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New Delhi, Jul 8: The K Kasturirangan Committee tasked with drafting a new education policy has got a third extension from the HRD Ministry to give final shape to the draft. The panel headed by the former ISRO chief, which was supposed to submit the report by June 30, now has time till August 31. "The panel had sought another extension to give final shape to the policy and the minister has

Amman/Beirut, Jul 7: South Syrian rebels agreed to give up arms in a Russian-brokered cease-fire deal on Friday, rebel sources said, surrendering Daraa province to the government in another major victory for President Bashar Assad and his Russian alies. The Syrian government recovered the crucial Nassib border crossing with Jordan, held by rebels for three years, state media reported, after a

Abu Dhabi/Alappuzha, Jul 7: The fortunes of a Kerala youth changed overnight after he won Rs 13 crore (7 million dirham) in a raffle in Abu Dhabi. Tojo Mathew (30), a native of Kuttanad had recently quit his job and purchased a ticket before bidding adieu to the gulf nation. Mathew, who worked as a civil supervisor in Abu Dhabi for the past six years, had resigned from his job recently. He left

Srinagar, Jul 7: Three civilians, including a teenage girl, were killed when army allegedly opened fire on protesters in Redwani area of south Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Saturday. A police official said army's patrolling party opened fire upon a group of youth after they pelted stones on them in Hawoora area of Redwani, Kulgam, 70 km from here. In the incident, six persons suffered injuries, he

Bengaluru, Jul 7: A woman was hacked to death by her husband, at their house in Soladevanahalli, here after she gave him Rs 10 less to purchase alcohol Thursday night. The accused, Raja Singh, from Madhya Pradesh, was arrested by the police after he tried to escape. He and his wife, Kasturi, 35, had arrived in the city a fortnight ago, and worked as labourers at a construction site in

New Delhi, Jul 7: A high-level inquiry committee that was set up by the Jawaharlal Nehru University to probe the February 9, 2016 incident on campus, has upheld the rustication of student Umar Khalid and a fine of Rs 10,000 imposed on the then JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar. The JNU Student Union (JNUSU) condemned the recommendations of the high-level committee, calling it “a political conspiracy”

Haflong, Jul 6: Army and police personnel have rescued three 'sadhus' from getting lynched by a mob, which suspected them to be child-lifters, at Mahur Railway Station in Dima Hasao district of Assam, officials said today. District officials said Army men posted at an adjacent camp and police officers came to the rescue of three persons yesterday after hundreds of people had gathered to attack

Islamabad, Jul 6: An accountability court in Pakistan on Friday sentenced ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif to 10 years in prison in one of the three corruption cases against him in the high-profile Panama Papers scandal The court delivered the verdict after postponing it for four times in the Avenfield corruption case -- pertaining to the ownership of four flats in the posh Avenfield House in

New Delhi, Jul 6: Indian banks are working very closely with various agencies, including in the UK, to recover maximum out of assets owned by Vijay Mallya after a British court allowed them to search and seize properties of the fugitive liquor baron, SBI MD Arijit Basu said today. "We have been able to come this far because of efforts that was taken in a very coordinated manner by all agencies

New Delhi, Jul 6: The Supreme Court on Friday referred to a larger bench the question whether religious activities can be allowed on government land or property in a secular State like India. A bench of Justices R F Nariman and Indu Malhotra framed the question and referred the petition filed by an organisation - Jyoti Jagran Mandal - to the Chief Justice of India for setting up of a larger bench