KOLKATA: Multiple deaths and instances of distress have been reported across West Bengal as hearings under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls entered their third day, triggering anxiety among elderly and vulnerable voters asked to appear before...

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KANPUR: Police have booked nine bank managers, three crop insurance employees, and 32 farmers—14 of them landless—for their alleged involvement in a Rs 68 lakh crop insurance fraud in Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad district, in violation of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima...

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JAIPUR: A Rs 450-crore ethanol plant proposed in Rajasthan’s Hanumangarh district is set to exit the state, with the developer planning to relocate the project to Madhya Pradesh once procedural formalities are completed. The project, promoted by a private company, was...

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A 20-year-old trader from Aligarh was assaulted and robbed of ₹2 lakh in cash shortly after arriving in Ludhiana’s wholesale woollen market on Saturday. The victim, Rajdeep Naik, had travelled to the city to purchase winter stock when he was targeted by...

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Violence broke out on the outskirts of Rishikesh on Sunday during a survey of alleged encroachments on forest land being carried out on the directions of the Supreme Court of India. Protesters pelted stones at police personnel and blocked key roads and railway tracks...

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A suspected gunman and his accomplice were arrested late Saturday following a brief shootout near Doraha, three days after they allegedly opened fire on the son of a village’s acting sarpanch to coerce him into signing documents. Khanna police identified the injured...

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