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Jul 29: A car in which the survivor of Unnao rape case, her family and lawyer were travelling was hit by an over-speeding truck in Rae Bareli on Sunday, killing two members while leaving her and the advocate critically injured, police said. BJP MLA Kuldeep Sengar, who is an accused in the rape case, was arrested on April 13 last year. Unnao Superintendent of Police Madhav Prasad Verma said the

Gilroy, Jul 29: Four people have been killed and 11 others were injured after a shooting at a festival in Gilroy, California on Monday, said the police. As per reports, the guman have been shot to death. Councilman Dion Bracco said news agency those are preliminary figures following Sunday’s shooting. Santa Clara Valley Medical Center has received two victims from the shooting at the Gilroy Garlic

Pune, Jul 28: Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday said his party and the Congress had come to an agreement on 240 of the 288 Assembly seats in Maharashtra, polls for which are scheduled for later this year. He also said the Raj Thackeray-led MNS was mulling boycotting the Assembly polls due to reservations about Electronic Voting Machines. Speaking to reporters here, Pawar

Mumbai, Jul 28: After a criminal complaint was lodged against the 9 of the 49 signatories who addressed a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on increasing incidents of mob lynching in the country, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap opened up on Twitter on the matter. "If one letter can impact them so much that they need an entire troll army to keep digging out false narratives & throw various

Kolkata, Jul 28: Outgoing West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi on Saturday said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has the vision and power to implement her decisions but her appeasement policy is adversely affecting the social harmony of the state. Tripathi, who has had several run-ins with Banerjee during his five-year tenure, said she should look at every citizen equally without

New Delhi, Jul 28: The Congress Working Committee meeting to decide the new Working President will meet after Parliament's Budget session with outgoing party chief Rahul Gandhi and General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra refraining from taking any decision, party sources said. A senior Congress leader wishing not to be named said the CWC, party's top decision-making body, will meet after the

New Delhi, Jul 28: The Congress Working Committee meeting to decide the new Working President will meet after Parliament's Budget session with outgoing party chief Rahul Gandhi and General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra refraining from taking any decision, party sources said. A senior Congress leader wishing not to be named said the CWC, party's top decision-making body, will meet after the

Basti, Jul 28: Taking exception to a video of a police team indulging in self-glorification by brandishing automatic weapons, the state's top cop on Saturday transferred them to police lines and ordered an inquiry into the matter. The video was shot after six members of the Uttar Pradesh Police's SWAT team led by Vikram Singh nabbed a rape accused-- Asgar following a brief gunfight, four days ago

New Delhi, Jul 28: Embattled liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya on Saturday approached the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the confiscation of properties owned by him and his relatives. In the petition, Mallya has said that no other properties other than that of Kingfisher Airlines facing cases of alleged irregularities should be attached. On July 11, the Bombay High Court had refused to grant a stay on

Hyderabad, Jul 28: Senior Congress leader and former Union minister S Jaipal Reddy died at a hospital here in the early hours of Sunday, sources close to him said. He was 77. He was recently diagnosed with pneumonia and was admitted to the hospital, where he died at 1.28 am, a Congress leader told news agency. Reddy has been a parliamentarian for several decades and held key portfolios in various