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CBI files 28 cases in Bengal post-poll violence

Kolkata: More than 100 CBI officers crisscrossing Bengal to investigate post-poll violence on orders of the Calcutta High Court have filed 28 cases so far, seven of them on Sunday. Two persons arrested on Saturday in the Nadia district have been sent to judicial custody till 10th September. The...

Aug 30 · >

Workers made to push train wagon after snag in MP

A technical fault with a tower wagon (a self-propelled unit used to inspect over-head cables powering electric locomotives) at a railway station in Madhya Pradesh’s Harda led to a heartbreaking sight – around three dozen people forced to manually push the wagon from the main line to another track....

Aug 30 · >

Taliban ‘minister’ says women can attend university

Kabul: Afghan women will be allowed to study at university but there would be a ban on mixed classes under their rule, the Taliban’s acting higher education minister said on Sunday. The hardline Islamist group that stormed to power in mid-August after ousting the Western-back government have vowed to...

Aug 30 · >

US fears threat near Kabul airport, asks citizens to leave

Washington: The United States warned Saturday of a “specific, credible threat” near Kabul airport and urged its citizens to leave the area, days after a deadly attack on crowds fleeing Taliban rule in Afghanistan. A series of urgent terror warnings have rattled evacuation efforts overseen by US forces, who...

Aug 29 · >

US launches drone strikes against ISIS after Kabul blasts

Washington: The US military said Friday it had carried out a drone strike against a “planner” of the Islamic State-Khorasan, the group which claimed credit for the deadly suicide bombing at Kabul airport. “The unmanned airstrike occurred in the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan. Initial indications are that we killed...

Aug 28 · >

Dramatic arrest of UP ex-cop who challenged Yogi Adityanath

Lucknow: A former senior Uttar Pradesh police officer was arrested on Friday in a dramatic fashion in Lucknow in an abetment-to-suicide case shortly after he proposed the name of his proposed political party that, he said, will contest the 2022 state assembly polls. Forcibly retired by the Union Home...

Aug 28 · >

85 killed In Kabul airport carnage; US on alert for attacks

US forces helping to evacuate Afghans desperate to flee Taliban rule were on alert for more attacks on Friday after at least one Islamic State suicide bomber killed 85 people including 13 US soldiers outside the gates of Kabul airport. Two blasts and gunfire rocked the area outside the...

Aug 27 · >

Biden vows revenge: ‘We will hunt you down’

Washington: US President Joe Biden pledged Thursday to hunt down the perpetrators of the suicide bombings that killed 12 American troops in Kabul and said the United States will not be deterred from its mission to evacuate thousands of civilians from Afghanistan. “To those who carried out this attack...

Aug 27 · >

Sidhu adviser quits amid row over remarks

Chandigarh: Malvinder Singh Mali quit as Punjab Congress branch chief Navjot Singh Sidhu’s adviser today, day after the party threatened to dismiss him over his controversial remarks if Mr Sidhu failed to remove him. In Facebook posts, Mr Mali suggested that both India and Pakistan were illegal occupants in Kashmir....

Aug 27 · >

Minister’s shocker on Mysuru rape earns him rebuke

  New Delhi: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj S Bommai on Thursday said his government will form a special team to investigate the case of gang-rape of a college student in Mysuru and asserted that the perpetrators will be caught soon and brought to justice. “Once the DGP (Director General of...

Aug 27 · >
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