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This heist seemed straight from a movie and the four protagonists included a woman law student who landed in the police dragnet. The gang engineered an accident to rob a jewellery shop employee of 840 grams gold in Coimbatore on Tuesday, police said. The employee was going on his two-wheeler with the gold jewellery when he was rammed by a ...

The judgment in the rape and murder of an eight-year-old in Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir is likely to be delivered on June 10, nearly a year after the trial began in a court in Pathankot, special public prosecutor J K Chopra said Monday. The day-to-day in-camera trial began in the first week of June last year at the district ...

A US-bound passenger was apprehended by CISF personnel at the Delhi airport for allegedly carrying 25 bullets in his baggage, an official said Monday. A Central Industrial Security Force officer, deputed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) to scan the baggage of commuters, detected bullet-like objects on the X-ray monitor while checking the bag of passenger Deepak Kumar Saxena ...

An AN-32 transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force with 13 people on board lost contact with ground agencies around 35 minutes after it took off from Jorhat in Assam on Monday, official sources said The aircraft got airborne at around 12:25 PM and lost all contacts with ground staff at around 1 PM, they said A total of eight ...

Nirmala Sitharaman Friday broke the glass ceiling again as she became the first full-time woman Finance Minister, who will present Modi 2.0 government’s maiden Budget that should look to take out the country from slowing growth, create jobs, attract investments and tackle banking sector woes. Sitharaman’s first day in office was greeted by GDP growth rate slowing down to five-year ...

India’s economic growth rate slowed to five-year low of 5.8 per cent in January-March 2018-19, due to poor performance in agriculture and manufacturing sectors, official data released Friday said. The Central Statistics Office (CSO) also revealed that GDP growth during 2018-19 fiscal stood at 6.8 per cent, lower than 7.2 per cent in the previous financial year. The growth in ...

Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ took charge of the HRD Ministry Friday with the senior ministry officials handing him over the draft of the much awaited National Education Policy (NEP). The policy, an ambitious project of the previous Modi government, is expected to be on the agenda of Nishank, who started his career as a teacher in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-affiliated ...

A woman running an NGO and three of her associates have been arrested on the charge of cheating 2,700 people a total of Rs 8.1 crore after promising to build houses with overseas subsidy for them in neighbouring Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district in Hyderabad, police said Sunday. K Krishnamma, Chairperson of Malyavi Karunodaya Society for people of Old age and Physically ...

A former village head was allegedly shot dead by two unidentified men in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi district, police said Sunday. Additional Superintendent of Police Daya Ram said Surendra Singh (50), the former head of Baraulia village was shot at around 11.30 pm Saturday. He was referred to Lucknow in a serious condition and he succumbed to his injuries during treatment, ...

Anil Ambani’s Reliance Group has decided to withdraw the Rs 5,000-crore civil defamation suits filed in an Ahmedabad court against Congress leaders and National Herald newspaper over their statements and an article on the controversial Rafale fighter jet deal. The suits were being heard in the court of city civil and sessions judge P J Tamakuwala. “We have intimated the ...