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Chennai, July 16 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu Water Resources Department (WRD) has blamed Karnataka for the continued pollution of the Thenpennai (South Pennar) river, citing untreated sewage and industrial effluents flowing from Bengaluru into Tamil Nadu.The contamination is reportedly causing...
Bengaluru, July 16 (IANS) Senior BJP MLA and former Minister Byrathi Basavaraj has been booked on murder charges in connection with the killing of a rowdy sheeter. The Bharatinagar police in Bengaluru have registered an FIR against the MLA, naming...
New Delhi, 16 July (IANS) The bomb threat emails received by around ten schools in the national capital feature unusual sender names like 'Roadkill' and 'Benji', typically seen in fiction, web series, or games, which are being probed by the...
New Delhi, July 16 (IANS) A 24-member Sri Lankan delegation met Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri in New Delhi on Wednesday and discussed the deepening bilateral ties between the two nations. The delegation, including 24 leaders from across 14 political parties...
Ahmedabad, July 16 (IANS) At least 62 talukas across Gujarat recorded widespread rainfall over the past 24 hours.Kadana in Mahisagar district recorded 3 inches of rainfall, followed by Palanpur (two inches). Additionally, seven talukas received up to one inch of...
Bokaro, July 16 (IANS) Two Maoists were gunned down in an encounter with security forces in the dense forests of Birhordera under the Gomia police station limits in Jharkhand's Bokaro district early Wednesday morning, police officials said. A jawan of...
Chennai, July 16 (IANS) The Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) in Chennai has forecast rainfall in eight districts of Tamil Nadu on Wednesday, offering some respite from the prevailing dry spell in many parts of the state.According to weather updates, moderate...
New Delhi, July 16 (IANS) BJP's Lok Sabha member Nishikant Dubey on Wednesday again attacked the Congress over the 1984 Operation Blue Star. He claimed in a post on his X handle that after the operation, the then Prime Minister...
Bhubaneswar, July 16 (IANS) Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi spoke to the father of the female B.Ed student of FM Autonomous College in Balasore, who succumbed to her burn injuries while undergoing treatment at AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, assuring him of full...
New Delhi/Palakkad, July 16 (IANS) Abdelfattah Mehdi, brother of Talal Abdo Mehdi, who was allegedly murdered by Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya in 2017, has asserted that there can be no pardon for the crime. He said that Nimisha Priya has...
Kolkata, July 16 (IANS) Amid continuing non-cooperation from the victim in the iconic Indian Institute of Management – Calcutta (IIM-C) rape case, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Kolkata Police has been probing the matter just on the basis of...
Chennai, July 16 (IANS) A 50-year-old passenger travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Tiruchy in Tamil Nadu on an AirAsia flight died of a suspected heart attack mid-air on Wednesday morning, despite desperate efforts by the airline crew to revive him.The...