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Kharif yields may be at risk as monsoon loses MOMENTUM AGAIN

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- After pulling India back from a near 40% rainfall deficit at the end of June, the southwest monsoon is losing momentum again. The all-India rainfall deficit remained stuck at 12%... Read More


B'desh stun aUS on home turf to win first test

DARWIN, Aug. 17 -- A dominant Bangladesh stunned Australia to win the opening Test by a crushing nine wickets in Darwin on Sunday for a historic first-ever Test victory on Australian soil. After bowli... Read More


tmc leader found dead

Kolkata, Aug. 17 -- Senior Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and former West Bengal assembly deputy speaker Asish Banerjee was found dead at a party office on Sunday in a suspected case of suicide, trig... Read More


ugc-net to be re-held

New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Sunday said it will re-conduct the University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) exams for English, commerce and sociology... Read More


BSF jawan arrested for killing wife, staging it as roof fall

Hoshiarpur, Aug. 17 -- A Border Security Force (BSF) jawan was arrested for allegedly beating his wife to death in Hoshiarpur's Badhalian village and trying to pass it off as a fall from the roof. The... Read More


ITBP DIG, driver killed in head-on crash in Saharanpur

LUCKNOW, Aug. 17 -- A deputy inspector general of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and his driver were killed while his gunner and three occupants of another car were injured in a head-on collisi... Read More


Harsimrat demands NIA probe into both assassination bids on Sukhbir

Ferozepur, Aug. 17 -- Bathinda MP and senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Sunday said she had written to Union home minister Amit Shah seeking an NIA investigation into the... Read More


10 farmer activists sent to 14-day judicial custody

ROHTAK, Aug. 17 -- A day after clashes between police and farmers in Hansi during chief minister Nayab Singh Saini's Independence Day programme, a local court in Hansi on Sunday remanded 10 farmer act... Read More


Amritsar cops seize IED, say terror plot foiled

AMRITSAR, Aug. 17 -- The police on Sunday claimed to have foiled a terror plot to target a police establishment with the recovery of a 690-gm improvised explosive device (IED), an electronic detonator... Read More


In Amritsar, Saini pitches for double-engine govt in Punjab

AMRITSAR, Aug. 17 -- Exuding confidence that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will form the next government in Punjab, Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini on Sunday said the "double-engine govern... Read More