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Mumbai: Mumbai Police's crime branch investigating the Baba Siddique murder case Sunday arrested a scrap dealer from Navi Mumbai for allegedly providing a weapon to shooters, taking the number of persons in custody so far to 10, an official said. The accused has been identified...

Chandigarh: Punjab Police have thwarted three possible target killings with the arrest of five key operatives of the Bambiha-Kaushal gang, said Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Gaurav Yadav here Sunday. Those arrested have been identified as Jaspreet Singh, alias Jassa of Boparai Kalan village...

New Delhi:  BJP released Sunday its first list of 99 candidates for the election to the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly, fielding Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis from his traditional Nagpur South West seat. The list also includes the names of Mumbai BJP president Ashish Selar, fielded...

Mumbai/New Delhi: More than 20 flights of Indian airlines received bomb threats Sunday, according to sources. IndiGo, Vistara, Air India and Akasa Air are among the airlines that received bomb threats, including international flights, they added. Six flights each of IndiGo, Vistara and Air India...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a visit to Varanasi, his Lok Sabha constituency, Sunday, inaugurated the RJ Sankara eye hospital and is set to unveil various developmental projects worth Rs 6,100 crore. During the day-long visit, PM Modi will lay the foundation stone...

Aizawl: Mizoram’s Aizawl will be the fourth capital city in the Northeast to come under railway link within the next nine months as the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) is laying the new 51.38 km Broad Gauge track up to Sairang, top officials said Sunday. A...

Badvel: A 16-year-old girl was allegedly burnt to death by a man, who broke up with her a few months ago and got married, said police Sunday. J Vignesh allegedly poured petrol and set the minor girl ablaze on the outskirts of Badvel in Kadapa...

New Delhi: A massive explosion took place near a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) school in Prashant Vihar in Delhi's Rohini Sunday, triggering panic among residents in the nearby localities. The explosion damaged the school's wall, the signboards of the shops in the nearby area...

Kolkata: Amid looming uncertainty over a meeting with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee October 21, the fast-unto-death agitation by a section of junior doctors to protest the gruesome rape and murder of their colleague at RG Kar Medical College & Hospital entered the 16th...

Dholpur: Twelve people, including eight children, tragically lost their lives in a fatal collision between a bus and a tempo on the Karauli-Dholpur highway (NH 11B) late Saturday night. The tempo bus was returning from Barauli village after a family function when it collided with...