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Telangana polls: Final voter turnout at 73.2%; Madhira highest with 91.65%

The office of the state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) said on Saturday that the highest turnout of voters was reported in Madhira Assembly constituency at 91.65 per cent.

Dec 9, 2018

India expected to receive total remittance of $80 bn in 2018

Global remittances are expected to grow 3.7 per cent to $715 billion in 2019.

Dec 9, 2018

Privacy at high risk in compiling users' mobility data: Study

In the MIT experiments, the researchers could match about 17 per cent of individuals in one week's worth of data, and more than 55 per cent of individuals after one month of collected data.

Dec 9, 2018

'He was dumb as a rock': US President Trump lashes out at ex-state secretary Rex Tillerson

US President Donald Trump on Friday called former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson "dumb as a rock" and "lazy as hell" a day after the former diplomat said he had warned the president against doing things that would violate the law.

Dec 9, 2018

Human rights violation rampant in India: Activists

Human Rights Day is observed every year on December 10, as the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on this day in 1948.

Dec 8, 2018

Doctor treating homosexuals with electric shock summoned by Delhi court

The complaint said the DMC had debarred Gupta in 2016 from practising in Delhi and as he was still projecting himself as a doctor, he was liable for prosecution.

Dec 8, 2018

Goa government opposes PIL for declaring CM Manohar Parrikar's health status in HC

State Chief Secretary Dharmendra Sharma questioned the maintainability of the petition filed by activist Trajano D'Mello a month ago.

Dec 8, 2018

BJP in state of 'extreme panic', sensing defeat in polls: Congress

Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi at a press conference held at the AICC headquarters also alleged that the country has never seen such a "terror raj" in the "constitutional rule" of India.

Dec 8, 2018

Bulandshahr violence: Army soldier suspected of killing UP cop arrested in North Kashmir

The Army soldier, Jeetendra Malik who is posted in Srinagar was in Bulandshahr and has been seen in various videos related to mob violence.

Dec 8, 2018

ED raids on people linked to Robert Vadra an act of 'blind vendetta': Congress

Congress Rajya Sabha MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi said: "Facing a complete rout in the Assembly elections in the five states, the Modi government is back to its dirty tricks and malicious tactics."

Dec 8, 2018

Mexico's new government takes aim at drug cartel finances

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is taking aim at the finances of the powerful Jalisco cartel in what a top anti-money laundering official said was an opening salvo in the fight to stop criminal gangs from flourishing with impunity.

Dec 8, 2018

TDP to contest 2019 Lok Sabha elections, field candidates for assembly polls in Odisha

TDP's Odisha in-charge Rajesh Putra told reporters in Koraput that the TDP will field candidates in 52 Assembly constituencies and five Lok Sabha seats in Odisha.

Dec 8, 2018

Thousands of women from Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam trafficked and sold as brides in China

While many of these women cross over to China and marry the men unwillingly, others are tricked and trafficked into the East Asian nation. Many of these women are reportedly also forced to have children for the men.

Dec 8, 2018

Bulandshahr violence: Two police officials transferred in the aftermath of mob attack

Circle Officer (CO) Satya Prakash Sharma and Suresh Kumar, the in-charge of Chingravathi police chowki, have been transferred "for their failure in responding in time to the situation arising on Monday in that area".

Dec 8, 2018

Jammu and Kashmir: 11 killed, 19 injured as bus plunges into gorge in Poonch

The accident occurred at Plera when the driver of the bus, coming from Loran to Poonch, lost control over the vehicle while negotiating a curve and rolled down into a 100-meter gorge, a police official said.

Dec 8, 2018