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New Delhi, May 3: A heavy dust storm swept across several parts of western and northern India on Wednesday, killing at least 68 people and injuring hundreds in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand and leaving a trail of destruction, uprooting trees and disrupting power supply in Punjab and Haryana as well. At least 42 people were killed in four districts of western Uttar Pradesh. thirty six

Hyderabad, May 3: A vending contractor whose video suggesting that water from a train toilet was being used to prepare tea and coffee went viral has been slapped with a fine of Rs one lakh by the Railways. In the video in circulation in social media in the past few days, a vendor was seen coming out of a train toilet with tea and coffee cans, conveying that water was mixed in the cans inside the

New Delhi, May 2: The Supreme Court Collegium today deferred a decision on the issue of reconsidering its recommendation to elevate Uttarakhand Chief Justice K M Joseph as the judge of the apex court which was sent back by the government last week. The five member Collegium comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph met after the

Patna, May 2: Former Bihar Assembly speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhary today announced his resignation from the primary membership of the party, citing “demoralisation of cadre” and patronage to “dhankuber” (those with deep pockets) as the major reasons. The JD(U), however, maintained that the “coming or going of anybody did not affect the party”. Chaudhary, 65, has been critical of the party ever

Srinagar, May 2: A Class 2 student of a private school suffered head injury when his school bus was attacked by stone-pelters in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, police said. A group of miscreants pelted stones on the bus carrying 35 students of Rainbow High School at Zavoora in Shopian, resulting in a head injury to Rehan Gorsai, a police official said. Rehan was referred to

Geneva, May 2: US President Donald Trump may rule the roost on Twitter, but he lags far behind Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Facebook, according to a study published Wednesday. Modi is by far the most followed world leader on the gargantuan social networking platform, counting 43.2 million followers. That is nearly twice the 23.1 million who follow Trump, according to a study by communications

Mumbai, May 2: Almost seven years after the shocking murder of veteran journalist Jyotirmoy Dey in Mumbai, a city court has convicted gangster Chhota Rajan in the case. Dey, 56, was the Editor (Investigations) of Mid-Day. He was shot dead on July 11, 2011, at Powai, one of the posh central suburbs of Mumbai. Along with Rajan, journalist Jigna Vora, the then deputy bureau chief of Mumbai edition of

New Delhi, May 2: The Supreme Court on Wednesday took cognizance on its own of the firing incident in Kasauli where a woman government official was shot dead allegedly by a hotel owner after she had gone to seal an unauthorised construction in his property on apex court's direction. A bench comprising Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta termed the incident as extremely serious and noted that

New Delhi, May 2: Delhi and Varanasi are among the 14 Indian cities that figured in a list of 20 most polluted cities in the world in terms of PM2.5 levels in 2016, data released by the WHO showed on Wednesday. The WHO data also said that nine out of 10 people in the world breathe air containing high levels of pollutants. Other Indian cities that registered very high levels of PM2.5 pollutants

Ballia, May 1: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA, Surendra Singh on Monday blamed parents for the increasing incidents of rape in the country and suggested that this can be prevented only by not allowing young boys and girl to use smartphones. The MLA said that parents should keep a strict vigil on their children till the age of 15 and they shouldn't be allowed to roam around freely. "Parents of