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Fresh impasse at Kolkata Film Industry amid 70% drop in film production
This is the second cease work within six months amidst rising power struggles between directors and technicians continue
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Amended J&K Assembly Rules a ‘historic betrayal’, validating August 5, 2019 decisions: PDP, JKPC
Business Rules prepared by NC-headed panel ratify decisions made by the Centre, sidelining the will of J&K’s people, legislators say; claim no mention of J&K Constitution, Legislative Council in amended Rules
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Guntur won’t face drinking water problems for next 20 years once major projects are completed, says civic chief
Work on a head water tank and two other projects was held up for over three years due to several factors, says Puli Srinivasulu; GMC Standing Committee member blames delays on negligence of YSRCP govt.
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The brutal murder of a young engineer on a train to Madurai and the continuing mystery
J. Rajesh Prabhu boarded Nagercoil-Tirupati-Mumbai Express to his native Madurai on January 13, 2008, to celebrate Pongal. He was found murdered on the train. Investigators arrested five persons on January 28, 2010. The next year, the trial court acquitted all the accused. The Madurai Bench upheld the trial court’s verdict in 2016
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How Privy Council settled the claim of Tirupparankundram temple to its land
At the trial court, the temple claimed the whole hill, except “certain cultivated and assessed lands and the site of the mosque”. In 1923, the Subordinate Judge of Madura decided in favour of the temple, “except in respect of the Nellitope, and the actual site of the mosque with its flagstaff and flight of steps leading up to it”. Privy Council upheld the ruling
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Cannot obtain undertaking from award winners: government
Ministry says it would compromise confidentiality of award selection process
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Maharashtra police rescue woman, child chained for inter-faith marriage
Police act on court order; sub-inspector says for the last two months, the woman (a Muslim) and her 3-year-old son were chained by her maternal family for marrying a Dalit man
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BBMP Chief Commissioner directs speedy completion of permanent shelters for pourakarmikas
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Ongole GGH equips itself with oral cancer detector Velscope
Velscope uses blue-spectrum light to identify mucosal abnormalities, enabling timely intervention to significantly enhance treatment success rates, says hospital Superintendent
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Governor seeks report on violence at Kerala University
Protesters had barged into the office of Vice-Chancellor in-charge Mohanan Kunnummal and pasted posters, accusing him of being a functionary of RSS
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State BJP chief Babulal Marandi wants Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren to give break-up of ₹1.36 lakh crore he is asking from Centre
Marandi slams Soren government, says corruption is the biggest issue and the common man is being affected
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Punjab opposes Hawara’s plea for transfer from Delhi jail
Jagtar Singh Hawara is serving life sentence for the assassination of former Chief Minister Beant Singh in 1995
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MBIFL begins on Thursday
Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar will inaugurate the fete
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Delhi goes to polls in 70 Assembly seats
Voting to begin at 7 a.m. across more than 13,700 polling stations; AAP eyeing third term in power; high-profile seats of Kalkaji and New Delhi constituencies to be watched out
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Deport foreigners, do not detain them for eternity: Supreme Court
“Are you waiting for some muhurat [auspicious time]? Once you declare a person as a foreigner, then you have to take the next logical step. You cannot detain them for eternity,” says Bench
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Many suspects questioned over ex-Army man’s killing
Many youth from Kulgam whose names figure in past FIRs summoned; mass detentions reported in nearby Shopian and Anantnag too; NC and Congress question Centre’s claim of normalcy in J&K
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