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Neemuch (MP): A 35-year-old man was arrested on Saturday in Madhya Pradesh’s Neemuch district for allegedly raping his minor daughter repeatedly under the influence of alcohol, police said. The man is an alcoholic and his wife had left home three years ago, leaving behind their four children, including the 8-year-old victim, said City Superintendent of […]

New York: While it is not possible to put the entire Milky Way on a scale, that has not deterred astronomers from trying to make measurements of our home galaxy. According to a new “robust” estimate of Milky Way’s mass measurement, it is about 890 billion times the mass of our Sun. That is equal […]

New Delhi: After onions made headlines with exorbitant cost, milk will soon become dearer as major processing firms have decided to raise prices by up to Rs 3 per litre on the back of constrained supply. Accordingly, the rise is seen to be in line with the retail food inflation trajectory which has shown an […]

New Delhi: The apex child rights body National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has asked all state police chiefs to ensure that children are not misused by anyone for any unlawful activity like stone pelting and other violent acts during protests, including those against the Citizenship Amendment Act. The National Commission for Protection […]

Khurda: A college girl student died after being murderously attacked by a youth for allegedly rejecting his love proposal at Ganga Nagar village in  Balugaon area of the district. Meanwhile, the accused youth who also reportedly belongs to the same village has been detained in connection with the incident. Critically injured, the girl was immediately […]

Kendrapara: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday attached three more plots of land, owned by Sarathi Ashram and Satyam Charitable Trust, at Garapur on the outskirts of Kendrapara town. The central agency had attached 26 immovable properties of the trust in July this year. According to official sources, the ED attached the properties of the […]

Bhubaneswar: An Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) of Air Field Police Station in Bhubaneswar has been charged with duping a contractor of Rs 7.5 lakh. The complainant Anup Rath, claiming to be a civil contractor, has alleged that police are not taking any action against the ASI who is yet to return the money and is issuing […]

Kolkata: West Bengal was scalded by escalating violence against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which spread to more areas on Saturday as mobs torched buses, trains and railway stations, set afire government property and blocked roads and railway tracks, disrupting train and vehicular movements. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee appealed to the people to use democratic […]

Amaravati: Sexual offences against women and children continued unabated despite Andhra Pradesh passing stringent laws to provide for harshest punishment to the guilty in such cases. A day after the state Assembly passed two Bills to ensure death penalty for rapists and life imprisonment for those found guilty of sexual assault on children, three incidents […]

By Sandeep Sahu “A rose”, Shakespeare had said, “by any other name would smell as sweet.” To paraphrase the bard, “A rotten egg by any other name would smell as foul.” So what exactly is expected to change after the renaming of Sachivalaya Marg as Lok Seva Marg? Will the traffic cops along the way […]

Khurda: The Forest officials on Saturday arrested two poachers from Chilka Lake area and recovered carcasses of 57 migratory birds from their possession. However, five others managed to escape during the raid by forest department officials. As per reports, the forest officials also rescued three live birds from the two poachers. Based on allegations of […]

New Delhi/Mumbai: Under attack from the BJP over his ‘rape in India’ remark, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said he will die but never apologise for speaking truth as he is a Gandhi and not a Savarkar, remarks that drew immediate disapproval from new-found ally Shiv Sena which said that the Hindutva icon should […]

New Delhi: Addressing shortages of Remdesivir in certain regions of the country, the Central government on Wednesday made interim allocation of the key anti-viral drug for 19 states/Union Territories for…

Bargarh: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday said that two of their Bargarh Zilla Parishad (ZP) members- Parbati Bhoi and Sushma Bhue- are missing and accused the ruling-Biju Janata Dal (BJD) of hiding them at a secret location in Sohela. Odisha BJP vice-president Ashwini Sarangi alleged that the BJD is trying to lure the Bargarh […]

New Delhi: Three women died and four others were injured after a fire broke out in Delhi’s Shalimar Bagh area on Saturday at around 6 p.m., sources said. A fire broke out at a house in North Delhi’s Shalimar Bagh area in which three women died and four others got injured, the source said, adding […]