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Srinagar, Jul 7: Three civilians, including a teenage girl, were killed when army allegedly opened fire on protesters in Redwani area of south Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Saturday. A police official said army's patrolling party opened fire upon a group of youth after they pelted stones on them in Hawoora area of Redwani, Kulgam, 70 km from here. In the incident, six persons suffered injuries, he

Bengaluru, Jul 7: A woman was hacked to death by her husband, at their house in Soladevanahalli, here after she gave him Rs 10 less to purchase alcohol Thursday night. The accused, Raja Singh, from Madhya Pradesh, was arrested by the police after he tried to escape. He and his wife, Kasturi, 35, had arrived in the city a fortnight ago, and worked as labourers at a construction site in

New Delhi, Jul 7: A high-level inquiry committee that was set up by the Jawaharlal Nehru University to probe the February 9, 2016 incident on campus, has upheld the rustication of student Umar Khalid and a fine of Rs 10,000 imposed on the then JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar. The JNU Student Union (JNUSU) condemned the recommendations of the high-level committee, calling it “a political conspiracy”

Haflong, Jul 6: Army and police personnel have rescued three 'sadhus' from getting lynched by a mob, which suspected them to be child-lifters, at Mahur Railway Station in Dima Hasao district of Assam, officials said today. District officials said Army men posted at an adjacent camp and police officers came to the rescue of three persons yesterday after hundreds of people had gathered to attack

Islamabad, Jul 6: An accountability court in Pakistan on Friday sentenced ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif to 10 years in prison in one of the three corruption cases against him in the high-profile Panama Papers scandal The court delivered the verdict after postponing it for four times in the Avenfield corruption case -- pertaining to the ownership of four flats in the posh Avenfield House in

New Delhi, Jul 6: Indian banks are working very closely with various agencies, including in the UK, to recover maximum out of assets owned by Vijay Mallya after a British court allowed them to search and seize properties of the fugitive liquor baron, SBI MD Arijit Basu said today. "We have been able to come this far because of efforts that was taken in a very coordinated manner by all agencies

New Delhi, Jul 6: The Supreme Court on Friday referred to a larger bench the question whether religious activities can be allowed on government land or property in a secular State like India. A bench of Justices R F Nariman and Indu Malhotra framed the question and referred the petition filed by an organisation - Jyoti Jagran Mandal - to the Chief Justice of India for setting up of a larger bench

Tokyo, Jul 6: The leader of the Japanese doomsday cult that carried out a deadly 1995 sarin attack on the Tokyo subway was executed today along with six of his followers, decades after the shocking crime. Shoko Asahara, the charismatic virtually-blind leader of the Aum Shinrikyo sect, has been on death row for more than a decade over the attack, which shocked the world and prompted a massive

New Delhi, Jul 5: A Delhi court on Thursday granted anticipatory bail to Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in a case relating to his wife Sunanda Pushkar's death. The Thiruvananthapuram MP has already been summoned as an accused on July 7 in the case. Special Judge Arvind Kumar granted Tharoor the relief on a personal bond of Rs one lakh while directing him to neither tamper with evidence nor leave

Pune, Jul 5: Parents and student of Pune’s Maeer's MIT School on Wednesday staged a protest against the school’s diktat asking the girls student to wear specific colour innerwear. The school authority has even specified the length of the skirt to be worn by the girl students. Apart from this, the school has restricted the students from using the washroom other than the specified time. "The girls