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Chinese New Year 2019: Top messages and proverbs to wish good luck to welcome Year of the Pig

Chinese New Year will start on 5 February.

Feb 4, 2019

Amid child trafficking allegations, 3 minor girls found at actress Bhanupriya's Chennai house

The incident comes a week after a 14-year-old girl was rescued from the actress' residence following a harassment case.

Feb 4, 2019

Ambitious and daring, Mamata Banerjee fixes gaze firmly on PM's job

By pulling off a spectacular offensive on Sunday, Mamata Banerjee has seemingly turned the tables on her foes at the centre.

Feb 4, 2019

Infosys employee kidnapped and robbed in Bengaluru

Anurag Sharma works as a senior systems manager at Infosys' Chennai campus. He had come to Bengaluru for some work on January 26 and was returning home late on January 31.

Feb 4, 2019

Murder of democracy: BJP launches blistering attack on Mamata Banerjee

As events escalated rapidly, the CBI sleuths were arrested by the Kolkata police, while the centre deployed CRPF troopers at the local CBI headquarters.

Feb 4, 2019

Four people dead after bus falls into pit in Bihar

According to reports, some locals set the bus on fire and vandalised a fire brigade vehicle.

Feb 4, 2019

Who is Rishi Kumar Shukla? Former MP Police chief takes charge as CBI director

Shukla, a 1983-batch IPS officer, took charge at a time when the agency is busy in a dirty battle of a turf war with the Kolkata Police which has spiralled into a political slugfest between the Centre and West Bengal government.

Feb 4, 2019

West Bengal crisis: 10 facts about Saradha Ponzi scheme that fuelled Mamata Banerjee-CBI fight

The multi-crore Saradha Ponzi scheme fooled millions of small-time investors in West Bengal, Odisha, Assam and Tripura by promising huge profits.

Feb 4, 2019

Mamata Banerjee's 'Save the Constitution' protest: This is what netizens say about her Dharna

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee faces the wrath of netizens for extending her support to Kolkata police commissioner Rajeev Kumar, when the CBI officers went to question him over two Ponzi schemes.

Feb 4, 2019

D-Day for Australian banks as bombshell inquiry report set for release

The big banks, insurers, pension funds and regulators who oversee the financial industry are bracing for a brutal summary of their misdeeds and weaknesses, and a list of tough recommendations including possible criminal charges.

Feb 4, 2019

Wreckage of plane carrying missing Argentine football star Emiliano Sala found

Sala, 28, and Ibbotson, 59, were flying in a single turbine Piper Malibu plane from Nantes, in northern France, to Cardiff, in Wales, when it disappeared from radar just near the Channel Islands on January 21.

Feb 4, 2019

Mamata Banerjee vs CBI: SC to hear contempt plea against Bengal govt on Tuesday

BJP has demanded President's rule in West Bengal describing the situation as a constitutional crisis. The party claims documents are being withheld on the instruction of CM Mamata Banerjee.

Feb 4, 2019

Unprecedented centre-state face-off in West Bengal after arrest of CBI sleuths

Banerjee says National Security Advisor Ajit Doval is giving instructions to the CBI at the behest of Modi and BJP President Amit Shah.

Feb 4, 2019

BJP to seek people's views for 2019 Lok Sabha election campaign manifesto

The "Bharat ke mann ki baat, Modi ke saath" campaign was launched here at Ashoka Hotel by Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah and Home Minister Rajnath Singh in the presence of several Union ministers and senior party leaders.

Feb 3, 2019

7 Assam bound Rohingya Muslim children detained in Tripura

With this, 68 Rohingya Muslims, mostly children, have been apprehended in Tripura and the Assam-Tripura border in two weeks.

Feb 3, 2019