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A 22-year-old woman in Kerala was killed just hours before her wedding by her father, who had grudgingly agreed to let her marry the man she loved. The woman’s fiance, who is in the army, is from a different caste. Her father remained opposed to the match even though he gave his consent to the wedding, to be held today. ...

Bank-related fraud scams are being exposed one after another. While exposing a new scandal on Thursday, the CBI has registered a case against Totem Infrastructure for scam involving Rs 1,395 crore. In connection with the Rs 1,395 crore scam case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) took major action and arrested the promoters and director of Totem Infrastructure Limited (Hyderabad) ...

Social activist Anna Hazare today started an indefinite hunger strike to press for his demand to appoint a Lokpal at the Centre, nearly seven years after his anti-corruption movement caught the imagination of millions of Indians and shook the then UPA government. He sat on hunger strike at the iconic Ramlila Maidan, the same venue of his protest in 2011. ...

India on Thursday successfully flight-tested the supersonic cruise missile BrahMos from Rajasthan’s Pokhran test range. The missile, which is the result of an Indo-Russia joint venture, can fly almost three times the speed of sound at Mach 2.8 and has a range of 290 km. The range of the BrahMos missile can be further extended up to 400 km as ...

RSBY and SCHIS to be subsumed under Ayushman Bharat – NHPS The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi yesterday has approved the launch of a new Centrally Sponsored Ayushman Bharat -National Health Protection Mission (AB-NHPM) having central sector component under Ayushman Bharat Mission anchored in the MoHFW. The scheme has the benefit cover of Rs. 5 ...

JNU professor Atul Johri, who was arrested for sexual harassment of several women students, was yesterday granted bail by a Delhi court. Duty magistrate Ritu Singh granted bail to Johri and directed him to furnish a bail bond of Rs 30,000 for each of the eight FIRs registered against him. Johri had moved a bail plea saying sending him to ...

Under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, the Supreme Court has given directions in the offense. The Supreme Court has said that there will be no automatic arrest in such cases now. Not only that, the investigation of the allegations is necessary before arrest. The bail can be given before the arrest. The Supreme Court ...

Scores of agitated students demanding jobs in railways on Tuesday blocked rail traffic, including suburban services between Matunga and Dadar stations, causing difficulties to lakhs of commuters, a Central Railway official said. The students blocked the rail track at 7 am, forcing railway to stop the suburban as well as express trains in the affected section between Matunga and CSMT. ...

Nine persons were arrested today for allegedly running a sex racket at a mall yesterday, police said. Gurgaon Police PRO, Ravinder Kumar said the police received a tip off that a sex racket was being run in the Omex Mall at Sector 50 in the name of a spa centre. “A team was made and a decoy customer was sent ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said while there could be a debate on the performance of the BJP-led government at the Centre, no one could raise a question on its integrity and intention. After inaugurating a number of projects here, he said, “There is no need to tell anyone as regards how our government is running ...