March 2017

Baripada: A court here on Wednesday sentenced a 48-year-old man to 20-year rigorous imprisonment for raping a deaf and dumb minor girl. Mayurbhanj Additional District Judge Ajit Kumar Singh sentenced Ujal Kumar Nath after holding him…
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Meerut Municipal Corporation keeps corporators out for not singing 'Vande Mataram'
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Ahead of wheat harvesting season and expected bumper crop, the central government has imposed a 10 per cent import duty on wheat after a gap of nearly four months. But farmers in Punjab, who have been demanding a complete ban on import,…
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A nervous angst punctuates the air in a tiny ward in Greater Noida's Kailash Hospital. One of the residents of the room sits back in his bed - his forehead covered in bandages - determined to ignore my presence as he watches the movie…
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Kolkata: At least two persons were charred to death in a fire at a hotel in southern Kolkata early today, police said.
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The Union government has shown strong determination in implementing a Goods and Services Tax (GST) that will subsume a majority of the present indirect tax levies in India. This paradigm shift in indirect tax is currently underway and the…
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A two-member research team from Bengaluru has applied for a patent for a product aimed at soldiers, which can stop bleeding in 90 seconds.
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At least 36 passengers were injured, 10 of them seriously, as six bogies of the Jabalpur-Nizamuddin Mahakaushal Express derailed early today in neighbouring Mahoba.
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Indian automobile makers are in a race against time to clear inventory. That's because the Supreme Court on Wednesday banned the sale of vehicles not compliant with Bharat Stage IV (BS IV) emission standards from 1 April, leaving them with…
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The varsity suspended one of the accused students and shifted another to a different hostel. The interim vice chancellor of Nalanda University, Pankaj Mohan, resigned from his post on Wednesday evening. Mohan, who was accused of…
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