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Bengaluru, Sept 6: The Bengaluru Police is on the hunt to nab the killers of journalist Gauri Lankesh. Sources said that one of the 2 CCTV cameras in her house held crucial evidence pertaining to the crime. The Police sources said that they have recovered 2 DVRs from her house which were password protected. Experts were roped in to access them and recovered images . Both the assailant and victim

Srinagar, Sept 6: The NIA on Wednesday conducted searches at 16 locations in Kashmir and Delhi on traders who were allegedly indulging in hawala operations and using the money for funding terror and separatist activities, officials said. Sleuths of the National Investigation Agency swooped down on traders at various parts of Srinagar and North Kashmir this morning and carried out extensive search

Washington, Sept 6: With the Trump administration discarding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on Tuesday, the lives of 8,00,000 young immigrants in the United States are likely to get affected. An estimated 6,000 Indians too may suffer as a result. DACA, a program introduced by former US President Barack Obama, permitted the immigrants a renewable two-year allowance to

Bengaluru, Sept 5: Veteran journalist and peace activist Gauri Lankesh (55) who led a crusade against saffron extremists and communalism in Karnataka for decades was on Tuesday shot dead by unidentified gunmen near her residence in Bengaluru. The incident took place within a few days after the second anniversary of the assassination of M M Kalburgi, a rationalist and former vice-chancellor of

Bengaluru, Sept 5: Veteran journalist and peace activist Gauri Lankesh (55) who led a crusade against saffron extremists and communalism in Karnataka for decades was on Tuesday shot dead by unidentified gunmen near her residence in Bengaluru. The incident took place within a few days after the second anniversary of the assassination of M M Kalburgi, a rationalist and former vice-chancellor of

New Delhi, Sept 5: Rahul Gandhi is likely to be elevated as the Congress President next month after the culmination of the organisational elections currently under way across the country. Though there is no opposition from within the party to the much-anticipated change of guard at the helm, Rahul is expected to take the election route to the post instead of being appointed by the Congress Working

Jaipur, Sept 5: In yet another case of the infamous Blue Whale Challenge, that has claimed hundreds of lives across the world, Jodhpur police averted a suicide on Monday night by rescuing a 17-year-old girl who was trying to kill herself by jumping into the Kaylana Lake situated in Jodhpur district of Rajasthan. From Rajasthan, this is the first case reported of Blue Whale Challenge, which has

Xiamen, (China), Sep 5: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping today held their first substantive bilateral meeting after the Dokalam standoff and reaffirmed that maintaining peace and tranquillity in the border areas was a pre-requisite for ties to move forward. Modi, who attended the BRICS Emerging Markets and Developing Countries Dialogue earlier in the day, met Xi on the

New Delhi, Sept 4: The RBI has told a parliamentary panel that it has "no information" on how much black money has been extinguished as a result of demonetisation of Rs 500/1,000 notes or about unaccounted cash legitimised through exchange of currency post note ban. Stating that an estimated Rs 15.28 (rpt) 15.28 lakh crore in junked notes has come back "subject to future corrections based on

New Delhi, Sept 4: Kerala is a “beef-eating State” and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has no problem with the people eating beef there, newly appointed Tourism Minister K Alphons has said. “Kerala is a beef-eating state. It is not going to stop eating beef. It will continue to eat beef. BJP doesn't have a problem,” he said while speaking a news channel after assuming charge of the Tourism