Delhi Police has arrested a 40-year-old man for allegedly duping a woman of Rs 3.80 lakh on the pretext of providing her loan at cheap rates from a nationalised bank, the police said. The fraud was carried with the help of a cheque signed by the complainant. The incident occurred last month when a woman, …
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Summer is peaking but the supply of beer in the city has almost dried up. A series of procedural glitches, building up since the beginning of the current fiscal year, has led to a situation where merely 10% of all beer labels is available. With a hot May imminent, the prospect of dry days in the cellar continuing as the …
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A seven-year-old girl died and 17 other students were injured after a milk tanker rammed into a school van near Kanhaiya Nagar metro station in northwest Delhi on Thursday. The eyewitnesses of accident said that they will forever remain haunted by the site of two children, soaked in blood and trying to rescue their little friend from inside the school …
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The incidents of rapes being reported across the country reached a new low on Tuesday when a minor boy was charged with raping and brutalising a 26-year-old woman in Guntur district. The accused, a 16-year-old daily-wager, is on the run while the victim is recovering from her injuries in a hospital. AFP/Representational Image The incident, which matches in brutality with …
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Police in Madhya Pradesh have unearthed the operations of a child pornography group on WhatsApp which has international links. The admin of the group, which is said to have some 250 members from 28 countries including India and Pakistan is a Kuwaiti national. According to Madhya Pradesh Cyber Cell, the WhatsApp group was originally known as “Kids Sex Video Only”, …
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The Golden Temple is one of the most important places of Sikh pilgrimage in India. Thousands flock in every day to visit sacred space. Mistaking this Sikh temple (Gurudwara) for something else would become a grave mistake for everyone because of the sentiments of people attached to the place. @SMcDonaldFCO One such mistake was made by British diplomat Simon McDonald, …
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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the country’s largest IT outsourcing company created history on Monday by becoming the first Indian company to reach the $100 billion market capitalisation (m-cap) mark. The shares of the IT behemoth were trading 4 per cent above previous closing mark at Rs 3,545 on the BSE at 10.30 am, thus hitting an all-time high. By definition, …
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Almost two decades after model Jessica Lall’s murder, her sister Sabrina Lall has “no objection’’ to the release of Siddhartha Vashishta, better known as Manu Sharma, from Tihar Jail where he is serving a life-term after being convicted for the brutal crime. “I am told that in this period he has been doing good work for charity and helping inmates …
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The domestic cow may be the largest land mammal on Earth in 200 years, if the loss of large-bodied and currently threatened animals continues in the future, according to a study.Researchers led by The University of New Mexico in the US demonstrated that mammal biodiversity loss, a major conservation concern today, is part of a long-term trend lasting at least …
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There are plenty of snollygosters on social media, but Tharoor isn’t one of them. This Congress MP is a man of words and has single-handedly taken the responsibility for teaching English to Twitterati. After knowing that his oratory skills have wooed the world totally, Tharoor took it upon himself to share one good word with all of us, in a …
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