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Chamarajanagar (Karnataka), October 23 Karnataka Housing Minister V Somanna was caught up in controversy for allegedly slapping a woman in a village in Gundlupet here when she went with a plea to resolve her grievance. Karnataka BJP Minister V Somanna slaps a woman who had come to tell her…

New Delhi, October 23 The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has cancelled the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) licences of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF) and the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust (RGCT), two NGOs headed by Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, for alleged violation of laws, officials said on Sunday….

Mumbai, October 23 Megastar Amitabh Bachchan on Sunday said he was recently rushed to a hospital here after he cut a vein on his left calf. The cinema icon, who turned 80 earlier this year, shared the news on his official blog and said he had received stitches to…

Melbourne, October 23India captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bowl against arch-rivals Pakistan in their opening T20 World Cup match, here on Sunday.Both Pakistan and India have fielded three seamers and two spinners in their respective playing XIs.India have preferred Dinesh Karthik ahead of Rishabh Pant in…

Jammu, October 23Police detained a truck driver on Sunday after heroin weighing more than 21 kg was seized from his vehicle on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur.”During the checking of vehicles at Zero Point on the highway at Chenani, a truck coming from Kashmir and driven…

Chandigarh, October 23 Weather could play spoilsport during the high-voltage ICC T20 World Cup clash between India and South Africa starting at the Melbourne Cricket Stadium, Australia, on Sunday, as the official weather prediction on Google states that the day in the city will remain ‘mostly cloudy’. For…

Chandigarh, October 23Movement of drones for airdropping drugs, arms and ammunition continues to pose a big challenge to security agencies with over 150 such activities noticed this year so far at several points along the India-Pakistan border in Punjab, said officials.They said the use of drones for the smuggling narcotics,…

Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh), October 23Indian Space Research Organisations’ heaviest rocket LVM3-M2 on its maiden commercial mission on Sunday successfully placed 36 broadband communication satellites of a UK-based customer into the intended orbits, the space agency said, describing the mission as ‘historic’.OneWeb Ltd is the UK-based customer of NewSpace India Ltd…

New Delhi, October 22Himachal Pradesh Congress president Pratibha Singh’s choice from Manali seat has been set aside by the party as evidenced in the third list of four candidates declared on Saturday for the upcoming state elections. Sources said Pratibha was batting for the party’s block president Hari Chand Sharma…

Sandeep DikshitNew Delhi, October 22Barring a formal announcement on Sunday, Chinese President Xi Jinping will take power for a third five-year term after edging out most of his contemporaries who took power along with him in 2012.Xi has retired several leaders, including PM Li Keqiang, at the end of the…

Sandeep Dikshit New Delhi, October 22 Barring a formal announcement on Sunday, Chinese President Xi Jinping will take power for a third five-year term after edging out most of his contemporaries who took power along with him in 2012. Xi has retired several leaders, including PM Li Keqiang, at…

New Delhi, October 22Various intelligence agencies have reported that the number of terrorists at terror camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) has increased, with around 150 of them waiting at the launch pads adjacent to the Line of Control (LoC) to infiltrate into India ahead of winter snow.Surveillance raisedThere are continuous…

New Delhi, October 22Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the economic crisis gripping the world was huge and India was taking risks and strong initiatives to minimise its impact on the country.Speaking at the first Rozgar Mela, where appointment letters for a range of government jobs were given to…

Ajay BanerjeeNew Delhi, October 22All advanced light helicopters (ALH) with the three armed forces will undergo a one-time check, the decision coming a day after five Army personnel died in a crash near Tuting in Arunachal Pradesh on Friday.There are some 300 ALHs across the Indian Air Force, Navy and…

Neeraj BaggaAmritsar, October 22The import of goods from Afghanistan to India through the Attari border in Amritsar came to a halt today after truckers from the neighbouring nation began an indefinite stir demanding the release of a fellow driver from whose truck 435-gram heroin was allegedly recovered.Worth Rs 4000 cr,…