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New Delhi, Sept 18: As Ryan International School reopened its gates on Monday, Varun Chandra Thakur, the father of a seven-year-old Pradyuman Thakur, who was found dead inside the toilet of the premises, expressed disappointment, fearing the evidence might end up being tampered. Talking to news agency, Thakur said,"Reopening of school without addressing security lapses poses threat to other

Lucknow, Sept 17: Deaths of children, mostly newborn, continued at the infamous BRD Medical College hospital in Gorakhpur town of Uttar Pradesh (UP). Nearly 120 fatalities were recorded in the last 10 days. According to hospital records, 14 babies died within a span of 24 hours on Thursday and Friday. Notwithstanding the nationwide outrage over the death of 30 kids owing to alleged shortage of

New Delhi, Sept 17: BJP MP from Alwar Mahant Chandnath passed away at a hospital in New Delhi on Sunday. The 61-year-old won the Alwar seat in the 2014 parliamentary elections after defeating Congress candidate and former union minister Jitendra Singh. BJP state spokesperson Anand Sharma said Chandnath was suffering from cancer and the end came at a hospital in Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi

New Delhi, Sept 17: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Sardar Sarovar Dam in Kevadia, Gujarat on the occasion of his 67th birthday on Sunday. The foundation stone of the dam was laid on April 5, 1961, by the country's first prime minister Jawaharlal Lal Nehru. However, it took 56 years to complete its construction. An official release said the increase in the dam height will facilitate a

Kolkata, Sep 16: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said that the RSS, Bajrang Dal and VHP should not try to disturb peace in the state during the coming Durga Puja and warned that they should not play with fire. Stating that her government did not put any curb on celebration of Vijaya Dashami rituals, Banerjee said, "There is misinformation campaign by certain outfits that we are

New Delhi, Sep 16: Marshal Arjan Singh, who led the Indian Air Force during the 1965 India-Pakistan war, has died at 98. Arjan Singh was the only officer of the Air Force to be promoted to five-star rank. Ninety-eight-year-old Singh, the only officer of the IAF to be promoted to five-star rank, equal to a field marshal in the Army, was admitted to the Army's Research and Referral hospital this

Panchkula, Sept 16: Final arguments in the two murder cases naming jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh began in a special CBI court today with his former driver filing an application to record a fresh statement against him. The disgraced cult leader, who is lodged in Rohtak's Sunaria jail on charges of rape, appeared via video- conferencing. He has been named as the main

New Delhi, Sep 15: The Centre will soon start linking driving licence with Aadhaar, Electronics and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today. "It would be done soon to check the menace of multiple licensing," he said after inaugurating the Haryana Digital Summit-2017 here. "I have already had a word with Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari, in this regard and the process

Dhaka, Sept 15: India is pushing Myanmar both bilaterally and multilaterally to take back Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled the Buddhist-majority nation following the ethnic violence, a top aide of Bangladesh Prime Minister quoted External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj as saying. More than 300,000 Rohingya have poured into Bangladesh since the latest flare-up in violence on August 25, adding to

Chandigarh, Sept 15: Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh's troubles seem to be unending. Last month, the self-styled godman was convicted and then sentenced to 20-year imprisonment for raping two of his female disciples at the ashram. Now, a former Dera member has claimed that Gurmeet had also been abusing several minor girls who were students at a school run by the Dera. The new