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New Delhi, Jan 7: An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter Scale hit the Myanmar-India (Manipur) Border Region this afternoon. According to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS), a unit of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, the quake occured at 12:17 pm at a depth of 35 km. It occured in the Myanmar-India (Manipur) Border Region at a latitude of 24.7 N and longitude of 94.7 E, it said.

New Delhi, Jan 7: Former Presidents Pratibha Patil and Pranab Mukherjee and former PMs H D Deve Gowda, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh may have to vacate their Lutyens' Delhi government accommodations allotted to them on the basis of the high posts they held — if the Supreme Court accepts ex-solicitor general Gopal Subramanium's suggestions. A bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and Navin Sinha

Panaji, Jan 7: Goa is likely to face a shortage of beef for the next couple of days as slaughterhouses in neighbouring Karnataka have refused to supply meat till the government takes steps to stop harassment by cow vigilante groups, an official said today. The coastal state is facing a beef shortage with traders suspending import of meat from Karnataka alleging harassment by cow vigilantes. An

Jan 5: Lalu Prasad Yadav has been sentenced to 3.5 years in jail in the Fodder Scam case and has been issued a fine of Rs 5 lakh. In addition, Phool Chand, Mahesh Prasad, Bake Julious,Sunil Kumar, Sushil Kumar, Sudhir Kumar and Raja Ram sentenced to 3.5 years in jail and Rs 5 lakh fine each. The verdict was pronounced by Justice Shivpal Singh through a video conference during which all accused

Srinagar, Jan 6: Denouncing the killing of four policemen in an IED blast in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday urged the people to work shoulder to shoulder to break the “vortex of violence” in the state. These young policemen were killed when they were on duty to protect the people in the town. It is highly unfortunate to see, Mufti said in Srinagar. “The vortex

New Delhi, Jan 6: Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu today sent a privilege notice against Rahul Gandhi to Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan for further action, holding that "prima facie there is an issue of privilege", sources said. Naidu sent the notice to the Lok Sabha speaker for further action as Gandhi is a member of the Lower House. A complaint against Gandhi is already pending before

Srinagar, Jan 6: Four policemen on patrol duty were killed when an improvised explosive device planted by terrorists went off in Sopore town in north Kashmir on Saturday, an official said. Terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed has claimed responsibility of the blast. Terrorists had planted the IED near a shop in a lane between the 'Chotta Bazaar' and 'Bada Bazaar' in Sopore in Baramulla district, the

Panjim, Jan 6: From Saturday, the Goa Meat Traders Association, an umbrella body which supplies meat across tourist belts, hotels and households in Goa, will be on an indefinite strike till the state intervenes to check the “rising cases” of vigilantism “in the name of beef”. Given that consumption of meat is higher in the winter months when large number of tourists descend on Goa, meat supplies

Lucknow, Jan 6: The Yogi Adityanath-led Bharatiya Janata Party government has painted the outer wall of the Uttar Pradesh State Haj Committee office in saffron, in a move that could trigger a fresh controversy in the state. The wall of the office located near the BJP headquarters and the chief minister’s secretariat Lok Bhavan has been painted in two shades of saffron but the main building remains

New Delhi, Jan 6: The Central Statistics Office (CSO) on Friday forecast that GDP growth in the current financial year ending March 31 will slow to a four-year low of 6.5%, from the provisional 7.1% pace seen in 2016-17, dragged down by deceleration in the agriculture and manufacturing sectors. Gross Value Added (GVA) was also projected to expand by 6.1% in 2017-18, slowing from 6.6% in the