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Andhra Pradesh: 35 injured after bus overturns in East Godavari

No casualties were reported at the time of filing the report but all the passengers sustained injuries.

Nov 22, 2019

IIT Guwahati suicide: Japanese student commits suicide, found dead inside hostel

The deceased, Kota Onoda, hails from Japan and was in IITG on an exchange programme for three months from Gifu University in Japan.

Nov 22, 2019

India may escape US sanctions for buying Russian S-400 missile defense systems

The US had earlier warned that the deal could prompt a sanction imposed on India under the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA).

Nov 22, 2019

Maharashtra power deal: Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress leaders to meet at 4 pm in Mumbai

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut confirmed today that all three parties have decided that a Shiv Sena chief minister will have a full five-year term after the Maharashtra government formation.

Nov 22, 2019

Womb for rent: Govt to refer surrogacy bill to 23-member panel of RS Select Committee

The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019, mandates that only a close relative can be a surrogate mother and intending couples should be married for five years.

Nov 22, 2019

Sydney gasps for air as Australia bushfire smoke reaches record levels

Sydney woke up to a thick haze, and blood-red sun, for the fourth consecutive day even as a cooler change brought some relief for firefighters battling scores of wildfires across the country's southeast.

Nov 22, 2019

Karnataka government seeks ban on PFI, SDPI after attack on Congress MLA Tanveer Sait

Karnataka revenue minister R Ashok said the state government will first discuss the issue with ministers of the state and then recommend the matter to the central government.

Nov 22, 2019

Project Ayodhya: Yogi govt constitutes seven-member team to acquire land in UP

Project Ayodhya is aimed at building a 202-metre-tall statue of Lord Ram, an interpretation centre, a library, a food plaza and a parking centre for which the UP govt has set aside 447 crores.

Nov 22, 2019

Israel PM Netanyahu charged with corruption, says he won't resign

Netanyahu, in power continuously since 2009 and before that in the 1990s, has dominated Israeli politics for a generation, decisively turning the country to the right.

Nov 22, 2019

Maharashtra govt formation: Uddhav Thackeray-Sharad Pawar hold midnight meeting

Thackeray was accompanied by his son Aditya and party MP Sanjay Raut, at Pawar's residence where his daughter Supriya Sule and nephew Ajit Pawar were present.

Nov 22, 2019

'Love Jehad' in Meerut: Girl taken to Dubai, BJP raises issue in Parliament

The victim's parent met the BJP MP and later the matter was brought into the notice of SSP Meerut.

Nov 22, 2019

Many LGBT people in China forced into illegal 'conversion therapy'

In China, the therapy is often offered by centers not licensed to practise medicine, as well as by public hospitals, in the absence of an outright ban.

Nov 21, 2019

KPL scandal: Cricketers were blackmailed, honeytrapped by bookies, SIT formed

Bengaluru Police Commissioner Bhaskar Rao, IPS revealed that foreign cricket players in the Indian Premier League (IPL) are also a part of the scandal.

Nov 21, 2019

Indian Army Major's name in FIR a mistake by local police: Former DGP J&K

Major Aditya made headlines when his unit allegedly opened fire at a stone-pelting mob in Shopian district on January 27, 2018, killing three protesters.

Nov 21, 2019

Karnataka CM Yediyurappa apologises to Kuruba community for JC Madhuswamy's remarks

Karnataka CM Yediyurappa apologised to the Kuruba community for the controversial remarks made by Madhuswamy and promised to retain the name Kanakadasa Circle after the bypolls.

Nov 21, 2019