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New Delhi, Jan 7: Four men died and two others, including a national level powerlifter, were injured after their car met with an accident in the early hours Sunday near Delhi-Haryana border in northwest Delhi, the police said. The accident took place near Singhu border in Alipur police station area, they said. The driver lost control over the speeding vehicle that first hit a divider and then a

Mangaluru Jan 7: Nearly four days after he was brutally attacked by a gang of communal hatemongers without any provocation at Kottara Chowki in the city, 47-year-old Basheer passed away at a private hospital on Sunday. Basheer had sustained deep injuries in his head and chest in the attack. Medical sources said that he did not show any sign of recovery in four days and breathed his last at 8: 10 a

Mangaluru Jan 7: Nearly four days after he was brutally attacked by a gang of communal hatemongers without any provocation at Kottara Chowki in the city, 47-year-old Basheer passed away at a private hospital on Sunday. Basheer had sustained deep injuries in his head and chest in the attack. Medical sources said that he did not show any sign of recovery in four days and breathed his last at 8: 10 a

Jan 5: Lalu Prasad Yadav has been sentenced to 3.5 years in jail in the Fodder Scam case and has been issued a fine of Rs 5 lakh. In addition, Phool Chand, Mahesh Prasad, Bake Julious,Sunil Kumar, Sushil Kumar, Sudhir Kumar and Raja Ram sentenced to 3.5 years in jail and Rs 5 lakh fine each. The verdict was pronounced by Justice Shivpal Singh through a video conference during which all accused

Srinagar, Jan 6: Denouncing the killing of four policemen in an IED blast in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday urged the people to work shoulder to shoulder to break the “vortex of violence” in the state. These young policemen were killed when they were on duty to protect the people in the town. It is highly unfortunate to see, Mufti said in Srinagar. “The vortex

Rajkot, Jan 6: A 36-year-old assistant professor was nabbed today for allegedly killing his 64-year-old mother by pushing her off the terrace of their residential building in the city in September last year, police said. Sandip Nathwani, who teaches in a local Pharmacy college, allegedly pushed his mother Jayshreeben to death on September 29 as he was "fed up" with her illness, according to police

Panjim, Jan 6: From Saturday, the Goa Meat Traders Association, an umbrella body which supplies meat across tourist belts, hotels and households in Goa, will be on an indefinite strike till the state intervenes to check the “rising cases” of vigilantism “in the name of beef”. Given that consumption of meat is higher in the winter months when large number of tourists descend on Goa, meat supplies

Lucknow, Jan 6: The Yogi Adityanath-led Bharatiya Janata Party government has painted the outer wall of the Uttar Pradesh State Haj Committee office in saffron, in a move that could trigger a fresh controversy in the state. The wall of the office located near the BJP headquarters and the chief minister’s secretariat Lok Bhavan has been painted in two shades of saffron but the main building remains

New Delhi, Jan 6: The Central Statistics Office (CSO) on Friday forecast that GDP growth in the current financial year ending March 31 will slow to a four-year low of 6.5%, from the provisional 7.1% pace seen in 2016-17, dragged down by deceleration in the agriculture and manufacturing sectors. Gross Value Added (GVA) was also projected to expand by 6.1% in 2017-18, slowing from 6.6% in the

New Delhi, Jan 6: The Central Statistics Office (CSO) on Friday forecast that GDP growth in the current financial year ending March 31 will slow to a four-year low of 6.5%, from the provisional 7.1% pace seen in 2016-17, dragged down by deceleration in the agriculture and manufacturing sectors. Gross Value Added (GVA) was also projected to expand by 6.1% in 2017-18, slowing from 6.6% in the