The much-awaited sea trials of India’s maiden indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC-1), built by the public sector Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL), began here on Wednesday.The 40,000-tonne carrier, whose keel-la
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The Delhi government brought down the cost of Covid-19 tests at private labs, with RT-PCR and RAT tests to now cost Rs 300, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Wednesday.As per the fresh notificati
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Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal orders magisterial probe into death of Dalit girl, Rs 10 lakh compensation for family
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said the Delhi government will order a magisterial inquiry into the death of a nine-year-old Dalit girl following an alleged sexual assault.He also announce
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Wife to flag off Akhilesh Yadav’s ‘cycle yatra’ on August 5, to start from SP office to Janeshwar Mishra Park
The Samajwadi Party (SP), led by Akhilesh Yadav, will on Thursday take out a cycle yatra against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Uttar Pradesh and at the Centre. Cycle, notably, is the
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Zika in Maharashtra: Health minister asks people to not panic, govt takes preventive action to curb spread
Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Wednesday asked people to not panic after a case of Zika virus was reported from a village under Purandar taluka in Pune. A three-member central team was sen
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‘Mimicking sexual penetration, even though non-penetrative, to cause a sensation is rape’, says Kerala HC
The Kerala High Court recently observed that the act of rubbing a penis on the thighs of a victim amounts to rape under the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The HC said that if such an act, even though non-pe
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