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Cox’s Bazar, Oct 9: At least 12 people were killed and scores were missing on Monday after a boat packed with Rohingya refugees, mostly children, capsized, the latest tragedy to strike those fleeing violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state. Coast guard and border guard officials said the boat was overloaded with about 100 people when it sank late Sunday in the mouth of the Naf river that separates

New Delhi, Oct 9: The Gujarat high court is likely to pronounce its verdict on a set of appeals challenging convictions and acquittals by a Special Investigation Team court in the 2002 Godhra train burning case on Monday, more than two years after the completion of hearings on the matter. The judgement will be delivered by a bench of justice Anant Dave and justice GR Udhwani at about 11am. Here’s

New Delhi, Oct 9: The Gujarat high court is likely to pronounce its verdict on a set of appeals challenging convictions and acquittals by a Special Investigation Team court in the 2002 Godhra train burning case on Monday, more than two years after the completion of hearings on the matter. The judgement will be delivered by a bench of justice Anant Dave and justice GR Udhwani at about 11am. Here’s

New Delhi, Oct 9: Around 54,000 petrol pumps all over India will go on a day long strike on October 13 in support of their long-pending demands, a petrol pump operators association official said here on Saturday. Federation Of Maharashtra Petrol Dealers Association (Fampeda) President Uday Lodh said that a decision on the issue was taken at the first joint meeting of United Petroleum Front, an

New Delhi, Oct 8: The Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday took a dig at the NDA government over a report that the company owned by Amit Shah’s son recorded a massive 16,000-times increase in turnover over in the year following the election of Narendra Modi as prime minister and the elevation of Shah to the post of party president. The Opposition parties have sought answers from Prime

New Delhi, Oct 8: The Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday took a dig at the NDA government over a report that the company owned by Amit Shah’s son recorded a massive 16,000-times increase in turnover over in the year following the election of Narendra Modi as prime minister and the elevation of Shah to the post of party president. The Opposition parties have sought answers from Prime

Jeddah, Oct 8: A gunman on Saturday drove up to a gate of the king's palace in the Saudi city of Jeddah and opened fire, killing at least two security guards and wounding three others before being shot dead, according to officials. The attacker, identified by the interior ministry as Mansour al-Amri, a 28-year-old Saudi national, was armed with a Kalashnikov rifle and three Molotov cocktails. Amri

New Delhi, Oct 8: BJP chief Amit Shah on Sunday said that “politics of violence” is in the nature of the communists as he lashed out at the CPI(M) over the political violence in Kerala. Addressing the Delhi leg of the ‘Jan Raksha Yatra’, the BJP’s ongoing campaign to highlight “left atrocities” in Kerala, Mr. Shah asserted that no amount of intimidation can stop the lotus (BJP’s symbol) from

New Delhi, Oct 8: Five persons, including four women of a family and a security guard, were stabbed to death in the early hours of Saturday in Shahdara’s Mansarovar Park area. The police are yet to ascertain the motive and identify the killers. The victims, identified as Urmila Jindal (82), her daughters Sangeeta Gupta (56), Nupur Jindal (48), Anjali Jindal (38), and security guard Rakesh (42)

A committee of experts appointed by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led union government to examine the India’s Hajj policy has now drafted a proposal which includes abolishing subsidy for the pilgrims and allowing women devotees above 45 to travel in a group of at least four without a male. The proposed Hajj Policy 2018-22, by a panel headed by former secretary Afzal Amanullah, also recommends