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Jaipur, Sep 9: One person was killed when police opened fire on a mob after it went on a rampage, setting ablaze a power house and several vehicles, following an alleged assault of a couple by a constable in Ramganj area of the city, the police said today. Curfew was imposed in four police station areas of the city to bring the situation under control, a senior police official said, adding that

New Delhi, Sep 8: Unruly fliers will land in a national no-fly list from now on that can extend upto life time for offences ranging from verbal abuse to life threatening behaviour. The government on Friday unveiled the changes made to Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR) to enable the country to promulgate the national no-fly list, which it said is "unique and first of its kind in the world". The new

Chikmagalur, Sep 8: Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers on Friday filed a police complaint against Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for his comments against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Gandhi had hit out at Prime Minister Modi after the killing of senior journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh. The BJP members filed a complaint at a police station in Chikmagalur here. The complaint also

Nanded (Maha), Sept 8: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today alleged that the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were busy dividing society in their quest to retain power.Only the Congress ideology could take on the BJP and the RSS, he said at a party rally. Gandhi also took potshots at the Modi-led government on demonetisation and described the exercise as a total flop. "Entire India knows

New Delhi, Sept 8: In a brutal act of inhumanity, a 7-year-old class II boy from a Gurugram school was found dead, reported on Friday morning. The body of the child was found in a pool of blood with his throat slit open, the incident took place at the Ryan International School, Bhondsi. The reason behind the death is still not clear. According to India Today, there were cut marks on the neck of

New Delhi, Sept 8: Inspired by Ranveer Singh-starrer 'Ladies vs Ricky Bahl', a 34-year-old man duped several women over the last six years on the pretext of marrying them and would later blackmail them with intimate videos. Yogesh alias Sameer Garg conned close to 15 women of more than Rs 50 lakh in the last year alone, police said. He was arrested on September 5 from the New Delhi railway station

New Delhi, Sept 8: India's diverse multicultural society and tradition of tolerance is its greatest strength, and will be the basis of the country's economic strength in future, former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan said on Thursday. "Our greatest strength comes from being a tolerant, open society," Rajan said at the release here of his book "I do what I do", which is based on the speeches he

Bhubaneswar, Sept 8: Newly sworn-in Union tourism minister K J Alphons has an advice for foreigners visiting the country: Eat beef in your own countries and then come to India. Asked whether cow vigilantism and restrictions on beef consumption in several states had affected India's hospitality sector, the minister said on Thursday: "They [foreigner tourists] can eat beef in their country and come

New Delhi, Sep 7: Nirmala Sitharaman today took charge of the defence ministry, becoming the first full-time woman Defence Minister of the country. She took charge in the presence of her predecessor Arun Jaitley who was given the additional charge of the key ministry in March after Manohar Parrikar quit the union cabinet to become the chief minister of Goa. Sitharaman was elevated to the cabinet

Mumbai, Sept 7: A Special TADA Court on Thursday awarded the death penalty to two convicts, life sentences to two others, including gangster Abu Salem, while giving 10 years jail to one accused in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case. Special Judge G.A. Sanap pronounced the death verdicts on convicts Mohammed Taher Merchant and Feroze Khan for their role in the blasts, said Special Public Prosecutor Deepak