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Srinagar, Sept 27: Militants tonight barged into the residence of a BSF constable in Hajjan in north Kashmir and shot him dead, besides injuring four of his family members, police said. The constable, Rameez Parrey, had come home on holiday a few days ago, they said. The militants, after forcing their way into the house at Parrey Mohalla, fired indiscriminately at the family. The jawan died on the

The pictures and video clippings of minor Hindu girls participating in a ritual wherein they are forced stay bare-chested for a fortnight at Madurai’s Yezhaikatha Amman temple have sparked outrage on social media. According to the temple’s tradition, the priest selected the seven girls between ages of 10 and 14 and ‘offered’ them to the deity for a fortnight beginning the last Tuesday in the Tamil

The pictures and video clippings of minor Hindu girls participating in a ritual wherein they are forced stay bare-chested for a fortnight at Madurai’s Yezhaikatha Amman temple have sparked outrage on social media. According to the temple’s tradition, the priest selected the seven girls between ages of 10 and 14 and ‘offered’ them to the deity for a fortnight beginning the last Tuesday in the Tamil

Kochi, Sept 27: The prosecution in the actress abduction case on Wednesday informed the Kerala High Court that arrested Malayalam actor Dileep had offered Rs 3 crore for abduction of the actress Bhavana in February this year. The prosecution informed that Dileep offered Pulsar Suni Rs 1.50 crore for carrying out the abduction, and in case he gets caught in the act by the police, the compensation

Myanmar/Maungdaw, Sept 27: Along the main road that stretches nearly 40 kilometres north from Maungdaw town in Myanmar's violence-riven Rakhine State, all but one of the villages that were once home to tens of thousands of people have been turned into smouldering ash. Hundreds of cows roam through deserted settlements and charred paddy fields. Hungry dogs eat small goats. The remains of local

New Delhi, Sept 27: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former finance minister Yashwant Sinha launched a scathing attack on the BJP-led central government’s economic policies,saying that the economy is headed for a downward spiral. In an opinion piece for the Indian Express, Sinha lambasts the government’s decisions on the economic front. “I shall be failing in my national duty if I did not

New Delhi, Sept 27: The Army inflicted "heavy casualties" on the insurgent NSCN(K) group during "retaliatory" fire along the India-Myanmar border in the early hours of the morning, the Eastern Command said today. Indian troops suffered no casualties, officials maintained. According to a statement by the Eastern Command, a column of the Indian Army operating along Indo-Myanmar border was fired upon

Thiruvananthapuram, Sept 27: A total of 149 Indians serving prison terms for minor and financial offences in Sharjah will be released following the amnesty declared here by the Emirate's visiting ruler Sultan Bin Mohammed Al- Quasimi. The announcement came in response to a request by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan seeking the release of Keralites who had completed three years of their jail

Thiruvananthapuram, Sept 27: A total of 149 Indians serving prison terms for minor and financial offences in Sharjah will be released following the amnesty declared here by the Emirate's visiting ruler Sultan Bin Mohammed Al- Quasimi. The announcement came in response to a request by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan seeking the release of Keralites who had completed three years of their jail

Mangaluru, Sept 27: The Dakshina Kannada district administration has initiated externment proceedings against two persons, whose street-fighting had snowballed into a communal tension in Bantwal taluk in June. Acting on a report from superintendent of police C H Sudheer Kumar Reddy, the deputy commissioner and district magistrate K G Jagadeesha has issued notices to Rathnakar Shetty and Ibrahim