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Brazil Uber driver permanently banned for kicking out blind woman

A blind woman said an Uber driver abruptly left her on the side of a Rio de Janeiro street last week.

Sep 4, 2018

Gold tiffin box, artifacts stolen from Hyderabad's Nizam museum; police probe insider's role

Police suspect that an insider might have played a part in the heist as the CCTV camera was focussed on the artifacts.

Sep 4, 2018

Indian Air Force MiG-27 fighter jet crashes near Jodhpur; pilot escapes unhurt

This incident comes just a few months after another MiG-27 crashed into a house in Rajasthan's Jodhpur city.

Sep 4, 2018

This new eye-tracking database may dictate the future of advertising budgets

Eye-tracking information has significant potential. By knowing how a healthy individual reads, a system can be created to analyze and help dyslexic people to recover discourse after head damage, while advertisers can plan future budgets based on the same.

Sep 4, 2018

Gwalior on high alert: Upper caste groups call for a massive protest over SC/ST Act Amendment

The protest is due to the Centre amending a key provision in the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities Act) and anti-reservation sentiment.

Sep 4, 2018

Navy officer and 8-time Mr India winner accused of raping woman in Kerala; arrested

The woman in her early 20s has alleged that Kumar had invited her to the hotel room where she had gone to meet him last week. The incident got highlighted when the woman was admitted to a private hospital in Kottayam, the police said.

Sep 4, 2018

China's Belt and Road project slows down as countries voice concerns over debts

A study by Center for Global Development, a US think-tank, found that eight countries − Pakistan, Djibouti, Maldives, Mongolia, Laos, Montenegro, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan – receiving Silk Road funds would find it hard to return them.

Sep 3, 2018

Tamil Nadu Police says protocol was breached in the infamous organ harvest case

The transplant team did not give the organs to the allotted patients but to foreign nationals who died soon after surgery.

Sep 3, 2018

Want to contest Madhya Pradesh polls? Congress tells leaders to increase social media following to get ticket

The Congress leaders need to have at least 15,000 likes on Facebook and 5,000 followers on Twitter to get a ticket for upcoming polls.

Sep 3, 2018

Rs 4,555 crore needed to buy EVMs for 'imminent' simultaneous elections: Law Commission

An electronic voting machine (EVM), which includes a control unit (CU), a ballot unit (BU) and a VVPAT, costs about Rs 33,200.

Sep 3, 2018

Uttar Pradesh rains: Heavy downpour lashes Lucknow; water-logging, traffic jams in major areas

Most parts of western Uttar Pradesh, including Noida, Greater Noida, Shamli, Muzaffarnagar, Baghpat and Meerut received heavy rains since morning.

Sep 3, 2018

Hardik Patel unveils will; donates 70% book royalties to families of Patidar men killed in 2015 reservation stir

Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) spokesperson Manoj Panara claimed that Hardik Patel's health is deteriorating". The leader has not eaten any food from the past nine days.

Sep 3, 2018

Madhya Pradesh man's arms hacked off for entering another's farm to search for missing cow

Reports have said that a video of a bleeding Sahu asking for water is also been circulated on social media. In the video, the villagers are heard asking Sahu to name his attackers.

Sep 3, 2018

Aretha Franklin died without a will; who will inherit most of her wealth?

Aretha Franklin who died last month fighting pancreatic cancer did not leave a will for her four children.

Sep 3, 2018

65 Lok Sabha members and 29 Rajya Sabha members yet to declare assets, reveals RTI

Six members each from BJP and INC were among the members who are yet to declare the assets.

Sep 3, 2018