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Basti, Jul 28: Taking exception to a video of a police team indulging in self-glorification by brandishing automatic weapons, the state's top cop on Saturday transferred them to police lines and ordered an inquiry into the matter. The video was shot after six members of the Uttar Pradesh Police's SWAT team led by Vikram Singh nabbed a rape accused-- Asgar following a brief gunfight, four days ago

New Delhi, Jul 28: Embattled liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya on Saturday approached the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the confiscation of properties owned by him and his relatives. In the petition, Mallya has said that no other properties other than that of Kingfisher Airlines facing cases of alleged irregularities should be attached. On July 11, the Bombay High Court had refused to grant a stay on

Hyderabad, Jul 28: Senior Congress leader and former Union minister S Jaipal Reddy died at a hospital here in the early hours of Sunday, sources close to him said. He was 77. He was recently diagnosed with pneumonia and was admitted to the hospital, where he died at 1.28 am, a Congress leader told news agency. Reddy has been a parliamentarian for several decades and held key portfolios in various

Jul 27: In a landmark move by the government, the GST Council has brought down the GST rateon electric vehicles (EVs) to 5 per cent from 12 per cent. The move has come as a shot in the arm for the auto industry which has been pushing for a tax boost to promote the sale of EVs. The Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles (SMEV) has welcomed the move to slash the GST. The move comes at a time

New Delhi, Jul 27: The Congress on Saturday attacked the government for allowing cutting of over 1 crore trees for development projects since 2014 as the party wondered if the "BJP is destroying our future". "Trees are 'life'. Tress are 'oxygen'. Tress absorb 'carbon dioxide'. Trees protect 'environment'. Modi Govt has cut a whopping 1,09,75,844 trees in the past 5 years! (Parliamentary Reply),"

Badlapur, Jul 27: Around 900 passengers, including railway staff, who were stranded on board Mumbai-Kolhapur Mahalaxmi Express, which was marooned in floodwaters between Vagani and Badlapur stations, near 100 km from Mumbai, were rescued and taken to safety, after an 8-hour-long rescue operation mounted by various forces, Children, women, nine of them pregnant, elders and disabled persons were

Washington, Jul 27: Days after the meeting between US President Donald Trump and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, the Pentagon notified the US Congress on Friday of its decision to approve military sales worth USD 125 million that would result in 24x7 end-use monitoring of the F-16 fighter jets of Pakistan. US officials asserted that the freeze in security assistance to Pakistan on Donald

Lagos, Jul 26: A snake burst onto the chamber floor of a state parliament building in southwest Nigeria, sending lawmakers scampering and forcing an indefinite recess, officials said on Friday. "When we were about to enter into plenary, a big snake just ran out of the chamber which disrupted our sitting and we had to hurriedly leave the chamber," said Olugbenga Omole, a spokesman for lawmakers

Bengaluru, Jul 26: India's second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 has successfully raised its orbit around the Earth for the second time early on Friday, taking the spacecraft one step closer to the Moon, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said. The 15-minute manoeuvre was carried out at 1.08 am using the spacecraft's on-board propulsion system, the space agency said in a statement. With

New Delhi, Jul 26: State-owned telecom companies are incurring losses in providing high-speed Wi-Fi connections to members of Parliament, said Ravi Shankar Prasad Union Minister for Communications and Electronics and Information Technology. As per data available with the Telecom Ministry till May 2019, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) have provided