INDIA

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Missing notes from Nashik mint were not stolen: police

11:57 pm July 28, 2021

Nashik (Maha): The mystery behind notes worth Rs 5 lakh going missing from the Currency Note Press (CNP) here has been solved and there had been no theft but a wrong categorization, city police said on Wednesday. The missing bundles were wrongly `punched’ by two supervisors from the cut-pack section of the unit who later […]

Eight dead, 17 missing as cloudbursts hit J-K and Ladakh

11:54 pm July 28, 2021

Jammu/Srinagar/Kargil: A series of cloudbursts struck different parts in the twin Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh overnight, killing eight people and leaving 17 others missing, officials said on Wednesday. The cloudbursts hit Dacchan and Boujwa areas in Kishtwar; the holy cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas; Bandipora in north Kashmir […]

SDMC’s first rainwater harvesting park inaugurated

11:49 pm July 28, 2021

New Delhi: The first rainwater harvesting park of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) was inaugurated in Dwarka Sector-8 on Wednesday, the civic body said in a statement. The BJP’s Delhi unit president Adesh Gupta, South Delhi MP Ramesh Bidhuri and SDMC Mayor Mukesh Suryan inaugurated the facility. The mayor said the objective of the […]

18 killed, 25 injured after truck hits bus in UP

11:44 pm July 28, 2021

Barabanki (UP): Eighteen people were killed and 25 injured after a truck rammed into a stationary double-decker bus here, police said on Wednesday. The accident took place on the Lucknow-Ayodhya highway under the Ram Sanehi Ghat area late on Tuesday night. It was raining heavily when the accident took place and this posed some problems […]

Youth shot dead following gang rivalry in Srinagar

11:59 pm July 27, 2021

Srinagar: A youth was shot dead in Nawakadal area of the city on Tuesday following a rivalry between two local gangs, police said. Mehran Ali Sheikh was shot dead outside his residence in Bulbul Lanker area of Nawakadal here this morning, a police spokesman said. Police had earlier said suspected terrorists shot him in the […]