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A forty-eight-year-old Dalit woman anganwadi worker tasked with issuing Aadhaar cards, was allegedly attacked by a member of the Darbar community, for “sitting on a chair at the panchayat office”. The woman, Pallavi Jadhav, is the aunt of Maulik Jadhav, who was assaulted last month for adding the suffix ‘Sinh’ to his name. Representational Image …

A team of scientists from the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, have discovered a sub-Saturn or super-Neptune size planet, which is about 27 times the mass of Earth and six times the radius of Earth. The planet revolves around a Sun-like star, some 600 light years away from Earth. The discovery was made by measuring the mass of the planet …

With the International Yoga Day just around the corner, the Ayush (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy) ministry has approached the country’s premier space agency the ISRO with an unusual request. The ministry wants ISRO to use its satellite imagery to get a sense of participants in the events for the International Day of Yoga, on June 21. …

A sub-divisional magistrate of Gunnaur in Sambhal had a narrow escape early Sunday morning as the sand mining mafia tried to mow him down with tractor trolleys. SDM Dipendra Yadav was trying to stop illegal mining operations near a tributary of the river Ganga when he was almost run over by sand-laden vehicles. Yadav dodged the approaching vehicles by jumping …

The scion of a prominent sanitary ware chain in the city died an excruciatingly painful death inside a luxury car worth Rs 3.13 crore near Domjur in Howrah on NH-6, around 22km from the city, on Sunday morning while returning from a weekend ritual that involved taking friends and family on long drives in their high-end sports cars. Forty-three-year-old Shibaji …

So, the government has finally come out with a clarification saying that none of the documents related to defaulter Nirav Modi has been gutted in the fire, as it was reported yesterday. “News reports have been appearing in some sections of the media alleging that records and documents relating to investigation into the Nirav Modi (and) Mehul Choksi case have …

The Centre has asked Jammu & Kashmir and other states to confine illegal Rohingya settlers to pre-identified locations within their respective jurisdictions, record their personal particulars, including biometric details, and not to issue them Aadhaar number or any other identity proof. The meticulous preparation of their personal particulars has been sought so that these details can eventually be shared with …

It’s almost an identical story, but in another continent. The Election Commission of India is facing questions on credibility of electronic voting machines in Botswana. Its testimony could be crucial to how that nation will hold its October 2019 general elections.  Diamond-rich Botswana is seeing heated political debates over using EVMs imported from India. The Opposition Botswana Congress Party (BCP) …

Around 20 passengers were allegedly asked to take a bus after a Delhi-Patna Spicjet flight was diverted to Varanasi last night due to bad weather. The SG-8480 flight, which was supposed to reach Patna, landed in Varanasi at 10.40 p.m. on Thursday. BCCL “Delhi-Patna SG-8480 Flight had to be diverted to Varanasi last night due to extreme bad weather at …

As word came over the radio that a Sherpa had been struck on the head by a falling rock high on Everest, the three doctors at base camp jumped into action, fully aware that saving him would be a life-or-death race against the unpredictable mountain. Wary of the fading light that would ground the medevac helicopter overnight, they administered emergency …