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Mumbai Jul 18: Mumbai Police has arrested terrorist Dawood Ibrahim's nephew Rizwan Kaskar in connection with an extortion case, an official said today. Rizwan, the son of Dawood Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar, was arrested on Wednesday night from the international airport in Mumbai when he was trying to flee the country, the official said. Iqbal Kaskar was also earlier arrested in an extortion

New Delhi, Jul 18: A day after the World Court ordered Pakistan to review death penalty to Kulbhushan Jadhav, India Thursday asked Pakistan to release the former Navy officer forthwith and vowed to vigorously continue efforts to bring him back. Making a statement in both houses of Parliament on the judgment by the International Court of Justice, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said,

Tokyo, Jul 18: A suspected arson attack on an animation production company in Japan killed 24 people and injured dozens more on Thursday, with flames gutting the building in the city of Kyoto. Police said the fierce blaze appeared to have been started deliberately but there was no immediate information on a possible motive. The toll continued to climb hours after the fire began, with fire

New Delhi, Jul 18: The Income-Tax Department has attached a ‘benami’ plot worth Rs 400 crore in Noida belonging to BSP supremo Mayawati’s brother and his wife, an official order said. The provisional order for the attachment of the seven-acre plot, “beneficially owned” by Anand Kumar and his wife Vichiter Lata, was issued on July 16 by the Delhi-based Benami Prohibition Unit (BPU) of the

Bengaluru, Jul 18: P Rajagopal, owner of the Saravana Bhawan chain of restaurants, died on Thursday after suffering from a heart attack at a hospital in Chennai, days after he surrendered to serve a life sentence in a murder case. Rajagopal, who suffered a cardiac arrest at Government Stanley Medical College Hospital last week, was shifted to a private hospital on Wednesday. Passing an interim

New Delhi, Jul 18: With the Congress facing uncertainty after Rahul Gandhi's resignation as party chief, voices within are growing in favour of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra leading the party in these critical times. Former MP Abhijit Mukherjee, who is the son of ex-president Pranab Mukherjee, made an open plea in favour of Priyanka Gandhi, saying she should not ignore the "clarion call of lakhs of

New Delhi, Jul 18: There was no let-up in the flood situation in Assam and Bihar on Wednesday, with the deluge claiming 44 more lives in the two states. In the north, three children of a family were killed and three other members seriously injured when the roof of their house collapsed during heavy rains in Bilaspur village of Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district. According to the Assam State

Sonbhadra/Lucknow, Jul 17: A village head and his supporters allegedly opened fire on a rival group in a land dispute in Sonbhadra, killing nine people, including three women, and leaving 19 injured on Wednesday, police said. The land in the district’s Ghorawal area earlier belonged to an IAS officer and he had sold it to village head Yagya Dutt, who wanted to take its possession, Uttar Pradesh

New Delhi, Jul 17: The Parliament on Wednesday passed a bill giving more powers to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to probe terrorist acts against Indians and Indian interests abroad. The Bill amends NIA Act, 2008 that provides for a national-level agency to investigate and prosecute offences listed in the scheduled offences, was passed by Rajya Sabha with a voice vote. Further, the Act

New Delhi, Jul 17: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Communist Party of India (CPI) face the prospect of losing their national party status following their performance in the just-held Lok Sabha election. The Election Commission is likely to issue them show cause notice in the coming days, asking them as to why their national party status should not be revoked