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Man killed, his son injured in accident in UP

4:35 pm June 10, 2021

Fatehpur (UP): A 58-year-old man was killed and his son injured when their two-wheeler was hit by a vehicle in Kalyanpur area here, police said on Thursday. The incident took place at Kanpur-Allahabad highway when Rajkumar Singh (58) and Ajay Singh (25) were going somewhere, Station House Officer (SHO), Kalyanpur Keshav Verma said. Ajay Singh […]

Maharashtra: Teenage boy drowns in lake, friend missing

11:39 pm June 9, 2021

Nagpur: A teenage boy drowned in the Ambala lake in Ramtek town in Nagpur district of Maharashtra on Wednesday while his friend was missing, police said. The deceased, identified as Nisarg Wagh, was a resident of Nagpur. He and four other friends had gone to Ramtek in a car- all students of class 12. They […]

Odisha prepares for possible rain-triggered flash floods

11:36 pm June 9, 2021

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Wednesday began preparing for the evacuation of people from low-lying areas and other mitigation measures after the MeT Department forecast flash floods triggered by possible extremely heavy rain from June 10-14, officials said. The state government issued orders to the collectors of all the districts and commissioners of five municipal […]

Haryana: 10-year-old raped at Rewari village

11:28 pm June 9, 2021

Chandigarh: A 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped inside a village school in Haryana’s Rewari district by a group of boys, who also filmed the act on their mobile phones, police said on Wednesday. Barring one, all accused are minor, police said. They said some of the accused filmed the act and circulated the video locally, […]

HC equates temple idol to a minor child, restores property to Palani temple

Not an inch of forest land can be encroached: Madras HC

11:22 pm June 9, 2021

Chennai: Not even an inch of forest land can be allowed to be encroached upon, the first bench of the Madras High Court observed on Wednesday. The bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthil kumar Ramamoorthy made the oral observation while entertaining a writ petition challenging the alleged construction of a resort in […]