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Burhanpur, Jan 5: Caste violence of Maharashtra, which erupted in Bhima-Koregaon of the state, spread on Thursday to neighbouring Madhya Pradesh where more than 10 buses and other vehicles were set ablaze during a bandh called by two Dalit organisations, police said. The vandalism and arson was reported from Burhanpur district in the state where two organisations were taking out rallies during the

New Delhi, Jan 5: A day after he was denied permission to hold a rally in Mumbai, newly-elected Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani launched a scathing attacked at the Centre saying he was being targetted. Mevani also asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to clear his stand on the recent violence in Maharashtra. "Not even a single word of my speech was inflammatory, I am just being targetted. No part of my

Mangaluru, Jan 5: City-based young poetess Mafazah Sharafuddin’s debut into the literary world took place with the release of her anthology of poems Labyrinths of Emotions at The Yenepoya School in the city on Thursday. Releasing the book, Farhad Yenepoya , Managing Director of The Yenepoya School, said that the school took initiative to publish the book to encourage the expression of the youth

Mangaluru, Jan 5: City-based young poetess Mafazah Sharafuddin’s debut into the literary world took place with the release of her anthology of poems Labyrinths of Emotions at The Yenepoya School in the city on Thursday. Releasing the book, Farhad Yenepoya , Managing Director of The Yenepoya School, said that the school took initiative to publish the book to encourage the expression of the youth

Washington, Jan 5: The US has suspended more than USD 1.15 billion security assistance to Pakistan, accusing Islamabad of harbouring terror groups like the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani Network within its border and showing unwillingness to take "decisive actions" against them. The freezing of all security assistance to Pakistan comes days after President Donald Trump in a new year tweet accused

Bengaluru, Jan 4: Royal Challengers Bangalore retained their skipper Virat Kohli for a record Rs 17 crore as the player retention deadline ended on Thursday. Kohli, a star performer for the RCB, breaks the record of Rs 16 crore for which the KingsXI Punjab had bought Yuvraj Singh two seasons ago. While most of the player retentions went along expected lines, there were some surprise packages as

Pakistan on Thursday released another video of Indian death row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav confessing that he was a commissioned officer of the Indian Navy and that the diplomat who was accompanying his family for the meeting shouted at his mother. The video begins with Jadhav thanking the Indian and Pakistani governments for arranging a meeting with his mother and wife. “My mother was very happy

Islamabad, Jan 4: Pakistan on Thursday released another video of Indian death row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav purportedly confessing that he was a commissioned officer of the Indian Navy and that the diplomat who was accompanying his family for the meeting yelled at his mother. However, the veracity of the video which was released by the Pakistan Foreign Office could not be ascertained. The video

New Delhi, Jan 4: The Delhi High Court today commuted the death penalty awarded to two convicts in the 2009 Jigisha Ghosh murder case to life imprisonment. A bench of Justices S Muralidhar and IS Mehta, however, upheld the life imprisonment awarded to the third convict by a trial court in the case. "We commute death sentence awarded to two convicts to life imprisonment," the bench said. While

Mumbai, Jan 4: The Mumbai Police registered 16 FIRs and detained over 300 people in connection with protests by Dalit groups during the day-long bandh yesterday against the Bhima Koregaon caste clashes, while Internet services were suspended in Kolhapur following tension in the district. Over 200 buses of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation were damaged in attacks by protesters across