Sinha and K M Joseph took the document, filed by the Ministry of

Beijing, Aug 10: Chinese officials have delayed the plan to demolish a newly-built mosque in the country's northwest after hundreds of ethnic Hui Muslims held sit-in protests in what is said to be the largest standoff in Beijing's efforts to clampdown on Islamisation, a media report said on Friday. A huge crowd of ethnic Hui Muslims, the second largest Muslim group after Uygurs of Xinjiang

Mumbai, Aug 10: A local court in Maharashtra's Palghar district ordered three persons to clean Virar railway station for three consecutive days for posting a video which showed them taking the "Kiki challenge" on a moving train. The Kiki challenge, started by Canadian rapper Drake, involves jumping out of a moving vehicle and dancing to his song "In My Feelings". The video, shot by Shyam Sharma

New Delhi, Aug 10: Ahead of the Independence Day celebrations, the authorities have seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition from two places in national capital while a suspected Bangladeshi terrorist was nabbed in Bengaluru. According to reports, a huge cache of arms and ammunition, including carbines and cartridges, were recovered from two suspected arms peddlers in two separate operations by

Gaza, Aug 9: A Palestinian official said on Thursday armed factions in Gaza were prepared to halt a round of rocket attacks on southern Israel if the Israeli military stopped its strikes after two days of cross-border violence. A pregnant Palestinian woman and her 18-month-old child, and a militant from the Islamist Hamas group that rules Gaza, were killed in the Israeli attacks, and at least five