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Prayagraj, Oct 4: The Prayagraj police on Sunday arrested Shyam Prakash Dwivedi, vice president of BJP Yuva Morcha, who was absconding after charges of gang rape by a student. The Kashi Prant or Varanasi unit leader was arrested from near Bakshi Dam. Another accused, Anil Dwivedi, has already been arrested. According to reports, a B.A student had alleged about a fortnight ago that she had been

Dubai, Oct 4: UAE construction giant that built the world's tallest building the Burj Khalifa, Arabtec formally announced that it was going into liquidation after stakeholders found the financial situation "untenable". "In recent years, limited liquidity in the construction sector impacted the progress of Arabtec's projects and this has been exacerbated by the effects of COVID-19," said Waleed Al

Washington, Oct 3: US President Donald Trump is facing difficulty in breathing and is suffering from extreme fatigue, according to CNN. Trump was hospitalised Friday after learning he had coronavirus and experiencing what aides called coughing, congestion and fever. He had made a tweet a few hours ago saying, "Going welI, I think! Thank you to all. LOVE!!! (sic)". Trump was flown to Walter Reed

New Delhi, Oct 3: In a small relief to thousands of individuals and MSME borrowers, the Centre in an affidavit informed the Supreme Court that it has taken a decision to waive "interest on interest" on loans up to Rs two crore during the six-month moratorium period. The affidavit said the only solution is that the government should bear the burden resulting from waiver of compound interest. "After

Mumbai, Oct 3: The forensic department of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in its report to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has "hinted" that the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput was suicide and not murder, sources said on Saturday. The AIIMS forensic panel under Dr. Sudhir Gupta was formed at the request of the CBI in August to assist in giving medico

Lucknow, Sept 2: The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday evening suspended Hathras superintendent of police (SP), deputy superintendent of police (DSP), station inspector and some other officials over the gang-rape, torture and death of the 19-year-old Dalit woman that has triggered nationwide protests. The suspension came hours after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath vowed ‘exemplary punishment’ for

Bengaluru, Oct 2: Keen to scale up testing infrastructure for Covid-19, the Karnataka government has decided to establish RT-PCR labs in Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model and the tender process for it would be taken up soon, medical education minister K Sudhakar said on Friday. Following the directions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, measures were being taken to increase the testing by three

New Delhi, Oct 2: Delhi's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal joins protests at Jantar Mantar where hundreds of civil society activists, students, Left leaders, on Friday, gathered to protest against the Hathras gang-rape and murder case. Senior lawyer Prashant Bhusan, actor Swara Bhasker, CPI(M) leaders Brinda Karat and Sitaram Yechury, and AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj are among those who gathered at

Lucknow, Oct 2: As if forcible midnight cremation of the alleged Hathras gang rape victim was not enough, the police on Friday sealed the village and barred entry of the media and opposition politicians, besides seizing the cell phones of the victim's family members in a bid to prevent them from interacting with the media. The village was turned into a fortress with the residents being confined to

Benglauru, Oct 2: Former Karnataka Minister and MLA Aravind Limbavali, who headed a fact-finding committee of the ruling BJP to probe the recent east Bengaluru violence said there was no wrongdoing by the police and demanded that the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) be banned. Handing over the report to Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa at the party office on Thursday, Limbavalli claimed that