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Shimla sinkhole: GSI suggests ban on blasts for tunnel construction

Shimla, Dec. 17 -- Leakage from underground water pipelines, coupled with vibrations generated by tunnel construction, was responsible for the sinkhole along the Bhattakufar road in Shimla, the Geolog... Read More


Search for 3 holed-up terrorists intensifies

Jammu, Dec. 17 -- Security forces on Tuesday intensified the search to track down a group of three armed terrorists, who killed a Amjad Ali Khan, a jawan of the Special Operations Group, and injured t... Read More


IPL auctions: 'Baramulla's Steyn' gets the prize for years of consistency

New Delhi/Srinagar, Dec. 17 -- When Delhi Capitals picked Auqib Nabi Dar for Rs.8.4 crore at the IPL auction, the eight-figure price tag told only part of the story. For followers of Indian domestic c... Read More


Ex-bureaucrat Goyal takes oath as CIC

New Delhi, Dec. 16 -- Former IAS officer Raj Kumar Goyal assumed charge as the Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) on Monday, while eight other information commissioners took the oath of office, brin... Read More


Global issues, terrorism, Gaza feature in India-Jordan talks

New Delhi, Dec. 16 -- India and Jordan on Monday focused on ways to bolster cooperation in areas ranging from trade and investment to defence and security, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauding Jo... Read More


Goa fire accused Luthras to be deported to India today

PANAJI, Dec. 16 -- The Goa Police is expecting to secure by Tuesday evening the custody of fugitive entrepreneur brothers Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, who fled to Phuket in Thailand hours after a devast... Read More


EAM meets UAE's leadership ahead of visit to Israel

New Delhi, Dec. 16 -- External affairs minister S Jaishankar met the top leadership of the United Arab Emirates on Monday ahead of a visit to Israel, his first since the end of the conflict in Gaza. J... Read More


Pilots' body moves HC against DGCA's FTDL exemptions

New Delhi, Dec. 16 -- The Indian Pilots Guild (IPG), a union of Air India pilots deployed on wide-bodied aircraft (Boeing 777 and 787), has moved the Delhi high court seeking initiation of contempt pr... Read More


Ram Vilas Vedanti - key figure of Ayodhya movement - dies at 67

Ayodhya, Dec. 16 -- Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker Ram Vilas Vedanti, who also played a key role in the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, died in a hospital in Madhya Pradesh's Rewa on Monday. H... Read More


25-yr-old man gets 30-yr RI for raping his minor neighbour

Chandigarh, Dec. 16 -- Special POCSO court in Chandigarh has sentenced a 25-year-old man to 30 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping an eight-year-old girl whom he lured into his house under the p... Read More