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While the issue for the meeting was on how tourism was impacted due to COVID-19, certain MPs demanded a discussion on the recent Kozhikode air crash, which was duly allowed by committee chairman Rajiv Pratap Rudy

Initial reports suggest that the sound from the explosion at the Nandolia Organic Chemicals factory was heard from 15 kilometres.

The NHRC issued notices to the state's chief secretary and DGP, seeking detailed reports within six weeks, including disbursement of the statutory relief as per rules framed under provisions of the SC/ST (POA) Act to the family of the victim, action taken...

Mitra was handed over the TMC flag by education minister and party secretary-general Partha Chatterjee at a programme.

The NIA said activist Sudha Bharadwaj's ailments were not of serious nature and the authorities at the Byculla prison were capable of attending to her medical needs.

The order on August 14 came after the ministry said it already discloses on its website the data related to the release and utilisation of funds under MPLADS.

Two militants, suspected to belong to the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), were killed in an encounter with the security forces in Kreeri area of north Kashmir's Baramulla district, a police official said.

The objective of the plantation drive is to increase the national capital's green cover from 325 square kilometres at present to 350 sq km by 2021.

The protesting villagers ransacked the primary healthcentre and later protested at the chowk with the dead body and suddenly attacked the Chiraiya police station and set on fire a motorcycle and a pick-up van.

Alexander Lukashenko, the leader of Belarus, said on Monday he would be willing to hand over power after a referendum, in an apparent bid to pacify mass protests and strikes that pose the biggest challenge to his 26 years in office.

A youth has been detained for questioning and the case will soon be solved, Superintendent of Police (city) Pankaj Pandey said. He said the complaint was file.

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In Odisha, heavy rains caused by a low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal led to a flood-like situation in several parts of the state, snapping road connectivity, damaging mud houses and crops.

The former corporator, Deva Usre, 52, was hacked to death by two motorcycle-borne men on Sunday morning near Bharat Talkies in Sadar police station area, an official said.

However, the private operators have to submit in advance to the Railways the list of such intermediate stations on the trains and paths where they are proposing halts in advance.

Haji Mohd. Sameer Aziz Boghani, president, Madariya Sufi Foundation said, India is an example of peaceful co-existence of various religions, creeds and faiths.